Watauga County NcArchives Military Records.....Mullins, William 
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of William Mullins, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1787. Application #R7483
Watauga County, NC: December 1843-“This day, personally appeared, FLOWER 
MULLINS…that he is upwards of 82 years of age, and that at about the age of 
seventeen, himself and his brother WILLIAMS MULLINS enlisted (at Guilford 
County Courthouse…in North Carolina) under Major THOMAS OWENS, and they was 
then placed under the command of Captain DAVIDSON [JOHN DAVIS?] and served in 
the company of Captain DAVIS for the space of five or six months and was then 
placed under the command of GEORGE PEARCE, under whom they served during the 
Siege and Battle of Savannah [per Heitman, September 23, 1779 to October 18, 
1779], and in the engagement at Jacksonborough.”
“That they enlisted for the space of two years and six months and was together 
under the command of Generals COUNT D’ESTAING, LINCOLN and MARION, Colonel 
TINNEN, together with the inferior officers above named, and that him and his 
brother, WILLIAM MULLINS served together in the army of the Revolution under 
the above named officers from the time they enlisted for the space of something 
over twelve months, and after serving in the two engagements above alluded to, 
his brother WILLIAM MULLINS accidentally cut his leg with a tomahawk, which 
cause a rimming sore for some time, when the surgeon pronounced him incurable.”
“He was accordingly discharged and went home, and after he went home, his wound 
was cured and he intermarried with a lady of the name of Sally Triplett… 
Deponent does not recollect the date of the year in which they listed, but 
believes it to have been about the year 1776 or 1777, but from the long lapse 
of time, is not positive about the year, and that WILLIAM MULLINS was about 
four years older than this deponent…”
May 1845-“Personally appeared, Sarah Mullins…that she is the widow of WILLIAM 
MULLINS…that she does not know the date of the enlistment, but respectfully 
refers to the testimony of FLOWER MULLINS who was with him and enlisted at the 
same time, and in the same company. He served, as she has heard him say, under 
the command of Captain PEARCE, Major THOMAS OWENS, Captain DAVIDSON [DAVIS]. 
She has heard him say that he was in the Battle near Savannah, Georgia, also at 
the battle or skirmish at Jacksonborough.”
“She has repeatedly heard him and his brother FLOWER talking over their 
services. That they served their first tours together as regulars. Superior 
officers-she has heard him speak of being under the command of COUNT D’ESTAING, 
General LINCOLN and others. She has always understood that her husband was 
considerably over a year in the service, she believes, and so served a year and 
six months or thereabouts. That he lay three months under the care of the army 
surgeon, who finally gave up his case as hopeless and he was discharged, and 
after undergoing great fatigue and anguish, he arrived home and lay at least 
six months confined with his wound which was in the knee. He was afterwards in 
the militia, but of the extent of that service, she does not know.”
“November 1851-“personally appeared, Jesse Mullins…aged 60 years…That he is the 
son of William Mullins, who was a private in Captain COLLENDER’s [COLLIER’s?] 
company, and the name of the colonel who commanded the regiment he cannot 
recollect…that his father, WILLIAM MULLINS, he thinks, entered the service in 
the year 1777, and continued in said service for many years, at times coming 
home and staying a short time, and then returning to his post again.”
“That he continued through the whole war and was a portion of this period of 
service under Captain BETHEL and he thinks in the regiment commanded by Colonel 
LOCKE or LOPP, and that he was in a battle fought at a place called Hanging 
Rock [per Heitman, August 1-6, 1780], and another by the name of Guilford 
Courthouse [per Heitman, March 15, 1781] and other ones that he cannot 
recollect the name of. That he states these facts merely from the recollection 
of his father’s conversation on that subject, being a man of no education at 
all…”

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