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Shook, Andrew October 2, 1833
Revwar - Pension 

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Pension Application Of Andrew Shook, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1772, 
Application #S7485

Haywood County, North Carolina, October 2nd, 1833, Andrew Shook, aged 78 
years: “That he resided in what is now Lincoln County, NC when he entered the 
service of the United States under the following named officers…That in the 
month of March in the year 1775, as he now thinks, he entered the service as a 
volunteer in the company commanded by Captain William Bateman [spelled Beekman] 
in the regiment commanded by Colonel Christopher Bateman [spelled Beekman] in 
the brigade commanded by General Rutherford, and marched to what was then 
called Cross Creek [now Fayetteville, NC] against the Scotch Tories, which tour 
lasted one month or more, the precise time now not recollected. As a part of 
the Tories being taken and the balance dispersed before he reached that place, 
he remained at that place but a short time.”

“That in August  [according to the best of his recollections] in the year 1776, 
he was drafted for a tour against the Cherokee Indians in the company commanded 
by Captain Rodolf Conrad in the regiment of said Colonel Bateman in the 
expedition commanded by General Rutherford. ____ the valley towns of the 
Cherokee Indians and returned about the middle of October in that ?tour having 
served a little over two months, as he now believes.”

“In the spring of the year 1781 [as he now thinks], he was drafted for a 3 
months tour in the company commanded by Captain Daniel Smith to guard the 
frontier against the incursions of the Cherokee Indians at Davidson’s Fort on 
the head of the Catawba River in what is now Burke County, NC and served out 
the time for which he was drafted in that place.”

“In the summer of 1776, as he now believes, he served a campaign against said 
Indians in the company commanded by Captain Samuel ?Killian in the regiment of 
Colonel Joseph McDowell in the expedition commanded by General Charles McDowell 
against the Cherokee Indians, and served in the same as a mounted rifleman 7 or 
8 weeks, to the best of his recollection. He received no discharge from any of 
his services, to the best of his recollection.”

“He was born in the county of Northampton, Pennsylvania in the year 1755. From 
thence moved into what is now Lincoln County, NC, where he lived when he 
performed the above service, and now lives in the county of Haywood, NC.”