Private in the Virginia Continentals, Colonel Harrison's Regiment of Artillery.

  Thomas Hudnall was in the American Revolutionary War. His pension application states: "Thomas Hudnall enlisted at Fauquier Court House, Virginia on October 1778 and served one year as a private in Captain Edmund's Company, Colonel Thomas Marshall's Regiment. He enlisted in Richmond, Virginia in 1779/80 and served in Captain Ambrose Bohannon's Company, Artillery; he was in battles of Camden, Guilford Cout House and Siege of Ninety-Six; was discharged August 1783, aged about sixty years and living in Alexander Township, Athens County, Ohio". This excerpt from Frank Roundy of Hampton, Virginia.
    From Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, Vol. 2, page 1747 by Virgil D. White; Thomas Hudnall, S41664, BLW #12197-100, Oct. 6, 1792; assignee, Thomas Newton, Continental and Virginia Line, soldier enlisted in Fauquier County, Virginia, he applied April 14, 1820 in Alexander Township in Ohio County, Ohio. In 1820 soldier had a wife aged 56 and a daughter, Judah aged 30 also other children who were not named but were of age, in 1820 Joseph Hudnall of Kanawha County, Va also served in the Revolution but his relationship wasn't stated.
      Virginia Revolutionary Pension Applications Vol. 33, Abstracted and compiled by John F. Dorman, pp 80: 2-17-1834, Athens County, Ohio. Thomas Hudnall of Alexander Township in said county, late a soldier of Capt. Ambrose Bohannan's company, Col. Harrison's artillery regiment, declares he was acquainted with Edward Elzy who was a soldier in the Virginia Legion, particularly at the siege of Yorktown. At the close of the war Edward Elzey married a cousin of the deponent's wife, William Strickler, was wounded by a cannon ball in his shoulder. He does not recollect being acquainted with Thomas Elzey, the brother of Edward Elzey.

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