Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Maban, John July 2, 1833
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of John Maban, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll __, Application #S1686
Dixon [Dickson] County, Tennessee
	On this 2nd day of July in the year 1833 personally appeared in open 
court before the justices now sitting, John Maben, a resident of Dixon County, 
state of Tennessee aged 84 years, who first being duly sworn according to law, 
doth on his oath make the following declaration…:

	He states that he was born in the county of Orange in the state of 
North Carolina in the year 1749 [?] and his father moved from thence to 
Guilford County,  where he entered the service as well as he now recollects in 
the year 1776 under the command of Colonel John Paistley [Paisley], Major John 
Donnell, Captain Archer [Arthur] Forbis, Lieutenant William Wiley,  Ensign 
William Gilmer, and from thence to Hillsborough, North Carolina as a guard for 
prisoners. We then were marched back to Guilford after a tour of three weeks.

	After this I was again called on to go against what was then called the 
Scotch?? [inkblot] and we were marched to Fayetteville and ?returned. I was 
under the same officers as I have above stated. Lieutenant William Wylie, who 
is now present, will testify to those two tours of duty. This was about three 
weeks. He does not recollect the time.

	We again went out on a tour against Fanning [the Tory general-he was a 
colonel at that time] under the command of Captain Forbus. In this trip we were 
about four weeks. We returned to Guilford.

	In the year 1781, I was again called out to go against Cornwallis, 
under the command the same officers, except Lieutenant William Wylie, who was 
not with me this trip. We marched into Mecklenburg. We were then [or there] 
compelled to retreat across the River Yadkin where we took a stand in wait for 
the enemy. I was here taken sick and got a furlough to go home, and did so. I 
served in this tour, 3 months.

	He states that he does not recall what year for he is old and infirm, 
but he has a distinct recollection of entering the service as a volunteer in 
the horse under the command of Captain Thomas Jenkins in the county of 
Guilford. He served in all, as he firmly believes, in actual service of eight 
months under the command of Captain Jenkins, as a volunteer horseman. In those 
days they were called minutemen and subject to be called at any moment. In all, 
the service he rendered the government he states was ten months and up. This is 
all that he can now recollect of his service from Guilford County. 

He moved to the county of Dixon [Dickson] in the year 1807, where he now lives 
and has lived ever since the war. He has no evidence of his service, but the 
affidavit of William Wylie as to part of his  service who served as his 
lieutenant, and whose affidavit is attached; nor has he any record of his age, 
his father’s family Bible having been burned by fire, etc…John Maban, his mark.

William Wylie of the age of 82 years, makes oath that the service as stated in 
the declaration of John Maban of the two trips to Hillsborough and Fayetteville 
he knows to be correct. That he was with him and acted as his lieutenant both 
trips, but as to the length of time, he cannot state, nor has he stated either 
of those trips in his declaration for a pension. William Wiley.

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