Guilford-Rockingham County NcArchives Military Records.....Lemonds, Alexander 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, 1:58 am Pension Application Of Alexander Lemonds, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1548, Application #S8831 ALEXANDER LEMONDS, a resident of Rockingham County, NC, aged 71 years: “That he volunteered as a militiaman for the term of nine months sometime in the spring of 1779 as near as he can recollect, in the company commanded by Captain JOHN LEAK, that the whole company to which he belonged all volunteered at the same time at their company muster near Spring Gardens, in what is now the County of Rockingham, (then Guilford). That he marched first to Salisbury, from there to South Carolina to the Savannah River at a place called Purysburg, or some such name. That he remained there a while under the command of Colonel HAL DICKSON [or DIXON], that he, with a small detachment, marched to Charleston and remained there about two weeks.” “That he returned from Charleston to headquarters at a place as well as he recollects called the PonPon Roads. That this was about a month before the Battle of Stono. That after his return, he was attached to a scouting party and on the night before the Battle of Stono, his party was out upon a scout. That he did not return to camp until late in the morning, when he found that the army had all gone out to battle. That the firing commenced shortly after his return to the encampment. That he was not in the battle, but was on the battlefield the next morning.” “That his term of service expired in a month or thereabouts after the battle. That he received his discharge and brought it home with him, but it is now lost. He does not recollect the name of the officer who gave him his discharge… That he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service except one SNEED STRONG, who was present when he volunteered. He is also acquainted with one NICHOLAS MCCUBBIN with whom he has often conversed about his tour of service, and knows from the circumstances he relates, that they were in service together, but they were not acquainted at that time, he was in a different regiment. That Mr. JAMES OLIVER also states that he knows of his service, having met him at his return…” August 1832-“SNEED STRONG…he is well acquainted with ALEXANDER LEMMONS… that he was present at the muster in 1779, as well as he recollects the year, when said ALEXANDER LEMMONS together with his whole company under the command of Captain JOHN LEAK, volunteered for the term of nine months. That he knows said LEMMONS marched to the south with his company and did not return until after his term of service had expired…” August 1832-“JAMES OLIVER…he has been acquainted with ALEXANDER LEMMONS… ever since his infancy…that he knows that he volunteered under Captain JOHN LEAK for nine months. That he saw him on his return near ?Holgen’s Creek in the County of Rockingham, about ten miles from his place or residence…” February 10th, 1854-ALEXANDER LEMMONS, a Revolutionary soldier…now aged 93 years…that said allowance is for nine months service by himself, the affiant, in the company of Captain JOHN LEAK in the company commanded by Captain JOHN LEAK in the regiment of Continental line of North Carolina, commanded by Colonel DICKERSON, which service was performed in the year 1779. That he does not now remember whether he claimed for additional services or not in his application made for pension some twenty years since, but that he did perform an additional service of three months in the militia of the state of North Carolina in the following manner and under the following circumstances: “About the 15th day of April in the year 1781, a man by the name of JACOB JAMES, having enlisted or having been drafted and having become tired of the service, and did about three months before the expiration of his term, with the consent of, and agreement of his officers, employ him, the declarant to serve as his substitute for the remainder of his term, and that he the declarant, did about the 15th day of April in the year 1781, in the County of Guilford, now Rockingham and state of North Carolina, enter the said company as a substitute for said JACOB JAMES and with the rank of a private, did serve the remaining three months of said JACOB JAMES term and was at the end thereof, disbanded at a place called Guilford Old Courthouse… “That he was at the time while a substitute for JACOB JAMES, a teamster and was in company with a guard transporting provisions to a town called Charlotte in Mecklenburg, in the state aforesaid, and upon his return from the point at which he deposited his stores, and by a called court martial, was disbanded and returned home.” “…That he has not heretofore made application for an allowance for the term of service for the following reasons; that he was not aware that substitutes received any pay from government; that he was given a fine rifle by the said JACOB JAMES and a cow and a yearling. I state this because I have a distinct recollection of what I was to receive over and above the monthly pay, which he was to receive, and that he does now adduce the best proof in his power to establish what he herein sets forth, and trusts at this late day when all his officers and comrades are dead or removed beyond his reach, the said proof will be satisfactory to the accounting officers of the Government…” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/lemonds205gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 5.9 Kb