Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Donnell, Daniel 
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Daniel Donnell, Nat’l Archives Microseries M804, Roll 831, Application S8351
	DANIEL DONNELL, resident of Guilford County, aged 76 years…“That in the 
year 1776 or 1777, he was drafted in the company of Captain BELL, and went 
after the Tories down to Fayetteville, in Cumberland County, and after 
scattering the Tories and driving them from the swamps, killing some and taking 
others prisoners, he was discharged not far from Fayetteville, then called 
Cross Creek. That he started in February and was gone some time, but knows not 
the precise time, but one month or perhaps more.”
“That after being at home a few months, he volunteered in the company of 
Captain GILLESPIE, and was marched by him and Colonel PAISLEY, down towards 
Caraway Mountains after Tories and took many of them and put them in the jail 
at Hillsboro. That in doing this he must have been out near one month. That 
this was in the summer, that in the winter following, he went a volunteer in 
the same company after Colonel FANNING, a Tory, encamped in the same aforesaid 
mountains. That FANNING evaded the company. That in this trip, he was gone near 
a month.”
“That after sometime perhaps in the spring of 1780, he went with the same 
company as named with its officers [Capt. GILLESPIE, Col. PAISLEY], about up to 
the Yadkin River after Colonel BRYAN, a Tory, but BRYAN was put to flight 
before their arrival. That he was marched in pursuit, and taken down to the 
junction of this river, with the Enoree. When his officers determined to return 
home. That in this tour he was gone some weeks, near a month.”
“That in the latter part of 1780, he was marched a volunteer in the said 
company [Capt. GILLESPIE, Col. PAISLEY], out to Mecklenburg County, that other 
companies were marched along with him, that he was a horseman, and had for his 
chief commander, General DAVIE. That he was sent thence with the horse troops 
to watch the movements of the enemy (the British), marching beyond Charlotte, 
near the Catawba River. That his brother-in-law, JOSEPH ERWIN [or ERVIN], who 
was with the troops, was taken very sick, whom by permission of his officers, 
he brought home, and returned again and joined the army near Rocky River in 
Mecklenburg County. That shortly after he and his company were dismissed, and 
returned home to Guilford completing a three month tour, for which he had 
volunteered.”
	“That he recollects of being once sent a particular trip during the war 
to Hillsboro, in addition to the above-named tours, to take provisions for 
which his captain considered him serving, and was gone two weeks. That he took 
many other short tours, but his memory having become very much impaired from 
age, he is unable to give of them now any definite or particular account.”
“That he was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, but was raised in York 
County in the same state, and moved when about 18 years old with his father to 
Guilford County, North Carolina, where he has since lived. That his name is 
recorded in his Father’s family Bible, which is in his brother’s house.”

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