Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16810, Mitchel Fleming, N.C.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE  N.C.
Fleming, Mitchel
NUMBER  S16810
Born in Del.
Carded
CONTENTS
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13158
Missouri
Mitchel Fleming,
of C. Girardeau in the State of Missouri
who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Craig of the Reg. commanded by Col. Locke in the South Carolina line for [illegible].
7 mos [illegible] Infantry 23.33
2 -- -- -- 8.33
$31.66
Inscribed on the Roll of Missouri at the rate of 31 Dollars and 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of May 1833 and sent to Honbl. A Buckner, Jackson Missouri
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833, 63.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 1833  15.83
$79.15
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Wm. R. Palmer Clerk
Died April 15 1837
([illegible] A13)
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State of Missouri County of Cape Girardeau

A declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1837. On the 22nd day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before the Justices of the County Court of the County of Cape Girardeau aforesaid in open court Mitchel Fleming a resident of Apple Creek Township in the County of Cape Girardeau and State of Missouri aforesaid aged Seventy One years and Eight months Who first being duly sworn according to the Dock on his oath maketh the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the privision made by the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832; That he volunteered in the year 1777 in the County of Rowan in the State of North Carolina in order to supply a draft to be made for the term of five months; that he was first mustered into the Company of Captain Craig at the cross roads near Charlotte North Carolina; the Colonel who commanded the regiment into which he was mustered was Colonel Frank Lock; and the General who commanded the brigades or the troops in that section was General Rutherford; that from the cross roads above mentioned he marched with the troops to the ten mile spring (so called) ten miles north of Charleston South Carolina, that he lay there with the troops two or three weeks, and from thence marched with the troops to a place called Purrysburg twenty miles above Savannah, on Savannah river, on the line between South Carolina and Georgia; at the place last mentioned he with the troops abovementioned joined the regular army under the command of General Lincoln that he continued under the command of the officer above mentioned reconnoitering up and down the Savannah river; the american army generally on the east side of said river and the British army on the west; that he was in a small engagement on the Savannah river while defending a landing and preventing the British troops from crossing the
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river at a place called the Cany Island, that he remained with the troops at the place above mentioned until the five months expired and was then properly discharged. 

And further he states that in the year 1782 he was drafted or [illegible] in the County of Rowan in the State of North Carolina aforesaid and was mustered into the company of horses under the command of Captain James Stevenson, thus he marched with the company above mentioned in a Regiment of horse and foot under the command of Colonel Isaacs to meet the British at Wilmington North Carolina but before reaching Wilmington was ordered to stop on deep river about fifty miles above Fayetteville, having been informed that the British had evacuated Wilmington, that the horses company to which he was attached was employed in reconnoitering the County about Deep river suppressing the tories, disaffected, etc.; thus he served with the troops above mentioned two months during which time they took about twenty tories or disaffected persons and conveyed them to Salisbury Rowen County North Carolina where he received a written discharge; That not then or since believing that the discharges he received as aforesaid would he be of any service to him, they have been both lost from his possession and cannot now be found.

That the said Mitchel removed from north Carolina to Cape Girardeau County Missouri in the year 1819 where he has resided ever since; that he has no documentary testimony in this County by which he can establish the facts above related.

The said Mitchel hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity [illegible] the present; and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.

And to the Interrogatories presented by the War department I put by the Court the said Mitchel Fleming answers and says as follows.
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1st -- I was born in Kent County in the State of Delaware in the year seventeen hundred and sixty one.

2nd -- I have my age recorded in my family bible at my house above twelve miles from this place (Jackson) I had it entered by James Nixon a school master taken from the family records of my father.

4 -- I belonged to the militia and then there was a draft to be made and I volunteered on the first call and on the second the militia were classed and the class to which I belonged were called out; the first being for five months and the second for two months, both of which terms I served.

5 -- I was acquainted with General Lincoln Commander of the regular troops at Purrysburg on the first campaign and with Colonel Isaacs commandant of the militia from Wilks County and Colonel Pauley of Guilford County; also commandant of the militia during the last campaign and with Captain James Stevenson of the militia; We having not reached the regular army until the British army had evacuated Wilmington as aforesaid; the first tour I served in the company of Captain Craig, the second Capt. Stevenson; I knew while on my first tour Colonel Lock and Colonel Brevard of the militia and their Regiments tho only one I knew or served in on the first campaign.

6th -- After serving the first tour of five months I was discharged by Captain Craig before mentioned after serving the second tour of two months under Captain Stevenson I was discharged by Captain Stevenson at Salisbury, both of which discharges have been lost. I did not consider they would be of any service and after a long time they were mislaid or destroyed.

7th -- I am known by Col. Samuel B. McKnight and Andrew Martin Esq. two of the Justices of the County court with General Johnson Ranney with
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Honourable Alexander Buckner Senator in Congress; Franklin Cannon Esq. Senator from this County, Peter R. Garrett Clerk of the County court and with the Reverend Thomas P. Green all of whom reside near me, who can testify as to my character, for veracity and their belief of my services as a soldier of the revolution among whom I have lived for twelve years and I believe all can testify to my character for veracity.

Sworn and subscribed in open court this 22nd day of December A.D. 1832 Benjamin Bacon D. Clerk for Peter R. Garrett, Clerk  

Mitchel Fleming

Oliver Harris Senr. of lawful age being first duly sworn states that he has been personally acquainted with Mitchel Fleming for forty years, first in the County of Rowan, North Carolina when they were young men together that is immediately after the revolutionary war and heard said Mitchel Fleming often speak of having served in the revolution, as also others speaking of the same circumstances, and that he was generally referred by the neighbors then as a soldier of the revolution, That for nearly thirty years he was intimately acquainted with said Fleming in North Carolina most of the time being his very near neighbor. That they moved to the state of Missouri at the same time, or within a few months of each other. That they had resided and are residing at this time within a very short distance of each other, as neighbors. That for about fifteen years last past the said Mitchel has been a [illegible] Elder in the Presbyterian Church; all of the time since their acquaintance he said Mitchel has been esteemed and considered by all who knew him as a man of truth and integrity.

Sworn to and subscribed in open court, this 22nd day of December.

Oliver Harris
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[handwritten initials MHF]
Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
February 5, 1925
Mrs. Claude Gray
1403 North Main
Hutchinson, Kansas.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S.16810 it appears that Mitchel Fleming was born in 1761 in Kent County, Delaware.
While a resident of Rowan County, North Carolina he enlisted in 1777, served five months as a private in Captain Craig's Company, Colonel Francis Locke's North Carolina Regiment and was in an engagement at Caney(?) Island on the Savannah River.
He enlisted in 1782 and served two months as a private in Captain James Stevenson's Company, Colonel Isaac's North Carolina Regiment.
In 1819 he moved from North Carolina to Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, where in Apple Creek Township he was allowed pension on his application execut
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ed December 22, 1832 aged seventy-one years and eight months. He died April 15, 1837 checkmark ([illegible] A.B.)
It is not stated whether he was ever married. The above noted is the only soldier named Mitchel Fleming found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.
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16810
INVALID.
File No. 16810
Mitchel Fleming
Pri  Rev War
Act: June 7 1832
Index:-Vol. 1, Page 128
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1925-Feb. 5 Hist. to Mrs. Claude Gray. MMHF
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METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
SOUTHWEST KANSAS CONFERENCE
HUTCHINSON DISTRICT
1403 NORTH MAIN
HUTCHINSON, KANSAS
LAUDE M. GRAY
SUPERINTENDENT
JAN. 12, 1925
DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
REVOLUTIONARY WAR SECTION;-
WILL YOU PLEASE TELL ME IF THE NAME OF MITCHELL FLEMING APPEARS ON THE PENSION ROLLS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERANS?
AND OBLIGE
(MRS. CLAUDE) NOLA STEVENSON GRAY
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$31.66 per ann.

Hon A. Jackson Buckner
Missouri
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A.D. 1832 Benjamin Bacon
D. Clark of the County Court
for Peter R. Garrett Clerk

Robert Brevard Senr. of lawful age being first duly sworn according to law states that he has been acquainted with Mitchel Fleming more or less some time before the commencement of the revolutionary war, that they were boys together in the same neighborhood at that time Rowan County State of North Carolina; that they both belonged to one company in that county; that it was a custom at the time of the war breaking out with great Britain for the soldiers of the company when a call was made to volunteer that he has knowledge of said Mitchel Fleming having been out on tour of duty but not belonging to the same class in which said Mitchel did was never out at the same time with him; knows that some parts of the company were sent on an expedition down on the Savannah river; has no doubt but said Mitchel Fleming tendered the services in his declaration set forth and mentioned.

Sworn and subscribed in open court December 22nd 1832 Benjamin Bacon Deputy Clerk of the County Clerk for P. R. Garrett, Clerk.

Robert Brevard

We Thomas P. Green a clergyman residing in the County of Cape Girardeau aforesaid and Samuel B. McKnight of the same county hereby certify we are well acquainted with Mitchel Fleming who has subscribed and sworn to the above or foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be seventy one years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he lives to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in that opinion. 

Sworn and subscribed in open

Thomas P. Green M.G.
Jam. B. McKnight
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court December 22nd 1832
Benjamin Bacon D Clerk for Peter R. Garrett Clerk

filed December 22nd A.D. 1832
Benjamin Bacon D Clerk
for P. R. Garrett, Clerk

State of Missouri
Cape Girardeau County 
County CourtD Dec. term 1832

On Saturday the twenty second day of the month and the sixth day of the term the county court met pursuant to adjournment,
Present  Saml. B. McKnight and Andrew Martin Esq. Justices

On application of Mitchel Fleming for a pension for revolutionary services

Declaration and Certificate on oath filed

And now as this day comes the said Mitchel Fleming and makes his declaration in writing on oath in open court together with the certificate annexed sworn to as prescribed [illegible] the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter declaration certificate annexed together with witnesses produced [illegible] the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named Mitchel Fleming the applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he stated and the court further certify that it appears to them that Thomas P. Green who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident of this county, and Samuel B. McKnight who has also signed the same is resident of the same county and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. And it is is ordered by the court that the said declaration and certificate annexed as sworn to be filed as of the word of this court and a
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Copy thereof and the proceedings herein properly certified be furnished said Mitchel Fleming for the information of the War Department.

State of Missouri County of Cape Girardeau 

I Peter R. Garrett Clerk of the County court within and for the county of Cape Girardeau in the State of Missouri do certify that the foregoing pages marked from 1 to 7 comprise a full true and perfect copy a declaration and deposition as also of a certificate annexed here filed by Mitchel Fleming applicant for a pension together with a full true and perfect copy of the record and proceedings thereon in this court.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal of office this thirty first day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and thirty two.

Peter R. Garrett, Clerk
By his Deputy
Benjamin Bacon

State of Missouri
County of Cape Girardeau

George Henderson President of the County Court within and for the County of Cape Girardeau aforesaid; do certify that the foregoing certificate of Peter R. Garrett as Clerk of said court by Benjamin Bacon as his deputy is in due form of law and by the proper office, that his official acts as such are entitled to due faith and credit. Given under my hand at the County of Cape Girardeau this 5th day of January A. D. 1833

George Henderson
President, County Court