Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Cunningham, William 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, 3:10 am Pension Application Of William Cunningham, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 713, Application #S3249 WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, a resident of Bedford County, Tennessee, aged 85 years: “That he entered the service of the United States as a drafted soldier in Guilford County and state of North Carolina, some time about the last of July 1776, and was placed in a company commanded by Captain JOHN NELSON and Lieutenant JOSIAH GATES, who was under the command of General RUTHERFORD, Colonels JAMES MARTIN and JOHN PAISLEY. He states he was marched to Salisbury and from there to Cathey’s Fort at the head of the Catawba River, and from there he was marched into the Cherokee nation, passing several small Indian towns, the names of which he does not now recollect, on to the town of Watauga, where an engagement was expected, but the Indians had left the town and the Americans set it on fire and destroyed it.” “Deponent says that the troops with General RUTHERFORD remained near that place for some days for the arrival of the troops from South Carolina under the command of General WILLIAMSON, and from there he was marched back into Guilford County again and dismissed in the month of November in the same year, after serving not less than three months.” “Deponent says that some time after that, he thinks in the year 1780, he removed to that part of the country now called Washington County in the state of Tennessee and settled on Nolachucky River. And that he volunteered and entered the service again as a private soldier in Captain ADAM SHEA__’s company of volunteers, who were under the command of General John SEVIER, and was marched upon French Broad River about the middle of June 1780, and was stationed there for three months, during which time he was frequently out on scouting parties against the Cherokee Indians, who at that time were very troublesome and frequently committed depradations on the whites, and as well as he now recollects, he was dismissed from service about the middle of September 1780 after serving not less than three months, making in all a term of service of not less than six months actual service in the War of the Revolution for which he claims a pension, although he states he was on several scouting expeditions against the Tories previous to his removal from North Carolina for some eight or ten days at a time, but for that service he does not claim a pension…” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/cunningh145gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb