Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2,223, Richard Franks, Va.
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SERVICE: Va.
Franks, Richard
Barret.
NUMBER: S. 2223
carded
CONTENTS:
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See letter 30th
Sept 1836 Hon John
Blair Present.

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30.589
Tennessee (Jonesboro)
Richard Franks, als Barrett of Washington Co in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Dillard of the regt commanded by Col  - - in the [crossed out[] S. Caroline line [not crossed out] for six months,
Va. Line.
Records Corrected SS

Inscribed on the Roll of Jonesborough at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of April 1836 - and sent to Hon: W. B. Carter, P.R.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1836       $100.~
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep "       10.~
                                                            $110.~
[Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Wm S Allison Clerk
Book E 2 Vol. 7, Page 149
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State of Tennessee
Washington County January Term 1835
First Judicial Court
Be it remembered that on this 3d Monday of January 1835 Before the Court of Pleas  for said County personally appeared Richard Barret a citizen of Yancy County State of North Carolina but who resides near the state line & must convenient to Jonesborough Tennessee in the seat of Justice of Washington County & being desirous of availing himself of the provisions of the act of Congress passed the 7th day of June 1831, made & subscribed the following declaration to wit that he served in the Revolutionary war under the following named officers and at the time & periods stated towit. That being born in the County of Louden State of Virginia in 4th of March 1754 according to the tradition of his Ancestors, and his father often has birth having removed to Pittsylvania sd state where he was from especially raised he in the Spring of the year 1776 (thinks in the month of May) in the County & State test aforesaid entered into the Service of the Country in the line of the State under Capn Thomas Dillard for the term of two years. that Number of the Regiment not now recollected, but was that in which said Thomas Dillard acted as Captain & Peter Purkins was Col - that after his enlistment as aforesaid he was marched to a point operate Gwynns Island. Known by store point, James Town where he with the Company of sd Dillard guarded against the Negroes receiving
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to and joining Dunmore under his proclamation after which service on the Departure of Dunmore, he with Dillards Company was marched to the Western border of Virginia to repel the trouble americans of the Cherokee Indians who had assembled in great bodies in the the border & at the Long Islands new Tennessee & it was with the Company that under this command of Col Christy at the Long Island flats & there remained a considerable time, & marched to the Cherokee Nation under Capt. Herd. & Lieutenant Chocee, after Capn Dillard had resigned (owing to sickness) & had gone home that in the expedition of [illegible] the Cherokees in which he was Shelly & Christy had the command. in which service he continued the remainder of 1776. (after leaving the James Town service) and 1777. and when he had fulfilled his two years service & was dismissed service by Captain Herd & returned home to Pittsylvania at this lapse of time he has no destined recollection as to the obtainment of a Discharge, but of obtained has lost it. He states that in addition to the Two years which he served close service in the year 1776 - 7 as before stated, he served Two terms of three months each in the Militia of Virginia, one term as a substitute for John Barret who hired him as a substitute in 1778 to perform said tour & did serve under Col Christy on said expedition
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of three months to the Cherokee Nation & was discharged at the expiration of his time  verbally & returned home  [illegible] the officer under whom he then served as his immediate Capn he has forgotten.  The other Tour was in 1782 to go to York Town when Cornwallis was on his march thro Virginia to that place he then volunteered for three months & served until the surrender of Cornwallis & was marched into North Carolina to Salesbury to intercept him on his March to Virginia & [illegible] to meet with his army [illegible] back a different route & made for the place of action but was discharged owing to the news of the surrender reaching them

That he is now aged Eighty one years of age, & made application to court [illegible] his papers [illegible] to send on for pension in 1832 but were as he has understood  [illegible] by mail & residing as he does in the mountains dividing N Carolina from Tennessee & distant from the seats of Justice he had not received information thereof until recently & hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension exept the present & declaring that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state, and he hereby declares that after the most diligent search & enquiry he is unable to ascertain that any
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Va.          Franks, Richard                  S2223
                Barret


                                                              carded
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33.085
Richd Franks,
alias
Richd Barret.
Tennessee

allow for six months
$20.
see letter No. 11. 13. Peter Apl 16, filed with Wm Carrison
Nofore Tennessee, Jonesboro,

Hon. H. B. Carter H.R.
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State of Tennessee    March Term 1836
First Circuit of the State
Be it remembered that on this fourteenth 14th day of March 1836 before the Honorable Samuel Powel Judge of appeared Richard Franks (alias Barret. an applicant for pension & whose declaration was presented to the War Department & returned for amendment and in amendment & explanation thereof made & subscribed the following Towit:
that he in his statement of being a Citizen of Young County North Carolina omitted to fully explain that he had no family of his new-tract of his children residing in Young & that in Washington Counties, at the time of of making his declaration he was in Young tho, he has since returned to his children in Washington as his permanent abode & that the same ought & in truth [illegible] have been regarded as his home tho in telling forth the tracts, and it happening that he was then in Young it was so stated by the draftsman. As regards his service in the regular service set forth by him he cannot be mistaken HE enlisted as stated for two years under Capn Thomas Dellard resigned, which he thinks was about seven or Eight months, when he was put under the Command of Jesse Hurt & Col Christy, under whom he served out that remainder of
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his two years & which [service] with that set forth in the militia he faithfully performed as stated in his original declaration, & to which he has [represented illegible] again appears to be true.
[illegbile] to [illegible] open Court this day & year [illegible] 

John Ryland Clk   Richard Franks or Barret

I certify that the above is the signature of John Ryland [illegible] clerk of the Circuit Court of WAahington County. Apr 9th 1836

Wm. B. Carter
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I certify that after drawing the declaration of Richard Franks alias Barret, I drew the affidavit of Benjamin Dillard a Revolutionary pensioner setting forth that he said Dillard served in the capacity of a private with Richard Franks, within named which affidavit I brought on (& as I thought) filed with the papers in the pension office. I can now state that the same cannot again be reviewed as Dill[ard] is dead. tho the facts (as stated above) known to me that P Dillard expressly proved the statement made by the declarant in his declaration April 26th 1836
John Blair

P. S. he said Dillard expressly stated the service to have been entered upon under Capt Dillard for two years tho he did not know when Franks was discharged but served with him until the [illegible] Franks was transferred [illegible]
J. B.
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2223
Rev War
INVALID

File No. 2223 Barret [illegible]
Richard Franks
Priv Rev War

Act: June 7, 1832
Index:-Vol. A., Page 131.

[Arrangement of 1870]

records corrected.
Dec.8/03
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J. L. Edwards Esquire
Pension Agent
WAahington 
D.C.
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[illegible]

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir,
I have endeavored to supply the defect in the testimony in support of the application of Richard Franks by the certificate of the  [illegible] John Blair-who certifies that as to the [illegible] of Benjamin Dilleard - that he did prove the service of said Franks and that said affadavit was as he believed filed in the office - . I hope you may now consider the claim [illegible] as to authorise the issuance of the certificate.
I must think from a [recommunication] of the papers that Mr. Franks is entitled to pay for two & half years.

The papers are enclosed.
I have the honor to be very respectfully  your [illegible hbl humbled] servant-
Wm. B. Carter
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Richard Franks
additional
Statement

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Hon. John Blair
present
Sept 28
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Georgia Rabun County August 18th 1836
Honoured Sir In answer to your letter to Me Dated august 2nd 1836 all the Satisfaction I can give you at this time is as follows I Believe in the Month of February 1776 That Richard franks Inlisted in the minute Service in the County of Pittsylvania in the State of Virginia under Capt. Thomas Dillard and that he Richard franks Served one Tower against the British at gwinns Island in the State of Virginia and at that time I was taken Sick and there was orders came for us to be taken against the Indians So I was left and to Mr Capt Hard took Command of the men and I Believe that Richard franks Served a tower there under the Same Inlistment, and as to your Serving a Tower for John Barrett I know nothing about, at this time The Expedition against the Indians was Under Col Christy}
Georgia
Rabun County} This day personally Came John Dillard Before Me Robert Woods An acting Justice of the peace for said County and Deposeth and Saith on oath that The above Instrument of Writing to Richard franks of washington County Tennessee State Contains the truth to the Best of his Recollection at this time Sworn too and Subscribed Before Me This day and Date above written} List Robt Woods JP} John Dillard
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Georgia Rabun County
I James Bleckley Clark of the Inferior Court of Said County to hereby certify that Robert Woods whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit is of this time and was at the time of signing the ___ a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Rabun and that all true faith and credit ought I should be given to his official signature as such  Given under my hand & private seal there being no seal of office this 17th day of August 1838
James Bleckley [illegible]

Georgia Rabun County I John H. Sloan one of f Judges of the Inferior Court for said County do hereby certify that James Bleckley whose name appears to the foregoing certificate is at this time the acting clerk of the Inferior Court of Said County and that all true faith & credit ought should be given to his official signature as such and that the same is in due for me given under my hand this 17th day of August 1836 
John H. Sloan J.J.C.