Guilford-Rockingham-Stokes County NcArchives Military Records.....Frost, James May 26, 1847
Revwar - Letters 
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Pension Application Of James Frost, Natl Archives Microseries M805, Roll __, Application #R3815
Johnston County, NC, May 26th, 1847,  Rachel Britt, aged 60 years: “That she is 
the daughter and the only living child of Captain James Frost who was an 
officer of the Revolutionary War and Isabella Frost, deceased. That her father, 
the said Captain James Frost and her mother the said Isabella frost removed 
from the state of Pennsylvania in the year 1775 as she has heard them declare, 
and settled in the county of Stokes or Guilford. Her father was an iron maker 
and came from the iron district of Pennsylvania and to the same region in North 
Carolina for the purpose of working in iron.”

	“Some years after the Revolutionary War broke out her father joined a 
company and _____ to the south, and she believes to South Carolina and Georgia 
and was in a battle, the name of which she cannot now remember distinctly, as 
it is only from hearing her father and others that she has any knowledge of 
these matters. In this service her father was about either 6 or 9 months, the 
length of time she cannot state positively, from the best of recollection.”

“About one year from this period her father was called into service again in an 
expedition against the Tories in the southern part of the state and was absent 
from home, as she has frequently heard from her mother, 3 months. She has heard 
her father say he was at Ramsey’s Mills, in what year she cannot pretend to 
____ this. As well as all the time he was engaged in, he commanded a company, 
the first of which was raised in Guilford County, and afterwards from Stokes or 
Rockingham, from which counties he marched the men he commanded at the Battle 
of Guilford. He was in command of a company and she has often times heard him 
narrate the events of the action, and of troops under him following the British 
army several days after the battle.”

“Her father served in the several tours he was in one year and a half, from 
what she has heard him repeatedly declare and the statement she now makes is 
only from the recollections of this communication of her father and mother in 
relation to his service and which was _______ believed by those who knew him. 
She further declares that her father was intermarried with her mother whose 
maiden name was Isabella van Dyke in the year 1769 in the state of 
Pennsylvania, what county she cannot now say, but recollects having heard her 
father and mother frequently say they had two children born when they came to 
North Carolina, Ezekiel Frost, the eldest, and Jonas Frost…”

?Averton ?Averitt: “This deponent further states that he has hundreds of times 
____ with Captain James Frost about his services in the Revolutionary War and 
heard him speak of service in several ___, particularly at Ramsey’s Mill and at 
Guilford Courthouse. That in all the time he performed, he was a captain. 
Thinks particularly about the time an election for captain was held by the 
candidates placing themselves in open space and the men were directed to march 
up to the man of their choice, and that every man of the company marched up to 
Captain Frost.” [This is only an abstract.] 

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