Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21,230, Allen Gillespie, N.C.
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service.  North Carolina

Allen Gillespie

number.  S 21230

born  in Md.
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pay & letter to C W Meek
27 March 1838.

Jonesborough
West Tennessee 29.584
Allen Gillespie
of Washington Co. in the State of Tennessee
who was a Pr. & Sergt. in the company commanded
by Captain Beadle of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Sevier in the N. Carolina Mil,
line for 6 months Privates-- 20.00
Sergeant 20.00
$40.00

Inscribed on the Roll of Jonesborough
at the rate of 40 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of Decr
1834 and sent to Hon. J. Blair
H. R.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1834   140.00
Semi anl. allowance ending 4 March 35   20.00
$160.00

Revolutionary Claim,}
⎨Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book E-3 Vol. 7 Page 149
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Allen Gillespie
Pension Declaration
32.031

from 1780 pr
& sargt 10 months
Pr. 6 mos  20.00
Sept 4 20.00
$40.

For Jonesborough
agency.
& to be sent J. Blair

H. R.
Hon. J. Blair
H. R
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State of Tennessee
Washington County ⎬   September Term 1834
Be it remembered that on this tenth day of September 1834 before the
Honerable Samuel Powel Judge of said Court, personally appeared Allen
Gillespie a resident citizen of said County aged sixty nine years and being desirous of availing himself of the pensions of the act of Congress passed 
June 7th 1832 made & subscribed on oath the following declaration to wit, trust that he was born in the vicinity of Hagerstown Maryland in the month of July 10765. and before the Indian hostilities in what is now East Tennessee then N. Carolina removed to Washington County & settled there where declarant was raised & continued to reside ever since anbd being subject to perform military duty in the year 1781 declarant volunteered to perform a tour of duty against the Cherokee Indians and tories then in league with the British this was in the same year of the Kings mountain battle a little previous thereto when a regular call was made for Militia to repel the incomings of the enemy he volunteered under the command of Col John Lenox
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to where frequent order had been given by the Government of N Carolina to call out the militia & after his enrollment under the afsd officers he was marched to the Nation, & after driving back the Indians was kept in the vicinity of a fort on Bridgerton called [blotched]house where he with the men under the command of the aforesaid officers ranged spied, and [illegible] on the frontier until the expectation of his term of time which was for three 3 months. verbally discharged by Capn Biddle, tour after the expiration of his first term he again volunteered under the same officers & continued to serve the Country being at the time annoyed with bodies of Cherokee Indians & tories breaking in upon the frontier & the British under Cornwallis being in the march to the lead mines & expected to pass through the very country in which he resided would have so done but for the signal and defeat of the Army at Kings mountain and instead of going under lot [illegible] to the Kings Mountain Battle he was detailed with the captains company to which he belonged to guard the Fort in Limestone & repel the Indians & tories from taking the Country on the
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within of so great a body of the militia from the frontier to intersept the march
of Comwallis, and remained in service not only for the time engaged of three months but behind it, and not for neighborhood Defence but under general defensive orders.

Again he was enrolled as a volunteer under Capt Handy of Col. Seviers commaned for another then of three months marched to the Tennessee river & there being so large a body of Indians assembled in the oposite side of the River the Regiment retreated there being more than three thousand Indians assembled & not more than five hundred whites said [illegible] was for three months but was actually after retreating to the fort on Limestone kept until a reinforcement came which was one month longer than his engagement. declarant states on the last tour he was an orderly Sargent & performed duty in that capacity & for which three tours amounting to nine months regular calls but
ten actual service he claims a pension is thereof as a private & the remainder as an orderly Sargeant that he has no record evidence of his services or written documents
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to establish his said servitude, [illegible] as then any witness known to him by whom he can establish his actual services says that of Charles Graham herewith transmitted. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present and acclaims that his name is not in the pension roll of the agency of any state, that he has no record of his age but the family record as for the confession of his brother James, and he recollects the year of his birth & it is truly stated He states that Charles Graham and Nathan Gann are persons known to him & he to them & by whom he can prove reputation of services. 
Sworn to & subscribed in open court this 10 September 1834. 
Test Jas V Anderson Clk    Allen Gillespie

We Charles Graham & Nathan Gann resident citizens of said County do certify on oath that we are well acquainted with Allen Gillespie Esqr, who has made & subscribed the foregoing declarations that we believe him to be sevty nine years of age, & it is reputed and believed in this vicinsty of his & our residence that the said Allen was a soldier of the Revolution & served as stated by him & Charles Graham states that he knew
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of the declarant Allen Gillespie being on service as a Sargeant under Col Sevier on the expedition specified by him in his declaration and which is truly stated by him, residing in the vicinity of said declarant being personally acquainted with the fact.
Sworn to & subscribed before this Court in open court this 11th Sepr 1834. 
Test Jo V Anderson Clk  Charles his X mark Graham
Nathan Ian

And the said Court do hereby certify that after an investigation of the matter & after propounding the interrogationeers prescribed by the department of war that the said Allen Gillespie was a soldier of the Revolution and served as stated by him, and that Charles Graham & Nathan Gavin the witnesses are reputable & their testimony entitled to credit

S [illegible] Seal Judge of the Circuit 

State of Tennessee}
 Washington County}
I, James V Anderson clerk of the Circuit Cort in and for the County & state aforesaid do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of application of Allen Gillespie for a pension given under my hand & seal of office Sepr 11th 1834. Jas V Anderson
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State of Tennessee}
Washington County}
On this 25 day of October 1834 before the subscriber a Justice of the peace as asked for said County personally appeared Jacob Brown and made oath that in the year 1780 in October he came to the Western part of North Carolina after the defeat of Ferguson and was in said engagement-remained in said section of the Country part of the years 1780 and 81. and well knows that the militia of the said territory and vicinity in which Allen Gillespie resided and still resides were called out into service against the Cherokee Indians 8 times for general and not local defence and that he himself was so called out and the service in that thin sparse population was more offensive in subduing the Indians at times than most other quarters, that being a theatre for the tories and disaffected: & knows the calls to have been from general authority of N Carolina not neighborhood and local defense 
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 22 Oct 1834 
Jacob Brown 
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and date above 
Henry McGordy 
Justice of the Peace
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Henry McRoy Esqr whose attestation appear to the officiant of Col Jacob Brown is known to me to be an acting Justice of Washington County - Col Brown the the witness is a credible man   John Black 
Decr 11th 1834
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21  230 Invalid.
Revolution File No. 21,230
Allen Gillespie Sergt Rev War
Act: June 7" 32"
Index:--Vol. 2, Page 153
[Arrangement of 1870]
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James S Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.
Mar 24 Jonesborough
W Evans
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Jonesborough 16th March 1838
Sir 
Enclosed are the papers in the cases of William Good and Allen Gillespie pensioners under the Act 7th June 1821 who have not applied for their pensions for more than twelve months you will please instruct the pension Agent at the Jonesborough Tennessee to pay the amount due them
I am Very Respectfully 
Your obt servant
Charles Willett


James L. Edwards. Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Wahington City D.C.