Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8711, for Hamilton Reynolds, Georgia
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SERVICE                                          NUMBER 
Ga             Reynolds, Hamilton        R87111


Born in NC
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35134
Hamilton Reynolds
Tennessee


Hon C H Williams
HR
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

State of Tennessee
McNairy County  
On this the Seventh day of December in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Forty, personally appeared in Open Court before the County Court of McNairy County State aforesaid, now sitting, Hamilton Reynolds a resident of McNairy County and State of Tennessee aged Seventy Nine 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 June 7th 1832.

That he was born on the 3rd day of October 1761 on Pedee River Anson County State of North Carolina.  My family continued to reside hear until I was about Eight years of age when we moved (as I have often heard my father say) from Anson County to Orange County State of North Carolina.  here we lived about four years.  When we moved to Montgommary County in the same state, hear we lived for some time, and then we moved to Wilks County State of Georgia.  hear he resided until he entered the service of the United States, which he did as a Volunteer soldier sometime in the spring or summer of 1779 in Wilks County State of Georgia under Captain John Clark.  Our company alone march to the Creek Nation of Indians and destroyed their crops and when we march back to Wilks County.  I served in this tour fifteen days.  So soon as I reached Wilks County on my return from the Creek Nation, Col Pickens was raising Vounteers.  I immediately entered the service again as a volunteer soldier under Captain John Autry.  We immediately struck a march for Col Pickens Army which was then in Wilks County.  So soon as we joined him, the army under Col Pickens marched against Captain Boyd [?] who commanded
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a company of Forces.  We overtook him at a place called Kettle Creek.  Hear we had a battle.  We killed, captured or disposed the whole.  from hear we marched to Gen Lincolns encampments on the Carolina side of the Savannah River at Black Swamp nearly opposite to Augusta.  hear we remained until the French fleet arrived.  then we joined Gen Lincoln and marched towards Savannah, which was in the possession of the British and some time in the fall he thinks, October an attack was made on the battery under Gen Lincoln after loosing a large number of our soldiers we was compelled to retreat.  hear I quit the Army having served from early in the spring until in the fall following  he thinks not less than nine months but he is positive he served eight months.  he received a Discharge signed by his Captain or his Col he does not now recolect. not thinking it would ever be of any service to him he took no care of it.  so itis now lost or distroyed.  he further stated that he had no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose Testimony he can procure who can testify to his services.  he further states that he is a very infirm man not able to git about, and that shortly after the passage of the Law of the 7th June 1832 this applicant became acquainted with Maclin Crop [?] who agreed to Draw his Declaration.  he was then residing in Hardin County Tennessee.  so at the next court after said Crop promised to Draw his Declaration he attended the Court in Savannah Hardin County Tennessee.  for the purpose of having the same drawn. but said Crop did not attend Court so I returned home and shortly thereafter moved to McNairy among strangers and being so infirm I could not git out to procure any person who has been acquainted with me.  so that I could make an application before this time. and could not now procure any person but for my Neighbors sending after them to me.  The applicant
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has been a long time well acquainted with John Black of Hardin County Tennessee and also with Jeremiah Adams of McNairy Tennessee persons of Respectability who ca verify as to my general character for veracity.  and their belief and the Neighborhoods belief Generally of my being a soldier of the Revolution.  I continued to reside in Wilks County State of Georgia after the Revolution for some time.  from there I moved to Penalton District South Carolina hear I continued to reside until the year 1815 when I moved to Giles County Tennessee  I lived there about Eleven years then I moved to Hardin County Tennessee where I lived about Ten years then I moved to McNairy County Tennessee where he now resides.  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.  

1  Where and in what year were you born.
I was born on the third day of October 1761
2   Have you any Record of your age and if so where is it.
I have a record of my age in my family Bible taken from my fathers Bible.
3  Where were you living when called into service.  where have you lived since the Revolutionary War. and where to you now live.
These question are fully answered in the body of my Declaration.
4  How were you called into service were you drafted.  Did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom
I served as a volunteer the whole time I was out.
5  State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the Troops where you served such [?] Continental and Militia payments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service
This question is fully answer on the body of my Declaration
6  Did you ever receive a discharge from the services and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it.
This question is fully answered in the body of my Declaration
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7  State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present Neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a solder of the Revolution
I have been well acquainted with John Black of Hardin County Tennessee for a number of years  I have also been well acquainted with Jeremiah Adams for my present Neighbourhood for several years  they can testify as to my character for veracity and their belief and the Neighbourhoods belief of my services as a soldier or the Revolution.  Given under my hand the date above

Hamilton Reynolds
[his mark]

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
J. R. Adams  [?]

State of Tennessee [?]
McNairy County 

Be it known that on this the 7 day of December 1840 personally appears in open court now sitting for said county Maclin Crop and after being duly sworn saith that in the spring of the year 1834 while a candidate for the Convention he met with Hamilton Reynolds in Hardin County Tennessee some twelve or fourteen miles from the county seat.  said Reynolds then told me he was a soldier of the Revolution and wished me to draw his Declaration.  I told him to procure his witnesses and attend the court at Savannah.  said Reynolds told me afterwards that he did attend with his witnesses which I believe is true.  I did not attend court myself.  Given under my hand swornto and subscribed the  day and year aforesaid
J. R. Adams  [?]
State of Tennessee [?]
McNairy County  Be it known that on this the 7th day of December 1840 personally appeared in open court now
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setting for said County Bartlet Huckaby and after being duly sworn saith that he has been acquainted with Hamilton Reynolds ever since he moved to McNairy County that he is very infirm and not able to attend to any business, he often told me he was entitled to a Pension, but could not get one because his witnesses lived some distance from here and he was not able to go after them, I at length (seeing the old man prostrated) with barely a sufficiency to live upon, volunteered my services and procured his witnesses. I would not have done so if I did not believe him entitled to a Pension.
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid} Bartlet Huckaby

J. R. Adams clk 

We John Black a Resident in Hardin County Tennessee and Jeremiah Adams residing in McNairy County Tennessee hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Hamilton Reynolds who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he now lives and where he formerly lived to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion,
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid}  John Black
                  Jeremiah Adams
                  J. R. Adams clk

And the said court do hereby 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 certifies that it appears to them that John Black and Jeremiah Adams who has signed the preceding certificate is residents in Hardin and McNairy Counties and are reliable persons and that this statement
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is entitled to credit given under our lands
G.G. Adams 
F. Beard
Wm Atkins

I John R Adams clerk of the County Court of McNairy County State of Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Hamilton Reynolds for a Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 7th day of December 1840 and 65th year of the American Independence-
John R Adams clk
of McNairy County Court
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                                         May 10, 1933

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                                        BA-J/EEL
                                    Ephraim Reynolds-S.38328
                                   Hamilton Reynolds- R.8711
Mrs. A.C.Rippier
413 Third Street
Brooklyn, New York

Dear Madam;

     Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revo-lutionary War records of Hamilton and Ephraim Reynolds, of Georgia.

     A search of the records has been made in your behalf and the records found of only one Ephraim and one Hamilton Reynolds, under any spelling of the surname.

     Their records are given below as found in their respective claims for pension based upon their service in the Revolutionary War, after a very careful examination of the papers.

Ephraim Reynolds
S.38328

     The date and place of birth of Ephraim Reynolds are not shown in the apapers in the pension claim.

     He enlisted in Carteret County, North Carolina, served as a private in Captain Samuel Jones' Company, Colonel Armstrong's North Carolina Regiment and was discharged at Stono, having served nine months:  he stated that he was not in the battle of Stono but was in the hospital at the time of said battle: no dates are given for the above tour of service: he again enlisted and served twelve months in Captain Samuel Jones' Company, Colonel Lytle's North Caro-lina Regiment: dates of this service are not shown.
 
     He made application for pension on July 1, 1818. His claim was allowed.
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     In 1820, Ephraim Reynolds was residing in Barnwell District, South Carolina and then stated that he was fifty-five years of age, in same year, he stated that he was aged fifty-eight years. In 1833, he had moved to the state of Georgia and his address was given as "near Major Waley's postoffice, Emanuel County, Georgia."

     In 1820, he referred to three daughters: their names and the name of their mother are not given and there are no further data as to his family.

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Hamilton Reynolds
R. 8711

     Hamilton Reynolds was born October 3, 1761, in Anson County, North Carolina: when eight years of age, he moved with his father to Orange County, North Carolina, lived there four years; then moved to Montomery County, same state, lived there for sometime; then moved to Wilkes County, Georgia. 
[written in margin next to paragraph:
Did not use "on Pedee River because I could find that the Pedee flowed there AC]

     While residing in McNairy County, Tennessee, Hamilton Reynolds applied for pension on December 7, 1840, and stated that while re-siding in Wilkes County, Georgia, he volunteered and served in Cap-tain John Clark's Georgia Company, marched to the Creek Nation and destroyed their crops, and was out fifteen days: soon after his re-turn, he again volunteered, served in Captain John Awtry's Georgia Company, under Colonel Pickens and was at the battle of Kettle Creek and at the siege of Savannah and that he served in this tour not less than eight months.
[written in margin next to paragraph:
Kettle Creek Feb 14 1779- 
Seige of Augusta ended Oct 18 1779
Capt John C. Clark of Ga and Capt John Awtry in next share
Col Pickens is of SC-so said "model"]

His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of ser-vice of six months as was required by the pension laws.

-2-
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There are no data in regard to Hamilton Reynolds' family other 
than the reference to his father, who name is not given.

Very truly yours

A. D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator.
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Acts of July 14, 1862 and March 3, 1873 [struck through]

8711
P.O.  Hamilton Reynolds
Service:  [blank]
Enlisted:  Rejected
Discharged:  [blank]
Printed list of 1852 shows cause of rejection
Application filed:  "not six months service"
Alleges:  [blank]
Re-enlisted:  [blank]
Attorney:  [blank]
P.O.  [blank]
Recognized    [blank]
Contract  [blank]
Cert. of Dis.  [blank]
Searched for [blank] 

[handwritten down the left side]
1933 May 10 - Hist. to Mrs. A C R_____ - see letter in case
Ephraim Reynolds S38328 Esq [?]
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Hamilton Reynolds
Tennessee
Rejected
See let 22nd Dec [runs off side of page]
Hon C. H. Williams [marked out]

did not perform six months actual 
service.

8711

Act of June 1832
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Washington Dec 21st 1840

Sir

Please [illegible] and dispose of
the matter application for a pension
as soon as convenient.

Your servant [??]
J. L. Edwards Esp      C. H. Williams
Co Pen
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Hon C. H. Williams
22 Dec. 1840

OC
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Pen. Office
Dec 22 1840

Sir

The declaration of Hamilton Reynolds has been examined.  He alleges to have entered the service in the spring or summer of 1779 as a militia man of Georgia and served fifteen days against the Indians; after wh [edge of paper torn]
he volunteered to serve under General Pickins [struck through] Colonel Pickins and Captain Autery and was at the action at Kettler Creek and then proceeds to join the army under Gen Lincoln and was at the battle of Savannah which was in October 1779, after which he left the army.  These militia served in terms of short duration and the time in which he was in actual service did not exceed four months in all.  The action at Kettle Creek took place [line was struck through]  The actor of 7th June 1832 does not provide [last three words struck though] for any one who did not perform six months actual service.  The claim has therefore been rejection and the papers filed in this office.

Hon. C. H. Williams
HR

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