WHITE COUNTY, TN - MILITARY - Samuel Moore's Revolutionary Pension Application
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Samuel Moore
State Of Tennessee
White County

	On This 11th day of October 1832 personally appeared in open court 
before worshipful the Justice of the County pleas and Quarter Sessions for 
County of White, Samuel Moore a resident of White County and Sate of Tennessee 
aged about seventy years old who first being duly sworn according to law doth 
on his oath make the following declaration in order to receive the benefit of 
the Act Of Congress proposed June 7, 1832.

	He was born Oct. 8, 1762 in Orange Co. NC . While residing at his 
fathers house in Rutherford Co. Tn. that he enlisted in 1779, served as a 
private in Captain John Sharp's North Carolina Company and marched against the 
Creek Indians who had been committing depredations on the frontier of Georgia, 
was in an engagement with the savages at a place then called Mount Pleasant, 
in which engagement he received twelve wounds from a large Creek Indian. A 
ball which penetrated his thigh and shattered the bone with the bone sticking 
out. The other eleven wounds he received from a tomahawk in a personal 
encounter with before said Indian which he finally slew with a butchersknife 
letting out his intrals. Because his weekened condition as a result of  said 
wounds was not able to go to his fathers house but instead taken to his 
brother  Andrew Moore's house in Burke Co. Ga.  Where he was cared for by his 
brother and his brothers wife until his wounds were mended. He returned to his 
fathers house in Rutherford Co. NC and being still willing to serve his 
Country enlisted in Captain William Whiteside's Company, Colonel Williams 
North Carolina Regiment, marched to Greenville Co. SC and was in the battle of 
the Cowpens and after the battle was placed in a guard detail and started to 
Salibury in charge of the British Prisoners, but on the way was taken ill, 
received a furlough and returned to his fathers house where he lay ill for a 
long time and was not able to reenter the service until after the surrender of 
Lord Cornwallis. Length of this last service about fifteen months. After the 
termination of the War he lived in Burkes Co. Ga. Then to Claibourne Co. Tn., 
then to Clay Co. Ky.. then to Bedford County, Tn., then to Wayne Co. Tn., then 
finally to White County, Tn.

	He knows now no living witness by whom he can prove the foregoing 
facts. At least there is none in his reach. He has no documentary evidence by 
which he can establish same. He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension, 
except the present, and declares his name is not on any Pension roll or agency 
of any State as a Soldier of the Revolution. 

	Sworn and subscibed day and year aforesaid. 

Witnesses: William Dotson, Daniel Dotson, Peter Carter, and Rev. Mr. Maze also 
George D. Howard Esq. And Moses Goddard, Grief Smallman and Henry Burton. Jacob Adams Clerk                                            
                                                                                                       Samuel Moore