Orange County NcArchives Military Records.....Montgomery, Jonathan September 11, 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Jonathan Montgomery, Natl Archives Microseries M805, Roll __, Application #W3579
Carroll County, Tennessee, September 11, 1832, Jonathan Montgomery, aged 70 
years: “That he entered the service as a volunteer in the year 1778 as a 
private in Captain Joseph Young’s company, Col. Yancey’s regiment, commanded by 
General Ashe. Colonel Yancey lived in Granville County, NC and his captain 
raised his company in Orange. States that they were marched to the neighborhood 
of Charleston, SC and joined General Ashe on the Savannah River and crossed 
over with him in the state of Georgia, where Ashe was defeated on Briar Creek. 
The next day they recrossed the river and fell under General Rutherford (as 
their General Ashe, after he was defeated, as he understood, was arrested). He 
was in service then, about 6 months and was discharged at Turkey Hill on the 
Savannah River.” 

“Shortly before Gates’ Defeat, he was drafted and served under several captains 
whose names he cannot now recollect. The company he was then in was at the 
battle at Camden, SC when Gates was defeated. He was so often transferred and 
detached about, he cannot recollect any of the names of his officers. After the 
battle, there was no regular discharge of the militia. Every man made the best 
of his way home. In this he served 3 months.”

“After this, he was drafted and served a tour of 3 months in guarding jails and 
prisoners and collecting provisions for the army. The service was performed in 
the state of NC, Orange County. Col. Alexander Mebane was head commissary and 
who gave him his discharge.”

Interrogatories: According to the records of his parents, he was born September 
21, 1762, and in the state of Pennsylvania, Lancaster County. He took the copy 
of his record from his parents record. He lived in Orange County, NC when 
called into service. From there he moved to Pendleton District, SC, and lived 
40 years, and 5 years since, he moved to this county where he lives still. He 
recollects serving under General Gates, also Col. Lytle, who he understood was 
a regular officer, who was put over some militia, and will always remember the 
great DeKalb, who fell at that battle.”

“He further states that he has no documentary evidence to establish his 
services, nor can he prove the same as above stated except one tour, by any 
living witnesses. The first tour, his brother William Montgomery served with 
him in the same command, and were seldom apart.”

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