This 6th day of August 1832, personally appeared before me, James Billington, one of the acting Justices of The Peace in and for said county and state afford said,Tennessee,aged 71 years seventy one years,being first duly sworn and according to the 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 service of the United States under the following officers and served herein stated.This deponent states that according to the document he received from his father's family record, he was born in the year of 1761, February 15, in the State of North Carolina, Martin County and in the same County, about the age of 17, seventeen, he enlisted in the United States as a soldier and served under Captain Francis Chiles and Lieutenant James Tatum, Regular Officers in the Third North Carolina regiment commanded by Colonel James Hogan.They rendezvoused at Petersburg in Virginia.They marched through the states of New York, went up the North River and built a Fort at West Pointe called Putman's. Rode out from thence to Philadelphia where we wintered and where his time expired. He was then placed on board a vessel, brought back to Virginia, Suffolk, then to North Carolina, Halifax, where he was discharged, but states his discharge he cannot produce, but he knows he enlisted for nine months but served twelve before he was discharged, which he thinks will be found on the roll. This deponent further declares that in the year 1780, he entered the service again as a substitute in the Miltia Line in the place of a certain James Cattenhead of Pitt Co., NC, for the term of threee months, he was first under Captain Shoot, then under Captain Samuel Dudley and under his three months tour, under Captain White and received his discharge which he cannot produce.The above Militia Companies belonged to the Third Regiment of North Carolina Militia from Charlestown but it was said we got within forty miles of that place when it was taken.The deponent further states that in the same year, the fall season, he entered the Service as a substitute for Benjamin Russels, who was drafted in the same County of Martin, North Carolina, for three(3) months and served the tour under Captain John Bullard and Leiutenant Issah Kennedy in a regiment commanded by Colonel Branch, under General A.Jones, in this tour he states we marched to the upper part of the State of North Carolina and ended this tour in the State and obtained his discharge which the wrecks of time,as in the other tours, has placed out of his power to produce. But further declares that some few years past, he thinks he could have obtained witnesses to have proven his actual service for the above tours but now believes they are all dead.One particular witness was Major James Tatum who died a few years ago in the Town of Nashville Tennessee.
He hereby reliquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pesion Roll of the agency of any State. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year of foresaid.