James CHRONISTER

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James Chronister the eldest son of Matthias and Elizabeth Chronister was born in 1751 in York or Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. At the age of 21 in 1772 James moved with his family from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania to Tryon County (later Lincoln Co.) North Carolina. It appears that during the 1770s he lived unmarried and was working on his father's farm. According to his pension application recorded in 1821 James enlisted in continental army at Orangeburg, South Carolina in the year 1781. He was mustered 1/1782 as a private and placed in the North Carolina regiment commanded by Captain Thomas Armstrong and was in the battles of Stone, Forodhold Bridge, Rounder, and Dorchester. He also stated in his application that he was discharged at Baconridge, South Carolina in the year 1783 after 2 1/2 years of service.

After 1784 James was married to SUSAN EARHART who was born in about the year 1760. Their childred were all born in Lincoln County, North Carolina.

James bought a farm of 100 acres in Lincoln County, North, Carolina in 6/24/1807 for 100 dollars on Potts Creek in the utmost northern part of the county, but sold it in 1811 and 1814. It was in or about 1814 that at the age of 63 James, Susanna and sons Daniel and Abraham moved with their families westward to the wilds of Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, just a few miles west of the Mississippi River. James spent the remainder of his life here and in 1821 when he could no longer farm for a living, applied for pension for his service during the Revolution. On 3/1/1823, he was granted 8 dollars per month. At the time of the first U.S. Census of Missouri in 1830, at the age of 79 James was living close to his son Abraham in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.

Sometime during the 1830's The Revolutionary War Soldier died, leaving behind many grandchildren from whom sprang the present day generation of Missouri and Arkansas Chronisters.