Anderson County ScArchives Military Records.....Wilson, John March 1833
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of John Wilson, Natl Microseries M804, Roll 2607, Application #S21581
JOHN WILSON, a resident of Anderson District, SC, aged 77 years in March 1833:
	“That he entered the service in Guilford County, NC, a volunteer for a 
six month tour under Captain BELL, Colonel JOHN PAISLEY and General RUTHERFORD 
and marched to the Cherokee nation and served out the tour, returned and was 
discharged at Guilford Courthouse, NC. After that, was drafted for a nine-month 
tour, was under the command of General ASHE but cannot recollect the other 
officers. Was marched through South Carolina to Augusta in Georgia, from there 
to Briar Creek, and was in the battle there. Marched from there to the Two 
Sisters, and was there discharged.”
“After that, volunteered in the horse service for a two month tour under 
Captain JAMES CRUMP and marched from Guilford, NC to the Narrows of the Yadkin, 
and there was stationed to the end of the tour, and was there discharged. Again 
volunteered in the horse service under Captain GEORGE HAMILTON, to go in 
pursuit of the Tories that were collecting on the Yadkin and served about eight 
or ten days. Was several other times after the Tories in the neighborhood, but 
only a few days at a time. That he cannot recollect the times when he entered 
the service or when he left the same having lost all his papers of that time…”
	GEORGE ADAMS-“That he is personally acquainted with JOHN WILSON…and was 
knowing to said WILSON’s bearing arms in defense of the United States against 
the British and Tories in the time of the American Revolution, and that he 
served with the said WILSON nine months at one time as drafted militia under 
the command of General RUTHERFORD and Colonel JOHN PAISLEY, and that he fought 
at the Battle of Briar Creek in company with said WILSON and under the command 
of General ASHE, and that he served a two month volunteer tour with the said 
WILSON under the command of Colonel LEDBETTER and Colonel DAVIDSON, JAMES 
CRUMP , captain, and that he knew of the said WILSON being out on scouting 
parties at different other times against the British and Tories…”

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