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In order to attain the benefit of the Act of Congress on the 7th day of June 1832 state of Tennessee, Fayette County.

On this ___ Day of ____ 1832, David Blalock, a citizen of Fayette County, State of Tennessee, on oath, made the  following declaration –  I am eighty two years of age in March last past and served, in the Revolutionary War, three tours of defence of this liberty of my country.  At an early period several years before the war began my father was a Regulator in the sov’n(?) state of North Carolina and was killed in a skirmish with some enlisted troops [while] attempting to supply the Regulators.  My father’s house was burnt and my mother left helpless.  This infused into my mind an _____ feeling against that nation [England] which I shall carry with me to my grave.

At the breaking out of the war I was living with my mother at a place called Hickory Mountain ten miles from Pittsboro in Chatham County, state of North Carolina.

I enlisted and I joined the state troops at Pittsboro (year not recollected) from whence we moved to Ramsay’s Mills in the same county [Chatham] which was our place of rendezvous.  I served the first tour of three months marching backward and forward over the western part of South Carolina and some parts of