Guilford-Chatham-Stokes County NcArchives Military Records.....Hamm, Mordecai 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, 2:48 am Pension Application Of Mordecai Hamm, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll 1174, Application #W4976 Stokes County, NC, May 1839, Rebecca Hamm, aged 79 years, widow of MORDECAI HAMM: “That she is the widow of MORDECAI HAMM, deceased, who was a private soldier and dragoon in the militia army of the United States in the time of the Revolutionary War, and served, from the best information that she can obtain, the following tours: “That her said husband MORDECAI HAMM, deceased, was about two years older than herself, and entered the service as she was informed by himself in the County of Chatham, NC in February 1776 under a Captain COLSON and marched from thence as a volunteer militia private footman to Fayetteville, NC, and there at or near the town, was stationed at headquarters (The field officers she cannot tell the names). In this service he served three months in routing the Tories in that section of the country and guarding the town against the Tories, and received a discharge and returned home to his parents in Chatham.” “Some few years after that, her said husband and his parents and family removed to Guilford County, NC and some time in January of February 1781, there being a call for the militia, her husband, said MORDECAI, volunteered himself under a Captain VERNON in Colonel JAMES MARTIN’s regiment, and was marched from Guilford to Salisbury and Charlotte, NC, and then marched back to Guilford and was engaged in the Battle of Guilford in March of the same year. In this service he service he stated he lacked only 10 days of three months, and was taken ill with the measles after the battle, while he was assisting in driving beef cattle for the use of General GREENE’s army and sent home.” “The next service served as a volunteer dragoon under a Captain MINOR SMITH from Surrey County, NC, as he lived near the county line, and marched in the summertime or fall of the year 1781 to Wilmington, NC where the news came to the army that the British had surrendered to General Washington and then he returned with the army homewards. In this tour he served three months. All these services amounts to 8 months and twenty days, as she has reason to believe her said husband MORDECAI HAMM, deceased informed her, and the proof of Elizabeth ?Fulp and JOHN VENABLES will more plainly appear, and also she expects Lewis Woolf will prove one tour to Fayetteville in 1776…” She further declares that she was married to the said Mordecai Hamm on the 5th day of December, 1782 by Colonel SAMUEL HENDERSON, a justice of the peace in and for the county of Guilford at said HENDERSON’s place of residence in said county…” “Elizabeth Fulp, being a half-sister to MORDECAI HAMM recollects: “That her said brother MORDECAI HAMM went in the service of the United States and marched from Chatham County towards Fayetteville, NC under a Captain COLSON of the militia of said county in the month of February 1776, and he returned home on furlough for clothing apparel after being gone about two months, and went back immediately with four or five of his neighbors. They all had gone and served out the full time for which engaged as a volunteer, as he turned out and said he would not stand a draft at the call for men to go against the Tories and he was gone three months or more. The colonel’s name she cannot exactly recollect, but thinks it was PACELY [PAISLEY].” “Then some years after, her father and family removed to Guilford County, NC near Surrey County line, and her brother MOREDCAI aforesaid, was often called on as a minute man to range after Tories in a Captain VERNON’s company. Sometimes he would be gone a week, and sometimes longer, but she cannot remember how long at each time, but remembers of being gone two months and a half and said he went over Big Yadkin River to Salisbury and to Mecklenburg at Charlotte, and returned with the army and was in the Battle of Guilford. These services was in the winter of the years 1780 and 1781 and the battle was in March she remembers, and hearing the guns at the battle and in the same year, 1781, he went as a dragoon under Captain MINOR SMITH in Colonel MARTIN’s regiment from Guilford to Wilmington and was gone three months with this deponent’s husband, Peter Fulp, deceased.” “Afterwards in the month of December in the year 1782, banns of marriage being published, she accompanied her said brother with Rebecca Pratt and others to Colonel SAMUEL HENDERSON’s who was a justice of the peace for Guilford County aforesaid, etc.” “Personally appeared, JOHN VENABLES, esq declares: “That MORDECAI HAMM served with him…a tour of three months as dragoon horseman under a Captain MINOR SMITH and Colonel JAMES MARTIN commanded the regiment in the fall of the year 1781, and rendezvoused at Guilford Courthouse, NC and marched from there to Wilmington in NC where news came to our army that Cornwallis, the British commander, had surrendered to General Washington, which news was saluted with great joy and firing by our army near a large brick building not far from Wilmington. Then we returned home and was discharged…That he has just reason to believe that MORDECAI HAMM served in the service before the above-mentioned term, from his own relation of the matter, as he said, he was in the expedition against the Scotch Tories in swamps about Fayetteville, NC three months, and that he had been minute man and was in the Battle of Guilford.” Lewis Woolf recollects: “The first time they ever became acquainted was at Fayetteville, NC in the spring of the year 1776, the expedition against the Scotch Tories, when and where the deponent acted as a musician fifer in Captain SMITH’s company from Surrey County, NC. When stationed at and near said Fayetteville, the said MORDECAI HAMM belonged to some other county and company, but was anxious to learn to play on the fife and would frequently visit the deponent’s tent to learn how to play on the fife. This is all this deponent knows of said MORDECAI HAMM serving, only what he related to him since the war after he removed to Surrey County (now Stokes County). He said he was in Guilford Battle and some other tour, but he does not recollect when he said he served.” “John Quillen: “Declares that he often heard said MORDECAI HAMM speak of serving as a soldier in militia of the United States several tours of duty, and was in the Battle of Guilford, but happened at that time to be sent as one of the guard to run a drove of beeves out of the reach of the enemy…” From the pension application of George Joyce: “In 1781, he entered the service as a private for 12 months in a company of Light Horse commanded by Captain RICHARD VERNON, of which JOHN BREWER was lieutenant and MORDECAI HAMM, cornet. The duty of the said company was to range the county and guard against the Tories, and suppress any meetings of them and to take up deserters.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/hamm188gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 7.5 Kb