Guilford-Surry County NcArchives Military Records.....Henderson, Samuel 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, 2:40 pm Constructed History Of Colonel Samuel Henderson CONNER, JAMES-very little to transcribe. Enlisted in Guilford County, served under Capt. VERNON, Col. HENDERSON, Col. JAMES MARTIN. ISHAM SHARP-“In the year 1780, he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer militiaman under Capt. COOK for six months. He states that he does not now recollect the name of the lieutenant and ensign. He was immediately marched to various places in the neighboring counties. Their principle duty was to guard certain dangerous places. They were in many skirmishes with the Tories during that tour, and in which he faithfully served full six months and was honorably discharged by his captain.” “He turned out as a volunteer under Capt. COOK and was attached to the same battalion and regiment as stated in the preceding tour. That they marched to Surrey Courthouse where they quartered for awhile. He was then joined to Col. HENDERSON’s regiment and marched across the Yadkin River and turned down said river where they made a stand for some days near where there was a large body of Tories collected, and for some time a general engagement was expected, but the Tories finally abandoned their position and retreated down the country, and the regiment pursued them many miles, recrossed the river, and marched on to many other places, which he cannot now particularly recollect, in the course of a month or six weeks spent in this way.” ISAAC VERNON-“4th-The applicant’s fourth time entered the service of the United States in October 1781 as volunteer from Guilford County, NC under a Colonel SAMUEL HENDERSON and under the said Lieutenant RICHARD VERNON. The object of this service was to rout and defeat some Tories who were embodied in the Yadkin River but who were defeated by Colonel CAMPBELL before the applicant and the troops he was with reached the point of their destination on the Yadkin. On hearing the certainty of the Tories defeat by Colonel CAMPBELL, the applicant with the others of the troops he was with were discharged and returned home after an absence of between two or three weeks.” JOHN WHITWORTH-“That he served for five or six weeks again under Colonel HUNTER and Colonel SAMUEL HENDERSON on an expedition against the Tories. Did not enter the service at this time for any definite period. That his tour was spent in the counties of Surrey and Rowan in the state of North Carolina…” 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/henderso330gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 3.4 Kb