Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17184, William Walton, N.C. Va.
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in a sitting of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia in & for the County of Washington, held on this twelfth day of  January Eighteen hundred & thirty three-
Personally appeared in open Court before the
said court now sitting William Walton a resident of Green County in the State of Alabama, aged sixty six years, who being 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 the seventh day of June 1832.
In April or May 1779. I William Walton was drafted or impressed by Captain William Loving, in the service of the state [illegible] the purpose of packing wheat to mills to be ground in flour for the Army and corn and oats to a Granary, that was at a place known as Lovings Gap in Amherst County State of Virginia, the mills the wheat was delivered at was Cabells, Stephenses, & others - the part of the Country where the grains was impressed is so mountainous that carriages could not be got to the farms - in this most disagreeable service I was compelled to continue twelve
months, finding my own Horse & fixtures, thinly clad in homespund furnished by my Mother, one of the coldest winters almost ever known - In May 1780 my father William Walton was drafted in the service under
Captain John Loving, to go to South Carolina - I  volunteered mounted on Horse, armed with a small Rifle, mustered in service at Amherst -
Joined  Col. Henry, Maj Franklins Battalion at Linches Ferry on James River, Joined Col Stevenses Regiment near Dan River, and Genl
Gates Army in South Carolina in few days after Gales had concentrated his
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in South Carolina Army fell in with Cornwallis Army at Altamont, near Camden where our Army was defeated, and Capt Loving's Company left to return in any way they thought most for there own safety, my father and
self returned to Wilkes County North Carolina, our discomfiture took place the last of August to the best of my recollection
In the month of September 1780 in Wilks County North Carolina I volunteered with my father in Captain John Brown's Company of Mounted Riflemen joined Col Clurlands [?] Regiment at the Quaker Meadow on the Catawba River from thence to Gitturts [?] Town in Rutherford County on the way at the head of Cain Creek fell in with Ferguson's mounted Brittish, routed them took several tories among whom was William Mills, who Col Cleveland and my uncle Jesse Walton had hanged on the next day marched from thence for Kings Mountain Joined the Regiment of Col Campbell McDowall and several other commanding Cols. - in four or five days arrived at Kings Mountain - the next morning a tremendous engagement took place  -the Americans commanded by Col Clurland, Campbell, and several other Cols names not recollected which resulted in the death of the Brittish Commander of Ferguson and many of his officers and men - the loss of the brittish and Tories in killed and wounded was estimated at about three hundred - the Americans took thirty or forty killed and wounded - British and Tories taken prisoners between seven & eight hundred - the America forces I believe was between fifteen & sixteen hundred - this battle was fought in the month of October 1780 - in two or these days after this
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Battle was fought twelve or fifteen of the tories that had been notorious for killing many of whigs, was executed by hanging them, - the prisoners
was marched off- I believe for Charlottesville Virginia
In the month of March 1781 I volunteered under the command of Capt William Cabell, Telman Walton (my brother) Lieutenant, mustered in service at Lovings Gap, Marched from thence to Charlottesville
Cabells company put under the command of Baron Stuban - Marched to point fork, driven from thence with great loss, of stores, some killed, others wounded, with the loss of prisoners, retreated to Albemarle Old Count House - Joined the army of Lafayette Marched to Richmond soon after to
Williamsburg where soon after joined the combined forces of the American Army under the command of Gen Washington and other distinguished
officers of the American Revolution which resulted in the capture of Cornwallis on the last of October 1781 -I returned to my father in Amherst County about the first of the year 1782. I served my Country two years and six months for which mere received one Dollar found my own clothing and Horse - I have no document in my possession to prove the service as set forth in my Declaration, and that I know of no person whose testimony I can procure who can testify to the service set forth in my declaration I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State