Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1506, Henry Carson, N.C.
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE
N.C.
Carson, Henry

NUMBER
S. 1506

CONTENTS
Carded
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

25079 
West Tennessee 
Henry Carson

of Weakley Co. in the State of Tennessee
who was a private in the com [Company] commanded
by Captain Craig of the regt [Regiment] commanded
by Col. Lock in the S. Carolina
line for 6 months

North Carolina Line Record Corrected Oct. 1903

Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee
at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of Nov.
1833 and John A. Gardner Dresden

Arrears to the 4th of Sept.  - 50.00
Semi=anl. [annual] allowance ending 4 Mar  10.00
$60.00
{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Danl[Daniel] Boyd, Clerk
Book E Vol. 7 Page 75

[right side of page] See lett [letter] 25 Apr 34
To Hon D Crockett
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State of Tennessee} 
Weakley County} SS 

On this 14th day of October 1833 personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions now sitting, Henry Carson a resident of the County and State aforesaid, aged seventy-eight years, 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 7th, 1832. 

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. I entered the service under Captain James Craig in Rowan County North Carolina, with Matthew Lock [Matthew Locke] as our Colonel, and Griffith Rutherford our General. This I think was in August or September 1780 a few months after Charleston in South Carolina was taken by the British [May 12, 1780]. I was drafted for a three months tour, and served out the time. We met at Salisbury in Rowan County & marched from there through Surry County up to the forks of the Adkin [Yadkin River], in pursuit of Colonel Bryant [Samuel Bryan], who had raised a band of Tories; but before we reached the place of our destination, the Tories & their commander retreated down the River Adkin, through Rowan & Anson Counties, to the junction of the Adkin & Rocky River's, where they got into a Fort at the house of a man named Coalson [Colson]; – we then came up with them, with whom by this time there was some British, and attacked them in the Fort, and beat them out killing in the skirmish several of their number. Those of them that got off [away] with their lives made their escape by swimming the Rivers. We then returned back to Rowan County and again went in quest of a band of Tories that had collected on the Catawba River, and had a skirmish with them at Ramsour's Mill, in which they were defeated with considerable loss; after which the balance of them dispersed; some joining the British
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We then moved about in different directions to keep the numerous small parties of Tories in check, until the end of the three months for which we were drafted. – This time I received no discharge no whatever in writing from the service. – During the next three months I rode post for Majr [Major] Mt. Florence the Quarter Master, and furnished my own horse, and received no pay at all for my services, not even to defray my necessary expenses. A few months subsequent to this period (the precise date from the frailty of [^ my] memory I cannot now recollect) I was again drafted for a three months tour. This time I served under Captain John Dellingder [John Philip Dellinger] who with his Company joined Genl [General] Greene [Nathanael Greene] at Salisbury in Rowan County; from which place we marched into Guilford, from thence into Randolph, and returned back into Guilford, where we met the forces under the command of General Wayne [Anthony Wayne]. This was, I think, was in the month of January or the first of February and many of the soldiers were bare footed, and had suffered immensely from the cold. – The combined Army under Genl [General] Greene & Genl [General] Wayne had a fierce action with the British under Lord Cornwallis in Guilford County [March 15, 1781]; in which a few of our men lost their lives, together with a considerable number of the enemy. – The British then relocated into Virginia on Dan River, and we returned back to Rowan County, where we kept the Tories in subjection until the end of the tour. – I again received no discharge from my superior officer. – 
This made to three months tours for which I was drafted the whole of which I served, besides the additional three months that I rode post under the Commissary General. Before I entered the service in person in 1780, I was drafted for a six months tour, and hired Henry Girt as my substitute. He served in my place during the whole of that tour. This was some time previous to the taking of Charleston by the British in 1780.
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I left the service in the spring or summer of 1782. When I entered the service of the United States, and also when I quitted it, I resided in Rowan County in the State of North Carolina. – Owing to being frequently engaged in procuring provisions & carrying baggage etc., I am unable to state what were the names of the captains of the Companies with which I served, or the number of the regiments. I have no documentary evidence of my service, nor do I know of any person, whose testimony [words scratched out] I can procure, who can testify to the same. 
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declare that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any state. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
Henry Carson
Wm H. Johnson Clerk

We Benjamin Barham a Clergyman, residing in the County of Weakley & State of Tennessee and John H Reavis residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Henry Carson who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration; that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood [neighborhood] where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, & that we concur in that opinion 
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
Wm H Johnson Clerk 
Benj Barham 
John H. Reavis 

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, 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
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served as he states And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Benjamin Barham who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the County of Weakley & State of Tennessee, and that John H Reavis, who has also signed the same is a resident of the same County & State, and is a credible person, and that their Statements is entitled to credit. 
John H Moore J P
Robt [Gleve?[ JP
J F Outhouse JP

State of Tennessee}
Weakley County}
Perry Vincent Chairman of Weakley County Court 

I William H Johnson Clerk of the Court of Pleas & quarter Sessions for said County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court, in the matter of the application of Henry Carson for a pension 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office. This 14th day of October in the year of our Lord 1833 
John h. Moore
Wm H. Johnson Clerk 

[written sideways] Henry Carson 27,876
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February 3, 1940.

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BA-J/ADY Henry Carson S. 1506

Mr. De E. Bradshaw 
790 West 49th Street 
P. O. Box 2265 
Miami Beach, Florida 

Dear Sir: 

Reference is made to your letter relative to Henry Carson, a soldier of the Revolutionary War. 

The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.1506, based upon the military service in that war of Henry Carson. 

The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Henry Carson are not shown. 

While a resident of Rowan County, North Carolina, Henry Carson enlisted in 1780, served three months as private in Captain James Craig's Company, Colonel Mathew Lock's [Locke’s] North Carolina Regiment and was in the battle of Ramsour's Mill and a skirmish. He next enlisted and served three months as post rider for Major “Mt. Florence”, (possibly meant for de Montfort), the Quartermaster. A few months later he enlisted, served three months as private in Captain John Dellinger's North Carolina Company, and was in the battle of Guilford. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 14, 1833, at which time he was aged seventy-eight years and a resident of Weakley County, Tennessee, his post office address was Dresden, Tennessee. 

There are no family data. 

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the death date of soldier, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C. and cite the following data: “Henry Carson, Certificate No. 23079,
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issued November 19, 1833, rate $20.00 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, West Tennessee Agency”. 

Your citation in regard to military voucher for 2 pounds, 4 shillings, dated September 16, 1784, received by Henry Carson, does not pertain to the records of this office. hence this office has no means of identifying him with any other soldier with that name. 

Very truly yours 

A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[right side of page] 1940 Feb. 3 Hist. to De E. Bradshaw, ADY

Rev War 
INVALID

File No. 1506
Henry Carson
Priv. S. C. [Private South Carolina] Line

Act: June 7, 1832
Index: - Vol. A, Page 56

[Arrangement of 1870.]

North Carolina Line, Records corrected Oct. 1963 a
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27.876 
Henry Carson 
Tennessee
for 1780 private
6 months
$20 

John A. Gardner Dresden Tennessee

[written upside down] Free
Dresden Ten.}
Oct 22}

Pension Office
Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington City D.C.
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Dresden Tennessee Oct. 19th 1833

Dear Sir 
Enclosed I send you the Declaration of Henry Carson for a Pension, which I drew for him. You will please examine it as early as convineint [convenient], and if allowed, send his certificate either to me or him, directed to Dresden Tennessee. If the Declaration requires any amendment before it can be acted on by the Department return it to me with instructions 
very Respectfully 
your Obt [obedient] humble servant, 
John A. Gardner}

Hon. Lewis Cass}
Secretary of war}
Washington City D.C.
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[Letterhead] DE E. BRADSHAW, PRESIDENT / T. E. PATTERSON, VICE PRESIDENT / FARRAR NEWBERRY, SECRETARY 
WOODMEN OF THE WORLD 
***LIFE INSURANCE SOCIETY***
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT / OMAHA NEBRASKA 

[stamped] RECEIVED / JAN 19 1940 / MAIL SUB-DIV [Illegible] 

790 W. 49 St., 
Miami Beach, Fla. 
P. O. Box 2265 
Phone 6-2894

January 17, 1940

War Pension Department, 
Washington, D.C. 

Gentlemen: 

Henry Carson resided in Weakley County, Tennessee in 1832, at age 79 was granted a pension by the U.S. for service in the Revolutionary War, in the S.C. line. Will you please advise me 

(1) Where and when he enlisted? 

(2) The battles in which he was engaged? 

(3) The names of any of his family as shown by the records. 

Will you also please advise me whether or not he is the same Henry Carson who served in the Revolutionary War as is shown by Military Voucher received on September 16, 1784 for 2 pounds, 4 shillings, apparently in Morgan County, North Carolina? Can you name any of his family relations? 

Thanking you in advance for the information, I am, 

Sincerely yours, 
De E. Bradshaw 

De E. Bradshaw.

DEB:nn

[bottom of Letterhead] 1890 / GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY / 1940 / picture on both ends