Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Scales, Nathaniel 
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Nathaniel Scales, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 2129, Application #S18201
NATHANIEL SCALES, a resident of Cabell County, VA, aged 75 years:
	That he entered the service of the United States in June 1777 [probably 
1776], he thinks about the 10th day, as a private soldier in the company 
commanded by Capt. JOHN LEAK and Lt. JOHN DAVIS, in the regiment commanded by 
Col. JAMES MARTIN. That they marched from Salisbury, North Carolina under the 
command of General RUTHERFORD against the Chickasaw [probably Cherokee] nation 
of Indians. That in that campaign the army under General RUTHERFORD destroyed 
thirteen Indian towns besides destroying their corn and carrying off their 
horses. This applicant thinks that this campaign lasted six months. This 
applicant will here state that he has always been under the impression that he 
enlisted for 12 months as a private soldier because he got ten dollars when he 
entered the service. He enlisted at the Rocky Springs, North Carolina.”
“This applicant further states that after they had subdued the Indians in the 
early winter, they were discharged. This applicant thinks he got a discharge 
but does not recollect who signed it, but he well recollects that Colonel 
MARTIN returned home with them. He also recollects that Captain LEAK ordered 
all those who had enlisted to be in constant readiness for active service, 
should they be called on. The other Colonels who served in this campaign were 
Colonel PAISLEY, Colonel GRIMES and Colonel ALEXANDER and the adjutant of that 
army was ROBERT MARTIN, brother of our Colonel.”
	“This affiant further states that he again entered into the service of 
the United States as a private soldier in the company commanded by Capt. 
ALEXANDER HUNTER as a volunteer. We served in the state of North Carolina 
against the Tories a three months tour.”
“This applicant further states that he again entered the service of the United 
States as a private soldier as a militiaman in the month of February 1781, to 
act as one of the guard over the prisoners captured by General MORGAN at the 
Battle of the Cowpens. That he marched with said prisoners from Henry County, 
Virginia to Staunton, and while on our way to Staunton, an express came on for 
part of the troops to return and to go on towards Guilford Court House, North 
Carolina to meet the enemy, and before we got there, the Battle of Guilford was 
over [per Heitman, March 15, 1781]. This applicant states that he served in 
this last tour, six weeks.”
	“This applicant further states that he afterwards volunteered in the 
same year 1781, the last of April, to go in pursuit and on the hunt of some 
Tories that were laying out in the woods, and that he acted also in this 
service as a private soldier. That during the time of their hunts after Tories, 
they succeeded in taking four, and bringing them in and giving them up to 
Captain HAMAN CRITE? For this service after the Tories, this applicant received 
a discharge for during the war, but who gave the discharge, this applicant does 
not now remember.”
State the names of the regular officers who were with the troops when you 
served.
“In my first service, General RUTHERFORD commanded, and Colonel JAMES MARTIN, 
Colonel PAISLEY, Colonel GRIMES, Colonel ALEXANDER, Captain LEAK, Captain 
GILLESPIE, Captain ELMS, etc.”

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