Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7874, John Whitworth, N. C.
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SERVICE
N.C.

Whitworth, John

NUMBER
S.7874

Born in N.C.

Carded
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4926
North Carolina
John Whitworth
of Stokes in the State of N. Car who was a pri in the compy commanded by Captain Davis of the Regt commanded by Col. Parisley in the N.Car line for 10 months from 1779.

Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 31st day of Jan. 33 and Sent Hon. AH Shepperd House of REps

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832                49.99
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 33 16.67
                    $66.66
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk
Book D Vol. 8 Page 47.

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Date of death not on AB.
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State of North Carolina,
Stokes County
On this 14th day of September 1832
personally appeared in open court
before the Justices of the court of Pleas
and quarter sessions now sitting, John
Whitworth a resident of the County of
Stakes aforesaid, and state of North Carolina
aged seventy two years the ninth day of March last, 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 passed
June 7 1832 that he entered the service of the
United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated, that he entered the service in the County of Guilford for the term of six months as a volunteer in the year 1779 sometime in the fall of said year, month not recollected, in the company commanded by Captain John Davis Lieutenant
George Pearce and ensign - Moore, in
the regiment commanded by Col Paisley
that he marched to South Carolina and
joined the main army at Guards Ferry - 
Savannah river, he recollects that General Butler commanded the North Carolina
troops, that General Lincoln
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was the highest officer in command, that
at the Guards ferry they marched down the
river Savanah to Summers ferry, that his
term of service expired shortly after he
arrived at Summers ferry, that when
his term expired he received a written
discharge from Capt. John Davis
which discharge is lost - that during
a great part of this tour he was compelled
to take charge of a waggon and haul
for the army, that he recollects that
he received his discharge some full day
before the battle of Stono. That some time
the latter part of the summer, or the first
of the fall of 1781, he volunteered for the
term of three months in the County of
Guilford and state of North Carolina
in the company commanded by Captain
Smith Moore, Lieutenant Paisley, and
ensign Chesley Barnes, who is now a
alive and residing about four miles from
this applicant in the County of
Rockingham, and who can and will
certify to his services during this tour
that he marched from Guilford as far south
as the South Carolina line and spent
a good part of the time in the County of
Richmond in pursuit of the tories, that
his company belonged to the regiment
commanded by Col. Samuel Packs, and
Col Paisley, that he served out his three
months and received his discharge a
short time after the the surrender of Lord
Cornwallis at Yorktown, that he received
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a written discharge from Captain Smith
Moore, in the County of Guilford or Randolph
does not recollect which, that said discharge is lost, that he served for five or six weeks again under Col Hunter and Col Samuel Henderson on an expedition against the tories, did not enter the service at this time for any definite period, that his tour was spent in the counties of Surry and Rowan in the state of North Carolina.
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
or agency- he states that he has no record of his age, but that he has seen one some years since in the possession of an aunt of this applicant - it was in a bible that belonged to his father where it is he does not know - that he continued to reside in the County
of Guilford where he was born until the year
1796, when he removed to South Carolina
where he resided until 1807 , when he removed to the County of Rockingham and State of North Carolina that he has resided in said County and the adjoining County and state, where he now resides, ever since 1807 
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day, and year aforesaid
      Jno Hill C.C.C.

And the said court do hereby declare
his opinion that the above named at applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states
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Chesly Barnes maketh oath that he became acquainted with John Whitworth an applicant 
for a pension under the act of Congress 7th of June 1832, that he has been acquainted with him from his boyhood, that during the revolutionary war, he served with said Whitworth for the term of three months that said Whitworth enlisted under the command of one Captain Smith Moore; that this Regiment in which said Whitworth served was commanded by Colonel Isaacks, and Colonel Paisley, that this affiant knows that said Whitworth served out term of service, he 
further swears that he knows the fact that said Whitworth was in the service afterwards, but how long he served this affiant does not know. This affiant states that he was himself and Ensign in the company of Captain Smith Moore in which said Whitworth served. 
Sworn to & subscribed in 
open Court September 13th, 1832 
                John Hill, CCC      
                            Chesly X Barnes
                               (x his mark)
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I John Hill clerk of the court of pleas & quarter sessions for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that the annexed certificate contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of John Whitworth for a pension.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 14th day of September 1832.
                Jno Hill CCC
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                 June 10, 1931

                 Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
                 EEL

Mrs. W.E. Wallace
717 Kirby Place
Shreveport, Louisiana

Dear Madam:
     You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.7874, that John Whitworth was born March 9, 1760, in Guilford County, North Carolina.
     While residing in Guilford County, North Carolina, he enlisted in the fall of 1779, and served six months as a private in Captain John Davis' Company, Colonel Paisley's North Carolina Regiment.
     He enlisted late in the summer or early in the fall of 1781, and served three months in Captain Smith Moore's Company, Colonel Samuel Isaac and Paisley's North Carolina Regiment and went in pursuit of the Tories;  and he again served, dates not stated, for five or six weeks under Colonels Hunter and Samuel Henderson, and went on an expedition against the Tories.
     He moved to South Carolina in 1796 and in 1807, removed to Rockingham County, North Carolina.
     He was allowed pension on his application executed September 14, 1832, while residing in Stokes County, North Carolina.
     There are no data as to his family.
                     Very truly yours
                     E.W. MORGAN
                     Acting Commissioner.

Date of death not on AB
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from 1779 private
10 months
    $33.33/100

John Whitworth
amended declaration

filed by (illegible)
26 Jan 1833

Hon A.H. Shepperd
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
John Whitworth which require further proof or explanation

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
Yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
Yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?
Yes

V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled?
Yes

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
Yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
Yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
Yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No 

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? No

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?       has a witness

XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? yes
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? no
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? 

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 7th not ans.

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words.
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, A Justice of the Peace, &c. A.B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For ___ yes ___ months, and ___ days, I served as a ___ For ___ months and ___ days, I served as a ___; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed, that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he just prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
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                    June 30, 1931

                   OWN
                   Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
                   EEL

Mrs. W.E. Wallace
717 Kirby Place
Shreveport, Louisiana

Dear Madam:
     You are advised that in order to secure the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, John Whitworth (S.7478), you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records division, Washington, D.C., citing all of the following data:
     John Whitworth, Certificate No. 4926, issued January 31, 1833, rate $33.33 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, North Carolina Agency.

                    Very truly yours

                     E.W. MORGAN
                     Acting Commissioner.
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WM
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.

                              February 19, 1925.

Honorable Thomas M. Bell,
House of Representatives.

My dear Mr. Bell:
     In response to your letter of the seventeenth instant, I have the honor to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.7874, it appears that John Wentworth was born March 9, 1760 in Guilford County, North Carolina, and while living there enlisted in 1779 and served six months as a private in Captain John Davis' Company, colonel Paisley's North Carolina Regiment.
     He served in 1781 for three months in Captain Smith Moore's Company, Colonels Samuel Isaacs and Hunter's North Carolina Regiment, and he again served, dates not stated, for five or six weeks under Colonels Hunter and Samuel Henderson.
     He was allowed pension on his application executed September 14, 1832, while living in Stokes County, North Carolina.  There is no data on file as to his family.
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     From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.6367, it appears that Allen Whitworth was born in Amelia County, Virginia, August 22, 1757, and while living in Chesterfield County Virginia, enlisted late in 1780 and served two months as a private in Captain George Markham's Company, Colonel Hames Monroe's Virginia Regiment.
     He served from January 1781 for one month in Captain George Markham's Company, Colonel Bernard Markham's Va Regiment.
     He enlisted soon after in Captain George Markham's Company, was at the battle of Petersburg and the day after exchanged places with his brother, Thomas, and entered the Light Infantry under Colonel Archibald Dick.  He was in a skirmish at Bermuda Hundred and served three months.
     Immediately after he enlisted and served as Sergeant in Captain James Scott's Company, Colonel Robert Good's Virginia Regiment, he was captured at Sudberry's in Chesterfield County, Virginia, on May 23, 1781, and held until September 1781 when exchanged.
      He was allowed pension on his application executed 

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August 13, 1832, while living in Chesterfield County, Virginia.
     There is no further data on file as to family.
     This Bureau is unable to furnish the history of a soldier of the Revolution unless a claim for pension or bounty land has been made on account of his services and a careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the services of Samuel, Thomas and Claiborn Gooch Whitworth or any soldiers of that name, other than Allen and John Whitworth, whose records are herewith furnished.

                  Very truly yours,
                  Commissioner.
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WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D.C., ___, 19

S.F.7874

     I reply to your request of ___. received ___ for a statement of the military history of John Whitworth a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OF APPOINTMENT.
1779
Summer or fall 1781
again

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
6 mos
3 mos
5 or 6 mos

RANK.

OFFERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
John Davis
Smith Moore

Paisley
Samuel Isaacs
Hunter
Samuel Henderson

STATE.
N.C.

Battles engaged in, ___
Resident of soldier at enlistment, Guilford Co., N.C.
Date of application for pension, Sept. 14, 1832.  His claim was allowed
Residence at date of application, Stokes Co., N.C. and since 1807
Age at date of application, born Mch. 9 1760 in Guilford Co., N.C.
Remarks:  No data as to family.

          Respectfully,
          Commissioner.
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(letterhead with officers listed)
Louisiana Daughters of the America Revolution
STATE REGENT
MRS. PENELOPE ARDIS MILLS
704 WILKINSON ST.
SHREVEPORT, LA.
                             Apr. 16, 1931.

Department of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen,
     In the state records of North Carolina VOL. XXII, p. 91, I found Whitworth, John, private, as a pensioner under, "North Carolina Revolutionary Pensioners under the Acts of 1818 and 1832 as reported by Secretary of State to Congress in 1835."
     Will you kindly give me the record of this man on file in your office for which he was allowed the pension.  I shall appreciate your courtesy in this matter.
        Respectfully,
           Alice Martin Wallace
                (Mrs. W.E.W.)
717 Kirby Place

(stamp)
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
Apr. 20, 1931
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Rec.- June 25-31
Dec. 1812 5

The Colonial Dames of America
in the State of Louisiana

E.W. Morgan,
Acting Commissioner,
Washington, D.C.

     Please accept my thanks for your kind reply to my letter of inquiry.
     Will you please tell me the date when the pension of John Whitworth, private, in Capt. John Davis' Company, Colonel
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Paisley's N.C. Regiment, was stopped (by his death?)  This date will complete the file of 4 generations of Whitworth men in the Revolution, War 1812, War Between the States, Spanish-Am. and World War.  Col.  Pegram Whitworth, U.S. Inf. (active) is the last.  I am only one of the women of the family.

        Sincerely,
          Alice Martin Wallace
             (Mrs. W.E. Wallace)

Shreveport, La.
717 Kirby Place
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                                         Lafayette, O
                                          July 15, 1914.

U.S. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir-
     Kindly send me the pension record of S.7874 John Whitworth of North Carolina who served in the War of the Revolution and oblige.
                   Yours very truly
                     Alice M. Hill
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Rev War
7874
INVALID.
No.7874
John Whitworth
Pri Rev War
Act:  June 14 32

Index:-Vol. 1st, Page 403

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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1925 Feb 19 - Hist. to Hon Thos. M. Bell, His let in cl. S.6367, Allen Whitworth NM

1931 June 10 - Hist to Mrs. W.E. Wallace  EEL

1931 June 30 - Adv. Mrs. W.E. Wallace to apply to C.G. for date of death EEL
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Stokes County North Carolina
          This day Personally appeared The Reverend John Wilson a preacher of the Gospel and Hugh Martin a Man of Character and Made Oath that they had been for many years past Acquainted With John Whitworth an Applicant for a  Pention for his Servises in the Revolutionary Contest with Great Britain and that we have reason to belief that the Statement he makes of his age is true he affirms that he has kept this age in memory from his Infancy as was told him by his father and Mother.  They - neither of them being Scholars that he was Born in the Year of Our lord 1760 - the 9th day of March and we further State that we have no Reason to belief that he would take a fals Oath As in the long Acquaintance We had with him we never Know, Neighther heard, Such a Character of him and that he is Cald a Man of Common Repute amongst his Neighbours - Sworn to and Subscribed Before me a Justice of the peace for Said County this 5th day of January AD 1833.

     I hereby certify that John Whitworth came before me W.A. Mitchell one of the Justices of the peace for said county and made oath to the above Statement respecting his age.  Sworn to and Subscribed before me the 5th day of Janyar 1833.
W.A. Mitchell JP (seal)
                  John Whitworth
                  John L. Wilson
                  Hu. Martin

I W.A. Mitchell do hereby certify that the persons above who made affidavits are men of fair characters and worth of credit & that I believe their statements.
                    W.A. Mitchell  JP  (seal)
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State of North Carolina
Stokes County
     I John Hill Clerk of the Court of pleas & quarter sessions for Stokes County Certify that Wm. A. Mitchell whose name appears to the foregoing certificate is a duly qualified & acting Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Stokes & that his signature as such is genuine.
     In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of said County at office this 14th January 1833.
              Jno. Hill

     I certify that I am well acquainted with Chesly Barnes, who has given testimony on the accompanying application of John Whitworth & knew that said witness is generally reputed a man of truth and from my knowledge of him & his general character I doubt not the truth of his statement.  I am also well acquainted with Hugh Martin and John Wilson who made the foregoing certificate that they are both highly respectable citizens- Mr. Wilson is a regular preacher of the Gospel.
             AH Shepperd
Jany 26 1833