Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Hamilton, George Or John 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 18, 2006, 2:37 pm Constructed History Of Captain George Or John Hamilton GEORGE PEAY-“That about the 20th of June 1778, I joined the company of Captain JOHN LEAK as a volunteer, which company belonged to the regiment called New Levees commanded by Colonels ARCHIBALD LYTLE and HENRY DIXON. We rendezvoused about that time at Guilford Courthouse in Guilford County, and our two companies from Guilford, one commanded by Captain LEAK, the other by Captain GEORGE HAMILTON, marched thence to David Logan’s, 4 miles from Guilford Courthouse, where we lay four weeks until the balance of said regiment commanded by said Colonels LYTLE and DIXON, joined us.” “We marched thence to Dixon’s Ferry on Dan River in Virginia, on our way towards the north, where we met an express which caused us to return into North Carolina, our services not being needed in the North. We marched thence to Moore’s Creek in Caswell County, NC, where we remained about a month.” WILLIAM MAXWELL-“In addition to the foregoing service, he was subject to a call at any time when at home as a minuteman, whenever the dangers of the county required them to be called out. On one occasion, he went into the County of Randolph under the command of Captain HAMILTON and Captain WHITESELL against a body of Tories who they heard was assembled and took a large number of them prisoners.” JOHN MCBRIDE-“That he next served as ensign in a company of Guilford militia commanded by Captain JOHN HAMILTON and was engaged in various expeditions against the Tories in Randolph and Guilford. JOHN PAISLEY was colonel. That he next served as Ensign in a company of militia commanded by Captain JOHN HAMILTON, at least three months, that he was duly commissioned as ensign by RICHARD CASWELL then governor of North Carolina.” JOHN WILSON-“Again volunteered in the horse service under Captain GEORGE HAMILTON, to go in pursuit of the Tories that were collecting on the Yadkin and served about eight or ten days.” 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/hamilton328gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb