Guilford-Rockingham County NcArchives Military Records.....Philips, Abraham 
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Abraham Philips, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll ____ Application #R8184
Russell County, Alabama, children of ABRAHAM PHILIPS, deceased:
	“That their father, said ABRAHAM PHILIPS entered the service of the 
United States (according to his own declaration)…He left his house in now 
Rockingham County then forming a portion of Guilford County, NC and entered the 
American army as a volunteer after the commencement of hostilities in the 
Revolutionary War in the capacity of sutler. The names of his officers at this 
time are unknown to deponents, also the exact time when he entered the army. 
Deceased, said PHILIPS, while in this campaign, lay sick some time at 
Wilmington in North Carolina.”

	“Afterwards, but the precise time unknown to deponents, he went under 
the command of General GATES, the officers of his regiment not known, into 
South Carolina, and was with him at, and was engaged in the battle at or near 
Camden commonly known as GATES’ Defeat. After the removal of GATES from the 
command of the Southern Army, he, PHILIPS, with his company (for he was then a 
captain) went under command of General GREENE. How long he remained with GREENE 
these deponents know not, but at the time of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, 
he had been dispatched with his company by GREENE to capture some Tories on 
Deep River in North Carolina.”

	“On the 25th September, 1781, he again took the field (as appears by 
his journal)[Does Captain ABRAHAM PHILIPS journal still exist, and is there a 
copy of it in the possession of the NC State Archives, or Alabama State 
Archives, or some university?!! Search for this journal of the War!] as captain 
from the Troublesome Ironworks District under General RUTHERFORD, Colonel 
MARTIN and Major GILLESPIE and remained in service until the 2nd December next 
thereafter.”

	In an attached typewritten letter dated May 2, 1934, it is indicated 
that ABRAHAM PHILIPS had been elected to the legislature and had also been a 
justice of the peace for Rockingham County. 

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