Lincoln-Burke County NcArchives Military Records.....Wilfong, John October 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of John Wilfong, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1772, Application #S7951
Lincoln County, North Carolina, October 30, 1832, John Wilfong, aged 70 years:
“The last of August or the 1st of September 1780, he entered the service as a 
volunteer under Col. Charles McDowell, Captain Sigman, Lt. Van Horn. Marched to 
Morgantown, NC, from thence to Cane Creek  in Burke County, NC where they had a 
slight skirmish, from Thence to Watauga. They then returned on the same route, 
joined by Colonels Sevier, Shelby and  Campbell to Cane Creek, Burke County, NC 
from thence to Gilbertson in Rutherford County, NC, from thence to the Cowpens 
and they were joined by Colonels Cleveland and Williams and some Lincoln 
troops. From thence they marched across Broad River and fought the Battle of 
King’s Mountain the same day Ferguson was killed and the whole army take 
prisoners, in which battle he was wounded in the left arm by a ball, in 
consequence of which he returned home on the 8th October, 1780.”

	“Entered the service the 2nd time as a volunteer for 10 months, July 
15, 1781, as will appear by certificate marked ‘A’ under Colonel Hammond, 
Captain Cowan, Lt. George Hammond. Marched from Lincoln County, NC to near 
Augusta, Georgia, marched from thence into South Carolina, joined General 
Greene’s army, from thence to Eutaw Springs and was in the battle in 1781. Was 
then marched to White Hall, South Carolina.”

	“In March 1782, marched to the Cherokee nation under Captain Jesse 
Johnson, returned to General Pickens’ in South Carolina, where he served the 
residue of his term and was discharged, as will appear by exhibit marked ‘B’.

Interrogatory:

I was born in North Carolina April 8, 1762. I have no record of my age, but 
have seen my age in my father’s testament.

When called into service, was living in Lincoln County, NC, the name of which 
county has been changed several times.

The names of some of the regular officers that he knew: General Green, Colonel 
Washington, Colonel Lee.

Did you ever receive a discharge, and if so, by whom? General commanded at 
Eutaw, colonel Washington, Colonel Lee. Col Washington was taken prisoner at 
Eutaw. The discharge is to this declaration, exhibited.”

The names of men who can testify to his good character, Michael Cline, John 
Anthony.

Lincoln County, NC,  November 9, 1822, John Wilfong: “Who on his oath declares 
that he is the same identical John Wilfong who served as a private in the 
company commanded by Captain John Sigman, in the regiment commanded by Colonel 
McDowell of the County of Burke and said state aforesaid, in the militia in the 
Revolutionary War, and that he was wounded in the left arm while in service at 
the Battle of King’s Mountain, and that in consequence of said wound, was 
placed on the pension list of North Carolina [in 1808], and since transferred 
to the pension list of the United States at the rate of two dollars per month, 
and further states on his oath that he never received a certificate for the 
said pension from the State of North Carolina or from the United States; but 
states that he, for some time since ___ ____ his pension form proper authority 
from the state of North Carolina and the United States, for the North Carolina 
agency at Fayetteville, and that he was the same person that was examined by 
James B____ and William Johnson, practicing physicians on the 22nd day of 
October, 1822, and that he now lives in the County of Lincoln aforesaid, where 
he has resided for many years, and that he is the same person that he 
represents himself to be,” sworn to 9th day of November, 1822.

	From a letter dated July 27, 1937 to a descendant, Mrs. DeWitt Plyler 
of Lancaster, South Carolina, the war department wrote in part: “While a 
resident of Lincoln county, NC, he volunteered in August or September 1780, 
served as a private in Captain Sigman’s company, Colonel Charles McDowell’s 
North Carolina regiment, was engaged in a skirmish at Cane Creek, and in the 
Battle at King’s Mountain where he was wounded in the left arm by a ball and 
returned home October 8, 1780.”

	“He enlisted July 15,1781, served in Captain Cowan’s company, Colonel 
Samuel South Carolina regiment, was engaged in the Battle at Eutaw Springs, and 
in March 1782,  went in Captain Jesse Johnson’s company to the Cherokee nation, 
and was discharged May 31, 1783. He was pension September 4, 1808 on account of 
disability resulting from said wound. He died June 8, 1838,  place not stated. 
There are no family data.”

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