Orange County NcArchives Military Records.....Allison, James September 1, 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of James Allison, Natl Archives Microseries M805, Roll __, Application #S6491
Orange County, North Carolina, September 1, 1832, James Allison, Senior, aged 
71 years on May 15, 1832: “He volunteered in the county of Orange and state 
aforesaid, without limit of time to fight the Indians in the western part of 
the state. He was attached to the company of Captain William Williams, Lt. John 
Taylor, Ensign Samuel Thompson; field officers Colonel Ramsey and Lt. Col. 
Moore, and General Thomas Persons. The year in which he volunteered the 
declarant doth not remember. He marched from Hillsborough, North Carolina to 
Silver Creek in Burke county by way of Salisbury for the purpose of joining 
General Rutherford. When he arrived at Silver Creek, it was ascertained that 
the Indians had been suppressed and the declarant was marched back to 
Hillsborough and there dismissed after a service of two or three months at 
least. The precise time the declarant doth not recollect.”

“Something more than a year, as he recollects, after his return from the said 
expedition against the Indians, the declarant volunteered in the said County of 
Orange for two months in the Light Horse commanded by Captain Atkinson and 
during that period ranged over the counties of Orange, Chatham, Moore and 
Randolph, NC in pursuit of the Tories. He had several small skirmishes with the 
Tories in this service, but no battle. At the expiration of this term of 
service, he was discharged at Hillsborough.”

“Some short time after his discharge by Captain Atkinson, he thinks in 1781, he 
volunteered in Orange aforesaid for two months in a company of Light Horse 
commanded by Captain Douglas and Colonel Demarcus. His company ranged nearly 
the same section of country as aforesaid in pursuit of the Tories, and at the 
end of the service he was discharged by Captain W. Douglas, as will appear by 
his written discharge dated 15th April, 1781, hereunto appended.”

“Shortly after he volunteered again in Orange aforesaid in the Light Horse 
commanded by the aforesaid Captain Douglas under the command of General Butler 
for two months and served against the Tories and was discharged the 10th of 
June, 1781, as will appear in a written discharge by Captain Douglas of that 
date hereunto appended.”

“Shortly after that he again volunteered in Orange in the Light Horse commanded 
by Captain James Mebane for what term of service he doth not recollect, and 
after making an expedition against the Tories, he was discharged 28th July, 
1781 as will appear from the written discharge given by Captain Mebane of that 
date, and hereunto appended.” 

“The day after the Tories took Hillsborough, he thinks in September 1781, he 
volunteered again in the County of Orange, in the light Horse in a company 
commanded by Captain Thompson without limit of time and pursued the Tories to 
the neighborhood of Wilmington in North Carolina. In the vicinity of Wilmington 
at a place called the ‘Raft Swamps’ the British and Tories who had sallied out 
of Wilmington, attacked the Americans under General John Butler and Col. Mebane 
and routed them. The declarant was in that battle. After a tour of two months 
in this service, the declarant was discharged.”

“In the year 1778 or 1779 or thereabouts, the declarant enlisted on the 
Continental establishment for the term of 9 months. He enlisted in the county 
of Orange aforesaid. John Griffin was the captain of his company. Field 
officers were Col. Thaxton, Lt. Col. Archibald Lytle, and Major Graves. In May 
of that year, he was marched to Halifax old courthouse in the state of Virginia 
with a view of going northward but did not go any further. While at Halifax old 
courthouse, he remembers that there was a total eclipse of the sun. From 
Halifax aforesaid, his regiment  was marched back to North Carolina, to Caswell 
County, where declarant remained in the army until the last of September or the 
first of October of the same year, when he was permitted to come home on a 
furlough.”

“The balance of the term of 9 months for which he enlisted was served by 
declarant’s brother, John Allison, as his substitute. The declarant performed 
other services than are herein mentioned, but his memory does not enable him to 
give an accurate account of them. He does not pretend to remember distinctly 
the time he enlisted for 9 months as aforesaid but he hath mentioned the fact 
of the eclipse of the sun to identify the time.”

“He was born May 15th, 1761 in the county of Orange and the state of North 
Carolina, where he hath always resided. He hath a record of his age at home"

Additional Comments:
His widow’s name nor his children’s names were not mentioned.

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