Marion County TN Archives Military Records.....Jackson, Samuel December 8, 1841
Revwar - Pension
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Pension Application Of Samuel Jackson, Natl Archives Microseries M805, Roll __,
Application #R5517
Marion County, Tennessee, December 8, 1841, met at the residence of Jane
Jackson, aged 94 years: That Samuel Jackson was my late husband. Was born in
Guilford County, NC March 3, 1748. That he, the said Samuel Jackson and myself
intermarried in the year 1760. My maiden name being Jane Field.
That the said Samuel Jackson entered the service [the precise time this
deponent is unable to state] but affirms as soon as any other person after
declaration of war and troops raised in Guilford County, North Carolina and in
a regiment commanded by Colonel Dougan. The length of time he was drafted the
deponent does not recollect but does recollect that after being drafted he
joined a light horse company commanded by James Bell.
Deponent further recollects that he served one tour in a company commanded by
Captain Collier. What routes he took or what engagements he was in , deponent
has forgotten, except the Battle at Guilford Courthouse when General Greene
commanded, in which engagement said Samuel Jackson was detailed as one of the
guards to protect the baggage.
That previous to the death of my husband, he was averse to applying to the
government for support, but shortly before his death having become quite ___
and poor and unable to make a support, he was induced by the solicitation of
friends to make an application. He arranged his papers, but what was done with
them deponent has no knowledge. He died in April 1833.
The reason this deponent had not earlier made application was that she had
never been qualified and hoped she would be able to live out her live without
the support from government, she was advised cant obtain, but now being very
old and infirm, and supported by the charity of friends, having been thus
induced, deponent that said Samuel Jackson, as well as she now recollects and
believes, served the United States during the Revolutionary War at least 3
years and perhaps five.
The discharges of my husbands service during the war was burned having had
his house burned down about 18 years ago, and his discharges and other papers
destroyed. I have no record of my age, that was destroyed also by the burning
of the house aforesaid. I was born February 14th, 1747. Deponent never
intermarried with any other person except said Samuel Jackson.
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