https://revwarapps.org/s8240.pdf
In service for his uncle, William Cockerham of Surry Co.
https://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/mn/m40295x40296.htm
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85632509/david-cockerham
http://www.moonzstuff.com/cockerham/moses1730.html

Pension Application of David Cockerham S8240 NC
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris. Revised 14 Nov 2014.
State of North Carolina }
Surry County }
On this 15th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record and
opened and held as such this day for the County and State aforesaid, David Cockerham resident in the County of Surry and State of North Carolina aged sixty nine years on the 25
th of November next, who being first sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th
of June 1832; that he the said David Cockerham entered the service of the United States for three months in the spring of the year when Charleston in South Carolina was taken [on 12 May 1780]; in the company commanded by Capt James Freeman of the said County of Surry; that he entered as a substitute in the place of his uncle William Cockerham of the County and State aforesaid; that his company commanded by Capt Freeman as aforesaid marched to Richmond then the County Town of Surry County. They remained at this place some weeks and from thence they marched to Salisbury in Rowan County; from thence they marched to Camden in the State of South Carolina; from thence to Nelsons Ferry [at Eutaw Springs] on the Santee River; from thence down this side of the River for the purpose of aiding in the defence of Charleston which was then besieged by the British. At Camden Capt Freeman joined Gen [Richard] Caswell from North Carolina, who with a considerable body of the North Carolina militia was also marching for the relief of Charleston – when Gen Caswell had gone on from [smudge] to Nelsons Ferry and from thence down the River towards Charleston and so near it as to hear the firing of the Cannons, he was informed by some of the American soldiers who had escaped from the siege, that Charleston had fallen, and he thereupon inclined the Troops under his command to march back to Camden; from thence he marched to Fayetteville in North Carolina, and from there on to a place called Dobsons Cross Roads in Surry County, but now Stokes County by a division of the said County of Surry [now Kernersville in Forsythe County]. cont. on link