Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10160, for Jurdon Stewart, North Carolina

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SERVICE                                             NUMBER
NC         Stewart, Jurdon                         R 10160
Va           Stuart or Jordan

CONTENTS

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State of North Carolina Wake County 24 day of May 1849
This day Jordon Stewart Came in open Court
for [illegible] County aged Ninety five years of age
and made the following declaration in order to
attain a pension under the act of Congress, passed the
7 day of June 1832 for the Revolutionary service,
rendered by him to wit 
That he was Born in the County of Dinwiddie Va and moved in Mecklenburg County Va and joined the army at the age of about 26 years in the later County and was under the following officers in the Militia service in the said State of Va -to the best of his knowledge and belief James Hester Nath Hester Elijah Graves Henry or Nath Walker and the officers in North Carolina are were Cap. Edward Montfort and Luten. Col Joseph Montfort with whom  declarant become intermately [sic] acquainted - also under one Lieutenant or Ensign Hay of N. Carolina and that he joined the militia on the 4 day of Feb 1780 and remained in said County of Mecklenburg Va in Service seven months and upwards and that he was marched from said County of Mecklenburg to Taylors ferry on the Roanoke River in N.C. not very far from Halifax Town N. Carolina where
there was about three hundred soldiers where declarant
stayed about six weeks - then was marched to the County of Granville N. C. then to the County of Wake where he remained some time - thence to Randolph N.C.- Thence then on his way to Gilford Court House and got within twenty or thirty miles of Gilford Court house declarant met his father a Soldier William Stewart

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William Stewart Returning with a great many others
in one body after the Battle at Gilford Court House
in S. Carolina. - declarant further states that all
those with him immediately countermarched or
returned and made for Payton Shippers ferry on
the Roanoke river N.C. where he was stationed -
and news came that Lord Cornwallis was taken in Little York and the following December thereafter and on the 22 or twenty third day of December 1781 Seventeen Hundred & Eighty he received an Honorable discharge which
has been lost a great many years since. - Declarant States as a reason for his not making a former application that he did not know that the militia Soldiers was entitled to a pension
and only those in the reqular Continental army - although his services was very Faithfully rendered and run many narrow risks of losing his life while in actual service yet he was not
appraised that he was entitled to a pension for the
above reason until very lately - and that he has lived in
a very retired part of Wake County and a very retired life for many years past and seldom from home and has lived in the County of Wake NC. since the war.- the declarant pray that the war department may allow him what is just and save him in his old age for his said service and at this late date and in duty bound will ever pray. Sum to subscribed in open Court this
William Stewart  his mark
 James [illegible] his mark