Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31771, for Lewis Jenkins, North Carolina
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Georgia 12.414
Lewis Jenkins 
of Gwinnett in the state of Geo. (Georgia)
who was a pr. in the _________ commanded by Captain Ward of the Re?? commanded by Col Buncombe on the N.C. (North Carolina) line for 2 years. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia at the rate of 80 dollars and - cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831. 

Certificate of pension issued the 29th day of Ap '33 (37 ?) and sent to William Maltbice c/o Lawrenceville.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 160
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept   40
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$200-

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Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832. 
Recorded by N Rice - Clerk
Book E (?)
Vol. 6
Page 94
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State of Georgia  
Gwinnett County 
Inferior Court September Term 1832

On this 25th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Court with it being a Court of Record, now sitting Lewis Jenkins a resident of the said County of Gwinnett and State aforesaid aged Seventy two 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. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated (to wit) That he entered the service in Wake County in North Carolina where he then resided as an enlisted soldier under Captain William Ward Lieutenants John Whitley & John Giles & Ensign Mathew Wood for the Term of three years that the company to which he belonged was attached to Majr Tillers Battallion & Colonel Edward Buncombe's regiment being the fifth Regment that he served the three years servises out principally in North Carolina that he was attached to Willinington, Eatonton. Brumsictown Fort
Johnston, & to Halifaxall of which places he thinks was in North Carolina, he was transferd to the command of Capt Kidd a part of the time & in the said service of three years was marched to Philidelphia & at the time that Col Buncombe was killed in that battle he was a gard over the baggage, but he is not certain whether it was the battle of Brandywine on the battle of Germantown. He entered the service at about 16 years of age & thinks it was in 1776 at the Expiration of said servises returned home & got his discharge & at the close of the war he got a County of Land in Cumberland which bounty he transfered to Lazarus Whitehead. That he recolects of no person living who can proove the services, that
his discharge is lost or mislaid so that he cannot find it, that he has no documentary evidence by which he can prove his services
nor does he know of any person now living who can establish the same that since the
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Revolutionary war he has first resided in North
Carolina & from thence to the State of
Georgia & Givennett County where he now resides. 
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

Lewis Jenkins
his mark

Sworn to & Subscribed
the day & year aforesaid
in open Court
Wm. Maltbie C. H.

Georgia
Gwinnett County
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as
he states 
John Brewster &
S. R. Smith
J Wardlaw


Georgia
Gwinnett County
I Wm. Maltbie Clerk of the Court of Gwinnett County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said
Court in the matter of the application of Lewis
Jenkins for a pension in testamony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this the 25th September 1832

Wm Maltbie C.H.
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Lewis Jenkins