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Descendants of Nicholas Robertson

23. WILLIAM⁷ ROBERTSON (GEORGE⁶, ISRAEL⁵, NICHOLAS⁴, WILLIAM³, WILLIAM² ROBERTSONII, WILLIAM¹ ROBERTSON) was born Abt. 1759. She married (1) ROBERT SEVIER. She married (2) JONATHAN TIPTON.

Children of WILLIAM ROBERTSON and ROBERT SEVIER are:

	i.		CHARLES ROBERTSON⁸ SEVIER, b. Abt. 1778.
	ii.		VALENTINE SEVIER, b. July 08, 1780.

Children of WILLIAM ROBERTSON and JONATHAN TIPTON are:

	iii.		JONATHAN⁸ TIPTON.
	iv.		WILEY TIPTON.
	v.		JACOB TIPTON.
	vi.		DAVID TIPTON.
	vii.		JOSEPH TIPTON.

24. CHARLES B.⁷ ROBERTSON, JR. (GEORGE⁶, ISRAEL⁵, NICHOLAS⁴, WILLIAM³, WILLIAM² ROBERTSONII, WILLIAM¹ ROBERTSON) was born 1759 in <North Carolina, and died Aft. August 08, 1814. He married SUSAN 1780.

Children of CHARLES ROBERTSON and SUSAN are:

	i.		DAVID⁸ ROBERTSON.
	ii.		ELIZABETH ROBERTSON.
	iii.		JACOB ROBERTSON.
	iv.		DANIEL ROBERTSON, b. Abt. 1781.

25. SUSANNAH⁷ ROBERTSON (GEORGE⁶, ISRAEL⁵, NICHOLAS⁴, WILLIAM³, WILLIAM² ROBERTSONII, WILLIAM¹ ROBERTSON) was born March 22, 1761 in Peedee River, North Carolina, and died January 26, 1843 in Tippah County, Mississippi. She married DELILAH SPANN 1800.

Notes for SUSANNAH ROBERTSON:
REVOLUTIONARY PENSION FILE FOR
WILLIAM ROBERTSON

3 October 1732. File No. 54790.

State of Tennessee Court of Pleas and Quarter sessions October\
Hardeman County term 1832\

Be it known on the 3rd day of October in the year of our Lord 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before the ----justice of the Court of Hardman County now sitting WILLIAM ROBERTSON a/resident of Hardman County aforesd. Aged about 73 years who being / first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the / following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act / of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he was born on the Peedee river, but he does not know / in what county he does not recollect what year he was born in / he has no register of his age but from what he has heard his / mother say of his age he must have been born in the year / 1759. When the revolutionary war commenced he resided in what is now called Washington County Tennessee and the Indians became troublesome and my father CHARLES ROBERTSON, who was the first COLO.! of Washington County was compelled to abandon his home / and his family and take shelter in the Watauga fort. He then / entered the service under the Captain JAMES ROBERTSON since / Gen ROBINSONEsic] of Tennessee as a volunteer to fight the Indiana ? & tories. He does not recollect what time he volunteered under Capt. / ROBERTSON [sic] but it was about the first of the breaking Out of war. After serving in guarding the fort for some time Col. Chester from Virginia came on with some troops and / relieved us. Sometimes afterward---he ---enlisted under / Captain Price as a mounted dragoon to guard / the frontiers od Washington County for the term I of one year after he served out his twelve months under I Price the Indians still continued hostile he was then I drafted under Capt. W. Parker for three months during / which time he acted as Lieutenant and marched under! General Evan Shelby against the Cherokee Indians. My father CHARLES ROBERTSON was Colonel, we went to an Indian town / called Chickamaunga the Indians fled before
- - -us / we - - - burned their town and returned home shortly after I he returned home he was again drafted to march against! the tories and the British he was under --- Lieu / tenant CHRISTOPHER CUNNINGHAM. My father & Col. JOHN I SEVIER commanded the regiment. We were patrolling the I Country near Musgroves Mill when we came in contact / with some of FERGUSONS dragoons they urged us to retreat / we the joined Col. MCDOWELL and marched against

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PAT. MOORES fort on Thickety Creek in Spartinburgh I County South Carolina the fort surrendered without firing a gun I their was about 90 tories in the fort then we returned home I was not home very long until McDOWELL sent for Col. I SEVIER to return to fight the tories and Maj. FERGUSON / he returned under Capt ROBERT SEWER and was in the battle off KINGS MOUNTAIN by Captain ROBERT SEVIER was wound I =ed he desired to be carried home he this affsaid under / took to assist in getting him home but SEVIER died at - - -/ SAM BRIGHTS on the Peedee river before he got home - - / The next campaign he was in under Captain JAMES / RICHARDSON, commanded by GenI. JOSEPH MARTIN for the term I of three months we march against the Cherokee Indians / and was in the battle of lookout Mountain - - Maj. JOSEPH BULLARD was killed in the battle and we buried him in his blanket Capt GIBSON was also killed / this was after the war. He received no discharge in writing / Captain WILLIAM WALKER of Harding County has known me for sixty years and can testify as to my Services Major CHRISTOPHER BULLARD has known me for 50 years and / can also testify as to my services

Sworn to in open court the 3rd October 1832
Tho J. Hard man Clerk

I WILLIAM--- WALKER hereby certify that I am / well acquainted with WILLIAM ROBERTSON who has subscribed I and sworn to the above declaration and have known him for I upwards of sixty years I have frequently seen him in the farmy of the North Carolina Militia during the revolutionary war I saw him in the battle of KINGS MOUNTAIN and I believe that he has served as above stated.
Sworn to supported in open William Walker
Court 3 October 1832
Thos J. Hardeman Clerk.

I CHRISTOPHER BULLARD a citizen of Hardeman County Tennessee / do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with WILLIAM ROBERTSON who has subscribed & sworn to the above decla I ration

and have known him for fifty years. i saw him / and was with him in the expedition to LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN and was with him in that battle. I which was some years after the revolution but do not recollect in / []

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State of Tennessee Court of Pleas and Quarter sessions April term\
Hardeman County 1837\

On the third day of April I A D 1837 personally appeared in Open I Court before the Justices I of said county of Hardeman aged about I Seventy Six years who being duly sworn according to law dith on his oath / make the following Amendment to his declaration of the 3rd day of October and I in the year of our lord 1832 in order to / obtain the benefits of the provision made by / the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he cannot tell his age not having any record of it, but from information I received from his mother in his lifetime / he was seventy six years of age the 22 day of March 1837. He cannot give a better account of the place of his birth than is stated in his original declaration numbered / 1553 his [] was offered as part of this / amendment. He cannot say when he first I entered the service but he thinks the time I he served under Capt. JAMES ROBINSON was I in the year 1777 or 1778. He then served in I that tour Three months and was mustered out of service without a written
discharge. The next year he volunteered or I enlisted under Capt. THOMAS PRICE as stated in / said original Declaration and then served I a full term of one year. the next tour he

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entered the service under Capt. W. PARKER as / a Lieutenant and served three months. The time / of performing this service he cannot now state. I Shortly after the above service he entered the service again under LIEUTENANT CUNNINGHAM I and served Three months immediately after he was / mustered out of service when, he cannot / under CUNNINGHAM. [sic] I he again entered the service under Capt. ROBERT SEVIER in this term of Three months the Battle of KINGS MOUNTAIN was fought, but this Declaration []/ been sent leave [sic] with Capt. SEVIER & some others I who were wounded did not serve out the / three months by about three weeks. He thinks he acted on this occasion as Capt. of the guard sent with the wounded. In the year 1786 as he believes he served under Capt. JAMES RICHARDSON, commanded by Gen. JOSEPH MARTIN. I he was at this time about five months in the / service. In the year 1782, information I of Indians & tories on Coosa Watee river I in what is now Georgia as he thinks Capt ISAAC THOMAS raised a spy campaign and he volunteered under him.
Said THOMAS was under command of Col ROBERTSON [ ] I The company went to said river and took a white man on the way. He broke courtesy ans / said THOMAS killed him as he run. he went I on and burnt Big Shoemaker town and a I store house said to belong to the British. We I then retreated home with thirty six Indians I and one white prisoners. We served /1 think five weeks and four days. In the

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three months [ ] in which he went / against the Cherokee Indians called the I Chickamaga Campaign he served a short / time more than the three months. He thinks / he did not serve two years in all by one I or two weeks but he cannot recollect I He does not remember that he ever got a written discharge. He further states that he I is not acquainted with any Clergyman in I his neighborhood and he is informed and be / = lieves it to be true that that there is not one living nearer him than about seventeen miles. He never had any record of his age. Since [] his original declaration / he has resided in the State of Mississippi some I time but now resides in Hardeman County I where he then did. The reason why he did / not renew his application sooner is because of his infirmity and the difficulty attending I the obtaining proof od service which he has I in part done by the statements of WILLIAM PRICE, THOMAS GIST and HUGH PEARSON of White County Turnpike which is here produced these I statements are imperfect and WILLIAM PEARSON is I mistaken as a claimant being in the Battle / of Eaton Springs, being then in a different service. He does not think he ever received a written discharge. He truely again relinquishes I every claim whatever to a pension or annuity I except the present, and he declares that his I name is not on any pension roll or agency I in any state, ISAAC THOMAS called Captain I above was only our leader on that

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occasion. There may be errors in this declaration, but from length of time he cannot/make it more perfect.

CHRISTOPHER BULLARD I TEMPLE BULLARD, JAMES MOORE, WILLIAM MOORE / & THOMAS SIMPSON & many others of his neighborhood I are acquainted with him and would testify / as to his character and the fact of his being reputed a revolutionary soldier residing I in the county of Hardeman in the State of Tennessee and his being a man of truth.

Sworn to and Subscribed before me WILLIAM ROBERTSON in Open Court Sami. Neely Circuit C. Clerk
April 3rd 1837 for Rufus P. Neely Clerk

We WILLIAM J. DAVIS and JOHN CREEKMORE / residing in the county of Hardeman and / State of Tennessee hereby certify that I we are well acquainted with WILLIAM / ROBERTSON, who has subscribed and sworn / to the above amendment of his declara= I tion of 1832 that we believe him I to be Seventy Six years of age that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been I a soldier of the revolution, and that / we concur in the opinion

Sworn to in the Open Court WILLIAM J. DAVIS
the 3rd April 1837
Rufus P. Neely, Clerk JOHN CREEKMORE
by Sami. Neely, Circuit Clerk

And the said Court de hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of

The State of Mississippi S. S. This day\
Marshall County Personally appeared before me WILLIAM REGAN a justice of the peace in and for said County of Marshall / JOHN C. BLACKWOOD, to me known, and / made oath in due form of law that he was well acquainted with WILLIAM ROBERTSON, late a Revolutionary pensioner, being the same / person named in a Pension Certificate, which is in the following words and figures. /\

War Department
Revolutionary Claim

I hereby certify that in conformity/ with the law of the United States of the 7th/ June 1832, WILLIAM ROBERTSON of Tennessee / who was a private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive forty dollars______cents per annum during / his natural life, commencing on the 4th day of March 1831, and payable semi annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year. Given at the war office/ of the United States this twentieth day/ of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven [20 October 1837].
Examined & countersigned J. R. Poinsett
George William Crump Secretary of War
Acting Commissioner of Pensions

That the said

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WILLIAM ROBERTSON departed this life in the County of Tippah, State of Mississippi, on the 26th day of January in the year 1843 / at the residence of Andrew Blackwood, who / was the son in law of said ROBERTSON. That / SUSAN NAH BLACKWOOD, wife of said Andrew I and daughter of said WILLIAM ROBERTSON / for about Twelve months before the death of said WILLIAM ROBERTSON, attended to him I constantly, he being in a helpless condition nearly all the time and said ANDREW BLACKWOOD furnished him with all the necessaries of life to sustain him up to his death and that they [sic] said ANDREW BLACKWOOD / and his wife have not received one cent of compensation for all their trouble & expenses as I aforesaid. that said ANDREW BLACKWOOD is a very poor man, scarcely able to support I his family in an economical way and I said SUSANAH was without any help, and I with her own hands had to attend to said WILLIAM ROBERTSON at all times and in all / ways that his condition required. Affiant I also states that he understands and believes / that the death of said ROBERTSON, his pension from the 4th March 1841, was due I him from the United States, which had not been I drawn, partly to attend to it and partly from some misunder / = standing at the agency at Nash I =ville Tennessee. Said WILLIAM ROBERTSON I married a woman after the death of the / mother of said SUSANAH BLACKWOOD which I last wife is yet alive as affiant believes, / but she has not lived with said ROBERTSON / for at least Seven years or more, and for the last five years or more she [said / second wife] has been living with one I WILLIAM MOORE as husband & Wife I openly, and as affiant believes she has I truly forfeited all claim to any / participation in any thing belonging to said WILLIAM ROBERTSON at his death. / Affiant thinks it just & therefore I prays that said ANDREW BACKWOOD I & his wife may be permitted to receive / said pension money due said ROBERTSON / at his death as remuneration in part for the great trouble they had in taking care of him.

Sworn to & subscribed ANDREW C. BLACKWOOD.\
Before me this 1st day of\
February 1844 \
William Ragan [seal]
Justice of the Peace

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The State of Mississippi\
Marshall County I, Gordentia Waite, Clerk of the / Probate Court of said County, hereby certify that WILLIAM RAGAN, whose certificate and attestation appear within is / and was on the date thereof, an acting Justice of the peace / in and for Marshall County aforesaid, duly commis /=sioned and qualified, and that due faith and / credit are due to the act done by him in his / official capacity.\

Given under my hand and the seal
of said Court, at office, the
4th day of February A. D. 1844

Gordentia Waite, Clerk

Dear Si

From the statement / I hope you will order the pension due old man ROBIN / SON to be paid to his son in/law.
Yours,

Q. Simpson [?]

My gratitude to Pollye Calvery, whose husband and children are descendants of William Robertson and who shared this pension statement.

Child of SUSANNAH ROBERTSON and DELILAH SPANN is:

SUSANNAH⁸ ROBINSON, m. ANDREW C. BLACKWOOD.

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