Mecklenburg County NcArchives Military Records.....Buckaloe, John October 9, 1834
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of John Buckaloe, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll ___, R1391
Marengo County, Alabama}
	On the 9th day of October in the year 1834, personally appeared before 
the honorable Henry W. Collier, presiding judge of said court, John Buckaloe, a 
resident citizen of said county, state, aged about 78 years, who being first 
duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration…:

	“That he lived, at the commencement of the Revolutionary War in 
Edgefield District in the state of South Carolina, and first volunteered to 
serve as a soldier in the year not now recollected, but it was at the first 
raising of troops in South Carolina. He, this time, served under Captain Purvis 
in a regiment commanded by General Andrew Williamson. Afterwards, Captain 
Purvis was promoted to be a colonel in the same regiment, and John Minter 
succeeded as captain of the company in which this applicant served, Joseph 
Lewis was Lieutenant, and Henry Keys was ensign of the same. He with the troops 
this time to the neighborhood of St. Augustine where they remained a short time 
and were then marched to Midway Meeting House near the Ogeechee River in the 
state of Georgia, where the troops were disbanded and this applicant returned 
home, having this tour served more than three months.

	About three months after he returned home, this applicant again 
volunteered to serve in a rifle company of horse under Captain Jefferson 
Williams and was attached to a regiment commanded by Colonel Purvis under 
General Andrew Williamson. He was this time marched with his company from 
Edgefield District to the neighborhood of Orangeburg in South Carolina and was 
engaged in frequent skirmishes while on scouting parties. After being in 
service this month mostly in the vicinity of Orangeburg, the troops were 
discharged and this applicant again returned home where he remained but a short 
time.

	…When he again volunteered in a rifle company of horse commanded by 
Captain Francis Linkfield. Of this company, Rolly Roebuck was lieutenant, and 
Ezekiel Roebuck-ensign. They were attached to a regiment commanded by Heri 
Hammond under the command of General Williamson. He volunteered for three 
months this time and was stationed at Liberty Hill in South Carolina. The 
company to which this applicant belonged was frequently engaged across the 
River Savannah in scouting parties in the state of Georgia, and he was with 
them in many skirmishes and one battle which was fought on Rocky Comfort, in 
the same state, where Major Ross was killed. At the expiration of the time for 
which they were called out, the troops were discharged and this applicant 
returned home. He served this time three months.

	After being home a few days, he went into the county of Mecklenburg in 
the state of North Carolina and after a short time, he volunteered in a horse 
company sometime in the year 1778, as well as he recollects, under Captain 
James Harris, who was shortly afterwards promoted to be a major, and succeeded 
by Captain Thomas Ray, Oliver Wiley, Lieutenant, and John Lemons ensign. He was 
attached to the army commanded by General William Davidson and was marched down 
near Camden. He was [Next page is missing from heritagequestonline.]

	He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity 
except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of 
any agency in any state.

	Questions propounded by the [court]

1.	Where, and in what year were you born? “I was born in Loudon County, 
Virginia. My father died in the Revolutionary and all the records of my age 
were lost, so that I cannot tell the year.”

2.	Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it? “I have no 
record. I recollect that I was sixteen years of age when I first volunteered in 
South Carolina.”

3.	Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived 
since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live? “I was living when I 
was first volunteered in Edgefield District, South Carolina. I became a soldier 
the last time in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. I afterwards lived in 
Edgefield until 1801, when I moved to Christian County in the state of Kentucky 
where I resided four years and then moved to Pike County in the state of 
Mississippi where I lived about seven years, from thence to Clarke County in 
this state where I lived one year and then moved to this county, Marengo, where 
I now live.”

4.	How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, 
or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom? “I volunteered.”

5.	State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the 
troops were you served, such continental and militia regiments as you can 
recollect, and the general circumstances of your service. “I know of none 
except those that I have already stated. I served under General Williamson 
three times in the state of South Carolina. Also under General Sumter at the 
Battle of Hanging Rock, where I, with others, was detached from the army of 
General Davidson under whom I served until he was killed in the Battle at 
Tool’s Ford on the Catawba River. I afterwards fought at the Battle of Guilford 
Courthouse under General Greene. The only regiments of which I have any 
recollection are those which I served as already stated. We were generally 
called out for three months, and I served nine months in South Carolina; in my 
last service when I volunteered at Mecklenburg, North Carolina, I served more 
than two years. The exigency of the case required this service during all the 
time I was in no civil employment, but engaged as a volunteer in continual 
active service.

6.	Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom 
was it given and what has become of it? “I never received a written discharge 
that I recollect of. Our companies were disbanded when the time of service for 
which they were required was at an end, without any discharge being given.”

7.	State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present 
neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their 
belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. “John Rains, esq., 
Thomas Anderson, Henry Chiles, Thomas Ringgold, esq. Sworn and subscribed on 
the day and year aforesaid. John Buckaloe.

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