James Dysart is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor. NSSAR Ancestor #: 152144 Rank: Soldier
James Dysart lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1749. His son John stated in court in an application for a Revolutionary War pension that he was born there on December 25, 1749. This was recorded in James Dysart’s Bible. [1]
In 1831, James Dysart's son John stated in an application for a Revolutionary War pension that he was in the battle of Cowan’s Ford on February 1, 1781, where his father, James Dysart, and his brother, William Dysart, were killed.[2]
The men killed in that battle are believed to have been buried at night in a mass grave at the Hopewell Presbyterian Church, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. There is a marker to the memory of James and William in the Pine Log United Methodist Church Cemetery in Rydal, Bartow County, Georgia.
Sources
↑ Pension application of John Dysart S3315 f40NC revwarapps.org/s3315.pdf, transcribed by Will Graves, Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters. (Permission granted to republish a reasonable number of transcriptions, with citation of the source.)
↑ Pension application of John Dysart S3315 f40NC revwarapps.org/s3315.pdf, transcribed by Will Graves, Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.
Dates and places from a cenotaph in Pine Log United Methodist Church Cemetery, Rydal, Bartow Co, GA
Geni .com, parents (Joseph Dysart-97 and Marie Martin Stewart), of James, Samuel (Dysart-32) and John Dysart (U.S. migrants, poss incl. other siblings) (shows Maria Martin is Joseph's mother) https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/family/MXWF-637
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