The amended affidavit of Captain James Shipman taken to prove the Revolutionary services of Col: Thomas Brown—This affiant being first duly sworn according to Law; testafies and say—That in his former affidavit he refered to the evidence now on file upon which he was granted a Pension; his reason for it was that he did not like to speak of transactions of such long standing in the absence of memorandums to refresh his memory—for fear that his recollection now should be in conflict with those papers—But as he is informed that it is necessary that he should state separatly the service rendered by Col: Brown he will proceed to do so to the best of his ability—I entered the service as a volunteer in January 1776 and marched for Fayettvill under the command of Captn: Colvin and was near the ground when the Battle of Moores Creek was fought—we were in service on that expedition for Three months—and on the 1st of April of the same year we marched down to Wilmington and Col Thomas Brown who was Lieut Col: at Fayettvill was then made the Col: of the Regiment in the place of Col Robinson and we are then drafted as minute men to serve for six months; I was then commissioned as a Captain and served under Col: Brown for Three months from the 1st of April 1776 in and near Wilmington; and, then marched for Georgetown and thence to Charleston South Carolina where I served with Col Brown until the last of November as well as I now recollect the 25th of the month—From the conclusion of that service to the year 1780 the Regiment was out in various expeditions sometimes for short and sometimes for longer periods of service; but at this time it is out of my power to state them—In the month of January 1780 we were called into service to protect the country from the enemy then in possession of Wilmington and I can testafy that from the middle of January 1780 up to the 1st of June 1780 I served under the command of Col Thomas Brown as a Captain and at that time he was made a Prisoner of War and confined in the Court House at Wilmington until the evacuation of the place of 1782. I feel well satisfied that I rendered much more service under Col Brown than is here recited but I cannot trust my memory for a detail of it—