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Pension Application Of Peter Curtis, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 719, 
Application # W3005 Revwar 
Garrard County KyArchives Military Pension 
Pension Application Of Peter Curtis, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 719, 
Application # W3005 
PETER CURTIS-Garrard Circuit Court, Kentucky, 1818: 
        “This petitioner states on oath that he served as a regular soldier in 
the revolutionary war, under three several enlistments, for the period of about 
five years and six months. That he first enlisted together with three of his 
brothers, at Guilford County Courthouse in North Carolina, under Captain JOHN 
ARMSTRONG a short time before Christmas in the year 1775, for the term of one 
year, and was attached to the second North Carolina regiment on the Continental 
line, commanded by Colonel ALEXANDER MARTIN, and marched to Wilmington, and 
from there to Charleston, and continued there until the term was out.” 
        “In the spring of the year 1777, he and his brothers enlisted again at 
Camden, to go to the northward for three years, that they were furloughed to go 
home, that he was taken sick and was ordered on to the southward, when 
recovered, in the New Levy, serving for nine months, and was attached to the 
1st regiment, commanded by Colonel JAMES CLANTON?, that he was with GATES at 
the Defeat at Rugeley Mills [per Heitman, August 16, 1780-although he said the 
battle was at Rugeley’s Mill, it was somewhat closer to Camden, and is commonly 
referred to by Camden.]. His time being nearly out he again enlisted about 
three weeks before the Battle of Guilford for the term of 18 months, that he 
was with General GREENE at the Battles of Guilford [Per Heitman, March 15, 
1781] and Eutaw Springs [per Heitman, September 8, 1781], that he was on a 
detachment against some Tories when the news came that CORNWALLIS was taken. He 
states that he obtained three discharges for the above terms of service, which 
he has lost, that he resides in this county, that he is in his fifty-ninth 
year, that he is very frail and infirm, and in indigent circumstances.” 
The amended declaration of PETER CURTIS: 
PETER CURTIS, a resident of Lincoln County, Kentucky, filed in 1824, aged sixty- 

three years: 
        “That he (the said PETER CURTIS) enlisted for the term of twelve months 
on the __ day of February 1776 in the State of North Carolina, in the company 
commanded by Captain JOHN ARMSTRONG, in the regiment commanded by Colonel 
ALEXANDER MARTIN in the line of the state of North Carolina on the North 
Carolina Continental establishment. That he continued to serve in the said 
corps until November of that year, when he was furloughed from said service in 
Wilmington in North Carolina and remained at home longer than was proper, as he 
has been since informed, he being entirely deranged during his absence, but 
before the expiration of his term was restored sufficiently to return to the 
service which he did, and served out his time in Captain WILLIAM’s company, 
Colonel DONOHO’s regiment, and General SUMTER’s brigade. He was deranged when 
furloughed, as he has been informed, and believes, for he has no recollection 
of it personally.” 
“In the spring 1778, he enlisted again at Guilford, North Carolina under 
Captain JOHN LEAK, in the 3rd North Carolina regiment, and transferred to 
Captain WILLIAM’s in Colonel PAISLEY’s regiment and served out his time, which 
was nine months faithfully, and was discharged at Monck’s Corner in South 
Carolina near Charleston by Colonel DONOHO, but he has lost his discharge. 
During the service, he was in the Battle of Stono [Per Heitman, June 20, 1779], 
of Camden [per Heitman, August 16, 1780], and Guilford [per Heitman, March 15, 
1781] and Eutaw [per Heitman, September 8, 1781]; and in pursuance of the act 
of 1st March 1820, etc.” 
        “I had been told that I had been returned as a deserter during my first 
service. I now declare on oath that I never deserted and that if there be such 
return, it must have been produced by the absence occasioned by my mental 
derangement as aforesaid, etc.” 
Submitted by: Nancy Poquette 
npoq@hotmail.com 



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