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The following is from Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama.
BEING A LIST OF NAMES, COMPILED FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES, OF SOLDIERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, WHO RESIDED IN THE STATE
OF ALABAMA.
Compiled by Thomas M. Owen, Director, State of Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama.
The Brown Printing Co, Printers and Binders, 1911
Prefatory Note
It is believed that the publication of this compilation will be of
much practical service to large numbers of people interested in
a study of the personal records of the Heroes of the American
Revolution. And this is true, although the lists are manifestly incomplete, and the
sketches are wanting in many desirable details.
The lists have been made up from altogether reliable and authentic
sources. These consist of contemporary obituaries, drawn from old newspaper
files, the Revolutionary Pension Roll, published by the U. S.
Government as Senate Document 514, 3 volumes, 23rd
Congress, 1st Session 1833-34; the Census of
Pensioners, taken officially in 1840, and published by the U. S.
Government in 1841, in one volume; inscriptions from tombstones;
well authenticated data taken from published family histories;
and the manuscript, Pension Book, kept officially by the State
Branch Bank at Mobile. A
few other sources have been drawn upon. Citation of the authority or authorities has been given
in each case.
In 1904 Mrs. P. H. Mell published a paper containing thirty
sketches, entitled "Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in
Alabama." It appears as pp 527-572, Vol. iv, Transactions of the Alabama
Historical Society, 1899-1903. Mrs. Mell had been State Historian of the Alabama
Division of the Daughters of the American Revolution. While limited in numbers,
her paper was prepared with great care. The sketches appear in their proper
places in the list here presented, with due credit.
Although a few lists of names, either by counties or
localities, had been compiled, no pretentious effort, prior to
the work of Mrs. Mell had been undertaken.
Inasmuch as this is but a preliminary effort looking to a complete and
exhaustive record, the attention of the Department should be
brought to any and all errors, to dates and places of death, to
places of burial, to the names of those who removed from the
State, and to all others whose names ought to be included.
Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 30, 1910
Clower, Jonathan, aged 71, and a resident of Bibb county [sic];
private N. Carolina Militia; enrolled on July 6, 1834, under act
of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831;
annual allowance, $40 - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Part 3,
Vol. xiii, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st
session, 1833-34 (p. 20)
Corley, Zaccheus, aged 72, and a resident of Bibb county; private
S. Carolina Militia; enrolled on March 8, 1834, under act of
Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831;
annual allowance, $40; sums received to date of publication of
list, $100.00. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Part 3, Vol.
xiii, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st session,
1833-34. He resided in Bibb county, June 1, 1840, aged 77.
- Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149 (p. 24)
Haggard, Henry, aged 94, resided in Bibb county, June 1, 1840,
with James Fancher. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149 (p. 45)
Hollingshead, Benjamin, aged 72, and a resident of Bibb county; private
N. C. State Troops; enrolled on March 5, 1833, under act of
Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from Marh [sic] 4,
1831; annual allowance, $40; sums received to date of
publication of list, $100. -Revolutionary Pension Roll, Part 3,
Vol xiii, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st session, 1833-34.
Maberry, George, aged 82, resided in Bibb county,
June 1, 1840. -Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.
McCary, Richard, aged 81, and a resident of Bibb county; private
Virginia Continental Line; enrolled on June 12, 1819, under act
of Congress of March 18, 1818, payment to date from May 3, 1819;
annual allowance, $96; sums received to date of publication of
list, $1,497.31; transferred from Edegfield [sic] district,
S.C., from March 4, 1827. -Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol.
xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess.,
1833-34. Also resided in Washington County. -Pension Book,
State Branch Bank, Mobile. (p. 74)
Smith, John, Pvt., Aged 73, and a resident of Bibb county; private S. C. Militia and Continental
Line; enrolled on May 29, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7,
1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $80;
sums received to date of publication of list, $240.
---"Revolutionary Pensions Roll", in Part 3, Vol.
xiii, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st session, 1833-34. (p. 112)
Tabor, William, aged 73, and a
resident of Bibb county; ensign and lieutenant N. C. Militia; enrolled on January 2, 1834, under act of
Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831;
annual allowance, $100; sums received to date of publication of
list,$300. -Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Part 3, Vol. xiii,
Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong, 1st session,
1833-34. (p. 115)
Wallace, John, aged 75, and a resident of Bibb county; private N. C. Militia; enrolled on June 17, 1834,
under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $80. -Revolutionary Pension
Roll, in Part 3, Vol. xiii, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
He resided in Bibb county, June 1, 1840, aged 80 - 90. -Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149. (p. 121)
Ward, John, Pvt., aged 77, and a resident of Bibb county; private N. C. Militia; enrolled
January 4, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual
allowance, $30. -Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Part 3, Vol. xiii, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st
sess., 1833-34. (p. 122)
Wilson, John, Pvt., aged 74, and a resident of Bibb county; private Virginia Militia;
enrolled on April 15, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7,
1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance,
$43.33; sums received to date of publication of list, $129.99.
-Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Part 3, Vol. xiii, Sen. Doc. 514,
23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. A
resident of Bibb county. (p. 126)
See additional names on the Revolutionary War Page.
1825 Bibb County Alabama Commissioner Court Minutes "Ordered that James Glascock, Thomas Glascock, Calvin Glascock, John Milton Glascock, Jr., Aaron Campbell, Alexander Wilson pay quarter yearly on the first of January, April, July, and October to the overseer of the Poor in Capt. Benjamin M. Reynolds Militia Company the sum of three dollars each to be applied by the said overseer of the poor and his successors for the support and maintenance of John M. Glascock, Snr., father of the said James, Thomas, Calvin and John M. Glascock and father in law of the said Aaron Campbell and Alexander Wilson." - submittedf by Ann Bunting
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