WHITE COUNTY, TN - REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - WILLIAM STEWART
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To preface this, William Stewart made an application for a Rev. War pension. It 
was lost or not sent and 8 yrs later he applied again. This was the first 
application:

William Stewart Application #S39095

State of Tennessee Sept. 9 1818
White County

This day before me P.W.Humphreys associate Judge of the circuit court in and for 
the state of Tennessee for and in White County came William Stewart resident in 
said county aged 79 years his being first duly sworn to tell the truth (?) in 
service of the army of the United States and having served in the Revolutionary 
War with a view to obtain a pension under the Act of Congress of the 18th of 
March 1818 at this commission declares and says that sometime in the fall of the 
year 1777 to the best of his recollection enlisted in the company of Cpt. 
Richard Smith of what was called the flying camp for nine months service he was 
marched into the State of Pennsylvania in that state and in the State of 
Maryland he served out his time of nine months and was discharged at Baltimore. 
Some time afterwards and in the year 1778 as well as he remembers with Cpt. 
Thomas Bell of the 3rd Maryland regiment of the continental establishment 
commanded by Colonel John Marbory this last enlistment for the term of three 
years he marshalled to and joined Gen. Washington's army at Valley Forge and in 
the state of Pennsylvania and he continued in service while this (?) was made 
and he was discharged at Charleston in the State of South Carolina after the 
capture of Cornwallace at York Town in Virginia he does not think the term of 
his last enlistment (?) at the time of his discharge but he is positive that he 
was from the time of his last enrollment to the time of his last discharge was 
more than three years service in continental establishment the principal actions 
in which he fought was the Battle of Brandy Wine and German Town which was in 
the time of his first enlistment and at the seige of York Town.

His discharges was in writing but they are long since deystroyed or lost by 
accident and he has no further evidence of his services than his declaration he 
is so old and infirm as to be unable to perform hard labor that he has neither 
house nor home of his own but very little property of any description and is in 
such reduced circumstances as to stand in need of assistance from his country 
for support.



Sworn and Submitted His

this 9th of Sept,1818 William ( X) Stewart

P.W. Humphrys Mark
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William Stewart's son Jesse Stewart was married to Jemima West whose parent I 
have never been able to find. After his fathers death Jesse about 1849 moved to 
Elkton, Todd Co Kentucky. William Stewart was my grt-grt-grt-grt grandfather 
Gabriel Severs