Randolph County NcArchives Military Records.....Brookshier, John October 15, 1833
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of John Brookshier, Natl Archives Microseries M805, Roll __, Application #S6726
	Granville District, South Carolina, 15th of October, 1833, John 
Brookshier, aged 74 years: “That he first entered the service in the year 1780 
in the forepart of the summer. He was drafted for 3 months and served under 
Captain ?Johnson. He was marched into South Carolina under the command of 
General Butler and served in col. Collier’s regiment of North Carolina militia. 
He joined the army of General Gates at a place called ?Mar___ Creek between 
Pedee River and Lynch’s Creek. The day before Gates’ Defeat at Camden, he was 
in a detachment of 500 men sent to relieve the advance guard and fire upon the 
British. Whilst thus detached, the army under Gates crossed Little Lynch’s 
Creek higher up and met the British. After the defeat of General Gates, this 
applicant, with others, fled into North Carolina. He returned to Randolph 
County, North Carolina.”

	“The 2nd tour he volunteered under Captain Brittan Fuller for 3 months 
in the fall of the year 1780. Captain Fuller commanded a troop of Horse. He 
was ?stationed the greater part of the tour at Salisbury, North Carolina. Was 
frequently out after the Tories. At the expiration of this tour of 3 months, he 
was discharged by Captain Fuller in January 1781, as the annexed discharge 
signed by Captain Fuller and Lt. Roberts will show.”

	“He then immediately volunteered under Captain Fuller again for six 
months and served principally in the counties of Randolph, Chatham, and 
Montgomery, North Carolina. He was in frequent skirmishes with The Tories. The 
4th tour he volunteered under Captain Aaron Hill in the summer of 1781 for 6 
months. Captain Hill commanded a company of Light Horse and was employed in 
scouting the country after the Tories. He was in one severe fight with a body 
of Tories at the plantation of John Needham in Chatham county, North Carolina.”

	“ This deponent served as a private and claims a pension for 18 months 
services thus rendered as above stated. The deponent remembers a good many 
militia officers of Gates’ army, but does not remember any of the regular 
officers except Colonel Sharpe. He lived in Randolph County, NC when he entered 
the service…Was born in Randolph County, NC in 1759 to the best of his belief. 
He has no records of his age. Since the Revolution he has lived in North 
Carolina, Tennessee and South Carolina.”

Additional Comments:
Further data from the pension papers :
John Brookshire died January 14, 1847. His wife predeceased him and was not 
named. His children were: Mannering Brookshier; Tillotson Brookshier; John 
Brookshier; Mary McFall, formerly Brookshier, the wife of Arthur McFall; 
Susannah Brookshier; Elizabeth Wacaster, formerly Brookshier, the wife of 
Michael Wacaster; Sarah Günter, formerly Brookshier, the wife of  William 
Günter; Joel Brookshier, James Brookshier, and  Thomas Brookshier.

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