Elbert County GaArchives Military Records.....Vernon, Isaac June 1832 Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com June 25, 2006, 9:46 pm Pension Application Of Isaac Vernon, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 2457, Application #S21549 ISAAC VERNON, a resident of Elbert County, Georgia, aged 77 years in June 1832: “That he entered the service as a volunteer…in the year 1777 in the first of the month of January under the command of JOHN LEAK and Colonel ALEXANDER MARTIN in Guilford County in the state of North Carolina. That he was in Captain LEAK’s company and by him, marched to Anson County [he named wrong county, and date, if this was the Battle at Moore’s Creek Bridge, per Heitman, February 27, 1776] in NC, to fight some Scotch Tories and to join General CASWELL’s forces. Before Colonel MARTIN joined Governor CASWELL, he, Governor CASWELL defeated the Tories. He then sent an express to Colonel MARTIN to inform him of the defeat and to disband his forces, amounting in number to about three thousand, when the army under Colonel MARTIN was accordingly disbanded and the troops returned home, having been out in this service three weeks…” “2nd service-That this applicant entered a second time into service of the United States as a volunteer in the early part of April in the year 1780 from Surrey County, NC, under Captain ABSOLOM BOSTICK and under Colonel ISAACS or Colonel LEDBETTER. Was marched to Salisbury in said state, then down the Yadkin River to Rocky River. There had a battle with the Tories, several of whom were killed and wounded and a great number taken prisoners. From this place was marched to the Narrows of the Yadkin under General RUTHERFORD who we previously had joined at Salisbury. From the Narrows was marched to Lynche’s Creek.” “There we joined GATES’ Army with whom we were marched to Rugeley’s Mills. There a Virginia force of troops joined us. From thence the whole force was marched towards Camden in South Carolina. There the American force under General GATES met the British who defeated the American forces under General GATES [per Heitman, August 16, 1780] In this battle the applicant was taken a prisoner, but some time after escaped being a prisoner, not over two hours, by which escape being overcome by heat and fatigue, the applicant’s bodily system became much impaired for upwards of three years. In this service the applicant performed at least four and a half months duty.” “3rd Service-The applicant again entered the service of the United States in March 1781 as a volunteer from Guilford County, North Carolina under Lieutenant RICHARD VERNON. The captain’s name the applicant has forgotten. The object of this and several companies were to keep in check CORNWALLIS’s troops from pursuing General GREENE too hard after the Battle of Guilford Courthouse [per Heitman, March 15, 1781], and to keep the British from spreading out and plundering the country. The applicant in this his 3rd service or tour of duty served three weeks duty in defense of his country, the United States.” “4th-The applicant’s fourth time entered the service of the United States in October 1781 as volunteer from Guilford County, NC under a Colonel SAMUEL HENDERSON and under the said Lieutenant RICHARD VERNON. The object of this service was to rout and defeat some Tories who were embodied in the Yadkin River but who were defeated by Colonel CAMPBELL before the applicant and the troops he was with reached the point of their destination on the Yadkin. On hearing the certainty of the Tories defeat by Colonel CAMPBELL, the applicant with the others of the troops he was with were discharged and returned home after an absence of between two or three weeks. This ended the service of the applicant in the Revolutionary War, he not being able, from increasing bodily extremity to perform further duty.” “The applicant says that he names General GATES, General DEKALB, General SMALLWOOD and Colonel ?ARMONG [Armand], a Frenchman and commander of the horse.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/elbert/military/revwar/pensions/vernon261gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.4 Kb