Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Pension Application Of George Hooke, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll 1321, Application #W10112 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 17, 2006, 1:28 am Pension Application Of George Hooke, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll 1321, Application #W10112 Monroe County, Indiana, GEORGE HOOK, aged 83 in October 1834: “He states that from old age and a severe attack of apoplexy [now called a stroke] and the consequent loss of memory, his statement must be very imperfect. The imperfection of his statement is attributable alone to his loss of memory and not to any design to impose upon and deceive. About eight years ago he had the above-mentioned disease (apoplexy) which continued o afflict him for some months, during a great part of which time he suffered greatly. For some time after this, he could not recollect anything, not his neighbors’ faces nor event the faces of his grandchildren. His memory is not now so bad but he cannot now recollect the names of any of his officers, nor of his messmates with whom he served.” “1st tour-In 1776 or thereabout is his best impression, he cannot be positive, at what season of the year he has forgotten, in the County of Guilford, North Carolina (he having gone there on a visit from Augusta, Virginia where he had till then resided) he enlisted as a regular soldier in a company of infantry in the 4th regiment of the North Carolina line. He cannot recollect the name of a single officer. He continued in the army until perhaps near the end of the time for which he enlisted, being one year. He rendezvoused in Guilford aforesaid, the name of the place he has forgotten, and was marched to Charleston and arrived there after the Battle of Sullivan’s Island. He was marched through Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He was in the Battle of Princeton.” “2nd tour-Before the expiration of the one year which by this enlistment he was engaged to serve, he enlisted again to serve during the war, by the consent and approbation of his officers. At what place he enlisted this second time he cannot state. He thinks it was either at New Jersey or at Winter Quarters Valley Forge [the winter of 177-1778]. He cannot state the number of this regiment in which he served in said (this) service unless it was the said 4th regiment. He was marched in a great many expeditions during this service, but cannot state the ?rivers crossed? And places and towns through which he marched nor any circumstances which would be material in substantiating his claim. He was, during this service, mainly marching or stationed in the above- named states.” “He was discharged from this engagement before the end of the war ? under the following ??? At Valley Forge, he applied to his captain for a furlough, as he thought, and the officers made out a furlough for him, as he supposed. He put it up in a hurry in his pocket without looking at it, and after traveling some distance on his journey home, discovered that his officers had given him a discharge from the service. After discovering that he had unexpectedly received a discharge, he showed it to a captain of the army and told him it was a mistake, he supposed. The captain gave it to him and told him to do as he pleased. On this account it was, that he thought it his duty to serve again, which he preferred to do in the militia of Virginia, into which service after remaining some time at home, he entered, and continued to the end of the war.” “At York River, he killed a British officer at the distance of near half a mile, just taking sight at him and raising his rifle in the air above him. At the firing of his gun, the British officer fell, and he afterwards ascertained, died. In turn, this declarant had discharged at him and was hit with a canister shot passing through his hat and grazing his head.” “I, JOHN CAMPBELL 2nd, of the said county aforesaid, residing in the same neighborhood with GEORGE HOOK…do certify that…I enlisted myself the 14th day of February 1776 in Augusta County, Virginia as a regular soldier in the 8th regiment of the Virginia line. Myself and the said GEORGE HOOK had been brought up together in said county of Augusta, Virginia. Whilst growing up we had lived a long time in the same house. Perhaps two or three years before my enlistment, the said GEORGE HOOK left home and went, as I am and was then informed and believed, and I still believe, to North Carolina.” “I rendezvoused in Staunton and after being there a few days, marched down to Williamsburg, there being two companies of us, my own commanded by Dr. STEPHENSON and the other by Captain JONATHAN HAYS. At Williamsburg our two companies were separated; my company put in the 8th and HAYS’ in the 9th. The 8th was commanded by Colonel MULENBURGH, the 9th by Colonel ?HATKINS? At the Valley Forge, having gone into winter quarters, Lieutenant JAMES HOOK (who started out a sergeant and was promoted) a brother to said GEORGE HOOK (and Lieutenant of our company) informed me that GEORGE HOOK aforesaid was in the army and told me where I could find him. After considerable search, I found him. He was acting as a sergeant and informed me that he had previously enlisted in North Carolina in the County of Guilford. He was in the 4th regiment of the line of North Carolina.” “I was from this place, marched to Smithfield, Suffolk, Portsmouth, thence to Norfolk, then back to Suffolk, then through Halifax, Tarboro, Monck’s Corner and to Charleston???? About the 7th of August to Savannah in Georgia. I was stationed for ?two months at Sunsbury, thence marched to Virginia, ?taking up the country for health, marched by Augusta, Mecklenburg on to Winchester in Virginia, thence to Valley Forge, our headquarters. I arrived at Valley Forge in October 1777, being shortly after the Battle of Germantown. Here at headquarters then I found GEORGE HOOK. I stayed there until the 14th day of February 1778 and ten days longer.” “During the winter of 1777 and 1778, we (myself and said GEORGE HOOK) were together at headquarters in the service. The name of the colonel of the regiment in which said GEORGE HOOK served, I have, if ever I knew it, forgotten. I seems that I ought to retain it, but I do not. The regiment in which said GEORGE HOOK was stationed at headquarters during said winter of 1777 and 78 was the 4th regiment. I left said GEORGE HOOK in the said service stationed at headquarters at Valley Forge when I quit the service. After being discharged, I went to his (said GEORGE HOOK’s) camp and he requested me to stay with him awhile. I, however, departed from him, leaving him there. About two or three years after I was discharged from the regular service as above said, GEORGE HOOK, as I was then informed and have no doubt, was in the Portsmouth campaign in the militia of Virginia, he living at said time in Augusta County aforesaid, Virginia, aforesaid. I personally know that said GEORGE HOOK started out in the service in said campaign. I stayed at his house during his absence in the service, which was either two or three months, at least two months. The males of the family of HOOKS being true Whigs and generally from home in the service, I stayed with the women.” “In addition to the foregoing mentioned service, said GEORGE HOOK was in the service a tour to Yorktown, and was in the army and was one of the guard to take care of a portion of prisoners then to Winchester as I recollect well, then to have been informed by ROBERT DOUGLAS, the wagoner in company with him upon their return. This tour to Yorktown was in the service of the militia of Virginia.” “In guarding the prisoners to Winchester, said HOOK, and in waiting to deliver them to other militia there, they may have been a considerable time after the capture and Battle of York. It was about two hundred miles as near as I know (never having traveled it directly) from York to Winchester. Said GEORGE also had a brother in the service.” JOHN CAMPBELL. 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