Official summary of James Tarrant Rev. War pension application
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1234)
[James Tarrant's complete pension file is available at fold3.com]
February 4, 1936
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Mrs. A. Willis Robertson JAMES TARRANT
502 Highland Road R. 10593
Lexington, Virginia BA-7/ M[??]F:MLS
Dear Madam:
You are furnished herein the record of James Tarrant as found in pension claim, R. 10395, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
James Tarrant was born November 30, 1753, in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. While very young, his father took him to Amherst County, where they lived sixteen years, then moved to Henry County, Virginia. The name of the parents of James Tarrant are not shown.
While residing in Henry County, Virginia, James Tarrant was commissioned February 16, 1778, 1" Lieutenant of the militia of said county, length of service as lieutenant not stated. June 24, 1780, he was commissioned Captain of Henry County, Virginia militia and served under Colonel Abraham Penn for six weeks; in February or March, 1781, he was out three on an expedition against the Tories; he went out again in the spring of 1781 and served eleven or twelve weeks under Colonel Penn; in November, 1781, he guarded prisoners for a month.
The soldier moved with his father in 1787 to Greeneville County, South Carolina and in 1820 moved to Jefferson County, Alabama.
James Tarrant applied for pension January 20, 1840, while a resident of Jefferson County, Alabama. His claim was not allowed as it was not proved that he rendered six months' of actual military service in the field, as required by the pension law.
James Tarrant was as Methodist minister. He died July 5th, 1840, in Jefferson County, Alabama.
The name of James Tarrant's wife was not given. The following names of children are shown in the claim: John B. Tarrant; Susannah Burdine; Rebecca Tarrant, Sally Tarrant; Lydia Sitton (?); Polly Garner; Benjamin Tarrant; Jane Guyley; Nancy Ducus; Eleander Hewitt; Drusillia Hemphill and James Tarrant, Jr., the last named a resident of Jonesboro, Jefferson County, Alabama, in 1841. He was still living in Jefferson County in 1852.
In 1848, the soldier's grandson, Samuel A. Tarrant, stated in Jefferson County, Alabama, that he and James Tarrant, Jr., soldier's son, were born in the same neighborhood in South Carolina and both reared there and were about the same age. This grandson did not designate the name of his own father.
Very truly yours,
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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