Thomas Palmer, Cont and Virginia Line, S3651, soldier was born in 1760 in Loudoun County VA and he lived there at enlistment and also served as a substitute for his brother John Palmer and after the Revolution soldier moved to Bedford County VA then to Greene County Tennessee then to Cocke County TN where he applied for his pension on 28 Nov 1833.

Thomas Palmer was a PVT in Capt. John Winston's Co. of the 14th Virginia Reg't of Foot commanded by Col. William Davies. Thomas Palmer was on the rolls in the month of April and to May 2, 1778 at Valley Forge. The first date of service found in the records was March of 1777.

Mar. 4, 1853. Another Revolutionary soldier gone.

Departed this life at his residence in Hamilton County, Tenn., on the 1st day of February, 1853, Thomas Palmer, in the ninety-third year of his age.

Mr. Palmer was born in London County, Virginia, in 1760. He enlisted in the Virginia line of the Continental Army in 1777, and was with Gen. Wayne at the memo­rable storming of Stony Point. He was also at the battle of Brandywine, and camped with the suffering army at Valley Forge, and was in the battle of Germantown, and afterwards through all the soul-stirring scenes of the Vir­ginia line; during this, the most eventful period of the war under Lafayette, who, by his masterly skill and commen­surate maneuvering, and by his frequent and daring skir­mishes, kept the enemy employed and in check, until Washington could concentrate his force for the main at­tack at York Town; here also Mr. Palmer took part; and was present at the surrender of the British General and army which virtually closed the war. --He was a superior rifleman, and always acted in that capacity. Having an excellent constitution and possessing uncommon muscu­lar power, young, bold, and ardent, perhaps no soldier of the Revolution rendered to his country more efficient ser­vice in his humble sphere than he did. Nor did it cease with the war. He continued his usefulness and exercised his courage and prowess, as one of the first pioneers of the territory of Tennessee- -having emigrated to Greene County in 1795, thence to Cocke County, where he raised a large family and remained until 1836, when he removed to Hamilton County, then occupied by the Cherokees. So his long life has been one of uncommon vicissitudes and usefulness.

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