An excerpt transcribed from the Revolutionary War Pension of Henry Albright, *S6485:

State of North Carolina

Orange County

On this 14th day of September 1832, personally appeared before the Superior Court of Law, of the County & State aforesaid, Henry Albright, of the said County & State, aged seventy three years on the 4th of May 1832, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, & served as herein stated.  The declarant was drafted in the County of Orange aforesaid in the summer of 1781, in the militia of the state aforesaid, for the term of three months and was attached to a company commanded by Captain Trousdale & Lieutenant John Campbell.  The declarant's said company was stationed at Hillsboro in the state aforesaid, for the purpose of guarding said town.  He was appointed sergeant in his company at Hillsboro.  After being at Hillsboro a few weeks, the Tories captured the said town, & took Governor Burke of No. Ca. [sic] and many of the soldiers stationed there prisoners – among whom was this declarant.  He was conveyed by the Tories to Wilmington, North Carolina, & then placed on board a British prison-ship – where he lay some weeks -- & thence was carried in said prison-ship to Charleston, South Carolina; -- where he was detained nearly eleven months, as a prisoner & was exchanged by the British for British soldiers who had been made prisoners by the American forces. 

From the time of his capture as aforesaid at Hillsborough, to the time of his arrival at home in Orange aforesaid after his discharge from his British said imprisonment on board the British prison-ship – there was the lapse of precisely eleven months.  He did not enter the service again after his return from Charleston as aforesaid.  Previously to his draft for three months as aforesaid, the declarant turned out as a soldier in the Western part of Orange County, under the command of Colonel Oneal  on three different occasions – for the purpose of suppressing the Tories in that section of the Country, under the command of the Tory Colonel Fanning.   He was not in service on those occasions more than three weeks or thereabouts, -- was in no general battle in the time – but aided in taking many of the Tories prisoners.  He did not enter the service on those occasions for any particular length of time – but did so in particular emergencies, as the safety of the neighborhood was supposed to require it.  The declarant knew Genl Butler of the North Carolina Militia in the revolutionary War –was his neighbor.  He hath no documentary evidence of his service.  He can prove a part of his service aforesaid by George Nease of the county & state aforesaid whose affidavit is hereunto appended.  This declarant is known to Doctor James J. Smith of the town of Hillsboro aforesaid – and to Willie P. Mangum and to Dr. James A. Craig of the county aforesaid – and to the Reverend Alexander Albright of his neighborhood, whose affidavit is hereunto appended.  He was born in the State of Pennsylvania on the 4th of May 1759 – and was removed to the County of Orange in North Carolina when about four years of age, where he hath resided ever since.  He has a record of his age at home.  He did not receive a written discharge from the service.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.

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Henry   X   Albright

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