Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Clapp, Jacob 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 18, 2006, 1:36 pm Constructed History Of Jacob Clapp Although Jacob Clapp’s widow filed a claim for her husband’s service, this constructed history supplement’s that testimony with a few additional statements from others who had not been interviewed, or who shed more light on his service in their own claims. WILLIAM ALBRIGHT-“That there lived, beginning a few miles below his place of residence, many Tories, and in fact he may say that the greater portion of the inhabitants living between him and the town of Wilmington took part with the enemy. That he and his Whig friends who were his neighbors, and who lived as it were, between a settlement of Whigs and Royalists, were constantly exposed to and actually suffered, in his opinion, more than the friends of freedom in any other quarter of his state. That he was attached to a company commanded mostly by Captain WHITESELL and Lieutenant CLAPP called the minute company.” “That about the summer of 1777, he recollects of being called several times down the country into Randolph County among the Caraway Mountains after the Scotch Tories commanded by one Col. FANNING. That he was sometimes called out after said Tories down ?towards? the town of Fayetteville where the Tories were in the habit of taking refuge after depradations on the Whigs.” “That in the summer of 1780, he volunteered as before and was marched under the command of Captain FORBIS to Martinsville, thence to Salisbury and thence to New Providence in the County of Mecklenburg, and joined the troops under General DAVIDSON. That the troops were shortly driven from New Providence by British troops sent under the command of RAWDON and TARLETON. That he retreated with his officers back on this side of the Yadkin River. That after staying here a few days, he was marched south again to a creek called Waxhaw in North Carolina for the purpose of annoying the enemy on their march from South Carolina That on this retreat from the aforesaid New Providence, the cavalry stayed behind and attacked the advanced guards, not far from Charlotte. That as soon as this was known, Colonel PAISLEY and Colonel ARMSTRONG volunteered and requested others to join them and return to assist the cavalry then engaged. That they ____ ____ among whom was neighbor JOSEPH MCLEAN joined them, but they met their friends on the retreat.” “That he was discharged in the County of Mecklenburg which discharge he still has and which is herewith transmitted. That no time was allowed him for service until he arrived at New Providence and joined the troops under General DAVIDSON. That his certificate certifies to three months services, but that he was longer from home in marching out and home from New Providence, in all near 200 miles. That during the tour he acted as Lieutenant. That before setting out his Lieutenant CLAPP was accidentally shot in the arm and rendered unable to march with us.” DANIEL APPLE-“That in August 1780 in the County of Guilford, NC, he volunteered as a private militia man under Captain JACOB CLAPP of the regiment commanded by Colonel JOHN PAISLEY. That immediately thereafter, he was marched under his said captain to the south, passing through Salisbury to Charlotte in Mecklenburg County, a few miles beyond which the troops were met by the British under CORNWALLIS when we retreated, repassing Salisbury and the Yadkin River, being pursued by the enemy, when our troops were encamped for something like a week, when upon the British retiring south our forces were again marched after them and the main army went as far as what were called the Six Mile Creek where it encamped and the applicant was detached, going on a scout or reconnoitering party. That they pursued the enemy as far as the Catawba River upon the border of South Carolina.” “Upon rejoining the main army he remained then encamped until he was discharged by direction of his Colonel, the said JOHN PAISLEY. His discharge was given him in writing, but it has long since been lost. That during the expedition he was in actual service at least four months. That this expedition was conducted and commanded by the said Colonel JOHN PAISLEY who marched with the service, was captains companies from said County of Guilford commanded by the said Captain CLAPP, Captain NELSON, Captain PEARCE and Captain PEAY/RAYL?, who was of Rockingham County & perhaps some others whose names the applicant cannot recollect. The name of his major he cannot recollect. The name of his lieutenant he cannot now remember.” “That upon marching as herein aforestated, a few miles south of Charlotte their regiment joined the army under General DAVIDSON of the infantry and Colonel DAVIE of the Light Horse, under whose command they continued to the conclusion of the expedition as before stated. That during the service a portion of our troops was c___ a M___ ___ long at the Shallow Ford on the Yadkin in Surrey County on which occasion JOHN? some? [was it BRAWLEY?],___ or ____ persons were killed upon both sides.” LEODWICK CLAPP-“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.” GEORGE NEESE-“That in or about the year 1776, he volunteered in Guilford County, NC, in a company commanded by Lieutenant CLAPP, Captain WHITESELL, Colonel MARTIN and General RUTHERFORD, and was marched to the western part of the state and encamped near a branch making into the Catawba River called ____ [no name given] and marched thence to what was called headquarters about 12 miles on this side of the Blue Ridge. That he was marched thence over the ridge, crossed French Broad River, Pigeon River, to the Watauga towns after the Cherokee Indians who had been for some time, making depradations on the whites. That after destroying these Indian towns and many others farther west called Over Hill or Valley Indians, that he was marched back to a place called Hickory Ridge, then the Western Territory, now Tennessee, that he was marched thence home, separating from General RUTHERFORD at a ford on the Catawba. That he left home in the spring and returned in the fall of the year, after being out on service for 4 or 5 months.” MATHIAS SWING-“That at the commencement of the Revolutionary War, in the spring of 1776, he was called out on the Cherokee expedition [summer of 1776 to fall] (drafted) under the command of Captain WHITESELL, Lieutenant JACOB CLAPP, Colonel PAISLEY and Colonel MARTIN. That he was marched westward to the headwaters of the Catawba near a small stream making into the Catawba River. That he there ?joined the troops under General RUTHERFORD and marched thence to headquarters 10 miles east of the ridge. That he marched over the [Blue] Ridge, over the French Broad River, the Pigeon River, and destroyed the Watauga towns and destroyed many other Indian towns in the eastern part of the western territory, now the state of Tennessee.” “That he was then marched back to a place called Hickory Ridge where the troops that were separated collected. That thence he was marched out and returned home and separated from General RUTHERFORD near the Catawba River. That he was dismissed by word. That he arrived at home in the fall after being from home four months." Additional Comments: Constructed History is my term for a soldier who did not file for a pension himself, but about whom there is enough evidence from other soldiers to form an equivalent to a pension application. Most of the testimony comes from other men mentioning the officer or non-comm. officer, but in some cases, the actual soldier himself testified on behalf of other men, thus revealing his own history. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/clapp303gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 9.1 Kb