Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,266, Huriah Gilmore, Va.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Va.

Gilmore, Huriah

NUMBER
S. 32, 266

Born in N.C

CONTENTS
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Date of death not an AB

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Illinois 13.393.

Huriah Gilmore of Morgan Co. in the State of Illinois who was a Private in the Co. commanded by Captain Watkins of the Regt. commanded by Col. Lynch, in the Virginia line for 9 mo. & 25 days.

30
2.77
$32.77/100

Inscribed on the Roll of Illinois. at the rate of 32 Dollars 77 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of July 1833 and sent to R. W. Duncan, Jacksonville, M.C. Ill

Arrears to the 4th of March 33, 65.54
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 33. 16.38
$81.92

[Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by [illegible] Palmer Clerk
Book E Vol. 8 Page57
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11.884.
Huriah Gilmore
Illinois
13.393

Return 2.4.5.16

Adm 9 months & 25 days
R. W. Dummer
Jacksonville Illinois

[crossed out: D. Rockwell Clk Jacksonville illegible Co. R. W. Dummer]

Agent
Illinois
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BRIEF in the case of Huriah Gilmore [crossed out: Gilmam]
County of Morgan in the State of Ilinois
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

[written in right margin]
5
2.10
2.15/
9.25

[document continues]
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? in open Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? [not answered]

3. How old is he? 83

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.
July In 1776 or 1777 volunteered he does not [know] which year "returned in Winter" time about

Duration of Service.
5 months

Rank.
As a private

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Gen.
Cap Watkins Cap Smith Col Lutterel

Period.
Feb 1780 volunteered about

Duration of Service.
3 months

Rank. 
As a Rifleman

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Gen.
Cap Moor Col Lynch


Period.
Aug. 1781. drafted

Duration of Service. 
3 months

Rank. 
As a Rifleman

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Gen.
[illegible] Col Calloway

5. In what battles was he engaged? none Mentioned

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Bedford County Virginia

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? the papers are not attached agreeably to the regulations - nor are the periods or length of service exactly stated

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Gorge Taylor
Examining Clerk.
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State of Illinois Morgan County} ss.
AD. 1832

on this eleventh day of September personally appeared in open court before Samuel D  Lockwood Judge of the [crossed out: court of] Circuit Court of Morgan County now setting Huriah Gilmore of Pike County, Illinois aged Eighty three years - who being first duly sworn according to Law doth 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 officers and served as herein stated

In July AD 1776 or 1777, which year I cannot distincty recollect at this remote period I Huriah Gilmore then living in Bedford County - State of Virginia of Flat Creek near the waters of Otter River. volunteered as a soldier and entered the service of the United States as a private in the company commanded by Captain Charles Watkins and James Adams Lieutenant - which consisted of about fifty men. we ranged through the mountains of Virginia - over Blue Ridge and Walden's Ridge and the Cumberland Gap so called engaged against the Shawnee and Kickapoo tribes of Indians until the month of October following from Cumberland Gap we were called to march to Boonsboro [Boonesborough] fort on the Kentucky River - to relieve the forces then there under the command of Colonel Lutterel and Capt Smith Colonel Daniel Boon [Boone] remained still in the fort - I remained in the fort until the middle of the winter following - while then Daniel Boon [Boone] was taken
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was taken prisoner, with about twenty privates, by the Shawnee Indians. In going to Boonboro [Boonesborough] fort we met Major Henderson and Colonel Richard Caloway [Callaway]. I returned in the middle of the same winter from the campaign about five months in length I recollect not distinctly whether I received any discharge from Captain Watkins - if I did I considered it of no value at that time and have lost it for this service I received my full pay - I know of no person who can testify to my service in the campaign. In February AD 1780 Col Charles Lynch raised 500 Rifleman I then volunteered and entered the Service of the United States as a private William Jones commanded my company Captain Moore and Captain Helms two of the other companies in Col Lynch regiment - we marched direct to Guilford County in North Carolina and joined the Southern Army under the command of General Greene and was there at the time of the battle between Lord Cornwallis' army and General Greens when the American army give ground to the English - three days before the battle I was taken sick and was confined to my bed - when I recovered I obtain a furlough and returned home to Bedford County [illegible] I think was some time in April same year making the time of my campaign about three months I had no  opportunity of becoming acquainted with any of the Field Officers, and their names have escaped my memory except those above named I know of no living person who can testify to my service in this campaign -  In August AD. 1781 while living in Bedford, County, Virginia- I was drafted as a soldier and entered the service of United States as a private Soldier in
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company commanded by Charles Caloway first Lieutenant Cobus Yearly - Second Lieutenant Menus Hains. The Colonel then with the militia in the county was James Caloway. companies from Bedford County from Henry County and Spotsylvania County met in the East part of Bedford County and from there marched through a place called Petersburgh to James River at Swans point when we crossed and joined the main army at Little York town.  under General Washington and Gen La' Fayette where I remained until the Surender of Lord Cornwallis and his army in constant service during the time. I recollect of no other officers at this time. neither did procure a discharge and have no documentary evidence whatsoever by which to substantiate my service. I know of no person whatsoever to testify to my service in this campaign which continued during three months - I have never received one cent of money for any of my services except the first named and asked not then how I should be paid before I consented to go on a campaign.  and lest now in my old age and in my circumstances of extreme poverty upon the munificence of Government who have at last conducted to take upon the pension list those whom the unfortunate circumstances of the time and want of education prevented recieving and preserving the necessary documentary evidence to obtain their hard earned pittance. I was born in North Carolina, at Noose river in the year 1749, what month I do not recollect. there was a record of my age made by my parents but was not preserved a sister grown up or was an adult when I was born told me in later life she recollected my age by the circumstance of my fathers giving a deed of certain piece of land when I was at the breast. when very young my parents
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moved to Big Pedee in South Carolina and from there to after losing my parents. I was taken and brought a raised by a cousin Mr. Gilmore in Cumberland North Carolina where I remained until 1776 or 77. when I removed and settled in Bedford County Virginia. In the fall after Lord Cornwallis' surrender I removed into Rowan County North Carolina for one year then I removed into Georgia [Tennessee is overwritten] into Overton County and Warren County untiln1828 when I removed to Morgan County, Illinois and remined one year I then removed into Pike County Illinois where I now reside. am known by James V Heirdenburgh and Neiton Cloud who have [illegible: known ?] for some time near neighbors to me. I hereby relinquish every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare my name is not in the pension roll of any State whatsoever [crossed out: Sworn to & subscribed the eleventh September 1832.]
Huriah Gilmore

Sworn to & subscribed the eleventh September 1832
Saml D Lockwood
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We James & Heidenburg ([crossed out: illegible] clergyman) residing in the County of Morgan State of Illinois. and Newton Cloud residing in Morgan County aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Huriah Gilmore who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be eighty three years of age. that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur that opinion

Sworn to and subscribed this eleventh day of September Anno Domini Eighteen hundred & thirty two
Jas V Heidenberg
Newton Cloud
Before one
Saml D Lockwood

and the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogations prescribed by the war Department. that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states And the court further certifies that it appears to them that James Heidenburg who has signed the preceding certificates is a clergyman resident in Morgan County, Illinois and that Newton Cloud who has also signed the Law is a resident in the Morgan County also a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Saml D Lockwood

[four lines of illegible faded text]
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State of Illinois
Morgan County ⎬ SS

I Dennis Rockwell Clerk of the Circuit Court for said county do hereby
certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the
said court in the matter of the application of Huriah
Gilmore for a pension - In Testimony
whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and the seal of my office the
eleventh day of September AD Eighteen hundred and thirty two.
Dennis Rockwell
Morgan Circuit Court  
(SEAL)
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July 30, 1936

XXXXXXXXXXX

BA-J/EEL [initialed: aw]
Huriah Gilmore-S.33266

Mrs. William H. Haas, Jr.
3318 South Compton
Glenna Little Haas
Saint Louis, Missouri

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Uriah Gilmore, who was reported in the Census of Pensioners in 1841 as of Macoupin County, Illinois, and then aged ninety-two years.

There is no claim for pension on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of a Uriah Gilmore. The record has been found of one Huriah Gilmore, of Morgan County, Illinois, which is possibly that of the soldier in whom you are interested.

A very careful examination has been made of the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.33266, made by Huriah Gilmore and the data which follow were found therein.

[In the right margin a brace encloses the first three paragraphs. Handwritten text says: This part ny Mrs. F.]

Huriah Gilmore was born in 1749, on the Neuse River in North Carolina; when very young, his parents moved to the Big Pee Dee River in South Carolina; after losing his parents, he was taken by a cousin, a Mr. Gilmore, and brought up in Cumberland County, North Carolina, where he remained until 1776 or 1777, when he moved to Bedford County, Virginia. The names of his parents, date of their death and Christian name of the cousin who reared him are not shown.

While residing on Flat Creek near Otter River, in Bedford County, Virginia, Huriah Gilmore volunteered in December, 1777, served as a private in Captain Charles Watkins' Virginia Company; marched over the Blue Ridge to Cumberland Gap and was in a campaign with the Shawnee and Kickapoo Indians: in October following, he went to Boonsboro on the Kentucky River, to the relief of the fort at that place, then under the command of Captain Smith and Colonel Lutteral; Colonel Daniel Boone was there, also, and while soldier was at the fort, Colonel Boone, with twenty others, was
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taken prisoner by the Shawnee Indians: soldier continued in this
service until the middle of the following winter: he enlisted in
February, 1781, served in Captain William Jones' Company, Colonel
Charles Lynch's Virginia Regiment, marched to Guilford County,
North Carolina and joined the southern army under General Greene;
three days before the battle of Guilford Court House, he was taken
sick and was confined to his bed on the day of the battle; after
his recovery, he was given a furlough and returned home; length
of this service, about three months; he enlisted in August, 1781.
served as a private in Captain Charles Calloway's Company, Colonel
James Calloway's Virginia Regiment, marched to Yorktown and served
until after the surrender of Cornwallis; length of this service,
two months and fifteen days.

In the fall after the surrender of Cornwallis, Huriah Gilmore
moved to Rowan County, North Carolina and lived for one year; thence
to Georgia into Overton and Warren Counties and lived until 1828;
thence to Morgan County, Illinois; thence to Pike County, Illinois.
No places of residence within these counties are shown.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September
11, 1832, while living in Pike County, Illinois. His place of
residence in 1840 is not shown nor is the date and place of his
death given.

The soldier referred to a sister older than himself and to
his children who lived in Pike and Morgan Counties, Illinois. He
did not give the name of his sister nor those of his children nor
is the name of his wife and the date of their marriage shown. No
reference whatever is made to the Seburne Gilmore in this pension
claim, who was reported in 1840 as head of the family in which the
soldier lived.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the
name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of
the Revolutionary War pensioner, Huriah Gilmore (S.32266), you should
address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records
Division, this city, and cite the following data:

Huriah Gilmore, Certificate No. 13393, issued July 16, 1833,
rate $32.77 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832,
Illinois Agency,

The Revolutionary War and War of 1812 records were searched and
no claim for pension found based upon service of a Seburne Gilmore.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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32266
Revy INVALID

File No. 32,266
Huriah Gilmore
Priv Rev War

Act:  June 7th 32"
Index: -- Vol. 2, Page 152

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1911 Dec. 9 Mrs. Lucy D
Hayes furnished Tombstone
data.  Letters in W.F. 3603
Joshua Richardson V.L.M.

1935 -  July 30 - Hist to
Mrs. Wm H. Haas. Jr. EL
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I Huriah Gilmore depose and say that on the eleventh day of 
September AD 1832 I appeared before Hon Samuel D Lockwood Judge
of Morgan County Circuit Court, presented Subscribed and made oath
to a declaration prescribed for obtaining a pension - and I applied
to the Morgan County Circuit because it was then in session and
I was then in Morgan County- for I live nearly as much in
Morgan County as in Pike. I have children in both counties
and I am much better acquainted in Morgan County than I 
am in Pike County and my witness were in Morgan County
and the Court would not set in Pike cty until six months after
the time I applied - and I was unable to bear the expense of
procuring witnesses from a distance-- And I Huriah Gilmore
further depose and say that by reason of old age and the
consequent loss of memory, I cannot swear positively as to
the precise length of service but according to the best of my recollection
I served not less than the periods mentioned herein and in the
following grade- for five months from the last of July 1777 until the
last of December 1777 I served as a private soldier-- also for two
months and ten days from the first of February 1780 until the last of
April 1781. I served as a private soldier also, for two months
fifteen days from the first of August 1781 until the last of
October 1781. I served as a private-- which was the length of time
I served as a soldier is nine months and twenty five days
and was the periods of the war in which I served-
Samuel D
Lockwood. Judge of Morgan County Circuit Court is in on his
circuit duties in the northern part of this State - his circuit
will not commence here until the last of may next - and it 
is impossible by reason of infirmities to attend before him.
Huriah Gilmor

State of Illinois
Morgan County ⎬ 
I Matthew Stacy a Justice of the peace within
Morgan County and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify (missing)
Gilmore whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit personally appeared
before me and after having the same read to him in my presence. made
oath to the same and subscribed his name thereto - Given under
my hand and seal this the 30th day of April 1833.
Matt Stacy J.P.
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State of Illinois
Morgan County⎬ S.S.
I Denis Rockwell Clerk of the
County Commissioners Court of said County do here
by certify that Mat Stacy Esqr before whom the
foregoing declaration was sworn to and signed is an
acting Justice of the peace duly commissioned
and sworn into office and fully authorized to administer 
oaths and to all of his acts as such full faith
and credit is due and ought to be given.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal
of said Court at Jacksonville this
30th day of April 1833
Dennis Rockwell Clk


State of Illinois
Morgan County ⎬ SS
I Dennis Rockwell Clerk of the
Circuit Court within and for Morgan County do
hereby certify that the attached Declaration of Huriah
Gilmore is the identical declaration sworn to and 
subscribed by him before his honor Samuel
Lockwood Esqr in open court on the eleventh
day of September 1832.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto 
set my hand and affixed the Seal
of our said Court at Jacksonville
this 30th day of April 1833-
Dennis Rockwell
Clerk
(SEAL)
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GLENNA LITTLE HAAS . 3218 SOUTH COMPTON . SAINT LOUIS . MISSOURI

May 21, 1935.

[Circular stamp with numbers 1 through 12 encircling. Arrow pointed at number 3. Inner text reads: RECEIVED May 24 1935 MAIL SUB-[illegible but likely "DIV. VETS ADM. READER"] 2]

Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

Will you please consult your records and give me all of the information you have concerning:
[checkmark] URIAH [underlined] GILMORE age 92, on June 1, 1840, who resided in Macoupin Co., Ill. as noted on page 187 in the published record of the Census of Pensions.

What did his service cover and what was his place or residence?

[handwritten] no rev no pen 1812 o[illegible]

What was the relationship between him and Seburne Gilmore listed as the head of the family on 6/1/1840? Do you have the name of his wife, children, parents and
place of birth?

What was the [underlined] exact [checkmark] town or location in which he resided on June 1, 18407. When and [underlined] where did he [underlined] die?

Do you have anything bearing his signature or are there any of these papers of which a [underlined] photostatic copy, in your opinion, would be a desirable addition to a family history?

I shall be very grateful for all of the information you can give me and look forward to your reply.

Yours vry truly,
[handwritten] no signature?
(Mrs. Wm. H. Haas, Jr.)