Sullivan-Sevier County TN Archives Military Records.....Wear, John 
Revwar - Pension 
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JOHN WEAR



   John Wear applied for revolutionary pension while residing in Sullivan

County, Tennessee in March, 1833. He was born January 12, 1741, on Shammony

Creek, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. While he was a resident of Greene County,

North Carolina, later Tennessee, he served in North Carolina troops as follows:

From January 1, 1781, three months in Captain John Sevier's company in pursuit

of Tories; from the last of August, 1781, three months in Captain William Tate's

company. He was in the Siege of Yorktown and was present at the surrender of

Cornwallis. From the latter part of January, 1782, he was four months in Captain

Moses Moore's company, and in Captain Samuel Wear's company. John Wear moved to

the Mississippi River in 1800 and to Christian County, Kentucky, where he

remained only a few months. He then moved to Sevier County, Tennessee.



Note;- This name is frequently spelled Weir. John Wear was a brother of Colonel

Samuel Wear. The family emigrated from Pennsylvania to Augusta County, Virginia,

when Samuel and John were children and they moved to Washington County, North

Carolina, (later Tennessee) during the Revolution. John Wear married in Augusta

County, Virginia, Nancy Blackburn, daughter of Benjamin Blackburn. Their

children were: Elizabeth, who married James Gray; Phoebe Wear, who married

George Matthews; Susan (?) who married _____ Bird; Hugh: George; Benjamin;

Margaret, who married John W. Wilson, and Nancy, who married Thomas Alexander.



Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. III



by Zella Armstrong





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