HARRISON
or HARRISSON, Richard & Rachel North
Carolina W 2934
Allen County,
Ky. 10 June 1833. RICHARD HARRISON, aged 69,
deposes: First tour of duty as substitute for
ISAAC ROBERTSON and served under Capt. GEORGE
SMITH in Lincoln County, NC. In 1781 when in my
16 0r 17 year served another term for said
ROBERTSON as an Indian Spy in the Mounted Cavalry
under Capt. JOSEPH McDONNELL. Next tour I
volunteered and served under SAMUEL KILLIAM as a
spy.
Was born in 1764
in the State of Maryland. Was brought by
ROBERTSON to Lincoln County, NC and raised by
him. I married in said county and moved to Ky.
I was raised an
orphan without education. Cites WILLIAM
TRAVELSTEAD, WILLIAM MAYHUE, MICAL CLINE, JOHN
CLINE, JONATHAN BANKS, and JOHN TRAVELSTREET as
neighborhood witnesses.
EDMUND WAGONER,
clergyman, and JOSEPH ANTHONY testify to his age
and character for veracity.
Allen County,
20 March 1840. Mrs. RACHEL HARRISON, aged 75,
deposes that she is the widow of RICHARD
HARRISON, that she married him 14 Feb. 1786 and
that he died 6 May 1838.
25 March 1840.
WILLIAM TRAVELSTED testifies he was well
acquainted with RICHARD and RACHEL HARRISON in
Lincoln County, NC, that they were married
sometime in 1789 he thinks in Feb. That he has
known them ever since, that he left NC for Ky.
about 10 or 12 years before HARRISON and his wife
followed and that they lived as neighbors ever
since until said RICHARD HARRISON died and his
widow RACHAEL HARRISON still lives as neighbor.
THOMAS COLLERT,
W.T. ANTHONY, THOMAS KENNEDY, ALLEN D. BERRY,
MICHAEL CLINE, and Wm. ALSHUE testify 25 March
1840 to long acquaintance with RICHARD and RACHEL
HARRISON during which period they lived as man
and wife.
Allen County,
Ky. 18 Jan. 1844. RACHEL HARRISON, aged 80,
deposes before ANDREW HARRISON, J.P. that she was
married to RICHARD HARRISON on 14 Feb. 1786 in
Lincoln County, NC and then that so far as she
knows no record of the marriage exists, but she
submits and old Psalm Book in which is recorded
the birth of their children and she believes it
originally contained a records of the marriage
but one lid and many leaves are missing.
18 Jan. 1844, MICHAEL
CLINE deposes that when he was bout 14 his father
MARTIN CLINE, moved from Pa. to NC and settled in
the immediate neighborhood of RICHARD and RACHEL
HARRISON in Lincoln County in1792 or 1793. That
RICHARD HARRISON and RACHEL HARRISON were then
living together as man and wife and had two
children or three children.
Franklin
County, Tenn. 19 Sept. 1832. THOMAS HARRISON
deposes that RICHARD HARRISON seved in the
Revolutionary War.
Family
Record
| (From a Very Old Leaf from
"David's Psalms.") |
| Rachel Dorsey? was born Aug. 29,
1764. (This name may be Dansey, Lansey,
Lonsey, or Donsey.) |
| Andrew Harrison was born Nov. 25,
1786 |
| William Harrison was born June
12,1788 |
| John Harrison was born Sept. 27, 1791 |
| Benjamin Harrison was born March 9,
1794 |
| Patience Harrison was born Aug. 6,
1796 |
| Thomas Harrison was born Oct. 29,
1798 |
| Mary Harrison was born Dex. 14, 1800 |
| Richard Harrison was born April 10,
1803 |
| Elizabeth Harrison was born Oct. 9,
1805 |
Covering
Jacket: Kentucky --------- 19581 Richard
Harrison of Allen County, Private in the company
of Captain Smith, regiment of Col. McDowell in NC
line for 6 months. Inscribed on Ky. Roll at $20
per year to begin 4 March 1831. Certificate of
pension issued 24 Sept. 1833. Kentucky 8362.
Rachel Harrison, widow of Richard Harrison,
inscribed on Ky. Roll at $20 per year to begin 6
May 1838. Certificate of pension issued 2 May
1844.
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