Mecklenburg COUNTY, NC - MILITARY - Thomas Barnett, Revolutionary War Pension Application -------- Revolutionary War Pension Application - Thomas Barnett [Application for Pension - Revolutionary War; transcribed from microfilmed copies of the handwritten documents on file at the National Archives, April 27, 2000 by Peggy Reece Bruckner; 4th great granddaughter. Punctuation and spelling is as found in original document; comments in brackets] NC - Barnett, Thomas, Service # S.8041 Declaration in order to obtain the Benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 On this 28th day of May 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the justices of the Court of pleas and quarter sessions for the county of Mecklenburg and State of North Carolina, now sitting Thomas Barnette, a resident of the above named county, aged 74 years and after being duly sworne agreable 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. I was born in Orange County N Carolina in the year 1759. I Entered the Service of the United States in the Spring of 1779 as a substitue in place of James Stuart. we were ordered to Hillsborough & there unde [?] vouz [?] in the County of Orange North Carolina under William Harden [in Colonel Lytle's North Carolina Regiment] Capt Thomas Barnette Lieut, Hugh Barnette Ensign, I was orderly sergeant Col Little of Orange County was our Col. Maj Dixon our Maj. William Saunders ajutant, we were Kept there between one and two months waiting for orders, and then sent home until called. Staid some time at home and in the same summer was called under the same officers & when Collected was marched towards South Carolina and when we came to the South Line three months was near Expired and a number refused to cross the line & some did not, we were then marched to the City of Charleston, I Served three months & ten days after we went into South Carolina and was discharged in the night in a Severe thunder Storm to Keep the Enemy from Knowing our Regiment was discharged the Enemy was then in sight But had not stoped the passage by Lance into the town, my discharge for this tour I have lost, In the year 1781 I went to Guilford County NC to see two brothers who lived there. They [page II] were Raising a company of Horse to supress the tories who were doing grate damage at that time in the County of Guilford & Chatham NC I then substituted myself in place of a man by the name of Michem for three months under Capt James Robinson Lieut John Barnett Ensign William Barnette, Col Literal was our Col. Maj Knight our Maj, and when the British under Lord Cornwallis Came to Hillsborough I was taken prisoner by a party of tories under the Command of Col Piles who commanded about three Hundred men, I was Rescued by Lus [?] troop of Horse before the got to the British Camp. I then joined Col Malmody on Haw River who was persuing some tories & served my tour out and was discharged, But this discharge is also Lost, In June 1781 I turned out volunteer in a troop of Horse for three months under Capt Harralson, Lieut Martin Ensign Stephen Stuart, I was orderly sergeant. we marched into South Carolina & joined General Green marched with him on to the Eutaw Spring & was in the Battle on the 8th September, was sent in the time of the ingagement to Guard about three Hundred Personers we had taken, we Guarded them on to Salisbury Rowan County NC we then left them marched on home & was discharged, this discharge I have also lost - I served in the whole some few days over twelve months nine months of which time I was orderly sergeant, I have no documentary Evidence to Establish my Claims, having long since lost my dischages. I hereby relinquish Every Claim whatever to a Pension or annity Except the present under the act of Cong ress passed June 7th 1732 and declare my name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State Interogatories put by the Court- Where were you Born, I was born in Orang County N C. [page III] In what year were you Born- In the year 1759. Agreeable to the record Kept by my parents Have you any record of your age, yes in my Bible Where did you Enter the Service, In the County of Orange North Carolina Where do you know reside, In the County of Mecklenburg and State of north Carolina, which I removed to in the year 1799. Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this day of May 1833 Thomas Barnett (signature) ---------------------------------------------------------------- [NOTE: Thomas Barnett was the son of Hugh Barnett I and Margaret Currie. Hugh II, William and John were his brothers.] ---------------------------------------------------------------- State of North Carolina Mecklenburg County Personally apeared in open Court now sitting for the County & State above written, Isaih Dewese aged 70 years and after being duly sworn doth on his oath say he was personally aquainted with the applicant Thomas Barnette and lived at his, Thomas Barnetts fathers, during some part of the time which (ditto) Barnette was in the service and distinctly remembers him being in two tours the one to Charleston the other in the Counties of Chatham and Guilford in this Last he was taken prisoner by the Tories Sworne to & subscribed this 28 day of August 1833 Isaiah Dewese (signature) ---------------------------------------------------------------- [NOTE: Isaiah Deweese married Rebecca Barnett, the half-sister of Thomas Barnett.] ---------------------------------------------------------------- State of North Carolina Mecklenburg County Personally appeared in open Court now Sitting for the County & State above written Hezekiah Dewese aged 73 years and after being duly Sworn doth on his oath say that he saw Thomas Barnette Twice in a troup of Horse in South Carolina during the war of the revolution in the year 1781 a short time before the battle of Eutaw Spring Sworne to & subscribed this 28 day of May 1833 his Hezekiah (X) Dewese mark ---------------------------------------------------------------- [NOTE: Hezekiah Deweese was the brother of Isaiah. Both were sons of Jonathan \\Deweese Or De Wees\\ and Rachel \\Marchant Or Merchant\\] ---------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Peggy Bruckner (bruckner@mindspring.com) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------