The First Cleaveland County Court Minutes 1841-1843 Vol. 1, by Caldwell and Thompson page 114, May Court 1842 gives a deposition of Abner Camp, who on October 2, 1851, at age 78 was testifying on behalf of an old neighbor, William Bradley, who had been a soldier in the Revolutionary War. William Bradley had been wounded at the Battle of Kings Mountain when he was young. Now he had died and his widow, Aspasia Spriggs Bradley, was applying for a Revolutionary War Pension. Abner Camp was eight years old the day of that October 7, 1780 battle. In the deposition Abner Camp told that he remembered the British Army camping near his father’s house just a few days before the Battle of Kings Mountain. He said they just lived seven or eight miles from the battleground and he well remembered the firing of the guns at the Battle of Kings Mountain that day. He said that the neighbor, William Bradley, had been wounded in the arm in the Battle of Kings Mountain, and came to their house a few days after the battle to get Abner’s father, Rev. Joseph Camp, who was a doctor, to examine and dress the wound. He told that he had heard William Bradley say repeatedly that he had received the wound at the Battle of Kings Mountain, and at that time and afterwards William Bradley was always reputed and recognized to have been a faithful soldier and a true patriot of the Revolution. Abner Camp went on to say that his father, Rev. Joseph Camp, who was also a minister, had married William Bradley and Aspasia Spriggs shortly after the close of the Revolutionary War and that Abner, himself, was present that day at the wedding. The Magistrate, James Roberts, certified that Abner Camp was of good character and highly respected and whose veracity could not be disputed. - From the book Sunday's Child by Brendan Camp LeGrand