Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,338, George West, N.C.
Page 3

State of Tennessee n
Grainger County & 
On the fifth day of March personally appeared before me John Latham one of the acting
Justices in and for the County aforesaid George
West Resident of said County and State aged
about Eighty four five or six years who being
first sworn according to Law doth on his oath
make the following declaration in order to obtain
the benefit of the provision made of the act of
Congress passed the 7th of June 1832
that he is an unlettered man and that he cannot recollect dates but he believes it was in the year 1779 or 80 he was a volunteer from Bute County in the State of North Carolina under Capt William Hill and Maj. [?] Jack  in Virginia - Joined Col Joseph Sowell Regiment and in a few day was marched to Ninety Six from there to Augusta from there they march to the Edisto River
from there [illegible] to Mecklenburg Court house and there discharged by Capt William Hill after being in the service three months - he then moved into Lincoln County in said state and was there drafted for three months and served under Capt Robert Alexander and was employed in Guarding the frontier settlements of North and South Carolina from Seneca fort to the Pleasant
Gardens and served there as a solder three month
and was discharged and Capt Alexander's company - Relieved from Seneca by a company under the command of Capt Samuel Martin - that shortly after this he enlisted in the army of the United States in Lincoln County N. Carolina for the Term of one year and that he enlisted with Capt John Moore
Page 4

from where he was enlisted he was marched to
Seneca fort on the Savanah River and from
there he was march to Mumfords Cove then back to
Seneca fort then we were employed in Guarding
the frontiers on Ogeechee and Ocmulgee Rivers
our Col. Lame Bacey our Generals name was --
Williams  - at the head of Kettle Creek we
had a battle with the Tories and Indians - we were
then commanded by Maj William Ross who was
there wounded and afterwards died with said
wound in Augusta - from that battle we were
marched to Augusta where we joined Genl Green
and were attached to a Regt commanded by Col.
Joseph Heaster - from Augusta we were marched to
the Savanah then back to Augusta and then from
Augusta was marched to Seneca fort - from that
for we were marched to Hill's Iron works in South Carolina from there we were marched into Mecklenburg County in North Carolina and there discharged by Capt John Moore after being in the United States service twelve months and twenty four days - and after he returned from 8 or 10 day he Joined a volunteer Company commanded by Capt William Chomeal - he says his Col was by the name of Joseph Dickson and was marched to St Augustine under Genl Wade Hampton then returned and Joined Col. Dickinson at Lincoln Old court house at or near George's ford on the Catawba River- we had some shooting at the British in which Sergeant Maj Davison was killed - from there we were marched by the Marven town
Page 5

we were marched bound to Gilford Court house about four day before the battle at that place - from there this deponent and others were sent back to help take care of some sick soldiers and was in hearing of the battle at that place - about three weeks after the Battle at Gilford Court house he was discharged by Col Joseph Dickson after serving about three  month ands fifteen days and that somewhere about nineteen years ago he had his house burnt and all has household property burnt together with his discharges
2. where and in what year were you born
Answer I am no scholar and have no Register
of my age but from my best recollection
I am 84, 85 or 86 years of age and from information I was born in Burke County in North Carolina
2. where did you live when you went into the army of the United States Answer: I lived in Burke Lincoln County North Carolina
3, where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live
Answer: Ever since the war I have lived in South and North Carolina and in Virginia Except the last last Nine years past I have
lived in the State of Tennessee and I now live in said State in Grainger County
State then of some of your neighbors that will
Vouch for your veracity and their belief in your being revolutionary soldier John James George Barnard Lewis Collins Jonathan Barnard Jeremiah Young