Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Singleton, Robert May 2, 1818
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Robert Singleton, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll ____ Application #S39072
Montgomery County, Tennessee, May 2, 1818
	This day, came before me, Parry W. Humphrey, one of the judges of the 
Circuit Court in and for the state of Tennessee aforesaid, Robert Singleton, a 
citizen resident in the said county of Montgomery, who being first sworn to 
tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, declares and says:

	That he was in the service on the Continental establishment in the time 
of the Revolutionary War. That in the spring of the year [to the best of his 
recollection] of 1776 he enlisted as a common soldier in the company of Captain 
John Nelson in the 4th regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Polk of the North 
Carolina line. That he was enlisted for one year, served out his time and was 
discharged in the town of Halifax, in the state of North Carolina. 

He returned home to the county of Guilford and remained about a month when he 
took a commission of ensign under Captain Andrew Vanoy who had authority from 
the then Governor of North Carolina, Caswell, to choose his own officers and 
was furnished with blank commissions under the seal of the [United] States. 
That his commission was filed up and delivered to him, and Lieutenants Campbell 
and Harden of the same company received their commissions at the same time, 
which were ___ and filed with the names of those officers in his presence.

 	He marched from Guilford with the company which was at that time, 
incomplete, to Kingston upon Neuse River, from which place he was ordered to 
return to Guilford to recruit. He did so procure sufficient numbers of men to 
complete the company and rejoined Colonel Abraham Shepherd, who commanded the 
10th regiment of the North Carolina line, who then lay at Kingston with his 
regiment. He continued in service for about two years. Sometime in the year 
1779,	when marching to the northward, he was taken sick at Alexandria in 
Virginia, at which place many of the soldiers of the regiment were inoculated 
for the small pox, and was detained a considerable time in consequence of his 
bad state of health. Colonel Shepherd gave him leave of absence, until his 
health was restored. 

	He returned again to Guilford and remained there some months, his 
health not restored, but being better than he had been, he went on to join his 
regiment, but met Lieutenant Colonel Davison [?Davidson] of the same 10th 
regiment, who told him that the regiment had been reduced, that it was 
unnecessary for him to go on, and that he might return home. He did so, and 
afterwards removed to the state of Georgia, where he was in service of the 
state in the Indian Wars, and in ____ with the Indians on a pal_____, he lost 
the sight of his right eye by the powder of the gun of the man who stood next 
him in the ranks. 

	That afterwards, he removed to the state of Tennessee and got all his 
papers [among the rest his commission] destroyed while on the road, by reason 
of their becoming wet, he being much exposed on this journey.

	He further says he is now in his 77th year of his age, and very poor, 
has no means of subsistence but by his manual labor. Has no family but two 
daughters, one of whom has 4 children, and whose husband was either killed or 
____ at the City of New Orleans in the defense of that city during the late war 
[War of 1812.] His daughters and grandchildren are all destitute of support but 
their own and his labor. His daughter whose husband died at Orleans never 
having obtained anything from government for her support. Robert Singleton.

Additional Comments:
This soldier died January 31, 1821.

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