Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Cave, William 
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of William Cave, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll 501, Application #S12678
Montgomery County, Kentucky, William Cave, aged 83 years:
	“That in the latter part of the summer in the second year after the War 
of the Revolution was declared [1776], this applicant entered the service of 
the United States as a volunteer for a tour of 6 months under Captain JOHN 
LEEK, under the command of General ___ Rutherford, in the county of Guilford, 
state of North Carolina, and was marched from thence to the lower part of that 
state, into Mecklenburg County where our first skirmish was with some Tories.”

“From thence we were marched up the country into Rowan County, from thence 
across into the upper part of South Carolina where the Cherokee Indians were 
committing depradations on the American citizens. There we had frequent 
skirmishes with the Indians; and where we remained sometimes in North and 
sometimes in South Carolina as necessity required, until about the expiration 
of our term for which we had entered the service. After destroying the corn of 
the Indians and laying waste their towns, we were marched to Salisbury, NC 
where, at the close of our six months service, we were regularly discharged…”

	“This applicant further states that in January, previous to the Battle 
of Guilford [1781], he volunteered for a second tour for three months, in the 
County of Guilford and state of North Carolina and entered the service of the 
United States under said engagement , in the month of January under Captain 
JOHN MAY, under the command of General MARTIN, he thinks ALEXANDER MARTIN 
[ALEXANDER MARTIN was no longer serving in the military by this time, but it 
was likely to have been Colonel JAMES MARTIN], and was marched down the country 
in a direction towards Camden with a view to regulate some Tories, and with an 
expectation of meeting the British forces under the command of Cornwallis, who 
had penetrated the interior of that section of country and was making his way 
towards Guilford, where I arrived with our company on a forced march 
immediately after the battle. [Does he mean Camden or Guilford Courthouse?]

	The applicant then introduced Benjamin Robison, senior, of Montgomery 
County, Kentucky, who duly swears: “That he served in the same campaign in the 
War of the Revolution against the Tories and Indians in North and South 
Carolina represented by the said William Cave in the first part of his 
declaration, as his six months tour; and although he was not then personally 
acquainted with said Will Cave, from an from an intimate acquaintance and 
frequent conversations during the last fifteen or twenty years, with said 
William Cave in relation to the particular incidents and occurrences of that 
service, he has no hesitation in saying that he believes said Cave discharged 
the duties of said service."

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