Michael Rominger Marched on with the army as a private
soldier and returned to Bethania with the Captain & Company
between the next Christmas & New Year, after being gone on
the said Expedition four months at best, and the next
service this Deponent drove a waggon load with military
stores of ammunition from Salem N Carolina to Henry Court
house in Virginia when the said Michael Rominger served
said trip as one of the guard of said stores under the
command of Capt. Bostick & George Hauser Lieutenant
they were allowed one month pay for this service they remained
two weeks at Henry Court house this was in January & Feby
1781. Just before the British Army marched through Bethania
this Deponant further states that he was well acquainted with
the widow Ann M. Rominger that she is the identical
widow of said Michael Rominger and that she has remained
unmarried ever since her said husbands death, which hapened (sic)
upwards of Twenty years last Sworn to and Subscribed
this day and year first above mentioned
before me
Banner, JP Joseph Hauser
State of North Carolina
County of Stokes I Reuben D. Golding Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
for Stokes Coujty aforesaid certify that Charles Banner is a
Magistrate as above and that the foregoing signatures
purporting to be his is genuine. In Testamony
whereof I have hereunto affixed the
seal of my office, and subscribed my
name this 13th day of November AD 1840
Reuben D. Golding CC
soldier and returned to Bethania with the Captain & Company
between the next Christmas & New Year, after being gone on
the said Expedition four months at best, and the next
service this Deponent drove a waggon load with military
stores of ammunition from Salem N Carolina to Henry Court
house in Virginia when the said Michael Rominger served
said trip as one of the guard of said stores under the
command of Capt. Bostick & George Hauser Lieutenant
they were allowed one month pay for this service they remained
two weeks at Henry Court house this was in January & Feby
1781. Just before the British Army marched through Bethania
this Deponant further states that he was well acquainted with
the widow Ann M. Rominger that she is the identical
widow of said Michael Rominger and that she has remained
unmarried ever since her said husbands death, which hapened (sic)
upwards of Twenty years last Sworn to and Subscribed
this day and year first above mentioned
before me
Banner, JP Joseph Hauser
State of North Carolina
County of Stokes I Reuben D. Golding Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
for Stokes Coujty aforesaid certify that Charles Banner is a
Magistrate as above and that the foregoing signatures
purporting to be his is genuine. In Testamony
whereof I have hereunto affixed the
seal of my office, and subscribed my
name this 13th day of November AD 1840
Reuben D. Golding CC
| MICHAEL ROMINGER |
State of North Carolina
County of Stokes
Be it known that on this 12th day of October
1840 before me Charles Banner a Justice of the Peace in and
for the county aforesaid, personally appeared Jacob Helspeck
aged seventy seven years . who is a reputable
resident of the County aforesaid for veracity & truth and a
pensioner of the United States. Who being duly sworn according
to law declares on his oath that he was well acquainted with
a certain Michael Rominger & served with him the Service of
the United States in time of the Revolutionary War in the
following manner towit: in the first place this Deponant was
drafted to go on Expedition against the Cherokee Indians
when his father Frederick Helsapeck took his place and
went in his stead under the Command of a Captain Henry Smith
in Cols Jo [John] Williams Regiment of Militia in which company
the aforesaid Michael Rominger went as a private and marched
from Richmond Surry County N Carolina in August 1776 when
this Deponant with Joseph Hauser & others went about one hundred
miles as packhorse men to carry provisions for his father & neighbors
part of the way & then turned back hom. the said Rominger went
on as a soldier & returned home with the Captain & Company
after being gone in said expedition four months or upwards.
the next service this Deponant served a tour of six months at
least with the said Michael Rominger altho the call was for
only five months there we were marched from Surry County
N Carolina under Capt Henry Smith to Salisbury & joined
head headquarters under General Rutherford from there to
Charlotte in Mecklinburg County N Carolina, then into South
Carolina in various routs to Savanah River, where a part of our Army
crossed the river & had a Battle with the enemy at
a placed called Brier Creek said Rominger remained on this
side the river with the main army & shortly after the Battle
our term of five months expired, but we were detained untill
new recruits joined the army. when we were discharged and said
Rominger being in the same mess with me & a Amos Lawson
County of Stokes
Be it known that on this 12th day of October
1840 before me Charles Banner a Justice of the Peace in and
for the county aforesaid, personally appeared Jacob Helspeck
aged seventy seven years . who is a reputable
resident of the County aforesaid for veracity & truth and a
pensioner of the United States. Who being duly sworn according
to law declares on his oath that he was well acquainted with
a certain Michael Rominger & served with him the Service of
the United States in time of the Revolutionary War in the
following manner towit: in the first place this Deponant was
drafted to go on Expedition against the Cherokee Indians
when his father Frederick Helsapeck took his place and
went in his stead under the Command of a Captain Henry Smith
in Cols Jo [John] Williams Regiment of Militia in which company
the aforesaid Michael Rominger went as a private and marched
from Richmond Surry County N Carolina in August 1776 when
this Deponant with Joseph Hauser & others went about one hundred
miles as packhorse men to carry provisions for his father & neighbors
part of the way & then turned back hom. the said Rominger went
on as a soldier & returned home with the Captain & Company
after being gone in said expedition four months or upwards.
the next service this Deponant served a tour of six months at
least with the said Michael Rominger altho the call was for
only five months there we were marched from Surry County
N Carolina under Capt Henry Smith to Salisbury & joined
head headquarters under General Rutherford from there to
Charlotte in Mecklinburg County N Carolina, then into South
Carolina in various routs to Savanah River, where a part of our Army
crossed the river & had a Battle with the enemy at
a placed called Brier Creek said Rominger remained on this
side the river with the main army & shortly after the Battle
our term of five months expired, but we were detained untill
new recruits joined the army. when we were discharged and said
Rominger being in the same mess with me & a Amos Lawson
we returned home together in the Spring of the year I
believe in 1779 being gone upwards of six months and in
the summer 1789 said Rominger married to Ann M. Fishel
and the following winter he saw him start from Salem in a
Company commaned by a Capt Wm Bostick guarding the
amunition waggons to Virginia they were gone and was
allowed one month in that expedition with others of this
Deponants neighbors, and afterwards said Rominger was
on some ? a trip to Hillsboro NCarolina not long
before the Battle of Guilford; said Rominger died some
upwards of twenty years past, leaving the aforesaid Anna
M. Rominger a widow who has remained unmarried ever
since his death living in Stokes County upwards of twenty
miles distant from the Court house. She is upwards of
eighty years of age as he has just reason to believe from
his acquaintance with her & family for sixety years & more
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above
mentioned before me his
Banner JP - Jacob X Helsapeck
mark
On this 12th day of October 1840 personally ap-
peared before me Charles Banner a Justice of the peace
for Stokes County N Carolina Joseph D Hauser aged seventy
seven years a respectable resident of Bethania in the
County aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law
declares on his oath that he was well acquainted with
Michael Rominger in time of the War of the Revolution, that he
saw him start from old Richmond Surry County N Carolina
under the command of Capt. Henry Smith in Col. Joseph
Williams Regiment of N Carolina Militia in the expedition
against the Cherokee Nation of Indians in the summer
of 1776 when this deponants cousin George Hauser served
as Lieutenant under said Capt Smith that this deponant
drove a waggon with provisions for the army fifty miles
to the Blue Ridge & then back on horses & crossed the mountain
& New River to the head of Holston River with Jacob Helsapeck
& other packhorse men, when they returned home and said
believe in 1779 being gone upwards of six months and in
the summer 1789 said Rominger married to Ann M. Fishel
and the following winter he saw him start from Salem in a
Company commaned by a Capt Wm Bostick guarding the
amunition waggons to Virginia they were gone and was
allowed one month in that expedition with others of this
Deponants neighbors, and afterwards said Rominger was
on some ? a trip to Hillsboro NCarolina not long
before the Battle of Guilford; said Rominger died some
upwards of twenty years past, leaving the aforesaid Anna
M. Rominger a widow who has remained unmarried ever
since his death living in Stokes County upwards of twenty
miles distant from the Court house. She is upwards of
eighty years of age as he has just reason to believe from
his acquaintance with her & family for sixety years & more
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above
mentioned before me his
Banner JP - Jacob X Helsapeck
mark
On this 12th day of October 1840 personally ap-
peared before me Charles Banner a Justice of the peace
for Stokes County N Carolina Joseph D Hauser aged seventy
seven years a respectable resident of Bethania in the
County aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law
declares on his oath that he was well acquainted with
Michael Rominger in time of the War of the Revolution, that he
saw him start from old Richmond Surry County N Carolina
under the command of Capt. Henry Smith in Col. Joseph
Williams Regiment of N Carolina Militia in the expedition
against the Cherokee Nation of Indians in the summer
of 1776 when this deponants cousin George Hauser served
as Lieutenant under said Capt Smith that this deponant
drove a waggon with provisions for the army fifty miles
to the Blue Ridge & then back on horses & crossed the mountain
& New River to the head of Holston River with Jacob Helsapeck
& other packhorse men, when they returned home and said
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