Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7732, for Edmund Tilley, North Carolina
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
N.C. [North Carolina]

Tilley, Edmund

NUMBER
S.7732

Carded
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CONTENTS
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Lett to Hon A. H. Sheppard (copy)
February 3, 1837

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23.532
North Carolina
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Edmond Tilley Sr of Stokes in the State of N. [North] Car. [Carolina] who was a pr. [private] in the compy [company] commanded by Captain Camperlin [Camplin] of the – commanded by — in the N. [North] Car [Carolina] line for 7 mo: [months] 20 days.

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Inscribed on the Roll of N. [North] Carolina at the rate of 25 Dollars 55 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Feby: [February] 34. And sent Hon: A. H. Shepperd 14R
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept [September] 1833 $59.87
Semi-anl. [semi-annual] allowance ending 4 Mar [march] 34 12.78
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76.65
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{Revolutionary Claim, }
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Nath: [Nathaniel] Rice Clerk,
Book E Vol. 6 ½ Page 76
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State of North Carolina }
Stokes County } s.s.

On this 18th day of January 1834 personally appeared before me Charles Banner one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for Stokes County aforesaid Edmund Tilley Senr. [Senior] at his own place of residence in the County aforesaid aged ninety three or four years living about Twenty miles distant from the court house of said County; and owing to the infirmities of old age, is very unable to travel thither. Who being first sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7th June 1832.
That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein after stated. (towit) That on the 22nd of March the year he does not remember, he entered the Service as a drafted private Militia soldier under the command of Captain Jacob Camperlin [Camplin] at Surry Courthouse calld [called] Richmond Town in N [North] Carolina and marchd [marched] from thence to Salisbury in Rowan County N. [North] Carolina at which place said Capt [Captain] Camperlins [Camplin] full company convened and joined head quarters. His Lietenant [Lieutenant] was a John Cook but from old age + [and] consequent loss of memory he does not recollect the names of the field officers. The the Army he marchd [marched] with from Salisbury to Charlotte N [North] Carolina + [and] then to Camden in S. [South] Carolina + [and] through Savannah River into Augusta in Georgia which town the British Army had burnd [burned] + [and] destroyed. Then marchd [marched] a considerable Route in the State of Georgia and crossed [crossed out] said River Savannah back again into South Carolina + [and] thence in Pursuit of the British army to the place where the notorious Battle of Stono happened in which this applicant was engaged when his Capt. [Captain] Jacob Camperlin [Camplin] aforesaid received a wound by a Bullet in one of his knees which bullet he saw extracted from said Captains knee battered flat which caused caused him to have a stiff knee as long as he lived, this applicant was ordered to nurse + [and] help take care of said Captain + [and] others that were wounded in said Battle. One of the others that he nursed in the hospittal [hospital] was a Major Davy [Davie] of the Cavalry [Cavalry] who received a Ball through his thigh after remaining untill [until] the 24th of July after the battle aforesaid he recd [received] a writen [written] discharge from his Captain + [and] returned home to Surry County, N [North] Carolina and on his way was taken sick with a fever and after having been gone on this Service at least four months reachd [reached] his place of residence in Surry County N [North] Carolina. The next Service he entered as a drafted Militia man + [and] not at old Richmond aforesaid in Surry County + [and] served under Captain Joseph Cloud and Capt [Captain] Gaines marched across the Shallow ford of Yadkin, the Lieutenant he does not remember. But not with the troops + [and] prisoners taken at the Battle of Kings Mountain when + [and] where my Captain + [and] company was ordered by Majr. [Major] Winston to take charge + [and] guard said prisoners to the old moravian town which we done + [and] from thence guarded them to to Martinsville or Guilford Courthouse N. [North] Carolina + [and] there I was discharged
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After serving at least one month the date he cannot recollect. He saw + [and] knew several officers at the moravian town aforesaid towit Colo. [Colonel] Cleveland Colo. [Colonel] Armstrong Majr. [Major] Winston + [and] a number he cannot name at present. The next service I was drafted again in the Summer time or first of the fall 1781 + [and] marched from Surry County old Court house N. [North] Carolina under a Capt. [Captain] David Humphres [Humphreys] to Cape Fear River upwards of 100 miles + [and] then to or near Wilmington N. [North] Carolina at a large Brick building we recd. [received] information that Cornwallis with his army had surrendered to Genl. [General] Washington when + [and] where I was discharged having served at least two months + [and] twenty days making in all seven months + [and] 20 days for which he claims a pension. He answered the several questions [crossed out: questions] prescribed to be propounded by the War department (viz)
1st that he was Born in the [crossed out: the] County of King William in Virginia
2nd that he has no record only a Traditionary one on the 6th March 1740 or 1741.
3rd he lived in Surry County + [and] has lived at the same place ever since which is now Stokes County N: [North] Carolina by division of the County of Surry
4th he entered as a drafted soldier in every Service.
5th he cannot recollect the names of any of the regular officers at this time as he says his memory fails him but recollects of being with Majr [Major] Winston + [and] Colos. [Colonels] [illegible], Armstrong, Cleveland, Capt. [Captain] Meredith, + [and] the Capt [Captain] Colo. [Colonel] Jas. [James] Martin commanded as Colo. [Colonel] Commandt [Commandant
6th he recd [received] two writen [written] discharges but has lost them, the tour to Wilmington he was discharged verbally by his officers
7th he is acquainted with Colo. [Colonel] James Martin and James Davis Esquire and has no witness living, that he knows of; who can testify as to his services except David Tilley Senr. [Senior] + [and] John Maib Senr [Senior] there is no Clergyman convenient to him whose certificate he can procure + [and] he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or anuity [annuity] except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn + [and] subscribed the day + [and] year first above mentioned before me
Edmund his x mark Tilley
C [Charles] Banner J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

We James Martin Senr. [Senior] + [and] James Davis Senr. [Senior] Residents of the Stokes County in North Carolina hereby certify that we ware well acquainted with Edmund Tilley Snr [Senior] who has sworn + [and] subscribed the above declaration, that we believe him to be upwards of ninety years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides (in which he has lived many years) to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion Sworn + [and] Subscribed the 20th day of January 1834 before me
C [Charles] Banner J.P. [Justice of the Peace]
Ja [James] Martin Senr [Senior
Formerly Colonel Commandant of the Guildford Militia in North Carolina
Jas. [James] Davis Senr [Senior]
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State of North Carolina }
Stokes County } ss

I Charles Banner one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for the County aforesaid. Do declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after puting [putting] the interogatories [interrogatories] prescribed by the War Department that the above named Edmund Tilley senr. [senior] was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, and I further certify that it appears to me that Cols. [Colonels] James Martin Senr. [Senior] and James Davis Senr. [Senior] Esquire are both Residents of the greatest respectability of the County aforesaid, who has signed the foregoing certificate, and that their statement is entitled to credit and I further certify that David Tilley senr. [senior] + [and] John Maib senr. [senior] whose Depositions are Sworn to + [and] Subscribed within, before me, are both credible persons residing in the County of Stokes aforesaid, In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 24th January 1834 there being no Clergymen convenient

C [Charles] Banner J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

State of North Carolina }
Stokes County }

I John Hill Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Stokes County aforesaid certify that Charles Banner is a Magistrate as above and that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his is genuine. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and Subscribed my name.
This first day of February 1834.

Jno, [John] Hill c.c.c. [Clerk of County Court]
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State of North Carolina }
Stokes County } s.s.

Be it known that on this 20th day of January 1834 before me Charles Banner a Justice of the peace in + [and] for the County aforesaid Personally appeared David Tilley senr. [Senior] who being sworn according to Law deposeth + [and] saith that he is well acquainted with the within named Edmund Tilley and was acquainted with him in the time of the Revolutionary War + [and] that he well knew of said Edmund Tilley having been calld [called] out in the service of the United States in the Militia + [and] was absent from home at one time for at least four months he thinks to the best of his recollection about the time of the Battle of Stono in S. [South] Carolina and at another time a considerable length of service about the time of the Battle of Kings Mountain + [and] afterwards Sworn + [and] Subscribed before me

David Tilley

C [Charles] Banner J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

On the 21st day of January 1834 John Maib senr. [senior] appeared before me the Subscribing Justice of the peace for the County of Stokes aforesaid he being duly Sworn according to Law deposeth + [and] saith that he resided in the same neighborhood within a few miles of the within Edmund Tilley in the then Surry County N. [North] Carolina during the Revolutionary War, that he remembers said Tilley was drafted + [and] went into the Service under a Capt. [Captain] Camperlain [Camplin] in the Spring of the year + [and] was absent from his family four months or more, that in his absence this deponant [deponent] assisted in planting + [and] tending said Tilley’s crop of corn which was silking + [and] tousling when he returnd [returned] home the sate he cannot recollect but believes said Tilley served as he has stated, this deponant [deponent] further states that he served a tour of service in the same company under a Capt. [Captain] David Humphras [Humphreys] from Surry County aforesaid under Cols. [Colonels] James Martin to Wilmington N. [North] Carolina in the fall of 1781 + [and] was discharged for a three month tour. Tilley claims two months + [and] 20 days which was faithfully served.

Sworn and Subscribed the day + [and] year last above mentioned before me
John his x mark Maib senr [Senior]

C [Charles] Banner J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

State of North Carolina }
Stokes County }

I Charles Banner one of acting Justices of the Peace in + [and] for said County certify that I have been well acquainted with the above named David Tilley senr. [senior] + [and] John Maib senr. [senior] for many years, that they are credible persons and that statement aforesaid is entitled to credit.
Given under my hand this 21st day of January 1832.
Hon A.H. Shepard [Shepperd]
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Rev. [Revolutionary] & [and] 1812 Wars Section  MMNJ

September 30, 1926

Bessie B. Hanna
Weaverville, N.C. [North Carolina]

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 7732 it appears that Edmund Tilley was born March 6, 1740 or 1741 in King William County, Virginia.

While a resident of Surry County, North Carolina(the part which was later Stokes County), he enlisted March 22, 1779,served as a private in Captain Jacob Camperlin’s(or Camperlain’s) [Camplin] North Carolina Company, was at the battle of Stono [Stono Ferry],South Carolina and was discharged July 24, 1779.

He enlisted in 1780 and served one month in Captains Joseph Cloud’s and Gaines’ North Carolina Companies.

He enlisted in the fall of 1781 and served two months and twenty days as a private in Captain David Humphras’ [Humphrey’s] Company, under Colonel James Martin in the North Carolina Troops.

He was allowed pension on his application executed
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January 18, 1834 while a resident of Stokes County (the same place where he enlisted) North Carolina.
     There is no data on file as to his family.
               Respectfully,

               E.W. MORGAN
               Acting Commissioner.
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1926 - Sept. [September] 30 Hist. [History] to Bessie B. Hanna

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MMNJ
Rev [Revolutionary] War

7732
INVALID.
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File No. 7732
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Edmund Tilley
Priv: [Private] Rev. [Revolutionary] War
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Act: June 7th 1832
Index: — Vol. [illegible], Page 375

[Arrangement of 1870.]

Edmund Tilley, Sr. [Senior],
Records Corrected. Sept. [September] 8/04
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Ed. [Edmund] Tilley
N.C. [North Carolina] Roll Act 1832

Hon. AH Sheppard
HR

Copies of papers
1 set papers Mr Rowen
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[underlined: Rev. [Revolutionary]] Weaverville N.C. [North Carolina]
Aug. [August] 11, 1926.

Hon. Winfield Scott
Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir:

Will you kindly send me the Pension record of Edmund Tilley Sr. [Senior] who was on the pension list of North Carolina in 1835 for services in the [underlined: Rev. [Revolutionary]] War.

Military history would be greatly appreciated.

Thanking you in advance
[oval stamp: OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER [star] AUG [August] 13 1926 [star] U.S. [United States] BUREAU OF PENSIONS]
I am sincerely
Bessie B. Hanna
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Feb [February] 3
Edm [Edmund] Tilley Sr. [Senior]
Copies of Papers
Hon A H Sheppard
HR

James L Edwards Esq [Esquire]
Commissioner of Pensions
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House of Rep [Representatives] Feb [February] 2 1837

James L. Edwards

Sir

Some days since I requested a copy of Edward Tilley’s declaration for a pension filed some three or four years since under the act of 1832. The paper is need for the purpose of testimony in Court of Record.

[illegible]
A.H. Sheppard