Rev War Pension of John Morrison

NOTES FROM REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION STATEMENT Of JOHN MORRISON

These brief notes were taken from the Revolutionary War Pension Statement of John Morrison of Iredell County, North Carolina, #W17171.  John is a man referred to as “Revolutionary John” among Iredell County genealogists today.

Toward the end of his statement, John said, “I moved an orphan boy into N Carolina Rowan County (now Iredell County)…”  Further, he said he was born “County of Lancaster State Pennsylvania on Nov. 11, 1743.

In an addendum of 1843, in which John’s widow Sarah Morrison made application for receipt of John’s pension, Sarah stated she was then 88 years of age and had married the last part of December 1771.  Thus she was born about 1755, and was married at about 16 years of age.  Then there is a copy from the family Bible of the family statistics, which include John’s date of death, July 9, 1835.  His children are listed as:

?Morrisonborn 1772

?born 1774

MargaretMorrisonborn 1777

WilliamMorrisonborn 1779

JamesMorrisonborn 1781

JohnMorrisonborn 1783

These first must have been Thomas and Henry, as listed in some online family trees.  I saw nothing of three later children, Andrew, Robert, and Elizabeth.

There was no mention of the Potts family nor was Sarah’s maiden name entered in the document.

John A. Morrison

M194 – Morrison DNA Project

September 16, 2009