Hawkins County TN Archives Military Records.....Mullins, Flower 
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Flower Mullins, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1787, Application #S1557
FLOWER MULLINS, a resident of Hawkins County, TN, aged 73 years:

	“That he entered the service of the United States about the first week 

in May in the year 1777 or 1776 or 1778 in Guilford County, state of North 

Carolina, the county of his residence and served three months and marched near 

Camden in South Carolina. This service was in the militia under GEORGE PEARCE, 

Major THOMAS OWENS. The company joined General LINCOLN near Camden and after 

the three months ended he was discharged by GEORGE PEARCE and returned home, 

but the discharge is lost.”

“In about three weeks after his return home, he entered the service again as a 

substitute for Major OWENS’ brother, GLEN OWENS, who was drafted under Captain 

GEORGE PEARCE, Colonel TINNEN and served as a substitute three months more. 

General BUTLER then commanded and on that campaign, was in the Battle of 

Cowpens [per Heitman, January 17, 1781], at Stono [per Heitman, June 20, 1779], 

and in several skirmishes about the Black Swamp and Camden, and was discharged 

by Captain PEARCE again, by written discharge.”

“He further states that he enlisted in Guilford County, North Carolina, after 

he had served the two tours before spoken of under Colonel MELVIN and served in 

Captain ROBERT H___’s company, the number of the regiment not remembered. He 

believes Count ROCHAMBEAU commanded. From Guilford they marched to Salisbury, 

from thence to Camden, thence to Augusta, thence to the Black Swamps, thence to 

Charleston, where he was taken prisoner and carried to St. Martin’s Island 

[Fort Moultrie] and was at St. John’s, exchanged and then came to Bacon’s 

Bridge, South Carolina, where the troops lay for some time, and then went to 

the Black Swamp and there lay a considerable time at New Providence, and from 

New Providence went to Augusta, from thence went to Golphin’s where they were 

stationed for some time.”

“He was kept a prisoner after he was taken at Charleston about seven weeks, and 

during that service, was in the skirmishes at the Blue Springs [?Green 

Springs?, SC-per Heitman, August 1, 1780], at the Eutaw Springs [per Heitman 

September 8, 1781], at the Black Swamps, at Charleston where he was taken 

prisoner, at Monck’s Corners [per Heitman, April 14, 1780 or October 16, 1781], 

at Ninety-Six, and at Pine Tree, and at Savannah River. He was wounded on the 

front of the left leg at Stono River [per Heitman, June 20, 1779] in South 

Carolina, and he served two years and three months in the regular service and 

was discharged, and his discharge signed by a French captain whose name is not 

now remembered. His father’s house was burned after the war, and all his 

discharges in it, which is the reason he cannot present them…”

	“He further states that he was in the regular service. He was commanded 

by GEORGE PEARCE, JOHN DAVIS, JACOB WILLIAMS, MELVIN and others, and was under 

the command of Generals LINCOLN, MARION, SUMTER and GREENE, but he does not 

know the number of the regiment, as he has forgotten ___ ____.”

“Personally appeared…DAVID BRAGG…that he knew FLOWER MULLINS…whilst said 

MULLINS was in the service in the Revolutionary War, and remembers seeing him 

at Sullivan County (now Tennessee). They then marched under Colonel ISAAC 

SHELBY to Burke Courthouse, North Carolina, thence to Camden, thence to High 

Hills of Santee, where General GREENE’s army lay, thence to General MARION, and 

served with him til the end of the campaign, under the command of General 

MARION…”

“Also personally appeared, BENJAMIN BIRDWELL…that he knew him during the 

Revolutionary War and he knew and saw said MULLINS in the service …at the 

places named in DAVID BRAGG’s deposition above stated…under the command of 

General MARION…”

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