Guilford-Orange County NcArchives Military Records.....Strader, John August 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of John Strader, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll # 2311, Application #W6203
JOHN STRADER, a resident of Orange County, NC, aged 74 in August 1832:
	“That he was drafted into the service about the 20th day of July 1781, 
in the County of Orange and state aforesaid and was placed under the command of 
Colonel WILLIAM O’NEAL and Major ELI ?MCDANIEL, field officers, Captain EDWIN 
GWINN, WILLIAM GWINN, lieutenant, CHAMBERLAIN HUTSON [HUDSON?], 1st sergeant, 
company officers. He was drafted for the term of thee months. He was marched 
first to Lindley’s Mills on Cain Creek, Orange County, and thence to Chatham, 
Moore, Randolph, Guilford and Orange Counties, reconnoitering the Tories under 
the command of the Tory Colonel FANNING. He was not engaged in battle with the 
Tories this tour, except in the skirmish [per Heitman, September 13, 1781, 
called Cane Creek] at Lindley’s Mills aforesaid. His service was arduous, 
particularly so on account of the predatory warfare waged throughout the 
section of country aforesaid by the Tory Colonel FANNING. At the end of the 
said term of service, he was discharged at the dwelling house of Colonel O’NEAL 
in Orange…”
	“About two or three weeks afterwards…he volunteered in the county of 
Orange…in a troop of light horse, commanded by the same officers [Capt. EDWIN 
GWINN, Lt. WILLIAM GWINN], under whom he served as a foot soldier…it being 
ascertained by experience that foot soldiers are inadequate to contend as 
successfully with the enemy as mounted men. During this term of service, he was 
employed in ranging the section of country in North Carolina mostly infested by 
the Tory Colonel FANNING as follows. He ranged in Orange, Guilford, Randolph, 
Montgomery, Moore, Chatham, Cumberland and Bladen Counties, and was in active 
employment the whole of his term of service, but was engaged in no battle 
except to an assault on the Tory Colonel FANNING and his men at the Brown Marsh 
[per Eli W. Caruthers, The Old North State, the attack at Brown Marsh followed 
the skirmish at Lindley Mills, or Cane Creek, which was on September 13, 1781] 
in Bladen County or the upper part of New Hanover in this state. At the end of 
this term of service, or eleven days thereafter, he was discharged. He knows of 
no person or persons except JAMES and GEORGE HOLT…who can testify to his 
service…”

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