Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9337, Charles Baker, N C
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State of Kentucky
Madison County
On this 4th day of April 1842 personally appeared in open Court before this in division [?] Samuel Estill & Adam Rogers Justices of the County Court in
and for the County of Madison now sitting and being a
court of Record, Charles Baker a resident of said County
aged eighty two years on the 22d day of December next, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June the 7. 1832
That in 1780 and before that time he was residing in Burke County North Carolina. That during the summer of that year he volunteered to serve a tour of duty in the service of the United States against the Indians and Tories. That he served said tour of three months under James Davidson as Captain. The name of the Lieutenant of the Company is not recollected - General Charles McDowell was the Commander and called out the volunteers. That in this Campaign he was employed in guarding the Frontier against the British Tories and Indians more particularly the last. That he served out and obtained a regular discharge for said tour from his Captain the said James Davidson - That in the fall of 1781 he again volunteered to serve a second tour of three months in the service of the United States
under General Charles McDowell whose brother Joseph was the Col. Samuel Killiam was the Capt and Joseph McDowell a cousin of the Colonel's was the Lieutenant - They were marched into the territory of the Cherokee Indian nation, where we destroyed their corn and Towns and were there stationed for some time - That he served out this tour of three months and also obtained
a discharge from General McDowell - that he has lost both of his discharges. That the company in 1780 rendezvoused at Warford's station in Burke County and that in 1781 the Company rendezvoused on the waters of the Catawba under the mountains. That he was born in Baltimore County Maryland on the 22d of December 1760 and that he would