Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,885, for William Mooney, North Carolina
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3 [illegible] May 4/[illegible] 6729

North Carolina

William Mooney 
of Rockingham in the state of N Carolina 
who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by colonel H. Dixon of the N Carolina 
for the term of 1 year [illegible] 

Inscribed on the Roll of N Carolina
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on 
the 4th of Nov. 1819

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th of July 1814
and sent to Hon. J. Little
N. of [illegible]

Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819 - [illegible] - 4/81 32.23
semi anl. all'ce ending

12 July [illegible] $32.23
{Revolutionary claim act of 18th March 1818}
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North Carolina
On this 4th day of November AD 1818 before one Thomas Ruffin, Judge of the Superior County low courts of Equity in the [illegible] personally appeared William Mooney aged about fifty years a resident in Rockingham County in said [illegible] who being by one first duly [illegible] according to law, on his oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of The United States during the Revolutionary War." That he enlisted as a private soldier in Guilford County in North Carolina in April 1781 in the company commanded by Captain Gilman Dixon in the Regiment or Battalion of the North Carolina line on the Continental Establishment under the command of Lt Col. Henry Dixon of Major Thomas Donoho. He doth not recollect the number or the denomination of said Regiment so as to declare it his own knowing, but refers to the certificate of the said Major Donoho therefore that in or about three months after his said enlistment he was appointed, for his good conduct of regular demeanor, a Sergeant in said company in which capacity he continued to serve in said company in the service of the United States until his Regiment was discharged which was of [illegible] in North Carolina at the [illegible] the latter part of the year 1782 the said [illegible] hath been lost or mislaid by the time of accident. He further saith that he is in reduced circumstances [illegible mark] needs the assistance of his country for support; and that he was in the Battle of the Eutaw Springs. [illegible] before me Judge aforesaid at Rockingham County the 4th Day of November AD 1818 William Mooney + Mark
Thomas Ruffin 
North Carolina
On the day of year first above mentioned before one Judge as aforesaid Samuel Hill being duly sworn by me made oath that he was a private soldier in the same company & regiment mentioned in the forgoing declaration of the above mentioned William Mooney & that the facts stated in the said declaration relating to the service of the said William are true, as this deponent well knows. He further said that he & the said William have resided at each other ever since the war & that he is well acquainted with his circumstances & that he said Mooney is not worth in any worldly substance one hundred dollars & that he has above a helpless family & that said William is a credible person on his oath. That this deponent is not an applicant for any pension [illegible] being now in independent circumstances. Jaine Hill
Subscribed and sworn to before one Judge as aforesaid at Rockingham County the 4th of November 1818 
Thomas Ruffin
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North Carolina
On the 4th day of November AD 1818 John Reed, being by one Judge as aforesaid duly sworn saith on his oath that he lives near the said William Mooney & is well acquainted with his circumstances & that he is not in any worldly substitute worth the same as one hundred Dollars; and that said William is a credible person on his oath [signed J Reed]
Subscribed and sworn before one Judge as aforesaid at Rockingham this 4th day of November 1818 
[signed Thomas Ruffin]

North Carolina
Thomas Ruffin judge as aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William Mooney did serve in the army of the United States on the Continental Line regiment against the common enemy during the Revolutionary War for the term of nine months [illegible] & that he is in reduced circumstances & needs the assistance of this county for assist, and I now transmit the proceeding evidence had taken before me & the Secretary for the department of War, according to the direction of the aforesaid Act of Congress further ratifying that the said will of the aforementioned Samuel Hill, John Reed the two latter of whom are personally well known by me [slash] are an [illegible] person.

In witness whereof I thereunto have put my hand [illegible] of the superior court of law for Rockingham County, being a court in which I reside the office at Rockingham this 4th November AD 1818
[signed Thomas Ruffin]
State of North Carolina Rockingham County
Thomas Searey clerk of the superior court of said county has caused the seal of my office to be hereunto affixed given at [illegible] the 4th day of Nov 1918
[signed T Searey]
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North Carolina-
Thomas Donoho, formerly a major in the North Carolina Line on the Continental Establishment during the Revolutionary War do certify upon my honor that I will know William Mooney, now of Rockingham County, as a private in the Line & as a sergeant also during the years 1781 & 1782 for about fourteen months. I do [illegible] recollect the [illegible] Regiment to which he belonged during all that period as the Regiment were of the reduced & [illegible] but [illegible] some one or more of them, he was attached for upward of a year & was an approved soldier and as [illegible] were discharged at the end of the war. 
[signed TH Donoho]

November [22?]1818
Caswell County
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Will Mooney
6729
March 1819
[signature]
Tho. Seary, Esqr.
Rockingham C. NC
18 April 1821
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Schedule
District of North Carolina to wit 
[scratched out]

on this first day of September 1820 here personally appeared in the open court, being a court of record for the said districts, William Mooney aged 62 years, resident in Rockingham County in said district, who being duly [illegible] duly sworn according to law, saith on his oath he declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as [illegible] he enlisted in Guilford County state of North Carolina in the command of Capt. Gilman Dixon of the [illegible] discharged in the county of [illegible] in said State was discharged on the day of [illegible/blank] after having faithfully served for three years and having fought at the battle of the Eutaw Springs, [illegible]  Col. Hal Dixon & major Thomas Donoho commanded the Regiment. The number of his pension certificate is [blank] 
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident [illegible] of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that [illegible] not, being that time, [illegible] is in any manner disposed of my property as any [illegible] thereof with intent there so to diminish it as to bring my [illegible] within.
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the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in The Revolutionary War" I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property, or any securities, or contracts, or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule which follows & by me subscribed 
one mare worth $25
three small hogs $3
                           $28
My occupation that of a farmer and 62 years seven in family, my wife with [illegible] six children oldest sixteen, the others under that and I
William Mark Mooney

Sworn to and declared on this first day September 1820
R. Gallaway 
I, Robert Gallaway [illegible] of Rockingham Court of part & quarter sessions do hereby certify the foregoing oath & the schedule thereto   annexed are true & copied from the record of said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said court that the total amounts in [illegible] of the [illegible] schedule [illegible]
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on this first day of September 1820
Ro. Galloway [illegible]
[Faded Seal]
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J. Holderby
April 14th 1856
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Rockingham N.C.
April 14th 1856
Dir Sir : 
Since I last wrote to you I have made further inquiry and have ascertained that Mr. Chas B. Mooney the son of William Mooney the declared Revolutionary soldier has the record of his fathers' & mothers' death and of their [illegible]. It is embraced in an old family Bible [illegible].
It seems that Mooney the pensioner died in July 1837, and his widow in 1844. They were married in 1792. All of this can be proved. You write to me that were informed that all depended upon the dates of marriage and death. I have given them to you as far as I have been able to ascertain and hope you will now be so kind as to direct the son how to proceed to get the pension that was due his mother & for she was not pensioned in her lifetime. It is also asserted that the pensioner did not get as much in his lifetime as he ought to have had as Old John Mattock and Thomas Lowe who were his neighbors and who served on as Sergeants as he did got some 25 to 30 dollars.
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more than Mooney did. Please examine and see if Mooney was not entitle to the same amount. 
Please see Mr. Gively at the contract office of the P.O. department as soon as you can, and get him to attend to those routes for me. I may be there on the 30th when the bids are all published, but if I am not able to come in I will write you in time. 
Be pleased to accept my thanks for your last favors, and believe me as ever
Your family
J. Holderby

Capt. P.M. Henry
Washington D.C.
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Treasury Department
Third auditors' office
May 8, 1855

Sir, I herewith return to you the papers in the cases of John Watkins, Henry H. Norvell, and William Mooney, received from you under date of the 4th just[?], and have to inform you that it is on record that John Watkins died 11 January, 1838, and William Mooney, 12th July 1837, both paid in full, and that Henry H. Norvell, has been paid up 4 September 1846

I am, sir, your obedient servant
[illegible signature, possibly Benjamin?]

L.P. Waldo, Esq.
Comm of Pensions
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W. Mooney must make an affidavit agreeably to the within form, and transmit it to the War Department, before a new certificate of pension can be issued. The original does not appear to be in the pension office. 
May 27th 1822. 

Vol 9. [illegible]
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APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE

County of Rockingham ss. N Carolina
On this thirteenth day of July 1822; before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Rockingham personally appeared William Mooney who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Tilman Dickson [likely Dixon] in the regiment commanded by Colonel Dickson [again, likely Dixon] in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of North Carolina that he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which certificate, on or about the month of August day of [blank] 1820, at or near Rockingham County. was lost 
he William Mooney or Mark
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid. James Barnett J.P.

NOTES, The last four blanks are left for the applicant to set forth the time, place, and manner of the loss or destruction of the original certificate. The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated. 
[hand pointing] if the pensioner has never received a formal certificate, but has drawn his pension on a mere notification, as was the case in a few instances many years ago, he should leave out the above words in italics, and insert, in lieu thereof, "but has never receiver a formal certificate, and now wishes to obtain one."
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State of North Carolina
Rockingham County

I Robert Galloway, clerk of the county court of pleas and quarter sessions for the county of that aforesaid, do duly certify that James Roswell whose [illegible] to the [illegible] official [smudged out] is & was at the time of assigning the same, a Justice of the Peace for said county, that due faith & credit is due his attestation as such in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office This 30th August AD 1822

R. Galloway J.P.

I, Abraham Phillips, Presiding Justice of the county court of pleas and quarter sessions for the County of Rockingham, North Carolina do duly certify that Robert Galloway whose signature appears above is clerk of the said court & county & that his certificate is in due form & full faith & credit ought to be given to his attestation as such witness my hand this 30th August AD 1822
A. Phillips
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High Rock, [MD?]
[1st Steptember?]

Hon. John C. Calhoun 
Secretary of War
Washington 

Mr. Edwards
for new certificate
[illegible] 1822
mail
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Rockingham 2nd September 1822

Sir I have proceeded to have the enclosed affidavit of mr. mooney according to your directions filled up & certified. Upon the reception of which I hope you will issue his certificate of pension to Haywood P.O Chatham NC directed to myself. Very respectfully yours 
Tho. Hill

Hon. J.C. Calhoun
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Treasury Department 
Second comptroller's office
June 27, 1854

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time in which pensioners may receive their pensions from the Pension Agents, the Admr. of William Mooney, dec. Pensioner on the Roll of the Fayetteville Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month under the law of the 18 March 1818, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1836, to the 12th July 1837.
Respectfully Yours, 
J.M. Brodhead 
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present
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41885
INVALID

File No. 41.885
William Mooney
Serg Rev War

Act: 18th March 18

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