Pension application of Reps Mabry S41809 f19GA
Transcribed by Will Graves 6/6/09: rev'd 5/25/16
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State of North Carolina Warren County
On this 18th day of June 1818 before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Superior
Courts of Law and Courts of Equity for the said State personally appeared Reps Mabry aged Sixty-three years resident in the said County & State who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision by the late act of Congress entitled an act provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war. That he the said Reps Mabry enlisted in the said County & State in the company commanded by Captain Hicks [Isaac Hicks of the 3rd Georgia Continental Battalion] that said company was attached to the Legion commanded by Colonel Scriven [sic, James Screven] of the Continental service of the United States. That he enlisted as aforesaid to the best of his recollection in the spring of 1776. That he continued to serve in said Legion in the service of the United States upwards of three years & six months. That he was in the battles of Ray's Cowpens, 1 at Screven's Plantation2 & the Eutaw Springs [September 8, 1781]3 in South Carolina. That he was taken prisoner at Savannah at the surrender of General Howe [Robert Howe].4
And after being a prisoner six months made his escape. That he stands in need of the assistance of his country for his support. That he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service except the enclosed account
On the same day appeared before me & made oath John Wortham -- That the said Reps
Mabry is a man of moral character, and that he stands in need of the aid of his Country for
support.
S/ John Wortham
Sworn to before me the day & year first above written by Reps Marbry &c.
S/ Reps Mabry
[Note This file also erroneously contains papers relating to the claim of one Adam Mushler
(Mitchell) W3153, Fayette County, Pa., 15 May 1818, of Col. N. Housegger's German Regt.
Maryland Line. See pp. 9 and 10]
[Veteran was pensioned at the rate of $8 per month commencing June 18, 1818, for service as a
private for 3 years in the North Carolina line, sic Georgia line].
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1please help identify this engagement. This is not a reference to the Battle of Cowpens, January 17, 1781 as there were no Georgia Continentals at that engagement
2please help identify this engagement
3 https://www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/revolution_battle_of_eutaw_springs.html
4First Savannah December 19, 1778 http://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/781229-savannah
http://revwarapps.org/s41809.pdf
