Pickens County ScArchives Military Records.....Chapman, Joseph Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/sc/scfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com June 24, 2006, 2:27 pm Pension Application Of Joseph Chapman, National Archives Microseries M804, Roll 521, Application #S21691 JOSEPH CHAPMAN, a resident of Pickens District, SC, aged 87 years: “..That he was born in Halifax County, VA the 25th of December, 1745 and when he entered the service of his country he resided in Guilford County, NC, when he enlisted or joined General RUTHERFORD in an expedition against the Cherokee Indians and was in several engagements or skirmishes with said Indians and in which expeditions he acted as captain and served four months.” “On his return, he enlisted or joined under Captain ANDREW VANOY and joined a body of men under the command of General LOCK at Wilmington, North Carolina and was marched to a place called Pine Tree in South Carolina, which force was designed to meet the British, and served in this expedition four months.” “He returned home and immediately removed to South Carolina and settled in Turkey Creek, then in Ninety-Six District, which removal [took] place a short time previous to the fall of Charleston. A short time after the fall of Charleston, he joined a company under the command of Captain ROBERT ANDERSON and marched against the fort at Ninety-Six then in the hands of the British and Tories. Colonel ANDREW PICKENS commanded the regiment to which his company was attached, and the whole was under the command of Major General GREENE, and he was present when the first spade of dirt was thrown up at the siege. LORD RAWDON, coming to the relief of the fort, the besieging army retreated. The company to which he was attached, dispersed, and met 15 or 20 miles below Ninety-Six, when he was allowed to return home to his family. He served this time about four weeks.” “A few weeks after his return home, he enlisted under Captain ROBERT MAXWELL, who raised a company of dragoons and joined Colonel ANDREW PICKENS in an expedition into the Cherokee Country and was engaged in many skirmishes and scouts. One engagement was at an Indian town by the name of Tesenty, when we destroyed the town and killed and took the inhabitants. The same day of the Battle of Tesenty, he was out on a scout about four or five miles from the town with Captain MAXWELL and 25 men. The company was separated and he and MAXWELL and two others came across four Indians at the camp. The Indians broke in different directions, this deponent pursuing two Indians up Toney Mountain, when he fired on them, but misfiring, the Indian turning on him, he was shot through the body with a rifle. Colonel CLARK was in the above engagement with a detachment from Georgia. This deponent was never able to serve after the wound above stated, and returned home.” “Personally came JOSEPH CHAPMAN: “That he entered the services of the United States in the summer of 1776 under Colonel PAISLEY, General RUTHERFORD’s Brigade, served four months as a Captain. That his enlistment under Captain MAXWELL was for a tour of eighteen months, that he served to the best of his recollection, three months of said tour, when he received a wound which rendered him unable for service and was put under the care of Doctor RUSSELL where he remained all winter." This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/scfiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb