Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7,381, for John Reeves, North Carolina
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(3-1776)
SERVICE.  NUMBER
N. C. Reeves, John  S.7381

carded
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State of North Carolina
County of Orange }
On this eighteenth day of February A Domini 1834 personally appeared before me James Mebane one of the Justices of the peace for said County, John Reeves at his own house (he being in such an infirm state of health as not to be able to attend the court of this county) aged eighty seven years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832 - 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein noted, being at the commencement of the revolutionary war a resident of the County & state in which he now lives, he with many others volunteered as private soldiers under the comand of Capt Archibald Lyth as minute men to go against the tories, and in a few days, was called on to march, & after maneuvering for some time about Hillsboro, we then joined General Butler and marched to Fayetteville from thence to Smiths Ferry on the Cape Fear river, where we took a number of prisoners I think four or five hundred, we then returned to Fayetteville, at which place, I think we remained two or three weeks, we then marched to Hillsboro, where we were in service sometime, watching the tories, after which General Butler ordered us to march the tory officers, which we had taken at Smiths ferry to Halifax which we did according to orders, I then returned to Hillsboro and being kept some time about that place in readiness, I marched over Haw river after the tories under Capt Lyth, in this trip we made some prisoners, John & Michael Holt were of their numbers, after servicing that part
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of the Country for some time especially the tory settlements we returned to Hillsboro, some time after that I was appointed by Capt Lyth to take Stephen Holloway a tory Captain to Halifax I did; John Mebane, Robert Christmas, John Minis, William Riley, & others were in Company what was the length of time these services I can not now recollect, but believe not less than six months after that I served a three months tour for Thomas Kilch as a hired substitute, I think under Capt Hugh [illegible], then I served a three months tour as a substitute for William Cantril under Captain Hodges, after that I served a three months tour for Thomas Lynch, under Captain Thomas Taylor, after that I served a tour of three months under Capt George Hodges, we went to the Brushy mountains in the above named tours of duty we were generally in pursuit of the tories, after that I served a tour for Thomas Heartt under Capt Thomas Taylor in pursuit of the tories, we passed through the Counties of Chatham, Randolph, Cumberland, I returned to Hillsboro, after that I served a three months tour under Capt Hodge for William Walker hunting the tories, then I served a tour as a volunteer under Col William Patel in pursuit of the tories I also served a nine months tour for Solomon Turner, but under what officers I do not recollect & this tour we marched to South Carolina
I was two and a half or three years employed as a deputy company under General Alexander Mebane, at one time I went over Haw river to collect beef cattle for the army when the people gave me the name of Mebane's devil, I was often called by that name afterwards. I was in the service of the United States