State of Tennessee
Anderson County
This 17th day of January
A.D. 1834 personally appeared before JOSEPH M. ASHURST a Justice
of the peace for the County of Anderson aforesaid WILLIAM PATTERSON
Eighty years of age infirm and unable to get to a court of record
and at the house of the said WILLIAM PATTERSON in the County
of Anderson aforesaid. Who being first duly sworn according to
law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order
to obtain the benefit of the act, of Congress, passed June 7th
1832. That he was borned in Augusta County in the State of
Virginia on the 21st day of October A.D. 1753, as he is informed
by his parents. He had a record left him by his father of his
age which is the day & date last aforesaid, but such record
being made in a Bible and from the length of time and the use
of said Bible, said record is now mutilated and Worn out.
He lived in the State
of North Carolina when he was between the age of Twenty &
Twenty five years of age in the part of North Carolina which
is now Tennessee, Sullivan County or Hawkins County on the Holston
River about five miles below the North fork of Holston River.
The date of the years, from old age & consequent loss of
memory, he can't now recollect. But it was before he was married,
Some two or three years and he was married at twenty five years
of age.
He was drafted and called
in service of the United States under the following named officer,
Captain JOHN ANDERSON. There was no left Tenant or ensign. Applicant
was appointed orderly sergeant. & surved as such. Said captain
and his company, in which applicant was one, and sergeant as
aforesaid was ordered by his colonel, DAVID LOONEY, to Mockerson
Gap Block house and was Stationed there three months as a
guard against the Indians to Keep them off of the Frontiers and
having served his full three months as orderly sergeant as aforesaid
above Him, & followed no Civil[?] pursuit. Applicant was
then honorably discharged y Captain ANDERSON. Which discharge
has been burnt in applicant's house some years ago.
The above service was
made in the fall of the year, from causes above stated applicant
can't now recollect the or the length of time before he was called
into service again but applicant resided in the same Neighborhood
as applicant now believes about Twelve months in the fall season
of the year he was called into the service of the United States
again draft, & entered the Service under the following named
officers, to Captain JOHN LOONEY, had no ensign nor Lieutenant,
but applicant was again appointed orderly sergeant. They was
ordered by their Colonel DAVID LOONEY to Blackamore Station
on Clinch River. They were stationed at said Station three
months the whole of which time applicant served as sergeant,
and bore arms, and guarded the Indians off of the frontiers,
had no battle nor engagement with the Indians. He was honorably
discharged by his said Captain JOHN LOONEY, but said discharge
was long since burnt when his first said discharge was burnt.
He continued to reside
on the Holston River some short time When he was called on to
go fight the Indians at the Longe Island on the Holston River.
Applicant was at the battle aforesaid at the Long Island. Said
battle commenced in the morning about two o'clock. Battle lasted
about one half hour. They defeated the Indians. Killed twelve
Indians dead upon the ground. The whites had four men wounded.
Applicant was then drafted to go a campaign against the Indians
and entered the service of the United States under the following
named officers to wit: Capt. GILBERT CHRISTY Ensign & Lieutenant
& Majors name cannot now be recollected, from causes above
stated. Colonel WILLIAM CHRISTY from Virginia was Chief commander
of said campaign. They rendevoused at the Long Isle and their
force was about fifteen hundred in number.
It was in the fall of this year they then marched down the Holston
River cross French Broads Pidgeon River & Little River &
Little Tennessee, and when they got to the Indian Town on
the Tennessee the Indians had fled & left the Town, they
carried their provisions on pack horses. They was discharged
by Captain Companys from the Indian Town. Applicant received
a discharge from his said Captain Christy, which discharge was
burnt at the time applicant's other discharges was burnt. Applicant
served three months in the above campaign & was that of a
private.
Applicant was at home
about two years after the service of the last aforesaid campaign,
when he was again drafted as a horse man and entered the service
of the United States under the following named officers, to Wit:
Captain WALLACE whose Christian name can't now be recollected
by applicant. Major's name can't now recollect from the above
cause. These officers was strangers to applicant before applicant
served under them. Colonel ISAAC SHELBY & also Colonel BLEADSOW
marched to & ____ ____ at JOHN PHAGANS on the Holston River
then marched across the mountains & through North Carolina
by Charlotte and then into the State of South Carolina
through Campden which had been burnt by the Brittish and
then to the Santee River crossed the River applicant does
not know the name of the ferry but it was near where General
Marion was on campaign in about a mile of the River near a large
swamp. They there found GENERAL MARION. General Marion then
marched them down towards Charleston and at a place Monks Corner,
and Charleston at a large house. General Marion took sixty six
Brittish prisoners. They then marched back to General Marion's
encampment near the large swamp aforesaid on the south
side of the Santee River, where applicant was honorably discharged
by his Colonel Shelby. Applicant served three months as a private
horse man in the last aforesaid campaign his last aforesaid discharge
was burnt in his house at the time his other discharges was burnt.
From old age and consequent
loss of memory as above stated, applicant cannot give any other
accounts of the period of the War than those already Given by
a narration of his absolute service. Applicant was acquainted
with the following officers, to wit: Captain John Anderson, Captain
John Looney, Colonel David Looney, Colonel William Christy, Captain
Christy, Colonel Isaac Shelby, Colonel Bledsoe, General Marion.
Applicant has lived ever since the Revolutionary War in has lived
in the States of Kentucky and Tennessee and now reside in Anderson
County, Tennessee. Applicant has no dockument or evidence of
his service & knows of no person whose personal attendance
he can procure by which he can prove his absolute service but
ELIJAH CROSS of the county of Sullivan served with applicant
in the time of the War against the Indians a Mockison Gap. Applicant
is further known to the following persons & citizens in his
Neighbourhood who can testify as to his character for veracity
and their belief of his service as as a soldier of the Revolution.
To Wit: GEOGE W. HOSKINS, WILLIAM McKANEY, SAMUEL YOUNG, SAMUL
DUNN, JOSEPH PARKS, ROBERT PATTERSON, MATHEW PATTERSON. There
is no Clergyman now residing in the neighbourhood of applicant.
ELIJAH CROSS who knows of a part of applicant's absolute service
is two aged and inform to obtain the personal attendance.
At the making of this
Declaration applicant hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension
or annuity Except the present and declares that his name is not
on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
WILLIAM (X)
PATTERSON
Sworn to and Subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
JOSEPH M. ASHURST
Justice of the Peace
We ROBERT PATTERSON & MATHEW PATTERSON and residing in the
same neighbourhood of the said WILLIAM PATTERSON hereby certify
that we are well acquainted with the said WILLIAM PATTERSON who
has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe
him to be Eighty years of age, that he is reputed and believed
in the neighbourhood Where he resides to have been a soldier
of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
ROBERT (X) PATTERSON
MATHEW (X) PATTERSON
Sworn to & subscribed
the day & year aforesaid
JOSEPH M. ASHURST
Justice of the Peace
Not every paper in the
Pension file copied, but "a Statement of the Military History
of William Patterson, a soldier of the Revolutionary War"
adds:
"Remarks: He died
in 1841, Anderson Co., TN. He mar. when he was 25 yrs old, NANCY
ENGLISH who died before soldier did. A son, ROBERT E. was 74
yrs old in 1852. No other family data.
"The above noted
and Wm. Patterson SF.35545 are the only soldiers of the name,
of VA, found in the Rev War pen. Records."
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