Information taken from, Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina: From Colonial period to about 1820. 5th ed. : Jonathan Overton, born about 1754 in Perquimans County, NC, was an apprentice under John bateman of Chowan County when he entered the service as a substitute for him under Colonel Lytle.He was at sea for awhile, then returned to Edenton, NC. He was about 79 years old on Dec. 19, 1832, when he made a declaration in Chowan County, NC court to obtain pension for 3yrs service. [M804-1854, frame 0788]…He was described in an 1849 newspaper as a colored man, a soldier in the Revolution…at the advanced age of 101 years [Crow, Black Experience in Revolutionary North Carolina, 101].