Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5004, for Samuel Jackson, North Carolina
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832
State of North Carolina
County of Stokes ⎬ On this 15 day of March
AD 1833 personally appeared in open Court
before the Justices of the Court of pleas
and Quarter Sessions for the County of Stokes
now sitting Samuel Jackson a resident
in the County of Stokes and State of North
Caroline aged about seventy four years
who being first duly sworn according to Law
doth on his oath make the follow declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of an act
of Congress passed June 1832, 
That he entered the service of the United States under following named officers and served as herein stated - he states just that
he was born in the year 1758 in the State of
Pennsylvania a few miles from the city of
Philadelphia in the river Delaware - that
he has no record of his age, that when quite
.young he moved with his parents to
that part of the County Rowan in the State of
North Carolina now called Davidson - he
states when he was first called into service he
lived in the County of Surry and that
aforesaid on Dan their now State County at
other times in the County of Rowan, that
since the revolution he has lived in the County
of Stokes and he is there now, that he first
served in a company commanded by Capt Joseph Cloud of the County of Stoke then Surry in the year 1780  for a term of one month
as a volunteer and whilst in this services [illegible] to guard Tory prisoner at Old Town alias Bethabara
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his afterwards in the year of 1786 at the same place to serve under Capt Gates Father of General Gates and was employed in guarding  Brittish prisoners taken at the battle of King;s Mountain and [illegible] one month 
afterwards in the same and succeeding years he was engaged and acted in several scouting parties in all for a sum of one month under different officers where from enfermeties he cannot now recollect
that whilst engaged in the services before mentioned the regiment to which his company was attached was commanded part of the time by Col Wm Sheppard and Maj Joseph Winton, he recollects that while on duty at Old Ford one Estes a private soldier shot a Sergeant Smith for which offence he ever merely whipped-- afterward he went [?] in the year 1781 in the County of Rowan about
the time the British marched on South Carolina
towards the Battle ground at  Guilford - he
volunteered his service in a company of
militia, commanded by Capt W Davis
which company was chiefly called out at
that crisis to keep the Tories in our
[illegible], where he was taken prisoner
by the Tories and after being confined a whit
was discharged -that the service and 
experience lasted about one month - that
after this in the same year 1781 he volunteered again in a company of Mounted Light
Infantry commanded by Capt Copp Lieutenant
Bodenhame, and march toward & below
Wilmington - whilst on the march they
scattered the Tories at the Rafts Swamp - and
from that marched to near the mouth of Cape
Fear River - where they made an attack on
the Brick House occupied by a Brittish garrison
but ineffectual & then marched toward George Town in South Carolina and back to N.
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Brick House and lay in the neighborhood with
the new arrival that Cornwallis was taken - when he was marched home & was discharged having served three months- that the Regiment
in which his company marched to Wilmington was command by Col Smith; that he recollects
there was also a company of horseman in the County of Guilford of 30 or 40 more commanded by Capt. Gillespie, recollect that one Capt Kenney was along with his company, the regiment number about 300 more he recollect the  the affair at Raft Swamp on the day of the Guilford [illegible] he was in the front  guard on the march to the town - he does not recollect that in any part of his service ever under the command of any regular office or in company with regular troops - he states that each term his different tours of service [illegible] he was discharged in writing - lost -  He states that taking his tours of service together in [illegible] at least six month - that he always served as a private and never received a commision.
He states that he has no documentary evidence of his service, and knows of no person where testimony he can proceed who can testify of his his service, except the testimony of Jacob Idels whose affidavit is here unto appended and whole testify for her as to the tours served
under Capt Davis & Capt of interest
he state thiat in his neighborhood he is know
Charles Ben Jacob Connon
who can testify to his character for veracity
and this belief of his services as a solder
of the revolution
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Hannah Jackson  m.1782
Samuel Jackson  d. 1834
Proof of marriage required