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Subject: Witt.Aires.Revwar.Whitley.MILITARY-Pension


 Revwar 
Whitley County KyArchives Military Pension

AIRES WITT 
Of Kentucky

   Aires Witt applied for revolutionary pension while living in Whitley County, Kentucky. He was born in 1761 in Halifax County, Virginia, He enlisted in April, 1780, in North Carolina Troops in Guilford County, North Carolina, under Captain Beshears and Colonel Porterfield and in 1781 he enlisted under Captain Miner Smith and Colonel James Martin. He was in the battles of Hanging Rock, Camden, Drowning Creek, White Swamp, and Brick House.

   Note: He died December 15, 1840 in Whitley County, Kentucky. His children were Samuel and William Witt.



Submitted by: Joy Fisher
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Additional Comments:
From:

SOME TENNESSEE HEROES
OF THE
REVOLUTION
Compiled From Pension Statements
PAMPHLET NO. IV

by Zella Armstrong

This was in the section marked:

RECORDS OF SOME REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS WHO DID NOT LIVE IN TENNESSEE BUT WHO 
HAVE TENNESSEE DESCENDENTS OR SOME OTHER TENNESSEE INTEREST 

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