Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21,269, Laban Hartley, N.C.
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3-1776
SERVICE
N.C.
CONTENTS
Hartley, Laban
NUMBER
S. 21,269
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Certificate returned
to this office as a
dead letter 5 Augt
1835 having been sent
by mistake to Penna instead
of Tennessee
sent to T Hardiman
Franklin P.O. Tennessee
order to pay. See letter Nov. 14. 1836, to
P. agt. & Pensioner - [illegible]
do to 3d And: & Hon. Jno Bell,
May 24, 1838
Paid at the Treasury under the
Act of 6 April 1838 from 4th
March 1837. to 4 Sept 1837. Agt
notified 1 June 1838

West Tennessee 29.798
Laban Hartley
Williamson Co. in the State of Tennessee
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Nichols of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Locke in the N Carolina mil.
line for 15 months
Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee
at the rate of 50 Dollars ___ Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Feb.
1835 and sent to Thos Hardeman
Franklin P.O. Tennessee
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '34
175.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending March '35
25.00
$190.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book E-2, Vol. 7 Page 92
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31.750
Laban Hartley
Tennessee
from 1778 for 15 months
$50.
Thos. Hardeman clk
Franklin Tenn
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State of Tennessee}
Williamson County} SS
On the 8th day of April personally appeared
in open Court before the Court of Pleas and Quarterssions [sic] for the aforesaid County of Williamson now sitting Laban Hartley a resident of the said County of Williamson
aged about eighty one 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. He entered the service as a volunteer under Captain Joshua Nichols sometime in the fall of the year 1778 being at that time a resident of the County of Rowan in the State of North Carolina. The company to which he belonged rendesvoused [sic] at Charlotte Court House in the same State
and marched thence down near to Charleston in the State of South Carolina, and from thence to a small town called Petersburgh situated on the Savannah river in the State of Georgia and then up that river to brier creek. At this place an engagement took place between the American troops under the command of General Ash of the North Carolina Militia and a division of the british [sic] troops, in which he was present. This engagement occurred on the 3rd day of March 1779 About the first of May of the same year the time for which he had volunteered having expired he was discharged and returned home He had volunteered for five months He received a discharge
which he has lost Sometime in month of August of the same year, he again entered the service as a volunteer for three months under Captain James Craig, and was engaged
in marching from one part of the State of North Carolina to another to
suppress the tories [sic] He received a discharge for his services this tour and has lost it
About the close of this year he again entered the service as a volunteer for three months under Captain James Craig and was engaged during this tour in the same kind of service as that in which he was employed during the previous one ['About' smeared]
He has lost the discharge he received for his services this tour About three
months after his return from this tour he entered the service again as a volunteer for three months under Captain Hugh Hall and during greater part of the tour was engaged in guarding the jail at Salsbury in the County of Rowan in
the State of North Carolina to prevent the escape or rescue of the tories [sic] confined there
He received a discharge for his services this tour and has lost it Sometime
in the fall of 1781 he entered the service again under Captain Myrick Davis
as a volunteer for ten days, but was kept in the service three months. During this tour the company to which he belonged was attached to regiment of militia
under the command of General Griffith Rutherford He was marched to Raft
swamp to search for tories [sic] and thence to Wilmington in North Carolina
About the middle of this tour Captain Davis having been taken sick, the company
was placed under the command of Captain Douglass Haden He received a
discharge for his services, which he has lost - At the several times he entered the service as stated above he was a resident of the County of Rowan in the state of North Carolina. He recollects that Francis Lock was the Colonel of the regiment to which the company he belonged to at each of the times above stated was attacked
George Lowman Adjutant and Robert Carraner Thomas Gillispie Commissaries
and that the regiment was under the command of General Griffith Rutherford
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He was born in the County of Snowkill in the State of Maryland removed from thence to Rowan County in the State of North Carolina where he resided untill [sic] he came to this County, which was in the year 1821 and he has lived here ever since He does not know of any person by whom he can prove his services nor has he any documentary evidence to establish them
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
Laban his X mark Hartley
Tho. Hardeman Clerk

We Mark L Andrews a clergyman residing in the County of
Williamson aforesaid and in the neighbourhood of the above declarant
and Jesse Bugg residing in the same County and neighbourhood,
hereby certify that we are acquainted with Laban Hartley
who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believed
him to be about eighty one 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
Tho. Hardeman Clerk
M J Andrews
Jesse Bugg

And in said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the
investigation of the matter and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War
Department that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier and
served as he states And the Court further certifies that it appears to them
that Mark L Andrews who signed the preceding certificate is a
Clergyman, resident in the County of Williamson and that Jesse
Bugg who has also signed the same is a resident in the same County
and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
Jno Hughes
Gilbert Marshall
John Bostick jr
I Thomas Hardeman Clerk of the Court of Pleas & quarter Sessions for the County of
Williamson in the State of Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing contains
the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Laban
Hartley for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and seal of Office this 9 day of August AD 1834
Tho Hardeman C
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Revolution
S21269
INVALID.
File No. 21,269
Laban Hartley
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32"
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 167
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Dec. 22 - 1902
Mrs. N. B. Dozier
Franklin Tenn
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21269
Laban Hartley
Apl. 8, 1834-81
Williamson Co Tenn
Fall 78 Rowan Co N.C.
Cap Joshua Nichols
Col Francis Lock
Pvt to Mch. 3. 79- 5m
Brier Creek
Aug 79 Jas Craig
Col Do
pvt 3 m
Dec 79 [?]
Col Do pvt 3 m
Fall 81 Cpt Myrick Davis
Col Do
3 m
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[ink stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE D DEC 17 1902

Franklin, Tenn.,
Dec. 14, 1902.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
May I ask your
kind assistance in my behalf?
Will you please give me the
military record of my great
grandfather, Laban Hartley
He enlisted for the Revolutionary
war at Salsbury, N.C. If I
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mistake not was Lieut. when
mustered out, and was drawing
a pension as such at the time
of his death.
I am aware that Tennessee was
not a state during the period
of the Revolutionary war. But
shall tell you that my great
grandfather was living at the
time of his death, age 103, at or
near what is now known as
Bethesda, Tenn, which is not
far from Franklin, Tenn, supposing
that his pensions were
sent him there, I think possibly
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his name may be among the Revolutionary
soldiers who lived in Tennessee
after the state was formed, instead of
being on the North Carolina Roll where
he enlisted.
He and his wife are buried
in the Steele graveyard not far from
Bethesda, Winson. Co. Tenn.
Thanking you in advance for your
troubles and courtesy and hoping to hear
from you soon, I am,
Respectfully,
Mrs. N. B. Dozier,
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Treasury Department,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
May 25 - 1838
Sir,
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the
Treasury of the United States, Laban Hartley
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Nashville Agency, at
the rate of fifty- Dollars ['and' lined out] " - " ["Cents" lined out]
per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 has
been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1837
to the 4th September 1837
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.
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Nashville 28th October 1836
J.L. Edwards Esq.
Dear Sir
I have this day applied
to the Pension Agent at Nashville Tennessee
for the Pension due me from the 4th Sept. 1835
which is upwards of one year in consequence
of which delay, says he cant pay
me until instructed by you to do so
the State of my health was such I was
not able to come, I enclose my papers
for your inspection if they are in
proper form please do return them
to me and authorise me to be paid
as early as you can, direct your letter
to Doctor Webbs Post Office Williamson
County Tennessee which is the nearest
office to where I live
yr obt sevt
Laban his X mark Hartly
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War Department
[?] Office
August 22d 1834
Sir,
The declaration of David
Gillespie has been examined, He alleges
to have been engaged by his father, who was
Commissary, to drive a wagon for the
space of two years. The act of June
7th 1832 provides for none who did not serve
at least six months in a military capacity,
The services performed to the applicant were
not of that character, His claim has therefore
been rejected; and his papers are placed
on the files of this Office,
The declaration
of Laban Hartley has been also examined,
and it is his herewith returned, he claims for
several tours of service, in two of which the
duty of his company was to suppress the
tories; for each of which tours, he claims three
months, It is only for the time actually engaged
that an allowance can be made, His declaration
should be amended & showing particularly the services
performed during the two tours above mentioned,
[?] to state that he was engaged in marching
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through the state for the purpose of suppressing
the tories, and for which six months since is
claimed, is not satisfactory, only three months
can be allowed for the first tour,
The declaration of
Bennet Hargrove has also been examined,
He alleges that he served one tour of three
months, and that he was drafted to serve
another of the same length, but after the surrender 
of Cornwallis there being no necessity for the
Services of the Company to which he belonged, they
were discharged before the explanation of the term for which he enlisted,
The act of June 7th 1832 provides for none who did not serve at least
six months. The applicant did not serve that length of time, His claim has
therefore been rejected; and his papers are placed on the files of this office
I am Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
J L Edwards
Thomas Hardeman Esqr
Franklin P. O. Tenn
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State of Tennesee}
Williamson County} SS
had thence to Kings Mountain
1832 which said declaration has
remembers that he undesvoued with
and was marched thence to Ramsows
the
Court of Pleas and quarter sessions for the aforesaid County
He states that it is impossible for him at this
In the 17th day of October A D 1834 personally appeared
in to
by my
of cap
present in the action his memory now retains the recollection of
again encountered the tories and when he again was
was an engagement the said company to which he belonged and a
as he now remembers the company after having remained at that
circumstances which attended his said several tours of service
place some two or three
in his original declaration, at Salsbury in the County of Rowan and
the company under Captain James Craig the second tour mentioned
Johnson
declaration to remember with distinctness enough to state them all the
distance of time from the performance of the services stated in his said
where the
following amendments to his said declaration, to meet the directions of
in the statement of his services with directions to amend the same and he
of the act of Congress passed June
of Williamson in the State afresaid now sitting. Laban, Hartley, a resident
been returned by the war department for want of sufficient particularity
having been first duly sworn according to law proceeded to make the
the war department.
appeared in this Court and made a declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of the said County and the same person who on the 8th day of April A D 1834
in open Court before the
Williamson County
weeks, march
with in the County in the same state. At this place the
no other event of this tour with sup
State of North Carolina
He states, however that he
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tour of service under
and that some
there enqured in that duty there was
performed the four though he has no doubt there were
was marched with the company from that he
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again rendesvoued with the company at the same place Sals
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others, which have escaped his memory. As to the
regard to the second tour under the same officer Captain
large numbers of three made prisoners; that these prisoners were
he recollects there was one Col Richardson. He now recollects no
nication with the tories of the now and that during the time
were their executed among the tories so executed there at that time
state it. He recollects, however distinctly that his time of service of being
expired he was on the return of the compy to Salsbury, discharged
ained here some time, how long he does out now recollect to watch
of
the company
Ruggles Wells in the State of South Carolina, that this latter place was
James Crang mentioned in his original declaration he states that
then in the possession of the British troops, that the company rem
to Salsbury
with
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other service
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set our hand and seal of Office this 20th
for a pension on a supplemental declaration
Williamson in the State of Tennessee an hereby certify that the foregoing contains
the original procentions of said court in the matter of the application of Laban Carty
Thomas Hardeman Clerk of the Court of pleas & quarter Sessions for the County of
was a revolutonary soldier and served as he states and the Court
further certify that it appears to them that Mark & Andrews who signed the
of
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