Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11701, William Windham, S. C.
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SERVICE 

S. C. 

Windham, William

NUMBER

R.11701
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CONTENTS
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873. 

REJECTED

11.701

P.O. William Windham 

Service:____________ 
Enlisted:__________, 18__.
Discharged:_______, 18__.

Application filed:___,18__. 

Alleges:________________
_______________________

 Re-enlisted:__________
______________________ 

Attorney:_____________
P. O. _________________
_______Recognized.______Contract.
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William Windham

Tennessee

Suspended 

See let 2 Feb. ‘42
Hon  T. J. Campbell 

11701 

Act 7 June 1832
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35.299 

William Windham 

Tennessee
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State of Tennessee ⎬ S.S. 
Hamilton County ⎬ 
On this sixth day of December in the year 1841. personally appeared in open court before the County Court of Hamilton County in the State of Tennessee aforesaid now sitting, William Windham a resident of the County of Hamilton in the State aforesaid, aged seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn, according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed 7th June 1832. 

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated 
that he first entered said service under Col. Maurice Murfree, in Captain Malachia Murfrees company and was under General Marions command in South Carolina and was first rendezvoused at Marlborough Court house in said last mentioned state, and was stationed some times at one place and sometimes at another on Big Pedro, and also on Little Pedro, he was during his service marched to Marrs bluff on Big Pedro about fifteen or sixteen miles above George Town, where he remained about a month, 
from then was marched to Casaway ferry on Big Pedro, which was a place of general rendezvous of the regiment of Col Murfee during the service of this applicant. 
This applicant was in an engagement at Browns Mills with the tories who were commanded by Cols Gainey & Fannin, Captain Malachia Murfree commanded the whigs in this engage ment. This applicant was in another engagement at Gibsons Ferry on Little Pedro in North Carolina Still under Capt Murfree, he resided in Marion District when he entered the service in South Carolina, he states that he was acquainted with Col. Lee and Col Washington but was not at any time stationed with continental troops 
that he is wholly illiterate and is unable to give the date or time of his entering the service or
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his being discharged from it, he states that he entered the service at the instance and suggestion of his father and uncles, when quite a youth, about fourteen or fifteen years old, that he has no documentary evidence of his services or record of his age, that he had a written discharge from Col Murfree, but it was left by him in his fathers possession, and has been long since lost or destroyed, 
and that he knows of no person whose evidence he can obtain by whom to prove his services 
he states that he served four years under Captain Murfree, that his service ended when peace was made 
He 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 the agency of any state in the United States 
William Windham
his X mark
Sworn to and subscribed 
the day and year aforesaid 
in open Court mark 
B B Carmon D. Clk 

We Thomas W. Spicer and Solomon P Mitchell residing in the County of Hamilton and State of Tennessee hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Windham who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he reside to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. 
J.W. Spicer
Solomon P Mitchell 
sworn to and subscribed 
in open court the 6th day 
of Dec. 1841. B B Carmon D. Clk 

And the said Court do hereby declare that there is no Clergyman residing in the neighborhood where said
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Applicant resides upon whom he can call to certify for him 
And the said Court do also 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 Revolutionary soldier and served as he states 
And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Thomas W. Spicer and Solomon P. Mitchell whose names and subscribed to the preceding certificate are residents of 
Hamilton County, that they are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit 

State of Tennessee} 
Hamilton County⎬ 
I Asahel Rawlings Clerk of the County Court of said County, by my deputy to do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Windham for a pension 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 6th day of December A.D. 1841. 
Asahel Rawlings Clerk 
By B B Carmon D.C.