Guilford-Orange County NcArchives Military Records.....Walker, James 
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of James Walker, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll ____ Application #S3450
Adams County, Ohio, JAMES WALKER, aged ?77 years:
	“He first entered the service of the United States as a volunteer 
militiaman in Captain MATTHEW DEWITT’s company, Lt. Colonel THAXTON. He entered 
the service on the first day of February, 1776, as he recollects. At the time, 
he lived with his father in Orange County, NC (since Caswell County). He was 
marched from Orange County, NC against the Scotch Tories at Cross Creek, but 
before reaching there, a regiment commanded by Colonel Caswell, that officer 
had defeated the Tories at the bridge across Blackwater, from which place, 
Cross Creek, the THAXTON troops had reached, and the command to which the 
declarant was attached returned to Orange County taking up a number of Tories 
scattered through the country. At the expiration of one month, he was 
discharged, the term for which he was engaged having expired.”

	“He again entered the service in the month of June, 1776, and as well 
as he can recollect, was on the 9th. He entered the service the second time as 
a volunteer Light Horseman in a company under the command of Captain MCCRORY, 
an Irishman. The troops to which Captain MCCRORY’s company was attached was 
commanded by General RUTHERFORD. The marched from, or from near the Catawba 
River to what was then called the Middle Settlement of the Cherokee Indians on 
the Tennessee River. They lay several days at the Middle Settlement, waiting 
for the Brigade of regulars under command of General WILLIAMS or WILLIAMSON (he 
cannot recollect which) then expected from south Carolina, as was said. The 
troops from South Carolina not arriving at the Middle Settlements as was 
expected, to form a junction with General RUTHEFORD at that place, General 
RUTHERFORD marched about fifteen hundred of his men, this declarant being one 
of the number, to an Indian town called Valley Town. The residue of his troops, 
about an equal number, were left in the camp at Middle Settlement.”

	“On his march to the Valley Town, General RUTHERFORD received an 
express from General WILLIAMS (or WILLIAMSON) requesting the former to await 
the arrival of the latter, and that a junction might be formed of the troops 
under the command of the two generals. But General RUTHERFORD choosing to 
proceed on his march toward the Indian town answered the express accordingly, 
and marched to the Valley Town. When General RUTHERFORD reached the town, it 
was nearly evacuated. He took about seven Indian prisoners.”

“General WILLIAMS (or WILLIAMSON) receiving the answer of General RUTHERFORD 
that the latter could not await his arrival, proceeded on his march against the 
Indians. The Indians were lying in wait for General WILLIAMS (or WILLIAMSON) 
about six or eight miles from the camp at Middle Settlement. A severe 
engagement ensued, in which the Indians were defeated, as this declarant 
understood. After the battle, General WILLIAMS (or WILLIAMSON) marched on to 
the Valley Town where General RUTHERFORD lay. He remained there a few days and 
returned to South Carolina with his troops, and General RUTHERFORD returned 
with the troops he had marched to Valley Town back to the camp at middle 
Settlement where he again united his brigade. From Middle Settlement, the 
troops under General RUTHERFORD commenced their return march and near the 
Catawba River, the declarant was discharged about the last day of October or 
the first day of November.”

“For the two tours specified, the first of one month and the second of five 
months, this declarant claims a pension for six months service, having served 
that length of time from the time last mentioned to the conclusion of the war, 
this declarant was called into service very frequently. The service generally 
required and performed was the protecting of his section of the country against 
the outrages of the Tories who much and generally distressed and harassed the 
Carolinas. In about four years, frequent calls for short periods were made; and 
with two exceptions out, this declarant obeyed the calls in person. He once 
hired a substitute, and on one occasion he contributed his proportion to hire a 
substitute for a class…”

“He can only state generally that his services consisted in endeavors to keep 
down the Tories and protect the country against their outrages. He particularly 
recollects the taking of two Tories, DAVID TRIPLETT and FRANCIS TRIPLETT who 
lived in County Line Creek, Caswell County, NC. In one or two short tours last 
above mentioned, he was under the command of Captain DEWITT,  and on one short 
tour, under Captain PETER O’NEAL.”

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