Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7745, for Richard Tomlinson, North Carolina
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State of No Carolina
Anson County
October Session 1832 On this 19 day of Oct.
1832 personally appeared before me Allen
Carpenter one of the acting Justices for said County of Anson Richard Tomlinson a resident in said County of Anson Aged eighty four 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 paper in the 7th 1832 - he says that he entered the
service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, he says that the engagement that he entered the service at Tarborough No Carolina - That he joined the Army as a volunteer in the Militia service
about the 7th day of March 1780 in Edgecombe
County No Carolina in the horse company of the the Dragoons  under Captain Jones and David Smith was lieutenant and Peter Cartwright Cornet he says that he entered the service as second sergeant [insert - served as such two months] and that he marched from Edgecombe County to Halifax Town and from there  marched under the command of Col. Whitaker under
General Jones to Hillsborough, then to Salisbury & then to Charlotte where he continued some time and was discharged about the 1st day of May 1780 serving two months as second sergeant -
that he further says that he entered the 2nd engagement about under Capt Malichi Marin in the County of Edgecombe as a private, about the 7th day of February1781 as a Volunteer - that he engaged for three months in the Militia service & that he served his time out was and discharged about the 3rd[?] day of May 1781 that he served under Col Henry Hart at Tarborough & did not
March with any regular regiments during the Trip or time of service. he further says that he entered the 3rd term of service about the first day of August, 1781as a substitute and served six weeks and was discharged about the the 15 day of September 1781 - he says that he entered the