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Facts and Events
Revolutionary War Pension Information
Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 4, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :
- Ryerson, Stephen, born 2/9/1763 in Dutchess County, New York where entered service 1777 in New York regiment; made Prisoner of War & taken by British to Plymouth, England, later exchanged & returned to America, where completed term of service; married 3/1793 Mary Kime, Bath County, Virginia & soon after moved to Stokes County, North Carolina where entered service 1814 in 10th North Carolina Regiment for service in War of 1812; granted bounty Land Warrant 27864 for that service; occupation blacksmith; died 12/10/1849 Stokes County, North Carolina; widow received Pension abt. age 74 there in 1850; children then: James age 52, Ebenezer age 50, Betheny age 48, Margaret age 46, Elisha age 44, Elijah age 42, Charles age 40, Stephen Jackson age 37, Winston age 35 & William G. age 36, Bath County, Virginia, court clerk Stephen A. Porter certified then there no record of soldier & wife's marriage in Bath County; James Ryerson (no kinship given) Stokes County, North Carolina, County Justice of the Peace then; widow granted Bounth Land Warrant 68913 there in 1855 for soldier's War of 1812 service; widow's Pension cut off there during Civil War but restored there 1866 when she was age 90. F-W6107, R2107.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;)
Source Citation: Source number: 21359.002; Source type: Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents; Number of Pages: 1.
birth date: 1763 birth place: NY marriage date: 1799 marriage place: NC Name: Stephen Rierson _LINK: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=worldmarr_ga&h=1021313&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
- ↑ Ancestry.com. North Carolina, Marriage Collection, 1741-2004. (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.Original data - Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. (P.O. Box 740, Orem, Utah 84059) from county marriage records on microfilm located at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City,;)
Source Citation: Data Source: County Court Records Danbury, NC and FHL # 0422159.
Name: Stephen Ryerson marriage date: 17 Apr 1794 marriage place: Stokes, North Carolina _LINK: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=ncmarriages&h=2112616&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
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