Guilford-Rockingham County NcArchives Military Records.....Pension Application Of Frederick Cobler, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll __, Application #S1654 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 15, 2006, 3:16 am Pension Application Of Frederick Cobler, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll __, Application #S1654 Davidson County, Tennessee, FREDERICK COBLER, aged 74 last August: “He first entered the service in March 1776. He was under the command of Colonel JAMES MARTIN and ALEXANDER MARTIN was then general and ____ is ? considered he was a regular officer. Declarant entered as a volunteer for a three month tour, which he served. He was regularly discharged by DOLTON, his captain. At the time he entered the service he lived in Guilford County, state of North Carolina. He was in no engagement during this service, not arriving in time for the Battle of Cross Creek, to which place they marched.” “He entered the service in March 1781. His residence was then as before stated. He entered as a volunteer this second term, and was on his way to the Battle of Guilford at the time it was fought. JOHN MAY was then his captain, JAMES MARTIN was again his colonel. They were near enough to hear the firing at the Battle of Guilford but could not arrive in time to participate. There were about three hundred men with him, who joined the army under General GREENE about two days after the Battle of Guilford. Several companies were then detached after some Tories to one of which this declarant belonged, and was engaged in that ____ service, most of the time of his service, at the end of which he was regularly discharged. This was also a three months term.” “He continued to reside in Guilford County until after the war, then Guilford County was divided, he then resided in Rockingham which was taken off Guilford until he moved to Davidson County, Tennessee I the year 1806, and on his way to Tennessee, he got his two discharges with some other papers so badly wet that they are at this time, perfectly unintelligible. He knows of no one by which he can prove his services except WALTER CRUNK, who resides, he believes, in Rutherford County, who could prove the first term of his services, but knows of no one who could prove the second.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/pensiona148gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb