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CRAWFORD, JOHN
DAVIS, TOLAVER (TOLLIVER)
DUNN, ALEXANDER
DURHAM, MATTHEW
JONES, WILLIAM A.
MONK, JOHN
PEACE, JOHN
REDDING, ANDERSON
REV. ISAAC SMITH
STEWART, WILLIAM

DUNN, ALEXANDER. Revolutionary Pension File #R3142
(Transcribed by Lynda Schoonover from Photocopy sent to her by the National Archives
Copyrighted by Lynda Schoonover 2003)
Part I

State of Georgia
County of Monroe

On this ninth day of September eighteen hundred and thirty four again appeared in open court, and sitting before the Honorable Christopher B. Strong, Judge of the Superior Court in and for the County aforesaid, the same Alexander Dunn who appeared in this court and made his declaration on the twenty third day of October eighteen hundred and thirty two in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of congress passed June 7, 1832. And the said Alexander Dunn being again duly sworn according to law doth make the following additional declaration on oath for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the Act of Congress above mentioned. That in the first mentioned tour in his declaration of October 1832, declaratant served out the entire tour or three months for which he was drafted into service, the officers and incidents of that tour of service are mentioned as well as remembered in the first application made by claimant; In the next tour mentioned in claimants first application above referred to he also served out the full term of three months or which he had volunteered; and as already stated in his first application he was not discharged until a month and ten or twelve days after his turn of three months had expired; and he would here add further that during the months and ten or twelve days (ten at least) he remained in the army after his regular term of service had expired, he was regularly and continually engaged in active service and subject to the command of his officers and did duty in he same manner as before the expiration of the three months for which the he volunteered; After entering the service as stated in May 1780 (the particular time in that month claimant is now unable to state) he served as mentioned in his first application except that he was in mistaken as to the time of his being discharged, which in his first application is put in May 1782; he is now satisfied that he was mistaken as to the time of his discharged, which was some months earlier than mention in his first declaration; claimant was in the service under the command of Captain Hampton and Colonel Porter and McDowell when the news of the capture of Cornwallis was received:

after the capture of Cornwallis his news was received (claimant thinks after the expiration of a month from the capture) that a cessation of army was agreed upon and claimant was discharged which claimant now feels well satisfied took place not earlier than the first of December 1781: Claimant can safely state that during this last mentioned term of service he was in constant service for at least eighteen months: After being discharged as above mentioned he returned to his home in Rutherford County North Carolina and in the month of May 1782 was again drafted for a three months tour of duty against the Cherokee Indians, he entered this service under the command of Captain John Watson at a Block House erected near the head of Green River In North Carolina: During the time of this companies being in service Robert Porter was the Colonel William Porter lieutenant Colonel and Patrick Watson Major in commanded of the Militia of Rutherford County but there were during the time no officers in active in service except those belonging to the company commanded by Captain Watson and stationed as mentioned above on Green River, the place where the block house stood was called Mumford Cove. After serving out his term of three mouths, claimant was discharged and shortly thereafter moved to Georgia where he was engaged in repeated short tours and scouts but now that he thinks it worthwhile here to [sic] recapitulate, Claimant states that during the whole time mentioned by him in his different tours he was engaged in actual service and was not employed in any civil pursuit.

Claimant has done his utmost to give a faithful and true account of his services and feels well satisfied that as it now stands corrected his declaration contains no material error: he cannot swear more positively that he has done to the precise terms of his service and has been careful at Least not to exceed in any instance his actual service rendered-- by reason of advanced age his memory is indistinct as to many particulars; but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below and in the Following grade: For two years three months and ten days I served a private soldier.

In not answering the seventh interrogatory prescribed by the War Department in his first application claimant had no desire to evade a compliance with the rules of the department; at the time his declaration was preparing he was uncertain who of his neighbors might fihd it convenient to attend court and feeling satisfied that any of those who knew him would willingly testify in his favor he answered generally---he now [sic] have to refer to the names of the Rev. Robb. McGinty and Mr. Britton Rogers of persons by whom compliant is able to pertain[sic] his [sic] for certainty[sic] and his being a soldier of the revolution

Sworn to and subscribed in open court this day and year of our [aid].
Christopher B. Strong for Judge of Sup. Court. Alexander Dunn

I ,Elbridge G. Cabaniss [sic], Clerk of the Superior Court of Monroe County do hereby certify that the above and foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Alexander Dunn for a pension: The testimony I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 9th day of September 1834.

PART TWO

Re: Alexander Dunn, Revolutionaty War Soldier, File #R3142. National Archives Transcribed by L Sehoonover from Photocopy sent to her by the National Archives.
Copyrighted by Lynda Schoonover 2003

State of Georgia
County of Monroe

On this twenty third day of October Eighteen hundred two personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Christopher Strong Judge of the Superior Court for the County of Monroe which said court is now sitting, Alexander Dunn a resident of the said County of Monroe aged sixty nine years and two months who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States the month of April, 1779, and was drafted for three months tour of service, in Rutherford County, North Carolina, he was mustered into service under Captain William Porter. The company marched to and was stationed in Mumford’s Cove at Archibold’s Grants. This company was called into service to guard against the [sic] of the Cherokee Indians who had committed repeated [deputations]

In that neighborhood. This Company was comprised of forty seven [sic] officers and was divided into two divisions of twenty men each and [sic] about, performed the following service. One half of the company left the fort (which was called Fort Grant) on Monday morning and marched to Point [_ock] on French Broad. Then to the mouth of Muddy Creek, then to the head of Muddy Creek, then across the mountain to Green River and up the river to the Fort and when this service was performed by half the Company over with, the other half performed it the week following and this routine of service was regularly kept up to the end of the three months when Claimant was discharged.

After claimant returned home from the above mentioned tour of service he volunteered, on he 15th day of November 1779, for three months tour of service to go on to Charlotte against the British, and was ordered to meet at Charlotte in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina on the first day of December following which claimant did and joined the army at that place under General Alexander Sillington. The company in which claimant volunteered and to which he belonged, was commanded by Captain Robed Gilley; after the troops had rendezvoused, at Charlotte, they marched to Charleston in South Carolina. Some time after the arrival of the troops at Charleston, General Lincoln arrived there and took command. While at Charleston there were fifty men drafted from the regiment to which claimant belonged, and put on board the 36 gun ship called Brickcole, claimant was one among the number drafted, the ship was commanded by Commodore Davis and under him Captain Peacock, both officers of the American Navy: Whilst on board this ship claimant says the Brit ships made an attack on Fort Moultrie and the fort on Sullivan’s Island. but as well as claimant remembers, the British ships did not enter the harbor whilst he remained at Charleston, but the American Ships came into the harbors and the guns were taken off the ships and mounted on the wharf to defend the town. This [dismantling] of the ships took place about the first of April 1780 and a few days after which claimant was discharged and returned through many difficulties to his home in
Rutherford County; Claimant was not discharged until a month and ten or twelve days after his term of service had expired. After claimant returned home from the last mentioned term of service he found times so troublesome from the marauding parties of Tories (and part Whigs, too) killing and murdering on all hands, that he found it impossible to remain at home in any degree of safetv, and in the month of May l78O joined, as a volunteer, a troop of Cavalry commanded by Captain Addin Hampton, and joined the troops raised at that time from the two counties of Rutherford and Burke which were commanded by Colonel Robert Porter and Charles MacDowell. They were both Colonels but claimant is unable to say which of them was the first in command, these troops were stationed for a month at Colonel Balor Earle’s in the upper part of South Carolina, near the South Carolina line. Whilst stationed at Earle’s the detachment was joined by General Elijah Clark, and Colonels Dunn and Alexander with about fifty horsemen from Georgia. On the same night after the arrival of General Clark and the others the whole were attacked by a detachment of British and Tories from Ferguson’s Army whilst [sic] at Prince Fort; The British and Tories were repelled with considerable losses in killed and wounded; The American detachment also suffered. Claimants brother, Andrew Dunn. Lieutenant in the company to which claimant belonged, was killed there. A colonel [Cones] who had joined the detachment from Burke or Lincoln County but not in command as an officer was also among the slain. —After the above mentioned engagement and defeat of the British and Tories Colonel Ferguson of the British Army came out in pursuit of the Americans who being far inferior to him in point of members, retreated before him into Rutherford and Burkes Counties; In the each mentioned county, Captain Hampton with his company of Calvary separated from Colonel Porter and McDowell, and marched across the mountains into Tennessee; in the days after Hampton and his Calvry arrived in Tennessee a force of two thousand men was raised by Colonels Campbell and Shelby; after the raising of this force they were joined by Captain Hampton and his cavalry who returned with them again across the mountains and found a junction? with Colonel [Cleveland] and the force under his command in Burke County. The British now retreated and were pursued by the Americans to Kings Mountain in South Carolina. There the battle of Kings Mountain took place on the 17Th September 1780; claimant was engaged in this battle from beginning to end; the Americans remained in this battle ground three days after the battle and then marched to Colonel Walker in Rutherford County where [ruin] of the principal Tories were hanged on account of murders and other [sic] committed by them. The Army remained at Walker’s about ten days, and the Tennesseans were discharged and returned to their homes. The British prisoners were sent on to Charleston to be exchanged and Captain Hampton with his Calvary and claimant among them, marched to a place called Gilbert Town in Rutherford County to guard [sic] against the Indians and Tories, and continued at Gilbert Town and that neighborhood until the first of May 1782 when the company was disbanded and the claimant discharged. While stationed at Gilbert Town Captain Hampton’s company took a block house occupied by Tories on the head of Parkaulett [sic] River and took from them thirty Negroes and a large amount of other property which had been robbed from the American citizens.

The above is the best the claimant can give of his service- Claimant was born, as been informed and fully believes on the l8th day of December 1762. He has a sword which was made by his father; it is now in his possession, he has already stated where he lived when called into the service, after the war he moved to Georgia in December 1784[sic] and lived in Columbia County and was there one year. From there he as lived for different lengths of time in the Counties Hancock, Putnam, Jones and Monroe, in which last county he now lives, and has lived there for [sic] years back; he received one discharge from Captain Porter. another after his service expired at Charleston which was signed by the adjutant of the regiment but claimant does not remember his name. Claimant also received another discharge from Captain Hampton which discharge was written by Abel Lewis the orderly Sergeant of the Company. Claimant has not seen either of those discharges for many years and he is unable to say where they are or what has become of them, He does not know of any one by whom he can prove his service, but trusts that any of them who are acquainted with him will testify to his character for [certainty] [sic] and who to their belief of his being a soldier of the revolution.

He hereby relinquishes every claim what ever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.

Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid.

C. B. Strong Alexander Dunn

{Wm. Ingal}
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Roll: 773 Image: 471 File: W11555/BLWT38559-160-55 Total Pages: 17

STEWART, WILLIAM, W11555, VA.
STEWART, MARTHA B., BLM38559-160-55

William Stewart of Monroe in the State of Georgia
who was a Private in the company commanded by Capt. _____ of
the regiment commanded by _____ in the ____line for Virginia

Issued on the Roll of Georgia at the rate of one hundred Dollars _no Cents per Annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.
_______________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of (unreadable)
Arrears to the 4th of _____________ (unreadable)
Semi-annl. allowance ending _________________
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by _____, Clerk
Book E, Vol. 6, Page 151.
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GEORGIA, MARTHA B STEWART
Widow of William Stewart, Virginia
who served in the Revolutionary War as a
Private and Sergeant
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100 Dollars and no cents per annum, to
commence on the 3d February, 1853
Certificate of Pension issued 24th day of May 1855 and sent to
Z. E. Harman, Forsyth, Geo.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under the act February 3, 1853, Page 154, Vol. A.
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June 12,/60 Let. to Hon. Joshua Hall, G.R., duplicates entries
June 16/60 Let. to Hon. Joshua Hall, returning the affidavit of Chas T. Wilson in relation to the copy of the
_____
Oct. 23/60 Let. to Dr. for proof of ____and to file ____
_______

Lett. Angus M. D. King,
Inf. Certificate filed 10 July, 1839
and sent to Angus M. D. King. Forsyth, Georgia
________ to Pension Agt. S. D. Comptroller 8 May 1838

Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838, from
4th March 1836 to Sept. 1837, Agt. notified 10 May 1838
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 4th April 1838 from
4 Sept. 1837 to 4 March 1838. Agt. notified 13 Dec. 1838
________
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STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF MONROE
On this the third day of March A.D. 1855, personally appeared before the undersaid Judge of the Superior Court of said county and
state Martha B. Stewart a resident of the county of Monroe in said State aged seventy two years who _____________ ___________
sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made
by the Act of Congress passed on the Third February 1853, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the
Revolutionary War; that she is the widow of William Stewart who was a soldier in the revolutionary war. The rank of her
husband she is unable to state, neither can she state the time when he entered the service nor the time he left said, since. Neither
can she state the names and rank of the officers under whom he served, that he entered said service in the State of Virginia,
that Said William Stewart departed this life in the County of Macon in the State of Georgia on the ____day of June AD 1848; that
she further declares that said William Stewart received a pension from the pension office of the U. S. for said service of
one hundred dollars per annum payable to the agency of Virginia pension office in the City of Savannah in the State of
Georgia, but for what time and under what act this payment deponent cannot state but for proof of all these facts, despondent
refers to the
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evidence filed by the said William Stewart on his application for a pension, and the order, or orders, issued by the pension
office allowing such pension
She further states and declares that she was married to the said William Stewart on the Seventeenth Day
of December eighteen Hundred and Thirty seven as will appear by reference to an _____(application?) of that marriage certificate
of the Justice of the Peace by whom they were married, as well as the affidavit of Meckleberry Merritt, Esq. the person by
whom they were married which are hereto annexed. That her said husband died on the Ninth day of June A.D. 1848. As aforesaid, that
she was not married prior to the second of January eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated. She further declares that
she is now a widow. By. Martha B. Stewart (mark)
Sworn to and subscribed before an open court on the day and year above written. SS: James H. Staub, Judge Sup. Court, Flint Dist. Ga.

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STATE OF GEORGIA, COUNTY OF MONROE
On the fifth day of December A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me Jesse Aycock a justice of the peace in aforesaid county and state. Martha B. Stewart aged seventy two years a resident of the county and state aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law, declared that she is the widow of William Stewart, deceased, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War in the lines of malitia from the State of Virginia, deponent is not able to state the Company in which her said
husband served nor does she know the regiment nor the names of either the Captain or Colonel but her said husband during
his lifetime for several years was a Revolutionary pensioner and that since his death, she has been allowed a pension as his
widow having received from the Department of the Interior a certificate of which the following is a copy.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, "WIDOWS PENSION"
I certify that in conformity with the 2nd Section of the Act of February 3, 1853, Martha B. Stewart, widow of William Stewart who was a private and sergeant in the Revolutionary War is subscribed on the Pension list at the rate of One Hundred Dollars per annum commencing on the 3rd of February 1853 and continuing for life unless she should again marry in which case the pension is not payable after the date of such marriage. Given at the Department of the Interior this twenty fourth day of May one thousand eight hundred and fifty five. Enumerated and countersigned: L. P. Waldo, Commissioner of Pensions George B. Whiting Acting Secretary of the Interior.

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(Ordered Herein?)
"Payment to be made at Savannah by J. S. Morse(?) ____for paying pensioner in the Agency of Georgia, payable on 4th September and 4th March".

Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under Act of February 3d 1853. Page 154, Vol. W.
G. T. Getty, Clerk
She further states that she was married to the said William Stewart in Monroe County, Georgia on the Seventeenth day of December
A.D. 1837 by one Mickleberry Merritt a Justice of the Peach and that her name before the said marriage was Martha B. Wilson, as appears by the named certificate of the Ordinary of Said County. That her said husband died in Macon County, Georgia on the _________ day of June 1848; that she is now a widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the County law to which she may be entitled under the
act approved March 3, 1855. SS: Martha B. Stewart (mark)

We, David B. Ramsey (?) and Henry Reed, residents of Monroe County in the State of Georgia upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Martha b. Stewart in our persons and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she presents herself to be and we further declare that we were well acquainted with the said Martha B. Stewart and her husband William Stewart during the lifetime of said William. That they lived together as husband and wife until the death of said William which event occurred sometime in the year A.D. 1848 and that said Martha B. Stewart has been ever since that time and still is a widow of said William.
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STATE OF GEORGIA, COUNTY OF MONROE
On this twenty third day of October in the year eighteen hundred and Thirty two personally appeared in open
court before the Honorable Christopher B. Strong, Judge of the Superior Court for said County which Court is now sitting
William Stewart a resident of said County and State aged sixty nine years and ten months who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.

He was drafted in Amherst County, Virginia, in the fall of 1778 at which time he had just arrived at sixteen
years of age and entered the militia under Captain Pamplin, in a regiment commanded by Colonel Daniel Gaines. The company was mustered at Amherst Courthouse, and claimant was appointed by Colonel Gaines ____ Commissary of the shirts and provisions to those of the troops that were collected at Amherst Courthouse until the Regiment rendezvoused at Richmond in the State of Virginia where Claimant was appointed sergeant in Captain Pamplins' company and continued to fill that appointment until the expiration of his term of service. The detachment to which Claimant was stationed belonged during this term of service, which was for six months at Richmond and in that neighborhood we were in no engagements during this tour. Within a short time after the expiration of this above mentioned term of service, claimant was again drafted and entered the service for another tour of six months, and entered the service in Captain John Christian's Company, of militia in a regiment commanded by Colonel Vance. At the commencement of this term of service claimant was again appointed Sergeant which appointment he continued to fill in Captain Christian's company until the expiration of his term of service. During this tour of service the Brigade or Division was commanded by General Lawson, and was in no engagements or battles. We were in hearing of the firing during the engagement between the British and a part of the American army under General Wayne at Jamestown . the part of the army which at that time under the command of General Lawson, marched all the night preceding the battle for the purpose of joining General Wayne but were bewildered by taking wrong roads and failed in forming a junction. General Lawson was suspected by some of the soldiers of being not very desirous of joining the army under General Wayne. After the expiration of the last mentioned term of service, claimant was again drafted for another tour of six months, and entered the service under his brother's Captain John Stewart of Amherst County Virginia in the regiment
(page 10), commanded by Colonel Tucker and the Brigade was commanded by General Holt Richardson. Applicant was at the siege of Little York from beginning to end and after the surrender of the British army claimant marched several days as part of the guard in conducting the prisoners on their way towards the Winchester Barracks where claimant was taken sick and discharged a few days before the expiration of his term of service. In addition to the above claimant served a short time in guarding through Virginia the prisoners taken at the Cowpens in North Carolina by General Morgan. Claimant was again called on as belonging to the second division (the County where he lived being laid off into divisions) in the State of Virginia to march against the British sometime in the year 1779 or so, who were at that time marching on from the south through the settlement where claimant had lived in the State of Virginia, under the command of Lord Cornwallis as claimant understood. Claimant does not remember what length of time he spent in this term of service, but the tour was short and claimant was not engaged in any battle during that term. In conclusion claimant conscientiously believes that during the above mentioned terms of service, he served at least for the space of two years; during some of the above mentioned terms of service claimant served longer than the term for which he was drafted. and at other times was discharged before his term of service had actually expired. Claimant remembers very distinctly that he was under the command of General Lafayette at a place called Mablen Hills in the State of Virginia, where the army under the command of Lafayette was stationed some short time and claimant remembers that the army marched from that place across a large swamp called Chickahoming, but does not remember how far said swamp is from the Mabben Hills. Neither does he remember particularly where they went after they crossed the swamp, nor during what tour of service the last mentioned circumstances took place. Applicant was born as he has always understood and believed in Hanover County, Virginia on the 8th day of November 1762. He had a record of his age which was burned in 1812 when he had the misfortune to lose his house with all his books and papers besides other valuable property
by fire he has already stated that at the time of being called into the service he lived in Amherst County, Virginia and he lived there eight or ten years after the war. From Amherst County, claimant moved to Oglethorpe County, Georgia where he lived between thirty and four years. From there he removed to Monroe County, Georgia
(page 11) where he has been living for the seven or eight years and
(Note by transcriber. Unable to read Page 11)

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STATE OF GEORGIA
MONROE COUNTY
On this the twentieth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, before me
John H. Thomas a Justice of Inferior Court ____ and for the county and state aforesaid, personally came Thomas Stewart and Thomas H. Stewart, each of whom being duly sworn declares and say that they are well acquainted with Mrs. Martha B. Stewart of the County and state aforesaid, who has made application for a pension as the widow of William Stewart of Revolutionary Pensioner formerly of Monroe County, Georgia, that the said Martha B. Stewart is the widow of the identical William Stewart, who was a Revolutionary pensioner, that said William Stewart formerly resided in the county of Monroe in said state; that he removed from there to the county of Macon of said State, where he died in the month of ______________________the year 1848, and that said Martha B. Stewart is still his widow and has removed back and now resides in the County of Monroe. That the first named deponent is the Son and the Second name the grandson of said William Stuart. That neither of them have any interest in the claim of said Martha B. for a pension.

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STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF MONROE:
On this the twentieth day of May AD Eighteen Hundred and Fifty five, before me John H. Thomas justice of the
Inferior Court in aforesaid county, personally comes Oliver C. Phelps and David Mickleberry Merritt, each of whom being duly sworn deposeth and saith that they are acquainted with Mrs. Martha B. Stewart of said county and state; that she is the widow of the ___________ William Stewart who was a Revolutionary pensioner in the year Eighteen Hundred and forty Eight as deponents have been informed, and that said Martha B. Stewart is at this time residing in the County of Monroe and said State is still a widow and that they have no interest in the claim of said Martha B. Stewart for a pension. SS: Oliver C. Phelps, M. Merritt

The foregoing affidavits were sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written and I certify that said
affidants are all of them credible persons and that I have no interest in the claim of Martha B. Stewart for a pension.
John H. Thomas, JPC
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Georgia, Monroe County
I certify that William Stuart and Martha Wilson were duly joined in matrimony by me the 17th Day of December 1837. M. B. Merritt, JP

Georgia, Monroe County
I Elbridge G. Cabaniss, Ordinary and ex-officio Clerk of the Court of Ordinary of said County hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy from the records of my office of the marriage of William Stewart and Martha Wilson. Given under my hand , seal of office this 5th day of December 1855. SS Elbridge G. Cabaniss, Ordinary
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Letter dated May 10, 1938
to: Mr. Wilson Reeves, Roberta, Georgia

Re: William Stewart W.11556, BA-J-AWF

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of William Stewart of
Virginia, a pensioner from Monroe County, Georgia.
The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in pension Claim, W.11555, based on the military
service of William Stewart during the Revolutionary War.
William Stewart was born November 8, 1762 in Hanover County, Virginia. The names of his parents were not
given.
While residing in Amherst County, Virginia, William Stewart enlisted in the fall of 1778, served six months as
sergeant and issuing commissary in Captain Pamplins company. Colonel Daniel Gaines' Virginia regiment, and shortly afterwards, served six months as sergeant in Captain John Christian's Company, Colonel Vance's Virginia regiment. He served in 1779 or 1780 a short tour, officers names not given. He served about two months as sergeant in Captain John Stewart's company, Colonel Tucker's Virginia Regiment, and was in the Siege of Yorktown.
He moved from Amherst County, Virginia to (Page 2 of letter) Oglethorpe County, Georgia, where he lived thirty
or forty years, and then moved to Monroe County, Georgia.
The soldier, William Stewart, was allowed pension on his application executed October 23, 1832, then a resident
Monroe County, Georgia. His address in 1837 was Forsyth, Georgia. He died in the month of June 1848 in Macon County, Georgia.
(Note by transcriber. William Stewart is buried in Schley Co., GA. near Ellaville in the Stewart Family
Cemetery which is located 2 miles east of Ellaville on old Stewart Family Farm. Also may be buried in Fellowship Church Cemetery)
William Stewart married December 17, 1837 in Monroe County, Georgia, Martha B. Wilson. She was his second
wife, name of first wife not given, nor are there any data in regard to her.
The widow, Martha B. Stewart, was allowed pension on her application executed March 3, 1855, at which time
she was living in Monroe County, Georgia, aged seventy-two years. She was allowed, also one hundred sixty acres of county land, on her application executed December 6, 1855.
Thomas Stewart and Thomas H. Stewart, son and grandson of the soldier, William Stewart, were living in Monroe
County, Georgia in 1855.
Charles T. Wilson, son of the widow, Martha B. Stewart was a resident of Jones County, Georgia in 1861, and
then referred to her as deceased, but did not give the date of her death.
The Captain John Stewart, under whom the soldier, William Stewart, served at the siege of Yorktown, was his
Brother.
The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernible data relative to family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and
possibly the date of death of this widow, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General
accounting office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and furnish the following data:
Martha B. Stewart, Widow of William Stewart
Certificate #5203
Issued May 24, 1855
Rate $100.00 per annum
Commenced February 3, 1853
Act of February 3, 1853
Georgia Agency

If you desire information in regard to location of land referred to herein, you should address The
Commissioner of the General Land Office, Washington, D. C. and furnish the following. Warrant 38559 - 160 Acres - Act of 1855

Very truly yours, A. D. Hiller, Exec. Asst. to the Administrator

End of File
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Additional information.

William Stewart Event(s):
Birth: 8 Nov 1762 Place: ,Hanover County ,Virginia
Death: Jun 1848 Place: Macon County, Georgia
Burial: Place: Ellaville, Schley, Georgia (Formerly Macon County)

Father: John S. Stewart Captain
Mother: Ann Haw

Marriage(s):
1st Spouse: Mary Ann Penn
Marriage: 8 Nov 1783 Place:

1nd Spouse: Martha B Wilson
Marriage: 17 Dec 1837 Place: ,Monroe County, Georgia

Father of William Stewart:
John S. Stewart Captain

Event(s): John S. Stewart, Captain
Birth: 17 Jun 1732 Place: of Amherst, Virginia
Christening: Place: Bristol Parish,, Virginia
Death: 1784 Place: Amherst, Virginia

Marriage(s): Spouse: Ann Haw
Marriage: 1755 Place: Hanover, Virginia

Father of John S. Stewart
John Stewart

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JOHN PEACE
VIRGINIA CONT'L LINE

GEORGIA - JOHN PEACE
of Monroe County in the State of Georgia
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Richardson, of the regiment commanded
by Colonel Dangerfield in the Virginia
line, for a term of two years from
February 1776 to February 1778

Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 11th of March 1825

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th of May 1825 and sent
to Matthew Phillips, Esq., Monticello, Georgia

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1825...$46.47
Revolutionary claim, Acts. March 18, 1818 and May 1, 1820
March 1823

(handwritten notation: Per letter to the Pension of Jany. 1826, date Hon.
C. E. Hayes, H. R. Feb. 22, 183.
______ _____by T. H. ___________Sparta, Ga. )

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Georgia
Monroe County
On the ninth day of March 1825, personally appeared in open Court __ ___ in the Flint District, John Peace resident of said
County, aged about Seventy Years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth under oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 (and March 1826) __ ___ ___ that he enlisted in the line of Virginia the ___ day of February, 1776 of the State of Virginia in the Company commanded by Captain Holt Richardson
in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Dangerfield in the line of the State of Virginia of ......................

(Note by transcriber: There is a total of six documents in this file but I am simply unable to read the remainder.
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JOHN MONK
NORTH CAROLINA MILITIA
GEORGIA; JOHN MONK, 23.201 of Monroe Co., in the State of Georgia who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Kennedy of Regiment commanded by Col. Caswell in the N. c. REV. LINES FOR 8 MONTHS.
Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia at the rate of 21 Dollars per annum, commence on the 4th day of March 1821.
Certificate of Pension inscribed the 21st day of November 1833 and Sempt.(?) ___Forsyth, Monroe Co.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833 $66.66. Semi-anl,. allowance ending 4th March 1834 $13.33, total $80.00)
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by W. L. Williams, Clerk, Book E. Vol 6, Page 97
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STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF MONROE
On this fourth day of October in the year eighteen hundred and thirty three, personally appeared in open court
before the Honorable Christopher B. Strong Judge of the Superior Court for said county which court is now sitting John Monk a resident of said County and State aged eighty one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth under make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following recorded officers and awards as
herein stated. He was drafted in Dobbs County North Carolina for a five month term of service which he entered in the month of January but the year he is unable to state further than it was the same year in which the British defeated Gen. Ash at Briar Creek in Georgia, claimant entered his service in a company commanded by Captain John Kennedy in a regiment commanded by Colonel William Carswell. The regiment rendezvoused at Kingston, from Kingston the regiment marched through to Fayetteville, then called Crop Creek, through Camden in South Carolina and crossed the Congeree River at the place where Columbia has since been located and built up; there to the Savannah River near Augusta where the forces ___(attempted?) to cross the river but where prevented by the British Troops who had possession of Augusta and the neighborhood. Near Augusta Gen. Ash who took command at Kingston was joined by a regiment under the command of Col. Williamson whose forces marked down the Savannah River to a place called the Two Sisters Ferry. When the greater part of the army crossed over to the Georgia side, but before the army crossed the river claimant was sent off with a detachment of two hundred and twenty five men under the command of Captain Harrison and Good man in pursuit of one David McGirt, a noted Tory officer who with his men was committing desecrations(?) on the South Carolina side of the river between Charleston and Savannah. McGirt escaped and ___the detachment last mentioned was in pursuit of McGirt, the rest of the army passed over into Georgia and were defeated. After the balance of the troupes recrossed the river, the five months expired and claimant was discharged near Purysburg and returned home to North Carolina. After claimant returned home and had worked over his crop once, the
month or day he cannot give, he was again drafted for a tour of three months and rendezvoused again at Kingston in a company commanded by Captain John Grainger in a regiment of which Col. Caswell again took commanded by Major James Nuppard commanded under Colonel Caswell (who claimant thinks then ranked as General). The regiment consisted of five hundred men._____ Kingston the regiment marched towards Willmington to put down the Tories under the command of the British Col. Craig and were stationed for a while twenty five miles above Newbern, then marched back towards Kingston to protect that place against the Tories who had collected forces in that part of the State. whilst stationed near Kingston the three months for which claimant was drafted expired and he was discharged. Claimant saw Gen. Lincoln once as he passed on towards Augusta while the troups were stationed near Purysburg. Applicant was born as he has always understood in Wake County, North Carolina on the fourteenth day of September 1752.
There was a record of his age in a book entitled "Partiesd of Pirty" but claimant does not know where it is. He has not seen it for sixty years past. At the time of being called to the service, he lived in Dobs County N. Carolina and lived in New Hanover County three years after the war and then removed to Wilkes County, Georgia and lived in Wilkes two years. Then moved to Columbia County, Georgia and lived there twenty five years; then moved to Bullock County Georgia and lived there two years; then moved to Monroe County, Georgia where he has lived for the last five years. Claimant saw many regular officers but remembers the names of none but General Lancaster. Claimant had two discharges but he does not know where they now are. He has not seen them for many years.
Claimant is acquainted with the Rev. Mr. Josiah Langley by whom said by claimant's neighbor Benjamin J. Harris he expected to obtain testimony in support of his character for vacuity (?) and was of their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution. He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. SS John Monks
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Christopher B. Strong, Georgia S.G. dist.

Mr. Isaiah Langley a clergyman residing in the county of Monroe and State of Georgia and Benjamin F. Harris residing in the same state and county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Monk who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty one years of age that he is reputed he lived in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. SS: Isaiah Langley, Benjamin F. Harris
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year above said. C. B. Strong, Judge

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he stated. And the court further certifies that it appears that Isaiah Langley who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the County of Monroe and State of Georgia and that Benja. F. Harris who has also signed the same is resident in the same county and state and is a credible person and that their statements is entitled to credit. C. B. Strong, Judge

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Rev. War Section
February 21, 1923, John Monk S.16490
Letter to:
Miss Bessie Nesmith
703 Lafayette Street,
Quitman, Georgia
Madam:
In response to your letter dated January 23, 1923, you are advised that for the dated of last payment of pension, name of person paid, and date of soldier's death you should apply to the Pension Section, Interior Department Division, General Accounting Office, 1200 E. Street, N. W., Washington D. C. citing all of the following data:
John Monk
Certificate 23201
Issued November 29, 1833
Rate $26.66 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act June 7, 1833
Georgia Agency

Very respectfully years, Commissioner
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Record Division
Revolutionary War Records Section
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D. C., Dec. 19, 1922
In reply to your request___________, received___________for a statement of military history of John Monk
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension
on file in this Bureau
Dates of Enlistment on Appointment: Jan. 1779 and 1779,
Length of Service: 5 Mos. 3 Mos.
Rank Private Private
Officers under whom service: Capt John Kennedy Captain John Granger
William Caswell William Caswell
STATE: N. C. STATE: N. C.
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FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS NOT PART OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR FILE:
According to file on FamilySearch Web page http://www.familysearch.org/
John Monk, Bn. 14 Aug. 1752, Wake Co., N. C., Died: 1835, Georgia
Parents: Father: Willis Monk, bn abt. 1728, Johnson, N.C. Died before 1779, Wake, N.C.
Mother: Elizabeth , bn abt 1730, Johnson NC, Died abt 1768, Wake N. C.

Husband's Name
Willis MONK
Born: Abt 1728 Place: , , Johnson, Nc
Died: Bef 1779 Place: , , Wake, Nc
Married: Abt 1746 Place: , , Wake, Nc

Father: John MONK
Mother: Mrs John MONK

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Wife's Name
Elizabeth
Born: Abt 1730 Place: , , Johnson, Nc
Died: Abt 1780 Place: , , Wake, Nc
Married: Abt 1746 Place: , , Wake, Nc

Father:
Mother: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Children
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Silas MONK
Born: Abt 1748 Place: , , Prob Johnson Co, Nc
Note: One Silas Monk drew land lot in Monroe Co., GA. 1821 Land Lottery
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Willis MONK
Born: Bef 1760 Place: , , Wake, Nc
Died: Bef 1840 Place:

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Elizabeth MONK
Born: Abt 1763 Place: <, , Wake, Nc>
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Esther MONK
Born: Abt. 1765 Place: <, , Wake, Nc>

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John MONK
Born: 14 Aug 1752 Place: <, , Wake, Nc>
Died: 1835 Place: , , , Ga

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-John Monk was born September 14, 1752 in Wake County, North Carolina. (It may have been a part of Johnston Co., NC at the time.). He married a Jane Lnc about 1775 in Wake, NC. She was born about 1755, and died about 1788. He then married a Piety Ann Lnu about 1788 in Georgia. John died in Monroe County, GA in 1835 and supposedly has a will recorded there that lists a wife, Piety Ann, and daughters, Franky Ross and Nancy Brooks, and sons, Silas, John H. and Willis.

-His father was Willis Monk, born in 1729 in Johnston Co., NC, died in 1775 in Wake Co., NC. He married Elizabeth Lnu in 1746 in Wake Co., NC. She was born in 1729 in Johnston Co., NC and died in 1780 in Wake Co., NC.

-His father was John Monk, born in 1705 in England. We believe he emigrated to America, settling first in New Bern, Craven Co., NC.

John Monk residence in 1746 was Johnston County, NC. Johnston County was formed in 1746 from Craven County.

So we know that he settled first in New Bern, Craven County, then moved to what became Johnston County when it was established in 1746.

The Johnston/Dobbs/Lenoir Counties (NC) Grantor Index, Book 2 (April 1750 – April 1754) shows John Monk granting land to three different people—Samuel Pearson, Theophilus Hunter, and Edward Green—two of whom are listed in early history of Wake County, NC as some of the earliest settlers to the area. (The fact that John Monk owned the land (or was granted the land he owned) is significant, in my opinion. Did someone grant him the land as an early settler? Did he have some aristocratic or other connection that would have allowed him to obtain so much land during that time?

The following website on the history of Wake County, NC states, “Some of the earliest settlers in the Wake County area were Joel Lane, Theophilus Hunter, John Hinton, Samuel Scarborough, John Monk, Edward Green, James Simmons, and Williams Thompson. Wake County was founded in 1771. It was formed from parts of Cumberland, Johnston, and Orange counties.” (This means that the area of Johnston County that John Monk settled in later became a part of Wake County in 1771. But John died in 1761 when it was still Johnston County, nine years before Wake County was formed.)

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncwake/history.htm

http://www.hollandfamily.us/publicrecords/court/grantor/book02.htm - This website shows John Monk granting something to an Edward Green. Listed in the Grantor Books for April 1750 to April 1754.

John Monk Samuel Pearson page 36
John Monk Theophilus Hunter page 167 (117)
Silas Monk Hunter Reuben page 364
John Monk Edward Green page 85
Mark Phillips Thomas Fort page 78
Theophilus Hunter Jonathon Monk page 263
Theophilus Hunter Willis Monk page 284

-Unfortunately we don't know anything about John's father, other than the fact that he had several children in England, including John. They are: John Monk (born 1705 in England, died 1761 in Johnston Co., NC), Asbel Monk, Daniel Monk, and Thomas Monk. It is believed (and we do not know if this is true, since it could be an "old wives' tale") that the boys were "stowaways," and that's how they were able to emigrate to America. But I'm not sure if this is right. We're just not sure how they got here. I'm not sure they appear on any passenger list, or at least none that we could find.

Thank you so much, Liz, for helping us locate any information about them. You are so kind to do so.

Jeff Monk
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MONROE COUNTY GA WILL BOOK, PAGE A52, WILL DATED 7-5-1832, PROBATED 9-3-1832
Wife: Piety, Exr.: wife, Piety Monk. WIT: William C. Jones, John G. Hill, Benjamin F. Harris

MONROE COUNTY GA WILL BOOK, PAGE A81, Probated 3-2-1835
Wife: Piety Ann. DAU. Franky Ross and Nancy Brooks. Sons: Willis, Silas & John H. Monk. Wit:Solomon Beckom, James Beckom, John T. Pope, Miller W. McGraw

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MATTHEW DURHAM
NORTH CAROLINA MILITIA
Pension No. S.32,224
DURHAM, MATHEW, Bn. in North Carolina
Mathew Durham of Monroe in the State of Georgia who was a Private and Captain in the command by Captain Young of the Rifles commanded by Col. Sanders in the N. Ca. line for 15 mo. 20 days.
Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia at the rate of 68 Dollars and 89 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.
Certificte of Pension ____the 15th day of Jan. 34 Forsyth, Ga. and such pension.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833 $172.22, _______ allowance 4 Mar. 34 $34.45, Total $206.67
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832. Recorded by Nath. Rice, Clerk, Book E, Vol. 6, Page 88

STATE OF GEORGIA, TALBOT COUNTY
This is to Wm. M. Varium (?) or his agent in Washington City to examine my Father's declaration on file in the Pension Office and know the years ___he was not allowed larger pension that he received for his services as Capt. and Private in the Revolutionary War. My Father, Matthew Durham, made out his papers in Monroe County and forwarded them in 1832 or 1833 and was allowed only $68 dollars and 89 cents per annum. Dated June 5, 1850, S. W. Durham.

STATE OF GEORGIA, MONROE COUNTY
On this twenty third day of September eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Christopher D. Strong, Judge of the Superior Court of said County of Monroe now sitting Mathew Durham a resident of the State and County aforesaid aged seventy two years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That he was drafted in Orange County, North Carolina for a tour of five months in aid of South Carolina and rendezvoused at Hillsboro N. C. on the 7th Nov. 1778 under Captain Joseph Young and regiment commanded by Col. James Landers and marched from Hillsboro by Guilford Court house to Salisbury in Rowan County, N. C. where the regiment joined the brigade under command of General Rutherford from Salisbury the brigade there marched through Charlotte in North Carolina and on to Camden, S. C., and to the ten mile house near Charleston and then to Purysburg on the Savannah River and thence about twenty miles above Purysburg to a placed called the Lester Ferry where the brigade was stationed for some time, and where the brigade was visited by General Lincoln and ____, and then marched still higher up the river to a place called Mathews Bluff, and had just arrived at that place when the bttle of Briar Creek began on the Georgia side about four miles off where General Ash as defeated. The firing was distinctly heard and General Ash arrives in General Rutherford's camp before the firing ceased. The brigade marched bak to the Lester Ferry and the ballance of the term of service was spent in keeping guard and patrolling up and down the Savannah River until the tenth day of April where their brigade started back for N. C. and applicant was discharged at Hillsboro N. C. on the 1st May 1779 as appears from his discharge, hereto annexed...In the month of March 1781 Claimant was acting as Lieutenant of the militia and was ordered by General Butler to make a draft which was done and whilst claimant was engaged on this duty he left his beast at his fathers and went off to be secure during the night and before he returned in the morning his beast was taken by the Tories. The coming on of the British put a stop to the collection of troups and claimant ____ fled to join General Butler but was unable to do by reason that the country between where he set out from and the American Army was occupied by the British and Tories. Claimant was in hearing of the battles at Guilford but was unable to join the army. Other under Butler or General Greene this little turn of service did not last longer than two days, and came the time referred to in the annexed certificate signed by John Steel (?) about the tenth of July 1781 as near as applicant can remember he volunteered as Lieutenant which commanded he there held for three months tour in Captain Watsons Company and Col. Woottens Regiment, and marched again through Guilford and Salsbury where the Captain Watson was taken from the Company and _______of his belonging to the regular army. We then marched on through Charlotte to Camden. At Camden the regiment
____________ was reported to General Green, and on the twenty second day of August claimant being a supernumerary Captain, was discharged as appears from the annexed discharge of that date and was taken sick on the road and was not able to get home until after the three months had expired. In the month of November after claimant returns home as above stated, he substituted in the place of his brother William Durham in Captain Douglas's troup of horse to serve an unexpired term of one moth and a half. In joining the company claimant received the appointment of Ensign of the horse and served in that capacity until the end of his turn of service, three moth and half was spent in scouring the counties of Orange and Chatham for British and Tories. After the operation of the above term claimant again substituted in the same company in the place of his brother Thomas Durham who was a married man and had a family to provide for. For a three months tour in the Company of horse and claimant continued to fill the appointment of ensign of horse and this term of service was spent in scouring the county in pursuit of the Tories and guarding against the incroachments of col. Tanner and his forces who was then infesting that section of the country. The last mention term expired in the spring of the year 1782, and some few months thereafter claimant joined the State troops of North Carolina as an ensign in Captain Jones company and Col. Lewis' regiment of infantry in Chatham County for eight months being an unexpired part of a twelve months tour, and of the eight months for which claimant entered he served as near as he can remember four months, when he received permission and the soldiers were furloughed to go home until further orders and claimant was never again called into the service. This last mentioned term was devoted to the _____kind of service as the last preceding. Applicant was born as he believes and has always understood in Orange County, North Carolina on the 16th June 1760. He has a record of his age copied from his father's record. When called into the service he ____ as already the two in Orange County, N. C., and he served there until the month of November or December 1782 where he remained to Edgefield District, South Carolina and lived there three years or thereabout, and then removed to Augusta Georgia and remained there about nine months and then removed to Burk County, Georgia and lived there about three years, then he removed to Green, now Hancock County, Georgia, lived there about twenty two years then to Jones County, Georgia and lived there until December 1823 where he removed to Monroe County where he now lives. Has already stated how he served has stated about the officers, has two discharges which are appeared. He had one other which he got from the horse company as ensign of the horse, which he traded off for a trifle after the war, as it entitled claimant to some claim on the State. He believes that any of his neighbors will testify as to his character for veracity, and also to their belief of his having been a revolutionary soldier. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on any pension roll of the agency of any State.
SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED THE DAY AND YEAR OF ISSUANCE: SS. Mathew DurhamV. N. Dytonh. Pr. Judge

Mr. Robert McGinty, clergyman, residing in the county of Monroe and State of Georgia and James P. Redding residing in the same state and county, hereby certify that we are acquainted with Mathew Durham who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy two years of age and he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion. SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED THIS DAY AND YEAR AFORESAID: Robert McGinty, James P. Redding.
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Letter to
Mrs. Robert James Faucette
1448 East Beach
Gulfport, Mississippi HA-J/ILL, Mathew Durham S.32224
Dear Madam: Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Mathew Durham, certificate #23377
issued January 16, 1834, Georgia Agency.
The data which follows were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S.32224, based upon service of Mathew Durham in the Revolutionary War. His name is shown both Mathew and Matthew.

Mathew Durham was born June 15, 1760 in Orange County, North Carolina; the names of his parents were not given. His father lived in the vicinity of Orange and Chatham Counties, North Caroline, during the Revolutionary War. Mathew's two brothers, William and Thomas, lived there about that time.

Mathew Durham enlisted in Orange County, North Carolina, November 7, 1778 and served as private in Captain Joseph Young's Company, Colonel Sanders' North Carolina regiment until May 1, 1779, a part of the time near Brier Creek. From sometime in March 1871 he served ten days as 1st Lieutenant in the North Carolina militia under command of General Butler. He volunteered for service of three months as 1st Lieutenant in Captain Watson's company, Colonel Wooten's North Carolina regiment, served from July 10, 1781 until July. 22, 1781 at which time at Salisbury, North Carolina, he became Captain of that company, succeeding Captain Watson, and continued in command until August 22, when he became a supernumerary officer. After his return to Orange County, North Carolina, he enlisted and served one and one half months as ensign in Captain Douglass' troup of horse: this service was rendered as substitute for his brother, William Durham. Afterwards, he served a tour of three months as ensign in said Captain Douglass' company, which tour was rendered as substitute for his brother, Thomas Durham; said Thomas was married and had a family dependant upon him for support. Subsequently, Mathew Durham enlisted and served four months as ensign in Captain Jones' company, Coloney Lewis' regiment of Chatham County North Carolina Infantry.

Mathew Durham moved in December 1788 from North Carolina to Edgefield District, South Carolina, resided there about three years, then moved to Augusta, Georgia, where he resided about nine months, moved to Burke County, Georgia, resided about three years, after which he moved to Green County, Georgia (a part which was later Hancock County). remained about twenty-two years, then moved to Jones County, Georgia, resided until December 1822, when he moved to Monroe County, Georgia.

He applied September 23, 1832 for pension which was due under the act of June 7, 1832 on account of his service in the Revolutionary War, at which time he resided in Monroe County, Georgia. Pension was allowed. He died January 3, 1834, survived by heirs whose names were not designated.

The name of the wife of Mathew Durham was not given, nor the date and place of their marriage. In 1850, S. W. Durham (only his initials shown), the son of this pensioner, was a resident of Talbot County, Georgia.

In 1782, one Thomas Durham stated that a band of Tories had taken the mare and saddle belonging to Mathew Durham, but he did not state the relationship to him.

In order to obtain the name and address of the person to whom the last pament of pension was paid, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, this city, and furnish the following data:
Mathew Durham
Certificate #23377
Issued January 16, 1834
Rate $68.89 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832 - Georgia Agency

Very truly yours,
A. D. Hiller, Executive Asst. to the Administrator.
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THE FOLLOWING NOTES ARE NOT PART OF THE PENSION FILE FOR MATHEW DURHAM.
WILL OF MATHEW DURHAM. Will Dated 10-16-1833 Will Probated 1-7-1834 Will Book A Page No.66
SONS: Simeon, Shelman, Singleton & Seaborn I Durham. DAU: Mary Pleasants. EXR. Seaborn I Durham, Singleton Durham, Shelman Durham, WIT: Collier Foster, William Mckinney.
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Deed Book H, Page 152...................that said Seaborn J. Durham, Singleton and Shelman as executors.....sold a part of a certain parcel of land containing 108 acres...north half of lot number 30 in Fifth (5th) district...deeded to Matthew Durham..excepted with the exception of a reservation of a grave yard made and excepted in the will and testment of Matthew Durham deceased....being 50 feet north and south by 40 feet east and west beginning 2 feet north and 5 feet east from Nancy Durham's grave...the title of said reservation with appurtenances thereunto belonging and possession to remain forever in said executors.
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The following is a copy of the DURHAM FAMILY BIBLE, contributed to USGenWeb Archives by Lillie Ruby. URL of complete bible is:
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/monroe/bibles/durham.txt
Only part of the bible is shown below:

" I. Mathew Durham (father of Col. Shelman Durham) was
born in Orage County, North Carolina on the 16th day of
June 1760. This is sixteen miles from Hillsborough. He
died in Monroe County, Georgia the 3rd day of January
1834. He was a Captain in the Revolutionary War of 1776.

II. Col. Shelman Durham's grandfather and family,
Mathew Durham, came from Virginia and settled in Orange
County, North Carolina, on or near Fairview, which is
sixteen miles from Hillsborough on the road to Cortham
Courthouse. Some distance from Chapple Hill. He married
a Miss Lindsey. They had the following children:

1. James Durham (by his first wife) was born May 21, 1750. He was a Baptist.
2. William Durham (by his second wife) was born May 21, 1752. He was a Baptist and died old.
3. John Durham was born July 16, 1757. He was a Baptist and died old.
4. Mathew Durham, a Baptist Deacon, was born July 16, 1760 and died January 3, 1834.
5. Ambrose Durham was born July 15, 1762 and died in childhood.
6. Siceous Durham was born November 12, 1765 and died February 8, 1838. Was a Baptist.
7. Mary Durham was born in 1772. She married a Mr. Piper, who died and left two girls both deaf and dumb. West to east Tennessee.
8. Mark Durham was born August 15, 1775 and died October 22, 1841. He was a Baptist.

All of the older ones died in the country where they were
born, except Mathew. He and his children emigrated to
all south and west states.

III. Mathew Durham, son of Shelman Durham, married
Fanny Spencer, who was born in Edge Districk, South
Carolina on the 15 day of June 1765. They were married
on January 12th 1781. She was a Baptist. She died March
26, 1831 in Monroe County, George. Their children:

1. Jonnie Durham was born Dec. 31, 1784 and died January 15, 1787.
2. Susan Durham was born April 21, 1787. Susan married George Carruthers. She was a Baptist. She died in Washington County, Texas in June 1867.
3. John Spencer Durham was born March 11, 1789 and died June 11, 1790.
4. Mary Durham was born September 22, 1789. She married Thomas Pleasant. They were both Baptist. She died in Corral County, Mississippi in 1868.
5. Mathew Durham was born May 27, 1793 and died October 9, 1793
6. Nancy Durham was born September 20, 1795 and died in Jones County, George, September 14, 1811
7. Seaborn Jones Durham was born November 22, 1796. He married Miss Nancy Stovall and after her death he married Mrs. Mary George. Mrs. George was the mother of General J. Z. George of Mississippi. He was also a U. S. Senator.
8. Sanders Walker Durham was born May 21, 1798. He was an ordained preacher. He married twice. He died in Taylor County, Georgia on June 11, 1879. He left a widow and one son, Sanders Durham. In 1903 Sanders was living in Sherman, Texas.
9. Singleton Durham was born January 9, 1800 and died October 7, 1835, in Monroe County, George. He had five children.
10. Saleta Durham was born March 27, 1801 and died August 21, 1801.
11. Shelman Durham was born December 6, 1803. He was baptized by Edman Talbot in Walnut Creek Church in Jones County, Georgia, the third Sabbath of June 1822, on a profession of faith of his redeemer.
12. James Jackson Durham was born at 8 o'clock A. M. Monday October 31, 1825 in Monroe County, George. He married Miss Mary Oldham in Atala County, Mississippi. He was a Baptist and died May 6, 1893 at Dublin, Texas.
13. William Washington Durham was born in Monroe County, George. He was a Baptist and died in Cherokee County, Texas.
14. Franklin Marion Durham was born at 3:00 A.M. January 5, 1830 in Monroe County, George. He died in Cherokee County, Texas on December 24, 1895.
15. Susan Haselton Durham was born in 1832 and died August 20, 1857. She was a Baptist.
16. John Lafayette Durham was born Tuesday at 4 o'clock P. M. September 30, 1834 in Monroe County, Georgia. He departed this life in Alvin, Brazoria County, Texas June 28, 1901. He was a Baptist, Mason and Odd Fellow. He died by stomach trouble, surrounded by all of this children, whom he told he was going home to Jesus. He was Flag Bearer in the Battle of Gettyburg where he received a wound which resulted in the loss of his right arm. He served in the Confederate Army.
17. Elizabeth Pollard Durham was born Sunday December 18, 1836 in Nesbobu County, Mississippi. She married Simon Tims. She was a Baptist.
18. Mathew Lenard Durham was born Friday at 11:30 P. M. October 11, 1842 in Atala County, Mississippi. He was in the Confederate Army and was killed in the battle of Sarsburg in Maryland in 1863.
19. Cornitta Francis Durham was born Friday at 4:00 A. M. October 11, 1844 in Atala County, Mississippi. She died August 17, 1856.
(Note: the complete bible reference is on line at:
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/monroe/bibles/durham.txt
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1830 Census Monroe Co. (Matthew Durham was probably living with one of his children but I do not have access to the 1830 census.
Page
DURHAM POLLY 186
DURHAM SANDERS 222
DURHAM SEABORN 187
DURHAM SHELMAN 219
DURHAM SINGLETON 187

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DAVIS, TOLLIVER... (Transcribed by Liz Robertson, I have asked for help in reading some of this file. )

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TOLLIVER DAVIS
VIRGINIA CONT'L LINE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION WAR PENSION FILE: 20.027
Tolliver Davis of Monroe Co. in the State of Georgia who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Lamb of the Regiment commanded by Colonel febiger (?) in the Virginia line for the term of eighteen months from 1779 to 1781.
Described on the Roll of Georgia at the rate of $8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st day of January 1829.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 of January 1829 and sent to _____Cuthbert, Esq., Forsyth, Ga.
Arrears to 4th of March 1829. $17.03 Semi-anl.'all'ce ending. $17.03

COUNTY OF MONROE, STATE OF GEORGIA
On this tenth day of March 1827, personally appeared in open court of record, being a court of record for said State and county, Tolliver Davis, resident of said county aged between sixty five and seventy years, who being duly sworn according to law, on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, and the first of May 1820, that he the said Tolliver Davis, enlisted for the term of eighteen months, ____ in the year 1779, in the State of Virginia, in the company commanded by Captain Lamb, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Frebecher (?) in the line of the State of Virginia, on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps until his said term had expired when he was discharged from the service in the State of Virginia; that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, except that for the present; that his name is not on the roll of any state and that the following is the reason for his not making an earlier application viz; that he has led an obsecure life, being in proverty and was ignorant until recently of the law under which this application is made.
And in persuance of the act of 1820, I do solumnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift or sale, or in any manner disposed of any property, or any part thereof with intent thereby do to di----- it as to being my _____ the provision of Congress, entitled in act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the revolutionary war, provideed on the 18th day of March 1818. To that I have got, nor _____any person in trust for ____my property, or securities, contracts or debt, due to said war have I any reason other than what is contained in the schedule herewith annexed by me subscribed that since the 18th of March 1818. The following changes have been made in my property. At that time I owned one hundred and forty acres of farm lands, which about the latter part of the year 1821 was sold to Willie Cox, for two hundred dollars, which money was paid to my creditors.

Schedule of property was sold:
Two small ovens
One small pot
A small quantity of furniture
Value (including the whole lot) - - $15.00

He is a farmer, but in consequence of bodily infirmity is able to labor but very little.

My family consists of one daughter, Penelope, between twenty five and thirty years of age; one daughter Polly, about twenty four years of age. One daughter Patsy about twenty four years of age, one son Chasley, about eighteen years of age, one daughter Emily, about fourteen years of age and one grandson, Thomas F. Gallahor, about two years of age. My family depends on their own labor for support.
Signed by Tolaver Davis
Sworn to and declared on the 10th day of March 1827 before me Charles J. McDonald, Judge L. C.

REV. AND 1812 WARS SECTION ADF/HEM
(LETTER TO MRS. J. E. LANE, ALTAVISTA, VIRGINIA, SEPTEMBER 9, 1929)

Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.37879, it appears that Tolaver (Pensioned Tolliver) Davis enlisted in the state of Virginia in 1779, and served eighteen months in Captain Lamb's Company, Colonel Febiger's Virginia Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 10, 1827, at which time he was residing in Monroe County, Georgia, aged between sixty-five and seventy years>

In 1827 he referred to the following children:
Penelope aged between 25 and 30 years
Polly aged 24 years
Patsey 20 years
Chesley 18 years
Emely 14 years
and to a grandson Thomas F. Gallahor aged ten years.

The name of soldier's wife is not given, nor are there any further data as to family. Very truly yours. E. V. Morgan, Acting Commissioner

(Note by Transcriber. Please see separate file by Valerie Freeman, http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/monroe/military/revwar/pensions/davis215gmt.txt
for additional information)

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CRAWFORD, JOHN. PENSION FILE
JOHN CRAWFORD
GEORGIA MILITIA
Service: GA, NC
John Crawford, Rebecca
Born in Virginia
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Georgia 27.844
John Crawford of Monroe in the State of Geo. who was a priv. in the command of Captain ____of the Ry.. in Col. Habersham in the Georgia
for 15 mo.: 26 days.
Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia at the ____ of 52 Dollars 88 Cents is commence on the 4th Day of March 1831
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Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of June, Forsyth, Geo. and such pension arrears to the 5th of March $158.64; Semi-ane. allowance ending 4 Sept. 26.44, Total $185.08. Revolutionary Claim by June 7, 1832. Recorded by Nath. Rice, Clerk, Book E, Vol 6, Page 87
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Conscription(?) of the 7th June 1832.
State of Georgia
County of Monroe
On this twelfth day of March in the year one Thousand eight hundred and thirty four before the honorable the Superior Court of said county of Monroe personally appeared in open court John Crawford a resident of said and State of Georgia aged seventy four (74) years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on this oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - That he enlisted in army of United States in the regular service on the second day of March in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six and was mustered into service on that day under Captain Cheadley Bostwick and served in the first Regiment of the Georgia line under the following named officers. General Lachlin McIntosh, Colonel Joseph Habersham, Commandant of the Regiment above named, Major John Cathbers of this same Regiment. Led(?) by Bostwick, Captain of the company to which he belonged, who, after the expiration of about six months according to application, recollections, was succeeded by Captain DeLepaine. These were the general field and company officers under whom he served. He resided at the time of his enlistment in what was then St. Pauls Parish now Columbia County in the State of Georgia. He served the whole of his time in the State of Georgia. After his enlistment, he marched from St. Pauls Parish through Augusta to Savannah, arrived at the latter place in March 1776. The company to which he belonged was stationed there until January 1777. Applicant was then marched with a part of his company and detachments from other companies to Fort Barrington on the Altamaha River under Lieutenant Col. Harrid, remained there two months, then marched to ____bary, then went on board a public vessel called the "Washington Galley" commanded by Capt. Newresgate, said which together with two other galleys to wit, the "Congress and Lee"
was under the command of Commander Bowen, sailed from thence to the mouth of St. Mary's river and up said river about six miles and landed, marched thence to Savannah by land and arrived in Savannah in June 1777 having crossed the Altamaha at Fort Barrington. He obtained his discharge the day after his arrival in Savannah. viz on the 28th day of June 1777. Having served in the regular army one year, three months and twenty six days. His turn of enlistment was twenty months, but being out on service he could not obtain his discharge until his return to Savannah. His discharge has long since been lost.

He next entered the service of the United States as second lieutenant in the Malitia of Georgia in the month of October 1777 under the following named officers. Colonel Benjamin Few, Capt. Charles Crawford, and Isaac Skinner, first lieutenant. He resided at the time of his entering the malitia in what was then Richmond but now Columbia County in the Sate of Georgia. He marched under Col. Few from Richmond to Burk's jail and went in the battle fought at that place with the enemy under the command of Col. Brown. He then returned to Augusta and was immediately compelled to flee to So. Carolina for refuge from Col. Brown and his marauders who obtained possession of Augusta and the adjacent county. He remained between two and three months in So. Carolina when he returned to Augusta upon the vacation of that place by Col. Brown. He then marched under Capt. Leonard Marbury who commanded his company of _____ down Savannah River about fifty miles. There, hearing of the defeat of Gen. Ash by Col. Brown, we returned to Augusta. He then marched to Savannah under Capt. Chas. Crawford, was engaged in the attack on that place, was taken a prisoner by the British and confined eight weeks in a prison ship at the expiration of which he was released in an exchange of prisoners. He then went
home and remained there about two months. He then went to Augusta and was at the first siege of that place. In Sept. 1780 he fled from the State to North Carolina for refuge. He there joined Col. Morgan and was with him in the battle of Kings Mountain. He then joined the army under the command of Gen. Sumpter and was in the battle of Black Stocks on Tiger River. He then returned to Georgia in March 1781 and entered the malitia as a private under Capt. Wm. Lucas in D regiment commanded by Col. Elijah Clrk. He remained at Augusta until that place was taken. He then marched to Savannah January 1782 under Capt. Thomas Townsend and remained in service until April 1782 when he was discharged. Applicant states that he served in the malitia of Georgia according to his recollection two years as Second Lieutenant and about two years as a private. He further states that it is not in his power at this time to prove his service as Second Lieutenant and as a private in the Malitia by any other testimony than his own oath. He was born in the year 1759 on the 16th day of July. (Note by transcriber. Page of image cut off. Not complete).
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DECLARATION. In order to obtain the benefit of the Third Section of the Act of Congress of the 4th July 1836. State of Georgia, Pike County. J. Benson Roberts an acting Justice of the Inferior Court in and for this county and state aforesaid do certify on this the 29th day of August, A. D. 1845, Eighteen Hundred and Forty Six. personally appeared before me Mrs. Rebecca Crawford a resident of the County and State aforesaid, aged 84, Eight four years past who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in Order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress as of July 4th 1836 that she is the widow of John Crawford late of said county Deceased who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States under the law past 7th June 1832, at the ___of fifty two dollars and eighty eight cent per annum and as to the grade of the said John Crawford and proof of his services She refers to the proof under which he drew his pension and proof that may be ____after annexed that she has no record nor documentary evidence in her possession of her Husband the said John Crawford services that he served in the Georgia Militia as a private, but does not recollect the officers that he served under. She cannot give a narrative of his services at this late period according to the rules required in other cases. She further declares that she was legally married to the said John Crawford on the 27th Twenty Seventh day of April 1781, Seventeen Hundred and Eighty One that her husband, the aforesaid John Crawford died on the 19th day of October 1836, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by difference of proof that will be hereafter amended that she has no record proof in her possession in support of her marriage to her husband the said John Crawford other than the date of her marriage. Registered in what she calls her old Methodist Book and the date of her children ages registered in the order of their births does not recollect in whose had writing the said registry is in. The title of said book is the Methodist Conference Book the leaf that said registry contains will be herewith annexed has been kept in her possession ever since the record of her husbands death and she further declares that she ws married to the said John Crawford before his last services and at the time before stated that her said husband continued in the service as she believes and always understood until he was honorably discharged by his officers at the breaking up __ at the time peace was made of the Revolution War that she knows of no person living who could testify to any part of his service and that she believes upon the proof already at the War Department and proof that may be hereafter annexed in support of her said husbands services that the remaining part of his said certificate certifying his right to the pension is hereunto annexed, has been kept in her possession since the period of his death. Sworn two and subscribed on the day nd year before written before me. Benion Robert, JJC, Pike County. Her mark (Rebecca Crawford)

I further certify that through mistake the name of the person who solomnized the marriage ceremony was left out of the aforesaid declarztion, I now give the name according to Mrs. Crawford's statement which is the Rev. Loveless Savage, Resided at the time of their marriage in Richmond county then, now Columbia Georgia. This 29th day of August 1840 in testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand. Benson Roberts
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COPY OF PAGE FROM METHODIST CONFERENCE BOOK:
John Crawford and Rebecca Snider (?) was married the 27 day of April 1781.
David L. born Jan. 1782
Rhea ? born October 17883
Elizabeth born October 1785
William born January 1788
Susannah born January 1790
Charles born May 1793
Jean born July 1795
John born October 1797
Infant son born October 1799
infant born May 19, 1803
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Letter to Mrs. M. C. Moseley, Byron, Georgia
Re: John Crawford R. 2470, BA-J/ATF
Dear Madam:
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, R. 2470, based upon the service of John Crawford in the War of the Revolution.

John Crawford was born July 16, 1759 in Amherst County, Virginia. The names of his parents were not given.

While a resident of St. Paul's Parish, Columbia County, Georgia, John Crawford enlisted March 2, 1776, served as a private in Captain Chesley Bostwick's and Captain Delaplaine's companies, Colonel Joseph Habersham's 1st Georgia regiment and was discharged June 28, 1777. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant and served from sometime in October, 1777 under Captain Charles Crawford in Colonel Benjamin Few's regiment of Georgia militia, and was in an engagement at Burks Jain; he marched in Captain Leonard Marbury's company of cavalry fifty miles down the Savannah River, was under Captain Charles Crawford in the battle of Savannah, where he was taken prisoner and exchanged after eight months of captivity; he was at the first siege of Augusta, and in September 1780 joined Colonel Morgan's regiment and was in the battle of King's Mountain, and was in the battle of Black Stocks under General Sumter. He enlisted sometime in March 1781, served as a private in Captain William Lucas' company in Colonel Elijah Clark's regiment of Georgia militia, was stationed in Augusta until the surrender, and served under Captain Charles Townsend from January until April 1782.

John Crawford was allowed pension on his application executed March 12, 1834, at which time he was a resident of Monroe County, Georgia. He died October 19, 1836 in either Monroe or Pike County, Georgia. (Note by transcriber: See Will of John Crawford below, registered in Pike county, Georgia and dated September 4, 1835.)

John Crawford married April 27, 1781, Rebecca Snider. She died May 25, 1846 or 1847, aged about eighty-five years. The date and place of her birth were not shown, nor were the names of her parents given.

The children of John Crawford and his wife, Rebecca:
David Born January 24, 1782
Rhoda Born October 3, 1783
Elizabeth " October 3, 1785
William " January 17, 1788
Susannah " January 9, 1790
Charles " May 30, 1793
Jean " July 3, 1795
John " October 2, 1797
Anderson " October 3, 1799
Ambros " May 19, 1803
Thomas, date of birth not stated; he was living in 1855 in Lincoln County, Georgia.
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One Peter Crawford was a resident of Columbia County, Georgia in 1829. It was not shown that he was related to the family, nor was it stated that the Captain Charles Crawford referred to herein was a relative.
Very truly yours, A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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State of Georgia, Lincoln County
Personally came before me Aaron Hardy a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for said State and County, Benjamin Bentley, Jabez Garrett, William Woods and William Elliots, who being duly sworn according to law dispose and say that they were well acquainted with John Crawford and Rebecca Crawford of said State and County; that they lived together as man and wife, and we believe them to have been such. That to the best of our knowledge information and belief John Crawford departed this life in the month of June 1836 and that his wife Rebecca Crawford died in the month of May 1847.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 13th day of June 1855. Benjamin Bentley, Jabez Garrett, Aaron Hardy, JJC, William Woods (his mark), William Elliott
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State of Georgia, Wilkes County. On this 12th day of June 1855, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the inferior Court in and for said county and state aforesaid Thomas A. Crawford, a resident of the County of Lincoln and State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law declares that his father John Crawford enlisted in the State of South Carolina under Colonel Habersham and served seven years in the Revolutionary War. He was at the Battle of King's Mountain, Cowpens and at the siege of Augusta. He died in the month of June 1836. He was married in the year 1783 to Rebecca Snider and his widow, the said Rebecca died in the month of May 1847. That there are living seven heirs of the said John and Rebecca Crawford: to wit: David, Rhody, Elizabeth, Susan, John, Thomas and Lee. That deponent makes application in his own right and in right of said heirs as law before mentioned for the purpose of obtain the Pension money due said heirs under the act of the 7th of June 1832. He further states that his said Mother remained a widow from the death of her said husband, until she died and that she did not obtain a pension nor make application therefore so far he knows or believes and that he has been informed of and believes the foregoing facts to be true.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 12 day of June 1855. D. G. Cotting, JJC. SS Thomas Crawford
(also included sworn statement by Roylane Beasley, Clrk, JC>
(End of Transcription)
Transcribed by Liz Robertson, January 2007.
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Pike COUNTY GA Will of John Crawford
File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Doris Caldor <caldor@neto.com>
ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/pike/wills/crawford.txt
Will: John Crawford Pike Co., Georgia dated September 4, 1835
Pike County Georgia. John Crawford Will dated September 4, 1835 Bk B p 64-66
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In the name of God Amen. First that my just debts first
be paid Second I give & bequeath to my beloved wife
Rebecca all the estate both real & personal & every piece
of property I am possessed of during her natural life or
widowhood. Third that the property after the death of my
wife or widowhood be sold & equally divided amongst my
children except that of Richard Hunter. I will that he
has one third of a Childs part and Nancy Rodgers and her
child John Abraham Rogers have the other two thirds of a
child Part. **About five words marked thru and
unreadable. Lastly I constitute & appoint my beloved son
David Crawford & Gideon Barnes Executor to this my last
will & Testament hereby revoking all former wills made by
me. In testimony whereof I have hereunto put my hand &
affixed my seal this the fourth day of December in the
year of our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred & Thirty
five.

Signed & sealed in the presence
John Crawford (seal) of us & signed by us in the presence
of Testator Test. C.G. Turner Seaborn Covington

September Term adjourned Court of Ordinary ___) This
within last will & Testament of John Crawford same having
been duly proven at this adjourned term in open Court
upon the oaths of Seaborn Covington ordained that the
same be admitted to record Except these Items relating to
Manumission of a slave & the ___ Estate.

Georgia } Mr. David Crawford & Gideon Barnes do
solemnly swear that this Pike County} writing contains
the true last will of the within named John Crawford said
deceased so far as we know or believe that we will truly
execute the same by paying first the debts & then the
legacies contained in said will as far as his goods
insert (& chattels) will thereunto Extend & the law
charge us. Sworn to & subscribed in open court this 25th
September - 1837 David
Crawford H. G. Johnson CCO
Gideon Barnes

Recorded this 29th Sept 1837 H. G. Johnson C. C. O.

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Anderson Redding, a veteran of the Revolution, died in Monroe, on February 9, 1843, at the age of 80. The following account of him is preserved in Historical Collections of Georgia: " No sooner had he arrived at manhood than he was enrolled among those who determined to be free. He served under his country's banner with a patriot's zeal and devotion. He was present at the consummation of American liberty; the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown. The recollections of the glorious day lingered long in his memory, a rehearsal of which often caused him to feel as though the ardor and bouyancy of early days were yet fresh upon him, while a big round tear would fall and moisten the old man's cheek."

Rev. Isaac Smith, who died in this county, in 1834, aged 76 years, was another Revolutionary soldier, who fought under Washington. Says White:*" He was present at most of the principal actions which were fought by this distinguished leader, and although his term of service expired before the close of the war, yet he was present as a volunteer at the capturing of Cornwallis at Yorktown; after which he retired from military life and was soon after, under the preaching of the Methodist, awakened and converted, and called of God to preach deliverance to the captives and the opening of the prison doors to those who were bound by the fetters of sin." (from "Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials and Legends, by Lucian Lamar Knight, 1913)

REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION FILE FOR REV. ISAAC SMITH
ISAAC SMITH
VIRGINIA CONT'L LINE
W4338
Ann R.
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Georgia 6567
Ann R. Smith, widow of Isaac Smith
pensioner under the Act of June 1812
and who died on the 20th July 1836
Monroe Co., in the State of Georgia
who was a Sergeant in the Company commanded
by Captain ___________of the Regiment commanded
by Col. Parker in the Va. line
Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia
in the amount of $120.00 Dollars per annum,
commenced on the 4th day of March 1836.
Certificate of Pension ___the 2nd day of March 1842 and
sent to W. C. Hall, Esq. ____, Ga.
Arrears to the 4th day of March 1841 ---$600.00
Act July 7, 1838
Recorded by D. Brown, Clerk, Book. __ Vol 2, Page 200
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12056
Georgia
Isaac Smith of Monroe in the State of Geo. who was
a Sergaent in the _____commanded by Captain ____ of the
Regiment commanded by Col. Parker in the Va. line for
2 years. m - 1793, w 1834
Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia at the rate of $120.00
Dollars per annum to commence on teh 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension ___the 21st day of March 1833 and sent
to Pensioner Macon, Geo.
Inscribed on the 4th of March '33, $240.
Pension allowance ____ ? $60.00, total $300.00
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Nathan Bell (?) Clerk, Book 6, Vol. 6, Page 113
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832>
STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF MONROE
On this the twenty second day of October in the year eighteen hundred and
thirty two personally appeared before Julian B. Strong, Judge of the Superior Court of said county
of Monroe in open court, in in term time, Isaac Smith, a resident of the county and state aforesaid
aged Seventy Four years, who being first duly sworn according to law,doth on his oath make the
following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the Act of Congress
passed June 7th, 1832.
That he was born in New Kent County and remained there at the time of his enlistment
issued there in the State of Virginia--that he enlisted in the State troops of Virginia in the latter part
of the year 1775 in the town of Williamsburg under Captain Robert Baitland for one year --- in a few days was
ordered below Saplton N. J.(?) was there when the town was burnt. Sometime after was with a small scouting
party and fell in with the enemy on the river banks, fired on them and received a fire in return. That he
was wounded in this skirmish by a ball in his forehead which glanced and has left a scar. The regiment
in which he performed this tour was extended to be commanded by the celebrated Patrick Henry. This deponent
did niot enter the Regiment until ...
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sometime after its first formation. During the time he was in the regiment Patrick Henry was never in the actual
command of it nor does this deponent believe he ever at any time was in the actual command.

In July 1776 in the town of Williamsburg _______________on the day on which the Declaration of Independence was
read to the Troops, the deponent enlisted under Captain Charles Pelham as a Sargeant in the First _____ Regiment
which was to have been commanded by Col. Isaac Meed, for three years - Col. Meed died, and afterwards the Regiment was
commanded by Col. Richard Parker. During the time he was in the Regiment, Major Anderson and Major Dickinson were
officers in it under whom he served. This regiment was attached to the Continental Army and during the whole period
of his service in this regiment this deponent was in the Continental Service.
Immediately after deponent goining said regiment, he proceeded along with it to the Army of the North under
General Washington and arrived at the encampment of the Army near Fort Washington in the neighborhood of the City of New
York in the month of September 1776. Not long after the Battle of Long Island. He continued with General Washington
from that time until August 1779 and was during said period in the following battles, to wit: At the White Plains;
at the taking of the Wessian(?) at Trenton; the Battle of Princeton; the Battle of Brandwine; of Germantown and
Momouth. He was in Fort Wessian(?() when the Hessians under Count Donoss(?) attacked that ______Fort and after the action
ceased went with a company of volunteers to ascertain fate of the fort. Finding the enemy refused us(?) continued next
morning and saw that day the burning and blowing up of the Augusta Sixty Four Gun S___ which struck in attempting to come up the
river, was said to be set on fire by red hot shot from our batteries. Deponent was at Stoney Point when taken by General
Massie, belonged to a reserve and was not in the action.
He was discharged in August 1779 in the State of York at the place called Goshen by Gen. Mecklenburg.
The discharge was sent to the land office in Richmond Virginia.

Afterwards the deponent joined the militia(?) from New Kent County Virginia and was with said militia
at the seige of York adn surrender of Cornwallis. This was his last tour of military duty.
In the year 1820, he believes in February or March, the deponent received a Certificate from the
War Department granting a pension of eight dollars a month to be paid in Charleston, S. C.
Before payment became due, Congress passed another act...that prevented deponents receiving any thing
as he could not comply with its requirements. He sent in the certificate which he received from the War Department from
the State of Mississippi to Judge Ellis a Senator from that State...that he might do something for the deponent...but deponent
left the state of Mississippi and has not since heard from Judge Ellis on the subject. Then deponent has never received a cent
from the Government since
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he left the army,
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and he hereby
that his name is not on the pension roll of any Agency in any State unless it may have been put on the Pension Roll in
1820 in the manner above stated, and which availed nothing to the deponent.
Sowrn to and Subscribed the day and year above written: SS. Isaac Smith
Christopher B. Strong, Judge Superior Court
Monroe County
And the said court does hereby declare its opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as
he stated.
22nd Oct. 1832 (Certification statement)
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FAMILY RECORD( Insert picture Smith 8) (Click on picture to enlarge)

BIRTHS

MARRIAGES iNSERT PICTURE Smith 9

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STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
LAWRENCE COUNTY
Personally appeared before me the undersigned justice of the peace in and for the county and State
aforesaid Miss Mary R. Lanior alias Mary R. Smith who deposed and says that the annexed two pages to be taken
from the family Bible of her father, Isaac Smith and that the entries of Marriages, Births on said annexed sheets are
in the handwriting of her said father Isaac Smith and the said Mary R. Lenoir further depose that said _____ that she
believes that the said entries are correct and true.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this fifth day of February AD 1842. SS: Wm. Pubbs, J.P., SS Mary R. Lanoir
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PAGE TITLE: FAMILY RECORD
BIRTHS
Elizabeth Ann, Daughter of Isaac and Ann Rebecca Smith
was born June 26 at 6 in the morning, 1813. She died Feby(?)3 of 1820
William Joseph, Sone of Isaac and Ann Rebecca smith was born September (?) 6th ----- September 1817
Hesteser _____ ____ 16 May 1819
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Brief in the case of Isaac Smith of Monroe County in the State of Georgia
Act 7th June 1832)
1. Was the declaration made before a court or a Judge: Judge
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity: Yes
3 How old is he: 74 Years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
PERIOD DURATION OF SERVICE RANK NAMES OF GEN. AND FIELD OFFICERS
UNDER WHOM HE SERVED
In 1775 Enlisted 1 year Private Capt Robt. Ballard

July 1776 3 years Sergeant Capt. Chas Pelham, Col. Rich. Parker
Major Anderson, Maj. Dickerson

Afterwards joined the malitia but does not
say how long his tour was

5. In what battles was he engaged: White Plains, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown and Mamouth
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service: New Kent County, Virginia
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses: by documentary proof, or by traditionary evidence; by incidental evidence, or
by the rolls: Formerly applied under the act of 1818.
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect.

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. Examining Clerk
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838. entitled as Act Granting half Pay and Pension to
certain Widows.
GEORGIA
MONROE COUNTY
On this twenty third day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, personally appeared
before Judge W. D. King (?) a judge of the Superior Court for the County and State aforesaid, Ann R. Smith, a resident of
said County and State aged, sixty seven, who by reason of bodily infirmity cannot attend court who being first duly sworn
according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the
act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows, that she is the widow of Isaac Smith, a deceased pensioner who was a
Sergeant in the army of the revolution and proof of whose services ____ ____ of record in the War department. She further declares
that she married to the said Isaac Smith on the 3rd day of February Seventeen Hundred and Ninety Three that her husband the
aforesaid Isaac Smith died on the twentieth day of July Eighteen Hundred and thirty four. That she was not married to him prior
to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen Hundred and Ninth Four, viz
at the time above stated.

Sworn to and subscribed before me
The applicant being unable to attend
court from bodily infirmity on the day and
year aforesaid: SS Ann R. Smith
SS: Angus M. Dilling (?)
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Georgia, Monroe County: Personally comes before me Ann R. Smith that claimant in the above declaration and upon oath saith that
she had no documentary evidence whereby to establish the period of her marriage; that she was married in the State of South Carolina
where no record of Marriages is formally kept; that she is aware of and that the family record in which her marriage was entered by
her late husband has been long since lost or mislaid so that this despondent does not know where to find it and that as
to the date of her marriage she has to rely upon her own oath.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this Nineteenth day of November 1840.
SS: Angus M. Dilling, Judge Sup. Court
ss: Ann R, Smith

Georgia; Monroe County) Personally appears before me Angus W. D. King, Judge of the Superior Court for the county and
state aforesaid the, Rev. Whitman C. Hill, who being duly sworn doth and saith that he witnessed the decease

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Wm. Jones, a patriot of the Revolution , was granted a Federal pension in 1814, while a resident of Monroe.
(Note by transcriber: Wm. Jones widow, Amelia or Milly Paterson (See license below)
in 1824 aged 70 yrs. & Res. of Jasper Co., Ga. died. Feb. 20, 1841. Pension records show he was a private in the company commanded by Captain Powell of the Regiment commanded by Col. Elbert in the Virginia line, for the term of three years. From September 1776 to ___1779.
Inscribed on the roll of Georgia at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 18 day of April 1831.
Certificate of pension issued the 19 of April, 1831...
Arrears to the 4th of September 1831 $36.52.
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Widow of William Jones who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private. Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 90 dollars 00 cents per annum to commence on the 3d February 1853. Certificate of Pension issued 22nd day of July 1854 and sent to Hon. D. J. Bailey. (handwritten note,
Died October 30, 1857
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State of Georgia, Greene County. To any Minister of the Gospel or Justice of the Peace. You are hereby authorized to join in the holy State of Matrimony, William Jones and Emilia Paterson of this county and for your so doing this shall be your sufficient license. Witness Thomas Casilton, clerk of the Court of Ordinary for said county this 4 Jan 1808. signed. Thos. Casilton,
The written named William Jones and Emilia Paterson was married this 5th day of January 1808. S. Hays, JP. Recorded the 3d Feby 1809.
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