Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 20171, Samuel Budd, N. C.
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SERVICE
N. C.

Budd, Samuel

NUMBER
R. 20171
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Saml. Budd. Oct 1/80
Pri S.C. Line.
No record on inv. Wid & Rej. Files or S. C. register.
This case was forged by Hugh Moore of S. C.
L. W. Hickok
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20171
Old War
Rejected Files
Saml. Budd Sr.
Pri. S. C. Line

REJECTED

Revy. War

Forged by
Hugh Moore 
S. C.
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State of South Carolina
Spartanburg District
I Elisha Bomar Clerk of the Court of the District
of State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Robert Wilkins Esquire do hereby
certify that
State of South Carolina
Spartanburg District
SS
I Elisha Bomar Clerk of the Court for the district and State
aforesaid, do hereby certify that Robert Wilkins Esquire before whom the within affidavits
was sworn is an acting Justice of the Quorum duly authorized to administer oaths
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 7th day
of September
1829
E Bomar
Clk
Seal
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State of South Carolina
Spartanburg District
Tuesday September 1st 1829
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came personally Nicholas Corry Esq. before me also Basil Jackson the
former of Union district and the latter of York District both men of fair standing who both being
duly sworn saith that they both was well acquainted with Col Robt Mebane and know that 
he was killed sometime about the 14th day of October 1781 at the place called little York in the
State of Virginia a few days before the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, in a sortie made by the
enemy and the said Col. Melbane was slain in gallantly repulsing said sortie by the Common
enemy - the said Basil Jackson swears that he served under the said
Col. Melbane from
early in the year 1777 to the time when he was slain, first as a Lieutenant
Colonel, and upon the resignation of Col. James Hogan about the year 1779 Lieut.
Colonel Robert Melbane took the command of the 7th Regt North Carolina Line
in which command he was slain. this deponent Sail Jackson states that he served
in Cap. Brickles company
Sworn of Subscribed
before
Robt Wilkins J. Q.
Nicholas Corry
Basil Jackson
His Mark
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1985
1986
State of South Carolina
Spartanburg District
for the purpose of obtaining the Benefits of an Act entitled an act
 for the relief of certain officers & soldiers of the army of the Revolution
approved on the 13th day of May 1828 I, Samuel Budd of the district of Union So. Ca. do hereby
declare that I was commissioned Lieutenant on the 22 Nov. 1776 in the 2nd Regt No. Ca. Line
commanded by Col Alexander Martin in Capt. Altens company on the Continental establishment
after being made a prisoner & exchanged for,
I
was promoted to a captain in 1781 in which
capacity I remained until I was deranged in January 1783 in the said Regiment.
And I do declare that I afterwards received a certificate for a sum equal to five years full
pay which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress of the 22d of March 1783
Instead of the half pay for life to which I was entitled under the resolve of the
1st October 1780
And I do further declare that since the third day of March 1826 as a
pensioner I have not received any thing whatever from the United States I therefore
request the Honorable Secretary of war to forward the amount due to me to
Wolf River Post Office Fayette County Tennessee but if it can be sent
to Spartanburg C. House by the 1st of Nov. do so, if not as above direct Draft
on the Bank United States Bank requested sworn and subscribed before
me this 2nd day of September 1829
Robert Wilkins J Q
Saml Budd senr

State of South Carolina
Spartanburg District

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Came personally before me Wm Bryan and Archibald Bogle of Union District
Both of fair and
upright characters who both being present make oath
know Capt. Samuel Budd and solemnly swear he performed the
duties as above stated they further state, that they served under him in
the said Company and regiment
Sworn to before me
Robt Wilkins J. Q. 
W B Bryan his mark
Archibald Boyle Sen.
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State of South Carolina
Spartanburg District
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Before me a Justice of the Quorum for the District of 
[South Carolina crossed through] Spartanburg in the State of South Carolina personally
appeared this day John Nelson of the County of Franklin in the State of Tennessee
(but for two years back on business in the State of South Carolina) who exhibited to me
a certificate issued by the Secretary of the Treasury numbered (829) and dated the third
day of August 1829 setting forth that he is entitled to pay under the act of the fifteenth
day of May 1828 as a surviving officer in the Continental establishment in the fourth 
Regiment
North Carolina line of the army of the Revolution and the said
Major
John Nelson then and there made oath that he is the person named
in the said Certificate of in testimony thereof signed his name to this affidavit
Witness my hand this fifth day of September
in the year 1829 -
John Nelson
Robert Wilkins J. Q.
When the Commissioner of the Treasury
has examined
this paper return the same to the General Land Office
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Treas. Dept
7th June 1830
Rev. 8 June 1830

Somerville Ten. 
May 22
(Copy)
Free
The Honourable Secretary at War
at the of Washington
Military or Revolutionary Claims
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Nov.
-
This claim
forged by
Hugh More of
(Copy) S.C

(Signed) J. H. Eaton
Washington City Nov. 17
War Department
Bounty Land Office
Free 
Washington

Mr Hugh Moore Sen (Signed ) Wm Gordon

Spartanburgh
South Carolina
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