Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 38163, for Samuel Mains, North Carolina
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SERVICE
N.C
Mains, Samuel
NUMBER
S. 38163
CONTENTS
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[Declaration page 1]

Georgia 
Wilkinson County 

Personally appeared before the honorable Inferior court for said county - it being a court of record - Samuel Mains a resident of said county aged sixty years of age who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818
and the first of May 1820, 

that  he the said Samuel Mains enlisted for two terms of six months on the day of ___
about the year 1776- in the state of North Carolina, in the company commanded by Capt. James Blount, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel  [Robert] Howe in the line of the State of North Carolina on the United States continental establishment-

that he continued to serve in said corps until the expiration of the said six months, when he was discharged from the said service in Eadonton [Edenton] in the said state of North Carolina - That he also enlisted for the two years & six months on the day ___, of ___in the years 1776 or 1777- in the State of north Carolina in the company commanded by Captain Dennis [illegible] that he continued to serve in said company for nine months when he was discharged by enlisting for a longer term of three years in said State of north Carolina in the company commanded by Captain John Jarvis - in 10th Regiment  of the line of North Carolina troops and the United states continental establishment commanded
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[Declaration page 3]

nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities contracts or debts due to me or any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed 

That I am by occupation a farmer but not able to pursue it from old age & infirmity. That I have a wife who is also very infirm-
also children but none living with me. That I am in such indigent circumstances as not to be able to support  myself without the aid off government- unless by public or private charity.

Subscribed & sworn to in open court it being the honorable Inferior Court from the county of Wilkinson & State of Georgia .  Also a court of record
Samuel Mains [his mark] X

July 7th 1823
Merritt Etheridge, one of the Justices of the Inferior Court
Schedule of Samuel Mains property 

One tract of land in the county of Appling [GA] $25.00
one horse, saddle & bridle 40.
notes for about one hundred & forty dollars 140.00
$205.00
Declarant has no other property except his wearing apparel 
[signed] Samuel Mains [his mark] X
Test. Merritt Ethberidge J.P.C.
Georgia 
Wilkinson county
I William Beck clerk of the Inferior Court for said County, do hereby certify that appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said Samuel Mains did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding
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[Declaraation page 4]

declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one Engagement- on the continental establishment 

I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copies from the records of the said court and do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is two hundred and five dollars.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand  & affixed my private seal there being no seal of office 
July 15th 1823
Wm. Beck
Clerk of the Inferior Court of Wilkinson county and State of Georgia

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15,715
Samuel Mains

Seth P. Harris Esq.
Irwinton
Georgia
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WASHINGTON   October 10, 1931

Mrs. Charles J. Kaune  BA-J/MCS
Donnellson
Illinois

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letters of September 27th and October 3rd, 1931.

The data which follow are obtained from papers on file in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.38163.

Samuel Mains enlisted in North Carolina, county not given, "about 1776" and served six months in Captain James Blount's Company in Colonel How's North Carolina Regiment and was in the battle of Great Bridge, Virginia.  He enlisted in 1776 and served nine months in Captain Dennis Dozier's North Carolina Company.  He enlisted May 12, 1777, for three years, in Captain John Jarvis' Company in Colonel Abraham Shepard's North Carolina Regiment and was made corporal in June, 1778; was in the battle of Monmouth and in the battle of Charleston, South Carolina, in 1780, he was taken prisoner but was released on parole.

He was allowed pension on his application executed July 7, 1823, at which time he was resident of Wilkinson County, Georgia aged sixty-seven years.

In 1823 reference was made to his wife and children but no names were given.

The above noted is the history of the only Samuel Mains of Georgia that is found  in the Revolutionary War records of this office and said records fail to afford any information in regard to a William Dudley of Wilkes County, Georgia.
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The records of this office fail to afford any information regarding to a Robert Means who served as First Lieutenant in 11th Company, Elbert County, Georgia, Regiment of Militia, June 21, 1791, and a William Means who served as Second Lieutenant, Elbert County, Georgia, Regiment of Militia, June 21, 1791.
In order to identify the record of a soldier of the Revolution named Donald or Daniel McDonald it is necessary that you furnish as much as possible of the following data pertaining to him; approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and first names of widow.

Very truly yours,

A.D.
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38163
Revy
INVALID. 
File No. 38163
Samuel Mains
Corp Rev War
Act: 18th March 18 [1818]
Index:- Vol 2, Page 273
[Arrangement of 1870]

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1931 Oct 10 hist to Mrs Chas. J. Karine
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This Saml Mahans [Samuel Mains] is no doubt the same man whose name is spelt Mains in his declaration 
Wm Hill