John Edrington and the Reverend William Hickman Two Revolutionary War Patriots United by Family and Faith Places associated with the two Patriots: King George and Louisa Counties, Virginia; Woodford and Franklin Counties and Harrodstown, Kentucky. As has been discussed before, American independence depended upon more than the men who fought in the Continental Army. Across the colonies, residents furnished provisions and other support, while people living on the western frontier defended vulnerable settlements. John Edrington of Virginia and the Reverend William Hickman, a Baptist minister who later helped establish churches in Kentucky, belonged to that Revolutionary generation. Their lives followed different paths, yet their families became connected in Kentucky through the marriage of John’s son Benjamin Edrington and William’s daughter Letitia Hickman in 1792.¹ The surviving records offer an unusually rich view of the connection: a marriage bond and parental consent, a Kentuck...
from Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Applications and Rosters Muster Roll from 1st Reg. Artillery, Col. Chas. Harrison's Company, July 1778. Bonus! As a genealogist, it's always the goal to find the 'original source' to document a fact. The Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Applications and Rosters site is invaluable to find and easily read these files but once in a while, you run across the actual handwritten deposition. Although the account given by the pensioner was written by a clerk, it is interesting to actually see the original account in old cursive handwriting. I did find James Gentry's whole pension file and am including the original deposition he gave in October of 1832.