Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,142, for John Stevenson, North Carolina
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
N.C. or
S.C.

Stevenson, John

NUMBER
R. 10.142

Born in Ireland

CONTENTS
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State of Georgia
Murray County ⎬ April 1840. 
Personally came before before me John Stevenson and
that he is now a resident of the States in
ty aforesad
been for as
Seven years. that he is now about ninety six
years of age according to the best of his
●
ledge rein as
of his birth to which he can referthat
he of Ireland that he
emigrated from the second landed in the
the by the South Carolina in the
me thousand and and
two, and from thence removed to the
in the State of North Carolina in
lity on the line dividing the State of
and so that the
and viling said to be divided the tract
of land on which he and his work and
that at the commandment of the
the Revolution he pot
his adopted County do by
to
learned the
the Blacksmith
ined and sopriated the quater
portion of his time when not aged
Sales part is after the son is on the
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us by intestate goods
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his horses for his
that about the year one thousand seven
and and eighty he entered the service
drafted militia man and entered the service, as a
private in the Company under the command
Captain William Hexander, commonly call
Black Billy - That in consequence of the in
disposition and long conteniment of the Wife of
ponent, is hired a substitute by the name