When the federal government passed an act on June 7, 1832 to pension soldiers who had served in the Revolutionary War, William

The Bobbitt Family In America

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When the federal government passed an act on June 7, 1832 to pension soldiers who had served in the Revolutionary War, William Bobbitt went before the court in Chester District South Carolina. The questions and answers between the Judge and William Bobbitt are part of his pension file and were recorded on November 24, 1832.

1. Where and in what year were you born?

I was born in the year of 1761 in Warren County in the State of North Carolina.

2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where?

I have no particular record of my age.

3. Where were you living when called into service? Where were you living since the Revolutionary War? Where do you now live?

When I was called into service, I was living in North Carolina and still continued to live there for fourteen years after the Revolutionary War, then moved to South Carolina and I am now living in Chester District South Carolina.

4. How were you called into service? Were you drafted? Did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute, for whom?

I was drafted into service and when drafted I was living in Warren County in the State of North Carolina.

5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served, such continentals and Militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service.

General Ash, General Green, Colonel Thomas Eaten, Colonel Haynes, Colonel Joseph Clinch and Captain Tweedy, these are the officers that I was mostly under.

6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it?

I received a discharge from Colonel Thomas Eaten and one from Colonel Clinch, but they are both lost or mislaid so that I cannot now find them.

7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who ' can testify as to your character for the veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.

As I have not been long in the present neighborhood,

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