I am not certain where this info came from. Probably research that I did for a client in the past. I am not related to the Russworm family.
Davidson Co., TN Will Book 10,
p. 364
William Russworm Pension Claim Recorded
September 2, 1834
State of Tennessee
Williamson County I Guilford Dudley of the county and
state aforesaid do hereby certify, that William Russworm served about six years
in and during the Revolutionary War of the United States against Great Britain
as Lieutenant and ensign in Captain Pinkelhman Eaton’s Company of the State of North Carolina line of
Continental troops, in the service of the United States. Given under my hand & seal this the 6th
day of October A. D. 1831.
Guilford
Dudley
State of Tennessee, Williamson County, viz. this day Guilford Dudley personally appeared
before us William E. Owen and Gilbert Marshall esquires, acting Justices of the
Peace within and for the county & state aforesaid, and maketh oath that the
facts stated in the above and foregoing certificate are true.
Sworn to and subscribed before
us this 6th day of October 1831
Wm.
E. Owen JP Gilbert Marshall JP
Williamson County
State of Tennessee I knew Guilford
Dudley for many years, he was highly respectable &
and
a man in whose statements entire confidence could be placed .
Jno.
H. Eaton
August 30, 1831
The State of Tennessee Ss:
I
Thomas Hardeman clerk of the court of
Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county of Williamson in the State aforesaid,
do certify that William E. Owen and Gilbert Marshall esquires whose signatures
appear within, and before whom the written affidavit was made are and were at
the making of said affidavit, acting Justices of the Peace in and for the
county of Williamson aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith
and credit are due their official acts as such.
In Testimony where of I have
hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court at office in
Franklin this 8th day of October A. D. 1831.
Tho.
Hardeman
State of Tennessee
Williamson County Ss:
I
William Smith Chairman of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the
county state aforesaid do hereby
certify, that Thomas Hardeman whose name is subscribed to in the forgoing
certificate is the clerk of said court and that his said attestation is in due
form of law.
Given
under my hand and seal the 8th day of October A. D. 1831
W.
Smith
The State of Tennessee Ss.
I
Thomas Hardeman clerk of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county
of Williamson in the State aforesaid, do certify that William Smith esquire
whose signature appears within, is and was at the time of signing the within
certificate, the acting chairman of the Williamson county court of Pleas and
Quarter Sessions. In Testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and
affixed the seal of said court at office in Franklin this 10th day
of October A. D. 1831.
Tho.
Hardeman
Davidson Co., TN Will Book 10,
p. 378
John S. Russworm Pension Certificate Recorded November
16, 1834
Deposition of Eleanor Creamer of the Northern Liberties and
county of Philadelphia taken before John Swift Esquire Mayor of the City of
Philadelphia.
Eleanor Creamer of the Northern Liberties and county of
Philadelphia, widow aged about seventy one years, being sworn according to Law
doth depose and say, that Francis A. Russworm was married to Elizabeth Sumner a
sister of General Jethro Sumner of North Carolina: that the said General Sumner
died leaving three children namely, McKinney H. Sumner who died in the city of
Philadelphia under age and unmarried in the fall of the year one thousand eight
hundred and ninety three: Thomas E.
Sumner who died in Tennessee married and without issue in the year one thousand
eight hundred and nineteen and Mary S. Sumner who intermarried with General
Blount of Tarborough North Carolina, that the said Mary S. died in 1826 or 1827
leaving no issue. That the said Francis
A. Russwworm had issue two children by the said Elizabeth that lived to the age
of twenty one years namely, John who died in Portland in the State of Maine
leaving only one child, Francis E. Russworm and who this deponent believes is
now living. That the other son of the
said Francis A. Russworm by the said Elizabeth his wife namely William Russworm
was joined in marriage to this deponent on the twenty fifth day of December one
thousand seven hundred and eighty that the said William Russworm the husband of
this deponent was a Lieutenant in the American army in the war of the
Revolution under the said General Sumner, that the said William Russworm had
two children by this deponent, namely Alexander who left the United States in the
year one thousand eight hundred & seven and has not since returned nor has
he been heard of for fourteen or fifteen years and John S. Russworm who now
resides in Williamson County in the State of Tennessee. That the said John S. Russworm as this
deponent verily believes is the only lawful heir of the said William
Russworm (this deponents husband who
died at Philadelphia in the month of October in the year one thousand seven
hundred and ninety three). And this
deponent does further verily believe that
the said John S. Russworm (her son) and the said Francis E. Russworm son
of the late John Russworm of Portland in the State of Maine) are the only heirs
of the said General Jethro Sumner who are now living. That this deponent after the decease of her
first husband the said William Russworm to wit on the ___ day of December in the year one thousand
seven hundred and ninety six was married to one Christian Creamer who is since
deceased and the she is now a widow.
her
Sworn before John Swift, Mayor Eleanor X
Creamer
mark
I John Swift Esquire Mayor of the city of Philadelphia do
certify that the above deposition was taken sworn to and subscribed by the said
Eleanor Creamer of the Northern liberties & county of Philadelphia before
me this day. And that the said Eleanor
Creamer was prove to me to be the person she represented herself to be fully to
my satisfaction.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused
the seal of the city of Philadelphia to be
affixed the twenty seventh day of August in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and thirty four. Jno
Swift
Mayor
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