Guilford-Orange County NcArchives Military Records.....Wiley, Alexander September 8, 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Alexander Wiley, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll ____, Application # S3555
State of Tennessee, Anderson County, September 8, 1832, Alexander Wiley, aged 
78 years: “That he volunteered under Captain Atkinson in the year 1776 and was 
attached to a regiment of Militia commanded by Col. Folsom and served six 
months in the army of the United States under the above named officers that he 
entered the service in Orange in the State of North Carolina and marched to 
Cross Creek now called Fayetteville in the said state that he marched through 
Hillsborough crossed Hay River Deep and Little Rivers on his way and served out 
the six months in Cumberland and the adjoining counties and returned home about 
the last of November or the first of December and then received a discharge 
from Capt. Atkinson which is lost or misplaced so that he cannot find it and 
also in the year 1781 he again volunteered under Captain William Sanders for a 
tour of three months and was attached to a regiment of Militia under the 
Command of Col. William Moore who had raised some troops for the purpose of 
Meeting Corn Wallis when on his way from the south.”

	“That he entered the service in Guilford County and State of North 
Carolina and served there about three weeks and was ordered home by Col. Moore 
to shoe horses for the army at his own shop and do black smith work for the 
neighborhood who was then destitute of a workman. The remainder of the troop 
remained in Guilford County and thereabout till after battle of Guilford but he 
cannot now find his discharge.” 

“Some time in the summer of 1781 he was drafted to go south for purpose of 
suppressing the British and Tories but was ordered to the public shop by Col. 
William Moore to do blacksmith work for the army of the United States that he 
worked in Caswell County and State of North Carolina one part of his time and 
was then ordered to Guilford County in said state that he worked under the 
direction of Quartermaster John Rutherford for the term of three months and was 
discharged by the said Rutherford in the County of Guilford and state of North 
Carolina but has lost or misplaced this discharge also so that he cannot find 
it.”

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