Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Findley, Samuel 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, 1:59 am Pension Application Of Samuel Findley, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 975, Application #R14183 SAMUEL FINDLEY, a resident of Spencer County, Indiana, aged Seventy-four years: “This applicant states that he was born in Guilford County, North Carolina in the month of April 1762, and as well as he now recollects, early in the month of February 1781, an officer then called Colonel LEE who commanded a Legion came into the vicinity of his mother, then a widow living on a Creek called Alamance in the County of Guilford, and being much in want of a person to pilot him through that section of country, and this applicant being well acquainted with the adjacent country, by the permission of his mother, joined LEE’s troops and piloted said Lee to a place then called Holt’s Race Paths, where, in a lane they surprised and cut to pieces a party of Loyalists commanded by Colonel PYLE. This applicant was with LEE in the memorable Battle of Guilford Courthouse and also accompanied him to Ramsey’s Mills and when the army under GREENE accompanied by LEE’s troops in the month of April, marched to South Carolina, the applicant was discharged and returned home to Guilford County, having served two months under LEE.” “In a few weeks after my discharge from LEE, I was drafted as a militiaman in the aforesaid County of Guilford for the term of six months, and we rendezvoused in the County of Randolph and as well as now recollected, at ELISHA MENDENHALL’s Mill on Deep River. The captain under whom I served was GEORGE STEWART. The major was JOHN GILLESPIE and our colonel, JAMES MARTIN. At this place we met the troops from Stokes County, Randolph and Surry Counties and the whole was commanded by General RUTHERFORD. From this place the army marched thru a town then called Cross Creek, now called Fayette, and went in pursuit of a Colonel FANNING who had Tories embodied and passed through a town then called Elizabeth, crossed the Cape Fear River and marched on to Wilmington where we remained until our tour of six months was completed, and this applicant was then honorably discharged in the latter end of the year 1781, the precise time not recollected, and this applicant here states that that the discharge which he received has been lost, and he knows of no living witness to prove his said service. Here closes my revolutionary services.” “This applicant is advised that a narrative of my subsequent life exhibits claims on my beloved country, and he therefore proceeds to state that in a few years after the Revolution, he removed to the West and settled in the vicinity of the Cumberland River and lived in the family of Major Edward Douglas, about 18 miles from Nashville for three years. During my sojourn there, I went on many tours or scouts against the Indians. One was from a town called “Coldwater” on the Tennessee River and while I resided at Major Edward Douglas, I became acquainted with our present patriotic president, Andrew Jackson, who I hope, when this narrative is presented, will remember the person and name of this applicant, who is now old and infirm and needy, but who stood by the flag of his beloved country on many trying occasions.” “I was at the Battle of Tippecanoe on the Wabash River in the company of Captain Spencer when every commissioned officer and upwards of twenty of the privates was killed or wounded.” “I was in Barbour’s regiment in Canady under the command of Governor Shelby. I was also in the memorable Battles at Orleans under Captain Allen of the regular service. I here again saw General Jackson who then recognized me and I hope and trust when this comes to his sight that he will again remember the worn-out soldier who now asks in the evening of life from his country, a small pittance to supply the wants of his few remaining years.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/findley167gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 4.4 Kb