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State of Service: VA/NC
Qualifying Service: Private
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Author: Michael D. C. Merryman
John Cobb (1759-1841) P-329115
Excerpted from the Revolutionary War Pension S*W20902:
State of South Carolina Pickens District
March Term 1833
On this eleventh day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Josiah J. Evans in the Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas of the said State for the District aforesaid now sitting John Cobb a resident of the District of Pickens aforesaid aged Seventy four 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 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States as a Volunteer under Captain James Cobb of Colonel Grimes Reg’t of Militia in Halifax County in the State of Virginia He was marched down to Williamsburg and was there put under command of Captain Rogers of Colonel Washington’s Regiment of Infantry. He was marched to Norfolk as it was reported the British was there and before the American Troops arrived the British burned the town and retired on their vessels. He was then marched to James Town from there to Hampton from there to Little York part of which had been burned before he got there. He then returned to Williamsburg he was there discharged after having served about four months. He returned home, his Father was fixing to move to North Carolina to which place he moved with his father and settled in Lincoln County NC. Shortly after he settled there within perhaps less than a fortnight he turned out Volunteer to go after the Tories he was engaged principally in the County of Lincoln under the Command of Captain Boyer – he was in several skirmishes. He afterwards turned out under Captain Sumpter as a volunteer and in fact he was not home except at very short periods from the commencement of the Revolutionary war in Virginia he was nearly all the time in the army. He was with Colonel Sumpter of South Carolina for a considerable time after the Tories, engaged in patrolling the Country on what was called scouts. Many prisoners were taken and a number of the enemy kill’d. He was a tour with Colonel Severe against the Cherokee Indians he was at the Valley Town kill’d several on the route. At the Battle of Guilford he was guarding the baggage. He was at the Siege at Little York when Lord Cornwallis surrendered, he was there commanded by Colonel Washington – in so long a time the frequent changes of officers it now is out of his power to relate the officers at all times and places — This declarant was born in Halifax County in the State of Virginia resided there till the commencement of the war after his first discharge he moved to North Carolina, remained there till after the end of the Revolutionary War he then moved to Spartan[burg] County in South Carolina where he lived for nine years he then moved into Pendleton County afterwards District which was divided and now in Pickens District and State aforesaid where he has lived for the last thirty six years as well as he now recollects – 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.
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