Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4864, Buckner Williams, N.C.
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SERVICE N. C.

Williams, Buckner
Mary

NUMBER W.4864
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1[illegible] AN 5. 16

North Carolina

Buckner Williams
of Northampton the State of North Carolina
who was a pro: in the company commandia
by Captain Williamson of the Regt commanded
by Col. Seawell in the North Car:
time for 6 months

Inscribed on the roll of North Car:
at the rate of 20 Dollars. ----- Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of July '33
Washington D.C. and sent J. H. Wheeler

Arrears to the 4th of March '33.  40
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept "   10
                                                              $50
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Wm. Miller Clerk,
Book E. Vol 6. Page 59
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Letter to P. Hagner. 01. April 1840

Dead

Paid at the Treasury under
the act of the 6th April 1838
from 4 [illegible] 1833 to 1. May 1836
the time of his death. Act
notified 30 April 1840
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6418
North Carolina

Mary Williams,

widow of Buckner Williams
who was a Private
in the N C Line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
20 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
26 day of Nov 1844
and sent to 
Hon J R I Daniel
Present

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 162


[right hand column]2 Certs:
1838
1843 } repo
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State of North Carolina
Northampton County
On this 5th day of September in the year
one thousand eight hundred and thirty two (1832) Personally
appeared before me Roderick. B. Gary on of the Justices of 
the Peace in and for the aforesaid county - Buckner
Williams son. a resident in the county and state of afore
=said aged (77) seventy seven years  in [illegible] - who brings
first duly sworn according to law, [illegible] on his oath make
the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of the act Congress passed Jun 7th 1832.
That he was drafted to serve a six months [illegible] in
Capt Williamson & [illegible] Company in Col Seawall &
Mikles' regiment and after joined Leut [illegible] requested
that he live in Northampton County NC. where he
entered the service, he march through N Carolina South
Carolina & Georgia was in no battles, discharged a
place called the [illegible] Marsh near Salisbury - that
he knows of no person now living except James Seat
that he can prove his service by, that he has no
documents that he can prove any  things of his service,
He hereby making wishes very claim statement to a pension or
annuity accept the present and declares that his name is
not on the pension roll of the agency of any  state.

I do hereby certify that the above                                        his
declaration was sworn to and.            [signature Buckner  X  Williams] [seal]
subscribed before me this day                                             mark
& year above written & that
from Certify [illegible] the applicant
other & the court.

R.B.Gary JP

State of North Carolina
Northampton COurty

On the [illegible] day of September 1832
personally appeared before me, James Seat,  taketh on the to the
following part of the above declarations of Buckner Williams [illegible]
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that he was drafted at the time the said Buckner
Wiliams was & is knowing to his (the said Williams) serving
a six months [illegible], in Capt, Williamson & Bunnes campaign
in Col Seawall & Brickles regiment, & marching in North
Carolina & South Carolina - The said James Seat
says he now served, but three months at any one time 
as he [illegible] substituted just as he was drafted
to serve.  Consequently he knows of but three months [illegible]
[illegible] by Buckner Williams-
                                                                                      his
Sworn to before me                                        James. /+ Seat
John U Chete. JP                                                     mark

Buckner Williams [illegible] making oath in open court of
[illegible] & Quarter [illegible] now sitting, that the app
licit Buckner Williams was examined by Roderick
B. Gary Esq one of the Justices in & for the county
of North Carolina - that he sworn to the aforesaid
declaration before sd Gary at his own house, and
answered several interagatories as to his age, time
of service & to said Gary- The applicant further
swears that sd applicant has been blind for the
space of ten years - and for the last five years in
connquina of a severe palsy he has lost all power
of locomotion and is unable to move without the
help of others.    N Williams
[illegible] to in
open court
Testa R H Weaver clk
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and the court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions do hereby
certify after an investigation of the matter that they 
believe that the aforesaid applicant was a Rev
volutionary service and served as he states. The
Court further certifies that it appears to them that
Roderick B Gary Esq who has signed the aforesaid
certificate and John White Esq. are both acting
Justices of the Peace for this county and members
of this worshipful court.  They also certify that
James Seat and [illegible] Williams who have signed the aforenamed cer-
tificates are credible persons residents in this county
and their statement/s are entitled to to full [illegible]
Clerk of the Court of Pleas NC
I Richard H Weaver do hereby
certify that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of said court in the matter of the
appreciation of Buckner Williams for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & seal of office this
3d Dec 1832  [signature] Richd H Weaver Clk

I certify that James Seat whose name appears as witness above
is a revolutionary Pensioner, now on the roles of the Pension office
June 21st 1833. [signature] [illegible] Wheeler
Clk of the Board of com
under the late Treaty with
France.
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11406
Declaration of Mary
Williams
N.C.
Act 7 July 38
m 86 d 2 May '36
[illegible]
20 from 2 May
'36 the day of her husbands 
death
Also
Act 3 March 43
$20
[illegible] act 1843- 6688

Hon JR. J Daniel
Ho Rep.
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State of North Carolina
Northampton County}ss
On this 5th day of March (1844)
eighteen hundred and forty four, personally appeared before me
Charles R Kee an acting Magistrate and a member 
of the of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions (County Court) in and
for the County and State aforesaid, Mary Williams a resident of 
said County and State aged eighty 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 7, 1838, entitled "An act gran
-ting half pay and pensions to certain widows:" And this act
granting one years pay to the widows of Soldiers who have already
received five years pension passed on the 3d day of March 1843.-
That she is the widow of Buckner Williams who was a Soldier
of the Revolution & a pensioner at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, &
resided in the County aforesaid.  She further declares that she
was married to the said Buckner Williams, on the 23d, day of Dece
-mber seventeen hundred and eighty six. that her husband to afore
-said Buckner Williams, died on the second day of May eighteen
hundred & thirty six, that she has no family record of her interma
-rriage, with the said Buckner Williams, I think that no record of
the same was ever kept, that the was not married to him prior
to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous
to the first January Seventeen hundred thirty four, [illegible] at 
the time above stated.       her
[signature]                   Mary  X  Wiliams
                                               mark
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day & year above written,
before
[signature] Charles R Kee [illegible]

State of North Carolina
Northampton County
I Charles R Kee of the County & State
aforesaid do hereby certify that I have long known Mary Williams
who has this day subscribed and made oath to the foregoing declaration
before me, I know her to be the widow of Buckner Wiliams, who
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was a Soldier of the Revolution and a pensioner, and have no doubt but
she was lawfully, married to him at the time stated in the foregoing
declaration.  I further certify that her husband the aforesaid Buckner
Williams died on the 2d, day of May 1836, and that she has remained
a widow ever since that period; that she is by reason of old age
and bodily infirmity unable to attend Court to make the foregoing
declaration; that she is a woman of truth, and that full faith &
credit is due to her oath, given under my hand and seal this 5th, day
of March 1844.-   
[signature] Charles R Kee  

State of North Carolina
Northampton County} 
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions March Session 1844.
The foregoing declaration of Mary Williams having been exhibited in open Court
this day as  taken before Charles R. Kee one of the acting Justces of the Peace in and 
for said County; the Court confirm the same as though it was taken before this Court,
and said Court are of oppinion that, the aforesaid Mary Williams is the widow of
Buckner Williams who was a Soldier of the Revolution, and a pensioner; and
that she was lawfully, married to him on the day and year as expressed in the
foregoing declaration.
It is therefore ordered by the Court that our Clerk certify the same to the
War Departement.  
[signature] Sami Cabert Churman

State of North Carolina
Northampton}
March Session 1844.
I Thomas Hughes Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter
Sessions (County Court) in and for the County aforesaid, certify that, the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application
of Mary Williams, for a pension.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my
hand and seal of office this 6th, day of March A.D. 1844.
[signature] Thms Hughes Clk
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State of North Carolina
Northampton County}
The affidavit of Thomas Hughes Clerk of the County Court
of the County aforesaid, made before me D. R. Garris an acting Just
-ice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, in the case of Mary Williams,
widow of Buckner Williams [illegible],  upon an application for a pension.  The said
Mary Williams is known to this affiant to be a very old woman, and She and Buc
-kner Williams, were reputed to be man and wife; and this affiant has no doubt
they were legally married.  He has upon application made Search of the Records
of his Office, from the year (1795) seventeen hundred and ninety five, for several
years (to Wit) fifteen years backward, and can find, no entry of license having
issued, for the marriage of the said Mary and Buckner Williams; it not being
usual or required by law to keep a record of the licenses issued for marriages.-

Sworn to and subscribed before.           [signature] Ths. Hughes clk
me [signature] D R Garris 
 an acting Justice of the Peace for
the County aforesaid this 6th, day of 
March AD 1844.

State of North Carolina
Northampton County}
I Thomas Hughes Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter
Sessions (County Court) of the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that Dempsey
R Garris is and was at the time of witnessing the foregoing affidavit, an
acting Justice of the Peace for the County, aforesaid, and that full faith, and
credit, ought to be given to his official act as such, this 6th, day March 1844
[signature] Thms. Hughes Clk
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8885

N. Carolina

Mary WIliams
widow of Buckner Williams
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
who died on the 2 May 1836
of Northampton in the State of NC
who was a Pri in the Co
commanded by Captain Williamson of the
reg commanded by Col Seawell in
the N.C. line for

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina
at the rate of 20 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the
[crossed out 4th day of March, 1836.]
2 May 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of
Nov. 1844 and sent to [illegible]
J. R. J Daniel, Present

Total amount, $
[Act July 7, 1838]
Recorded by F. S. Swann Clerk
Book D. Vol A Page 303
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Rwy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 4864
Mary Williams
Wid.
Buckner Williams
Pri. N.C. line

Act: Mach, 3/hh
Index:-Vol. M, Page 338

[Arrangement of 1870.
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State of North Carolina
Halifax County}. The affidavit of Martha Wilcox, a resident
of said County aged sixty eight years, in the case of Mary Williams,
of Northampton County N. Car, upon an application for a pension.

The above named Mary Williams (whose maiden name was Mary
Melton) is well known to this affiant to be the widow of Buckner Williams
dec'd of Northampton County N.Car.  Affiant did not witness the marriage
of the aforesaid Buckner, and Mary Williams, but well recollects to have 
heard of the marriage, and as well as this affiant, recollects, it was in
the year seventeen hundred and eighty six, or eighty seven, when the aforesaid
Buckner, and Mary Williams, were said to have been married, in the County
of Northampton N. Car by William Hudson (who at the time above mentioned
was an acting Magistrate, in the aforesaid County of Northampton, and this
affiant has no doubt they were lawfully married.  This affiant was 
married to her first husband, Thomas Hudson, on the 20th day of August
Seventeen hundred and ninety three, and she well knows that the afore
=said Buckner and Mary Williams, were married or (said to have been
married) as much as six years previous to her marriage to the said Thom
=mas Hudson.  It is well known to affiant that the aforesaid Buck
=ner and Mary Williams were living together as man and wife [illegible]
[illegible] in the year (1793) Seventeen hundred and ninety three, and that
his wife the aforesaid Mary Williams, was then the mother of two
children (Thomas and Martha Williams, who were the two oldest
children of the aforesaid Buckner and Mary Williams.
Sworn to and subscribed this 19 day of September 1844
before me Rice B. Pierce P.J   [signature Martha Wilcox]
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State of North Carolina
Halifax County]  J Rice B. Pierce presiding
Magistrate of the court of pleas and quarter
for the county of Halifax & State aforesaid do hereby
Certify that I am will acquainted with Mrs.
Martha Wilcox who [illegible] this day sworn to &
subscribed to the foregoing affidavit before me,
and known her to be a lady of [illegible]
& that [illegible] faith & [illegible] is due to her [illegible]
Given under my hand [illegible]
this 19th day of September 1844 ([illegible])
Rice B. Pierce P. M.

State of North Carolina
Halifax County}  I William W Daniel clerk of
the court of Pleas and quarter
[illegible] of the county aforesaid do hereby certify that
Rice B Pierce whose signature appears to the foregoing
affadavit & certificate is and was at the time of signing
the same Chairman of and Presiding Justice of the 
aforesaid court and that the signature purporting
to be his is genuine and that full faith & credit is due
to the same as such and that the same is in due
form of Law   In testimony whereof I hereunto put my &
                       affix seal of my office this 21 September 1844
W W Daniel Clk
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State of North Carolina
Northampton County}  The affidavit of Jarrel Thomson a resident of said County
aged eighty two years, in the case of Mary Williams upon an application for a pension.
The above named Mary Wiliams (whose maiden name ws Mary Melton) is known
to this affiant to be the widow of Buckner Williams, who was a Revolutionary pension
=er; he did not witness the marriage, but was living in the aforesaid County and in the
neighborhood where, and when, the aforesaid Buckner and Mary Williams were said to have
been married, he recollects to have heard of the marriage, and to have heard old W.
Melton the Father of the aforesaid Mary and (who was so much opposed to the aforesaid
Buckner; marrying his daughter Mary, that he would not suffer them married at his house
=se) say that Mary had caught a [illegible] because the aforesaid Buckner was in the habit of
wearing a red jacket.  This affiant can not recollect distinctly, in what year the
aforesaid  Buckner and Mary Williams were married; but thinks it was in the
year seventeen hundred and eighty six or seven.  This affiant well knows that in
the year seventeen hundred and ninety the aforesaid Mary was the wife of the afore
said Buckner Williams, and the mother of one child if no more (whose name was
Thomas Williams, and who was the oldest child) of the aforesaid Buckner and Mary
Williams; and that the said Buckner and Mary Williams, lived together as man
and wife from that time until the 2nd day of May 1836 when her husband the
aforesaid Buckner Williams departed this life. T his affiant well rememb-
=ers to have seen the aforesaid Thomas Williams (child of the said Buckner and
Mary) Christin; and knows that if he was now living he would be upward
of fifty five years old; he also knows that Martha Carter (whose maiden na
=me was Martha Williams) and who is the 2d child of the said Buckner and
Mary Williams) is fifty three years old if no more, That Rebecca the 3d child (if
living) would be upward of fifty years old.  Sworn to and subscribed this 5th day of Septem
=ber 1844. before me 
                                                                                 his
[signature] Charles R Kee.       [signature] Jarrel X Thomson 
                                                                                 mark
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State of North Carolina
Northampton County}  I the said Justice of the Peace, do hereby certify that I have long
known the aforesaid Jarel Thomson who has this day sworn to and subscribed
the foregoing affidavit before me, and known to be a man of [illegible], and that
full faith and credit is due to his oath. Given  under my hand this 5th day of Septem
=ber 1844. [signature] Charles R Kee 

State of North Carolina
Northampton County} I Thomas Hughes Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter sess
=ions for said County do hereby certify that Charles R. Kee whose genuine signature
appears to the foregoing affidavit and certificate, is and was, when he signed the same
an acting Justice of the Peace in and for our said County, and that full faith and
credit is given to his acts as such.  In testimony, I hereto set my hand
and affix my seal of Office this 6th day of
September 1844.
[signatue] Thomas Hughes Clk
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Certificate of the Clerk in the case of Mary Williams upon an application
for a pension.-

State of North Carolina
Northampton County}. I Thomas Hughes Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter
Sessions for the County aforesaid, do herby certify that, I know the above named Mary
Williams (whose maiden name, was Mary Melton, as I have been informed) to be
a very old woman, and she, and Buckner Williams, who was a Revolutionary pen
=sioner) were reputed to be man and wife; they lived together as such, and I have 
no doubt, they were lawfully married.  I further certify that I have upon applica
=tion, made diligent search of my office, it being the place where, license bands
for marriages in the aforesaid County are required to be deposited by law, and
can find no marriage band, or band ofr license issued, for the marriage of the
aforesaid Buckner and Mary Williams.  In testimony, whereof, I hereto set my
hand and affix my seal of Office this 6th
day of September 1844.
Thos Hughes Clk
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Halifax N.C. Oct 11th 1844

J L Edward Esq
I herewith enclose you some
Pension papers in the case of Mary Wil-
Liams with additional evidence, which 
you will please examine & write
me, & if allowed, enclose me the 
certificate as soon as practical, at
Littleton Depot N.C.

Yours with 
respect
J R J Daniel
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TREASURY  DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
April 22d, 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 theTreasurey
of the United States,"  The widow of Buckner Williams
a Pensioner on the Roll of the North Carolina Agency, at
the rate of Twenty Dollars [crossed out and Cents] 
per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has
been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1833,
to the 1st May 1836, the time of his death.

Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pension,
Present.