Guilford-Rockingham County NcArchives Military Records.....Roach, James 
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of James Roach, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll __ Application #W18830
Rockingham County, NC, Ruth Roach, widow of JAMES ROACH:
	“That her said husband, JAMES ROACH, to the best of her knowledge and 
belief, entered the service as a volunteer in the early part of the year 1781 
under Captain WILLIAM BETHEL, of Guilford County, NC, and served a 3 months 
tour and when said 3 months tour expired, he volunteered and served a three 
months tour as wagoner, which ended on the 4th of July in the same year, which 
is plainly shown by a discharge which he received from one GEORGE ELLIOTT, and 
is herewith sent.”

	“And soon after returning from the last mentioned tour, he again 
volunteered as private under Captain ABRAHAM PHILIPS of Guilford County, NC and 
served a 3 months tour, and in this tour he marched to the south and to the 
Raft Swamps in the eastern part of North Carolina. And during the time he was 
gone on this tour, their first child, William, was born, and that he served in 
the infantry, and that she never understood that he was in any battle…Her 
eldest child, William, was born in the fall of 1781, when her husband, said 
James Roach was gone in the service of his country under Captain ABRAHAM 
PHILIPS.”

	“The reason she supposes, that her husband, said James Roach did not 
obtain a pension in his lifetime is that he was unlearned; could neither read 
nor even write his name…"

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