Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Rhodes, Benjamin 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, 2:10 pm Pension Application Of Benjamin Rhodes, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 2030, Application #S21444 BENJAMIN RHODES, a resident of Graves County, KY, aged 67 years in October 1832: “That he volunteered about the first of October in the year 1780 in a company of light horse raised in Guilford County, North Carolina by order of Colonel GILLESPIE and commanded by Captain ASA BRASHEARS, Lieutenant JAMES DELAY and Ensign HEZEKIAH RHODES, brother of this declarant.” “He states that this company was raised for the purpose of acting and did act as an auxiliary to the main army under General GREENE in suppressing the Tories and watching the movements of the British. It was considered a company of minutemen, and he states that he, with the rest of the company was frequently at home for some days at a time, but was most of the time in actual service and always with the company when in service, which service was employed in scouring the Counties of Guilford, Randolph and Chatham, and for a good part of the time in search of a certain Colonel FANNING, a Tory whom they never could catch, but quite a few of his men were taken. He states that he procured his own horse and arms while in service, which service was of the severest kind, as they had to ride us _____ both night and day while in service, for which he was to have got one dollar per day while in service, but never received anything. He states that he first volunteered for three months, but the company being needed, he continued in service about seven months when he was discharged by his Captain BRASHEARS.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/rhodes252gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb