Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17249, George Baker, N.C.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
N. C.
Born in NC.

Baker, George

NUMBER
S. 17249
carded

CONTENTS
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Date of death not on A.B.

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19361
Indiana
George Baker
of Morgan Co in the State of Ind
who was a pri [private] in the co. [company] commanded by Captain [John] Baptist Ashe of the regt [regiment] commanded by Col. [John] Lillington in the N.C. [North Carolina] line for 14 mos [months] & 10 ds [days]

Inscribed on the Roll of Ind [Indiana] 
at the rate of 47 Dollars 77 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Augt 1833 and George A Phelps, Martinsville

Arrears to the 4th of March 95.54
Semi-annl. Allowance ending 4 Sept 23.88
$129.42

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Danl Boyd Clerk
Book E Vol. 7 Page [illegible number] 103 

[illegible black ink round stamp of National Archives]
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State of Indiana
Morgan County Ss
Morgan Probate Court 
November term 1832

On this 13th day of November in the year 1832 personally appeared before John Matthews probate Judge within and for the Said County George Baker a resident of Said county aged seventy three years 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 Seventh 1832.

That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1776 in May or June of Said year for the term of two years and Six months in the continental line in the sixth Regiment of Said line under the command of 
Colonel Livington [John Alexander Lillington] enlisted by George Donothy [George Dougherty], Lieutenant Colonel and the Majors name not recollected 

he says he served in the company commanded by Captain John Baptist 
Ash [Ashe], 1st Lieutenant George 
Donathey [Dougherty] and second Lieutenant [Andrew] Armstrong

that he served under Said enlistment until about the first of September in the Said year at which time the Said year at which time the Said Declarer Says he was taken Sick and returned home and remained at home untill sime [some] time in the Spring of the following year which was in the year 1777 to the best of his recollection 

that he was not able to march with the army until Some time in the Spring of Said year of 1777 about the middle of May in Said year  That he continued in the army from Said time untill about the middle of August in said year at which time he received a discharge at Guilford County North Carolina the reason why he was discharged at that time was because he was Sick
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again and he hired a certain Humphrey Price
to Serve in his name and stead [instead] at which time the said Declarer got a regular discharge Signed by Major John Armstrong of the fourth Battalion which discharge he has long Since lost

The declarer says that in the next year 1775 Sometime in that year he does not recollect the precise time he volunteered for forty days in the army of the United States under the command of Captain Hightower and Lieutenant William Leemore [William Lenoir] that they marched to Salem in the state of North Carolina for the purpose of fighting the Scotch at Cross Creek but when we got to Salem we learned that they were Subdued by Raswell's [Richard Caswell] army [Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, North Carolina 1776] and we  returned home.

That he volunteered in the army of the United States Sometime in the winter of 1778 or 1779
for the term of three months and Served under the command of Colonel Joseph Phillips and my Majors name was James Shepherd the Captains name under whom he served for the term of four days was William Knowl [William Nall] The said declarer says he acted as Ensign in the company to which he belonged for the term of the said four days that Knowl [William Nall]  acted as Captain and this declarer says he himself
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acted as Captain in Said company to which he belonged the ballance [balance] of the Said term of nine months that he lived in the County of Wilks [Wilkes] in the State of North Carolina 

the time he Served in the army that they marched to Charlott [Charlotte, North Carolina] and from thence to anson Court house [Anson Court House, North Carolina] and from thence to Sallisberry [Salisbury] Court House in the State of North Carolina 

and from thence to a place called horse pasters [Horse Pasture, Henry County, Virginia] in the state of Virginia and from thence they returned on homeward 

he says he got a written discharge from Colonel [Joseph] Phillips or Captain Speers he says they were both there but he does not recollect which signed the discharge he says he believes it was some time in that year 1781  he says he has long since lost the said discharge 

This Declarer says he was out with and under the command of Captain Robert Coyl and Captain Robt [Robert] King in the State of North Carolina on Holsten River and its vicinity in what is now called Hawkins County [then part of North Carolina] in Scouting parties for the purpose of preventing the Indians from doing mischief to the white people for the term of three months about the time that Cornwallis [General Charles Lord Cornwallis] surrendered [Surrender of Cornwallis, Yorktown Battlefield 1781]
either a little before or a little after that time 

he does not recollect with
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That he was at different times out in scouting parties for the purpose of preventing the Tories from doing mischief in Willis County in the state of North Carolina he says the scouting party to which he belonged was commanded by Captain Andrew Baker he does not recollect the precise time he was out in more scouts but he thinks something like one month which said several times before mentioned when all added together he believes to make about one year & one month & one third
and the said declaren in answer to the questions propounded by the Court as required by the instructions from the War department says that to the best of his knowledge and belief he was born in Granville County in the State of North Carolina on the 14th day of October 1759 he says he had at one time a record of his age in a bible which his father gave him but he says it is lost that he was living in Wilks County in the State of North Carolina at the time he entered the service of he United States and between the times of the several times of service aforesaid and for about twenty five years afterwards
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and from thence he moved to the State of Kentucky in Clay County where he continued 18 or 20 years and from thence he moved to Morgan County in the State of Indiana where has ever since lived which is about five years.

That his declaration above details the manner in which he was called into the Service that the answers of the enquiries which the law requires are contained in this declaration as well as he recollects that he is known to George Baker John Lewis Presly Anderson & George A Phelps who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services s a soldier of the revolution that he has proved some part of the above services by his brother Boling Baker and herewith sends his affidavit of the fact that he knows of no other person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services and that he has no documentary evidence thereof - 
Interogatory to an officer did you ever receive a commission if so by whom signed and what has become of it answer he never recd any

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever 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 or teretory Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
George Baker X his mark
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17,249
INVALID.
File No. 17.249
George Baker
Pri. Rev War
Act: June 7" 32 [1832]
Index:- Vol. 1, Page 433

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Feby. 11 1897- History to 
Mr. William Baker
Vancouver - Washington
Jany. 27 -1900 Same to same
1916 Jun 5 History toThomas S. Moore 
1936 Mar. 6 -Hist. to Mrs. A.J. Berger -MLB
1939 Mar. 20 Hist. to RM Duke- MLB
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[address on card]

[round black ink stamp]
MARTINSVILLE 
FEB 12
5-P.M.
1939

THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS

Soldiers Pension Department
Washington 
D.C.

[oval black ink one cent postage stamp]
1 JEFFERSON 1 

[round black ink stamp]
RECEIVED 
FEB 13 1939
MAIL SUB-DIV.
VETS ADM. 
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