Pension Application - Henry Hardin
November 19, 1832
Walton County, Georgia
order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832.
State of Georgia
County of Walton
Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements
Pension application of Henry Hardin
Transcribed by Will Graves
State of Georgia, County of Walton
On this the nineteenth day of November Eighteen Hundred & thirty two
personally appeared before the Honorable Inferior Court of the County & State aforesaid
being a Court of record Henry Hardin a resident of the County of Walton in the said State
of Georgia aged seventy one years on the twelfth day of April last past who being duly
sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to
obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he entered into the service of the United States in the year Seventeen Hundred &
Seventy Seven on the fifteenth day of October in that year as a volunteer with Capt.
Henry Smith for the term of six months and served in Col. Prevard or Brovard’s
Regiment of the North Carolina Militia under the command of General Lincoln [Benjamin
Lincoln] Col Little [sic, Archibald Lytle] and Major Nelson of the Continental Line and
General Williamson [Andrew Williamson?] of the Militia, the names and rank of the other
officers he states he has forgot and the deponent further declares that he served the said
term of six months in the Land service and that he left the said service on the fifteenth
day of April Seventeen Hundred & Seventy Eight at Turkey Hill upon the Black Swamp
South Carolina at which time & place last aforesaid he was regularly discharged which
discharge is no where in the deponent's power or custody at this time having been as he
believes long since lost or destroyed.
And this deponent further declares that at the time he entered into the service he
resided in the County of Surry North Carolina but was born in Johnston County in said
State and that during said term of service he marched from the Moravian Town in said
State to Salisbury in said state and from Salisbury to Camden in South Carolina and from
that place to the High Hills of Santee and crossed the Santee River at Nelson’s ferry;
thence by the Eutaw Springs to Bacons Bridge thence to Jacksonborough and from
thence by the lower road to Puresburg [sic, Purysburg] at head quarters on the Savannah
River but this deponent sayeth that during said term of service he was not engaged in any
Battle or fight with the enemy.
And this deponent further declares that he again entered into the service of the
United States in the year Seventeen Hundred & Eighty in the month of June of that year,
but the precise day this deponent does not now recollect for a term of three months as a
Militia man with Capt Absalem Bostwick1 of Surry County North Carolina David Humphries [sic, David Humphreys]2 1st Lieutenant and this deponent 2nd Lieutenant in
said company and that said company was attached or belonged to Col Martin
Armstrong’s Regiment in Genl. Rutherford’s [Griffith Rutherford's] Brigade under the
command of Major Gen Caswell [Richard Caswell] of the militia which was joined to the
Continental Line not far from Cheraw Hills in South Carolina under the command of
General Gates [Horatio Gates] – and from thence marched by Lynches Creek to Rugeley’s
Mill on the road to Camden and from thence toward Camden about halfway to which
place the American forces were met by the British forces a battle ensued and the former
were defeated and the deponent was engaged in said Battle [Battle of Camden or Gates'
Defeat].
And this deponent further declares that his commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the
militia company aforesaid is lost or mislaid so that he cannot now produce it but the fact
is sustained by the affidavits of David Humphreys 1st Lieutenant in said company hereto
named and this deponent further declares after Gates defeat aforesaid the company to
which he belonged was never afterwards reorganized and there was no place of
rendezvous for his company appointed and he therefore returned home to Surry County
North Carolina but in a few days took his horse and went to Providence Mecklenburg N.
Carolina where he again entered into service of the United States by joining the militia
Light horse as a substitute for Peter Eaton under Col Davie [William Richardson Davie]
who was the commander under whom he served two months and was then regularly
discharged after marching from Providence to the Waxhaw settlement where he was
discharged as aforesaid which discharge is also lost or mislaid so that he is now unable to
provide it.
And the deponent further declared that he again entered into the service of the
United Stated in the year Seventeen Hundred & Eight one in the month of March of that
year by order of Col James Martin & Col Hunter who about the time Cornwallis entered
Guilford County North Carolina gave orders for every man who was able to bear arms to
join the army under General Green by joining Capt Thomas Cook’s company of Light horse
of the militia under the command of Col James Martin & Col James Hunter in which
company this deponent served a few weeks the company being disbanded after the battle
at Guilford Court House North Carolina in which county this deponent then resided
having removed there in the month of February preceding but was not engaged in said
battle by reason of his being absent on forage duty.
And this deponent further declares that in the fall of the said year last aforesaid he
was again the service of the United States as a volunteer in the Light Horse company of
Capt Thomas Cook commanded by Col Wm O'Neal in pursuit of the noted Tory Fanning
[David Fanning] Col of the Tories.
And this deponent further declares that he was at various other times and under
varying other officers engaged in suppressing and disarming the Tories which he does not
herein detail as the terms of service though numerous were short and under partisan
officers acting upon their own responsibility.
And this deponent hereby relinquishes his 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
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
S/ Henry Hardin
We Bradford Green clergymen residing in the Gwinnet County and Elisha Bets residing in Walton County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Henry Hardin who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we
believe him to be 71 years of age & that we have known him a great number of
years & that he is an Ordained Baptist Minister of good standing in his Church
and that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have
been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion
Sworn & subscribed this day & year aforesaid
Bedford Green
Elisha Betts
...
To the Interrogatories directed to be put to the applicant by the War Department—the
said Henry Hardin—
To the first Intery answers: He was born in Johnston County, N. C. on the 12th of April 1761.
To the 2nd Inty: He answers he has a record of his age in his Bible at home. To the 3rd Inty: He answers he lived in Surry County North Carolina when called into service—Since the Revolutionary War, he has lived in Guilford County N. C. about ten or twelve years—from which place he removed and has lived in this state and now resides in the County of Walton.
To the 4th Inty: He answers that he entered into the service as a volunteer. To the 5th Inty: He names [illegible], Lincoln, Col. Little & Maj. Nelson, whom he knew and he refers to the foregoing Declaration as containing the names of all the officers he now recollects.
To the 6th Inty: He answers that he got a discharge which he is now unable to produce—
and also that he received a brevet commission as 2nd Lieutenant from Col. Armstrong. To the 7th Inty:
He mentions Joel Colby, Wilson Whattey, Hon'l A. S. Clayton, & Wilbon Lumpkin and those persons who have signed the certificate hereto annexed.
S/ Henry Hardin
S/ W. Whattey, JJC
S/ Egbert B Beall, JJC
S/ James PW[?], JJC