Guilford-Orange County NcArchives Military Records.....Gwinn Or Quinn, William 
Revwar - Pension 
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Constructed History Of Captain William Gwinn Or Quinn
	LUDWICK ALBRIGHT-“And the said Elizabeth Albright further states upon 
her said oath that she has reason to believe, and does believe, that in the 
summer of the year of 1781, there was a draft for militia men to serve a three 
months tour of duty, when her deceased husband, the aforesaid LUDWICK ALBRIGHT 
was drafted for said tour. In this tour, WILLIAM GWINN was Captain, O’NEAL-
Major, and JNO. BUTLER-Brigadier General. My deceased husband in this tour was 
under ROBERT MEBANE as Colonel, part of the tour, and was in the engagement at 
Lindley Mills [per Heitman, September 13, 1781], in the month of September, of 
the aforesaid year of 1781. That at the expiration of said tour, which was of 
three months duration, my deceased husband was duly discharged by Captain GWINN 
and returned home. This tour is proven by the affiant JOHN STRADER, whose 
affidavit is hereto annexed and marked D.”

JOHN STRADER maketh oath that he was very well acquainted with the late LUDWICK 
ALBRIGHT. The deponent, as a private soldier in the summer of 1781, was drafted 
into the United States service for a three months tour. GWINN was Captain, 
O’NEAL was major, BUTLER-Brigadier General (militia). Rendezvoused at O’NEAL’s, 
in this tour was in the engagement at Lindley’s Mills [September 13, 1781, per 
Heitman]. In all of this three months tour, said LUDWICK ALBRIGHT as a private 
soldier did serve all of said three months tour in said company and were all 
discharged at Colonel O’NEAL’s at the end of said tour.”

THOMAS BIPPY maketh oath that he was acquainted with the late LUDWICK ALBRIGHT. 
That when the soldier left the Guilford Battle [per Heitman, March 15, 1781] 
and rendezvoused at Ramsour’s Mill in Chatham County, he then became acquainted 
with LUDWICK ALBRIGHT. They then marched to Wake Courthouse and there they 
stayed until they received their discharge and come home. Together it was a 
three months tour. He [ALBRIGHT] did not serve as cook in this tour, but served 
as a militia man under the command of General BUTLER…”
	…“B- On the 25th day of November, 1839, personally appeared before the 
undersigned, [etc], LUDWICK MAY, a resident of Orange County, aged about 77 
years…maketh oath that he was acquainted with the late LUDWICK ALBRIGHT...The 
said witness states on oath that he was known to LUDWICK ALBRIGHT being a 
soldier in the Revolutionary War. His Captain was GWINN, O’NEAL was his 
Colonel. He cannot testify the length of time he served.

	GEORGE STRADER-Supplemental declaration: “That after he had made his 
escape from the British as stated…he informed General GATES of his intention to 
rejoin the army, but was dissuaded from doing so by General GATES. Deponent, 
after his said escape from the British, went out in the militia of North 
Carolina in Captain WILLIAM GWINN’s company of the regiment commanded by 
Colonel WILLIAM O’NEAL. Deponent thinks this was in the latter part of 1782. 
That during this tour, he was engaged against the Tories on Deep River. That 
the Tories against whom we were engaged, were commanded by Colonel FANNING, and 
declarant was out about two weeks this tour.”
“Deponent further saith that after the time spoken of, he was again engaged as 
a volunteer militiaman in Chatham County, NC under Captain GWINN, in a regiment 
commanded by Colonel ROBERT MAYBEN, and had a battle with the Tories at Cain 
Creek [per Heitman, September 13, 1781, many called it the Battle at Lindley’s 
Mill] in said county…”

JOHN STRADER-“That he was drafted into the service about the 20th day of July 
1781, in the County of Orange and state aforesaid and was placed under the 
command of Colonel WILLIAM O’NEAL and Major ELI ?MCDANIEL, field officers, 
Captain EDWIN GWINN, WILLIAM GWINN, lieutenant, CHAMBERLAIN HUTSON [HUDSON?], 
1st sergeant, company officers. He was drafted for the term of thee months. He 
was marched first to Lindley’s Mills on Cain Creek, Orange County, and thence 
to Chatham, Moore, Randolph, Guilford and Orange Counties, reconnoitering the 
Tories under the command of the Tory Colonel FANNING. He was not engaged in 
battle with the Tories this tour, except in the skirmish [per Heitman, 
September 13, 1781, called Cane Creek] at Lindley’s Mills aforesaid. His 
service was arduous, particularly so on account of the predatory warfare waged 
throughout the section of country aforesaid by the Tory Colonel FANNING. At the 
end of the said term of service, he was discharged at the dwelling house of 
Colonel O’NEAL in Orange…”
	“About two or three weeks afterwards…he volunteered in the county of 
Orange…in a troop of light horse, commanded by the same officers [Capt. EDWIN 
GWINN, Lt. WILLIAM GWINN], under whom he served as a foot soldier…it being 
ascertained by experience that foot soldiers are inadequate to contend as 
successfully with the enemy as mounted men. During this term of service, he was 
employed in ranging the section of country in North Carolina mostly infested by 
the Tory Colonel FANNING as follows. He ranged in Orange, Guilford, Randolph, 
Montgomery, Moore, Chatham, Cumberland and Bladen Counties, and was in active 
employment the whole of his term of service, but was engaged in no battle 
except to an assault on the Tory Colonel FANNING and his men at the Brown Marsh 
in Bladen County or the upper part of New Hanover in this state. At the end of 
this term of service, or eleven days thereafter, he was Discharged. He knows of 
no person or persons except JAMES and GEORGE HOLT…who can testify to his 
service…”

EFLAND, JOHN-enlisted in Orange County, served under Capt. GWINN. No useful 
details.

Additional Comments:
Constructed History is my term for a soldier who did not file for a pension 
himself, but about whom there is enough evidence from other soldiers to form an 
equivalent to a pension application. Most of the testimony comes from other men 
mentioning the officer or non-comm. officer, but in some cases, the actual 
soldier himself testified on behalf of other men, thus revealing his own 
history.

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