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Southern Campaigns provides online versions of Revolutionary War Pension Applications. The following applications are currently available for persons of the surname "Houston".

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Believed to be in the General Sam Houston Lineage
Believed to be in the Mill Creek Hundred Lineage



NameApplication NumberWhere Lived/Served/Filed/NotesLikely Person Article
Archibald Houston W295born York Co PA, 1751, to Rowan County, NC in 1760, to Kentucky, then Middle TN, then McNairy CountyPerson:Archibald Houston (6)
Hugh Houston W8928b1755, d1834, m Martha McClure 1789 (-d1876), enlisted NC Continental Line 1776-1779, lived Mechlenberg NC, died Abbeville, SC
James Houston (Houstoun) BLWt1231-450Chatham County, NC/Savannah GA; =Eliz Crook; son of Patrick Houston and Drucilla Dunbar
James Houston s1914Rockbridge, Washington VA, Washington NC/TN, Greene, then to Blount TN; b1757, at Kings Mt as EnsignJames Houston (20)
James Houston S21288Laurens SC, Chester SC, GA
James Houston W13500Rowan NC, SC, husband of Aseneath BrevardPerson:James Houston (34)
John Houston S1832Rockbridge, Washington VA, Washington NC/TN, Blount TN;uncle of James, in item s1914 above
John Houston S2323Mecklinburg NC, Madison Ky, Warren Ohio
John Houston W3817b Ireland 1760; enlisted Charleston SC, lived Orangeburg district, lived there 19 years, then to after war lived GA; wife Mary age 75 in 1838, married him in 1788; he died May 24th, 1835
Peter Houston R5268Peter Houston of Monroe County, Indiana, claim not allowed.
Samuel Houston VAx1From Foote 1855, Diary of Rev. Samuel HOuston. "REV. SAMUEL HOUSTON, who in early life was a soldier of the Revolution, and for 55 years a faithful minister of the LORD JESUS CHRIST. He died on the 20th day of January 1839, aged 81 years, in the mature and blessed hope of a glorious resurrection and of immortal life, in the kingdom of his Farther and his God.Person:Samuel Houston (10)
Samuel Houston W7810Samuel Houston of Henry County in the State of Georgia do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution in the year 1781 and continued in its service until its termination at which period I was a private in Captain Samuel Kneely's [sic, Samuel Neely's] Company in Colonel William Hill's Regiment of the South Carolina line; On May 6, 1833 personally appeared .... Samuel Houston, a resident of the County of Fayette, and state of Georgia, aged Seventy One years; [Born 1762]; "since the revolution he has resided in Pendleton District South Carolina until 1823. From that time to 1828 [he lived] in Henry County, State of Georgia, and since that time, [he has lived] at his present place of abode in Fayette County Georgia. That he was born in Mecklenburg County in the State of North Carolina 1760."
Samuel Houston W23300of Hancock, Maine
James Huston (Houston) S8717North Carolina Rowan County....On this 19th day of November 1832, Personally appeared in ...Rowan County ...James Houston a resident of said County aged eighty-one years, who ...doth on his oath make the following declaration...That he has a Record of his age in an old family Bible at home which states that he was born in the month of January 1751....That he entered the service of the United States as a common soldier being drafted at Captain Young's in Rowan County for three months in the company of Captain Young and marched in what was called the Cherokee expedition to the mountains of North Carolina Most likely in the Mill Creek Hundred Lineage, but a specific connection not yet identified.
James Huston W2803James Huston a resident of Morris township Washington County, Pennsylvania aged seventy two years in 1832. born in Cumberland County Pennsylvania, in the year 1760. On 15 Oct 1838 Anne Huston, 66, of Buffalo Township in Washington County, applied for a pension stating that she was married to James Huston by a Presbyterian minister named Dodd on 13 Mar 1787, and her husband died 15 Aug 1836. Person:James Huston (4)