Joseph Painter Coles County, Illinois*

Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Illinois. Harriet J. Walker 1918  Arch. 977.3 wall

*Joseph Painter was born in New Jersey in 1744. He served in North Carolina troops, enlisting six times from 1777 to 1781, with Capts. William Bateman, John Turnbull, James Robinson, and ……. Gillyfalls; under Cols. Bateman, Hugh Brevard, James Armstrong and Wm. Davidson. He was in the battle of Ramsour’s Mill and several skirmishes with the Indians. He came to Illinois with his son and settled in the town of Hutton, Coles County. He was pensioned in 1833. He lived to be over 90 years of age.