Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,158, for John Stewart, North Carolina
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Service number
N.
C
Stewart, John
R. 10.158
Contents
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State of Georgia
Butts County} SS

O)n this twenty
third day of January in the
year of Our Lord One thousand Eight
hundred and thirty five [1835] personally appeared
in open Court it being the Court of
Ordinary for the County aforesaid before George T
Speak Ezekiel Walker & Alx H Daugherty Justices
John Stewart a resident of the County
of Butts & State of Georgia aged Eighty
five years old who being first duly
sworn according to Law doth on his
oath make the following declaration
in grace to obtain the benefit of the
provision made by the act of Congress
past June the 27th 1832 that he entered
in the army of the United States in the
year Seventeen hundred and seventy seven [1777]
as a volunteer and served a private
two months in a regiment of State
troops under the following named off
-icers in the State of North Carolina.
the Regiment was commanded by Colo
-nel Partly [Peasley,Paisley] in a company commanded
by Capt Stewart. We started from
Gilford [Guilford] Court house in the month of
September and marched to Randolph
County in said State and at a place 
called the cross roads joined General
Rutherfords Army and then marched to
a place called the Raft Swamp in said
State an as there encamped some time and
in the time of being there we had a
small skirmage [skirmish] with some tories that
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lurked about the Swamp but they dispersed
and there was nothing done on either side
we stayed untill November and then
Capt Pastlys [Peasley, Paisley] Regiment which I belonged
to was discharged; and I received a dis
charge from Capt Stewart, but the
long time which has elapsed and not
knowing it would ever be any service
to me it has been lost, the days of the
month that I entered the service and
was discharged from the time it has
been and the loss of memory I cannot pre
cisely say but am certain it was two mon
ths or more: at the time I rendured the
service I lived in Gilford County State of N
Carolina; the next tour I entered into
service, the first day of April in the
year seventeen hundred and Eighty [1780] at
Gilford Court house State of North Carolina
under the command of Captain Beth
-ell [Bethel] as a private drafted man we
then marched to Charlotte on Meclin
burg [Mecklenburg] County N Carolina and there
we joined General Caswells army
of State troops we then marched
to Camden South Carolina and there
we joined Colo Blufords Regiment
of regulars and Col Washington
Regiment of Cavalry we then mar
-ched to monks [Moncks] corner twenty five
miles, from Charleston S. Carolina
with the intention of joining Gen Lincoln
army at Charleston but at Monks [Moncks] corner
news met us that he had surrendered
the town we then retreated to Camden
in our retreat after we crossed Santee river
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Colo Tarleton appeared on the other side
our pursuit Colo. Washington crossed
in river and gave him a brush and
took twelve prisoners and then aimed
to cross the river twelve miles above but
before he got across Tarleton came
up with him and retook the prisoners
we then got back to Camden there
Gen Caswell and Colo Bluford parted
Bluford aimed to go by Charlotte, and
[unknown] but before he got to Charlotte
at th hanging rock Colo Tarleton
an a some tories overtook him and
defeated his army Gen Caswell and the
State troops took the lower rout and
aimed to go Fayetteville and Wilmington
when we got to Cape Fear, between
Fayetteville & Wilmington the regiment
that I belonged to was discharged the
first of July I received a discharge a that time
from Capt Bethel but it is lost. the
Battalion, that I was in was Comma
nded by Major White the above ser
vice was three months and remained
in the places above stated I then lived 
in Gilford County N Carolina and res
-ided there untill the year seventeen
hundred and ninety [1790] and then came to
the State of Georgia and has resided in
this State ever since and now resides
in Butts County State of Georgia:

questions propounded by the Court
1. Where and in what year were you born?
known I was born in the State of Pensyl
-vania in the year seventeen hundred & fifty [1750]

Question 2d Have you any record of your age
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and if so where is it? Answer. My age was
recorded in the family prayer book of my
father but at the death of my father the book
fell to possession of some, other of the child
-ren and I expect that the Book is now in
the state of Alabama

Interrogatory 3d an here were you living when
called into service; where have you lived
since the Revolutionary war and where
do you now live?
Answer I was living in Gilford County State of
N Carolina; and there lived [illegible]
the year seventeen hundred and ninety [1790] and
from that time till now I have lived in
the State of Georgia; & now live in Butts County Georgia

Interry 4th.  How were you called into service,
were you drafted did you volunteer or were
you a substitute? And if a substitute for
whom? Answer, first two months I served
as a volunteer, the next tour of three months
I was drafted. I was not a substitute

Interry 5th  State the names of some of the
regular officers who were with the troops
when you served; such continental &
Malitia Regiments as you can recollect
and the circumstances of your services?
Answer the first tour of two months I was
with no regular officers, but in the tour
of three months I was with Col Blufords [Buford]
Regiment of Regulars and Colonel 
Washin
-gtons Calvary; there Gen Caswell General Rutherford and Major
White and Capt Bethel of the State malitia
I cannot recollect the Colonel of the regiment
the general circumstances of my services are fully
stated in my foregoing declaration

Intery 6th Did you ever receive a discharge
from the service if so by whom was it given
and what has become of it?
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Continuation of the Interrogatory
by the Court &c with the answers

Answer to 6th Inters-- I did receive a
discharge the first tour from Captain
George Stewart who was my brother
the second tour I received a discharge
from Captain Bethel but they are
both now lost from my possession

Intery 7th State the names of the persons
to whom you are known in your present
neighborhood and who can testify as to
your character for veracity and their
belief of your services as a soldier of
the Revolution?
Answer Jason Grier who is a Clergyman
and Robert Bickerstaff with others

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; sworn to & subscribed the
day and year aforesaid 
John Stweart

G. T Speake, J.D.C.
Ezekiel Walker J H
A. H. Daugherty J.J.C.
And the said Court do hereby certify
& declare their opinion that the above
named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier
& served as he states
G T Speake
Ezekiel Walker
A H Daugherty
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I John Allcord Clerk of the Court
of Ordinary for the County of Butts
State of Georgia do hereby certify that 
the foregoing on a annexed contains the
proceedings arriginal [original] of the Court afores
aid in the matter of the application of
John Stewart for a pension
In testimony whereof, I have hereto set
my hand and seal there being no
public seal of Office this the
day of January Eighteen hundred
and thirty five John McCorallo [seal]
We Jason Grier a clergyman
residing in the County of Butts State of
George and Robert Bickerstaff
residing in the same place hereby certify
that we are well acquainted with
John Stewart who has subscribed and
sworn to the above declaration; that we
believe him to be Eighty 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
Sworn to & subscribed
the day & year aforesaid
Jason Grier
Clergyman
GT Speake
AH Dougherty

And the said Court do hereby certify and
declare their opinion after the investigation
of the matter and after putting the interrog
-ators prescribed by the war Department
that the above named Applicant was
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a Revolutionary soldier and served as
he states: And the Court further certifies
that it appears to them that Jason Grier is
a Clergyman who
has signed the preceding certificate
resident in the County of Butts in state of
Georgia and that Robert Bickerstaff
who has also signed the same is a resi
dent of the same place and is a cre
dible person and that their statement
is intitled to credit
GTSpeake JJC
A.H. Daugherty J.J.C.
Ezekeil Walker JJC

I John McCord Clerk of the Court of
Ordinary for the County of Butts State
of Georgia do hereby certify that the fore
going contains the arrignal [original] proceedings
at the said Court in the matter of app
lication of John Stewart for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereto set
my hand and seal there being no pub
lic seal of office for said Court
this the twenty third day of January
Eighteen hundred & thirty five
John McCord C.C.C [seal]
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Georgia 
Butts County}
In person before me George
Speak one of the Justices of
the Inferior Court for the
County aforesaid Came John Stewart
who being sworn deposeth & saith that
from length of time old age and the
loss of memory he cannot recollect the
name of the Colonel, under whom this
Deponent served the three months tour
named in his this deponents foregoing
and annexed Declaration for a pension
and this deponent further aspouses that he
cannot recollect the precise day of the
mouth that he entered the service or
was discharged from the service men
tioned in the first tour with precisions
but this Deponent can say positively
that the service was two months
John Stewart
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this the 23d
January 1835-
GT Speake  JJC
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Ent'd
Wm [illegible]
Comp Genl

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
STATE OF Georgia
By the Excellency Wilson Lumpkin Governor and
Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of this State and the Militia thereof:
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS
SHALL COME:
Know H, that G T Speak, Ezekeil Walker
A H Daughtery, Peyton H. White and
George Barber whose signatures appear to the
within instruments are & were at the date of the same
Justices of the Inferior Court which sits as court
of Ordinary of the County of Butts in said State, that
John McCord whose signature appears to the within in
strument is & was at the [illegible] of the same Clerk
of the Court of Ordinary of the County aforesaid
that Andrew M. Norris whose Signature

Rec'd two dollars
fifty cents
T Haynes
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John McCord whose signature appears to be within in
struments is & was at the State of the same Clerk
of the Court of Ordinary of the County aforesaid,
and that Andrew M. Norris whose Signature
appears to a within certificate is & was at the
date of the same Clerk of the Inferior Court
of the County of Cabersham in said State.

THEREFORE, all due faith, credit and authority are, and ought to be had and given
to their signatines & attestation as such
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused
the Great Seal of this State to be put and affixed.
DONE at the State House, in Milledgeville, this twenty ninth
day of Jannany in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and
thirty five and of the independence of the United States of America
the fifty seventh,
BY THE GOVERNOR:
Recd 25 dollar
W.A. Tennille
Secretary of State.
Rec'd 25/100 dollar
John W. Sumpkin
Secutary E.D.
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Georgia
Butts County
Personally appeared in open Court
the Inferior Court of said County
Jonathan Reeves and after being duly
sworn according to Law make the following
declaration. Then been personally acquaint
with John Stewart for the last twenty five years
in this State. And from character I have been
acquainted with him for about the last forty
years then in the County of Guilford NC
And I have good reason to believe that he
was a Soldier in the Revolutionary
service and a friend to his County and
and
I believe him to be eighty four years of age
and believe him to be a man of truth &
veracity
Jonathan Reeves
Sworn to & Subscribed before us 4th day
of Nov 1833
Peyton H White
A H Daugherty
G J Speak Is
George Barker
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John Stewart
So Georgia
Rejected
17 Feby. 1835
David I. Bailey
10158
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10,158
P.O.
John Stewart
Service:______________________________
Enlisted:__REJECTED___, 18  
Discharged:_________________, 18
Application filed: ___________, 18
Alleges: _____________________
Re-enlisted: ______________________
Attorney: _______________________
P. O. ___________________________
__________Recognized.  ______Contra
_______Cert. of Dis.  Searched for______, 18
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Jackson Butts County
Georgia Febry 1st 1835
James L Edwards Esqr
Sir at the request
of Mr Jno Stewart [John Stewart] I transmit
to you as Com. [commissioner]of Pensions, the [illegible]
said documentary evidence of this
revolutionary Claim, in accord
ance with the directions of the Letter
which is also returned to you that
part pointed out as exceptionable
to the acknowledgement of the
claim Mr Stewart is rectified,
as the papers now stand corre
-cted according to official instr
-uction it is hoped that this
manifest claim of Stewart will no
longer be withheld from him.
You will do him a kind
-ness to give this matter early
attention. and at his request
you will for his benefit allow
me to hear from about this
matter in obtaining a certific
-ate for his pension,
Respectfully &c
David J Bailey
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State of Georgia
Habasham County ⎬ 
Before the subscriber
a Justice of the peace
in and for said County personally appeared
James Stewart who after being duly sworn
deposeth and saith on oath that he was
well acquainted with John Stewart
in the Revolutionary war that he has
known him since he was a boy that
he frequently saw the said John Stewart
in the service of the United States during
said war that he was in one tour
duty with the said John Stewart of two
months and something over during the
Raft Swamp Campaign the said John
Stewart was during that campaign
under General Rutherford he further
knew that John Stewart to be a good
soldier in the Revolutionary war and
true to his country he also knows
that the said John Stewart bore the
character of an upright honest man
that he is a man of truth and
veracity and entitled to full credit
upon his oath Sworn to and subscribed
before me this 30th day of September 1834
B Vaughan JP
James Stewart

Georgia
Habersham County
Justice of the peace in
and for said County of Habersham
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do hereby certify that I have
been for
a number of years acquainted with James
Stewart who made the above affidavit
& I do hereby certify that the said James
Stewart of Credibilty and entitled to full
faith and credit on his Oath Given
under my hand this 31th day of
September 1834
B Vaughan J P

State of Georgia
Habersham County ⎬
I Andrew M Norris Clerk of the
Inferior Court of said County do
hereby certify that Benjamin Vaughan
before whom the above affidavit
has been made is a Justice of the peace
that the above signatures are his and
are genuine that James Stewart is a
a man of credibility and that full
faith and credit are due to the official
acts of the said Benjamin Vaughan
Given under my hand and
Seal of office this 1st
day of October 1834
Andrew M Norris
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Georgia
Butts County}
In person came before
me George T Speak and
of the Justices of the
therein Court for the County afore
said Matthew Barber who being duly
sworn deposeth & saith on oath that
some few years ago one William
Leslie lately of the County of Ogleth
-orpe state of Georgia now deceased
told me that he was in the Revolution
any war with John Stewart of the
said County of Butts & served with
him as a soldier in the revolution
and this Deponent saith further that the
said William Leslie was reputed &
believed in the County of Oglethorpe
among his neighbors to have been
a Revolutionary soldier- and this
deponent says that the above conver
-sation was had by this deponent with
the said Leslie before this deponent
was acquainted with the said
John Stewart who is an applicant
for a pension & I belive this the same man
Sworn to & subscribed
Matthew Barber
before me this the
23rd January 1835
G.T. Speake J.C
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And the Court further certifies that it
appears to them that Johnathan Reeves
and Matthew Barber what officia
-fits are hereto [illegible] are men known
to us a worthy of credit and veraci
-ty
G T Specke JJC
A. H. Daugherty J.J.C.
Ezekiel Walker St.

I John McCord Clerk of the Court
of Ordinary for the County of Butts
State of Georgia do hereby certify that the
foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the said Court in the
matter of the application of John
Stewart for a pension. In testimony
whereof I have hereto set my hand
and seal there being no public seal
of Office this the twenty third day of
January Eighteen hundred & thirty five
John McCord CC
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAN-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
NAME Stewart, John
GRADE Sergeant in Proctor's artillery
LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 10448
ACREAGE  100
ISSUED July 27, 1789 to Richard Platt, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.