Lawrence County IN Archives Military Records.....Mitchell, Abraham Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com June 24, 2006, 9:36 pm Pension Application Of Abraham Mitchell, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1741, Application #S33102 ABRAHAM MITCHELL, a resident of Lawrence County, Indiana, aged 72 years in Nov. 1833: “That he was sometime during the year 1778, but on what day or month he cannot now recollect, drafted as a militiaman in the County of Guilford and state of North Carolina, to serve for a nine months tour as a militiaman…in the War of the Revolution in the army of the United States, under the command of Captain SHARPE, and that Colonel MARTIN was the colonel of the regiment to which this declarant belonged. That shortly after this, declarant was drafted…and while the troops under the command of Colonel MARTIN and Captain SHARPE were stationed at Guilford Courthouse in…County of Guilford… where this declarant had remained since he was drafted, he was taken sick and was allowed to return home. That he remained at home a short while (the length of time he does not now remember) until he recovered.” “That after his recovery he was called again into the service under the command of…Colonel MARTIN and Captain SHARPE. That while under the command of these officers…he did not, (nor did he ever at any time) join the main body of the army, which he thinks was during his tour of service stationed, or at least confined to the state of North Carolina…The companies under the command of…Colonel JAMES MARTIN and Captain SHARPE were not during that time, called out of that state.” “That they started to march after some Tories whom they understood had collected themselves at Lindley’s Mills on Clear Creek, a branch of Eno River, but that, in consequence of hearing that the Tories were dispersed, they did not reach the mill, but that this deponent was at the capture of some Tories during the term of his service as a volunteer as hereinafter mentioned. That this declarant was not discharged until the whole term of 9 months had expired, when he received his discharge from Colonel MARTIN, who signed the same as he thinks did also some other officers. That he has lost said discharge in consequence of not having supposed it to be valuable.” “And this declarant further states that he went again into service as a volunteer about the last of February or first of March in the year 1781, under he thinks…Colonel MARTIN and Captain SHARPE, that he was marched under the command of said officers from Guilford Courthouse…where he enlisted as a volunteer…to High Rock Ford on Haw River in said state of North Carolina, where they met that portion of the army under the command of General GREENE. That they joined the army under General GREENE and marched from thence during the night, to what place this declarant does not now recollect in consequence of a failure of memory, but does distinctly recollect the severity of the duty he performed on said march, he being placed in a baggage guard in the rear of the main body. That this declarant was at the capture of a company of Tories whom they surprised by suddenly coming upon them, the Tories having captured a man some time previous. This declarant thinks that this surprise of said Tories was in said Guilford County and he thinks now, was at his father’s house in said county…” Additional Comments: [If this file is unreadable, see the same application at ncgenweb, guilford County military page.] File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/lawrence/military/revwar/pensions/mitchell12gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb