Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Pavey, Samuel 
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Samuel Pavey, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll 1891 Application #R8017
Madison County, Indiana, SAMUEL PAVEY, aged 72 years in July last:
	“That in Guilford County, in the state of NC,, he volunteered into the 
service of the United States for the term of 18 months, and was rendezvoused at 
Guilford Courthouse on the 10th day of August, and he thinks in August 1781, 
being in August previous to the Battle of Eutaw Springs.”

	“From Guilford, he was immediately marched under Captain SMITH MOORE, a 
militia captain, to Salisbury, where as a private soldier, he was put into a 
company of North Carolina state troops (as he now thinks) under Captain LYTLE, 
in which company one CAMPBELL was lieutenant and _. LAWLER was the orderly 
sergeant in a regiment under Colonel ARCHIBALD LYTLE. While the troops with 
which this declarant served lay at Salisbury, he was sent in company with a 
sergeant WILLIAM HAMILTON, in pursuit of a deserter whom they followed back to 
Guilford Courthouse and on to Deep River, but being unable to retake him after 
a pursuit of __ or __ days, they returned to their headquarters.”

	“Late in October ensuing, his enrollment being upwards of two months 
after  his arrival at Salisbury, hew was marched under the officers aforesaid 
to Ashley Hill where the NC troops joined General Greene’s army and was 
immediately marched thence to James Island near Charleston, SC. He well 
recollects that on his march to James Island the army encamped at the old Eutaw 
Fields, was also at Camden, being after GATES’ Defeat at the latter place, and 
the distinction thereof by fire. The declarant was quartered for a considerable 
period of time on James Island, at which place and in the immediate vicinity of 
Charleston, he continued until after the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at 
Yorktown, VA.”

	“His service in the neighborhood of Charleston consisted principally in 
suppressing insurrections among the disaffected inhabitants. He was dismissed 
from the service shortly after CORNWALLIS surrendered, making a period through 
which he served of 14 months, being from the end of August 1781 until after the 
aforesaid surrender, which he is informed, was late in October 1782…There are 
many incidents which the declarant might here restate that would doubtless 
tend, in some degree to strengthen his declaration, but wishing to avoid 
unnecessary probity, he omits to mention them. He was in no battle during his 
tour of service…”

Senate Chamber, 5th December 1837
Sir,
	“My old Friend, SAMUEL PAVEY, the person named in the enclosed paper, 
called on me just before I left home with this paper, and stated to me that his 
claim for a pension had been rejected by the department upon the ground as he 
understood, that it appears by the records and rolls in the possession of the 
department, that a man of his name under the same command deserted. The present 
applicant assures me (and I have no doubt whatever of the truth of his 
statement for I have known him long and believe him to be un_____able in 
character) that there were two of the same name under the command. The other he 
says he believes was a fifer, and he may have left the army, but this applicant 
did not without leave, etc.” Respectfully, O. H. Smith	J. L. Edwards, esq.

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