Guilford-Rockingham County NcArchives Military Records.....May, John 
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of John May, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1658, Application #W18476
JOHN MAY, a resident of Rockingham County, NC, aged seventy-five years:
	“That in the fall of the year 1775 (the precise time he cannot 
recollect) he enlisted in the County of Rockingham, state of Virginia, as a 
minute man under Captain THOMAS BEBER?, JOHN NICHOLAS, first Lieutenant, EDMUND 
PETERS, second Lieutenant. That this description of troops were raised and held 
to readiness to go upon any expedition of emergency that might occur. That soon 
after his enlistment and during the same fall, he, under his aforesaid officers 
commanded by Colonel KAINE? MORGAN marched to the River ____ against the 
Cherokee nation of Indians. After reaching the River ____, news was received 
that the troops that had preceded those to which he was attached under the 
command of Col. or Gen. C____ had met and defeated the Indians. They were 
directed to return. That deponent was out about three months on this expedition 
and was discharged at New London then in Bedford County. No written discharge 
was given him on this occasion.”
	“That early in the year 1776 (the precise time he cannot recollect) he 
enlisted under Captain JOHN NICHOLAS (who had been my lieutenant in the 
foregoing expedition) on the ____ additional regiment of the Virginia line; he 
was immediately marched to the city of Williamsburg and placed under the 
command of Colonel GEORGE G____ of the first regiment of the Virginia line. 
That for two years he served in said regiment commanded by Col. G___ under the 
said Captain NICHOLAS as orderly sergeant, during all which term he was 
stationed and continued at Williamsburg in the state of Virginia.”
“At the expiration of the term, the regiment was ordered to join the 
Continental forces at the north, when deponent ___ ___ commissioned by Patrick 
Henry, governor of Virginia as ensign in the second state regiment of Virginia 
under the command of Col. KAINE? MORGAN when deponent entered upon the 
recruiting service and traveled through various parts of the state, enlisting 
men to fill up said regiment. That he was in this way employed as ensign to the 
end of the period of his enlistment, which was for three years.”
“Deponent cannot with certainty state whether the service performed by him was 
regularly on the Continental establishment, or whether ___ on a ____ regiment 
to which he was attached as above stated were ___ on state establishment. 
Though he has been informed that ____corps was received into continental 
service.”
“At the end of his engagement he resigned the commission received from the 
governor and early in the year 1780, he removed to North Carolina and settled 
in what was then Guilford, now Rockingham County. That in the spring of the 
year 1781, immediately after the Battle of Guilford, he volunteered as captain 
and commanded a company of militia under Colonel WILLIAM PAISLEY [he meant John 
Paisley. There was a Paisley brother, William, and a Rev. Wm. Paisley who was 
Col. John Paisley’s son] against the Tories on Deep River in the counties of 
Randolph and Chatham, N. Carolina. On this expedition he was engaged about two 
months.”
“That being requested to state whether he ever received a commission, he states 
that as ensign he was commissioned by the governor of Virginia and in his last 
mentioned service he was commissioned by Colonel JAMES MARTIN, then commanding 
the militia of Guilford County. That he has long since lost or mislaid both 
these evidences of his revolutionary service, nor has he any documents now in 
his possession tending to prove the same…etc.”

See also, Captain John Mays “Constructed History in Volume 2 of this study.

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