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In the early years of mid-seventeen hundreds  Augusta County, Virginia
records, there were Leeper, Armstrong, Young,Carter, Kinkeads, Clouny and
Long families who inter-married. These pioneers of Virginia who founded
Carter Valley, North Carolina, now Tennessee were well to do Scotch Irish
Descent Presbyterians.
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Summary of Facts in Photo Copies from General Services Administration at
Washington, D,C, concerning a James Leeper of Washington County, Arkansas
Territory. He entered service from Lincoln County, North Carolina.

     Application ( no name given) was submitted at 71 years of age. Served
three terms totaling one year, three months and was pensioned at $50 dollars
per annum.  Further proff was requested by pension office, 7 September 1833.
     On December 9, 1833, James appeared before Judge Thomas P. Eskridge
in open court, Territory of Arkansas, County of Washington. Paper signed and
sealed in James Leeper's signature.  This contains the following facts.

     Drafted December 1779 and discharged 24 March 1780. In three months
he marched from Charlotte, North Carolina by the way of Camden to Charleston,
South Carolina, and was in no battle.

     April 1780 , volunteered and was discharged October 1780. He was prin -
cipally in Lincoln and Rutherford Counties, North Carolina in an expedition
against the Tories.

     April 1871, he substituted himself in the place of Matthew Leeper, a
resident of Lincoln County. He was discharged June the following. He marched
in one month from his place of resident in Lincoln County, North Carolina
to Hanging Rock in South Carolina. He was engaged in no battle.

     Enlisted in the state troops July 1781 and was discharged in October
the same year. Marched from residence to interior of South Carolina and
there passed from one theighborn  ? road to another.

     In 1781 was drafted but hired Matthew Leeper as a substitute. He was
in service two months.

     Number of persons in Washington County, Territory of Arkansas by whom
he may establish these facts:  Matthew Leeper, Alexander Porter, Matthew
Armstrong, Joseph Hart and Thomas McLean;  Also Joseph Henry and Robert Henry
of Bunkum County, North Carolina if living will do same.

     On same day in open court, John Cureton, Clergyman, Sebron G. Sneed
and Lee C. Blakemore swore. "That we believe him to be seventy two years of
age