Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8,779, for Sherwood Kenneday, North Carolina
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SERVICE N.C.
Kenneday, Sherwood or Kennedy
NUMBER S 8779
CONTENTS Born in Va.
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State of North Carolina
November Term A.D. 1832
Davidson County ⎬ Court of Pleas & quarter Session 
On this fifteenth day of November AD 1832 Personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the Court of Pleas and quarter Sessions now sitting Sherwood
Kenneday a resident of Davidson County and State of North Carolina aged about seventy two 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 June the 7th 1832

That he entered the service of the United States in the the war of the Revolution in the month of November Seventeen Hundred Seventy Eight he then living in the State of
North Carolina Guilford County - that he became a volunteer Captain Enoch Davis's Company Col Locks Regiment Gen [Griffith] Rutherford being commander - that they Rendezvoused at Salisbury N.C. And then were march
on towards Charleston S.C. and encamped at Purrysburg -

that Gen. [Benjamin] Lincoln with his Regulars were there - from thence Gen. [Griffith]  Rutherford marched his troops on to the Savannah River to a place called the Three Sisters 
[ferry, SC] - that there they made Breastworks and placed the Cannon in order for Battle and every preparation of Defense - that they lay in that situation a while and no enemy appearing to attack them [Gen. Griffith]  Rutherford moved up the river in order to join Gen. Ash [John Ashe] who with his troops were on the west side of the river in the neighborhood of Brier Creek [Georgia]- that as they was marching up the river Col Alexander Pervard [Brevard] made declaration that he wanted Riflemen to join him and immediately cross the river - this deponent States that he and several others volunteered and crossed the River- that when they came to Geo. Ash's [John Ashe] Brigade, Col. Litles [Arcnibald Lytle] men were cleaning their guns expecting
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That Col. Pervard and his men joined Col Lytles Infantry who he thinks amounted to about two hundred & fifty - that Col. Pervard marched the whole of them into the field of battle at Brier Creek, that Gen. Briant commanded the Action in person -that at one time in the action Pervard and his men were nearly surrounded by the enemy - that some of Rutherford's Horse got over the river in
time to share in the action - that after the Battle was over he saw Blood and hair on Col Pervards sword that he and the rest of Rutherford's men that had been in the Battle recrossed the River and joined their own Standard and were marched down the river to the White House where at the expiration of their term of service
he received a discharge signed by his Captain Enoch Davis which is herewith transmitted &
And further this applicant states that in the fall of
the year seventeen Hundred and Eighty he then living in Randolph County N.C. he was drafted for three month and put into Capt John Johnson's Company Col Colyer's [Collier?]Reg which Rendezvous[ed] at Bells Mill on Deep river - that they then marched to Salisbury N.C. when Col Juaithan Harper took the command instead of Colyer that Gen Butler was commander in Chief - that he this Deponant acted as orderly Sergeant in Johnson's Company the whole three months at the end of which time he received a Discharge signed by his capt. - that some time after his return home Capt Johnson came to the House of this deponent and wanted said discharge - that he let him have it and that he has not seen it since - that the capt has been dead for a number of years, and it cannot be procured. And further that he knows of no person that he can prove the above three months service by Only Mr Daniel Merrill of Randolph County N.C. And he further states that according to the account
given him of his age by his parents he was born October the 14th A.D. 1760
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Sherwood Kennedy [Kenneday]
Denied 8 months
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[Discharge Paper]

This is to Certify that Sherwood Canaday [Kenneday] of Capt [Enoch] Davis's Company in Col Francis] Locke's Regiment has served five months in the Militia from North Carolina [illegible] North Carolina he is Discharged he having served as a good Soldier Given under my hand this 10th day of April 77 [?] and allowed 18 Days to Return home 
Enoch Davies Capt
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Admit
3 mo Serg. 15.
5 " Priv 16.00
$31.66
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[Amended Declaration]

State of North Carolina
Davidson County
Court of pleas & quarters sessions 
May Term 1833
Personally appeared in open Court Sherwood Keneday [Kenneday] who after being duly sworn according to law Deposeth & Saith that for amendment to the Declaration by him made at the Nov. Term Last held for his county in order to obtain a pension for his services as a soldier in the War of the Revolution= 

and in answer to the objection made by the pension committee for me 7th query is that he hereby relinquishes every Claim to any other pension only the one under the act June 7th AD 1832 - and that by virtue of Said act of Congress he Claims a pension for Eight months Service-

thence of which he was orderly Sargeant for 
Capt Johnston's Company - and that his name is not on the pension Role of any agency of this state or any State in  the Union 

answer to query the 17th (objected) this applicant makes oath that in addition to [illegible]  already qualified in the aforenamed Declaration he will state the names of some of his Neighbors and Acquaintances that he thinks will concur in opinion of his Services in the war of the Revolution & in the neighborhood belief of the same viz

[illegible] Hunt Soloman David Brumell William Piggott J All have been Esquires David Mark NC County Court Clerk

Sworn and subscribed in open Court this 14th May 1833
Sherwood Kenneday
D.  Mark Clerk