Bedford County TN Archives Military Records.....McKaimy, Francis 
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Francis McKaimy, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1688, Application #S1853
FRANCIS MCKAIMY, a resident of Bedford County, Tennessee, aged 74 years:

	“That he entered the service of the United States as a drafted soldier 

in the County of Guilford and state of North Carolina on the first of January 

in the year 1780, and was placed in a company commanded by Captain BRASHEAR and 

rendezvoused at Guilford Courthouse, where he says he was taken from the ranks 

of said company by order of Colonel JOHN PAISLEY, the commanding colonel, and 

ordered to take charge of a public wagon and team as a driver of the same and 

said wagon was used in conveying public arms and powder and lead from Halifax 

Courthouse in Virginia to Salisbury in the state of North Carolina, and to 

Guilford in the last mentioned states, and to various other places until his 

term of three months expired, when he says he was dismissed by Major RUTHERFORD 

and returned home.”

	“Deponent further states that he was drafted again in the same county 

(Guilford) between the 15th and 20th of January 1781, and was placed in Captain 

BARNETT’s company and was again taken from the ranks by order of the commanding 

officers to take charge of another public wagon as a driver in company with 

about twenty-two others, and went to Newbern in said state of North Carolina 

for salt for General GREENE’s army. He states that before they returned, about 

fifteen miles below Hillsborough, he received information that the British were 

then in Hillsborough, and he says they were conveyed from there under the 

command of Colonel GILLESPIE across Roanoke River at Taylor’s Ferry into the 

state of Virginia, where he says they remained until after the Battle of 

Guilford, when they returned home and was discharged after delivering up the 

wagons to the public officers, for a tour of three months service, although he 

says he was very little more than two months in actual service.”

“Deponent further states that while he was in this last mentioned tour of duty, 

his brother, JAMES MCKAIMY was killed by the Tories and some of TARLETON’s men, 

and that he then volunteered immediately under Captain BRASHEAR’s company under 

the command of Colonel PAISLEY and was marched to Deep River in Randolph County 

in the state of North Carolina in pursuit of a man by the name of FANNING, a 

Tory Colonel, and from there he says he was marched into Chatham County, where 

Colonel PAISLEY and Colonel O’NEAL joined other armies together and encamped at 

Ramsey’s Mill on Deep River for some time, and while the troops remained there, 

he says he was in an engagement or skirmish with the Tories, in which three 

Tories were killed and an American. And from there he was marched to some old 

barracks in Chatham County and remained there some time. He says he was 

dismissed ‘til further orders after serving six weeks.”

“He states that after that he was called on again by the same captain 

[BRASHEAR] and Colonel [PAISLEY] and joined them at Guilford Courthouse, in 

about ten days after he was dismissed in Chatham, and was marched in search of 

Tory Captain by the name of PYLES. He was called Doctor PYLES, who it was said 

had collected a band of Tories near the county line between Chatham and 

Cumberland Counties, and after serving on this expedition four weeks, he was 

dismissed again until further orders.”

“He further says that he was called on again by the same captain [BRASHEAR] and 

Colonel [PAISLEY] and was marched in search of another Tory captain by the name 

of FIELDS, but before the American troops reached the place where FIELDS and 

his men were, they had all fled off, and he says he was marched back home and 

then dismissed. He thinks he served two weeks on this expedition, making in the 

whole, a term of actual service of eight months…”

“…That he knows of no person, except what he can prove by MATHEW CUNNINGHAM’s 

affidavit which accompanies this, his declaration, whose testimony he can 

procure who can testify as to his service…”

“This day, MATHEW CUNNINGHAM…saith that he entered the service of the United 

States some time in the month of October, but does not recollect the date of 

the year, but believes in the year 1781, in the County of Guilford and state of 

North Carolina as a volunteer in Captain GEORGE PERSON’s [?PEARCE] company, and 

was marched into Randolph and Chatham Counties in North Carolina against the 

Tories under the command of a Tory by the name of FANNING, when and where he 

knew FRANCIS MCKAIMY, a volunteer soldier in Captain BRASHEAR’s company of 

volunteers, and that he, said MCKAIMY, served as such…during the term that he 

served, but how long he served afterward he does not know…”

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