Fourth Generation!
Lieutentant John,3 SARRETT, [SFA@copy;-ID# 1.2.1.2]
(2nd Son of: <---
Joseph,3 & Annie (Unknown) SARRATT of Person Co., NC.
(GrandSon of: <---
Samuel,1 & Anna (Unknown) SARRATT) of Prince George's Co., MD.
(Gr-GrandSon: <---
Joseph,1 & Katherine (Unknown) SARRAT) of France, The American Progenitor
Born in 1760, at the Sarratt South Hyco Plantation, old Orange Co., North Carolina
[See SFA© Family Biography Profile:
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John,3 SARRETT for Continuation!
John,3 SARRETT at the age of 20 years, in 1780, joined as a Volunteer
in the Caswell County, North Carolina Militia, Under the Command of
Lieutenant Colonel LYTLE, as a Private for 3 months and later became
a Sergeant for 6 months. This was not long before the battle of "Kings
Mountain" of South Carolina in the fall of that year. He might
have been inspired to join, because by this time his brother 1.2.1.1
SAMUEL, 3 SARRETT, had all ready become a Prisoner of the British.
He served under the Company Commander of Captain JAMES FAULKNER,
(or FAULKEN found both spellings...prs), Major DEMPSEY MOORE the
Regiment Commander Colonel WILLIAM MOORE of the North Carolina Line.
(See NARS, M-881, Lt. Col. LYTLE's Command, Reel #785, Card #?)
These Troops were called together for the purpose of arresting the
progress of Major FERGUSON who was defeated and slain at Kings
Mountain and it seems John,3 SARRETT missed this action because
his friends and immediate neighbors urged him not to join up with
"the brave Colonel WILLIAMS who fell in that action". To
quote John,3 SARRETT'S statement in his Pension Application, he
serve in the Malitia under the Command of Colonel MOORE. He further
stated, "by which means he was prevented from sharing the dangers
and perhaps the glory of that memorable battle, Colonel MOORE having
joined General BUTLER who did not arrive at Kings Mountain
having heard of the battle while lying at the Island Ford on
the Yadkin River."
From there John,3 SARRETT marched with General BUTLER down the
South boundary of the State of North Carolina to Six-Mile Creek,
where he became ill and left the Army. When he recovered, his term
of Duty had expired so he returned home.
The Next Spring (1781) John,3 SARRETT, went 60 to 70 miles and
volunteered under the Command of Captain WILLIAM HARDIN and was
made Sergeant in Chatham County, on the Deep River, near the
junction Deep and Haw Rivers. Here General BUTLER left his
Company to guard some stores for the use of the Army at Ramsey's
Mills as there were Tories in the Command of Colonel FANNING
in the area. John,3 SARRETT, reached this place a few days after
the famous battle of Guilford. His Captain had to leave the
Company due to sickness at home, so John,3 SARRETT, was elected
Captain pro-tem by the Company Commander, but he never received a
Commission.
The next fall, probably September, 1781 by his calculations three
days after the taking of Hillsboro by the Tories, JOHN,
2 SARRETT again volunteered in the Militia in the Company commanded
by Captain JOHN McMILLIAN in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel
WILLIAM MOORE and General BUTLER in Orange County, North Carolina.
That tour was engaged in the Battle of LIVINGSTON'S Brigade against
the Tories and British at the Battle of Brown Marsh, on BALDWIN'S
Plantation, where John,3 SARRETT lost his horse.
John,3 SARRETT, served 9 months altogether and volunteered each
time. He also did business with the Continental Army, because there
are vouchers on file in the Archives at Raleigh, North Carolina showing
where he and his father JOSEPH, 2 SARRATT, sold goods to the Army.
REVOLUTIONARY APPLICATION
AMERICAN REVOLUTION PENSION (NNMS File W-312
Congress passed the "Revolutionary Pension Act on 7th. June, 1832,
this Act provided a "Semi-Annual" allowance for all soldiers
who fought for the Colonies.
Recorded by DAN BOYD, Book, E, Vol. 7, Page 96, Dated March 04, 1834
John,3 SARRETT of Humphreys County, in the State of Tennessee,
who was a Private and a Sergeant in the Company Commanded by Captain
JAMES FAULKNER of the North Carolina Regiment Commanded by Colonel
MOORE, in the North Carolina Line for 3 months as a Private and 6
months as a Sergeant. He was inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee
at the rate of $ 40 Dollars 0 Cents per annual to commence on the
4th. day of March, 1834. Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd. day
of Sep. 1833 by the Honorable CANE JOHNSON, Clarksville, Humphreys
Co., TN. 14.
Bears to the 4th. March $ 80.00
Semi-Anl. allowance ending
4th Sept. $ 20.00
$100.00
John,3 SARRETT (Spelled FERRELL), was listed on the Pension
Rolls, for TN. Annual allowance was 20 00; Sums received were 60 00;
Description of service NC. Militia; placed on the pension roll on
17 JAN 1833; Commencement of pension was 04 MAR 1831; at the age of
74. [REF:#14]
CONGRESS ACT of June 7th, 1832
This law was constructed to extend, as well to the line, as to every
branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental
Line," "State Troops," "Militia," and "Volunteers,"
all and persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were
bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed
with the Army upon Civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries
and to and to Store Keepers, etc., Teamsters, Boatman, Etc. Persons
who severed on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from
the benefits of this Law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols,
or even engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not
recognized as being in actual military service.
Their are Four classes of cases embraced in this Law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troop, Militia, & Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the Regular Troops in the Revolutionary War exist in
this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers,
non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first
instance, make application by transmitting the following Declaration,
which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such
Applicant resides. And every Curt, having by law a Seal and Clerk
is considered a Court of Record.
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