Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Barrow, William 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, 4:20 am Pension Application Of William Barrow, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll #__, Application #W1533 Pulaski County, KY, September 16, 1833, William Barrow, aged 71 years: “That while a citizen of Guilford County, NC in the month of August or September 1780, he was drafted as a militiaman for a three months tour in the company of Captain George Pearce. Robert Moore was lieutenant. That the company was attached to and made a part of the regiment of Colonel Moore, according to his present recollection. After the company was rendezvoused we were marched to the Waxhaw settlements and were occasionally separated and detached into small parties and served in detachments at several places in SC, scouting and spying. We were under the command of General Rutherford until Gates Defeat, then we were under General William Davidson. Was in during the time, no general engagement with the enemy, but was in several such engagements and skirmishes as are incident and common to scouting parties. He served out fully the three months for which he was drafted, and was regularly discharged at a place called New Providence, as he now thinks, in the state of SC. He received a discharge in writing, but by whom signed he does not now recollect, and which discharge long anterior to this has been lost.” “Afterwards, still a resident of Guilford County, NC, and immediately after the Battle of Cowpens, in the latter part of the month of January 1781, he volunteered in the company of Captain John Walker. The lieutenant’s name was James McKaimy. We were under the command of Colonel Pasely [Paisley] of Guilford County, NC. After being rendezvoused, we were marched by orders of the commanding officer or by order of government to and stationed at a public store, located at Colonel O’Neal’s, according to my personal recollection, in the upper edge of orange County, NC to guard and protect the said public store. The British forces under Cornwallis were then at Hillsborough in said state and the Tories were encamped at different places, some encampments not exceeding ten miles from the said store. That while he was stationed at the store aforesaid, he was generally engaged in scouting to disperse and overawe the Tories and in about two weeks after he was stationed at the store, while on a scouting party ordered out by his captain, he was taken prisoner by Colonel Tarleton’s Dragoons, and at the time he was taken, received a wound on his shoulder and on the side of his head, and at which time his lieutenant was killed.” “That he was in confinement as a prisoner of war from the time he was taken until the latter part of the month of August of the year 1781, about three months of which time he was confined on board the British fleet. At the time he was put on board lying at Wilmington, NC and was, while on board of said fleet, liberated by an exchange of British and American prisoners and he arived at home about the first week in September 1781. He cannot say with exact precision how long he was engaged on this last service, but from the time he entered the service until he was discharge as a prisoner of war, the time was not less than seven months and after he was discharged he was not less than two weeks engaged in traveling home. He received no discharge in writing, while in confinement as a prisoner of war. He was in the custody of a corps of the British under the command of Commandant Craig.” “I was born in Brunswick County, state of VA on the 8th day of January, 1762. There is a record of my age in the possession of Aaron Barrow, my brother, a resident of Pulaski County, KY…” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/barrow117gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 4.2 Kb