Warren County TN Archives Military Records.....Philpott, Warren December 12, 1833 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 April 3, 2007, 12:49 pm Pension Application Of Warren Philpot, Natl Archives Microseries M805, Roll __, Application #S31907 United States of America, Territory of Arkansas, Washington County} On this 12th day of December, 1833, personally appeared in open court before the judge of the Washington Circuit Court now sitting, Warren Philpot, a resident of the county and territory aforesaid, aged 77 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration…: …Volunteered the latter part of June of the 1st of July in the year 1776 under Captain Phillip ?Misoma of the cavalry of the United States ____ Lieutenant Colonel Griffin, colonel commandant. Was at the Battle of the White Plains in the fall of 1776. Was discharged from the service the 1st day of December, 1776. Volunteered again on the 12th or 15th of October, in the year 1777. Belonged to Captain John Jacob Sly’s company and the regiment commanded by Lt. Col. S___k and William Betty or Bettis, colonel commandant. Discharged the 12th or 15th December, 1777, making a tour of 2 months. Volunteered again the 12th of February in the year 1781 under Captain Nevil, Colonel Preston commandant. Was at the Battle of Whitesell’s Mills, Guilford County, North Carolina. Discharged about the 15th March, 1781. [This is the date of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, and in the interrogatory, he stated that he had been living in Guilford County.] Lived then in the state of Virginia, Montgomery County. That he has no documentary evidence of the facts as herein set forth, that there is no person living whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services. Interrogatory by the court: Q. Where and in what year were you born? A. I was born in the county of Charles, in the state of Maryland the 28th day of August in the year of Christ, 1758. Q. Have you any record of your age? If so, where is it? A. There is no record of my age that I know of. Q. Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolution, and where do you now live? A. I was living in the county of Frederick, state of Maryland. Left that county and state in the year 1778, moved to the county of ?Bedford, Virginia. Left that county and state in the year 1779, moved to the county of Guilford, North Carolina. Moved back to the county and state aforesaid in the year 1780. Moved in the year 1786 to the county of Franklin in the state of Georgia, moved to the county of Pendleton in the state of South Carolina in the year 1801. Moved to the county of Warren in the state of Tennessee in the year 1807, then moved to the county of Washington in the Arkansas Territory in the year 1830, where I now live. Q. How were you called into service? Were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom? A. I volunteered in every ____ and never was a substitute. Q. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served, such Continental and militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service. A. Col. ?Shoconk and Col. Griffin are the principal officers that I now recollect that commanded at the Battle of White Plains, and Colonel Preston the principal officer that commanded at Whitesell’s Mills. We had an officer by the name of Bell. The aforesaid Officers are the principal ones now recollected by me. We labored under diverse disadvantages, and as to the general circumstances of my campaigns, I will refer you to the history of our country in the years I served, as they have escaped my memory. Q. Did you receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? I did receive a discharge from Captain Elisha Bell, but I did not take particular care of it, and by not so doing, lost it. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/warren/military/revwar/pensions/philpott297gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/tnfiles/ File size: 4.5 Kb