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- (Research):1790 Federal Census, Mecklenburg County, NC
John Gardner
1 male over 16 (John)
1 male under 16
2 females
July Session 1793: An inventory of the amount of sales of the estate of Thomas Blackwood, decd, by James Gardner and John Gardner was shown. [Mecklenburg County Court Minutes, Book 3, p. 133]
July Sesson 1796: John Gardner and James Gardner, Executors of Thomas Blackwood, decd, to James Henry for 141 acres of Land, dated 19 July 1796, proved by John McKnitt Alexander. [Mecklenburg County Court Minutes, Book 3, p. 171]
Included in Census of Pensioners For Revolutionary or Military Services, dated 1841. Residing in Mecklenburg County and was head of household.
Death date from U.S. Pensioners, 1818-1872, NC, 1831-1848. Shows payments during that time and includes comment giving his death date as 22 Jul 1842.
Pension application of John Gardner S6877 fn32NC
Transcribed by Will Graves 7/30/08
State of North Carolina, Mecklenburg County: Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions August Term 1832
On this 28th day of August 1832 personally appeared before the Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Mecklenburg and State of North Carolina at the August term their of John Gardner a resident of the County and State aforesaid who being first 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 was born in the State of Pennsylvania in
the County of Lancaster in the year 1760 \endash that he has no record of his age at this time that could be satisfactory \endash that he has yet in his possession his father's Bible in which his age as he has seen as there entered \endash but it is now through the lapse of time and use totally defaced and torn out \endash that the father of said Gardner left the State of Pennsylvania and removed to the State of North Carolina in the year 1764
or 1765 with the said John Gardner where he has resided ever since \endash And the said John Gardner further declares that he was living in the County of Mecklenburg when first called into service in the revolutionary war \endash and that since the termination of said war he has continued to live in the same County. That he entered the service as a volunteer in the State Troop of North Carolina in the winter of 1780 previous to the fall of Charleston when General Lincoln and his Army surrendered to the British \endash
that Captain William Alexander commanded the company to which he belonged and that General Francis Locke was the officer in command \endash that they marched towards Charleston and went as far as Camden \endash where hearing of the surrender of that place and the capture of the American Army \endash they halted \endash where he remained in encampment until the time for which he volunteered [expired] \endash that he
volunteered for three months \endash and that he was there discharged 10 days after the expiration of the time \endash by the said General Locke but which discharge is lost. That he served again under Captain John Harris as a volunteer on a tour of three months \endash that General Rutherford was the officer in command \endash that he volunteered in Harris' Company in the year 17__ [blanks in original] and was engaged mostly in scouting through the Country \endash on the borders of this State and the State of South Carolina \endash in what was called the Waxhaw Settlement \endash that as he understood the object of the duty he was then on was to over awe the Tories \endash that it was shortly after the fall of Charleston, that during this tour he was in no battle \endash and that for that service he received from Rutherford and officers of a verbal discharge \endash Immediately after Col. Bluford's [sic, Buford's] defeat in Waxhaw by the British under Tarleton he again volunteered and was out for three weeks under General Robert Irwin of the States Troops \endash that he was some time under one Captain and then under another as he was ordered out or selected for any particular duty. That they were called out to oppose the advance of the British after Buford's defeat \endash that after it was ascertained that Tarleton had returned to Camden he was verbally dismissed \endash but with orders to hold himself in readiness at a moment's warning \endash and that he was out again on duty with said
Irwin in the Waxhaw settlement \endash for a term of three weeks \endash when Cornwallis came through Charlotte in pursuit of General Green [sic, Nathanael Greene] \endash he was again out \endash and was commanded by Colonel Davie \endash That he was engaged in the stand that Colonel Davie made against the advance of Cornwallis at Charlotte \endash and in the fight or skirmish that took place \endash and was out about six weeks That he was again out under General Rutherford on a tour of three weeks and was with him at the time intelligence was brought that the Tories had assembled in Lincoln at Ramsour's Mill-- upon intelligence being brought \endash Major Falls was dispatched to reconnoiter \endash and Rutherford with his forces moved on in the same direction \endash he was not with Falls' company \endash that he belonged to the mounted riflemen \endash and was dispatched immediately by Rutherford after an express had arrived of the battle being fought \endash
to protect the American forces and to prevent the Tories from rallying \endash they arrived upon the battle
ground \endash but the Tories had retreated \endash being effectually routed \endash That he was again on a tour of three
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weeks \endash after the Battle of Guilford under General Francis Locke on the Yadkin \endash and one John Wilson
Captain \endash that it was expected that Cornwallis would again cross the Yadkin \endash and that Greene would
hang on his rear and they stationed themselves at the Yadkin to impede the return or progress of
Cornwallis South. That he volunteered again in the service of the States Troop of South Carolina \endash in
March 1781 \endash that his Captain was William Alexander \endash his Colonel was Wade Hampton and the
General was Thomas Sumpter [sic, Thomas Sumter]-- and that he engaged for 10 months \endash that during
the whole of the time he was actively engaged \endash and was at the taking of several fort \endash the first was
Orangeburg \endash General Sumter was the commanding officer when that fort was surrendered \endash the next
was Thompson's Fort \endash at which place Colonel Lee of the Continental line and General Sumter both
acted \endash and the last fort taken was Friday's Fort on the Congaree \endash 3 miles below Columbia \endash that that
fort was besieged two weeks \endash by General Sumter \endash and taken by Lee when Sumter was dispatched
against Orangeburg. That at the Six mile house near Charleston he was engaged in a skirmish with a
British force \endash that Colonel Wade Hampton was the commanding officer \endash that previous to the battle of
Eutaw [Eutaw Springs] \endash he obtained a furlough to come home into North Carolina to get clothing that
he hired Zachariah Stedham as a substitute in his place \endash for the three weeks \endash that his substitute
Stedham was in the battle of Eutaw and was wounded in that engagement \endash that he was discharged by
Colonel Hampton at Brown's old fields on the Congaree River \endash that discharge is lost or mislaid \endash and
that he has no documentary evidence of the fact \endash unless the [sic, it] be among the papers of the State of
South Carolina \endash if any there be \endash that the whole time he was out as a volunteer in the revolutionary
war was as herein stated about 20 months and two weeks \endash he hereby relinquishes every claim
whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the
pension roll of any agency in any State and that he refers to the certificate of Robert Hall Morrison a
clergyman resident in said County of Mecklenburg and the certificate of William Alexander2 resident in
said County of his character for veracity and for proof of his services --
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid. S/ John Gardner
We Robert Hall Morrison a clergyman resident in Mecklenburg County and William Alexander resident
in said County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Gardner who has subscribed and
sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be 73 years of age \endash that he is reputed and
believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we
concur in that opinion \endash William Alexander further swears that the said John Gardner served under him
as private when he went out under General Locke on a tour of three months and that he again served
under him as a private under General Sumter and Colonel Wade Hampton's Regiment in the States
Troop of South Carolina 10 months.
S/ Robert H. Morrison
S/ William Alexander, X his mark
State of North Carolina, Mecklenburg County
Captain William Alexander & James Sloan3 both Citizens of the County aforesaid both being
duly sworn in solemn form of law, deposeth and saith he the said William Alexander Captain \endash that
John Gardner did serve in the company he commanded in the 10 months service in the State of South
Carolina under General Thomas Sumter before term of 10 months to his certain knowledge -- & he the
said James Sloan saith that to his certain knowledge John Gardner did serve in the term of 10 months in
the State of South Carolina under the Command of General Thomas Sumter and these deponents said
William Alexander and said James Sloan further saith not.
Sworn to & subscribed this 16th day of April 1835 before. S/ William Alexander
S/ Matthew Wallace, JP S/ James Sloan
2 William Alexander S6496
3 James Sloan R9662
[facts in file: veteran died July 22, 1842.]
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1758 - 1842 (84 years)