Hello Listers! My cousin and I are still attempting to sort out the Rogers/Rodgers in Bedford County. If there is anyone searching these names in Bedford I would like to exchange information with them. I am particularly searching for Joseph Rogers and any of his descendants. If you are related to these lines please email me privately and send it to the list. Thank you! Joseph ROGERS 1835 Private, South Carolina Militia, $24.88 Annual Allowance $74.64 Amount Received February 23, 1833, Pension Started Age 84 (1835 TN Pension Roll) I found this in the Bedford, Tennessee Revolutionary War Records. Joseph Rogers died after 1835 because he is listed in the 1835 Tennessee Pension Roll. http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgebweb/tn/military/pen1835.txt?sourceid=00395804 448012214147 Researchers of Joseph Rogers are very fortunate that he was a Revolutionary War veteran and that he applied for a pension in Bedford Co., TN in 1832. This pension application gives us many valuable details as to Joseph's whereabouts during his lifetime. From the book, "Revolutionary Soldiers of Bedford County" by Timothy and Helen Marsh, page 196, I quote: Joseph Rogers, rank private SC, soldier #1928 SC, claim #7037, TN, born September 17, 1750, in Amelia County, VA and died after 1834. On this twenty first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, personally appeared before me, Adam Miller, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Bedford in the State aforesaid, Joseph Rogers, a resident of said County, aged eighty two years, four months and four days, who after being sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7th June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated, to wit, that he entered the service of the United States as a drafted soldier, in the county of Fairfield in the State of South Carolina, about the first of April in the year 1780, and was placed in a company commanded by Captain Eleazer Mobley in a regiment under the command of Colonel John Winn, who was under the command of General Richard Winn. He states that he was mustered into service at Shirey's Ferry on Broad River in said County of Fairfield, and State of South Carolina, and was marched from there to Saluda River to a particular Ferry on the same, the name of which he has forgotten. Where he was kept for sometime, and from there he was marched to a small village, then called the Three Sisters, not a great distance from the Savannah River, where he says he was stationed for seven or eight weeks and from there he was marched down on the Wateree River and from there up on Saluda River again to Weavers Ferry where he states he was discharged or dismissed the first week in August 1780, after serving a tour of four months. He further states that afterwards in the month of November in the year 1780, he entered the service of the United States again as a drafted soldier in the said County of Fairfield, and was placed under his former Captain (Mobley) and was mustered into service at Lister's Ford on Broad River under the same Colonel and General, as before mentioned, and was marched to a place called Wynnsborough (Winnsboro) where he was stationed for some time, and from there he was marched on down the Warteree, in search of Tories. They being very numerous at that time throuout the State of South Carolina and from there he was marched up the Warteree River to an encampment about eight miles from Camden, where he says he was kept about three or four weeks, and was dismissed sometime in the month of February, 1781. After serving two months and two weeks, he further states he served in the whole a term of service of not less than six months and two weeks for which claims a pension. But that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify as to his service and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in the United States. Interrogatories by the Court: Q: Where and in what year were you born? A: I was born in Amealy (Amelia) County in the State of Virginia on the 17th day of September 1750. Q: Have you any record of your age and if so where is it? A: I have no record of my age at this time, but have seen it often where it was recorded in my father's dictionary, in the State of South Carolina, but where it is now, I cannot tell. Q: Where were you living when called into service? Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live? A: I was a citizen of Fairfield County in the State of South Carolina when I entered the service of the United States and continued there until after the close of the war, and I think I removed to the County of Fayette and State of Kentucky in the year 1792 or 1793, where I lived nearly three years, when I removed to the State of Georgia and I think I lived there fourteen years, I then removed to Rutherford County in the State of Tennessee where I lived about eight years, and from there I removed to Bedford County, Tennessee, where I have lived every since and where I now live. Q: How were you called into service? Were you drafted? Did you volunteer, or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom? A: I was a drafted soldier all the time I was in the service of the United States. Q: State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served, such Continental and Militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service. A: I do not recollect any regular officers with the troops where I served, our officers were militia altogether and I believe I have given as general a history of my service in the foregoing declaration as I am able to do at this advanced age of my life. Q: Did you ever receive a discharge, and if so what has become of it? A: I never did receive a discharge to my knowledge but was dismissed by the commanding officers. Q: State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your service as a soldier of the Revolution. A: The Rev. R. W. Morris, Matthew Russell, Allen Perry, Esqr., and Martin Adams. Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year aforesaid. Attest: A. Miller, J. P. Justice of the Peace for Bedford County. Joseph Rogers is very old and blind and very poor. He has no family except himself and wife who is also very old and helpless, and one son who is subject to fits and almost an idiot. Letter dated 25th January 1833. Rogers served in the South Carolina Militia during the Revolution and was placed on the pension list within a month of the date of this letter. Some analysis about Joseph Rogers from Kenneth Shelton who wrote a book about the Mobley Meeting House. Joseph Rogers made this declaration over 50 years after the fact, and it appears very likely that he confused the year about when he served. Captain Eleazer Mobley served in 1779 on the Stono Expedition-this was documented shortly after the end of the war when he filed a South Carolina Audited Account stating he served as such under Colonel Winn(John Winn). John Winn, in his audited account also filed shortly after the close, says he served as a Colonel in 1777 & 1778(militia) and Lieutenant under General Williamson in 1779. He likely got paid for his service as a Colonel and thus made no claim on that. Kenneth Shelton shows John Winn's parole of 8 June 1780 and he further shows where by August 1780, he was a prisoner, so he couldn't have been serving in the fall of 1780. It is not at all unusual-many veterans mixed up years, chronologies of battles, officer's ranks and etc. It is really amazing that after 50+ years Rogers could recall this much-avery large percentage of it correct without the benefit of any written documents or other participants to discuss the details with. Joseph probably served from April 1779 to Feb 1780 or about 1/2 way through the Siege of Charleston. He likely sat out 1780 to mid 1781, and after that point, he having already served prior doesn't appear to have done so afterwards-also not unusual. Thank you ! [email protected]