Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7592, for William Stark, Virginia
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SERVICE  NUMBER
Va.  Stark, William  S.7592

carded
contents
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Dead
Letter to W. W. Stark 2 Feb 1846.

531
Virginia
William Stark
of Norfolk in the State of Virginia who was a Lieutenant in the company commanded by Captain Jones & others of the regt commanded by Col. Buckner & others in the Virginia line for two years and upwards from 1776.

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 320 Dollars -- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension the 20 day of September 1832 and sent to Pensioner Norfolk Va.
Arrears to 4th of September 1832  $480. -
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833  160.-
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$640

{Revolutionary Claim, Act of June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Wm S Allison Clerk,
Book D. Vol. 7. Page 127.
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Norfolk Borough At a Hustings Court held the 23rd day of July 1832 On this 23rd day of July 1832 personally appeares before the Court of said Borough William Stark aged seventy five 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 which is in these words "State of Virginia, Norfolk Borough towit on on this 23rd day of July 1832 personally appeares before the Court of said Borough William Stark a resident of said Borough formerly of the County of Dinwidie in said State aged 75 years who being sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he was appointed a second Lieutenant in Capt John Jones company of Dinwidie County under the act passed for the raising six additional Regiments passed in December 1775. The other officers of the said company were Peter Jones first Lieutenant of Dinwidie Goodwin Ensign and that they severally raised our quotas of men which entitled us to our commissions. This I think was early in March 1776. That we soon after marched to Williamsburg the then seat of Government where we were organized & enrolled in the sixth Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel Mordeca Buckner, Lieut. Colonel Thomas Elliott & Major James Hendricks which statement of reference to said Roll will be found correct. That some time in the fall of same year we were marched to the north to join Gen'l Washington which I think we did on the month of November following at Newark New Jersey on his retreat from Forts Lee & Washington when we became incorporated with his army and returned back through the Jerseys before the British Army commanded by Gen'l How until we crossed the Delaware at Trenton when the pursuit was stopped. Soon after this Gen'l Washington moved up the Delaware to a place I think called Carrells Ferry about eight miles above Trenton where we remained until the attack & Capture of the Hessians after which the army recrossed the Delaware & took up encampment on the same ground but how long we remained at this place I do not recollect - we soon again crossed the River & took a position between Trenton & Princeton at the latter place were the chief part of Gen'l How's army which army after a few days advanced on us & pursued us to Trenton
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Trenton from which place Genl Washington retreated in the night & attacked the British Garrison at Princeton and carried it by killing & taking almost the whole of said Garrison. This I think was on the 3rd January 1777. Previous to this I was transferred as first Lieutenant in Capt Samuel Hopkins company. The army after carrying this Garrison went up in the mountains of Pluckamin where I think we remained the balance of the winter. The following summer after the British left Philadelphia being at a loss to know their designs our army took up a movement up the North River but on hearing the British had sailed to the south we retrograded & by forced marches met the enemy at Brandywine on the 11th September 1777 with whom a pretty general engagement ensued, where I was wounded & with other Officers sent up to Easton in Pennsylvania where I remained until some time in November when I was visited by Robert Bolling of Petersburg in Virginia, with him I returned to the army still unfit for duty and in consequence of my situation obtained a furlough & returned to Virginia but not being able to perform duty for a considerable time did not return until some time I think in March 1778 when I fully resigned having served as I considered the term of two years for which I had engaged. At the same time Col Meade Genl Washington's aid pressed me to continue in the army that there was then a vacancy & a Captain commission for me. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declared that his name is not on the pension Roll of any agency in any state
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Wm Stark
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
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Petersburg 9th July 1832
Dear Sir
Your letter of the 6th Just is duly received requesting me to communicate such circumstances as may be with my recollection relative to your being an Officer, 1st Lieut. in the Army of our revolutionary war - what information I can afford you towards obtaining your object I shall most easily afford. With respect to any particulars relative thereto, from the length of time and a matter that not being materially interested in, I cannot second to particulars; But from my particular situation and intimacy with you and your Fathers family at that time I can have no hesitation or want of recollection in saying that the fact was so. That you was an Officer in the regular Army the particular period I cannot say but think it was early in the war nor can I say how long you served but am under an impression that it could not have been less than one two or three years - I am under impression that you left the Army in consequence of your entering into the marriage State - You have forgot perhaps that I was at Sappony shared all night at your Fathers when there was some lady there of your acquantaince your Mother perhaps was bantering you about courting the Widow - You then was an Officer of the regular Army - I can but wonder that you should be at any loss in establishing the fact. suppose your Name should be registered in the War Department -
I know of no one likely to know anything of the matter about here but those you mention Mr Bolling Judge Marshall Mr Boswell Hutchings is dead I think - Mr Bolling I suppose must recol-
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recollect the fact as well as myself -
Col John Crawford is the only living person now in this neighborhood that I recollect who was in the Army from this part of the Country - Dinwiddie it is possible he might have been in your Company, he went into the Army a Soldier from this County - is now alive largely upward of 80 yrs of age and received a pension from the Government - I will try and se him if I can in the course of a few days & enquire if he recollects anything of your matter -
Your Friend & ObSt
J Grammer

Mr William Starke
Norfolk
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I read Chief Justice Jno Marshall's letter (found in vault) and it adds nothing to history of the case  Nes

Rev. and 1812
War Section
MCS/HMM

March 13, 1930.
Miss Marie Daley
Bender Hotel
Houston Texas.
Dear Madam:  I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 7592, it appears that William Stark entered the servide in December 1775 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, and was engaged in recruiting men for the army until early in March 1776, when he was appointed 2nd lieutenant in Captain John Jones' Company, Colonel Mordecai Buckner's 6th Virginia Regiment. He crossed the Delaware River with General Washington. Previous to the battle of Princeton, he was transferred and served as 1st lieutenant in Captain Samuel Hopkins' Virginia Company. He was wounded in the battle of Brandywine, and resigned in March 1778.
In a letter written William Stark July 9, 1832, J. Grammar of Petersburg, Virginia, stated: "I am under impression that you left the army in consequence of your entering into the marriage state." No further reference to the marriage of William Stark appears in the papers of said pension claim.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 23, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Norfolk, Virginia, and left neither widow nor children.
The administratrix of his estate was Mary King who married about 1845 or 1846, George W. Stribbling. The relationship of said Mary to William Stark is not shown.
The Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to William Starks, and the above noted is the history of the only soldier from Virginia by the name of William Stark that is found on said records.
Very truly, yours,

Commissioner.
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Wm Stark Norfolk Virginia
Application for pension

P. Office
July 30 1832
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Upon the application of William Stark of Norfolk Virginia for a pension as a first Lieutenant in the 6th Virginia Regiment commanded by Mordecai Buckner on Continental establishment.
He relies much on being on the Rolls in the War Department and hopes that his services will be considered as commencing in December 1775 when he began to raise his quota of men to entitle him to his commission Documents.
No. 1. His declaration according to directions from War Department.
2. affidavit of Boswell Hutchings taken in December 1826. He is now dead & was then the only soldier living who had been enlisted by said Stark It was taken to support an application (which failed) for bounty Land.
3. Letter & certificate of Robert Bolling Esq of Petersburg Virginia
4. Letter from Chief Justice Marshall
5. Letter from John Grammar Esq. of Petersburg.
Norfolk July 27th 1832   Will. Stark
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Norfolk Augt. 9th 1832
Sir
On the 27th July last I enclosed the Necessary documents as I thought to the establishment of my claim to a pension under the Act of Congress passed 7th June 1832. Since which not hearing from your department I have become Anxious to know whether those document are Sufficient & if not what farther will be requisite you will therefore much Oblige one who is needy & will be much benefitted by the Speedy rect. of whatever he may be entitled to. It may not be amiss here to remark upon the Deposition of Boswell Hutching in Document No. 2 that as his discharge set forth in the same is said to be in Feb'y 1778 implies that I was recruiting previous to that time as I enlisted him but at what time I rec'd my Appointment as Lt. I cannot from such a length of time accurately say but do suppose the recruiting went on shortly after the passing the Act for raising those six Reg'ts this much I know I was riding a good deal in Snow when recruiting.
With great respect I am Sir yr ob serv't
Wm Stark
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[stamped] 
PAID
Norfolk Va. Jan 29

Jan 31'46
[illegible]

paid
J. L. Edwards Esq'r
Comm. of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.
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Norfolk January 28th 1846
J. L. Edwards Esq
Sir
Enclosed are sundry papers relative to arrears of pension due to the late Wm. Stark of this City. Please inform me of the proper mode for obtaining the same. Miss Mary King the administratrix has lately been married to George W. Stribbling Esq
Very respectfully your Ob't Serv't
Wm. W. Lamb
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Payments to be make at Richmond by the Pres'dt U. S. Branch Bank Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of Virginia

Wm Stark
died 1st August 1844

Recorded by Wm S Allison
Clerk, in Book D Vol. 7 page 127
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June 1832, William Stark of the State of Virginia who was a Lieutenant in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Three hundred & twenty dollars, and --- cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi=annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States this twentieth day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
John Robb Acting Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned.} Benj. L. Beall
[embossed seal]
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Norfolk Borough towit:
I John Williams Clerk of the Hustings Court of the Borough aforesaid in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of William Stark for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, this twenty seventh day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty two, and of the Commonwealth the fifty seventh. Jno Williams :C
[embossed seal]
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[stamped] FREE  NORFOLK VA. AUG 10
The Secretary of War Washington
$320 per an

PO Aug 21
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[stamped] PETERS. VA. JUL 10
Mr. William Stark
Norfolk
No. 5
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7592
Rev War INVALID.
File No. 7592
William Stark Lieut. Rev War
Act: June 7th '32
Index: - Vol. 1st, Page 358
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1930 Mar 13 hist. to Mss Marie Daley
M.C.S.
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[stamped] The National Archives of the United States
Colonel William Stark Norfolk
William Stark S 7592 Va. 
No. 4.

Richmond June 12th 1832
Dear Sir
I have just received you letter of the 7th inst. and am sorry that from the great length of time which has elapsed my failing memory does not enable me to state your service in the army as fully as I could wish.
The act for raising six additional regiments, in one of which you served, was passed in December 1775. The men were to serve for two years from the 10th of April 1776. The first time I saw you was in Philadelphia in the year 1777, I think in January of February. You were attending the funeral of an officer who died in that place. Colonel Mussey's Ball attended the funeral, and my impression was that you belonged to the Regiment of which he was Lieutenant Colonel. I think it was the 6th.  Several officers of whom I was one were in Philadelphia for the purpose of being carried  through the small pox. I supposed, but this is  only conjecture, that you were in Philadelphia for the same object. I saw you afterwards occasionally, but as we were in different brigades, and no particular acquaintances then existed be between us, I cannot be
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precise as to time or place. You must have served the campaign of seventy six from what passed when I saw you early in 77, and I have no  doubt that you served through that campaign. I think but am not certain that I saw you in the autumn of 1777.
I am my dear Sir your Obed't
J Marshall
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Norfolk Borough
At a Hustings Court held the 28th day of October 1844 Administration of the Estate of William Stark deceased granted to Mary King one of his next of kin who made oath and with William W. Lamb per security gave bond in the penalty of Four thousand dollars conditioned as the Law directs
At a Husting Court held for the City of Norfolk on the 22 day of December 1845. The Court doth certify that it has been made appear to the satisfaction of the Court that Willam Stark deceased who was a pensioner of the United States departed this life on the first day of August 1844 in this City intestate without leaving any widow or child
State of Virginia: City of Norfolk to wit:
I John Williams Clerk of the Hustings Court of the City of Norfolk (late Borough of Norfolk) in the state of Virginia do hereby certify that the foregoing orders are true copies from the Records of the said Court and do further certify that the order granting administration of the estate of the said William deceased to Mary King of which the above is a copy has never been revoked. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my and and affixed the seal of the said Hustings Court this Ninth day of January Eighteen hundred and forty six in the Seventieth year of the Commonwealth
Jno: Williams CC
[embossed seal]
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[stamped] PETERS. VA NOV 10

Mr William Stark
Norfolk Virginia
By mail}
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Petersbury Centre Hill Nov'r 8th 1831.
Dear Sir
Your favor dated at Norfolk the 22nd of October 1831 did not come to my hand until the 4 " in consequence of being absent from home, on a visit to my Daughter who resides at Culpeper Court House, where I remained upwards of ten days, therefore I regret this delay in my reply, but still hope, so far as I can be beneficial to you, that this communication will be in time.
I will recollect my paying you a visit at Easton in Pennsylvania in the year 1777, at which place I found you suffering under a wound, received in the late action at Brandywine, between the British & American Armies, and also that you then ranked as a Lieutenant in the Sixth Virginia Regiment on Continental establishment, I also Recollect we travelled together in company with Capt Wm Smith of Chesterfield county in Virginia, I think on your return to join your regiment in the fall of the same year, after your recovery.
I have endeavored to recollect as much as I can of your military life, for your benefit and satisfaction, after the lapse of so many long years; I have placed these facts in some form by the annexed Certificate, and am willing to revise & amend it, by any suggestions you may have in aid of my memory, according to the nature of the case. I am truly anxious to afford you all the good I can from the facts now stated, or on any other manner in my power. Should you think any further communication, on the subject of your Military services, you will please inform me. With my sincere good wishes for ample success in obtaining your just and merited claim, upon the liberality of your Country, and hope that you may long enjoy health, and worldly contentment, I remain with high respect & true regard
Your Friend & Relation Robert Bolling
NB. Mr Boswell Hutchings, and Colo. John Crawford are still living.}
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I Robert Bolling of the Town of Petersburg in the State of Virginia, aged Seventy two years, do hereby certify, that I have been intimately acquainted with Mr Wiliam Stark of Dinwiddie County formerly, but now an Inhabitant of the Borough of Norfolk, for more than Fifty six years; and was in habits of friendly intercourse with him previous to the year 1776, in which year, I think he entered into the American Revolutionary army; this circumstance I am further certain of, that in the fall of the year 1777, after the Battle of Brandywine, between the American and British Armies; I did, in person, visit Mr William Stark, at a Village in Pennsylvania called Easton, where he was stationed, and then laboring under a painful wound, which he received in the Battle of Brandywine, I will recollect that he then ranked as a Lieutenant in the Sixth Virginia Regiment, on Continental establishment, in which regiment I had several valuable, & intimate acquaintances. Under the foregoing circumstances and facts, I think Mr William Stark has just and proper claims, upon the liberality of his Country, in common with many other meritorious officers and soldiers, of the Revolutionary Army. Given from under my hand this 9th day of November 1831 in the Town of Petersburg.
Robert Bolling
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I, Boswell Hutchings, of the County of Dinwiddie, & State of Virginia, do hereby certify that William Stark was a 2nd Lieutenant in the 6th Va. Reg't commanded by Col. Buckner, & served two years; part of the aforesaid time as 2nd Lieut. & part as 1st Lt. that I was a Soldier during the whole time in the same Company & Regt. that is to say, from the 27th day of Febr'y 1776 until the 28th day of Febr'y 1778; when I was discharged at Valley Forge in the State of Pennsylvania where I believe I left the aforesaid Stark who then held the rank of 1st Lt.; that he was an officer in whom the men of the Company had great confidence, & whom they would willingly have followed through any difficulties or dangers. The difficulties of those times were too well known to need any description here. Given under my hand this 19th day of December, 1826. 
Boswell Hutchings

I hereby certify that Mr. Boswell Hutchings personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in the county of Dinwiddie and made oath to the correctness of the above Certificate.  Given under my hand this 19th day of December 1826.
Jno C. Pegram J. P.
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No. 2
Virginia Town of Petersburg to wit:
I Joseph B Wilder Notary Public by lawful authority duly admitted and qualified Do hereby certify and attest unto all whom it may concern, That John C Pegram before whom the within affidavit was made is a Magistrate for the County of Dinwiddie, to all whose acts as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in Court as there out.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal Notarial this eleventh day of December one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven
Joseph G. Wilder Not. Pub