Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16422, for William Irvine, Virginia
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State of Indiana
Orange County
On the 13th day of February 1833 personally appeared before the Honorable Thomas Vandeven Judge of the Orange County Probate Court in the State aforesaid in open Court William Irvine 76 years of age on 20 September past a resident of said County of Orange and State of Indiana, 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 7th 1832. 
That he took the place of his brother Samuel Irvine, who was drafted for a three months tour in the County of Halifax in Virginia - applicant rendezvoused at Robbins Tavern, in the
State of North Carolina in the County of Caswell as well as recollected where he was received in his said brother's stead and was placed under the command of Capt Geo Rogers from - the place of rendezvous 
applicant was marched to Salisbury in North
line when- he joined the army under Col. Mason -he states that he entered the service about the first of April 1779 - from Salisbury applicant was marched to Camden and thence to [illegible] in the State of South Carolina, when he joined the main any under the command of General Stevens remained
in Camp at Somerset something more than
a month, when he was discharged, his brother having been appointed 1st Sergeant - applicant was appointed to that post in his stead - for the tour applicant received
written discharge from his captain bearing date
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on toward Yorktown where they joined the main army under the immediate command of Capt Watkins, Hill having been confined by sickness at Petersburgh - from which period applicant acted as Ensign but never received a commission - the regiment entered by applicant at Yorktown was under the command of Colonel Joseph Crockett as well as remembered, a regular officer - applicant remained at this place actively  engaged in service until the surrender of Lord Cornwallis on the 19th Oct. 1781, - from Yorktown applicant marched with the British prisoners
to Noland's Ferry on the River Potomac, - when the prisoners were delivered over to the Maryland forces - at Noland's ferry applicant received a written discharge from his commanding officer, having served his tour mustering Major Jones, which discharge applicant has also lost but knows not how or where, or when
Applicant was drafted in February 1782 from the same
County Halifax for a tour of there months - when
he entered the service which was in a few days after
being drafted he was appointed to drive a public Wagon from Paytonshough (otherwise Halifax old Courthouse) to the different places that might be directed to Major McGraw who was the quarter Master at Paytonsburgh - Applicant with the wagon which he drove for the Army went with loading to Richmond, New London the Salisbury & other places - he served out his three months and got a written discharge from Major McGraw, which has been lost as
the others were - Applicant was born in the County of Halifax the State  of Virginia on the 26th day September 1763 upon Dan River at Irvin ferry - he left  Halifax County in 1795 and settled in
then Layette) now Jessamine County in Kentucky where he resided until 1815 when he removed to Orange County Indiana where he now