Hamilton County IL Archives Military Records.....Allen, William September 18, 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of William Allen, Natl Archives Microseries M805, Roll __, Application #S30822
	Gallatin County, Illinois, September 18, 1832, William Allen a resident of Hamilton
County, IL, aged 73 years: “He volunteered as a private in the militia of North
Carolina about the 1st of September 1781 and rendezvoused at Hillsborough, NC. The
captain who commanded his company he has no recollection of, only his appearance
which was that of a keen action man; the lieutenant of his company was by the name
of John Campbell, and the ensign was Robert Scoby. He states that he was under the
command of his officers but a short time, as the sequel will show, but that the
colonel of his regiment was Colonel Archibald Lyttle who was a regular officer. Much
else of the organization of the troops and of the officers he does not now
recollect. At the time of entering the service he lived in Orange County, NC. He was
born in the state of Pennsylvania and went to Orange at an early age.”

 “He volunteered for a six month tour and the troops to which he belonged were
raised for the purpose, as he understood, of marching to join General Greene in the
High Hills of Santee River, thence to march into South Carolina to a place called
Ninety-Six, now Cambridge, but while at Hillsborough while preparing to go on this
expedition, the Tories under the command of Tory Fanning and the British under the
command of Col. McDougan came upon us and took 300 of us prisoners among whom was
Governor Burke. He saw Colonel Lyttle wounded by a sword in the head by Tory
Fanning. This transaction took place in Hillsborough as above stated on the 4th of
September 1781.”

“That night we remained near Hillsborough and were carried next morning by the
British and Tories on to a place called Lindley’s Mills where a pretty severe and
well fought battle took place between a force of the Republicans and the British and
Tories, during which engagement the prisoners were kept in a close place with a
strong guard around them. He recollects well of seeing there killed the celebrated
Tory Col. McNeil. That night after the battle at Lindley’s Mill, we were forced off
by our captors and taken by Wilcox’s Ironworks to Wilmington, where we were put on
board of British ships which steered toward the West India Islands and then tacked
and disembarked us at Charleston, where the greater part remained until peace, but
this applicant states that he was exchanged on the 11th  of August 1782 and came on
back home in Orange.”

“He further states that about five years after this period he moved out to Virginia
above Abingdon, thence he moved to Tennessee, where he lived 12 or 13 years and
thence to the neighborhood of where he now lives in Hamilton County about 12 or 13
years ago.

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