LENOIR COUNTY, NC - Pension - Charles Tull, Rev. War.
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PENSION RECORD OF CHARLES TULL
REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER
Lenoir County, N.C. Court of Comon Pleas and Quarter Sessions, April Term
1833.
On 2nd April 1833, personally appeared before Jonathan Rouse, C.
Metts and P. Hardee, justices of the Court, Charles Tull, age 80 on next
December 2nd.
I volunteered in the militia service of Dobbs County, in North
Carolina in 1775 in a company under the command of Capt. Jesse Cobb in the
regiment under the command of Col. Richard Caswall, Lieut. Col. Wm.
Bryan and Major Gorham when they went from Kinston, N.C. to New Bern where
we remained 14 days to drill and returned to Kinston.
In 1776 we were despatched to South River for the purpose of
stopping the Tories. The Tories escaped at South River and we overtook
them at Moores Creek in New Hanover County, about 16 or 18 miles above
Wilmington, the militia being commanded by Col Richard Caswell and the
Tories by Gen. McDaniel and Capt. McCloud, the latter being killed during
the battle. 14 Tories were killed and one of our men, which was thought to
be an accident. The second day after the battle, we returned to Kinston
where we remained until called to Wilmington about the last of February or
the first of March. In Wilmington, we were engaged in building
entrenchments in apprehension of an attack by the British who were said to
be at Brunswick. As they did not attack us, we returned to Kinston and
were discharged after a service of six months.
Sworn to in open court 3 April 1833. /s/ Charles Tull Lewis C. Desmond,
Clerk. Certificate: We, John Cox and James Tull, residing in the County of
Lenoir, North Carolina do hereby certify that we are personally acquainted
with Charles Tull and believe him to be a soldier of the Revolution etc.,
/s/ John Cox
/s/ James Tull
In answering the interrogatories required by the above, I was born
in the state of Maryland in 1753 and removed to North Carolina at about the
age of 2. I have a record of my age as kept by my father at home. I was
living in Dobbs County when called into service where I have lived ever
since. I refer you to John Washinton, W. Lovick, John Gatlen, Fallam
Caswell, Blount Coleman, N. G. Blount, in fact to any gentlemen in the
County of Lenoir as to my character and veracity and to John Gatlen, John
Cox and James Tull as to their belief in the report of my having served in
the Revolutionary War.
Certificate of Pension issued April 20. 1833. S-7759 #1 2316 North
Carolina
See North Carolina Pension Roll Pages 10, 92 amd 93.
See also "Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revoluion"
page 440, and 587 published by the North Carolina Daughters of the American
Revolution, 1932
The above copied by Roy Juch, Houston, TX,