Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7324, for Henry Powers, North Carolina
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE
Continental
N. C.

[symbol of a star] Powers, Henry

NUMBER
S.7324

Born in N. C. Carded
CONTENTS
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

12.062
North Carolina

Henry Powers Sr: 
of Stokes in the state of N. Car who was a pri: [private] In: cav in the [Blank] commanded by Captain [Blank] of the Regh commander by Col. Martin in the N. Car [symbol of star] line for 13 mo: [months] 21 days

[symbol of star] N.C. and Continental
July 26, 1904
Records completed

Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 48 Dollars 16 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of March 1833 and Sent Hon A H Shepperd, Germantown.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 96.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept " 24.08
$120,40

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

Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk,
Book E Vol. 6 Page 51
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[Stamp: Received May 2, 1934 Mail Sub-Div. VETS ADM Reader #15]
Stokesdale, N.C.
May 1, 1934
Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs:
Please send me which data you have on two Revolutionary War Soldiers who were pensioned:
Henry Powers, Stokes Co.
James Henderson, Guielford Co.
These were both residents of North Carolina.
Many thanks,
Harry Z. Tucker
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[Left Side] 1934 - May 25, Hist. to Henry Z. Tucker  -
I L L.

[Right Side] Rev War
7324.
INVALID.

File No. 7324

Henry Powers Sr.
Priv Rev. War

Act: June 7th 1882

Index: -- Vol. 1ST, Page 299

[arrangement of 1970.]
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Henry Powers 
Application for a pension

Admit for 10 mo. 21 pri In. 35.64
3 mo. Cav. 12.50
Original [Illegible] 48.14

Cap Leek
Col. Martin N C Mil.
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State of North Carolina} 
Stokes County} Personally appeared before the undersigned Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid Henry Powers, Sr aged ninety seven years, who being 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 as a volunteer soldier in the County of Guilford & State aforesaid under the command of Captain John Leek [John Leak], James Martin was Col.; for a tour of four months, cannot recollect the day of the month, nor the month in which he entered the service but believes that it was either in the year 1777 or '78, marched from Guilford to Salisbury thence to Cathey's Fort, thence across the mountains into Tennessee against the Indians; after the Indians was defeated & their towns demolished was marched back to Cathey's Fort, thence to Guilford County & discharged this service having served a tour of four months in that engagement. Sometime after this he was drafted & taken to Guilford Court house to guard a man by the name of Wm Dent, served twenty one days & was discharged & returned home. In a short time thereafter he was again drafted & put under a strange Capt. whose name he cannot now recollect marched from Guilford County to the Southern part of the State against the British & Tories, served a three months tour in that engagement, some few days after getting home was again drafted but hired a substitute.
In the year 1780 & '81, he was drafted for a tour of three months. Marched to South Carolina, was put under Col, McDowell [Charles McDowell] of the mounted troops & was
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attached to Genl Morgan's [General Daniel Morgan’s] Army, fought in the whole of the Battle of the Cowpens [January 17, 1781], in that Battle he received a wound in his wright [right] wrist; a great many prisoners were taken from the enemy & after the day of Battle those prisoners were put under the care of Col. McDowell. He states that he was one of the guard that went with those prisoners to Guilford Court House, when he reached that place with the prisoners his wound on his wrist became inflamed, owing to taking cold in it, which disqualified him from active service but a few days by using proper remedies his arm became so much mended (as to be able) to attend to his horse and to ride. He had just served out the term of three months & was retained in the service for a term of three months longer & transferred to the troop of horse under Col. William Washington of the Cavalry was in the Battle of Guilford [March 15, 1781], became acquainted with Genl Green [General Nathanael Greene] & was one of the escorts who conducted him to Martinsville on the night previous to the battle.
After this Battle the enemy under Lord Cornwallis moved off [Illegible] by the mounted troops under Col. Washington were engaged in watching the movements of the British & Tories until we reached Boyd's ferry on the River Dan, at this place he states that Col. Washington gave him his discharge & he returned home having served a tour (and) under this engagement with McDowell & Washington of six months, he came home & went no more in the service. He states that he was born in the County of Guilford & State aforesaid was living in this County at the time he entered the service and has lived the most of the time since the revolutionary war in the same section of County & is at this time living in the County of Stokes. He has no documentary evidence of his service nor does he know of any person who can by his own knowledge testify to the same. 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
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He further states that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear precisely to his services but swears that he served not less (putting all his tours together) than thirteen months and twenty one days, Sworn & subscribed to this 2nd day of January 1833.

Henry [his X mark] Powers
W. A. Mitchell, JP {seal}
John Vaughn, JP {seal}

We John J. Wilson Clergymen & Benjamin Morgan residents of Stokes County do certify that we believe Henry Powers who has sworn to the above declaration is of the age he states. That he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the war of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion, and Benjamin Morgan doth further testify that he has known Henry Powers for upwards of thirty years & has frequently heard him speak of the services as a soldier in the revolution
Sworn to & subscribe 
[signed] John L Wilson
Benjamin [his X mark] Morgan
+ John Vaughn JP {seal}
+ W.A. Mitchell JP {seal}

And we the undersigned Justices do certify that John L. Wilson is a Clergymen, & that Benjamin Morgan is a citizen of Stokes County, and that they are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit
+ W.A. Mitchell JP {seal}
+ John Vaughn JP {seal} 

I certify that William A Mitchell & John Vaughan an acting Justiced of the Court of Pleas and quarter sessions of Stokes County. That the applicant resides near twenty miles from the Court House is extremely poor & so infirm that I do not believe he could attend Court without
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great bodily inconvenience, and I even doubt whether he could begot them in safely to himself 
A. H. Sheppard 
6 Sep 1833

[written sideways] Henry Powers Application for a pension

Admit for 10 mo. 21 pri In. 35.64
3 mo. Cav. 12.50
Original [Illegible] 48.14

Cap Leek
Col. Martin N C Mil.
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

May 26, 1934.

BA-J/ILL Own
James Henderson
S. 8708
Henry Powers
S. 7324

Mr. Harry Z. Tucker
Stokesdale
North Carolina.

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Henry Powers and James Henderson, both pensioners of North Carolina.

The records of these two soldiers are furnished herein as shown in the papers on file in their claims for pension, based upon service in the Revolutionary War.

JAMES HENDERSON - S. 8708.

James Henderson was born February 18, 1760, in Carolina County, Maryland; the names of his parents are not shown.

While a resident of Carolina County, Maryland, he enlisted in October 1776, and served three months as private in Captain Joseph Douglass' company, Colonel Wheatley's Maryland regiment: he enlisted March 1, 1777 and served one month and twelve days as private in this same company. He moved in the spring of 1778 to Guilford County, North Carolina. He enlisted in October 1779, and served two months and five days as private in Captain Jonas Frost's company, Colonel Frederick Hambright's North Carolina regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed February 21, 1834, at which time he resided in Guilford County, North Carolina. He stated that he had lived in Guilford County ever since 1778, except for three years during which he lived in South Carolina "better than thirty years ago".

The soldier married August 11, 1779, name of his wife not shown;    

The soldier referred to his uncle, James Anderson and his sons, but did not give any information regarding them.
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HENRY POWERS -- S. 7324. 

Henry Powers was born in Guilford County, North Carolina; the date of his birth and names of his parents are not shown. 

While a resident of Guilford County, North Carolina, he enlisted and served as private in the North Carolina troops on different tours, amounting in all to thirteen months and twenty-one days, as follow: in 1778 or 1778, four months in Captain “John Luk's” company, Colonel James Martin's regiment, on an expedition against the Indians in Tennessee; following that, on guard for twenty-one days at Guilford Court House; shortly after, a tour against the Tories in southern part of state, no officer named; during 1780 and 1781, three months in Colonel McDowell's regiment of mounted troops during which he was in the battle of Cowpens, in which he was wounded in his right wrist, and three months in Colonel William Washington's Regiment of Cavalry and was in the battle of Guilford. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed January 2, 1833, at which time he resided in Stokes County (formerly a part of Guilford County), North Carolina. He was then aged ninety-seven years, and was referred to as Henry Powers, Sr. 

There is no reference to wife or children of this soldier. 

Very truly yours, 

A. D. HILLER, 
Assistant to Administrator.

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