Guilford-Stokes County NcArchives Military Records.....Whitworth, John September 1832 Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com June 17, 2006, 7:16 pm Pension Application Of John Whitworth, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 2570, Application #S7874 JOHN WHITWORTH, a resident of Stokes County, NC, aged 72 years in September 1832: “That he entered the service in the County of Guilford for the term of six months as a volunteer in the year 1779, sometime in the fall of said year, month not recollected, in the company commanded by Captain JOHN DAVIS, Lieutenant GEORGE PEARCE and Ensign ___ MOORE, in the regiment commanded by Colonel PAISLEY. That he marched to South Carolina and joined the main army at ? Gerrets’ Ferry on Savannah River. He recollects that General BUTLER commanded the North Carolina troops, that General LINCOLN was the highest officer in command. That from Gerrets’ Ferry they marched to Sumner’s Ferry. That his term of service expired shortly after he arrived at Sumner’s Ferry. That when his term expired, he received a written discharge from Captain JOHN DAVIS which discharge is lost. That during a great part of this tour, he was compelled to take charge of a wagon and haul for the army. That he recollects that he received his discharge some few days before the Battle of Stono.” “That sometime in the latter part of the summer or in the first of the fall of 1781, he volunteered for the term of three months in the County of Guilford and state of North Carolina in the company commanded by Captain SMITH MOORE, Lieutenant PAISLEY and Ensign CHESLEY BARNES, who is now alive and residing about four miles from the applicant in the county of Rockingham, and who can and will testify to his services during this tour. That he marched from Guilford as far south as the South Carolina line and spent a good part of the time in the County of Richmond in pursuit of the Tories. That his company belonged to the regiment commanded by Colonel SAMUEL ISAACS and Colonel PAISLEY. That he served out his three months and received his discharge a short time after the surrender by LORD CORNWALLIS at Yorktown. That he received a written discharge from Captain SMITH MOORE in the County of Guilford or Randolph, does not recollect which. That said discharge is lost. That he served for five or six weeks again under Colonel HUNTER and Colonel SAMUEL HENDERSON on an expedition against the Tories. Did not enter the service at this time for any definite period. That his tour was spent in the counties of Surrey and Rowan in the state of North Carolina…” CHESLEY BARNES-“That he became acquainted with JOHN WHITWORTH… That he has been acquainted with him from his boyhood. That during the Revolutionary War he served with said WHITWORTH for the term of three months. That said WHITWORTH enlisted under the command of one Captain SMITH MOORE. That the regiment in which said WHITWORTH served was commanded by Colonel ISAACS and Colonel PAISLEY. That this affiant knows that said WHITWORTH served out term of service. He further swears that he knows the fact that said WHITWORTH was in the service afterwards, but how long he served, this affiant does not know. This affiant states that he was himself an ensign in this company of Captain SMITH MOORE, in which said WHITWORTH served.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/whitwort290gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 3.8 Kb