Guilford-Surry County NcArchives Military Records.....Vernon, Isaac June 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Isaac Vernon, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 2457, Application #S21549
ISAAC VERNON, a resident of Elbert County, Georgia, aged 77 years in June 1832:
	“That he entered the service as a volunteer…in the year 1777 in the 
first of the month of January under the command of JOHN LEAK and Colonel 
ALEXANDER MARTIN in Guilford County in the state of North Carolina. That he was 
in Captain LEAK’s company and by him, marched to Anson County [he named wrong 
county, and date, if this was the Battle at Moore’s Creek Bridge, per Heitman, 
February 27, 1776] in NC, to fight some Scotch Tories and to join General 
CASWELL’s forces. Before Colonel MARTIN joined Governor CASWELL, he, Governor 
CASWELL defeated the Tories. He then sent an express to Colonel MARTIN to 
inform him of the defeat and to disband his forces, amounting in number to 
about three thousand, when the army under Colonel MARTIN was accordingly 
disbanded and the troops returned home, having been out in this service three 
weeks…”
	“2nd service-That this applicant entered a second time into service of 
the United States as a volunteer in the early part of April in the year 1780 
from Surrey County, NC, under Captain ABSOLOM BOSTICK and under Colonel ISAACS 
or Colonel LEDBETTER. Was marched to Salisbury in said state, then down the 
Yadkin River to Rocky River. There had a battle with the Tories, several of 
whom were killed and wounded and a great number taken prisoners. From this 
place was marched to the Narrows of the Yadkin under General RUTHERFORD who we 
previously had joined at Salisbury. From the Narrows was marched to Lynche’s 
Creek.”
“There we joined GATES’ Army with whom we were marched to Rugeley’s Mills. 
There a Virginia force of troops joined us. From thence the whole force was 
marched towards Camden in South Carolina. There the American force under 
General GATES met the British who defeated the American forces under General 
GATES [per Heitman, August 16, 1780] In this battle the applicant was taken a 
prisoner, but some time after escaped being a prisoner, not over two hours, by 
which escape being overcome by heat and fatigue, the applicant’s bodily system 
became much impaired for upwards of three years. In this service the applicant 
performed at least four and a half months duty.”
	“3rd Service-The applicant again entered the service of the United 
States in March 1781 as a volunteer from Guilford County, North Carolina under 
Lieutenant RICHARD VERNON. The captain’s name the applicant has forgotten. The 
object of this and several companies were to keep in check CORNWALLIS’s troops 
from pursuing General GREENE too hard after the Battle of Guilford Courthouse 
[per Heitman, March 15, 1781], and to keep the British from spreading out and 
plundering the country. The applicant in this his 3rd service or tour of duty 
served three weeks duty in defense of his country, the United States.”
	“4th-The applicant’s fourth time entered the service of the United 
States in October 1781 as volunteer from Guilford County, NC under a Colonel 
SAMUEL HENDERSON and under the said Lieutenant RICHARD VERNON. The object of 
this service was to rout and defeat some Tories who were embodied in the Yadkin 
River but who were defeated by Colonel CAMPBELL before the applicant and the 
troops he was with reached the point of their destination on the Yadkin. On 
hearing the certainty of the Tories defeat by Colonel CAMPBELL, the applicant 
with the others of the troops he was with were discharged and returned home 
after an absence of between two or three weeks. This ended the service of the 
applicant in the Revolutionary War, he not being able, from increasing bodily 
extremity to perform further duty.”
	“The applicant says that he names General GATES, General DEKALB, 
General SMALLWOOD and Colonel ?ARMONG [Armand], a Frenchman and commander of 
the horse.”

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