This day personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace for the County whose written Mr James Anders aged Eighty Eight years and a Pensioner of the United States who being first duly sworn according to Law, testafies and says—That he entered the service in 1776 from Bladen County under the command of Col Thomas Brown and marched for Fayetvill and was near the ground on which the Battle of Moores Creek was fought—he joined the armey the day after & was in service under Col: Brown for Three months—and on his return he was drafted for six months and served Three months in and near Wilmington and Three months in South Carolina. From that period until the commencement of the year 1780 Col Brown was constantly in action service, but this affiant did not served under him or with him again until 1780 when the British took  possession of Wilmington. This affiant was then called into service and was near the ground when the Battle of Big Bridge was fought and knows that Col Brown was wounded on that occasion; from the period when the enemy took possession of Wilmigton in January 1780 to the final evacuation of the place this affiant was in active service and he can testafy that Col Brown was in service all that period, or I should say until he was taken Prisoner n June of that year and remained confined at Wilmington until the final evacuation of the place—

In conclusion he can testafy that Col Brown did serve for the space of two years to the knowledge of this affiant, and also that he was married to his widow now applying for a pension at the time he was a Prisoner of War.