Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,927, William Childress, N.C. S.C.
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE
N.C.
S.C. 

Childress, William
Childres
Charity

NUMBER
R. 1927

CONTENTS
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25405
West Tennessee
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William Childress
White Co  in the State of Tennessee
who was a private in the comp commanded
by Captain White of the regt commanded
by Col Hayes in the S Carolina
line for 6 months
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Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee
to the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum,
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of Jany 1833 and Hon J B
Forrester H R
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Arrears to the 4th of Sep.                          50.00
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 March    10.00
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                                                                          $60.00
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.


Recorded by Danl Boyd.  Clerk,
Book E   Vol.7.   Page 75
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th
July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows
State of Tennessee ⎬ss
DeKalb County         ⎬
On this thirty first day of May Eighteen hundred
and forty four, personally appeared before the Subscriber an acting Justice of
the Peace for said County Charity Childres a resident of the County and State
aforesaid, aged about Eighty three years, who being first duly sworn
according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order
to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed
July 7th 18?8, entitled an Act granting half pay and pensions to certain
widows, __ that she is the widow of William Childres, who was a private
soldier in the war of the Revolution, and that she does not now recollect
the services performed in the army of the United States by the said William
Childres, but that he was some time in the year 1833 placed on the pension
list at the War Office of the United States upon his own declaration and
and accompanying evidence, which declaration and evidence and now
in said Office, and to which the department is respectfully referred
She further declares, that at the time he rendered the service, his residence
was in Buckingham County Virginia, and that when he obtained
the pension as above stated he resided in White County Tennessee and that
he the aforesaid William Childres drew a pension under the Act of Congress
of 7th June 1832 of twenty Dollars for his said services per annum
She further declares that she was married to the said William Children
by a preacher of the Gospel in the County of Buckingham Virginia on the
28th day of July 1784, and that she knows of no person now living by
whom to prove her marriage, and that she has no family record, nor
any documentary evidence by which to make any further proof she further
declares that the said William Childres died on the 14th day of January
1839, and that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the
service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January
seventeen hundred and ninety four-Viz at the time
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above stated, and that she still remains his widow
             her
Charity. X Childres
            mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me an acting Justice of the Peace
for said County on the day and year above written, and I further certify
that the said Charity Children is from bodily infirmity unable to attend 
Court-
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal
this 31st day of May 1844.
Albert G. Davies.                                   SEAL
Justice of the Peace


State of Tennessee
DeKalb County 
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace
for said County Susannah Robinson and made Oath according to law
that she has been acquainted with William Childres and Charity Childres
for the space of about fifty years or upwards, and that they lived
together as husband and wife at that time and ever since until the
time of his death, and that she has not been married since the death
of the aforesaid William Childres.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 31st day of May 1844
Albert G. Davies
Justice of the Peace

her
Susannah X Robinson
mark


State of Tennessee
Dekalb County

Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace
for said County Riley Medlin and made oath according to law
that he has been acquainted with Susannah Robinson the subscribing witness
to the above certificate for several years and believe her to be a
respectable citizen of said County, and that he is also acquainted with
Charity Childres whose name appears to the foregoing declaration and
believe her to be Eighty three years of age, and that she is reputed and
believed in this neighborhood, to have been the wife of the said
William Childrey, who died on the 14th of January 1839-

Sworn to and subscribed before me the 31st day of May 1844
Albert G. Davies
Justice of the peace
        his
Riley X Medlin
        mark
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State of Tennessee
Dekalb County

I Albert G. Davies an acting Justice of the Peace
for said County, do certify that I have been acquainted with Riley
Mullin the subscribing witness to the foregoing certificate and believe him
to be a respectable citizen of said County

Witness my hand this 31st day of May 1844

Albert G. Davies
Justice of the peace

State of Tennessee⎬
DeKalb County        ⎬ June Term 1844-- County Court
                                      SS
The declaration of Charity Children certified on the 31st day of
May 1844 by Albert G. Davies a Justice of the Peace forsaid County
being submitted to the Court. the Court doth approved his proceedings and
acts in said can and hereby direct the Clerk to endow the
approval on the papers-
Thomas Simpson.   SEAL
Richard M C Ginness.  SEAL
Henry L Hucket     SEAL


State of Tennessee       ss
Dekalb County,

I Wm B. Laurence Clerk of the County Court
of Dekalb County do hereby certify that the foregoing proceedings are the
Original proceedings had and approved of by the County Court of Dekalb
County at its June Term 1844 relative to the declaration of Charity
Childres to obtain the benefit of Acts of Congress relative to Revolutionary
pensions - and I further certify that the aforesaid Albert G. Davies
is and was a justice of the Peace for said County duly commissioned
and qualified according to law, and that the signature pertaining
to be his is genuine.

SEAL

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affix my seal of Office at Office in Smithville
this 3 day of June 1844
W. B. Laurence
of Dekalb  County Court
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Commissioned according to law and [illegible]
his official acts as such, and that this is Court of Record

Given under my hand and seal 3rd day of June 1844

Thomas Simpson SEAL
One of the County Court  for 
the County court of Dekalb  the County 


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Charity Childress
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Tenn
Act 7 July 1838


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Richard Laurence  Attorney
Sevierville
Tennessee
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State of Tennessee⎬
Dekalb County        ⎬
 I Thomas Simpson, One of the Com Court
of Dekalb County Court do hereby certify that W. B. Laurence, whose
names appears to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time it bears
date, Clerk of the County Court of DeKalb County duly elected and
Commissioned according to law, and due credit should be given to
his official acts as such, and that this is a Court of Record__
Given under my hand and seal 3rd day of June 1844

Thomas Simpson SEAL
One of the County Court for
the County court of Dekalb the County

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11184
Charity Childress
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Tenn
Act 7 July 1838


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Richard Laurence  Attorney
Sevierville
Tennessee
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State of Tennessee White County} On the 16th day of July 1833 Personally appeared before Samuel H Allen and William Irvin Acting justices of the peace for the county of White William Childress a resident of White County and state of Tennessee aged seventy one years by the 25 day of December next who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated 
He believes it was in the year 1777 he lived in Caswell county state of North Carolina he was drafted in the company commanded by capt William White as a private soldier in which capacity he served the whole of the time for which he was drafted to go against the British this was a six months tour Capt Whites company repaired to Hillsborough North Carolina and there joined Genl Rutherford from Hillsborough they proceeded to Purvisburg on the Savannah river in South Carolina and there joined the army under the command of Genl Lincoln they there remained about six weeks with Genl Lincolns army at Purvisburg nothing remarkable happened while there they remained after remained thus long Genl Lincoln detached Genl Rutherford with his North Carolina troops those under his Genl Rutherfords immediate command up the Savannah River to a place called the two serters for the purpose of guarding the river and in devouring if possible to keep the enemy from crossing the river over in to South Carolina this declarant was along on this occasion and  under the command of Genl Rutherford they remained there about six weeks the British did not cross nor idd any thing remarkable happen during there stay at this place Genl Rutherford then received orders to go about twenty four miles further up the river to the mouth of a creek called Brier creek there he joined Genl Nash who this declarant thinks had about 1500 men under his command he thinks that the united forces of Genl Rutherford and Gen Nash
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might be about 3000 but in this he is not certain here at the mouth of Brier creek immediately in Genl Rutherfords arrival a battle took place place with some British troops he think under the command of Col Brtown the enemy was victorius he believes that the Americans lost or killed and prisoners he believes 4 and 500 men as our troops retreated and come back to the place called two sisters on the Savannah when remained until his six months service expired He here received a discharge from his capt William White and returned home to Caswell county NC when he the said Childress remained about ten months he then went to see his grandfather Wm Vaughn who lived in the district of 96 in South Carolina He there enlised in the regular army under Capt John Redgeway he does not recollect the number of the Regiment but it was commanded by Col Hays the name of his Lieutenant was Waters he enlisted for two years and believes it was in the year 1778 about the month of July Col Hays Regiment Joined Genl Morgans army in South Carolina on the Enoaort waters after leaving Genl Morgan army the first important service he rendered was to go with Col Washington to a place called Hammonds old store where he was in a hard engagement with the Tories He believes that the detachment under Col Washington amounted to about 500 horsemen he thinks that they killed about seventy or eighty Tories on the ground and took about as many prisoners and many of them there horses and pursued them 7 or 8 miles the next day about sixty three of the detachment went to a fort called William fort which the Tories was in possession of and he the said Childress was one of the said party they sent a flag calling upon the Tories to surrender in five minutes they begged for half an hour it was granted the Tories he supposes must have thought that there was an army in the rear for they left the fort and supposes they amounted to 2 or 300 men making there escape as the opposite side from where we were We did not pursue them but so soon as they were gone we burnt the fort Col Washingtons Detachment returned and
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again joined Genl Morgans the next important service he was in was the battle of the Cowpens From this place the troops that he was with went towards N Carolina and fell in with Genl Greens army at Broad river S Carolina and on there rout Northward they were closely pursued by Lord Cornwallace and his army but that he the said Wm Childress was not in any battle after the battle of the Cowpens the pursuit was kept up as far as Fuilford in North Carolina on there march to that place and not far from there the said declarant was taken sick with the ague and fever and being in the nieghbourhood of his resident he obtained a furlough from his capt John Redgeway he remained sick up wards of six months and was extreemly low and weak and a great part of the time he was unable to walk and in the time his time of two years for which he inlisted as a private soldier and remained such to the end of his service or two years expired he did not get a regular discharge on that account the declarant knew Genl Green Genl Morgan Genl Lincoln Genl Rutherford Genl Nash and Col Hays and Col James Landers his first tower in the militia as above stated was for six months his last enlistment was for two years but of this time he was sick about six months making in all two years and six months in actual service of the United States except the time as stated of being six and that he was not employed durring his service in any civil pursuit There is no living witness by whom he can prove his service by that he knows of  [crossed out that is his regular service] and that he is too infirm to get to court with out great inconvenience and risk
Answer to the Questions prescribed by the War department and propounded by the court
1st He was born in Buckingham County Virginia 25 Dec 1762
2nd He has no record of his age he depends upon information derived from his parents
3rd When called into the militia service he lived in Caswell County N Carolina he enlised in the district of Niney Six
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South Carolina after the close of the war he moved to Buckingham county Virginia from there he returned to Caswell N Carolina from there he removed to the district of Ninety six in South Carolina from there to Rutherford County N Carolina from there to Madison County Kentucky from there moved to White County in the state of Tennessee where he now lives
4th he was first drafted for six months and then enlisted in the regular service for two years both times served as a private soldier
5th He has stated the names of such regular officers as he can recollect and the general circumstances of his services as fully as he can
6th He received a discharge from his captain William White at the expiration of his milita service but has lost it many years ago and supposed that it was washed up in the pocket of his pantaloon He knows that it is lost He received no discharge from his regular service but was sick on furlough as above stated when his time expired His furlough has long been lost
7th He states the names of the following persons in his present neighbourhood to whoom he is known and who can testify as to his character for veracity and there belief of his service as a soldier of the Revolution viz Issac Taylor James Townsend Esqr James Eastham James Davis and the Reverend Henry Burlow He knows of no living witness by whom he can prove his services nor has he any documentary evidence by which the same can be established Also his services in the continental army he is advised that his name does not appear on the rolls of South Carolina He hereby relinquishes every claim what ever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written
James H Allen Justice of the peace William his x mark Childress seal
William Irwin
Justice of the Peace William
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S. Carolina Rolls
18793
William Childress

not found
proof reqd

from 1777 private
6 months
5.   16 $20
_________
[illegible]
__________
P278
paper  again retd  for
proof [illegible]  1833
[illegible]



Hon J.B. Forrester
H. R
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Brief in the case of William Childress or Childers
County of White in the State of Tennessee
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 70

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
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Period.
______
Drafted In 1777

Enlisted in July 1778
for 2 years was sick
about 6months on
furough

Duration of Service.
_________________
Years,


Months,
6

about 18 -

Days

Rank.
______
As a
private


Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
________________________________
Gen.
Capt Wm White, [illegible]

Col Hayes                          )  So Carolina      
Capt Jhn Ridgeway        ) Regular  Army



5. In what battles was he engaged?
" Hummond's old Store". Cowpens  

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Caswell Co. No. Carolina
2nd tour was at 96 So. Carolina

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?
                     not properly attached

[] Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
     mentioned.


Chas G Wilcox Examining Clerk.
22nd Feby 1833
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June 27, 1935
William Childress  R.1927
BA-J/AWF

The Quartermaster General
Memorial Branch
War Department
Washington,  D.C.
Dear Sir:
    Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to William Childress, soldier of the War of the Revolution from North Carolina, and a pensioner from White County, Tennessee.
    The Revolutionary War record of William Childress given herein was obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, R. 1927, bases upon his service in that war.
    William Childress was born December 25, 1762 in Buckingham County, Virginia; the names of his parents are not shown.  His grandfather, William Vaughan, resided in  Ninety-Six District, South Carolina, during part of the Revolution.
    William Childress, while a resident of Caswell County, North Carolina, enlisted in the year of the battle of Brier Creek, served six months as private in Captain William Whit's company of North Carolina troops and was in the battle of Brier Creek.  He then returned to Caswell county, for about ten months, when he went to Ninety-Six District, South Carolina, to see his grandfather.  He enlisted there, served as private in Captain John Ridgeway's company, Colonel Hayes' South Carolina regiment, also in the detachment under Colonel Washington and was engaged in the battle at Hammond's Store, and, the day following, in the detachment which pursued the Tories to Williams' Plantation, here the enemy surrendered; he was in the battle of Cowpens, marched afterwards to Guilford, North Carolina; length  of service two years.
    After the Revolution, William Childress moved to Buckingham County, Virginia, from there back to Caswell County, North Carolina, thence to Ninety-Six District, South Carolina, from there to Rutherford County, North Carolina, thence to Madison County, Kentucky, from there to White County, Tennessee.
    He was  allowed pension on his application executed July 16, 1833, then a resident of White County, Tennessee.  He died January 14, 1839.
    William Childress married July 28, 1784 in Buckingham County Virginia, Charity, whose maiden name is not shown.  She was a resident of De Kalb County, Tennessee in 1844 and then aged eighty-three years.
    Hiram Childress, son of the soldier, was referred to 1854.  There are no further data in this claim concerning the family.
    The application for headstone for William Childress is returned herewith, also a letter addressed to your office, signed Mrs. Baker Simrell.
Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator


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To Henry Burton a clergyman residing in the County of White and James Davis residing in the same County herby certify
that we are well acquainted with the William Childress who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be about seventy one years of age and that he is [Illegible] and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a revolutionary soldier and that we concur in that opinion and that he is too infirm to get to court without great inconvenience.
Henry Burton  (SEAL)
James Davis  (SEAL)
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid before us
Saml. N. Allen 
Justice of the peace
William Irwin
Justice of the peace
And we Samuel N. Allen & William Irvin  sitting Justices of the peace for said County do hereby declare our opinions after the investigation of this matter and after putting the interrogation as prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and we further  certify that he appear to us that Henry Barton who had signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in said County of White and James Davis who has also signed the same is a resident in the same County and is a [Illegible] persons and that there [their] statements is entitled to credit and that said  applicant is too infirm to get to count without great inconvenience.
Sml A. Allen
Justice of the Peace (SEAL)
William Irwin  (SEAL)
Given under our hands and seals
the 16th of July 1833
State of Tennessee
Arthur Family
J Jacob A. Law Clerk for the Court
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of Plea and Quarter Sessions in and for the County of White afor=
said Do hereby certify that Samuel H. Allen and William Irvin
Esquires whose names are subscribed as Justices of the peace to
the several foregoing affidavit declarations testimonials &c are now and were at the time of subscribing the same, acting Justices
of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and
qualified to act as such, and that full faith and credit is an
and should be given to all their official acts and attestations as
such and that said [illegible] and in the proper hand
writing of the said Samuel H. Allen and William Irwin
Esquire respectively.

SEAL

In testimony whereof I have hereunto sub
scribed my name, and affixed the seal of
said Court at office the 3rd day of August
A.D. 1833. and of the Independence of the
United States the fifty eighth

Jacob A Land Clerk
[illegible]County Court
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Exd
Wm Childress
[illegible]

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Hon
J. B. Forrester,
H.R.
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of                                 William Childress or Childres                                     which require                                               further proof or explanation. 

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?  Yes 

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? 

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes

V.* Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? No

Not on the rolls of S. Ca & proof of service reqd

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?                        
       Yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes 

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?  Yes   

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Yes 

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? 

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Yes 

XIV.+ If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? No

If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? 

Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? 

XV.  Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? 

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No
                               No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? Yes 

                                                          ________________________________
                                                                     EXPLANATORY NOTES. 

QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:

" Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; 
For _____year _____ months, and ____days,
I served as a_____ For_________months   and ______days, 
I served as a __________; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served 
and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase about three or four months is too  indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.  Some persons who apply for pension merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embolied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either the field or  in garrison and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.


†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

‡QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers. 
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper  authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying oflicer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. 

☞In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the
certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

To entitle the applicant 
to full pay he should prove
his service in the regular army; otherwise
he can only receive pay for the 6 months
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Sparta Tennessee
13th July 1854
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Hon L. P. Waldo

DrSir

Some 18 months ago I sent
an application made by Hiram Childress son of
Wm Childress a Revolutionary Pensioner for the amount
due the Widow of said Wm up to her death and
have never heard from the claim   I sent it to [illegible]
J H Savage then M. C. to file in your office

Will you please inform me what action has
been had on the case
[illegible]
Very Respectfully
G. G. Dibrell
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18.793
William Childress
For
Declaration
obtaining Pension
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G. G. Dibrell
July 22/37
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103
Pension Office
22d July 1854

Sir,

Yours of 13th July instant in rela
-tion to the claim of Charity Childress decd
widow of William has been received.
The papers which you say were sent
by you to this office have never been
received. It is contrary to the rule of
this Office to report to you upon the
condition of this claim, unless you
first file a power of Attorney 
authorizing your agency.

G. G. Dibrell Esq.
Sparta
Tennessee
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Charity Childress
Tenn

Let to R Lanning 18th Oct '44  1844

1927

Act July 7 1838
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[partially illegible stamp]
[illegible]
JUL
13
[illegible]

Free

L. P. Waldo
Comr of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

Charity  Childress
Ten  [illegible]

Cole
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February 28, 1935.
BA-J/ILL
William Childress
R. 1927
Mary Baker Simrell
Cookeville
Tennessee.

Dear Madam:
   Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of William Childress, who was a pensioner of White County, Tennessee, in 1804.
  The record of William Childress is given herein as shown in the paper on file in pension claim, R. 1927, based upon his service in that war.
   William Childress was born December 25, 1762, in Buckingham County, Virginia; the names of his parents are not shown.  His grandfather, William Vaughn, resided in Ninety Six District, South Carolina during part of the Revolutionary War.
   William Childress, while a resident of Caswell County, North Carolina (written in margin -not year 1777), enlisted in the year of the battle of Brier Creek, served six month as private in Captain William White's company of North Carolina troops and was in the battle of Brier Creek.  He then returned to Caswell County, North Carolina, for about ten months, then went to Ninety six District, South Carolina, to see his grandfather.  He enlisted there, served as private in Captain John Ridgeway's copay, Colonel Hayes; South Carolina regiment, also in the detachment (written in margin- McCrady  Vol. 2 page 23-24) under Colonel Washington and was engaged in the hard battle at Hammond's Store, and, the day following, in the detachment which pursued the Tories to Williams' plantation, where the enemy surrendered, he was in the battle of Cowpens, marched afterwards to Guilford, North Carolina; length of these services two years.
   After the war, the soldier moved to Buckingham County, Virginia, from there back to Caswell County, North Carolina then to Ninety Six District, South Carolina, from there to Rutherford County, North
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Carolina, thence to Madison County, Kentucky, and from there to White County, Tennessee.
   William Childress was allowed pension on his application executed July 16 1833, at which time he resided in White County, Tennessee.
   The soldier died January 14, 1839.
   William Childress married July 28, 1784, in Buckingham County, Virginia, Charity, whose maiden name is not shown.
   In 1844, soldier's widow, Charity, was a resident of the DeKalb County, Tennessee, aged then eighty-three years, the date of her birth is not shown.
  In 1854, reference was made to Hiram Childress, the son of the soldier.  There are no further data relative to the family.
Very truly yours,

A. D. Hiller,
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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Request for Rev. War
record of Wm. Childress
N. C. & Tenn
Record furnished &
application for
headstone also letter
signed Mrs. Mary Baker
Simrell - returned

[illegible]

June 27
1935

time stamp
3:15 
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RECEIVED 
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WAR DEPARTMENT
OFFICE OF THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL
WASHINGTON
6-21  1936

Memorandum for
The Surgeon General,
Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department
Commandant, United States Coast Guard, Treasury Department,
The Commissioner of Pensions, Interior Building,
General Accounting Office, F Street, between 4th & 5th, N. W.

1.   The attached application has been submitted to this office for Government
headstone to be erected at the grave of the decedent named thereon. In order that 
the proper inscription may be placed on the stone it would be appreciated if your
office would verify the name and service on the application, checking and making such
corrections in red ink as may be necessary to show the correct spelling of the name
and complete designation of the organizations.
2.   In addition, please advise State from which decedent came.
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Letter of October 18, 1844, R. Lanning, refers to three cases.
It requests other proof of marriage of Charity and William
Childress, as persons who saw them married, or other record.

(Did not cut it out )

J. L. Lerch, Feb. 28, 1935

Richard Lanning - Sevierville, Term forwarded
widow's application in 1844.
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Cookeville, Tennessee, February 12, 1935
Putnam County

Pension Department,
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:

Will you please give me the Revolutionary Pension
Record of William Childress, who was placed on the
Pension Record January 6, 1834, commencement of
Pension March 4, 1831, age 72 years, White County,
Tennessee?

Please give all family data in this record, date of
birth and place.

I am eighty years old and remember things told me
about my ancestors, and am just so anxious to more
Respectfully,
Mary Baker Simrell [signature]
Mary Baker Simrell.

Time stamp

3:45
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RECEIVED
FSB 14 1935
MAIL SUB-DIV
READER 18
VET ADM
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REJECTED
1927
P.O.
Charity Childress
Service: widow of Wm

Enlisted:                   , 18
Discharged:              , 18

Printed Volume - Rejected & Suspended Pensions
Page 401. Tenn, Charity Children
Reason for Suspension - act July 7-1838
"For proof of marriage"
ILL
2/28/35

Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O. _
_____Recognized.   _____Contract.
Cert.  of  Dis.        Searched for, 18

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1935 - Feb 28 - Hist to Mary Baker
Simrell - ILL
1935 - June 27, [illegible]
ial Branch