Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Mitchell, Solomon 
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Solomon Mitchell, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll 1799 Application #S4222
Sumner County, TN, Solomon Mitchell, aged 74 years: “He entered the service as 
a volunteer soldier in the county of Dorchester, state of Maryland ____ he ____ 
____ in the year 1777 and served for the term of three years in Captain Joseph 
Robinson’s company of minutemen under the command of Colonel Barths, ____ 
Evald, and Major John Smoots, the number of the regiment not now recollected. 
While in the service Lord ____ and the ____ British fleet entered the 
Chesapeake Bay and went up near the center of the and came to anchor.”

“Upon the reception of orders for all volunteer companies that were in 
readiness to march without delay to Cambridgetown, the seat of justice for 
Dorchester County, and then to join the ?Schwan troops. Accordingly, the 
company to which the applicant was attached immediately marched to Cambridge 
and then mustered into the service of the country. He remained in that 
situation for some time when they were ordered to return home, but to hold 
themselves in readiness at a minute’s warning. The order was given at that time 
under the impression that the British fleet had left our shores; but after 
returning home, they were immediately ordered out for the purpose of preventing 
the British fleet affecting a landing. They accordingly marched out and were 
stationed on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay until the fleet of the 
enemy sailed by them up to the head of Elk River, where they landed and marched 
up to Philadelphia and remained ___ for some time.”

“They then returned to their fleet and sailed down before the troops as before 
stationed. After remaining in this situation for some time, we were ordered to 
____ River and the company in which this applicant was attached was ordered to 
remain in readiness to enter upon the performance of military duty at any 
moment, our county being in a state of alarm at the expected return of the 
enemy.”

	“Sometime after the army was discharged, and having left one ?coat, 
this petitioner’s father having sold out his possessions in the state of 
Maryland and removed to the state of North Carolina in the County of Guilford. 
After he had been residing in North Carolina but for a short period, news came 
that Wallace’s [Cornwallis] whole army was marching through South Carolina. 
Upon the reception of this information, this petitioner volunteered himself as 
a private soldier in the character of a minuteman in a company commanded by 
Andrew Wilson of Guilford County in the year 1781 and marched immediately to 
Guilford Courthouse, from which place they marched and joined General Greene’s 
army; the British army under the guidance of Lord Cornwallis took a northern 
direction and marched in the state of Virginia.”

	“Applicant, after remaining in Greene’s army for some time, was ordered 
to return home and to remain in readiness at any moment. Some time after this a 
body of Tories collected at William ?O’Neal’s race paths, and Colonel Lee 
received information that they had embodied to assist the enemy. They 
immediately marched under Colonel Lee and overtook the Tories, and in a battle ?
nearby ?rided, and took the whole of them.” 

“After this, a part of the Tories which was taken prisoners were placed under 
Captain Whitesell, who called on Captain A. Wilson to ?parade his company and 
guard them, which was done, and they taken to John Kinn??? blacksmith shop, at 
which place news reached us that a company joined the army of Tarleton, 
understanding wherein? men intended to release the Tories from our possession. 
The guard immediately marched the Tories by night about thirty miles, so as to 
put them out of the power of the enemy.”

	“Some time after this, news came that the British army was stationed at 
Mrs. Flack’s, near the residence of this petitioner and others. This petitioner 
and James Flack obtained a permit to go down and see what was the consequence, 
and in their arrival they learned that a brother of each of them had been taken 
prisoner, and the brother of this petitioner never returned.”

“By this time the British had marched over to Reedy Fork to John Duffie’s and 
had taken possession of Captain Whitesell’s Mills, and had placed a strong 
guard there to protect the wagons which was loaded with grain and which was 
left to be ground into meal for their army. Said Flack and this petitioner then 
determined to waylay this load and take possession of every wagon that j___ 
going to the British army, and actually did take, in the ford of Reedy Fork a 
wagon and team with a load of corn. The horses they carried in the woods and 
tied them for safekeeping. The corn they took and distributed amongst their 
friends.”

“A short time after this, the Battle of Guilford was fought, and at which place 
this petitioner would have been, but for the entreaties of his mother.”

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