Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26195, for Daniel Lane, North Carolina
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State of North Carolina
Craven County

On this 13th day of November A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Worshipful the Justices of the Court of Pleas & Quarter sessions for the County of Cravan now sitting Daniel Lane a resident of Craven County and State of North Carolina aged the 30th of this present month, seventy two 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 June 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named others, and served as herein stated;
when applicant was in his 17th year he was drafted
to guard the jail at Newbern where he served one month
and was relieved by James Horsekeens, who was 
the brother in law of this applicant as his substitute. In the latter part of 1779 this applicant volunteered under
James Pearce Capt., from Swift Creek in Craven County, James McDaniel Lieut. from Jones, and Roger Bratcher ensign - we rendezvoused at Kingston in [illegible]
where we found a small regiment under the command of Col Shepard - we
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marched under Capt. Pearce to Wilmington, thence to Georgetown in So. Ca. to Monks corner near Charleston where we encamped between two and three weeks, and then marched into Charleston In just before the siege commenced. When we arrived in Charleston we will put under the immediate command of Col. Shepard, the general command was assumed by Genl Lincoln; the town was beseiged by the British troops, and orders having been given
that there [illegible] time was about to expire, could either retire or enlist again for three months; and there being a great
scarcity of provisions, and an expectation of starvation the
and this applicant's time of service being about to expire, the
Company to which this applicant belonged, was put in board
of a vessel in the month of March, and sailed out of the
Harbor of Charleston, in the very day that Fort Monther
was taken by the British up the Cooper River, about four
miles where we were landed and marched thence to the town of Georgetown.- at this latter place, the company was separated, part going round by land with the baggage and
the rest with whom was this applicant, crossed the bay in
from Georgetown for Wilmington, N. Ca. - from Wilmington we came on home to Raven County, where we were discharged having served five months;
this applicant never received a discharge - Whilst in Charleston, this applicant was ordered
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under Col Wallace to face the British who appeared on the South side of Ashley River - the British (there being the ferry on Ashley River), fired across upon us & we were not injured, but the foraging party belonging to the Americans which was sent on the South side of Ashley was nearly all destroyed.-- This applicant is not certain that Fort Moultrie was taken on the day he left Charleston Harbor, that was induced to believe so from the fact, that a cannonading took place between the British fleet
and the fort (Moultrie) and afterward the British
fleet sailed by  the fort, up to the city -  The applicant did recollect some of the regiments and officers, but so long a time has elapsed that his memory has failed him in recalling them to his memory -This applicant served as  Sergeant in
his company from the time that he entered it until his discharge. This applicant has no documentary
to support the statement herein contained; he hereby relinquishes any claims whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State
 D Lane
Sworn to and subscribed the day aforesaid.-
J. S. Stanley