Orange County NcArchives Military Records.....Barnhill [or Barnwell], James May 21, 1839 Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com June 28, 2006, 1:23 pm Pension Application Of James Barnhill [or Barnwell], Natl Archives Microseries M805, Roll __, Application # W3751 Orange County, North Carolina, May 21, 1839, Susan Barnhill, aged 70 years: “This declarant states that she has reason to believe, and does believe that in 1778, ’79, her husband, the aforesaid James Barnhill was drafted for a tour of duty of 5 months in the United States service and was attached to Captain Thompson’s company as a private of infantry in said company. Served all of said tour.” “This tour, as well as this declarant can learn, commenced on or about the 15th of October 1778. That said troops rendezvoused in the town of Hillsborough, and from thence were marched to Salisbury, thence to General Rutherford’s camp in south Carolina and remained in South Carolina, to the best of her information, till the expiration of his 5 months service, was discharged and returned home.” “This tour this declarant proves by the affidavit of John Dolly, which is hereto annexed.” “This declarant further sets forth upon her oath…that in the spring and summer of 1781, her deceased husband, James Barnhill, as a private of dragoons, served a 3 month tour of service in Captain King’s company of dragoons; O’Neal was colonel. This tour, the declarant understood from the affiant John Dolly, commenced on or about the 1st of April and terminated 1st of July. The declarant is under the impression that her deceased husband had a discharge for this 3 month tour from Col. O’Neal, but it is now lost.” “And that the said Susan Barnhill further sets forth that in the summer of the same year, her deceased husband, a private of militia did volunteer and serve a 3 month tour of duty in the United States service in Captain Moore’s company of infantry. Said tour commenced, as well as declarant can learn, about the middle of August of the year 1781. Col. Thaxton, she thinks, was colonel. That at the expiration of his tour, he was duly discharged and returned home, having served 3 months heard her husband say. The discharge for this tour is hereto annexed. This tour is also proved by the affiant Dolly.” Additional Comments: She was married to her husband ‘sometime in the year 1788,’ but she has no record of the date. Her first child was born in February following. She tore out the family pages of her Bible and submitted them as evidence of her children’s birthdates. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/orange/military/revwar/pensions/barnhill371gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb