John Busby, a free man of color, proudly proclaims that "he entered the army of the Revolution in the Militia of this State in the early part of the year 1777." Busby states that "although he was a regular enlisted soldier, it so happened that the discharge of his other duties [protecting the provisions of his company] prevented his taking a part in any important engagement." The petitioner, now nearly eighty years old and infirm, reports that "for his services which he flatters himself were important to his country he never received any compensation whatever." Confiding that he is "no longer able to work for his support," Busby prays "that he may be placed on the pension list and thereby kept free from absolute want for the short period he has to live."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
