Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Clapp, Leodwick 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 15, 2006, 2:47 am Pension Application Of Leodwick Clapp, National Archives Microseries M804, Roll 548, Application # S8211 LEODWICK CLAPP, a resident of Guilford County, aged 90, [states]: That he was born in Burks County, Pennsylvania, and moved when he was very young to that part of North Carolina now called Guilford County in which he has lived ever since. That at the commencement of the Revolution, in the spring of ‘75 or ’76 [it was ‘76], he was drafted and called out on the Cherokee expedition under the command of Captain WHITESELL, Lieutenant JACOB CLAPP (his brother), Colonel PAISLEY and Colonel MARTIN. That he was marched westward to the headwater of the Catawba River near to a small stream making into the river, and encamped in a place called the Quaker Meadows. That he there joined troops under General RUTHERFORD and marched thence to headquarters 12 miles east of the Blue Ridge. That he was marched over the ridge, the French Broad River, the Pigeon, and in short, nearly all over the eastern part of what is now the state of Tennessee, and destroyed all the Indian towns that could be found.” “That he was then marched back home nearly the same route, separating from General RUTHERFORD near the Catawba River. That he received no written discharge. That it was cold weather when he returned and thinks he was gone four or five months. That from this time ‘75 until 1781, he was always ready at the call of his country and served a very great many small tours under Captain WHITESELL, Captain FORBIS, Colonel MARTIN, and Colonel PAISLEY after the Tories and consumed at the least on third of that period in service of this kind. Sometimes down among the High Hills of Randolph County, sometimes down towards Fayetteville, down among the Raft Swamps and often up on the Yadkin…that he regrets much his inability to date these several tours and mention the length of time he was out at each, but states that the Whigs in his section of the country were almost surrounded by Tories and had to be always on the defensive.” “That he recollects that towards the close of the war, of starting a tour to the south. They met the enemy on the march north, but that his brother, Lieutenant JACOB CLAPP had accidentally got his arm shot, and that he was sent by his captain to convey his brother home and attend to him. That he is known to JOSEPH MCLEAN, MATTIAS IRVINE, GEORGE NEESE, and WILLIAM ALBRIGHT, who can testify from their personal knowledge to his services…” Amendment to declaration: “…That he spent on the Cherokee expedition (in ’75 as he believes) not less than 4 months and that he was called out on various frequent tours after the Tories under FANNING, BRYAN, BELL and many others which, if added together would make more than two years more. He believes from the best of his present recollection that he spent more time from home than at home, but that much of his service was performed in company with some of his Whig friends who would unite sometimes without being called out or under any particular commander, on sudden emergency. But that he can safely say that in all he must have served in general? order? called out not less than two years. That he served mostly a private volunteer, if not always, except the Cherokee expedition when he thinks he was drafted. That GEORGE NEESE, MATTIAS SWING and WILLIAM ALBRIGHT were with him in service, and that they mostly served together under Captain WHITESELL, but that the company sometimes did service under the command of other officers…” “MATTIAS SWING, maketh oath that he did service with LEODWICK CLAPP…during the Revolutionary War in the minute company commanded by Captain WHITESELL and Lieutenant CLAPP, his brother. That he marched with him on the Cherokee expedition. That he was likewise with him in various and frequent tours regularly called out by his officers, Captain WHITESELL and Colonel PAISLEY against the Tories. That he served as a private volunteer and a faithful soldier and did long and faithful service…” “Captain WILLIAM ALBRIGHT and GEORGE NEESE, who, on their oath, [state] that LEODWICK CLAPP was a true and faithful soldier of the Revolution, and that we know it from the fact of having done actual service with him in the minute company by Captain WHITESELL and Lieutenant CLAPP, his brother. That he was out _____south? Mecklenburg County under General CASWELL?, Colonel PAISLEY? in the summer or fall of the year 178? in a tour of some? six? seven? months but that the greater part of his service was performed in various and short tours after the Tories, who lived down among the Caraway Mountains in Randolph County, down towards Cross Creek (now Fayetteville) and Wilmington, and up on the Yadkin River. That he was a true and faithful soldier of the Whig party, from the commencement to the end of the Revolutionary War. That he stood ready at the command of his officers Captain WHITESELL and Colonel PAISLEY, which was frequent. That few American soldiers did more service and suffered more hardships than the Whig soldiers of this section of North Carolina in making their frequent and various expeditions to operate against the Tories.” “And GEORGE NEESE, one of these affiants, further states that the aforesaid LEODWICK CLAPP was with him in the Cherokee expedition And was out on that tour several months in 1775 he thinks, perhaps ’76. That he is a man of unquestionable honesty and truth, and there lives no man who can say with truth that LEODWICK CLAPP did not serve long and faithfully during the Revolution.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/clapp133gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 6.1 Kb