CHESTERFIELD CO., SOUTH CAROLINA - REV WAR - HINSON, Charles

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Pension Application Of Charles Hinson, Nat’l Archives Microseries M804, Roll __, Application # S7014
Anson County, North Carolina, April Session, 1833 personally appeared, Charles 
Hinson, aged 70 years:

	I volunteered on the 22nd day of June, 1780 in the militia under 
Captain James Fair, in the County of Anson, North Carolina, for three months in 
Colonel Davidson’s regiment, and was in two skirmishes with the Tories under 
Colonel Kolb of South Carolina, the first at Baggetts (now S___boro), the other 
the same morning at Captain Duke Glenn’s plantation near Pee Dee River, in both 
of which we defeated them (the Tories). I served the three months, then was 
discharged in September 1780.

I again volunteered in the County of Anson, North Carolina, in September 1780 
under Captain Patrick Boggan, Colonel Thomas Wade’s regiment, and was engaged 
in collecting cattle and supplies for the American army throughout the country, 
in the neighborhood of Camden, South Carolina, under the direction of Colonel 
Thomas Wade, who was then Commissary, and served four months until the month of 
January, 1781.

	I again volunteered in the County of Anson, North Carolina, under 
Captain Duke Glenn in the month of January 1781, and was marched into South 
Carolina, and joined General Sumpter, and was in an engagement with the enemy 
at the head of S___Hore? River, [now Black River]. Lord Rawdon was then in 
possession of Camden. I was then marched back to North Carolina on Pee Dee 
River, when, owing to some cowardly conduct of Captain Glenn’s, he was tried by 
a Court Martial and was disgraced and cashiered. I was then placed under the 
command of Captain Stephen Tomkins and was marched to Drowning Creek, and was 
engaged against the Tories in the Battle of Beattie’s Bridge. I served seven 
months and was discharged in August 1781.

	I again volunteered in the County of Anson, North Carolina, in 
September 1781 under Captain Patrick Boggan, and marched to Cape Fear River, 
where we joined Colonel Smith (General Rutherford’s brigade) and was marched 
___ ___ _____ ____ the Brick House near Wilmington, North Carolina, and was in 
the Battle with the Tories near the Brick House, in which we defeated them, and 
made an ineffectual attack on the British who was fortified in the Brick House. 
I have a distinct recollection that during this tour, that we received the news 
of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to the American Army at Little York. I was 
discharged in the County of Anson, December 1781, having served 4 months.

	I became a substitute for a man by the name of Gordon, under Captain 
Thomas Ellerbee at Cheraw, South Carolina for two months, sometime in February 
1782, and together with several others, was put in charge of some British 
prisoners, in number about one hundred, and ordered to conduct them to 
Charleston, South Carolina (The British yet being in possession of that place). 
We delivered them over just below the Mouth of Watt, both on Ashley River.

I was then discharged, having served the term for which I substituted, two 
months, having served in all, my five terms of service, one year and eight 
months (In fact, I am confident that I served in all, two years, but part of my 
time of service I cannot state definitely, but such was the ___ state of things 
in this section of country that we were constantly annoyed by our neighbors and 
internal enemy, the Tories, who were much more troublesome to us than the 
British.

Much of our time of service, I have taken no account of. I was young and 
inattentive to that of gathering written discharges. In truth, my main object 
was to get freedom for my country. I have no distinct recollection of having 
received but one discharge, and that I have lost. I have no other documentary 
evidence of my service, and there are but five persons living who served in 
this section of the country in the Revolutionary War. I know of none whose 
testimony I can procure to testify to my service, except Walter Leak and Lott 
Strickland, both of the county of Richmond, North Carolina, whose Affidavits 
are hereunto annexed, and Robert Huntley [crossed out] and William Ricketts, 
both of the County of Anson, aforesaid, whose affidavit is also hereto annexed…

1st Question by the Court-Where and in what year were you born?

Answer-In Chesterfield District, South Carolina, on the 21st day of June 1763.

2nd Question-Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it now?

Answer-Records of my age were kept by Doctor Dixon and my grandfather, Philip 
Hinson, from which I transcribed a copy, which copy is now in the possession of 
my brother, Bartlett Hinson, of this county.

3rd Question-Where were you living when called into service? Where have you 
lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?

Answer-I lived in the County of Anson, North Carolina when called into the 
service, and where I have continued to live all my life, where I now live.

4th Question-How were you called into service, were you a volunteer, were you 
drafted, or were you a substitute?

Answer-I was a volunteer in every tour except the last, when I was a substitute 
for two months for a man by the name of Jordon.

5th Question-State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the 
troops when you served, such continental and militia regiments as you can 
recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.