Harris
Ryan
Case
#S38347
Harris Ryan was born November 4, 1765 in Amherst County, Virginia; the names of his parents are not shown. While residing in Amherst County, Virginia, he volunteered in the fall of 1779 and served three months as private in Captain John Morrison's Company, Colonel John Pope's Virginia Regiment. Immediately after this service, he volunteered and served three months as private in Captain John Morrison's Company, in Colonel Samuel Cabell's Virginia Regiment and was in a skirmish with the British near Petersburg.
After the Revolutionary War, the soldier moved from Amherst County, Virginia to Wilkes County, Georgia, from there to Campbell County, Tennessee, and from there to Rhea County, Tennessee.
Harris Ryan was allowed pension on his application executed February 4, 1834, at which time he was living in Rhea County, Tennessee, where he had been living nine months.
Harris Ryan was residing in McCracken County, Kentucky in 1843 and he then stated he had lately moved there from Tennessee and that his wife (name not given) was dead and he was living with his youngest daughter, Unity, the wife of George Brummet.
In 1834, Charles Ryan was a resident of Rhea County, Tennessee, his relationship to the soldier's family not stated.