Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42052, William Warren, N.C.
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to the honorable the Secretary at War of the United States
The Petition of William Warren a Citizen of the United States sheweth that the said Petitioner was enlisted as a regular soldier in the army of the United States on the eleventh day of May one thousand hundred and seventy six, by a Captain Simons, and was enrolled in the fifth North Carolina Regiment commanded by Colonel Edward Buncomb and on the resignation of Captain Simons which took place after
Petitioners enlistment he was placed under the immediate command of Captain Henry Darnell. Your Petitioner showeth that he continued to serve in the said Regiment and in Captain Darnell's company until
after the battles of Brandywine & Germantown at both of which you Petitioner was present and in which he took his part - after the last of these Battle the nine Regiments constituting the North Carolina Brigade
were reduced to three and your Petitioner was enrolled in the second Regiment commanded by Colonel John Patten, and in a company under the command of Captain Benjamin Coleman -- Your Petitioner the
that he remained continually in service as a regular soldier in the Continental Line of the North Carolina Brigade from the date of his enlistment aforesaid until the 29th of April 1779 when he was regularly
by discharged at the Valley Forge. Your Petitioner kept his discharge a long while but hath Lost it- He is sixty four years of age - has a wife and seven children living with him, and is in such reduced