Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Overby, William September 17, 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of William Overby, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll ____ Application #S4641
Carter County, State of Tennessee, September term, 1832}
	On this 17th day of September, 1832, personally appeared in open court, 
being the Circuit Court of Carter County at the courthouse in Elizabethton 
before the Honorable Sam’l Powel, judge of said court, William Overby, a 
resident citizen of said county, aged 77 years, who, being first duly sworn 
according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration…:

That he enlisted in the year 1778 [he believes] in the month of May in Guilford 
County, North Carolina under Captain John Leek [or Locke or Leak] for the tour 
of nine months, and remained under Colonel Lytle, Major Armstrong near Dan 
River until late in August of that year [he believes] the 27th day of August, 
and at that time he re-enlisted for 9 months under said Captain Leek [or 
Locke], and was then furloughed until the 1st of March following, but he was 
called on the 1st of December following to march to the south, and then again 
entered the service under Captain Leek and then marched to Savannah and then to 
Augusta in Georgia, and then to Charleston in South Carolina, still under 
Colonel Lytle. 

They joined General Lincoln at Savannah and marched with him to Augusta. From 
Augusta, three hundred troops, this applicant with them, were sent to Fort 
Moultrie to reinforce General Moultrie, but they did not reach General Moultrie 
until the night after he got to Charleston, the British army having driven him 
to that place. Part of the reinforcement sent to General Moultrie then went to 
sea, this applicant amongst them, and they were out at sea six weeks and took 3 
vessels laden with victuals and ammunition for the British army. The ammunition 
ship was blown up, the longboat from the American ship being alongside the 
British ship when she blew up, but the boat’s crew were not hurt. Captain How 
commanded the ship in which this applicant served.

He then returned to Charleston and marched under General Lincoln, Colonel 
Lytle, Majors Armstrong and Dickson [Dixon], Captain Leek [or Locke], to Stono, 
where they fought the British. He was in the battle. Both armies then moved to 
Blewford [Buford? Beaufort?] and there the time for this applicant was up, and 
they then returned with the prisoners to Salisbury, where they left 300 
prisoners who were Tories. He then went home to Guilford. He returned to 
Guilford in August and served as a regular soldier about 12 months or perhaps 
more. 

He has not any witness to prove his service except the affidavits of Benjamin 
White and Emmanuel Jenkins hereto annexed, and he hereby relinquishes every 
claim to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the 
pension roll of any state or its agency. He further states he is poor and 
totally blind, and he has not any documentary evidence to establish his 
service. Sworn to and subscribed in open court the date above. William Overby, 
his mark. P.S. He got a discharge at Guilford from Colonel Lytle but the same 
is long ago lost and cannot now be produced. 
Carter County, State of Tennessee}
	On this 16th day of August, 1833, personally appeared before me, John 
Richardson, one of the acting justices of the peace in and for said county, 
William Overby, and made oath in explanation of his original declaration, that 
he was born in the county of _____ in the state of Virginia on the 17th day of 
July, 1756 according to the traditionary account given; that he has no record 
evidence thereof; that there is no minister of the gospel in his vicinity by 
whom he can establish the facts required by the War Department, but that 
Benjamin White and Emmanuel Jenkins are citizens who know him and have 
testified as to reputation of his service.

	That as to his identity, he can state as in the postscript to his 
original declaration, that Colonel Lytle gave him his discharge and drew his 
money for him, and the within certificate is fully confirmatory thereof. 

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