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From: "N. Caskey" <>
Subject: [NCROOTS] John Mooney Pension
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 12:19:03 -0400


State of Georgia )

Hall County ) On the Twenty Fourth day of July Eighteen Hundred and Forty Three Personally appeared in open Court before the Superior Court for the County of Hall and the State of Georgia now sitting, John Mooney, a resident of the County of Hall in the State of Georgia, aged Eighty three years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the (unreadable) of the Act of Congress passed (unreadable) 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer under Genl. Green, but by reason of old age and consequent laps of memory he cannot state positively the time he entered the service. At the time he entered the service he resided in Lincoln County, State of North Carolina and he joined General Green on his march toward Camden and was in the battle near Camden in the State of South Carolina, from thence he thinks he was marched to a place called Hanging Rock, where he was in another engagement with the British, from that place he marched to Ninety Six and was in the engagement at that place under General Green, and from there he marched to a place called the four holes-he thinks where he was discharged and returned home having served a little more than three months.

After having remained home but a very short time he again volunteered and entered the service under Capt. William Moore(unreadable) Regiment and marched under General Rutherford to Cape Fear River where he was stationed at bridge some distance above the town and which place he was engaged in repeated skirmishes with British who were lying on opposite side of the river- an one occasion a cannon having been found in a well, Major Hogg of the regular Army detached about one hundred young men among whom was the declarant to go down and mount the Gun on carriage. They marched down and went to work and had nearly completed it when the British landed from two now gallies and fired upon them-they retreated and having fallen back to General Rutherford, he with his main force marched down to give them battle-but, the British had embarked and were gone-they pursued after the British into town, but they reached their (unreadable)- This circumstance happened but a day or two before the n!
ews of the surrender of Cornwallis reached them- When the British left port and after their (unreadable) were over he was discharged an returned home having been in the service a little more than three months.

That his said discharges have been burned up, so that they cannot be attached to this declaration.

Now hereby relinquishes 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 in open Court this day and year aforesaid-

John (x his mark) Mooney

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