Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30610, for Charles Mullins, North Carolina
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
N.C.

Mullins Charles 

NUMBER
S.30610

CONTENTS
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19245
Kentucky 
Charles Mullins 
A solider in the state of Kent 
who was a private in the 4th commanded 
by captain Hayden of the 6th Commanded
 by col Slain in the north 
line for 1 Year 15 months, and 8 days 
of revolutionary war Service 

inscribed on the roll of Kent
at the rate of 63 dollars 33 cents for annum 
commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of pension issued the 17 day of Sept 
1833 and sent to J Murry, Mayslick, Ky 

Arrears to the 4th of March 126.66
Semi Annual Allowence ending 4 Sept  31.66
$158.32

Revelutionary Claim 
Act June 7,1832
Recorded by Dan Boyd clerk,
Book E Vol.7, Page 19
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C
and in
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Commonwealth of Kentucky
Calloway County
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On this day of
October personally app
open court before Rezin Davidge
falloway
Judge of the
Circuit
Coun
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a
setting Charles Mullins a resident of the
Commonwealth aforesaid aged eighty
said County and
three years who being first duly
sworn according to lawdoth

on his oath make the following
declaration
in
order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress
June 7th 1832
That he was born in Pennsylvania July
18th 1749 and principly
raise in Virginia. That during the
Revolution he moved to North Carolina and settled on
Broad River Rutherford County
That he entered the sevence
as a volunteer 1st January 1780 under Captain Abraham
Kuykendall and lieutenant Robert McMinn: which company
was raised by order of Col McLain for the purpose of
opposing the tories. We were kept in this service by Capt
Kuykendall who continued to scour the Country and watch
and which the movements of the tories till in the month of
February when by order of Col McLain
Capt Kuykendall
and Lieut Stephen Langford
raised a company of
horse (which I joined immediately, for the purpose of taking &
bringing in disorderly persons of disarming disaffected me
of ranging the country and watching the motion of the
Indians
In this service we were engaged for about three months
or the middle of May: When by order of Capt Read
we left our horses and marched to Luntenant McMinn
to the Indian frontier where we joined some other forces at port
Hampton under the command of an officer by the name of
Grant at which place we continued to stay and Range the
country round till the end of the year being part of our
time however at what was called Capshaws fort and
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Miles Station As we were a company of minute men we were
occasionally permitted to go home for some days at a time
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after returning from the Indian frontion which about the last
of December we continued to act under our Capt & Lieut as
to
required in watching the movements of the tories
in checking the incursions of the Indians in an
ing foraging
on secuting parties of the British or in guarding and conducting
Prisoners till the first of May 1781 when I volunteered in a
company commanded by Capt Ewing of South Carolina
who repaired to the army of General Green at the siege
of Ninety six here were placed under Col Levi Casey
who was of the line of Col Henderson at said siege
Two days before the sign was raised which was about the 16th
of June I was permitted to go home upon partage where
I remained sick till the first of August when I proceeded
to join the army of General Green at the high hills of
Santee Here I entered the service in a company commanded
by Captain Ewell Lawkin of Rutherford County and
Luntenant William Ross We remained here and in seventing
through the country till General Greed proceeded to the
Eutaw springs when our company proceded to Camden
and crossed the River water and proceeded down the
South side of the River in order to join Genl Green in
time for the battle of the Eutaw we reached Reynolds
Mills about 15 miles below Camden when we were advised
from the main army to return by the way of Camden
in the army on the north side of the River as we
were then in danger of the British horse when we got
to Condon we were ordered to take charge of the
baggage which Genl Green had sent to Camden for
safety when we proceeded to join the army of Genl
Green near the high hills of Santee to which place the
army have returned after the battle here we were put
under the command of Col Malmedy a Frenchman
I have been about four months with the army when I was taken
sick and put into the hospital at Camden where I remand
some weeks when I was permitted to go home upon parlough
which was given me by our lat Ross As my beloved Col
Malmedy was absent in some buring, and shortly killed in
due and as our Capt was sick and out of place I got
written discharge or did not conceive himself
authorized to give me one
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After I got home which was about the last of December
1781 I remained sick till February or March before
recovered when I proceded under Capt Jacob Tarrant
in company with Col Walker to guard a company of
prisoners to Salisbury North Carolina the prisoners were
or returned home sometime during the spring of 82
which I think was my last service
I was coundered and
considered myself as in actual service during the whole of
the years eighty and eighty one though some part of the
time at home as above stated upon furlough from sickness
or some such cause
I never received any written discharge
nor have I any documentary evidence of my services
and I know of no living witnesses who served with me that
I might procure to testify to my services, they are swept
aning by the ravages of the last half century or if any
be surviving they are living in place to me unknown
I have no evidence better than is here adduced
the said applicant states that he lived in North Carolina
about thirty years after which he moved to the State of
Indiana where he lived nine years from whence he
moved to Calloway County Ky where he has been
living several years
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 Charles Muller
We Hugh Gilbert a clergyman residing in the said County
of Calloway and Commonwealth aforesaid and Arthur
Davis, residing also in the same County and Common
wealth hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
Charles Mullins who has subscribed and sworn to the
above declaration that we believe him to be
eighty three years of age, that he is reputed and
believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have
been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in
that opinion no doubt whatever being entertained
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by his acquaintances of his having been such
Hugh Gilbert
H. Davis
And the said Court do hereby certify
their opinion
●
after the investigation of the matter and after putting
the interrogations required by the War Department
that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary
Soldier and served as he states
And the said
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Court do further certify that it
appears to them
that the said Hugh Gilbert who has signed the
preceding
certificate is a clergyman resident in the
said County of Calloway and that
is also a resident of the same county and
monie
oath aforesaid and is a credible person and
that
their statements are entitled to credit
Given under myhand

as presiding Judge of the said circuit the day and
year first above written
Rezin Davidge
the
State of Kentucky Calloway County & Circuit Sct
William Card, clerk of the Calloway Circuit Court
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original pro
ceedings
of the said Court in the matter of the application of
Charles Mullins
for a pension
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my
hand and seal of office,
this
of November 1832
Wm Curd
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State of Kentucky
Calloway County ⎬ Set
Personally appeared before me the
undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said County
Charles Mullins the foregoing declarant who being duly
Sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of age and
the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively
as to the precise length of his service but according to the
best of his recollection he served not less than the periodmentioned

below and in the following grades: For six
or from the 1st January in the middle of February 1780 I served as a
private volunteer under Capt King kindell and let Mann
For three months or from the middle of February till the
of May 1780 I served as a private of County in Captain Danford
company of horse. For given months and a half or from the
middle of May till the end of the year 1780 I served as a private
under Leamine who find some for
under Major of
Colin Grant (I dont recollect which) for the purpose of guarding
the indians during which time we staid at and
the frontier again
and the adjount country to Hampton & Capstons fort and
Mills Station
for four months longer or from the 1st January
1781 till the 1st of May following I served as a private (untion)
under Capt Kuykendall and lint McMinn during which
time in were engaged in guarding the portion from the Indians
cutting writing parties of the british or in any
the Lord
for three months or from the 1st Martell 1st of August I
as a private volunteer under Capt Ewing of South Carolina in
the army of Genl Green from the 16th of June till the 1st of August
however I was absent on furlough being sick, For five months or
from the 1st of August till the last of December 1781 I served as a private
under Captain Emile Lampkin and Lieut Ross in the army of Genl
Green of this our consider reasons in actual service four months
been taken sick and put into the hospital about the first of Decem
having
ber where I lay some weeks after which I was permitted to home
For Eight weeks in the spring of 1781 I served under capt Jacob
Parizant in conducting some prison
to Salsbury North Carolina
and for the above paped service I claim a
Given under my hand this 4th day of April
in the year 1833
G W Frazer
The above certificate subscribed
and sworn to by Charles Mullins
I
C.
Carles
the said 4th day of April 1833
Mullins
Grazer J.P.C.C.
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Calloway County Set ⎬ I William Curd clerk of the County Court for
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the aforesaid do hereby certify that W. Frazer whose
signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate was at the time of
affixing the same and now is an acting Justice of the peace
in and for the County aforesaid he having been duly com
missioned and qualified agreeably to the constitution and
laws of this Commonwealth and that full faith and
credit are due and ought to be given to all his acts as such
and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of the said Court
this 23rd
day of May 1833
Wm Curd
to
same we honary by for our times by the
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October 13, 1932
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BA-J/AWF
Charles Mullins 
S. 30610

Mary Said
1715 Palmer Avenue
Pueblo, Colorado

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of the Revolutionary War pensioners, Charles and Matthew Mullins. 

The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 30610, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Charles Mullins. 

He was born July 18, 1749 in the state of Pennsylvania, no definite place given and the names of his parents are not stated.  He was "principally raised in Virginia" and during the Revolution moved to North Carolina and settled on Broad River in Rutherford County.

He volunteered January 1, 1780 and served as a private in Captain Abraham Kuykendall's company under Colonel McLain for six weeks, when he joined a company of horse commanded by Captain Langford and served about three months, then rejoined Captain Kuykendall's company and served in guarding the frontiers against the Indians, sometimes at Cap. shaws (?) Fort, Hampton Fort and at Mills Station a part of the time under Major or Colonel Grant until May 11, 1781, when he volunteered in Captain Ewing's company and marched to the siege of Ninety-Six, was there under Colonel Levi Casey and about August 1, 1781 he joined Captain Ewill Lampkins's company under Colonel Malmedy, soon after which was taken sick, placed in the hospital at Camden and went home on furlough about the last of December, 1781. He served in the spring of 1782, eight weeks as a private under Captain Jacob Van Zant and Colonel Walker as a guard to prisoners at Salisbury, North Carolina.

After the Revolution he lived in North Carolina
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about thirty years, then moved to Indiana and lived nine years when he went to Callaway County, Kentucky.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 19, 1832, then a resident of Calloway County, Kentucky.
There are no data in this claim relative to his
family.


Matthew Mullins
S. 31271
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 31271, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Matthew Mullins.
He was born June 17, 1764 in Albemarle County, Virginia, the names of his parents are not given.
While a resident of said Albemarle County, he
enlisted in 1780 and served a tour in Captain John Harris' company, Colonel Holt Richardson's Virginia regiment, and
again enlisted and served a tour as a private in the winter of 1780-1781 in Captain Hunt's company, Colonel James Innis' Virginia regiment, both tours amounting to six
months. He enlisted in April or May, 1781 and served six months as a private in Captain John Miller's company in Colonel Reuben Lindsay's Virginia regiment. He was at the battle of Jamestown and the siege of Yorktown.
In 1794 he moved to Madison County, Kentucky, where he was living when allowed pension on his application executed August 13, 1832.
He died December 6, 1835.
There are no data in this claim relative to his
family.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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30610
Revy INVALID.
File No. 30
.610
Charles Mullins
Pir Rev War
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Act: June 739
Index: -- Vol. A
, Page 290
Arrangement of 1870.]
or
my said same day
is
as
Matthew Mull
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1715 Palmer Ave.
Pueblo, Colo.
Sept. 24, 1932
Mr. H. D. Hiller, Administrator
Veterans Administration
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir: 
Please Furnish me with all the information contained in the pension papers of Charles Mullins who received a Revolutionary War pension while residing in the county of Calloway, State of Kentucky.

Please furnish me with all the information contained in the pension papers of Matthew Mullins who received a Revolutionary War pension while residing in the county of Madison, State Of Kentucky.  S. 31271 - sent Oct 13.32

Thanking you in advance for your consideration of the above, I am
Most Sincerely yours, Mary Said
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Charles Mullins
from 1777 pinate
of Con of 1828 days
Calloway
Co
Pr. of 15 mo. day 50.88
Can 3
12.50
$63.38
Kuykendall
5. Wain
N.C.
John L. Murray
Wardsborough
Ken
John Johnson
the
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Breif Objections to the admisson of Pension Claims, of which those answered  in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?

II. Did the declarent make the declaration in the county where he resides?

III. If the applicant did not makr the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarent mentioned the period or periods of war when he served?

*Transcription not yet complete*
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV. +If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?

XVI. +
       +Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?


EXPLANATORY NOTES.
*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection
he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For ____
year ____ months, and ____days, I served as a ____ For ____ months and ____ days, I served as a ____; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the
officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the
applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed
in any civil pursuit.

+QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths
must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

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+ QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
[symbol with hand pointing] In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the
certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

[handwritten and faded]
[illegible] [illegible] of the deposition the deponent Charles Mullins must sign his name & be sworn to its contents after which all the papers must be sent to me
J L Murray
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Waidsboro [Wadesboro] Ky }      Free
May 26th }

Secretary of War or
J L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Waidsboro [Wadesboro] Calloway County, Ky May 24th

Dear Sir
Enclosed I send you the authenticated
declaration of Rachel Lovelace and the
amended declaration of Charles Mullins
which it is hoped will now be sufficient
Please forward a return to me as soon as
practicable
Respectfully yours &c
J L Edwards Esq
John L Murray