White County TN Archives Military Records.....Arnold, Francis 
Revwar - Pension 
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FRANCIS ARNOLD



   Francis Arnold applied for revolutionary pension while living in White

County, Tennessee, September 12, 1818. He died in that county, February 5, 1830

or 1831, both years being given in the widow's application papers. He was born

in January, 1758, in Spottsylvania County, Virginia. He enlisted in Newmarket,

Spottsylvania County, early in 1777, and served in Captains Quarles and Long's

companies, Colonels Charles Dabney and William Brent's Second Virginia regiment.

He was discharged sometime in 1780 after three years' service. In 1796 he

resided in Pendleton District, S. C., and after 1810 he moved to what later

became White County, Tennessee.



   He married August 5, 1790, in Greenville District, S. C., Elizabeth Parker

who was born December 23, 1775. She survived him and applied, for pension in

1840 while residing in White County. In 1851 she lived with her son, Peter

Arnold, in Coffee County. She died prior to March, 1853.



   Francis and Elizabeth Arnold had fourteen children, among them; William, born

1791; Peter, the seventh child, born 1803; Colbird, a son, the eighth child,

born 1807; Samuel, born 1811; Hayes, whose birth is not given, and others who

are mentioned although names and birth dates are not given in the widow's

application paper.





Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. IV



by Zella Armstrong



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