Pension Application of Francis and Sally Burruss McCraw: W7410
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
State of North Carolina} [several words illegible] 1818
Surry County} before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Law and Court of Equity for the state personally appeared Francis McCraw aged fifty eight years a resident of the County of Grayson and State of Virginia who being [several words illegible] doth on his oath [several words illegible] in order to obtain the provision [several words illegible] of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and navel service of the United States in the revolutionary war. That he the said Francis McCraw enlisted in the Service of the United States in Henry County in the State of Virginia in the year 1780 under Captain Elijah King a Captain of Cavalry and continued in service untill the end of the war, when he was formally discharged from said service in the State of Virginia. That he was in the battles at Ninety-Six [Siege of Ninety-Six SC, 22 May - 19 June 1781] and at the Ewtaw Springs [sic: Eutaw Springs SC, 8 Sep 1781, where Col. William Washington was wounded and captured]. Was then commanded by Colo. William Washington – that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid. Francis hisXmark McCraw
State of North Carolina} Superior Court of law September term 1820
Surry County}
On this day of September 1820 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of record so created by the laws of the State of North Carolina and [several words illegible] as such this day for the County of Surry [several words illegible] McCraw aged in his 62nd year, resident in the County aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows Viz. That enlisted in the year 1780 as well as he recollects in Henry County Virginia in the Company commanded by Capt. Thomas King of the 3rd corps of cavalry commanded by Colo. William Washington, that he continued in said service for the term of three years & two months, when he obtained a furlough from Major Swan of said Ridgement to go to Henry County in Virginia where he was discharged by one Thomas Marshall [one or more words illegible] Major who was authorized to grant discharges he was in the siege of Ninety-Six, at Augusta [GA], Orangeburg [SC, 8-10 July 1781] and in the battle of the Ewtaw Springs as well as in some other skirmishes, which he now considers unnecessary to mention, as those facts were set forth in his former declaration made as appears from his certificate on the 9th day of September 1818, dated 5th day of February 1819. No 6594. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the Untied States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. —
And I do further solemnly swear that I have no property in my own right. That I live on a small piece of land [several words illegible] at less than $100 one hundred dollars [several words illegible] the land was formerly in Jacob McCraws [one or two words illegible] the heirs of Jacob McCraw; that I am by occupation a farmer; that my family are all to themselves except two small boys Viz, George aged about 8 years and Francis aged about 10 years; that owing to my age and an accidental fall from a horse, by which my shoulder was broken I am unable to do much work or procure scarcely the articles necessary for subsistence Francis hisXmark McCraw
NOTE: A typed summary states that Francis McCraw married Sally Burruss in Surry County NC in 1786. On 25 Aug 1846 a pension was awarded posthumously to Sally McCraw, widow of Francis McCraw who died 2 June 1839, payable to her children, William, Martha, Francis and George McCraw. Another document stated that Sally McCraw died in Carroll County VA 27 Sep 1843.