Randolph County NcArchives Military Records.....Gibson, Wilbourne 
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Wilbourne Gibson, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1067, Application #R4000
WILBOURNE GIBSON, a resident of Ripley County, IN, aged seventy-five:
	“I was drafted into the service of the United States in Randolph 
County, North Carolina in the spring of 1781. The precise month and day I do 
not recollect, and served for and during the term of three months. The captain 
of the company in which I served was John KNIGHT, Colonel [THOMAS] DOUGAN, 
Major [JAMES] DOUGAN, brothers. Names of the sergeants and corporals not now 
remembered. When my term of service was ended, I received from Captain JOHN 
KNIGHT, a regular discharge and considering it as no value or importance 
whatever, and being totally unlearned, it has long ago been lost and destroyed.”
“Under the command of the aforesaid officers, I was out on scouting expedition 
most of the time in and through the counties of Randolph, Rockingham, Stokes 
and Guilford, and was in several skirmishes with the Tories, but no general 
engagement. Colonel FANNING, as he was called, was the Tory that we were after 
most of the time, as he was constantly destroying of property, burning of 
houses, etc.”
“I recollect on one evening we were in a little town called Hillsborough, and 
were compelled to leave it for the want of provision, and on that very night, 
this Tory, FANNING took the town and all the inhabitants were made prisoners, 
and one gen’l, General TYRON, among the rest, and on that same night our 
company formed behind a fence along the road to take them by surprise, but we 
were afraid to fire for fear of killing our own friends who were prisoners, and 
so we mounted our horses which had been hitched back in the edge of the woods 
and retreated, and on the next day we had a skirmish at Mendenhall’s Mill, in 
which we were defeated, but Colonel FANNING got his arm broke, etc…”
“The houses of John KNIGHT and Col. and Major DOUGAN, and many? other houses 
were destroyed by this same FANNING.”

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