Military Data Revolutionary War Pension Abstracts (National Archives, Washington, D. C.) S 4555 - JOHN LIGON-VIRGINIA SERVICE 1. Declaration made September 4, 1832 in Smith County, Tennessee, where he had been residing for 18 years. Prior to this time he had resided in Halifax County, Virginia. 2. John Ligon states he was born 1761 in Chesterfield County, Virginia and first enlisted in 1780 in Halifax County, Va. 3. Papers contain more information as to his officers, etc. [Data abstracted by Charles Hamlin, pub. in NSGS, Vol. 55, No. 1, March 1967 - Transcribed for Genealogy Trails by K. Torp]