Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32466, for Adam Rainboult, North Carolina
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SERVICE
N .C.

Rainboult, Adam

NUMBER
S. 32466
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State of Indiana
Green County 
Green Circuit Court of the
Term of October in the year 1832

Comes now in open court Adam Rainboult
resident of the county of Green aforesaid Adam
Rainboult a resident of Lawrence County in said
State adjoining and within one mile an d a half
of the line of Green County aforesaid aged seventy
four  years who being first duly by said court
sworn according to Law doth on his oath makes
the following declaration in order to obtain the
benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832
That he entered the service near Morganton at the
Horse ford below Morganton in Burke County North
Carolina under the following named officers
and served as herein stated his captains name
was Clark and he believes his first name was
Mordecai he marched this deponent on to Pacolet [River] 
where he and twenty or thirty, were joined to General
[Daniel] Morgans army at Grindals shoals in the state of
South Carolina, under said [Mordecai] Clark, Major [Francis]Triplet
and Colonel Holmes--This deponent saith he
entered at said time and place with said [Mordecai] Clark
for three months about 17th October before the battle
of the Cowpens [Battle of Cowpens, SC 1781] he was stationed near Colonel Wm. Washingtons Regiment at Packolet aforesaid
where he remained stationed until ordered on
to cowpens, this deponent fought in the battle of the
cowpens where the party to whom he belonged took
sixty three prisoners.  Then he was with others ordered
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to guard them, they with this deponent and the
party selected on the Occasion, they crossed a Stream
called broad River with said prisoners and on to
the shallowford of Yadkin under General Morgan
command on the rout to Virginia at said ford
where he was discharged by captain Clark his [illegible]
term being ended and which discharge, together with
those hereafter mentioned this deponent has not as
he took no care of any of them, he believing they or
any of them never would be of any use to him
said discharge was given him at the time and
place aforesaid between three and four months after
his joining Captain Clarks company as aforesaid.
He next deposeth that when the said Clark
discharged him as aforesaid that he informed
him that as soon as his service were required
he should be ready to attend in his company
and that accordingly the said Clark after the
said discharge to wit [smudged....]  day of
in the year to wit in the spring of the year after
the battle of the cowpens before refered to be was
called out by one captain Bakerstaff commanding
a company of light Horse in Burk county aforesaid
on the Catawba River in North Carolina
that he was  then placed in the Regiment 
commanded by Colonel Cleveland and served
off and on at times for about six months
in the said county of Burk when called on
by his commander to fight the tories this
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Deponent further saith on oath, he with
his company were [smudged]  conditionally
by Captain Beckerstaff until the said
Captain should then see fit to call on
him and them, this deponent further saith
that the last named captain called again
on him with others, and particularly by
Colonel Williams, in the latter part of the 
summer or some time in the fall after the 
battle of cowpens, from his residence in
Burk county aforesaid, the said Colonel marched
this deponent with others on to Mecklenburgh
in South Carolina where they were
joined to General Gates army and after
they were joined to them they were marched
to Pine tree (now called camden) where they
were under duty and lay until the battle
of camden between Genl. Greens army and
Rodneys..  they were then that in this deponent
and others marched towards Halifax, but
this deponent was discharged at a little
village between Camden and a River
called deep River name village not
recollected.  he recollects that in his company
were two cousins by names one Thomas
Martin, the other William Martin this
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deponent further deposeth that he was  born
on Cape Fear in North Carolina that from
a record of his age seen by him in his parents
Bible repeatedly he believes his is 76 years old.
Which Bible is in the state of Tennessee now
in the possession there of this deponent son.
This deponent  further deposeth that after his
several discharges he resided in Tennessee until
the last six years when he commenced and
the whole time since he resided in Lawrence
County in the state of Indiana.  This deponent
cannot exhibit any other proof that he knows
of than this statement unless the evidence of the
neighbours both in Green and Lawrence counties,
hereunto made a part of this Record.
This deponent hereby relinquishes every
claim whatever to a pension or annuity except
the present and declares that his name is not
on the pension roll of any state as a pensioner
nor as a militia man on any enroled unless
his name is found on an or boath of the 
Carolinas of any state or if and he does not
know but it may be on both.
(mark of Adam Rainboult)
Sworn to in open court
A. Kinney

We Citizens and householders residing
in the Counties of Green and Lawrence all
in the neighbourhood of the said Adam
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Rainboult Certify that we are well acquainted
with the said Adam Rainbault who
has subscribed and sworn to the above
Declaration that we believe he is about Seventy
four years of age that he is reputed and
believed in the neighbourhood where he resides
to have been a soldier in the militia as he
states in the army of the Revolution and that
we Concur in that opinion.
Ralph Lowder
Thomas Ferguson
Joseph Storm
Jacob Young
Jeremiah Stone
John Stone
Samuel R Cavins
John Beaty

Sworn and Subscribed to before the said court
on this third day of October 1832 in open court.
A Kenney Prst. J.

And the said court do hereby certify and
declare their opinion after a full investigation
of the matter and after puting the interrogatories
prescribed by the war department, that the above
named applicant was a Revolutionary militia
soldier as he states and served as he states, this
court is further sattisfied and certifies that
there is not a Clergyman in the vicinity of
said Adam Rainboult whose testimony he
could procure without a Great deal of trouble
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and expence, the said court also further
certifies that Ralph Lawder, Thomas Ferguson,
Samuel Cavins, Joseph Storm, Jeremiah Stone,
Jacob Young, John Storm & John Beaty.
All citizens of the Immediate neighbourhood
of the said Adam Rainboult and that
this court have Testimony that they and
each of them are entitled to credit under
oath it is allso proved now here is well
known and is hereby certified by the president
Judge of this court and John  Robinson
one of the associate judges that Samuel R
Cavins one of the said deponents is one of
the associate Judges of said county at this time.
A. Kinney
John Robinson
Saml R Cavins

Application  For a Pension

State of Indiana
Owen County set.
Owen Circuit Court October term in the year 1833.
Comes now personally in open court the aforesaid
declarant and after being by this court duly sworn deposeth and saith that the reason why he did not make his said declaration in the county where he resides in-- he  lives near the line dividing the counties of Green and Lawrence and Thomas F G Adams practices law and has practiced law for about ten years in the county of Green and does not practice in Lawrence county, and, as his deponent resided as near [smudged and illegible]
at of Justice of Lawrence county [crossed out]
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February 6, 1936

Adam Rainboult-S. 32466

Mr. Oscar Boruff
Owensburg
Indiana

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Adam Rainbolt, who served with the North Carolina troops.

The data which follow were obtained from pension claim, S. 32466, based upon the service of Adam Rainboult (as the name is shown in the claim) in the Revolutionary War.

He was born "on Cape Fear in North Carolina", no date given, nor are the names of his parents.

Adam Rainboult enlisted "near Morganton at the Horseford below Morganton in Burke County, North Carolina", sometime in October before the battle of Cowpens, served three months as a private in Captain Mordecai Clark's company, Colonel Holmes' North Carolina regiment, and was in the battle of Cowpens.  He again enlisted and served at various times in Captain Bakerstaff's company of Light Horse under Colonels Washington, Cleveland, and Williams, and was in the battle of Camden, length of service six months.

After the Revolution, he lived in Tennessee several years and moved to Lawrence County, Indiana.

He was allowed pension on his application executed, October 3, 1832, then aged seventy-four years and a resident of Lawrence County, Indiana, where he
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had been living about four years; his residence was about one and one half miles from the Green County line in Indiana.

Reference was made in  1832 to the soldier's son then living in Tennessee, his name not shown, and there is no further reference to his 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 pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and give the following data:
Adam Rainboult
Certificate #26678
Issued April 26, 1834
Rate $30.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1832
Act of June 7, 1832
Indiana Agency


Very truly yours
A.D.HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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204 North Perry Street,
Attica, Indiana, Oct. 25, 1927

Pension Bureau,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sirs:
I wrote you on July 11th asking for information on the Two Revolutionary soldiers shown below, but did not inclose a fee for service.  As I have not heard from you in reply, I am sending you herewith my check for $2.00, for which I will appreciate your sending me promptly the information asked.

ADAM RAMBOLT
The 1835 pension list of Revolutionary soldiers shows Adam Ramble living in Greene county, Ind.  My family came from that vicinity and I am anxious to secure the data you have on him, to assist me in proving my descent from him.

EDWARD DAVIS
My family record goes back to Edward Davis, of Virginia, who is supposed to have served in the Revolution.  I want proof of his service.  He was of Scotch-Irish descent, settled in Virginia, where he married (wife's name unknown ), and where his son John Davis was born July 11, 1767.  John Davis and his father moved to Mercer county, Ky.., where John married Sarah Situ (or Littsy). On leaving Mercer county, he lived for a while near Springfield, Washington county, but later went back to Mercer county where he lived until 1815, when he moved to Indiana.

Do your records show any proof of service for either Edward or John Davis. I need these records for admittance to the Daughters of the American Revolution.


Very truly yours,

(Miss) Nellie Rainbolt [signature]