Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14855, Josiah Wilson, N.C.
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Service    Number
N.C. Wilson, Josiah S.14855
carded
CONTENTS
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2068
Kentucky
Josiah Wilson
of Hopkins in the State of Kentucky
who was a private in the Compy commanded
by Captain Ramsey of the Regt commanded
by ______in the No. Carolina
line for 13 months 28 days from
1780 =

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 46. Dollars 45 Cents
per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
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Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of Nov.
1832---
and (illegible) Samuel
Woodson, Madisonville, Ky:

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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832  69.67
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4  23.23
March 1833                       _____________
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$92.90

⎨ Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk
Book D
Vol. 9 Page 66_
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Josiah Wilson
15 months
3576
from 1780. 13 months and
28 days private
$46.45
for 1780, fifteen
months,
look in roll for 
service for one year
found on Roll of
Captain Raiford Company from
May 17, 1781 to April 15, 1782
See Joseph Willson's name
and note opposite
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Kentucky
Hopkins County (illegible)
Be it remembered that heretofore towit, at a Court
held for the County aforesaid at the Courthouse in the town of
Madisonville on the 13th day of August 1832 the
following entry among others was made in the minutes
of said Court Viz-
"Josiah Wilson a soldier of the revolution & applicant
for a pension this day produced in Court his declaration
under an act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 and
subscribed and swore to the same and the certificate
of Charles Campbell & Samuel Whitesides thereunder
written was also subscribed & sworn to in open Court

Whereupon the Court do hereby declare their opinion after
the investigation and after putting the interrogatories prescribed
by the War Department that the above applicant was a
revolutionary soldier and served as he states and
the Court further certifies that it appears to them that
Charles Campbell who subscribed the certificate above
mentioned is a clergyman in the County of Hopkins
and that Samuel Whitsides who also signed the same
is a resident of the same County in the neighborhood
of s applicant + is a credible person and that their
statement is entitled to credit"
I Samuel Woodson clerk to the County Court of
Hopkins County aforesaid do hereby certify that the
foregoing is a true transcript of an entry in the minutes
of said Court as the same now remains in my office I
further certify that the paper hereunto attached marked
(A) is the original declaration mentioned in said entry
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as having  been subscribed & sworn to by the said Josiah Wilson
and that the certificate thereunder written signed by Charles
Campbell & Samuel Whitesides is the original
mentioned in said entry as having been subscribed
sworn to by them
In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto subscribed my name and
affixed the seal of said County the
18th day of August 1832 & in the
41st year of the Commonwealth
Sam Woodson
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State of Kentucky
County of Hopkins
13th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of theCourt for the County aforesaid Josiah Wilson resident in the County and state aforesaid aged seventy who being first being duly sworn to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7th June  1832
that he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers & served as herein stated
that he was born in Partee County in the state of South Carolina in the year 1760- That he substituted in P. county for his father (the date not recollected) served a term of three months under Capt Allen Ramsey of the South Carolina Militia - that he marched
through Wilmington & George Town to Charleston S. Carolina - that he served in Charleston while
was be besieged by Gen S H Clinton & just before the city surrendered his tour expired - he returned home - he received from his capt. a written discharge but left the same in N Carolina when he removed to this County
He substituted in said county of Partee his place of residence [illegible] 1781 for one Thomas Baysmore under Capt Nolt for twelve
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months that he rendezvoused at Winton in
Hartford County N Carolina and marched
thence to Halifax County of S. Carolina to
Granville Courthouse where he joined General Sumner & stayed about a month - he thence marched Hillsborough S. Carolina thence to Salisbury where the Regiment was divided into companies and he was placed in the company of Capt Robert Rayford in Col. Dixons Regiment he thence marched to the high side of Santee and joined the Army under General Nathan Green - was
in the battle at the Eutaw Springs - thence
marched near to Bacons bridge a cross the
Ashley. then returned, and crossed the Santee at Haleys Ferry to the High Hills
of Santee and after remaining there sometime marched near to Ninety Six
Jacksons borough near to James Island
then to within two miles of Bacon's bridge
aforesaid where he remained until
his time expired in 1782 when he was 
discharged and went home - received
written discharge but left the same in
Carolina at the time he was discharged his company by Capt Litle- Capt Rayford having been promoted - after the revolution
that he resided  in Partee South Carolina until he removed to Houston County, Ky.He has no
no documentary evidence and having no living person whose testimony
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he can procure who can testify to his
(illegible) hereby relinquishes every claim what
ever to a pension or annuity except the presents
and declares that his name is not on 
the pension roll of the Agency of any state
Sworn to subscribed
the day & year afore

his
Josiah  X Wilson
mark

(illegible) Charles Campbell a clergyman in the County
of Hopkins & State of Kentucky & Samuel Whitesides
(illegible) in the same hereby certify that we are
well acquainted with Jonah Wilson who has
subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that
we believe him to be seventy two years of age
that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a
soldier of the Revolution and that we concur
in that opinion
Sworn & subscribed the
Chs Campbell
day & year aforesaid Saml Whitesides
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14855
(illegible)
INVALID.
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File No. 14,855
Josiah Wilson
Pri Rev War
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Act: June 7th 1832
Index: - Vol. 1, Page 412
Arrangement of 1870.]

1933 Apr.10,Hist to
Hattie M. Scott -Sec
Samuel Wilson, SH 811
(illegible)
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Hon Secretary of War
Washington
(illegible)
3575 to 3586
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Madisonville Ky 21st Augt 1832
Sir
Inclosed you will receive the papers of (illegible)
applicants for pensions under the act of Congress  of the 7th June last you will perceive that  the instructions issued from the Department of war not (illegible) perceived to the letter particularly in the clerks certificate in the (illegible) requiring that the court shall keep (illegible) of its proceedings (illegible) (illegible) original of (illegible) could not be forwarded with the declarations have been made to conform to that state of care.
Should any of the applicants be so fortunate as to obtain certificates & should they are entitled to them if you (illegible) at this place (illegible) great pleasure in delivering them 
From age infirmity to the great layers of time (illegible) of the applicants could not (illegible) states with any thing like (illegible) Respectfully Sam Woodson