Randolph County, NC - Pension Application - William Moore - 1832 Submitted to USGenWeb Archives by Phyllis Hill phill@redrock.net Application for Pension, Revolutionary War William Moore Orange County State of Indiana On this 13th day of November 1832 personally Came and appeared in open Court before Thomas Vandeveer Judge of the Probate Court for the County aforesaid now Sitting William Moore a resident of the County of Orange in the State aforesaid aged 78 years who being first duly sworn according to the law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832 that he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein Stated that is to Say on the 25th day of December in the year 1780 he entered the Service of the United States as a mustered man under the Command of one Captain Charles Gholson of the Militia in the County of Randolph in the State of North Carolina and marched to a regiment under the Command of one Colonel John Lutrill that he entered the service of the United States under the said Captain Charles Gholson as aforesaid in the said County of Randolph in the Said State of North Carolina marched from there from place to place as occasions required in the Station aforesaid Watching the movement of the Tories and British (the Tories being very Troublesome) that he served the Term of three months and was discharged that he was in no General engagement during the Term of Service That he again entered the service of the United States as a militia man some time in the fall of 1781 and previous to the Capture of Lord Cornwallis at York Town in Company under the command of the aforesaid Captain Charles Gholson who commanded a Company of Militia taken out of the Counties of Randolph Chatham and Moore in the State of North Carolina That he left the Service of the United States sometime in the early part of the winter in the year 1781 that he was employed in no general engagement during his Services other under the first and last Tours he having served the time of three months Each that he was generally engaged at reconoitering and watching the Movement of the enemy and keeping in check the Tories who were extremely Troublesome throughout the greater part of the State of North Carolina that he was born in the County of Botetourt in the State of Virginia in the Year 1754 according to the record of a family Bible which belonged to his father and which record is yet found in his recollection that he resided in the said County of Randolph in the Said State of North Carolina when he entered the Service of the United States in the said Years of 1780 and 1781 as aforesaid he was not acquainted with any of the regular officers of the United States then in Service and that he resided in the County of Moore shortly after having served his last Tour of 3 months in 1781 where he resided about 27 years that he removed to the Territory of Indiana in the year 1808 from the said County of Moore in the State of North Carolina that he now resides in the County of Orange in the State of Indiana that he received his discharge for his service in 1780 and also his discharge for his said service in 1781 that said discharges as he is inclined to believe are now on file in the office of the war department at the City of Washington they having been sent there some time previous to the passing of the Act of Congress of June 7th 1832 that the only documentary identity in his behalf to him now known is now in the site aforesaid that he knows of no person whose Testimony he can procure who can Testify to his service that he hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that he is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State Subscribed and Sworn to on this 15th November William Moore 1832 Jn McVey Clk ======================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogy information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than as stated above, must contact the submitter or the listed USGenWeb archivist.