Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6548, Lewis Wilford, N.C. Also Served In War Of 1812
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Superior Court Eastern District
Florida Territory
On this 10th day of December 1832 personally
appeared before the Judge of the aforesaid Court Lewis Wilford, resident of Florida Duval
County aged about Eighty 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 June 7th 1832. 
That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1776 with Hardy Murphy a recruiting officer in the 2d regiment of the North Carolina line under thefollowing named officers - To wit Ben Coleman Captain:-- Reid (Cristian name not recollected), Lieutenant Col Paterson: Genl Hagan: Genl Lincoln. This applicant further states that he first enlisted with Hardy Murphy of Bertie County, State of North Carolina, for the term of three years, & was sent to Valley Ford, New Jerry but afterwards, preferring to be enlisted during the war reinlisted as long as the war might last, under Captain Ben Coleman, and marched from Valley Ford to South Carolina- through the States Penna., Maryland & North Carolina. This applicant further states that when he enlisted, he was a citizen of North Carolina & resided in Bertie County in said State. This applicant further states, that he was in no general engagement: (though often in
skirmishes), but the one, in which he was taken
prisoner at Charleston, by the British army
commanded by Henry Clinton This applicant further declares that he