Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Ryan, James 
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of James Ryan, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll 2106 Application #S32501
Crawford County, Illinois, JAMES RYAN, aged 76 years:
	“On the 21st day of June, 1780, he entered into the service of the 
United States under Captain ASA BRASHEAR, being then a citizen of Guilford 
County, state of NC as a volunteer, the field officers he cannot recollect. He 
then marched from Guilford Courthouse to Salisbury, where, in the vicinity of 
said town, Captain BRASHEAR’s company, with whom he then was, joined General 
RUTHERFORD’s brigade. He then marched with said brigade down the Yadkin River 
to the Cheraw Hills or Long Bluff. He then marched south and joined General 
CASWELL, still marching south, joined General GATES’ regular army, and four 
days before General GATES’ Defeat at Camden, he was taken sick, and as the army 
was broke up and dispersed, he was not regular discharged, but did not reach 
home till in the month of November, about the last day.”

	“In the summer of 1781 (he cannot recollect the day or month) he 
entered into the service of the United States at Guilford Courthouse in the 
county and state aforesaid, as a volunteer in the company of Light Dragoons, 
commanded by Captain DANIEL GILLESPIE. With Captain GILLESPIE, he marched in 
various directions after Tories. From Guilford Courthouse he marched first to 
Randolph, one whole winter, he was something like 100 miles from Guilford, down 
east, frequently crossing Little Peedee after a noted Tory called Colonel 
FANNING, but was not in any general battle, though in small engagements with 
Tories. He served with Captain GILLESPIE to the end of the war, which term of 
time was eighteen months, to the best of his present recollection. At the end 
of the Revolutionary War, Captain GILLESPIE’s company all returned to their 
respective homes having nothing further to do, and that he received no 
discharge, as he now recollects.”

	“He has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose 
testimony he can procure who can testify to his services, save for a 
recommendation which was given him in November 1800 and signed by many of his 
neighbors in Guilford County, NC, some of them officers of the Revolution, 
which has the certificate of the Clerk’s seal of the Court of Guilford County, 
NC, which recommendation is hereunto attached and made part of this 
application.”

“Whereas information hath reached us, the former acquaintance James Ryan, 
formerly an inhabitant of Guilford County, but now from information, an 
inhabitant of the state of Tennessee or Kentucky:

	“Information says that during the War between America and Great 
Britain, the said James Ryan was a grand Tory and a very great plunderer, which 
facts we do aver to be false, groundless and malicious; and being impressed 
with a sense of how much the feeling of good men must be hurt under such false 
charges, do think it a duty we owe to him and our country to give him the 
character her merited while an inhabitant of the state of NC.”

	“We do hereby certify that we were personally acquainted with James 
Ryan from a child until a man, which was about the time of the Revolution and 
he was a real friend to the American cause, was out on many expeditions under 
some of us who are the subscribers, and as for being a plunderer, we never knew 
him guilty, neither did we ever hear him charged with anything of the kind 
while in this country. We ever held him as a man of untainted character and 
upright in all his dealings with mankind.”

	Given under our hands this 19th of November, 1800, GEORGE POPE
DANIEL GILLSEPIE, Lt. Col.	JONATHAN DONNELL, mayor
DAVID CALDWELL			PATRICK MCGIBBONEY, major
GEORGE NICKS, then captain	ASA BRASHER, ____
WILLIAM ARMFIELD, J.P.		M. CUNNINGHAM, esq.
JOHN MCADOW, Capt. at the time	J. N. MOORE, Capt.
GEORGE BRUCE, J. P.[Justice peace]JOHN STARRAT, esq.
ROBERT BELL, J. P.			JOHN GILLESPIE, colonel
ROBERT MCKEMIE, at that time, justice of the peace

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