Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2,105, Thomas Buchannan, N. C.
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N.C
Thomas Buchannan
Buchannan
s.2.105
Carded.
Born in Penn
Contents: 
Buchannan, Thomas
Buchannan
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Thomas Buchannan Recorded
Inscribed by the roll of West Tennessee at the rate of 20 dollars _ cents per annum Commence on the 4th day of March, 1834. Certificate of pension issued the 23 day of November 1831 and sent to.---------- Access to the 4th of September 1831, 120 dollar semi- annual allowance ending 4 March 38, 10 dollar. 130 dollar 130 Revolutionary claim. Recorded by W. M. Allison. Book 62  volume 7 page 82. Act June 7, 1832. [Further side page illegible]
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State of Tennessee. Bedford county. On the tenth day of August 1833 . Personally appeared before the Judge of the circuit court of Bedford county open court the same being a court of said Thomas Buchannan a resident of county of Bedford and state of Tennessee.Aged about seventy-three or four. 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 as served hereinafter, stated. In the beginning of the year 1781 in the county of Orange in the State of North Carolina I entered the service as a volunteer to assist in guarding the term of Hillsborough in said state and in record timing. The surrounding country after the…  I was attached to a company commanded by Captain Williams whose Christian came I cannot recollect and under whom I served about a month and a half. I then substituted in place of Thomas Hunt who was a drafted Militia Man and his captain as well as I now recollect, was by the name of Covington. In this company I served three months as a sergeant in said company. I then substituted in the place of by the name of John Williams who was a militia man in what was called the eighteen month service. I served the…
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Balance of his time which was two months I cannot now recollect the name of the Captain. Major Dickson was attached to this service, there was also one Taylor whose Christian name I believe was John but whether he was a colonel or major —- cannot recollect, he was also connected with this service in some way but in what particular I cannot now say. This service I served about two months, I then substituted in place of a man whose name I cannot now recollect, he was in the militia for service for twelve months. I served the balance of his time about one month and a– and now the only officer I can recollect is colonel or major Taylor my former officer in the services were found guarding the town of Hillsborough  and in guarding prisoners except some excursions I was engaged in the pursuit of the Tories. In one of them to what was called and perhaps yet called Moravian town in North Carolina and in the other to paw river in said date. I then volunteered with the others to guard some baggage Balance of his time which was two months I cannot now recollect the name of the Captain. Major Dickson was attached to this service, there was also one Taylor whose Christian name I believe was John but whether he was a colonel or major —- cannot recollect, he was also connected with this service in some way but in what particular I cannot now say. This service I served about two months, I then substituted in place of a man whose name I cannot now recollect, he was in the militia for service for twelve months. I served the balance of his time about one month and a– and now the only officer I can recollect is colonel or major Taylor my former officer in the services were found guarding the town of Hillsborough  and in guarding prisoners except some excursions I was engaged in the pursuit of the Tories. In one of them to what was called and perhaps yet called Moravian town in North Carolina and in the other to paw river in said date. I then volunteered with the others to guard some baggage waggous from Hillsborough to outside about fifty miles. In this service I was engaged about half a month. In all the above tour I served in months and a half, in all of which service was performed as well as I now recalled in the year 1781 there may be other in connection with said service which I have not detailed but from cause of time I have forgotten them. I have no documentary from Hillsborough to outside about fifty miles. In this service I was engaged about half a month. In all the above tour I served in months and a half, in all of which service was performed as well as I now recalled in the year 1781 there may be other in connection with said service which I have not detailed but from cause of time I have forgotten them. I have no documentary
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Evidence by which to prove the above services, nor do I know of any in reach by who can testify as to my having performed them. I hereby relinquish way every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state in the United States grant to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid his 
Open Court:
Thomas Buchannan
John T [illegible] Clerk
Of Bedford county — court, questions by the court, as preside by the war department.
Question: 
1st where and in what year were you have
Answer: 
I was home in Pennsylvania in 1764
Question: 
And of you any record of your age and if so where is it?
Answer: 
I have, it is at home in my will
Question: 
And where were you living when called into the service and where have you have since the Revolutionary War?
Answer:
I bind in Orange County, North Carolina when called into the service after the war I went to South Carolina Pendleton district and for some for twelve or fifteen years I then moved to Kentucky where I bind three or four years when I moved to…
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Beauford county Tennessee where I have lived ever since
4th Question:
How were you called into the service? Were you drafted, did you volunteer or did you substitute? And if a substitute for whom?
Answer: 
I was a substitute for there in the place of Thomas Hunt and O’neal  when I first entered the service and also substituted for some ten or their fathers and of whom was by the name of John Williams, others not recollected. 

5th question: 
State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served, such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances for your service.
Answer: 
Major Dickson was attached to the regular army and was with the troops when I served. There were some more but there names I cannot recollect. There were some militia regiments in of which was under the Command of Colonel O’Neal and Butler. I cannot state the circumstances of my service letter than, there and about which I again refer.
6th Question:
Did you receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of?
Answer: 
I received — discharges from — for Thomas Hunt for whom I was a substitute, and also John Willis as for whom I was also a substitute and do not recollect to have received a…
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Other discharge and these I divided to hunt and Williams respectively.
7th question: 
State the names of the persons to whom you are known in your —-  neighborhood who can alibi as to your character for veracity and their belief in your services as a soldier of the revolution?
Answer:
I am know to Thomas, Martin Simms, John Robertson and the reverend George Newton. Who lives in Shelbyville. Joseph or another Clergy men in the will who can testify to my character— George Newton a clergy man residing in Shelbyville, Bedford County and Martin [last name is illegible] residing in and Joseph McCord a clergyman living in said county of bedford hereby identify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Buchannan who has signed and sworn to the above declaration that we believed him to be between the ages of seventy three and four years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur that in opinion all except the report in Martin in to open court hand, —- Circuit court of Bedford County.
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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 he states. And the court further that what appears to them that the Reverend George [illegible]  and Joseph McCord who have signed the proceeding certificate, a clergyman, County of Hertford residence, the former in the and the latter in the county and that Martin Simms, who has signed the same is a resident in the county of  Bedford and is a credible person, and that there statement is entitled to credit.
Sam Anderson, Judge presiding. John T. Neil, clerk of the circuit court of Bedford county, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said court in the made  of the application of Thomas Buchannan for a pension. In testimony whereof  I have here to set my hand and this for 4th day of [illegible] 


affixed my seal of Office at office
day of Sept. A.D. One
thousand eight hundred and
seven and of the [illegible]
of the United States the
sixty second year
John T. Hill Clerk
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Thomas  Bucharnan or Buchanan
S. 2015
The data which follow where obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, s.2015, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Thomas Buchannan or Buchanan. He was born in 1764 in the state of Pennsylvania, no definitive place given. While residing in Orange County, North Carolina, he served in the year 1781 in the North Carolina militia, as follows: one and one half months in Captain Williams’ company, three months in Captain Carrington’s company, three months under Major Dickson, one and one half under Colonel or Major Taylor, and one half month guarding a baggage wagon, no officers stated. All of his service was guarding prisoners and in expeditions against the Tories.
After the revolution he moved to Pendleton district, South Carolina and lived twelve or fifteen years, then to Kentucky, where he lived three or four years and then to Bedford County, Tennessee.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 10th, 1837, then a resident of Bedford County, Tennessee. Therebeare no data relative to his family. Very truly yours. A.D. Hiller, assistant to administrator.
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Thomas Buchanan
Tennessee 
Suspended
(16, 37 to J. K. Polk Do 26th his, 27) [illegible]
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State of Tennessee, Bedford County.
This day personally appeared before me William Burnett an acting justice of the peace for said county. Thomas Buchanan and made an oath that the reasons for why his application for a pension was not care made to the war department and that he was unable from bodily infirmity to travel about to attend to business, at bind at the time of the act of 1832. Since, until within the last few months some twenty miles from any Court of Record that same time the fall of that year he engaged with and Branfield Long to attend to the case for him, that said long to out a statement for him, but it was rather informal and was, from some cause or other over which he the deponent had no control not acted in and before said Long could make the necessary alterations in the statement referred it and have it acted on and Deponent next affixed to and John H. Anderson who agreed to a and to it for him, but from some capable [illegible] never did [illegible] waited for said Anderson same year or two and perhaps longer. I finding said Anderson was not likely to attend to it he sold to one John that he made the…
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The necessary arrangements Deponent  and more the county seat, and by improvement of his health was able though with difficulty and the aid of some kind [illegible]  to go to his county seat thou is statement made out to and sing to is and as additional [illegible], states that his case is like most others to the party is unable to do his own [illegible] and was neglected perhaps, and postponed longer by several years then it would have been and sworn to and subscribed before me this 23rd of October W.M Burnett, Thomas Buchanan
State of Tennessee, Bedford County, William D. on clerk of Bedford County court hereby certify that William Burnett is a Magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine. I set my hand and affixed my seal of twenty third day of October, eighteen hundred and thirty seven, William D. On clerk of Bedford County court.
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Tenn add of ad $32 Thomas Buchanan.
Commissioner of Ouseau.
Edwards
Washington City.
Free [stamped on document]
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Bedford County [illegible] Oct, 23rd 1837. Sir enclosed you will find the affidavit of Thomas Buchanan which the Hon. James R. Polk written him to obtain a pension, you will record eclosed to said Buchanan at Farmington, Tennessee yours, [illegible],
John Onial.
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Hon. J.K. Polk the 26th of [illegible]
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Hon. J.K. Polk
Speaker of the House of Reps

War. Dept. Penn office, Sept. 26 1839.
Sir,  agreeably to your request [illegible] of the claim of Thomas Buchanan has been made and I have to state that there will be no objection to allowing the claim for six months service for when the applicant shall have given and satisfactory. 
Dear under oath, not having made an earlier application for a pension. Although the aggregate of service is stated to have been ten and a half months, that duration of service has not been and the last term of half of 7, of June 1832.
Hon. J.K. Polk Speaker of the House of Reps.
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War. Dept. Penn Office. Sept, 16. 1837
Sir, 
The declaration of Thomas Buchanan had been examined and filled with suspended cases. He alleges [illegible] in North Carolina in Guarding the town of Hillsborough, but which for tons were a substitute for John Williams who had a soldier of the regular any who had a balance two month to serve and for a person of the name of Hunt who had a regular soldier who has for when he served one a half month, the whole of the service have being in 1781, and amounting to ten and a half a month. The [illegible] would not have been engaged in guarding Hillsborough while serving in the regular of and it is very doubtful whether the will were engage guardian that town alleged and the testimony exhibit does not satisfact neither does it appear that the personal for when he sent a substitute served as alleged. The claim is…
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The evidence of his alleged service is no satisfactory. Further, all the estate proof should there be exhibit of the claimants having served as cap during the Revolutionary War and he shall state under oath his own having made an earlier application a pension. The roles afford no evidence for whatever either of his said or the same of the persons for whom hes says he served as a substitute.
Hon. James. K. Polk Speaker of House of Reps.
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James L. Edwards
Dec. 21
Washington
Comm. of Pensions
Hon. J.K. Polk 
House of Reps.
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Washington City, Dec. 16th 1837
Sir, 
From the lead letter of Mr. John A, and it appears that additional residence in the case of Thomas Buchanan. Applicant for a pension from time was founded to your office same was age, and that he since has been and— will you inform wether the addition and has him mined, and what deris in has made in his case . I am respectfully 
J.L. Edwards ESQR 
Com. of Pensions, Washington City, James. K. Polk, file 205
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War department, Pension Office, September 16th, 1837
Sir, 
The Declaration of Thomas Buchanan has been examined and filled with suspended cases. He alleges several short tours of since in North Carolina, in guarding the town of Hillsborough, part of which tours were a substitute for John Williams, a soldier of the Regular army who had a balance of two months to serve, and for a person of the name of Hunt also a regular soldier for whom he served one and a half months, the whole of the service having been in 1781 and amounting to line and a half months. The evidence of his alleged service is not satisfactory. Further proof should therefore be exhibited of the claimants having served in military capacity during the Revolutionary War and he should state under oath his reasons for not having made an earlier application.
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Application for a pension. The roles afford no credence whatever either of his stance or the service of the persons for whom he says he served as a substitute. I have the honor to be, very respectfully. Hon. James. K. Polk, J. L. Edwards
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[illegible] Dec, 21. 1837
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War Dept. Pension Office Dec. 21, 1837
Sir, 
I here-with return Mr. O’Neal letter to you and have to state the claim of Thomas Buchanan was on the 23rd Oct. and this certificate sent to himself at Farmington.
Hon. J. K. Polk Speaker of House of Rep.
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Washington Sept. 14th 1837
Sir, 
Enclosed I send you the Declaration of Thomas Buchanan, on applicant for a Pension under the act of 7th June, 1832. Bephanal to give me an answer when you shall have divided on his case.
J.L. Edwards, ESQR
I am very Respectfully,
Com. of Pensions,
Hon. War Department
Washington City,
Thomas Buchanan, N.C
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2105 
Invalid 
File No. 2105
Thomas Buchanan
Priv. Rev War
Act June 7, 1832
Index– Vol. A. PG. 49
Arrangement of 1870
Thomas Buchanan
Records corrected
1932 May, 13
[all other information on page is illegible]
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NewComerstown , Ohio May 11, 1932
Director of Pensions, War Department,
My Dear sir, 
Sometime ago I wrote you in regards to some of my relations to Revolutionary fame, and am seeking your good graces for information leading to one Thomas Buchanan who is on the  [illegible] role 1776-1778 from Northumberland co. Pennsylvania, as private and are there any other Thomas Buchanan from that state? Kindly give name of place, birth and marriage if possible. Also who were interested in the war by the name of Thomas Buchanan. Thanking you kindly for an early reply and there be any changes in taking of the same, in the records let me know at once please. Thank you.
John B. Read 
467 State ST.
Newcomerston, Ohio