Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 942, for James Hunt, Virginia
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State of Tennessee
Rutherford County ⎬ On this 22nd day of February
1830 personally appeared in open court, court
of pleas & quarter sessions for said County the same
being a court of record James Hunt  resident in said county, aged seventy one years who being first duly sworn according tolaw, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress
of the 18th of March 1818 the first of May 1820,
That he the said James Hunt enlisted for three years in the month of July or August in the year 1777 in the State of Virginia in the company commanded by Capt Thomas Tweattes in the Regiment commanded by Col William
Davis, in the line of the State of Virginia on the continental establishment - that he continued to serve in said corps
until his term expired, when he was discharged
from the service in Williamsburgh in the State of Virginia, having been a prisoner of war near one year after his term had expired. That he hereby relinquishes every claim
whatever to a pension except the present, that his name is not on the roll of any State except of Virginia. He would
have applied sooner for a pension but thought he would get on without as long as he could, as he understood it was difficult to get one, & necessary to procure testimony, which he got of  Capt Nathaniel Terry of Todd County State of Kentucky, who succeeded