Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 743, Samuel Givens, N.C. S.C.
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( 3-1776 ) SERVICE N.C. S.C. Born in N.C. Givens, Samuel, Lucinda  NUMBER W.743
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23.978 North Carolina Samuel Givens of Meckl.  Co in the State of N. Car. who was a pr: in the  __ commanded by Captain  __ of the Regt commanded by Col. Hampton in the N. Car. line for 13 mos : 14 days  Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 44 Dollars  88 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831. Certificate of Pension issued the  12th day of May  34  and  sent  Hon . W.H. Com .. ( missing text )  H.R.  Arrears to the 4the of March  $ 134.64 Semi-anl. allowance ending  4 September $ 22.44 ( total $ 157.08 ) {Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832 } Recorded by Nath. Rice Clerk Book E. Vol.  6 1/2  Page 56
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2.243 North Carolina Fayetteville Lucinda Givens widow of Samuel Givens who served in the Revolutionary war as a private/ Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of  444 Dollars 88 Cents per annum , to commence on the 3rd February  1853. Certificate of Pension issued  the 4th day of October 1853. and sent to  Samuel H Walkup  Monroe N.C.  Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853 Page 135 Vol. A ( 1832 )
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[ State of North Carolina Union County ] On this the seventh day of July  A.D.  1858  personally appeared before the Court of Pleas  & Quarter Sessions  for the County of Union & State of North Carolina  Mrs. Lucinda Givens a resident of  Waxsaws in the  County of Union & State aforesaid  aged fifty seven years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed 3rd February  1853: that she is the widow of  Samuel Givens who was a private soldier in the  War of the revolution and was a pensioner under the act of Congress passed  June 7th 1832 & who received the sum of forty four dollars & eighty eight cents per annum for life beginning  from the 4th March 1831  & which pension certificate was given at the war office of the United States  May 12rh 1834 by Lewis Cass Secretary of War  & countersigned by J.L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions. Payments  made at Fayetteville N.C.  by the  Principal  United States  Branch Bank agent for paying pensions in the agency of North Carolina & was recorded in the Pension Office Book E. Volume 6 1/2, page 56, by Noah Rice clerk. She further declares that she was married  by John Blount  Esq.  to the said Samuel  Givens on the eighteenth day of  May  A.D.  one thousand eight hundred  & thirty six. ( 1836 ) ; that  her husband the aforesaid Saml. Givens died on the fifteenth  day of April  1846; that she was married to him at the time above stated. She further  states that she was a widow at the passage of the act  & is still a widow  & that she has never before made application for a pension & that there is no public or private record of their marriage . Sworn to  & subscribed on the day  and year above written before me in open Court. D.A. Covington  ( signed / sealed  ) Chairman M.C.C.  Lucinda Givens ( signed )
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[ State of North Carolina Union County ] On this seventh day of July  in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & fifty three Wm. B. Cook & John Blount  personally appeared before the  County  Court in open Court within  & for the County aforesaid and severally  made oath according to law that Mrs. Lucinda Givens is the widow of Saml. Givens late a pensioner of the United States for  Revolutionary service from North Carolina. That she was married to the said Saml. Givens  by John Blount Esq. on or about the 18th day of May A.D.  1836 at M. D. Paxten'.s  house in the County of Mecklenburg ( now Union ) & State of North Carolina ; that they knew  her  & her husband aforesaid well being close neighbors to them & knew  that they lived together & were recognized as man  & wife &  they further declare that the said Saml. Givens died on or about the time specified in h widow's the declaration above mentioned & that she still remains a widow  & was a widow at the passage of said act. Subscribed & sworn to before me  the day  & year first above written in open Court., and  I do  hereby certify that Wm. B. Cook  & John Blount are credible witnesses. D.A. Covington  ( signed ) Chairm. J Blount ( signed )  Wm B Cook ( signed )  [ State of North Carolina Union County ]  I John Blount  an acting Justice of the  Peace within  & for the County of Mecklenburg in the  State aforesaid do hereby certify that I was an acting  Justice of the Peace for the  County of Mecklenburg in the year 1836 & duly  authorized to solemnize the rites of matrimony & that  I did join  in marriage the above named Samuel Givens, who was a revolutionary pensioner  as I know  & Lucinda Cook who is now as I  personally
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know the widow of the identical Samuel Givens who was a revolutionary pensioner - that the marriage took place about the 18th May 1836 as well as I can recollect. That there is no  public or private as I know of  & I believe thee is none existing  of their marriage nor is there any  record evidence public or Private of the death or ages of either of the parties. But that I personally know being a near neighbor & living  within two miles of the parties at he  time, that the said Saml.  Givens  died on or about the  6th day of May 1846 & further that I am disinterested. Sworn to & subscribed before me on this the 21st July A,D, 1853. H. J. Wolf ( signed ) JP J Blount ( signed ) ( vertical notes )( Mrs. Lucinda Givens application for Pension as widow of Saml. Givens Act Feby 3rd 1853) (   Saml. H. Walkup , atty  Monroe Union County N.C. )  [ State of North Carolina Union County ] I James M. Stewart clerk of the Court of Pleas  & Quarter Sessions  within  & for the County of Union County in the State of North Carolina do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited in open Court that Samuel Givens was a pensioner of the United States  at the rate if forty four dollars & eighty eight cents per annum ( $ 44.88 )   was a
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resident of the County of Mecklenburg , now comprised in  Union County  in the   State of North Carolina   and died in the year 1846  sometime about the 15th day of April  & that he left a widow Lucinda Givens who is still a widow  & who  was the identical  Lucinda Givens who appeared in open Court & made  the above affidavit. I do hereby certify that  David A. Covington  before whom the foregoing papers were executed was at the date of the execution  of the same  & still is  Chairman of the County Court of Union County  duly commissioned & sworn & authorized by law to administer oaths & that  the name thereto subscribed is his genuine signature & I do  further certify that H. J. Wolf whose genuine signature  appears above was at the time of so doing also an acting Magistrate duly commissioned & sworn & I do further certify that John Blount  whose genuine signature appears to one as a deponent in open Court  & the other as a certifying  Justice of the peace was at the time of the marriage of Samuel Givens  & Lucinda Cook  & still is an  acting Justice of the peace within  & for the County  & State aforesaid duly commissioned & Sworn & duly authorized to  solemnize the rites of matrimony at the time of the above marriage  & that  the above is his genuine signature. IN testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand  & affixed the seal of office of Union County at Monroe on this the 22nd July 1853.  JM Stewart ( signed / sealed ) CCC  forward to Saml. Hl Walkup atty Monroe
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29.121 Declaration Saml. Givens No Carolina  Adm by  Conr private 13 mo : 14 days $ 44.88  Hin, H W. Conner H.R.
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[ State of North Carolina Mecklenburg County  ] Superior Court of Law Fall Term  On this 12th day of November  A.D. 1832  personally appeared in open Court  before the Court now sitting  Samuel Givens of the State and County aforesaid aged 70 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 pass June 7th  1832, that he  entered the service of the United States under the following named officers &  served as herein  stated. , he entered the service in the year 1780  as a volunteer in the  summer of the same year and served under  Cp John Harris a tour of two months and in the fall of the same year he  volunteer under Cpt. John Foster and serve a tour of six week and then in the spring of 1781  he enlisted under Cpt.  John Foster and  joined Col. Henry  Hearston  Regiment and then  was  Thompson Lo Cole , Wade Hamton Regiment  under Cpt. Barnett, Gen. Sumter commanded and serve a tour of ten months and was discharge on the  13 of February 1882 as will appear from the discharge which is herein enclose and service as  near as he can recollect  thirteen month and two weeks and was in the Battle of the Eutaws and traveled  through South Carolina and into the State of Georgia he has no record of his age, but believes he was born in the year 1762 in the County of Mecklenburg - State of North Carolina here he liven when he was called  into service and has lived there ever since the Revolutionary war he  hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present  and declares his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State. Sworn to  and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Samuel Givens ( signed )
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[ State of North Carolina Mecklenburg County ] We William Howard & Hugh  Forbes both of the County  and State aforesaid do hereby certify that we was   with the applicant  Samuel Givens  in the ten month tour and he served as he states in his declaration . Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this the 13th of November AD 183 _ . Wm Howard ( signed )  Hugh Forbes ( his mark )  Sworn to before me  at office 13 of Novemb. 1832 Sam Henderson ( signed ) CSC 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 __ ( missing text ) Howard  & Hugh Forbes , who signed the preceding certificate are residents of the County of Mecklen... ( missing text )  and are credible persons, and that their statement  is entitled to credit.   [ State of North Carolina Mecklenburg County ] I Samuel Henderson Clerk of the Superior Court of  Law  for the County of Mecklenburg do hereby  certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Saml. Givens for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office in  Charlotte the  27th day of November AD 18 _ 3 .  and  in the 57th  year of our Independence.  Saml. Henderson  ,, ( illegible or missing ) By P. Thompson ( signed ) D.C.
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1 Sept  1780  as a volunteer  two months and was disch  1 Nov  the week in to  camp on we creek  in it  he entered the ser
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May 28, 1931
Rev.& 1812 Wars Section
AWF:MLB

Mr. Perry Parr
C/o Black Diamond S. S. Corporation
39 Broadway
New York, New York

Dear Sir:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 743, that Samuel Givens
was born in 1762 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

While residing in said Mecklenburg County, North Carolina,
he enlisted September 1, 1780, and served two months as private
in Captains Benjamin Lowery's and John Harris' companies,
Colonel Davey's North Carolina regiment, and was in a skirmish
at Walkup Mills. He enlisted in December, 1780, and served six
weeks as a private in Captain John Foster's company, He enlisted
April 13, 1781, and served in Captain John Foster's company,
Colonel Henry Hampton's South Carolina regiment, was transferred
to Captain Jacob Barnett's company, Colonel Wade Hampton's
South Carolina regiment, was in the battle of Eutaw Springs and
was discharged February 13, 1782.

He was allowed pension on his application executed
November 12, 1832, at which time he was living in Mecklenburg
County, North Carolina.

He died April 15, or May 6, 1846.

The soldier married May 18, 1836, in Mecklenburg County,
North Carolina, Lucinda Cook.

She was allowed pension on her application executed July 7,
1853, at which time she was living in Waxhaw, Union County,
North Carolina, aged fifty-seven years.

There is no reference to children.

Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
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( left page ) May 2 - 1902 Chas E. Kemper Treasy Dept.  1927  May 2 Tombstone  date to  Q. M. Gen.  ans  1931 May 28  Hist to  Perry Parr ( right page ) Rev  WIDOW , &c. File No. 743 Lucinda Givens widow  Samuel Givens Pri . Rev. War Act: Feb . 3  1853 Index: - Vol. A Page 271 [ Arrangement of 1870 ]
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Pension Office  30th  Sept. 1853 Sir, Please certify the time to which the within named person was paid or the date of his death. Very respectfully S. Cole  ( signed ) For the Commissioner . Samuel Givens  Act ' 32  $ 44.88  pr. an.  - Paid tot 4th March  1846  , no date of death on our Books. F. Burt ( signed ) Auditor Francis Burt  Esqr. Third Auditor Treasury
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[ State of North Carolina Mecklenburg County  ] On tis 5th day of  April 1834  personally appeared before me John M  Ingram  one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for said County   Samuel Givens a  resident of the  County aged  71 or 72  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 7th June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States  under the following named officers and served as herein after stated. He entered the service of the United States as a volunteer  the 1st of September 1780 under Cpt. Benjamin Lowery  and served a tour of two months part of the time under Capt. B Lowery  of  two or three months  and  the balance of the time under Cpt. John Harrison  Mecklenburg and stated from  Mc Corpin's Creek  and marched to the   Waxsaw creek and was in the skirmish  at  Walkup's Mills  and then retreated back as far as  Salisbury N.V.  there was stationed a few days ( we were at this service under the command of  Colonel Davey  and  General Davidson )  and then we marched back as far as Rocky River and then we stopped a few  days  until news reached us that Cornwallis had left  Charlotte  then we marched through Charlotte on to Lancaster  District  S.C.  and was discharged 1st of November 1780  by Cpt. John Harris
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and in December 1780 he volunteered under  Cpt. John Foster  and served a tour of six weeks and went from Mecklenburg  County N.C.  to Richardson's creek and Lynch's creek in  South Carolina and our Lieutenant  John Houston was killed in that tour  on  Lynch's creek  and then we return back to Mecklenburg and was discharged in January 1781  by Cpt. Foster and on the 13 of April 1781  he enlisted under Cpt. John Foster  in  Col. Henry Hampton Regiment   no. not recollected and afterwards transferred to Eade Ham's  Regiment  , Gen  Sumpter  commander and serve a tour of  ten months and in that tour he went from Mecklenburg  County N.C. through S.C.  to the Congaree and was stationed there for some time at a placed called Brown's old fields and then marched to Orangeburg and was stationed there a while and from Orangeburg  we ( but before we march to Orangeburg we marched under Cpt. Barnet in Col. Wade Hampton Regiment on down  Santee River  and fought  at the Battle of the Eutaw on the eight of Sept 1781 )  marched to the  State of Georgia and was stationed at Spirit's Creek Mills a while and the balance of the time we were in  Georgia  we was kept traveling  about  which was about two months and then we returned back to Orangeburg and there was discharged near Orangeburg in  S.C. by a man  whose name  I cannot  recollect on the ...  ( missing )  day of February  1782
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and served in all  thirteen months and two we.. ( missing )   and has no documentary evidence of his service  the remains of his discharge from the  ten months service which was sent in the  original  declaration  which you  examined and returned as so much defect as not to be properly understood  is destroyed and he hereby relinquishes every clam whatever to a pension or annuity  except the present and  he declares  his name is not on the pension  Roll of the agency of any State. Sworn to and subscribed  this 5th day of April 1834  before me  John M Ingram ( signed / sealed ) JP Samuel Givens ( signed )  Where and in what year was you born . I was born in Mecklenburg County N.C.   I think in the year 1762 . I have no record of my age. I lived in Mecklenburg County  when  called into service and have  lived in the same place ever since and when I went into service  I went in as a volunteer and enlisted . I was discharged by a man whose name I cannot recollect. Sworn to  and subscribed  before me   John M Ingram ( signed ) JP Samuel Givens ( signed )
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[ State of North Carolina Mecklenburg County ] And the said John M. Ingram  declare my 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 I further certify that  William Howard  & Hugh Forbes who signed and sworn to the certificate anext ( annexed ) to the  original declaration  is  residents of said State  and County  and  are credible persons and their statement is entitled to full credit and I further certify that  it appears that Zachariah  Sternes who has signed this certificate under  .. ( illegible ) is a Clergyman  resident in said Count of Mecklenburg and that William Wilson  who has also signed the same is a resident of  said County and State a  is a credible person  and their statements  is entitled to credit . Given under  my hand  and seal this 5th day of April  1834.  John M Ingram ( signed / sealed ) JP  [ State of North Carolina Mecklenburg County ] We Zachariah Sternes clergyman and Wm. Wilson  residents of the County of Mecklenburg certify that we are well acquainted with   the applicant Samuel Givens wo subscribed & swore to the above declaration , and we believe him to be of the age set forth  in the declaration,  & he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion. Guven under our hands  this 5th  day of April 1834 . Zachariah Sternes ( signed ) Wm Wilson ( signed ) J M Ingram ( signed ) JP
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[ State of North Carolina ] I,  Braby Oates clerk of the  Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions  held for the County of Mecklenburg  & State aforesaid do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings  in the matter of the amended  application of Samuel Givens for a pension had before John M. Ingram Esq.  who is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County  , and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. IN testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office at Charlotte this 12th day of April  A.D.  1834 . B. Oates ( signed / sealed ) C.C. C.
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Brief in the case of Lucinda Givens Widow of Samuel,
Marion County and State of N.C.
act 3, Feby: 18 53.

Claim, (" original," )
Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls ? If either, state the substance.
[illegible] was aforesaid under the act of 7"  1832, 
[illegible] proof of marriage by the
evidence of the magistrate who performed 
the Service,

(If. for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim ? If so, what ?

Saml .H. Walkup. Esgr,
Monroe, N.C.
Name and residence of Agent

[illegible] Boynton, 
Examining Clerk.
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claim of Lucinda Givens
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Monroe N.C. July 22nd 1953

S.P. 
Washington City, D.C.

Sir

Enclosed you have the claim of Mrs. Lucinda Givens widow of Samuel Givens late a Rev. pensioner at the rate of 44$ from American  [?] the amt of 1853 February 3rd - which if allowed you will please forward to me at Monroe N.C.! 

Yours very Respectfully,
Samuel H. Walkup, [?]














































































































































































































































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War Department
Office of the Quartermaster General
Washington
In Reply Refer to QM 293 A-C Givens, Samuel

April 16, 1927.

The Commissioner of Pensions,
Department of the Interior, 
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:

In order that a headstone may be provided for the grave of the decedent named below, the Quartermaster General requests that this office be furnished with information as to the correct spelling of the name, and the correct military service, of that soldier, as shown by the records of the Pension Office:

Private Samuel Givens,
Captain John Harris' Company,
In Regiment commanded by Colonel Wade Hampton,
Died on the 15th of April, 1846.

Very truly yours,

R.J. Compton
Lt. Col., Q.M.C.
Assistant,

U.S. Pension Office 
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April 13 1927
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Bureau of Pensions, Washington D.C.

Gentlemen:-
I would appreciate it very much if you will send me a transcript of what your files show in regard to Samuel Givens of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, a pensioner of the Revolutionary War, who was aged 77 in 1840.

Very truly yours

Perry Parr
% Black Diamond S.S. Corp.
39 Broadway, New York, N.Y.

Pension Office U.S. Apr 29 1931
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Rev. & 1812 Wars
Section,
V, 743,

May 2, 1927.

K.J. Hampton, Lt. Col., Q.M.C.
Office of Quartermaster General, U.S.A.
Washington, D.C.

Sir:
I have to advise you, that the Revolutionary War pensioner, Samuel Givens was born in 1762 in Mecklenburgh Co., North Carolina [deceased?] April, 15, 1846.
He served from September 1, 1780 for two months in Captains Benjamin Lowery and John Harris' Companies, Colonel Darcy's N.C. Regiment.
He served from December 1780, for six weeks in Captain John Foster's N.C. Company.

He enlisted April 15, 1781 in Captain John Foster's Company, Colonel Henry Hampton's So. C. Regiment, was transferred to Captain Jacob Barnett's Company, Colonel Wade Hampton's S.C. Regiment and was discharged February 13, 1782.  All services rendered as a private.

Respectfully,

Winfield Scott,
Commissioner.