Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5443, for William Hutcheson, Virginia
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE
Va.

Hutcheson, William

NUMBER
R.5443

CONTENTS
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declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832

State of Tennessee } 
Giles County } May Sessions of the court of pleas & quarter sessions for said county for the year 1834 
On this 26th day of May 1834, personally appeared before the justices of the said court, William Hutcheson a resident of the County aforesaid, and said State aged seventy one years the 10th day of June 1833, who being first 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 7 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That is to say, He was drafted and entered the above service as a private malitia [Militia] man he thinks in the year 1778 in the County of Henry, State of Virginia. He entered the above service under the immediate command of Capt. [Thomas] Henderson & in the Battalion of Maj. Dickinson [possibly Edmund B. Dickinson, killed at the Battle of Monmouth NJ, 28 Jun 1778]. He does not recollect the name of his Colonel from the infirmity of age and consequent loss of memory. This term of service lasted six months during which time he was marched out of Virginia through Maryland Pennsylvania or Delaware into the state of New Jersey. In which latter state he fought the enemy in the Battle at Monmouth Court house, General Washington he believes was Chief in Command at said engagement, General [William] Maxwell he recollects very well was present at that battle, and was the Commander of the forces to which applicant was immediately attached — he received a discharge of General Maxwell
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at the expiration of this term of service which only lasted six months – which discharge applicant unfortunately had burnt when his house was burnt, while he lived in Hawkins County, in East Tennessee some years ago. He next entered the service under the immediate command of Capt. Richardson in General Stephins Brig [sic: Brigadier General Edward Stevens] according to the best of his present imperfect recollection. He was on this expedition which was undertaken early in the year 1781, marched out of the state of Virginia & County of Henry, where he had been again drafted as a private militia man, in the state of North Carolina, and fought in the Battle at Guildford Court house [Guilford Court House 15 Mar 1781] and then proceeded to South Carolina, where he fought the enemy in the Battles of Ninety Six [Siege of Ninety-Six, 22 May - 19 Jun], and the Utaw Springs [Battle of Eutaw Springs, 8 Sep] being all the battles together with the Battle at Monmouth Court house mentioned above, that applicant was personally engaged in during the War of the Revolution, this term of service lasted only six months after which applicant received his discharge from general Green [General Nathanael Greene] or General Stephins [Stevens] he does not positively recollect which it was also destroyed as his other discharge was above mentioned. He was very actively engaged during this whole term, either in marching or fighting
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the enemy. He next volunteered and entered the service immediately after his discharge from the above service - as a private militia man, under Capt. Torrence [James Tarrant] and he thinks General Stephens Brigade again. He reached Yorktown in Virginia, after the terms of Capitulation had been agreed on between General Washington & Lord Cornwallis he arrived there in time to see the latter march out and surrender his sword – Applicant was then continued in service to guard the prisoners taken in this engagement until his term of service expired. This last mentioned term of service lasted six months at the end of which he was discharged – which completed his services during the war. 
He has no documentary evidence, and knows of no person, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service. 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. 
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
William [his X mark] Hutcheson Sen’r. [Senior]

German Lester Clerk 
By Harrison Barksdale D clk. [Deputy Clerk]
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Questions put to the said Applicant by the aforesaid Court on the day & year aforesaid 
Q. 1st Where and in what year were you born? 
Ans. I was born in Amelia County in the State of Virginia in the year 1760.

Q 2nd Have you any record of your age & if so where is it? 
Ans. I have none at all – having had it destroyed by fire when my house was burned up 

Q 3rd. Where were you living when called into service where have lived since the Revolutionary War & where do you now live? 
Ans. When called into service I lived in Henry County State of Virginia where I continued to live since the war until I removed from that state to Hawkins County State of Tennessee, where I lived ten or twelve years from thence I removed to Bledsoe County in said State last aforesaid where I lived ten years from thence to Warren County in said state last mentioned where I lived about ten years & from thence to Wilson County, Tennessee where I resided one year & from then I removed to the said County of Giles, where I have lived six months last past, where I now live
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Q 4th. How were you called into service were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you substitute & if a substitute for whom? 
[Ans.] I was twice drafted and once entered the service as a volunteer. 
Q 5th. State the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the troops where you served such [as] Continental and militia Regiments as you can recollect & the general circumstances of your service? 
Ans I have answered this question as fully as I can recollect in my declaration. 
Q. 6th. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given & what has become of it? 
Ans. I have stated in my declaration as I now state that I did & kept them until my house was burnt when they were consumed by fire – 
Q 7th. State the name of the persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood & who can testify as to your character for veraccity [veracity] & their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revelation? 
Ans. Woodson Walker Thomas Walker William M. Shields Butler Tucker William Hutcheson & William Tucker & others 
William [his X mark] Hutcheson Sen

Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
German Lester Clerk 
by Harrison Barksdale Dclk. [Deputy Clerk]
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We Butler D. Tucker & William Hutcheson residing in the County of Giles and state of Tennessee, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Hutchison, who has subscribed & Sworn to the above declaration as well for many years before his residents in the County of Giles & State of Tennessee as since that we believe him to be seventy one years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides as well as in the neighbourhood from which he last removed as also in the neighbourhood where he resided in Warren County & State of Tennessee to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion & further that there is no clergyman resident in the neighbourhood where applicant applicant now lives
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid B. D. Tucker
William [his X mark] Hutcheson Sr.
German Lester Clerk 
By Harrison Barksdale Dclk. [Deputy Clerk]

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 was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certify that it appears to them that B. D. Tucker and William Hutchison who have signed the preceding certificate are resident in the said County of Giles and State of Tennessee & are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit & that it appears to them from testimony that there is no clergyman resident in the neighbourhood where said applicant resides
Tho. S. Webb {Seal}
Justice of said Court 
A. Black Justice of sd [said] Court
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

5443 Own [stamped] REJECTED

P. O. 
William Hutcheson

Service: _________

Enlisted: ____ ,18
Discharged: _____ ,18

Application filed: _____ ,18

Alleges: ______

Re-enlisted: ______

Attorney: ____
P. O. ____
___Recognized.  _____ Contract.
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William Hutcheson Tennessee Suspended. See letter 21st Sep ]34 to German Lester Pulaski

letter to Hon. E. H Ewing March 13th 1847 

5443
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Washington March 3d 1847

James L. Edwards Esq Comr [Commissioner] &c 

Sir: 

If you should not be able to write to me in regard to the pension claim of Wm Hutcheson lately submitted to you. Please write to me as soon as you can at Nashville Tenn. & if you should allow the claim send me the certificate
yrs with respect
Edmin H. Ewing
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32,038

William Hutcheson
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William Mayfield {JP}
one of the Justices of 
said County 

I German Lester Clerk of the Court of Pleas & quarter Sessions holden for the County of Giles in the State of Tennessee do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the Matter of the application of William Hutcheson for a Pension --- In testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office this 21st day of July 1834

German Lester Clerk 

State of Tennessee} 
Giles County} I Alexander Black Chairman of the County Court of the said County of Giles, do hereby certify that German Lester whose name is signed to the foregoing certificate is & was clerk of said court at the time of making said signatures, & that Harrison Barksdale whose name is also signed to several of the forgoing certificates is and was deputy Clerk of said County at the time of making said certificates & duly qualified & that said certificates are in due form of law, and that due faith and credit is & ought to be given to all of their official acts as such; Given under my hand & seal this 13th day September 1834
and that their
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foregoing signatures of the said Lester Barksdale purporting to be their respectfully are genuine. Given under my hand & seal the date last above written
Alexander Black Chairman of the County Court of Giles County 

[written sideways] 32,038 William Hutcheson