Descendants of Thomas W. Miles
American Revolutionary War Patriot
Daughters of the American Revolution
Ancestor #: A078898
Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank: LIEUTENANT
Birth: 9-23-1752 CHARLES CITY CO VIRGINIA
Death: 9-15-1838 RUTHERFORD CO TENNESSEE
Pension Number: S*W8457
Service Source: S*W8457
Service Description:
1) ALSO PVT,ENS,CAPTS GREEN, MCFARLAND, FOLEY and COL MOORE
Patriot Pensioned: Yes Widow Pensioned: Yes
Children Pensioned: No Heirs Pensioned: Yes
Spouse: (1) Ann Patterson
Served with Captains Green, McFarland and Foley and Colonel Moore. Thomas Miles started out as a private, then worked his way up to Ensign and ended his career as a Lieutenant. It is stated in his pension application that there is no record of his birth but he believed himself to be 80 years old in 1832. He further stated that as a boy he moved with his father to Cumberland County on the James River. At the commencment of the Revolutionary War he moved to North Carolina. He married before the war began. He moved to Caswell County where he remained until 1798. He then moved to Davidson County, TN, and then to Williamson County in 1804, where he lived for ten years. He then moved to Wilson County, TN, where he lived at the time of his application.
He volunteered several times, once under General Rutherford, Col. William Moore (who died in Carthage, Tennessee in 1823) and Captain David McFarland.
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