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[edit] Transcript[Some reformating to improve readability State of Ohio Warren County SS On this 3rd day of October 1832 personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of common Pleas now sitting in the County of Warren aforesaid, John Houston, resident of Turtle Creek Township in the said County, aged 69 years, who being duly affirmed, according to law, doth, on his solemn affirmation, make the following declaration, to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832:
That in the month of April 1780 he, the
said Applicant, in the County of Tryon, again entered the Service of the United States for a term of
three months, as a substitute for John Reynolds of Tryon County, where this Applicant then resided.
The name of the Captain of this Company, this Applicant thinks was Wilson, serving in Colonel Davy's
[William Richardson Davie's] Regiment, in which he was marched from North Carolina toWaxhall
[Waxhaw], near the Hanging Rock in South Carolina, from whence he was frequently sent out in
scouting parties to scour the country; that in one of those scouting expeditions, sometime in the
month of July 1780, this Applicant was taken prisoner by the scouts of Colonel Patterson, a British
officer, & conducted to Camden, in South Carolina. After and imprisonment of about 3 weeks this
Applicant was taken under guard to Charleston, in company with some of General Gates Army who had
also been taken prisoners; that at Charleston, this Applicant was put on board of an English prison
ship; that about Christmas time of 1780, he was taken out of the prison ship & lodged in the British
Hospital on Gatson's wharf [Gadsden's Wharf] in Charleston; that he continued in the Hospital until
sometime in the month of February 1781; that he was then removed by the British to their Barracks,
from whence after a few days, this Affiant & 3 other American prisoners, made their escape & he got
home about the first day of March 1781. That within the said month of March 1781 & whilst still
residing in Mecklenburg County, this Applicant again enlisted. His enlistment at that time was for
eleven months in a troop of Horse under a Captain whose name he thinks was White. The other officers
of this Company were Ensign Aikin, Lieutenant Wilson, & Major Hampton; the Company belonged to
the Second Regiment of South Carolina commanded by Colonel Middleton of General Sumpters Brigade;
that he was marched to Congaree, in South Carolina; that this Applicant belonged to the Vanguard of
his Company; that whilst on this station at Congaree he was at the taking of Buck Head Fort; that at
the time Lord Rawdon was going to raise the siege of Ninety Six, this Applicant was in a detachment
of 120 men, under Colonel Middleton, which had a serious skirmish with the British Troop of Light
horse, at the Juniper Springs. In this conflict Colonel Middleton lost a good many men. That they
afterwards marched to Orangeburg & took the Fort there; from thence to a Fort near Moncks Corner,
under which, at a place on the sea shore called HobCay [?], lay an English row galleys schooner
which (after dismounting) we boarded & took & plundered of a good deal of money which was divided
amongst all the soldiers of the Brigade; after this exploit we took the Fort. This Fort was
evacuated by the enemy in the night & under General Sumter this Applicant was in the morning marched
in pursuit; the British crossed Strawberry Bridge & destroyed it after them; we followed him but did
not come up with them till they were entrenched; as the horse could do nothing here, this Applicant
seized one of the prisoners muskets & assisted the Infantry and there attacked, but we failed in
dislodging the Enemy. This Applicant then mounted his horse & returned in his troop to Congaree. At
Congaree he got a furlough, went home & after a few weeks returned to camp. It was whilst he was at
home on furlough that the Fort at Eutaw Springs was taken. He was next marched to Orangeburg where
the Company was stationed for about a month; from thence he was marched to the Four Holes Bridge
where the troops took up quarters for the winter. Towards the following spring, to wit, about the
end of February he was marched back to Congaree & there received his discharge on the 10th of March
1782. This discharge was in writing which was kept by this Applicant until it was worn out. This Applicant then returned home to Mecklenburg County where he continued to reside until 1787 when he removed to Madison County in the State of Kentucky. There he lived until 1800 & then removed to Williamson County in Tennessee where he resided till 1807; thence he removed into Miami County in the State of Ohio & lived there until 1809; then he removed to Warren County, Ohio, his present place of abode where he has resided ever since. He further states that his age is 69 years and that
he has no record evidence of his age, nor has he any discharge or other documentary evidence of his
service nor does he know of any living witness by whom he can prove his revolutionary services. That
there is no clergyman in his neighborhood to whom he is known. He states that he is well known to
Nathan Sharp, Henry Valentine, Francis B???, of his vicinity by all or either of he can prove his
character for veracity & that he has been generally reputed and believed that he this applicant was
a soldier of the revolution. And 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.
[Nathan Sharp, Henry Valentine and Francis Budle? gave the
standard supporting affidavit.] |