Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8897, for Nazareth Mitchell, North Carolina
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[printed form, handwritten responses]
(3-1776)
SERVICE
N. C.

Mitchell, Nazareth

NUMBER
S. 8897

Carded

CONTENTS
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[printed form, handwritten responses]
order to pa[page damage]
1837

Letr to Pay agent 19. April 1838.
Order to pay 30 April 1838
Same  " " 25 Sept 1839

[Crossed out]
Letter to Pen Agt. 19 April 
1847.

23275
North Carolina 

Nazareth Mitchell 
of Robison in the state of N. Car
who was a pr: [blank] in the  [blank] commanded
by Captain [blank] of the High commanded
by Col:  Eaton in the N. Car
line for 10 months 

Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina 
at the state of 33 Dollars 33 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of Decr 1833
and sent Hon: Edwd.
DeBerry O+ R

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833   83.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 32  16.66
[total] $99.98

{Revolutionary Claims }
{Act June 7, 1832         }

Recorded by Nath Rice Clerk,
Book E Vol. 64 Page 65
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Declaration in order to obtain benefit of the act
of Congress passed the 7th June 1832.

State of North Carolina  )
Robinson County            )
On the 27th day of November 1832
personally appeared in open court before the court of 
pleas and quarter sessions now sitting Nazareth Mitchell 
a resident of the County and State aforesaid aged
Seventy four years who being first duly sworn according 
to law doth on his oath make the following decliration [declaration]
in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed
June 7th 1832.
I was drafted in the service of the United 
States as a militia man in the county of Franklin state
of North Carolina for the term of Seven months and put under
the command of Captain Britton Harris which was on
the 10th day of September 1778 (as well as I can recollect)
in the regiment commanded by Col Thomas Eaton and
was marched to Kingston on Neuse River in the 
state of North Carolina. From thence to Elizabeth town in 
the State of North Carolina. From thence to Monks corner
in the State of South Carolina, and from thence to Jackson
=boro State of South Carolina, and from thence to the White 
House near Savanna River in the State of South Carolina 
and from thence to Chalk Hill in South Carolina and 
from thence to Augusta in the State of Georgia, and 
from thence to Briar Creek in the State of Georgia 
and was in the Battle of Briar Creek which took place 
(if my recollection be correct) on the 3rd day of March
1779 after which time I was stationed at Back Swamp
in the State of South Carolina untill [until] the term of seven 
months for which I was drafted expired which was on
or about the 10th day of April 1779 (to the best of my recol
=lection). From the time I left Elizabeth town in North 
Carolina untill [until] I was discharged by captain Micheal 
Dent, I was attached to the command of General Ash.
I was again drafted in the county of Franklin 
State of North Carolina for the term of three months and 
was put under the command of Captain Pairsh and 
marched to Harrisburg in the State of North Carolina 
and joined General Butler who marched us to Rockey
Ford on Haw river in the State of North Carolina 
where we joined General Green's army, from thence
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to Guilford in the State of North Carolina and was in the 
Battle of Guilford which took place on the 15th of March
1781 if I recollect correctly, which Battle was under the command 
of General Greene, from this Battle I was marched to Ramsey's
Mill in the State of North Carolina and there remained
untill [until] I was discharged by Captain Williams, about the 
10th of May 1781 to the best of my recollection having served 
for three months this term, and Service in both terms ten
months in all. I further declare that I received the above 
mentioned discharges but cannot now find them, nor
have I any documentary evidence and that I know of no
person whose testimony I can procure who can testify to my
service, except what is appended to this declaration.
I do hereby relinquish any claim whatever to a pension 
or annuity except the present, and declare that my name 
is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State
whatever.
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
A.M. Ackin CLK
Nazara his x mark Mitchell
mark
1st question by the court. Where and in what year were you
born?
Answer I have been told I was born in the county of North
-amptom in the State of North Carolina in the year 1758

2nd question by the court, have you any record of your age, if
so where is it?
Answer. I have no record of my age.

3rd question by the court, where were you living when called
into service, where have lived since the revolutionary war
and where do you now live?
Answer I lived when called into service in the county of
Franklin in the State of North Carolina, and I have 
lived about forty five years in Robeson County, North Carolina 

4th questionably the court. how were you called into service 
were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a Substitute
if a Substitute for whom?
Answer  I was drafted

5 question by the court. 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 for you Service?
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Answer  I knew General Greene, General Ash, General Butler
and General Eaton as to the circumstances o the Service 
at the Battle of Briar Creek the British was Victorious
& as to the battle of Guilford the British kept the field 

6th question by the court, did you ever receive a discharge 
from the Service and if so by whom was it given and
what had become of it?
answer  I received two two discharges the one from captain
Micheal Dent and the other from Captain Williams but
but thinking them of no use I do not know what has become 
of them.

7th question by the court, State the names of persons to whom
you are known in your present neighborhood and who
can testify as to your charater [character] for veracity and good beha
=vior and your Services as a Soldier of the revolution
Answer  I am known by William Townsend Esquire
an acting Justice of the peace for Robeson County and 
Lemuel Bullock

State of North Carolina )
Robeson County            )
Court of Pleas and quarter
sessions November Term 1832

Mr William Townsend and Lemuel Bullock ["hereby
certify" is crossed out] residents of the county and state aforesaid hereby
certify that we are well acquainted with Nazareth
Mitchell who has subscribed and sworn to the above 
decliration [declaration] that we believe him to be Seventy four years 
of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbor
=hood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revol
=ution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and Subscribed in open court the 27th day
of November 1832.
Wm. Townsend
Lemuel Bullock
AM Achin Clk
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[the following paragraph has been crossed out]
State of North Carolina )
Robeson County            ) 
Court of pleas and 
quarter sessions November 
term 1832.
Mr. Isaac Sullivan John Bethune and James
Storm Justices of the court of Pleas and quarter
Sessions now in session do certify that William
Townsend and Lemuel Bullock are men of 
veracity and good deportment and full worthy
of Belief
I Sullivan JP
J Bethune J.P. 
Ja Storm J.P.
[end crossed out paragraph]

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 appli
=cant was a revolutionary Soldier and Served as he states
and the court further certifies that it appears to them [crossed out]
[crossed out] that William Townsend & Lemuel Bullock
who has signed the preceding certificate are credible persons
& residents of this county and their statement is entitled to 
credit & further that no clergyman resides in the neighbor
=hood of said Mitchel [Mitchell]
I Sullivan JP
Bethune JP
Ja Storm J.P.

Suspended See ltr
Nov {illegible] 1830 to
J L Storm
Lumberton 
N.C.

I Archibald W Eackin Clerk of Robeson County State of North Carolina
do hereby Certify that the foregoing Contains the Original proceedings
of said Court of the application of Narary Mitchel for 
a Pension In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and Seal of office this the 27th day of February 
A.D. 1833
A.W. Eackin Clk

26.452
Nazareth Mitchell
No. Car.
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June 19, 1940

BA-J/AWF
Nazareth Mitchell
S. 8897

Austin W. Smith, Dean-Registrar
Tennessee Polytechnic Institute
Cookeville, Tennessee

Dear Sir:

The data which follow in regard to Nazareth Mitchell were obtained from claim for pension, S. 8897, 
based upon his service in the Revolutionary War. 

Nazareth Mitchell was born in the year 1758, 
in Northampton County, North Carolina. The names of 
his parents were not given. 

While a resident of Franklin County, North Carolina, Nazareth Mitchell enlisted September 10, 
1778, served seven months as private in Captains 
Britton Harris' and Michael Dent's company Colonel
Thomas Eaton's North Carolina regiment, and was in 
the battle of Brier Creek. He served three months 
in Captain Parrish's company, and was in the battle 
of Guilford Court House. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 27, 1832, at which time he was a 
resident of Robeson County, North Carolina. 

The papers on file in this claim contain no discernible data in regard to the family of Nazareth 
Mitchell. 

In order to obtain the date of last payment of
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this pension, name and address of person paid, and 
possibly the date of death of Nazareth Mitchell, you 
should apply to the Comptroller General. General 
Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and 
furnish the following data:

Nazareth Mitchell
Certificate #23275
Issued December 18, 1833
Rate $33.33 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
North Carolina Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator
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Rev War
8897 
INVALID
File No. 8897
Nazareth Mitchell
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7th 1832
Index:-Vol. 1st, page 257
[Arrangement of 1870.]

19[illegible]-June 19--[illegible] to [illegible] 
[illegible] --see his letter in
Col Alexander Fuller S. 8537 [illegible]
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June 19, 1940

BA-J/AWF
Alexander Fuller-S. 8537
Nazareth Mitchell-S. 8897
Alexander West-W. 18328

Austin W. Smith, Dean-Registrar
Tennessee Polytechnic Institute
Cookeville, Tennessee

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of North Carolina 
pensioners- Alexander and Arthur Fuller, David, Jacob, 
George, James, John, and Nazareth Mitchell, John
McGlaughlin, Alexander and William West.

Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data and limited trained clerical force avail-
able for furnishing such information, it has been 
impossible to comply in full with each request which 
requires so much time and research. 

The records of Alexander Fuller, Nazareth Mitchell, and Alexander West are furnished you herewith. 

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator

see his letter in Alexander
Fuller S. 8537
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J L Edwards
Comr. of Pensions

[date stamp]
CITY OF WASHINGTON
NOV
[illegible]

James Storm Esqr.
Lumberton
No Car

Septr. 1778.
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Department of War 
Pension Office
November 1st, 1833
Sir:
The declaration of Nazareth Mitchell has been examined
and his claim has been Suspended in order that he may have
an opportunity of furnishing the Department with a more
detailed account of his tour of duty of Seven months, and 
whether he was during that period all the time in actual Service.
It was not often that the militia were drafted for such a 
length of time, unless it was to fill vacancies which had occur
=ed in the State of Continental Troops, and it also frequently 
was the case that but a small part of the time for which the
draft was made, was performed by the person so drafted in 
the Army of the United States.
It is for actual Service alone that an allowance is
made. That applicant will be required to be very explicit upon 
this point.

I am respectfully 
Yr Obt Servant 
J L Edwards 

James Storm Esqr
Lumberton
N.C.
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[date stamp]
CITY OF WASHINGTON
NOV

J L Edwards
Comr. of Pensions

James Stone Esqr.
Lumberton 
No. Car

Drafted for 3 ms. on 10 Sept. 1778
went to Louisburg 
then to Kingston 
then to Elizabeth &c &c.
was at Back Swamp on Savannah River in S.C when term expired
Ash Genl. Eaton Col--Clinch Major--kept on aft for scarcity of men
all the time in this tour 7 Md Served.
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[illegible date stamp]
Apl 19 47
[illegible]
FREE
 
James L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Pension Office 
Fayetteville March 15 1847

James L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pension 
Please send the payment 
of Nazareth Mitchell deceased
Actl of 1832 4 mo 21 [illegible] at $33 33 per Ann.
for voucher [illegible]
[illegible]
my respectfully
your Obt Serv
Jnn Huske
[illegible]
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Admit as a private 
[illegible] months $33.33

J L [page damage]

n.c.

cor[page damage]

Hon
M. De Berry
HR
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Admit as a private 
[unknown] months $33.33

N.C.

J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of 
Pensions

Hon Deberry
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House of Representatives
Inclosed [enclosed] is the amended Declaration of 
Nazareth Mitchel  After examining the 
papers please inform me of the result of his
application.  I have no knowledge of this 
applicant as he lives in a remote part of my 
district

Respectfully 
Edwd. DeBerry
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State of North Carolina )
Robeson County            )
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions 
November Term 1833
This day the 26th November A.D. 1833. personally
appeared in open Court Nazareth Mitchell a citizen of 
said County who being first sworn on the holy Evangelists
of Almighty God the truth to stake relative to his Services 
as a private soldier in the war of the American Revolution
makes the following statement ammendatory [amendatory] of his declaration 
made before this court at November Term 1832 of said Court 
in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 
7th day of June 1831.
This Declarant states that on the 10th day of September 1778
he was residing in the County of Franklin in this State, that he 
was drafted for three months to serve as a private soldier in 
the militia of North Carolina, that he marched to the various
places mentioned in his former declaration, and served as he has 
therein stated, and that the reason why he served in his
first tour for seven months, when he was only drafted to serve 
three months in this, to wit, that after marching into South Carolina 
and being in actual service under the command of General Ash 
Colonel Eaton Major Clinch and Captain Micheal Dent, when the 
term for which he was drafted expired, there being a scarcity
of men in the army at that time, he was required by the officer,
under whose command he was, to remain in the Service,
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this declarant further states that the term for which he 
was drafted expired while he was stationed on Back
Swamp in the State of South Carolina -- that he was
during the whole tour of seven months in actual service 
This Declarant further states that the omission
of the particular statement relative to his service 
of his first tour of seven months as made in his former application was altogether inad-
-vertent and that in his first tour he served as a
private soldier for seven months--and that the last
tour he served three months, and that all the 
facts stated in his former declaration and as set
fourth in this Declaration are to the best of his 
knowledge and belief true
Nazary his x mark Mitchel
Sworn to and subscribed in )
open court                           )
I Archibald McEachin clerk of the Court 
of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the County of 
Robeson in the State of North Carolina certify that the
[for]going contains the proceedings in an amended declaration 
of Nazareth Mitchel read before said Court & sworn to by him
In witness whereof I hereunto affix my Signature and official 
seal of office this the 28th November 1833.
A McAchin clk
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State of North Carolina  )
Robeson County             )
Court of Pleas and
quarter Sessions August
term 1832
personally appeared in open court Sherwood
Fort who being sworn according to law
deposeth and Saith that he Served in the
united States army with Nazareth Mitchel
during the revolutionary war, that he this
affiant was with said Mitchel at Kingston
in North Carolina on or about the 10th day
of September 1779 and marched from thence
to Elizabeth town in Bladen County and from
thence into South Carolina and Georgia &
was at the Battle of Briar Creek under the comm
=and of General Ash, and that the affiant
believes that Said Nazareth Mitchel fully
Served a term of seven (7) months in
the united States army.
Sworn to and assigned in 
open court the date above.
Sherwood Fort
AM Achin CLK
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State of North Carolina  )
Robeson County            )
Court of pleas & quarter
Sessions August 29th 1833
personally appeared in open court Henry 
Braswell who being duly Sworn according to law
deposeth and Saith that he saw Nazareth 
Mitchel in the united States army at the time 
he Joined General Butler at Harrisburg some 
time in February or March 1881 and he knows of his own
knowledge of his continuing in the Service untill [until] he 
was discharged at Ramsey’s mills and this 
affiant believes he performed a tour of three 
months at his engagement 
Sworn to and assigned in open
court the date above 
Henry Brasswell
A.M. Achin Clk