Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Whiteman, Mathias February 1834
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Mathias Whiteman, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 2562, Application #R11460
Margaret, widow of MATHIAS WHITEMAN, a resident of Guilford County, NC:
	February 1834-George V. Fifer-“That he cannot tell at what particular 
time MATHIAS WHITEMAN entered the war or how long he served, but he supposes 
that he (the witness) was about 15 years old when the Battle was fought at 
Guilford Courthouse, NC which was called Martinsville then. This was at the 
same time that the battle was fought at “Geraugh” [?Cheraw] where DEKALB was 
killed and the British kept coming until they got to Martinsville, and the same 
time when General GATES run, after two fires, and would not stand his ground 
like DEKALB.”
	“He further states that MATHIAS WHITEMAN frequently hired to serve in 
other men’s places and went out against the Tories and sometimes one way and 
sometimes the other. Witness does not know whether he was drafted or 
volunteered on his own accord at any time, but that said WHITEMAN was out in 
the service of the war the greater part of the time, which he supposes lasted 
about seven years. Some of the foregoing facts are stated from witness’s own 
recollection and observation and some from the statement of said MATHIAS 
WHITEMAN and his comrades after their return from the wars and during the wars.”
	“Question-What was the reason that an application for a pension was not 
made sooner?
	Answer-Witness states in answer to the above interrogatory that there 
was not much of that sort of business done before he came away from Carolina 
and that they did not know that they could get it.”
	Int.2-That is the reason the widow did not apply sooner?
	It was her neglect if she knew it. I don’t know as she knowed it. I 
suppose she would not have waited so long if she had knowed it.

Pension Claim by a widow of a an old Revolutionary Soldier, state of Indiana, 
Clark County 17 December, 1850:
	“That she is the widow of MATHIAS WHITEMAN, deceased, who was a private 
in the company commanded by Captain HENRY WHITESELL and others, (General GATES 
and General GREENE) in the regiment of _______ commanded by Colonel PAISLEY in 
the war between the United States and Great Britain known as the Revolutionary 
War. That her said husband enlisted at Guilford County, NC on or about the __ 
day of March 1781 and before, for the term of six months tours and continued in 
actual service in said war for the term of several tours and was honorably 
discharged at places unknown to her on the (nor does she recollect the time, 
except the last at the close of the war 1783, as will appear by the muster 
rolls of said company…”

	Affidavit of Witnesses-George Valentine Fifer declares that Margaret 
Whiteman is the widow of MATHIAS WHITEMAN in the companies commanded by Captain 
HENRY WHITESELL and others, in the regiment commanded by Colonel PAISLEY. That 
he fought under General GATES at his Defeat [at Camden] and was in the army in 
South Carolina before and also fought under General GREENE in Guilford County, 
NC. Witness knew both parties when he was a boy and before and after their 
marriage. Witness further states that MATHIAS WHITEMAN was at the battle when 
Colonel DEKALB was killed and was in the company that took the baggage wagons 
and was hotly pursued by the British army…”
	“Witness also states that when the American army retreated to a river 
hotly pursued by the British army, that MATHIAS WHITEMAN carried one of his 
fellow soldiers who was very large and could not swim, across the river safely 
on his back together with their guns and knapsacks, while many of the Americans 
were shot in the river. These facts he learned from the soldiers soon after the 
battle. He also states that he saw WHITEMAN going and returning to and from the 
army and that he had the name of a noble soldier.”
	“That he saw said WHITEMAN in the ranks when mustered into service and 
met them (the army) as he returned on two, if not on three occasions. Said 
WHITEMAN was in the service nearly the whole of the war, but he usually served 
six month tours. Said witness was at that time about 15 or 16 years of age.”

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