Guilford-Orange County NcArchives Military Records.....Edwards Alias Hopper, Moses 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, 1:44 am Pension Application Of Moses Edwards, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll 903 Application #W25559 Grayson County, Kentucky, MOSES EDWARDS, alias MOSES HOPPER, aged 83 years: “That he was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia and was an orphan boy and was bound at the age of ten years to a man in said county of the name of William Trainum. That he was apprenticed to him by the name of MOSES EDWARDS and that he continued to live with said Trainum until in February 1781, he ran away from him and went to Guilford County, North Carolina where he had relations then living.” “On the first of March 1781, he entered the service of the United States as a soldier for the period of three months under Captain BETHEL in Guilford County, NC, by the name of MOSES HOPPER, thinking, at that time, that by assuming the name of MOSES HOPPER, he would escape the pursuit of said Trainum. He states that he continued in said service under Captain BETHEL until two days prior to the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, when by accident, he got his leg burnt by a campfire and was so disabled that Major OWENS gave him a permit to go to his house [OWENS’] and remain until he got able to perform duty. Thus he states, he was not at the Battle of Guilford.” “After remaining at Major OWENS about two weeks, he became able to perform duty and he then entered the service of the North Carolina state troops for the period of twelve months, as a substitute for a man of the name of ? Dorris? Captain BETHEL made the arrangement between myself and said Dorris. He released me from the three months service, so I entered the NC state troops for twelve months under Captain DUNAHOE, Major ARMSTRONG, and Colonel DICKSON [DIXON]. I belonged to the first regiment of the NC state troops and served as follows, to wit: “I entered said service in Hillsborough, Orange County, NC by the name of MOSES HOPPER and continued in said service until the last day of July 1782 when I was discharged at Charlotte, NC. Soon after I entered said service, I was marched to join General GREENE near Camden, SC. Here we had a battle with Cruger [?KRUGER?] about the 25th day of April, 1781. I was then marched to the siege of Ninety-Six and remained there during the siege and after we gave up the siege, I was marched to the High Hills of Santee, where we remained for some six weeks. While here, we had a small engagement with the British and Tories at Thompson’s Fort and a part of our army were there.” “We continued at the High Hills of Santee until just before the Battle of the Eutaw Springs. I was in that battle, and after which Captain DUNAHOE was promoted major and Captain ?PARNARD? was our captain. We then returned to the High Hills of Santee and remained there for sometime. Then I was marched to a place called the ‘Four Holes’ or Orangeburg, and then to Bacon’s Bridge and Dorchester and I was here when the news of the surrender of Cornwallis reached us; and here we continued during the fall and winter and also the next spring and summer until I was marched to Charlotte, NC the last of July and discharged. My discharge was an honorable one and was signed by General GREENE. It was given to me by the name of MOSES HOPPER. I also received, at the same time, a ticket for my pay and I kept my discharge and ticket for some years and sold both to a man of the name of JAMES KELL who lost both and about thirty years ago, said KELL applied to me to make oath t???hing the discharge and ticket and I did, and he went to Raleigh, NC and when he returned, he told me he received every dollar. I made affidavit in the name of MOSES HOPPER.” “After I was discharge in July 1782, I went back to Guilford and remained a short time, and then myself and some of my relations moved to South Carolina to a place called the Old Town of Saluda. After we had settled here a while, the Tories became troublesome and for about four months during the winter and spring of the year 1783, I was in service as a scout and spy under Captains BUTLER and NORRELL and TOLLS.” “I have lived in South Carolina all the time until I moved here to Grayson County, KY about thirty years ago. After the passage of the Pension Act in 1832, I endeavored to make some arrangement in order to draw a pension. I went into Tennessee to see some of my old fellow soldiers, who I understood lived there, but when I reached there, they were dead. I spent about seventy dollars in making searches and could find no one by whom I could make the proof and having been informed that the rolls at Raleigh had been burnt, I gave up the whole affair, until about the middle of last February, I was told by a man who procures pensions for old soldiers that if I rendered the service, my name could be found at Raleigh. I then told him that I had made the service by the name of MOSES HOPPER.” etc. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/edwardsa163gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 5.5 Kb