Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8459, for Micajah Prewit, North Carolina
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
N.C.

Prewit, Micajah
            Peany

NUMBER
R. 8459

CONTENTS
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13,924

Peany Prewett, Widow of Micajah
N.C.
Act 7 July 1838
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13,924

Peany Prewett, Widow of Micajah
N.C.
Act 7 July 1838
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Original Claim
Declaration in order to be placed on the pension list under the act of the 18th March 1818

The State of Alabama 
Chambers County       ⎬ On this 13 day of April 1849, Personally appeared in open Court - it being a Court of Record for the County aforesaid, Peany Prewit Resident of said County
for the past year who being duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith on her oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the provision of the act of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818, and the ? of May 1820 that she is the Widow of Micajah Prewit who was a soldier of the Revolutionary war having completed his term of service of nine months in the 4th Batalian agreeable to an act of Assembly, he is hereby discharged and is entitled to all the privileges specified in the act of Assembly for Compleating (sic) the
Continental Batalian of North Carolina he was
Legally discharged from said service on the first day of August 1779 by Arsh Lytle Lt. Col
which discharge I now have in my possession
and that he the said Micajah Prewit is dead
and never made application for a pension and
his name is not on the roll of any State and that I have reason to believe I am entitled to a pension and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension is this while I was able to support myself by Labour I would not become chargeable to the United States, but I now have become
involved and believe I am entitled agreeable to Law to a pension and in pursuance of the acts of the 1st of May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was resident Citizen of the United States
on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have
not since that time by gift sale or in any manner
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Original Claim
Declaration in order to be placed on the pension list under the act of the 18th March 1818

The State of Alabama
Chambers County ⎬ On this 13 day of April 1849, Personally appeared in open Court - it being a Court of Record for the County aforesaid, Peany Prewit Resident of said County
for the past year who being duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith on her oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the provision of the act of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818, and the ? of May 1820 that she is the Widow of Micajah Prewit who was a soldier of the Revolutionary war having completed his term of service of nine months in the 4th Batalian agreeable to an act of Assembly, he is hereby discharged and is entitled to all the privileges specified in the act of Assembly for Compleating (sic) the
Continental Batalian of North Carolina he was
Legally discharged from said service on the first day of August 1779 by Arsh Lytle Lt. Col
which discharge I now have in my possession
and that he the said Micajah Prewit is dead
and never made application for a pension and
his name is not on the roll of any State and that I have reason to believe I am entitled to a pension and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension is this while I was able to support myself by Labour I would not become chargeable to the United States, but I now have become
involved and believe I am entitled agreeable to Law to a pension and in pursuance of the acts of the 1st of May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was resident Citizen of the United States
on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have
not since that time by gift sale or in any manner
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disposed of my property or any part thereof with Intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land or a services of the United States in the Revolutionary War
passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have any income and that I have no property not nor had none at the death of my husband now there been since
the 18th day of March 1818 any changes made
Sworn to and subscribed to and declared on the 13th of April 1849
Peany Prewit X her mark 
Edw Croft Judge C.C.

I do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court the said preceding declaration against the enemy for the term of nine months. I also certify that the foregoing oath hereunto annexed are truly Copied from the Records of the said Court and I
further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that there is no property or [illegible]  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this thirteenth day of April 1849
Edward Croft
Judge County Court
The reason for not making earlier application for a pension is this that while I was able to labour and support myself I concluded not to become chargable to the United States
but I have become involved and helpless, there has no changes been made in property as there was none to change- Schedule none --Peany Prewit X her mark
I certify that it is the opinion of said Court that there was no property to dispose of nor no schedule to affix
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal on this Thirteenth
day of April 1849
Edward Croft (seal)
Judge County court
Chambers County
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The State of Alabama 
Chambers County      ⎬ Personally came and appeared Before me John Appleby
a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County John Brooks who being duly sworn agreeable to Law deposeth and saith that he the said John Brooks was personally present and saw Micajah Prewit and the within Peany Prewitt Legally Joined together in the Holy Bonds of Matrimony about the year of our Lord 1791 in the County of Hancock in the State of Georgia and that they the said Micajah
Prewit and the said Peany Prewit Lived together as man and wife during the life time of the said Micajah Prewit and that the said 
Peany Prewit has never intermarried with any
Man since the death of her husband Micajah
Prewit aforesaid, and that the said Preany
Prewit is the same person named in the within
declaration in order to be placed on the pension list under the act of the 18th March 1818 and the said Peany Prewit is still a Widow
and resides in the County and State aforesaid,
Sworn to and subscribed before me
the 13th day of April 1849
John Brooks ℗

John Appleby J.P. ℗
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The State of Alabama 
Chambers County      ⎬
I, Samuel Pearson Clerk of the County Court for
the County & State aforesaid, do hereby certify
that John Appleby is a Justice of the peace
in and for said County, duly commissioned
and qualified, that his commission was
dated on the 29th day of March 1847
and will expire on the 29th day of March
1850 and that his signature before written is genuine.  
Given under my hand and seal of Court
this the 13th day of April
April A.D. 1849
Samuel Pearson Clerk
13,924
Peaney Prewett
Widow of Micajah

act 7 July 1838
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.

July 30, 1928

Mrs. A. G. White
119 Market St.
Cartersville, Georgia.
Madam:
    I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 8459, it appears that Micajah Prewitt served 
nine months in the Fourth North Carolina Battalion, and was discharged August 1, 1779.
    The dates of his birth and death are not stated.
    He married about 1791 in Hancock County, Georgia, Peany, her maiden name is not given.
    She applied for pension, April 13, 1849, while residing in Chambers County, Alabama, but applied under the Acts of March 18, 1818 and May 1, 1820, which allowed
pensions only to soldiers in indigent circumstances, and their widows were not included under said act, hence her
pension was not allowed.
    There are no further data as to family.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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W 13924

Peaney Prewitt
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P. F. 14227
Daniel Price
S.C.
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This is to certify that the Bearer Daniel Price has faithfully done his duty for the space of three months, Assisting under the company of Purchase and being now sick and unfit for the same and Permitted to return home.
Given under my hand this 5th July 18 ??
David Dickson
County Clerk
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Micajah Prewit, having completed his Term of Service (nine months) in the 4th Battalion, agreeable to Act of Assembly he is hereby discharged and is entitled to all the privileges specified in the Act of Assembly for
completing the Continental Battalions of North Carolina.
    Given under my Hand this first day of August 1779.
Arsh Lytle
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Pension Department
Washington. D.C
Dear Sir, 
    Will you please give me any information
there concerning the follow
Name Prewett, Pruit Pruett
Can you give me the name of the husband of Peany Prewett who was a wife of a revolutionary Soldier. She lived in
the Newton, Co. Martins Dist.
George 
Respectfully
Mrs. G. G/ White-- Cartersville Ga
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8459.

Peaney Prewitt

REJECTED

not on printed list of 1852
1928 July 30 History to Mrs. A. G. White
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The State of Alabama 
Chambers County
13 April 1849.
Dear Sir. Peany Prewit, 
Widow of Micajah Prewit to be placed.
on the pension List, as a Widow of
a Revolutionary solder, We enclose his
discharge; and should there be error, please forward the same.  Direct your letter to John Trammell, Lafayette, Chambers County.

Yours truly
Peany Prewit
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Pension Office
August 10, 1849
The papers transmitted by you in
the case of Peavey Prewitt, widow of Micajah
Prewitt have been received and placed on
our files under the act of 7 July 1838.
Widows of revolutionary soldiers are not  provided for by the act of 18 March 1818. That
law was a personal gratuity to the affairs
and soldier alone who was in indigent circumstances, allowed only upon their Compliance with the requisitions of the act of 1st May 1820 which neither his widow or children can do, consequently could have no claim to its pensions.
   If Mrs. Prewitt can show to the
satisfaction of this Department that her husband was the soldier to whom the discharge which accompanied her papers was
and that she was married to him prior to 
1794 she may possibly obtain a pension under the act of 7 July 1838.  Claimant should show by the certificate of the Secretary of State of North Carolina the amount of service
Micajah Prewitt rendered and establish the
the date of their marriage by a certified copy
of the marriage and or  license from the record of the County Court in the County in which the rights were
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performed or by some other recorded evidence if attainable.  Clamant should file a new declaration made in conformity with the enclosed presented instructions.  

John Trammell
August 10,  ??

John Trammell, Esq.
La Fayette,
 Chambers County,
Alabama