That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and served herein stated — He does not know owing to the failing of his memory what time he entered the Service but that it was during the time the American Army lay at Stone ? a place between Charleston and Savanah in South Carolina. That in Laurence County South Carolina he was commissioned by one Colonel Thomas to build a Garrison at the place where Col. Hight was killed which was in the Cherokee Nation just over the South Carolina line, and there remained himself, with about sixty men he had under his command nine months during which time they kept possession of the Garrison, and after the nine months service he and his company returned home, there was but one little en­gagement which' was about half a mile from the Garrison in which engagement there was no white man killed and but one Ind.

This applicant further states that shortly after he returned home from his Service in the Garrison he raised a company of volunteers say about twenty and went in pursuit of the Tories who were then going through the country and trailed them about fifty miles when he got information that Col. Clark and General Pickens were before him and nearer the Tories than he was, he then on that information thought proper to return back home, and immediately himself and Col. Rowebuck & Major Smith turned out and raised more volunteers to keep down the Tories in that part of the Country and guard the Frontier and whilst he was Scouting about down below Camden he was taken a prisoner by the British, and one Col. Ferguson was the Commander of the British at the time he was taken by them, and whilst on their way with him from Camden to Kings Mountain about eighteen miles from Camden between sunset and daylight dawn he made his escape from the British, he then without delay made back home being about forty miles distant to hear if he could anything of Rowebuck, Smith or Genl Green, but his wife could give no account of them (and all in that neighborhood with a very few exceptions were Tories) so he had no chance to make further enquiry but he immediately went on to a place in South Carolina then called ninety six and now Camden, and stayed there some two or three days (being a Whig neighborhood generally speaking but could not still hear anything of the above mentioned men he then returned home again and by this time his wife had got information in what direction Morgan's Army was. He then immediately without staying one single night at home went in pursuit of Morgan's Army to join him which I done when I found Rowebuck & Smith and their companies and ray own company — Morgan's Army then lay about eighty miles from his house, and the morning after I joined them the Battle was fought between Morgan & Tarlton and in which Battle Tarlton and his army was defeated and Tarlton himself wounded. We pursued them on to where Col. Wallies Army was laying and in the pursuit together with what we took on the field of Battle we captured Seven Hundred of the British and we kept on to Halafax Court House in the State of Virginia and then we lay about six weeks — but before we got to said Court house General Morgan gave up his command and I understood went home and General Green took command of the whole — He further states that they marched from Halafax Court house to Hillsborough North Carolina, and directly after they got there they every day nearly had some small engagements and some were killed, and when the Army got up to High Rock in North Carolina Genl Green commissioned him to recruit men to join General Pickens at Ranisours (?) Mills — and he accordingly recruited some where he thinks about thirty. He was in hearing of artillery when the Battle at Guilford was fought and the second day after the Battle of Guilford, him and his men were on march to join Genl Pickens when to his great astonishment he met his wife and all his children with her five in num­ber drove out of their native state by the Tories nearly exhausted by fatigue and might add with hunger in this situation he gave up his command to one Major Stone and they went on and he conveyed his wife off a distance of about thirty miles and procured a house for them, and from thence went home to South Carolina and was not in the Service afterward—

This declarent further represents that he has no documentary evidence to assist his recollection he having received no discharge from General Green or any other person and half a century have no_elapsed since the time of his service he presume many things have escaped his Recollection which might be necessarily stated in his declaration he is not certain'that he recollects all the skirmishes he may have be engaged in many of the officers together with their names with whom he was then familiar he has entirely forgotten, he is unable to state precisely at this remote period the length of time he was engaged in the Service of the United States as a Revolutionary Soldier according to the best of his Recollection it was upwards of three years how much over that time he cannot say. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension role of any agency of any state —

Sworn to in open court 16th August 1832
Jas. McKisack Clk
his X (Mark) ohn Rainey

Attached to the declaration were statements from Malchisadic Bramer, a clergyman, and William Huztill (Wm. Has til), both residents of Bedford County, TN, that they were acquainted with JOHN RAINEY and believed his statement true. Solomon Campbel. a "citizen of Bedford Co., TN, also appeared in court on behalf of JOHN RAINEY.