Thanks for that research site. It is loaded with another branch of my family - Alsop - over 400 hits on the name. Now I just have to sort thru them. My Nancy Jane Coates married into the Alsup family in the late 1800's in Douglas Co. Missouri. Thanks for the great site. Pat Alsup Hardman INBOX: Email 1 of 23 > Content-Type: text/plain > > COATES-D Digest Volume 05 : Issue 9 > > Today's Topics: > #1 John Baker Wilson County TN ["Charlotte Coats" <[email protected]] > #2 VA records research ["Charlotte Coats" <[email protected]] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from COATES-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > ______________________________> X-Message: #1 > Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:20:28 -0800 > From: "Charlotte Coats" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Subject: John Baker Wilson County TN > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed > > Abstract of his pension file....looks like the pension application was > rejected, but he was a minute man...not one of the regular regiments....so > that may still qualify for DAR...not sure...he applied for the pension in > 1843 and died in 1844 > > Abstract of application: > > State of TN: Wilson County > declaration dated April 20, 1843 > John Baker a resident of Wilson County TN aged 96 years > service info: > He entered service in Stafford County VA as a volunteer under Captain > JohnVant > he doesn't recollect the names of any of the ? officers of the company > except the first Sargeant he recollects that the name of that officer was > Ford; doesn't recall the date that he entered the service bt was some time > previous to the declaraion of Independence; he was first mustered into > service at an old Field about eight or nine miles from the Rive Potomac, > Vants company which be belonged then marched to the Potomac and there was > joined to the regiment called the regiment of minutte men commanded by > Colonel William Philips, they marched down the River potomac serveral miles, > they camped near the river for serveral days, then dismissed and returned > home with orders to return to the river when ever notified to do so, that > said regiment was kept organised as a regiment of Minuttte men to prevent > the British ? from coming up the river and plundering the inhabitance and > precuring fresh water, he was often called out and encamped upon the river > generally from ten to twenty days at a time and sometimes longer sometimes > would be dismissed and in the course of one or two days would be called out > and incamped and marched up and down the river, did this til the end of the > war. > > During his service Capt Vant resigned and the company was then commanded > during the remainder of the time by Capt William Hardin....signed John Baker > (his mark) > > Declaration of William Vantrease andBenjamin Pritchett > > Questions and Answers: > Q. When and in what year were you born > A. I was born in Stafford County VA in the month of January 1747 or 1743 or > 1741 > Q. Have you any record of your age and if so where is it > A. My age was recorded in a Bible before I removed from the state of VA, > which I left there and I have had no record of my age since that time > Q. Where were you living when called into service where have you lived > since Revolutionary War and where do you now live > A. I lived in Stafford County VA when I was called into service I removed > from there about 18 months after the war - I went to South Carolina on BROAD > RIVER about 60 or 70 miles from Charleston remained there about three years > I then removed to Red River, Logan County Kentucky resided there about 14 > years - was in a campaign of 16 days against the Indians under Colonel > Whitley and removed from there to PON River (not sure of the name of that > river) in Kentucky resided there about 3 years then removed to BEDFORD CONTY > TN remained there about 9 years I then removed to Wilson County TN where I > now reside > Q. How were you called into service were you draughted di you volunteer > were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom > A. Entered the service as a volunteer under Captain John Vant I served all > the time as a volunteer > Q. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops > where you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service > A. I do no now recollect that there was any regular troops with the > regiment in which I served if there was any regular or continental malitia > troops with us I can not now recollect the officers there might sometimes > have been other malitia with us besides the regiment to which I belonged but > if so I cannot now state by who they were commanded. I recollect no other > officer being with us in particular excpet them herein before named > Q. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was > it given and what has become of it > A. I received nothing but a verbal dishcarge I beieve the whole of the > company to which I belonged were all verbally discharged when the news of > peace reached us > Q. State the names of person to whom you are known in your present > neighborhood and who can testify as to your present Charlter for veracity > and their beief of your service as a soldier in the Revolution > A. I am well known to my general neigborhood and expect al who knoes me > would give me a good character for veracity and also believe that I served > as a soldier of the revolution I will here state the names of William > Vantrease a Clergyman and Benjamin Prichkette or Prichette who both live > near me and sho have both been acquiainted with me for many years. > > Court stuff... > > That's it on the pension application....not sure why it was rejected...this > file is in the pension records twice...looked like they microfilmed it twice > for some reason...but both were the same... > ______________________________> X-Message: #2 > Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:30:50 -0800 > From: "Charlotte Coats" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Subject: VA records research > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed > > http://www.historiccourtrecords.org/default.asp > > Good research site for VA