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Claiborne Gentry Pension Application S3391 Claiborne Gentry Pension Affidavit II 11/5/1833 National Archives & Records Administration M804-1061 Transcribed by Billy Markland State of Tennessee Davidson County Court of Pleas & Quarter sessions for said County October 1833 On this 5th day of November 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices for the county of Davidson in the State of Tennessee Claiborne Gentry, who being first duly sworn doth on his oath make the following statement as an ammendment [sic] of his former declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 9th 1833. In my first tour, mentioned in my former declaration, under Capt. Martin I served four months. In my second tour under Capt. Lewis I served four months-and in my third tour under Capt. Smith, in the militia wherein I was a volunteer, I served nine months- This third tour was not mentioned in my former declaration, because I could not recollect many particulars about it-I have subsequently obtained some evidence in relation to it and consequently will throw it upon the magnanimity of the war department and leave it to them to say whether, I am to be deprived of a compensation for my services when the evidence satisfies them that I am entitled to it, any technicalities to the contrary notwithstanding-On this third tour I volunteered under Capt. [smudged] Henry Smith in a regiment commanded by Major Winston and Colonel Armstrong-it was the seventh regiment-I volunteered in said regiment in Rowan County in North Carolina-I canıt tell at what day or year it was, but know it was in the beginning of the Revolutionary- or early part of it-It was in Salisbury, in said County and State I commenced service this tour-I marched under those officers from said County, to the Cheraw hills, from thence to drowning creek from thence to the four holds-we remained there about a month, then we marched up into [smudge] York County where the militia, (three regiments) [smudge] one of which I was attached to, joined General Sumpter-When we joined General Sumpter, during this tour, I had been in service seven months- Sometime after joining Genl Sumpter, I was engaged in the battle in which Captain Hook was defeated, who commanded a detachment of Cornwallisı army. After being in service under those officers, (Sumpter, Armstrong, Winston and Smith) or rather after joining the army, my term of service expired and I was discharged, having served this tour, two months, in the army and seven months in the militia- making in all this tour nine months- After this discharge, I went home, where I staid [sic] about six weeks-at the expiration of which time, a call being made for volunteers by Col. Martin Armstrong, I volunteered in a company of horse commanded by Capt. Sharp, belonging to the 23 regiment of continentals-in the army commanded by Genl Sumpter-I do not recollect my Colonelıs name, and therefore will not under take to say-After joining in the continental service, I was in service till the conclusion of the revolutionary war & served in the continental service in all three years and six months at least, if not more-I was at little York when Cornwallis was taken-& at that place and time I was discharged from the continental service-I cannot recollect any more in relation to the continental service, I hope if not allowed a pension for that, I shall at any rate be allowed for my service in the militia-I stated heretofore that ³I marched under those officers, Armstrong, Sharp etc) to Cheraw Hills, from thence to Ransowers mills & from there to the four holds in South Carolina²-On further reflection, I have come to the opinion that so much of my former statement was a mistake, and the statement made here is right-during all of my service I served as a private & during said service was not engaged in any civil pursuit-. I have received discharges during my service, but have lost them all- his Claiborne X Gentry mark Sworn to and subscribed in open court November 5th 1833 Test Henry Ewing Clerk of Davidson County Court State of Tennessee Davidson County Court of pleas and quarter sessions for said County October term 1833 I Samuel Wallace, a soldier of the Revolutionary war & now a pensioner of the Government, state, that I became acquainted with Claiborne Gentry, who has sworn to the above declaration, & that I recollect of being in service with him five months during the revolutionary war-I believe he was attached to the 23rd Regiment, and I was with him at the time of Hooks defeat, and recollect of his having received a discharge from Smith-I know he was in service with me fully five months, & that I understood then, that he was engaged for nine months, and know that was the time mentioned in his discharge-I believe & Know said Gentry is a man of veracity, and I would believe anything he would [say?] on oath or otherwise- his Samuel X Wallace mark Sworn to and subscribed in open court November 5th 1833 Test Henry Ewing Clerk of Davidson County Court State of Tennessee Davidson County I Henry Ewing clerk of the court of pleas and quarter Sessions for said county do hereby certify to whom it may concern that the foregoing ammended [sic] Declaration of Claiborne Gentry an applicant for pension and the above statement or deposition of Samuel Wallace was made on oath in open court and that said court after examining said Gentry and Wallace and hearing their statements are opinion that they are entitled to full faith and credit In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & caused the seal of said court to be also affixed at offices in Nashville on this fifth day of November AD. 1833 Henry Ewing