Weakley-Wilson-Rutherford County TN Archives Military Records.....Thornton, Pressley 
Revwar - Pension 
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PRESSLEY THORNTON



    Pressley Thornton applied for revolutionary pension, while living in Weakley

County, Tennessee. He was born December 25, 1757, in Orange County Virginia.

While he resided in Spottsylvania County, Virginia, he enlisted in Virginia

troops in Fredericksburg, Virginia. After the Revolution he moved to Wilke's

County, Georgia, thence to Jackson and Clark Counties, Georgia, and thence to

Tennessee where he first resided in Wilson and Rutherford Counties. He then

settled in Weakley County, Tennessee, where he died October 1, 1852 or October

1, 1853.



Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. III



by Zella Armstrong





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