Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3576, William Williams, Va.
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Decliration of William Williams
State of Tennessee on this 4th day of March 1834
Hawkins County ⎬ Personally appeared William William
a resident of the County of Hawkins and State of
confice aged seventy seven years before me Lewis
Mitchell an acting justice of the peace for said County
and of his being duly sworn according to law doth
on his oath make the following declaration
entered the service of the United States under the command
of Captain Gift same time in the spring of 1880
and went against the Indian that ware making
Jared upon the frontier of Virginia and then living in
the State of Virginia in Montgomery County.
returned home that last of July being good four
on the Weward command by Col Campbell during
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our campaign and were marching from place to place
the back enttlements of Virginia from the
guarding
Indians. I entered the service as a volunteer and was
the orderly Seargent of the company in which I
served. I record no discharge upon my return
In a short time of my return I vallentered
myself again under Captain Brison and joined
the regiment of me and stated
greater in hand we marched on in the
State of Northcarolina by Salem and on to on
Called B Wilham as well to collect where we
received news of Gales being defeated we then
marched back to Salem and then lay stationed for
some time during our stay there we were busily
imployed in coming over the country in differ
ent parts taking a great many tories and puting
in oil hanging some and furnishing them
them in could catch them I received a discharge
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from Col Campbell which I have since Cowland
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returned home being gone five months in this rout
was also an orderly Seargent. I still resided in
Montgomery County of Virginia. In the
first of the year 181781 there was a wallenteer Company
organized in Montgomery County State of Virginia
and called minute men I was among the