Unknown County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Military Records.....Bills, John E. 
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JOHN E. BILLS Of Virginia

   John E. Bills was born in 1763 in Hampshire County, Virginia. While residing
in Hampshire County he enlisted in the fall of 1779 and served in Captain Henry
Enoch's Virginia company. Captain Enoch was an uncle of the soldier. He was on
duty up and down the Ohio River. He enlisted again in 1782 and served in Captain
Joseph. Berry's Virginia Company guarding prisoners at Winchester Barracks. He
applied for pension in 1833, when he was residing in Hardy County, Va., a
division of Hampshire County. He died July 9, 1852, at his residence in Wood
County, Va. He married July 2, 1818, in Hardy County, Va., Mary Reel. The widow
was allowed pension on her application in 1853, when she was a resident of Wood
County where she had then lived about seven years. She was then between 65 and
70 years of age.


Additional Comments:
From:

SOME TENNESSEE HEROES
OF THE
REVOLUTION
Compiled From Pension Statements
PAMPHLET NO. III

by Zella Armstrong

This was in the section marked:

RECORDS OF SOME REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS WHO DID NOT LIVE IN TENNESSEE BUT WHO
HAVE TENNESSEE DESCENDENTS OR SOME OTHER TENNESSEE INTEREST




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