Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16,564, William Vickers, N.C.
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(Printed) Service (Handwritten) N.C.

(Handwritten) Vickers, William

(printed) Number (Handwritten) S. 16, 564
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Georgia. 16,964

William Vickers, Meriwether in the State of Georgia, he was Private in the ----- commanded by Captain ------ of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Butler in the North Carolina for 12 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia at the rate of 43 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of March 1833. and submitted W. B. Ector, Greenville, Georgia

Arrears to the 4th of September 1833 $108.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 1834 $21.66
Total: $129.98

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Nath. Rice, Clerk
Book E, Vol. 6, Page 105

Dead

Setter to Hon. W. T. Colquitt $3.00

Auds. % Feb. 1840

Paid at the Increasing under the Act of the April 1838 drow 4th March to 5 October 1837 the day of his death [] [] 2 March 1840.
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State of Georgia
Meriwether County

On this fifth day of November 1832, personally appeared in open Court before the Inferior or County Court, now sitting, William Vickers, a resident of said County and State, aged seventy five years and upwards who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832.

1st:-That he was born in Augusta County, Virginia, in the year 1751, the day and month he has forgotten, had a record of his age which was burnt when his father's house was burnt in Orange County, North Carolina to which place his father had removed from  Rockbridge County, Virginia, which last place this deponent was principally raised. His first service he entered as a drafted Militia Soldier in the Infantry under the State Authority, North Carolina for three months which he served out fully, he has very much forgotten with [] the year of this service but think it was shortly after Independence was declared, and judging from this thinks the tour command in the Winter of 1776-7 shortly after Christmas, rendezvoused at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina his Captain Andy Little, Butler Major, marched to the Eutaw Springs, North Carolina marched then to the Raft Swamps, North Carolina and otherwise marched and scouted the country specially protecting the inhabitants against the depredations of the Tories and preventing the spies of the cause;-discharged in the Spring of the year 1777 at the Raft Swamps, North Carolina by written discharge, the particular officer giving it is now forgotten, discharge burnt as before stated.   

2nd:- Entered by draft under State Authority, North Carolina in the Infantry as a Private Militia Soldier for a tour of five months which he served out fully and more (upwards of six months) his Captain William Jamison, majors name forgotten, Butler Colonel, rendezvoused
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at Ramsours Mills, Randolph County, North Carolina, this was in February and he thinks the year 1778, marched there into South Carolina [] towards Stone within forty miles of which place they had reached when they heard of the Battle there previously to which had [] and scouted the country protected the inhabitants and walked points of attack against the Tories principally the Yadkin and Pedee Rivers, South Carolina, during that time was stationed at a place about ten days the name of which from his failing memory he has now forgotten, after hearing of the Battle of Stone still advanced to unite with the main defense and was stationed and quartered on the settlements at Stone, South Carolina, about six weeks where he was discharged in the Summer of 1778, he thinks September, by written discharge since burnt as before stated, forgets from which officer, making six months and upwards though only drafted at first for five on a call from the States of North and South Carolina.

3rd:-Entered as a Volunteer Militia in the Cavalry, under State Authority as a Private Soldier for two months, his Captain Davis Gresham who was highest in command, Mark Pattison Lieutenant, served this time out fully, he thinks this was in the year 1780 probably, and commenced in the month of November, rendezvous at Hillsborough, North Carolina and ranged the country as a Flying Corps against the Tories, scouted principally on Chowan River low down in North Carolina the special object of the detachment was to check and scatter the Tories who were extremely troublesome and bold in that part of the country under the command of one Fannin whom his company once came within half a mile of attacking unexpectedly, but he escaped supposed from having intimation someway of his company's approach; could never capture him nor bring him to battle; on return discharged at Hillsborough, North Carolina by Captain Gresham by written discharge which was destroyed as before stated.
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4th:-Entered as a drafted Militia Soldier Private in the Infantry under State authority, N.C. for two months which he served out fully his Captain David Gresham who was highest in command his Lieutenant John May, this was in the Spring of the year 1781 the months not recollected, he was stationed all this time at Hillsborough, N.C. for the purpose of protecting the tour and affording satisfaction and security to the inhabitants and to prevent a rallying point and place from which to march in a body at a moments warning to unite with any other force or oppose any threatening force of the British or Tories. The town of Hillsborough just before had been captured and taken possession of completely by the Tories the town plundered and some of the principal inhabitants carried off and delivered to the British who took them as prisoners on board their vessels where they were very badly treated; whilst in this service would the surrounding county on that excursion always returning immediately to the defense of the Town; after expiration of service was discharged there by Capt. Gresham by written discharge which he got burnt as before stated together with all Revolutionary and other papers which he then had; the discharge was in the Summer of 1781, just before Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown. 

5th:Extra. He rendered much service also by hiring substitutes; he recollects hiring four at different times and at the close of the Revolution had saw out about two hundred pounds to persons to serve in his place, besides the time he actually served in person himself as above stated. 

After the Revolution removed from N.C. to Wilkes County, Georgia about the year 1792; from thence removed to Oglethorpe County about 1796; from thence to Clark County about 1800; from thence to Walton County about 1809; from thence removed to his present residence. He knows of no persons serving aforesaid or who knew him during the Revolution by whom to
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establish his services, his Revolutionary papers too being destroyed as before stated. His neighbors now me John T. Carter, Thomas Roberts and Braddock Harris and James H. Perry 

Summary service,
1st Service / 3 months
2nd Service / 6 months
3rd Service / 2 months
4th Service / 2 months

13 months in all. 

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agencys of any State. And that he knows of no person by whom to prove his service as he set forth, and that he has no right documentary evidence to present in proof or corroboration of the same, all Revolutionary vouchers which he once had having long since been lost or destroyed burnt as before stated. 

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court, now sitting, the day and year aforesaid. 

Samuel Bailey
William Vickers ('X'/his mark)

We, Thomas Roberts and James H. Perry both residing in the County of Meriwether State of Georgia hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Vickers, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy five years and [] of age; that he is refuted and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 

Samuel Bailey
Thomas Roberts
James H. Perry
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Amendatory Declaration of William Vickers

State of Georgia
Meriwether County

On this twenty third day of August 1833, personally appeared before W. B. Eaton a legal acting Justice of the Inferior County Court in and for said County and one William Vickers a resident of said County and State aged seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration, amendatory to his original Declarations of the fifth November 1832, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passes June 7th, 1832. 

10th objections of Brief Reply-Clerks certificate by county seal of officer affixed. 

11th and 12th objections of Brief Reply-The failure to present a Clergyman as one of his certifying witnesses in his original Declaration arose and still arises from there being no resident clergyman in his neighbourhood indeed he died
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Don't know and has no right to believe, that any Clergyman of the County is even personally acquainted with him and is sure that none can be sufficiently so to testify "their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighbourhood relative to his revolutionary service. He seldom leaves home, and as stated in his original Declaration only settled in this County, arriving in it the 25th day of December 1830, from Walton County where he was known by Clergymen personally perhaps, but he there as well as here, lived in a sparsely settled neighbourhood and from domestic and confined habits, incident to nature and age, he was known to but few clergymen. Whilst resident in Walton County which as in his original Declaration is stated in the year 1809 which should have been 1818 as the period when he first settled there, he was well acquainted with and was known by Walter T. Colquitt a Methodist Clergyman and late Judge of the Superior Court of this Circuit and now residing at Columbus and practicing Law. 

18th objection of Brief Reply: Summarily answered by answer to each.

All the above answers sworn
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to and subscribed before me after full investigation of the matter under the requirement of the War Department of "further proof and explanation" as the Amendatory Declaration of William Vickers for a Pension date first above with. 

W. B. Ector
William Vickers ('X'/his mark)

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department by Brief in special objections to original Declaration to which this is amendatory, that said applicant, William Vickers, was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. 

Witness my hand officially date above written.

W. B. Ectors 

Georgia
Meriwether County

I. Edward W. Hussey, Clerk
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of the Inferior or County Court in and for said County and State do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the originals and the proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Vickers for a Pension; that the Declaration of this date is amendatory to his original Declaration of fifth November 1832, and to both the original and amendment I hereby certify and confirm, testifying the same by my hand and seal of office this twenty third day of August 1833. 

Edward W. Hussey, Clerk
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William Vickers
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And the Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, & after putting the interrogating present by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier {illegible] so he states. And the Court further certifying that [illegible] he appeared to them that Thomas Roberts and James H Perry who have signed the preceding certificate are witness [illegible] as they [illegible], & are credible persons, & their statement on [illegible] to credit.
Samuel Bailey
Georgia
Edward W Hussey, Clerk of the Meriwether County Superior or County Court in [illegible] county to hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original [illegible] of the [illegible] court in the matter of the application of William Vickers for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have [illegible] set my hand & private seal there being [illegible] seal of office this 5th day of November 1832
Edward W Hussey
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office,
February 4th, 1840

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing he payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The child of William Vickers, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Georgia Agency, at the rate of forty three Dollars and thirty three Cents per annum, under the law of the [illegible] 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 1st of March to the 5th Oct 1834, the day of his death.

Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parrish
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.
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William Vickers 

Admitted as a Private 3 months $43.33

70.11.12-17 

W. B. Eaton 
Greeneville
Meriwether County, Georgia
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of William Vickers which require further proof or explanation. 

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

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resided? 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? N/A

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? Yes.

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

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. Hass 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? His private seal is affixed, and states that, he has no seal of office.
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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? No.

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? None.

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?
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 so 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 objectionable. 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 shown 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
and 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 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 to 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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William Vickers
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