Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1500, William Bragg, Va.
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Va.


Bragg, William

Number - S.1500

carded
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INVALID


Rev. War

File No. 1500

William Bragg
Private Va. Line

Act:  June 7 1832

Index:-Vol. A, Page 41

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Left side

22292

East Tennessee

William Bragg

Cocke Co. in the State of Tennessee
who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Lewis of the Regiment commanded by Col. Ward in the Virginia line for 6 months.


Inscribed on the Roll of East Tennessee
at the rate of 20 Dollars  - cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of October 1833 and applicant 
Newport


Arrears to the 4th of Sept.   $50.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March $10.00

$60.00

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk,
Book E Vol. 7 Page 37


Right side

Dead
Letter to T.A. Anderson V 3 Audits
23 Sept. 1844

Paid at the Treasury under the Act 6 April 1838 from 4 Sept. 1840 to 7 January 1841.
Agent notified 29 Oct. 1844
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

State of Tennessee County of Cocke

On this twenty eighth day of August 1832, personally appeared in Open Court before the Court of Pleas and quarter sessions for Cocke County, in the State of Tennessee, (the same being a Court of record) now sitting, William Bragg a resident of Cocke County in the State of Tennessee, aged sixty seven 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 7th, 1832. That in the month of September 1781 he was a resident of Montgomery County in the State of Maryland he then left his residence and went to Loudoun County in the State of Virginia where he in said month of September (the day he cannot recollect) entered the service of the United States as a substitute for William Auford, who was drafted into the Militia service - and served two months, as is herein after stated - he entered the service under Captain Lewis, the names of the other officers of said Company he cannot recollect by reason that he was not long in said Company - the number of the Regiment to which said Company was attached he cannot recollect. It was commanded by Colonel West, the names of the other field officers he cannot recollect. He states that he rendezvoused, in said service, at Lacy's tavern near bull run in Loudoun County in Virginia. From Bull run he was marched through Fredericksburg to Bowling Green twenty miles below Fredericksburg where this declarant was taken sick, and was left by the troops untill he should recover, he remained sick three days, and started to overtake his regiment and at a place called New Castle, near Ruffin's Ferry - he took a right hand road, and went to Williamsburg, whereas his company had followed the left as he understood afterwards and went to Gloucester - At Williamsburg this declarant states that he enquired for his regiment and was informed that his regiment was upon the opposite side of the River and that he could not join it but he was advised by a General Lawson  then in Command to attach himself to a Company, then and there Commanded by Captain Helms - and served his time out, and he the said General Lawson would give this declarant a discharge. 
That in pursuance to said advice he attached himself to a company commanded by a Capt. Helms - The  names of the other company officers - as well as the field officers
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that commanded in Capt. Helm's Company, this declarant has forgotten - From Williamsburg he was marched in Captain Helm's Company to Little York, where he was engaged in conducting the siege of that place which resulted in the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and the British forces to the American Commander General Washington and the forces under his Command upon Thursday the 19th day of October 1781 as well as this declarant  recollects - which he witnessed - After the surrender of Cornwallis the regiment to which Captain Helm's Company was attached, was ordered to march with a thousand British prisoners, in their charge to Winchester in Virginia. This declarant  being attached to said Regiment, marched with it from York to Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg - when he met with Colonel West's Regiment and Captain Lewis' Company - to which he had been first attached - and he was again attached to said Company and Regiment, and was marched  then to Nolands Ferry on the Potomac, and upon the Virginia side of said River in Loudoun County - This  declarant was honorably discharged by Captain Lewis, received his discharge in writing which he handed over to William Alford for whom he had  served as a substitute  - He left the service, in the month of October 1781 the day he cannot recollect - This declarant served during some portion of this service, with such of the Continental regiments and companies, and such of the regular Officers were upon duty and in service at the siege of Little York, but their names and numbers he cannot  recollect - as he was then but a few months over sixteen years of  age -  The militia regiment to which he was first attached was composed of five companies - the Captains were Captains' Lewis, Russell, Lucket, Spur, and Noland - and as well as this declarant recollects was composed of five hundred men or thereabouts - 
Some time in the month of April (the day not recollected) in the year 1782 he resided in the County of Montgomery in the State of Maryland - and being near seventeen years of age he entered the service of the United States  as a substitute for Jonathan Sparrow - who was drafted into the Militia service and served two months as herein after stated - He rendezvoused in Frederick Town, in Frederick County in the State of Maryland where he was stationed during this service - and was employed in guarding the prisoners which were taken at the surrender at Little York by Cornwallis - In this service he does not recollect, that any Continental regiments or Companies or regular Officers were engaged. The names of the Officer who commanded his company in this  service he thinks was Hays, but he will not state with certainty  - he does not recollect the names of any other officers of his company nor does he recollect any field officers - he states that
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in the service he was engaged two months and was honorably discharged from the service, received his discharge in writing and sold it to a merchant, for five pounds in Maryland currency  - payable in dry goods -
Some time in the month of July 1782 the day not recollected he entered the service of the United States, for two months, as a drafted militia man, being about seventeen years of age, and residing in Montgomery County in the State of Maryland. He rendezvoused again at Frederick town in Frederick County State of Maryland, and ? he was engaged in guarding the prisoners taken at Little York Captain White commanded this company he served in, and this declarant does not recollect any other company officers or any field officers during this service - he served two months, and in the month of September the day not recollected he was honorably discharged, and received his discharge in writing - from his Captain White which he afterwards sold to a merchant  - His service as a militia man amounting to six months -
He states he has no documentary evidence to prove his service, and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services - He states that he was born in the State of Virginia in Fairfax County upon Cameron run  in the edge of what was then called Cameron Town now Alexandria - upon the 18th day of May 1765 as he is informed and believes - He has no record of his age - at the time of his service he resided in the County of Montgomery in the State of Maryland - after the war of the revolution he resided there until he was twenty five years of age, when he removed to Nolichucky, within three miles of its mouth in what is now called the State of Tennessee and County of Cocke, where he has resided ever since - This declarant would state the names of  the following persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood, and who can testify as to his character for veracity, and as to their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution - to wit John Inman Esquire, Carter Tally Esquire, John Gillet Esquire, William Robertson Esquire, he states that there is no Clergyman residing in his immediate vicinity - He hereby reliniquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any State.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

William Bragg (his mark)

G.M. Porter 
Clerk
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We Carter Tally residing in the County of Cocke and State of Tennessee and John Gillet residing in the same County and State, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Bragg who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be sixty seven 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 to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

John Gillet
Carter Tally

And the same 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 Carter Tally and John Gillet who have signed the proceeding certificate are residents in the County of Cocke in the State of Tennessee and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I George M. Porter Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Cocke County in the State of Tennessee  do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court aforesaid in the matter of the application of William Bragg for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and own private seal (no seal of office being yet procured) this 25th day of August 1832.

G.M. Porter
Clerk

I certify that George M. Porter Esquire is Clerk of the County Court of Cocke, and the above is  his attestation. I further certify that there is no public seal of office for said office

July 9th 1833

J. Blair late MP
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office
Sept. 26, 1844

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of august 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pensions agents, The widow of William Bragg deceased a Pensioner on the Roll of the Knoxville, Tenn. Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars per annum, under the law of the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1840 , to the 7th January 1841.

Respectfully yours,

Albion K. Parris

Comptroller
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East

William Bragg
Tennessee

from 1781, private
6 months 
$20

Newport Tenn.

July 9th

J.L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Newport Cocke County Tennessee
July 9th, 1833


Dear Sir,

I received my pension declaration rejected because, there was no seal of office - In conformity  with the Regulations of the Department I have got the necessary certificate of a member of Congress - John Blair has annexed his certificate - I hope there will be no further objection

Direct to William Bragg - Newport
Tennessee

Yours, 

William Bragg

J.L. Edwards Esquire