Mother: Anna Margaretha Ellrod 1736-1775)
American Revolution War: Record of service
Pension File #W10118, National Archives
State of North Carolina County of Stokes
On this 28th day of February 1838 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Magdalena Houser, a resident of said County of Stokes in North Carolina, aged seventy eight years, who being first duly Sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision of the third section made by the Act of Congress passed on July 4th 1836, that she is the widdow of George Houser Dec'd, who was a Lieutenant in the Militia of the army of the United States in Revolutionary war and as such in the follow services-- (the following is summarized): volunteered as Lieutenant under Captain Henry Smith in the month of July or August 1776 to go against the Cherokee Indians and marched to the Mulberry fields in Wilkes County to meet with the South Carolina army, was marched back to Surry after being gone two weeks or more, and in a few days after his return home, went again in said Expedition Roundavoused near Surry County court house-- from there marched against the Hostile Cherokees & in this last tour he served one hundred and ten days as Lieutenant...the next service, after she was married to him, was in 1778, a company being organized in Surry County as minute men to start at a moments notice. He was gone three weeks after Tories toward the mountains.... they were attacked by a party of Tories at Surry old Courthouse ...another time, routed a party of Tories on the south side of the Yadkin, and several other short tours....he was called on to guard the prisoners that was brought from Kings Mountain Battle at the old Moravian Town...next he was ordered to guard the magazine from Salem; next he hauled a load of ammunition with one horse and a wagon to Henry Co, VA, returning a week before the Briatish Army marched into Bethania where we lived. The British found their hidden horses and wagon and carried away all the horses, plundered and stripped them of everything they had almost--this just ten days before she was to deliver a child. The British took her husband prisoner and kept him under guard during the night & day, etc.
American Revolution War: Record of service
Pension File #W10118, National Archives
State of North Carolina County of Stokes
On this 28th day of February 1838 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Magdalena Houser, a resident of said County of Stokes in North Carolina, aged seventy eight years, who being first duly Sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision of the third section made by the Act of Congress passed on July 4th 1836, that she is the widdow of George Houser Dec'd, who was a Lieutenant in the Militia of the army of the United States in Revolutionary war and as such in the follow services-- (the following is summarized): volunteered as Lieutenant under Captain Henry Smith in the month of July or August 1776 to go against the Cherokee Indians and marched to the Mulberry fields in Wilkes County to meet with the South Carolina army, was marched back to Surry after being gone two weeks or more, and in a few days after his return home, went again in said Expedition Roundavoused near Surry County court house-- from there marched against the Hostile Cherokees & in this last tour he served one hundred and ten days as Lieutenant...the next service, after she was married to him, was in 1778, a company being organized in Surry County as minute men to start at a moments notice. He was gone three weeks after Tories toward the mountains.... they were attacked by a party of Tories at Surry old Courthouse ...another time, routed a party of Tories on the south side of the Yadkin, and several other short tours....he was called on to guard the prisoners that was brought from Kings Mountain Battle at the old Moravian Town...next he was ordered to guard the magazine from Salem; next he hauled a load of ammunition with one horse and a wagon to Henry Co, VA, returning a week before the Briatish Army marched into Bethania where we lived. The British found their hidden horses and wagon and carried away all the horses, plundered and stripped them of everything they had almost--this just ten days before she was to deliver a child. The British took her husband prisoner and kept him under guard during the night & day, etc.
Mother: Anna Margaretha Ellrod 1736-1775)
American Revolution War: Record of service
Pension File #W10118, National Archives
State of North Carolina County of Stokes
On this 28th day of February 1838 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Magdalena Houser, a resident of said County of Stokes in North Carolina, aged seventy eight years, who being first duly Sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision of the third section made by the Act of Congress passed on July 4th 1836, that she is the widdow of George Houser Dec'd, who was a Lieutenant in the Militia of the army of the United States in Revolutionary war and as such in the follow services-- (the following is summarized): volunteered as Lieutenant under Captain Henry Smith in the month of July or August 1776 to go against the Cherokee Indians and marched to the Mulberry fields in Wilkes County to meet with the South Carolina army, was marched back to Surry after being gone two weeks or more, and in a few days after his return home, went again in said Expedition Roundavoused near Surry County court house-- from there marched against the Hostile Cherokees & in this last tour he served one hundred and ten days as Lieutenant...the next service, after she was married to him, was in 1778, a company being organized in Surry County as minute men to start at a moments notice. He was gone three weeks after Tories toward the mountains.... they were attacked by a party of Tories at Surry old Courthouse ...another time, routed a party of Tories on the south side of the Yadkin, and several other short tours....he was called on to guard the prisoners that was brought from Kings Mountain Battle at the old Moravian Town...next he was ordered to guard the magazine from Salem; next he hauled a load of ammunition with one horse and a wagon to Henry Co, VA, returning a week before the Briatish Army marched into Bethania where we lived. The British found their hidden horses and wagon and carried away all the horses, plundered and stripped them of everything they had almost--this just ten days before she was to deliver a child. The British took her husband prisoner and kept him under guard during the night & day, etc.
American Revolution War: Record of service
Pension File #W10118, National Archives
State of North Carolina County of Stokes
On this 28th day of February 1838 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Magdalena Houser, a resident of said County of Stokes in North Carolina, aged seventy eight years, who being first duly Sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision of the third section made by the Act of Congress passed on July 4th 1836, that she is the widdow of George Houser Dec'd, who was a Lieutenant in the Militia of the army of the United States in Revolutionary war and as such in the follow services-- (the following is summarized): volunteered as Lieutenant under Captain Henry Smith in the month of July or August 1776 to go against the Cherokee Indians and marched to the Mulberry fields in Wilkes County to meet with the South Carolina army, was marched back to Surry after being gone two weeks or more, and in a few days after his return home, went again in said Expedition Roundavoused near Surry County court house-- from there marched against the Hostile Cherokees & in this last tour he served one hundred and ten days as Lieutenant...the next service, after she was married to him, was in 1778, a company being organized in Surry County as minute men to start at a moments notice. He was gone three weeks after Tories toward the mountains.... they were attacked by a party of Tories at Surry old Courthouse ...another time, routed a party of Tories on the south side of the Yadkin, and several other short tours....he was called on to guard the prisoners that was brought from Kings Mountain Battle at the old Moravian Town...next he was ordered to guard the magazine from Salem; next he hauled a load of ammunition with one horse and a wagon to Henry Co, VA, returning a week before the Briatish Army marched into Bethania where we lived. The British found their hidden horses and wagon and carried away all the horses, plundered and stripped them of everything they had almost--this just ten days before she was to deliver a child. The British took her husband prisoner and kept him under guard during the night & day, etc.
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