Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7,109, for James Kincaid, North Carolina
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Service: N.C.,   Kincaid, James    Number S. 7.109
carded
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16.336
North Carolina
James Kincaid of Burk in the State of North Carolina who was a Pr (Private) in the (blank) commanded of Captain --- (blank) of the Regt (regiment) commanded by Col. Johnson in the So Ca line for 10 months. 

* NC June 15, 1904 Records corrected.
Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 33 dollars 33 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
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Admit as private
Declarration for Pension James Kincade (misspelled.....) 

Hon (Honary) S.P. Carson Morgantain No. Ca
Pleasant Gardens, NC
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State of North Carolina
Burke County
I James Erwin Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County and state aforesaid do hereby certify that the forgoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of James Kincaid for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and seal 
of office done in Morganton 
this 16th day of February AD 1833
Test I.  J Erwin Clk
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State of North Carolina Burke County October Term 1832 { Court of Pleas --quarter session 

On this day the 26th of October 1832 Personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the  Court aforesaid now Sitting James Kincaid a resident of the County of Burke and state aforesaid aged seventy -eight 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 7, 1832 that he entered the service of the United States in the year 1776 under the command of Colo James Johnson who at that time was Captain of the company he belong(ed) to on an expedition against the Cherokee Indian to what was then called the Nolley [illeg.] west of the Blue (river?) he went as a vollunteer (volunteer) and was absent in that were in about 4 month(s) he returned home with the rest of the troops when he received a verbal discharge and also secured his pay but in depreciated money  that he was on frequent expeditions against the Torries till the year 1779 when he went as a substitute in the place of one Fredrick Rhoads to Charleston South Carolina that he was in the City of Charleston for something like 4 months his term of servitude as a militiaman was 3 month(s) that he remained as a malitiaman for some considerable time after he was intitled (entitled) to his discharge. That the city was
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besieged by Corn Wallace [Cornwallis] that the Commander General Lincoln Seeing that he should be compeled [sic] to Surrender gave leave to the malitia [sic] of which he was one. to make their escape. That himself and he thinks between 4 and 500 made their escape that the city in a few days after he left the Service at Charleston   That he marched in the malitia  from Charleston North Carolina to Camden under the command of General Thomas Polk. He thinks that Camden was at that time in the Possession of the British and commanded by Lord Rearden. That General Green was at the time the troops were marched to Camden besieging the city but had Succeeded in dislodging the enemy before his arrival at that place being called out this time on a tour of 3 month(s). He together with the rest of the troop(s) who now from Charleston returned & was disch[arged] at that place.   The next expedition he has [illeg.] of was what was called the Wilmington expedition in North Carolina against the Torries. He thinks this was after the battle of Guilford he served in that a Tour of 3 months he think(s) General Peter Forney was their Captain,  during this campain (campaign) I returned home. being again discharged=that he does not recollect of his ever receiving a written discharge if he did it has long Since been lost or mislaid so o that he now has no recollection 
he further states that
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he was born in the State of Pennsylvania County Lancaster but removed to North Carolina when very smal(l) to the County of Lancaster that he now resides in the County of Burke (NC)  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 or of the United States to his knowledge or belief.  Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year first whom so written. 
James Kincaid 
Sworn to in open Court 24th Oct 1832 
Teste J. Erwin Cet.

We John Brow Martin Kibler residing in the County of Burke & State of North Carolina do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Kincaid who has subscribed & Sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be of the age mentioned in his declaration above to wit 78 years of age- that he is reputed and  believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been Soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Jn Brow
Martin [illeg.]
Sworn to in open Court 21 - Oct 1832
Teste J Erwin CC
Interrogatories   Put by the Court aforesaid -
1st where & in what year were you born
Answer  I born in Lancaster County State of Pennsylvania in the year 1754 or thereabouts
2nd  have you any record of your age
Answer - I have not - but was aboout 21 years of age at the comment [commencement] of the War of the revolution
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3rd--4
 Where were you living when Called into the Service?  Where have you served Since the Revolutionary War and where do you live now?
Answer:  I lived in the County of Lincoln North Carolina at the (commencement?) of the war and when called into service where I continued till the close of the war.  I then moved to the County of Burke North Carolina where I now reside and have ever Since the time there mentioned 

4th How were you called into service, were you  drafted , Did you volunteer or were you a substitute from when 

Answer:  In the first campain (campaign) against the Indians I was a Vollunteer (volunteer) contrary to the will of my father I ran away from him.  I wnte as a substitute for one Frederick Road (Rhode) to Charleston the time it was besieged by Lord Corn Wallace [Cornwallis]

5th Can you tell the names of any of the commanding officer(s) under whom you served
Answer:  Col. Johnson was our Captain to the Nalby Farm against the Indians I was under General Thomas Polk to Camden & General Lincoln at Charleston.  General Peter Forney was at Lincoln County N Carolina was our captain when we marched to Wilmington against the Tories

6th  Did you ever receive a discharge from the Service  who gave it to you   what has become of it --
Answer   I have no recollection ever to have reced [sic] any written discharge  if I evver did it is ong Since Lost & forgotten
James Kincaid
his X mark
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Jacob Forney Swears that he has been acquainted with James Kincaid who is now an applicant for a Pension to the General Government for something like Sixty years  that was a Soldier in the revolution Warr [sic] they both Lived in the County of Lincoln & State  of North Carolina- that the said James was almost constantly in the service [illeg] against the British tories or Indians  that he was fully known in his [s]tatement as to his [illeg.] gainst [sic] the Indians in 1776.  That he is satisfied that he was at Charleston [illeg.] and in an expedition [illeg.] to Wilmington as mentioned in his declaration.  
Jacob Forney
Sworn to & Subscribed before me this 26th
of October 1832  J Erwin
Farnham Hinson  JJ

Robert Kincaid Swear that he is the brother of James Kincaid & was Raised with him in the County of Lincoln North Carolina that his brother was in the [illeg.] as stated in his declaration in 1776 as he believe -- to [illeg.] --he is fully satisfied he was at Charleston as mentioned for that he Robert met him at Camden South Carolina & brought him home - that he was marched with him from Charlotte to Camden another time under Genera Thomas Polk at which Place they found General Green  that they
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served out the time required and returned to Charlotte North Carolina & was there discharged.  That he marched with said James Kincaid the time the troops were marched to Wilming [sic] with [illeg.] & continued with him during the time they were called on to serve    
  
Robert Kincaid

Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 20th day of October 1832
Farmham Hensen
Teste E[illeg.] JCC

State of North Carolina ) Court of Pleas and quarters Actions
Burke County )   Action  1832
In open court  We Aaron Britter Frances Stevilie and Thomas Hughes Justice of the Court of Please and Quarter [illeg.] for the State and County aforesaid do hereby testify that James Kincaid was Sworn to the foregoing declaration of interrogatories & subscribed the same in our presents during the setting of Court  that we are acquainted with his character & have full confidence that he was a [illeg.] by him.  We are also well acquainted with John Boon, Martin Kibler Jacob Loring and Robert Kincaid  James Boon [illeg.]. that we do unhesitatingly testify that they are men of the first respectability and full confidence to be given to their statements
October 2nd [?] 1832
A. Britter   Seal
Fred Stevilie    Seal
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James Kincaid-S. 7109
BA-J/AWF
Comm. [handwritten]

Senator Josiah W. Bailey
United States Senate
Washington, D. C.

My dear Senator:

   Reference is made to, your letter in which you request for Mrs. Lily Doyle Dunlap, Ansonville, North Carolina, the record of the Revolutionary War pensioner, James Kincaid of Burke County, North Carolina.
   The date furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 7100, based upon the Revolutionary War service of James Kincaid.
   He was born in the year 1754 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and moved when quite young to Lincoln County, North Carolina.  The names of his parents are not given.
   While residing in said Lincoln County, James Kincaid served as a private with the North Carolina troops, as follows: in 1776 four months in Captain James Johnson's company, an an expedition against the Cherokee Indians; then at various times, until in 1779 in expeditions against the Tories, no officers stated; fur months at Charleston, when it was besieged by the British, no officers stated; after which he marched to Camden under General Thomas Polk and served three months; and later three months in Captain Peter Forney's company, in an expedition to Wilmington.
  The soldier, James Kincaid, was allowed pension on his application executed October 26, 1832, then a
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resident of Burke County, North Carolina.
    James Kincaid died July 22, 1836
    Robert Kincaid in 1832 state that he was in the service a part of the time with his brother, James Kincaid.  There is no further reference to family.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
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7109
Rev War
INVALID
File No. 7109
James Kincaid
Priv Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:--Vol. S [illeg.], Page 207
[Arrangement of 1870]

[written to lef- r of fold]
1925 - Aug 20 - Hist [sic] Co May Pruett see letter 
in Robert Kincaid W.26186 - [illeg.]
1926 Feb. 15 Hist to Josie Crum [illeg.]
1933 Feb 16.  "   "  Senator Josiah W. Bailey for Mrs.
Lily Doyle Dunlap [illeg.]
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Durango, Colo.
Jan 4, 1925

Dear Sirs:
Will you please give me the war record of James Kincaid of N.C. who fought in the Revolutionary War?  I would also like the date and place of his birth and death and marriage; also the date and place of birth and death of his wife, Jane Reed; and if you have it the date of birth of their son William Kincaid.  I think James enlisted from Tyron County, N.C. now called Lincoln County.
Your truly,
Josie Crum
Durango,
Colo.
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Aug.

Rev. and 1812 War Section.

August 30, 1925

May Puett
Lenoir,
N. C. 

Madam:
   I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 7109, it appears that James Kincaid was born in 1754 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
   While residing in Lincoln, North Carolina, he served as a private in the North Carolina Troops as follows-
   In 1776, four months in Captain James Johnson's Company in an expedition against the Cherokee Indians.
   After this he served at various times against the Tories, until in 1779, length of service and officers not stated.
   He was at Charleston, South Carolina, when it was besieged by the British, and served four months,
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no officers stated.
   Later he marched to Camden, South Carolina under General Thomas Polk and served three months, and again served three months in Captain Peter Forney's Company in an expedition to Wilmington, North Carolina, against the Tories.
   He was allowed pension on his application executed October 26, 1832, while a resident of Burke County, North Carolina.
   It is not stated that soldier was married.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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JAMES COUZENS, MICH., CHIARMAN
JAMES E. WATSON, INC.
SIMEON D. FEE, OHIO
ROBERT B. HOWELL, NEBR.
JESSE H. METCALF, R. I.
OTIS F. GLENN, IL.
SMITH W. BROOKHART, IOWA
HAMILTON F. KEAN, N. J.
DANIEL O. HASTINGS, DEL.
H. D. HATFIELD, W. VA.
ELLISON D. SMITH, S. C. 
KEY PITTMAN, NEV.
C. C. DILL, WASH.
BURTON K. WHEELER, MONT.
HARRY B. HAWES, MO.
ROBERT F. WAGNER, N. Y.
ALBEN W. BARKLEY, KY.
M. M. NEELY, W. VA.
JOSIAH WILLIAM BAILEY, N. C. 
JOHN J. CARSON, CLERK

United States Senate
COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE

February 10, 1933.

Hon. E. E. Morgan,
Director of Pensions,
Veterans Administration,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Morgan:
   Mrs. Lily Doyle Dunlap, Ansonville, North Carolina, desires to obtain any available information relative to one James Kincaid, of Burke County, North Carolina, who was granted a pension in 1835.  At the time this pension was granted Mr. Kincaid was eighty years of age.  Any information that you may be able to furnish Mrs. Dunlap will be greatly appreciated.

Very truly yours,
J W Martin (?)

B-tpp

[stamp] RECEIVED
             FEB 18 1935
[second stamp] RECEIVED
                          FEB 11 1933
[remainder illeg.]