The amended affidavit of John Darrach taken to establish the Revolutionary services of Col Thomas Brown of this County. This affiant being first duly sworn according to Law; Testafies and says—That as stated in his former affidavit he was mustered into service in January 1776 and commanded by Captn Colvin Lieut Col: Thos: Brown & Col Robinson we marched for Fayettvill and served for Three months in that section of Country; we returned to Bladen and thence to Wilmington to prevent the place from falling into the hands of Govr Martin we reached Wilmington on the first of april and there Col Brown took command as Col: of the Regiment called minute men we were in service between Wilmington and the month of the River from april to June, when we marched for Georgetown & thence to Charleston S. Ca: where we were discharged on the 15th of July 1776—Col: Brown remained and commanded a detachment of men who took our places until the 20th of November of that year—I have to say as my old friend Mr Andres has in his affidavit that I declined to specify the service we rendered under Col: Brown from the year 1776 to 1780 because it was often during that period for short times; being minute men we were frequently called into service for 10 or 20 days and then discharged; this was very frequently the case; but I have never considered it service such as I could now venture to state or estimate. I have in my former affidavit only testafied to the service I rendered under Col Brown for periods of Three or more months at a time.

In the month of January 1780 the British took possession of Wilmington; and I was called into service under Col Brown and from the 20th of January in that year to the month of July I was constantly in service under Col Brown until he was made a prisoner of War on the first of June in that year—I was with him at great Bridge when he was wounded in the month of March, and I know that he was confined as a Prisoner of War until the final evacuation of Wilmington in the year 1782.

To the following periods of service rendered by Col Brown this affiant can speak with great certainty as he served it with him—

1st: He knows that he served Three months in the expedition to Fayettvill when the Battle of Moores Creek was faught.

2dly He knows that in the month of april between the 1st & 10th of the month that he marched to Wilmington and served them until the month of June and then marched for South Carolina where he remained until the 20th of November of that year.

3dly He knows that he served with and under Col Brown from the 20th of January 1780 to the 1st of June of that year when he was made a Prisoner of War and confined at Wilmington to the evacuation of the place in the month of January 1782.