This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DYER Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RgB.2ACE/585 Message Board Post: Manoah Dyer – b.1755 VA - d. aft. 1833 Monroe Co.,TN Revolutionary War Veteran Pension File National Archives #S2532 (Roll 291 Image 424) Page 1- Order sheet recording payment made to Manoah Dyer of East Tennessee – Monroe County states he was transcribed on the rolls of East Tennessee for the sum of $23.22 per annum commencing 4 March 1831. Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of May 1833 and sent to James A. Coffin, Madisonville. Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 . . . . . . . $46.22 Personal Allowance ending 4 Sept 1833 . . 11.61 $57.83 Recorded by Wm. Allison, Clerk Book C, Vol. 7 pg. 49 - - - - - - - - - - Page 2 – Declaration In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1822 State of Tennessee } Monroe County } Circuit Court SS On this 12th day of November 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judge of the Circuit Court of said County now sitting Manoah Dyer a resident of said County in said State aged about seventy seven years, who being fist duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1822. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That he volunteered in Halifax County, Virginia for three months under Capt. James Cobb, Lieut. Jacob Kelly in the year 1778. The object of the company as informed by Capt. Cobb was to prevent the landing of a British ship which was in James River below the mouth of Elizabeth. The company marched from Halifax County VA through Peterburg to Williamsburg, then to Hampton on James River, passing a small town which he thinks was called Little York. The company remained sometime, he disremembers how long, at Hampton to prevent the British from coming into the settlement for provisions Pg. 3 Then the company left their baggage and wagons and went to Portsmouth on the opposite side of the river Elizabeth by . . .fall? There they remained some time, then crossed the river, marched thro’ Norfolk to a place called the Pleasure House on James River, about 25 miles below Norfolk. After remaining there a few days they found provisions could not be had and marched back to Portsmouth and remained until their three months term had nearly expired. Then part of the Company went by water and part by land and met at Williamsburg, where they were discharged having served out the term of three months. None of the Company rec’d a written discharge. Applicant was the drummer and William Logan the fifer of said Company. He has no documentary evidence of the above stated service and knows of no person by whom he can prove that he served it, or any fact relating to it. In the year 1779 applicant moved to Wilkes County, North Carolina and early in the Spring 1781 was drafted and attached to Capt. Richard Allen’s Company of Infantry and marched to Maj. Lewis on the Yadkin River where the company was discharged. He understood the company was to join General Pg. 3 Green’s army, but hearing of the Battle of Guilford the company was discharged, having been in service at least twenty days. He rec’d no written discharge and knows of no person by whom he can prove the service evidence. On July 1781 he was drafted in Wilkes County No. C’a for three months and attached to Capt. Allen Gordon’s Company under the command of Col. Francis Lock and he thinks Col. Malberg (a Frenchman) took the command at Waran?- The company rendezvoused at Hamblin’s Store in Surry County, No. Carolina about the 27th July 1781 and marched to Camden where they remained a few days, then they crossed the Watine? River, then the Corigance, then to the Eutaw Springs where they joined Gen’l Greens Army on the morning before the battle. He was in the battle fought at Eutaw Springs on the 9th of Sept 1781. After the battle Capt. Gordon’s Company, of which he was one, marched to Salisbury guarding British prisoners to a place called Bill’s Branch, where his term of service expired and he received the accompanying discharge and returned to Wilkes Co. where he remained til the year 1824 when he moved to Monroe Pg. 5 County Tennessee, where he now resides. Interrogation performed by the Court 1. Where and in what year were you born? Ans: In Caroline County Virginia on the 28th Sept 1755 2. Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it. Ans: I have one written by my father now in my possession. 3. Where were you living when called into service? Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live? Ans: This embodied in the foregoing declaration. 4. How were you called into service? Were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? Ans: In the foregoing declaration. 5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops where you served – such Continental and Militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service? Ans: Gen’s Green, Col. Malbry over all the officers. I recollect. Applicant recollects none of the regiments particularly, because he was joined to no regiment the first tour. The last tour the company he belonged to did not join Gen’l Green’s army til the morning of the battle, when the lines were forming. 6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it? Ans: In the forgoing declaration. 7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify to your character and for veracity and their belief of your service as a soldier of the Revolution. Ans: The Rev’d Eli Charland and John Callaway, Esq., Matthew Nelson. Applicant has no other evidence of his services than what is stated in the foregoing declaration, nor does he know of any person who can testify to his service. Here hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present; and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any state. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Manoah Dyer (sig) John B. Tipton, Clerk By E.H. Troar, D.C. Mr. Eli Charland, a clergyman residing in the said County of Monroe, and John Callaway residing in said County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Manoah Dyer who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be 77 years. - - - - - - - - - Transcribed by Pamela G. Smith, Gresham, OR 19 Feb 2006