To: Sasser-L, This is more from the Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield - Smithfield, NC. Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War, Pension Files, Volume III: N - Z Abstracted by Virgil D. White SASS, Jacob, NC Line, S21956, appl 30 Jul 1832 at Charleston, SC aged 82 SASSEN, Abel, or Abel Sasser, NC Line, S7450, see Abel Sasser SASSER, Abel or Abel Sasser, NC Line S7450, sol lived in Johnston Co NC at enl & he appl there 27 Aug1832 aged 69 yrs, it was stated sol was born in NC SASSER, Benjamin, NC Line, S7446, sol was b in 1755 in Old Dobbs Co NC & he lived in Duplin Co NC at enl & after the Rev he lived in Johnston Co NC for 1 yr then moved to Wayne Co NC & in 1798 he moved to Columbus Co NC where he appl 14 Aug 1832, sol son Frederick Sasser was of Columbus Co NC in 1832 [Remember when you read this Old Dobbs County was... {The colony of North Carolina was divided into three counties under the Lords proprietors, viz Albermarle, to the north; Bath, in the center, with Clarendon, on the south. In 1709 Bath county was a wilderness, the few inhabitants being thinly scattered over its territory, but mainly following its water courses, the Neuse, Trent, and Pamlico rivers, in their search of bottom lands. The whole colony had scarcely ten thousand settlers. Bath was divided into three parishes --Beaufort, Hyde and Craven— for purposes of taxation and sustaining the established religion of the mother country, the Episcopal Church. Craven parish embraced the present counties of Lenoir, Craven, Pitt, Greene, Edgecombe, Nash, Wilson, Wayne, Jones, Johnston, Carteret, Pamlico, part of Beaufort and parts of some of the western counties, then in the undisputed possession of the Indian and the rattlesnake.} The City of Kinston in 1729...{lay in the County of Bath and the precinct of Craven. As smaller counties were from time to time carved out of the original large ones, the Kinston lands were in Bath County to 1737; in Craven County from 1738 to 1746; in Johnston County from 1746 to 1759; in Dobbs County 1759 to 1791; from 1791 to the present they have been in Lenoir County. (Land Grant Book no. 97. Page 212-213)}] In April of 1755 Arthur Dobbs was Governor. ----------------the text { } is from The Heritage of Lenoir County 1981------- Cordially, Earl Sasser ewsass@writeme.com