Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31,660, Isreal Eastwood, Ga.
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Ga.              Eastwood, Isreal      S. 31,660
Born in N.C.
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31660
INVALID
File No.  31660
Israel Eastwood
In Rev War
Act: June 1st [illegible]
Index: Vol. 2, Page 118
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Georgia 23.929
Isreal Eastwood of Fayette in the State of Ga. who was a pr in the [blank] command by Captain [blank] of the Regt command by Col White in the Ga line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia at the rate of 80 dollars - cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of April '84 and [unreadable]
Schley - H. R. 

Arrears to the 4th of March 1836 [$] 240
[unreadable], allowance ending 4 Sept. [$] 40
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$280 -
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Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by C. Natt. Rice Clerk
Book C Vol. 6 Page 89
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Isreal Eastwood
Ga

Admit as a private
2 years $80-

Hon W. Schley
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State of Georgia 
Fayette County
On this thirty first day of March 1834, personally appeared in Open Court before Edward P. Nixon, Samuel Swanson, William Pace, Finlay G. Stewart Justices of the Inferior Court of Fayette County, now sitting, Israel Eastwood a resident of the County of Fayette in the State of Georgia aged Seventy Six years, 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 7 of 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
Under the Command of Capt Thomas Morris in a Company of Artillery, of which John Dowlar (he pronounces the name like Dollar) became 2 [read 'Second'] Lieutenant, and with whom he enlisted in the County of Burke, State of Georgia in the year 1776 was in the month of August of that year and which Company he presumes was raised under authority of the United States, as the mode of raising men was by enlistment, and was marched to Sunbury, Georgia, where he was stationed under the Command of Col or Maj White where he served the full term of his enlistment one year, 3 months of the time as a Sergeant of his Company, the remainder as a private, and that he was engaged in no Civil pursuit during that time.  And Was discharged by Capt Morris.

Under the command of Captain Joshua Inman and Shadrack Inman as Lieutenant, in the Spring of the year 1778, (he thinks in the month of March) in the County of Burke and State of Georgia, in the Regiment Commanded by Col. McMurphy, which was Commanded by Gen. Scriven in conjunction with Vernon Houston a part of the time, as a volunteer and private, which Company was raised and called into service under authority of the State of Georgia, and was marched to Midway Meeting House and thence to Reed's bluff on the Altamaha River before Fort Barrington, thence to the Saint Mary's River to attack some British, Indians, Tories under the Command of a Tory, Col. Brown, who
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upon our approach fell back to a place called Alligator Bridge, when it was said he was joined by some British troops and at which place we overtook him and had a fight. We then returned to the main body of Our Army on the Saint Mary's where we were joined by Gen Williamson from South Carolina, and after having a very severe spell of sickness he was discharged by Gen Henston, having been in the service previous to being discharged not less than Four months, and was engaged in no Civil pursuit whatever during that time.

And under the Command of Capt John Fann of Burke County Georgia, it being a Company of minute men called into service under authority of the State of Georgia, as a Substitute & volunteer & private at Fort Morgan on the Ogeechee River, against the Indians he served two tours of Six weeks each, the first of these tours as a volunteer, the second as a substitute, immediately in succession, and shortly after his return from the St Mary's expedition in 1778, making both together Three months, and that he was engaged in no Civil pursuit whatever during said terms.

Immediately after his return from Fort Morgan he was taken by a Company of Tories Commanded by a Captain Sharp, but before they got him to the British he effected his escape and fled to South Carolina, where he joined a Company of "Georgia Refugee" Commanded by Capt. Joshua Inman [as Captain crossed out] & Shadrack Inman as first Lieutenant, who like Col. Elijah Clark of Georgia, Generals Sumpter & Marion of South Carolina, had devoted himself and his little band to the cause of his Country, commissioned and acting under authority of the State of Georgia at Quaker Creek on the Carolina side of the Savannah River. (he thinks it was in the month of January) in the year 1779. Capt Inman declared to those present his determination to serve his Country (in his own words) "as long as he could raise an arm" and called upon those who were willing to follow him to volunteer, but that "no man want to be required to
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under and unwilling service", and might leave whenever he wished to do so, unless the nature of the service in which we were engaged unduced it improper to permit him to do so, but that as soon as the emergency was past he wanted be permitted to depart," these are he thinks, precisely the terms upon which he and the rest of Captain Inman's men volunteered, and his father having been compelled by the Torries to leave his home with his family and seek for them elsewhere that safety which the forces of the United States could not at that time afford them, he did volunteer as a private in Capt Inman's Company, and being mounted was marched to Savannah and placed under the Command of General Lincoln, who directed us to "scour" the Country to disperse the Torries and protect Whigs-that he was in several skirmishes with parties of Torries and British and was at the Siege of Savannah under the command of General Lincoln that he continued in the service of the United States under the Command of Captain Inman as aforesaid (no particular term of service having been specified, and having it at his option to leave the service whenever he chose with the exception above mentioned) during the years 1779, 1780, and 1781 and was discharged by Captain Inman in the month of January (and thinks it was about the middle of the month) in the year 1782 (instead of 1783) having been in the service as aforesaid not less than three years, and during which times he was engaged in no civil pursuit whatever.
Immediately after his "Refugee Service" and after spending a few days at his father's this in Barnwell district, state of South Carolina, he went to his uncle's in Granville County state of North Carolina, where soon after his arrival in a  Company about to march to Charleston in South Carolina, under the Command of Captain Barnett Pullam and Lieutenant Tatum and Ensign Washington, he substituted in place of a private of said Company by the name of Fowler, in the year 1782 in the latter part of the month of February or first of March of that year, and was marched to Charleston where he served in the regiment
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Commanded by Col. Little, and was marched thence to Camden where he received his discharge from the Major of the Regiment (whose name he has forgotten) having been in the service not less than three months and engaged in no civil pursuit whatever during that time. 

From Camden he returned again to his uncles in North Carolina, and immediately after married in Orange County, of that State, when in August of the same year 1782, he was drafted, and under the command of Capt William Riley was marched to Hillsboro' the County Town of Orange County, State of North Carolina, and was
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opinion of his service as a soldier of the Revolution He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State.

Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

Isreal Eastwood his mark

To the 1st Interrogatory he answers 

In Orange County State of North Carolina, On the 9th day of May 1707.

To the 2nd he ans.

His age was recorded in his fathers Bible, does not know whether it is in existence or not, but presumes it may still be in possession of the descendants of his fathers family.

To the 3rd he ans.

In Burke County, State of Georgia, in Granville and Orange Counties, State of North Carolina. He has lived since the Revolutionary war in Orange County State of North Carolina, in Burk County, Georgia, Laurens district, South Carolina, in Walton County Georgia, and now in Fayette County, Georgia.

To the 4th he ans.

Once enlisted - three times a volunteer - twice a substitute - and once drafted.

To the 5th he ans.

That he must refer to the body of his declaration which contains the answers at large to this interrogatory

To the 6th he ans.

He did by Governor Houston
Capt. Thom P Morris
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Capt John Fann,  [illegible] at Ft, Morgan
Capt Joshua Inman
Major of Col Littles Regiment
Col Burton
each of which discharges had been lost or destroyed
to the 5th he states
Heflin
The Rev Thomas H Clett and Wyatt
We Thomas S. Clerk a Clergyman residing in the County
of Fayette, Georgia and Wyatt Heflin residing in the same
County and State, hereby certify, that we are well
acquainted with Isreal Eastwood who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe
him to be seventy six 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
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Thos H. Clett M.
Wynt
H often
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
certifies that it appears to them that Thomas H
Clett who has signed the preceding certificate is
Clergyman resident in the County of Fayette, Georgia
and that Wyatt often who has also signed the same is a resident
in the same County & State, and is a credible person, and that the statement is
entitled to credit
E P Nixon
Samuel Swanson
William Pace
Finlay Stewart J.S.
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I William McBride Clerk of the Inferior Court of Fayette County, Georgia, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Isreal Eastwood for a pension.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 31st day of March 1834

William M Bride Clerk
Inferior Court Fayette County