Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S, for Joshua Richards, North Carolina
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the State of South Carolina
Spartanburg District
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On this 28th day of September 1833 personally appeared in open Court Joshua Richards resident of said District aged 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 officers, and served as herein stated: I entered the service of the United States as a volunteer, in Franklin County North Carolina in 1779 under Captain Richard Ransom, Lieut. Isaac
[here is attached the following note: "This is to certify that Joshua Richards a soldier in my company of light horse has served out his time agreeable to the service of his enlistment and is herby discharged. Given under the hand This day 11 July 1781 (signature illegible)"] [text missing] I then returned to Franklin County North Carolina and in September 1780 I became a substitute for Thomas Huckabee -Captain [illegible]
Devaney, Lieu. Rush, Ensign John Mosley in the second regiment of the North Carolina militia commanded by Major Gray, Col. Robert Hill and Genl. Allen Jones - marched to Wake Court House, thence to Hillsborough, thence
to Salisberry, thence to Charlotte, thence to Waxhaws, where I
was discharged in Decr 1780 after serving three months - I then
Returned home to Franklin County No. Ca. and in April
1781. volunteered in a company of Cavalry, Commanded
by Captain George Bledso,  Lieu. Swan Tranton, and 
marched to Hillsborough No Car. and thence in Duplin
County and there joined Col Youngblood, from Duplin County -
I returned to Franklin County N. Car. and was discharged
and on the 11th of July 1781, after living three months,
and then about the first of September Volunteered under
Capt. Benjamin Sowell, and continued as a life Guard of the Council of War that sat at Col Burton's in Granville County No. Car. until the citation [session?] of hostilities in 1783. I was born on the 9th day of March 1760 in Franklin County No. Ca. and recorded of my age on my napsack which is now in my possession