Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 89, John Alexander, N. C.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
N.C.

Alexander, John
                  Susannah Katharine

NUMBER
R. 89.

CONTENTS
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Indiana
25094
John Alexander
A
Warrick Co in the State of Indiana
was a prof Cav in the com comma
Captain Stevens of the regt comm
Col Isaacs in the [illegible]
for 6 mos. prof Cavalry
Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana
the rate of 25 Dollars 11 Cents per annum
commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of Nov
1833 and [illegible]
Boon Present
Arrears to the 4th of Sept
625
Comant. allowance ending 4 March 12
Recorded by Dan Boyd
Book E
Revolutionary Cla
Act June 7, 1832.
Vol. 7 Page 103
the
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                           Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress of the 4th Jan, 1832.
State of Indiania
Warrick County -     On the ninth day of October in the year 1833 personally appeared before the Honorable the Judge of Warrick County Circuit Court in open court John Alexander a resident of Ohio Township in the county of Warrick and the State of Indiana aged seventy four 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 4th, 1832
That living in Rowan County in the state of North Carolina was drafted into the service as a private in a horse company commanded by Captain James Stinson under Colonel Samuel Issacs
_____ at Salisbury when there was a regiment ____ of a regiment of militia commanded by Colonel Pursley were marched on to the banks of Deep river from there we passed towards Wilmington how far from it this applicant cannot say contrary print of the troops went nearer on our return about five miles from Deep river in the Quaker Settlement in Randolph County came upon a body of Tories
by surprise killed several and took a number prisoner, took at the same five horses among them was a may noted beast called Canadas
man from Deep river. This applicant was marched back to Salisbury with the prisoners, then taken as also with other prisoners taken by other detachments they were put in Salisbury suit this applicants time expired
before he got back was discharged at Salisbury and received a written Discharge which he has since lost that during said three months
was in the service of the United States and was not engaged in any Civil pursuit employment during the fall of same year while living in the same County this applicant entered the service be second time as a Volunteer under the said Captain James Stinson in a company of Militia for three months Colonel Isaacs commanded that they were mounted men and were engaged in scouting and preventing so far as they could the Tories from making head that this applicant was marched into Guilford and Chatham counties and several adjoining counties that was not out of the State of North Carolina that this applicant was marched to several suspected settlements at one or two of which this applicant was for a that time stationed that whilst he was out they had several slight skirmishes that that this applicant at no time was present when the Torus resisted to any extent was in no battles nor [next]
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had they any settled station but that this applicant was during said three months either in detached parties sent out by his officers or under the immediate command of said officers that he was dismissed so soon as the Troops had returned but that this applicant received no discharge nor did any of the Troops to this applicants knowledge except it may be the drafted men that he served out his tour of three months but cannot be more particular in his description of his services from the failure of his memory and the great lapse of time that afterwards he served one month as a volunteer in the State of Virginia at Dunkard's Bottom on New River under Captain William Underwood
in a company of light horse but received no discharge but that he cannot tell the year nor can he say that it was before he [can't read] the other services - he served with no field officers he further declares that he cannot be more particular in his last statement & if the time is material he must abandon his said claim of one months service.

This applicant has no documentary evidence by which he can prove his said services nor does he know of any person by whose evidence he could establish his services. 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 roll of any Agency of any state.

Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
John A Graham Clk (signed)
John Alexander (his X mark)

And the said Declarant John Alexander further upon his oath doth depose and say in answer to the interrogatories prescribed by the War
Department now here by the said Court to him propounded and put by the Honorable the Judges aforesaid in open Court
I was born in North Carolina in the year 1759
I have no record of my age
I was living in North Carolina as stated when I each time entered where I lived
the service and at the close of the war still lived there for about 20years from thence I removed to South Carolina where I resided about
fifteen years moved from there to Tennessee where I lived four year and from thence moved to this County of Warrick where I still live. [next]
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I was drafted the first time and volunteered at both the other times.

I never served with any regular officer or soldiers as I now recollect nor do I recollect the names of any company Battalion or regiment
except Col Padship besides the one I served in at the my services the first tour was in North & South Carolina the route nearly such as described the second wholly in North Carolina in about and through the counties described many of the events of this tour are so indistinctly impressed upon his memory that
times appear like a dream for which reason he does not state them the last tour he served in Virginia.

I received a discharge for the first tour but none for either of the other tours preserved it whilst I thought it would be of any service as an exemption from a draft him I did not want to go & afterwards paid no attention to it so that I cannot say what has become of it but that it has been long lost.

I have been for many years acquainted with
the Reverend Thomas Fuller and Thomas Hudspeth and George Hathaway living in my neighborhood who can testify as to my character for veracity and their belief of my
being a soldier of the Revolution.

Sworn to & subscribed in open
Court the day and year aforesaid
John A. Graham Clk. (signed)

John Alexander (his X mark)
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We Thomas Fuller a Clergyman residing in the County of Warrick in the State of Indiana and George Hathaway & Thomas Hudspeth
residing in the same county do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Alexander who has subscribed and sworn to the above and foregoing Declaration and answers that we believe him to be
seventy four 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.

Thomas Fuller (signed)
Thomas Hudspeth (signed)
George Hathaway (signed)

Sworn to and Subscribed the day & year last aforesaid
John A. Graham Clk (signed)

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 Thomas Fuller who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Warrick Indiana and that George Hathaway and Thomas Hudspeth who have also signed the same are residents in said County of Warrick and State of Indiana are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

Saml Hall (signed)
Z Skelton (signed)
John Hart (signed)

State of Indiana
Warrick County

I John A Graham Clerk of the Circuit 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 John Alexander for a pension. In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto at my hand and affixed the seal of the said Circuit Court this ninth day of October A.D. 1833

John A Graham Clk (signed)
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John Alexander
Warrick Co
Indiana

from 1781 private of
County 6 months
$25.
Hon R. Boon
Prect
Graham Clerk
March Co
Indiana
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
183

Sir:

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.
[a table follows--too detailed to transcribed]
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This is a template for an application (declaration) for a pension.
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more of the template and rules
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6007

Susanna K. Alexander
Inda
Act 4 July '36
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State of Indiana
Warrick County

On this the seventh day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before me
Zachariah Skelton Judge of the probate Court in and for the aforesaid County of Warrick, in the State of Indiana, Susannah Katharine Alexander, a resident of the State of Indiana & the County of Warrick aforesaid aged sixty seven years, who, being, being first 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 July 4, 1836, and the joint resolution of July 7, 1838:

That she is the widow of John Alexander who was "a private of Cavalry in the Army of the Revolution" and was a pensioner on the Indiana pension roll, at the rate of Twenty five dollars per annum & that his pension certificate was dated 23d Novr 1833, and numbered 25099. which certificate is herewith transmitted. She refers as to the particulars of his services to the original declaration of the said John Alexander on file in the war Office of the United States.

She further declares that she was married to the said John Alexander, on the fifteenth day of March, in the year seventeen hundred and ninety three in the state of South Carolina; that her husband, the aforesaid John Alexander, died on the 2d day of June, 1842; and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.

Witness

C C Graham (signed)

Susannah Katharine Alexander (her Z mark)

Sworn to & subscribed, on the day and year above written before

Zachariah Skelton (signed)
Judge of the probate Court
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State of Indiana
Warrick County

I Zachariah Skelton Judge of the probate Court in and for the County of Warrick in the State of Indiana, aforesaid, do hereby certify that on the day and year above (within) written,
Susannah Katharine Alexander was by me duly sworn to and in my presence subscribed (after it was distinctly and correctly read to her) the foregoing declaration.

I further certify that the said Susannah Katharine Alexander is unable from old age and bodily infirmity to attend said Court at its usual place of sitting.

I further certify that I have for many years been acquainted with the said Susannah Katharine Alexander and that she is a credible witness & that entire confidence is to be put in her statements.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto ┃
set my hand this Seventh day of August in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty three.

Zachariah Shelton 9signed)
Judge Probate Court, Warrick
County State of Indiana

State of Indiana
Warrick County ss
I J. W. B. Moore clerk of the Probate Court in and for the County of Warrick, in the State of
Indiana, do hereby certify that Zachariah Skelton senris Judge of the probate Court in and for the County of Warrick in the State of Indiana, duly commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be
his are genuine.

In testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand and seal of office at
Boonville on this 7th day [next]
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of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & forty three.

J. W. B. Moore (signed)
Clerk

Probate Court
Seal
Warrick County
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[too faded to read]
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[This page is very faded and not always legible]

Know all men by these presents that I Randolph Alexander one of the children of
John Alexander and Susan Alexander
his wife late of Warrick County Indiana do hereby with full power of substitution appoint
C H Barkey of Louiville Kentucky my
[?] and lawful attorney of the and in my name to make full investigation of and receive upon on the estate of an application of his his
the widow of said John Alexander for son
pension can said Attorney is authorized to do all careful act and deeds in this behalf all of which I hereby certify and confirm.

Witness my hand and seal in
March
an Indiana on
this 30th
day of March
1855.

Randolph Alexander (signed)Seal

he presence of to
Witnesses of  Warrick
County Indiana
G P Hudspeth
Ara Sylchenk (can't read)
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[also very faded--too faded to read--it's an acknowledgement of the power or attorney]
Warrick County Indiana

Be it sworn that on the 30th
of March 1855 before me a justice of the peace in and one said County personally came Randolph Alexander to me well known and signed the foregoing Power of Attorney and acknowledged the signing sealing and delivering the same to be his own and not a deed for the the
and purposed thence forth
sisting of that do
the
scribe my name
Francis A Brown Juster,
State of Indiana
Warrick County ⎬ SS
Joseph Master
of the Brevit Court in and for said line
by the Francis Brown use
1
nature put off the certifi
call as at the title thereof an act
justice of the peace in and
for said County duly commis
sioned and named to such
Witness my name and official seal at my
office in Corner on this 29th
of March
1855
Joseph Masters 6th
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May 14, 1930

XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

BA-J/ANT
John Alexander, R. 29

Mrs. Blanche A. Shrum
301 East Market Street
Salem, Indiana

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter relative to soldiers of the Revolutionary War, John Alexander, Joseph Alexander
and William Alexander.

Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data and the limited trained clerical force available for furnishing such information it is impossible to comply in full with each request pertaining to soldiers of that war.

The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 89, based upon the military service in that war of John Alexander.

John Alexander was born in 1759, in North Carolina, place. day, month, and the names of his parents are not shown.

While a resident of Rowan County, North Carolina, John Alexander enlisted, date not stated, served three months as private in Captain James Stinson's Company of Horse, Colonel Samuel Isaacs' North Carolina Regiment and was in an engagement
with the Tories at the Quaker settlement in Randolph County. He then enlisted, served three months as private in Captain James Stinson's Company of Horse, Colonel Isaacs'
North Carolina Regiment and was in several skirmishes. He then served one month as private in Captain William Underwood's
Company of Light Horse.

He lived in South Carolina, place not stated, about fifteen years, then moved to Tennessee, place not given, and four years later he moved to Warrick County, Indiana.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 9, 1833, at which time he was a resident of Ohio Township. Warrick County, Indiana. He was then called John Alexander Sr.

He died June 2, 1842, place not stated.

He married March 15, 1793, in South Carolina, place not [next]
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shown, Susannah Katharine, her maiden name not given. She was aged sixty-seven years and living in Warrick County, Indiana, in 1843.

In 1855, in Warrick County, Indiana, Randolph Alexander, one of the children of John and Susannah Katharine Alexander, made inquiry in regard to any pension which might have been
due on account of his father's services in the Revolutionary War. No pension was due. The name of other children of soldier and
Susannah Katharine are not shown and there are no further family data.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Jany 31- 1901
of Geo. W. Smith
Carbondale Ills
1940 May 14. Hist to Mrs. Blanche
A. Shrum AD.
Ex'r.

INVALID.

No. 89

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873,
REJECTED
Susannah K Alexander

Rejected
Susannah K. Alexander

Set to Hon R D Owen Jany 4"
to Hon Samph 15
Much 1844
Act 4 July 1836
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To Hon R Owen Jany 4 1844
The case of Susanna K Alexander improperly  asserted under the act of  4 July 1836. I enclose you a copy of the regulations for her instruction in asserting before Court her claim and the Act 7 July 1838, The alleged date of marriage should be established by a certified copy of the marriage bond from the Clerks Office of the County from which the license was issued. The definition is also enclosed which should be authenticity by a seal or by your certificate as to the signature of said claimants by the clerk. fear of peril charity & the Clerk.

Evansville Agt ordered to pay 11 Nov. 1836

Letter to Peng (?) & 3 and 28 Nov 1838
Paid at the Treasury under
the Act of the 6th April 188(?) from 4 Sept 1837 to 4 March 1838. Agt notified 7 Feby 183(?)
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[Way to faded to read]
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Treasury Department.
Second Comptroller's Office
January 29th, 1839.

Sir:

     Under the act of the 6th of April 1838 entitled "A10 act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United State," John Alexander, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Indiana Agency, at the rate of Twenty five Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept., 1837, to the 4th March, 1838.

Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Washington 6th March 44

Sir -

On the first of January last I enclosed to you a letter written to me by Mr. E. Burnside of Indiana requesting information concerning a pension for a Mrs. Alexander. Having rec'd no reply from you on the subject I am apprehensive it never reached you, or if so has been overlooked.

You will oblige me by informing the
if it has been received.

Very respectfully
G C Sample

Hon J.L. Edwards
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Wash City
Dec 20 /43 

Hon J. L. Edwards.

Sir:

Mr. C. C. Graham of Warrick Co, Indiana informs me, that on Nov. 16, 1843, he sent to your office two applications for pensions from aged widows of revolutionary pensioners. He has a sent me the enclosed relative
to the pension papers of Dolly Ann Davis, whose claim has been before the Department for some time and has requested we also to hand you the certificates from myself accompanying that letter.

Will you have the goodness to inform me what
is the result of the above applications; and if there be any additional evidence required in any of them what it is?

Yr obt serv
Robert Dale Owen
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J L Edwards Esq

War Department, Pension Office

Washington
D.C.
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Evansville Ind. Pension Agency
Office 19th October 1836

J. L.  Edwards Esq.

Sir

I enclose you, for you approval the Pension Papers of John Alexander, whose Pension is due from 4th March 1834.

You will observe that the Clerk of the
Courts certificate is not in its proper place,
the reason of which is that when the papers
were made out, the certificate was omitted
and I had to send them back to have
it inserted.

I remain respectfully
Your mo ob Servt
John Douglass (signed)
Acting Agent
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Boonville GA
Nov 18
Free
[illegible]
F.S. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
6007
Nov 27 / 43
S.K. Alexander
July 4 1836
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Warrick County, Indiana
Boonville Nov. 16th 1843.

Sir,

Enclosed you will receive the application of Susannah Katharine Alexander for a pension.

All the testimony that can be obtained in this case is forwarded. That is the affidavit of
Stephen Merritt, an aged man worth of all
credit.

I refer you to the papers of Elizabeth
Campbell, now on file in your office, to whom
a pension was lately allowed, for proof that
record of marriage are not kept in the State of
South Carolina.

The certificate of a member of Congress that J. W. B. Moore is clerk of the
Probate Court will be handed you by [can't read the name] in due time.

I trust the papers will justly authorize you to allow the pension-

Respectfully
C. C. Graham (signed)

Hon.
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

P.S. I have sent the pension certificate of John Alexander that you may discover that she has not drawn the pension due him up to the time of his death, say from 4th of March, 1842 to 2d June 1842, making $6.25. She is too old & decrepit to attend probate Court, and requests
me to say that you may make this last allowance with ┃ the other.

C C Graham
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MRS KERN SHRUM
30 EAST MARKET STREET
SALEM, INDIANA

April 8-40

Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir, 

May I have the Revolutionary
service & family data of John Alexander
b. 1759 N.C., private in N. C. cavalry, enlisted at Salisbury Rowan Co. N. C. pension claim R89
Died 1842.

May I have the Revolutionary service & family data of Joseph Alexander b. 1756 Co. of Tyrone Ireland, enlisted 1777 under Capt. Hugh White Pa militia Northumberland, Co. Pa. Enlisted in fall 1778 under Capt James McMahon of Pa
Militia Pension claim S 32091. Last payment of pension Mar. 6, 1838 he certified he had lived in Indiana for 6 yrs.

May I have the Revolutionary service & family data of Wm Alexander b. 1752 N.C. Enlisted in Carlisle Pa Dec 1775 as private in Capt. James Wilson Co. In battle of Three Rivers, discharged March 1777. Pension claim W. 9697 Died Jan. 6, 1821-

I am trying to establish the parentage of Samuel Alexander who came from Buncombe Co. N.C. about 1829, to Indiana.

Awaiting your reply, [?]
Yours truly
Mrs. Blanche Alexander Shrum
301 E Market St
Salem Indiana