"Robin Sloan" <sneakers@on-net.net> Wrote: | | Hi everyone. I just received a reply from NARA to my request for | John's pension record. I had his birth date as 1740...but I received | a note from them saying that John's pension record showed that he was | born in 1759. Did he lie about his age to join the militia???? I did | find out the correct date of the Battle of Ramsaur's Mill to be June | 20, 1789 not 1790; can someone please correct me if I'm wrong? I've always said there are TOO MANY JOHN SLOANS!! I suspect you've got the pension record for the wrong John Sloan. According to my records there are THREE John Sloans that are Revolutionary Vets b. in 1759!! 1. m. Lavinia Scott 2. Mary Gardner and 3 Margaret Pinkerton. I pretty sure that your John was b. 2 Aug 1740. His date of birth came from a memo?/bible? record prepared by his brother Patrick and give the dob of all the siblings. Also his 1st child was b. 1766. I see that I had a d. date of 1780 even though my notes said it should 20 Jun 1789. Thanks for the correction. Frank Mitchell