Person:John Hornbeck (5)

Records in Tennessee

#346: John Hornback to James Alsup, Regstd. February 26th, 1796. This Indenture made this thirty first Day of February and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & ninety five between John Hornback of the County of Jefferson and in the Ceded Territory south west of the River Ohio of the one part and James Alsup of the County and Territory aforesaid of the other part Witnesseth that for and in Consideration of the sum of twenty five pounds good & lawful money of Virginia to him in hand paid before sealing & Delivering of these presents the receipt Whereof he Doth hereby acknowledge and himself fully Satisfied & paid - hath bargained & sold and by these presents Doth grant, bargain and sell a lien Enforce Convey & Confirm unto the said James Alsup and his heirs & assigns forever one tract or parcel of land situate lying and being in the County of Jefferson & Territory of aforesaid on the sough side of Houlston River Joining Thomas English & said Hornbacks land Containing one hundred acres and beginning at a Stake on said Englishs line thence north one hundred poles to a White oak on the bank of the said River, thence Down said rivers Including the meanders to a Stake on the Bank of the river....... in testimony whereof the said John Hornback hath hereunto set his hand and affixed his seal the day and year first above written Signed Sealed & Delivered.

[Signed] John Hornback [Seal]

in the presence of: William Cox Jurat, Isham Thompson

1.   Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.

   From the Revolutionary War Pension Application of James Smith S21489
   
   On this 25th day of June 1834 personally appeared before me Charles Harrison a Justice of the
   Peace in and for the County of Jefferson and State of Tennessee, James Smith, a resident Citizen of the County of Jefferson and State aforesaid, aged sixty eight years and ten months, 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 the Declarant James Smith was born on the 6th of August 1765 (of which he has no record) on the South fork of Potowmac [sic: Potomac] river, in what was then called Augusta County, afterwards Hardy County, in the State of Virginia. He lived in this County untill the year 1782, when he moved to the County of Washington, then the State of North Carolina, now the State of Tennessee. Declarant has lived in different counties in the State of Tennessee, since he moved to the State. Many years ago he moved to Kentucky, where he lived five years. He then returned to Tennessee, where he has lived ever since, and where he now lives in Jefferson County, near French Broad River. Declarant does not recollect the precise period of his residence in the different counties in which he has lived in the State of Tennessee. In the month of October 1781 Declarant was drafted in Hardy County, State of Virginia, at his company muster ground, at John Spoor’s house, by Capt James Stephenson. Our Rendesvous was at the town of Romney.
   At this place Declarant was placed under the command of Captain Joel Berry. John Hornback was the Lieutenant and Wilson the Ensign of our Company. The non-commissioned officers are not recollected.
   There were two companies at Romney. From Romney we were marched to Winchester, Virginia, where
   we were placed under the Command of Colonel Joseph Peiswonger. At Winchester we were employed in
   guarding the prison[ers] taken at the Siege of York [19 Oct 1781]. There was a large body of prisoners, the number being unknown to Declarant. We were here kept to guard the prisoners, untill orders were received to convey them out of the State of Virginia, when we marched with them to Shepherdstown, on the line between the States of Virginia and Maryland. At Shepherdstown we put them over the Potowmac river. We were then marched back [to] Winchester and there discharged in the month of January day not recollected in the year 1782.
   
   https://revwarapps.org/s21489.pdf