Son of George Gillespie, Sr. (1735 - 1793) and Anna Elizabeth Allen (1746 - 1766)
Allen Gillespie fought in the Revolutionary War and received a pension. The following is a copy of his pension application:
Be it remembered that on this 10th day of September 1834 before the Honorable Samuel Powel Judge of said Court, personally appeared Allen Gillespie a resident citizen of said County aged 69 years and being desirous of availing himself of the provisions of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 made and subscribed on oath the following declaration to wit, that he was born in the County of Hagerston [sic] Maryland, in the month of July 1765*, and before the Indian hostilities in what is now East Tennessee then North Carolina removed to Washington County & settled there, where declarant was raised & continued to reside ever since and being subject to perform military duty in the year 1781 declarant volunteered to perform a tour of duty against the Cherokee Indians & Tories then in league with the British this was in the same year of the Kings Mountain battle & a little previous thereto, when a regular call was made for militia to repel the invasions of the enemy, he volunteered under Captain Thomas Biddle under the command of Colonel John Sevier to whom frequent orders had been given by the Government of North Carolina to call out the Militia, & after his enrollment under the aforesaid officers he was marched to the Nation, & after driving back the Indians, was kept in the vicinity of a fort on Big Limestone [Creek] called [indecipherable word, part obliterated by an ink blot] where he with the men under the command of the aforesaid officers, ranged spread [?] and scouted on the frontier until the expiration of his term of time which was for three months, verbally discharged by Captain Biddle.
2nd Tour After the expiration of his first term he again volunteered under the same officers, & continued to serve the Country being at the time annoyed with bodies of the Cherokee Indians & Tories breaking in upon the frontier, & the British under Cornwallis being in the march to the lead mines, &expected to pass through the very Country in which he resided & would have so done but for the signal defeat of the Army at King's Mountain and instead of going under Colonel Sevier to Kings Mountain Battle he was detailed with the Captain's company to which he belonged to guard the Fort on Limestone, & repel the Indians & Tories from taking the Country on the withdrawal of so great a body of the militia from the frontiers to intercept the march of Cornwallis and remained in service not only for the time engaged of three months but beyond it, and not for neighborhood Defense but under general defensive orders.
Again he was enrolled as a volunteer under Captain Handy [?] of Colonel Sevier's command for another tour of three months marched to the Tennessee River, & there being so large a body of Indians assembled on the opposite side of the River the Regiment retreated there being more than 3000 Indians assembled, & not more than 500 whites, said tour was for three months but was actually after retreating to the fort on the Limestone kept until a reinforcement came which was one month longer than his engagement. Declarant states on the last tour he was an orderly Sergeant & performed duty in that capacity & for which three tours amounting to nine months regular calls but 10 months actual service he claims a pension six thereof as a private & the residue as an orderly Sergeant that he has no record evidence of his services or written documents to establish his said servitude, nor is there any witness known to him by whom he can establish his actual service save that of Charles Graham herewith transmitted. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state, that he has no record of his age but the family record is in the possession of his brother James and he recollects the year of his birth & it is truly stated he states that Charles Graham & Nathan Gann are persons known to him & he remembers to them & by whom he can prove reputation of services.
Sworn to & subscribed in open court this 10th September 1834
*The roster of Soldiers and Patriots of the American Revolution buried in Tennessee,
by Lucy Womack Bates states he was born in 1769.
Allen Gillespie fought in the Revolutionary War and received a pension. The following is a copy of his pension application:
Be it remembered that on this 10th day of September 1834 before the Honorable Samuel Powel Judge of said Court, personally appeared Allen Gillespie a resident citizen of said County aged 69 years and being desirous of availing himself of the provisions of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 made and subscribed on oath the following declaration to wit, that he was born in the County of Hagerston [sic] Maryland, in the month of July 1765*, and before the Indian hostilities in what is now East Tennessee then North Carolina removed to Washington County & settled there, where declarant was raised & continued to reside ever since and being subject to perform military duty in the year 1781 declarant volunteered to perform a tour of duty against the Cherokee Indians & Tories then in league with the British this was in the same year of the Kings Mountain battle & a little previous thereto, when a regular call was made for militia to repel the invasions of the enemy, he volunteered under Captain Thomas Biddle under the command of Colonel John Sevier to whom frequent orders had been given by the Government of North Carolina to call out the Militia, & after his enrollment under the aforesaid officers he was marched to the Nation, & after driving back the Indians, was kept in the vicinity of a fort on Big Limestone [Creek] called [indecipherable word, part obliterated by an ink blot] where he with the men under the command of the aforesaid officers, ranged spread [?] and scouted on the frontier until the expiration of his term of time which was for three months, verbally discharged by Captain Biddle.
2nd Tour After the expiration of his first term he again volunteered under the same officers, & continued to serve the Country being at the time annoyed with bodies of the Cherokee Indians & Tories breaking in upon the frontier, & the British under Cornwallis being in the march to the lead mines, &expected to pass through the very Country in which he resided & would have so done but for the signal defeat of the Army at King's Mountain and instead of going under Colonel Sevier to Kings Mountain Battle he was detailed with the Captain's company to which he belonged to guard the Fort on Limestone, & repel the Indians & Tories from taking the Country on the withdrawal of so great a body of the militia from the frontiers to intercept the march of Cornwallis and remained in service not only for the time engaged of three months but beyond it, and not for neighborhood Defense but under general defensive orders.
Again he was enrolled as a volunteer under Captain Handy [?] of Colonel Sevier's command for another tour of three months marched to the Tennessee River, & there being so large a body of Indians assembled on the opposite side of the River the Regiment retreated there being more than 3000 Indians assembled, & not more than 500 whites, said tour was for three months but was actually after retreating to the fort on the Limestone kept until a reinforcement came which was one month longer than his engagement. Declarant states on the last tour he was an orderly Sergeant & performed duty in that capacity & for which three tours amounting to nine months regular calls but 10 months actual service he claims a pension six thereof as a private & the residue as an orderly Sergeant that he has no record evidence of his services or written documents to establish his said servitude, nor is there any witness known to him by whom he can establish his actual service save that of Charles Graham herewith transmitted. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state, that he has no record of his age but the family record is in the possession of his brother James and he recollects the year of his birth & it is truly stated he states that Charles Graham & Nathan Gann are persons known to him & he remembers to them & by whom he can prove reputation of services.
Sworn to & subscribed in open court this 10th September 1834
*The roster of Soldiers and Patriots of the American Revolution buried in Tennessee,
by Lucy Womack Bates states he was born in 1769.
Son of George Gillespie, Sr. (1735 - 1793) and Anna Elizabeth Allen (1746 - 1766)
Allen Gillespie fought in the Revolutionary War and received a pension. The following is a copy of his pension application:
Be it remembered that on this 10th day of September 1834 before the Honorable Samuel Powel Judge of said Court, personally appeared Allen Gillespie a resident citizen of said County aged 69 years and being desirous of availing himself of the provisions of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 made and subscribed on oath the following declaration to wit, that he was born in the County of Hagerston [sic] Maryland, in the month of July 1765*, and before the Indian hostilities in what is now East Tennessee then North Carolina removed to Washington County & settled there, where declarant was raised & continued to reside ever since and being subject to perform military duty in the year 1781 declarant volunteered to perform a tour of duty against the Cherokee Indians & Tories then in league with the British this was in the same year of the Kings Mountain battle & a little previous thereto, when a regular call was made for militia to repel the invasions of the enemy, he volunteered under Captain Thomas Biddle under the command of Colonel John Sevier to whom frequent orders had been given by the Government of North Carolina to call out the Militia, & after his enrollment under the aforesaid officers he was marched to the Nation, & after driving back the Indians, was kept in the vicinity of a fort on Big Limestone [Creek] called [indecipherable word, part obliterated by an ink blot] where he with the men under the command of the aforesaid officers, ranged spread [?] and scouted on the frontier until the expiration of his term of time which was for three months, verbally discharged by Captain Biddle.
2nd Tour After the expiration of his first term he again volunteered under the same officers, & continued to serve the Country being at the time annoyed with bodies of the Cherokee Indians & Tories breaking in upon the frontier, & the British under Cornwallis being in the march to the lead mines, &expected to pass through the very Country in which he resided & would have so done but for the signal defeat of the Army at King's Mountain and instead of going under Colonel Sevier to Kings Mountain Battle he was detailed with the Captain's company to which he belonged to guard the Fort on Limestone, & repel the Indians & Tories from taking the Country on the withdrawal of so great a body of the militia from the frontiers to intercept the march of Cornwallis and remained in service not only for the time engaged of three months but beyond it, and not for neighborhood Defense but under general defensive orders.
Again he was enrolled as a volunteer under Captain Handy [?] of Colonel Sevier's command for another tour of three months marched to the Tennessee River, & there being so large a body of Indians assembled on the opposite side of the River the Regiment retreated there being more than 3000 Indians assembled, & not more than 500 whites, said tour was for three months but was actually after retreating to the fort on the Limestone kept until a reinforcement came which was one month longer than his engagement. Declarant states on the last tour he was an orderly Sergeant & performed duty in that capacity & for which three tours amounting to nine months regular calls but 10 months actual service he claims a pension six thereof as a private & the residue as an orderly Sergeant that he has no record evidence of his services or written documents to establish his said servitude, nor is there any witness known to him by whom he can establish his actual service save that of Charles Graham herewith transmitted. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state, that he has no record of his age but the family record is in the possession of his brother James and he recollects the year of his birth & it is truly stated he states that Charles Graham & Nathan Gann are persons known to him & he remembers to them & by whom he can prove reputation of services.
Sworn to & subscribed in open court this 10th September 1834
*The roster of Soldiers and Patriots of the American Revolution buried in Tennessee,
by Lucy Womack Bates states he was born in 1769.
Allen Gillespie fought in the Revolutionary War and received a pension. The following is a copy of his pension application:
Be it remembered that on this 10th day of September 1834 before the Honorable Samuel Powel Judge of said Court, personally appeared Allen Gillespie a resident citizen of said County aged 69 years and being desirous of availing himself of the provisions of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 made and subscribed on oath the following declaration to wit, that he was born in the County of Hagerston [sic] Maryland, in the month of July 1765*, and before the Indian hostilities in what is now East Tennessee then North Carolina removed to Washington County & settled there, where declarant was raised & continued to reside ever since and being subject to perform military duty in the year 1781 declarant volunteered to perform a tour of duty against the Cherokee Indians & Tories then in league with the British this was in the same year of the Kings Mountain battle & a little previous thereto, when a regular call was made for militia to repel the invasions of the enemy, he volunteered under Captain Thomas Biddle under the command of Colonel John Sevier to whom frequent orders had been given by the Government of North Carolina to call out the Militia, & after his enrollment under the aforesaid officers he was marched to the Nation, & after driving back the Indians, was kept in the vicinity of a fort on Big Limestone [Creek] called [indecipherable word, part obliterated by an ink blot] where he with the men under the command of the aforesaid officers, ranged spread [?] and scouted on the frontier until the expiration of his term of time which was for three months, verbally discharged by Captain Biddle.
2nd Tour After the expiration of his first term he again volunteered under the same officers, & continued to serve the Country being at the time annoyed with bodies of the Cherokee Indians & Tories breaking in upon the frontier, & the British under Cornwallis being in the march to the lead mines, &expected to pass through the very Country in which he resided & would have so done but for the signal defeat of the Army at King's Mountain and instead of going under Colonel Sevier to Kings Mountain Battle he was detailed with the Captain's company to which he belonged to guard the Fort on Limestone, & repel the Indians & Tories from taking the Country on the withdrawal of so great a body of the militia from the frontiers to intercept the march of Cornwallis and remained in service not only for the time engaged of three months but beyond it, and not for neighborhood Defense but under general defensive orders.
Again he was enrolled as a volunteer under Captain Handy [?] of Colonel Sevier's command for another tour of three months marched to the Tennessee River, & there being so large a body of Indians assembled on the opposite side of the River the Regiment retreated there being more than 3000 Indians assembled, & not more than 500 whites, said tour was for three months but was actually after retreating to the fort on the Limestone kept until a reinforcement came which was one month longer than his engagement. Declarant states on the last tour he was an orderly Sergeant & performed duty in that capacity & for which three tours amounting to nine months regular calls but 10 months actual service he claims a pension six thereof as a private & the residue as an orderly Sergeant that he has no record evidence of his services or written documents to establish his said servitude, nor is there any witness known to him by whom he can establish his actual service save that of Charles Graham herewith transmitted. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state, that he has no record of his age but the family record is in the possession of his brother James and he recollects the year of his birth & it is truly stated he states that Charles Graham & Nathan Gann are persons known to him & he remembers to them & by whom he can prove reputation of services.
Sworn to & subscribed in open court this 10th September 1834
*The roster of Soldiers and Patriots of the American Revolution buried in Tennessee,
by Lucy Womack Bates states he was born in 1769.
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