State of Tennessee
Montgomery Co. } S.W

Thomas McGee, a citizen, resident of the County of Montgomery, personally appeared in open court this fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred & Thirty Two, aged seventy years who being duly sworn, according to law, both upon his oath make the following declaration for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the Act of Congress paper, the 7th day of June in the year 1832: that he was raised from a small boy in the County of Anson, in the State of North Carolina, was born in the County of Orange, but the record of his ________having been lost is correct and to ________ and is duly _______and was taken prisoner by the Tories in the County of Anson. Was taken by them into the State of South Carolina when he made his escape papers and where he enlisted in the regular service near the town of Hillsborough, for a term of 12 months in a company commanded by Capt. Delman Dickson in what was then termed the first Regiment of Infantry, commanded by Col. Henry Dickson, a brother of the Captain and a man by the name of Donohoo was the Major, that he was enlisted very soon after the Battle at Guilford Court house - that he was first marched from Hillsborough, to the high hills of Santee in South Carolina near a place then known by the name of Thompsons Fork where we joined the army under the command of Gen. Greene and in a few days, Gen. Greene marched his army to the Eutaw Springs, where they had the battle - and the said applicant was at the time sick , the others who were sick together, with the bagage [sic] waggons were marched to the hills of Santee, where they continued until after the battle and the return of Gen. Greene. They were then marched to a place then known as Bason's Bridge, said to be sixteen miles above Charleston, that he continued with the troops in the __________ head of Charleston until after Cornwallis was taken . He was continued in the service until the expiration of the term of service for which he had enlisted and that he returned with Col. Dickson to North Carolina, where he was discharged, and received his discharge from the Col. which he thinks was signed by his Capt. Halboth - that after the service was performed, there his pay was _________ and sold his _________ and transferred his discharge to a man by the name of John Melker - that he knows of no living witness who can prove his service, except a man by the name of Thomas Robertson, who served with him in the same Regiment, who at this time, he is informed. believes resides in the County of Stewart in the State of Tennessee, who he is informed & believes is now partially deranged--unfit to be called a witness. That he has no "written" evidence by which his services can prove - that after the war, he returned to Anson where he resided until about the year 1805 or 1806 when he removed to the County of Montgomery, in Tennessee, where he has ever since resided - that he is not on the "pension roll" of any agency, in any State, or of the United States - that he hereby acknowledge all claims to any annuity or pension from the United States except the present one.

Sworn and subscribed in open court
the day and year above written
Andrew Vance, Clerk

Typed by me, 21 June, 1999
Kitty Spurlin McLaughlin

SUBMITTERS:
Kitty McLaughlin