REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE #32580 NORTH CAROLINA CONTINENTAL LINE , PRIVATE-- COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN JOHNSON--- OF THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. LYTLE OF THE N, CAROLINA LINE FOR TWO YEARS. INSCRIBED ON THE ROLLS FOR TWO YEARS. HE ENTERED THE SERVICE OF THE COLONIES IN 1779 UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN STEPHEN YOUR, IN GATES COUNTY, N.C. HE MARCHED TO GEORGETOWN, S.C. ...THEN TO CHARLESTON. HE VOLUNTEERED FOR SIX MONTHS SERVICE AND ON EXPIRATION OF THAT, HE AGAIN VOLUNTEERED IN CAPT. JOHNSON'S COMPANY. HIS SERVICE WAS TO EXPIRE ON JUNE 24TH, 1780. ON MAY 12, 1780 HE WAS TAKEN PRISONER OF WAR, AND WAS PUT ON BOARD A BRITISH PRISON OF WAR, THIRTY-TWO GUN BRIG ATE. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE ISLE OF BERMUDA. HE WAS PUT AGAIN IN A LARGE PRISON SHIP UNTIL 1781. HE WAS THEN PUT ON A BRITISH FLAG SHIP AND LANDED ON CHESAPEAKE BAY AND SET AT LIBERTY. HE STATES HE WAS PRISONER OF WAR FROM THE EARLY PART OF 1779 UNTIL 1881 OR 1882 (COULD NOT MAKE OUT DATE) ........(THIS RECORD FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, ATLANTA, GA) THE FOLLOWING IS FROM: "PENSION ROLL OF 1835, VOL 111" JOHN WEST, TALBOT COUNTY, GA. PRIVATE. ANNUAL ALLOWANCE $80.00. S. CAROLINA MILITIA--CONTINENTAL LINE--AGE 72 at time of pension application
