Posted on: BROWNING Pensions Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/b/r/BROWNING/pensions/2 Surname: Browning ------------------------- Francis Browning Pension Application State of Virginia Russell County to wit. On the 2nd day of October 1832 personally appeared before the County Court of Russell County and State of Virginia Francis Browning a resident in the County of Russell and State of Virginia aged about seventy nine years __ being first duly sworn according to law does on his own oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions and by the ___ of ___ ___ June 7th 1832. That he was enlisted the service of the United States in the State line of North Carolina in the seventh of October in the year he thinks of 1778. at Hillsborough in the said State, under Captain William White and ?????? and was assigned to the State Regiment commanded by Colonel James Sanders and Major Moore for term of six months, and from Hillsborough the place of ____ he with the said Regiment marched to Salisbury where they joined the Salibury Regiment under the command of Col.___ and was there placed under the command of General Rutherford and marched from this place then called Pine ___ the same perhaps which is now called Camden in the State of S. Carolina near the junction of the river___ ____ ____ and from thence marched to the Ten Mile house it being about ten miles from Charleston in the State of S. Carolina and from thence to a little ___ called D___and from thence this line of march for Savannah in S.C. where they joined the main army under the command of General _inas_or at a ___ called _____ ___ ___ ____ ____. ____ which ___ ___ Regiment to which the said Francis Browning belonged, marched up the said river to a placed called the Two Sisters, where they ___nearly in sight of the enemy for about one month, and thence marched to the placed called Briar Creek, where they joined General Ashe in the ___of the battle fought at that place, and took part in that ___and from there he and his Regiment were ordered to make a ___ march back to Puninsburg to protect the ____ life there, which they affected by a more sever and fatiguing march ___ ___ ____ and in the vincity of that place, watching and following the ___ movements of the enemy upon the border line of Virginia from Savannah to Augusta, which was ___to the ___of the British then in the said State of Georgia, and was thus incessantly engaged until about the 10th of April in the year he things of 1779. When he and the Regiment to which he belonged were discharged. at a place called Black Swamp about 510 miles from home, and obtained a regular discharge in writing which has since been ___ lost or mislaid he cannot produce it. The said Browning although normally belonging to the State line, performed continental service during the ___ aforesaid and of the nominal compensation received from the government for his services aforesaid paid $100 thereof for one bushel of salt. The said Francis Browning further states that sometime after his return home from the ___aforesaid he removed with his family from Caswell County in the State of N. Carolina, near Hillsborough then N. Carolina but now State of Tennessee where he was again in 1781 drafted to go to the State of South Carolina under the command of ___ ___ Services for a __months ___ when the situation of his affairs is as such to make it exceedingly _____ for him to leave home and he employed one _______ a substitute whom he paid a horse valued at fifteen pounds in gracious currency and also allowed him the wage of the said ___ and that the said Susette ia __ re issued as such by the proper officer and performed the duties of the said __ He hereby relinquishes any claim whatsoever to a pension or an ___ ___ the present, as is declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in the state. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid (signed) Francis Browning