Gwinnett County GaArchives Military Records.....Caruthers, Samuel 
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Samuel Caruthers, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 489, Application #W5244
SAMUEL CARUTHERS, a resident of Gwinnett County, Georgia, aged 73 years:
	“That he entered the service in the County of Guilford and state of North Carolina
wherein he then resided, as a volunteer in the militia service under Captain JOHN
NELSON, Lieutenant CHARLES HUGHES and Ensign LOVETT REED and attached to Colonel
WILLIAM? [probably supposed to be John] PAISLEY’s regiment for five months. He
cannot recollect the date but is very certain that it was the same year that the
battle was fought at Stono [per Heitman, 1779], that from Guilford Courthouse he
marched under the before mentioned officers to Salisbury, from thence to Charlotte
Courthouse, where he joined General RUTHERFORD’s brigade, and Colonel LOCK. From
Charlotte, we marched on to Purysburg in South Carolina. We joined General LINCOLN
on the Savannah River, that he was stationed at Purysburg for some weeks.”
“That his Lieutenant CHARLES HUGHES beat up for volunteers and that he turned out
under the said lieutenant and crossed the Savannah River and went over in the state
of Georgia and joined Colonel LYTLE and General ASHE and just got there in time and
had a battle with the British and Tories at a place known by the name of Briar
Creek, in Georgia [per Heitman, March 3, 1779]. And after the Battle at Briar Creek
he returned under the said Lieutenant HUGHES and joined General RUTHERFORD’s army,
and then was marched to a place called Sisters Ferry on the same river in South
Carolina, and from there he marched under his said Captain NELSON back to North
Carolina and County of Guilford. That he well knows that he was called out in the
month of October and did not return until some time in April thereafter, making six
months. That he was discharged by his officers, but did not take a written discharge
owing to the fact that his officers lived in the same neighborhood with himself.”
“In some few months after his return that he joined a minute company commanded by
Captain JOHN GILLESPIE, Lieutenant JAMES MCCUISTON and Ensign JAMES FLACK in the
month of November or December of the same year [1779]. That he returned from his
before mentioned tour of duty, that from that time until peace was made, that he was
on duty against the Tories which was headed by WRIGHT, near the mountains and
FANNING in Randolph, for at least half of his time. That during the time of his
belonging to this minute company was something like two years and that he was in the
service of his country at least during said time, as much as one year. That the
foregoing several tours, was rendered in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia
and under the before mentioned officers, etc.”

In SAMUEL CARUTHERS amended declaration:
	“According to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods
mentioned below, and in the following grades: As a volunteer he entered the service
for five months, in the month of October 1778 and remained in that service one month
longer than his term and was discharged in April 1779, and was a private soldier,
making this term of service six months, which he actually served. That in his
annexed declaration where he states that his service was the same year of the Battle
at Stono [1779] he meant and intended to so state that it was the last-mentioned
year as the year he was discharged, that the Battle of Stono was fought.”
“That in the latter part of the year, (the month he cannot recollect, but thinks it
was in November or December), 1779, he again volunteered as a private and served in
that capacity and as stated in his declaration and under the officers therein
designated and served a term of three months, then returned home as on permit. A
short time thereafter, in the year 1780 entered the same service and was engaged for
five months and in the year 1780 he served at least five months more. All the three
last services or tours was own service, he had volunteered for no definite period,
but was to continue in service as long as his country required it of him and was not
regularly out of service until the War ended and the Tories and Indians had ceased
to burn and destroy their neighbors property and slay the inhabitants who were
Whigs.”
“In his first tour he recollects ALLEN WALKER, JAMES HAYES, ABNER JOHNSTON and
AARON? JARON? ALLEN and JOB BAKER of his mess in the first tour of duty. That in his
last service he was in several? messes. He recollects that THOMAS JAMES, BENJAMIN
LINNY? LIRRY? TINNY? and IAS__ HENDERSON were of his mess when they had regular
messes, but they frequently all mingled together. That in this service he was in a
skirmish at Whitesell’s Mills, North Carolina with a portion of TARLETON’s light
horse. He was in another with the Tories on the Yadkin River and on frequent chases
and skirmishes all the time with the Tories, British and Indians and securing the
upper part of North and South Carolina and Georgia, and was all the time a private
soldier. That all the material facts of his service have been mentioned in his
annexed declaration and this amendment, and for such service, he claims a pension.”
[If this is unreadable, go to Guilford County, ncgenweb's military page to view this
pension application.]


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