Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Brown, William November 15, 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 21, 2006, 12:01 pm Pension Application Of William Brown, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll __, Application #S16664 November 15th, 1832, Bedford County, Tennessee, William Brown, aged 80 years: “That he entered the service of the United States as a substitute for his father, in the County of Pendleton and state of South Carolina, sometime in the winter but he does not recollect the year, under Captain Richard Saddler, and Colonel David Neill, and was marched under the command of General Pickens up on Tugalow River to a Wm. Norwood’s who had built a blockhouse, and then to Wm. Hamilton’s who also had a blockhouse about four miles distant from each other, and was stationed there two months and was marched back to General Pickens’ and discharged. He thinks in the early part of the year 1776.” “He states that afterward, sometime the next spring or summer, he volunteered under the same captain and colonel, and he thinks General Pickens or Anderson, and was marched into the Cherokee nation to an Indian town called Watauga town. He says the Americans cut down and destroyed all the corn and burned all the towns they came to, and was marched back to Pendleton County.” “About the first of November in the same year, deponent further states that he again volunteered under Captain John Hannah, and was marched under the command of General Williamson to the state of Georgia, crossed the river at Augusta and from that to Briar Creek, and was in the engagement at that place. He says he was then marched home and discharged.” “He further states that after that he enlisted with a Captain Tate in the County of York and state of South Carolina, as he then understood for twelve months, and was sent with twenty-one or twenty-two others under or in the care, he thinks, of a Mr. Hannah, to General Rutherford’s army, and from that to General Greene’s encampment on the Reedy Fork of Haw River, he is not certain which. Here he says he understood that Captain Tate was dead, and the squad that went with him were placed under different captains. He says he was placed under a Captain Raulston or Rolston, but is not positive which, and was marched across Dan River at Dickson’s [Dixon’s] Ferry and through Halifax and Pittsylvania County in the state of Virginia, where he thinks he was discharged after eighteen months. “He states he does not know how it happened that he had to serve eighteen months instead of twelve, unless he was deceived by Captain Tate or was wrongfully enrolled by the officer in General Greene’s army, so it was, he states, he actually served eighteen months, making in all a term of service of two years and two months…” Interrogatory 1st-I was born in the county of Guilford in the state of North Carolina on the 22nd of September, 1752, agreeable to what my parents informed me.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/brown353gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 3.4 Kb