Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13832, for John Mabry, North Carolina
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Commonwealth of Kentucky
Trigg County
On this 29th day of August 1832, Personally appeared before the Circuit Court in and for the County of Trigg aforesaid, John Mabry, a resident of said County of Trigg and State of Kentucky aged Sixty Eight years, who being first duly sworn in open Court, 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 enlisted in the Army of the United States, first in the Militia as a volunteer
in the year 1780, in Captain James Richards Company under Col Benjamin Seawell, whose regiment marched from Lewisburg in Franklin County (the which place I entered in July 1780.) we were encamped near Pee dee River at the time of General Gates defeat near Camden South Carolina, we heard the firing at
that Battle, here we had to retreat - That he enlisted in Franklin County North Carolina in the month April [?] Twelve months service in the year 1781 and rendezvoused at Halifax town in Halifax County North Carolina in the month of April, here are were not mustered in any particular company there been several officers present as General
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Willie Jones, Col Linton, Major Hogs, and others whose names I have forgotten. Cornwallis's Army was near at hand, and after a Skirmish across Roanoke River with Col Hamilton Core we retreated to to Mecklinburgh County Virginia, on Roanoke river at Taylor's ferry where he lay a few days, we then crossed said River and marched to Bute Old Court House in Warren County North Carolina and here I was attached to Captain Burkes Company and encamped a few days; we then marched to Granville Court House, and here I think I was attached to Chapman's Company, We then marched to Hillsborough, and here I was attached to Captain Robert Raiford's Company, with which I marched to Salisbury hence
to Charlotte North Carolina, & thence to
Camden & on to the high hills of Santee in South Carolina. here our Regiment joined General Green's army. This deponent further sayeth that he thinks the Regiment to which he belonged was called the 10th Regiment and was commanded by General Jethro Sumner, Col Tilmon Dixon, Major Hogg Captains Buch, Chapman, Robert Raiford, Donahoo (afterwards Major ) Thomas Armstrong, Dixon & Marshall, Linton[?] Hill, Bell &C. and after he had joined General Green's Army at the high Hill of Santee, there was a call for recruits to Join Col Henry Lee's
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Legion infantry and there this deponent turned out as a volunteer and Joined said Legion, and was regularly transferred from Capt Robert Rayford's Company to Captain Michael Rodolph's Company in said Legion and joined it at Singleton mills as the high hills of Santee, as well as he remembers some time in July 1781, and served in said Legion until the term of twelve months service expired (he thinks some time about the first of May 1782), he then enlisted in said Michael Rudolph's Company for during the war &c. The officers belonging to said Legion were Captain Rudolph, Carnes Handy & Smith, Lieutenant Mannion, Carrington, and others I have forgot, when Col Lee resigned he was succeeded by Col Lawrence & when he was killed at a place I think called Cumber (I was present at the time) he was succeeded in the command of said Legion by Major Eggleston, this deponent further sayeth he was in the battle at the Eutaw Springs in South Carolina as he thinks in September 1781 and at
the surrender of Charlestown in 1782 - that
he enlisted into the three months service in
Franklin County North Carolina, as also into ┃
the twelve months service same place, and that
he served to the Termination of War in the