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The State of Alabama, Perry County: Circuit Court October Term 1832 On this 24th day of October in the Year of our On board 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Staling L. Harris the Judge presiding John Tubb Senior a resident of said County and State aged Seventy four (74) 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 entered the service of the U.S. as a volunteer in the month of September 1775 under Colonel Richardson and the Company of Captain William Lang [could be Long] and continued in the Service of three months â was engaged in a slight battle on Reedy River in the Indian Territory where six or seven hundred Tories were taken prisoners â by Colonel Thompson under whose command the troops were brought into action. That he received at the time of dismissing the troops no discharge that at the time he entered the service he was a resident of Camden district South Carolina. That he entered the service again in June in the year 1776 as a volunteer in the County of Rutherford North Carolina under Colonel William Graham that he was elected Captain of a volunteer company and continued in service for three months at which time he was then dismissed but received no discharge and has now no papers belonging to his company or Regiment. That he entered the service again as a volunteer in the Spring of 1779 and served a short time under Captain James Holland against the Tories in Lincoln County North Carolina and was dismissed again without a written discharge. That he entered the service again he believes the fall of the same year under John Keruth [sic, John Carruth] in Lincoln County North Carolina to perform Scout Service and continued in service for some time probably a month or two & was engaged all the time as a Scout and Spy that he received no written discharge from the Army. That from the surrender of Charleston in May A.D. 1780 until the defeat of Colonel Furgeson [sic, Major Patrick Ferguson] on King's Mountain October 1780 he was held as a minute man and was for short time to during all that period in service as a Scout & Spy. That he was in the battle of King's Mountain fought on the seventh of October 1780 that in that battle he was wounded in the right arm and side from which wound he continued a cripple for seventy or more years and was not again in the service of his country. Questions asked by the Court Q 1st: . Where and in what year were you born? A: I was born in Orange County in the State of North Carolina on the sixth of August A.D. 1758. Q 2nd: . Have you any record of your age and if so where is it? A: It is recorded in my fathers family Bible which I have in my possession. Q 3rd: Where were you living when called into Service, where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live? A: When first called into Service I was residing in Camden district South Carolina & afterwards in Rutherford North Carolina. Since the Revolutionary war I lived for many years in Granville district South Carolina, for some years I lived in Dickson County Tennessee for the last 15 years I have resided in Perry County & State of Alabama where I now reside.Q 4th: How were you called into Service, were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a Substitute? A: I was always a volunteer. I never was drafted or a Substitute. Q: State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you Served, such Continental & militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your Service. A: General Morgan [Daniel Morgan] â Colonel Graham â Colonel Martin â Colonel Lawson â Colonel Thompson â Colonel Williamson. I was generally a spy & Scout and carrying expresses â and in hasty marches. Q 6th: Did you ever receive a discharge from the Service, if so by whom was it given & what has become of it? A: I never received any regular discharge about three years after my Service under Captain Lang [Long?] I received from William Simmons lieutenant Captain Lang [Long?] being dead a certificate from his memory that I had served for the space of two months, or near there about in this there is a mistake it ought to have been three months this discharge or certificate I yet have and it is the only one I ever had. Q: Did you ever receive a Commission and if so by whom was it signed and what has become of it? A: I never got a commission although I acted as a Captain of volunteers for three months. I am myself a minister of the Gospel. I am known to Jesse B. Nance [?] clerk of our County Court & Seaborn Aycock Sheriff, to General E. D. King, Judge Brame Temple Lea Esqr. who can testify to my character. I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. Subscribed & sworn to in open court October 24, 1832. S/ John TubbJohn Tubb was the son of William Tubb, DAR Ancestor Number A116565, and Elizabeth Tabor. John and Karenhappuck Tubb married on January 2, 1777. They had at least two children, daughters Celia (Find A Grave Memorial# 36439351) and Lucinda and there were probably other children. Celia married Anderson West and Lucinda married Thomas Oliver. After the death of his first wife, John Tubb remarried to Farabee (Ferraby) Harrison. The actual burial site for John Tubb has been lost to history; all records indicate that he died in Perry County, Alabama. He was probably buried on a family farm there or in a cemetery with a marker that has been lost to history. We have placed a Memorial Stone in his honor in the Cantrell Gilliand Memorial Garden. May this memorial serve as an expression of the gratitude we owe him for risking his life and braving the unknown to help build a new country: our America.
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