Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7369, for Vincent Moreland, Maryland
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Service
MD
VA

Moreland, Vincent
Mary

Number
R.7369

CONTENTS
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Widows declaration for a Pension Revolutionary War

State of Tennessee
Henderson County

On this the 1st day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-three personally appeared before the undersigned Absalom McCallum a justice of the peace within and for the county of Henerson and state aforesaid, Mary Moreland a resident of the county and state aforesaid aged eighty-four years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of an act of the Congress of the United States passed 7th day of July 1838 and all other supplemental acts passed since the last mentioned date (1838).

That she is the widow of Vincet Moreland deceased who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary War that he enlisted sometime in the year 1780 as she has been informed, that he enlisted during the war and that he served either in the Maryland or Viginia troops which she does not know but that she has been informed and believes that her said husband Vincent Moreland deceased enlisted in the district or county called the Sugarland which as she has been informed lying near the Potomac River but does not know in what state, nor does she know the precise place her said husband Vincent Moreland was mustered in to service but has been informed and verily believes that he served in the company commanded by Captain Bettis; she further states that she has been informed by her said husband in his lifetime which information she believes was true that a difficulty occurred while on the march of the army from Georgetown to Little York between the Lieutenant and the Captain to which he the said Vincent Moreland belonged; that the Lieutenant killed the captain of the company to which he the said Vincent Moreland and they belonged. Affiant further states that her said husband aforesaid informed her at various times in his lifetime which
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information she believes to be true that he was in hearing of the artillery at Little York when Cornwallis was taken and was marching to that place but did not reach Little York until the next day after he Cornwallis was taken and that her said husband Vincet Moreland as she has been informed and believes continued in the service in the said war from the time he enlisted until peace was made and she the said affiant Mary Moreland further states that she married the aforesaid Vincent Moreland in the county of Rowan State of North Caroline sometime in the month of April 1789 by a Justice of the Peace his name she does not now recollect and that she lived with him the said Vincent Moreland as his wife until his death, which took place in the county of Henderson in the state of Tennessee aforesaid on the 7th day of June AD 1838, affiant further states that she knows of no record public or private by which she could prove her said marriage and that she knows of no person that was at her marriage that is now living and that she will have to depend upon character for proof of her said marriage and the records of Maryland and Virginia now in the war office of the United States for proof of her said husbands service in said Revolutionary War, that she cannot recollect precise dates for the reason she cannot write and has always had to depend upon recollection.

Mary Moreland - SEAL
Her X Mark

Test:

Absalom McCullum - JP SEAL

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I hereby certify that Mrs. Moreland is a woman of good character and that she is the widow of Vincent Moreland & has remained a widow ever since her husband's death and is now a widow and being and is a woman of sound mind considering her advanced age & that she is a woman of undoubted veracity & that owing to her extreme old age and bodily infirmity could not attend in open court.

Absalom McCullum - SEAL
Justice of the Peace for Henderson Co
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State of Tennessee
Henderson County

On this the 1st day of April in the year of our lord eighteen hundred and fifty-three personally appeared before me Absalom McCullum a Justice of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid William Pratt aged sixty-six years a resident of the county of Decatur in the state of Tennessee aforesaid who being sworn according to law says on his oath that he has been personally acquainted with Mrs. Mary Moreland widow of Vincent Moreland deceased forty-three years and was equally as well acquainted with the latter Vincent Moreland aforesaid from the date of 1810 until the day of his death which took place he thinks on the 7th day of June 1838 and that they were people of good character and that their evidence would have been taken in any court of the country in which they could and that they were always highly respected as for truth and veracity with the people that was acquainted with them and that they lied together during his Mr. Moreland's lifetime as husband and wife & was so taken and accepted by the public generally and that it has been reputed that said Vincent Moreland husband of Mrs. Mary Moreland the subscriber to the above declaration had served as a soldier I the revolutionary war, affiant further states that the eldest child of the said Vincent Moreland & wife Mary was about twenty years of age in the year 1810 which makes the eldest child named about sixty-three years of age. Affiant further states that form the best information and appearance of Vincent Moreland if he had lived until this date he would have been about ninety years of age.

William Pratt - SEAL

Absalom McCullum JP - SEAL

Sworn to and subscribed before me the say and date above written and I hereby certify that the said William Pratt is a credible witness and stands for truth & veracity and I believe him to be about the age above stated & that I am uninterested as to the prosecution of said claim.

Absalom McCullum - JP SEAL

Justice of the Peace for Henderson County Tennessee
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State of Tennessee }
County of Henderson } ss
On this the 1st day of April AD 1853 personally appeared before me Absalom McCollum a Justice of the Peace within and for said County aforesaid Samuel Moreland a citizen of the Cunty of Henderson in the state aforesaid aged fifty (illegible) being duly sworn according to law says on his oath that he is the son of Mary Moreland the subscriber to the within declaration & that she lives with him and is now a widow & has been a widow ever since his father's death.  Vincent Moreland and that his father aforesaid was always reputed as having served in the Revolutionary War and that the Samuel Moreland was the fourth child of the said Vincent Moreland deceased and that his father Vincent Moreland died on the 7th day of June 1838 and that his father undertaken a course to prosecute his claim against the Government but did not (illegible) his claim as he (illegible) for want of a qualified advocate which is the reason why the claim has not been before presented. (test) Absalom McCallum JP (Seal) Samuel Moreland (seal)

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and date above written and I hereby certify that the said Samuel Moreland is a credible witness and is (illegible) as a man of undisputed veracity and that he is about the age above stated.(Signed) Absalom McCallum JP (Seal)  Justice of the Peace for Henderson County Tennessee

State of Tennessee }
Henderson County }  I Jesse Taylor Clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby certify that Absalom McCollum whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing declaration and certificate was a Justice of the time of signing the same for the County of Henderson aforesaid duly elected commissioned and sworn as such and is authorized to administer oaths for (illegible) purposes & that all his official acts are entitled to due faith & credit and that the Court of (illegible) I am Clerk is a court of Record given under my hand and seal of office this 2nd day of April 1853
(Signed) Jesse Taylor Clerk
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A Declaration For a Pension Due - husband. Vincent Moreland

State of Tennessee }
Henderson County } ss.  On this the 1st day of April in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and fifty three, personally appeared before me the undersigned Absalom McCallum a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Henderson and state aforesaid Mary Moreland a resident of the County and State aforesaid aged Eighty four years who being duly sworn according to law doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of an act passed by the Congress of the United States on the 7th day of June 1832 granting Pensions to soldiers who have been engaged in the military service of the United States Revolutionary War.
That she is the widow of Vincent Moreland deceased who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary war that he enlisted some time in the year 1780 as she has been informed and believes that her said husband Vincent Moreland deceased enlisted during the war and that he served within the Maryland or Virginia troops which she does not know but that she has been informed and believes that her said husband Vincent Moreland deceased enlisted in the district or County called the Sugarland which as she has been informed is lying near the Potomac river but does not know in what state nor does she know the precise place where her said husband Vincent Moreland was mustered in service but has been informed and verily believes that he served in the company commanded by Captain Bellis she further states that she has been informed by her said husband in his lifetime which information she believes to be true that a difficulty occurred while on the march of the army from Georgetown to Little York between.   The Lieutenant and Captain to which he the said Vincent Moreland belonged that the Lieutenant killed the Captain of the Company to which he the said Vincent Moreland and they belonged.  Affiant further states that her said
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husband aforesaid informed her at various times in his life time which information she believes to be true that he was in hearing of the artillery at Little York when Cornwallis was taken, and wad marching to that place but did not reach Little York until the next day after he CornWallis was taken and that her said husband Vincent Moreland as she has been informed and believes continued in the service in said War from the time he entered the service until peace was made and she the said Mary Moreland further states that she married the aforesaid Vincent Moreland in the County of Rowan State of North Carolina some time in the month of April 1789 by a Justice of the Peace his name she does not now recollect and that she lived with her the said Vincent Moreland as his wife until his death, which took place in the County of Henderson the state of Tennessee aforesaid, on the 7th day of June AD 1838 affiant further states, that she knows of no record public or private by which she could prove her said marriage & that she knows of no person living that was at her marriage and that she will have to depend upon character for proof of her said marriage, and the Records of Maryland and Virginia in the War office of the United States for proof of her said husbands service in said Revolutionary War that she cannot recollect precise dates for the reason she cannot write and has always had to depend upon recollection.  
(Signed) Mary (her X mark) Moreland (seal)
test, (signed) Absalom McCallum JP (seal)

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I hereby certify that Mrs. Moreland is a woman of good character and that she is the widow of Vincent Moreland deceased & has remained a widow ever since her husbands death and is now a widow living and is a woman of sound mind considering her advanced age and that she is a woman of undoubted veracity and that owing to her extreme old age and bodily infirmity could not attend in open court without great peril and danger. 
(Signed) Absalom McCollum JP (Seal)
Justice of the Peace for Henderson County Tennessee
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State of Tennessee  }
Henderson County }    On this the 1st day of April in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and fifty three, Personally appeared before me Absalom McCallum a Justice of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid.  William Pratt aged sixty six years a resident of the County of Decatur in the state of Tennessee aforesaid who being sworn according to law says on his oath that he has been personally acquainted with Mrs. Mary Moreland widow of Vincent Moreland deceased forty three years and was equally as well acquainted with the latter Vincent Moreland aforesaid from the date of 1810 until the day of his death, which took place he thinks on the 7th day of June 1838, and that they were people of good character and that their evidence would have been (illegible) in any court of the County in which they lived and that they were always highly respected as for the truth and veracity with the people that was acquainted with them and that they lived together during his Mr. Moreland's life time as husband wife and was so taken and accepted by the public generally and that it has been reputed  that he Vincent Moreland husband of Mrs. Mary Moreland the subscriber to the above declaration had served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War affiant further states that the eldest child of the said Vincent Moreland and wife Mary was about twenty years of age in the year 1810 which make the eldest child now about sixty three years of age. affiant further states that from the best information and appearance of Vincent Moreland if he had lived until this date he would have been about ninety years of age.
test, (signed) Absalom McCollum (seal)  (Signed) William Pratt (Seal)

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and date above written & I hereby certify that the said William Pratt is a credible witness and stand high for truth and veracity and that he is about the age above stated and that I am uninterested as to the prosecution or success of said claim.
(Signed) Absalom McCollum JP (Seal)
Justice of the Peace for Henderson County Tennessee
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State of Tennessee }
Henderson County }   On this the 1st day of April AD 1853 Personally appeared before me Absalom McCallum a Justice of the Peace within and for said County aforesaid Samuel Moreland a citizen of the County of Henderson in the state aforesaid aged fifty seven years and after being duly sworn according to law says on his oath that he is the son of Mary Moreland the subscriber to the within declaration & that she lives with him and is now a widow and has been a widow ever since his father's death Vincent Moreland and that his father aforesaid was always reputed as having served in the Revolutionary War and that he Samuel Moreland was the fourth child of the said Vincent Moreland deceased and that his father Vincent Moreland died on the 7th day of June 1838 and that his father undertaken moves to prosecute his claim against the Government but did not present his claim as he said for the want of a qualified advocated which is the reason why the claim has not been before presented.
test, (Signed) Absalom McCollum KP (Seal)  
(Signed) Samuel Moreland (Seal) 

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and date above written and I hereby certify that the said Samuel Moreland is a credible witness and is (illegible) as a man of undescribed veracity and that he is about the age above stated.  (Signed) Absalom McCollum JP (Seal)  Justice of the Peace in & for Henderson County Tennessee

State of Tennessee }
Henderson County }   I Jesse Taylor clerk of the county court of said Henderson County do hereby verify that Absalom McCallum whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing declaration & certificate was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned elected and sworn as such & is authorized by law to administer oaths for general purposes and that all his official acts are entitled to due faith & credit & that the Court of which I am clerk is a court of record.
Given under my hand & seal of office at Lexington on this the 2nd day of April 1853
(Signed) Jesse Taylor  Clerk
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Command [illegible]   official business
Nov. 19

L.P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.

WW. 29.1853.

Requisitioning re=examination of the rolls for the name of Vincent Moreland, service.

Hawthorne, Davidson, Camden, Tenn
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Camden Tenn   Nov the 18th 1853

L P Waldo Commissioner of Pensions

D. Sir   The claim of Mrs. Moreland widow of Vincent Moreland, Mr. Wight of your City informs the widow that Vincent Moreland is recorded on the Books as having served in the Revolutionary War, please examine again for his name.  there is no doubt as to his service he may have served in the North Carolina troops, in the place of Virginia or Maryland.  Mr. Wight states that he has seen his Vincent Moreland name on the Books if so it must be on the N. C. Roll or at least some where or on some Record where you have not examined we do not desire to be troublesome but desire to do the old lady Moreland Justice and we have not the least doubt ourselves as to the service of that soldier for the reason all the oldest people of our County that has been acquainted with the old man Moreland in his life time give him a good character and say that it was always understood and believed that he served the old lady is very old and helpless in fact too old to recollect much of the history of the service of the old man and may have made some small mistakes if she has it was not done with a knowledge of the error but through mistake please (illegible) us the necessary information, if found

Yours Respectfully
Hawthorn & Davidson
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Camden Tennessee  April 4th 1853


L P Waldo  Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir enclosed please find the claim of Mary Moreland, for her husbands services in the Revolutionary War as pension due her before his death where you will please file and adjust as soon as convenient
Yours with high regard
Hawthorn X Davidson


L P Waldo Comm  &c.
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Camden, Tenn April 4th 1853

L.P. Waldo Comm of Pensions

Dear Sir enclosed please find the claim of Mary Moreland widow of Vincent Moreland deceased for widows pension please fie for adjustment. Yours with high regard.

Hawthorn & Davidson

J.P. Waldo Comm of P
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No. 14,936.

Vincent Moreland dec'd.

Tennessee

A.W. June 7, 1832
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May 24/53

App. Mary Moreland wid. Vincent

Revy OR

Hawthorn & Davidson
Camden, Te.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, PENSION OFFICE, OFFICIAL BUSINESS
Commissioner.
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No.

Mary Moreland widów of Vincent Tenn

Hawthorn & Davidson, Aug. AD 7853

Hawthorn & Davidson, 6th Dec'r 1853.

do March 10/54

7369

Act July 7 1838
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Camden Tenn, Febr 22 A.D. 1854
L. P. Waldo Comr
Dear Sir inclosed(sic) please [to] send you some additional proof in the case of Vincent Moreland’s widow. Their characters are unspotted and can be proved such by any number of witnesses in reason. Yours with regard, Hawthorn & Davidson
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Camden Tenn, April 4th 1853

Official business

L.P. Waldo Com. of Pensions, Washington City D.C.

16 May 1838
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P.O. 7.369}

Mary Moreland

Service: Wid. of Vincent

Enlisted:_______________________, 18


Discharged:____________________, 18

Application filed: ________________, 18

Alleges: _____________________________

_____________________________________

Re-enlisted: __________________________

_____________________________________

Attorney: _____________________________

P.O. __________________________________

______________________________________

_________ Recognized. ___________ Contract.

_____ Cert. of Dis.    Searched for ________, 18
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State of Tennessee, Henderson County}ss
On this the 1st day of April A.D. 1853 personally appeared before me Absalom McCallum a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Henderson aforesaid, John Lockhart a resident of the County and State aforesaid aged seventy one years who being sworn according to Law says on his oath that he was well acquainted with Vincent Moreland in his life time. His acquaintance commenced about the year 1819 and continued until his death which took place about the 7th day of June 1838 and that the Vincent Moreland deceased as aforesaid was always reputed as having served in the Revolutionary War that the affiant heard said Vincent Moreland in his life time speak of serving in the Revolutionary War and describe his travels while engaged in the the(sic) service and spoke of difficultly that occurred between two of the officers under which he served and informed him that one of the officers killed the other but the names of those officers affiant cannot now recollect further affiant says that the said Vincent Moreland aforesaid was a man of good character and that he does not remember that he has heard his veracity doubted by any person and that Mary Moreland who has made her declaration or a Pension for her said husband Vincent Moreland services in said war is his widow and has remained a widow ever since her husbands death and is now a widow and alive and that she is a woman of good character and has always been highly respectable by all the citizens that was in any wise acquainted with her but that she is now old and helpless and unable to travel and that I have been acquainted with his
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Were done some time in 1819 and that I saw her the said Mary Moreland the widow of this said Vincent Moreland this day.
Absolom McCallum J.P. (seal) John (his x mark) Lockhart (seal)
Justice of the Peace for Henderson County Tennessee Subscribed and sworn to the day and year above written and I hereby certify that the said John Lockhart the subscriber to the above affiant is a credible witness and a man of truth and veracity and that I am not interested as to the prosecution of said claim. Absolom McCallum, Justice of the peace for Henderson County to State of Tennessee, Henderson County}
On this the 1st day of April A.D. 1853 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace within for the County aforesaid, Mary Pratt a citizen of the County of Decatur aged sixty two years who being sworn according to law says on her oath that she has been acquainted with Mary Moreland, who has made her declaration for a pension for the service of her husband Vincent Moreland died in the Revolutionary War, for fifty two years and that she was equally as well acquainted with Vincent Moreland up to the day of his death, and that it was always [illegible] talk that her said husband Vincent Moreland had served in the Revolutionary War and that she believes that they were married about 1788 her reasons for so believing is that their oldest child Malinda was two years older than affiant, judging from size when small, and that they were people of good character.
Absolom McCallum J.P. (seal) Mary (her x mark) Pratt (seal) sworn to and subscribed the day & date above and I certify that Mrs. Mary Pratt is a credible witness and is about the age above & that I am well acquainted with affiants. Absolom McCollum (seal) Justice of the Peace for Henderson County [illegible]
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State of Tennessee, Henderson County} I Jesse Taylor Clerk of the County Court of said Henderson County do hereby certify that Absolom McCollum whose name appears to the foregoing affidavits and certificates was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and sworn as such & that he is authorized by law to administer oaths for general purposes and that his signature is genuine and that all his official acts are entitled to due faith and credit and that he is a member of the Court of which I am clerk and said court is a Court of record given under my hand and seal of office at Lexington on this the 25th of January A.D. 1854.

Jesse Taylor, Clk by his deputy Henry Wright.