Halifax County NcArchives Military Records.....Jethro, Harper August 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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HARPER, Jethro. (Minutes Of Halifax Co., NC, Court Of P & QS, August Term 1832, Pp. 47, 48.)
HARPER, Jethro. (Minutes of Halifax Co., NC, Court of P & QS, August Term 1832, 
pp. 47, 48.)

NCGSJ - Feb 87 32
On 21 August 1832 Jett or Jethro HARPER, resident in Halifax County aged 66 
years, made a declaration on oath in open court to obtain the benefit of the 
Act of Congress of 7 June 1832. In Halifax County he "on or about the 1st of 
July 1782 was drawn or drafted as a regular soldier in the eighteen months 
service to serve as a private in the army of the United States in the company 
of Capt. ____ [sic] commanded by Lieutenant Robert BELL in the Regiment 
commanded by Majr. HOGG" in the North Carolina Continental Line. "Lieutenant 
Robert BELL under the command of Majr. HOGG marched our company from Warrenton 
North Carolina through Hillsborough, the Battle ground at Guilford Court House 
through Salisbury, Charlotte from thence to Camden South Carolina over the high 
hills of Santee to the Battle ground at the Eutaw Springs, thence to head 
quarters at the Ashly Hills on Ashly River in" South Carolina "when the 
Regiment was then commanded by Col. Archibald LYTLE and my company by Capt. 
BACOTES and Lieutenant John FORD. from Asly hills we were marched to St. James 
island (about twelve miles) about the 1st of July 1783 commanded by the last 
named Col Archibald LYTLE and Capt. BACATES and Lieutenant John FORD. when I 
with the rest of the privates was furloughed until further orders or finally 
discharged. Peace having been proclaimed in the Camps, after that we were not 
called on any more my furlough I kept Sometime and lost it - I never applied 
for my pay as I lost my furlough and thought I could not get anything being a 
labouring man and having no education, I remained in actual service from the 
time I was drawn or drafted until I was furloughed at or near St James 
island . . . when I returned home to Halifax County North Carolina where I have 
remained until the present time and where I am now living." His name is not on 
the pension roll in any state, /s/ JETHRO (x) HARPER M. H. PETTWAY, Clk.

The court declare their opinion the applicant was a revolutionary soldier, /s/ 
GARY WHITAKER, THOS. GARY, WM. DOGGETT

From: “Revolutionary War Pension Applications at the NC Archives,” by Betty J. 
Camin
North Carolina Genealogical Society Journals 1975-2000 CD, Vol. 13, No. 1, 
February 1987, p. 33.


Additional Comments:
This soldier is not listed in Virgil White's Genealogical Abstracts of 
Revolutionary Pension Files

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