Orange County NcArchives Military Records.....Albright, Henry September 14, 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Henry Albright, Natl Archives Microseries M805, Roll __, Application #S6485
Orange County, NC, September 14, 1832, Henry Albright, aged 73 years on 4th of 
May, 1832: “The declarant was drafted in the county of Orange aforesaid in the 
summer of 1781 in the militia of the state aforesaid, for the term of three 
months and was attached to a company commanded by Captain Trousdale and Lt. 
John Campbell. The declarant’s said company was stationed at Hillsborough in 
the state aforesaid for the purpose of guarding said town. He was appointed 
sergeant in his company at Hillsborough. After being at Hillsborough a few 
weeks, the Tories captured the said town and took Governor Burke of North 
Carolina and many of the soldiers stationed there, prisoners, among whom was 
this declarant. He was conveyed by the Tories to Wilmington, NC and then placed 
on board a British prison ship, where he lay some weeks, and thence was carried 
in said prison ship to Charleston, SC where he was detained nearly eleven 
months as a prisoner and was exchanged by the British for British soldiers who 
had been made prisoners by the American forces [some time in July 1782]. From 
the time of his capture as aforesaid, at Hillsborough to the time of his 
arrival at home in Orange, after his discharge from his imprisonment on board 
the British prison ship, there was a lapse of precisely eleven months [the 6th 
day of August, 1782.] He did not enter the service again after his return from 
Charleston.”

“Previously to his draft for 3 months aforesaid, the declarant turned out as a 
soldier in the western part of Orange County under the command of Col. O’Neal 
on 3 different occasions for the purpose of suppressing the Tories in that 
section of the country under the command of the Tory Col. Fanning. He was out 
in service on those occasions more than three weeks or thereabouts. Was in no 
general battle in that time, but aided in taking some of the Tories prisoners. 
He did not enter the service on those occasions for any particular length of 
time, but did so on particular emergencies when the safety of the neighborhood 
was supposed to require it. The declarant knew General Butler of the NC militia 
in the Revolutionary War…was his neighbor.”

He was born in the state of Pennsylvania on the 4th of May, 1759, and was 
removed to the County of Orange, NC when he was about 4 years old.

Additional Comments:
George Neese and Lodwick May gave testimony to his service. 


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