Orange County NcArchives Military Records.....Williams, William 1844
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of William Williams
Pension Application of William Williams, Nat’l Archives Microseries M804, Roll 
2596, Application #W3907

Cleveland County, North Carolina, 25th January, 1844, William Williams saith 
that he did enlist in the United States service in the Revolutionary War. That 
he was enlisted by one Archibald Lyttle, but that he does not recollect who was 
the captain that he mustered under when he went into the army, and that he 
believes that he mustered in the sixth or seventh regiment and that he served 
something like fifteen months and being in bad health, he left the army a few 
months and returned to the army and served until he was regularly discharged 
from the army, and that he served about two and a half years, or near that 
time…”

	“…That he believes that he was after that time, that he was discharged, 
he was in the first regiment of the North Carolina militia, and that there was 
one sergeant in the regiment by the name of Samuel Gillson who wrote his 
discharge and that he believes that one Colonel Thomas White gave him his 
discharge…”

Cleveland County, North Carolina, on 5th of July, 1844, William Williams, aged 
97 or 98 years:
“That he enlisted in the army of the United States the spring before the 
Independence of the United States was declared, he supposes 1776. That he was 
enlisted by one Archibald Lyttle into the company commanded by Captain 
McGlaughon or Captain Dixon, and that he served in the 7th regiment of regulars 
under ______. He declares that his memory has so failed that he cannot 
recollect the colonel’s name, except it was Thomas White. He recollects that 
there was a Captain Brevard that acted as adjutant and a Major Harney who was 
in the army with them. Also a Captain Donahoe and a Samuel Gilston, a sergeant, 
and a Stephen White, who died the night after the Battle at Monmouth 
Courthouse…”

	“…He further declares that at the time he went into the service of the 
United States, he was about 30 years old and was living in Orange County, North 
Carolina. Mustered with the few that was collected at Hillsborough, marched to 
Wilmington, all in North Carolina. Was there stationed when Congress first 
declared the American Independence.”

“Some time afterwards, marched to Alexandria in Virginia and there halted, and 
almost the entire troops was inoculated with the small pox, and after a short 
stay, they marched through the upper part of Maryland and into the state of New 
Jersey, and there joined General George Washington’s army and was stationed a 
part of the winter in a little village called Morristown. Next summer, was a 
while at a place called White Plains. That he was sick with fever and ague and 
could not march with the army. Got leave of the Captain to leave. Got some 
instrument of writing said to be a furlough, he thinks.”

“In August was absent until some time in the winter, supposed to be January. He 
again mustered into the army at or near a place called Valley Forge on the 
Schuykill in Pennsylvania where the army was stationed that winter, where 
sickness and deaths was beyond description. The next summer they marched over 
into the New Jersey state and on the [?last? or ?dusk?] of June 28 (he supposes 
1778) they met with the British at or near Monmouth Courthouse and there had an 
engagement. This was the first battle that he was in and he thinks the 
Americans gained the victory, for he was guard to the baggage wagons that day 
and they remained on or near the same ground that night they were on the night 
before.”

“And a few months after, say sometime in November, he was regularly discharge 
from the army whilst they were stationed on the North River. (But that he had 
omitted to state that he thinks that he was thrown out of the First Regiment to 
fill the vacancy occasioned by death ___? But if so it was the First Regiment 
of the regular line and not of the militia as set forth in the former 
declaration through the imbecility of mind or a mistake of the magistrate, for 
he says he did not serve with the militia at all during his service in the 
army…”


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