Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8,360, Nicholas Dunn, N.C.
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE
N. C.

*Dunn, Nicholas

NUMBER
S.8360

carded.
CONTENTS
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[written sideways] 
Revy War 

8360 
INVALID Own

File No. 8360
Nicholas Dunn
Priv Rev War

Act: June 7th, 1832
Index: - Vol. 1st, Page 104

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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28, 502

Declaration of Nicholas Dunn for a pension --

Admit as a Private – 6 ½ mo [months] $21.66

43.33
10.83
54.16

Hon. Thos H. Hall 
Ho. Repr [House of Representatives]
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State of North Carolina} 
Edgecombe County} Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions August Term 1832 

On this 29th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions now sitting, Nicholas Dunn aged 78 -- a resident of the County and State aforesaid 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 June 7th 1832. 

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. 

That he was [born] in the County of Edgecombe State of North Carolina in May 1764 -- He has an account of his birth inserted in a Bible that formerly belonged to his father. He resided in Edgecombe when he entered the service of the United States and was drafted in a company commanded by Capt [Captain] Etheldred Philips of which company Wm” [William] Bloodwork was lieutenant - He was attached to the 1st Regiment of N. C. militia under Col. Linton. Having organized at High Rock Ford in Warren County N.C. they met Genl Greene [General Nathanael Greene] and having been placed under his command and marching up the country met the enemy at Guilford and was in the battle - After the battle he proceeded under Genl Greene and Genl Butler to the Yadkin Country - Captain Philips in the meantime had been promoted to a Majority
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was succeeded in command of the Company by Capt Wm” [Captain William] Williams whose discharge he herewith annexed. Having returned to Wake Court House N.C. he was discharged. The whole embracing a period of six months and a half. 
He hereby relinquishes all claim whatever to a pension or annuity other than the present and declares that his name is not on the pension [roll] of any agency of any State. 
Nicholas [his X mark] Dunn

Test
Sworn to and subscribed 
Willis Wilkins, JP

We Benj Tharpe & Willis Wilkins do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nicholas Dunn who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration - that we believe him to be 78 years of age - and 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 the opinion 
Sworn to and subscribed 
Benja Tharpe 
Willis Wilkins
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after pulling 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 the said Sharp & Wilkins who have signed the preceding certificate are credible persons and their statements should be entitled to credit –
for Lewis D. Wilson [Clerk?]
J C Knight

I Michael Hearn Clerk of said Court do here by certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Nicholas Dunn for a pension

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my the hand and seal of office this 29th day of August 1832 
Mich. D Hearn CC
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Nicholas Dunn
S. 8360
N. C.
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kles [Nicolas] Dunn Being discharged arued [served?] Legal Sared [served?] Has sevd [served] / duly and faithfull [faithful] Soldier [Illegible] My Hand at Wake this 6 day of May 1781 Wm. Williams
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

23182
North Carolina

Nicholas Dunn
of Edgecomb [Edgecombe] in the State of No. Carolina who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Philips of the --- commanded by --- in the N. C. ma. [Militia]
line for 6 ½ mo. [months]

Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina
at the rate of 21 Dollars 66 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of Nov.
1833 and sent to Hon. Tho”s [Thomas] H. Hall Ho. Rep-s [House of Representatives]

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833    $54.1[cut off]
Semi=anl. [annual] allowance ending 4 Mar ’34 -10.80
$65.00

{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by W. L. Williams, Clerk
Book E Vol. 6 ½ Page 51