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Note: POSTED ON FIND A GRAVE WEB SITE: Find A Grave Memorial# 5302314 Served in the Revolutionary War under Gen. George Rogers Clark in the 'Virginia Line'. He was one of the earliest settlers of Macon Co. & was buried with the 'Honors of War'. His death notice was in the Liberty Weekly Tribune dated 27 Dec 1850. His name is on a plaque in the Macon Co. courthouse. ------------------------------- MARRIAGE: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Name: Nicholas H. Tuttle Spouse: Annie Tuttle Birth: 1759 - NY Birth: 1760 Marriage: not stated U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Name: Nicholas H. Tuttle Spouse: Betty ??? Birth: 1759 - NY Birth: 1760 Marriage: 1783 U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Name: Nicholas H. Tuttle Spouse: Nancy Gross Birth: 1759 - NY Marriage: 1812 - KY Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850 Spouse 1: Gross, Nancy Spouse 2: Tuttle, Nicholas Marriage Date: 21 Oct 1812 Marriage Location: Kentucky Wayne County ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This data is available on Ancestry.com. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010: Transcription of the Pension Application of George Tuttle dated 21 Nov 1832. Transcribed by George Pratt________________ State of Missouri }County of Randolph } SS On this 21 day of November in the year of Our Lord eighteen hundred & thirty two Nicholas Tuttle, Senr. a resident of Salt Springs Township in the County of Reynolds & State of Missouri aged 73 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passsed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year of Our Lord 1778 or in the spring of said year with Capt. James Newell a recruiting officer & served in the ____ Regiment (no. not Known) of the Virginia line under the following named officers- Lieut. Thomas Wilson, Capt Jno. Baley, Major Thomas Quirk & Col. Jno. Montgomery, and a Major Crittenden and General George Rogers Clark. He entered the service in the month of Aprile & took up the line of march in said month. He enlisted for three years or during the war. He was discharged from the service not till the month of Aprile after Cornwallis' surrender of York in the State of Virginia. He was first marched from Montgomery County Virginia. from that part now called Whthe County, near the lead mines to (of) Kaskaskia in the now State of Illinois. The army under the said officers stayed at Kaskaskia some five or six months, & then to a small French Town on the Mississippi river called Cowhal, had no engagements there. Then returned to Kaskaskia again. and then went on an expedition against the Indians of the Potowanamies nation. Went in boats up the Mississippi & the Illinois Rivers. before they reached the Indian village, the Indians cleared out with all their moveables. they burned the Indian town & destroyed their crop of corn, etc. this was in August of the year 1779 afd. (aforesaid) then marched back to Kaskaskia again. stayed a month or two, and then marched to Vincennes ( ? ) in what is now the state of Indiana. the army took up winter quarters there & stayed the greater part of the next summer. no fighting here. Then marched to the Falls of the Ohio River, where Louisville is now situated, staying here about two months and returned to Vincennes afd. But before the Army returned to Vincennes as last stated, it went on an expedition against the Shawnee Indians to what is now called Cin- cinnati the metropolis of the state of Ohio. then went out to their towns by land, had a little skirmish with the Indians at their towns & drove them from it. Got six or seven skalps of the Indians & took four or five prisoners. Then the army returned to Vincennes as aforesaid. this was in the fall of the 2nd year of his service. Stayed at Vincennes till the spring following with the afd. army. The army was now divided, part left at Vincennes & part taken to the Falls of the Ohio afd. He tho another time was sent on express to Fort Chissell in the State of Va where there was a post office. Got there in the fall of the year that Cornwallis surrendered York in the State of Virginia. returned to the Falls of Ohio same fall of the year, then sent from thence again on Express in the month of January following to the afd. Fort Chissel in the state aforesaid. Col. Montgomery told him before he started on this last express to stay in Virginia till he himself should come & ------ him, as peace was then made or about being made with the enemy of the country. he got a written discharge from Col. Montgomery in the spring after Cornwallis surrendered. he has lost his discharge. He has never received one cent of wages for his said servies, nor has he ever received any military bounty land. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present & he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency or any state. his Nicholas (X) Tuttle mark Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Robert Wilson Clerk County Court And the said County Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & and served as he states (Signed) Arch Shoemaker John Dysant Justices of the County Court I Robt. Wilson clerk of the CountyCourt of the County of Randolph afd. do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application afd.
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