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Benjamin White
of King's Mountain —1823 Declaration— |
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28 May 1823, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee I, Benjamin White, of Knox County, Tennessee, do certify that I was in the King Mountain battle, the 7th of October, 1780, in Colonel Campbell's Regiment. He was riding a bay horse. I saw Colonel Campbell receive the sword from the British captain, I think his name DePeyster, and heard Col. Campbell order the flag to be received, and I believe it was Evan Shelby received it. I saw Col. Campbell very frequently during the whole action encouraging his men, and feel confident he was not absent from his men one moment during the whole battle. When I was eighteen years of age, I was at the battle at the mouth of Big Kenhawa with the Shawnee Indians, 10th of October 1774, in the battle of Princeton 3rd June, 1777, in the battle of Brandywine, 11th Sept., 1777, in the battle of German Town, 4th of October 1777; in the battle with the Shawnee Indians at the Miami towns 9th of April 1779; in the battle of Kings Mountain, and in a battle in Florida with the Indians 10th of Feb. 1813; and in all those battles I never saw a braver man than Col. Campbell according to my judgement, and to the above statement I am willing to be qualified. Knoxville, May the 28th, 1823.
_______________ I certify that I knew Benjamin White, soldier for upwards of eighteen years. That he maintained the character of a man of honesty and veracity. That I would have great confidence in any statement he would make. Mr. White served under my command as a volunteer against the Seminole Indians in the winter of 1812-1813. He afforded many evidences of undaunted bravery on that campaign, and would be as likely to give a faithful narrative of the events of a battle as any man whatever. John Williams
July 4th, 1823
(Papers of Selden Nelson of Knoxville, Tennessee, son of T.A.R. Nelson, attorney, as published in The King's Mountain Men, Katherine Keough White, Dayton, Virginia, 1924, pp. 98-9)
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Benjamin White is on the 1806 Knox County Tax List returned by Capt. Lomas, with 1 acre, 2 white polls and 1 white poll (Early East Tennessee Taxpayers by Pollyanna Creekmore, East Tennessee Historical Society, Knoxville, 1951 series). Note: A footnote by the author states that Benjamin died 24 Aug 1827 in Decatur County, Alabama (source not stated).
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