Orange County NcArchives Military Records.....Ray, John November 1844
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of John Ray, Natl Archives Microseries M805, Roll __, Application #W3977
Orange County, North Carolina, November 28, 1844, Agnes Freeland, a resident of 
hew Hope in the County of Orange, aged 80 years: 

	“That she has reason to believe and does believe that in the War of the 
Revolution her former husband, John Ray, as captain of militia did serve the 
United States in several tours of duty and that in each he was in legally 
organized corps and called into service by competent authority. But having not 
been married until the close of the war and her said first husband having been 
dead about 28 years, she is therefore unable to give any full or minute detail 
of Captain Ray’s Revolutionary services, but what she has heard him relate, and 
from the statements set forth by others. She has reason to believe and does 
believe that her former husband, the aforesaid John Ray, as captain of a 
company of draughted militia for 5 months, did serve part of the tour in south 
Carolina and was under Col. Locke and General Rutherford. Was organized in the 
town of Hillsboro and served all of said 5 months tour.”

	“…That she has reason to believe, and does believe, that in the summer 
of the year 1780, there was a draught of 3 months militia men. That her 
deceased husband aforesaid was duly appointed and commissioned captain of a 
company, and did serve as captain a 3 month tour of duty in the United States 
service, and his said tour was in Gates’ Defeat.”

	“…She has reason to believe, and does believe that in the month of 
February 1781, her first husband, the aforesaid John Ray, was in United States 
service and was with Lee’s legion. How long he served with the Legion she is 
unable to learn.”

	“She has reason to believe, and does believe that on or about the 1st 
September following, her deceased husband, the aforesaid John Ray, was in 
command again of a company of militia, and on the day that Col. Fanning 
surprised and captured the town of Hillsboro…which believed to be or about the 
15th day of said month,  Captain Ray was in the neighborhood of said town and 
narrowly escaped being made a prisoner by Colonel Fanning…That she has reason 
to believe and does believe that said John Ray, as captain aforesaid, with 
other troops under Colonel Tinnen, General Butler, did pursue the Tory forces 
to the neighborhood of Wilmington, and was under General Butler in the 
engagement with the enemy in Lucas’ Lane. That her said deceased husband 
remained in the service in this tour till about the December following.”

	“The said Agnes Freeland further states that sometime in the spring of 
the ensuing year, 1782, the aforesaid John Ray as captain of a company of 
militia under Colonel O’Neal and brigadier General Butler, served a tour to the 
south of 3 months duration. Was on the Pedee, Sandy Creek, Cross Creek. This 
tour, the declarant understands, was to awe the Tories.”

	“This declarant further states that she has reason to believe and does 
believe that the said John Ray, as captain of militia, was in other tours in 
the United States service but is not enabled to give any detailed account of 
them…That said Captain Ray died about 28 years ago, when all of his papers 
passed into the hands of his executors, who have not preserved any of his 
Revolutionary papers. The said Agnes Freeland…further sets forth that her 
maiden name was Trousdale, and that she was married by James Freeland, 
esquire,  to the aforesaid Captain John Ray on the 22nd day of January, 1784.”

Additional Comments:
Her family Bible record is photocopied on the microfilm with her children’s 
names and birth dates and marriages. Her husband, Captain John Ray, died  March 
4th, 1816. She remarried to John Freeland January 17, 1826. John Freeland died 
on December 24, 1843.


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