Guilford-Orange County NcArchives Military Records.....Breden, Andrew August 5, 1839 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, 4:07 am The Pension Application Of Andrew Breden [Breeden], Natl. Archives Series M804, Roll 327, Application #W779: Andrew Breden , a resident of Anderson County, TN, aged 75 years: “…That he volunteered in the army of the United States in the year 1779 in the month of July or August with Colonel PICKENS. The number of the regiment he does not now recollect, neither does he recollect the name of his captain. He marched under Colonel PICKENS to Haw River in North Carolina, then around, as he believes, Ramsour’s at which place and at the Mills of Ramsour as he believes on said river they had a battle [per Heitman, June 20, 1780] with a few British and some Tories in this engagement. The enemy retreated and left the Mills. He continued with Colonel PICKENS in this section of the country on Haw River, Hughes or Stony Creek in Guilford and Orange Counties for the space of three months. He received a discharge, as he believes but cannot tell what has become of it.” “Some short length of time after he returned from this tour of duty [fall of 1780], he volunteered under Captain EDWARD GWINN and Lt. THOMAS HOWEL, was remarched to Haw River in North Carolina, where a body of Tories were stationed and we took possession of their station. We marched from there to Stony Creek, to a settlement called Bracken’s Settlement, where a number of Tories were embodied with whom we had a battle, which the enemy fled.” “We then marched to the falls or shoals on Haw River, near the residence of my captain in Guilford County, NC. We ranged the country on Haw River for several days, then marched to Stony Creek, taken 4 or 5 Tories, sent them under Lt. HOWEL to headquarters. He was remarched to the falls or shoals of Haw River to the residence of Capt. GWINN and were then discharged. Served this tour, six weeks.” “He returned home about one week, went to the station of Colonel PICKENS on Haw River, was with him six weeks in securing the country on Haw River. He received from his colonel in Orange County, NC, he believes, a written discharge. He then went and joined Capt. GWINN, was under him, ranging the counties of Guilford and Orange and some adjoining counties for two months. Having now regulated the Tories as was thought, in this section of the country, he was discharged.” “Captain GWINN? raised a company in which applicant volunteered. He marched to Hicks? Hughes? Creek in Guilford, North Carolina in order to protect the inhabitants in that location of the country from the Tory depradations. We taken after Tories, they bolted or fled, they left their position. He ranged the country under Captain GWINN this tour, three months and was discharged at Capt. GWINN’s in the month of June or July 1780.” “In the month February or March 1781, he volunteered under Lieutenant HOWEL? and marched after the Tories that was stationed at Stony Creek, in Guilford or Orange County, but the company to which he belonged was thought insufficient to encounter the enemy, they then joined Captain GWINN, marched to Stony Creek. Before the company reached that place, the enemy left the country. He served in the Revolutionary War, seventeen months at the several different terms as above stated. He had no other officers, field or company officers, but the above named. He left the service in the month of May or June 1781.” “On this 5th day of May 1840, personally appeared in open court before the justices of said court, for the county of Anderson, ANDREW BREDEN…on his oath, make the following amended declaration…He states as to the precise term of any of the engagements that he was in, he cannot say positively...” “Applicant may be mistaken as to the time the battle took place at Ramsour’s Mills [per Heitman, June 20, 1780], as he is informed he is mistaken as to the time of that battle which he was in, but he believes that he is not mistaken as to the time that he enlisted the service differently and the length of each tour. Applicant was very young at the time he entered the service and owing to the great length of time since he entered the service he may have been mistaken as to the time of some of the engagements that he was in.” “Applicant is informed and believes that in his first tour of 3 months, then one of two months, two others of three months each service, making together making eleven months service, will come under the law passed 7th June 1832. But should applicant be entitled to pension for his service as stated in his former declaration, may they set? get forth?” Then set further in this, his amended declaration: “…That he resided in the County of Guilford in the State of North Carolina, when he entered the service. His ___ Revolutionary claims to a pension or an annuity ___ except the present, and he ___ ___ that his service is not on the Pension roll of any other state. He moved from Guilford to Amelia County, VA, from there to Pittsylvania, from there to Franklin, from there to Montgomery County, VA, then moved to Anderson County, TN, where he now lives. ______ ______ in support of his claims, he has no record of his birth, but from the records kept by his parents. He was born 4th Feb, 1765. ____ ____ no Continental or Regular officers when he served, but he is ____ ____ ____, that Col. PICKENS was the ____, Samuel Dunn and Alford England reside in my present neighborhood and will testify as to my character for veracity. Testimony of JAMES BRADDON: “While said BREDEN were under the command of Col. PICKENS and Captain GWINN. The first time I saw said BREDEN, were I think in a place called Ramsour’s Mills. The next time I saw him were in Guilford County. I saw him 4 or 5 different times at different places, having been with him a few days while he were in service in Guilford. I became partially acquainted with him, having learned his name, and supposed it were a relation. I became anxious to ascertain the fact, but after some conversation with him I found our names were not the same, in he spelt his name BREDEN and I spelt mine BRADAN, but from this interview it occasioned my further notice of him, and I am certain that I saw him 4 or 5 different times, etc.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/breden123gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 6.8 Kb