Guilford-Stokes-Surry County NcArchives Military Records.....Tilley, Henry May 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Henry Tilley, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 2389, Application #S7731
HENRY TILLEY, a resident of Stokes County, NC, aged 79 or 80 in May 1832:
	“That in the summer or autumn of the year 1776, he entered the service 
as a volunteer private soldier in Guilford County, NC, and served in the 
notorious expedition to the Cherokee nation of Indians in a company of militia 
commanded by a Captain JOSEPH MARTIN, in a regiment commanded by Colonel JOSEPH 
WILLIAMS of Surrey County, NC. Marched over the Blue Ridge of mountains and 
joined the troops commanded by Colonel CHRISTA from Virginia, thence to the 
Cherokee towns crossing Holson River and demolished several Indian towns and 
after a capitulation being made with Indians, the army took up the line of 
march and returned home and was discharged. In this service the applicant 
remained months. The names of some of the officers he recollects, to wit: 
Captain HENRY SMITH and Captain RICHARD GOODE, and MARK HARDIN, ensign or 
lieutenant.”
	He next service he embarked as a volunteer private in the militia under 
the command of a Captain WELBORN in Colonel WOLDRIDGE’s regiment. Marched 
through various parts of Surrey, Rowan, Iredell and Wilkes Counties in NC. The 
date he cannot remember owing to the infirmities of old age and loss of memory, 
but recollects of being in a battle against the Tories and British army near 
the Shallow Ford of the Yadkin River, when a certain Captain JINKINS was killed 
by the Tories, when and where the Tories were defeated and a number of then 
taken prisoners, when this applicant was ordered to guard the prisoners and 
convey them to the Moravian town, where he was discharged and returned home. In 
this service he remained three months and some days…That he knows of no person 
living in Stokes County that can testify as to his services except his brother 
EDMUND TILLEY.”
	April 1833-EDMUND TILLEY-“That in the summer or autumn of the year 
1776, his brother HENRY TILLEY…volunteered himself as a private soldier to go 
in and did start to the Cherokee nation of Indians in that expedition against 
said hostile savages and that he was gone at least four months and returned 
home the then, Guilford County, NC, with other soldiers. Afterwards, the next 
spring, he…HENRY TILLEY got married and removed to Surrey County, NC and some 
time in the summer of 1778 or 79, this deponent does not remember. That his 
brother HENRY…employed him to secure his crop of fodder and corn.”

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