Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8894, for Bryant Medley, North Carolina
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State of North Carolina
Stokes County

On this 15th day of January 1833 personally
appeared before me Charles Banner one of the acting Justices
of the peace for the County of Stokes aforesaid a certain Bryant Medley aged Eighty three or four years, at his place of residence in the County aforesaid about ten miles distant from the Court house
of said County which old man from bodily infirmity is unable
to attend at said Court, he being first sworn according to
Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to
obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed the 7th of June 1832
That he entered the service of the United States in the month 
of August 1777 or 1778. as a Volunteer Musician under Captain
John Garland in the then Dobbs County in North Carolina -
his Lieutenant was Wm Kilpatrick & Ensign John Granger - in this
service he was marched from Dobbs County to Newbern there to
Wilmington, then to Black river he thinks in Bladen County North Carolina and was in a battle at Moores Creek bridge against 
the Scotch Tories. Genl Caswell was chief Commander, he knew
the following named captains who was in the engagement
viz. Cobb, Inlow, Ed Gatling. Geo Miller, Jas Roach, under
Col Nathan Bryan - a certain Capt Vance of the Artillery
with his company swept the Tories off the bridge, from thence
March back to Wilmington & Newbern & then to Dobbs
County and after remaining six months in this service
was discharged in the following Feb. after he entered
the service which discharge he received of his Captain Garland
and believes it was consumed by fire in a house -that
entered as a volunteer for nine months as musician under
Capt Burwell Mooring in Lenoir County in North Carolina
on the 10th of March - next before the Battle of
what is called Stono or Johns Island in South Carolina
and rendezvoused and recruited at Kingston in Lenoir County
for some length of time, then marched up the Country
and crossed Pee Dee River to Charlotte in Mecklinburg
County N Carolina, then to Camden in S. Carolina
through various parts of said State - he does not recollect
the names of Counties or districts but to Savannah River
and from thence to the place called St John or Johns Island
& the Battle called Stono Battle took place in the month
of June or July he believes the date he don't recollect
But
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But acted as a Drummer in said Battle and saw a
certain Capt Jacob Camperlain wounded with a ball in
his knee, General Linkhorn was Commander - from
thence marched to Camden in S. Carolina.-  thence back to Lenoir County in N Carolina and after remaining in
this service nine months as Drummer and some times
fifer was honorably discharged at Kingston in said
County by his Capt Mooring a few days before
Christmas, which discharge he has lost and does not
know how or what become of it-- the third & last
service he entered into as a Volunteer under Captain
Wm Harper in Lenoir County N Carolina for two months
But only served ten days and was discharged by the
Capt who was commanded by General Levinton - this
service was in the month of August before the Surrender
of Cornwallis - he believes as well as his memory serves
him he was marched to Trenton on Trent River in
N. Carolina where a party of the British was under the
command of a Craig, he does not know his Grade -
In this service this applicant acted as a private
Soldier & Volunteer, & while on sentry one night on
Trent River hailed a British man (a Spie.) who
failed to answer - this applicant says he fired & killed
the Red Coat man 
The several Interogatories prescribed by the war department being put to the applicant - first-  he says he was born in Dinwoody County in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the year 1748 or 1749, but cannot tell which year. and he has no record of his age, but had one which was in a Bible that was consumed by fire - with his discharge he was removed from Dinwoody County. Va. to Dobbs Ct Carolina when only five years old [sic]- where he first entered the service, & the second & third service he lived in the County of Lenoir in No. Carolina, where he remained ever since until ten years last fall, when he started to go to his children in Kentucky. But owing to the infirmity of old age & Rheumatism together with poverty was compelled to stop in this County of Stokes in N. Carolina where he has resided ever since - of
4th.  he states that he volunteered his services every term of  service & served in all fifteen months & ten days