Williamson-Henry County TN Archives Military Records.....Guthrie, Robert 
Revwar - Pension 
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ROBERT GUTHRIE



    Robert Guthrie applied for revolutionary pension while living in Williamson

County, Tennessee, in September, 1832. He was born October 24, 1757. While

residing in Waxhaw Settlement, South Carolina, in 1776 he enlisted and served

under Captain James Adams in a South Carolina regiment. In 1778 he served in

Captain Montgomery's company, Colonel Joseph Kershaw's South Carolina regiment.

He enlisted in May, 1780 in Captain Coffee's company, Colonel Kershaw's regiment

and was in the battle of Rocky Mount.



    After the Revolution he lived in Camden District, S. C., until 1788 when he

moved to Kentucky. He lived in Lincoln County, then in Mercer County eight or

nine years and then moved to Tennessee, Williamson County, where he died April

13, 1838.



   He married March 9, 1780, Mary Taylor, born December 2, 1760. They were

members of the "Congregation" in Waxhaw Settlement.



   Mary Taylor Guthrie survived the soldier and applied for widow's pension

August 1, 1842, while she was residing in Henry County. Tennessee. She died

January 5, 1845.



  She gave the names and dates of birth of the following children: Elizabeth

Guthrie, 1783; William Ferguson Guthrie, 1785; James Guthrie, 1790; Robert

Taylor Guthrie, 1793; David Houston Guthrie, 1796; Jacob Finley Guthrie, 1803.



   The birth of Adam Guthrie, October 1, 1769, is given in the pension paper but

his relationship is not shown.



Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. IV



by Zella Armstrong



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