Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1013, Willis Whitfield, N. C.
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declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress 7th June 1832
State of Tennessee
Rutherford County ⎬ 
County Court August Term 1832
On this 23d day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before Henry Tratt, James C Mitchell D Caren Justices holding the said aforesaid, Willis Whitfield aged seventy one or two 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 7th June 1832 - That in North Carolina Nesh County, he was drafted to the service of the States, under Capt Carter, he thinks - He was marched from Nash County to Hillsborough, then to
Salisbury and thence to Charlotte - at this place Col Sowell commanded and he [illegible] immediately marched back, to Salisbury - He is an illiterate man and does not recollect the year that he was in this service. Here he taken sick and was detained there some time at Mr Bell and was afterwards discharged at Salisbury, He served during the campaign three months, and was discharged by lieu. John Sowell, Nash and after he got so that he could travel he returned home. In the year [struck out] or the year afterwards, in the County of Nash, be volunteered his service to the light horse, under Capt William Hier, and rendezvoused at Nash Court house, under Col Hardy Griffin
he was marched up into the upper part of North Carolina, under Col Griffin to [?] of the Tories, and took a man by the name Waterman a Tory and [illegible] him-- and then returned home after a Service of two months. He was discharged by his Capt Fein - Afterwards, but he thinks it was in 1782, he again joined the service as a substitute for [insert illegible] James Thompson, under Capt Peter Becoats [?] - and and rendezvoused at Warren Court North Carolina-- At this place Maj. Hogg took command of the Corps - He was marched from Warren  Court house to Hillsborough, and from  there to Salisbury - and then to Ashly Hill
when he joined Gen Green's Army. At this place he was detached from the company of Capt Becoats, and attached to that of Capt. Raford, Lieu. Mehan Ford, and the Pastors - Archibald Lytle the was the col. and Maj. Riddey Blount -  community the Regiment - Here he remained some time, and was marched to Charleston under Capt Ranford, of the Continental service, in company of of a Georgia Light horse - This was immediately after the British had evacuated the City of Charlestown - he remained some time, and was marched under Capt Ranford to James Island, by water distant three miles from Charlestown - Capt. Lytle and My Blount was the commanding officers of the regiment -  then was under the command of Genl Green who was stationed at Charlestown, at the same place the Pennsylvania and Maryland Troops, but he does not know what field officers commanded them. After a service of the later [?] months he was furloughed and went home - he was not again called into service. He got a discharge from by Capt. Ranford [?], but he has lost it and his other discharges