Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Larrimore, Hugh September 3, 1832 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 February 19, 2007, 3:29 am Pension Application Of Hugh Larrimore, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll __, Application #S16913 McMinn County, Tennessee} On this 3rd day of September, [1832] personally appeared in open court before the justices of the county court of said county, Hugh Larrimore, a resident of said county and state, aged about 72 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration…: He entered the service in the militia in North Carolina in November 1776 in Guilford County, under Colonel Hampton, Captain ?Roddy [?Hadley] Tate, and Lieutenant John Davis, and served four months. He was in no battle, but served out his term and was discharged at Camden, South Carolina. When this term of service expired, a number of the corps to which declarant belonged enlisted for three years. Declarant returned home to his mother, who was a widow, and who then moved to Caswell County, North Carolina. Declarant again entered the service for four months, and was for awhile, under the orders of a Major Campbell of the regular service, as declarant understood, whose Christian name declarant believes, was James. The rendezvous of the troops was now at Guilford Courthouse, whence they were marched under Campbell’s orders to the town of Charlotte, where the company elected a captain whose name was Jonas Frost, their lieutenant was Isham Hancock, and they were attached to Colonel Hampton’s regiment. They were marched to Charleston, where declarant saw several of his acquaintances in the first tour, whose term of service was just then expiring, and they were returning home. From these circumstance alone, declarant is able to say that the year was 1779, as those troops had listed for 3 years in the early part of 1777, or latter part of 1776. While declarant was in Charleston on this 2nd tour, the enemy formed the siege of that place. Declarant saw the Boston, the Ranger and a naval vessel driven up to the city, pursued by the British vessels and laid? their guns on the wharf. The British landed on James Island and marched by land up the Ashley River and posted some guns in a position to bombard the town. Either the Boston or the Ranger went up the river and tried to dislodge them but failed. A British vessel made an attempt to approach the city through __ppers Inlet and by? using? the Ashley River. It raised a great alarm. The vessel was fired upon by a fort on the side of the river on which the city is, and was repulsed. About this time his time of service expired, and he returned home. His mother was married, and declarant’s services not being needed at home, he joined the state troops as a volunteer for the balance of the war in the regiment of Colonel William O’Neil [O’Neal], in Captain Edward Gwinn’s company, William Gwinn, lieutenant, and continued in this service till peace was made. Declarant lived, while this service continued, in the bounds of Gwinn’s company, and on one occasion, when General Greene was about to engage Cornwallis on Alamance River, he called the state troops into service, or rather, caused them to be concentrated, and declarant with the rest of the army, was drawn up in order of battle. The advanced units of the armies met and had a hot skirmish, but Cornwallis declined a general engagement, which declarant understood General Greene was desirous of bringing on. The corps to which applicant belonged had their rendezvous at Colonel O’Neil’s [O’Neal’s], 25 miles above Hillsborough, and was engaged principally in Orange and Rowan Counties, and on the waters of Deep River. The service performed by these troops was to keep the Tories in check, and Cross Creek, a water of Cape Fear River was near the center of their settlement. The Tories were commanded by Colonel Fanning or Fannen. This Colonel Fanning, on one occasion, robbed a public tanyard kept by the Dowdles? [Dowdes?]. O’Neil [O’Neal], being informed of this by Captain Gwinn, pursued and overtook them in the afternoon of the day of the robbery, and a pretty warm battle ensued, in which the Tories lost 19 killed and 14 were taken. Declarant was in this skirmish. These troops were also engaged in guarding the mills in their neighborhood, and especially that of one Isham? Tate. Declarant received written discharges at the end of each of the aforesaid terms of service, but they are long since lost and cannot be produced…etc. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/larrimor460gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 5.0 Kb