Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Rolston, Isaac August 1851
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Isaac Rolston, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll __ Application #W26406
Pope County, Illinois, August 5th ,1851, Nancy Rolston, aged 87 years: “That 
she is the widow of Isaac Rolston, deceased, who was a captain in the regiment 
or squadron of dragoons or mounted men or cavalry under Colonel Washington, as 
she verily believes from the recollection she now has of the statement made to 
her by her said deceased husband (a Major Murphy with whom her said deceased 
husband had been very intimate was in the same regiment) in the Army of the 
United States in the War of the Revolution.”

“That he, the said Isaac Rolston, her deceased husband, enlisted or joined the 
army of the United States in Guilford County, NC, some time in the year 1776. 
That he was in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. He was in and with the 
American Army at Charleston, SC. That he was in diverse other battles and 
skirmishes during the war and struggle for Independence, the times and places 
she has no recollection of, excepting it was pretty much in the South. That he 
continued in actual service in the said War of the Revolution for the term of 
between 6 and 7 years and was honorably discharged in the state of North 
Carolina in the year 1783. The precise time and place she does not now, 
recollect.”

“After the war, when he, her said husband, was about leaving North Carolina to 
seek a new location, he left his papers, including his discharge, with a sister 
for safekeeping and never returned to get either the discharge or the papers, 
and considering the good length of time since, she has no doubt but what the 
papers and discharge have been lost long ago, and therefore prays a reference 
may be had to the rolls of the army in the department of war, she knowing of no 
living witnesses by whom she could prove the services of her said husband.”

“She further declares that she was married to the said Isaac Rolston, captain, 
as aforesaid, in Greene County, NC in September 1784 by James Keel, a Baptist 
preacher. That she has no family records of her marriage…That her husband, the 
aforesaid Isaac Rolston, died in Pope County, Illinois December 3rd, 1823, aged 
73 at the time of his death.”

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