Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9686, for James Standridge, North Carolina
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
NC

Standridge, James
Mary

NUMBER
W.9686

CONTENTS
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South Carolina 23006

James Standridge
of Pickins in the State of S. Car. who was a pri.- in the    commanded by Captain ------ in the Reg't. commanded by Col. Sharp - in the No. Car: line for 6 months -
Inscribed on the Roll of S. Carolina at the rate of 20 - Dollars --Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of Oct 33 and sent to Jos. Grisham Falls T.O. So. Ca.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833 50.--
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar: 34 10 =
$60.--

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Nath. Rice Clerk
Book E. Vol. g Page 80
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Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6th April 1838 from 4 Sept. 1836 to 1 May 1839 the day of his death. Agent notified 1 June 1840
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7661.
South Carolina
Mary Standridge,
widow of James Standridge,
who was a private,
in the North Carolina line.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 day of April, 1846 and sent to M. M. Norton, Pickens C.H.
S. Carolina.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
&7th June, 1844.
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 169

Letter to Pension Agt 19 April 1847. -

Repd 10
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Joseph Standridge
was born this 2 day of April3 1795
Isaac Standridge
was Born the 24 of December 1798
Ailsey Standridge was born December the 5th day 1779
Allen Downs Was born August the 10th day 1803
Married december 17th 1821 
James Downs his son was born - November the 16th 1822 -

C+ widow a/
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Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July, 1838, entitled: act granting half pay and pension to certain widows:

State of South Carolina}
District of Pickens} SS.
On this twenty seventh day of November 1844. personally appeared before the Judge of Court of Ordinary for the District and State aforesaid, Mrs. Mary Standridge, a resident of the District, and State aforesaid, aged about eight four years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838. entitled, "An act granting half pay and pension, to certain widows". That she is the widow of James Standridge who was a private in the war of the Revolution, but she cannot now recollect whose company or even in whose Regiment, or whether he was drafted or a volunteer, or how he entered the service, but she very well recollects the Revolutionary War and the trouble and distress experienced by those who lied in that day, and that she and her husband did not escape their share of that trouble and distress. She together with her husband lived during the war on the Yadkin River in North Carolina, and removed about a  good deal, and many years ago moved to this District, she supposes near fifth years ago, that for many years they lived on Tugalo OChanga and afterward, near where she now lives, at which place her husband died; her maiden name was Mary Wallace, and she was married to
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James Standridge in North Carolina during the Revolutionary War, but she does not recollect at what time although positively certain it was before the close of the war; she recollects it was done by a preacher but does not recollect his name, she knows that she had two children before the close of the war; her children names are Sarah, John, Nelly, Nancy, Janie, Samuel, Elizabeth, Mary Joseph Isaac & Ailsey, and that their births stand in the order in which they are written, that the births of Joseph, Isaac, and Ailsey which are recorded in a blank leaf in an old Testament of hers, the leaf of which is herewith sent, up as recorded by Mr. Barton who lived a neighbor to them on Tugalo, the following is an extract from the record referred to viz. "Joseph Standridge was born the 2 day of April 1795". She has no record of her marriage, or of the births of the remainder of her children, as neither herself or husband could read or write, and did not think of the importance of keeping such a record. She is so frail and has so nearly lost her mind, that she cannot now recollect when she was married precisely, or the date at which her husband entered the service or how long he served. She declares however that her said Husband James Standridge died on the sixth day of May 1837 and that she has not since married but yet remains his widow, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed. She further states, that her husband was a Revolutionary Pensioner, and that after his death she gave a Power of Attorney and a small balance which was due to him, at which time his certificate was surrendered. She has no documentary evidence of his service, nor does she know that he ever had.
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She is too infirm to travel to court and is under the necessity of being waited upon in this way, or losing what she understands she is entitled to, and she does not now recollect any thing more that she is informed will be of service in the presentation of this claim.
[Signature] Mary Standridge X her mark
Sworn to and subscribed to on the day and year above written.  [Signature]
William D. Steele
Judge of the Court of
Ordinary for Pickens District
South Carolina

South Carolina} Before me personally 
Pickens, District} appeared Mrs. Hetty Standridge who is respectable and truthful and under oath that her mother in law Mrs. Mary Standridge, is he widow of James Standridge dec'd. who was a Revolutionary Pensioner, and that, the said James Standridge, did die in the Dist. on the Sixth day of May 1837.
[Signature] Hetty Standridge X her mark
Sworn to 27th November 1844 before Miles M. Norton Not. Pub & Ex. Off. M.P.4

South Carolina} Before me personally 
Pickens, District} appeared Randolph Lee Sen. a citizen of reputed truthfulness and made oath in due form of law, that he ha been long acquainted with Mrs. Mary Standridge who has made the annexed declaration in order to obtain a Pension, and that he also knew James Standridge dec'd. who was the husband of the said Mary Standridge - that he knew them upwards of Forty five years ago, and has known them ever since; that the old man was said to be a Revolutionary Soldier, and believed to be [illegible], that he received a pension as such; and that the said James Standridge and Mary Standridge have lived together as man and wife during the whole time he has known them, up to the time of
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the death of the old man, which took place in May about Seven years ago that he has no doubt but that they were legally married, during, or about the close of the Revolutionary War; he also recollects to have heard his Father & Mother speak of the marriage of Mr. & Mrs. Standridge, as they were well acquainted with them and lived in their neighborhood in North Carolina at the time of their marriage he never heard it doubted by any one but that the were legally married; that the said widow Mary Standridge yet lives in his neighborhood, and is yet a widow, she bear the reputation of being truthful & has ever since he knew her, and therefore he has every reason to believe the statement made by her in her Declaration.
[Signature] Randolph Lee Snr. X his mark
Sworn to 28th November 1844 before, Miles M. Norton Ast. Pub. & En. off. M.P.O.

I, William L. Keith, Clerk of the Court for Pickens District S. C. certify that Miles M. Norton is a Magistrate in above and that the foregoing signature, purporting to be his are genuine, and also that William D. Steele, is Judge of the Court of Ordinary, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office this twenty ninth day of November 1844.
[Signature] W. L. Keith Clerk of the Court for Pickens District S. C.
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James Standridge
Private27268-

Admt as a private
6 mo $20

Return answer to Col. Joseph Grisham Falls  Post Office Pickens District S. C. -
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832.

State of South Carolina}
Pickens District} SS.
On this Eighth day of October 1833. Personally appeared before the Honorable John S. Richardson one of the associate Judges of the said State at a court of Sessions & Common Pleas for said District, James Standridge resident of the District of Pickens in the State aforesaid, aged Seventy eight 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 7th 1832. He was called on as one of the new levy or class or Draft for three months in 1777 (as well as he recollects) to go against the Cherokee Indians in the fall of the Year first at the commencement of Frost he went under General Rutherford, Col. William Sharpe, Capt. William Morrison - He went out in the Cherokee nation was at the Town, called Valley Town over hill Town, Tellico plains. He was on the Guard of the Bullock and provision & was in hearing of the gun, & in sight of the Enemy at the Valley Town when General Williamson & his party fought the Cherokee & was out on a scout when Col. Pickens fought the Indians at the Stone Shore. They killed many Indian, & destroyed their crops & returned by way of French Broad, Swanny noa [Swannanoa] to the head of the Catawba his time expired & he was discharged at the Head of the Catawba after first having served out fully his Tour of three months. He lived when called out in Wilkes County N. C.  and returned after discharged home to same place. He
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He was afterwards called upon in the near Georgia service for nine months he thinks in the month of February 1778 by Capt. John Hardin of Col. Sharps Regiment - And he went also with General Davidson to join the regular army, and they did meet them on Dan River where there was a considerable army and they continued then a considerable time was taken sick then and was examined and discharged after having been not up than three months out at this time in the service. While at Dan River with the Regular, he was with Col. Polk that he saw often, the names of the other officers he does not recollect. The answers to the Interrogatories required to be put by the War Department he state as follows. viz.
1st He was born in the State of Maryland in the year 1755 as he has been informed he was, born during Braddock's war & in the time of his defeat.
2nd He has no record of his age
3rd He lived in Wilkes County N. C. when he was called into the Service & till the close of the war. Soon after he moved into Pendleton where he was for the last Forty Years.
4th He was drafted in what we, called the new levies - 
5th He has mentioned Col. Polk of the Regular army he does not recollect the name of any others & none of the Militia officers except those he was under. - His memory ha failed him so that he does not recollect dates, nor with precision much of the familiar occurrences of those times.
6th He got two discharges but lost both -
7th He believes no man who is acquainted with him will doubt his word, The most noted men of his neighbourhood are Col, Kelpatrick, Major David Humphreys, William Simpson, John Verner, Stephen Bates, William Barton Esquire, who will all if called on testify to his credibility.
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He knows of no living Witness who can testify to his services, being Poor, Old, Illiterate & far from the scenes of his younger days & where his services were performed, He never intended to call on his country for help until he was informed provision was made for the soldiers & he being now in need. But would prefer poverty to making a statement of facts he does not distinctly recollect - He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present  and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency of any  State.
[Signature] James Standridge [looks like a blot] his mark
Sworn to in open Court date above written
[Signature] William L. Keith C. C.

We Thomas Dawson a Clergyman residing in the Pickens District and John Verner residing in the the same, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Standridge who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Seventy eight years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and we concur n that opinion.[Signatures] Thomas Dawson John Verner
Sworn & subscribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid. [Signature] William L. Keith C.C. 

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 name applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served a she states and the court of further certifies that it appears to them that Thomas Dawson who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the District of Pickens and that John Verner who has also assigned the same is also a resident in Pickens District and is a credible person ad that their statements is entitled to credit.
[Signature] J. S. Richardson Dist. 9 Judge
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I William L. Keith clerk of the court of Pickens District do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of James Standridge for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 8th day of October 1833 [Signature] William L. Keith
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Raleigh N.C.
Sept. 13th 1845

Dear Sir
Your letter enclosing Five Dollars to pay for search and certificate in the case of James Standridge has been duly received, and I hasten to apprise you. The result of my examinations I have made a thorough search of the records of this office and am unable to find the named upon the Books I examined the records before in this case and wrote you the result as now I have applied the five Dollars to your acct. which has now been closed excepting two dollars and fifty cents which you would still be due me from my Books, tho I have balanced the account as even. So we now begin The Move I am very respectfully Your obt. Srvt.
[Signature] Wm. F. Collins
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11.536,
Mary Standridge
S. C.
Suspended
Let to Miles M. Norton 22' Feb.  1845 & same Nov. 24 '45
Act 7th July '38
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11.336
Mary Standridge
S.C.
Act 7th July '38
-6 May 37 -
6 mos
admd
6 mo. pri
20$ from 6 May '37
also acts 43 & 44
20$

Mile M. Norton
Pickens C.H.
S.C.
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Pickens C.H.S.C.
29th November 1844.

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir,
I went with the Ordinary the other day up into the mountains of this District & made out the Declaration of old Mrs. Standridge which you have herewith. She is very Poor & very ignorant and at her age cannot recollect much that she ever knew. I would have made application under the act of 1826 (as there is no doubt but she was married before the last service of her husband) but feared the proof of that past was insufficient. I think however it will secure her a pension under the act of 1838.
Please let me hear the result, when the application is examined, and again oblige.
Yours very respectfully.
Miles M. Norton [Signature]
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Pickens C.HS.C.           10.
Hon. J. L. Edwards 
Com. of Pensions
Washington City D. C.

Sept. 30 1848
Add to case

Mary Standridge
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Pickens S. C.
22d Sept. 1845.
Dear Sir, 
It seems that the name of James Standridge is not to be found in the Comptrollers Office in N. C. as that does not disprove the service, I hope it may be admitted as now on record. If so, I will hunt up additional evidence of Mary Standridge's marriage.
Very Respectfully
Miles M. Norton [Signature]

Hon. J. L. Edwards
5
Miles M. Norton Esq.
Pickens C.H.
South Carolina

[stamp - RALEIGH 17]
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South Carolina} William Barton Esq. who is an 
Pickens District} old, highly respectable & truthful citizen, and made oath in the form of law, that when he was a young man, about 19 or 20 years of age, he commanded a Station of men on cover of the Indian border, and whilst there, either in 1791 or 1792 he became acquainted with James Standridge and his Family, that they moved to this county (as he understood form North Carolina) and passed where he was stationed and he then became acquainted with them, that they then lived together as husband & wife & had children and had apparently been married several years. they afterwards lived near him for some time, and then moved a few miles further off, that the old man who was reputed & believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution has since died & his widow Mary Standridge is yet alive & as he understands making application for a Pension: he has never heard of the legality of the marriage of said Standridge doubted.
[Signature] Wm. Barton
Sworn to 11th October 1845 before 
Miles M. Norton [Signature]
Notary Public & Ex Off. M.P.D.

I, William L. Keith Clerk of the Court of Pickens District S. C. certify that Miles Mm. Norton is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office, this 13th day of October A. D. 1845
[Signature] Wm. L. Keith
Clerk of the Court of Pickens District So. Ca.
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Pickens
Pickens C.H.S.C.     10
14 Oct
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D. C. 

Oct. 22/48
Add to Case
Mary Standridge

Is to DC 22 Oct.
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Pickens C.H.S.C.
13th October 1845.

Dear Sir,
I send you herein the affidavit of Capt. Wm. Barton as to the marriage of Mary Standridge which I hope will e satisfactory on that point. I am informed by Wm. F. Collins Compt. of Accts in North Carolina, that the name of James Standridge does not appear , as having had any payment made him for service; but I suppose the evidence upon which he was pensioned is sufficient in the absence of better and you are aware that all who done service in N.C. did not receive certificates.
Very respectfully
Your obt. Srvt.
Miles M. Norton [Signature]
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Pickens C.H.S.C.    10
13 Jan'y
Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

Jan 20 1846
Add to case
Mary Standridge
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South Carolina}
Pickens District} William Barton Esquire of the District aforesaid a person to me well known, appeared before me and made Oath that when he was a young man about 19 or 20 years of age he became acquainted with James Standridge & his Family, That they moved to this country (as he understood from North Carolina) and passed by the Station where this deponent had the command called Conneross [Coneross] in this District it was there that he became acquainted with them, that they lived together as man & wife and had some children and had apparently been married several years. The settled within about four miles of this deponent where the lived for many years and then moved a few miles farther all the time they lived as he understood as Husband & Wife till the death of the said James Standridge, who was reputed and believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution; since his death his widow Mary Standridge has lived in the neighborhood where she is now living in this District and as he understands is applying for a pension. H has never heard the legality of the marriage of the said James and Mary Standridge doubted. [Signature] Wm. Barton
Sworn to in due form of law this18th day of December 1845. Before me Joseph Grisham [Signature] Notary Public & Ex officio M.P.C.

I certify that the above named William Barton is an old and very respectable citizen of this District who for many years acted as a Magistrate, and that his word has due credit where he is known, I also certify that I was well acquainted with James Standridge and wrote his declaration to obtain a pension which he received by my agency, until his death. I have seen the above named Mary Standridge with her husband at their own house - And have no doubt but she is entitled to a Pension.
[Signature] Joseph Grisham N.P. & Ex. off. S.C.P.D -
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I, William L. Keith Clerk of the Court of Pickens District S. C. do hereby certify that Rev. Joseph  Grisham is a Magistrate as is indicated with and that the signatures to the foregoing certificates are in his own genuine hand writing and also that the affiant William Barton Esq. is an old and highly respectable citizen of this Deist. and in every way worthy of full credit.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of Office, this twelfth day of January 1846.
[Signature]  W. L. Keith 
Clerk of the Court of Pickens District So. Ca.
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Pickens S.C. 
10th January 1846.

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions

Dear Sir,
In reply to yours of the 24th Nov. last concerning Mrs. Mary Standridge's claim. I herewith send you the affidavit of William Barton Esq. taken over again as directed - He is one of our most worthy & intelligent citizens - and the certificates on that point will prove satisfactory. I have been careful in all my claim, to get proof from none but persons of good character & have not myself as a magistrate certified to the good character of any but what I can get abundant backing in their neighborhoods. For my character I would refer you to the Hon. J.C. Calhoun & Hon. R. F. Simpson, also Hon. A. Burt.
I am sir, very respectfully
Your obt. Servt.
Miles M. Norton
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9939
South Carolina
Mary Standridge,
Widow of James Standridge who was a pensioner under the Act of '32, and who died on the 6th of May 1837, of Pickens Dist. in the State of S. Carolina, who was a private in the    commanded by Captain     of the      commanded by      in the N. Carolina line for 6 mos.
Inscribed on the Roll of S. Carolina at the rate of 20 Dollars --- Cents per annum, to commence on the 6th May, 1837 -
Certificate of Pension issued the 9th - day of April 1846 and sent to M. M. Norton, Pickens C. H. So. Ca.
Total amount, $73.12
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by M.M. Stewart - Clerk Book D -Vol. 1 - Page 313
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second  Comptroller's Office,
May 13th 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 the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The widow of James Standridge a Pensioner on the Roll of the S. Carolina Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars pre annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1836, to the 6th May 1837, the day of his death.
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris [Signature]
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Revolution
South Carolina
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 9686
Mary Standridge Wid. James Standridge
Priv. Rev. War
Act: March 3d/43 June 7' 1844.
Index:-Vol. M, Page 243

[Arrangement of 1870.]