Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8624, William Graham, N.C.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
N.C.
Graham, William
NUMBER
S. 8624
Born in Va. carded

CONTENTS [ just lined paper}
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North Carolina 23.
23620
William Graham
Rutherford co. in the State of N. Carolina,
who was a Colonel in the ...... comm [torn]
[torn] Captain ....... of the........, co[torn]
....... in the N.C. ma, [torn]
for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina
at the rate of 600 Dollars ~ Cents per an
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

March 
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of M
1834 and sent to Hon. J. Co [torn]
H. of Repr. [torn]

Arrears to the 4th of March 34           $1800.00
Iom-ant. allowance ending Sept. 34       300.00
                                                             $2100.00

{Revolutionary Claim,
 Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Ele Brown Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 6/2 Page 56

[Written on the right side] E. S. Irvine Aug. 3/58
Mar 3-1835-ae
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State of North Carolina. 
Rutherford County⎬On the 23rd day of October A.D 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before the Justices of the County Court now sitting Col William Graham a Resident of the United States in the County of Rutherford and State of North Carolina aged 91 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 the the 7th of June 1832 that he entered the service of the United under the following named Officers and served as herein stated Saith that in the year 1775. he was appointed Commissioner to rec[torn] certain Articles for the minute men and the militia. that his appointment was given him by the field officers of the Provence of North Charolina at Cross Creek.  I was at that time Col in Command of the Tryon Militia. I was appointed by the Congress at Hillsboro North Carolina in the following Words & Figures North Carolina Hillsboro In Congress September 9th 177[torn] this may certify that William Graham Esqr is appointed by Act of Congress Coln of Militia in the County of Tryon by Orders Samuel Johnston president / Andrew Knox,  Secretary / I continued under that appointment untill we became better organised and we had a regular Govenor in the year 1779.  I received a [crossed out - Congress commission] another Commission in the following words & figures, State of North Carolina To William Graham Esqr Greeting we deposing especial Trust and confidence in your valor conduct and Fidelity do by these presents constitute and appoint you to be Coln of the Lincoln
Regiment of Militia of this State.  You are therefore carefully and diligent to Discharge the duty of a Colonel by exercising and will Disciplining the officers and Soldiers under your command and by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging and we do [illegible] charge and require of all officers and soldiers under your command to be obedient to your [illegible] as Colonel and you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from time to time as you shall receive from your superior officers according to the Rules and Directions of Military dicipline and the law of this State
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Witness Rution Caswell Esq Govenor Captain Genel and Commander in chief of the said State under his hand and Great Seal of State at Smithfield the 12th day of May Anno Dom 1779 and in the 5th year of our Independance
By his [illegible] Comd
J. Glasgow Sir  X     R. Caswell

and in those commissions I was on continual Duty.  I was attacked by the Tories in my Own House where myself (David Dicky & William Twitty Defeated about 23 Tories  We killed one of them and wounded three I think this was in September 1780. Shortly after that they the said Recruited and came to my house and plundered my house of all the removable [illegible] all the clothing they found and six likely regious soon after this there was an agreement with his Officers to assemble our forces at Brown Creek where we would be in a better situation to watch the movements of the British and Tories but about this time our forces began to assemble and before we embodied to [illegible] drove us from our position we made our way back we was overtaken by them at Waffords Iron Works where we had an engagement we defeated them we killed a great many and took prisoners had several Brave men killed on that day I will know that Majr Burrel Smith of Georgia Thomas Scott & Capt John Potts all fell by my side Bravely fighting in the defence of there Country in a few hours after our Battle Ferguson came in sight of us we had to leave the place in a hurry when we got over Broad River it became necessary for us to seperate and Resuscitate our forces. Ferguson marched his Forces on through the County of Rutherford to Burk County N Carolina where there was an Engagement [illegible] of Ferguson Officers Magr Dunlap Run a wound and from that place Ferguson Return Back about that time our forces began to embody and I think in the same summer this Battle was fought a Ramsours I was not there at the Battle but Anwed there in Company the next day with General
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Rutherford and Col Martin.  I was then directed to keep in Readiness as strong force as Scouts Raise Ready at a moments Warning we could not keep in large bodies we had nothing to Subsist on. I kept up what was called the Flying Camps. I was over the mountains after the Indians in company with Genel
Rutherford I think this was in the year 1778. I have in my possession Many Orders from the different officers to perform duty Two tedious to give the orders in detail but will give the names some of them. One order from Genl Green 5 Orders from Genl Rutherford, Genl Thomas Polk 2 orders -Col William Davidson 7 Orders. Col Smallwood _ 2 letters of Directions those with many others have been all well attended to in Fact when the Revolutionary War commenced I was Wealthy I was stout at a firm constitution I have lost all I served my country with my strength and my Fortunes.  I was for seven years in the prime of my life in the defence of our Liberty I was a Coln of the Militia but Really believe my Tour of Duty for at Seven years was more severe than any of those Officers who served in the Regular Army we had no Camp equippage
we had no munitions of war only by accident we had no commissary. we in the General had to find ourselves everything we had I am now Bald and Blind not able to support myself and call on the publick for what I think the Justly are indebted to me for my losses and sufferings in the Revolutionary War which would be a moderate support for myself during my life
I hereby relinquish every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except
the present and Declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the
agency of any State

Question1st by the Court Where and in what year was you born
Answer, I was born in the County of Augusta in the State of Virginia in the year 1742
Question 2nd Have you any Record of your age if so where is it
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Answer [underlined] I have not any Written Record only from circumstances and memorandom that have been made by the family. 
Question 3rd. Where was you living when called into service where where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live
Answer [underlined], I was living in Tryou County North Carolina now Lincoln when I first entered the Service during the War My Family was shifted at Different points after the War.
I Settled myself in Rutherford North Carolina where I have remained ever since.

Question [underlined] How was you Called into Service were you Drafted or you Volunteer or were you Substitute
Answer [underlined] I was a Volunteer from the commencement of the Troublesome times to the end of the War and was in Actual Service the Greatest part of my time

Question [underlined] did you ever Receive a Commission and if so by Whom was it signed and What has become of them
Answer [underlined] I recd a commision of a Coln Sign by Samuel Johnston president attested [underlined] by Andrew Knox Secretary bearing date 9th September 1775

also another Commission for Coln Signd by R. Caswell Governor and attested by J Glasgow Secretery Dated the 12th day of May 1779 and the 5th year of Independance both of said Commission I have now in my possession

State the the names of some respectable persons to whom you are known in your neighbourhood who can testify as to your Charactor for veracity and good behaviour your service as a soldier of the Revolutionary War

Sworn to and submited this day and year first above written in open Court
Witness Theo. F. Birchett, Clk     {seal}

We Joseph Moore a Clergyman Residing in the County of Rutherford and State of North Carolina
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State of North Carolina} Personally appeared before me the undersigned
& Rutherford County}   Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid Coln William Graham and after being duly sworn deposeth and sayeth that from his advanced age and consequent loss of memory he cannot swear or give in detail the precise length of his service for Reasons he will endeavour to explain from the best of his recollection
first: I was the Boldest Coln in the frontier parts of North Carolina. that much of the arrangements for the protection of the frontiers was devolved on me to select proper sites to Erect forts and to have them fortifyed with a sufficient force there was Waddletons fort Earles, fort White Oak, fort Russells, fort and paths fort that was under my directions and superintendance it is true that was the Commandant of the Militia in this section of Country and was frequently called on for a quota of militia when they could be spared with safety from the lines I was under the necessity of keeping up the flying Camps and to direct them from the report of the spy. how each party should take his stand and be in readiness to embody in case of an attack we had a large frontier to guard against the Indians the Blue Ridge was our line of Demonstration and the Indians being so well acquainted with the passes of that range of Mountains that it kept us busily engaged and continually moving to guard our thinly settled country I went
home to see my family occasionally but only to stay a few day,  I do not know any time from the year 1776 to the end of the war that I was engaged in any business for myself but entirely engaged in the defence of my Country

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1776. I was appointed to go to Fayetteville to Receive the Arms and Ammunition to the be placed at the fort and to be Distributed amongst the Whig, in the performance of this Service I was kept busy in seeing the forts was in proper order and see the Captors for that they was kept and proper subjection to see that all the disaffected persons was kept from our lives we was pecularly situated there was so many Disaffected men amongst us that was at all times in danger of being betrayed the persons that was kept in the caps was generally volunteers during this period I was over the mountains in  pursuit of the Indians under the Commands of General Rutherford that he attempted to make a stance at Browns Creek S Carolina but was Ousted by the British and Tories had a battle at Waffords Iron Works was on his march to join the main Army with his force when the battle was fought at Ramsours then was [illegible] to raise by Death a quota of men for three months this Draft does not Interfere with the Volunteers I had in the forts and on the 1781 [written on the side] lines as Indian spy,  I cannot Identify the time for I have no Recollection that I was out of Actual service at any one period more than ten day, this is the Service I rendered that I only claim my services for thirty months say  30 month

I know that I served more than that length of time as a Coln but am content with that length of service and for which Service I Claim a pension sworn to and subjected before me this ...... day of July 1833.
John Logan JP [signed] William his X mark Graham [signed]
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July 21, 1939

Ba-J/AWF
William Graham
S. 8624

Mr. Kenneth C. Coffelt
Benton Arkansas

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of William Graham, an officer wh assisted in frunning Corn-wallis out of Charlotte, North Carolina".

The data furnished heroin were obtained from papers on file in olaim for pension, S. 8624, based upon the military service of William Graham in the Revolutionary War.

William Graham was born in the year 1748, in Augusta County, Virgina. The names of his parent are not given. 

During the Revolutionary War, William Graham resided in Tryon (that part later Lincoln) County, North Carolina.

He was appointed September 9, 1775, Colonel of Tryon County Militis, and sometime in 1776, he was appointed Commissioner, and went to Cross Creek to receive arms and ammunition for the Minute men, he directed the "Flying Camp", and served under General Rutherford in pursuit of the Cherokee Indians; he was appointed May 12, 1779, Colonel of "Lincoln Regimen", and was in charge of many forts, was in an engagement at Wofford's Iron Works, South Carolina, and one at Cedar Springs, was near Charlotte, North Carolina, when Cornwallis was there;
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in September, 1780, the Tories plundered his home and carried off "everything movable", and six negroes were stolen. He stated that he was not out of actual service more than ten days at any time during the Revolution. 

William Graham was allowed pension on his application executed October 23, 1833, at which time he was a resident of Rutherford County, North Carolina. 

Reference was made to his family living during the Revolution, but no names were stated. 

William Graham died May 3, 1835.

E. S. Irvine a resident of Greenville, South Carolina, in 1858, stated that he was the grandson of this officer, William Graham.

The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernable family data. 

In order to obtain the names and address of the person who received the last payment of this pension, you should apply to The Comptroller Gen-eral, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and furnish the following data-

William Graham
Certificate # 23620
Issued March 12, 1834
Rate $800.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
North Carolina Agency.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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State of North Carolina
to William Graham Esquire Greeting -
We reposing especial trust and confidence in you [paper torn on right side] Valour Conduct and Fidelity do by these presents Con(sti)tute and appoint you to be Colonel of the Line Regiment of Militia within the State. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharg(e) the duty of Colonel __ by exercising and well disciplineing the officers and soldiers under your Command, and by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging and we do strictly charge and require all . _ Officers and soldiers under your command to be obedient to your orders as Colonel and you are to observe and follow such orders and Direction from time to time as you shall receive from your superior Officer according to the Rules and directions of Military discipline and the Laws of this State.
Witness Richard Caswell Esquire Governor
Captain General and Commander in Chief of the said
State under his hand and the Great Seal of the
State at Smithfield the 12th day of May Anno
Dom 1779 and in the 3rd year of our Independence
By His Exully's Comd
J Glasgow seal JP    [looks like a seal affixed to paper] Caswell
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State of North Carolina
to William Graham Esquire Greeting -
We reposing especial trust and confidence in you [paper torn on right side] Valour Conduct and Fidelity do by these presents Con(sti)tute and appoint you to be Colonel of the Line Regiment of Militia within the State. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharg(e) the duty of Colonel __ by exercising and well disciplineing the officers and soldiers under your Command, and by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging and we do strictly charge and require all . _ Officers and soldiers under your command to be obedient to your orders as Colonel and you are to observe and follow such orders and Direction from time to time

North Carolina ⎬ In Congress Sept 9th 1775
Hillsborough Ss.  This may certify that William Graham Esquire is appointed by Order of Congress  Colonel of Petition in in the County of Tryon.
By Orders 
Andrew Knox Esq    Saml L  Johnston

S. File 8,624
Wm Graham N.C.
J Glasgow JP   Caswell

Wm Graham N.C.  S. File 8,624.
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State of North Carolina}
Lincoln County}  personally appeared before me William Mason one of the acting
Justices in said County.  Andrew Lloyd one of the Revolution Soldiers aged about Eighty three years after being sworn in due form of law on his oath saith that in the early part of the Revolutionary war he was marched from Tryon to now Lincoln to South Carolina & crossing the River at or near the place where Columbia now is, in company with Col William Graham now an applicant for a pention[sic] thence on to
Ninety Six Now Lawrence District South Car. in pursuit of a Tory Officer Col Cunningham.  Known by the Snowy Compaign then returning home not ecollecting whether Col Graham returnd in company or not as the Army party. but they were
but this tour one month & fifteen days but Immediately after his return he this deponent was absent about one month to Cross Creek now Fayette Ville under Col Martin returning Some time in February and Immediately after his return they recvd orders by Express from Col Graham to March to Forts Mucfaggen & Macquhue in the Mountains in the West part of North Carolina the said Col Graham being some time Stationd there and was chief Commander at both Forts from whence they were Marchd and the said Graham Joining the main Army at the Head of the Catawba River thence into the Cherokee Nation, thence turning by the aforesaid forts & arrivd at home in November (Year not recollect) this deponent was absent this Tour Nine months but says Col Graham was out this Tour Ten Months during this time this deponent was acting as adjutant under the said Col Graham
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Also this deponent saith that he was with Col Graham Several Short Tours but cannot describe and of any length untill the Spring before Ramsours Battle that in
June he was marched by the said Col Graham to said Battle also in company with Genl Rutherford where they arivd the day after the Battle the Tories being dispensed.  [smudged]ing out from home about five weeks that the Sept following the said Graham at the Tuckesege Ford now in Lincoln County by order of Genl Rutherford they were March and crossing Broad river high up in Rutherford thence
on to the Cowpens now Spartenburg S.C. [illegible] in with Col Campbell & Shelby to Kings Mountain Battle but still acting as adjutant under Col Graham. being out
this Tour three weeks and this deponent further Saith that the said Col Graham was out short skouting tours only all the spring & Summer previous to Ramsours
Battle & at Kings Mountain and at which time Cornwallis being at Charlotte in the adjoining County & for some time continued to remain near the same section of Country. In consequence, which kep Col Graham Skouting from one place to another and to his knowledge he served his Country Two Years. And further says that he has been particularly acquainted with Col Graham to this time & that Col Graham is now residing in Rutherford County-
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th of
Decr 1833-
 X X  Andrew Hoyd

The wordsas a Colonel upwards
of a was interlined before
signing Wm Wilson J. P.
Sworn to before
on the date above
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State of North Carolina}
Lincoln County }  Personally appeared before me John Dickson one of the acting Justices of the peace for said County Samuel Espy our of the Revolutionary soldiers aged about seventy six years after being sworn in due form of Law says that he saw Col William Graham in the year 1776 commanding a regiment as Col Stationed at McFaduez Fort in Rutherford County he the said Graham was there not less than three weeks the deponent said under the said Col Graham to the Cherokee nation in the same year Col Graham was in service that tour not less then Two months and this deponent says that Col Graham served as a Col in the year 1780 at the time the Battle was fought at Ramsours but the said Graham was not at the Battle was with Gen Rutherford and served as a Col that Tour not less then four months and at that
time appointed this deponent a Captain that he was marched by the said Graham
in the year 1780 to South Carolina and was at the Battle of the Ceder Springs and the said Graham served as Col that Tour not less then Two months and this deponent was marched back by the said Graham to Broad River and the said Graham was in service
until the Battle of Kings Mountain and
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served as a Col at that tour not less the 2 months and this deponent was wounded
in Battle and further says that he is well acquainted with Col Graham that he lives in
Rutherford County.

Sworn to and Subscribed
before me the 25th Jany 1834     Sam Esprey
test
John Dickson JP

State of North Carolina}
Lincoln County}  I certify that I am well acquainted with Samuel Expry this deponent and has been for several years that he is a man of good standing and creditability
given under my hand seal the day and date above written
John Dickson JP

State of North Carolina}
Lincoln County}  I, Mily Abernathy Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Session for
Lincoln County do hereby certify that John Dickson before whom the foregoing deposition was when and by whom the certificate following was made, is now & was at the time thereof, an acting Justice of the Peace for this County & that his offical acts as such are entitled to full faith & credit
in Witness whereof I have hereunto set my
name and affixed the seal office, at office
in Lincolnton this 5th of February 1834
Mily W Abernethy Clk
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Rev. War Section.
July 27, 1912
Mr. N. V. McConnell,
199 B, Meads Avenue,
Fort Leavenworth, Kans.
Sir:
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July 14, 1907.
Cyrus Graham M. D.,
Corner 2nd & Elm Sts.,
Henderson, Ky.
Sir:
In reply to your letter dated the 28th ultimo and received on the 1st instant, you are advised that William Graham, Survivor's File #8,624, was allowed pension on an application executed October 23, 1832 at which time he was a resident of Rutherford County, N. C.

We stated that he was born in Augusta County, Va., in 1742 and resided in Tryon County, N. C. when he entered the service and was appointed Sept. 9, 1775 Colonel of the Militia of said County: in 1776 he was appointed Commissioner, and went to Cross Creek to receive arms and ammunition (from-crossed out) for (handwritten) the Minute-men, militia and forts: he kept up and directed the "Flying Camp", and served under General Rutherford in the pursuit of Indians: that on May 12, 1779 he was appointed Colonel of the Lincoln Regiment of Militia: that he was the oldest Colonel on the frontier of North Carolina where he commanded the Militia, erected forts and had under his superintendence Waddleton's, Earle's, White Oak, Russell's and Potts' forts: was in the engagement at Wofford's Iron Works, S. C., and in September 1780 repulsed an attack of the Tories upon his own house, which was afterwards plundered of everything movable and six negroes stolen: that
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he was not out of (the-crossed out) actual service more than ten days at any one period during the war.

From an endorsement on the records of this Bureau it appears that he died May 3, 1835.  There is no mention of the soldier's family: but in 1858 one E. S. Irvine of Greenville, S. C. claimed to be his grandson.

Very respectfully,

Commissioner.
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Law Office
Kenneth C. Coffelt
Benton, Arkansas

May 24, 1939

(stamp) Received May 26  1939
Mail (illegible)
(illegible)
(illegible)

handwritten - only vicinity

Pension Bureau
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:
I would like to know whether or not a Mr. William Graham is shown on the list of the pension rolls in your bureau.  The William Graham I refer to can be identified thus:

He was a Revolutionary soldier and signer of the Mechlenbury Declaration of Independence.  He helped to raise a troop of sixty men to assist in running Cornwallis out of Charlotte, N. C.  He had two sons who survived him, and who lived on lands in Tennessee which they received for the Revolutionary service of their father.

I will appreciate your cooperation, and any assistance and information you can give me in regard to the above.

Yours truly,
(signed) Kenneth C. Coffelt / h
Kenneth C. Coffelt

KCC/vh
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Union Box 387
[illegible] L.C.
Rev. Sec. FDL


Nov. 3 1915
G.M. Saltzgaber
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,

Please send me the Revolutionary record of Lieut John Floyd (later Captain). W.8817  John Floyd married Nancy Andrews. His record is in Pension
-
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Rolls Vol. III Also find his record from a senate Document of its 
first Session 23rd Congressional - Session
Some time ago I wrote you requesting the Revolutionary record. Col William Graham whose wife was Mrs Susan Bellar Twitty.  I shall appreciate it if you send me the
these records of these soldiers.

Thanking you for your information and for your prompt attention to this amtter.

Yours truly
Mrs. L.J. Hames
Regent Fair Loreat Chapter D.A.R.
Box 387
[illegible] L.C.
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S.8624
V.L.M.
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Handwritten - Miss Wiem  Evidently Rev. War
Stamp:  To Chf ... Div.
Action.....
Jul 27 [faded]
Commiss [faded]

199 B. Meade Avenue,
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
July 19, 1912.


Stamp: DEPT OF THE INTERIOR
RECEIVED
JUL 22
TO [ILLEGIBLE] PENSIONS
[faded]



Stamp
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
RECEIVED
JUL 22 1912
DEPT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR

Honorable Charles Nagle,
Secretary, Department of the Interior,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

On the tenth instant, I wrote to your Department, Dureau of Pensions, and asked for a copy of the statement of [handwritten] S.8624 Colonel William Graham of North Carolina, made for a pension. In reply to my request I received the letter which I herewith enclose. I am preparing a sketch of the history of my family and I desire to use this statement or rather the information which it contains in this sketch. I had previously written and obtained the statement made by my grandfather, Manuel McConnell, and also the statement made by Josiah Martin, the great uncle of my mother. These were sent me without objection. In the statement of Josiah Martin he shows that he rendered services during a certain period under Colonel Graham; hence the record of Graham would shed light upon the nature and character of these services in which my kinsman participated. This is the use that I have for this record. Under the doctrine laid down in the letter enclosed, I can't get this information at all. This certainly is a mistake. I am eighty years old and have
been a lawyer for more than fifty years and this is the first time that I have been refused a copy of a public record in any Department in Washington. I await your reply with interest.
Yours truly,
N.W. McConnell
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.

Law Division

July 16th, 1912.

Mr. I. N. McConnell
199B Meade St
Fort Leavenworth Kans.

Sir

In response to your communication of the 10th, received on the 15thish, you are informed that declarations and affidavits filed in a claim for pension can not be withdrawn and returned to any person, and that copies of such papers can only be furnished in certified form, upon the request of a court or department wherein the  same are to be used as evidence, and if for use in a court, upon the following conditions:

This Bureau should be advised of the nature of the suit, the names of the parties thereto, and in what court the action is pending.

The party who desires to use the certified copies should state what he expects to prove by them, and make oath in due form that this evidence is material to his cause; that the object of its use can not be attained by the substitution of any other evidence; that without it he may suffer irreparable injury, and that the United State Government is not involved as a party to the action, nor interested in the result thereof.

With such affidavit, he should file a request from the judge of the court in which the action is pending for the production of such certified copies.

The papers of which copies are desired should be clearly specified, and the name of the soldier upon whose service the claim was based, the designation of the organization in which he served, and, if possible, the number of the claim or the certificate should be stated, in order that the case may be identified and unnecessary delay avoided.

Very respectfully,
(signed) John Davenport,
Commissioner.
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Postal Card - One Cent
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
This side for address only.

(stamp) Washington D. C. 1898
(stamp) Greenville  ?30PM 88

Pension Bureau
Washington. D. C.

(stamp) U. S. Pension Office Jun 18 1898
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June 16
Greenville, S. C.

Can you find out anything about Col Wm. Graham of Rutherfordton, N. C. a Col. in the Revolution? - called sometimes "Billy Grimes" and "Old Straight Finger" (because one of his fingers was injured and could not be bent afterwards.)  Any information that will help me to join the D. A. R. will be appreciated by
Yours truly
Mrs. P. T. Hayne
403 McBee Ave
Greenville S. C.
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POSTAL CARD - ONE CENT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
This side for address only.

Pension Bureau
Washington, D. C.

(stamp) Record Jun 25 1900
(stamp) Green(illegble) 1900
(stamp) U. S. Pension Office Jun 21 1900
(stamp) U. Old War & Navy Files Jul 14 1900
(stamp) illegible  Received
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#403 McBee Ave.
Greenville, S. C.

Will you please look up again for me Wm. Graham of Rutherford Co. N. C. and if you can tell me whether he was Col. of a Reg. sent out from Tryon Co. (after wards cut up into Rutherford and Lincoln Cos.)  I gave my paper to the Regent of the D.A.R. here and she died, leaving the paper among some burnt up by her son.

You will greatly oblige.
Yours very truly,
Mrs. P. T. Hayne
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(postmark) Greenville Dec 8 7-30P 19 02 S. C.
The space above is reserved for postmark.
POSTAL CARD
The space below is for the address only.
(imprint) United States of America
(imprint) Postage One Cent
1843 - McKinley - 190?

Pension Bureau
Washington D. C.
O. W & N.

(stamp) U. S. Pension Office D Dec 10 1902
(stamp) ? & Navy Dec 12 1902 Files
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Gentlemen,
Will you be kind enough to inform me whether Col. Wm Graham, Col. of the Tryon N. C. Regiment during the Revolution was a Col. of militia or a Continental officer? You will oblige.
Yours very truly
Mrs. P. T. Hayne
403 McBee Ave.
Greenville, S. C.
Dec. 8th
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Cor 2nd & Elm Sts.
Henderson, Ky.
June 28, 1907.

Commissioner of Pensions.
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:-

Please send me a record of the service of Col. William Graham, of Rutherford County, North Carolina, with the name of the children of Col. Graham and the date of the Colonel's birth and death.
Respt.
(signed) Cyrus Graham M. D.
Dictated
T/L.

(business card stapled onto letter)
Residence Phones: Cumberland 148. Independent 455.
Hours: 11-12 A. M. 1-4 P. M.
Dr. Cyrus Graham
Cor. 2nd and Elm.
Henderson, KY.
Office Phones 18.
(stamp) U. S. Pension Office H Jul 1 1907
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(left page) July 15 98
Mrs. P. T. Haynes
Greenville, S. C.

Sept 19 1900 Hist above again

Dec 17 1902 To above. This affirm was Col. of Militia

1907 July 16. Hist to Dr. Cyrus Graham

1912 July 27 Hist. to N.W. McConnell

1915 Nov. 11 Hist to Mrs. L. J. Harris [blotch]

1939 July 21 Hist to Kenneth C [blotch]

(right page) 8624
Rev Wars
INVALID.
File No. 8624
William Graham
Co. Rev. War
Act: June 7th, 1832
Index: - Vol 1st, Page 151
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Samuel Martin
[illegible] Jno Silion
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North Carolina ⎬ This may certify that Captain
in the County ⎬ Samuel Martin a Revolutionary
Soldier about Ninety nine years of age Made oath
in due form of Law before me Andrew Hoyl one
the Justices in & for said County and on his oath
saith that he this deponant served a tour of seven
Months before & at the time of the Siege
of Charleston in the year 1779 or 1780 and that
Colonel William Graham the enclosed applicant
for a pention was also there and that this
deponant marched a good part of the way have
in company with the said Colonel Graham
and that he knows of many other tourers (though
Short) that the said Colonel Graham saved
during the Revolution but from the loss of
memory is not able to assertain the truth
of any of his tourers sworn to & subsented
Before me this 11th day of December 1833
And Hoyl JP    Samuel his X mark Martin

State of North Carolina}
Lincoln County} I Andrew Hoyl being one of the Justices of said county
and before whom the foregoing deposition of Samuel Martin was taken do hereby certify that I have been well acquainted with the said Martin from the Revolutionary war untill this time and that I believe him to have been a man of truth and continues be such and that from his old age & [illegible] he is unable to attend at court Nor has he been able for some number of years given under my hand & seal
this 11th day of December 1833

And Hoyl JP seal
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State of North Carolina}
Lincoln County}  I Miley W Abernathy Clerk of the Court of Pleas & quarter Sessions
of Lincoln County do hereby certify that Andrew Hoyle, before whom the within Deposition was taken & by whom the within Certificate was made is now & was
at the time thereof an acting Justice of the peace for this County & that his Official acts as such are entitled to full faith & credit. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of Office at Office in Lincolnton this 15th day of February 1834
Mily W Abernathy Clk
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE.
August 30th 1833

Sir:

Under the act 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 the United States", and the third section of the Act of August 23,1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their
pensions from the Pension agents,
Alexr Henderson, Esr of David Henderson decd
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond Va.
Agency, at the rate of one hundred & forty four Dollars and ... Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th of June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the
4th of September 1837 to the 22d Feb. 1838
Respectfully, yours
4387  T Purington
Acting Comptroller
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.
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State of North Carolina}
Rutherford County}

On this 29th day of November 1854 personally appeared before me Housen Harrill a magistrate of the County of Rutherford & state of No. Ca, D.W. John T Miller a resident of the County of Cleveland and state aforesaid who being sworn according to law, whom his Oath says, that he was personally acquainted with Col. William Graham, a Revolutionary Commissioner of the U. States, that his Character for veracity was above suspicion, that he died several years ago at the advanced age of about Ninety years, that gloom infirmity he may have been under the nicsseity of makering his mark instead of writing his signature, in fact I know that to have been so.
[signed] W J T Miller [underlined]

Sworn to before me, the day and year above written and I Certify that I am personally acquainted with  Dr John T Miller who made the foregoing affidavit, know him as he is known in the Community in which he lives, and the where where he is known as a man of veracity.
[Signed] H. Harrill JP
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State of
North Carolina
I
I R.L. Gilkey Clerk
of the Court of Man & Quarter Sessions
for the County of Rutherford certify that
H Harrill before whom the
foregoing
affidavit was made was at the date of
the same an acting Justice of the Peace
for said County duly commissioned and
qualified to this signature is genuine,
Given
under my hand &
seal of office the 4th day of
Decr AD 1854
R.L. Gilkey
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Granville J.C.
1
G.C. Whiting
Com Pensions
Dr Sir,
July 26th 1858
dness
to apertain
Will you have the
Whether William Graham
a full in the N.C. Line; did he claim
---
service as such where he made his declaration
under act 7th June 1832 under which
was pensioned rate of $600 Jane
He lived in Rutherford County N.C.
a grand son of his if he is entitled
the half pay act - I will famish
or of ally
the claim of necessary
he
ch oblige
Early Allentor will will
Cobb set
E
S. Frome
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Sir
of
Pension Office
Any 3, 1858.
In reply to your letter of the 26th times
late of Rutherford Co. North Carolina
I have to state that William Graham who was a
pension of the United States under act of
June 7. 1832 as rate of $600 per annum,
was a Colonel of the Lincoln County the
during the revolutionary war. He never held
rank in the Continental line, as is evident from his state
ment in his declaration, and his commission
itself which is among the honest in his case
being respy
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S. Joine
Greenville
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South Carolina
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Fadens
Deposition
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State of North Caroline Personally appeared
Rutherford County
before the time
Beamhe


of the acting Justices
of the
peace of said County, Alexander McFadin
all about seventy
five years after being duly sworn in dem
form
of Law, on his oath saith as follows
I first saw Col William Graham commanding
regiment of Militia at McFadens Fort in Lyon
County (Now Rutherford
about the last of June orth
1
of July in the year 1776. That Col Graham
Shortly
after this marched his men head of
the Catawba river to join an Army
or
against
the Cherokee Indians. Col Graham
returned to the Fort in November following
had
two Brothers under him in this case deter
A very little while after shall have arrived at
the Fort his ordered
C
several company to
the Cherokee
Jun, against
Indians, and
was one that went on this expedition, we
West
as for as the Okoneltie on the
Sucheseged river were were absent on this Four
about one month
& when we arrived
at
the
Port Fort McLoden Col Graham was there in Common
of the men
Recording the frontiers from the Indians
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& Tories - I well remember the dates of their
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times, because, a short time before Col Graton
Marched to Calawba, we were attacked by the
Indians in the harvest field and one man
and horse was killed, Col Graham was in
service as a call during these times at least
six months - after this I was placed on the
line of Forts, and only saw him she was
passing from fort to fort along the line
But in the year 1780 I met him on
Sandy beer Creek in Rutherford County Com
making a small body of men, I was then
under Col Charles
Nowell, Col Graham
&
McDovill, from there went on together & contin
ued together till they took the Tory fort
on Thicketty in South Carolina. They remained
together two or three weeks, Col Graham, I know
was still commanding as a colonel after this
time for heard of his being in the Battle at
Warfords Iron Works two or three weeks after
wards in So. Co. after this time
was appointed Col
Robert Poster
of this part of the Country
& Col Graham commanded in the lower part of
what is now Rutherford & the upper parts of Lincoln
County. I am fully convinced that all
was in service at the time of the
Gration
Battle of

Resours, Kings Mountain & the Cowpens. but I
did not meet with him
at any of these times
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Martin Beam
Sworn to before me this 31 January 1834
Head
State of North Caroline
I Martin Beam one of
Rutherford County
the acting Justices for
said county do certify that Alexander
Had in is a man of veracity the within
Is priment was sworn to and subscribe you
January the 31 Day 1834 Martin Beam
Kells
State of North Carolina
to
ford County ⎬
I
Theo H. Riblett Clerk of of the Court of Pleas and
Quarter Sessions in and for Rutherford County Certify
at Martin Beam Esquire, before whom the foregoing
affidavit of Alexander M Fadden is certified to have
been made; and John Logan Esq before whom the
annexed amended declaration of William Gorham
is attested as having been made and sworn to are
each of their acting Justices of the Peace of said
County; and that the defeated and attestation
as such are called to credit & confidence
the testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
name and affixed the seal of said Court
at office the 8th day of February AD 1834
Findley Clk
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of
9.695
Graham
. Seal
17
79
Admit as Cole
2 years $00
Hon Jane
Deposition of
Andrew Floyd
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State of North Carolina
Wilson
Lincoln County the Justices of the peace before
the foregoing deposition was taken do certify
I have been acquainted with Andrew Hoyd for
many years who swore + Subscribed to the foregoing
deposition that I always considered him a man of
veracity given in
my hand & seal this 18th
Dec. A.D. 1835.
W Wilson
State of North Carolina
Center County
Mily W Alemally Clerk
the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County
do hereby certify that William Wilson before whom
the foregoing deposition was taken & by whom
foregoing certificate was made is now & was at in
time thereof an acting Justice of the peace forthis

County & that his Official acts as such a
entitled to full faith & credit, In witness
whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed
the that of Office at Office in Lincoln
this 8th day of February 1834
Miley W Thomas C
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Maid
Chesnut Ridge
Stoke County NC
O Brine
S
Retherton
in
Rutherford County
Carolina
1212
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Chesnut Ridge
Post Office
Dear Sir
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States County January N Carolina
January 4th 1834
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received
from Rabugh
your Freindly Letter dated 25
Decemr 15, came to hand the 1st instant and will
most willinly inform you all I know respecting Col.
William Graham, this I certify that got
acquainted with him in going on the Expedition
against the Cherokee Indians under the command
of General Rutherford Brigade who I expect was
called out by him as well as myself and done duty
with me the said Brigade when called on one part
recolect of him and myself riding together and
marching from an indian town called which we
had burnt and across the
to destroy that we came across an old indian path
where we discovered a fresh mockison Tract going in
another direction from where we were going or
Graham started imediatly and said let us try to
O
Ketch that Fellow for by appearance he has paid for the
tract was muddy & not yet settld haveing raind little
before agreed and moved a few steps with him but
upon reference I told the Colo, it was bad policy to
follow him least he might tell us in an Ambush
cade where our lives would be sacrifice, to no
purpose so we desisted & return to our Regiments
again after Gen Rutherford selected a party and
proceded to the Valley Settlements or over Will Towns
as they were then called & Col Graham went with
him I being second in commanded to
remain & take care of the provisions untill his
Return
him over
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Tony
which I did & Col Graham return with
him & shortly after we had destroy their Coon
and Towns we were ordered home & the time
we spent in this Expedition was better than four
Months
from about the 1st of July 1776 untill
some time in Novem same year this I declared in
my declaration for my pension by recolection for
I kept no written Journal and I must suppose
that Col Graham served the same time as I
did being both Brigade for I did not
see him again untill I saw him at the Assembly
then held at Halifax on Roanoake where I
ment to carry the Payrolls of the Millitia Men
the time they served in the Cheroke Expedition
and suppose he was on the same Business for his
Regiment & recollect that I sold him a small
Cullos part Silver mounted & a Silver Chain to it
I let him have it for the same price I gave for it
in Philadelphia the year before it was five pounds
Ten Shilling: as account were then Rett I merely
mention it
to refresh his memory that I remember him
& I dont remember I was in expedition or
excution afterwards with him but heard that
he active in supressing the Tories in different parts
of the Contry perticulary in the Settlement of the
Bryons of the Yadkin River & one of the Brons
the Chair Head of them who afterwards rose and
went to the British in Wilmington and find them
think if you would they
of the Militia of the Date of 1776 or 1777 you would
find some farther information what his services were
afterwards
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of
those y
1776 or
&
Mr OB Irwine ⎬
S
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I expect the pay rolls may be found among the
of North Carolina
Registers or accounts of publick Dockuments,
art they were safely kept as they ought to have been
1777
state that I can recolect for as I said before I kept no
written Journal for myself but depended altogether
on memory & the ammon in my 91 year of
age I dont think it much impaired or obliterated as
yet particularly of things that passed long ago for
which I return my unfeigned thanks to the benign
ruler of the Universe
and if the War Department will give
Credit to any thing I have wrote which I could
safely swear to concerning it it will more than
compensate me for writing this Declaration
I am sir the not personally acquainted with
your Friend and
Son
with it may tend to obtain his
Pension
J. Martin Sen
he lived in
I dont recollect what County he commanded
the Militia in I suppose you can assertain that
as that will be neverary of his pension claim
being admitted
Jill
as having wrote in hast please
to
use excuse interlineation
J
X
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Wm Graham
17607

[written upside down] Gaf__ Wm Graham
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Witness
Jonathan Hampton
Residing in the same County
and State do hereby certify that are well acquainted with Col
William Graham who has subscribed and sworn to the above
declaration that we believe him to be Ninety one years of age that
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 and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court
This P. Birchett
Clk
John Moore
Jonathan Hampton
1
And the said Court do hereby declare there opinion after
the Investigation of the matter and after putting the Jubrogators
prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant
was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the said
Court further certify that it appears to them that Joseph Moore
who has signed the preceding
Chery
resident in the County of Rutherford and State of North Carolina and
that Jonathan Hampton
who has also sign the same is
resident in the same County & State and is credible persons and
that there statement is entitled to credit
This F. Butt
Clerk of the County Court of Rutherford
North Carolina do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the
Original proceding in the matter of the application of Col William
Graham for a pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal of Office this 30th day of October AD 1832
Mrs. F. Butt