Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 32510, for Abner Scudder, North Carolina
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In the matter of ⎬ An applicant for a pension
Abner Scudder under the act of June 7. 1832
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The State of Indiana, Switzerland Co.
On this 12th day of November AD 1834 personally appeared in open court before the
honorable Probate Court of the County afore said, being a court of record, Abner Scudder, a resident of the County aforesaid aged Seventy 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed the 7th of June AD 1832
That he the said Abner Scudder entered the service of the United States during the American Revolutionary War under the following named officer and served
as herein stated - that he the said Abner Scudder enlisted in Rowan County State of North Carolina in the  company commanded by Capt Alexander Bovard of Colonel Blount's Regiment and served one year as a private soldier and that he hereby relinquishes every claim to a  pension or annuity, except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension role of the agency of any state
The court then propounded the following
interrogatories to the said Abner Scudder
Where and in what year were you born
Answer: I was born in Essex County, New Jersey
on the 17th day of June AD 1741
Have any record of your age; and is so where is  it
Answer the only record of my age is in this bible
(shewing the [illegible] an old Bible, with an entry
corresponding with the answer to the first question)
3 Where were you living when called into service,
where have you lived since the revolutionary war
and where do you now live? Answer: when called
into service I lived in Rowan County, State of North Car
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and continue to reside in said County for about
thirty seven years. I then removed to the
State of Kentucky and resided them about
ten years then removed to the State of Ohio
and lived there about eleven years and then I removed to the State of Indiana and now reside in Switzerland County in said State
How were you called into service were
drafted, did you volunteer or were you a
substitute and if a substitute for whom? Answer I enlisted for one year and served my time faithfully.
State the names of some of the regular
officers, who were with the troops were
for served; such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service
Answer General Green was commander in chief of our army. It consisted of three regiments - one from Virginia one Maryland and ours of North Carolina - Colonel Blount commanded the regiment from North Carolina and General
Sumner was also with us, in command. I enlisted in May of 1781, in Rowan County. N. C. under Capt Alexander Bovard and shortly afterwards was marched with the whole[?] army from said Rowan County to Ninety Six in South Carolina and our regiment lay a short time and we were then sent back with some prisoners to Rowan County and then marched to in the main army again which we met at
the High Hills of Santee and were marched
from thence to Eutaw Springs and I was
wounded in the battle at that place
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the 9th of September of 1781 said wound
caused by a gun or cannister shot, which
grazed the side of my head and slightly
wounded me as you will discover by this
mark (deponent here exhibited his wound
to the court) Our army designed following
the enemy on the day at the said battle,
but we were prevented from doing so in consequence of heavy rain - we marched in
pursuit of the enemy on the this day but
found the streams full and all the bridges
broken up, so that we could not overtake
him and our army returned again to the
High Hills of Santee and lay there for some
time (while we had a frolic in camp
in consequence of Cornwallis defeat)
from the High Hills we were marched to
Pond Pond and lay there for some time
and were then marched to Ashley river
Bacon's bridge and continued there until
my time expired, - when I was discharged
in May 1782 having served for one year as a
private soldier.
Did you ever receive a discharge from
the service; and if so by whom was it signed
and what has become of it?
Answer: I received a written discharge and believe it was signed by Colonel Blount and I gave the same to a messmate named Philip
Fishburn to enable him to receive my pay
and he never returned my discharge and defrauded me out of my pay
State the names of persons to whom you are
known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution
Answer. John Miller, Jesse V. Daily
Joseph Malin, Charles F. Kuntz Robert Guledon
N. H. Sapp, Thomas Armstrong & J R Whitehead