Mann.Francis.Revwar.Harrison.MILITARY-PensionFrom: KyArchives [Archives@genrecords.org] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 9:08 PM To: Ky-Footsteps Subject: Mann.Francis.Revwar.Harrison.MILITARY-Pension Pension Application Of Francis Mann, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1622, Application #s13826 Revwar Harrison County KyArchives Military Pension Pension Application Of Francis Mann, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1622, Application #S13826 FRANCIS MANN, a resident of Harrison County, Kentucky, aged 74 years: “That in the later part of March or first of April 1776, he enlisted into the minute service of Virginia under Captain FRANCIS GOODE and JAMES MOODY was lieutenant for one year. That the services performed during this tour consisted of mustering two days per month until called for into active service. This was continued until about the first of September 1776, when the company was ordered into actual service. That they marched from Chesterfield County, where this declarant had then resided to Portsmouth, VA, and some time about the last of November, he was dismissed for home, whither he went.” “That after that, he moved to Guilford County, North Carolina and some time after he had been there, he entered as a substitute for ____ [blank space] ALLEN, for three months in year 1780 under Captain O’NEAL and WILLIAM BETHEL, Lieutenant, in the regiment commanded by Colonel PORTERFIELD and Major ARMSTRONG of the light infantry under General RUTHERFORD. That he marched from home and to and through various quarters of the intermediate country until the forces came to near ?Gum Creek, South Carolina, where the battle in which General GATES was defeated was fought [at Camden, per Heitman, August 16, 1781], at which the Americans were defeated and this declarant with the balance of his company escaped home and never were called upon afterwards, his term being almost out…” Submitted by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/