White County TN Archives Military Records.....Norris, Abner October 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Abner Norris, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll __. Application #S1575
White County , TN, October 19th, 1833, Abner Norris, aged about 75 years:

	“First-As well as he can remember, he entered the service in 1776 as a 

volunteer and as a private. He then resided in Halifax County, VA. His term of 

service was for three months and he served out under Captain James Cobb. The 

names of his other officers he does not remember. From Halifax the company, 

with some other troops (how many he cannot say) marched to Petersburg, where 

they remained a very short time, without any active service or anything 

remarkable happening. From thence they went to Williamsburg where they remained 

a short time without performing any service of importance. From Williamsburg 

the troops went to Hampton Town. From there, they crossed in a vessel to 

Norfolk, which place he states, had been burned by the British. How long he 

remained at Norfolk he does not remember. The British had left that place. He 

states that he saw them moving off into the ocean, while he was in Hampton 

Road, on his way to Norfolk. From Norfolk, the troops went by water to a town 

called Portsmouth, not far from the mouth of James River. At the last named 

place his three months expired, and he obtained a discharge from his captain, 

which has long been lost by time or accident or both. He can only state the 

fact that it is lost.”



	“2. After returning home from his first tour, his father sold his land 

in Halifax, VA and removed to Guilford County, NC. He was drafted for three 

months as a private under Captain John McAdoo [McAdow] in the County of 

Guilford. The name of his major was Robert Rolston. His colonel’s name was 

Pacely [Paisley], at least he was so called, but the number of the regiment he 

cannot give and he thinks, but is not certain, that this second tour was about 

two years after the expiration of his first tour. This tour was after the 

Tories. From Guilford, they marched to Deep River, where they remained some 

considerable time. The only event he can remember worthy of noting, was the 

surrounding of a house where some Tories were harbored, and then the house was 

burned. Nothing further happened which can be considered important during this 

tour. The troops to which he was attached were principally employed in ranging 

about the country in quest of Tories. he served out his three months and 

obtained a discharge, which, in like manner, has been lost.”



	“3-His third tour was also for three months as a drafted private. His 

memory is so frail, he cannot remember his captain’s name. His colonel was the 

same as in the preceding tour, Paisley. From Guilford Courthouse, the troops 

crossed the Yadkin River and went about three days journey on the other side 

from Guilford, where they encountered the British and retreated back to the 

Yadkin River and were pursued by the enemy. He remembers that Major Rutherford 

was killed during this retreat. In this tour, the declarant states that he was 

under General Davidson. He states also that General Sumter was along.”



	“After the retreat across the Yadkin, word came that the Tories were 

committing depradations up toward the Shallow Ford. Volunteers were raised, 

some out of each captain’s company, to go in quest of them, and this declarant 

was one of the number that went, while the main body of the troops remained 

stationed at the place to which they had retreated. These volunteers from the 

army encountered the Tories near the Shallow Ford and killed about 15 of them. 

The troops then returned to the army where they remained a few days, and then 

recrossed the Yadkin and pursued the British, and occasionally scouting parties 

of the Americans took some prisoners. This declarant served out his three 

months, making in all, nine months. He also received a discharge for his third 

tour, which has also been lost.”

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