Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1893, William Alexander, N. C.
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N.C.
Alexander, William 
S.1893
carded
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(6923)
Tennessee West.
______________________________________________
William Alexander
Maury Co in the State of Tennessee who was a pri[vate] in the Company commanded by Captain McKnight of the Regt. [Regiment] commanded by Col Higgins in the North Carolina Militia for 18 mo. [months] from 17[illegible]
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Inscribed on the Roll of Tennessee the rate of 60 Dollars -- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 9. day of March 1833 and Sent Hon James K. Polk Columbia Tenn.
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Arrears to 4th of March 1833.    120.00                
Semi=ant. allowance ending 4 Sept. “     30.00
_________                                                                    $150.00
__________

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Henry H. Sylvester Clerk
Book D.   Vol. 9.  Page 143
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
State of Tennessee Maury County.
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On this 13th day [crossed out: appeared] of September, personally appeared in open court, before the [crossed out: judges] Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, now sitting, William Alexander, a resident of said County of Maury, and State of Tennessee, aged 72 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 7. 1832.

That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers, & served as herein stated - He entered the Service as to volunteer in the county of Mecklenburgh [sic: Mecklenburg], North Carolina, in the month of May in the year 1780, under one Col Higgins, and Robert McKnight Captain, his service consisted altogether in patrolling this county, in watching the tories; he was out about three or four weeks in this first tour;  the second tour he was under Capt Sigert, & same Colonel, in the same year, was about the same time out - & performing the same duty; the third tour was under the same officers in the same year & 1781, while the British [crossed out: was] were lying in Charlotte, our duty consisted in watching & harassing the enemy in keeping them from plundering the country, after this tour, which lasted about 3 months. he was engaged, in assisting in furnishing the army with supplies of provisions -  That in consideration of his service in the American Army at various times during the Revolutionary war. He re-
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ceived [received] a warrant for 500 acres of western lands in his own name ^from the state of North Carolina^. which warrant has ^been^ perfected into a grant for that amount by the State of Tennessee; which said grant he forwards [crossed out: as to part of] ^accompanying^ this declaration as proof of his said Services; he is unable at this late period of time ^to^ state the exact period or length of time he served as a soldier; but he adduces this grant found on a warrant for his services, and states further the known fact that the State of North Carolina at that period by her laws issued land warrants to or located in her western Territory founded on military service or supplies furnished the army, at the rate of 100 acres for £10.  Which furnishes the ^only^ certain criterion he now has by which the length of his services can be now estimated; he knows as a fact that the lengths of time which he served was sufficient to entitle him; in the opinion of the authorities of North Carolina, to a land warrant for 500 acres - which was issued to him by them as above stated.  He has no written discharge from the service - He was born in the state of Pennsylvania on the [blank] day of April 1760 and was brought by his father when a small boy to Mecklenburgh [sic: Mecklenburg] County North Carolina, ^& has resided in that state & the county of Maury, Ten. ever since -^ he was there living when called into service. He is known to James Osborne Esq. of his neighborhood + also Thomas Grant of his ^neighborhood^ who will testify as to his character for veracity, & their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.
[crossed out: S/Wm. Alexander]

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, & declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any state. -
S/Wm. Alexander

Sworn & subscribed, this day & year aforesaid
S/Thos J Porter clerk
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And they said

We James Osborne & Thomas Grant both of the county of Maury Ten- hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Alexander, who has  subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be 72 years of age:  that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn + subscribed this day and year aforesaid
James Osborn
Thomas Grant his mark

Thos. J. Porter clerk

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after
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As evidence of his claim William Alexander has this day produced by his Agt. the Hon. W. Polk, a patent issued by the authority of the State of Tennessee dated April 26, 1824 upon a warrant, granted by the State of NC on the 30th day of Nov 1784, to the said Alexander, for five hundred acres of land in consideration of his military service during the revolutionary war.

March 5 1833

H. H. Sylvester
Clerk [illegible]

The Patent returned to W. Polk
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[This appears to be a printed form with handwriting filling in required information.  Form was previously folded in half with printed form on the right and the left used for additional handwritten information.]

Rev War [handwritten]
INVALID [printed on form]
1893 [handwritten]

File No.  1893
William Alexander
Pvt. N.C. Line

Act:  June 7, 1832
Index: —- Vol. A, Page 5

{Arrangement of 1870}

[The following is written on the left side of paper]

1914 Aug 18: history to Miss Ella M. Powell
M.B.H.
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Gainesville GA -
Aug - 12th - 1914 -

Commissioner of Pensions -
Washington, D.C.-

Dear Sir -

Please send me at earliest convenience, the record of service, and any family records, to be found in the applications paperwork of the Revolutionary Pensioners William Alexander of Maury Co. Tenn - in 1833, and John Houston of Blount Co. Tenn in 1833.
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Thanking you in advance for this favor —

I am —

Sincerely

(Miss) Ella May Powell —
R.F.D. 3 —
Gainesville, Ga.
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[This is a printed form information handwritten in]

REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D.C. __________, 19____

S.1893

In reply to your request of _______, received_____ for a statement of the military history of William Alexander a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find the desired information as contained in his (or his widow’s) [words “or his widow’s” marked through] application for pension file in this Bureau.  S.1893

[Table follows.  Column titles are typed out with relevant information following.  This table has four lines of handwritten information.]

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
May 1780
1780
1780 + 1781
Afterwards assisted in furnishing Army [illegible] provisions

LENGTH OF SERVICE
3 or 4 weeks
3 or 4 weeks
3 mos. [months]

RANK
Pvt.

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.

CAPTAIN.
Robert McKnight
Sigert
Sigert

COLONEL.
Higgins
Higgins
Higgins

STATE.
N.C.

Battles engaged in, _________[checkmark on line]
Residence of soldier at enlistment,  Mecklenburg Co.
Date of application for pension, Sept 13, 1832.  His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Maury Co. Tenn.
Age at date of application, born in 1760 in Penn; died Sept. 7, 1839.
Remarks:  [there is a checkmark on first line but no remarks are written]

Respectfully,

Commissioner [without a signature]
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[Top of paper was cutoff when original was copied.  This is a blank form with only the word “CONTENTS” printed and lines.  The rest of the info is handwritten in.]

Born in Pa.
Sol. died Dec. 19, 1836                     carded

CONTENTS

a captain
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To the Honorable the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina

The Petition of William Alexander of Mecklenburg County respectfully herewith to your Honorable body, that during the revolutionary War between the United States and Great Brittain, your Petitioner served a number of successive Tours of duty in the militia of this State between the years 1775 and 1783 besides a tour of ten months as a Captain in the State of South Carolina, commonly called the State Troops, your Petitioner begs leave to state that in all the services he performed he acted in the capacity of Captain.  That compensation for his services was but a small object in his view at that time.  He is advised that he does not come under the act of Congress granting pensions to wounded or disabled soldiers, he having but the one tour of duty that exceeded nine months and never wounded in the service.

your Petitioner is now about 70 years of age and is infirm as your honors may believe from his services performed for his Country.  Your Petitioner from causes that he had no control over, and which thinks unnecessary to relate, has become in indigent circumstances, and is not able by his own labour, or any other means in his power to procure a subsistence of the necessarys of life for himself and his aged and infirm wife.

your Petitioner therefore respectfully prays your Honorable body to grant to him a Pension such as your Honours may think he ought to have to smooth his
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his downhill (and probably short) passage through life.  and he as in duty bound will ever pray.

Wm Alexander

We the subscribers are well acquainted with Captain William Alexander and have been well acquainted with him for near fifty years, and certify that the statement made in the foregoing Petition is fair and true statements.

Wm. Hutchinson
Geo. Graham
Will Polk

State of North Carolina
Secretary of State’s Office

I William Hill Secretary of State in and for the State aforesaid, do certify that the foregoing is the evidence and the only evidence on which the General Assembly of this State granted a Pension to Capt. William Alexander of the County of Mecklenburg in this State.

Given under my hand this 24th day of June 1835

W. Hill
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[This appears to be a printed form with additional information handwritten in]

4389
North Carolina

William Alexander of _________ in the State of ___________who was a Captain in the Infty [Infantry] commanded by Captain Cavalry the _______commanded by ________in the revolution
line for Increased from $480.

Inscribed on the Roll of Fayetteville at the rate of 530 Dollars and 00 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831 and [illegible] 19th December 1836.  

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of May 1856 and sent to 
J. Y. Bryant

Arrears to the 4th of

Semi-annual allowance ending Present

{Revolutionary Claims
Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by E. Y. Gettes Clerk,
Book E.   Vol. 6[?]    Page 44

N.C. and S. C. May 31, 1904
Records completed. [initials are illegible]

[left side of paper is handwritten]
Segar  Jany [January] 8 1857
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[This is a printed form with some information handwritten in.]

4389
North Carolina

William Alexander dec. [deceased]

of ______in the State of ________
who was a Captain in the Infy [Infantry] commanded by Captain Cavalry of the _____commanded by _______ in the revolution

line for Increased from $480
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Washington Jany 11th 1833. I am acquainted with Capt. William Alexander, the applicant, his services in the revolution in Mecklenburg are proverbial. and I believe his statements true. I further believe, that those, two Stats or pieces of paper, were purposed at the same time. and presented to the court at the same. - The hand writing is the same. and I have been requested by two different persons to attend to this claim.
S/Henry McConnor



[right side]
William Alexander



Sep. 25
10,923.
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[X] State of North Carolina } 
Mecklenburg County } 
Court of Pleas and quarter Sessions August Term 1832
On this 28th day of August 1832 personally appeared before the Justices of the Court of pleas and quarter Sessions for the County of Mecklenberg [sic: Mecklenburg] and state of North Carolina at the August Term thereof now sitting William Alexander ^aged 82 years - born in Bucks County Pennsylvania was & now a^ a resident of the County and State aforesaid 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 Colonel Adam Alexander as a captain in the [crossed out: state services] ^United States service^ [.] that He went out for [crossed out: three months and] six weeks and was at the head of the Catawba - the object of this tour was to protect the valley of the Catawba from the incursions of the Cherokee indians during the time they were gathering in their harvest - [crossed out: which] that was ^about the year^ 1776 that he again went out against the Cherokee Indians - up to the head of the river Catawba and across the ridge - that Colonel Adam Alexander and General Rutherford were his superior officers - he himself being a captain of a company - that in this campaign he served five months - that this tour was performed in the year 1776. That he again was in the service of the United States as a captain of Militia under Colonel Francis Locke - that he marched from Charlotte N.C. to Camden or in the neighbourhood thereof and was going on to Charleston which had been in the possession of General Lincoln - that after its fall - his Colonel stopped at Camden and there went into encampment until the time for which he volunteered expired which was for three months - He again served as a captain under Colonel Williams and Ezekiel Polk and
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on six weeks tour and went in pursuit of a Tory captain by the name of Cunningham [Bill Cunningham] - He again served under General Sumpter [sic: Sumter, General Thomas Sumter] for four months and as a captain and was at the Battle of Camden at Gates defeat [Battle of Camden, August 16, 1780] - that he was at the Battle of [crossed out: the] Rocky Mount [Battle of Rocky Mount, August 1, 1780] - and at the Battle of the Hanging Rock [Battle of Hanging Rock, August 6, 1780] - and at the battle at Walkup's during the period of that four months service - That he was again [sic] entered the service of the United States as a captain under Colo. Thomas Polk and went [crossed out: to] to Goulding Grove on Reedy Creek in the state of South Carolina on a trip of six weeks - and at that place defeated a body of tories where ^they took^ two hundred tories prisoners - Cunningham was the leader of the tories - this is commonly called the snow campaign [Snow Campaign, December 1775] - on this expedition he served with William Polk now of Raleigh who was at time wounded severely - He again entered the service of the United States as a captain for three months under General Rutherford [General Griffith Rutherford] and acted under the orders and command of General Green [sic: Greene, Major General Nathanael Greene] - during this period was dispatched to Fayetteville by the orders of General Green [sic: Greene, Major General Nathanael Greene] - immediately preceding the Battle of Guilford [Battle of Guilford Court House, March 15, 1781] - he was not in that engagement himself having taken the small pox and being at that time incapable of performing duly - He again was out under the command of General Rutherford [General Griffith Rutherford] and served for six weeks just before the battle of Ramsour [Battle of Ramsour's Mill, June 20, 1780] in Lincoln County. he was not in that engagement with the tories being with Rutherford at the time the battle was fought. he arrived upon the ground a short time after and attended to the wounded and the burying of the dead. He again entered the service of the United States as a captain under General Sumpter [sic: Sumter] [strikethrough] in Col Wade Hampton's Regiment and was the first captain who arrived from N. Carolina at the place of rendezvous - with his men he volunteered or enlisted in the service of the State of South Carolina for ten months and received his com
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mission [commission] from General Sumpter [sic: Sumter; General Thomas Sumter] - which commission is lost or destroyed - during the time that he acted as a captain in the state Troop of South Carolina in the first Regiment under General Sumpter [sic: Sumter; General Thomas Sumter] - Colonel Hampton [Colonel Wade Hampton] being his colonel [,] he was actively engaged - He was engaged in the fight at the quarter House - at the Battle of Monks [sic: Moncks] Corner [Battle of Monck's Corner, April 14, 1780] - at the taking of fort Johnson [SC, September 1775] and Fridays fort [may be referring to Fort Granby near Friday's Ferry, SC, February 1781] - at the capture of Orangeburg - 

And was in the Battle of Eutaw [Battle of Eutaw Springs, September 8, 1781] and was discharged at Winnesboro [sic: Winnsboro] in the state of South Carolina by General Sumpter [sic: Sumter; General Thomas Sumter] - that he was out at other times for short periods and always held himself ready to perform duty at any time - he is old and his memory - not as good as it has been - and is not able to remember the particular periods of the revolutionary war - when he was called into service - but refers to the Battles and campaigns in which he was in as stated in the [illegible; looks like premises but doesn't make sense?] as epodes to ascertain these facts - they being well known - he has no [strikethrough] documentary evidence of his commission as captain - that which he received from Sumpter [sic: Sumter] being lost - and that he always acted from the first time he entered the service of the United [States] in Mecklenburg County as a captain - that his discharges are all lost - he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present - and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state ^Except the pension Roll of N Carolina^ - He can prove his services in the ten months tour in South Carolina by the oath of John Gardner and Isaac Alexander and ^William Hutchinson^ as to his other services he could prove it by the evidence of many persons but whose evidence it would be inconvenient and expensive to obtain - the whole term of his service being two years and eight months - & that since the Revolution has always lived in Mecklenburgh [sic: Mecklenburg] N.C.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in
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open court - 
William [his mark a] Alexander


State of North Carolina }
Mecklenberg [sic: Mecklenburg] County } 
Court of Pleas and quarter sessions August Term 1832 -

[strikethrough following paragraph]
I [blank] Chairman of the Court of Pleas and quarter sessions held for the County of Mecklenburg and state aforesaid at the August Term thereof for the year aforesaid do declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states -
[/strikethrough]

Robt Hall Morrison a clergyman residing in the County of Mecklenburg -
[crossed out: Mr] John Garodner [sic: Gardner] William Hutchinson and Isaac Alexander residing in the County of Mecklenburg ^hereby certify that^ are all well acquainted with William Alexander who has sworn and subscribed to the above declaration [,] that we believe him to be eighty three years of age - that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion - John Gardner further swears that he served as a private under the said Captain William Alexander twice - once on a tour mentioned in his declaration when he went to Camden under General Francis Locke - and when he was under Col. Wade Hampton and General Sumpter [sic: Sumter] in the service of the states troop of South Carolina for the term of ten months - and that he was i the battles mentioned in his declaration - the tour to Camden was just about the Lincolns surrender at Charleston in the 1780 - The time of his entering the service of the states troop was ^soon^ after the Battle of Guilford 1781. sometime in the of the same - year - William Hutchinson further swears that he served in the same expedition with Captain William Alexander against the Cherokee Indians under General Rutherford and was out about five months - Isaac Alexander further swears the same
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thing -
S/Robt. H. Morrison [illegible]
S/Isaac Alexander
S/John Gardner 

sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid


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 served as a captain as he states - ad the Court further certifies that it appears to them that John Gardner [,] William Hutchinson and Isaac Alexander who have signed the preceding certificate are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.


I Isaac Alexander Clerk of the Court of Pleas and quarter sessions [crossed out: do hereby] for the County of Mecklenberg [sic: Mecklenburg] and state foresaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contained the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Captain William Alexander for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at office in Charlotte this 28th day of August AD. 1832 -
S/Isaac Alexander CMC
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Washington Jany 11th 1833. I am acquainted with Capt William Alexander, the applicant, his services in the revolution in Mecklenburg are proverbial. and I believe his statements true [.] I further believe, that those, two sheets or pieces of paper were proposed at the same time, and presented to the court at the same. - The hand writing is the same, and I have been requested by two different persons to attend to this claim.
S/Henry M. Connor


[noted in margin below: Omit]


William Alexander


Sep 25
10,923
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I hereby authorize my friend Capt. J. Y. Bry[ant] to act for me in this case -
S/W. F. Davidson








Filed by John Y. Bryant
April 18/56.  Present.
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Power of Atto[rney].
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Power of Attorney.

STATE OF North Carolina  } ss.
COUNTY OF Mecklenburg }
BE IT KNOWN that before the subscriber, a Magistrate -  personally appeared Dan, Alexander - aged Seventy years, who, being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law, states, that he is the only child now living of Capt. William Alexander *who was a Capt in the Revolution and a pensioner - and that he believes that he is - entitled to whatever is due, and that the United States are still indebted to him, under the laws of Congress, for the ^increase of^ pension that was due to his said Father - and that for the purpose of investigating and establishing his - claims as aforesaid, he hereby appoints W. F. Davidson of Charlotte his true and lawful attorney with irrevocable powers, to examine all papers on file, and to do whatever he might do were he personally present to establish his claim, and to receive the certificate which I wish made payable to Dan. Alexander

In Witness Whereof, I - have on this 12th - day of April - 1856, hereunto signed my name, and affixed [crossed out: their] my seal
S/M. L. Barringer
S/H. F. White
S/Dan Alexander  [seal: LC]
  [seal]
  [seal] 

Witness:  }
Witness:  }
Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me; and I further certify, that Dan, Alexander has always by the community been known as the son of Capt William Alexander

Dated on this 12th. day of April 1856.
S/Wm. Davidson    J. P.
_____________________

STATE OF North Carolina } to wit:
COUNTY OF Mecklenburg }
I hereby Certify, That Wm Davidson - Esq., before whom the foregoing power of attorney was made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said - County Court, this 15th day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty Six
S/W. K Reid  Clerk.
__________________
*State whether an applicant or a pensioner.
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September 1, 1933
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

William Alexander-S.6496
BA-J/AWF

Mrs. John E. Fleming
9935 Chenlot Avenue
Detroit, Michigan

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to William Alexander, who was born 1749 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and died December 19, 1836 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, captain in the War of the Revolution.

The data furnished herein were obtained from
the papers on file in pension claim, S. 6496, based upon the Revolutionary War service of William Alexander. 

He was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, date not given, nor are the names of his parents shown. 

He entered the service in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina in 1776 as captain in Colonel Adam Alexander's North Carolina regiment, and continued to serve at various times as captain with the North Carolina troops, under Colonels Francis Locke, Williams, and Thomas Polk; he was in the battles of Rocky Mount, Camden, Hanging Rock, and in engagements at Walkups and Goulding Grove. He was appointed in the spring of 1781 captain of cavalry in Colonel Wade Hampton's South Carolina regiment, was in the battle of
Orangeburg, Eutaw Springs, Monks Corner, an engagement at Quarter House, and the captures of Fort John and Friday's Fort, length of this service ten months.  He stated that he served as captain two years and eight
months, and never wounded. William Alexander was allowed pension his appli
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cation executed August 28, 1832, then aged eighty-three years and living in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, and was known during the War of The Revolution, as "Black Hill Alexander".

William Alexander died December 19, 1836. In
1856, his only surviving child, Dan Alexander, was seventy years of age and then in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The name of the wife of William Alexander is not stated.

Isaac Alexander was Clerk of the Court of Pleas
and Quarter Sessions of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina in 1832; no relationship to the family shown, nor is it stated that the Colonel Adam Alexander, under whom Captain William Alexander served, was a relative.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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[left and right sides combine here]
1892 Apr. 26 Hist to Miss Hoke [illegible] City c/o Senator Vanc [illegible] - P.S.
___________________________________________
Apr 13 '99
L.C. Alexander
Kansas City Mo
1907 July 5 Hist. to Miss Peytons BerryC
________________________________________________
1915 Oct. 23. To M.B. Peyton H.
1917 Jan. 12. To Mrs. O. M. Shell[illegible] - C
[crossed out: 1931 - Hist. to Jessie Young [strikethrough]]
1931-Aug 21- Hist. To Jessie Y. Irvine AWF.
_________________________________________________
1932 - Aug 10- hist to Mrs. [illegible] H. McNeely. Jr. see her letter in Stephen Alexander W.20483 AWF.
_________________________________________________
1933. Sept. 1- Hist to Mrs. John E. Fleming AWF.
_________________________________________________
1931 Dec. 12. Photos to Mrs. Chas. B. Wagoner M.C.S.



[middle section]
√ Rev War √
6496
INVALID.
_______________
File No. 6496William Alexander
Captain Rev War
________________
Act: June 7th. 32.
Index: - Vol. A, Page 6

[intentional brackets as printed]
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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4389
North Carolina
_____________________________________________
William Alexander 
of Mecklinburgh [sic: Mecklenburg] Co in the State of NC who was a Captain in the - commanded by Captain - of the Reg[imen]t. commanded by Col. Alexander in the N Carolina Militia * line for two years from 1776.

*
N.C. and S.C. (Records completed. May 31,1904. JS
________________________________________________
Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 48 [illegible: 4?] Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
_________________________________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of January 1833 and sent Hon. H. W. Conner HR [House of Representatives]
_________________________________________________
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832          $720.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833 240.00
___________
$960.00
___________
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Henry H. Sylvester Clerk,
Book D      Vol. 8      Page 25




[right side]
= Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the [illegible]
of 6th April 1838 from Sept 4th to 19th Decr 1836. Agent notified 
April 21st 1842
______________________________________________
[written sideways]
Let 20 feby: 1835. John Huske, suspd. [suspended] paymts. [payments]
24 feby: 1835 [illegible]
[illegible] July "   "  [illegible]
Agent


W. F. Davidson June 13/53
J Y Bryant. Oct 22/53
same April 7/56.
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William Alexander, Deceased,
North Carolina
[underline] Increase [/underline] ~~

Admitted Act. June 7. 1832
at rate of $530. per annum from 4th March 1831. to 19th December 1836, when he died - payments under same act at rate of $480 per annum to be deducted.

Per Dan Alexander, only surviving child and Executor upon pensioner's estate, Capt. of Cavalry - 10 mos. [strikethrough] to Infantry 14/24 - 

Certificate to
John Y. Bryant Esqr
Washington, 
D.C.
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J. Minot Esqr. ~                        auditor
Commr. of Pensions ~



P. Auditor's Office
May 3. 1856.

Sir.
Wm. Alexander, N.C. Act 1832, at $480.00 pensioner died 19 Decr. 1836, & his pension was paid in full to Dan. Alexander. his Executor.

Very Resp[ectfull]'y 
Your Ob[edien]t. Serv[an]t
St Jammison


[upside down]
Pension Office, May 2, 1856

The Third Auditor will please certify the [strikethrough] payments made to within named pensioner, and to whom the final payment was made

Very respectfully 
S. Cole
Chief Clerk
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[upside down script is transcribed on previous page]

Pension Office, May 2, 1856

The Third Auditor will please certify the [strikethrough] payments made to within named pensioner, and to whom the final payment was made

Very respectfully
S. Cole
Chief Clerk
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[sideways: 14488]

Pension Office, May 5, 1856.
The Third Auditor will please state whether it appears from the papers in his office that there was no widow surviving when the arrears were paid in the enclosed case.

Very respectfully
S. Cole
Chief Clerk
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[blank]
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[left side]

O. W. & N. Div.     L.B
Department of the Interior, 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
 
[hand written over the record: No Record]

Washington, D. C. July 23, 1897

Respectfully returned to the writer, who is requested to furnish, for purposes of identification, as much as possible of the information called for below.
[illegible] Lockrin
Commissioner.
_____________________________________________
Full name of soldier:
Roland Alexander

Place of residence before service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Rowan Co. North Carolina

Place of residence after service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Fayette Co. Ky & Fleming Co Ky.

Date of death (as near as possible):
Sep 13th 1818.

Christian name of widow:
Eleanor Campbell

Did either he or his widow receive a pension?
would like to know?

Remarks:
would like record, and also to know if he was entitled to anything

Your name and address;
L. C. Alexander
3835 Wyandotte St
Kansas City Mo

2338b2m


[right side]

O. W. & N. Div.       L.B
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS, 
Washington, D. C. July 23, 1897

Respectfully returned to the writer, who is requested to furnish, for purposes of identification, as much as possible of the information called for below.
H. C[illegible] Evans 
Wm. Lockrin
Commissioner.
______________________________________________
Full name of soldier:
William Alexander

Place of residence before service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Fleming Co Kentucky

Place of residence after service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible.)
same

Date of death (as near as possible):
Octo. 13th 1823.

Christian name of widow:
Cynthia Williams

Did either he or his widow receive a pension?
would like to know

Remarks:
Would like Record, and also, to know if he was entitled to anything

Your name and address;
L. C. Alexander
3835 
Wyandotte St
Kansas City Mo

2338b2m
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Mr. Bryant;
The bearer, Clap. Watkins, a clerk in this division desires information relative to a revolutionary soldier. Please give him such information as you can & oblige.
L B. Stein [?]

[oval stamp:
CHIEF'S DESK.
EASTERN DIVISION
* JUL 1 1907 *
U.S. BUREAU OF PENSIONS.]
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Comptroller Generals Office
Columbia 26 May. 1835
I do hereby certify that the original account of Mr. William Alexander for his Revolutionary services as a Capt. in W. Hampton's Regiment, Sumter's Brigade, State Troops, is either lost or mislaid, so that a copy thereto cannot be procured, but that it appears by a memorandum made on the margin of Indent Book NC. that any account for said service was presented and settled at the proper office, and Indent, No. 200, issued for the account thereof, the following is a true copy of the memorandum above alluded to, viz;
No. 200 }
Lib M. }
"Issued the first of October 1784 to Mr. William Alexander late Capt, in W. Hamptons Regiment, Sumter's Brigade, State Troops, for one hundred and Eighty eight pounds sterling, being amount pay and Bounty due him for services in that Regiment together with Interest thereon from the first of April 1782 to date thereof agreeable to resolution of Genl. Assembly of the Eleventh of March last."
Principal   £188.0.0
Interest . . .  13.3.2
A true copy taken from Indent Book M. examined & certified by. - 
William Laval Compt. Genl.
per John T. Seibels
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Wm. Alexander's 
Petition for Pension




copy.




Granted in 1819. ➕
________________________



Jas. L. Edwards
Comr. of Pensions
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Certificate of the Revolutionary services of Cap. Wm. Alexander -
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Fee $3-00. paid by Cunningham
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[official emblem of the state of South Carolina]

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
_________________
BY HIS EXCELLENCY,
[illegible note in margin]

George McDuffie Esquire
Governor and Commander-in-Chief, in and over the State aforesaid.

To all to Whom these Presents Shall Come.
Know Ye That William Laval is Comptroller general of the State of South Carolina. that John S. Seibels who has signed his name to the Certificate hereto annexed is and was at the time of signing the same the lawful Deputy of the said William Laval, that the said certificate is in due form and by the proper officer

THEREFORE, All due Faith, Credit and authority is and ought to be ad and given to is Proceedings and Certificates as such.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and caused to be affixed the Seal of the State, in the Town of Columbia the Twenty seventh. of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Thirty five and in the fifty ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

BY THE GOVERNOR.

B. H. Saxon.
Secretary of State.
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B

William Alexander
N.C - act 1832

Cole
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Washington City
March 24th. 1856.

Sir:
I enclose to you herewith a Certificate of the Comptroller of South Carolina, showing that Capt. William Alexander served [underline] ten months [/underline] as a Capt. of [underline] Cavalry [/underline] under Lt. Col. Wade Hampton, Genl. Sumpter's [sic: Sumter's] Brigade, S. Carolina State Troops.

A Pension was allowed to the heirs of Capt. Alexander under Act 7th June 1832, at the rate of $480. ~ per annum, for [underline] Infantry Service, [/underline] whereas it would appear that the heirs were entitled to the difference between the Infantry and Cavalry Service, for the ten months as a Cavalry Officer indicated by said Cert. of the Comptroller.

Please enclose to me the Cert. upon the granting the increase claimed.

Respectfully
[signature cut off the bottom of page]
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Capt W Alexander
was out 31 mo.
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of William Alexander which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides:  yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides:  yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?  [blank]

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?  yes

V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?  yes

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?  yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?  yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?  yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?  yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?  yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?  yes

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?  [blank]

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Three Sving [surviving] witnesses assert for 15 months service *

XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?  yes

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?  yes

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?  NO #

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And if not, which of them is not so answered?  yes

_________________________________

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For ________ year _____ _____ months and _______ days. I served as a ___________. For _________ months and _______ days, I served as a _______ ________; and for such service I claim a pension."
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3 
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. 
QUERE XIV. PROOF OF SERVICE. 
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
QUERE XVI. MODE OF AUTHENTICATING PAPERS. 
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. 

An allowance for his services as a Captain will be made for the time only that can be proved.  There are witnesses who prove fifteen months service.
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Comptroller General's Office
Columbia So: Ca:
14th March 1836.
It is hereby certified that it appears from an original "Pay Roll of Captain William Alexanders Troop the Regiment of Light Dragoons Commanded by Lieutenant Colo. Wade Hampton," Sumter's Brigade, on file in this Office, that William Alexander commanded said company ten months in said Brigade which was Cavalry service and were so engaged for ten months Commencing April 1781 ~

(No Seal of Office)
For Comptroller Genl.
Wm. R. Huntt
Deputy


Capt. Wm. Alexander
N. Carolina
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Brief in the case of William Alexander, deceased - Mecklenburg County and State of North Carolina ~~~ act June 7. 1832.

_______________________________________________

Claim, ([crossed out: "original"] "for increase.")  [blank]

Proof exhibited, (if original.)
[blank]

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
William Alexander was a pensioner at rate of $480 per annum for service of two years as Captain of Infantry, and his allowance was paid to December 19. 1836 - the date of his death, to Dan Alexander only surviving child and Executor

Record evidence is now produced showing that ten months of this service was in the grade of Captain of Cavalry = Increase for the difference between $480 and $530 per annum has accordingly been allowed = payable to Dan Alexander, who is shown by the usual certificate of Court. to be the only surviving child and Executor upon his father's estate.

John Y. Bryant, Esqr. }
Name and residence of Agent   Present. }
R Geddes
Examining Clerk.
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Treasury Department
Third Auditor's Office
May 6th. 1836.

Sir:
I again return the papers in the case of William Alexander dec'd, together with the claim of his Executor for an [underline] increase [/underline] of the pension in question. In reply to your last enquiry I have to state that in paying the arrears due, through this office, to an Executor, of which you were notified on the 3d inst. we, of course, had it in proof "That there was no widow surviving when the arrears were paid." Should anything be claimed on behalf of a "widow" we will furnish a copy of the proof on file.

Very Respectfully
Your ob[edien]t. serv[an]t.
[illegible] Jammison
Auditor


J. Minot Esqr.
Commr. of Pensions
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Washington City
October 6th. 1853.

Sir.
Please inform me what progress has been made in the case of Daniel Alexander, son of Captain William Alexander of North Carolina for a Revolutionary Pension, filed February 10th. 1853.

Very respectfully
Your ob[e]d[ien]t. Serv[an]t.
John Y. Bryant
per William H. Dietz


To
Hon. L. P. Waldo
Comr. of Pensions.
Page 51

STATE OF North Carolina }
COUNTY OF Mecklenburg }
BE IT KNOWN, That on this 26th day of January - A. D., 1853 - before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Dan Alexander - a resident of Mecklenburg County, and made oath in due form of law, that he is the son - of Wm. Alexander who made application for a Pension, and was allowed at the rate of $480 per annum, that he has been informed that said Pension, and was allowed at the rate of $480 per annum, that he has been informed that said Pension ought to be increased that he is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be file with such additional evidence or arguments, as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.

Sworn to and Subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me, }
S/J Walker J. P.
S/Dan Alexander


I, Walker a Justice f the Peace, in and for the said County, do hereby certify, that Dan Alexander who executed the foregoing paper, is a respectable resident of this County, and is I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
S/J Walker J. P.


I, Braly Oates Clerk of the County Court for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that John Walker before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was at the date of the same, and is now, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths, and the name thereunto subscribed is [blank] signature.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office, this 26th day of January A. D. 1853

[seal]
S/B. Oates Clerk of Mecklenburg Co Court
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STATE OF North Carolina }
COUNTY OF Mecklenburg }
KNOW ALL MAN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I Dan Alexander of the County of Mecklenburg and State of North Carolina do hereby constitute and appoint Wm F. Davidson my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the claim of Capt. Wm. Alexander - for any amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere. to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to myself Dan Alexander - to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises; and revoking any and all other Powers of Attorney that I may have heretofore made in relation to this Claim.

Witness my hand and seal this 26th day of January A.D. 1853
S/Dan Alexander
Signed and sealed in the presence of
S/J Walker JP..
S/H H Peoples


STATE OF North Carolina }
COUNTY OF Mecklenburg }
ON THIS 26th day of January A.D. 1853 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and fore the County aforesaid, personally appeared Dan Alexander and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, the day and year aforesaid.
S/J Walker J. P.
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STATE OF North Carolina } ss.
COUNTY OF Mecklenburg }
Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, January Term 1853

It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me Braly Oates Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for Mecklenburg County N. C. by the affidavits of James W Osborne & Wm Davidson, Sworn in open Court that Capt William Alexander, known as black Bill Alexander was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $480, dollars - per annum and that he died on the nineteenth day of December eighteen hundred and thirty six leaving surviving him Dan Alexander the present applicant who is also the Executor on the Estate of Wm Alexander and that Dan Alexander is - - 
the only surviving child - of the aforesaid. Capt: Wm Alexander


[seal]
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this 26th day of January one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three
S/B. Oates Clerk of Mecklenburg Co Court.
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Hampton, Va, Nov: 29. '56

Sir: 
Please inform me whether the name of Colo: Tarleton Brown is inscribed on the Pension list of N. Carolina, or S. Carolina; for what period of service he was pensioned; and whether there are any arrears due his Representative.

I am,
Verry [sic: very] Resp[ectfu]lly - 
Yo[ur]: ob[edien]t: Serv[an]t
Jos: Segar.

Geo: C. Whiting Eq
Com: Pensions.

P.S. I should be glad to be informed also, for what period ^of service^ Capt: Wm. Alexander was pensioned. 
J. Segar
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
March 30th, 1842.

Sir:
Under the date 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," The Executor of William Alexander, decd., a Pensioner on the Roll of the North Carolina Agency, at the rate of Four hundred 80 Dollars [crossed out: and [blank] Cents] per annum, under the law of the 7th Jun 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1836. to the 19th Dec. 1836.

Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.


To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present.
Page 56

Sir
I herewith send you a claim of Dan Alexander for increased pension please acknowledge the reception & when it has been examined report to Wm F Davidson Charlotte N.C.

Respectfully
Alfred Dockers


J E Heath
Com Pensions
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Charlotte Feb. 10th 1853

Hon. A. Dockey
Dr. Sir'
Enclosed I have taken the liberty to send you the application of Fan Alexander for an increase of Pension due his Father Capt. Wm. Alexander known during the Revolution as Black Bill Alexander - 

Please present them to the Department for investigation and much oblige your friend and 
ob[edien]t. serv[an]t.
W. F. Davidson

P.S. I expect to be in Washington in a week or two if nothing prevents me - when I hope I shall have the pleasure of seeing you -
WFD.
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3835 Wyandotte Street
Kansas City. Mo.      Feb 28th 1899

Commr. of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Dear Sir - Will you kindly send to me the Revolutionary Record of 
Roland Alexander of N.C. and of
William Alexander his son of Ky
and also tell me if either of them were entitled to anything from the Government that they did not receive and oblige

Yours truly
L.C. Alexander.

[round postal stamp: PENSION OFFICE. H
U. S. MAR 6 1899]
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Gallatin June 26. 1907

Capt Watkins.
Will you please go to the chief Clerk of the War Department and ask for ^list of [underline] North Carolina [/underline] Officers who served in the Revolution. My great grandfather William Alexander commanded a Cavalry Company and fought with distinction under Gen. Morgan at the battle of the Cowpens where he was wounded, also was at [underline] Kings Mountain. [/underline] Capt Alexander lived near Charlotte North Carolina. My Father remembered him well, and has seen the musket which was cut by a Brittish [sic: British] officer in Single combat. I would like to know the number of his regiment. &c. Several persons of prominence told me, it could be found on the record of the War Department. I know this is asking a great deal of you, but did not know of any-one [sic] else to apply to. I am confined to the bed nearly all the time, Please learn all you can about Capt A., the names of his officers &c.

Yours 
Peytona Barry.
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Addressed to
Capt: T. W. Watkins.
Pension Bureau
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M Rev sec

Pension Office,
Dept. of the interior,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir: - 
Will you kindly examine your records for the name of William Alexander, or Andrew Alexander a captain in the Revolutionary War. He belonged to a Carolina Regiment, either a North Carolina or a South Carolina [,] I am not sure which. 

I am seeking information concerning my ancestor and will look forward to your report with much anxiety. 

Thanking you in advance I am 
Yours truly,
M. B. Peyton
112 W. North St.
(Postmark) Danville, Ill.
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Rec L Hm.

Ansonville N. C.
Dec. 5. 1916.

Dear Sir:
Will you please send to me the record of Wm. Alexander of Mecklenburg Co. N. C. who was a N. C. Pensioner, & Thank you very much.

Yours sincerely.
Margaret Shellem

(Mrs. P. W. Shellem).
Page 63

Rev.
_____

Aberdeen, Washington. July 22nd, 1931.

Department of Interior.
Bureau of Pensions.
Washington. D.C.

Gentlemen: Several years ago wrote you for information concerning Ruth Alexander Clark who applied for a pension as a widow of a Revolutionary soldier (Joseph Clark), on Dec. 1st, 1838.

Your office replied giving me data about her and referring to your files as V.L.U. Widow File 8608, Revolutionary War.

In this data you state "Joseph Clark served under Captain William Alexander, with Col. Wade Hampton in S. C."

What I wish to ask at this time is; did Capt. Wm. Alexander, or is widow, draw a Pension? If so May I have the data on file concerning him or his family?

Thanking you for any information you may give me, 
I am, Very sincerely,
Jessie Young Irvine.
1400 Young St..
Aberdeen. Washington.

[round stamp: arrow pointing to 10:00
RECEIVED JUL 27 1931
RECEIPT SECTION
PENSION FILES SUB-DIVISION]
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9935 Chenlot Ave.
Detroit, Mich.
Aug. 22 - 33

Pension Dept.
Revolutionary War Records
Washington, D. C. 

Will you please send me a copy of [underline] all [/underline] the records you have which refer to one William [underline] Alexander [/underline] - a Rev. War pensioner - born 1749 Bucks Co., Pa. died Dec. 19, 1836, Mecklenburg Co. N. Carolina - who served from this co.

He is said to have been a captain of the 4th N. Carolina Regiment.
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II
For years the D.A.R. credited my William Alexander b. June 30 - 1739 died 1829 in Greene Co. Tenn. serving in the Revolution from [underline] Guilford [/underline] County N. Car., as captain of the 4th N. Carolina Regt. 
[underline] from Sept. 8 - 1781 on. [/underline] Previously he had been an ensign & lieutenant in the 10th N. Carolina Regiment.

The records for all 3 ranks ensign - lieut - & captain - were obtained from the [underline] War Dept. [/underline] - N. Carolina Historical Society - & from Heitman's, an accepted authority of Rev. Service. . All three sources of reference agreed in all details.
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III
Recently some one has sent in papers to the DAR in this other Alexander quoting him as Captain of the 4th N. Car. Regt. & [underline] offering the pension record as proof. [/underline] 

The DAR then took away the Captain rank for my man.

There is a chance of confusion as my man [underline] served [/underline] from Guilford Co. - the other from Mecklenburg Co. & both counties were in the Salisbury District at the time of the Rev.

Do you records show the date that the pensioner
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IV
was made Captain of the 4th N. Car. Regt?

Won't you please give me a very full report of all the records you have for the pensioner Wm. Alexander b. 1749 Bucks Co. Pa.

I will be glad to have the evidence & know which one really was the Captain.

Thanking you I am
Very sincerely yours,
(Mrs. John E.) Dorothy S. Fleming
9935 CHENLOT AVE.
(Chenlot)
Detroit, Michigan.
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Rev. & 1812
#294
BA-J/MCS  om

Dec. 4, 1935

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section   War & Navy 970
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Rev. War pension claim, William Alexander, S.6496  Actual      1 of each page



XXXX   $1.50     6 pages

Kindly leave margin of 1 1/2 inches at tope of each page and return papers in each case in folder with corresponding name and number. The word "omit" is written in pencil on page which is not to be copied.


[upside down handwriting]
Included soldier's declaration dated Aug. 28, 1832 with affidavits of John Gardner, Wm Hutchinson & Isaac Alexander all under same date, 5 p - Let. of N. F. Davidson dated Feb. 10, 1853 in behalf of Dan Alexander, [underline] son. [/underline] - - 1 page
__________________
6 p[ages]
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December 4, 1935

Administer of Veterans' Affairs
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Kindly furnish me photostat copies (uncertified) of six pages from Rev. War pension claim, William Alexander, S. 6496.

Very truly yours

X Mrs. Chas. B. Wagner
Hotel Claridge
820 Conn. Ave.
Washington, D.C.
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August 10, 1932

BA-J/AWF
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
William Alexander
S. 6496

Mrs. George H. McNeely, Jr.
Church Road
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter requesting information in regard to William Alexander, a captain of the War of the Revolution, from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 6496, based upon the Revolutionary War service of William Alexander.

He was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, date not given.

He entered the service in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina in 1776 as captain in Colonel Adam Alexander's North Carolina regiment, and continued to serve at various times as captain with the North Carolina troops under Colonels Francis Locke, Williams, and Thomas Polk, was in the battles of Rocky Mount, Camden, Hanging Rock, and in engagements at Walkup's and Goulding Grove. He was appointed in the spring of 1781 captain of cavalry under Colonel Wade Hampton in the South Carolina troops, was in the battles of Orangeburg, Eutaw Springs, Monks [sic: Monck's] Corner, engagements at Quarter House, and the captures of Fort Johnson and Friday's Fort, length of this service ten months. He stated that he served two years and eight months as captain, and that he was never wounded.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 28, 1832, at which time he was living in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, and was aged eighty-three

[handwritten note: also pen by state of N.C.]
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years.

William Alexander died December 19, 1836. It is stated that he was known as "Black Hill Alexander".

In 1856 his only surviving child, Dan Alexander, was seventy years of age and then in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

In 1832 Isaac Alexander was Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, no relationship to family stated. [handwritten note: ^was not clear that the  Col. Adam Alex. under whom Capt. Wm. Alex. served was a relative]

There are no further data as to his family.

Very truly yours


A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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S.6496, William Alexander

It appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 6496, that William Alexander was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, date not given.

He entered the service in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina in 1776 as captain in Colonel Adam Alexander's North Carolina regiment, and continued to serve at various times as captain with the North Carolina Troops under Colonels Francis Locke, Williams, and Thomas Polk, was in the battles of Rocky Mount, Camden. Hanging Rock and in engagements at Walkup's and Goulding Grove. In 1781 he was appointed captain of cavalry under Colonel Wade Hampton in the South Carolina Troops, was in the battles of Orangeburg, Eutaw Springs, Monks Corner, engagement at Quarter House, and the captures of Fort Johnson and Friday's Fort, [crossed out: length of service ten months. also handwritten and crossed out in margin: 2 yrs & 8 mos.]

He stated that he served two years and eight months as captain, and that he was never wounded.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 28, 1832, at which time he was living in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, and was aged eighty three years.

It is stated that he was known as "Black Bill Alexander".

The soldier died December 19, 1836. In [crossed out: 1853, 1858] 1856, his 


3-

[crossed out: son] [handwritten in margin: was only surviving child] Dan Alexander, was [illegible handwriting in margin] aged seventy years, and was [crossed out: his only surviving child.] in Meck. Co N C

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

[handwritten in bottom margin: Isaac Alexander, [illegible] 1832 clerk of [illegible] Court of Pleas in Meck Co. N.C. 
Plus letter addressed to
Jessie Young Irvine - 
see William Alexander S. 361]
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Rev. War Section.

October 23, 1915.

Mrs. M. B. Peyton.
112 West North Street,
Danville, Ills.

Madam:

In response to your undated letter, received on the 18" instant, you are advised that the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard to Andrew Alexander.

William Alexander. Survivor's File No. 6,496, was allowed pension on an application executed August 28, 1832, at which time he was eighty-three years of age and a resident of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. 

He stated that he was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, entered the service in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, in 1776, as a Captain under Colonel Adam Alexander, and continued to serve short tours at various times (dates not given) in North Carolina troops under Colonels Francis Locke, Williams, and Thomas Polk, and was in the battles of Rocky Mount, Camden, and Hanging Rock, and engagements at Walkup's
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and at Goulding Grove in the "Snow Campaign"; in April 1781. appointed Captain of Cavalry under Colonel Wade Hampton, and served ten months in the South Carolina troops; was in the battles of Orangeburg, Eutaw Springs and Monks Corner, engagement at Quarter House, and the captures of Fort Johnson and Friday's Fort.

Soldier stated that he served two years and eight months as a Captain, and was never wounded. 

It is alleged that he was known as "Black Bill Alexander"; he died December 19, 1836, and in 1856, his son, Dan Alexander, aged seventy years, was his only surviving child.

There is no further data on file as to family.

Very respectfully,
S/G M Saltzgaber
Commissioner.


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July 5, 1907.

Miss Peytona Barry,
Gallatin, Tenn.

Madam:

In reply to your letter dated the 26th ultimo, addressed to Capt. T. W. Watkins, an employee of this Bureau, and received on the 1st instant, you are furnished the following statement of the services of the only William Alexander, a Captain, of Mecklenberg [sic: Mecklenburg] Co., N. C. (where Charlotte is located), found on the Revolutionary War pension records, notwithstanding the fact that his allegations do not entirely agree with the data given by you.

William Alexander, Survivor's File No. 6,496, was allowed pension on an application executed August 28, 1832, at which time he was eighty-three years of age and a resident of Mecklenberg [sic: Mecklenburg] Co., N. C. 

He stated that he was born in Bucks Co., Pa.; entered the service in Mecklenberg [sic: Mecklenburg] Co., N. C., in 1776, as a Captain under Col. Adam Alexander, and continued to serve short tours at various times (dates not given) in North Carolina troops under Cols. Francis Locke, Williams, and Thomas Polk, and was in the battles of Rocky Mounty, Camden, and Hanging Rock, and engagements at Walkup's and at Goulding Grove in the "Snow Campaign"; in April, 1781, appointed Captain of Cavalry under Col. Wade Hampton and
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served ten months in the South Carolina troops, was in the battles of Orangeburg, Eutaw Springs and Monks Corner, engagement at Quarter House, and the captures of Ft. Johnson and Friday's Fort.

Soldier stated that he served two years and eight months as a Captain and was never wounded.

It is alleged that he was known as "Black Bill Alexander"; he died December 19, 1836, and in 1856 his son, Dan Alexander, aged seventy years, was his only surviving child.

No further data as to family.

Very respectfully,


Acting Commissioner.