Guilford-Randolph County NcArchives Military Records.....Gibson, Thomas 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, 2:14 am Pension Application Of Thomas Gibson, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1067, Application #S8560 THOMAS GIBSON, a resident of Randolph County, NC, aged sixty-nine: “That at eighteen years of age he volunteered under Captain JOHN KNIGHT for the remainder of the war, holding himself ready to service when called on. He volunteered the month of the Battle of Guilford, he thinks March, in the County of Randolph, then part of Guilford County) and that throughout the whole of his service he was employed against the Tories, who were very numerous and dangerous, and in guarding the country against their depradations, burnings and murders.” “After joining Captain KNIGHT’s company they went in pursuit of Colonel FANNING, who headed the Tory party in North Carolina and who had become notorious for his many outrages, cruelties and murders, and in Randolph County, fell in with a party of his followers and had a skirmish with them at a place called Larrance’s. They also fell in with another Tory party on Little River in the same county, where the Whigs prevailed. They were thus employed in watching and chasing the Tories for about two months, when KNIGHT’s company joined a company from the upper part of Guilford under the command of Colonel GILLESPIE, at a place now called Randolph Old Courthouse, or the Crossroads.” “Thence they marched down Deep River into the neighborhood of the Buffalo Ford, when they learned that Colonel FANNING with his Tory crew had retreated into South Carolina, about the Waccamaw settlements thence they returned to the Crossroads, thence to Colliers’ on Caraway Creek in Randolph County, where KNIGHT’s company remained sometime to guard Colonel COLLIER’s house, who had become obnoxious to the Tories. There, hearing of some outrage committed by the Tories about two miles from COLLIERS, he, with about twenty men under Captain KNIGHT went in pursuit of them; but managed so incautiously as to be perceived and fired upon in the night, by them, in which skirmish (which was a short one, the Tories soon flying) a ball grazed his head and Captain KNIGHT was also wounded in the head by a ball. He (GIBSON) conveyed KNIGHT to his (GIBSON’s) father’s, where he guarded him until his wounds got well.” “He, then, with his company rejoined Colonel GILLESPIE’s company under Colonel John SAPP or SOPP at the Crossroads aforesaid, and the three companies marched into Moore County, where they were piloted by a boy to the rendezvous of the Tories, and where they killed some, took some prisoners and dispersed the rest. Thence they returned into Randolph, when the other two companies left KNIGHT’s.” “He states further that he was in a skirmish between KNIGHT’s company and some Tories on Jackson’s Creek in Randolph, he thinks in the fall of 1781, in which one Tory was killed. That he was also under Colonel BALFOUR in a battle with the Tories in which three Tories were killed. He also recollects that he served with a Colonel ISAACS who commanded a company from the mountains in the western part of NC, and who came in pursuit of Colonel FANNING, the time he can’t recollect. He states also he served in Captain HODGE’s company from the Haw Fields on Haw River, and acted as a pilot for him.” “…He thinks that he can establish a part if not the whole of his service by MANRING BROOKSHIRE under whom as lieutenant he served a part of his time. Also by PETER VIEWCANON? BUCHANON?, etc.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/gibson175gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb