Orange-Chatham County NcArchives Military Records.....Clark, James September 18, 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of James Clark, Natl Archives Microseries M805, Roll __, Application #S2807
Chatham County, NC Fall term of court, 1832:
	“On this 18th day of September 1832, personally appeared James Clark, 
aged 72 years: That he substituted in the County of Orange and state of NC in 
the place of Barney Grimes and joined the company of NC militia under the 
command of Captain Cage [or Gage]. He joined the company at Col. Dickerson’s on 
Haw River and was marched by Captain ?Gage and Col. Dickerson to the PeeDee 
River and crossed the same at Haley’s Ferry. He does not recollect that they 
were joined by any troops until the had crossed, when they were joined by a 
squadron of horse, under the command of Colonel Dugald.  He has no distinct 
recollection of the particular incidents of this service except that an action 
took place at the Hanging Rock in which the Americans were defeated. The troops 
with which he acted were near enough to hear to hear the firing, and upon 
learning the issue, retreated across PeeDee. He was then marched to 
Fayetteville in North Carolina and halted a few days. “

“He was then marched in a southwardly direction about 50 miles when orders were 
given to return home. He was marched back to Haw River in NC and was discharged 
after having served 5 months. His discharge was signed by Gen. Butler, but is 
now lost.”

“He further states that shortly after his discharge as aforesaid, he was 
drafted in the County of Orange for the term of 5 months. He was mustered under 
Captain Ray. When it was reported he does not ____ [recall?] He does not ___ [?
know] upon what authority. That if a militia man would equip himself with a 
horse, etc, and would serve three months in the dragoons, it should be 
equivalent to 5 months service in the militia. That he did so equip himself, 
and presented himself to Colonel Philip Taylor of Granville County and was 
received by him, and placed in the company commanded by Captain Walker. He does 
not recollect the names of any of the other officers except Major Bullock and 
Captain Coffee. He was marched by the above named officers through 
Hillsborough, Salisbury and Charlotte, near which place they joined a very 
large body of troops, which he thinks were under the command of General Greene. 
At this time the British troops lay in Charlotte. He acted with the troops in 
this vicinity until his term of service expired. Nothing very remarkable 
occurred in this service to which he was a witness except a skirmish in which 
he was engaged with some of the enemy horse. He was in the advanced guard, 25 
strong, when they were attacked and 15 of their number were killed or taken. 
When his service expired he was marched back to Granville and discharged. He 
received a written discharge which is now lost.”

He further states that sometime after his discharge as aforesaid, he 
substituted in the County of Orange in the place of Jesse Curry and joined a 
company of mounted militia and marched to Ramsey’s [?Ramsour’s] Mills on Deep 
River, where they joined General Butler’s army, and was placed under the 
immediate command of Col. Robert Mebane of the regulars. He recollects the 
names of none of the other officers in the army except Major Nalls and Captain 
Goldston. From Ramsey’s Mills he was marched to Haw River towards Hillsborough 
and crossed at Cr___’s Ford and camped one night, during which intelligence was 
brought by John Taylor that the Tories had taken Hillsboro and made the 
inhabitants prisoners and among them the Governor of the state. Whereupon the 
army recrossed the river and marched up the same to Cane Break where we met the 
Tories under the command of Colonels Fanning and McNeill and engaged them near 
Lindley’s Mills. The action commenced about breakfast time in thick woods. The 
American foot retreated in disorder early in the engagement, but the horse, 77 
strong under the command of Colonel Mebane, maintained their ground until they 
had given them eleven fires when their ammunition failed and they were forced 
to retreat.

He was then marched back to Hillsborough and discharged after he had served 
five months. He cannot remember how or in what way he was discharged, but is 
certain that it was in an honorable way. He further states that due to the 
great lapse in time, he is unable to state the day, month or year in which he 
entered or left the service in any of the above mentioned tours and is certain 
that he served at least another tour besides those already set forth, which 
from the treachery of his memory, he is unable to delineate…”

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