"Washington Rallying the Troops at
Monmouth"
Painted by: Leutze
Found on the americanrevolution.org
website
Revolutionary
War
William Burns
Transcribed
by: Timothy Spence
spence1@fuse.net
This is an overview of the
Revolutionary War pension application of William
Burns. Pension claim #s.16669.
William Burns was born in the state of Virginia, no dates given
He enlisted in Pittsylvania county, Virginia
Served as a private against the Cherokee Indians, in Captain
Joseph Martins
company in Colonel Christie's Virginia regiment, and was
discharged at
the Long Islands of Holston in Tennessee having served nine
months.
He enlisted the same day that he was discharged and served six
months in
Captain Martins company under Major Bletcher in defense of the
frontier.
Shortly before the battle of Ramsour's Mill, he enlisted in
Wilkes county
North Carolina to serve in Captain Micajah Lewis's company in
Colonel
Gordon's North Carolina regiment, soon after his enlistment he
hired a
substitute, Jonathan Hickman, to serve in his staed. He gave no
dates of
any of his service, but stated that all of his service was
rendered prior
to the battle of King's Mountain.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 23,
1832, than
a resident of Clay Co. Kentucky and was seventy six years of age.
Personal Note: 76 in 1832 he would have been born 1756.
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