Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....McCrary Or McCrory, Hugh May 1828 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, 2:32 am Pension Application Of Hugh McCrary, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1673, Application #S46254 May 1828-HUGH MCCRORY-“That I enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution for and during the war, and continued in its service until the termination, at which time I was a private in Captain BARRETT’s company, which company was attached to Colonel LEE’s regiment of horse. Some time after the Battle of Eutaw Springs, I was taken sick and furloughed by my Captain BARRETT, after which I never joined his company, but was retained in the service by Major RUTHERFORD for the purpose of carrying letters from one garrison to another and assisting in pricing provision for the army, and I was not a commissioned commissary as you supposed from your last letter, but only assisted in pricing provisions, and as I before stated, I was discharged by Major RUTHERFORD, but by what authority , I know not. He might have been only a commissary or forage master for what I know.” “One thing I do know, I was attached to Colonel LEE’s regiment of horse, and in Captain BARRITT’s company, and was discharged after the close of the war at Guilford Courthouse. I have heretofore made proof by Mr. MCCRORY of my having been in the army and which is now on file in your office.” September 1830-“Personally appeared…BENJAMIN STARRITT…that he was acquainted with HUGH MCCRORY, senior in the years 1778 and 1779 in the regular army under General LINCOLN. After I joined the horse, I was still acquainted with the said MCCRORY when he was taken prisoner by the British at Guilford under General GREENE. Then, after said MCCRORY was exchanged, he joined the horse under General GREENE and continued in the regular service of the United States army of the North Carolina line until the close of the war…” June 1831-“Dear sir, I received yours of the 6th of May last, which informs me that my claims could not be examined until I stated the company and regiment I belonged at the close of the war. At the close of the war, I served in Captain BARRETT’s company of LEE’s regiment of horse. I was taken sick and was furloughed by Colonel LEE to return home. This was the last company and regiment I served in. After I recovered my health, I acted as an assistant commissary at Guilford Courthouse under Major RUTHERFORD, a Continental officer of the North Carolina line, but at this day I do not recollect what regiment he belonged. I was discharged by said RUTHERFORD at the end of the war…” HUGH MCCRORY, a resident of Bedford County, Tennessee, aged 74 years in August 1832: “That he volunteered in the service of his country in the month of May, 1778, for nine months at Guilford Courthouse in the state of North Carolina under Captain RAIFORD of the North Carolina line, 4th regiment. We were marched to Moore Creek in Caswell County, NC, where we remained but a short time before we were furloughed to return home, to rendezvous again at a minute’s warning.” “In the month of November of the same year, we received orders to join our companies and rendezvous with the army at Salisbury, from which place we were ordered to Charleston in the state of South Carolina. We were then marched to what was called the Ten-Mile House, near the said town of Charleston where we were ordered to Savannah in the state of Georgia. The officers in command were Colonel LYTLE, Colonel THAXTON and Colonel ARMSTRONG and said deponent believes Colonel THAXTON was highest in command until said troops arrived at a little town on Savannah River, which he thinks was called Purysburg at which place he thinks General SUMNER took command.” “He further states that the troops remained in said Purysburg during the winter and were as he thinks, under the command of General HOWE a short time and afterwards under General LINCOLN, who was highest in command after the departure f General HOWE. He further states that in the spring they were moved up the Savannah River on the South Carolina side, opposite the town of Augusta in the state of Georgia, at which place the troops crossed the Savannah River into the town of Augusta, at which place deponent believes news was received that British army had crossed the Savannah River at or near the town of Purysburg and were directing their course towards Charleston in the state of South Carolina.” “The troops were then marched down the Savannah River on the Georgia side to the mouth of Briar Creek where they recrossed into the state of South Carolina, directing their course towards Charleston. He states that on their march to Charleston they had a small skirmish [with] a party of British troops from which they took several wagons loaded as he understood and believes, with rum. This skirmish, he thinks, was on Edisto River, though he cannot say certainly that it was. He states that the American army followed after the British troops until they arrived at a place called Bacon’s Bridge, where the Americans halted. He states that the American guard were attacked at this place, but does not think any person was killed.” “He states that he still continued with the said troops in their various marches and the several skirmishes that preceded the Battle at Stono, and that he was in said engagement which he thinks was on the 20th of June [Per Heitman, June 20, 1779] and on Sunday. He also thinks Colonel ROBERTS was killed in this engagement. He further states that from the vicinity of this battleground, they were marched near a place called Port Royal, as he understood and believes, to prevent the British from leaving Bluford Island, at which place he remained until his term of service expired.” “That he was then marched to Bacon’s Bridge, from which place he was marched to the Ten-Mile House, where he again volunteered to guard some prisoners to Salisbury in the state of North Carolina, which service he performed. He was then legally discharge from the service of his country. His discharge was signed by Colonel LYTLE, dated in 1789, but does not recollect the month or date of the month. Which discharge he has lost many years past. He recollects the names of General HOWE and LINCOLN as commanding at different times in this campaign, General SUMNER, who he believes was a brigadier general of the N. Carolina line, Colonels LYTLE, THAXTON and ARMSTRONG, Majors ARMSTRONG and DIXON, Captains RAIFORD, LEWIS, RHOADES and CHAPMAN.” “Deponent further states that he again volunteered in the service of his country in the year 1780 under Captain FORBIS in a regiment commanded by Colonel PAISLEY in General DAVIDSON’s brigade. He does not recollect the name or number of the regiment, in Rowan County in the state of North Carolina on the Yadkin River, from which he marched to Six-Mile Creek in Mecklenburg County, NC, where he remained during nearly all the winter, when he was discharge from the service of his country by Colonel PHIFER, to whose regiment he had been transferred. This discharge, as he believes, was dated February 1781, which discharge has also been lost. He believes he served during this term, upwards of three months, but cannot say the precise time.” “Deponent further states that he again volunteered in the service of his country in 1781, and as he believes, in the month of March in the light horse, in Captain WALKER’s company and was commanded by Colonel or Major LEE. He states that he volunteered in Guilford County and was in a few days after being mustered into service, taken prisoner at Colonel O’NEAL’s [in Orange County], the state of North Carolina, by TARLETON’s troopers. The same day he was taken prisoner, he understood and believed that a battle was fought between Colonel LEE and a Tory Colonel by the name of PYLES [Holt’s Racepaths, Per Heitman, February 25, 1781]. This battle was fought within two miles of the place where said deponent was taken prisoner. He was kept under close confinement by the British for some time. He cannot now recollect exactly how long.” “He was afterwards suffered to return home on parole, where remained as he now believes about two weeks, when he broke his parole and again volunteered in the service of his country in the County of Guilford, state of North Carolina in a company of light horse commanded by Captain BRASHEARS, and joined General RUTHERFORD’s army on the Cape Fear River, near the Raft Swamps, from which place we marched to a place called the Governor’s Bridge in the vicinity of Wilmington, where they took possession of the said town. From which place we were ordered home and dismissed from the service of our country…thinks it must have been between three and four months.” “Deponent further states that he again volunteered in the service of his country for three months under a man who was called Major RUTHERFORD, and who he supposes was a quartermaster, to ride expresses and assist in the public store at Guilford Courthouse in the state of North Carolina, which term of service he faithfully performed and was legally discharged by said Major RUTHERFORD. This discharge was dated as he believes, in the year 1782…that he does not know of any person now living, by whom he could prove more fully his several terms of service than he has heretofore done by the depositions of BENJAMIN STARRITT and FRANCIS MCKAIMY, whose depositions are now in the office of the Secretary of War...” January 1833-“personally appeared…JOHN MCCRORY…That he was well acquainted with HUGH MCCRORY…and that the said HUGH MCCRORY went on nine months tour to South Carolina as a volunteer or substitute, he is not certain which. He also says that it was in 1779 or 80, he is not certain which. That the said HUGH MCCRORY started from Guilford Courthouse in the nine months service. Also he says that the said HUGH MCCRORY and himself went another tour in 1781 under Captain JOHN WALKER and that the said HUGH MCCRORY was taken prisoner by TARLETON’s dragoons in Orange County, North Carolina…” February 1833-“Personally appeared…FRANCIS MCKAIMY…That he, said deponent was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, and while serving as such, he became acquainted and knew HUGH MCCRORY, at that time a citizen of Guilford County in the state of North Carolina, and that said MCCRORY was at that time a soldier in the army of the United States. Deponent thinks it was in the spring of the year 1778, and that said MCCRORY did serve a tour of duty as a private soldier for nine months. Deponent further states that afterwards he knew said MCCRORY in the service in the early part of the year 1781, and that said MCCRORY was taken prisoner a short time before the Battle of Guilford…” June 1833-“Personally appeared…HUGH MCCRORY…according to the best of his recollections he served not less than the periods below, and in the following grades: “That he served not less than nine months on his first tour as a private soldier and volunteer in Captain RAIFORD’s company…and that he served not less than three months on his 2nd tour under Captain FORBIS, and that he served not less that four months as a light horseman, private soldier and volunteer in Captain WALKER’s company, and that he served not less than three months as a private soldier, volunteer and light horseman in Captain BRASHEAR’s company, and that upon his last tour of duty, he served not less than three months under Major RUTHERFORD, as a private soldier, making in the whole a term of actual service of not less than one year and ten months…” “Dear sir, I received yours of the 17th March last [1842], which informs me that I did not mention the state in whose quota I served, nor sufficiently indicated the corps or regiment to which I belonged.” “I first enlisted under Captain RAIFORD, 4th regiment of North Carolina regulars, commanded by Colonel THAXTON under General SUMNER in 1778. We marched to Charleston in South Carolina, from thence to Purysburg on Savannah River. There General LINCOLN took command and I was marched to Augusta in Georgia, and from there to Stono in South Carolina. After the Battle of Stono, the 4th and 5th regiments were put together and commanded by Colonel LYTLE. I continued in the regular service until after General GATES was defeated. Towards to close of that year, I was discharged by Colonel LYTLE in Salisbury, North Carolina, 1780.” “In the year 1781, I enlisted (for during the war) in the light horse under Captain WALKER whose company joined Colonel LEE’s regiment of dragoons a short time before the Battle of Guilford. A few days before that battle, I was taken prisoner in a skirmish. General GREENE commanded at Guilford. I was exchanged. I joined the horse again under Captain BRASHEARS and marched against the British and Tories at the Raft Swamps, North Carolina. I was then joined to General RUTHERFORD’s brigade. Major GRIMES commanded the horse. I was at the Eutaw Springs under General GREENE, from there I marched to Guilford Courthouse. At the close of the war, I was discharged by Major RUTHERFORD. I was under some more officers during the war, but it was a short time and they are too tedious to mention…” From pension application of ANDREW CARNAHAN-“He entered in the company commanded by Captain CHARLES GORDON, in which company JAMES and HUGH MCCRORY were appointed first and second lieutenants by the Assembly of North Carolina, but they declined accepting said appointment, and he does not think __ there was any acting lieutenant in the company.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/mccraryo221gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 14.1 Kb