Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Montgomery, John 
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of John Montgomery, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1749, Application #S9042
JOHN MONTGOMERY, a resident of Guilford County, NC, aged 69 years in August 
1832.
	He stated that he was born in Lancaster, PA and in 1767 he moved with 
his father to Guilford, NC, where he has ever since lived.
	“In the latter part of 1780 he volunteered with Capt. BELL, who marched 
up the Yadkin River after a band of Tories there encamped, but the Tories being 
routed by the Militia from Surry County, he returned home, being gone from home 
more than one week. That shortly after coming home, he volunteered in the 
company of Capt. MCREA and marched by him and Maj. BLAIR up to Abbott’s Creek, 
in the county of Stokes on an expedition after the Tories. After they were 
dispersed he returned home, being gone something more than two weeks. That this 
tour was in the last of December 1780 and the first of January 1781.”
“That he was marched as a volunteer commanded by Capt. FORBIS, Colonel PAISLEY 
and Colonel MARTIN, to join General GREENE in his retreat before the British 
from the south. That he joined Greene’s army in Caswell Co. and marched with 
him to Halifax Court House, VA, and after being there a few days, intelligence 
was brought us that the Tories were making ravages in the neighborhood of Capt. 
FORBIS, who by permission from the chief officers, returned home to protect his 
neighbors. That when he returned, or left Greene’s army at Halifax Courthouse, 
Virginia, he received a ticket for six weeks service and when he returned to 
Guilford, it was found that the Tories had fled the county, when it was 
resolved by Capt. FORBIS to join the army again, but before we left Guilford, 
prisoners were sent to our company with orders that some of Forbis’s men should 
guard them, for which he was one of those assigned. That in this he was engaged 
for two or three weeks and that too when the Battle was fought at Guilford 
Courthouse.”

“That after the Guilford Battle, he was released from the care of the 
prisoners, and sent to Randolph County after some Tories gathered in the High 
Hills of Randolph County, called the Caraway Mountains, and that he was gone 
more than one week. That in September following he volunteered with Capt. 
STEWART, commanded by Col. MARTIN and General RUTHERFORD down the country to 
near Wilmington, and was engaged to near Christmas checking the ravages of 
British and Tories, who often turned out in parties to plunder and destroy 
plantations.” About three months. Andrew Donnell had personal knowledge of his 
services.

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