Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 462, Devereux Ballard, N.C.
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N.C.
Ballard, Devereux
R.462
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Ballard, Devereax
30,743

Thomas J. Wilder, Esq.
Sumterville, So.Car.
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The State of South Carolina
Sumter District

Declaration in
order to obtain the
Claremont County. benefit of the act
Congress of the 7th June 1832.

On this the [blank] day
of April in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and thirty four personally appeared
before Josiah Evans Presiding Judge of
the Court of General Sessions and Common
Pleas for Sumter District now
holding at Sumters Court House
Devereux Ballard
a resident in the County District 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 provision made by
the act of Congress, passed
June 7, 1832. That in the year
one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine as the deponent there heard and believes,
the citizens of North Carolina were diver
into classes of fourteen and that each
of the said lands were compelled
to finish the man for the service
that the deponent volunteered for his
clap and entered the service under
Col John Branch near Halifax No. Car., 
that shortly after he volunteered he hired
as a substitute one Sterling MacLennone (?) the same to whom he paid  eight hundred dollars for twelve months service that being
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the term for which the deponent had volunteered
his service- that shortly afterwards the ┃
deponent removed to Wilkes County North
Carolina and after the fall of Charleston
in South Carolina about the last of May
in the year of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred and eighty the deponent
volunteered in a company raised and commanded by Capt Wm Lenoir the Major of the Battalion was [blank] Herndon - The colonel was Benjamin
Cleaveland-the deponent did not belong to the Cavalry though he frequently did service
on horseback-- Captain John Cleaveland
commanded the cavalry attachedto the
Regiment the Deponent does not believe that
that the regiment the which he was
attached ever acted in conjunction
with any continental Regiment
or officers, the company in which the
acted were designated as minute men, were
continually engaged in marching and in all the events incident to a particular warfare- the
Tories at that time and that part of the Country were very troublesome, and the company was employed in keeping them in subjection. The company
was marching
to Ramsons Mill when the battle
was fought between the whigs and tories
at that place, but did not reach it
that time until the battle was decided,
The company of which the deponent was a member
was engaged in the Battle of Kings Mountain
where the British officer Ferguson as
defected by the American - The deponent
was not present at the Battle, having been
left at home on the account of sickness.
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the deponent did not remain at home, but one
day on the account of sickness the next day [illegible] he travelled more than thirty miles
to rejoin his company. At night he came up
with a party commanded by Major Lloyd-
the Deponent recollects Captain Francis
and Captain Trigg- an Express reached this
party that night that the tories had
committed murders on the Yadkin River
near the Shallowford. The deponent then
joined the party commanded by Major
Floyd and in the company of Captain
Francis marched to the attack of these
tories. We met the tories near the
Shallowford in Yadkin River.  The
Tories were commanded
by Col. Bryant, they were defeated by our parts
notwithstanding their number was double of ours.
Captain Francis [illegible] forty was killed
Captain Bryant of the tories
fell- the Battle of Shallow Ford was fought
two or three days after the Victory
at Kings Mountain the deponent returned
to his home after the
battle of Shallowford and by that
time his company
under the command of Capt Lenoir
returned and the deponent
joined them and there
engaged in active service until
some time in
the next winter.  Given the great lapse of time 
and weakness of memory the deponent cannot
recollect the precise period of his
quitting aside, but to be on the side of
truth he will put it down on the first
of January seventeen hundred and
eighty one
making the whole term
of his
service seven months.
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Deponent acted in the capacity of
sergeant during the whole of his time under
Capt Lennoir- and the Deponent hereby
relinquishes every claim
whatever to a pension or an annuity except the
present and he declares that his name
is not on the pension Roll of any agency
in any state

Devereux Ballard

Sworn and subscribed
the day and year
aforesaid before in open court
Th. J. Wilder
Cl. Ct.

We Isaac Rechoving a Clergyman residing
in neighborhood of the said D Ballard
and Reuben Long Revolutionary soldier residing in the same
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
Devereaux Ballard who has subscribed and
sworn to the above declaration
that we believe
him to be seventy eight years of age; that he
is reputed and believed in the neighborhood
where he resides to have been a soldier of
the Revolution and that we concur in
that opinion.

Isaac Rechoving
Reuben Long
Sworn and subscribed the
day and year aforesaid
before
Th. J. Wilder
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the following interrogatories were proposed to
the applicant Deveraux Ballard and
the answers sworn to in open Court.
1st Interrogatory:
Where and in what year were you
born?

1st I was born on Nottaway River
in Virginia in the year of our our
Lord one thousand seven hundred and
fifty six
2 Interrogatory:  Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
2 Answer: My age is Registered in a Book kept
by my father but have no knowledge
of where the said Book is at present
3 Interrogatory: Where were you
living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and 
and where do you now live?

3. Answer: When
I entered service
for twelve months under Col John Branch I then lived in Halifax County North Carolina,
then removed to Wilkes County North Carolina
and lived in that county when I entered
service under Col Claveland. In about two
years I returned to Halifax County. I lived in
that county for some considerable time and
about thirty five years since I removed to
this County, District and State where
I have since resided.
Interrogatory 4th How were you called into
service; were you drafted did you volunteer or
were you a substitute, and if a substitute for
whom?
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Answer 4th:
I volunteered, never was drafted
or served as a substitute.
Interrogatory 5th: State the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the troops, where you served such continental and militia
Regiments as you can recollect and
the general circumstances of your service.
Answer 5th:
Col John Branch, Col Cleaveland
Major Floyd. I never saved under any
regular officers. The only regiment of
Col Cleveland never acted in conjunction
with any other except at Kings Mountain
at which I was not present, the
general circumstances of my service
have been stated in my declaration
annexed - I never went out of North
Carolina and generally the services I performed
were in Wilkes County in that state.
Col Cleveland lived in Wilkes County.

Interrogatory 6th Did you ever receive a
discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become
of it?
Answer: I have never received a written discharge from the service.

Interrogatory 7th: 
State the names of persons to whom you
are known in your present neighbourhood
and who can testify of to your character
and their belief of your service as a 
soldier of the Revolution.
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Answer:  Among others I would enumerate
Capt Thomas J Polk, Charles Polk,
Isaac Levin the Revd P. B. Bowen
the Revd Jesse Hartwell.
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And the said Court
do hereby declare their
opinion after the investigation of the matter
and after putting the interrogatories
prescribed by the war department that the
above named applicant was a
revolutionary soldier, and served
as he states, and the Court further certifies
that it appears to them that Isaac Richbourgh
who has signed the preceding certificate
is a Clergyman resident in the neighborhood
of the said D. Ballard and that
Reuben Long
who has also signed
the same is a resident in the same
neighborhood and is a credible person
and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Josiah Evans
[llegible] Judge
11th April 1834

I, Thomas Wilder Clerk of the Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas for Sumter District, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings before the said Court in the matter of the application of D. Ballard for pension.   
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office Eleventh hereunto set my hand this eleventh day of April in
the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred thirty-four.

Th. J. Wilder
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South Carolina,
Sumter District.
Personally appeared
before me the undersigned a Notary Public
and justice of the [illegible] Ex Officio,
Devereaux Ballard who being duly sworn
deposeth and maketh oath 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 as a sergeant for seven
months under Capt Wm Lenoir in the
Western part of No. Carolina. The deponent
claims nothing for the twelve months,
for which he hired a substitute and
his service of the months is exclusion
of the twelve months for which a substitute
was employed. Deponent can
adduce no proofs or his having acted
in the capacity of sergeant. The Deponent
is confident that no sergeant in the company
to which he belonged had a written warrant
nor does he believe that a sergeant in
the regiment of Cleaveland
acted under a written warrant.
Devereux Ballard

Sworn to before me
this Sept 2 1834

John Hemphill
Ch. P. & Q. Ex Officio
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South Carolina
Sumter District
I, Thomas J. Wilder,
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the
District aforesaid, do hereby certify that John
Hemphill before whom the within deposition of
Deveraux Ballard was taken is an
acting Notary Public and Ex officio
Justice of of the same for the
District and in the State aforesaid
Given under my hand and the
seal the said Court this Jany 19th 1835
Tho J. Wilder
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Ex'r.
INVALID.
No. 462
Devereaux Ballard
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War Department
Pension Office
May 14 1834

Sir:
I have examined the declaration of Devereaux
Ballard and it is herewith returned.

Before his claim can be allowed he will be required to specify his service as pointed out in the accompanying brief under note on 3rd page.

The act of June 7 1832 makes no allowance for
Services performed by a substitute. His first term therefore which he alleges was performed by a substitute has been disallowed-

He will also be required to adduce some proof
of his having served under a Warrant as Sergeant, for the mere fact of his having acted in that capacity, affords no claim whatever to a pension.
I am Respectfully
Your Ob't Servant
J.L.H.
Thomas J. Wilder Esq
Sumterville,  S. Ca.
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Ballard, Ebenezer
Private
Massachusetts
Warrant No. 3680
Issued October 18, 1796 to John Coates, Assignee