GUILFORD COUNTY, NC - MILITARY - John Spence, Revolutionary War Pension 
				 Statements by John Davis
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Greensville County, Virginia, Order Book 9, page 231

At a Court held for Greensville County at the Court House on Monday the sixth 
day of July in the year 1835

On this 6th day of July 1835 personally appears in Court John Davis who being
first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefits of an act of Congress passed june
the 7th 1832 that John Spence inlisted in the war of the Revolution in the
year 1779 in the same regiment with this deponant which was the 35th Regiment
to the best of his recollection, under the Command of Captain William Watson
in the Continental Service for three years or until the close of the war. that
he served under major Tucker & Co. Shepherd under the command of Genl. Green
that he was at the Battle of Guilford they marched to deep river and from
there to Virginia by Petersburg to York Town to the siege of Cornwallis after
which time the said Spence returned to Greensville County where he has resided
and that John Spence,& Delila & Bart Spence are the only heirs of the said
John Spence decd.
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Greensville County, Virginia, Order Book 9, p. 245  
Court of Quarterly Sessions held on Monday 3 August 1835

Personally appeared in open court John Davis aged seventy six years who being
first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following
declaraton that John Spence enlisted in the Virginia line on the Continental
establishment in the year 1779 in the same regiment with this Declarant which
was the 35th Regiment if his recollecton serves him right under the Command of
Capt William Watson, that he enlisted in the County of Greensville for three
years or until the end of the war, marched and joined Genl Green near
Hillsborough N. C. his field officers were Majr Tucker & Colo Grifin [?] that
he acted as Sergeant to the Company the said Declarant was in and was mess
mate with said Declarant he was at the battle of Guilford Court House and
after that Battle he marched to Deep River and from thence to Virginia by
Petersburg to Richmond and thence to York Town to the seige of Corn Wallis,
after the surrender of Corn Wallis the said John Spence returned to the County
of Greensville State of Virginia where he lived and followed the occupaton of
a farmer until his death.  This Declarant further more swears that John
Spence, Delila Spence and Bat. Spence are the only heirs of the said John
Spence, decd. 


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