Anderson County ScArchives Military Records.....Wilson, William May 26, 1854
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of William Wilson, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll __, Application #R11687
Anderson District, South Carolina}
	On this 26th day of May, 1854, personally appeared in open court before 
me, Herbert Hammond, Judge of the Court of the Ordinary for the district and 
state aforesaid [the said court being a court of record], Robert Wilson, a 
resident of South Carolina in the district of Abbeville and formerly a resident 
of this district, to me well known, aged about 73 years, who being first duly 
sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration…:

	That he is informed and verily believes that his father, William Wilson 
(who died on or about the month of November 1834 in Pickens District in the 
state aforesaid, aged 86 years) entered the service of the United States under 
the following named officers and served as herein stated (to wit): Colonel ____ 
Hamilton, Major ____ O’Neal,  and in the company commanded by Captain ____ 
Wilson [blanks left in by the court clerk], and that he entered the said 
service in the early part of the Revolutionary War, he thinks the first year of 
the war, which this deponent has heard his father repeatedly assert, the day 
and month not known, and that he served through the war, but not all the time 
under the aforesaid officers, but cannot remember to have heard him say what 
the names of those other officers were. 

That he believes his father resided in the state of North Carolina, Guilford 
County, at the time of his entering the said service as aforesaid, and that he 
was a volunteer, and this declarant remembers to have heard him say that he was 
in a battle at Briar Creek, also at the Cowpens and at Guilford Courthouse, and 
other skirmishes which he does not now remember through South Carolina and 
North Carolina, and that he was a soldier and present at Yorktown at the 
surrender of Lord Cornwallis. These statements are from the relation of the 
incidents by this declarant’s father which he distinctly remembers to have 
heard from him, and that he has no other documentary evidence than which he has 
submitted, and to which he refers the Department…etc. Robert Wilson

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