Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5222, Thomas Hopper, S.C.
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Service: S.C. 

Hopper, Thomas  

Number:  R.5222 

Contents [Blank]
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No 38.628 

Thomas Hopper 

Tenn 

Geo. N. Talbot Oct 12/53’ 

5222 

Act June 7, 1832
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873. [crossed out] Rejected 

5222. 

P.O. Thomas Hopper 

Service:  

Enlisted: 18 

Discharged: 18 

Application Filed: 18 

Alleges:  

Re-enlisted:  

Attorney:  

P.O. Recognized. Contra 

Cert. Of Dis. Searched for, 18
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State of Tennessee, County of Carroll} SS. 

On this 22nd day of July, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the county and state aforesaid. Thomas Hopper, aged 106 years, a resident of Carroll County, in the State of Tennessee, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832, that he enlisted in the Army of the United States, at King’s Creek, near King’s Mountain, in the State of South Carolina, and served under General Morgan, his colonel he believes to be Pipkin, he was living on King’s Creek, at the time he enlisted, and went from there to Guilford court-house, in the State of North Carolina, and were stationed two or three miles distant from that place for one night and on the following morning we were attacked by the British Army, and that several days after we had another engagement with the British at a mill on deep river, and routed them, and he was next engaged at the battle of the Cow-pens, his memory on account of old age, is so defective, that he can not remember the various routs and engagements of the army, He further declare, that he served as a private for the term of three years, or more, and that he was honorably discharged  

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to
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a pension or annuity, except the present, and he declares, that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State. Thomas + (his mark) Hopper 

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 

I hereby certify that the said Thomas Hopper, lives in Carroll County, in the State of Tennessee, some three miles distant from me, and that, from bodily infirmity, he could not well appear before a court of record. And I further declare the opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states, this 22nd day of July 1853 

Saml H Ferguson SF[circled] 

for Carroll Cty Tennessee[underlined] 


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