LEXINGTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - REV WAR - RALL, Thomas

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Nancy Poquette <npoq@hotmail.com>  4 Jul 2006

Pension Application Of Thomas Rall, 
Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1994, Application #W8566

Lexington District, SC, May 1, 1846, Thomas Rall, aged 83 years:

	“He first entered the service as a volunteer in Captain Godfrey 
Dreher’s company stationed near Saluda in what is now Lexington District, and 
acting as a scouting company against the Tories who infested the neighborhood. 
From thence went to Granby, and was there stationed with the same company in 
the fort for a short time under Lieutenant Owens of the volunteers. From 
thence, proceeded to the bridge across Congaree Creek near Granby, where he was 
stationed with the same company and commanded to guard the bridge. The 
foregoing service was performed against the Tories and not under any regular or 
Continental officer…”

	“After his service as aforesaid, he was enrolled as a militiaman in 
Captain Bartholomew Gartman’s company of Colonel Water’s regiment of militia of 
South Carolina. After this, a draft of the militia was ordered and a draft took 
place in Captain Bartholomew Gartman’s company, to which deponent was attached, 
and deponent fell into the second division, that is, those who were to perform 
the second tour of service.”

“One Sebastian Hoffman was drafted among the first division for duty, and 
deponent became a substitute for him, and served out that tour, after which, it 
being his own time according to the allotment, he entered in that service, and 
during that time and about the time of the expiration of this tour, the militia 
were discharged, himself among the number. This service as a substitute for 
Hoffman as above mentioned and as a draughted militiaman was performed in 
Colonel Hammond’s regiment of draughted militia, and under General Greene of 
the Continental Army, while stationed at Bacon’s Bridge not far from 
Charleston, and that took place near the close of the war after the enemy’s 
forces were confined mostly to Charleston.”

“…That his service in Fort Granby before mentioned, was after its surrender to 
the Americans. That he was engaged in no battle during his service…”