REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - HART, Charles, 1832, Mercer Co. KY

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Charles Hart Revolutionary Pension Application
S16406 North Carolina Service
State of Kentucky
Mercer County

On this 1st day of October in the year of Our Lord 1832 ???? ?? in open court 
before the Justices of the County Court of Mercer of said state aforesaid now 
sitting Charles Hart a resident citizen of said county and State aged 71 years 
who being just duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following 
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the late act of Congress.

The 7st day of June 1832 To Wit, I Charles Hart of said County do on my oath 
declare that I am now Seventy One years of age and that I was born in the State 
of North Carolina in Mecklenburg County where I resided when the Revolutionary 
War commenced, and I was called into the service of my country as following To 
Wit - In the fall of the year 1778 I volunteered for five months in Capt. 
William Huston's Militia, who was about to march against the Britons in South 
Carolina, we marched to a place called Smokey Camp and from thence to the Two 
Sisters in the State on Savannah River. we captured many of the Tories and 
suppressed several parts with whom we skirmished and when my term expired I was 
discharged at the Two Sisters in the Spring 1779 and returned home, and again I 
volunteered under Capt. John Stevens in his company of Militia? men under the 
command of Col. Fifer of 1779 in the month of June, our services were confined 
to the three Counties of Anson, Rowan and Mechlenburg to guard said counties 
against the seizing of the Tories in which we had constant and sever duty until 
the summer of 1781. At the Battle of Camden I was detached as a private guard a 
few miles distance I was not in the battle which took place in August 1780 and 
then the battle of Guilford was fought I was in North Carolina near Wilmington. 
In the summer of 1781 I volunteered in Capt. Joseph Chinn's company in Col. 
Fifer's Regiment and marched against the Tories in Wilmington North Carolina and 
dispersed tho we were stationed near Wilmington which was in the possession of 
the British. Our Company was mounted near and men and armed with guns and we was 
kept in constant employ scouring the county until after Lord Cornwallis was 
taken in October 1781. When the British abandoned Wilmington. During this 
service Col. Fifer returned home and we were then commanded by Capt Robert Smith 
and soon after the British left Wilmington. We were marched to Cross Creek now 
called Fayetteville (I believe) and when we were honorably discharged having 
been engaged nine months in this service, and in all my service I acted as a 
faithful soldier and was honorably discharged. I have no documentary evidence, 
having long since lost my discharge. After the Revolutionary War I lived in 
North Carolina at my old residence until 1790 -- when I removed to Kentucky 
where I have resided since and now reside on Chaplin River this County. I 
further declare that I am not receiving a pension of the United States in of any 
State and do thusly relinquish all claims I have to said pension except the 
present. Wittiness my hand this 17th day of August 1832. Charles X Hart (his 
mark)
One Henry Shofner, states that he is well acquainted with Charles Hart, that I 
knew him in 1778 as a soldier in the militia of North Carolina. We were together 
on several tours in the same company and regiment. We marched side and side and 
his statements are true.
[a des. Informs us that Henry Shofner married Charles Hart's sister]