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PVT John Fitts Sr.

10 Aug 1763 – 27 Jun 1843

Birth10 Aug 1763
Death27 Jun 1843
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He was a Revolutionary War veteran. He enlisted as a Private in the Calvary of a company in North Carolina on September 10, 1780 and served under Captain Griffin Fauntleroy. He later was in several battles at The Cowpens, Guilford Court House, Camden and Eutaw Springs and many skirmishes while serving under Colonel William Washington and Nathaniel Greene until December 1781, when he was discharged. Halifax Co. VA 9 July 1844 - Final Pension Voucher Mary Ann Fitts, widow of John Fitts, late pensioner (former private) who [Mary] resided in this county for 20 years, appoints Webb, Bacon and Co. attorney to collect arrears due from 4 Mar 1843 to 28 June 1843 the day of his death. Witness: Wm. R. Pugh, John A. Chappell. Collected $30.40 Richmond 15 August 1844. Source - FamilySearch.org Married wife 1 Mary Ann Carr. Children of John and Mary Fitts: John Walker Fitts 1786 1872 Marcella Fitts Wray 1786 xxxx Mary Fitts 1788 xxxx William Woodson Pass Fitts 1789 1850 John Fitts, Jr xxxx 1830 Married wife 2 Keziah or Cuzza Tabor. Children of John and Keziah Fitts: Lucy Fitts Whittington 1795 1878 William M Fitts 1796 1877 Married wife 3 Mary D Fulks on July 25, 1825 in Granville County, NC. Pension application of John Fitts W9439 Mary D. Fitts: Know all men by these presents that I John Fitts of Person County North Carolina an Old Revolutionary Soldier & whose declaration2 has long been sent to the war Department of the United States, in order to be placed on the pension list for life, do hereby Appoint William Faulkner of Halifax County Virginia my lawful Attorney, if I am placed on the pension list, to receive from James Barbour Esquire Secretary of War my pension Certificate & he is hereby Authorized by me to send the same to the said William Faulkner by mail & for so doing this shall be his sufficient Authority Witness my hand & seal this 1st day of June 1826 S/ John Fitts Original Claim Declaration in order to be placed on the pension list under the act of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818. Virginia Halifax County to wit On this 26th day of March 1827 personally appeared in open Court (being a court of record for the County of Halifax aforesaid) John Fitts Senior a resident in said County aged sixty-three years the 10th day of August last, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions of the act of Congress of the 18 March 1818 and the first of May 1820, that he the said John Fitts Senior enlisted in the revolutionary war for the term of 12 or 18 months the precise time which he enlisted he does not now recollect on or about the 10th day of September 1780 in the State of North Carolina in a company of Cavalry commanded by Captain Fauntleroy (in my former declaration I said it was John Fauntleroy, But on seeing a letter from the Secretary of War andfinding there was a Captain Griffin Fauntleroy attached to the Cavalry in which I was placed I immediately believed and have not a doubt he was the Captain by whom I was commanded having forgotten his Christian name). That he was afterwards placed under the command of Colonel William Washington in the Continental establishment. That he continued to serve in the said Corps under General Green [sic, Nathanael Greene] until sometime in the month of December 1781 when he was discharged from the said Service in South Carolina at the high hills of Santee. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present, that his name is not on any pension roll of this or any other State whatever and that the following are the reasons he has not made earlier application for a pension which is, that for four or five years back he has endeavored to be placed on the pension list, but the writings which had been sent to the war department being always wrong he has failed being allowed a pension, which are all the reasons he has and all he can give. That he was in several battles (to wit) The Cowpens [January 17, 1781], Guilford Courthouse [March 15, 1781], Camden [April 25, 1781], the Eutaw Springs [September 8, 1781] and many skirmishes and that he has no other evidence in his power to produce to substantiate his said services except the enclosed affidavits of Hampton White3 & Robert W. Fitts and in pursuance of the act of Congress of the first of May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or otherwise disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed I have no person but myself to depend on for support and no property whatever that I have neither bought or sold any property since the 18th of March 1818 and that from my old age and infirmities together with extreme poverty and having no occupation I can follow to advantage I need the assistance of my Country for Support – S/ John Fitts On August 27, 1857, in Halifax County, VA Mary D Fitts, 75, declared that she is the widow of John Fitts, a pensioner during his lifetime at the rate of $96 per annum, that she married him on July 25, 1825, that they were married by John Smith, JP, that her name prior to her marriage was Mary D Fulks, [Fowlkes? Fawlkes], that her husband died in Halifax County Virginia on June 27, 1843, that she is making this declaration under the 1855 act for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she is entitled. Source - revwarapps.org - Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements and Rosters.

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