Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25729, for James Morgan, North Carolina
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By General Greene and army with the intention of marching to the north and joining the main army under General Washington and when he reached Raleigh heard that peace was made when he was discharged having served his time of six months as a substitute and three years as a light dragoonsman he received his discharge from either Colonel Rhodes or Major Ledbetter and dont recollect which and put the same in the hands of his brother John who some years since moved to Alabama Fayette County and has lately understood he is dead he knows of no person living he can prove his services by
He entered in the service in the spring of the year as well as he now recollects in the year 1777 and remained in the service as above stated until peace was declared a term of three years and six months he has no documentary evidence of his age more than verbally stated to him by his Parents and has kept his age from their statements and supposes was born in the year 1758.  He refers to John McGriff Willis Champion James Klepper Samuel Leming Hinckey Gillum and Isom Gillum who reside in his neighbourhood and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his service as a soldier of the Revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension list of the agency of any State. He now resides in Marion County Tennessee previous thereto resided in Virginia Kentucky and Alabama when he removed from.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
James Morgan X his mark

We Morgan Mullins a clergyman residing in the county of Marion and the State of Tennessee and William Champion residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Morgan who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution. and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Morgan Mullins
Wm Champion
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Morgan Mullins