Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31,997, for Moses Stallings, North Carolina
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Service NC. Stallings, Moses. Number S.31.997 
Born in N.C
Contents
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Georgia 29.614
Moses Stallings
of Oglethorpe In the State of Ga.
who was a ?? Corp In the    commanded
 by Captain Evans of the Rgt commanded 
by Lytle ———- in the No. Carolina
line for 1- ??

Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia at the rate of 51 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of Jan 35 and ?
George M. Gadley Lexington - Ga

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 3-
Semi-ann. allowance ending ? March ?
179.65+25.67=$205.32
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Nath. Rice Clerk.
Book C Vol. C  Page 107

Date of death not on A. B.
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The 1782 
Revolutionary Claim
of Moses Stallings of
Oglethorpe County, GA
made out in persuasion
of a Pamphlet marked 
22d Congress 1st Session.
Doc. No. 298. House of Reps.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of the Act of Congress passed the 7th June 1832.

State of Georgia
Oglethorpe County

On the fifth day of January
eighteen hundred thirty five
personally appeared in open court before the Inferior Court of said County & State, now sitting as a Court of Ordinary, Moses Stallings, a resident of the same place, age seventy two years, he being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein after stated. That he was born in Bertie County in the State of North Carolina, according to the information he obtained from his mother, on the 11th day of December 1762. That he has no record of his age. That he lived in Franklin County of the state last aforesaid when he was called into service. That he continued to live there from on five years after the war, & then removed to Oglethorpe (then Wilkes) County in the State of Georgia, where he has lived every since. That he was called into service by draft and in the first instance left home under the command of a militia Captain by the name of Benjamin Eaves; he marched from Franklin by slow advance and indirect routes to Guilford - was present when the battle first commenced at this place, but did not stay long, the company to which he belonged, to use the words of the hero of two wars "fled ingloriously" after the first round. That his recollection of dates is peculiarly defective & does not enable him to state the day and month upon which he entered the service, but at the time of the battle of Guilford he had been in service two months, & his services for the tour terminated with his flight from that place. In a short time after he got home, he & others of those who fled from the battle of Guilford were pressed to serve in the State Troops of North Carolina, a tour of twelve months - recollects that they enrolled
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name, took an account of his size-the colour of his hair and eyes & bound hum by oath to serve that length of time. This he did under the command of Captain Lytle- thinks his regiment was called the first Regiment of N. Carolina Troops-that it was commanded by Col. Dixon-that the battalion to which he belonged was commanded by Major Blount that one of his Lieutenants also bore the name of Dixon; he served sometimes in the infantry & sometimes in the calvary, but under the same officer & South Carolina was the principal theatre of his action. He performed faithful service during the whole twelve months, but was in but one battle, which was that of Eutaw Springs in S. Carolina. Here his post was in the right wing of the Army-Col Lee on the right and Col Washington on the left. It was a hard fought engagement, & we had on this occasion neither the inclination nor the opportunity to retreat-the enemy was in front & our own light horses in the rear, who would have shown us no mercy if we had attempted a retreat-we fought to desperation and won the victory. That he received a discharge from Captain Lytle which he left in N. Carolina. After we got home the legislature gave us a little money & in order to obtain it we had to produce our discharges and surrender them up as the evidence of our services. That he never was a commissioned officer, but acted as a sergeant for six months of the time & resigned. That he entered upon this twelve month term as well as he remembered in April 1781 & was discharged in April 1782. That he has no documentary evidence in support of this declaration & is now unable to procure the testimony of any living witness-thinks many of his neighbors of high respectability would bear witness to his veracity & of their belief of his having been a revolutionary soldier among whom he states the names of the Hon. George Tuggle & Major David Ragan & George Sutton That is a minister of the gospel living in the neighborhood and his hereby action gives his every claim to a pension or annuity except the pension & claim that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State unlikely his name was recorded as a pensioner of N. Carolina when he received the pittance above described. Sworn to {illegible} on the day & year aforesaid in open court.

Henry Britain CCS
Moses Stallings
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We, Archibald Drake, Peterson Smith & Wiley Moody residents of Oglethorpe County & state of Georgia hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Moses Stallings who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy two years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in the opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid being the 5th day of January 1835.
Archibald Drake
Peterson Smith
Wiley Moody
Henry Britain C.C.O.

And the said Court do hereby declare there opinion after the analyzation of the matter & after [illegible] the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served in the states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that there is no clergyman living in the applicants neighborhood but that the persons who have signed the foregoing certificate and residents of his neighborhood & county - that they are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit.
John Landrum D.C.C.O.
Button Sharp JFC
Kay T Landrum JFC
Robert Huff JFC
John M Cox JFC

I, Henry Britain Clerk of the Court of Ordinary of Oglethorpe County, State of Georgia, do hereby certify that foregoing contains original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Moses Stallings for a Pension.

In testimony where of I have hereunto set ,my hand & seal of the office this fifth day of January 1875.
Henry Britain, C.C.O.
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April 4, 1933

Mrs. W.B Sapp
119 East Main Street
Independence, Kansas

Moses Stallings
S. 31997
BA-J/MLB

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter of March 20, in which you request the record of Moses Stallions, who served as a corporal in Lytle's company, North Carolina regiment, War of the Revolution.

A careful search of records fails to show a claim for pension on file on account of the service of Moses Stallions in the Revolutionary War. You are furnished herein the history of Moses Stallings, S. 31997, the only soldier with similar spelling of the surname found in the Revolutionary War records of this office. The data therein were obtained from the papers on file in his claim for pension based upon service in the Revolutionary War. It is not stated that he served in the War of 1812.

Moses Stallings was born December 11, 1762 in Bertie County, North Carolina; the names of his parents are not shown.

While a resident of Franklin County, North Carolina, he enlisted and served two months in Captain Benjamin Eaves' North Carolina company and returned home about the time of the battle of Guilford. He was not in that battle. He enlisted in April, 1781, served as corporal or sergeant in Captain Lytle's company [sol. stated as Sgt; borne on N.C. rolls 12 mons. as corp.], Colonel Dixon's North Carolina regiment, was in the battle of Eutaw Springs and was discharged in April, 1782.

After the Revolutionary War, the soldier continued to live in Franklin County, North Carolina, for four or five years then moved to Wilkes (which was later Oglethorpe) County, Georgia.

He was allowed a pension on his application executed January 5, 1835, at which time he was residing in said Oglethorpe
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County, Georgia.

There are no family data in Moses Stallings' claim for pension.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person paid and possibly the date of pensioner's death, you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following data:

Moses Stallings, Certificate 29614, issued January 23, 1835, rate $51.33 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act June 7, 1832, Georgia Agency

Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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Admin 14 mo.
mo {illegible} _ 7.83
12. copl _ 44.
51.33
on H roll
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Lexington Ga. 5th Ja n 1835
To the Honorable Lewis Cass Sec. of War
Dear Sir
I had the honor to receive a short time since your reply to a communication addressed to you by myself in relation to the Pension papers of Moses Stallings a Revolutionary claimant under the act of June 7th 1832. From the statement of the Commissioner of Pensions accompanying your reply I can advise that the original declaration which was forwarded to the Department has been lost by mail. I am well pleased to say that if a new one was made out & forwarded it would receive the earliest attention; to comply {illegible} with this suggestion as soon as our court met Mr Stallings made out his declaration anew, which I have the honor herewith to enclose. From the information {illegible} country has obtained from your last annual report it would seem that too much vigilance sometimes cannot be observed in the admission of these claims. My agency in this matter has been the effect of my sympathy for a very needy & I believe honorable man. I will take the liberty to use you for information concerning myself to our delegate the Hon. G. R. Gilmer
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& the Hon Thomas F. Foster. I think it probably that the former of these gentlemen is personally acquainted with the applicant this claim {illegible}. It will be seen that our court have been very particular in embodying clearly & distinctly the applicants answers to the June interrogatories propounded to the W. Department. In conclusion allow me to ask of the department an early and impartial consideration of the claim.
With high consideration
I have the honor to be
your friend & very humble servant
George M. Dudley
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1933, Apr 4 - Hest to Mrs. W. B. Sapp _ MLB

31997
Ray     INVALID

File No. 31,997
Moses Stallings*
Corpl Rev. War 
Act: June 7th 32
Index: Vol G, Page 396
[Arrangement of 1870]

*W.W.G.  June 11, 07
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Independence, Kansas,
March 20, 1933

Director of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear sir:

The War Department referred me to you. Their records show that my ancestor, Moses Stallions served in the Revolutionary War as corporal in Lytle's company, North Carolina Regiment from Arpil 6, 1781 to April 6, 1782. However, the records of that office are not complete and they suggested that I might obtain additional information from you.

Could you advise me if the person mentioned above was ever granted a pension? If so would the records show the time and place of his death? Also if he left a widow? And her given name?

I would appreciate any data you may give me pertaining Moses Stallions.

Sincerely,
Mrs W.B. Sapp
119 1/2 East Main St

P.S. Moses Stallins also served in the War of 1812 in Captain John C. Dodd's Company, 14th Regiment (Mitchisson's) Kentucky Militia.
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Bounty Land Warrant Record Card*

Name   Stallions, Abraham
Grade  Private
Line  Maryland

Warrant Number 11719
Acreage 100
Issued May 29, 1792 to --not shown--

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776 and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the application for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
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The National Archives
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

Bounty Land Warrant Card*
 carde 
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Name  Stallman, Wilhelm
Grade  Private "in Procton's Artillery"
Line  Pennsylvania
Warrant Number 10458
Acreage 100
Issued August 7, 1789 to Richard Platt, assignee

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776 and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the application of warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.