Williamson County TN Archives Military Records.....McBride, James October 1832
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The Pension Application Of James McBride Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1663, Application #S4192
JAMES MCBRIDE, a resident of Lincoln County, TN, aged 82 years in October 1832:

“…That he was born in August 1750 in the County of Down, Ireland, from thence 

emigrated to Lancaster County, PA, and thence in 1771 or 1772 to Guilford 

County, North Carolina, in which county about the close of the year 1775, he 

enlisted for 6 months in the 1st regiment of the North Carolina line commanded 

by Colonel FRANCIS NASH. I will here remark that although NASH commanded the 

regiment to which I belonged, I never saw him until we were marched to 

Charleston, South Carolina.”



“Captain GEORGE DAVIDSON’s company in which I served being placed under the 

command of Colonel ALEXANDER MARTIN, who marched us first to Fayetteville, 

thence by water to Wilmington, thence by Brunswick and Long Bay to Wochama 

River, where we took shipping and sailed to Georgetown. Thence by land to 

Charleston where we lay until the attack on Sullivan’s Island [per Heitman, 

June 28-29, 1776] where we were sailed across the bay to Hadrill’s Point and 

kept during the action by the firing of the ship’s cannon. We were taken to the 

island and remained until the expiration of the term of our service when we 

were sailed back to Charleston and discharged. In Charleston I saw General 

CHARLES CATESWORTH PINCKNEY and on Sullivan’s Island, Colonel MOULTRIE.”

“On my return home [summer of 1776] I joined a volunteer company commanded by 

Captain ARTHUR FORBIS. This company, with three others commanded by Captains 

MOORE, WHITESELL and GILLESPIE, in the regiment of Col. JOHN PAISLEY, were 

employed principally against the Tories under FIELDS and WILLESBY. I performed 

in sundry tours in this service the duration and number of each not 

recollected, with an exception, which was three months. We ranged through 

Randolph, Chatham, Moore, Anson, Montgomery and Rowan Counties.”

“In the fall of 1778 three regiments were raised by draft to go to SC, 

commanded by Colonels PAISLEY, LOCKE and SAUNDERS, and the brigade by General 

RUTHERFORD. I was taken in this service in the company of Capt. JOHN DONNELL, 

Lieutenant WILLIAM WILEY and Ensign GEORGE PARKS, PAISLEY’s regiment. We were 

marched to Purysburg, on the Savannah River, where we lay until spring. Here I 

first saw General LINCOLN. I was then detached and placed under the command of 

Colonel ARCHIBALD LYTLE and Major JOHN NELSON, who marched us first to the 

Black Swamp, then to Augusta, where we lay a few weeks, then crossed Savannah 

River and marched about 60 miles to Briar Creek near which place we were joined 

by General SAMUEL ASHE with about 700? men.”



“Here on the 3rd of March 1779, we were surprised by the British under General 

PREVOST and Colonel CAMPBELL, and myself and about 170 other men were made 

prisoners, General ELBERT of Georgia of the number. I was kept until the last 

of August when myself and two others affected our escape, and he returned home 

after an absence of about ten months.”



“I was again engaged as I had previously been under Capt. FORBIS “Tory 

hunting”, but the periods of the different tours I cannot recollect [probably 

1779-1780]. I served one campaign in Colonel ISAAC’s regiment, Capt. ROBERT 

PAISLEY of three months, but whether this was before or after the period of 

which I write, 1780, I am unable to say. The service was ranging for Tories 

through the same country as that previously mentioned under Colonel PAISLEY.”



“Shortly before the Defeat of Gates at Camden, I volunteered under Captain 

WHITESELL, to go to Suffolk, Virginia for arms and ammunition. We were marched 

direct to Halifax, North Carolina, where we lay some weeks by order of Colonel 

LONG who was, I believe, Quartermaster General. We proceeded thence by Winton 

on Chowan River to Suffolk where we received two wagonloads of arms and lead 

and returned by the same route, stopping again at Halifax for the purpose, I 

believe of branding the arms. I have also forgotten the period of this service, 

but I believe it was between two and three months.”

	

‘The Tories about this time began to put on a bold appearance. They were 

commanded by Colonel FANNING who was considered an active officer and a 

considerable force was again employed against them. I was again in Capt. 

PAISLEY’s company engaged for three months, the regiment commanded by Colonel 

PAISLEY. We scoured the country as far south as the Pee Dee River. From this 

period he served, as the occasion required, a number of short tours of duty 

against the Tories, until peace.”



	WILLIAM SHAW-“That I was with him in the War of the Revolution sundry 

campaigns, one in 1775, though in different regiments, another under Colonel 

ISAACS against the Tories, one to Suffolk in Virginia for arms and ammunition, 

and another under Colonel PAISLEY.”

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