Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Denny, Joseph 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, 3:28 am Pension Application Of Joseph Denny, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 797, Application # S8323 and from Vol. 22, North Carolina State Records: “He was, in February, 1833, residing in Guilford County, N.C., aged 75 years, and states that about the middle of December, 1779, or ’80 he was drafted into the company of Captain FROST and Lieutenant HANCOCK, marched from Rockingham, NC, directly to Charleston, SC, where they went into winter Quarters, and remained there until April 4th, following when he received his discharge from his Captain and returned home.” “The next fall, he volunteered under Captain ANDREW WILSON, in which company he served sometimes, and sometimes in that of Captain O’NEAL, ‘and was used to counteract the scouting parties sent out by the British while on Dan River, VA and in Rockingham and Guilford Counties,’ but does not recollect how long he was thus engaged, probably, however, he thinks, at least two months.” “In the latter part of June, 1781, he volunteered and marched under Captain ROBERT BELL, with other companies from the neighboring counties, to join General GREENE, at Camden, then over the Wateree to Eutaw Springs and at that place he was engaged in the battle of September 8th, 1781 [Per Heitman, this date is accurate], which commenced early in the morning and very quickly became general. After the battle he was marched with about 300 prisoners of the enemy, to Rowan County, NC. During the battle his company was placed under the command of a French Colonel, named, he believed, MALMEDY. He was discharged after 3 months service. His rank during his term of duty was as a private.” “He was born in Ireland and brought when a child, by his parents to America and settled in Chester County, Penn., where he lived until 1772, then with his parents moved to NC, and settled in Guilford County, where he has since been living. In the reorganization of the Continental Army in 1778 and 9 and a more general one in the fall of 1780 and early in 1781, regiments and companies consolidated which changed the officers in command, and some became supernumeraries…" File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/denny153gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb