Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Gibson, John 
Revwar - Pension 
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The Pension Application Of John Gibson, Nat’l Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1067, Application #S3395
	“JOHN GIBSON, a resident of Lincoln County, Tennessee, aged about 
seventy-three years…That in the month of October 1778, he was drafted to serve 
a term of five months, and did serve that term in the militia as a private 
under the command of Captain JOHN NELSON of Guilford County and state of North 
Carolina. His company rendezvoused at Guilford Courthouse, marched from there 
to the town of Salisbury in Rowan County, NC; thence to Camden in South 
Carolina, thence through that state to the Savannah River adjoining the state 
of Georgia. Colonel LOCKE commanded the regiment of which his company was a 
part. He believes that General RUTHERFORD was first in command of the North 
Carolina militia, the forces of which he was a member, were encamped at a place 
called the Black Swamp in South Carolina, when his term of enlistment expired.”
	“In the early part of February 1781, he volunteered his services and 
joined a company of horsemen, commanded by Captain THOMAS COOK of Guilford 
County, NC. Was marched into Pittsylvania County on Dan River, Virginia in 
order to join the troops under the command of General GREENE. They were 
subsequently marched back to Guilford County and he with such other horsemen as 
were citizens of Guilford County, was attached to the commissary department. 
Was employed in collecting cattle for the use of the army on the day of the 
Battle of Guilford Court House, between the armies commanded by General 
GREENE/Americans, and the British, commanded by LORD CORNWALLIS. He served to 
the best of his recollection at this time a period of not less than seven 
weeks.”
“It was the last week of August or early in September 1781, he volunteered 
again, joined a company of horsemen commanded by Captain DANIEL GILLESPIE, 
Colonel JAMES MARTIN, of Surry County, North Carolina, commandant. They marched 
towards the south boundary of NC, near the Raft Swamps & Drowning Creek in 
pursuit of Tories who it was understood had there secreted themselves, and it 
proving impracticable to ferret the Tories out, this declarant obtained a 
furlough from Col. MARTIN to return home, with an injunction again to join his 
company as soon as possible. In obedience to this order, he in a few days 
thereafter aimed to rejoin his comrades; but while on his way, for that 
purpose, he met Colonel PAISLEY at Guilford Court House, who informed the 
declarant that the Tories were embodied on Deep River in Randolph and Chatham 
Counties in such force as to render his return to his regiment extremely 
dangerous, unsafe and uncertain. At the suggestion of Colonel PAISLEY, who was 
first colonel of the Guilford militia, the declarant relinquished the idea of 
rejoining Captain GILLSPIE and Colonel MARTIN, and volunteered under Colonel 
PAISLEY who attached him to a company commanded by Captain JOHN MAY of the 
County of Guilford. In the course of one week, Colonel PAISLEY having assembled 
such troops as was found to be practicable, they, and this declarant, were 
marched into Randolph and Chatham counties to suppress the Tories there, then 
back to Guilford Courthouse and were dismissed.”
“At this time, he was in service, to the best of his recollection, a period of 
not less than two months and two weeks, and here ended his services in the 
Revolutionary War, he having served in all to the best of his remembrance, a 
period of not less than nine months and one week. JAMES COTTON is the only 
living witness to any portion of his services in his power to procure. He was 
born in Orange County, North Carolina, as he was informed by his parents, on 
the 16th of September, 1760. His father caused the ages of his children to be 
recorded in the family Bible, and a copy of this is the only record of his age 
he has. He was raised to manhood in Guilford County, NC, at which place he 
entered the service as before stated.”

Attached document, from JAMES COTTON, who swore: “That before and during the 
Revolutionary War, he was well-acquainted with a man by the name of JOHN 
GIBSON, both as being inhabitants of Guilford County in the state of North 
Carolina. I was an enlisted soldier in the horse, and in 1781 was attached to a 
company of horse under the command of Captain JOHN MAY of said county and 
state, the services of which company was rendered in subduing the Tories in the 
counties of Randolph and Chatham. Colonel John PAISLEY was the commandant of 
said troop, during which term of duty, I do hereby certify that the above named 
JOHN GIBSON belonged to said company as a volunteer and performed the duty free 
of censure. And after his services as a volunteer was at an end, he the said 
GIBSON was dismissed at Guilford Courthouse. Colonel WILLIAM O’NEAL had also 
some command in said troop, and I further state that I am now about sixty-seven 
years of age and Mr. GIBSON is some six or seven years older than I am…”

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