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Captain Thomas Cook (1752-1841) a soldier of the Revolution

Thomas Cook (1752–1841), 1909

Named on the page for Battle of Guilford Court House.

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15 March 1781

Battle of Guilford Court House

WILLIAM M. SWEENY.
On July the tenth. Seventeen hundred and seventy-six (1776), I en- tered the service as a private soldier in Captain John Leek's company (Guilford Militia), Colonel James Martin's regiment, Griffith Ruther- ford, General ; marched to the Cherokee Nation to suppress the Indians ; burnt their town, killed and destroyed as many of the Indians as we could get hold of; remained in the nation as long as we could get provisions, and was compelled to return back again. On the 25th of November landed at our starting point, being out four months and fifteen days — 4 months and Yi. This was known as the "Cherokee Ex- pedition." This service was in an embodied corps, called out by competent authority by the State of North Carolina.

WILLIAM M. SWEENY.
Early in January, Seventy-nine (1779), I was elected Captain of a company in Colonel Martin's regiment composed of Guilford Militia, and was commissioned by Governor Caswell of North Carolina. Joined the regiment at Guilford Court House; marched immediately for South Carolina, General Rutherford still commanding. Went through South Carolina directly to the Savannah River; joined General Lincoln at a place called the "Smoking Camp," about seventy miles below Augusta. From the "Smoking Camp" marched up the river to a place known as the "Sisters Ferry." From the latter place a detachment was sent over

WILLIAM M. SWEENY.
In the battle of Guilford I bore a part under General Greene, but our forces being too weak, we were forced to flee and give the ground.

THOMAS COOK.
William Moseley deposeth and saith that he knew Captain Thomas Cook "from my earliest recollection and have often heard him say that he was Captain of a company of moimted men of the North Carolina line of Continental soldiers in the Revolutionary War and that he was guide to General Greene at the battle of Guilford. I have also heard my uncle Henry Moseley, who served, as I have learned, in Captain Literal's regiment of mounted men, say that Thomas Cook was a Captain of a mounted company, and I have never heard it disputed by anyone."

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