Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5475, for William Iles, North Carolina
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SERVICE NC VA
ILES, WILLIAM
NUMBER R.5475
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Know that all men by these presents, That I, Demcy Iles, Dr of the Parish of Calcasieu, and state of Louisiana, do hereby constitute and appoint CHARLES E. WEAVER, esquire, of Washington, D. C., my true and lawful attorney, for me and on my behalf to prosecute my claim for a pension, as legal heir to William Iles, my father, a Revolutionary Soldier, who enlisted in the year 1773 and to
receive such certificate as may be issued, hereby revoking any power of attorney which may have been heretofore given, and confirming all things that my attorney, the said CHARLES E.WEAVER, may lawfully do in the premises.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 25 day of July A.D. 1854

Signed: Demcy Iles
Acknowledged before me the day and year last above written.
Chas. A Hardey, J.P.

State of Louisiana
Parish of Calcusien
I, J ? Moss, a clerk of the court of the 15th judl dist, within and for the parish and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Charles A Hardy, before whom the foregoing acknowledgement was taken, was at the date thereof an acting justice of the peace, duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court, this 25th day of July, A.D. 1854
J ? Moss Clerk.
List [?] Court
Please direct yr answer to Hamburg, Calcasien Parish Louisiana
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William Iles
La
Louisiana
Act 7 June '32
Hon. J.E. Bossier
H.R.
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State of Louisiana
Parish of St Landry
On this the first December 1843
personally appears in Open Court before the Fifth Judicial District Court sitting 
in and for the Parish of St Landry State of Louisiana, being a Court of Record, William Iles, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the Pension made by the Act of Congress, passed June Seventh 1832. He says that he was born in the County of Halifax in the State of North Carolina, on the fifth day of March A.D. 1763, and continued a resident of the aforesaid State, till he reached the age of sixteen years When he was called out in the defence of his Country; and that he enlisted
in the Army in April 1779, under Gen. Somner Cols. Sowell and Brickle being officers in the same regiment, for the purpose of joining Gen. Gates. And that he proceeded to within forty fivemiles of the said Gen. Gates, before he
was defeated.  The Gen. Sommer the
commander of the Regiment to which he belonged, turned up the State to Mecklenburgh, but finding that he
would be overpowered, he retreated from the west to the East side of the River Adkins. He remained on
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(B [8]-1776)
Service|  |Number
N.C.| Iles, William | R. 5475
Va.
Contents
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he does not recollect the names of the subordinate officers. At the expiration of the said six weeks he was regularly discharged. Thence he returned to his native state North Carolina, where he only remained two weeks, before he was again called out, against the Toris [Tories], who were between Care Fair [Fear]and Pedie [Purdie], for which services each soldier furnished himself, with a horse and military accoutrements. That expedition was commanded by Philip Saunders and John Pritchett. His whole time of service against the Tories amounted to three months and this ten [illegible] days. He was then discharged and he returned home and never after wards entered the Army. 
And this deponent William Iles hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present.

(signed) William Iles
Sworn to and subscribed by the said William Iles in open court this 1 December 1843
Before me R. Taylor Clk.

I certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the original , as spread upon the minutes of said court. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 20 December 1843.
J. Posey. D. Clk.
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To the Honorable the Judge of the fifth Judicial District Court in the Western Circuit Division of the State of Louisiana holding court in and for the Parish of Saint Landry.

The petition of William Iles an inhabitant and resident of the Parish of Calcasieu and State of Louisiana with respect represents, that he is disc raced [illegible - disgraced?] to apply for a pension by virtue of the Act of Congress passed June the Seventh 1832 entitled An Act supplemantary to an act for the relief of the surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution claiming this benefit of said act, serving in the Continental Army of this United States at that time. He therefore prays that your Honor would receive his declarations in open court on Oath, and that all such proceedings may be had in the premises, as are in conformity with Law and Justice and as ins duty bound [illegible]

(signed) William Iles
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[Stamp] Lake Charles La July 29  Paid
H CC Whole [illegible] [written sideways]
P. L. Johnston Esq.
Chief Clerk of Pension Office
Washington City [illegible]
C D [torn]
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[illegible] to
Hon le [illegible] E Bossier [illegible] 14th 
March 1844
[illegible] to W Iles June 10 1844
C. A. Hardy 15 Augt 1854

5475
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June 10 44
Wm Iles 
La. 32 [written sideways]

Paid 25
Paid [stamp]

Pension Office
Washington City
I. L. Edwards Esq.
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Near Greenwood P. O. Caddo Pa
Louisiana, 14 May 1844

Mr. I S. Edwards

Sir, 

Hearing that our Representative in Congress from this District, Gen Bossier, is now ill, by whom the business on which I am writing has been attended to heretofore, I beg leave to address a few lines to you in relation to the Claim of Pension [underlined], made by my father William Iles, some time ago, under [und crossed out] Act of June 7th 1832.

Your letter to Hon P. E. Bossier of Washington March 14. /44 in regard to this matter is at hand, in which you state the regulations [wt crossed out] with which my father must comply in making out his claim, my father is now a very old man too old indeed to travel in order to hunt up evidence, of which he think there ought to be a sufficiency in the papers of your office to entitle him to his Claims of Pension. He thinks there are no such surviving comrades [underlined] as you mention, and he must rely entirely [underlined] on the papers of your office. May I hope, Sir, that you will personally examine into this matter, and that whatever can be reasonably done will be done in his behalf.

Be so good as to write me the result of your investigations, I you will greatly oblige.

Yr very ow Humble Serv.
Willaim Iles
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873 [crossed out]

5475
P. O. William Iles
Service:
Enlisted: Rejected [stamp], 18
Discharged: , 18
Application filed: , 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O. 
Recognized.   Contract.
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Lake Charles La
July 25 1854

Sir,

Enclosed I send you a power of attorney to Messrs Weaver & Caffee of your city, from Wm Demey Iles of this state. As Wm Iles is not acquainted with those gentlemen (they having first written to him about the matter), he begs me to send the papers on to you, as one of thier references, and requests of your, if they be of confidence, to hand them over to messrs Weaver & Caffee for immediate action. Wm Iles also requests that if those gentlemen be not safe you will please have the matter attended to & he will reimburse any expense you may incur.

An early answer is desirable.

Resptly. Your Obd Serv
Chas. A. Hardey P.M.
P. L. Johnston Esq
Washington ile{illegible]