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Claiborne Gentry Revolutionary War Pension Application S3391 Claiborne Gentry Declaration National Archives & Records Administration M804-1061 Transcribed by Billy Markland 1/7/2001 State of Tennessee Davidson County Court of pleas & Quarter Sessions for said County Jany Sessions 1833- On this 8th day of February AD. 1833 personally appeared in open Court, before the Justices of the Court of pleas & Quarter Sessions now sitting for the County of Davidson in the State of Tennessee Claiborne Gentry, about 72 years of age who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following statement, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832- I commenced service, in the county of Surrey in the State of North Carolina, somewhere about the 10th day of Oct. I do not recollect the year but know it was in the beginning of the Revolutionary war as a volunteer in a company commanded by by [sic] Capt. Martin, which at that time was attached to no regiment, but subject to the orders of Colonel Armstrong who resided in the same County-we marched as aforesaid, to the town of Wilmington same State, where we remained three months and then we marched back, under the command of the same officers, to Richmond in the same County from whence we started-where we remained but a few days and were then discharged-The tories becoming very troublesome, in August the succeeding year, it becoming necessary from that circumstance, I volunteered again, in the same County & State, in a Company commanded by Capt. William T. Lewis, Obadiah Martin, brother of my former Capt, being Lieutenant. The said Company was not a part of any regiment, but was raised in order to resist the tories, who, at that time, were committing depredations-Under the command of those officers, we marched through various parts of North Carolina, wherever we Could hear the tories were collected, during which time the battle of Shallowford ford [sic] took place, in which I was engaged, on the waters of the Yadkin River, until having served about 4 months, we were discharged, in Roan [sic] County, at Salisbury-About a year after my last discharge, at Salisbury [&?] in the same County & State, I entered the continental service, as volunteer under Capt. Sharp, in his company, the 22nd or 23rd regiment, (The commander of which I do not recollect now,) the whole belonging to the army commanded by GenL Sumpter-Under the command of those officers we marched from thence to Cheraw Hills & from thence to the fourholds in South Carolina-We remained there several months, & then marched back to North Carolina, to a place called Ramsowers mill, on the waters of the Yadkin River, where we remained, two or three months.-From this time I was in the continental service until the end of the Revolutionary war, -the particular incidents that occurred during which time, I do not reccollect distinctly enough to state on my oath, they having escaped my reccollection. I have no documentary evidence, having lost all of my discharges, &c- I hereby relinquish every claim to a pension or an annuity except the present, & declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State-In relation to my character I refer to William Lytle, Isaac [Earthman?], James Marshall, Henry Bonar, & GenL Andrew Jackson, president of the U.S. whom I have known, upwards of 20 years- his Claiborne X Gentry mark Sworn to and subscribed in open court February 8th 1833 Test Henry Ewing clerk We David Cloyd, a clergyman residing in the county of Davidson & State of Tennessee & Henry Bonar, a resident of the same do hereby certify that we have been acquainted several years, with Claiborn Gentrey [sic] who has sworn to the above declaration, that we believe his statement to be true, that we believe him to be about seventy two years of age a man of veracity, that he is believed & reputed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion-- David Cloyd his Henry X Bonar mark Sworn to and subscribed in open court Feby 8th 1833 Test Henry Ewing clerk of Davidson County Court State of Tennessee Davidson County Court of Pleas & Quarter sessions for said County, Jany term 1833- I Thomas Douglass residing in the County of Davidson and State of Tennessee, do hereby Certify, that whilst in my youth, I became acquainted, with Claiborne Gentrey who has sworn to & subscribed the above declaration, in Surrey County North Carolina, that I lived many years a near neighbor to him in said County & State, previous to the commencement of the Revolutionary war-I reccollect when said Gentrey commenced service in a single company commanded by Capt. Martin- when said Gentrey first commenced service it was in October, I do not recollect the year but know that it was soon after the commencement of hostilities in North Carolina-During the various manueverings [sic] that took place between the whigs & tories, I had frequent interviews with said Gentrey although I was in a different company, being commanded by Capt Lanier-the said companies were not united together, or at that time attached to any army, being destined to act against the tories-After being in service about twelve months, I was taken prisoner by the tories, & was in their Custody at the time the battle of Shallow ford took place. Said Gentrey was in that battle, & was one of those who rescued me from the tories-in that battle the whigs were victorious-I have no certain recollection about the time said Gentrey served but I believe his statement in that & every other respect to be true-Having been acquainted with said Gentrey ever since my youth I can confidently assert that he is a man of veracity, & that he about seventy two years of age- his Thomas X Douglass mark Sworn to and subscribed in open court Feby 8th 1833 Test Henry Ewing Clerk of Davidson County Court State of Tennessee Davidson County Court of pleas & quarter Sessions- Jany Sessions 1833- And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that David Cloyd who has signed a preceeding certificate is a clergy man resident in said County and State and that Henry Bonir and Thomas Douglass who have also signed preceeding [sic] certificates are residents of said county and that they are all reputable, credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit- February 8th 1833 Wm M. [Ressions?] G.G. Washington John Wright 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 contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Claiborne Gentry for a pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said court to be also affixed at office in Nashville on this 8th day of February AD. 1833 Henry Ewing