Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7,911, Isaac Williamson, S.C.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
S.C.
Williamson, Isaac
NUMBER
S. 7911
carded
CONTENTS
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16.402
North Carolina
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Isaac Williamson Senr. of Richmond in the State of No. Ca. who was a Pri. in the [blank] commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded by Col. Moat in the So. Ca. line for 2 years.
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Inscribed on the Roll of No. Carolina at the rate of 80. Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of Augt. 33 and sent to John R.
Buir, Laurel Hill, No. Ca.
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 160.
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept " 40.
[total] $200.
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Nath. Rice - Clerk,
Book E Vol. 6 Page 59.
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3669
Isaac Williamson Sr
Richmond Co
N.C.
Admit as private
2 yr. $80.

proof of service required
Int. 1.2.7.
F. T Leak 28 Nov 1832
Richmond CH
NC

John R. Buir
Laurel Hill
P 99.
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3669
BRIEF in the case of Isaac Williamson Senior of Richmond Co in the State of NC
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 74 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. Duration of Service. Years, Months, Days. Rank. As a Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
enlisted In 1775 think he was disd. July '78 3 [yrs] pr. Gen Moultrie Col Moat Majr Frs. Marion Capt Wm. Mason
5. In what battles was he engaged? Sullivans Island.
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Georgetown S Ca
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Comit
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Examining Clerk.
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No. 3669.
Declaration amended to Isaac Williamson Sr.
Richmond Cty. 
No. Ca.
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3669
Declaration of Isaac Williamson
For Pension
July Term 1832
Richmond Co Court
a copy
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State of No Carolina
Richmond County
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions July Term 1832
On this 17th day of July 1832 Personally appeared for the worshipful Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Isaac Williamson Snr., a Resident of the County & State aforesaid aged seventy four 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 the 7th 1832 that he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1775 with Captain William Mason then a citizen of Georgetown South Carolina and served in the Second Regiment of foot under the following named officers, here follows the names and rank of the field and Company officers, General Moultrie or Moutree, Colonel Moat, Major Francis Marion Captain William Mason Lieutenant Lemane this deponent having lost his discharge thinks he was discharged in July 1778 after having served three years from the date of enlistment the regiment to which this deponent was attached was stationed most of the time in the Barracks in Charlestown South Carolina He fought in the Battle of Fort Moutree [Moultre], Sullivans Island, a detachment of the Regiment of which this deponent was one made an excursion into Georgia as far as Savannah.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in the State.
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Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Isaac Williamson Sr
Test
M D. Crawford Clk

and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after putting the several Interrogations that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further states that Martin D. Crawford and Elias Sinclair who signed the certificate below are clergymen of this County and Men of Character

I Martin D. Crawford and Elias Sinclair Clergymen of the County of Richmond & State aforesaid do certify that we are well acquainted with Isaac Williamson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy four years of age that he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
July 17th 1832
M. D. Crawford
Elias Sinclair
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I Martin D. Crawford Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of Richmond do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Isaac Williamson for a Pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 2nd of August 1832.
M. D. Crawford Clk
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State of South Carolina
Marlboro District
Personally appeared before me Jonathan Adams a Justice of the Quorum for the District & State aforesaid Sion Odom Sr. of said District who being duly sworn in due form of law deposeth & saith as follows. That he (Sion Odam Sr.) served in the Revolutionary war in the 3rd. Regt. of Foot in Capt. Smiths Company the Regt. commanded by Col. Thompson. That he became acquainted with Isaac Williamson Sr. (now a citizen of the County of Richmond & State of North Carolina) in Fort Moultrie Sulivans Island near Charleston So. Ca. & that the said Isaac Williamson Sr. aforesaid was where he became acquainted him a Soldier in the 2nd Regiment of Foot in said fort & that both the 2nd & 3rd Regiments were commanded by Genl. Moultrie & that he recollects very well of having seen the said Isaac Williamson Sr. in in the regular service in said Fort Moultrie often times before & after the honorable engagement (the year not recollected) This deponent believes that from his own knowledge of the Revolutionary services of said Isaac Williamson Sr. that he served three years as he states in his declaration and that he enlisted in to service
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in 1775 & was discharged in 1778, in the month of July after having served three years & that this Deponent has been acquainted with Isaac Williamson Sr ever since he became acquainted with him on Sulivans Island during the Revolutionary War & that the said Isaac Williamson Sr. was always reputed & believed to have served as he has stated & to have been regularly discharged. This deponent further states that there were but the 2nd & 3rd Regiments in the Fort on Sulivans Island during the engagement with the British above alluded to & further this deponent saith not.
Sion Odom Sr his mark X
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 4th day of May 1833.
Jonathan Adams JQ.

I Jonathan Adams a Justice of the Quorum for the District of Marlboro & State of South Carolina do hereby certify that Sion Odom Sr. who has assigned the above affadavit is a man in whom implicit reliance may be placed in his oaths & that he is & has been always considered a man worthy of being believed on oath. Given under my hand & seal this 4th day of May 1883. 
Jonathan Adams JQ {LS}
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South Carolina
Marlborough District
I James C Thomas Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and Sessions in and for the State and District aforesaid do hereby certify unto all whom it may concern that Jonathan Adams who signed the foregoing certificate is and was an acting Justice of Quorum in and for the State and District aforesaid and that the same is in his own proper hand and in due form of Law
Given under my hand and seal of office at Bennettsville the 3rd day of May 1833.
James C Thomas
c,cpls
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State of South Carolina
Marion District
Personally appeared before me Edward B. Wheeler Clerk of the Court for Marion District in the State aforesaid and ex officio Justice of the Quorum Roan Thomas of said District who being sworn in due form of Law to depose the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth deposeth and saith as follows - 
That this deponent was an enlisted soldier in the Revolutionary War of the United States that he enlisted as a Private in the Company of Captain Richard Mason who was immediately succeeded by Captain John Blake in the second regiment of Foot under the following named officers to wit General Moultry, Colonel Isaac Mott & Major Francis Marion. That he became acquainted with Isaac Williamson Senior now a citizen of Richmond County North Carolina within a few days after his enlistment as a Soldier near the Peedee River in Craven County now Marion District, the said County being divided into a variety of Districts. That the said Isaac Williamson was a Private in Captain William Masons Company of the second Regiment of Foot under General Moultrie, Colonel Mott and Major Francis Marion That this Deponent has a perfect recollection that Isaac Williamson aforesaid served three years from the time he enlisted in seventeen hundred & seventy five and that he was duly & regularly discharged in seventeen hundred & seventy eight after having served three years That this Deponent and Isaac Williamson the person above named fought in the battle of Fort Moultrie Sullivan's Island and that the said Williamson was a brave & faithful soldier and much appraised for his good conduct and further this deponent saith not
Roan Thomas
Sworn to & subscribed before me this the third day of June 1833
Edwd B. Wheeler
C.C.Pls. & Q.U.E.O

P.S. Mr. Thomas subsequently consented that the date of 75 should be substituted for 76 & 78 for 79.
E.B. Wheeler
 C.C.Pls. & Q.U.E.O
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We hereby certify that Roan Thomas who has deposed & signed the
within affidavit was always reputed & believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that he is a citizen of this District and in every respect worthy of belief on oath Given under our hands and seal this the third day of June 1833
Stephen Godbold
Job Foxworth

I do hereby certify that Rowan Thomas, Stephen Godbold, and Job Foxworth are considered as men of strict veracity and reputable standing. this 5 day of June A.D. 1833.
South Carolina
Marion District
Edwd. B Wheeler
C.C.P.S
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State of North Carolina
Richmond County
Personally appeared before me John R Buir a Justice of the Peace in & for the State & County aforesaid Isaac Williamson Sr. a resident of the County & State aforesaid who being duly sworn upon the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God to depose the truth the whole truth & nothing that the truth deposeth & saith as follows - That he is the same Isaac Williamson Sr. who filed his Declaration at July Term 1832 at the worshipful court of the County in order to obtain a pension as a Revolutionary soldier which declaration is now appended to this amended declaration that he has not been able to find but two persons who served in the Revolutionary army with him at the time of his service & ref Sion Odom of Marlboro District So. Ca. & Rowan Thomas of Marion District So. Ca. whose affidavits are duly authenticated & are now appended to this amended Declaration. That he was born as he understood from his Father in the year 1758 on Coharry in what he supposes now to be Sampson County No. Ca. & that his Father emigrated when he was young in to So. Carolina beyond Peedee & after a few years he removed on the side of Peedee to the Beauty Spot Settlement in what is now Marlboro District So. Ca. at which place his Father lived when he first enlisted under Capt. Mason that he has no record of his age nor never had except traditionary evidence which he always understood to be the year 1758 in which he was born He refers to Walter F. Leak Sr. which can attest
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Saml. Pate & Stephen Pate all of whom are persons who lived in the time of the Revolution & they all believe that I served as stated in my Declaration & I now refer to them Hon. L. Bethum of Cumberland Cty. & Hon. Edmond Deberry of Montgomery County & of this county to Tryam MacFarland Esqr Walter F. Leak atto. at law Genl. Alfred Dockery Col. Alexr. Nicholson Wm. Crawford Sheff. F. L. Leak P.M. at Rockingham Jacob P. Leak Clerk of the Inferior Ct. [illegible] John Mallory P.M. Stewartsville No.Ca. Peter H. Cole & Col. Charles Robison & Col. Stephen Wall in the vicinity of Rockingham & in part to every person who knows me. It is known & believed here that I served as stated in his Declaration. He also states that He recollects the names of some of the officers of the 2nd & 3rd Regiments say Lieut Charnock Capt. Shubuck Capt. Blake Adjatant Delyoung (& Sergt. Majr. Fash who was a one handed man) He also states that he had 3 brothers in the service with him say Shedrick, Joel, & Richard. Shedrick returned after he has discharged & is now dead Joel was wounded in a false alarm at the time Majr. Huger was killed along the lines between Cooper & Ashley Rivers & died some days afterward, Richard went on board a privateer & he does not know what has became of him. He has been thus partial in narrating circumstances so as to show to the Department that he does not wish to practice any fraud & Further this deponent saith not
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Isaac Williamson Sr.
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 2nd day of July 1833
Jno. R Buir JP.

I hereby certify that Isaac Williamson Sr. who has assigned & sworn to the foregoing amended declaration is a man of credit & veracity & that he is entitled to credit on oath & I further certify that he is known & believed to have served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War as set forth in the amended declaration as also in the original to which this is appended & that Walter Leak Sr. John MacAlester Sr. Saml. Pate & Stephen Pate are all old men & persons of respectable standing in the County & that all the other persons named are persons of high standing the two foregoing have represented this District in Congress the former in the last Congress & the latter the 2nd last Congress
Given under my hand & seal this 2nd day of July A.D. 1833.
Jno. R. Buir J.P. {seal}

State of No. Carolina
Richmd. County
I Martin D. Crawford Clerk of the Court of Pleas and quarter Sessions in and for the State and County aforesaid do hereby certify that John R Buir who signed the foregoing certificate is and was an acting Justice of the peace in and for the State and County aforesaid, and that the same is in his own proper hand and in one form of law. Given under my hand and seal of Office this 12th July 1833.
Elias Sinclair Deputy
for Martin D Crawford Clerk
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No. 3669.
Declaration amended to Isaac Williamson Sr.
Richmond Cty.
No. Ca.
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AWF
Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.
December 12, 1923.

Mary E. McCool,
23 Vedado
Atlanta, Ga.

Madam;
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 7911, it appears that Isaac Williamson, Sr., was born in 1758 on Cohary, Sampson County, North Carolina.
While residing at Beauty Spot Settlement, Marlboro District, South Carolina, he enlisted in 1775 and served as private in Captain William Mason's Company, Colonel Motte's South Carolina Regiment, was in the battle of Sullivan's Island and was discharged July 1778, having served three years.
He afterwards was out on several scouting parties, against the Tories, dates of service and officers are not on record.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 17, 1832, while a resident of Richmond County, North Carolina. It is not stated whether soldier ever married.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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Rev War
7911
INVALID.
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File No. 7911
Isaac Williamson
Priv Rev War
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Act: June 7th 1832
Index: - Vol. A sB, Page 409
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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1923 - Dec. 12. Hist to Mary E. McCool AWD
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United States Pension Bureau:
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir,
Will you kindly give me a report on the following names which will include names of children parents & place of residence of these pensioners
Sena
Isaac Williamson Senr. Cavalry & Foot Rev. pensioner of N. Carolina under acts of 1818 & 1832 as reported by Sec. of State for Congress in 1835.
Benjamin Edwards private. Rev. pensioner, in report of 1835 of N. Carolina
James Williamson member of Capt. James Yancy's Co. N. Carolina Reg. Com. Col. Richard Henderson 1771
Chas. Edwards, of the above Co.
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also give me names of any "Knoll" and record with names of children & Etc.
Thanking you for same
Respectfully
Mrs Mary E. McCool
Atlanta Ga
232 Vedado
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Laurel Hills NC
July 19th
To the Hon. James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Department of War
Washington City
Dist. of Col.

Free
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Laurel Hill Richmond Cty No. Ca.
July 18th 1833

The Hon. James L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
Enclosed I send you the original declaration of Isaac Williamson Sr. a Revolutionary soldier with the amended declaration & the affidavit of Sion Odom of Marlboro Dist. So. Ca. & of Rowan Thomas of Marion Dist. So. Ca.  When the original declaration was returned it came to Rockingham & loss there untill Apl. & then it was some time before he could procure the evidence of Rowan Thomas of Marian Dist. who lives 60 odd miles from Mr. Williamson. I went with Mr. W. to see Mr. Thomas & they had not seen each other since they were in the army together & were discharged in 1778. Mr. Thomas is 84 years of age & is a state pensioner drawing 60 dols a year & he says as he is so very old he is satisfied with that without being at the trouble of making application under the act of Congress of June 7th 1832. Mr. Odom had his discharge & told us he had got Mr. Cristopher Dudley of Bennettsville Marlboro to forward his declaration discharge &C & at the time he saw him in May he had not heard the result of his application. Mr. Odom & Mr. Williamson told some anecdotes that occurred while in service & particularly of four incidents that occurred during the Battle
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of Fort Moultrie. Mr. Thomas told some incidents that occurred & Mr. Williamson told Mr. Thomas about the false alarm & what Mr. Thomas would recollected that was given along the line between Cooper & Ashley Rivers & that the British encamped some little distance beyond the line & that Majr. Huger & a small party who went to Illinois to the line at night was fired on & killed by the Americans & I think some of his party wounded & it was in this false alarm that the Bro. of Mr. Willimson Joel Williamson recd. a wound of which he died shortly after.
Mr. Williamson after his discharge served in the militia as a private a great length of time in Fort. He states that belonged to a scouting party of volunteers that was raised in this section to suppress the Tories & plunderers that was committing depredations in this section of No. Ca. & in So. Ca. & that at one time he went down beyond Charleston about Pocataligrdo [Pocataligo]. He has filed no declaration for his militia service as he served in the regular service long enough to entitle him to a pension. If his name is not on the rolls of the Dept. it is his misfortune & not his fault for it is & has always been the prevailing opinion that he served as stated in his declaration. Mr. Williamson is very smart of his age & could undergo the fatigue of a campaign better than many men of 55 years of age. It was indeed he a source of great pleasure
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to his to hear that Mr. W. application should meet with a favourable result. I know of no other who served with Mr. Williamson besides Mr. Odom & Mr. Thomas who is now having Having all gone to the Tombs. No one of the three could recollect the year the attach was made (by the British on Fort Moultrie Sulivans Island) but all agreed it was in the summer & in very warm weather & by reference to Ramseys [Ramsay] History Vol. 2nd. Page 112 I find it was the 28th of June 1776 that the Battle of Fort Moultrie was fought. They all stated that there were but few killed & not a great many wounded which the histories states viz. 10 killed 22 wounded which the ships of the enemy was torn almost to pieces & their Lupin killed & wounded was 200. What coresponds with what they all stated within different conversations. Please write me addressed to Laurell Hill Richmond County No. Ca. the result of Mr. Williamsons application as soon as it is ascertained I think the proof of service is sufficiently strong to entitle him to a pension together with the explanations made by myself - which I [illegible]
Respectfully yours
Jno R. Buir
P.S. I wrote you Abram Nortons application recently & have not heard