Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 39392, Joshua Curtis, N.C.
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N.C.  

*Curtis, Joshua

S.39392
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4448
4
West Tennessee
Joshua Curtis Lieutenant 
North Carolina Line

Capt. Armstrong

in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Tennessee at the rate of twenty Dollars per month, to commence
on the 10th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 14th of November 1818 and sent to John McNary Esqr. Judge
Nashville Tennessee

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. 4 one 25/30=96.66
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1819=126.00
$216.66
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18 March, 1818.}
Two years
Davidson M.
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Joshua Curtis
claim for a
Pension

correct
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District of West Tennessee 
On the 10th day of April 1818 Joshua Curtis came before me and claimed to be placed on 
the pension list of the United States that he may receive the benefit of the provisions of an Act of Congress passed on the 18th day of March 1818 entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," And after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he hath not heretofore been allowed any pension by any law of the United States or state government and further saith that he longed to the Army of the 
United States during the revolutionary war in Captain John Armstrong's Company in the 
Continental line from North Carolina as a soldier in the year 1775 & some time afterwards was discharged having served more than nine months and in the year 1777 join the Army again as an Ensign in Captain John Nelson's Company of the North Carolina Continental line and served about six months as such and was promoted to a second Lieutenant in Captain Micajah Lewis' 
Company and was promoted after the battle of German Town  to a first Lieutenant
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and served as first Lieutenant five or six months and resigned at the Valley Forge and that he served as a soldier and as an Officer aforesaid two years and one hundred twenty-five days. 
Sworn to & subscribed before me 
John McNairy, District Judge   
                           Joshua Curtis 

The said Joshua Curtis further maketh oath that he is in his 68th year and in very great 
need of aid from Government, having little or no property.  
Sworn to before me 
John McNairy, District Judge   
                         Joshua Curtis 

On the 11th April 1818 James Tatum of the County of Davidson in the State of 
Tennessee came before me and made oath that he knew the above named Joshua Curtis in the revolutionary Army, and that he was an Officer of the grade of Ensign, but does not particularly recollect of his being promoted to a lieutenancy but is inclined to believe that when he left the Army he was a Lieutenant.  And that the said
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Joshua Curtis now resides in the County of 
Davidson in the State of Tennessee and is reputed to be a very poor old man. 
           James Tatum 
Sworn to & subscribed before me
John McNairy
District Judge

This may certify to all whom it may concern, that I believe the applicant Joshua Curtis and James Tatum, who has made the foregoing affidavit, to be men of credit and that I am satisfied of the truth of their statement, and that the said Curtis, is a very poor old man and very much in need of aid.  Given under my hand this 11th of April 1818.
 (seal)       John McNairy
                 District Judge
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On the 19th of May 1818 the before named Joshua Curtis came before me and made oath 
that when he resigned at the Valley Forge aforesaid, he delivered his commission to General George Washington, and that he does not know where it is. 
Sworn to before me 
John McNairy, District Judge   
                             Joshua Curtis 
                             1st Lieut
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This pensioner, Joshua Curtis, died Nov. 28, 1818, in Davidson Co., Tenn. & Apr. 24, 1819, George Washington Curtis, administrator, was paid $150.25 to cover period from Apr. 10, 1818 (date of issuance of pension ctf.) to Nov. 28, 1818, date of soldier's death.

This information came from "Thoms" a searcher in Gen. Acct. Off, May 9, 1939
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39392
Revy. 
INVALID.
File No. 39392
Joshua Curtis
Lieut Rev War

Act: 18th March 18
Index:-Vol 3, Page 120
[Arrangement of 1870.]