Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Donnell, Andrew 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 16, 2006, 1:20 am Pension Application Of Andrew Donnell, Nat’l Archives-Microseries M804, Roll 831, Application #S8347 “…ANDREW DONNELL, a resident of Guilford County, aged seventy-five years of age…That he was drafted in or about the year 1777, in the company of Captain BELL, and was marched to the County of Cumberland not far from Fayetteville. That with companies from many of the western counties he assisted (serving in BELL’s company) to scour the swamps and drive the Tories out of them. That some of the Tories were taken prisoners, others killed and all were routed from the swamps. That General DAVIDSON and Colonel MARTIN, he believes likewise commanded. That he was discharged in Fayetteville and returned home after being out two months. That he has lost his memory to a great extent and does not recollect the time to his own satisfaction. That he is very much afflicted with the palsy, but forms his opinion from the distance and stay at several places after his arrival near the swamps.” “That after he returned from Fayetteville, he was again drafted in the company of Captain STEWART, and marched to Wilmington to assist in confining the British and Tories to the town. That his memory will not enable him to say how long from the end of the tour to Fayetteville to the commencement of this tour. That after he arrived in the neighborhood of Wilmington, he was engaged with his company in checking the advances of the Tories and British who were sent out in parties from the town to pillage the country. That for this tour he was drafted for three months. That he stayed all the time and is satisfied of this fact: for he recollects that some of his company became dissatisfied from the impression that they were kept by their officers, Colonel MARTIN and General RUTHERFORD more than three months and went home before they were discharged, but that he continued until he was discharged with all his company at the Forks of the North East River where there was a bridge over the river 10 miles from Wilmington. That when he came over Haw River, Captain STEWART permitted him and all his men who were there with him to return home. That [he] knows it was in the fall of the year when he was at Wilmington. That it was towards the latter part of the year, and believes it to have been 1780 or 1781.” “That in addition of the above stated tour, he was out on many short expeditions after the Tories down the country and often down into the High Hills of Randolph County, not far from Cox’s Mill, and consumed in these several months. That he has put the time consumed in the tour to Fayetteville at two months in order to be safe and careful, but from the fact that the custom in drafting when a draft took place, was to draft them for three months, he cannot now know whether he was not kept on service longer than two months. That at the commencement of the war he was young, but always stood ready at the many calls of his country for which he has never received the first cent. That he was born in the County of Guilford and has always lived in the same. That he has a record of his age given to him by his father. That he knows DANIEL DONNELL and JOHN MONTGOMERY, who can testify to his aforesaid services…etc.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/donnell154gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 3.8 Kb