Guilford-Randolph-Orange County NcArchives Military Records.....Luttrell Or Littoral, Colonel 
Revwar - Pension 
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Constructed History Of Colonel Luttrell, Or Littoral
	THOMAS BARNETT-“In the year 1781, I went into Guilford County NC to see 
two brothers who lived there. They were raising a company of horse to suppress 
the Tories who were doing great damage at that time in the Counties of Guilford 
and Chatham, NC. I then substituted myself in place of a man by the name of 
MICHUM [maybe MEACHAM?] for three months, under Captain JAMES ROBINSON, 
Lieutenant JOHN BARNETT, Ensign WILLIAM BARNETT. Colonel LITERAL was our 
colonel, Major KNIGHT our major, and when the British under Lord CORNWALLIS 
came to Hillsborough, I was taken prisoner by a party of Tories under the 
command of Colonel PYLES, who commanded about three hundred men. I was rescued 
by LEE’s troop of horse [Per Heitman, Pyle’s Defeat, February 25, 1781 at 
Holt’s Racepaths] before they got to the British camp. I then joined Colonel 
MALMEDY on Haw River, who was pursuing some Tories, and served my tour out and 
was discharged, but this discharge is also lost.”

EDWARD BEESON-“Soon after this, the Tories gathered and took Hillsborough when 
this deponent and his company were again ordered out. This deponent having been 
elected on the very next day after his return from his first service as 
captain, one WOODS being his competition for the same. JOHN JOHNES or [JONES] 
was his lieutenant and WILLIAM BROWN his sergeant. They then marched down to 
Hillsborough and joined with the Orange and Wake men and some from Chatham for 
the purpose of attacking the Tories and rescuing Governor BURKE [per David 
Fanning Narrative, Burke was taken by the Tories September12, 1781]. This, he 
believes, was the fall of the year, but is not certain. They marched to Cane 
Creek [the Battle of Lindley’s Mill, per Heitman, September 13, 1781, also see 
pgs.55-56 in David Fanning’s Narrative], and there attacked the Tories, at 
which time John LITTERAL who acted as colonel was killed, and number of our 
men. We were defeated ____ ____. After a short time? __ this deponent was then 
ordered with half

	EZEKIEL CRAFT-“About the 27th August 1780, affiant, in the same county 
of Randolph, volunteered for a tour of six months under Captain JOHN HINDS in 
Colonel LUTTRELL’s regiment of horse. They were stationed at Barracks in 
Chatham County, North Carolina until December following, when then marched into 
South Carolina and at Cheraw Hill, joined the army of Major General GREENE, 
proceeded up the Yadkin to the Trading Ford; and affiant remained under General 
GREENE until his term expired, when he received a discharge, which is annexed.”
	“About the 30th March 1781, in Randolph County, he volunteered for 
three months under Captain HINDS and joined what was called the Randolph 
regiment now commanded by Colonel THOMAS DOUGAN, Colonel LUTRELL having been 
slain by the Tories. Their numbers and butcheries had multiplied since GATES 
Defeat, and especially the monster DAVID FANNING, at this period a colonel in 
the British service, was a dreadful scourge upon this colony. The Randolph 
regiment was mostly stationed at Bell’s Mills on Deep River, whence it made 
various movements against the Tories.”

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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