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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Fife Major
Excerpted from the Revolutionary War Pension of John Christian, S*W6668:
State of Tennessee Smith County: October 1st 1818
This day before me Parry W. Humphreys one of the Judges of the Circuit Courts in and for the State of Tennessee now presiding in said County of Smith came John Christian a citizen of said County in the 64th year of his age who being by me first duly and legally sworn the truth to declare and speak touching his services in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary War he declares and says he enlisted in the Revolutionary War as a fifer for 2 1/2 years with Captain Emmet who commanded a company in the 3rd Regiment of infantry and Continental line of North Carolina – commanded at the time of his enlistment by Colonel Sumner. He enlisted as he believes on the 11th of May in the year 1776, and was discharged in October 1778, having served the term of his enlistment within a few days – his discharge was burned in his house which was burned about two years after the War. He further says that the certificates of William Hill the Secretary of State of North Carolina and of Samuel Goodwin Comptroller which are hereto annexed are all the evidence in his power at this time to produce of his services. He further says he was in the Battle of Germantown and Brandywine, he was in the reserves at the Battle of Monmouth and not in the action he has been in several other skirmishes and engagements of the inferior note. He further says that he has no means of subsistence but his labor and that by reason of his age and infirmities he is unable to perform much manual labor his whole property is not worth $60 he has no land and is in such reduced circumstances in life as to require assistance from his country for support and he wishes a pension if his case be such as to come within the provisions of the Act of Congress.
John Christian
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