Lincoln County TN Archives Military Records.....Shaw, William October 1832 Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com June 25, 2006, 4:02 pm Pension Application Of William Shaw, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 2163, Application #W127 WILLIAM SHAW, a resident of Lincoln County, Tennessee, aged 75 years in October 1832: “That he first entered service in Guilford County, state of North Carolina in the fall of 1775 under the command of Colonel JAMES MARTIN, Colonel Com, JOHN PAISLEY- Lieutenant Colonel, Captain ARTHUR FORBIS, Lieutenant WILLIAM WILEY, and Ensign WILLIAM GILMER were my company officers. I also served a second tour under the above-mentioned officers, but have no distinct recollection of the exact time I served in either of the two tours, he thinks between two and three months.” “My third tour was against the Cherokee Indians in 1776 under the command of Brigadier General RUTHERFORD, the regimental and company officers above [Col. JAMES MARTIN, Lt. Col. JOHN PAISLEY, Capt. ARTHUR FORBIS, Lt. WILLIAM WILEY, Ens. WILLIAM GILMER] mentioned, and was in service between three and four months. I again, in the latter part of the year 1779 I think, served a tour of three months in the capacity of orderly sergeant in Captain SMITH MOORE’s company under the command of a Colonel ISAACS. One of my subaltern officers’ names was CHESLEY BARNES, the others are forgotten. During this tour we were principally engaged in ranging through Randolph County, Caraway Mountains, Pedee, Montgomery County and others, against the Tories and others.” “Again in 1780 a short time before General GATES’ Defeat at Camden, I served a tour of duty under the command of Captain WHITESELL to go to Suffolk in Virginia for arms and ammunition. We marched direct to Halifax, from which place Colonel LONG, Quartermaster General, I believe, sent other wagons under the escort of our guard. We proceeded to Suffolk where we obtained both, and returned by the same route and were engaged therein between two and three months.” “I also served a tour of three months under Colonel PAISLEY against the Tories on Pedee River and the adjoining counties, but cannot distinctly state the exact period when it was. In the latter part of the year 1780, I attached myself to a company of light horse under the command of Captain JOHN GILLESPIE, DANIEL GILLESPIE- Lieutenant, and GEORGE PARKS, Cornet. DANIEL GILLESPIE subsequently became our captain, GEORGE PARKS, lieutenant, and WILLIAM KERR, Cornet, JOHN GILLESPIE having been promoted to the command of a regiment. From this period until the conclusion of peace, we were continually employed in scouring the country from Guilford County in North Carolina to Waxhaw Creek in South Carolina and were engaged in various skirmishes with the Tories and British, one at Charlotte [per Heitman, September 26, 1780], one at Wacham’s Lane [per Heitman, September 21, 1780] and sundry others of less note. We were in active service about two years and six months, two years of which I served in the capacity of orderly sergeant. Our principal commander was Colonel WILLIAM R. DAVIE, both at Charlotte and Wacham’s Lane…” “On each tour of duty I was called on, I entered the same as a volunteer, with the exception of the tour against the Cherokee Indians, when I was drafted, and in addition to the officers already mentioned, was Colonel ALEXANDER MARTIN, who was the regular officer who commanded us on my first tour of duty in 1775, employed principally against Scotch Tories under MCDONALD, MCLEOD and others.” “I received a discharge of each tour of duty I was engaged in, together with certificates of pay, all of which I lost by the burning of my house, and am therefore unable to say here precisely how long I was in service, but was in all between three and four years. JAMES MCBRIDE…“That he is acquainted with WILLIAM SHAW…That he saw him in the service of his country in the year 1775, in the regiment of Colonel JAMES MARTIN of the militia. That he afterwards served a tour with him of three months in Colonel ISAACS regiment and a tour to Suffolk for arms for two or three months and subsequently another tour of three months under Colonel PAISLEY- and further that he knows of his serving in the light horse as they were then called, under Captain GILLESPIE, but has no distinct recollection of the duration of said service, only that he remained therein until the war ended.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/lincoln/military/revwar/pensions/shaw181gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/tnfiles/ File size: 4.9 Kb