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Jefferson County Alabama Genealogy
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Jefferson County Revolutionary
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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
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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:
|
Sacred
to the Memory of WILLIAM PULLEN A Soldier of
the Revolution, Who died April 4th, 1845, Aged 87
years. |
"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]
Transcribed by C. Anthony

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