Guilford-Surry County NcArchives Military Records.....Isaacs Or Isaaks, Elisha Or Samuel 
Revwar - Pension 
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Constructed History Of Colonel Isaacs [Elisha Or Samuel]
	WILLIAM BOYD-“Sometime afterwards, I volunteered under Captain SAMUEL 
JOHNSTON. Our major was by the name of HARDGRAVES. The other officers names I 
do not now recollect. The object of this campaign was to destroy or rout a 
number of Tories who had collected on the Yadkin River, commanded by one 
FANNING and CHEEK. Our commander, Major HARDGRAVES marched us home before we 
completed what he was sent to do. He was immediately arrested for his 
disobedience of orders. Colonel ELISHA ISAACS took command of us and we 
returned to the Yadkin and succeeded in dispersing the Tories who had collected 
there.”
	“In the fall of the year, the particular year he cannot now from the 
frailty of his memory state, he volunteered under Captain SAMUEL JOHNSON, and 
Lieutenant MORRIS, he thinks. His major was one HARDGRAVE, his first name not 
remembered. The object of this tour was to break up a party of Tories who had 
collected on the Yadkin River. He was marched in pursuit of the Tories on the 
waters of the Yadkin, as a ranger. Before Major HARDGRAVES had completed what 
he was sent to do, he was arrested for disobedience of orders. Colonel ELISHA 
ISAACS then took the command and marched us to the Yadkin where he succeeded in 
dispersing or driving away the Tories. From thence he went to Wilkes 
Courthouse, where he (this applicant) was released from this service, having 
served three months under said Major HARDGRAVES and Colonel ISAACS together. He 
received no written discharge from this service…”

	ISAAC VERNON-“2nd service-That this applicant entered a second time 
into service of the United States as a volunteer in the early part of April in 
the year 1780 from Surrey County, NC, under Captain ABSOLOM BOSTICK and under 
Colonel ISAACS or Colonel LEDBETTER. Was marched to Salisbury in said state, 
then down the Yadkin River to Rocky River. There had a battle with the Tories, 
several of whom were killed and wounded and a great number taken prisoners. 
From this place was marched to the Narrows of the Yadkin under General 
RUTHERFORD who we previously had joined at Salisbury. From the Narrows was 
marched to Lynche’s Creek.”
“There we joined GATES’ Army with whom we were marched to Rugeley’s Mills. 
There a Virginia force of troops joined us. From thence the whole force was 
marched towards Camden in South Carolina. There the American force under 
General GATES met the British who defeated the American forces under General 
GATES [per Heitman, August 16, 1780] In this battle the applicant was taken a 
prisoner, but some time after escaped being a prisoner, not over two hours, by 
which escape being overcome by heat and fatigue, the applicant’s bodily system 
became much impaired for upwards of three years. In this service the applicant 
performed at least four and a half months duty.”

	WILLIAM BOWDEN-“Applicant further states that he again entered the 
service of the United States army as a soldier in the fall of the year 1781, 
but does not recollect whether he was drafted or how he was called into 
service. He went out and served under the following named officers (to wit), 
Captain EDWARD LOVELL, Adjutant PATRICK MCGIBBONEY and Colonel ISAACS. They 
marched in November from Surrey County, North Carolina where he still lived, on 
to the Moravian Town, which is now called Salem, where the General Assembly was 
in session, and Governor MARTIN retained their company to guard and protect the 
General Assembly from the enemy for some three or four weeks.”
“After the adjournment of the Legislature, they marched on to Deep River where 
they joined the army that was commanded by Colonel ISAACS, and they ranged 
about the country for a short time and were dismissed without being engaged in 
any battle this tour. Listed for ten weeks. Applicant got a discharge from 
Colonel ISAACS.”

	BENJAMIN BOWEN-“In 1781 he volunteered under Captain SMITH MOORE, 
Colonels ISAAKS and PAISLEY, to subdue the Tories in various parts of the state 
of North Carolina. This deponent was liable to do duty whenever called on for 
six years and actually in service much more than two years, etc.”

	WILLIAM SHAW-“I again, in the latter part of the year 1779 I think, 
served a tour of three months in the capacity of orderly sergeant in Captain 
SMITH MOORE’s company under the command of a Colonel ISAACS. One of my 
subaltern officers’ names was CHESLEY BARNES, the others are forgotten. During 
this tour we were principally engaged in ranging through Randolph County, 
Caraway Mountains, Pedee, Montgomery County and others, against the Tories and 
others.”
JAMES MCBRIDE…“That he is acquainted with WILLIAM SHAW…That he saw him in the 
service of his country in the year 1775. That he afterwards served a tour with 
him of three months in Colonel ISAACS regiment and a tour to Suffolk for arms 
for two or three months.”

	CHESLEY BARNES-“In a very short time thereafter, another call was made 
in our state for the militia to be ready at a minute’s warning. I then entered 
the service for a tour of three months as an ensign. SMITH MOORE was my Captain 
and JAMES? PAISLEY, Lieutenant. We marched immediately to the Battleground at 
Guilford Courthouse where our regiment was organized. Colonel ISAAKS took up 
our line of march direct for Little York in the state of Virginia, but before 
we reached there, we received intelligence that General WASHINGTON had captured 
Lord CORNWALLIS [per Heitman, October 19, 1781] and his army.”
“Colonel ISAAKS was directed to march his troops down in the lower part of 
North Carolina against some Tories who were committing some depradations upon 
the inhabitants commanded by a Tory Colonel by the name of FANNING. At our 
approach, FANNING and his party dispersed and order and tranquillity being 
restored to the citizens and our term of service having expired, we were 
marched back to Guilford Courthouse and discharged the service. I took 
certificate of my service from my officers at the time I received my discharge, 
which papers are lost or disposed of in some way, I know not how.”

	JOHN WHITWORTH-“That sometime in the latter part of the summer or in 
the first of the fall of 1781, he volunteered for the term of three months in 
the County of Guilford and state of North Carolina in the company commanded by 
Captain SMITH MOORE, Lieutenant PAISLEY and Ensign CHESLEY BARNES, who is now 
alive and residing about four miles from the applicant in the county of 
Rockingham, and who can and will testify to his services during this tour. That 
he marched from Guilford as far south as the South Carolina line and spent a 
good part of the time in the County of Richmond in pursuit of the Tories. That 
his company belonged to the regiment commanded by Colonel SAMUEL ISAACS and 
Colonel PAISLEY. That he served out his three months and received his discharge 
a short time after the surrender by LORD CORNWALLIS at Yorktown.

	JAMES FLACK-“The third expedition of nearly four months was in the year 
1781 and that time he served under Colonel PAISLEY and Colonel ISAAC of Surry 
County, and Captain SMITH MOORE of Guilford.”

	THOMAS GIBSON-“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.”

	JAMES MCBRIDE-“I served one campaign in Colonel ISAAC’s regiment, Capt. 
ROBERT PAISLEY of three months, but whether this was before or after the period 
of which I write, 1780, I am unable to say. The service was ranging for Tories 
through the same country as that previously mentioned under Colonel PAISLEY.”

	DANIEL SUTHERLAND-“He again entered the service at Guilford Courthouse, 
NC in the fall or winter of 1780, under Captain JOHN MAY or MOORE, but from 
some circumstance, Captain MAY or MOORE did not march with us, when he, 
declarant was appointed by Colonel MARTIN to take the command of the company, 
which he did during this tour. We marched from Guilford down into Randolph and 
Chatham Counties after the Tories, Colonel FANNING being at their head. Had 
several skirmishes with the Tories, after which he returned back to Guilford 
and was discharged by Colonel MARTIN, having served this tour three months…He 
served under Colonel ISAACS.”

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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