Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31459, Henry Walker, Va.
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SERVICE
VA.

Walker, Henry

NUMBER
S31459

CONTENTS
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Illinois 7829

Henry Walker
of Fayette in the State of Illinois who was a spy in the company commanded by Captain Parry of the Regt commanded by Col. Preston in the Virginia line for 27 months & 23 days.

$59.21/100

Inscribed on the Roll of Illinois at the rate of 59 Dollars 21 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of April 1833 and sent to W.H. Brown, Vandalia, Ill.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833            118.42
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 April 1833                                   29.60
$148.02

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Wm. R. Palmer, Clerk,
Book E.  Vol 8.  Page 64.
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Henry Walker
Illinois
7829

Admitted for 17 mo
& 23 days from 1778
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BRIEF in the case of Henry Walker
County of Fayette in the State of Illinois
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1.  Was the declaration made before a Court of a Judge?  in Court

2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3.  How old is he?  74

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.
about 2 years before the battle at Kings Mountain a spy, volunteered from 7 of March to Oct or Nov, about 7 following year as well as he recollects he entered Feb.  Does not state service next Feb  ... Does not state service direct as May or June same year.

Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days.

Rank.
As a
a Spy
"
"

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Gen.
Cap. Parry Col. Preston
Cap F. Edwards
Cap Walton  Col Preston

5.  In what battles was he engaged?  a battle at Yadkin River, Battle of White Sells Mills

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Montgomery Co., Virginia

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Traditionary

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect?  The periods are not given, nor the length of service.

I Certify that the foregoing statement and answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
        George Taylor
                    Examining Clerk.
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In the matter of
Henry Walker
application for a pension
7353.
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State of Illinois 
Fayette County Ss
Be it remembered that on this third day of September Eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared before the County Commissioner Court of the County of Fayette now sitting the same being a Court of Record, Henry Walker Senior, a resident of the County of Fayette and State of Illinois aged Seventy four years on the Eighth day of October next 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 7, 1832.
That he was born according to the best of his knowledge at Prince Edward County in the State of Virginia on the Eighth day of October 1758, but has no record of his age. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. About two years before the battle of King’s Mountain on the Seventh of March, but cannot remember the year, he
then living in Montgomery County Virginia, he volunteered as a Spy in Capt. George Parriss’s company of Militia, in Col. Wm Preston’s regiment, which company was raised in Wythe or Montgomery County in the State of
Virginia. The Company was that year employed in the Spy Service on the waters of New River in the State of Virginia, and between that river and Clinch river in said state and also upon the waters of Guyandotte – that he continued in said Company in the service aforesaid from the
time aforesaid 7th March to October or November of the same year. The next year, in February or March, he was employed in the same service and upon pretty much the same ground, as a member of Capt. Frederick Edward’s Company, in Col. Preston’s regiment, and continued in the same service, until some
time in the month of October following. In the following year, as near as the deponent can recollect, in August or September, he joined Capt. George Parriss’s Company, in the regiment aforesaid, and rendezvoused at Chisels Mines on New River in said State and then moved to Wallings Bottoms up New River, and from that place to or near the
Mulberry Fields in North Carolina, where, on hearing that Ferguson was embodied on Kings Mountain, the regiment was divided, and a part sent against Ferguson and the other to go against the Tories embodied at the Moravian Towns  – among the latter was this deponent. That he met the Tories at the Shallow Ford of the Yadkin river and had a battle in which the Tories were defeated, and made their escape. In the battle Capt. Parris was wounded and carried to Hoozer Town, where this Deponent staid until December,
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detailed to guard and take care of the wounded. The next February or March, he volunteered in Capt Henry Pattons Company, under the command of Col. Preston and marched immediately to the Moravian
Towns, and thence down to the Reedy Fork of Haw River, where he had a battle with the British, which battle was called the battle of Whitesells Mills on the Reedy Fork of Haw River; our troops being beaten he retreated and rendezvoused at Guilford C. House N.C. and from thence marched and joined Gen’l. Greene at the Iron works, which was in May or June of the same year, when he was discharged and returned home. He never
obtained a written discharge. He knows of no one living, by whom he can prove any of the services enumerated, unless some of his old friends may yet be living in the State of Virginia, from whom he has not heard for five and twenty or thirty years – and unless a brother which ten or eleven years ago resided
in Kentucky, (but whether now living, or where, this Deponent cannot say) may have some
rememberance of some of said services. That the Rev. Charles Radcliffe and Robert K. McLaughin have known him for many years, and can testify to his character for veracity, and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. 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.
And this deponent further says that since his service aforesaid he has resided in the State of
Virginia, about seven or eight years in Kentucky and for the last twenty eight or twenty nine years in the State of Illinois. And further saith not.
                        Signed Henry Walker.

Sworn to & subscribed this 3d day of September 1832 in open Court.
James W. Berry Clk'
'
We Charles Radcliffe a preacher of the Gospel residing in the County of Fayette and Robert K. McLaughlin residing in the town of Vandalia in the same County, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Henry Walker, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration.  That we believe him to be seventy four years of age.  That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood in which resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and concur in that opinion.
              Signed Charles Radcliffe
                           R.K. McLaughlin
Sworn & subscribed this 3d day of September 1832 in open Court
Jas. W. Berry Clk
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Where upon, upon filing this affidavit of the said Henry Walker, it is ordered by the Court that it be certified to the Secretary of War, that this opinion of this Court, 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 Charles Radcliffe who has signed the preceding certificate is a Preacher of the Gospel and that Robert K. McLaughlin who has also signed the same, are residents of the County of Fayette, and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
     I James W. Berry Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of the County of Fayette, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Henry Walker for a pension.
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Vandalia in the County aforesaid, this seventh day of September one thousand eight hundred & thirty two.
        Jas. W. Berry Clk
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            August 23, 1933.
            xxxxxxxxxxxx
            BA-J/ADY
            Henry Walker
            S.31459

Mrs. Eldo B. Lane
1334 Cypress Street
Pueblo, Colorado

Dear Madam:  
      Reference is made to your letter, addressed to the General Account Office and which is referred to this office for reply, relative to Henry Walker and Mellington Crough, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
     A careful search of the records fails to show a claim for pension or bounty land on file on account of the services of Mellington or Wellington Crouch, all spellings of the surname searched.
     The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.31459, based upon the military service of Henry Walker in that war. 
     Henry Walker was born October 8, 1758 in Prince Edward County, Virginia.  The names of his parents are not stated.
     While a resident of Montgomery County, Virginia, he enlisted March 7, 1778 and served as a spy in Captain George Parriss' Company, Colonel William Preston's Virginia Regiment to October or November 1778.  He enlisted in February or March 1779 and served as a spy in Captain Frederick Edward's Company, Colonel Preston's Virginia Regiment until sometime in October 1779.  He enlisted in August or September 1780 and served in Captain George Parriss' Company, Colonel Preston's Virginia Regiment to December 1780.  He enlisted about February 1781, served in Captain Henry Patton's Company, Colonel Preston's Virginia Regiment;  was in the battles of Shallow Ford and Whitsall's Mills and was discharged in May or Jun e 1781.
     Soldier lived seven or eight years in Kentucky, place not given.
     Pension was allowed on his application executed September 3, 1832, while a resident of Fayette County, Illinois, in which state he had resided about twenty-nine years.  In 1832 he
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was called Henry Walker, Senior.
     Soldier died September 30, 1832, place not stated on A.B. (note:  Agent's Book)
     No reference is made to wife or children.
     A Revolutionary War soldier who could establish his claim for pension, even though he had been granted land, was entitled to his pension, also.
             Very truly yours,
             A.D. HILLER
             Assistant to Administrator.
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(left panel)
31459
Revy INVALID.

File No. 31,459
Henry Walker
Spy Rev War

Act:  June 7 '32
Index:- Vol. 2, Page 438.

[Arrangement of 1870.]

(right panel)
1918 Dec 13 Hist to Alive G.H. Seales
1933 Aug 23  Hist. to Mrs. Eldo B. Lane  A.D.Y.
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Vandalia  Sept. 14 1832

Louis McLane
Sir.
     I have the honor to enclose you the proceedings of the County Commissioners Court of this County in the cases of John Diamond & Henry Walker who are applicants for pensions under the late act of Congress.  Since a copy has been made I have been fearful you would require the original depositions which are on file in that Court.  Should this be necessary (as it only would be upon a favorable consideration of their cases) it can after the next term, in December, be withdrawn from the files of the Court and forwarded.
     I last winter requested Gen. Robinson, one of our Senators to comply with the requisition of your Department in relation to agents acting for pensioners.  He wrote me that he had attended to my request, but am fearful his attestation of my character, may have been filed with the Secretary of War.
     Will you please inform me of the action upon the enclosed, and if you deem it necessary.  The original deposition shall be forwarded.
     I have the honor to be Sir
         Your most ob servant
                W.H. Brown
(over)
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P.S.  As I shall probably have occasion to forward other applications in case Gen. R's representations have not been satisfactory, or may not have been made at all to your department, you will do me a favor to advise me upon this factor.
            W.H.B.
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Henry Walker which require further proof or explanation

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?

II.   Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
Yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?
Mo

V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled?
No Nay

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
Yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
Yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
Yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No clergyman

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? No

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? living witness

XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? yes
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? yes
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words.
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, A Justice of the Peace, &c. A.B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For ___ yes ___ months, and ___ days, I served as a ___ For ___ months and ___ days, I served as a ___; and for such service I claim a pension.
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O.F. TEDSTROM, PRESIDENT
H.H. HENRY, VICE-PRESIDENT
S.C. SCALES, SEC. TREAS

Rev Sec 2B

Tedstrom Furniture Co.
(INCORPORATED)
COMPLETE HOUSE FURNISHERS.
Pine Bluff, Ark.

Bureau of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dec. 4, 1918

Gentlemen
      Kindly send me what records you may of the Revolutionary Service of Col. Henry Walker of Virginia - and oblige, Yours Truly 
(Mrs.) Alice G.H. Scales
1705 Chestnut St
Pine Bluff, Ark.

(stamp)
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
L
DEC 7 1918
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1334 Cypress St., Pueblo, Colo., July 29, 1933
Chief
old Records Division
Gen'l Acctg Office
Washington , D.C.

(stamp) 
GENERAL 
ACCOUNTING 
OFFICE
1933 AUG 3 AM
RECEIVED MAIL ROOM
B

My dear Sir:
     Kindly send me any information available in your files, including family data, on Henry Walker of Va. who died in Ill. probably Fayette Co. in 1832.  He might have resided in Peoria or Tazewell Co.  Also the same data on Mellington Crouch who was in the last battle before Cornwallis' surrender.  He lived for a time in Marion Co. Ill, but probably died in Randolph Co. Ill. for he is buried at Preston near Sparta.
     I shall appreciate any data on the above soldiers.
      Respectfully,
      Mrs. Eldo B. Lane

Kindly tell me in your reply whether any Rev. soldier recd a pension if he had previously been given a land grant.
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GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON

RECORDS DIVISION
IN REPLY PLEASE QUOTE
R-23655 &
23656-RMB.

August 15, 1933.

Veterans Administration,
Revolutionary & 1812 Wars Section,
Washington, D.C.

Sirs:
     The attached communication dated July 29, 1933, from Mrs. Eldo B. Lane, 1334 Cypress Street, Pueblo, Colorado, requesting information concerning Henry Walker of Virginia, who died in Illinois about 1832, and Mellington Crouch, who was in the last battle before Cornwallis' surrender, and died in Randolph County, Illinois, is referred for your consideration and direct reply.
     The writer has been advised of this reference.
           Respectfully,
           W.W. Richardson
           Chief, Records Division.

(stamp)
RECEIVED 
AUG 17
MAIL SUB-DIV.
VETS. ADM. READER #20
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D.C., ___, 19

S.31459

     In reply to your request of ___. received ___ for a statement of the military history of Henry Walker, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
78  Mch. 7, 1778
79 Feby or Mch. 1779
80 Aug. or Sept. 1780
81 Feby or Mch 1781

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
7 or 8 mos
Oct. 1779
Dec. 1780
May or June 1781

RANK.
Spy
"
"
"

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
George Parris
Frederick Edward
George Parriss
Henry Patton

COLONEL.
Wm. Preston
Preston
Preston
Preston

STATE.
Va.

Battles engaged in, Shallow ford of Yadkin, Whitsells Mills

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Montgomery Co. Va.
Date of application for pension, Sept. 3, 1832 His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Fayette Co., Ill.
Age at date of application, b. Oct. 8, 1758 in Prince Edward Co., Va.
Remarks:  There is no data on file as to his family.

The only soldier that names Va. troops found on the Rev. War records.

Respectfully,


Commissioner.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
BOUNTY LANE WARRANT REORD CARD *

Division of Veterans' Administration Archies

NAME Walker, Isaac
GRADE Private
LINE Massachusetts

WARRANT NUMBER  5216 and Wt. No. 5032
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED Dec. 2, 1791 to Martin Kinsley