ABBEVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - REV WAR PENSION - PORTER, Samuel ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/sc/scfiles.htm ************************************************ Contributed for use in the SCGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette 25 Jun 2006 Pension Application Of Samuel Porter, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1955, Application #S21928 SAMUEL PORTER, a resident of Abbeville District, SC, aged 69 years in September 1832: “That he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer militiaman under the command of Captain ANDREW WILSON, Major ARMSTRONG’s battalion, Colonel PAISLEY’s regiment of North Carolina militia. The adjutant’s name was RALSTON. That he entered the service about the first of September 1780. That the company formed at Guilford Courthouse in the state of North Carolina, from whence they marched and joined General DAVIDSON at a place called [New] Providence in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. That he continued to serve under the command of General DAVIDSON until his term of service expired, which was about the first of December as well as he now recollects, having served out his three months tour, that he resided in Guilford County when he done the service, and during the whole of the Revolutionary War.” “That he was again employed by General GREENE to ride express from one part of the state to another, and from part of the army to another, from the public store at Guilford to the different detachments then under arms in the neighborhood, and found his own horse, for which service he was to receive the same pay and rations as if under arms, and it was to be counted to him as a tour of service performed, in which service he acted for the term of three months or more. That he entered the service about the 1st day of May, 1781, and left at about the first of August 1781.” “That in addition to the above two tours of service, he was repeatedly out for two or three weeks at a time for the purpose of dispersing the Tories that was numerous and troublesome in Randolph County and other parts of the state. He thinks he was out in about six short scouts amounting in all to three or four months of service as a volunteer mounted militiaman…”