Guilford-Rockingham County NcArchives Military Records.....Lemonds, Robert 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, 2:00 am Pension Application Of Robert Lemonds, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1548, Application # S8832 ROBERT LEMONDS, a resident of Rutherford County, NC, aged 72 years: “On the 15th of May 1780, I was living in Guilford County in North Carolina at the time I first entered the service. I volunteered myself under Captain ABRAM PHILIPS. I was called out for a three months tour in Colonel MARTIN’s regiment. I met the regiment at Guilford Courthouse where we joined a regiment of Continental troops commanded by Colonel DAVIE or DAVIDSON, where we remained for the space of two weeks or more, then marched to Salisbury where we met General RUTHERFORD. We stayed there for the space of two weeks, then was ordered out upon a tour after a regiment of Tories commanded by Colonel BRYAN and then returned back to Salisbury where we remained for some time.” “Was then marched for South Carolina to meet General GATES’ army, but before we met with them, I was taken sick and received a furlough from Captain PHILIPS with orders to follow the army if I recovered, but I did not recover until the time had expired and GATES was defeated. This was my first tour, which was about two months and a half.” “I was called upon in a second tour under Captain PHILIPS in Colonel MARTIN’s regiment some time in February 1781. Joined a part of the regiment at the Ironworks on Troublesome Creek, marched from there to a place called ?Dan’s Bridge, there met and joined General GREENE’s army. Marched from there to Boyd’s Ferry on Roanoke River, from there to Halifax Old Courthouse, Virginia, there remained some time, then back to Guilford Courthouse some few days before the engagement, but was not in it, being some distance in the rear upon duty. This was my second tour, was dismissed but not discharged- August about the 10th, 1781. This tour one month [this is inaccurate, if he joined up in February 1781].” “I was called upon a third tour under the same officers, Colonel MARTIN and Captain PHILIPS, met the regiment at Dilling’s Mill, there remained some time, marched from there through Randolph County to a place called Waddle’s Farm on Cape Fear River, marched from there to a place called the Brown Marsh [per Eli W. Caruthers, The Old North State, skirmish was after Sept. 13, 1781], where we joined General BUTLER’s command, and from there, close by Wilmington where we remained harassing the Tories, until peace was proclaimed and was then discharged, which was on the 30th of November, 1781, the only discharge I ever received.” Question-State the names of some of the regular officers when you served, such Continental and militia regiments as you can recollect…” I served all my tours under the command of Captain PHILIPS and Colonel MARTIN. On the Pedee River, South Carolina, we first met with General GATES and DEKALB, who marched us to Rugeley’s Mills, where I was taken sick. In my next tour, I joined General GREENE’s army at Guilford Courthouse, who marched us on to Boyd’s Ferry, Roanoke, Virginia and back to Guilford where we stayed till after the Battle of Guilford.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/lemonds206gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb