Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Bowen, Benjamin March 5, 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 14, 2006, 3:22 am Pension Application Of Benjamin Bowen, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 299, Application #W20743 BENJAMIN BOWEN, a resident of Anderson District, SC, aged seventy-seven years: “This deponent was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1756, aged about seventy-seven, removed to North Carolina 1775. He lived in North Carolina when called into service. He has lived in South Carolina since the Revolution and now lives in Anderson District. He entered the service in July 1776 as a volunteer under Captain JOHN NELSON, Colonel PAISLEY and Colonel JOHN LOCKE, General RUTHERFORD in Guilford County, NC, and served during an expedition against the Cherokees in North Carolina, about three months.” “Volunteered again under the same captain in 1777 and served five months in South Carolina under the same officers. After five months service, returned home and was a substitute employed by a Continental officer PATRICK MCGIBBONEY, to supply the place of one whom he does not recollect. Captain GEORGE PEARCE, Colonel PAISLEY, General DAVIDSON, the officers under whom he served. In service this time three months.” “He again volunteered under Captain FORBIS, Colonel not recollected, General GREENE. Served four days and was at the Battle of Guilford. In 1781 he volunteered under Captain SMITH MOORE, Colonels ISAAKS and PAISLEY, to subdue the Tories in various parts of the state of North Carolina. This deponent was liable to do duty whenever called on for six years and actually in service much more than two years, etc.” BENJAMIN BOWEN’s Amended Declaration: “This deponent’s age was recorded in a family Bible which has passed into the hands of one of his children since removed to Tennessee. He never received but one written discharge which was at Pocotaligo in South Carolina on the 10th day of April 1778 at the end of the second tour set forth before, but which has been long since lost.” “In stating his first tour to be about three months, he was careful to declare to no longer period than he was assured he did serve and if the phrase be less objectionable, he will say at least three months. He second tour in which he was in South Carolina may be ascertained from his discharge 10th April as above. He was out for a six month tour and has __ _____ scarcely that he was actually out that long but preferred setting it down as five months positively. The third tour in which he substituted was commenced in August 1780 and was for three months. His tour in 1781 was commenced in the month of October and was discharged in January after, and continued at least three months.” “The foregoing tours he distinctly recollects, was often out for a few days at a time which from the description of service ‘tis impossible to set forth with precision. For six years he was a volunteer and subject to orders. Fourteen months and four days he has been able to call to mind of actual service as before set forth, and is satisfied that two years of actual service and more was seen by him during the struggle. He acted in the capacity of a private, etc.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/bowen120gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb