Jackson County GaArchives Military Records.....Barr, James 
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of James Barr, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 155, Application #S31537
JAMES BARR, a resident of Jackson County, Georgia, aged 71 years:
	“That he volunteered his services at the age of 16 years under the command of
Captain DANIEL GILLESPIE in Guilford County, North Carolina, and being a horse
company. The company of Captain GILLESPIE was called the company of minute men,
whose duty it was to be always ready at a minute’s warning to obey the officer’s
summons to suppress the Tories. This was about the year 1778. The services which he
performed as a minute man were as follows: Viz. First against a Tory Colonel by the
name of BRYAN, Colonel PAISLEY commanding the whole squad or battalion. In this
service we were in no battle, skirmish or rencontre, the Tories flying before us and
scattering at our approach. He was out in this tour about three weeks.”
	“The next service which he performed as a minute man was against Colonel FANNING,
another commander of the Tories; we marched upon him with the expectation of taking
and defeating him, but he also fled at our approach and escaped. I was out in that
tour one month. The next was against one WALKER, another leader and captain of the
Tories. He likewise fled before us. In the service over three weeks.”
	“The next against Captain ELROD, was another leader of Tories. We chased him also
out of our reach. In this tour, one month.”
	“The next against the same Colonel FANNING above-mentioned. We again drove him off
and scattered his forces, he always eluding our grasp in spite of all our attempts.
In this service, over one month.”
	“After this we were called on to guard a public magazine at Guilford Courthouse for
one month, which service was performed according to requisition.”
	“The next service was a three months tour under the same captain and colonel, and
under General RUTHERFORD at Wilmington, NC. During this period, we were rendezvoused
several times at different places, but were in no battles or skirmishes.”
	“The company to which he belonged was in the Battle of Guilford [per Heitman, March
15, 1781], but the applicant had gone to Pittsylvania Co, VA, to remove his father
without the reach and abuse of the Tories, and returned to camp on the same day of
the battle, shortly after it had ended.”
	“He was a standing minute man from the time of his enlisting as such until the end
of the war, and performed the above terms of actual service, making in all a little
over seven months and a half. He received a discharge from Captain GILLESPIE, but
thinking of it as no value, took no care of it. It has long since been destroyed or
lost.”
	“He was born in Guilford County, NC, on the 7th February, 1762. He has no record of
his age except in his family Bible.”


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