Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 42036, for Thomas Taunt, North Carolina
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N.C. 

Taunt, Thomas


S. 42,036
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4144

North Carolina
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Thomas Taunt
Musician
Capt Fenner
North Carolina line

in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
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Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of May 1818.
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certificate of Pension issued the 5th of Novr 1818 and sent to the care of Henry Potter, Esqr,  RaleightNorth Carolina
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 4 4/30 -  $33.06
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4th Mar 1819 -  $48
(total)  $81.06

Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.

79 Three years

Craven Co
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42036

INVALID

Revy

File no 42036

Thomas Taunt
Musician - Rev War

Act: 18th March 18

Index:  Vol 5, Page 500

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Thomas Tauny

Correct

Hon H Potter
Raleigh, NC
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State of North Carolin
Craven County

     Thomas Taunt maketh oath that he is at
the time and always has been a citizen resident of the
County of Craven. deponent enlisted in the Continental
line of the State of North Carolina in the was of the
Revolution in the tenth Regiment, but after arriving
at Head Quarters at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania he
was transferred to the Company commanded by Captain
Robert Fenner in the Second North Carolina
Regiment deponent was a drummer & served in that
capacity until the surrender of the Army at
Charleston under General Lincoln. He continued
a prisoner about thirteen months when he was
exchanged at James Town in Virginia-- His whole
term of service was not less that three years and 
nine months-- he was discharged at
Richmond in Virginia-- his discharge is lost.
He believes he entered the service in the year
one thousand seven hundred seventy nine but 
cannot say positively-- deponent is in reduced
circumstances and needs the assistance of this
Country for support.

Thomas Taunt

Sworn to before me
May 4th 1818 
New Bern
Jn. F. Smith  J.P.
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James Jones at this time a resident of the County
of Carteret in the Sate of North Carolina, but heretofore
of Craven County in said State maketh Oath, that he
was a soldier in the second North Carolina Regiment
on the Continental establishment during the war
of the Revolution and served upwards of three
years. He was well acquainted with Thomas
Taunt. whose deposition precedes deponents, and
knows that said Taunt served as a drummer in
said Regiment for more than three years--

James Jones
  his  X Mark

Sworn to before me
at New Bern the first
day of May 1818
Jno. F. Smith  J.P.

State of North Carolina
Craven County

I James G Stanley Clerk of the 
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
of Craven County, do hereby certify that
John F. Smith Esquire Upon whom the foregoing
depositions of Thomas Taunt and James Jones
were taken and whose proper signature is
subscribed thereto  is an acting Magistrate of
Craven County and one of the Justices of the 
Court aforesaid.  In testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of said Court at New Bern this first
day of May  A.D. 1818

J.G. Stanley C.C.
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United States--North Carolina District

I Henry Potter, Judge of the U.States for the
District aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my
satisfaction that the said Thomas Taunt did serve
in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding
declaration, against the common enemy, for the term
of nine months, on the continental establishment;
and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony
before me, to the Secretary for the
Department of War, pursuant to the directions
of the aforementioned Act of Congress.
Raleigh 18th May 1818

H. Potter  D..J U.S. N.C.