Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Clark, Lee 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, 2:52 am Pension Application Of Lee Clark, Nat’l Archives M804, Roll 562, Application #S2431 LEE CLARK, aged seventy-six years, of Guilford County, NC: “That he entered the service of the United States and served under the following named officers. That at the time of his entering the service, he lived in Brunswick County in the state of Virginia, where he was drafted and placed under the command of Captain MACKLIN and Lieutenant JOHN LUCAS, and marched to Portsmouth in Virginia, where he remained for six weeks in defense of that place, after which time he was dismissed and returned home to Brunswick, where he found that his mother (his father having died) together with his family, had moved to the state of North Carolina and settled on Haw River in the County of Guilford.” “That the affiant pursued on to North Carolina and again met with his family, Some time in the fall of the year 1780, where he remained but a short time, before he was again drafted to march to the north under the command of Lieutenant ROBERT MOORE, Captain GEORGE PEARCE, Major BLAIR, and Colonel PAISLEY. That his company was organized under the above named officers at the Guilford Courthouse, commonly called Martinsville, and from thence was marched on southward through Salisbury on to Charlotte in Mecklenburg County, N. C, where they were joined by the forces under the command of General DAVIDSON, who took command of the army the assembling, and who was detained for the purpose of collecting a larger force with a view of going over into South Carolina to join the southern army there under the command of General GREENE. That he remained in the company for twelve weeks when he was discharged near the Catawba River. That he received a written discharge which he has since lost in his pocketbook together with several papers of importance, with the book.” “He further states that after his discharge, he returned home where he remained for some time, when he was called out to join a company of Light Horse or as we usually named in that day, minute men, under the command of Colonel WINSTON, also Captains PEARCE, BOSTICK, and MOORE. That he was marched down to the lower end of Guilford County, near the Orange line, where there was a body of Tories and British dragoons harassing the country. In the campaign there was no engagement, nor any bloodshed, except Major LEWIS who was shot from ambush in a reconnoitering expedition [see description of ambush in Eli W. Caruthers, The Old North State, pg. 128 this occurred about the time of the battle of Whitesell’s Mills, March 6, 1781. See also, pension of Wm. Bowden]. That he remained out only a week or two when his company was dismissed in consequence of their being unable to summon a force sufficient to enable them to enter into an open engagement.” “That shortly after his return home, he went back to Virginia to see his relatives who live in Brunswick where he remained for a sometime, when he was again drafted and placed under the command of Captain HOWE and marched on to Haw River and was taken sick while at Prince Edward Courthouse, where he remained confined for two weeks. That he was out in the campaign six weeks and before his recovery from sickness he received the news of the surrender at York [per Heitman, October 19, 1781].” Thomas CUMMING was his witness to the tour in Charlotte, and the tour in lower Guilford County, etc, etc. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/clark135gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb