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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
Auditor of Public Accounts, APA 640, Provision Law and Specific Tax Accounts, Bonds, and Correspondence, 1779-1790; 1797, Specific Tax List of Spotsylvania County, pg 4, Library of Virginia, Archives Division
Spouse: Sidney Field Auld Children: Mary/Polly Webb; Elijah;
Author: James Edward Mitchell
John Cason, age 76 appeared at Court in Anson County, North Carolina (NC) on 10 Oct 1832 and gave an oath that he was born (1756) at Spotsylvania County in Virginia (VA). He filed an affidavit in Anson County, NC that claimed three years military service for Virginia between Feb 1777 and Mar 1780.
Neither John’s parents, John Cason (1730-1766) and Susannah (1730, Caroline County-1821), nor a younger brother, James Cason (1758-1842) were recorded within John Cason’s Anson County, NC, pension declaration. Although, John and his brother James both are separately recorded enlisted in State Troops of Virginia for Spotsylvania County, neither John nor James gave documentary evidence that indicated a brother, also with service in Virginia might testify at their bequest to prove their service. The reader can only believe that the brothers, after the Revolutionary War failed to adequately communicate and lost any personal contact due in part to separately maintained residences at Anson County, NC and [James Cason, at Jackson County, Tennessee (TN)].
John Cason declared that he enlisted for Spotsylvania County in Feb 1777 in the company of Capt (Clough) Shelton for three years in the (2nd) VA Rgt., commanded by Col(s) Walker and (William) Brent. John advised that he could not recall the number of his regiment. He stated that his VA Rgt was marched to Danbury near the City of Philadelphia (1778) where the Continental Army over wintered. In the spring his (VA) Rgt marched to New York and thence to the North [near West Point on the Hudson River]. His company and VA Rgt served during Jul (16), 1779 in the Virginia line under the command of Col Fleury [François Louis de Fleury] in BrigGen’l Anthony Wayne’s Division at the storming of Stony Point, New York (NY).
[At the battle of Stony Point, NY American reinforcements were quickly ordered by Gen’l. George Washington, the Continental Army commander, to move into position north of two British defensive parameter log forts with redoubts set high above the Hudson River, as if preparing to strike West Point. Washington ordered Brig Gen’l Anthony Wayne to assault the British forces in total darkness with hand-picked combat veterans. The assault group was composed of four regiments of approximately 340 soldiers each. Col Christian Febiger commanded the 1st Rgt. with de Fleury as second in command. On Jul 15, the Corps unloaded their flintlocks and turned in their powder and shot for fixed bayonets; hand to hand fighting was made the order for night fighting! The Continental Corps climbed quickly up the rocky slopes with de Fleury as leader. In the darkness de Fleury was followed over the redoubt into the forts with a wave of American bayonets rushing the surprised British forces into surrender thereby recapturing Stony Point.]
After stationing in the New York area for two months, John advised his Rgt marched south to join Gen’l (Horatio) Gates’s Continental Army on return to Fredericksburg, (VA) in the month of Feb 1780, ending his three year term. This narrative declaration and Pension Application S.8184 was approved by the Pension Bureau, WDC based upon the (Oct 1832) evidence submitted and declaration signed, John Cason; source, Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Pension Statements, John Cason (Pension S.8184), see: http://revwarapps.org/
A marriage record dated 1789 at Anson County, NC between John Cason and Sidney Fields (1756-1820) was determined from a review of US and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. A separate review of for John Cason born 1756, Spotsylvania County, VA died 2 Sep 1834 at Anson County, NC, revealed a marriage during 1789 to Sidney Fields Cason, a daughter of Smith Fields (1740-1799), a resident of Anson County, NC during 1790. John Cason and Sidney were survived by three sons, Elijah Cason (1791-1856); Michael Smith Cason (1795); Edward James Cason (1800-1859) and a daughter, Susannah Cason (1794-1863).
A Find-A-Grave search was conducted for Memorial# 79481502. It determined John Cason was buried at the Cason family cemetery Teal-Hall Road, Wadesboro, Anson County, NC. Mapping notes found at Find-A-Grave pictured Cason Old Field cemetery with an upright headstone. The Teal-Hall Road cemetery can be easily reached from Wadesboro, NC via Hwy 742 south to Bethel United Methodist Church at the intersection (1121). Turn at the second left on to Teal-Hall Road which is (1124). Cason Old Field cemetery is situated on the right about ¼ mile from Hwy 742 south in a thicket of trees encircled by open pasture. Teal Hall Road, Wadesboro, NC is satellite mapped at Latitude: 34.870579 and Longitude: -80.087370; source, https://itouchmap.com/latlong.html
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