Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,326, for Charles Sturdivant, North Carolina
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Service N.C. Sturdivant, Charles Number S.36,326 Contents
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S19831
Georgia

Charles Sturdivant
of Warren County in the State of Georgia who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Bacot of the regiment commanded by Colonel Lytle in the N. Carolina line, for the term of 18 months from June 1782 to 1783

Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 5th day of November 1827.

Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of Nov. 1827 and sent to Thomas Gibson, Esq. 
Warrenton, Georgia

Arrears to 4th of March 1828 $31.96
Semi-anl. all'ce ending
$31.96

Revolutionary Claim,
Acts March, 18, 1818,
and May 1, 1820.
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County of Warren S.S.
On this twenty fourth day of July 1827 Personally appeared in open Court, that is to say in the Inferior Court of said County, being a Court of Record, prescinding according to the Course of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of their proceeding, Charles Sturdivant, resident in said County, aged about sixty five years, who being duly sworn according to Law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the first of May 1820 that he the said Charles Sturdivant enlisted as a private for the term of Eighteen Months in the month of May or June in the year 1782 in the State of North Carolina in the company commanded by Captain Peter Bacot in the Regiment commanded by Col Archibald Lytle in the line of the State of North Carolina and the old continental establishment and continued to serve in the said Corps as a private a short part of that time say fifteen or twenty days and the ballance of that period an orderly sergeant until some time in July or August in the year 1783 when he was discharged from the service in Wilmington in the State of North Carolina was in the battle of Guilford and at the Eutaw Springs in the latter of which battle he received a wound in the right knee, that he hereby relinquishes every claim for a pension except the present that his name is not on the roll of any State and that the following are the reasons for not making an earlier application for a pension. That it has but recently come to his knowledge that provision was made by the United States for pension similarly situated with Deponent. And in pursuance of the Act of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my
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property or any Grant thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service 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 contract or debt due to me. Nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed," and that no change whatever has taken place in my property since the 18th March 1818 other than such time to time a few dollars in money in that I have earned by my labour and expended for my support. 

Schedule of property

I have no property
This deponent is a farmer by occupation and from age and ability is unable to pursue said occupation, that he has no family.

Sworn to and declared on the twenty fourth day of July Eighteen hundred & twenty seven. Before the Honorable Justices of the Inferior Court in open Court.

Hardy Pitts J.J.C.  Charles Sturdivant
William Hill J.J.C.
J.D. Green J.J.C.

Personally appeared in open Court Amos Brantly who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath say he did see Charles Sturdivant the person who makes the present application for a pension, enlist sometime in the Month of May or June in the year 1782. This deponent saw the said Charles Sturdivant a soldier in the Revolutionary War under the Command of Capt. Peter Bacot at various times and heard his named called on the size Roll. That he acted as Orderly Sergeant of the Company to which this deponent belonged upwards of nine months and knows that he was in the regular service until he was discharged at Wilmington in the State of North Carolina some time in the summer of 1783. 

Sworn to and declared on the twenty fourth day of July 1827 before the Honorable Justices of the Inferior Court in the open Courts

Hardy Pitts J.J.C. Amos Brantley, B his mark
William Hill J.J.C.
J.D. Green J.J.C.
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Personally appeared in open Court Joseph Hill who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath say he saw Charles Sturdivant the person who makes the present application for a pension with a soldiers [illegible] marching with the regular troops had all the appearance of belonging to the Army in the Month of May or June in the year seventeen hundred and eighty two. Deponent had been personally acquainted with the said Charles Sturdivant, he known that he was absent upward of nine months after the above stated time and deponent believes that the said Charles Sturdivant was in the Regular service during his whole absence. 

Sworn to and declared on the twenty fourth day of July 1827 Before the Honorable Justices of the Inferior Court in open Court.

Hardy Pitts J.J.C.
William Hill J.J.C.                     Jos. Hill
J.D. Green J.J.C.

Personally appeared in open Court Gilham M. Smith who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath say, that he has been intimately acquainted with Charles Sturdivant, the person who makes the present application for a pension, since the 18th of March 1818, and from that period up to the present, he has not owned any article of property except occasionally a few dollars in money. 
Sworn to and declared on the twenty fourth day of July 1827 before the Honorable Justices of the Inferior Court in open Court.

Hardy Pitts J.J.C.              Gilham M. Smith
William Hill J.J.C
J.D. Green J.J.C.

I Thomas Gibson, Clerk of the Inferior Court do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction
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of the Court that the said Charles Sturdivant did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, under one engagement, on the Continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, and truly copied from the Records of said Court, And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that His total amount in value, of the property exhibited in the foregoing schedule, is nothing.
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Inferior Court on this fourteenth day of September 1827.

Thomas Gibson, Clk.

Georgia Warren County } Inferior Court for said County in Session November the 5th 1827 present their honors Hardy Pitts, William Hill, & Jesse D. Green, Justices of said Court.
On the application of Charles Sturdivant it is ordered by the Court that the following words be added to his declaration made by him on his application for a pension made before the Court the 24th July 1827, he first being sworn in open Court as to the truth thereof." and that no change whatever has taken place in my property since the 18th March 1818 other than from time to time a few dollars in money which I have earned by my labour and exchanged for support.
I Thomas Gibson, Clerk of the Inferior Court, of the County of Warren and State of Georgia do certify that the
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foregoing in a true extract from the minutes of said Court of the 5th of November 1827

And

I do further certify that from my own personal knowledge for twelve or fourteen years past of Gilham M. Smith the person who is the deponent in the foregoing deposition as to the changes which have taken place in the property of Charles Sturdivant since the 18th March 1818 is entitled to full faith and credence as a man of truth and veracity and that full faith and credit is due to any deposition he may have made upon oath.

Given under my hand and seal of office this 5th November 1827

Thomas Gibson, Clk.
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36326
Reg Invalid Claim
File No. 36,326
Charles Sturdivant
[illegible][illegible][illegible]
Act: 18th March 18th
Index:-Vol 2, Page 398
[Arrangement of 1870]
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20,180
Charles Sturdivant,
Warren Co. Ga.

Hon. C.E. Haynes, H.K.

See letter 25 Jany 1827
to Hon. C.E Haynes, &
letter 26 Sep 1827 to Thos.
Gibson, Esq

Rec? Jun. 12, 1827
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State of North Carolina

Secretary of State Office

I William Hill Secretary of State in for the State aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears from the musterrolls of the Continental line of this State in the revolutionary war, that Charles Sturdivant a Sergt in Capt. Bacots company of the 10th Regiment was enlisted in the year 1782 for the term of 18 Months.

The month in which he enlisted is not stated on the rolls.

Given under my hand this 
6th January 1827
William Hill