Declaration of Service
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last soldier. He soon retreated from the public eye. As soon as he could he fled to the western county and died in Davidson County as I am informed. I was being tormented by one of Page’s men.
I had been so ferocious on some of
the Tories that I had become with some of them a dedicated victim of revenge.
I had once on an occasion caught a certain captain Walker of Drowning Creek
without arms and off from his ____ crew and beat him most cruelly with
stones – the long meditated revenge – I found it unsafe to stay out of
the barracks so I went to them which were about five miles from my mother’s
place[at] Hickory Mountain at a place called (Lion’s?) old fields in Chatham.
I got a passport for an absence for a day or so and went down to
a neighbor of my mother’s by the name of Davison. The news reached
Walker through a slave that I was at Davison’s an old ____ and Whig.
They set off. I was always on the watch. I spied the approach
at a distance and fled to a thicket and placed myself [at] a well known
hiding place in the root of a hollow poplar [tree]. They surrounded
the place – searched the house (across?) they would ___ the old ____
head from his shoulders if he did not show where I was