Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4,626, for Henry Nuneley, Virginia
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Va. Nuneley, Henry. S.4626
carded.
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13814

East Tennesse.
Henry Nuneley of Knox County in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the company commanded by Captain (illegible) of the (illegible) commanded by (illegible) in the Virginia line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of East Tennessee at the rate of 80 Dollars (blank) cents per annum to commence on the fifth day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued on the 22 day of June 1833 and (illegible). 

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by (illegible) Clerk, Book E, Volume _ Page 54.
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5939
The certificate to this applicant, as these papers if returned will be directed to William B.A. Ramsey Knoxville, Tennessee
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State of Tennessee ⎬ 
Anderson County ⎬  
Circuit Court at August Sessions 1832 
On this 30th day of August 1832 at a circuit court opened and held for the County and State aforesaid, being a court of record, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, before the Hon. Edward Scott one of the Judges of said court, personally appeared in open Court Henry Nunley-- residing in said County aged above seventy years, who having been duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - That he was born in Chesterfield County Va. and continued to live there at the commencement of the Revolutionary war and during its whole continuance - that he recollects of his being drafted into the service of the United States and was enrolled at Chesterfield Courthouse Va. into a company commanded by Captain King Graves and he thinks Lieutenant Charles Graves, which company was under the command of Major Francis Goode and Colonel Robert Goode, and applicant thinks they were all under the general command of Baron Stuben - From Chesterfield Courthouse the whole army marched up the river to Manchester where they remained but two days, before the British set fire to Richmond and burned it, and then went off, after the burning of Richmond the main American army marched down the river and applicant and about sixty other remained at Manchester to guard the magazine there, where they remained about one month and then was discharged and went home - Applicant states that very shortly after his return home from Manchester he was again drafted and was enrolled at Goodes[?] Bridge in the upper part of Chesterfield County, into a company commanded by Captain George Marcum as well as he now recollects, and he thinks his Brother John Marcum as Lieutenant - he thinks in this compaign his company was under the command of Colonel Robison, and the supreme command of either General Stephen
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or Lawson he does not recollect distinctly which - from Chesterfield [Va.]
applicant with the army marched on through Amelia and Dinwiddie Counties Va. [Virginia] untill they came within twenty or thirty miles of Guilford Courthouse N.C. [North Carolina] where they met with the main American army under Genl. Greene [General Nathanael Greene]

After meeting with Genl. [Nathanael] Greene the whole army marched on to within a short distance of Guilford Courthouse [NC] where they met the British army under the command of Cornwallis [General Charles Lord Cornwallis] and gave them battle - the applicant states that he gave two fires upon the army and then returned with the balance of his division, but before he had gone far from the battle ground he was arrested in his retreat, and was stationed with the balance of his division at a short distance from the battle ground, where they remained until after the Battle was over -

applicant cannot at this time recollect whether his company joined in the pursuit of the British army after the battle, or whether he remained at Guilford [NC] - he thinks however that in about ten days after the battle all the militia from Chesterfield County [Virginia] started home, and marched in a body untill they marched a small town named Pocahontas in Chesterfield County Va. where applicant and all the others were discharged and went home

applicant thinks that he was in service in this campaign between three and four months - applicant states that shortly after his return from  the last campaign he together with all the militia of Chesterfield
County [Va.] were ordered out to and marched down to old Williamsburg where the British lay in their vessels, the British were moved up the river in their vessels and some of them by land - the american army returned before them up the river to Cedar Point [Virginia] about seven miles below Petersburg [Virginia] where the British overtook and attacked them and drove them up to Petersburg [Va.], where they sought refuge in the warehouses, untill the British came on by land and commanded the american army drove them from Petersburg [Va.] and took two of their cannons - on the night after the cannonade at Petersburg [Va.] the american army retreated to within a mile of Chesterfield Courthouse [Va.] where it encamped all night and
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early the next morning it passed on through Chesterfield and passed on to Falling creek
church [Chesterfield, Virginia] where it encamped one or two days -

In the mean time the British army were pursuing them and after burning some of the public buildings in Petersburg [Virginia] came on to Chesterfield Courthouse [Virginia] where they burned the public buildings and the temporary barracks which had been put up for the accommodation of the continental army -

At Chesterfield courthouse [Va.] the British detailed their lighthorse [light horse] and sent them on to attack the american army at Falling creek church [Chesterfield, Va.] but upon coming there the americans were drawn up in battle away, and the British Lighthorse after making a slight effort retreated -

the american army then retreated to the coal pits where they remained three or four days, and then crossed the James river at Town Randalls, and then down to Richmond [Virginia] - from Richmond the american army which had been increased by joining with the continentals under La Fayette [Marquis de Lafayette], marched down to [illegible] at Henrico County [Virginia], at that place about two thousand, of whom applicant  was one volunteered to surprise the British who then lay in Petersburg [Virginia] -

this two thousand under the command of La Fayette [Marquis de Lafayette] as applicant believes, marched and crossed James river at the mouth of King's land creek [Kingsland Creek, Chesterfield, Va.] and marched on to Petersburg [Va.] where they planted their cannon and commenced firing upon the enemies camp - 

prety [pretty] soon  after the commanding commenced a flag was sent from the British encampment announcing the death of Gen. Phillips, [British General William Phillips] , and  declaration that unless the americans ceased firing the town of Petersburg [Va.] should be burned, upon this information the americans cased [ceased] firing and marched back to Wilton where applicant and his company were discharged and went home

applicant states that sometime he thinks he was in service this campaign at least two months - applicant states that sometime in August he was drafted again and enrolled at Chesterfield Courthouse [Va.] into a company commanded by Captain David Patterson of Chesterfield [Va.], who was attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. St. George Tucker and Genl. Lawson's [Robert Lawson] Brigade - that the american army
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marched to Williamsburg [Virginia] and from there to Yorktown [Virginia] where Cornwallis  [General Charles Lord Cornwallis] was there lying - applicant states that he remained at Yorktown [Va.] during the whole of the siege [Battle of Siege of Yorktown] doeing [doing]  duty and was there at the time of the surrender [Surrender of Cornwallis] and after the surrender he marched over as a guard to the prisoners, as far as Winchester Va. where he remained a week or ten days and was there discharged and went home,

applicant states that he was in service in this campaign between three and four months - applicant states that between the time of the battle of Guilford  [Battle of Guilford Courthouse, NC] and the surrender of Cornwallis [Yorktown, Va] he was nearly all his time in the service - the County in which he lived being invaded by the British, he was called out and often to repel them and cannot now particularly detail all the incidents of said services -he was also frequently called before the battle of Guilford [Guilford  Courthouse, NC] and thinks he has done service as a private drafted man, equal to a period of two years - 

applicant states that he continued to live in Chesterfield County for three or four years after the war when he moved to Halifax County Va. where he lived about five years, when he moved to Washington County Va. where he lived four or five years, when he moved to Tennessee and has been living in Anderson County where he now lives
thirty years -

he states that he has no record of his age but believes he is between seventy and eighty years old - he states that he had several discharges but has lost them, and that he has no documentary evidence of his services nor does he know of any person whose testimony he can  procure who can testify to his services -

he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not upon the pension roll of the agency of any state
Henry Nuneley [his mark] X

Sworn  to and subscribed in open court the 30th August 1832 
A [illegible] 7 by his deputy 
Ja M M Caine
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State of Tennessee
Anderson County
We Charles Y. Oliver High sheriff of said County 
and Hugh Barton Clerk of the county Court and acting Justice of the Peace for said County do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Henry Nuneley who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration and have been each acquainted for twenty years; that we believe him to be about seventy years of age; that 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 in open Court this 31st August 1832
C. Y. Oliver
Hugh Barton

A Crozier Clk [clerk]
By his deputy
Jam M Caine and the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a soldier of the Revolution and served as he states - and the court further certifies that the said Charles Y. Oliver and Hugh Barton who have signed the above certificate are residents of Anderson county, are credible men and that their statements are entitled to full credit; and also that the said Charles Y. Oliver is the high sheriff of Anderson County, and the said Hugh Barton is Clerk of the County Court for said county
Edm Skott  one of the Judges of the circuit Courts of Law and Equity in and for the State of Tennessee aforesaid

I Arthur Crozier Clerk of the Circuit Court for Anderson County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Henry Nuneley for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and private seal having no seal of office; at office this 31st August 1832
A. Crozier
[hand drawn seal at bottom page]
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State of Tennessee
Anderson County Ss
On  this 16th day of January 1833 Personally appeared in open court before John Child Aaron Sloan and Issac Miller three of the acting Justices of the court of Pleas and Quarters sessions in and for the said County of Anderson and state of Tennessee now sitting Henry Nuneley a resident of the said County and state in the said County of Anderson and state of Tennessee who after being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following amendment to his declaration which declaration was made in the Circuit Court of said County and bears date August 30th 1832 and was numbered in the War Department No 5939 and sent back for amendment 

there is no clergyman living in his neighborhood nor was name that he could provide by which he could proove [prove] 
the report of his service which was the reason he did not proove [prove] by a clergyman 

That he is acquainted in his present neighborhood with Samuel Dum Esq. George Haskins Esq  Wm McCany Esq Samuel Davidson Esq  John Crozier & Hugh Barton all of whom he believes would testify that he is a man of veracity and that they believe him to have been a soldier of the Revolution 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court
Henry Nuneley [his mark] X

Hugh Barton
State of Tennessee 
Anderson County
I Hugh Barton Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for the said county of Anderson and state of Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing amended declaration contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the amended application of Henry Nuneley for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and private seal having no seal provided for my office At office in Clinton [Tennessee] this 17th day of January 1833
Hugh Barton C.A.C.

[hand drawn seal at bottom]
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I Hugh L. White a Senator in Congress from the State of Tennessee do hereby certify that Arthur Crozier was at the time the foregoing declaration was procured, the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Anderson County, Tennessee, and that Hugh Barton is the Clerk of the County Court for said County - and I do further certify that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Clerks, and believe their foregoing signatures are genuine
Hu L. White
April 6th 1833.
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5939
Henry Nunley
from - private
2 years
$80.
returned
East
11.16
Mch 7
Dece 17
W, B, A, Ramsey Esq.
Knoxville
Ten:
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5939
BRIEF in the case of Henry Nunley
County of Anderson in the State of Tennessee
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 70

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.
[1] Drafted In 17 not stated
[2] Drafted ditto
[3] do
[4] Drafted August
Duration of Service. Years, Months, Days.
[1] about 1 month
[2] between 3 & 4 months
[3] at least 2 months
[4] between 3 & 4 months
Rank. As a
[1] Private
[2] "
[3] "
[4] "
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Gen.
[1] Capt. Kinggraves, Major Francis Goode, Col. Robert Goode, 
[2] Bacon Steuben -
[3] Capt. G. Markum, Col Robinson, Genl. Stevens & Lawson, Lafayette
[4] Capt. D. Patterson, Col. St. George Tucker, Gen. Lawson
*

5. In what battles was he engaged? Guilford Ct. House N.C. and Yorktown

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Chesterfield Cty. Va.

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The Clerk's public Seal of office is not affixed nor is his signature or official Character attested by a member of Congress

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
F. Waugh Examining Clerk.

*Served in all 2 years
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
EEL
July 9, 1930
Henry Nuneley
 S4626
Mrs. Alvin C. Holmes
1223 So. Norfolk
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claims, S.4626, it appears that Henry Nuneley was born Chesterfield County, Virginia, date not given.

While residing in Chesterfield County, Virginia, he enlisted and served on various tours, amounting to at least two years in all, no specific dates given, as a private under Captain King Graves, George Marcum, and David Patterson, Colonels Robert Goode, Robison and St. George Tucker in the Virginia Troops. He was in the battles of Guilford Court House and Petersburg and at the siege of Yorktown.

After the Revolution, he continued to live in Chesterfield County, Virginia, for three or four years, then moved to Halifax County, Virginia, lived there about five years, then moved to Washington County, Virginia, where he lived four or five years, and then moved to the State of Tennessee.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 30, 1832, at which time he was "between seventy and eighty years old", and resided in Anderson County, Tennessee, where he had lived for thirty years.

There are no data as to his family.
The above noted is the only soldier named Henry Nuneley found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.

Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
Date of death no on [illegible]
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PENSION OFFICE D
MAY 14 1930
U.S.
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Tulsa Okla
May 12 1930
Pension Dept
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir: I am seeking the pension
record of Henry Nuneley,
Private in Virginia Troops 1781.
Any information you may give will be
deeply appreciated

Yours truly
Mrs Alvin C Holmes

122380 Norfolk
Tulsa Okla
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[left hand page]
May 3/94 Mil Hist to Mrs C.C. Rainwater
511 Washington Ave, St Louis Mo.
1930 July 9 - Hist to Mrs Alvin C. Holmes EEL

[right hand page]
4626
RevWar
INVALID. 
File No. 4626
Henry Nuneley 
Pri Va. line

Act: June 7 of 32 [June 7, 1832]
Index:- Vol. A. Page 277

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Henry Nunly [Nuneley]
Tennessee
10, 12, 16,

Wm B. A Ramsey
Knoxville
Hugh Barton Clk
Anderson Co
Tennessee
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Henry Nunley which require further proof or explanation.
1. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
[horizontal line drawn]
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?
No [crossed out]
79
V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout [sic] of pension he is entitled?
No [crossed out]
yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
79
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
No
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
Two Citizens
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
No
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
yes
XIV. [typographical dagger] If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
[horizontal line drawn]
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?
[horizontal line drawn]
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
[horizontal line drawn]
XVI. [typographical double dagger] Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
No [written dotted cross]
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
2 [crossed out]
7

[blank line demarcation]

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For [blank line] year [blank line] months and [blank line] days, I served as a [blank line]. For [blank line] months and [blank line] days, I served as a [blank line]; and for such service I claim a pension."
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months ["about...months" italicized] is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.

[typographical dagger] QUERE XIV.
Proof of Service. [italicized]
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which be [sic] belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

[typographical double dagger] QUERE XVI.
Mode of authenticating papers. [italicized]
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

[written cross with dots] "In every case where the Clerk of the Court, or other certifying officer, has no pulic [sic] seal of office, the certificate of a member of Congress, proving the official Character and Signature of the certifying officer, should be sent with the papers." [written]