Jonathan Clower entered service 25 May 1781 in Orange Co, NC and was discharged from the service 25 May 1782 just 12 months from the day he entered the service. His service began under Capt. Thomas Donoho and Col. Dixon, and was immediately marched to join General Green's Nathanael Greene's Army on the high Hills of Santee River, SC where he was detached from his own company and Regiment and transferred with 24 others from the same Regiment to Colonel Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee's Light Infantry in which Service he continued until discharged. Under the command of Col. Lee he was in the battle at Eutaw Springs [September 8, 1781] after which time applicant was in a skirmishing fight at Dorchester Tavern on Ashley River SC, about 25 miles above Charleston.