Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7,977, Edward Wright, N.C.
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SERVICE                                             NUMBER
N.C.             Wright, Edward                S. 7977

carded
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[This is a form with blanks written in on the left side of the page.]

North Carolina
Edward Wright
of Montgomery Co in the State of No. Carolina who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Davis of the regt. commanded by Col. Teneran in No. Carolina line for 6 months [illegible]

Inscribed on the Roll of No. Carolina at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1833.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of March 1833 and Sent to John B. Martin Lawrenceville N. C.

Arrears to the 4thof March 1833           $40.00
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept 1833 10.00
                                                               _______
                                                               $50.00
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.      }
Recorded by W.L. Williams Clerk
Book E. Vol. 6 Page 59.

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[Illegible] to pay 30 March 1837
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[Written on the right side of the page]
No 19435
Edward Wright
Montgomery County
North Carolina
from private
6 months
$20.


John B. Martin Clk
Montgomery County Court
N Carolina
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[The title and and questions are printed, and blanks and answers are written.]

BRIEF in the case of Edward Wright of Montgomery Co in the State of North Carolina
        (Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  a Court

2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3.  How old is he?  74

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
[The following is in the form of a table.]
Period             Duration of Service.
                        Year,     Months    Days
Draft In 17                         3                 
Vol                                     3                    

Rank.      
Private
     "
Names of General and Field Officers 
under whom he served.

Gen. Butler
Capt Davis. Col Tinnen Genl
 " Finby Genl Rutherford

5.  In what battles was he engaged?  [Illegible]

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Guilford N Carolina

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Traditionary Evid----

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect?  Correct.

      X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Dyer Castor  Examining Clerk.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress Passed June 7th 1837.
State of North Carolina }
Montgomery County    }
Court of Pleas and quarter Sessions 
October Term 1832
On this [blank] day of October 1832 personally appeared in open court before
           the justices holding the County Court for the County aforesaid Edward Wright a resident of the County of Montgomery and State aford aged Seventy four years who being [illegible] sworn according to Law makes the following following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
       That he was born in the state of Maryland the year he does not Know. as he has no record of his age but from what he has always understood and believes he thinks he is now about Seventy four years of age that he grew up in the Said State of Maryland and [illegible]  then placed on the Muster Roll - and that he came to the state of North Carolina and Settled in the County of Guilford in Said State about the time of the battle of Bunker Hill that after he had. Remained Some time in Guilford he entered the Service of the United States under one Captain Davis who drafted a company of Men in Guilford County.  He does not know the date he entered. under Captain Davis, but Knows that it was in the year that the British were fortified at Stono in So. Carolina where they under one Genl [illegible] had an engagement with the americans under Genl Lincoln  The relation of this fact at this is to fix the time he commenced his Service- After Captain Davis had made up his company as above Stated he joined Col Tennen from Orange County under Genl Butler who commanded a body of men and they all marched on through Salisbury and Charlotte into South Carolina and Georgia being sometimes on one side of Savannah River and some
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times on the other.  That after they had got into South Carolina they were joined by one Genl Lincoln who had an army under his Command which was sometimes pursuing the British under Genl Provo [sic] and some times pursued by them that they were marching in this way until the british under Provo fortified themselves at a place call stone where they were attacked by the Americans under the Command of Genl. Lincoln, but held their position.  the Americans, not being able to dislodge them.  The British army [illegible] few days.  left their Situation at Stono and marched of.  This affiant further states that the time for which the company, who were drafted by Captain Davis from Guilford entered the was three months which expired shortly after the engagement at Stono when Davis' Company was discharged and this affiant amongst the rest.  and they left the Americans at Stono when they returned home to Guilford.  This affiant is unable to state certainly whether he got a parole or written discharge, but if if it was a written one he has lost it.  He knows nothing of it It his best opinion however that he had a written discharge.  This affiant further states that upon his return home he remained some time and about the time of the [illegible] after the battle of Guilford Courthouse, he again entered the service of the United States as a volunteer under one Captain George Forbis and George          This [illegible] who raised a Company of volunteers and they marched through Randolph and Montgomery County and joined one General Rutherford on Drowning Creek which is in Robeson County in the State of North Carolina. that they marched through a Swamp called the raft Swamp in the Same
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County and that they marched from place to place and were on their way to Wilmington where and in that neighbourhood there was a major Craig who commanded a number of the British and Some of the Tories who had collected there.  That when Rutherford and his army were encamped at a place called the Long Bridge on the north east River they had news of the [illegible] Capture of Cornwallis at York which news together with the fact that Rutherford was marching to Wilmington induced Major Craig to abandon it.  Shortly after which time upon the expiration of the three months the time for which the Company  under Forbis from Guilford had volunteered.  this affiant and the rest of the Company from Guilford were discharged. and sent home.  He does not recollect whether he had a written or verbal discharge or in what way the Company were discharged.  This affiant states that shortly after his first Tour he remained and lived six or seven years after the close of the war in Guildford County when he then moved to where he now lives in Montgomery County.
      The affiant states that He has no persons by whom he can prove his services in the revolution.  He is known to [illegible} John Jordan and William Coggins who can testify as his character for Veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.  That there is no clergyman in his neighborhood that can testify to the Same.
     He Hereby relinquishes his every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
J. [illegible] clk

         his
Edward x Wright
        mark
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State of North Carolina Montgomery County
We William Coggins and John Jordan hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Edward  Wright who has Subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be Seventy four years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year above said
Jos Martin clk                 Wm Coggins
                                        John Jordan
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the Matter and after pulling interrogatories presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and Served as he states.  And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that John Jordan & William Coggins who have signed the preceding Certificate are residents of the County & state afod.  and that their statement is entitled to credit.

sworn to and Subscribed the day & year afod.                 Jos. Parsons [illegible]
[illegible]
Horatio Sugg JP. [illegible]
I John [illegible] clerk of the County Court of pleas and quarter sessions of Montgomery County do hereby Certify that the foregoing Contains the Original proceedings of the Said Court in the Matter of the applications of Edward Wright for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal of my office this 11th day of October A.D. 1832
J.B. Martin clk

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[This is a printed chart with information written in]
[Pen]sion on file in this Bureau.  Edward Wright SF 7977

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT 
1779
about 1781

LENGTH OF SERVICE
3 mos
3 mos

RANK
Pvt.

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
CAPTAIN.
Davis
George Forbis
Furbis
COLONEL.
Tennen

STATE
N.C.

Battles engaged in,
Residence of soldier at enlistment,  Guilford N.C. in 1778 -
Date of application for pension, Oct 4, 1832 His claim was at
Residence at date of application, Montgomery Co. N. C.
Age at date of application, born in Md. in 1758.
   Remarks:  Soldier alleged that he married after his first [illegible]
no name of wife
and lived Six or Seven years after the close of the war in Guilford Co.
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[On the left side of the page]
1908 Aug 11 Hist. to Corley Wright (Letter in L.F. 42051)
1912 May 6 Hist to  (illegible)
Alfred Prescott  Letter in F. 24916 Benjamin Blackbourn

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7977
Rev War
INVALID.
File No. 7977
Edward Wright
Priv. Rev. War

Act:  June 7th 1832
Index:--Vol. 1st, Page 417

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Edward Wright which require further proof or explanation.

I.  Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?

II.  Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?

III.  If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV.  Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?

V.  *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout [sic] of pension he in entitled?

VI.  Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?

VII.  Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?

VIII.  Has the Court given their opinion?

IX.  Has the Clerk given his certificate?

X.  Is the Clerk's seal affixed?  And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
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XI.  Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergymen and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?  
No [written]

XII.  If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?

XIII.  If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV.  [obelisk]  If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
     If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
     Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?

XV.  Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such as age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?

XVI.  [diesis] Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?

XVII.  Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily?  And, if not, which of them is not so answered?

EXPLANATORY NOTES.

*QUERE V.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades;  For ---- year ------- months, and ---------days I served as a --------  For -------- months and -------- days, I served as a -----------; and for such service I claim a pension.
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      It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase about three or four months [italics] is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.  Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service.  This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[obelisk] QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service. [italics]
     In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
[Obelisk] QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.  [in italics]
      In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
     [Manicule]  In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.