Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 696, John Angling, N C
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NC
Angling, John
Anglin

Elizabeth

W 696
B.L. Wt. 32211-160-55
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29.533
West Tennessee

John Angling of Dickson in the State of Tenn who was a ? in the Regiment commanded by Col Panner in the N.C. Mil a for 7 months

Inscribed on the roll of West Tennessee at the rate of 23 dollars 33 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of Dec 30
and Sub Hon C Johnson H.R.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept '31 $81.66
Semi-annl allowance ending 1 Mar 35 $11.66
total $93.32

Revolutionary claim Act Jun 7 1832

Recorded by Nathan Rice, clerk 
Bok C2 vol & page 81
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Dead

Paid at the treasury under the Act of the 6th of April 1838, from 4 Sep to 11 Dec 1836 Agt notified 28 Sep 1844
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State of Tennessee, Dickson County

On this the 9th day of July eighteen hundred and thirty four personally appeared in open court before the County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the said County of Dickson holden for the first Monday in July in the year aforesaid in the town of Charlotte John Angling a resident of the State of Tennessee in said county of Dickson 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 an Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. Viz that he entered into the service under the command of Colonel Thomas Parmer or Farmer, having from great age and bodily affliction in some degree lost my memory, Captain Dudley Gantwood other officers not recollected. That he was drafted and entered into the service in the State of North Carolina as one of the North Carolina Militia in the latter part of October in the year 1781 then residing in Caswell County North Carolina and continued in the service until about three weeks after the battle of Guilford, that upon entering into the service, which he done in the County of Caswell, he was marched to Cowans Ford on the Catawba River and was present when General Davidson was killed, from thence being attached to General Green's army proceeded it as a forager under the command of Captain Blackwell, and was in advance of the army when the battle of Guilford commenced a short distance having served in all the first tour five months some short time after his return from his first tour, he volunteered himself and entered the service of the United States in the County of Caswell under the command of General Battin and Colonel Moore Captain Olham and Lieutenant
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Hensley is not sure but thinks he rendezvoused at Caswell Court House, however that might be, he was marched to the town of Fayetteville then known as Cross Creek and from thence to the town of Willmington [Wilmington] all in the State of North Carolina [.] does not recollect the place or places where he was discharged has forgotten, says that he received written discharges at the expiration of each tour [.] the last tour was for the space of two months having served seven months in all, says that his discharges he has lost and does not know where they are, that he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no person [crossed out: living who can prove] whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. 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

We John Davidson a Clergyman residing in the County of Dickson and state of Tennessee and John Spears residing in the County and State aforesaid, hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with John Angling 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 that we concur in that opinion
S/John Davidson
John [his mark X] Spears


Interrogatory by the Court. First, Where were you born and in what year? Answer in Louisa County in the State of Virginia in the Year 1757.
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Interrogatory 2nd. Have you any record of your age?
Answer I have non I have had a Bible given me by my father, but the record of my age is obliterated
Interrogatory 3rd. Where were you living when called into service. Where have you lived since the revolutionary war, and where do you now live
Answer In the County of Caswell State of North Carolina I lived when called into service, after the revolutionary war I lived in Lawrence district state of South Carolina about twenty five years & now live in the County of Dickson and State, having removed from South Carolina to Wilson County first then to Davidson County and last to Dickson aforesaid
Interrogatory 4th. How were you called into service 
Answer I was first drafted and served five months and then Volunteered and served two months 
as to the fifth Interrogatory refference [reference] is made for answer thereto, to the body of my declaration above
Interrogatory 6th. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it.
Answer I rec'd two discharges but do not recollect from whom, they are lost as before stated in my declaration
Seventhly state the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood, and who can testify to your Character for Veracity and [crossed out: your] their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution
To which I answer and say that said John Davidson
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[upside down] Hon. C. Johnson

Clergyman and John Spears I would mention whos [whose] Certificates are hereto taken 
John [his mark X] Anglen

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this 9th July 1834
Test Field Farrar Clerk


[note in left margin: John Angling 32.188] [other superimposed notes are illegible]
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 John Davis [crossed out] who has also signed the [crossed out] preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in County of Dickson and state of Tennessee and that John Spears who has also signed the same is a resident in the County of Dickson and state of Tennessee and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
S/J .B. Brown
S/D. H. Williams -
S/J. W. Napier
[note in right margin: Presiding Justices]


State of Tennessee Dickson County 
I Field Farrar Clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Howie Freeman [??] for a pension,

[seal] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court done at office in Charlotte this 9th day of July 1834.
S/Field Farrar clerk of Dickson County Court Tennessee
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Revy. 3 Mar 55  186770

CAAV.
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1.267
Tennessee, Nashville
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Elizabeth Angling
widow of John Angling who served in the Revolutionry war, as a Private
N.C. Mil [militia]
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the [crossed out 4th day of March, 1848.] 3d. February 1853
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Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of August 18[illegible] and sent to Ezra Holstend South Harpeth Davidson Co Ten
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act [crossed out: July 29, 1848,] 3d. Febry 1853  Page 180    Vol. A


1832
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State of Tennessee }
County of Dickson }
On this second day of April A.D. 1853 personally appeared before me an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Mrs Elizabeth Angling a resident of Dickson County in the State of Tennessee aged 72 years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed 3d February 1853; that she is the widow of John Angling who was a pensioner on the pension roll at the agency at Nashville Tennessee and drew at the rate of twenty three dollars 33 cents per annum - She declares that she was married to the said John Angling to the best of her recollection in the year 1811 and that her husband the aforesaid John Angling died in December AD 1836 that she was married to him at the time above stated, that she knows of no public Record containing her marriage, and has no family Record containing the same, but proof of her marriage has heretofore been forwarded to the Treasury Department which enabled her to draw the arrearages of her husbands pension up to the day of his death - She further swears that she was a widow at the passage of the act, and is still a widow, and that she has never before made application for a pension 

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and
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year above written - Before me 
S/Wm Dunagan JP
S/Elizabeth Angling


I hereby certify that in consequence of old age and bodily infirmities Mrs Elizabeth Angling is unable to appear in open court this April 2nd AD 1853
S/Wm Dunagan JP for said County


State of Tennessee }
County of Dickson }
I Tho McNeilly Clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration and affidavit was produced in open Court this day, which proceedings were acknowledged by the Court to be lawful and satisfactory and which was Ratified by the Court and that sufficient Evidence has been adduced to the Court that John Angling died as is stated in the declaration of Mrs Elizabeth Angling and that she still continues the widow of John Angling deceased, and I further certify, from the Records in my office that Mrs Elizabeth Angling is the widow of the said John Angling deceased, and William Dunagan Esqr Whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing declaration and affidavit is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said Court, duly commissioned and sworn and that all his official acts as such are are [sic] entitled to full faith and credit

[seal] In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Charlotte this 4th day of April 1853
S/Thos McNeilly Clerk
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186.771.
Act Mar. 3
July 10/55.
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Elizabeth Angling
widow of John Angling Priv.
Angling
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[superimposed over the page: 32211 iss July 1st/56.

N. Carolina Mil.


Revolution
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Feby 55 1267
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AD: 160 Ac. Jun. 27/56
BoydW

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William James 
Charlotte 
Dixson [Dickson] Co. Ten.
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Vol. A. 95. ~
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186.770.
DECLARATION OF
Mrs. Elisabeth Angling
Widow of John Angling
FOR BOUNTY LAND.
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
N. James, AGENT,
Charlotte, Tennessee.
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BOUNTY LAND CLAIM.
FORM OF DECLARATION FOR WIDOW OF A DECEASED OFFICER OR SOLDIER.
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State of Tennessee, County of Dickson.
On this Nineteenth day of June A.D., one thousand eight hundred and Fifty Five personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Elisabeth Angling aged Seventy three years, a resident of Dickson County in the State of Tennessee, who being duly sworn according to law, declares, that she is the widow of John Angling, deceased, who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain ~ ~ in the [blank] Regiment of [blank] commanded by [blank] in the war with Great Britain , Revolution, declared by the United States on the 4th day of July, 1776. -- That her said husband Volunteered at Caswell County North Carolina on or about [blank] day of [blank] A.D., [blank] for the term of [blank] and continued in actual service in said war for the term of [blank] and was honorably discharged at [blank] on the [blank] day of [blank] A.D., [blank]
She further states that she was married to the said John Angling in Wilson County State of Tennessee on the say, fifteenth day of August, A.D., 1810 by one Zekiel Cloid a Justice of the Peace and that her name before her said marriage was Elisabeth Carver that her said husband died at Home in Dickson Cty. Tenn. on the Tenth day of December, A.D., 1836. and that she is now a widow.

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the "act approved March 3d, 1855."
Elisabeth [her mark X] Angling

We, Anderson Tate and George W. Luther residents of Dickson County in the State of Tennessee upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Elisabeth Angling in our presence; and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
S/Anderson Tate
S/George W. Luther

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
S/John Brown J.P.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington City.
SIR: - I request that my claim to Bounty Land, under the Act of Congress, passed March 3, 1855, be examined, and if I am entitled to Land, that the Warrant or Certificate therefor be sent to W. James at Charlotte, 

Acknowledged before me, the [blank] day of 19th June A.D., 1855 }
S/John Brown J.P. }
Elisabeth [her mark X] Angling [private seal L.S.]


State of Tennessee, County of Dickson
I, Thomas McNeilly Clerk of the County Court of said County, do hereby certify that John Brown Esq., whose signature appears to the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment, is, and was at the time of signing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that the signatures thereto, purporting to be his, are genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office, this 3rd day of July 1855
S/Thom McNeilly Clerk.
[seal]
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Revy
WIDOW, &c.
File No 696
Elizabeth Angling
Widow
John Angling
Pri, Rev. War
Act: Feb. 3, 1853
Index:-Vol. A, Page 13
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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32.211

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Rev Acres
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May 30. 1853.
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No 1842
Appl. of Elizabeth Angling 
widow of John -

Davidson Co.
Tennessee
29533
P $23.53
Act 3d Feby 1853.


Rev:
allowed $23 33/100 per Annum
Com. Feb 3rd 1853
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Ezra Holstead
South Harpeth 
Davidson Co  Tenn:


DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Pension Office, Official Business
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L. P. Waldo, Esq.
Comm. Of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.
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May 1853
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South Harpeth[?], Tennessee
May 22nd 1853
Dear Sir,
Enclosed you will receive the Declaration of Mrs. Elizabeth Angling, widow, of John Angling a deceased Revolutionary pensioner enrolled on the agency at Nashville Tennessee, of Dickson County Tennessee. should her papers in this matter of application be satisfactory, please forward the Pension Certificate to me and should further evidence in this case be required write me at South Harpeth Post Office Davidson County Tennessee, and on the receipt of this claim please acknowledge the same. Your compliance will much oblige.
Your humble Servant
Ezra Holstead
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State of Tennessee } S.S.
Dickson County }
Personally appeared before John Brown, an Acting Justice of the Peace in and for, the county and State aforesaid, duly qualified to Administer Oaths, Elisabeth Angling, and after being duly sworn according to Law, declares that she Identical Elisabeth Angling, who is now on the Pension List of the United States, Roll of The Tennessee Agency Nashville - Per certificate, No. 1267 dated 12th day of August. 1853. at the rate of Twenty tree dollars and thirty three cents, per Annum -. as the Widow of her deceased Husband, John Angling, Who had been on the Pension list of the United States, Roll of the Agency at Nashville, Tennessee, on account of his Revolutionary services in the Army. -

But she does not now recollect the names of the officers under whom he served. nor the No. of the Regiment in which he served. nor in what Year or Years in which he was in the Army.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19th day of June 1855.
S/John Brown Justice of the Peace
Elisabeth [her mark X] Angling
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State of Tennessee }
County of Dickson. }
I John Brown, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid. I hereby certify that Elisabeth Angling, a Pensioner of the United States and Widow of John Angling, decesd. who was also a Pensioner, of the United States is a Woman of Integrity, whose Oath is entitled to credit in any Court of Record. - and that, I am disinterested -
This 19th day of June, 1855.
S/John Brown JP
for said County
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Angling
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Brief in the case of Elizabeth Angling widow of John Davidson County and State of Tennessee
act of Jeb. 3rd 1853

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Claim, ("original," [crossed out: or "for increase."])

Proof exhibited, (if original.) (Private)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband a pensioner under the act of June 7th 1832 at $23 33/100 per annum 
Marriage, & Identity shewn by certificate of Clerk under seal

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If, what?



Name and residence of Agent
Ezra Holstead Esqr
South Harpeth 
Davidson Co Tenn.

Examining Clerk.
JL Gray
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GIDEON, PRINTER.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
Nov. 18th, 1843
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," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The widow of John Angling, [illegible], a Pensioner on the Roll of the Nashville, Tenn. Agency, at the rate of Twenty three Dollars and 33 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department from the 4th of Sept. ~ to the 11th Dec. 1836.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.