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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Ensign / Patriotic Service
An excerpt transcribed from the Revolutionary War Pension of John Allen, *S17820:
State of South Carolina
Chester District
On the 24th day of November 1832 Personally appeared before Peter Wylie Judge of the Court of Ordinary of said District John Allen of the District & State aforesaid (but formerly of the State of North Carolina) aged 80 years last Monday, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832. That he entered the Service of his Country as a volunteer in the State of North Carolina, Warren County where he then lived under Captain Edward Clanton, Colonel Benjamin Sorrel, in General Jethro Sumner's Brigade, about the month of July or August & received an Ensign or Second lieutenant commission in the Militia foot service. Of the date he is not positive, but remembers well that when they had marched as far as Cheraw Hill in South Carolina, they got the account of General Gates' defeat at Camden; which he finds from record to have been on the 16th of August 1780. That they then turned & marched toward Charlotte in North Carolina, & had some skirmishes with the Tories & defeated & scattered them. And remained there until the British Army marched up from Camden; & then retreated to Salisbury, & back over the Yadkin River, & was discharged; this was a three months tour. The next was when Cornwallis marched through N. C. after the Battle of Guilford. He again turned a volunteer in a company of Horse as a Dragoon (found his own Horse) under Captain John Powers, Colonel Joseph Hawkins (Brother of Colonel Benjamin Hawkins). This was in the spring of 1781, as I find the Battle of Guilford was on the 15th of March that year. And was commissioned a commissary by the said Colonel Joseph Hawkins, & acted in that capacity during the war campaign. That we pursued the British on to near Willmonton. We had several skirmishes with both British & Tories. That he did both the duty of a commissary & common soldier & messed & sleped [sic] with the Colonel. That they had one deliberate charge sword in hand on a camp of British & Tories, gave them a complete defeat, killed & wounded a number, & completely scattered them, as they retreated into a swamp. And relieved Colonel Keanyen [sic] as they were about to attack him with a superior number. This was another full three months tour, & was dismissed & came home with the Colonel as the British left the Country & marched to the state of Virginia. That he has lost or mislaid his commissions so that he cannot tell what has become of them, not thinking that he would ever have any use for them. And that he relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll or agency of any state or the United States.
Sworn to in open court date above.
John Allen Peter Wylie, Judge Court Ordinary
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