Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8114, for Lewis Perkins, South Carolina
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(3 - 1776)-
SERVICE S. C
Perkins, Lewis.
NUMBER R. 8114.

CONTENTS
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36.091
C988
Lewis Perkins
Mississippi
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Declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress passed 7 June 1832

State of Mississippi 
Amite County Probate Court May Term 1837

On this 22 day of May 1837 personally appeared in open Court before the Hon John Walker,
Judge of the Probate Court of said County now sitting Lewis Perkins a resident of the County of Amite and State of Mississippi aged seventy two years, who being first duly seven according to
Law, doth on oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed 7 June 1832

This deponent entered the service of the U.S. under the following named officers and served as herein stated. He entered the service a little before the fall of Charleston in South Carolina in the militia, and was taken a prisoner at the fall of Charleston. The Major who commanded the regiment was Alexander Quinton Captain King (his Christian name is now forgotten) also commanded my company, the day and the month when this deponent entered the service he cannot now recollect since he was very young, being then under age. From this time deponent continued in the Army under General Marion until the war was ended as one of the militia, then was about  eighteen months of the time, from
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the period he first entered the service that he was actually engaged as a Militia soldier to the end of the war as the militia were from time to time discharged and again drafted

There was no engagement of any magnitude in which this claimant was engaged except the siege of Charleston. There were small scouting parties in which he was frequently engaged but attended with no action of much importance: This Claimant resided in George Town District South Carolina when he entered the service. When he entered the service he was drafted, but after his first Term of service he went as a substitute, once probably twice; But in filling his own place when Drafted and becoming a substitute at other times, he was nearly continually in the service from the time he first entered the army to the end of the war. When the Regiment first collected it assembled on Lynches Creek at Witherspoon's Ferry, in then march in as near a right line as we could, to Charleston, about a hundred miles distant, we crossed the Santee at Lanes or Murry ferry, I forget which. There were no continental regiments or companies with which we were connected. There were numerous continental companies and regiments in Charleston when we arrived there. But being young when he was in the Army, and
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and with a memory now impaired by time he cannot call to remembrance the names of the officers in command other than those who commanded his own regiment. After the siege of
Charleston the remainder of my revolutionary duties were under the command of General Marion, In a skirmish we had with the Tories, while General Marion with his army was laying in Snow's Island, one of our party was wounded and I with a soldier named Richardson carried the wounded man whose name was Donald to Robert Courtney, the father of Jonas Courtney who certifies to this declaration, where we stayed all night, and the next day took up our search in pursuit of Gen Marions Army about thirty miles off. This incident is merely mentioned because Mr Jonas Courtney
is the only living witness near me by whom I can substantiate any material fact the time has been
when in this county - there were more then a dozen persons by whom I could fully substantiate the fact of my having served the time above stated in our revolutionary Struggle, but they are all dead and it is now impossible to prove except by hearsay any facts. - Mr Jonas Courtney whose certificate will be found to this declaration knows from his own knowledge, as well as from conversation with those who served with me, but who are
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now dead, that I was a soldier during the revolutionary war as I have above Stated I have no documentary evidence, nor do I know of any other person near my who can testify as to my service. I hereby relinquish any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. 
[signed] L. Perkins
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court the 22. May 1837
Stephen R. Davis Clk

Interrogatories propounded by of the Court
1. Where and in what year were you born
Answer. I was born in the year 1765 in George Town District S.C
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it
Answer. I have a copy taken from my fathers family Bible and recorded in my own bible at home
3 Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the revolutionary War, and Where do you now live
Ans. I was living in Georgetown when I entered the service, after I had a family I removed to Tennessee where I lived 7 years, thence I removed to Amite County Mississippi where I now live
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4. 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 believe in the foregoing declaration I said I was first drafted; but I first went as a substitute for my brother then being very young, after that I was always drafted while in
the Army
5.State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served, such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service
Ans. Capt Horry, and [illegible] of whom commanded cavalry there in the the officers who I have
above stated are all that I can now recollect, I cannot remember any other continental or militia
regiments, nor any material circumstances than those above mentioned
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given, and what has become of it
Ans. I never received a written discharge when one part of a regiment was relieved, they went home without any written discharge
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7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a solder of the Revolution.
Answer Jonas Courtney, Agrippa Gayden, Wm Lucas, Alia Munford, James M Munford, are those who can probably speak most fully as to the general opinion of my having been a revolutionary soldier. My veracity for truth I believe has never yet been brought in question

State of Mississippi 
Smith County
Probate Court May Term 1837

We Jonas Courtney and Agrippa Gayden, residing in Amite County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Lewis Perkins who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration --- that we believe him to be 72 years of age or thereabouts 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 
[signed] Jones Courtney
A. Gayden

Sworn to & Subscribed 22 May 1837
Stephen R Davis Clk
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State of Miss
Amite County
Probate Court May Term 1837
And the said Court hereby declares 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 Jonas Courtney and Agrippa Payden who has sign the preceding certificate are residents of Amite County, and are
Credible persons, and that their state ment is entitled to Credit
Jno Wacker Judge Probate A.C. 

I Stephen R Davis Clerk of the probate Court of Amite, said Court being a court of Record, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Lewis Perkins for a pension

In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 22 day of May 1837
Stephen R Davis Clk
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REJECTED
8114
P. O. Lewis Perkins
Service: ______

Enlisted: _____, 18 __
Discharged: _____, 18 __
Application filed: _____, 18 __

Alleges: ______
Re-enlisted: ______

Attorney: ______
P. O. ______
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis.  _______ Searched for, 18
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Lewis Perkins
Mississippi

Suspended
See letter 13 June 1837 V.T. Crawford

8114
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C.988
10 June 1837
Pension Office

Miss
Act 1832.
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[envelope]
Liberty Miss
May 24   Free

To the Sec of the War department
Washington City

Mail
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Liberty. 22. May 1837
Amite County Mississiph

Sir,
Enclosed you will find the application of Lewis Perkins for a pension please
direct the result of the application to me at Liberty Amite County Missss
Respectfully
V T Crawford
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V T Crawford Esq
Liberty Amite County
Mississippi

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V T Crawford
June 13. 1837
Miss
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War Dept. Pen office
June 13. 1837

Sir
The declaration of Lewis Perkins has been cl & filed with suspended cases in this office. He alleges to have served as a militia man of S. Caroline from about the time of the surrender of Charleston to the end of the war The militia served in short terms under one engagement. Each term of actual service should therefore be specified as required in the enclosed printed sheet and proof of the claimants alleged service should be obtained from W Laval Esq. Comptroller Gen'l of S. Carolina at . Columbia S. C. who has evidence in his office of the service of those who served in the State. The tenant should also give a satisfactory
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reason under oath for not having made an earlier application for pension

V T Crawford Esq
Liberty Amite County
Mississippi

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Vt Crawford 
June 13. 1837
Miss