Frederick County MD Archives Military Records.....Philpott, Warren December 12, 1833
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Warren Philpot, Natl Archives Microseries M805, Roll __, Application #S31907
United States of America, Territory of Arkansas, Washington County}
	On this 12th day of December, 1833, personally appeared in open court 
before the judge of the Washington Circuit Court now sitting, Warren Philpot, a 
resident of the county and territory aforesaid, aged 77 years, who being first 
duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration…:

	…Volunteered the latter part of June of the 1st of July in the year 
1776 under Captain Phillip ?Misoma of the cavalry of the United States ____ 
Lieutenant Colonel Griffin, colonel commandant. Was at the Battle of the White 
Plains in the fall of 1776. Was discharged from the service the 1st day of  
December, 1776.

	Volunteered again on the 12th or 15th of October, in the year 1777. 
Belonged to Captain John Jacob Sly’s company and the regiment commanded by Lt. 
Col. S___k and William Betty or Bettis, colonel commandant. Discharged the 12th 
or 15th December, 1777, making a tour of 2 months.

	Volunteered again the 12th of February in the year 1781 under Captain 
Nevil, Colonel Preston commandant. Was at the Battle of Whitesell’s Mills, 
Guilford County, North Carolina. Discharged about the 15th March, 1781. [This 
is the date of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, and in the interrogatory, he 
stated that he had been living in Guilford County.] Lived then in the state of 
Virginia, Montgomery County.

	That he has no documentary evidence of the facts as herein set forth, 
that there is no person living whose testimony he can procure who can testify 
to his services.

Interrogatory by the court:

Q. Where and in what year were you born?
A. I was born in the county of Charles, in the state of Maryland the 28th day 
of August in the year of Christ, 1758.

Q. Have you any record of your age? If so, where is it?
A. There is no record of my age that I know of.

Q. Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since 
the Revolution, and where do you now live?
A. I was living in the county of Frederick, state of Maryland. Left that county 
and state in the year 1778, moved to the county of ?Bedford, Virginia. Left 
that county and state in the year 1779, moved to the county of Guilford, North 
Carolina. Moved back to the county and state aforesaid in the year 1780. Moved 
in the year 1786 to the county of Franklin in the state of Georgia, moved to 
the county of Pendleton in the state of South Carolina in the year 1801. Moved 
to the county of Warren in the state of Tennessee in the year 1807, then moved 
to the county of Washington in the Arkansas Territory in the year 1830, where I 
now live.

Q. How were you called into service? Were you drafted, did you volunteer, or 
were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom?
A. I volunteered in every ____ and never was a substitute.

Q. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops 
when you served, such Continental and militia regiments as you can recollect, 
and the general circumstances of your service.
A. Col. ?Shoconk and Col. Griffin are the principal officers that I now 
recollect that commanded at the Battle of White Plains, and Colonel Preston the 
principal officer that commanded at Whitesell’s Mills. We had an officer by the 
name of Bell. The aforesaid
Officers are the principal ones now recollected by me. We labored under diverse 
disadvantages, and as to the general circumstances of my campaigns, I will 
refer you to the history of our country in the years I served, as they have 
escaped my memory.

Q. Did you receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it 
given, and what has become of it? I did receive a discharge from Captain Elisha 
Bell, but I did not take particular care of it, and by not so doing, lost it.

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