Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Abbott, John February 1833 Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com June 13, 2006, 4:14 am Pension Application Of John Abbott, Natl’ Archives Microseries M804, Roll __, Application #S32089 “Enlisted June 1st, 1781 at Guilford Courthouse in Guilford County for the term of one year in the company commanded by Captain William Lytle in the regiment commanded by Colonel _____ and Major Armstrong. The name of said colonel not certainly recollected at this time, but he believes it to have been Colonel Dixon, in the state of North Carolina, and that he marched from Guilford NC under said Lytle and Armstrong. Immediately after he enlisted as herein mentioned, to the High Hills of Santee, SC, where he joined headquarters under General Greene, where he remained at headquarters something like two months or thereabouts, when he was ordered under Lt. Andrew Manning with 24 other men, to join Colonel Lee’s Legion at Colonel Singleton’s Mills on the High Hills of Santee, to which regiment he was attached during the remainder of the said time of his enlistment, and that he served in said regiment under Lee as herein stated, and under said Lieutenant Manning and Captain Rudolph.” “That during the time of his being attached to said regiment under Lee, as aforesaid, he was at the Battle of Eutaw Springs and in several skirmishes with the Tories and British not worth mentioning, save the attack made on Dorchester under Colonel William Washington and Lee and Marion, and one troop of ?McCaw’s ?McLain’s horse, where the British were then stationed, who abandoned the fort and burned the same, leaving a part of their cannon spiked, and threw a part of their ordinance into the well before they abandoned the fortress.” “That he still continued to be attached to said regiment until he was discharged the first day of June 1782 at the Big Springs near Dorchester and about 18 miles from Charlestown, NC. That he was born in Dorchester County, in the state of Maryland where he resided until 1780 when he removed to Guilford County, NC at which place he resided until he enlisted…” “and a certain Solomon Mitchell, resident of the county of Sumner in the state of Tennessee, and ?Albert Hendrick, resident as he believes, of the county of Simpson, and state of Kentucky.” From the State Records of North Carolina, volume 22, page 93, the editor’s note: “Lt. Colonel Henry Dixon’s regiment was the 2nd of the new levies of Continental troops raised after the capture of Charleston to replace the North Carolina Brigade surrendered there.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/abbott115gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 3.1 Kb