Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt 289-400, Reading Blount, N.C.
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE 
N. C.

CONTENTS 
Blount Reading

NUMBER 
B.L. Wt 289-400- Major Issued Dec. 21, 1795
No papers
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[Stamp on left of page] State of Georgia 1776
[name below stamp illegible]

Department of State Atlanta

Oct. 6, 21

U.S. Pension Office- Washington, D.C. 
The Colonal Records of North Carolina  state that the U.S. Pension office has a list of the 3rd North Carolina Battallion Revolutionary Army. One of the Captains in said regiment was Captain Blount. Does your record give the full name of  Captain [illegible] Blount by town or County in the Carolina in which he lived? If so kindly advise me as I am anxious to know if his name was Charles - Thanking you. Very Truly Royale J. Miller [illegible]
Room 117

[stamp] Oct 7th 1921 Received - one ┃ Cent Stamps [illegible]
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Rev. War Section
Record Division

Oct. 8, 1931

Dr. Royall J. Miller
Capitol, Room 114,
Office of Secretary of State, 
Atlanta, Ga. 

Sir:

     In response to your letter of the 6" instant, 
you are advised that this Bureau is unable to furnish the history of a soldier of the Revolution, unless a claim for pension or bounty land has been made on account of his services and a careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file on account of the services of any soldier named Charles Blount. 
     One Reading Blount was a captain in the 3" N.C. Regiment, War of the Revolution, but there is no data on file in regard to an officer of that name other than that Bounty Land Warrant No. 389 for four hundred acres was issued Dec. 21, 1795, on account of the services of Major Reading Blount of the N.C. Line.   The papers in said claim were destroyed when the War Office was burned in Nov. 1800. 

Very respectfully, 
Washington Gardner
Commissioner.

(In the right margin of the page, adjacent to the addressee "Dr. Royall J. Miller" is handwritten  - This letter address as was the stamped envelope was returned therewith.)