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I highly recommend membership in Footnote.com. You can search public records and see original images of war records, etc. Here are two samples from the National Archives Revolutionary War pension application files:
On June 9th, 1833, a William Brawley/Braly/Braley - he signed all three ways - was living in Maury County, TN, having been born in Ireland and brought to this country "by his father as a small child." His age in 1833 was "about 70." According to his own sworn and signed statement, he was born "12th day of May 1763 in Ireland." He was raised in Rowan County, NC. [His application was approved. He received Revolutionary Pension 4961.] [Clearly born in Ireland in 1763]
A John Braly applied for a Revolutionary Pension in 1833 from Giles County, TN and was "about 81 years old." He swore to the following statement: "I was born in Ireland and left there at the age of twelve years - as I have been informed by my parents. I have no record of my age. I lived in Rowan County, NC." This means he was born in 1754 in Ireland. [He received Rev. Pension 1149, but it was shortly rejected for lack of supporting evidence.]
If you read between the lines and connect the dots, you realize that William and John both came to North Carolina directly from Ireland in 1766. Are these the sons of John Braly and Sarah Carruth or is one a brother and the other a son? John Braly, Sr. was on the NC frontier in the late 1750's - or at least bought land there. There's no mention of any time spent in Pennsylvania or anywhere else except Ireland, Western NC and Tennessee by these applicants.
To my knowledge, John Braly, Sr., would have been too old to serve in the actual army, but, like my ancestor John Bralley in Wythe County, VA, might have participated in the local militia. John Bralley of VA was made a Sgt. in the local militia and "guarded the Lead Mines," provided supplies for which the court paid him, took the Oath of Allegiance and signed two county petitions in support of the new government - all patriotic gestures qualifying his descendants for membership in patriotic societies. I bet if you look on the local militia/court records level, you will find evidence there for membership for John Braly, Srs. service.
Thanks.
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