Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Land, Reuben 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 17, 2006, 1:56 am Pension Application Of Reuben Land, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1517, Application #S7135 REUBEN LAND, a resident of Guilford County, North Carolina, aged 73 years: “That he was drafted for the tour of three months in the year 1781 a short time before the Battle of Guilford and served in a company commanded by Captain ANDREW WILSON. Said company joined General GREENE on his march through North Carolina and went with him to Virginia. That he continued with General GREENE, was with him at the Battle of Guilford and rendezvoused at Troublesome Ironworks after the battle and marched under General GREENE in pursuit of the British Army as far as Ramsey’s Mills in Chatham County, North Carolina. That when General GREENE directed his march towards South Carolina, this declarant and his company returned to the County of Guilford and were employed to keep the Tories or Royalists in check for the balance of his term of service.” “That in the summer of 1781, he volunteered for the term of six months and served in a company commanded by Captain JOHN MCADOW and was employed during this tour aforesaid against the Tories under Colonel FANNING in the Counties of Randolph, Chatham and Montgomery in North Carolina. That during this tour aforesaid, he marched in pursuit of the Tories to the Raft Swamp near the South Carolina line and was sometimes in pursuit of the Tories through Cumberland and Bladen Counties in North Carolina.” “When his last mentioned tour of service expired, he then volunteered to serve during the war, or as long as was necessary for the security of the country. The Tories under Colonel FANNING and other Tory leaders were extremely troublesome during the spring and summer of 1782, and kept the Whigs in Guilford and Randolph in a state of continual alarm. This declarant was almost constantly in the field against them during the last mentioned under Captain PETER O’NEAL, Captain BASIL, Captain SMITH MOORE, JOHN PAISLEY, Colonel and traversed the counties of Randolph and Chatham in pursuit of them. This species of warfare continued until the British evacuated South Carolina. The Tories then gave up the contest and this declarant was discharged from service.” “This declarant further states that he has no discharges in his possession. He had but one discharge and that was from Captain SMITH MOORE. He gave the said discharge to one CHARLES BRUCE and obtained for it a specie certificate. That he does not now know of any person who can prove all his services. That JOHN MCBRIDE was lieutenant for the company in which he served his six months under Captain MCADOW. His other officers are now all dead. He has no record of his age at present.” “During the late war [of 1812], he enlisted in the Army of the United States and marched to Salisbury, North Carolina. His wife being anxious to have him discharged from the army, procured a neighbor to cut the leaf out of the Bible on which his age was recorded and send it to Colonel Wilbourn, the commanding officer and it was lost, and this declarant served out the tour for which he enlisted…” “JOHN MCBRIDE maketh oath that he was a lieutenant in a company commanded by JOHN MCADOW. That the above named REUBEN LAND was a private in said company and served six months in said company against the enemies of the country. That he afterwards saw said LAND in service in several expeditions against the Tories.” Amended application of REUBEN LAND: “For the term of three months under Captain ANDREW WILSON as a private in the year 1781 as stated in his declaration. “That he next served six months in a company commanded by Captain JOHN MCADOW as a private soldier in the summer of 1781. “That he served for the tour of two months under Captain BETHEL as a private, which escaped his recollection when he made out his declaration. “That he served three months under Captain SMITH MOORE as a private and had a certificate which was disposed of as stated in his declaration. “That he served two months as a private in a company commanded by Captain PETER O’NEAL and also served upwards of two months in a company commanded by Captain BASIL, making together the term of eighteen months and for which I claim a pension.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/land204gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 4.8 Kb