This day personally appeared Before me a Justice of the Peace for the county above written Richard Cheshire of the said county aged Eighty years who being first duly sworn according to Law testafies and says—That he was born & raised in Bladen County and in the early part of the year seventeen Hundred and Seventy Six he marched from this county to Fayettvill under the command of Col: Thomas Brown and was near the ground when the Battle of Moores Creek was fought and joined the Troops engaged in the action the next day—The affiant was then in service in and near Wilmington when Govr Martin was in the Cape Fear River still under the command of Col: Brown in these two expeditions this affiant servd Six months—From that time until 1780 this affiant cannot speak of the service of Col Brown altho' he is well convinced he rendered it—In the year seventeen Hundred & Eight when the British took possession of Wilmington we were again called into service and from that time until the final evacuation of the place we were constantly in service Col Brown was commanding up to the time he was made a Prisoner and confined at Wilmington until the final evacuation of Wilmington in 1782.