Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,270, Isaac Gillham, S.C.

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State of Illinois
Madison County
SS

On this 4th day of September in
the year 1832, personaly appeared in open court
before their Honors the Judges of the County
Commissioners Court for Madison County
now sitting, Isaac Gillham a resident
of Madison County and State of Illinois,
aged 74 years, 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 7, 1832.

That he the said Isaac Gillham entered
the service of the United States under the
following named officer, and served as
herein stated.

That he volunteered in the fall of 1777
in Camden district South Carolina and was 
in the company commanded by Captain Robert
Macupfee (in the company of Horse) in the
Regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Neale
and marched into Georgia and was stationed
at Phillips Fort for fifty days, he was then
dismissed and returned home.

That he was drafted in the month of March
1778 and was commanded by Lieutenant
Thomas Gillham in the Regiment commanded
by Colonel Thomas Neale and marched to
Charleston and had been there, but a few 
days when the British laid siege to it and
were [illegible] and he was then marched to
Stono where he was stationed till the battle
at that place, after the battle he was dismissed,
and returned home.

He further declares the he was drafted

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July 17, 1928.

Mrs. W. Brownlow May,
316 West Exchange Street,
Jerseyville, Illinois.

Madam:

I advise you that from the Revolutionary War records of this bureau it appears that Isaac Gillham was born November 10, 1757, in Augusta County, Virginia and moved to South Carolina in 1763.

While a resident of Camden District, South Carolina he enlisted and served as a private with the South Carolina troops as follows:

From about December 15, 1777, served fifty days in Captain Robert "Macupfee's" Company in Colonel Thomas Neale's Regiment.

From March 29 in the year of the battle of Stono Ferry until sometime in August of that year he served in Colonel Thomas Neale's Regiment.

He enlisted sometime in May, 1780, soon after the surrender of Charleston and served until August 18, 1780 in Captain Barnett's Company in Colonel Andrew Neale's Regiment; he was in the battle of Rocky Mount and was wounded in the