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DAVID DENHAM - Melungeon
The following is a transcription of his application for a Revolutionary War Pension submitted by Billy Denham On this first of December 1834, personally appeared before me, John Walling, one of the trustees of the court of Pleas and Pardons and Pensions of said County, DAVID DENHAM, age about eighty years old, who being first duly sworn 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 the 7th, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers therein stated. About the 26th day of August 1778, he entered the service of the United States by volunteering in the County of Gilford and State of North Carolina, in the Company commanded by Captain John Leak of the Regiment of Militia commanded by Col. James Martin and Major Pasily and was marched to Saulsberry at which plan Gen. Rutherford was Commander. From Saulsberry he was marched to Cathey's Fort on the Catauby River and being stationed there about two months and was marched to the Indian towns near the head of the Tennessee River, where he was discharged by his said Captain and Colonel, which was about the 10th day of February, 1779 and upon about returning home, his said Captain persuaded on him to continue in the service three months longer. This... he did, then volunteered under his said Captain John Leak of the Militia and Colonel Martin, which was about the 12th of February, 1779. He entered the service of the United States and was marched to the frontiers of South Carolina and North Carolina and Virginia. Serving in turns around the frontiers of those states until about the 14th of May, 1779, which prevented his being in the battle of Kings Mountain.
William Flora Liet. Col. , John Cropper's Company of Col. Morgan Regiment, attached to General Woodford's Birgade, as it stood November 30, 1778. Records of the Revolutionary War, Part II - Officers and Privates, Page 268
The Flora surname is Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian: from the female personal name Flora. In Czech, Austrian, and Polish: from a vernacular form of the Latin personal name Florianus (see Florian). Hungarian (Flóra): from the female personal name Flóra (see Florence).
DAVID DENHAM - Melungeon
The following is a transcription of his application for a Revolutionary War Pension submitted by Billy Denham On this first of December 1834, personally appeared before me, John Walling, one of the trustees of the court of Pleas and Pardons and Pensions of said County, DAVID DENHAM, age about eighty years old, who being first duly sworn 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 the 7th, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers therein stated. About the 26th day of August 1778, he entered the service of the United States by volunteering in the County of Gilford and State of North Carolina, in the Company commanded by Captain John Leak of the Regiment of Militia commanded by Col. James Martin and Major Pasily and was marched to Saulsberry at which plan Gen. Rutherford was Commander. From Saulsberry he was marched to Cathey's Fort on the Catauby River and being stationed there about two months and was marched to the Indian towns near the head of the Tennessee River, where he was discharged by his said Captain and Colonel, which was about the 10th day of February, 1779 and upon about returning home, his said Captain persuaded on him to continue in the service three months longer. This... he did, then volunteered under his said Captain John Leak of the Militia and Colonel Martin, which was about the 12th of February, 1779. He entered the service of the United States and was marched to the frontiers of South Carolina and North Carolina and Virginia. Serving in turns around the frontiers of those states until about the 14th of May, 1779, which prevented his being in the battle of Kings Mountain.
William Flora Liet. Col. , John Cropper's Company of Col. Morgan Regiment, attached to General Woodford's Birgade, as it stood November 30, 1778. Records of the Revolutionary War, Part II - Officers and Privates, Page 268
The Flora surname is Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian: from the female personal name Flora. In Czech, Austrian, and Polish: from a vernacular form of the Latin personal name Florianus (see Florian). Hungarian (Flóra): from the female personal name Flóra (see Florence).
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