Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17,437, William Gipson, N.C.

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(8-1776)
SERVICE N. C.   
Gipson, William   
NUMBER S.17.437

Born in S.C.   
Carded
CONTENTS

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The State of Indiana}
Boon [sic Boone] County
On this 19th day of October 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judge of the Boon Circuit Court now in session William Gipson a resident of the county of Boon aforesaid and State of Indiana, aged seventy eight or seventy nine years, in December next, who being first 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 7th 1837.
That he intered the service of the united States under the following named officers, & served as herein stated, that in June or July in the year 1777, he volunteered and entered the company of Captain James Armstrong, in Rowen County North Carolina, besides Captain James Armstrong, his company was offercered as follows - one Sharp was Lieut, one Irvin was Ensign and this applicant was first sergeant - the company belonged to Colonel William Armstrong's Regt. His company volunteered to go down into the lawles[?] counties of N[?] Carolina, in order to drive out & disperse the Tories, colluding under one Eli Branson. His company rendezvous at Salsbury Court house, otherwise Roan [sic Rowan] Court house, two days, when they marched - no other company went with them - but Genl Amos Pack

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party called tories, his home and patrimony having been almost entirely destroyed, in consequence of the attachment of himself & brother to the cause of Independence, he joined a very small party of Whips who had been more or less harrassed & inspired by the disaffected which party were headed by one Risdel Moore (Col) Captain John Haley, Lieut Elijah Charles, Insign Elisha Charles & others of Gilford County NC. This party ranged[?] through Guilford, Randolph, & Surry Counties. That sometime in the summer of 1779 at one Wm Brazletons in Gilford County, he and his party were in the house when suddenly two armed men stood at the door, they seeing the party within, immediately wheeled, and Col Moore walked down one of the men, who proved to be the notorious Hugh McPherson a tory - his party soon took the other one who proved to be one Campbell & brother to the Cambell taken prisoner & made his escape, during the first campaign above related. His party took both of these tories to Gilford Court house about 15 mies from the place of capturing them. There a court marshal was held composed of the officers of his party and MacPherson was condemned & shot in the presence of this applicant, & Campbell was condemned to be spicketed, that is he was placed with one foote upon a sharp pin drove in a block, and was turned round by one Thomas Archer to the best of his recolection, until the pin run through his foote, then he was turned loose. This applicant cannot forbear to relate that as evull as this punishment might seem to be to those who never witnessed the unrelenting cruelties of the tories of that day, yet he viewed the punishment of those two men

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Mrs. P. H. Myers,
Thorntown,
Indiana.

July 8, 1912.
Madam:
In response to your letter dated the 28"" ultimo and received
the 1"" instant, you are advised that William Gipson was
allowed pension, Sur. File No. 17,437, Rev. War, on his application
executed October 19, 1832, while a resident of Boone Co. Indiana,
He stated that he was born in December, 1753, at Monk's
Corner, South Carolina, and resided in Guilford County, North Carolina
, when he served in the North Carolina troops as follows.
Volunteered in June or July 1777; First Sergeant, Captain
James Armstrong's company, Colonel William Armstrong's regiment
, in the pursuit of Tories, and captured one Lieut. Campbell
who afterwards escaped; served six months.
Ordered out in March or April, 1778; Private, same company
and regiment, and was in the engagement against Tories under
Bryant, in which Colonel Armstrong was mortally wounded; three
months.
Winter of 17 -- Private under Captain John Haley and Colonel Risdell Moore in the Rangers, assisted in capturing Hugh
McPherson and the brother of Lieut. Campbell; served until
Christmas.