THIS IS A SUMMARY OF PERTINENT INFORMATION EXTRACTED BY A.L. HOOKER FROM A DOCUMENT OF JOHN HOOKER, TO RECEIVE A REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION. Can you identify with this John HOOKER? Would like to share any information with you. Al Hooker "JOHN HOOKER, this date (26 March 1827) being 66 years old and a resident of Richmond County, Georgia, appeared before the Court of Common Pleas in Augusta, Richmond County Georgia, to make a Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Provisions made by the Act of Congress on the 18 March 1818 and 1 May 1820. In 1773 he enlisted for three years in the Company of Captain John B. Ashe, attached to the Fourth Regiment of the United States Infantry commanded by Colonel Armstrong, in the State of Virginia, which term he served out and immediately enlisted in Captain Purvels company of artillery attached to Colonel Hogans Regiment where he served to the end of the war. He was discharged at Bacon's Bridge, South Carolina. Served in Battles at Camden South Carolina. Received a slight wound in the head at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina. He received a musket or other ball in the ankle in the Battle at Eutaw Springs, South Carolina. He Received a musket or other small ball in the hip which brought him down. While he was down he was run over by a Dragoon's horse which trod on his ankle and broke his collar bone at the same battle (at Eutaw Springs, South Carolina), but previous to receiving the wound in the hip, a large ball passed over his right instep and disabled him. The upper part of his foot being torn off and much injury being done to the ankle and bones of this foot and leg. In the same battle he lost his right thumb in wheeling the carriage of his gun, having it mashed off." He indicated to the Court that he was not on any other roll but North Carolina and Virginia; that he had a large family; and that he owned 212 acres of land in South Carolina that was unfit for cultivation and had offered it for sale at 12 ½ cents per acre without being able to sell it.