BOYD, JAMES - a resident of Jefferson county; private, particular service not shown; enrolled on September 17, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $23.33. -Pension Book, State Branch Bank, Mobile. [Source-Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama; Author-Thomas McAdory Owen, 1911] BROWN, JOHN - a residenf of Jefferson county, private, particular service not shown; enrolled on March 15, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from September 4, 1833; annual allowance, $80.66.-Pension Book, State Bank, Mobile. [Source-Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama; Author-Thomas McAdory Owen, 1911] BURFORD, JOHN, Sen. - aged 75, and a resident of Jefferson county; private and sergeant N. C. Continental Line; enrolled on November 15, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $43.88.-Revolutinary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. [Source-Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama; Author-Thomas McAdory Owen, 1911] CLICK, JOHN - resided in Jefferson county, on the East side of Valley Creek, between the present Powderly and old Hawkins Big Spring. Here he built a mill, which later became the property of his son, Moss Click. [Source-Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama; Author-Thomas McAdory Owen, 1911] GOODE, THOMAS - aged 74, and a residen of Jefferson county; private Virginia Continental Line; enrolled on September 22, 1819, under act of Congress of March 18, 1818, payment to date from April 15, 1818; annual allowance, $96; summs received to date of publication of list, $896.70; transferred from Christian county, Kentucky, from March 23, 1826.-Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. [Source-Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama; Author-Thomas McAdory Owen, 1911] McCARTHY, MICHAEL - aged 90, resided in Jefferson county, June 1, 1840.-Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149. [Source-Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama; Author-Thomas McAdory Owen, 1911] McDONALD, JOHN - aged 81, resided in Jefferson county, June 1, 1840, with Launcelot Armstrong.-Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149. [Source-Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama; Author-Thomas McAdory Owen, 1911] MARON, * HUGH - aged 70, and a resident of Jefferson county; private S. C. Militia; enrolled on March 15, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $20; sums received to date of publication of list $60.-Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. *Evidently "Morrow." [Source-Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama; Author-Thomas McAdory Owen, 1911] MILLER, LEONARD - aged 80, and a resident of Jefferson county, private N. C. Continental Line; enrolled on September 26, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $20; sums received to date of publication of list, $50.-Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. [Source-Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama; Author-Thomas McAdory Owen, 1911] MORROW, HUGH - a resident of Jefferson county; private, particular service not shown; enrolled on March 15, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from September 4, 1833; annual allowance, $20.-Pension Book, State Branch Bank, Mobile. [Source-Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama; Author-Thomas McAdory Owen, 1911] PIERCE, HUGH - a resident of Jefferson county; private, particular service not shown; enrolled on September 17, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $30.-Pension Book, State Branch Bank, Mobile. [Source-Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama; Author-Thomas McAdory Owen, 1911] PULLEN, WILLIAM - aged 76, and a resident of Jefferson county; private Virginia Continental Line; enrolled on April 12, 1831, under act of Congress of March 18, 1818, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $96; sums received to date of publication of list, $240.-Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. He resided in Jefferson county, June 1, 1840, aged 82.-Census of Pensioners, 1841, p.149. "The grave of William Pullen is in Jefferson county, in the suburbs of Birmingham, in an old family burying ground about fifty yards from the Avondale car line between 34th and 35th streets. For many years this old graveyard was as isolated and secluded as if situated in the heart of a lonely forest, but, in the last year or two, houses have been built up thickly around it and are encroaching upon its boundaries. The grave of the soldier lies at the foot of a large oak tree; it is a rough mound of brown stones with a flat tablet topping then which bears the inscription:
"His wife lies at his feet but the lettering of the tablet at her grave is illegible, only the words "Wife of William Pullen." "Descendants of William Pullen declare that he died at the age of ninety-six and that he was born in the year 1749. But as his name is found in the Census of Pensioners for 1840 and he is recorded as being eighty-two years of age at that date, and he is recorded as being eighty-two years of age at that date, and this agrees perfectly with what appears to be the age on the tombstone, the writer has accepted the latter as correct. William Pullen then was born in Virginia in 1758, on the Appomattox river near Petersburg. He enterered the Revolutionary War from Virginia and was in service for seven years. Soon after the Revolution he moved to South Carolina and in 1820 he came to Alabama and settled near Birmingham. He was the first man buried with military honors in Jefferson county. "He left six children: (1) Clarissa, who married Jesse Hickman, and they were the parents of W. P. Hickman, formerly county commissioner for Jefferson county; (2) Sarah who married James Rowan, and they were the parenst of Peyton Rowan, of Jacksonville, Ala.; (3) William, married Nancy Brooks; (4) Martha, married Joseph Hickman; (5) Mary, married Samuel Rowan; (6) Elizabeth, married Richard Tankersley. "It is shown in the records at Washington, D.C., in the Record and Pension Office, 'that one William Pullen served as a private in Captain George Lambert's company of Continental regulars of the 14th battalion, 14th Virginia regiment of foot, commanded by Colonel Charles Lewis, Revolutionary War.' He enlisted January 1, 1777, to serve three years, and his name last appears as that of a private on a roll dated Camp near Morristown, December 9, 1779, of Captain Overton's company, 10th Virginia regiment, commanded by Col. William Davies. The records show that the 14th Virginia Regiment became the 10th Virginia regiment about November, 1778, and that about May, 1779, the 1st and 10th Virginia regiments were incorporated and designated the 1st and 10th Virginia regiment."-Mrs. P. H. Mell, in Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, Vol. iv, pp. 558-560. [Source-Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama; Author-Thomas McAdory Owen, 1911] SHEPHERD, R. S. - aged 73, resided in Jefferson county, June 1, 1840, with Sarah Nabers.-Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149. [Source-Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama; Author-Thomas McAdory Owen, 1911] STARNED, NICHOLAS - aged 78, and a resident of Jefferson county; private Virginia Militia; enrolled on July 18, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $20.-Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol, xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23 rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. [Source-Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama; Author-Thomas McAdory Owen, 1911] TARRANT, JAMES, sen., - aged 86, resided in Jefferson county, June 1, 1840, with James Tarrant, Jr.-Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149. [Source-Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama; Author-Thomas McAdory Owen, 1911] All data on this page transcribed by C. Anthony unless otherwise noted.
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