Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7843, for Edmund Owens, North Carolina
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
N.C.
*Owens, Edmund
NUMBER
R. 7843
Born in Md.
CONTENTS
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7843
REJECTED aw

P.O.
Edmond Owens
Service:________________________

Enlisted _________________________, 18  .
Discharged: _____________________, 18  .

Application filed: ______________________, 18 .

Alleges: ___________________
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Re-enlisted: ____________________
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Attorney: __________________________
P.O. ____________________________
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______Recognized.  _____________Contract
_________Cert. of Dis.  Searched for _____________, 18
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Act 7 June 1832
Edmund Owens,
Indiana
Suspended
let 22 Nov. '36.
T. Nelson

7848
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congresss passed June 7th 1832.

State of Indiaina} On the Eleventh day of 
Posey County} August in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Six personally appeared before me Richard McPike, a Justice of the Peace now sitting in my office in the county of Posey and State of Indiana Edmund Owens a resident of the county of Posey and State of Indiana Robb Township aged 81 years the 14th day of February last who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. Said Declarant was born on the Eastern Shore of  Maryland Dorset County as he has been told by his parents. Said declarant's father moved from Maryland to North Carolina Craven County near Newbern before his recollection where he was raised and remained until the war of the revolution. In October 1778 said Declarant volunteered under Captain Archibald Meeks Col. William Caswell and General Bryant the company that he volunteered in rendezvoused in Kingston Lenoir County North  Carolina and marched from there to Monk's Corner South Carolina at which place we drew our rations of Horse meat in the place of Beef and went from there to Savannah River near Augusta at Black Swamp. General Ashe had the command of our troops there and crossed Savannah River and took a Stand on Brier Creek. This was in February 1779 and in March we were attacked by the British and defeated. we retreated across to Black Swamp again at which place said declarant received a written discharge from Col. Caswell and returned home in April following in this tour said declarant served five months the time for which he voluteered and rec'd his discharge as before stated. In September 1779 said Declarant was drafted in Craven County N. C. and in the ensuing October rendezvoused at Kingston Lenoir County N. C. the same place where he rendezvoused the first tour he served, under Captain Jarred Pearce Col. Shepherd and Col. Lavore. We marched from 
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7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify to your character for
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Kingston to Wilmington N. C. from there to Georgetown S. C. where John Pearce Brother to Capt. James Pearce died said declarant was one who guarded the waggon that Pearce was hauled in when he was sick form there we marched to Asheville where we joined head Quarters under the command of Gen'l Lincoln where said declarant remained in actual service until the last of March 1780 at which time said Declarant rec'd a printed discharge from Col. John Lowery in this tour said Declarant was drafted for five months and served his time out and received his discharge as before stated. Said declarant certifies that General [illegible seems to describe Greene] was lame in one hand or leg so that he traversed with a Staff and had a very bad limp in his walk he had a pair of white match Horses and in the time of a review he road one himself and had a black waiter that rode the other 
In the first of Feburary 1781, said Declarant volunteered in Jones County North Carolina under Captain James Harrison Col. Avery and General Linnington and marched to Blufords Bridge near Wilmington in N. Carolina for the purpose of attacking the British who had possession of Wilmington at that time in this campaign said declarant was an orderly Serjeant under the orders of Col. Avery who he volunteered under we lay at Blufords Bridge until we heard the British had captured Wilmington we then were discharged and said declarant went home after serving a tour of three months said declarant got a written discharge from Col. Avery. in this last compaign said Declarant states that he saw the Brittish and Amerian Flags meet which was the only time he ever saw anthing of the kind in those different campaigns he served - Said Declarant has no documentary evidence of his services and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services he hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present.
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[apparently seperate document under the first]
thought these discharges would be any advantage to me and they are lost or mislaid that I cannot tell where they are.
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and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid.
[Signatuares]
Edmund Owens O his mark
attest Richard McPike J. P.

We Peter Saltzman a Clergyman residing in the county of Posey and State of Indiana and Thomas Gwaltney residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Edmund Owens who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty one 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 in that opinion.
[Signatures]
Peter Saltzman
Thomas Gwaltney
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Richard McPike J. P.

And the said Richard McPike do hereby declare his 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 & the said Richard McPike further certifies that it appears to him that Peter Saltzman who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the county of Posey an state of Indiana and that Thomas Gwaltney who has also signed the same is a resident in the county and state aforesaid and is a credible person and that their sttement is entitled to credit -
[Signature]
Richard McPike J. P.

And the said Richard McPike further certifies that it also appears to him that the said applicant is not able to go to Mount Vernon the county seat of Posey County and attend court to have his declaration arranged owing to bodily infirmity
[Signature]
Richard McPike J. P.

I William E. Stewart Clerk of the court of Posey County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of Richard McPike in the matter of the  application of Edmund Owens for a pension.
In Testimony where of I have
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Richard McPike in the matter of the application of Edmund Owens for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office in Mount Vernon this 24th day of Oct. 1833
W. E. Stewart Clerk Posey CC
By John PItcher his Deputy

State of Indiana}
Posey County Set.}
I William E. Stewart Clerk of the Posey Circuit Court certify that Richard McPike whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificates is and was at the time of subscribing the same an acting Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and qualified as such and that the signatures purporting to be his I believe to be genuine. 
In Testimony whereof I have hreunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Circuit Court for said County at my office in Mount Vernon this 24th day of October A. D. 1836
W. E. Stewart Clerk Posey C. C. 
By John Pitcher his Deputy -
[Seal]
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and the following Interrogatories were propounded to the aforesaid applicant by the aforesaid - Richard McPike J. P.


1st Where & in what year were you born? 
Ans. I was born in the State of Maryland in the county of Dorset in the year of 1755 as I have been told by my parents.

2nd Have you any record of your age and if so where is it? 
Ans. I never had any record of my age but my parents told me that I was born in the state aforesaid on the 14th day of February.

3rd Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, & where do you now live. 
Ans. I lived in North Carolina Craven County and Jones County I continued there until 1797 - when I moved to Kentucky Mughlenbug [Muhlenberg] County and remained there until 1828 when I moved to the State of Indiana Posey County where I now live.

4th How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom. 
Ans. I was a volunteer in  Two campaigns and drafted in one as stated in my Declaration.

5th State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served, such continental & militia regiments as you can recollect, & the general circumstances of your service.
Ans I was well acquainted with Gen'l Ashe who served with at Brier Creek in Georgia General Bryan Col. Caswell Gen'l Lincoln who I served with in Charleston South Carolina Col. Shepherd Gen'l Linnington who I served with at Bluford Bridge near Wilmington, Col. Avery and several others not names of recollects the Continental & Militia reg'ls I do not recollect but know hat William Blunt was brother to Gov. Willie Blunt [Blount] of Tennessee and he the said William Blunt was the man who paid me for my services and was paymaster to the reg't. that I belonged to and the general circumstances of my service you will find embodied in my declaration.

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 rec'd a discharge at Black Swamp S. Carolina from Col. Caswell I rec'd a discharge from Col. John Lowery in Charleston S. C. and one form Col. Avery at Bluford Bridge near Wilmington N. C. but I never
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circumstances of my service you will find embodied in my declaration.

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 rec'd a discharge at Black Swamp S. Carolina from Col. Caswell I rec'd a discharge from Col. John Lowery in Charleston S. C. and one form Col. Avery at Bluford Bridge near Wilmington N. C. but I never thought these discharges would be any advantage to me and they are lost or destroyed so that I cannot tell where they are.

7th State the names of persons, to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood & who can testify as to your character for veracity & their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution?
Ans. I am well acquainted with Peter Saltzman & Thomas Gwaltney who I believe will testify to their belief of my services in the revolution and a great many other of my neighbors


33.899
Edmund Owens
Indiana
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No. 113
Nov. 21.1836.
Pension Office
Ind'a.

War Department
Washington
D

[stamp - NEW HARMONY IA. 9 NOV]

By mail with haste.
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free

War Department
Washington City
D. C.

[stamp - NEW HARMONY IA. 9 NOV]

By mail with haste.
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New Harmony Posey County Indiana
Nov. 7th 1836

Dear Sir

I hereby Enclose to you the declaration of Edmund Owens to obtain the Benefit of the Act of Congress for the relief of Revolutionary Soldiers you will please input it and give it as favorable a decision as the nature of the case will admit. You will please direct the result to me at Harmony as soon as possible and oblige 
Yours resspectfully
[Signature]
Turner Nelson

To J. L. Edwards

N. B. If there is any default in the declarataion you will please State where and in what place.

[Signature]
Turner Nelson