46. Henry HUNTER
was born in 1795 in 96 District, Pendleton, South Carolina. He was born about
1795 in Weaver Creek, Pickens, South Carolina. He served in the military between
1812 and 1815.(7) JHD: Affidavit filed
by Henry Hunter re service in War of 1812:
"State of Kentucky
County of Knox
On this 25th day of June 1855 before me a Justice of the Peace within and for
the County & State aforesd duly commissioned and sworn personally appeared
Henry Hunter a resident of Knox County Kentucky who being duly sworn according
to law from his oath says he is sixty years of age, that he is the identical
Henry Hunter, who was a teamster in the company of Capt William Hamilton in the
Reg't of Tennessee volunteers commanded by Col William Lillard in the war with
Great Britain declard by the United
States on the 18th day of June 1812- that he volunteered at Tazwell in Claiborne
County Tennessee on or about the 15th day of October 1813 for the term of three
months and continued in actual service in sd war for the term of three months
and was honorably discharged at Camp Ross on the 8th day of January 1814 in evidence
of which discharge he here files a written certificate from under the hand of
Jno. Montgomery D. B. Q'master, that he was afterwards honorably discharged
at Knoxville Tennessee from service in sd war on or about the 1st February 1814
but his last named certificate being lost he is unable to produce it.- he relies
upon the muster roll of his sd company for evidence of his service- affiant further
says that the muster roll will probably show affiants name as Henry Hunter Jr
in order to distinguish him from his father Henry Hunter Sr. who was also a Private
in sd company.
He makes this declaration in order to obtain the Bounty land to which he may
be entitled under the act all additional Bounty land to certain officers &
soldiers who have been engaged in the military service of the United States
approved March 3, 1855.
He further declares that he has never received a warrant for Bounty land under
any act of Congress- that he made application for Bounty land under the act
Passed 28th Sept 1856 but on account of some defect in the declaration he failed
to get the warrant and the declaration was never amended. and that he has no
application now pending for Bounty land.
Signed: Henry Hunter"
HENRY HUNTER, 3 REG'T (JOHNSON'S) E. TENNESSEE MILITIA. He has Ancestral File
number MMMV-CD. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
He was
married to Sarah DAVIS (daughter of John DAVIS and
Mary CURTIS) on 2 Jul 1858 in Flat Lick, Knox, Kentucky.
Sarah DAVIS was born in 1826 in Flat Lick, Knox, Kentucky. She
died on 7 Jul 1860 in Flat Lick, Knox, Kentucky. Henry HUNTER and Sarah DAVIS
had the following children:
202 i.
John Abraham HUNTER was born on 7 Jul 1860 in Flat Lick, Knox, Kentucky.