CHATHAM COUNTY, NC - MILITARY - George Williams, Rev. War Pension Application
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Rev. War Pension Application for George Williams, resident of Chatham Co., NC 
to Copyright © 2000 by normad@intrex.net

REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION RECORDS R.11.573, NATIONAL ARCHIVES.
 
There is a copy of a page of the Family Bible which lists the birth dates of 
George, his four children by his first marriage and the six children by his 
marriage to Delpha.  The birth dates and names of his two wives are not shown.
 
STATEMENT OF GEORGE WILLIAMS, 26 February 1833:
"This is to certify that I George Williams, Senr. now of the county of Chatham 
and State of North Carolina was a soldier in the Militia service of the United 
States from the County of Bertie and State aforesaid in the date 1778 or 1779 
under Capt. Chas. Rhodes, Col. Johnston & Genl Butler and near Camden, South 
Carolina while in sd service received a desperate wound by jumping from a cart 
& hanging the flesh part of leg to a pin which tore it several inches & to the 
bone which created a desperate wound & sore.  Capt. Rhodes on examination 
offered me a furlow to return home but not thinking myself able to travel, 
continued with the bagage waggons for a month or two and then with help 
returned home, but not with out suffering a great  deal of pain of sd. wound.  
Then for fifteen or twenty years it was with a great deal of pain that I could 
attend to my business only at intervals and frequently prevented altogether 
and has since been an injury more or less. --- Owing to my having left the 
native part of my country and my advanced age, I am disabled to make proof of 
these facts.
 
There will be some certificates accompaning this statement."
 
CERTIFICATE, 25 February 1833,  of John Rhodes regarding George Williams' 
military service and injury.
 
CERTIFICATE, 26 Feb 1833, of Ruffin Jones and John Lasater regarding the 
truthfulness of George Williams' statements.
 
EXCERPTS FROM LETTER TO HON. U. J. HARRIS, 25 February 1932:
George Williams was born February 9, 1756, place not stated.
 
While residing in Bertie County, North Carolina, he enlisted in 1778 or 1779, 
served in Captain Charles Rhodes' Company, Colonel Johnston's North Carolina 
Regiment; near Camden, South Carolina, while in service, he received a severe 
injury to his leg in jumping from a baggage wagon; he was offered a furlough 
by his captain but was compelled to continue with the baggage wagons for a 
month or two before his injury would permit him to return to his home; length 
of his service was not shown.  It is stated that he served as an orderly 
sergeant.  
 
In 1833, he was residing in Chatham County, North Carolina.
 
He died September 16, 1836.
 
The soldier married December 10, 1792, Delpha Kelly.  They were married at the 
home of her mother, Mary Kelly, in Chatham County, North Carolina. 
 
Affidavits of Joseph Kelly, Mary Kelly, and Henry Williams accompanied Delphia 
Williams' petition for her husband's pension.
 
REQUEST FOR PENSION DENIED BECAUSE SIX MONTHS' SERVICE WAS NOT PROVED.