Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 72, Mathew Albritton, Nc.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
N.C.
Albritton, Mathew
NUMBER
R. 72
CONTENTS
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The State of Alabama} October the 31st 1832
Wilcox County}

Personally appeared in open court before the honorable P. T. Harris Judge of the Circuit Court now sitting in said County Mathew Albritton, a resident of said state & county aged about seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declartion in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passesd June 7th 1832 - 
That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, & served as herein stated He entered the service in the Spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two, under the command of General Green, Col. Lightle or Little and Major Ridden Blount and under Capt. Thos Evans de Long - Bush that at the time he entered the service he resided in Pitt County in the State of North Carolina and was drafted into the eighteen months service after he commenced the service he rendezvouse first at Kingston on Nuse [Neuse] River in said State from thence he marched to Willmington from thence under the command of Col. Lightle to George Town in South Carolina from thence to Ashley Hill on Ashley River in said state where he joined the main army of General Green and remained stationed there for the span of three or four months, from thence he march with
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Green army to James Island, where he remained until the close of the war. He states that he was acquainted Captains Sharp, Hadley & Hall of the regular army he was also acquainted with Capt. Revell from Maryland who was also under the command of Gen. Green, He further states that that the whole term of the service which he performed was about thirteen months the tour for which he engaged had not expired at the time when he was discharged, Immediately before he was discharged he was marched to a place called the Two mile Spring ten miles from Charleston where he received a conditional discharge which was to be first if he should not be again called on. His discharge was signed by Capt.Benjamin Coleman, who was his Capt. the time he arrived at Ash Hill until he was discharged, and also by Col. Lightle - he has now no documentary evidence of his service, having lost his discharge. He does not now remember any further particulars of which might be servicable in the investigation of his  claim, many of the incidents connected with his services and his sufferings have in the lapse of years measurably fallen from his memory
Mathew Albritton X his mark
[Signature]
The following are interrogatories by the court

1 - when & in what year were you born?
A - I was born in Pitt County in the state of North Carolina. I have no record of my age but from traditionary information it was about the year 1756.

2. Have you any record of your age and if so where is it.
A. I have no record.

3. Where were you living when called into the service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live?
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A. When I entered the service I lived in Pitt County North Carolina - a few years after the revolution I removed to the state of Georgia ten years after I removed into South Carolina Newberry District, where I resided until the year 1827- when I removed to this state I now live in Wilcox County, Alabama.

4. How were you called into the service were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom?
A. I was drafted.

5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served, such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the General circumstances of your service.
A. I was acquainted with General Green and Col. Lightle Major Blount Capt. - Coleman, and several others of the regular army- for the General circumstances of my service, I refer to the statements contained in the above declaration.

6. Did you ever receive a discharge, from the service & if so, by whom was it given, & what has become of it - 
A. I received a discharge as above stated signed by Col. Lightle & Capt. Coleman, I cannot now tell what has become of it.

7. State the names of person to whom you are known in your present neighborhod & who can testify as to your characer for veracity & good behaviour, your service as a soldier or the revolution.
A. The Ben Benjamin Dalany & James Jenkins

We Dalany a Clergyman residing in said county & James Jenkins resident of the county aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Mathew Albritton who has subscribed and
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sworn to the above declaration that we believe him of the age which he states in said declaration & that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of hte revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
[Signatures]
Ben Dulany
Sworn to and subscribed in open court the 30th October 1832
D. C. Smith  Clk
[Signature]

He the said Albritton hereby relinquishes claim to any other pension than the one now applyed for & states that his name is not on the penstion roll of any state or of the United States.
Malkey Albritton X his mark

And the said court do hereby declare there opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after propounding the interrogatories prescribed 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 Benjamen Dulany who has signed hte preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the county aforesaid and that James Jenkins who has also signed the same is also a citizen of said county & is a credible person & that this statement is entitled to credit - 
[Signature]

The State of Alabama}
Wilcox County}  I Duncan C. Smith Clerk or the Circuit Court of said County & State do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Matthew Albritton for a pension.
In testimonoy whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at office this 31st day of October A. D. 1832
D. C. Smith Clk
[Signature]
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________________Ex'r.   INVALID.

REJECTED
Mathew Albritton
P.O. __________________________
Service: ________________________

Enlisted: List of rejected claims
Discharged: printed in 1852
I have cause of rejection as follows:
"Desertion"

Application filed: ____________, 18

Re-enlisted: ______________________

Attorney: _________________________
P.O. ____________________________
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Matthew Albritton 
Wilcox Co.
Alabama.

Rejected.  See letter 8 March 33 to 
D. C. Smith, Canton
Alabama.
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72
Mathew Albritton
Alabama


Rejected - see letter of the 8 March 1833
to D. C. Smith
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D. C. Smith
March 8 1833

o.c
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War Department
Pension Office
March 8.1833 -

Sir,
The declaration of Mattew Albritton, which was made before the court of Wilcox Co. has been examined and placed on the files in this office. It appears from a certificate of the Secretary of State of N. Carolina, who has complete rolls of the N. C. line, that he deserted the service. By this act he has forfeited all claim to the bounty of his country. His claim has therefore been rejected.

D. C. Smith Esq.
Clerk of the Court
of Wilcox Co.
Canton Alabama.
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refer to Mr. E. 
deserted 20 Apl 1783

reject
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State of North Carolina
Secretary of State's Office

I William Hill Secretary of State in and for the State aforesaid, do certify that the name of Mathew Albritton appears on the musterrolls of the Continental line of this state in the revolutionary war as a private soldier enlisted on the  in 1782 in Capt. Evan's company of the 10th Regiment for the term of 18 months and that he deserted on the 20th of April 1783.
Given under my hand this 19th day of December 1832.
W. Hill
[Signature]
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The State of Alabama} Oct. 1832
Wilcox County} Personally appeared in open court -  before the undersigned Judge of the Circuit now sitting Benjamin Hollingshead who being duly sworn upon his oath doth say that he is acquainted with Mathew Albritton who has subscribed the above declaration that he entered the service of the United States at the same time with the said Albritton, and continued the same period and that he knows the statements made by the said Albritton in his declaration to be true.
Benjamin Hollinghead X his mark
Sworn to & Subscribed in open Court
October 20th 1832
D. C. Smith Clk
[Signature]