REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION ABSTRACT - JOHN BUTLER

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John Butler

In his declaration for a pension, dated April, 1818, in
Bertie County, N. C., he stated that he was enlisted in
Windsor, N. C., by Lieut. Thomas Blount Whitmell in 1776,
and served in the Company of Capt. Jeremiah McClure of the
Fourth N. C. Regiment. And was discharged after a service of
3 years, by Colonel Mebane at Halifax. Wm. Hill, Secretary
of State for N. C., certified February, 1819 that 

"It appears from the muster roll of the N. C. Continental
line of the Revolutionary War that John Butler, a private in
said line enlisted May 5th, 1776 for two and a half years in
the 10th Regiment in Capt. Baker's Company and was omitted
in 1779.

In November, 1820, he was residing in Bertie County, N. C.,
aged 66 years. He enlisted on or about May 4th, 1776 in the
Company of Capt. Jeremiah McLayn or McLean, for two years
six months at Windsor, and in a Regiment commanded by
Colonel Thomas Polk. He was discharged at Halifax. He was in
the battle of Charleston, S. C. The bombardment of Fort
Moultrie at Charleston was June 12th, 1776.

Source-The State Records of North Carolina. Collected and
edited by Walter Clark, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of N. C., 1904 Vol. XXII. Miscellaneous