Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 918, William Blakey, N.C.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
N.C.

Blakey, William

NUMBER
R. 918

CONTENTS
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34, 972
William Blaky [Blakey]
Alabama

Hon D H Lewis
HR
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State of Alabama }
Barbour County }
Barbour County Court
July Term 1839

On this 9th day of July personally appeared
in open Court before the Court of Barbour
County now sitting William Blaky [Blakey] a resident of Barbour County in the State of Alabama aged Eighty two 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 he entered the service of the United States under the following named
officers and served as herein stated that in the
year of 1779 he was employed as a substitute
by one Thomas Hale and was under the command of Capt. Council Bryant [Bryan] in Col. Tillmans Redgment [Regiment] Alabama in the Town of Newborn [? New Bern] North=Carolina {sic) that he served out his tour of three months and was discharged but
never recd. [received] any written discharge again on the 14th day of May 1780 he volunteered for three months under Captain David Roach & Lieut. Leman that they belonged to 2nd Redgment [Regiment]
of North Carolina Militia under the command
of Col. Axum [ ? Exum] and Lieut. Col. Caswell which belonged to Genl. Caswells division that they were marched up deep River to the Hickory mountain from thence to Caraway Mountain then to Cheraw Hill in South Carolina then to Rudles [ ? Rugeley's] Mills near Camden South Carolina where they joined Genl. Gates a short time before his defeat near Camden South Carolina that his Capt. was supposed to have been kiled [killed] in the battle that never more heard of him and that he was afterwards under the command of one Dugal
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Campbell and stationed at Kingston in
Dobbs County North=Carolina (sic) and was employed during the ballance balance] of his time making Cattridge [? cartridges] and recd. [received] his discharge from the above officer
after serving out his three months
Again in the last of the year of 1781 he volunteered for three months under Capt. Council Bryant [Bryan] and Lieut. Lewis was stationed in Newborn [New Bern] North Carolina and served out his time and
again volunteered for three months more
under the above officers and served in Newburn [New Bern] North Carolina at the Expiration of his three months he recd. [received] his discharge from Capt. Bryant that he was born in the County of Cravin [Craven]
in the State of North Carolina the 9 April 1757
and remained there for many years after peace
and that he has no documentary evidence of
his services, and that he knows of no person in
this state that he can prove his services by
except by his own oath and that 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.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
[signature] William Blakey

Q 1st When and in what year ware [were] you born
A I was born in the State of North Carolina
Craven County on the 9th day April 1757

Q 2nd Have you any record of your age and if so where is it
Answer I have no record, my father kept none
but alway [always] told me I was born 9th Apl. 1757
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Q 3rd - Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you know live
A In Craven County North Carolina
from then I moved to the state of
Georgia & from there to the State of
Alabama Barbour County where I now live

Q 4th Have [illegible] you called into service were you draughted [drafted] did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom
A The first 3 months I was a substitute for
Thomas Hall for 9 months I was a
volunteer

Q 5th State the names of some of the regular
officers who were with the troops when
you served such Continental and
militia regiments as you can recollect
and the general circumstances of your
service
Answer Genl. Gates Genl. Caswell Col. Axum [Exum] Lieut. Col. Caswell Major Nixon
Capt. Edwards & Capt. Love I was acquainted with many more of the officers but have
forgot them that while I was stationed
in Newborn [New Bern] as often as three or four times I was sent with prisoners to Pitt
County Jail and once to Halifax Jaoil [Jail]

Q 6th did you ever receive a discharge and if so by whom was it given and what has becom [become] of it
Ans    I Recd. [received] a discharge from Capt. Bryant and McDugal but they are lost as I
considered them of no [? use] after the war
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Q 7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood
[neighborhood] and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution
Answer Emanuel Cox & Jesse Blakey and many more if required

We Emanuel Cox & S Hall and Jesse Blaky [Blakey] residing in the State of Alabama Barbour County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Blaky {Blakey] who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Eighty two 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
Sworn and subscribed the day and year
aforesaid
Emanuel Cox
Jesse Blakey

And the said court do hereby declare there [their] opinion after the investigation of the matter and after pulling the interogatories [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 Emanuel Cox and Samuel Hall 
[? Hale] is credible persons and that there [their] statements is entitled to
credit
A M Cole Judge
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I James G Coleman Clerk of the
county court of Barbour County do hereby
certify that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of William Blaky [Blakey] for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand there being no seal provided for my
office this 9 day of July A D 1839
James G Coleman Clerk C. C. B. C. AL
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Revolutionary
Pension Claim
of
Wm. Blakey
of Alabama
To
M. Thompson
Fild. [filed]: Apl. 11. 1853


Paper cald. for
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POWER OF ATTORNEY - Revolutionary Pension Claims.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I,* William Blakey Sr
son of William Blakey Sr who was a claimant
for Revolutionary pension
hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint M. THOMPSON, esq., of Washington City, D. C., my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Chim of William Blakey Sr
for any amount of Revolutionary Person, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises, and revoking all former powers.
WITNESS my hand and Seal this 31st day of March A. D. 1853.
Wm. Blakey
[circular seal with SS]

Signed and sealed in the presence of }
B A Barron J.P. }
[illegible] Clayton
L. S. Ward

STATE of Alabama }
COUNTY of Barbour }
On this the 31st day of March - A. D., 1853.
before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared William Blakey
and acknowledged the foregoing Power
of Attorney to be his act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, }
the day and year aforesaid. }
B A Barron J. Peace.

*In this blank, if the Claimant be alive, he will insert his name, and execute the power. If
he be dead, the widow, if alive, will insert her name, (stating the fact that she is his widow,) and execute the power. If both be dead, then any one of the children may insert his, or her name, (stating the fact that he or she is the son or daughter) and execute the power.
If there be neither father, mother, child, or children, then there is no person entitled under the existing rules of the Department, and the power of Attorney need not be executed.
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Claim of William Blakey
Act of


STATE of Alabama }
COUNTY Barbour }
Be it Known, That on this the 31st day of March A. D., eighteen hundred and fifty three, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared William Blakely a resident of Alabama in said County, and made oath according to law that he is the identical William Blakey who executed the foregoing
power of attorney, and that he is directly interested in said claim, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as said Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and
year aforesaid, before }
B. A. Barron J. Peace. }

I, B A Barron Justice of the Peace, in and for said County do hereby certify that William Blakey who executed the foregoing paper, is a
respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
B A Barron J. Peace.

I, Wm. R. Cowen Judge Clerk of the Probate Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that B A Barron before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscriber, is his signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this 31st day of March A. D., 1853.
Wm. R Cowen Judge
of Probate & Ex officio
clerk [illegible] Clerk.
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STATE OF           }
COUNTY OF      }

It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me

that                         was a Revolutionary    of the
United States at the rate of $        per annum, and that                               died on the
leaving surviving

and that the
only surviving child               of the aforesaid.


IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
my seal         office this                         day of
one thousand eight hundred and fifty.


NOTE.-If the original Claimant or person in whose right the claim was made, be alive, then there is no use for the above certificate, but simply the power of attorney. But if he or she (as the case may be) be dead, then the exact period of his or her death must appear. If the widow execute the power of attorney it must also appear when the marriage took place, and that she is still a widow. If there be neither father nor mother, the period of the marriage, and of the death of each, must appear; and
also, the name or names, of the surviving child or children. If, he, or she, (as the case may be)
was a pensioner, state that fact, and also the amount received per annum; but if a claimant merely, state that fact.
The above certificate must be executed by the Clerk of the Court under his seal of office.
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Ex'r.
INVALID.
No. 918

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873. [crossed out]

[faintly visible stamp] REJECTED

William Blaky [Blakey]
P. O.
Service;

Enlisted:                                 , 18
Discharged:                            , 18


Application filed:                     , 18

Alleges:
Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P. O.
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William Blakey
Alabama
Suspended
See let. 24 Feb. 1840
Hon. D. N. Lewis.
918
Act 7 June 1832