Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6913, for Daniel Marshburn, North Carolina
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State of North Carolina
Wake County

On this 20th day of February 1845 personally appeared in open Court Daniel Marshburn a resident of the county and state aforesaid and maketh the following declaration in order to obtain a pension under the act of Congress passed the 7th day of June 1832

and after first being duly sworn according to law deposeth and sayeth on his oath that he is 88 Eighty eight years old that he was s Soldier in the Revolutionary war that he Volunteered for three months and went down to Suffolk [Virginia] under Capt Tho. [Thomas] Cotton and Col. George Winn and Major Jeremiah Brown   That in consequence of his old age he cannot Recollect the year that that service was done in after that he was drafted and served four months that started under one Capt [William] Stevens who deserted Shortly after they started 

and then Lieutenant Nathaniel Harrell took command of the company and marched them to Fayetteville [NC] where the company was  there under Capt Gilmore who was a Continental officer and that they were Commanded by one Major Firbush

then were marched from Fayetteville [NC] to the Peedee [Pee Dee Region, South Carolina] oposite  [opposite] Cheraw Hills [Cheraw, South Carolina] 
where he was stationed untill his time was out, when he received his discharge from Major Firbush which discharge was destroyed by being washed in his paclet Shortly after his Return home and after they were discharged