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Bruton ericbruton@nccoast.net *************************************************************** Joseph Parsons Declaration for Pension - 1832 In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1832. State of North Carolina Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions October term 1832 On this the 1st day of October 1832 Personally appeared in open court before the Justice of said court now in Session Joseph Parsons a resident of the County of Montgomery in the State of North Carolina aged Seventy one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the Militia Service of the United States in the year 1776 and served two months under Capt. Cornelius Robinson in an expedition against the Cherokee Indians in the Regiment commanded by Col. David Love of Anson County, N. C. that he was then 16 years old and that he was duly discharged & returned home. He further states that in the year 1780 in June he again entered into the service as a volunteer under Capt. James Crump of Montgomery and after serving and reconnoitering in the adjoining counties against the Tories some time he joined General Gates army and was in the Battle of Camden of the 16 August 1780 and when the army was dispersed he returned home after having served two months and a half. He further states that about the last of July or the first of August 1781 he volunteered and served as a Lieutenant in the Militia under Capt. Shadrach Hogan of Montgomery and was chiefly employed in collecting and driving beef cattle to the Troops commandeered by General Harrington near Cheraw on Pee Dee in which tour he served five weeks and returned home. He further states that he was commissioned a Captain by General Thomas Wade in October 1781 under orders to raise thirty private soldiers to serve as horsemen for the term of three months that his commission is lost or mislaid that he served as a Captain during said three months in guarding and securing the County against Tories that he was in an engagement with the Tories on Little River Montgomery & returned home. He further states that he was ordered sometime in the year 1781 by General Wade to collect what Troops he could and join him which he did and marched with him to Betty’s Bridge on Drowning Creek N.C. and had a battle with the British and Tories and served two weeks in this tour. He further states that he volunteered under Capt. Raeford as a private in the summer of 1782, Raeford was under Col. Lytle and that he served three weeks in reconnoitering in the counties of Randolph, Chatham and Orange. He further states that he joined Major Douglas in August in 1782 and went on with him to Haileys Ferry on Pee Dee and was there in service two weeks and was taken sick and returned home. He further states that a few weeks after in 1782 he volunteered in the Service under Capt. John Loss of Rowan, N. C. and was employed in reconnoitering the counties of Montgomery and Moore and had a fight with the Tories in Montgomery and served in this tour three weeks. He further states he was appointed by General Rutherford in 1782 to raise the militia in the county of Montgomery and to guard and protect the said county & surrounding county and served some time but don’t recollect but believes as much as one month and that he served in all eleven or twelve months as he things that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service except Henry Fraser and Joseph Deaton who can testify to a part of said service and whose testimony is herewith enclosed and that he has no documentary or other evidence than is here with sent. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present and Declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Jo. Parsons Test J. Martin N. Carolina, Montgomery County Court of Common Please and Quarters Sessions April term 1833 Joseph Parsons the above Declaration came into open court and made oath to the above Declaration as amended by the several interlineations and also to the answer to the second Interrogatory as amended on last page. A. McAulay Chairman of PQ BRIEF in the case of Joseph Parsons County of Montgomery in the State of North Carolina (Act 7th June, 1832.) 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court. 2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 3. How old is he? 71 years. 4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. Period: Enlisted In 1776 Duration of Service: 2 months Rank: private Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served: Gen. Gates. Period: Vol. 1780 Duration of Service: 2 months 15 days Rank: Private Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served: Capt. Robinson & Col. Love Period: Vol. 1781 Duration: 1 month 7 days Rank: Lieutenant Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served: Capt. Hogan Period: Vol. 1781 Duration of Service: 3 months Rank: Captain Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served: General Wade Period: Vol. 1781 Duration of Service: 14 days Rank: Captain Name of General and Field Officers under whom he served: General Wade Period: Vol. 1781 Duration of Service: 21 days Rank: Private Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served: Col. Lytle Period: Vol. 1781 Duration of Service: 15 days Rank: private Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served: Major Douglas Period: Vol. 1781 Duration of Service: 21 days Rank: Private Names of Generals and Field Officers under whom he served. Major Douglas 5. In what battles was he engaged? Camden, Battle on Little River Montgomery County, N. C. at drowning Creek, N. C. 6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Montgomery County, North Carolina 7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionally evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionally and living witnesses 8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? And if so, in what respect? Not defective CERTIFY that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.