Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S, William Armstrong, N.C.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
N. C.
CONTENTS
*Armstrong, William
S _
B.L.Wt. 61 _300- Capt
Issued Jan. 16, 1790 to
Daniel Wheaton assignee
no papers
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State of Tennessee
Humphrey's County. ⎬
For the purposes of obtaining the benefits of an act entitled "an act 
for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution approved on the fifteenth of May, 1828.
I, William Armstrong, of the County of Bledsoe, and the state of Tennessee, do 
hereby declare, that I was an officer in the Continental line of the army revolution and served as such to the end of the war, (to wit.) I was commissioned a lieutenant in the year 1777, early in the said year, and was promoted to the commission of a captain the said year, in the month of August, in the first regiment of continentals commanded by Thomas Clark in the North Carolina line, in which capacity I served to the end of  war in the said regiment.
And I also declare, that I afterwards received certificate for a sum equal to the  amount of five years full pay, which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress, of the 22d of March, 1783, instead of half pay for life, to which I was entitled under the resolve of Congress of the 21st of October, 1780. And I do further declare, that I have not since the third day of March, 1826, as a pensioner, received a cent from the United States.
Sworn and Subscribed
this 19th day of April, 1830
William Armstrong.
Conrade Stevens, J. P.
State of Tennessee
Humphrey County ⎬
Came personally before me, Elias Smith and Wiley Burrows, of the said first regiment, who are men of good standing and swear, that they know Capt. William Armstrong who took the above affidavit in their presences, rendered the services therein stated.
Sworn and subscribed before me this
19th day of April 1830
Conrade Stevens, J. P.
his
Elias x Smith 
mark
Wiley Burrow.
You will forward a draft to Sparta, White County, Tennessee, on the
North Carolina agency
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State of Tennessee, S.S
Humphrey County
I, Dawsey P. Hudson, Clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter sessions for said county, do hereby certify that Conrad Stephens, Esq. who has signed his name officially to the within affidavit of Elias Smith & Willie Burrow, is and was: at the time of the making said affidavit, and signing his name thereto, and acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified, as such; and that full faith and credit is due, and should be given to all his official act as such.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my private Seal, there being no other Seal of court. Done at offices in Reynoldsburg, the 22nd. day of April A.D. 1830. 
D.P. Hudson, Clerk
By E.   his deputy.
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3-871
Record Division (marked out)
Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Briefed by  AW. June 10.1914
Claim No.
Certificate No.
Claimant
Soldier William Armstrong
Service Ensign, Lt & Capt of 
Additional Service 1" & 3" N. C. Regts.
on Continental Est. Rev.
see Hillman page 75
No.   claim, State records    , 191
No claim, combination records  , 191
Remarks: 
All Agency books of N.C. & Tenn. searched no pension appears to have been allowed under Any Act. A N.C. militia Capt of same name is pensioned under Act June 7. 1832 -
The Lieutenant in application [over]
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that he had "not since March 3, 1826 as a pensioner received a cent from the U.S." Only refers to a clause of the Act of May 15, 1828 which required that statement to be made in applying for pension.
AW.
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August 21, 1937

John Armstrong
B.L.Wt. 60-450
William Armstrong
B.L.Wt. 61-300
BA-J/AWF our
Mrs. W. C. Renkin
680 Riverside Drive, Apt. 3-A
New York City

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you
request information in regard to John Armstrong, Captain, Major and Lieutenant Colonel North Carolina
Line, and William Armstrong, and Lieutenant, and
Captain North Carolina Line, War of the Revolution.
The Records of this office show that Warrant
#60, was issued September 12, 1789 for four hundred
fifty acres of bounty land, on account of the service
of John Armstrong, Lieutenant Colonel of the
North Carolina, War of the Revolution.
There are no further data on file as to the
service of this John Armstrong, and no data as to
his family, due to the destruction of the papers
in such early bounty land claims, when the War
Office was burned.
In order to obtain information in regard to
location of the land referred to above, you should
address The Commissioner of the General Land Office,
Washington, D. C., and furnish the following data:
Warrant #60-480 acres issued September 12, 1789.

The records of this office show that William
Armstrong was commissioned early in 1777, Lieutenant,

[in margin] Her letter on John Armstrong 
Wt 60-450-
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and was commissioned Captain in August, 1777, in Colonel Thomas Clark's 1st North Carolina regiment, and continued in the service until the close of the war.
The said William Armstrong was living in
1830 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee.
Warrant & 61, was issued January 16, 1797 to
Daniel Wheaton, assignee, on account of the service
of William Armstrong, Captain of the North Carolina
Line, War of the Revolution.
There are no data in regard to his family, and
dates and places of his birth and death are not shown.
In order to obtain information relative to
location of the land referred to herein, you should
address The Commissioner of the General Land
Office, this city, and furnish the following data
Warrant #61 - 300 acres issued January 16, 1797.
Very truly yours
GEORGE H. SWEET
Acting Executive Assistant
to the Administrator