Shared with me by a friend. Not my lines. Winnette SCMAR, Vol. II, Spring 1974, No. 2, p.80 On this 10th day of September 1833 personally appeared in open court . John Venable, Esquire, a resident of said County in North Carolina, aged seventy one years the first day of September instant, who being duly sworn . doth . make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th June 1832 . that he entered the Service of the United States as a substiture for a certain John Jordan in York district in the State of South Carolina as a private militia soldier some time in the latter end of August or first of September in the year 1778 in a company commanded by a Lieutenant Malcolm Henry, in a Regiment commanded by Col'o Thomas Neal, & Randavous'd at a Major Rosses in York district aforesaid, and marched from thence & crossed broad River at Talberts Ferry, passing through several places in said state of S. Carolina which he cannot particularly name at present, but that he was march'd across Fair Forest, Tiger, & enore rivers & through a small village called Ninety-Six, thence crossing Saluda River to a place call'd Fort White Hall, at which place a General Williamson resided where a Military Store was kept. At this place orders was given by the commanding officers that two companies (to wit) Cap't Sadlers & Lieutenant Henry's should be detached from Col'o Neal's regiment, when this applicant marched some miles under the command of Lieutenant Henry up the country, not far from the Savannah River, to guard the frontiers against the Hostile Indians, and marched by a Fort call'd Independance, several miles through a Wilderness Country, & were stationed in an encampment near Savannah River at a large Cane brake on the North side of said River, at which place he was discharged from his Term of Service of three months . he does not recollect whether he got a written discharge . he knows of no living witness that he can prove the foregoing Service by, as he was at the time of entering into said Service . a Student to School under the tuition of Mr. Jesse Bargin (Burgin?) in York district aforesaid, in S. Carolina, & was sixteen years of age . and . was then living about one hundred & fifty miles from his Father William Venables, who resided in Surry County, N. Carolina, and from the Division of said County is now in the part called Stokes County. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.295 / Virus Database: 159 - Release Date: 11/1/01