Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8580, Samuel Goff, N.C.

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New Hanover County there was a firing kept
up with the enemy who were on the East side
of the River in which he was employed two
or three days and there was about that time
a skirmish or battle between the parties
on the East side of the River the Americans
defeated & Col Brown of Bladen wounded
in the arm; that he has no documentary
evidence; that his marches in this tour
were from Duplin County to the Big Bridge
in New Hanover County; thence down about
Wilmington and on the sound; and from
the Big Bridge after the skirmish there to
Kingston on the Neuse where he was discharged,
he thinks he can prove this service by
Bezzent Brock of this county
Answers of Samuel Goff the aforesaid applicant
questions propounded to him by the Court
as prescribed by the War Department
1. I was born in Hartford County Virginia in
Oct, and I believe in the year 1759.
2. I have no record of my age now, had once
but have lost it
3 When called into service I was living in Duplin Co
N.C. & we lived in it ever since the Revolutionary
war & I now live in Duplin County N.C.
4. I first enlisted, afterwards drafted.
5. I beg leave to refer to my declaration
6. I never received any written discharge
7. George Kornegay, Jonathan Keatly, Bezzent Brock
Edward Outlaw Lewis Outlaw H
[line rubbed out/smeared]
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever
to a pension or annuity except the present & declare
that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency
of any State
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Test Jas Pearsall Clk Samuel His + Mark Goff