Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36394, William Williams, Continental. (Va)
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Service Continental (Va)
Williams, William 
Number S.36394
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18,949.
Georgia.

William Williams,
of Wilkes Co. in the State of Georgia,
who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Churchill Jones of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Baylor - in the Virginia line, for the term of two years from Sept. 1788.

Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of March 1823 -

Certificate of Pension issued the 9th of May 1823, and sent to Garnett Andrews Esq:
Washington, Ga

Arrears to the 4th of March 1823, $1,,03
Semi anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1823 48,,00
4/31. $49,,03

{Revolutionary claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820 & 1 March 1823.}

See letter to J. B. Smith 1 July 1829.
o} See old certificate within, recd. from J. B. Smith, Nov. 16, 1829.
New Certificate issued 29 July 1818 and sent to Garnett Andrews Esq
washington Georgia
Date of death not on AB -
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Application for a new Certificate
State of Georgia} On this nineteenth
County of Wilkes} day of July eighteen hundred & twenty eight before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Wilkes personally appeared William Williams who on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged in the company commanded by Captain Churchill Jones in the regiment commanded by Colonel George Bailer in the service of the United States, that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Georgia that he received a certificate of that fact under the Signature and seal of the Secretary of War: which certificate on or about the first day of May 1828, at or near the town of Washington in Said county he lost or mislaid so that deponent is unable to find it
Sworn and Subscribed
to before me, the day & year aforesaid
Wm Williams
A. H. Sneed J.S.C
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Georgia} On this the nineteenth
Wilkes County} day of July in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty eight before me the subscriber a justice of the Peace for the said county of Wilkes personally appeared Garnett Andrews, who on his oath declares that he well knows William Williams, the person who has deposed above, to be the same person described in the above affidavit that he asked his agent or attorney in obtaining his Pension certificate that he transmitted his declaration by mail to the War department and that he received by mail a pension certificate as above mentioned for said Williams & which he saw Andrews handed over to him the said Williams as his property
Sworn & Subscribed to Garnett Andrews
before me the day &
year aforesaid
A. H. Sneed G.I.C.
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Georgia} I Archibald H Sneed
Wilkes County} a Justice of the Peace in & for said county do hereby certify that Garnett Andrews who has deposed to the affidavit last above is a person of veracity & entitled to credit on oath
Witness my hand & Seal this 19th day of July 1828
A. H. Sneed J.P. {Seal}

Georgia} I Thomas R
Wilkes County} Edson Clerk of the Inferior Court in & for said county do hereby certify that A. H. Sneed who has taken the depositions above of William Williams & Garnett Andrews, & has also given the above certificate is a Justice of the peace in & for said county duly commissioned & qualified & that due faith should be given to all his acts as such 
And I further certify that the signatures above purporting to be his are genuine
Given under my hand & Seal of office this 19th of July 1828
Thos R. Eidson C,I,C,W,C
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Georgia} I William C Allison
Wilkes County} one of the presiding Justices of the Inferior Court in & for the said county of Wilkes do hereby Certify that Thomas R Eidson whose name is signed to the above Certificate & who placed the seal of said court thereto is the Clerk of said court & that due faith & credit should be given to all his acts as such, that said Signature & seal are geuine
Given under my hand & seal this 19th of July 1828
William C Allison JP {S.S.}
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State and District} Original Claim
of Georgia
Wilkes County
On this the twenty fourth day of February 1823 personally appeared in open court, to wit, the Superior Court of Wilkes county court, being a court of record having been constituted such by the law of the said State & which has the power of fine & imprisonment proceedings recorded & is unlimited in the amount of its jurisdiction William Williams resident in said county aged ninty two years that he the said who being first duly sworn, according to law doth, on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of congress, of the 18th March 1818 and 1st May 1820 - that he the said William Williams enlisted for the term of During the Revolutionary war in the 1st day of September in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty one in the State of Virginia under Major Richard Call in the Regiment of light Dragoons and served in the company commanded by Capt Churchill James at his discharge
In the regiment commanded by Col George Bailer in the line of the State of Virginia as the declarant thinks though his services were rendered from rally in South Carolina on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps untill about the eleventh of June Seventeen hundred and eighty three when he was discharged from the said service at Nelsons Ferry in the State of South Carolina that he was at the siege of York during his enlistment and other battles though
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they were before his enlistment and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services except what is hereto annexed

And in pursuance of the Act of the 1st May 1820, I do Solemnly Swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818: and that I have not since that time by gift Sale or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or Securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any Income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, & by me subscribed That I am a farmer by occupation and that from the age of this declarant and a wound received in the revolutionary war I am not able to support myself in comfort I further state that I have a wife aged Sixty three years and from her age and infirmities unable to support herself and that the rest of my family residing with me consists of two daughters one aged about fourteen and the other about twenty two years and from their Imbecility not very able to support themselves
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Schedule of property
[illegible] by William Williams on the 24th day of February 1823

2 beds and furniture
7 head of cattle
25 head of hogs
and a few other scanty articles of household furniture

Sworn to and declared on the 24th day of February 1823 before me John M Dooly Judge of said Court
Jno M Dooly J.S.C} Wm Williams
I John Dyson clerk of the Superior court of Wilkes county in the State of Georgia do certify, that it appears to the satisfaction of the court, that the said William Williams did Serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy, for the one year and nine months under one engagement on the continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is worth one hundred & two Dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said court on this 7th day of March 1823
John Dyson Clk
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December 13, 1933
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William Williams-S.36394
BA-J/AWF

Mrs. William Van Bell
Hawkinsville
Georgia

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of William Williams, who received a pension, while a resident of Wilkes County, Georgia.

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S.36394, based upon the Revolutionary War service of William Williams.

The date and place of his birth are not shown in the claim, nor are the names of his parents given.

William Williams enlisted in the state of Virginia, September 1, 1781 and served as a private in Captain Churchill Jones' company, Colonel George Baylor's Third Regiment of Light Dragoons; he was in the siege of Yorktown, was wounded while in the service and was discharged, June 11, 1783 at Nelson's Ferry, South Carolina.

He was allowed pension on his application executed, Februaryn24, 1823, then aged sixty-two years and living in Wilkes County, Georgia.

In 1823, his wife was sixty-three years of age, a daughter was twenty-two years old and another daughter was aged fourteen years; their names were not given and there are no further data in this claim in regard to the family of William Williams.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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18,763
Wm Williams
Wilkes Co. Ga

Garnett Andrews,
Washington, Ga

Recd. 18 Mar: 1823 -

On roll as a soldier of Cavalry

Olham
Secty at War
Was notif 8 Nov
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Washington Wilkes County Georgia

Respected Sir,
I enclose you the application of two disputed revolutionary Soldiers to which I hope you will attend Immediately as they are in immediate need of money. And I hope if the papers are Sufficiently formal that there will be no delay in their further disposal
I Remain Respectfully
Your &C
Garnett Andrews
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Free
Hon. Jno. H. Eaton
Secretary at War
Washington City
dist. Colua.

Pension Office
16th Nov 1829

[stamp]
WASHINGTON
NOV
7
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Lexington 15th Oct 1829
you will receive - Enclosed a Certificate - given to - Mr. Williams - I never have been able to account for its being in my ded - Fathers papers -
yours
Respy
Jn,, B Smith
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free
Genl P. B. Porter
Secretary at War
Washington City
D.C.

Pens. Office
28 July 

[stamp]
WASHINGT
July 19
GEO
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Washington
Wilkes County
July 19th 1828

Sir,
you will (if the enclosed be sufficient) be so good as to transmit to me at this place as speedily as possible the applicants certificate - He is in much want of the bundle due him I am Sir
Respectfully
your servt &C
Garnett Andrews

J L Edwards Esq
War Department
Pension Office
July 19th, 1828
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Payable semi-annually. The first
payment on this Certificate will
be made on the 4th of September
next, in Savannah, by the
Prest. M. S. Branch Bank.

Recorded in Book B. vol. 9,
page 210, by Wm Gordon -
Clerk. Examined and countersigned
J. L. Edwards
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War Department.

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Laws of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, 1st of May 1820, and 1st of March 1823, " " " William Williams, late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Georgia Agency, at the rate of eight - dollars per month, to commence on the first - day of March - one thousand eight hundred and twenty three.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United
States, this ninth - day of
May - one thousand eight
hundred and twenty three.
J C Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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36 394
Revy INVALID.

File No. 36,394
William Williams
Pri Rev War

Act: 18" March 18"
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 458
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1912 Nov. 29 Mrs. H. J. McDonald V. L. M.
1916 Jan'y 15 Hist to Mrs. John Milton Brown. V.L.M.
1927 May 31 - Hist to Mrs. D. B. Hollingsworth. See letter in William Williams S4682 AWF.
933 - Dec 13 - hist to Mrs. Wm. Van Bell AWF
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F.W. Rev. War Section. 3-1863
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON November 5, 1912.

Mrs. H. J. McDonald,
# 32 East Avenue,
Atlanta, Ga.

Madam:
In response to your letter dated the 29" and received the 31" utlimo, you are advised that in order to identify the Revolutionary War pension claims of the two soldiers named William Williams, some of the following data is essential: names of some officers under whom they served, places of residence at enlistment and after discharge, given names of their widows.
Very respectfully,
L. Stillwell
Acting Commissioner.

[handwritten note]
Com. of Pensions -
Dear Sir - In reply to above will state that I would not have written from their records had I known all you wish me to state regarding the two Wm Williams, Rev. pensioners of Wilkes Co. Ga. Family records only state that "Wm Williams, Sr and Jr fought in the Revolution in Va and came to Ga soon after, settling in Wilkes co. where the father died leaving, several other sons" - "Wm Wms Jr - was a Revolutionary pensioner too, and lived with his son Wm 3rd
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in 1830"-"his son Robert B. having gone to the Cherokee County &c" - - -
All of this is from old letters the family Bible having been destroyed during the war, and no names of wives are given. Later generations bear the Christian names of Charles, Frederick, Elijah, Drury, Roland & George. I am told that the printed person lists show a Wm Williams, aged 80 in 1823, and Wm Williams, aged 78 in 1840 in Wilkes Co. and I presume these are the ones I need - with all family data contained in their papers.
Very Truly Yours
Mrs. H. J. McDonald,
32 East Ave
Atlanta
Ga

Nov 21 - 1912 -
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One 2 ct stamp Recd
L.S.W.
Stamp retd OK in Rev Rev acc
Dawson, Ga
Jan 7 - 1916

Pension Department
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:-
I am very much interested in the service of William Williams & Joseph Williams -
"William Williams", private Virginia continental, Wilkes County 1823 - age eighty (80) Georgia Pension List -
"Joseph Williams" is believed to have served as Ensign & lieutenant in North Carolina troops from March 1778 to May 1781
Thanking you most cordially for these services.
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I am
Respectfully
Mrs John Milton Brown,
Dawson, Ga

[stamp]
PENSION
A
JAN
U. 11 S.
1916
OFFICE.
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Hawkinsville, Ga.
Nov. 22, 1933.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Dear Sir,-
I am writing to ask you to give me copy of one claim of a Revolutionary soldier, William Williams, who received a pension in Wilkes County, Georgia for revolutionary services.
Any information you have about his services in this war will be very much appreciated.
Thanking you for this favor,
I am,
Respectfully,
Mrs. William VanBell

[stamp]
RECEIVED
NOV 25 1933
MAIL SUB-DIV.
VETS ADM.
READER # 65
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RECORD DIVISION. 3-525.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
S. F. 3639 # Washington, D. C., _________, 19__

In reply to your request of __________, received _______ for a statement of the military history of William Williams a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
Sept. 1. 1781
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
June 11, 1783
RANK.
Pvt.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Churchill Jones
COLONEL.
George Baylor's "Regt of Lt Dragoons
STATE.
He was wounded in Rev War, place and date not stated.

Battles engaged in, Siege of York
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enlisted in Va.
Date of application for pension, Feby 24, 1823 His cl was al
Residence at date of application, Wilkes Co. Ga.
Age at date of application, 62 yrs.
Remarks: In 1823 Soldiers wife was 63 yrs old and one daughter was 22 yrs. and the other 14 yrs old. No names are stated.
In 1828 Soldier was living in Wilkes Co. Ga. This is his last known residence.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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November 29, 1912.

Mrs. H. J. McDonald,
32 East Avenue,
Atlanta, Ga.

Madam:
In response to your letter dated the 21" and received the 23" instant, you are herewith furnished the record of William Williams, Revolutionary War pensioner, Sur, No. 36,394, the only Revolutionary War soldier of that name who served in Virginia, and afterwards lived in Wilkes County, Georgia, and who is erroneously reported on the list of pensioners of Wilkes County, Georgia, as eighty years of age in 1823; as his sworn statement at said date gives his age as sixty-two years, and he is presumably the same pensioner who is reported in 1840 as a resident of Wilkes County, Georgia, aged seventy-eight years, but as the latter list of pensioners was compiled by the Marshals of the judicial districts under the Act for taking the 6th Census, and not from the records of this Bureau, it is not always capable of verification.
Very respectfully,
J C Davenport.
Commissioner.
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May 31, 1927

Mrs. D. B. Hollingsworth
Edgefield, Box 275
S. C.

Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 36394, it appears that William Williams enlisted in Virginia, September 1, 1781 and served until June 11, 1783 as a private in Captain Churchill Jones' Company, Colonel George Baylor's Regiment of Light Dragoons, and was in the Siege of York.
He stated that he was wounded in the Revolutionary War, but did not give the place and date.
He was allowed pension on his application executed February 24, 1823, while a resident of Wilkes County, Georgia, aged sixty-two years.
In 1823, his wife was sixty-three years old, and one daughter was twenty-two years old, and another daughter was fourteen years old, no names stated, and there is no further data as to family.

Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME: Williams, William
GRADE: Private
LINE: Maryland
WARRANT NUMBER: S 11795 and 12681
ACERAGE: 100
ISSUED: January 30, 1795 to John Stockdell, assignee

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.