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Revolutionary War
ALEXANDER, JEREMIAH, aged 113 (evidently an error for 71), and a resident of Morgan county; private Massachusetts Militia State Troops; enrolled on September 17, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1832; annual allowance, $33.33; sums received to date of publication of list, $83.32.--Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
BARCLAY, ROBERT, "Departed this life on the 26th July, 1848, Robert Barclay, aged 85 years; born Nov. 1763, in Ireland; came with his father to South Carolina in 1769; served as a private soldier under Sumpter towards the close of the War of the Revolution, and emigrated to Tennessee in 1802, and afterwards to Morgan County, Alabama, in 1816, where he died; being one of the first pioneers who crossed the Tennessee River in Alabama. He was remarkably healthy, never having any sickness until worn out with age; even retaining his eyesight to the last, never using a pair of spectacles; he professed religion and joined the Baptist Church after coming to Morgan County, and has left three sons and three daughters to mourn his loss. Thus has fallen the last revolutionary patriot that we are acquainted with; tho' there are doubtless many more; but the time is close at hand when the last patriot that bared his bosom to the enemies of American freeedom, will cease to live on earth; but the time should be long before a memory of their deeds should be lost to their survivors.--The Democrat, Huntsville, August 9, 1848. He resided in Morgan County, June 1,1840.--Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.
BARTLEY, ROBERT, aged 72, and a resident of Morgan county; private S. C. Continental Line; enrolled on July 2, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $36.66; sums received to date of publication of list, $109.98.--Revolutionary Pension Roll in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
ELLIOTT, JOHN, aged 79, and a resident of Morgan county; private N. C. Militia; enrolled on July 10, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $80.--Revolutionary Pension Roll in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
EVANS, OWEN, aged 78, and a resident of Morgan county; corporal S. C. Continental Line; enrolled on September 17, 1825, under act of Congress of March 18, 1818; payment to date from November 4, 1825; annual allowance, $96; sums received to date of publication of list, $128.--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 - Transcribed by C. Anthony
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