Wayne County, NC - Samuel Chance, Pension Application ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Samuel Chance Revolutionary War Pension Application 1834, January 25 Rev. War application: State of Indiana, County of Wayne On this 25th day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty four, personally appeared before me (Nathan Smith) sole Judge of the Probate Court in and for the county aforesaid the same being a Court of Record, at his room he being confined to the same on account of sickness and disease, SAMUEL CHANCE a resident of Wayne County of Indiana. Aged Eighty Six years who being first duly affirmed according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. I was born in Queen Anne County in the State of Maryland in the year 1748 where I lived until I was about Fourteen years old (c1762), when I moved with my father to North Carolina and settled there between Neuse and Trent Rivers, where I lived six or seven years and then (1779) moved again into that part of the country (Dobbs) since called Wayne County where I continued to reside until 1779 when I was Drafted to serve five months Militia of North Carolina. I soon repaired to Kingstown on Neuse River and was under the command of Gen'l Ash, Gen'l Briant and an officer by the name of Blunt. My Capt. was John Canada and my Lieut-Capt was Jacob Hooks. Wm Caswell son of Governor Caswell and Stringer McAlwain volunteered their services as at the same time and embodied with the troops at the same place. We remained at Kingstown a few days and then we marched on Cape Fear River where we remained at Elizabethtown a few days. We then marched toward Charlestown in South Carolina but on the way I was taken with a disease called Quinsey (Tonsillitis) and after seventeen days I was so recovered that I started in Company with Capt. Spruce and another Captain and their Companies to go to the Army again which we overtook at the bluffs on Savannah River the Army in the meantime having been to Charleston and received arms, we was then marching to Augusta in Georgia at which place we arrived and staid three days as near as I can recollect. The enemy had left Augusta a few days before and gone down to Brier Creek passed over and burned the bridge. We marched down to Brier Creek and commenced rebuilding the bridge. In the mean time the enemy passed up the Creek and crossed over and marched down toward the bridge again. Gen'l Ash had been absent a day and night and when he returned to camp he ordered the light horse to go out between the Piguet guard and the army and fire off their guns and put them in order. They went out and a firing commenced supposed by us to be the light horse but the enemy soon came upon us. Blunt ordered us to stand while he would go for orders, he soon returned and cried no orders and a retreat commenced across the creek. Thence down to Savannah River crossed that River and a part of the army collected at a place called the white house, thence we marched to coosahatchy where Gen'l Ash met us again, he was charged by Bryant, Caswell and McAlwain of bring(ing) the disaster at Brier Creek upon the army and I know not what became of him. We marched from Coosahatchy (Coosawhatchie River, SC) to Fourysburgh where all who had cloaths and Arms joined Gen'l Lincoln and the remnant were put under the Command of Adjutant Taylor to be taken home and Discharged their terms of five months Service having nearly expired. I do not know wheather I received a written discharge or not, but if I did I have lost or mislaid it. I cannot tell what Regiment or line I belonged to or any Officers except those already named above. I went into the Army in the Fall of 1779 and was discharged in the Spring of 1780 and believe I served out the time of five months for which I was Drafted. I have a record of my age copied from a record made in a book by my father. I hereby relinguish every claim whatever to a Pension or Annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on any Pension Roll of any Agency in any State. I know of no person who can testify to my Service now living. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me. Samuel Chance Nathan Smith We Benjamen Moorman and James Lovin of Wayne County, Ind., hereby certify that we were well acquainted with Samuel Chance while he lived in Wayne County, North Carolina and are well acquainted with him here where he now lives, that we believe him to be Eighty Six years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resided and where he now resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolutionary War, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me. Benjamin X Moorman James Lovin Nathan Smith 1834, Feb. 10 Samuel Chance, Indiana, Pension Rejected Feb. 10, 1834. Pension #1846 NC. Hon. J. McCarty The above copy of application was copied from the L. Marguerite (Chance) and Edward Orlando Beasley Chance Family Genealogy, Montgomery, Alabama, 1978 Indiana passed the Act to pay War Pensions June 7, 1832. ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. 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