Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2704, for Aaron Thomas, North Carolina
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N.C.

Thomas, Aaron
               Sarah


NUMBER
W. 2704

Born in N.C.

CONTENTS
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of the act Congress passed the 7th June 1832
State of North Carolina 
Macon County
Corte of pleas & quarter session
December A 1832
On this 28 day of December 1832 personally appeared before the justices of the court pleas and
quarter sessions now sitting Amos Thomas a resident  of Macon County aged about 72 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7 June 1832
I was born in the year 1760 in Orange County N. Carolina the 27 day of January and entered into the services of the United States in the year 1780 as a drafted man for three months under the command of Col Lock and I believe the Capt name was Thomas Freeman - entered in the month of July - marched from Salisbury to Rocky River then marched near Camden & then I was put under the
command of Gen Gates and I was in Gates army when it was defeated near Camden - I then was with
others gathered together and discharged in Rowan County N. Carolina -my next tour I entered at Salisbury N. Carolina as a drafted man for a three month tour[?] in the year 1781 under the command of Col Montgomery and Capt Humphrey and I marched under them to the origin line guarding the prisoners taken at the battle of the Cowpens in South Carolina but I believe I did not serve all the time quarding to [illegible] of being taking the British army under[?] Cornwallis - we were dismissed to escape being taken
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prisoners I want went out a gone as a volunteer or
as a minit man in the month of August 1781 & Contin
or untill January following 1782 in the latter
part of January 1782 I entered the sins agane
Joach
in follisting under the company
us & Capt Charles Junton as a Regular
behave that govern Martin was the Commander in
chief & was kept guardining prisoner untill July
I then march to Hilsborough after uniting then the
County after Jones and precutor after a tory officer named
Farner then got back about Hillsborough & Marched
to one James Paul & then was discharged making
twelve month tower my discharges have all been
lost or mislaid so that I now nothing about them
I have notes of proving my service and a certificate promited
my age was recorded in a spelling book my month
discharge was give my sins 13 month dishongly lot Lock my
to me no discharge
I do hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension
an annuity except the present and declares that my name is
not is not on the pention Roll of the agency of any state sworn
to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
I more from Rowe to with counts them to John N
then to Rotherfor N & continued the 42 years then on one
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plantation this to movements when son now living
Lester and subscribed the day ye of
John Tatham J.
Where and in what
Have you any recorded
Aaron Thomas
were you be
for join age and of sowher is
where were you living when called into services where
have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where
for now live