Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5394, for James Hunt, South Carolina
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(3-1776)
SERVICE SC
Hunt, James
NUMBER R. 5394

Born in N.C.

CONTENTS
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677
FAMILY RECORD
[left side]
MARRIAGES.
James Hunt & Sally Hent his Wife was married February 22, 1786

Sally Hunt the wife of James Hunt  Deceased this life January the 18 1837

[right side]
MARRIAGES.
[illegible] Davis [crossed out, not transcribed]

Jonathan Davis and Cindy his wife was married January the 9th 1812

James Hunt, was born February 7th 1765
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678
FAMILY RECORD
[left side]
BIRTHS.
Thomas W Hunt was born Nov 20, 1787 
Elizabeth Hunt was born April 5 1749
John Hunt was born November 4 1790

[right side]
BIRTHS
Susan Hunt was Born December 25th 1803
George G. Hunt was born May 10th 1806
Nancy Hunt was Born April 26th 1808
Jane N Hunt was born April 29. 1810
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State of Tennessee Sumner County
On this 10th day of March 1851 personally appeared James Hunt a resident of the County of Sumner and State of Tennessee aged as the bible record will show about eighty six years of age. His age recorded was from an old testament which has since been destroyed about the year 1812-  said record with the date of his marriage in
1786 is hereto annexed and prayed to be taken as part of this testimony before me Robert Doris one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for the County before said and a Justice of a court of record - being unable to walk or appear in court from a dislocation of the hip and also from old age and bodily infirmity 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 June 7th1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein Stated to wit
His first tour of service was as a drafted Militia man under Captain Thomas Elibee as well as he recollects - all young men from 15 years of age to fifty were required by State of South Carolina
to be mustered into service and as he was well grown he entered and was enrolled for three month under the above named Captain in the summer of Seventeen hundred and Eighty -his father lived about eighteen miles from Camden on a
large creek called Hanging Rock and owing to exposure out in marching he was taken sick and permitted to return on furlough to his father's at the time when General Gates marched against Cornwallis and on the evening before the battle of Camden Gates or as he believes the evening
previous stayed all night on his fathers plantation destroying all the corn and wheat and oats - that there was from the appearance five hundred baggage wagons - Gales left early in the morning March toward Camden and the next night or morning was fought the great battle but
Gates retreated by a different road four miles off and dis
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State of Tennessee
Sumner County 
I Robert Doris one of the acting Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the above annexed contained the marriage of James Hunt and Salley his wife and her death also the marriage of Jonathan Davis and last the date of the birth of the Declarant James
Hunt 7th February 1915, was cut out of his family bible on this day in my presence and that I believe the same is genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official Seal this 10th day
of March 1851
Robert Dorris JP seal
Justice of the Peace
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not return the way they went - there were scattering houses
however passed relating the news of the defeat - So soon as he was able to leave and bear arms he joined his company -this was in the latter part of August or 
September 1780 as well as he recollects and was marched or stationed between Cornwallis and Charlestown to intercept the Supplies coming up - was part of the time near within ten miles of Charlestown under command of Colonel Benton and sometimes in sight of the City - he served this tour three months and was honorably discharged, which discharge has been long since destroyed with other old papers before be left that country not knowing they would ever be of any service - when Cornwallis passed up the Country in the direction of North Carolina in the fall or winter following times were so dangerous that it was safer to be in service than at home - he volunteered again under the same Captain for three month and Joined Colonel Marion as he was then called - was marched to the High Hills of Santee to guard some provision and ammunition wagons to General Allen and returned again to General Marion and marched to George Town passing Monks Corner where they remained some time - they continued on the March at different places sometimes on Pee Dee sometimes on Catawba - had several skirmishes with the Tories - took a Tory Captain by the name of John Rice and dispersed most of his men and took the rest. He served this for three months and was discharged by Colonel Benton which discharge has been lost and destroyed with the first one above mentioned - after the battle of Guilford Declarant volunteered again for three months under Captain Clodeus Page and was stationed on the Santee - sometimes with General Marion but under Colonel Benton - they took another Tory Captain
by the name of Kimbell and took and dispersed his
men - during this tour he saw hard service sometimes eating nothing but poor beef without salt a bread - he served their month and was honorably discharge which discharge was destroyed  with the others above stated - when he returned home
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home be found his fathers house rifled of every thing by the Tories even to the clothing, so soon as he returned here he volunteered again for three months under Captain Eleber and Lieutenant Michael this was in the summer of 1781 was marched in the direction of Eutaw Springs after the battle at that place saw the Tories there lying this town, was also as well as he recollects under Colonel Benton was marched back into North Carolina as near the line was stationed on the Black River and a part of the time on Catawba with Marion would go out trips after the Tories and at other times be with Marion he served this tour two months and got an honourable discharge which discharge was destroy with the first above mentioned

He volunteered again for two months under Captain Eleber and served with Marion was  stationed on the Santee and October sometimes with Sumpter something with other field officers not now recollected Colonel Bruman was one, this was in the later part of 1781 he was discharge for a tour of two months which was then as above stated. He was out in winter of 1781 and served one month and was again discharged He also saw other small tours of service sometimes on twenty days and sometimes longer and Chased after the Tories and with Marion but cannot particularize them in fact until long after peace was made he held himself very continually ready to be out as there was more safety to be out than at home. He that served to the best of his recollection fourteen months for which he claims a pension he has no documentary evidence in support of his claim and that he further declares that his name is not on the roll of the Agency of any State or Territory and he hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension except the present. He further declares that he knows of no person now living who could testify to his services. and he hereby further Declare that the reason he did not make application for a Pension was his ignorance of the law and that Several persons told him shortly after 1832 That unless he was out six months in one tour of Service
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under one engagement he could not be entitled be always lived in a remote part of his county where he could see but few people and knew not his rights until within the past year and then only by hearsay. He further Declares that on account of the loss of memory and old age and infirmity he cannot state to one half of the particulars of his service he has also his hip out of place so that he cannot go to court to make this Declaration he annexed the part of his bible record showing his birth together with the manage of Jonathan Davis with one of his Daughters also his own marriage and death of his wife Declarant can and will prove his character as a Revolutionary soldier and such other proof as will be as he is in hopes, satisfactory

Interrogatories
Where and what year were you born 
Answer: I was born in Granville County North Carolina 7th of February 1765 as my record hereto annexed shows
2. have you any record of your age and where is it
Answer I have states that to my answer in the first question
3. Where were you living at the time you were called into service where have have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live
Answer when called into serve I lived near Camden South Carolina as stated in my declaration my father moved from North Carolina Shortly before the war, after the Revolutionary war I lived in North Carolina in 1805 I moved to Tennessee where I now live
4 How were you called into seven were drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute
Answer I was drafted the full tour of three months all the rest of the tours I was a volunteer as stated in my Declaration
5th State the names of some of the regular officers who were
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with the troops you served such continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the
general circumstances of your service of your service
Answer I have stated in my Declaration as fully as can recollect unless I were to name a further history of war which I only could state upon the news of that Period
6th the did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so if so by whom was it given and what has become of it
Answer I have fully answered that in my declaration to which I refer as my answer
[signed] James Hunt his mark

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above written being the 10th day of March 1851

Robert Dorris
Justice of the Peace for Sumner County
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38.218
James Hunt
Tenn
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5594
Act 7th June 1832
To A. Fergusson Oct 20/51
Let J. J. Neely Aug  30 /52
of
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REJECTED
5394
P.O.
James Hunt
Service:

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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Page is illegible except for the following:

Decd in 1835.
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July 1st 1851
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Decd of James

Hunt

Cap [illegible]

A  Fergusson

Present
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[illegible ]  papers in
file   Ten,   [illegible]
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Washington City
June 30,1851
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Sir, I herewith file the Original Declaration and proof of James Hunt under Act of June 7th 1832 and request as a special favor that the same be taken up now and disposed of

Respectfully
A Ferguson
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No 38.218
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James Hunt
Pension Papers
James Hunt
Tenn
Act 7 June 1832
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State of Tennessee Sumner County
We, Jonathan Wiseman and Nathaniel Parker Regular Ministers of the gospel residing in the County of Sumner and State of Tennessee do hereby certify that we have been well acquainted with James Hunt to wit the said Jonathan Wiseman for --- years and performed the sacred  ordinance of Baptism and the said Nathaniel Parker for --- years and that he is reputed and believed to be a soldier of the Revolution in the neighborhood where he resides and we concur in that opinion

And we Thomas White Jesse Meader and --- have also been each of us acquainted with said James Hunt for upward of --- years and that he is a man of truth and veracity and that he has lived in the same neighborhood for upwards of --- years and that he is and has always reputed to be a soldier of the Revolution and that we fully concur in that opinion and that he served as he states
[signed] Jonathan Wiseman
Nathaniel Parker
Jesse Meador
Thomas White

Sworn to and subscribed before me this day of March 1851
Asa Duffer

State of Tennessee
Sumner County  
I Robert Dorris one of the acting Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Jonathan Wiseman and Nathaniel Parker are regular ministers of the gospel. The first of the Baptist Church and the later of the Methodist Church and that as citizens and Clergymen
are men of good character standing and that full faith and credit are due and of right ought
to be given to their statements as such. I further
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I further certify that Thomas White Jesse Meader and --- are citizens of the County of Sumner and State aforesaid and men of respectability and truth and that full faith and credit are due and of right ought to be given to their statement.
 
I further certify that James Hunt who has made the foregoing declaration before me in the matter of the application for a Pension has been personally known to me for upward of twenty years and
that he is always been reputed in his neighborhood to be a soldier of the Revolution, and that from old age and bodily infirmity having had his hip dislocated in the Court he cannot appear in
open Court to make this Declaration

I further certify that the foregoing contains the proceedings in the matter of the application of said James Hunt for a Pension and that the interrogatories were written out in my presence and severally propounded to him and his answers written down as prescribed by the War Department. And I further certify and Declare that after the foregoing investigation it is my opinion that said James Hunt was a soldier of the Revolution and served as he states
Robert Dorris
Justice of the Peace
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State of Tennessee
Sumner County
I John L Bugg clerk of the County Court of Said Sumner County do hereby certify that Robert
Doris whose name appears to the foregoing Declaration of James Hunt and the accompanying certificate was at the time his said several attestations purports to bear date one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for the County of Sumner and State aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified to act as such and that full faith and order are due and of right ought to be given
to all his official act as such and that his signatures thereto are genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at office in Gallatin this 26th day of April 1857
John L Bugg Clerk