Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7,693, for William Tarlton, North Carolina
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N.C.
Tarlton, William
S.7693
carded
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State of North Carolina  
Court of Pleas & Quarter August Term 1832
County of Johnston
On the 27 day of August 1832 personally appeared
in open court before the Justices of the Court of Pleas
and Quarter Sessions, now sitting, William Tarlton
a resident of Johnston County and State of N.
Carolina aged 77 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 7, 1832 
That he entered the service of the United States and served as he stated under the following officers -
That he enlisted as private on the fourth of May 1776
under Captain William Ward - Lt John Whitly
Ensign Charles Hopson Sergeant Solo. Wood
Colo: Buncombe Major Levi Dawson - That he
went first to Wilmington N.C. under command of
Captain Wm Ward and was placed under command of 
Gen Alfred Moore - that he was encamped in Wilmington until the succeeding Autumn - that he was marched from Willington to Halifax in N.C. from thence to New Bern N.C. and was quartered there for one or two months - From New Bern he was ordered to Charleston S.C. - he passed through Wilmington - near Georgetown - and Reached Charleston a little before Christmas -He stayed at Charleston till near the last
of the ensuing march. - He was then marched
under command of Capt Benj. Coleman to Philadelphia 
on which route they passed through Wilmington Tarboro Halifax (in N.C) Petersburg Richmond,
Fredericksburgh (in Virginia) & Elktown Baltimore
(Maryland) Wilmington [illegible] - he was [illegible] the grounds at the Battle of Brandywine and was engaged in the Battle at Germantown - his term of enlistment was one year which closed on the 4th May 1777. But he was detained in the service until the Christmas following - making his