Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Martin, Samuel 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, 2:20 am Pension Application Of Samuel Martin, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1642, Application # R15990 Jennet Martin, a widow of SAMUEL MARTIN, and resident of Davidson County, NC, aged 80 years: “That her husband…SAMUEL MARTIN, in the early part of April in the year 1780, then residing in Guilford County, state of North Carolina, was drafted and entered into the service of the United States under the command of Captain PETER O’NEAL, HENRY DAVIS Lieutenant, SOLOMON COBB, ensign, and CALEB JOHNSON, sergeant. The company to which he was attached was employed a short time after he was drafted in defending the citizens against the Tories, who were very numerous in that part of North Carolina.” “In May, to the best of his recollection, the company to which her husband, the said SAMUEL MARTIN belonged, joined the North Carolina division under the command of General CASWELL near Hillsboro in North Carolina. Then they marched across the Pedee River in South Carolina, thence to the neighborhood of Camden, where the North Carolina troops were joined by General GATES. Soon after, the battle was fought in which he, the said MARTIN, was engaged. After GATES’ Defeat [at Camden, per Heitman, August 16, 1780], the said MARTIN with some more North Carolina troops were ordered [to] Charlotte in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, thence to Salisbury in Rowan County, thence to Hillsboro in Orange County, NC, where he remained until the latter part of November 1780, when on account of lameness in his thigh leg, he was discharged…” We, WILLIAM PATTERSON and JOHN KING of Davidson County, NC…we were acquainted with SAMUEL MARTIN…during and since the Revolutionary War, that he was drafted as above stated…” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/martin215gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb