| 1. |
|
A folded
card titled INVALID, File No. 7977, Edward Wright Priv. Rev.
Also handwritten on the "back" of the card: |
|
| |
|
1906 Aug 11 Hist to
Corley<?> Wright (Letter in L F. 42051)
1912 May 6 Hist. to Miss<?> Alfred Prescott
(Letter in L. F. 4916 Benjamin Blackborn) |
|
| |
|
|
|
| 2. |
|
A folded
card or envelop with "7162" handwritten on top right. Lists him as being under
the command of a Captain Davis. Certificate of Pension issued on 8 March 1833
and to received a pension of $20 per annum. |
|
| |
|
|
|
| 3. |
|
The opposite side of the above document? Has "No.
19435" handwritten on top right, plus his name, county, from -- private 6 months $20, etc. |
|
| |
|
|
|
| 4. |
|
A form, Brief in the case of
Edward Wright of Montgomery County in the State of North
Carolina.
Lists him as being drafted
for 3 months as a private under Capt. Davis, Col Tinnon, and General Butler and
then volunteering for 3 months as private under General Rutherford. He entered
the service in Guilford, North Carolina. |
|
| |
|
|
|
| 5-8. |
|
Handwritten document (signed with Edward Wright's
"mark"), Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of
the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. |
|
| |
|
...Edward Wright a resident of
the county of Montgomery. Age seventy four years who being first duly sworn
according to law makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he was born in the State of
Maryland the year he does not know as he has no record of his age but from what
he has always understood and believed he thinks he is now about seventy four
years of age that he grew up in the said State of Maryland and which was
<?> then placed on the Muster Roll and that he came to the State of
North Carolina and settled in the County of Guilford in said state about the
time of the Battle of Bunker Hill. That after he had remained some time in
Guilford he entered the Service of the United States under one Captain Davis
who drafted a company of Men in Guilford County. He does not know the date he
entered under Captain Davis, but know that it was in the year that the British
were fortified at Stono <?> in So. Carolina where they under one
Genl Provo had an engagement with the americans under Genl Lincoln. The
citation of this fact at this time is to fix the time he commenced his service.
After Captain Davis had made up his Company as above stated he joined Col
Tinnon from Orange County and one Genl Butler who commanded a body of men and
they all marched on through Salsbury and Charlotte into South Carolina and
Georgia being sometimes on one side of Savannah River and sometime on the
other. That after they had got into South Carolina they were joined by one Genl
Lincoln who had an army under his Command which was <?> sometimes
pursuing <?> the British under Genl Provo and sometimes pursued by
them that they were marching in this way until the british under Provo
fortified themselves at a place called Stono and marched <?> of
this affiant further states that the time for which the Company who were
drafted by Captain Davis from Guilford entered the service was three months
which expired shortly after the engagement at Stono when Davis company
surrendered <?> charge it and this affiant amongst the rest and
they left the americans at Stono when they returned home to Guilford. This
affiant is unable to state certainly whether he got a parole on written
discharge but if it was a written one he has lost it he knows nothing of it
<?> his best opinion however that the had a written discharge This
affiant further states that upon his return home he remained some time and
about the time of the age at York after the battle of Guilford Courthouse he
again entered the service of the United States as a volunteer under one Captain
George Fernbis <?> & George this lieutenant who <?>
a Company of Volunteers and they marched through Randolph and Montgomery
county and joined one General Rutherford on Drowning Creek which is in Robeson
County in the State of North Carolina that they marched through a swamp called
the Raft Swamp in the same County and that they marched from place to place and
were on their way to Wilmington where and that neighborhood <?>
way a Major Craig who commanded a number of the British and some of the
Tories who had colluded <?> them. That when Rutherford and his
army were encamped at a place called Long Bridge on the North east River they
had news of the capture of Cornwallis at York which news together with the fact
that Rutherford was marching to Wilmington induced Major Craig to abandon it
Shortly after which time upon the expiration of the three months <?>
for which the company under Fernbis <?> from Guilford had -
volunteered. This affiant and the rest of the Company from Guilford were
discharged and sent home. He does not recollect whither he had a written or
verbal discharge or in what <?> the company were discharged This
affiant states that shortly after his first tour he married and lived six or
seven years after the close of the war in Guilford County when he then moved to
where he now lives in Montgomery County. This affiant states he has no persons
by whom he can prove his service in the revolution. He is know to J. B.
Martins <?>, John Jordan and William Coggins who can testify as
his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the
revolution. That there is no clergymen in his neighborhood that can testify to
the same... |
|
| |
|
|
|
| 9. |
|
Form,
[Pen]sion on file in this Bureau Edward Wright L. F.
7977 |
|
| |
|
Lists his date of
service as 1779 for his 3 months with Captain Davis and about 1781 for his
service with Captain George Furlies or Furbis.
His residence in 1770 was Guilford, NC.
The date of application was Oct 4, 1832.
That he was born in Md. in 1758.
Soldier alleged that he married
shortly after his first tour no name of wife and lived six or seven years after
the close of the war in Guilford. |
|
