Sumner County TN Archives Military Records.....Hambleton, Thomas 
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Thomas Hambleton, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1169, Application #S32301
THOMAS HAMBLETON, a resident of Sumner County, TN, aged 71:

	“…In the month of August 1780, when he was placed on the muster roll 

and was attached to the company of ARTHUR FORBIS, the company commanded by 

FORBIS at the requirement of the government. Volunteered to do a tour of duty 

for the term of three months. They rendezvoused and were mustered into the 

service under Colonel JOHN PAISLEY at Guilford Courthouse in the state of North 

Carolina, and they marched to the south and joined General DAVIDSON’s army at a 

place called Blackjack Camps, from that were detached off on duty and marched 

from place to place for some months as a scrimmaging party until they were 

reunited to the army in South Carolina. At this time the company to which he 

was attached was commanded by Captain JAMES [could he have meant Andrew?] 

WILSON, a call having been made for volunteers, applicant in company with 

WILLIAM GAMBLE, HUGH MCCRORY and others to reinforce Col. DAVIE’s troop of 

horse and marched to Col. DAVIE’s camp on the Catawba River from whence they 

marched back to headquarters at New Providence, where he was regularly 

discharged from the army.”

	“On his return to his residence in North Carolina, he volunteered and 

joined Captain DANIEL GILLESPIE’s mounted dragoons. During this service he 

acted as a spy and pilot in different places until the 14th day of March 1781, 

when Colonel JOHN PAISLEY with his command marched to the place where the 

Battle of Guilford Courthouse was fought. On that day he was on guard and 

ordered to that post by General GREENE himself in person.”

“After the Battle of Guilford, Captain GILLESPIE’s company by the command of 

Colonel PAISLEY, reconnoitered through the counties of Chatham and Randolph, NC 

in order to suppress the spirit of disaffection that prevailed in that country 

and in pursuit of Col. FANNING, one of the most troublesome officers belonging 

to the enemy, until the fall of the year 1781, when he was ordered out under 

General RUTHERFORD and rendezvoused near Cross Creek, from whence they marched 

on in the direction of Wilmington and intercepted the enemy at the Raft Swamps 

and forced them to retreat into Wilmington, from whence he returned to his 

place of residence in the County of Guilford and stood in readiness until the 

next call, which was made in March 1782.”

“He then volunteered under Colonel EDWARD GWINN to take a route after Colonel 

FANNING and drove him from the country. He acted as a spy under Colonel WILLIAM 

WASHINGTON. He entered the service of the thirteen colonies in August 1780 and 

remained with little or no interruption from that time until the year 1782. 

General MORGAN, Colonel HARRY LEE, Colonel BILLY WASHINGTON, Generals BILLY 

SMALLWOOD and GREENE, regular officers in the Revolution. He received a 

discharge from Captain ARTHUR FORBIS for the first term of service which has 

been lost or mislaid, etc.”

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