Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42081, Thomas Worsley, N.C.
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SERVICE
N.C.
Worsley, Thomas
NUMBER
S.42087
CONTENTS
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20.300
North Carolina
Thomas Worsley
of Beaufort Co in the State of North Carolina
who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Quinn of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Hogan in the North Carolina line, for the term of nine months from 10 June 1778 to June 1779.
Inscribed on the roll of North Carolina at thee rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 day of December 1830.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17th of January 1831 and sent to Thomas H. Blount, Washington, N. Ca.
Arrears to 4th of March 1831 $18.32 Semi-anu'l all'ce ending $18.32
{Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818 and May 1, 1820}
Rec: Book [ill]
Vol: 8.fol:4b
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Original Claim
Declaration of Thomas Worsley in order to be placed on the pension list, under the act of the 18th day of March 1818.
State of North Carolina ⎬ 
Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, Beaufort County August Term AD 1830
On this 25th day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty personally appeared here in open Court, the Chairman & associate Justices presiding being a Court of Record for said County - to wit, Thomas Worsley
resident in said County, aged Seventy one years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818; and the 1st May 1820
that he the said Thomas Worsley, entered the army of the Revolution on the tenth of June 1778, on a nine months tour of service in the State aforesaid in the company commanded by Captain David Roach, and was soon afterward transferred
to the company commanded by Capt Michael Quinn in the Regiment commanded by Col Hogan in the line of the State of North Carolina on the continental establishment and that he continued to serve in said Corps until about the first of June in the year 1779 when he was discharged from the service at Halifax in the State aforesaid his principal service was at Philadelphia & West Point in the State of New York. that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension, except the present, that his name is not in the roll of any state except that of the State of North Carolina and that the following are the
reasons for his not making earlier application for
pension to wit: that he did not feel willing to apply for the County of his country, so long as he could do without it but my advanced age & the infirmities attending it, have rendered him unable to labour, and made the