Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7813, for Daniel Orr, North Carolina
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SERVICE |                   | NUMBER
N. 6        | Orr, Daniel | R 7813
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Griffin Dec. 31st 1853
Com. of Pensions
Dear Sir,
Enclosed I send you a letter of the former Com. of Pensions J L Edward in reference to Daniel Orr's claim, who died Oct 15th 1852. His son Burrel Orr desires [illegible] to correspond with you in reference to his claim.
He thinks the proof of his father's service is of
Record in the pension office. Please look at the
enclosed letter and let us know, if according to
the statements therein, Jeanne Orr is entitled, and if he is please inform us that we must do
in order to obtain the pension, if it is not
asking too much. Mr. Orr is not willing
to entrust this business to unknown agents
in Washington.
Very Respectfully
Yours
D. N. Martin
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Declaration
In order to obtain the Benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832
State of Georgia
County of Pike S.S.
On this the fourth day of October 1832, personally appeared in open court, before the Inferior Court of Pike County State of Georgia now sitting Daniel Orr, a resident of Pike County and State of Georgia, aged Seventy one 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 act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. In the month of November 1778, in Wake County North Carolina, was drafted for a term of five months, and went into the service of the United States, as a drafted militia some time in the month of November 1778. Under Captain Woodson Daniel, and was mustered into the service in Wake County N. Carolina and at or about the last of November 1778. I hired William Wimpee to go and serve out the remaining part of my tour of duty as a substitute for me, and the said William Wimpee did go and was received by Captain Woodson Daniel, as my substitute
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and the said William Wimpee did serve out the remaining time of my tour of five months to the best of my recollection; does not know of his own knowledge what Colonel or Regiment Captain Woodson Daniel joined; does now recollect however that William Wimpee his substitute often told him after he served out his tour of duty, that he was in General Lincoln's army. In the month of August 1781, volunteered as a Light Horseman in Wake county County North Carolina, for a term of three months under Captain Mathew Cullers, marched from Wake County N. Carolina into Chatham County N. Carolina, after the Torys - from Chatham County marches into Orange County N. Carolina from there to Lindley's Mill, where we fought the Torys who were Commanded by Hector McNeil and Colonel Hannin and before we marched to Lindley's Mill, we joined General Batter, who commanded us in Chief, and one Colonel Robert Mabin was our Colonel - does not recollect now the day of this Battle with Torys but does recollect it was a day or two after the Torys had taken about Hundred Continentals and Governor Martin at Hillsboro N. Carolina from this place we followed on after the Torys to a place called the Brown Marsh [crossed out in Buckingham]
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and from the Brown March to a place called the White Marsh at the White Marsh we were stationed a short time when our Term of Service expired where we were disbanded but received no discharge in writing - after we joined General Batter we were about three hundred strong all Horse men the names of the Captains of the Horse Companies to the best of his recollection were Mathew Cullers, Lewis Bledsaw, Captain McFarland, Captain Gwinn, Captain Harly during both Terms of Service as specified above this claimant resided in Wake County North Carolina since he left Wake County N. Carolina in the year 1784 he has resided in Elberts County Georgia and now resides in Pike County Georgia. He has no documentary evidence wherewith to sustain his claim; and knows of no person whose Testimony he can procure at this period of time to prove his service as a foresaid - and this applicant 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 agency of any State. 

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Daniel Orr

1. Where and in what year were you born?
Ans. In Wake County North Carolina, the the year 1761.
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2. Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it?
Ans. I have no Record of my age.
3. Where were you living when called into service? Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War? And where do you now live?
Ans. Wake County North Carolina. I have lived in Georgia since the year 1784 and now reside in Pike County Georgia.
4. How were called into service? Were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, And if a substitute for whom?
Ans. My first Tour of Duty was by a draft, my second Tour of Duty was Volunteer.
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the Troops where you served such continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service.
Ans. General Batter, Col Robert Mabin, Capt Mathew Cullers, Lewis Bledsaw, Captains, Captain McFarland, Capt Gwinn, Capt Hadly.
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it?
Ans. I have never received a discharge.
7. State the names of Persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as your character for veracity and this belief
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of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution.
Ans. Egbert P. Daniel and Spencer Stamper a clergyman residing in the vicinity of my residence.

Egbert P. Daniel and Spencer Stamper a clergyman, residing both of them in the state of Georgia and County of Pike do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Orr who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy one years of age; that he is reputed and believed in this neighborhood, where he resides to have been a a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion; sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 

Spencer Stamper Mg
Egbert P. Daniel
M.O.C. Mangham J.I.C.
Andrews Battle J.I.C.
Lewis Daniel  J.I.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 named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Spencer Stamper who
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who has signed the preceding certificate is is a clergyman, resident in the County of Pike and State of Georgia and that Egbert P. Daniel who has also signed the same, is a resident in the County of Pike and State of Georgia and that they are both very credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. 

Andrews Battle J.I.C.
M.O.C. Mangham J.I.C.
Lewis Daniel J.I.C.

I Hugh G. Johnson Clerk of the Inferior Court of Pike County and State of Georgia, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Daniel Orr, for a Pension. In Testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand and private seal there being no Seal of Offices, this Fourth of October 1832. 

Hugh G. Johnson Clerk J.I.C.
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State of Georgia
County of DeKalb

On this nineteenth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty personally appeared before me Julius A. Hayden one of the Justices of the Inferior Court of said County the same being a court of Record Daniel Orr who being sworn says that from age and bodily infirmity he is unable of himself to appear in open court, that he is a resident of Pike County in said State and that the reason why he has not made this application then is that he has no success of travelling himself and that he is entirely dependent on others to have him about and that he was brought to this county to visit his children and has to wait their pleasure to take him back to Pike County, that he is eighty nine years of age and that he does make the further following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, that he entered the service of the United States in the State of North Carolina under the following officers to Mr. Captain Joshua Johnson who commanded a company of Militia from Wake County North Carolina and that he served under him as a Volunteer for three months and served as a cooper that he does not recollect the day month or year, but it was about the time of the battle of Guilford, and that he served these months as a volunteer from Wake County North Carolina under Captain Mathew Cullers and that he was attached to the command of Gen Butler and under the command of Colonel
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Maybin (neither of whose given names he now recollects) that said service was at the time that Governor Martin of North Carolina was taken by the Tories at at Hillsboro that he was at a fight with the Torys at Lindly's Mills and that General Battes and Colonel Maybin commanded and that he marched through Rockingham, Johnson, Orange, Guilford Counties.
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 agency of any state.
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
Daniel Orr
J. A. Hayden J.I.C.

The Samuel Bryant [struck through words "a clergyman"] residing in the County of DeKalb and Robert Orr residing in the same place do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Orr who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be about eighty nine years of age, 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 to and Subscribed before we this 19th Feb. 1850,
Samuel Bryant
Robert Orr

And I the said Julius A. Hayden do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented
J.A. Hayden J.I.C.
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by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and that he served as he states and I do further certify that Samuel Bryant and Robert Orr who have signed the preceding certificate are respectable prertly citizens of DeKalb County and that this statement is entitled to credit in testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and official signature this 19th Feb 1850
J.A. Hayden J.I.C.

I Alexander Johnson Clerk of the Inferior Court in and for said County do certify that Julius A. Hayden is one of the Judges of said Court and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his is genuine, and that full faith and credit right to be given to all his acts as such. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and Seal oof Office this 20th Feb 1850. 
Alex Johnson, Clerk
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[Title crossed out which stated] "Acts of July 14, 1862 and March 3, 1873" stamped Rejected

1813
P.O. Daniel Orr
Service:
Enlisted: 
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized. 
Contract
Cert. of Dis. 
Searched for
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No. 16981
Danl Orr
Georgia 
7813
Rejected - see let. to Judge J.M. Wayne Jany 28, 1833.
[illegible] all prior May 10, 1837 
Set to A. W. Prior Oct. 20, 1843. 
Hon. J.W. Jones Dec 29, 1848
L.C. Simpson Apr. 22, 1850
Let. D. W. Martin Jan 9, 1854
Act June 7, 1832
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Atlanta Ga April 9th, 1850

Dear Sir,
I sent you some time ago the papers properly made out of Mr. Daniel Orr, and I am anxious to hear from them. 

Yours,
B. C. Simpson
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Mr. Orr
Griffin Ga
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Pension Office
December 29th 1848

Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3 to incl. respecting the case of Daniel Orr, and in reply to state, that there is no law now in force which grants a pension for service less than 6 months. 

It appears from Orrs statement that in November 1778, he was drafted for a tour of 5 months, and about the last of the same month he hired William Wimper as a substitute, who served out the remaining part of his term - that in 1781 he volunteered as a Light Horseman for three months. Should his statement be admitted, it would show less than 4 months actual service, which is not sufficient to entitle him to a Pension. It would afford me great pleasure could I hold out to the old man hopes of success, but there is no law to justify the admissions of his claim. 

I have the honor to be, 
Hon. J. W. Jones
House of Representatives
Very respectfully, your obt. Servant
J.L. Edwards
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House of Reps
Dec 13th 1848

J. L. Edwards Esqr.

Sir Mr. Daniel Or of Pike County Georgia wishes to obtain a pension for military services during the Revolutionary War. 
He states that he was drafted in the Militia service in Wake County South Carolina (at about the age of 16 years) (he is now 87) for five months and entered the service and afterward, furnished a substitute* who served out the five months independent of the time that he had served. 
He afterward volunteered as a Horseman under the Colonel of Wake County N.C. with the understanding that [illegible] months mounted service would be received - *William Wimpee.
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in place of three month, foot service - was with and under Genl Butter at the Battle of Lindley Mill and belonged to the Company of Capt Colvers H. H. Mr. Orr's papers are now in the Pension Office.
Mr. Orr is an upright and needy old man and is great want of means to secure the ordinary comforts of life. I need not plead in his behalf for I know you will do him justice.
Most Respectfully,
J.W. Jones
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P.O. Business
[stamp] Feb 20 Atlanta Ga.

Feb 25 1850
Daniel Orr
June 1832

J.L. Edwards 
Commissioners of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Atlanta Ga Feb 20th 1850

Dear Sir,
You will find enclosed the application of Daniel Orr for pension, it is in the best form that I can place it in under the circumstances.

Yours,
L.C. Simpson
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th June 1832.

State of Georgia
County of Pike
S.S.
On this 6th day of June in the year Eighteen hundred and forty three, personally appeared before the Inferior Court of said County, Daniel Orr, a resident of the said County of Pike, in the State of Georgia, aged eighty one 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. That he was drafted as a Militia man in Wake County Norh Carolina in the fall of the year 1778 as well as he can now recollect (the precise date or the particular month he cannot now recollect from the loss of memory) this draft was for a five month tour, and Captain John Jones was the Captain of the Company to which this applicant was attached, from Wake Courthouse, marched under Capt. Jones to the line Johnston County where I hired William Wimpy as a substitute, who was accepted and marched on to the State of Georgia under Genl. Ash, who commanded the North Carolina militia under Genl Lincoon and from information received from said Wimpy and others the said Wimpy was engaged in the Battle on Briar Creek in the month of February 1779. Under Ash, Elbert and others, Genl Ash and Genl Elbert were defeated by Col. Prevost the British commander in that battle to the best of this deponents recollection the said Wimpy served out the tour of five months and returned to Wake County North Carolina. In the fall of 1779, Col. Michael Rogers and Thomas Wooton employed me to make Pork Barrels and Flour Barrels to pack provisions for the army in and this deponent
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worked in the publick store in Wake County North Carolina making Barrels two months which by agreement with the said Cols Rogers and Wooton, was to be received in line of a three months tour of duty in the army. The next tour of service this deponent performed was a three months tour of service as a mounted militia man in the fall of the year 1780 as a volunteer under Captain Mathew Cullers. Volunteered in Wake County North Carolina [crossed out: marched from Wake County North Carolina to Guilford County down into Moore County and down to a place called the White Marsh not far from Wilmington and a few days] after we embodied, joined General Butler, and marched in pursuit of the Tories commanded by a man named Hector McNeal and aided by a Colonel Fanning who a short time before, had taken Governor Martin of North Carolina a prisoner, and also about one hundred prisoners out of Hillsboro, Orange County; overtook the Tories in Guilford County at Lindleys Mill was in an engagement with them but was not able from the want of numbers, to defeat them, or to get their prisoners from them; we pursued them from Guilford County down to a place called the White Marsh not far from Wilmington, when we had another engagement with them, but could not succeed in defeating them; the balance of the three months service was performed in reconnoitering a patrolling the country in holding in check the ravages of the Tories; our time having expired, we were discharged at the place called the White Marsh; I received
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a discharge from Captain Cullers, but
which has long since been lost; and this
applicant further states that he has no means at
this late date, by which to establish his claim
& prove his service, except by his own oath
that he knows of and that he hereby
relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension
or annuity except the present and he declares 
that his name is not on the Pension Role of 
any Agency in any state or territory.

1 Where and in what year were you born?
Ansr In Wake County North Carolina, in august
1761. do not Know the day of the month
2 Have you any Record of your age?
Ansr I have no record of my age, & my information
as to my age, was derived from my Parents
3. Where were living when called into service
Where have you lived since the Revolutionary
War, and where do you now, live?
Ansr In Wake County N. Carolina; Since the
Revolution I have lived in Wilks County
Georgia, Elbert County, Georgia, Madison 
County Georgia, and now live in Pike
County Georgia.
4 How were you Called into service, were you
drafted, did you Volunteer, or were you a
Substitute, and if a substitute for whom?
Ansr as a drafted man, and also as a Volunteer
5 State the names of some of some of the regular
officers, who were with the Troops, where your served
Such Continental and militia Regimants as you
recollect, and the general circumstances of your
service
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Ansr. There were no regular officers who were
with the Troops where I served in Person
and I cannot state the regiment that I 
Served in Person in as he Volunteered under 
Captain Matthew Cullers, and our colonel
was by the name of Robert Mabin, and
General Butler had the command; the
General circumstances of my service have been
set for the in the foregoing declarations.
6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the
service, and if so, by whom was it given and
what has become of it;
Ansr I did receive a discharge from
Captain Matthew Cullers, and the same
been long since lost;
7th. state the names of Persons to whom
you are known in your neighborhood.
; and who can testify as to your charact.
for veracity, and their belief of your
services as a soldier of the Revolution
Ansr. I can state the name of
[illegible] Wiiliam Dismukes
and Asa Sessions    Daniel Orr

One Asa Sessions & William dismuke residing in
the neighborhoold of Daniel Orr, hereby certify, that
we are well acquainted with Daniel Orr
who has subscribed to the above declaration
that we believe him to be Eighty one years of
age and that he is [illegible] and believed
in the neighborhood where he resides to have
been a soldier of the Revolution, and that
we concur in that opinion, sworn to & subscribed
this 6th June 1843, in open court.
Asa Sessions
Wm. Dismukes
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And the said Court do hereby declare their
opinion after the investigation of the matter
and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed
by the War Department that the above named
applicant was a soldier of the Revolution
and served as he states; and the court further
certifys that that it appears to them that
Asa Sessions & William Dismuke who have
signed the preceeding are residents in the
neighborhood of the applicant, are credible
persons and that their statement is entitled
to credit
Jas Eppinger Justice Superior Court, Pike Co
Spencer Stamper J.I.C.
Thomas C. Taylor J.I.C. P.C
I Wiley E. Mangham Clerk of the Superior Court
of Pike County Georgia, do hereby certify that 
the foregoing contains the original proceedings
of the court in the matter of the application of
Daniel Orr for a Pension
In Testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office
this 6th June 1843
Wiley E. Mangham. Clerk
Superior Court, Pike Co.
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Daniel Orr.
Amendment.
p731
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State of Georgia ⎬ Personally appeared before
County of Pike ⎬ me, Jesse B. Reeves one of the
Judges of the Inferior Court of Pike County
Daniel Orr and after being duly sworn
according to Law, deposeth and saith, that
the two months Tour of duty, which he served as
Horseman in Captain Mathew Cullers. Horse
Company in Wake County North Carolina, and
which service is more particularly described
and delineated in his declaration now on
file in the war, department, was in lieu of
a three months Tour of duty, in the following
manner. Captain Matthew Cullers, proposed
to all those persons, who thought proper, that
if they would find a Horse and Gun of
their own, and go into service for two months
that the same should and would be allowed
in line of a three months Tour of duty
on foot, and this applicant did serve the
said two months Tour on Horse, as described
in Declaration, now on file, with the express
understanding at the time, he joined it, that
he was to receive all the emoluments of a
three months Tour on foot, in consequence of
finding his own House & Gun. and which
explanation and amendment this applicant
now makes, in the original declaration
, to enable him to receive a pension of six
months service, Sworn to and subscribed
this 29th March 1837.
Daniel Orr
Jesse B. Reeves J.I.C.