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Thomas Bicknell or Becknell
North Carolina - Pension No. S-12985
Thomas Bicknell was born in Albermarle Co., Virginia, in 1763. Later, his family moved to
Wilkes Co., North Carolina, where he resided during the Revolutionary War and where he
remained for sometime after the war was over. He moved to Georgia, then back to North
Carolina and finally to Madison Co., Kentucky, where he died.
In 1780, Thomas Bicknell, then just seventeen, lied about his age in order to join the
Continental Army. He mustered sometime in August 1780, in Wilkes Co., North Carolina. His
major was Jesse Walton and his Captain was Larkin Cleveland. He was at the Battle of
King's Mountain, where due to his youth, he was assigned the duty of guarding the baggage
wagons and guarding prisoners.
Thomas Bicknell married Mary Mathuson of North Carolina, but she died in 1812.
During the War of 1812, Thomas again joined the army. His close friend, a man named
Reeder, was critically wounded and, as he lay dying, asked Thomas to take care of his
wife, Nancy, and his four children.
After the war was over, Thomas married Nancy Reeder and they were the parents of nine
children. They became very devout Christians and were baptized into the Baptist faith
beneath the famous oak tree at Boonesborough.
Thomas Bicknell was granted a pension when he was sixty-nine years of age for his service
in the Revolutionary War.
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