Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6,410, Alexander Williams, Va.
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Approved Survivor/Soldier pension of Alexander Williams. VA (S. 6410)
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Staunton 24 June 1833 
Honorable Jd. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions 
	Your letter of 30 April: returning Alex. Williams declaration for an amendment, was near in due course of the mail- but in consequence of Mr. Willaims infirmity he has not been able to come offer ??, before 22nd last. I now return you his declaration amended in the particular you suggested, and hope it will receive a speedy action, for I apprehend the applicant will not long enjoy it. 
Respectfully yours
??: Kinney ??
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6410 
Invalid 
File No: 6410
Alexander Williams 
Pre Rev War
Act: June 7 1832
Index:- Vol. a Page 408
[Arrangement of 1870]
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File Jacket Information 
Virginia 16.187
Alexander Williams 
Augusta in the State of Virgina was a private in the company commanded by Captain Henderson of the Regt. Commanded by Col. Bowyer in the Virginia line for 15 months. 
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 50 Dollars – cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 183. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of July ’33 and sent to J. Kinney Stauton, VA. 
Arears to the 4ht of March “33 – 100
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept -25 
$125
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.} 
Recorded by ?? Miller Clerk, 
Book E. Vol. 6- Page 31
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Virginia
Augusta County, to wit. 
	On this 25th day of September- 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the justices of Augusta County Court, now setting Alexander Williams a resident of Augusta county of state of Virginia, aged about 70 years, who being first sworn according to the law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th June 1832. 
	That he was born in Augusta County of State of Virginia in there about seven miles of the Town of Staunton in the year 1762 as he always understood and believes, that there is no record of his age known to him. That he has always resided in the said county of Augusta. That he entered the services of the United States under the following named officers and served as followed. 
1. He was drafted as one of the Militia of the said County of Augusta in or about August 1776 and attached to the company under the command of Captain Henderson of said County, and with other men marched under the of Col. William Bowyer of Augusta to join the army under the command of General McIntosh to the Western Frontier for the protection against the Indians- that he did join the army at the Fort McIntosh, where he remained for some months the precise frame he does not recollect, that from Fort McIntosh, he marched with other troops to Fort Laurens, when other Troops discharged and ?? home in the month of January 1777 having been absent in the service between five and six months- He remembers that at Fort McIntosh there was a Col. ??
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Campbell from the state of Virginia who had command of regulars, and at Fort Laurens there was a Colonel or Major Broadhead who had command of regulars, that he knows of no person being by whom he could prove his service as above wit worth. 
2. In March 1777 he engaged to serve as a substitute for a certain Archibald Lockridge who was one of the drafted Militia of Augusta County, and marched as said substitute from the Town of Staunton in the County of Augusta to the protection of the whites on the western frontier of Virginia against the Indians, under the command of Captain William Kincaid of the Augusta Militia, that he was stationed for some time at a Block House called Lauders on the Western fork of the Monongahela River, that while there he volunteered with other men to go to another Block House under the command of Ensign James Steele of the Augusta Militia, the name of the latter Block House he does not now remember that after remaining at the last named place for a short time, he was with other troops regularly discharged, but received no written discharge, that he was sent on this tour in the service about four months. That he knows of no persons now living by whom he can prove this tour of duty. 
3. In the month of February 1781, he volunteered as one of the militia of Augusta County, and marched with other troops from the County of Augusta to the State of North Carolina, that he marched in the Company commanded by Capt Thomas Smith of the Augusta Militia and under the command of Colonel ??
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of the Augusta Militia, that he joined the American Army near Guilford Courthouse, and was ?? among other troops as a rifleman and placed under the command of Col Campbell of the Rifle Corps that he was attached to the troops under the command of said Campbell in the Battle of Guilford in March 1781 that he received no wounds, that he was regularly discharged with the other militia with whom he marched from Augusta, but received no written discharge. That he was absent on this tour and in the service a few days over Two months. He knows of no one now living by whom he can prove this tour of duty except Capt. Augustine Argenbright of Augusta County. 
4. He next marched as one of the drafted Militia of Augusta County under the command of the same Capt. Thomas Smtih with whom he had marched to South Carolina the spring previous, he rendezvoused at the ?? ?? Waynesborough and marched from their under the command of Col Samual Lewis to Richmond he thinks about August 1781 from Richmond he marched to various points in the lower part of Virginia, the names of which he does not does not now recollect, he remembers of being station for a few weeks near Williamsburg and from there he marched with the troops attached to Gen Muhlenburg’s brigade to York Town. He was present at the siege of York and remained there until after the capture of Cornwallis in October 1781, when he was discharged and returned to his residence in the County of Augusta, after being absent in the service about four month or a little upwards the he remembers to have seen William Patrick of Smith Thomp
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son on their tour of duty and ?? to be able to prove the same by them. 
He has no recollection of ever having received a written discharge on any occasion. 
He herby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state. 
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He refers to Doc. William boys and William Davis are who can testify as to their belief of his service as a soldier of the Revolution and as to his character for veracity. 
Sworn to and subscribed to day and year aforesaid. 
						Alexander Williams
We William boys and William Davis ?? residing in Augusta County Virginia hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Alexander Williams who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing statement that we believe him to be 70 years of age, that his reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinions also that he is reputed and believed to be a man of strict veracity. 
Sworn to in open Court of ?? this 25th day of September 1832. 
									Williams Boys 
									William Davis
Augustine Argenbright of Augusta County also appeared in open court, and being duly sworn according to law deposed that he knew the above named Alexander Williams in the war of the Revolution, that he believes
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the said Williams is about seventy years of age, that he marched with said Alexander Williams to Guilford Court House and knows that the said Williams had served that tour of duty he has set forth in his declaration which he has ?? read in open court. That he has resided for many years in the same neighborhood with said Williams and that he is ?? to have been a soldier of the Revolution and served as he stated and that the said Williams is ?? and ?? a man of strict truth. 
							
Augustine Argenbright
William Patrick of Augusta County, also appeared in open court and being duly sworn deposed that Alexander Williams the above applicant for a pension did serve as one fo the Militia of Augusta County at the siege of York, that he said Patrick was there and remembers the said Williams. That he has heard the said Williams declaration read in open court and he verily believes the said Williams did serve the fourth tour of duty under the officers and in manner as he has set forth. 			
							
William Patrick
Smith Thompson of Augusta County also appeared in open court and being duly sworn according to law deposed that he knows that the above named applicant Alexander Williams did serve the third and fourth tour of duty in the war of the revolution as he
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hath set forth in his declaration which he has heard read this day in open Court, that he has reason to believe. From what he understood from the said Williams during the war of the revolution and from others that the said Williams had performed other tours of duty before the two he has a personal knowledge of, that the said Williams has always been regarded as a man of truth by his neighbors. 
							
Smith Thompson 
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant Alexander Williams was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Doc Williams boys, William Davis, Augustine Argenbright, William Patrick, and Smith Thompson whose testimony is above set forth and signed by them are residents of Augusta county and all of them credible persons, and that their statements are entitled to credit.
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State of Virginia 
Augusta County ss
	Jefferson Kinney, Clerk of the County of Augusta County do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Alexander Williams for a Pension. In Testimony where of there hereinto set my hands and affirmed my seal of Office this 1st day of November 1832 and in the 57th year of the Common Wealth. 
							
Jefferson Kinney

Virginia- Augusta County 
	Personally appeared before me, the undersigned on Justice of the Peace for said County of Augusta. Alexander Williams the person making the foregoing declaration, who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith by way of amendment to the foregoing declaration, that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory, he cannot state with more accuracy than he has done, the names of officers under whom he served and 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- First a tour of five months, as a private in Capt. Hendersons Company as herein before stated- Second a tour of four months, as a private of substitute for Archibald Lockridge under Capt. Kincaid as herein before stated- Third a tour of five months as a private under Capt. Thos Smith of the Augusta Militia as herein before stated- Fourth a tour of four months as a private in the same Capt. Thos. Smith  company as herein before set forth. Making a period of at least fifteen months I served as a private and for such I claim a pension.- The said Williams further deposed that he did not procure the certificate of a Clergyman because form bodily infirmity he
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Is unable to attend upon the ministrations of any clergyman, and from a belief that the certificate of Doc. Wm. Boys and Mr. Davis ergo both men of high standing in the community would supply the place of Clergyman’s certificate. Sworn and subscribed to before me by the alone named Alex. Williams on the 22 day of June 1833 
						
John B. Breckenridge 
							
Alexander Williams

Virginia Augusta County 
	I Jefferson Kinney Clerk of the County Court of Augusta do hereby certify that John B. Breckenridge before whom the foregoing ?? and statement of Alexander Williams was made, in new, and is at the time of the making the ?? one of the Justices of the Peace of the County of Augusta and that from my personal knowledge of the said John B. Breckenridge’s hand writing I have no hesitation in ?? that his signature is genuine. In testimony whereof, I have ?? a second seal of my office to the hereinto ?? this 22nd day of June 1833. 
							
Jefferson Kinney 
In margin – Alexander Williams 1090.3 Admit as a Private- 15 months $50