Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16145, Henry Harding, Va.
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(3-1776) SERVICE NUMBER Va. Harding, Henry S. 16145 Carded CONTENTS
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486 [illegible]
Indiana 
Henry Harding Sr. 
of Marion in the State of Inda: 
who was a pr. in the compy commanded 
by Captain _____ of the Regt commanded 
by Colo. Lewis in the Va 
line for 2 years from 1776

Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana 
at the rate of 80 Dollars __ Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of Jan; 33 
and sent Hon J. Tipton, Senate U.S.

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832                           120
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar; 33       40
                                                                  $160

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk 
Book D Vol. 9 Page 185.
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State of Indiana }
Ripley County ss  } on this sixteenth day of October AD 1832 before the undersigned John Craig a [illegible] of the peace within and for said County persona appeared Isaac Way, a surviving soldier of the   relutionary war, and a pensioner under the act Congress pased  June 4th 1832, who being duly according to law saith that he is well acqua with Henry Harding a Resident of the County of Ma Indiana now about to make application for Pension under the above Recited Act of Congress that he believes the said Harding to be Eighty years age that he was acquainted with said Harding during the revolutionary War, and that said Hard was in the service of the United States as Private soldier from the State of Virginia in the Virg line of  for the Term of Eighteen Mo. that he was only occasionally in company with Harding. Yet he most firmly believes that the sa Harding was under Greene at the Siege of Ninety Six was in Greens Army, when he retreated across Dan River that he was in the Battle at Gilford Courthouse a the Eutaw Springs & in other engagement; he also believe that the said Harding served other towers of service during the revolution and he states that he has been well acquainted with the aforesaid applicant since the Revolution and that he has been always reputed and believes in his neighborhood to have been a soldier of the revolution.
Isaac Way his X mark
Sworn to and subscribed before  
me the day and year first above    
written John S. Craig Justice of the Peace 
State of Indiana Ripley County ss  }
I, John Craig - a Justice of the Peace as above do hereby certify that Isaac Way who has been sworn to and subscribed the above affidavit is a Respectable person, that his testimony is intitle
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full faith and credit, and that he is now a revolutionary Pensioner--Given under my hand and seal this 16th day of October 1832.
   John S. Craig  J Peace  {seal}

State of Indiana Ripley County ss. }
 I David P. Shook Clerk of the Ripley Circuit Court in and for the County of ipley, Indiana, do hereby certify that John Craig Esqr--before whome the within affidavitt was made, and who made and subscribed the within certificate was & now is one of the acting Justices of the peace within and for said said County and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.  In testimony Whereof I have here unto set my hand & afixed the seal of our said Court at Versailles this 16th day of October AD 1832 .
   David P. Shook  C. R. C. C.
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June 6, 1938
BA-J/ady
Henry Harding
S.16145

Mrs. S. M. Compton
1314 East Ewing Avenue
South Bend, Indiana

Dear Madam: 

  Reference is made to your letter relative
to Henry Hardin, a soldier of the Revolutionary
War. 
  The data contained herein were obtained
from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.16145, based upon the military service of Henry Harding in that war.
   Henry Harding was born in 1752, in Stafford County, Virginia. The names of his parents are not shown.
  While residing on Hyco Creek in Virginia, near the North Carolina line, he enlisted in late summer, or early fall, 1775, served four months as private under Captain Peter Rogers and Colonel Lewis in the Virginia troops and was in an engagement with Indians. He enlisted in the winter of 1776, rendezvoused at Hillsborough, North Carolina, and served six months as private under Captain Moore, state troops not designated. While a resident of Woodstock, Virginia, he enlisted in July or August 1780, served eighteen months as private in Captain Holdam's Company, Colonel Campbell's Virginia Regiment and was in the battles of Camden, Guilford and Eutaw Springs. 
  He resided in Woodstock, Virginia, until 1796 when he remoed to Dearborn County, Indiana, thence to Marion County, Indiana.
  He was allowed pension on his application executed November 13, 1832, at which time he was living
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in Marion County, Indiana, and was then referred to as Henry Harding, Senior.
   There is no reference to wife or children.
      Very truly yours

     A. D. HILLER
     Executive Assistant
     to the Administrator
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May 26, 1937.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Mrs. A. N. Stevens
379 North Bolton Avenue
Indianapolis, Indiana

BA-J/ady
Henry Harding
S.16145

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to Henry Harding and Benjamin Hiller, soldiers of the Revolution-ary War.
Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data and the limited trained clerical force available for furnishing such information it is impossible to com-ply in full with each request pertaining to soldiers of that war.
The record of Henry Harding is furnished you herein as found in the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.16145, based upon his military service in that war.
Henry Harding was born in 1752, in Stafford County, Virginia. The names of his parents are not shown.
While residing on Hyco Creek in Virginia, near the North Carolina line, he enlisted in late summer, or early fall, 1775, served fourteen months as private under Captain Peter Rogers and Colonel Lew in the Virginia troops and was in an engagement with Indians. He enlisted in the winter of 1776, rendezvoused at Hillsborough, North Caroline, and served six months as a private under Captain Moore, state troops not designated. While a resident of Woodstock, Virginia, he enlisted in July or August 1780, served eighteen months as private in Captain Holdam's Company, Colonel Campbell's Virginia Regiment and was in the battles of Camden, Guilford, and Eutaw Springs.
He resided in Woodstock, Virginia, until 1796 when he removed to Dearborn County, Indiana these to Marion County, Indiana.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 13, 1832, at which time he was living in Marion County, Indiana, and was then referred to as Henry Harding, Senior.
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There is no reference to wife or children.
Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
ADY

October 7, 1930.

Miss Kate Blair,
Loudon, 
Tennessee.

Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.16145, that Henry Harding was born in 1752 in Stafford County, Virginia.
While residing in Hyco Creek in Virginia, near the North Carolina line, he enlisted in late summer, or early fall, 1775, served four months as private under Captain Peter Rogers and Colonel Lewis in the Virginia Troops and was in an engagement with Indians.
He enlisted in the winter of 1776, rendezvoused at Hillsborough, North Carolina, and served six months as a private under Captain Moore, state troops not designated.
While a resident of Woodstock, Virginia, he en-listed in July or August 1780, served eighteen months as private in Captain Holdam's Company, Colonel Campbell's Virginia Regiment and was in the battles of Camden, Guilford and Eutaw Springs.
He resided in Woodstock, Virginia, until 1796 when he removed to Dearborn County, Indiana, thence to Marion County, Indiana.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 13, 1832 at which time he was living in Marion County, Indiana, and was then referred to as Henry Harding, Senior.
There is no reference to wife or children.
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This is the history of the only Henry Harding of Virginia found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau and said records fail to afford any information in regard to Henry Hardin of Virginia.
Very truly yours,

E.W. Morgan,
Acting Commissioner
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
Ady
Copied from
M.M.H. Feb/8/29.

March 20, 1930.

L.R. Benton,
1314 East Ewing Avenue,
South Bend, Indiana.

Dear Sir:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolution-ary War pension claim, S.16145, it appears that Henry Harding was born in 1752 in Stafford County, Virginia.
While residing on Hyco Creek in Virginia, near the North Carolina line, he enlisted in late summer, or early fall, 1775, served four months as private under Captain Peter Rogers and Colonel Lewis in the Virginia Troops and was in an engagement with Indians.
He enlisted in the winter of 1776, rendezvoused at Hillsborough, North Carolina, and served six months as a private under Captain Moore, state troops not designated.
While a resident of Woodstock, Virginia, he enlisted in July or August 1780, served eighteen months as private in Captain Holdam's Company, Colonel Campbell's Virginia Regiment and was in the battles of Camden, Guilford and Eutaw Springs.
He resided in Woodstock, Virginia, until 1796 when he removed to Dearborn Count, Indiana, thence to Marion County, Indiana.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 13, 1832 at which time he was living in Marion County, Indiana, and was then referred to as Henry Harding, Senior.
There is no reference to wife or children.
Very truly yours,

Earl D. Church,
Commissioner
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section. Ady 

June 8, 1929.

Mrs. Mary Harding Fuller,
231 East Broadway,
Denison, Iowa

Madam: 
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolution-ary War pension claim, S.16145, it appears that Henry Harding was born in 1752 in Stafford County, Virginia. 
While residing on Hyco Creek in Virginia, near the North Carolina line, he enlisted in late summer, or early fall, 1775, served four months as private under Captain Peter Rogers and Colonel Lewis in the Virginia Troops and was in an engagement with Indians. 
He enlisted in the winter of 1776, rendezvoused at Hillsborough, North Carolina, and served six months as a private under Captain Moore, state troops not designated. 
While a resident of Woodstock, Virginia, he enlisted in July or August 1780, served eighteen months as private in Captain Holdam's Company, Colonel Campbell's Virginia Regiment and was in the battles of Camden, Guilford and Eutaw Springs. 
He resided in Woodstock, Virginia, until 1796 when he
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 removed to Dearborn Count, Indiana, thence to Marion County, Indiana. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 13, 1832 at which time he was living in Marion County, Indiana, and was then referred to as Henry Harding, Senior.
There is no reference to wife or children. 
Respectfully, 
 
Earl D. Church, 
Commissioner.
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Record Division
Revolutionary War Records Section

3 -- 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C. _____19__

In reply to your request of _____ received _____
for a statement of the military history of Henry Harding a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his [marked out:  (or his widow's)] application for pension
on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. | STATE.
Summer or fall} 1775 | 4 mos. | Pvt. | CAPTAIN. Peter Rogers | COLONEL. Lewis | Va.
Winter 1776 | 6 mos. |   |  Moore  | [check mark] | 
July or Aug. 1780 | 18 mos |   |  Holdam | Campbell |


Battles engaged in, Camden, Guilford, Eutaw Springs
Residence of soldier at enlistment, in Va N. C. Lane, Woodstock Va in 1780
Date of application for pension, Nov 13 1832, His cI. was al.
Residence at date of application, Marion County Indiana
Age at date of application. b. in 1752 in Stafford County Va.
Remarks: There is no data on file as to his family
Date of death not on AB

Respectfully,
Commissioner.

6-2856
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South Bend, Indiana, May 16, 1938

Pension Department,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs:-
   May I have a copy of the Pension record of Henry Harden (or Hardin).  I am told the number of the Pension Claim is S.16145, Revolutionary War.
   Very truly,
   Mrs. S.M.Compton.

1314 East Ewing Avenue.

[ink stamp: Received May 23, 1938]
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379 N. Bolton ave.
Indianapolis, Ind.
April 14, 1937.

Adjutant General
War Department
Washington, D.C.

    Please send 1840 census list of pensioners for Marion Co. Indiana--is the name Benjamin Miller--age 90. If his pension was for revolutionary war service
please send his record.
  yours truly,
Mrs. A. N. Stevens
379 N. Bolton are
Indianapolis, Ind.

Received A. G. O. APR 16 1937

[ink stamp:  Received Apr 16, 1937 Old Records Division A.G.O.]
[ink stamp: Received Apr 22, 1937 Mail Sub-div.
Vets. Adm. Reader # 24]
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379 N. Bolton ave.
Indianapolis, Ind.
April 14, 1937.

Veterans Administration
Rev. War Records Division
Washington, D.C.

Please send revolutionary service of Henry Harding Jr. - private Virginia Militia, pensioned 1833 while living in Marion Co. Indiana
   Yours truly,
Mrs. A. N. Stevens
379 N. Bolton ave.
Indianapolis, Ind.

[ink stamp:  Received Apr 15, 1937]
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ORD/rw   1st Ind.

War Department, A>G>O>, April 20, 1937. - To the Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C.  {Attention: Miss Nevitt).

  1. Transmitted as a matter pertaining to the Veterans Administration.

E.T. Conley
Major General,
The Adjutant General.
by O. A. Mitchell

[ink stamp:  Received Apr 22, 1937
 Mail Subu-div.
Vets Adm. Reader #24]
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Loudon, Tennessee, September 22, 1930.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
My dear Sir:
I am seeking information regarding services rendered by Henry Hardin in the Revolutionary War.
He is listed by the War Deparment as a soldier in the Virginia Infantry. However, the rank and organization is not indicated. I should appreciate it very much indeed if you will investigate your records and advise me if you are able to enlighten me on the subject. It is said that he assisted at the battle of King's Mountain.
Very truly, Kate Blair (Miss) Kate Blair.
[stamp lower right] PENSION U.S. OFFICE SEP 24 1930
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L R BENTON 1314 E-EWING AVE SOUTH BEND INDIANA
JANUARY 29-30
BUREAU OF PENSIONS WASHINGTON D.C.
DEAR SIR:
Will you kindly furnish me any information that You may have in regard to Henry Harding, who I am told was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and was a pensioner. he settled on land in what was now Dearborn County Indiana, I find by the records that he spelled his name, sometimes Harding, sometimes Hardin, and again Harden. I think likey his record is as Harding, as that is the way he spelled his name when he entered the land, in 1801. Thanking You in advance for any information that You may be able to give me I am.
Yours Very Truly L R Benton
[stamp center] PENSION U.S. OFFICE JAN 31 1930
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[stamp] RECORD DIV MAR 22 1922
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Rev Ser [illegible]
3611 Daisy Ave. Cleveland Ohio March 18, 1922.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions. Washington D. C.
[stamp] PENSION U.S. OFFICE MAR 21 1922
Dear Sirs:
Can you give me any information regarding Henry Harding (Hardin or Harden) who served five years in the Revolutionary War under General Nathaniel Greene, and who drew a government pension until his death in 1833 or 1834. I am endeavoring to prove my ancestry for membership in the
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[illegible] the Daughters of the Revolution and  [illegible] be very grateful for any data you may be able to give. Enclosed please find postage for a reply.
Yours truly (Miss) Emma Thesmacher.
[stamp] PENSION U.S. OFFICE MAR 21 1922
send S16144 because the other pensioner 31732 ws alive in 1843
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P 16145
INVALID.
File No. 16,145
Henry Harding
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index: -Vol. 1, Page 164
[Arrangement of 1870]

1922 Apr 21 Hist to Emma Thesmacher
1929. June 8 Hist to Ms. M.H. Fuller. See Rev War Col of Ede Harding.
For [illegible] M.N.H.
1930 Mar. 20. Hist. to L.R. Benton [illegible]
1930 Oct. 7. Host to Kate Blair. A.D.Y.
1937 May 26. Hist. to Mrs. A. N. Stevens A.D.Y
1938 June 6. Hist to Mrs. S.M. Compton A.D. Y.
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I Elijah Dawson a resident in the county of Marion State of Indiana, do hereby certify, that I am well acquainted with Henry Harding [illegible] who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that I was well aquinted with him in Dearborn County in this State; that I beleive him to be 80 years of asge. that he has, during all my acquantance been reputed and believed in the several neighborhoods where he has resided to be a soldier of the Revolution, and that I concur in that opinon.
Elijah Dawson
Sworn to in open Court on November 13. 1832 [illegible] James M. Ray clerk
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Henry Harding Pension Papapers
Marion County Indiana
Care of Hon J Tipton
p. 172 36:0
$80 per ann
$80 per ann
The within Declaration of Henry Harding was made in conformity to the regulations of the War Dept and no [illegible] has been made in the papers since the [illiglble] before the court
John Tipton
Hon J. Tipton senate
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Indiana To wit Marion County }
Marion Probate Court November Term 1832
this Certifies that in open Court, on the 13th day of November AD. 1832 came personally Henry Harding Sen of the County and State aforesaid, who, being first duly sworn doth make his declaration for a pension according to law, under the law of the U.S. of the 7th of June 1832, which being read and sworn to by said applicant. the Court proceeded to propose to him the questions required by the regulations of the War Department which being satisfactorily answered, the Court hereby declare his opinion after the investigation above made, that the said Applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he States and the Court further certify that Elijah Dawson, who is a resident of Marion County and who has subscribed and sworn to his certificate is a credible person
Done by the Honorable John C. Hume [illegible] Judge of said Court
In Testimony whereof I James M Ray clerk of the same Court and the seal thereof hereunto affixed to Indiana [illegible] this November 19th 1832
James M. Ray Clerk
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State of Indiana Marion County ss
On this 13th day of November A.D. 1832, Personally appeared in the open Court before the honorable John C. Hume sole Judge of the Probate Court in and for the County aforsaid now sitting Henry Harding Senr. a resident of the said County of Marion aged 80 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, inorder to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers during the revolutionary war, and served as herein stated. That some time in the summer or early in the Fall of 1775. being soon after the royal government was dissolved in the state of Virginia and while Governor Dunmore was laying on board of a ship of War, this applicant volunteered into the service of the U.S. for 6 months, on Hicoo Creek, in said State & near the North Carolina line, where he then resided. That he was put into a company commanded Peter Rodgers in Colonel Lewis' Regiment (names of other officers &c not now recollected) That he was marched under these officers in company with a considerable body of soldiers through Williamsburg to near Gwynns Island where he was continued for some length of time. He recollects that these men had been recently raised by the house of Delegates of the state of
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of Virginia for the purpose of defending the coasts agains the forces under Governor Dunmore who then lay in the chesapeake Bay and had greatly alarmed the inhabitants about attact by offering to free & protect all the negros that should see fit to enlist in to the royal service; that after having continued some 2 or three months near the mouth of the James River in the neighborhood of Norfolk and Hampton, after there had been considerble skirmishing between Dunmores' fleet and the provincial soldeirs & about the time or shortly after Norfolk ws burned by the british this applicant was marched under the officers above named to quell a party of Indians in the back parts of Virginia who it was supposeds had been raised at the instance of Governor Dunmore & were under the command of a disaffected white man named Gurty and were about to join wiht the tories on the frontiers of Virginia and North Carolina who were to operate in favour of Govr Dunmore in order to re establish royal government in Virginia. Before these Indians had done any mischief of consequence, and before the party to which this applicant belonged had reached the head waters of the Holston, where the best of his recollection the Indians had been assembled under one simon Girty they were dispersed by some means, but whether by an engagement with the whites, or by the prospect of operating with Dunmore failing he does not now recollect _ while on this tour he was in one slight engagement with a party of Indians near the head waters of
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of Holston, as he now believes, the Indians were soon defeated, and whites with whom this applicant belonged after having travesed the frontiers for some time marched back to Hicoo or near that where he was discharged having been in the service about Four months being nearly two months less than the term for which he first engaged.
That some time in the winter of seventeen hundred & seventy six at Hicoo aforesaid he entered the service a service a Second time and was shortly after rendezvoused at Hillsborrough in the state of North Carolina, under one captain Moore and was soon after marched to join a detatchment under the command of Brigadier General Moore, who had under him, a large number of provincieal troops and militia, that had been prepared to appose a  a party of Scotch highland tories that were raised by General McDonald; but before this applicant had joined the main army McDonald's party was sent by Colonels Tillington and Caswell at Moores Creek with a large number of militia was engaged by them, himself taken prisoner, and his party entirely dispersed. Thus a juction between McDonald party and the british fleet which was then expected on the coast was prevented but the party to which this applicant belonged were marched to Brunswick and were stationed there and ranged in the neighborhood of Cape Fear River to supress tories and to prevent the british from landing in that vicinity for about six - months when he
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was at Brunswick or in the neighborhood of that place discharged from the service, and returned home making the full time spent in the service during this engagement about six months. The two preceeding tours were before these had been any army regular by organized by congress for more than six months. This applicant was consiquently, in company with no regular soldiers during either of siad terms; and from his want of education, the great length of time that has [illegible] since his service, and the few opportunities aforded to a private soldier to ascertain facts which daily transpire, and the general movements of an army he is unable to give so minute a detail of circustances and a full acount of the several parts of the Country through wich he marched as might be desired to make this declaration entirely satisfactory _ 
That some time about July or Aug in 1780 he enlisted a third time into the service for 18 monhts at Woodstock in New Virginia on the Shenandoah river, was put into a company commanded by Captain Holdam in the Regiment commanded colonel Campbell and was in a short time marched to Hillsborrough & thence under general Stephens, and joined Gates' army at Rugeleys Mills, some time about the middle of August ensuring his enlistment, and but a few days before the battle at Camden. He recollects that the advance on the british and american armies met in
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night between Clermont and Camden when the engagement was commenced and continued until morning, then it became general, that de Kalb [General Johann de Kalb] was here mortally wound and Gates [General Horatio Gates] army was defeated with a great loss, that American army retreated to Salisbury in the state of North Carolina.

That in the Fall after the defeat at Camden General [Nathanael Greene] Green took command of the Southern Army; This applicant continued with Green's army and marched with them to Hicks creek in South Carolina near the Chaucer Hills, where Green detached General [Daniel] Morgan with a considerable force into the district of ninety six & upon receiving information of the Battle of the Cowpens General Green left the army at Hicks Creek under the command of General [Isaac] Huger and proceeded himself to join the detachment under Morgan.

In a short time after Green had left the army at Hicks Creek, General Huger proceeded to march them to Guilford Court House where Morgans men and Greens main army formed a junction, but in consequence of the close pursuit of of the british army which had followed the detachment under Morgan, in order to retake the prisoners captured at the 
Cowpens, General Green was compelled to retreat a cross the Dan river into the State of Virginia; the british having failed to bring on a General engagement returned into the State
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of North Carolina and Genl. [Nathanael] Green[e] thereupon recrossed the Dan River and continued to change the situation of his army every night in order to elude an attack from lord Cornwallis [General Charles Lord Cornwallis] from from that time until the battle at Guilford Court house which took place in March 1781 - and in which engagement his Captain Holden was killed. 

This applicant states that he contined in the service until in February 1782. That he was in Greens army at the siege of Ninety six which began some time in the spring after the battle at Guilford, and was raised in June following; that he was also in the battle at Eutaw Springs
which he thinks was late in the same summer with the siege of Ninety six; at this last mentioned battle his Colonel, Campbell [Lieutenant Colonel Richard Campbell] was mortally wounded and died  before the battle was ended, that although this applicant has a much more distinct recollection of the circumstances of this last tour of service than he has of either of the preceeding tours yet to give a full detail of the many incidents of his last time of service, now, in his recollection, would be to make this declaration too prolix. 

He received a discharge at some place with in the State of Va. N.C. but does not recollect which a few months before lord Cornwallis was taken at York Town. After receiving his discharge he returned home to Wood stock where he had last
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enlist. In answer to the interagatories prescribed by the war department to be propounded by this court he states that he 
was born in Stafford County in Old Virginia 
in the year 1752 from which place his father removed to Hecoo when he first volunteered, and from that to woodstock where he enlisted for the last 18 months. 

he entered the service in the manner and under the officers herein before mentioned. since the war he resided in Woodstock afs [aforesaid] until 1796 when he removed to Dearborn County, Indiana, from which place he removed to this county. he has no record of his age.

He has no documentary evidence and he knows of no person who can testify any more positively to his service  than Isaac Way who is a resident of Ripley county in this state, and now a pensioner under a former act of Congress, whose affidavit is hereunto annexed.

Beside the said Way he is well acquainted Elijah Dawson a resident of this county who can testify to this applicants reputation as a revolutionary soldier. 

He hereby relinquishes every claim what was to a pension or annuity except the present, and declars that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state or territory that he  has been acquainted with no clergyman in this county for any length of time and his whole service in the revolution 
would not fall short of 28 months

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year above written in open  court.
Henry Harding [his mark] X
Testes James M. Ray Clerk