Caspar Stults/Stultz Casper was born in Pennsylvania, he believes1 in Northampton County, on 11 December 1753, according to the family Bible now in possession of his brother-in-law Samuel Stroup. As a boy, he accompanied his parents, who were removed from Pennsylvania, to Surry County (now Stokes). 

In February 1775, Casper volunteered in the Surry militia for three months under Captain Henry Smith under the command of Colonel Martin Armstrong. He marched to Fayetteville, then called Cross Creek, where they were joined by several other militia companies in Colonel Alexander Martin's Regiment, as Colonel Armstrong's regiment did not participate in the expedition. The object of this march was to suppress the Tories or Scotch who had joined the enemy in that part of the state. After about two months, he and the rest of the troops were discharged. 

In 1776 he again entered the militia service as a volunteer for a tour of six months under Captain Henry Smith in Colonel Joseph Williams' regiment in the Brigade under General Christer. They marched into the Cherokee nation and destroyed the town of Chilhowee. The Cherokee people, having retired before our troops, the force was discharged after the destruction of the town. 

In 1777 or 1778, he and about fifty others were pressed into service under Captain Pleasant Henderson to go as a guard to the commissioners running the line between North Carolina and Kentucky or Virginia under Colonel Joseph Williams and Richard Henderson. In this expedition, Stults operated a wagon conveying baggage and provisions for the commissioners and troops. The guard was necessary to protect from Native American warriors. He went as far as Carters Valley in now Tennessee, where owing to the country's extreme roughness, he could not proceed further with the wagon. He was discharged then and returned home after about two months of service. 

In the military pension affidavit of Frederick Binkly or Pinkly (same day), He was in the revolutionary service as a militia man and well recollects that Casper Stults was with him under Captain Henry Smith in the expedition against the Tories at Cross Creek and against Native American warriors in the western part of North Carolina, now Tennessee. Ever since the Revolution, he and Stults have lived in Stokes County. In another affidavit, John Butner and William A. Lash, residents of Stokes, stated that Casper Stults is believed to be a soldier of the Revolution. 

In the affidavit of Samuel Strupe, Sr. of Bethania, Stokes County, North Carolina, dated 7 September 1832, he states he was aged 75 on 19 July last. He also said he was infirm, so he was unable to attend court. Samuel has known Casper Stultz all his life and has always resided in the same neighborhood. Casper has been notably blind for at least fifteen years and unable to do any labor for nearly twenty years. Casper entered the state troops on the Scotch expedition under Captain Henry Smith, who served under Colonel Alexander Martin in 1776 as a private, and was called out for a three-month tour but believed they were all discharged after three months. Casper entered service again as a private on the Cherokee expedition under Captain Smith and Colonel Joseph Williams under General Christy. He served at least six months. Samuel served with him on this expedition, skirmishing many of their towns on the Tennessee River for six months from June to Christmas 1776. Stultz again entered as a private under Captain Pleasant Henderson under Colonel Richard Henderson on a tour of upwards to two months stationed at Carters Valley and from there to mark the line between Virginia and Kentucky. Colonel Joseph Williams commanded the North Carolina troops, and this took place in 1778. Strupe served with this expedition also. Stultz went on to South Carolina with flour for the army of regulars under Colonel Bursky[?] of the Maryland line, was pressed with a four-horse team, and retained in service about one and a half months at the time of Gates's defeat in the South. In January 1787, Casper stood at guard over the prisoners taken at the Cowpens and guarded at Bethabara in Stokes County and also guarded the prisoners taken at Kings Mountain, probably for nearly two months. Casper also guarded the U.S. magazine at Salem, North Carolina, and conveyed the same to Henry Court House in Virginia for at least two months in 1781. Casper was called out at different times into service to suppress the Tories, who were at times very troublesome. They were called out by Captain Henry Smith, who was captain for the South [end/and] of Stokes County, amounting to something like a month. Strupe believes Casper to be 79 years on 11 December 1832. [signed by mark] Declaration of Casper Stultz; Stokes County, North Carolina, dated 20 December 1832.

In the declaration of Anna Margarethe Stultz of Stokes County, North Carolina, dated 5 January 1839, she states he is the widow of Casper Stults, deceased, a pensioner of the U.S. She is responding to a War Department denial based on her husband's failure to declare service after their marriage. She declares that, shortly after their marriage, Major Henry Smith ordered a company of men to go after "a set of Torie's" into the Douthal Settlements near the mouth of Muddy Creek, where it empties into the Yadkin River. When Casper returned in about ten days, he told her the Tories had fled and crossed the river into the forks of the Yadkin into Rowan County. She believes he also performed a small tour in January 1781 as one of the soldiers guarding the powder wagons from Salem to Virginia (Henry County). He was gone for three weeks. She thinks others along on that "route" were one of the Banners, Joseph Houser, and her brother George Houser, deceased. 

In the affidavit of Benjamin Banner, pensioner, dated 7 January 1839, of Stokes County, he states he drove a wagon loaded with ammunition and guns for the use of the U.S. army from Salem (then in Surry County, North Carolina) to Henry Courthouse in Virginia. Casper Stults was one of the guards at Henry Courthouse in January 1781. 

A copy of the Church Register by Julius T. Beckler, pastor of the Moravian Society of Bethania, Stokes County, North Carolina, dated 4 January 1839, which lists the names and ages of children of Casper Stults and his wife Anna Margaret, which were christened in the Moravian Church according to church records in Village of Bethania, Stokes County, North Carolina:

• John Henry was born on 1 July 1782 
• Margaret was born on 14 February 1784 
• Joanna Gertrude was born on 11 October 1785 
• Solomon was born on 27 December 1787 
• Mary Eliza was born on 12 February 1790
• Benjamin was born on 20 October 1792 
• Mary was born on 20 June 1795
• Thomas was born on 23 October 1797
• Samuel was born on 8 June 1800
• Susanna was born on 13 April 1803 

In the affidavit of Joseph Houser of Stokes County, North Carolina, dated 8 January 1839, he states Casper Stults went as one of the guards of forage wagons, one of which Joseph Houser drove from the old Moravian Town in the fall of 1780 down into a Torrie settlement called the Douthal and Markland neighborhood near the Yadkin River and mouth of Muddy Creek. There we loaded five or six wagons with corn in a field and returned to the old Town for the use of the army with the prisoners stationed there. The prisoners had been taken at Kings Mountain. [They] were gone two days, and Stults also guarded the prisoners. Afterward, Casper Stults furnished two workhorses in January 1781, put in a wagon that Joseph Houser drove with Army lead and powder for the use of the Army from Salem (then in Surry, now Stokes) to Henry Courthouse in Virginia. Stults went as one of the guards commanded by Lieutenant Jones for twenty-four days to Bethania. He returned with Joseph Houser. 

There is an affidavit in Henry Smith's pension file that states Stults served under Captain Henry Smith in an expedition against Scotch Tories to Fayetteville, North Carolina, and an expedition against the Cherokee People in 1776. Stults was blind and residing in Stokes County, North Carolina, in 1833.² 

Sources:

1. Revolutionary War W4819 [1810 Stokes Co. census, p. 514, 574 (Bethabra Dist.) Declaration of Casper Stults – Stokes Co., NC, 1 September 1832 – Res. of Stokes, aged 79 on 11 December next. 
2. Abstracted by: Elizabeth Osenbaugh; Posted on website created by Faye Jarvis Moran: http://www.fmoran.com/revs.html