Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 840, Walter Billingsly, N.C.
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE
N. C.
Billingsly, Walter

NUMBER
R.840

CONTENTS
Born in Md.
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Billingsly
23035
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Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832

State of Tennessee, 
County of McMinn, SS

On this 8th day of September 1832, personally appeared before the Justices of the County Court of said County, Walter Billingsly, a resident of said County and State, aged about 71 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 he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1780, with a Sergeant Armstrong, he believes his name was Thomas, who said he was recruiting for Captain John Williams’ Company, to be attached to the 17th Virginia Regiment, but was never attached to any regiment. After his enlistment, he remained at Salisbury North Carolina, where he was enlisted, and was engaged in making cartridges &c &c and in training by a person by the name of Williams. He was marched by Sergeant Armstrong, with others, down the Yadkin and crossed at Sloan's ferry 7 miles from Salisbury, then crossed the Yadkin again above the [illegible], after receiving information that Buford had crossed the Yadkin, and followed him, and overtook him at the Waxhaw Meeting House, where he was encamped. Sergeant Armstrong and his small party of recruits arrived about dusk at Buford's encampment, and the next morning between day break and sun rise, Buford was attacked by the British forces under Tarleton, and entirely defeated and nearly all was killed. Declarant made his escape into the woods, and on that day after sundown he fell in with a regular soldier by the name of Whitlock, a Virginian, who had also escaped from the defeat of Buford. The day after the battle in the evening, the declarant and Whitlock fell in with a Militia soldier, and the three saw two old Negroes who told them that they were but 3 or 4 miles from the battle grounds, though they had been constantly going the most of 2 days. On the 3rd day they crossed the Yadkin, and [paper damage, text illegible] out went to the house of a Captain William Cole, a Militia Capt [Captain] who was very much in the service during the war, and was known to declarant. Cole directed declarant to go to Gates’ army, which was then somewhere on their march near Hillsboro, & conducted declarant to a waggon [wagon], laden with supplies for the army, or some part of it, and under the guard of a few militia men. Declarant remained about 2 days with this wagon [wagon], at the end of which a company of Tories under Samuel Bryant came upon us and made us prisoners, and took us the first day to Kimbrough’s Mill on Litch [Lynches] River, a branch of Pedee [Pee Dee River], where Bryant’s main force was stationed. The second day Bryant crossed Pedee [Pee Dee] at Grassy
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Island Ford—on the 3rd day they marched to Anson Court house where was a party of Tarleton's dragoons, who refused to take charge of the prisoners, of whom there are about 15 or 20; thence they were taken to the Gum Spring between Anson Court house and Cheraw, where they remained about a week, and was thence conducted to Cheraw Hills, were given up to the British 71st regiment, commanded by Major McCarty [Archibald McArthur]. Here an inferior British officer named Thomas Proctor was sent with us in charge to Camden—lying the first night at a Captain Johnson's—the 2nd night, in the woods, -- the third night, the same -- the 4th night on the bridge across Lynches Creek in the midst of Ld [Lord] Rawdon's camp, about 13 miles from Camden; and the 5th night they were lodged in the jail of Camden. Here they were kept until about the 4th of January 1781, when the troops at Camden consisting of Colonel Hamilton's regiment, a regiment of enlisted Tories & prisoners, and the Hessian division under Genl [General] Leslie, and grenadiers of Genl [General] O’Hara. Declarant and other prisoners amounting to 18, set off under guard of about 20 men and overtook the British army a few days before the battle of Cowpens, and was marched to Ramsour's Mill on the South branch of Catawba. Here they burned their waggons [wagons], in order to make rapid march after Morgan and the prisoners he had taken to Cowpens. Thence they marched to main Catawba where there was a fight with Genl Davidson, who was killed; thence to Salisbury; thence to the Shallow Ford of Yadkin; thence to the 3 Moravian Towns; thence in direct course to the Dan River, passing Troublesome Ironworks; thence they retreated to Hillsboro; thence crossing Haw River at the High Rock Ford, thence in various directions until the Battle of Guilford, and at last on the 12th March, declarant made his escape, and on the 13th declarant fell in with the militia of North Carolina with whom he remained, till after the battle, after which declarant met with his brother James Billingsly, captain of a militia company and who, as he informed declarant, acted as guide to Genl [^ Green] just before, and on the day of the battle of Guilford. Here declarant's brother represented his case to Genl Butler, who sent declarant furlough till called upon, and declarant reached home in Randolph County the 22nd day of March, 1781. About the month of October declarant went to Sullivan County, and in December was employed in the station on Big Creek at Captain Coils. In November, declarant went with Sevier, and Tipton in an expedition against the Indians, crossing the Tennessee River at an Island Ford above the mouth of Tellico [River], destroyed the towns of Eastwallen, Chickamauga,
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and various towns on Coosa, returned and crossed Hiwassee River at Hiwassee Old Town, thence to Tellico Plains, and at Chota had a talk with the Indians, and returned home, and declarant has never been in the service since. 
Declarant was in the service and a prisoner about 2 years and a half. 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of agency in any state. 
Sworn to and described this day & year aforesaid. 
Walter [his x mark] Billingsly

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
John Miller
A.B.A.R.B
Marshall in Cunningham
I, Archibald R Lurk, Clerk of the County Court of said County, do hereby certify that the forgoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Walter Billingsly for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, at office in [Athens?] the 15th day of September 1832
A R Lurk, Clerk
By his Deputy W Sherrill, 

R J Meigs
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State of Tennessee}
Bradley County} SS
On this 1st day of January A. D. 1835, personally appeared before the Justices of the County Court for Bradley County, Walter Billingsly, a resident in the County of Bradley and State of Tennessee, in that part which was originally McMinn [County], where the said Walter Billingsly made his original declaration for a pension under the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832, who, being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following amended declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed June the 7th, 1832: that he was borned [born] in Baltimore County, State of Maryland on the 14th day of July 1761—according to the record & information left to him by his parents, which record is severely torn and mutilated, lost or destroyed, but a copy of which was taken from it many years ago is herewith enclosed to the department; declarant’s first recollections was in Guilford County, North Carolina in that part which is now Randolph [County], but declarant resided in the county aforesaid until about the first day of June, 1780, when he went to Salisbury, where he was on the 1st day of January 1780, solicited to enlist in the service of the United States by Sergeant Armstrong, as mentioned in his original declaration. Declarant never was placed under Captain Williams nor Joined the 17th Virginia regiment, & prays the department to have reference to his original declaration, and submits the facts there stated, & also stated in this declaration to the War Department, & whither, according to the rules of the same, the presumption is raised against him, of his name being upon the Virginia rolls of the 17 Ridgt [Regiment]
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as he never was attached to his intended company, nor to said Regiment further states whereas that from the day of his enlistment, 1st of January, 1780, up to Buford’s defeat, 1st of June 1780, was five months that he faithfully served the United States [^ as a private soldier] and asks a pension of the department for the same. Declarant - submits to the department whether according to the pension law and the rules of the Department, he was entitled to a pension for the times he was a prisoner of War in the British lines & shows by reference to his original declaration that it was nine months making fourteen months from his enlistment, up until after the Battle of Guilford, when he was furloughed by General Butler, which furlough has long since been lost.
Declarant states that on the first day of December, 1781, he was living in Sullivan County, then North Carolina, but now Tennessee. He was ordered into the service of the United States by Colonel Sevier, and in pursuance of said order he on the first day of December, 1781 entered the service of the United States under Captain Coil as an Indian Spie [Spy] at the station on Big Creek. 
Declarant states that he does not now recollect of his having any Lieut. or Ensign, as he did not enter, nor was he attached to any Regiment, but was ordered by Colonel Sevier to Spie [Spy] against the Indians under Captain Coil, and said company spied in small scouting parties in protection of said station & Prewitt’s
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Station; and they ranged from Coil’s Station and Prewitt’s Station and about Ray’s [?] Mountain, Lick Creek & flat creek declarant served as an Indian spie [spy] as aforesaid, & in protection of said Forts or stations under the Command of Col Sevier & Captain Coil from the 1st of Decbr [December], 1781 to the 1st of October, 1782, as a private soldier This is the service named in Declarant’s original declaration where it speaks of his being employed in December, in the station at Big Creek, which makes a term of service of ten months that he served as a private soldier in spieing [spying] against the Indians in which he had no engagement or Battle with the Indians, but Frequently re-took stolen property and give notice of approaching danger by the Indians, declarant again, on the first day of October, 1782, volunteered and entered the service of the United States as a private soldier under the following named officers: Captain Anderson, whose given name is not now recollected from old age & consequent loss of memory, but believed to be Robert, & who afterwards was promoted to Major; George Russell --- succeeded Captain Anderson in command, Lieutenant John Talley, Ensign William Newgum [Newcum], David Bragg, sergeant, corporals names not now recollected from causes above stated. Col John Sevier, Major Tipton given name not now recollected from causes above stated. Rendezvoused at the mouth of Boyd’s Creek on French Broad River
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the 3rd day of October, 1782, then marched in the campaign named in original declaration had no General, the force consisted of Colonel Sevier’s Regiment, declarant was honorably, but verbally discharged upon the last day of November 1782 upon the Tennessee River, above the mouth of Tellico declarant served this campaign Two months as a private. Declarant never received any written discharge. When he was discharged from spieing [spying] at Coil's Station, declarant shows that he has no documentary evidence of his service & does not know of any person living by whom he can prove the same. Declarant prays a pension for so much of his services as was proved in the rules of the department. Declarant states & shows that he is acquainted with the following named persons residing in his neighborhood who can testify to his veracity & their belief of his service as a soldier of the Revolution to wit: the Reverend Henry Price, Ezekiel Baty, William Cain, John H. Robertson, Willis Burk, William Jones & John W. Price, Nathaniel Smith, Alexander Westmoreland. 
1st Applicant states & shows that he was born in Baltimore County State of Maryland on the 14th day of July 1761. 
2. That he has no record of his age except a copy which was taken from the original which has long been lost or destroyed. Said copy is herewith exhibited with this declaration. 
3. Declarant states that before he entered the service of the United States, he was living in Randolph County State
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of North Carolina; and that since the Revolutionary War he has lived in the states of North Carolina, South Carolina & Tennessee, & that he now resides in the county of Bradley & State of Tennessee. 
4th. Declarant understands at the time he first entered the service of the United States, that it was by enlistment & to be joined to Captain Williamses [Williams’] Company of the 17 Virginia Regiment, but never was Joined to said Regiment or Company. That the 2nd time he entered the service it was by the order of Colonel Sevier. The third & last time that he entered the service of the United States, & [Illegible] the campaign down the Tennessee River he volunteered. 
5. Declarant was acquainted with the following named officers of the United States army: at Salisbury, General Rutherford [Griffith Rutherford], Genl [General] McDowell [Charles McDowell], General Davidson, Col [Colonel] Lock [Francis Locke], Captain Gilbert Fall—Was acquainted with the following named officers in Sullivan County Colonel Sevier Colonel Loony, Major Tipton, Major Anderson, Captain Russell & Major Sevier [Valentine Sevier?]. 
6. Never received any written discharge from the service-
7. That he is acquainted with the following named persons resident in his neighborhood who can testify to his veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution to wit the Reverend Henry Price, Elijah Bates, William Carr, John H. Robertson, Willis Bunk, William Jones, John W. Price, Alexander Westmoreland, Nathaniel Smith.
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Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid. 
Walter [his x mark] Billingsly
John H Robertson Clk

We Henry Price Clergyman residing in the County of Bradley & in the same neighborhood of Walter Billingsly the foregoing Declarant and John H. Robertson residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Walter Billingsly who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him Seventy six years of age at the present date 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.
Sworn and subscribed the} 
day & year aforesaid}
John H. Robertson Clk

Henry Price
J. H. Robertson

And the said Court hereby declares 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 Henry Price, who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Bradley in the neighborhood of Walter Billingsly the foregoing declarant and that John H. Robertson who has also signed the same is a resident in the same County & neighborhood and is a credible person and that their statement
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is entitled to credit.

Samuel Howard 
Isaac Day - 
James Wilson

State of Tennessee
I John H. Robertson clerk of the County Court for the County of Bradley do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said in the matter of the application of Walter Billingsly for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand  and seal of office this 1st day of January 1838.

John H. Robertson Clk [Clerk]
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FAMILY

BIRTHS.

[fancy border on 2 sides]

Walter Billingsley, son of James Billingsley and Elizabeth his wife, was born the 11th of July, 1761
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[fancy border on 2 sides]

RECORD.
MARRIAGES.

John R. Porter and Alinda Billingsley [paper torn]
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Rev. War Section.

January 20, 1915.

Miss C. L. Barnett 
1014 Vermont Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 
Madam: 
In response to your undated letter received in this Bureau January 18th, requesting the record of Walter Billingsley for Mrs. N. J. Cruger, Hotel Bristol, 122 West 49th Street, New York City, year are advised that in the claim R. File No. 840 Rev. War, it appear that Walter Billingsley was the son of James and Elizabeth Billingsley and was born July 14, 1761 in Baltimore County, Maryland and while a resident of that part of Guilford County, North Carolina, which was afterwards Randolph County, in January 1780, he was enlisted by Sergeant Thomas Armstrong and remained at Salisbury, North Carolina, making cartridges and training, and at Buford's Defeat he was one of the small body of recruits under Sergeant Thomas Armstrong and made his escape into the woods; afterwards while on his way to join General Gates’ army, he was surprised by a company of Tories under Samuel Bryant, taken prisoner and carried to jail at Camden where he was kept until about January 4, 1781, when he and other prisoners
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under guard were marched to join the British Army which they reached a few days before the battle of Cowpens. 
He was kept a prisoner of war in the British lines until March 12, and then escaped, and with his brother, Captain James Billingsley, succeeded in getting a furlough from General Butler and returned home March 22, 1781. 
On December 1, 1781, while living in Sullivan County, then North Carolina, he entered the service as an Indian spy under Captain Coil, he was not attached to any regiment but was ordered by Colonel Sevier to protect different forts and stations until October 1, 1782, when he volunteered as a Private under Captain Anderson and Colonel John Sevier and served two months.
On September 8, 1832, while residing in McMinn County, Tennessee, he applied for pension which was not allowed, on the ground of insufficient proof of six months actual military service in an embodied corps or organization as required by the Act of June 7, 1832, under which he applied.

Very respectfully,

[Illegible Name] 

Commissioner.

Billingsly – 2 -
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[left side of page – 1884 Nov 14 Dewey & Eicher for More data to identify & the [Illegible] to be made of information prior
Mch [March] 25, 1904 Mrs. W. H. Kistler Denver Colo [Colorado]
1915 – Jany [January] 20 Hist To – Miss C. L. Barnett for Mrs. N. J. Cruger V.L.M.]

[Stamped] - REJECTED

___ Ex’r.  INVALID

840

P. O. Walter Billingsly

Service: _________

Enlisted: ____ ,18
Discharged: _____ ,18

Application filed: _____ ,18

Alleges: ______

Re-enlisted: ______

Attorney: ____
P. O. ____
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Walter Billingsly
Tennessee
Suspended
See letter 22d January 1838 to Levi Trewhitt
Let. Hon J. C. Jones
June 3 / 53.

84

Act 7th June 1832

Walter Billingsly for Rev. Pension Tennessee suspended file
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Walter Billingsly for Rev Pension Tennessee suspended an admitted file for

March 15/55
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Pension Office
June 3, 1853

Sir,
I herewith return the letter of John C. Gant, Esq. and have the honor to state that the application of Walter Billingsly of the benefit of the Act of June 7, 1832 [^ was suspended] the reason that his alleged service was unsupported by any testimony whatever, as stated, the letter of the of this office on the 29 January 1838. He alleges that January 1780 he entered the 17th Virginia Regiment to Jan 1 1780 when at Bufords and served it until the Battle of the Waxhaws (May 29, 1780) when he was taken prisoner with other troops under Buford [^ and remained a prisoner] until after the battle of Guilford (March 15, 1781) when he was released on furlough, After
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[written left side of page sidways - Hon. Jas. C. Jones, June 3/53]
that date he was acting as an Indian Spy in Sullivan County, under Captain Coil, & the Regiment of Col Sever. Evidence of his service of service as note, said to found in the office of the Auditor at Richmond [^ Va] and the Comptroller of N.C. at Raleigh, and until it is established by the certificates, the said cannot be admitted.
No [Illegible] is to [Illegible several words] the statements of agents, or to their ability to produce evidence to establish suspended claims; for they possess no [Illegible several words] other citizens, and especially then having an immediate personal interest in [Illegible several words]
I cannot answer or Grant [Illegible 2 words] to the claim of [Illegible] until I am informed under which act it was [Illegible], by [Illegible] when am [Illegible] it nor forwarded to this office 
[Illegible] 
Hon James C. Jones, Memphis, Tenn

[written right page sideways – I am [Illegible] the full [Illegible] of any evidence surrendered by our Records]
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23,035
Walter Billingsly
Tennessee

[written sideways - BILLINGSLEY, WALTER]
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Walter Billingsly which require further proof or explanation.

1.  Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes

II.  Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes

III.  If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV.  Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes

V.  *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? [Illegible] 

VI.  Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? [Illegible] 

VII.  Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes

VIII.  Has the Court given their opinion? Yes

IX.  Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes

X.  Is the Clerk’s seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes

BILLINGSLEY, WALTER
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XI.  Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? [Illegible very light] 

XII.  If the clergyman’s affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? No

XIII.  If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? yes

XIV.  +If the applicant’s name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? No this ought not be required in this present case
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?

XV.  Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant’s service?

XVI.  Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes

XVII.  Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not answered? For they are now answered)

EXPLANATORY NOTES.

*QUERE V.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, 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 not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For          year             months, and               days, I served as a                For          months and              days, I served as a             ; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectional.  Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service.  This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
+QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line in which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
+QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the Clerk of the Court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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[Illegible] 
Feby [February] 5th 53

I induce you [Illegible] asking for certain information which I have to ask you will be kind enough to furnish me at your earliest convenience 
Please return Mr. [Illegible] letter with the direct information and [Illegible]
Yours Respectfully
James C Jones
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S. Trewhitt
Jan 29 1838
Tan
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War Dept. Pen [Pension] Office 
Jan [January] 22, 1838 

Sir:

The declaration of Walter Billingsly has been examined and filed with suspended cases. Some direct proof of being alleged service from 1st January 1780 [^ and of his being taken a prisoner] should be exhibit the alleged service as a scout & as a spy in 1782 was not of that character provided for by the act of 7 June 1832 

Levi Trewhitt Esq. 
Clevaland [Cleveland], 
Ten [Tennessee]
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[Letterhead – A. I     H. M. EICHER
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OF
DEWEY & EICHER.
Will Practice in Washington and Adjoining Counties; Supreme Courts, both State and Federal.]

Washington, Iowa, Aug. 27, 1884 (R 840)

Ag. Gen. D[Illegible] 
Washington D. C.

Dr Sr [Dear Sir]

We wish to make some inquiries and hoped you would be able to aid us through your records.

Do you have with in your or therein the list of Soldiers of Revolution?

If you can please advise us; if the name of Walter Billingsly occurs therein and if so in what particular organization.

We were informed he served from South Carolina & served there under Gen. Green [Nathanial Greene].

This may be remote – but hoping you would be able to find us. We this [Illegible] 
With Resec [Respect]- Dewey & Eicher
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Cleveland Tennessee}

January 2nd 1837

Dear Sir

I herein enclose to the Department the Amended declaration of Walter Billingsly under the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832, please to send the answer to the same directed to me at Cleveland Tennessee and greatly oblige your 
Humble Servant Levi Trewhitt

James L. Edwards}
Commissioner of Pensions
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Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir:

Will you kindly furnish me with the record of Walter Billingsly – Pension No. R. 840, and forward the [Illegible] to:
“Mrs. C. L. Barnett
1014 Vermont Ave. N W
Washington D. C.”

over
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I will appreciate this 
Sincerely
Yours my truly

[stamped [PENSION O Jan 18 1915 OFFICE U S]
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Thanking you in advance
I remain
Very sincerely
Mrs. N. J. Cruger
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[stamped [PENSION B OCT 31 1884 OFFICE U S]

[left side of page – Ad General’s Office (E.B.) Rec’d AUG 30
Washington, Iowa Aug 20th 84
Dewey & Eicher
Enquire if the name of Walter Billingsly appears on records of the Revolutionary War; he enlisted in South Carolina and served under Gen. Green [Greene] end left side

[right side of page – WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE, Washington, Sept. 19, 1884
Respectfully returned to Dewey and Eicher attyns [Attorneys] Washington, Iowa Such records of the Revolutionary war as are in possession of the government are on file in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions.] end right side

R. C. DRUM
Adjutant General
By R
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

War Department,
ADJUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE.
Washington, Sept. 19, 1884

OWN

Respectfully returned to
Dewey and Eicher,
Atty Washington

[stamped [PENSION B OCT 31 1884 OFFICE 
U S]

Such records of the Revolutionary war as are in possession of the government are on file in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions.

R. C. DRUM 
Adjutant General
By R

[right side of page – Respectfully referred to Pension Office. Can you aid us in our Inquiry? With Respect - Dewey & Eicher
Washington [Illegible] 
Oct. 27, 1884]