Guilford-Orange-Montgomery County NcArchives Military Records.....Wright, Edward October 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Edward Wright, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 2648, Application #S7977
EDWARD WRIGHT, a resident of Montgomery County, NC, aged 74 years in Oct. 1832:
	“That he…settled in the County of Guilford about the time of the Battle 
of Bunker Hill [June 17, 1775]. That after he had remained some time in 
Guilford, he entered the service of the United States under Captain DAVIS, but 
knows that it was in the year that the British were fortified at Stono [1779] 
in South Carolina where they, under one General PROVO [the British general was 
PREVOST], had an engagement with the Americans under General LINCOLN. The 
relation of the fact at this time is to fix the time he commenced the service.”
“After Captain DAVIS had made up his company as above stated, he joined Colonel 
TINNEN from Orange County under General BUTLER, who commanded a body of men and 
they all marched on through Salisbury and Charlotte into South Carolina and 
Georgia, being sometime on one side of Savannah and some times on the other. 
That after they had got into South Carolina, they were joined by one General 
LINCOLN who had an army under his command which was sometimes pursuing the 
British under General PROVO and sometime pursued by them. That they were 
marching in this way until the British under PROVO [PREVOST] fortified 
themselves at a place called Stono, where they were attacked by the Americans 
under the command of General LINCOLN and held their position. The Americans not 
being able to dislodge them, the British army in a few days left their 
situation at Stono and marched off.”
“This affiant further states that the time for which the company who were 
drafted by Captain DAVIS from Guilford entered the service was three months, 
which expired shortly after the engagement at Stono, when DAVIS’ company were 
discharged, and this affiant amongst the rest and they left the Americans at 
Stono when they returned home to Guilford...”
	“This affiant further states that upon his return home, he remained 
some time and about the time of the Siege at York after the Battle of Guilford 
Courthouse, he again entered the service of the United States as a volunteer 
under one Captain GEORGE FORBIS [FORBIS was dead by this time, he meant GEORGE 
STEWART] and GEORGE ____, his lieutenant who raised a company of volunteers and 
they marched through Randolph and Montgomery Counties, and joined General 
RUTHERFORD on Drowning Creek which is in Robeson County in the state of North 
Carolina.”
“That they marched through a swamp called the Raft Swamp in the same county and 
that they marched from place to place and were on their way to Wilmington where 
and in that neighborhood there was a Major CRAIG who commanded a number of the 
British and some of the Tories who had collected there. That when RUTHERFORD 
and his army were encamped at a place called the Long Bridge on the Northeast 
River, they had news of the capture of CORNWALLIS at York, which news together 
with the fact that RUTHERFORD was marching to Wilmington, induced Major CRAIG 
to abandon it. Shortly after which time, upon the expiration of the three 
months time for which the company under HUNTER from Guilford had volunteered, 
the affiant and the rest of the company from Guilford were discharged and sent 
home…”

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