Guilford-Rutherford County NcArchives Military Records.....Brooks, William April 22, 1832 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, 4:13 am Pension Application Of William Brooks, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 355, Application # S6717 WILLIAMS BROOKS, a resident of Sandy Run, Rutherford County, NC, aged 89 years: “That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1776 and in the month of February with Captain SIMS and served in the regiment of Colonel SMALLWOOD. He was living in the town and County of Frederick, state of Maryland when he entered the service. He was enlisted for the term of twelve months and was thirty-one years old when he enlisted, as he was told.” “He first marched to Annapolis, and from there to New York, then to Long Island, and was in the battle there on the 27th of August, commanded by Lord Stirling and in this battle, General Sullivan and Lord Stirling was taken prisoners. He then went back to New York and had a skirmish between there and Harlemtown. He was then marched to the White Plains where they had a battle commanded by General McDougal, which took place, he thinks, on the 27th of November. In this battle, he got his leg broke, and was sent from there to the hospital. He served ten months time before he got his leg broke, was two months in the hospital, then discharged by a doctor, whose name he has forgot. He got home in the month of March.” “He then moved to Guilford, North Carolina. He was then drafted in the year 1779 for three months under the authority of North Carolina, in December, to the best of his memory, under Captain FROST, Lieutenant LEMMONS and GEORGE DUN, commissary sergeant, in the regiment of Colonel LYTLE, and was marched to Charleston, South Carolina, where General LINCOLN commanded. On the first of April, we made a ditch from the heads of different swamps, and dug deep holes in short distances of each other. We also threw up breastworks to keep the British from landing. On the fifteenth or sixteenth, we made a camp at a place called Monck’s Corner to keep up the communication between the town and the country, but the militia was routed by the enemy [per Heitman, April 14, 1780].” “About this time the British killed a great number of the horsemen on the Santee River. He believes General LINCOLN surrendered to Lord CORNWALLIS between the tenth and fifteenth of May 1780. And when the three months had expired, he volunteered under the same officers for three months more, and in a few days after the surrender of General LINCOLN, he received a parole home, as my last three months was not quite out. He was in the service six months and ten days from the time he was drafted until he got home to Guilford.” “And in the month of June 1781, he was drafted for three months under Captain CONNERS and Lieutenant Colonel PAISLEY, and took a tour on Deep River after the Tories. He was in no general engagement, but had several skirmishes. And when this draft was out, he volunteered for three months more under Captain MOORE, Lieutenant BARNES, in Colonel PAISLEY’s regiment. He then went home to Guilford. He shortly after moved to Sandy Run, where he now lives. He was not employed in any civil pursuit during his terms.” Interrogatory by the court: Answer-“I was born at a place called Yellow Britches in the state of Pennsylvania, in the year 1745, as I was told by the man who raised me. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/brooks125gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb