That he then in the year 1782 served in the US service as a volunteer in a company of Cavalry or mounted Infantry 8 months, under Captain John Norwood & Colonel A. Pickens which company was principally engaged in defending the frontier settlements of South Carolina against Tories & Indians. In the same year 1782 I served one month as a volunteer in a company of Cavalry under Captain Robert Maxwell & Colonel Pickens in an excursion against the Cherokee Indians & again early in the year 1783 I served 6 weeks as a volunteer in a company of cavalry or mounted Infantry under the above named officers, and another excursion against the Cherokees where we killed 32 Indians and two white’s