Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38659, William Deakins, Continental (Md.)
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Service Number
Continental (Md.) Deakins, William S.38659 
Born in England 
Contents
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15.800
West Tennessee
William Deakins
of Williamson in the state of Tennessee who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hazen of Pennsylvania line, for the term of 6 years. War
Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee at the rate of 8 dollars per month, per commence the 11th of October 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th of Nov 181
and sent to Thos Stuart Esq. Franklin Tenn.
Arrears to Portion of Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 March 1820 38.45
4 25/31  $38.45
{Revolutionary Claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued
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Notification sent May 5th 1821 to Tho Hardiman Esq. Franklin, Tennessee.
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5176
Case of Wm Deakins 
Tho. Stuart
Judge 
Franklin, Tn
Recd Nov 1 1819
Col Hagens on Congress Regiment 
10 July 1777- 3 yrs
Found on Roll
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[In background]
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The Honble J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
City of Washington 
Pension Office
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To the honorable J C Calhoun secretary of war
The Declaration of William Deakins showeth that he was born in England and came into Maryland before the Revolution, and is now about eighty years of age to the best of his knowledge that in the year 1777 in the fall he enlisted as a soldier in the Regiment known by the name of the Congress regiment which was upon continental establishment for three years or during the revolutionary war in the company commanded by John Carlille and the regiment was commanded by Col Moses Hazen who afterwards became Brig. Genl Hazen and continually served the United States as a soldier during the whole of the revolutionary war and was discharged by Genl Hazen at a place called Pompton Plains in New Jersey by a discharge in writing in the summer of 1783.  which discharge was lost long ago by him in Virginia, he was enlisted in Hartford county state of Maryland at a place called Jamesons crop roads.  He was in the battle of Brandywine where he was wounded with a ball in the left shoulder and in a skirmish at the shorthills in Jersey and in two skirmishes against the British on Staten Island.  He was at the siege of York during the whole time and at the Capture
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of Cornwallis, he was in very indigent circumstances entirely unable to support himself.  and has been altogether supported by the County of WIlliamson in the State of Tennessee where he now resides, for more than seven years.  that he does not know of any person by whom he can prove the above services or enlistment nor is he able to search after them, and can only as he believes prove the above facts by his own oath that he never received any pension and hereby releases all claim to any except that provided by the act of congress of 1818 which he now claims. 
William Deakins
State of Tennessee to wit
This day personally appeared before me Thomas Stuart one of the Judges of the circuit court for the state of Tennessee William Deakins the above named declarant and made oath that the facts set forth in the above declaration are true to the best of his knowledge. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of October 1819.
William Deakins
Thos Stuart 
State of Tennessee to wit
Again this 12th day of October 1819, personally appeared before me Judge as aforesaid the above named William Deakins and made oath that he has no doubt but
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his name will be found on the muster rolls of the congress regiment that when he was enlisted his size was measured and his description taken down as he believes which he supposes may accompany his name on the rolls.  he will recollect his size was five feet one inch and a half and on account of the smallness of it he was often laughed at by his comrades who would repeat how much he measured.  he had when enlisted dark brown hair very light hazle eyes fair complexion when he enlisted he was a thin habit of body having lately recovered from the fever and ague and further saith not.  Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year last aforesaid. 
Thos Stuart William Deakins
State of Tennessee to wit
This day personally appeared before me Thomas Stuart one of the Judges of the circuit courts for the state of Tennessee Daniel Perkins and made oath that he has known the above named William Deakins for upwards of seventeen years in the County of Williamson, where both have resided for upwards of that time that said William Deakins has generally been reputed to be a man of truth and he has no doubt he is worthy to be credited on his work or oath.  that he is aged infirm and in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the aid of his country for his support.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 12th day of October 1819.
Thos Stuart
Danl Perkins
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State of Tennessee to wit
This day personally appeared before me Thomas Stuart one of the Judges of the Circuit courts for the State of Tennessee William Bond a Justice of the peace for WIlliamson County and made oath that he has been acquainted with the above William Deakins six or seven years in the county aforesaid that he has no doubt of his being a man of truth and honesty and worthy of being believed and such is his general reputation several years before the year 1818 he has heard said Deakins say he was a regular soldier in the revolutionary war and served the United States upward of six years.  he had frequent conversations with him on this subject he having been in the army himself in the revolutionary war and had no doubt from the manner in which said Deakins conversed on subjects relating to the war but he had been a long time a soldier in the American Army.  He is aged and in reduced circumstances entirely unable to support himself and stands in need of the aid of his country for his support.  Sworn to and subscribed before me this 12th day of October 1819.
Wm Bond
Thos Stuart 
State of Tennessee to wit
I Thomas Stuart one of the Judges of the circuit courts for the state of Tennessee do certify that it has been made to appear to my satisfaction that William Deakins who has made the above declaration was a regular soldier in the army of the United States during
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the revolutionary war enlisted for more than nine months to wit for three years or during the revolutionary war in manner set forth in his declaration that he served the United States continually during said term of enlistment and more than nine months and was regularly discharged and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the aid of his country for his support.  In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and directed the clerk of the circuit court of WIlliamson County to affix hereto the seal of said court at Franklin in WIliamson county in said state this 15th day of October 1819.
Thos Stuart 
State of Tennessee
Williamson County
I William Smith clerk of the circuit court of Williamson county in the state of Tennessee do certify that Thomas Stuart who has enlisted the taking of the above affidavits of William Deakins Perkins and William Bond and who has made the above certificate is a Judge of the circuit courts for the state OF (ILLEGIBLE) now (ILLEGIBLE) in the court of the fourth circuit of which the circuit court of Williamson County in a component past in pursuance of his direction I have hereto set the seal of said court which is my private seal there being no public seal of office yet pro vided at office in Franklin this 15th day of October 1819.
Wm. Smith
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Tennessee 337.
Recd 13 Jan 1821
William Deakins 
W Tennessee
15800 
March 1820
J. C. Calhoun 
Secretary of War 
Washington City 
mail
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Franklin Tenn
23 Dec 1820
J.C. Calhoun 
Secretary of War 
Washington City.
Mail
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The State of Tennessee
Williamson County Court October Sessions 1820
This day William Deakins appeared in open Court and filed his  of obtaining a pension with a Schedule of of his estate were subscribed and sworn to which said declaration and schedule
 thereto annexed which said declaration and schedule are in the words and figures following  to wit, District of West Tennessee on this 11th day of October 1820 personally appeared in open court being the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Williamson
and a Court of Record by act of Assembly of the State of Tennessee eighty years resident in Williamson County in said District who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows that he the said William Deakins entered the service in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven in the State of Maryland in the Company of Captain John Carlisle in the Congress regiment commanded by Col. Auth and Moses Huson Brigade General his original declaration bears date in the fall of Eighteen hundred and nineteen and he has received his pension up to the fourth of March in the present year the number of his certificate as it appears from the
back marked No 15800 that he was in the battles of Brandywine where he was wounded in his left shoulder, the short will in the Jerseys, the seige of York in Virginia where Cornwallis
was taken and the battle of Staten Island west. He was discharged in the year 83 in the Jerseys at the Printon Plains. He the said William Deakins further states that he is not an old
but an infirm man and cannot support himself by his labor says he has no Wife nor children says he lives with William Brown in this County he is by occupation a Farmer but is not now able to follow his occupation 
 William Deakin    his mark
Sworn to in open Court this 11th day of October 1820  Tho Hardeman Clk in conformity to an act of congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service
of the revolutionary war passed on the first day of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it so as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress entitled an act to provide for certain
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persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day
of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed one Bible & hymn Book 1.00. some other old Books 1.00 --$200 Sworn
to in open Court this 11th day of Oct. 1820
 William Deakins    his mark
Thos Hardeman Clk. Which being heard and understood It is considered by the Court that the total amount of value of property  exhibited in said Schedule is worth the sum
of two dollars and that the declarant is worthy of credit
I Thomas Hardeman Clerk of the Court of pleas & quarter Sessions for Williamson County in said State to hereby certify that the foregoing oath the schedule thereto annexed are truly
and  copied from the records of said Court and
I do further certify that it is the opinion
of said Court that the total amount in value of
the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is two dollars 
In Testimony where of I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court on this 23 day of December 1820
Thos Hardeman Clk
of the court of pleas
& quarter Sessions of
Williamson County
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May 14, 1937
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Mrs. Penelope J. Allen
1910 West 43rd Street 
Chattanooga, Tennessee

William Deakins
S. 38659
BA-J/MLB

Dear Madam:
You are furnished herein the record of William Deakins as found in pension claim, S.38659, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
William Deakins was born in England and came to Maryland before the Revolutionary War.  The date of his birth and names of parents not given.
He enlisted in 1777 at a place called Jamison's Crossroads in Harford County, Maryland, served as a private in Captain John Carlisle's company, Colonel Moses Hazen's Continental Regiment know as "Congress' Own" was in the battle of Short Hills, New Jersey, the two battles of Staten Island, in the battle of Brandywine in which he was wounded by a ball in his left shoulder, was also in the siege of Yorktown and at the surrender of Cornwallis and was discharged in the summer of 1783.
William Deakins was allowed pension on his application executed  October 11, 1819, at which time he was aged about eighty years and a resident of Williamson County, Tennessee, where he had been living more than seven years. 
It is not stated whether or not the soldier was ever married.  In 1820, he was residing with on William Brown in Williamson County, Tennessee, no relationship stated.  He died January 5, 1834.
In order to obtain date of last payment of pension and name and address of person paid, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data: William Deakins, Certificate #15809, issued November 8, 1819, rate $8 per month, commenced October 11, 1819, Act March 18, 1818, West Tennessee Agency.
Very Truely Yours,
A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Washington, D. C., _____, 19____
S.F.38659
In reply to your request of ___, received___
for a statement of the military history of William Deakins 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 or Appointment
Fall of 1777 -1783
Officers under whom service was rendered
Captain John Carlesle
Colonel Mosess Hazen
STATE Continental  Regiment
Battles engaged in
Short Hills, Staten Island, Brandywine, where wounded in left shoulder, seige of York
Residence of soldier at enlistment
enlisted in Harford Co. Md
Date of  for pension
October 11, 1819 his cl al
Residence of application
Williamson Co. Tenn
Age at date of application
80 yrs born in England, came to Md before the Rev
REMARKS:  in 1820 soldier stated that he had no wife or children there is no other data as to his family
For date of last payment of pension & probable date of death & c.
CRF 15,800 issued Nov 8, 1819 $8 per mo from Oct 11, 
Act Mrh 18, 1818 W. Tenn Agency
1835 list shows date of death Jan, 5, 1834
C0MMISSIONER MSPJ
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May 14, 1937
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Mrs. Penelope J. Allen
1710 West 43rd Street 
Chattanooga, Tennessee

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letters in which you request the Revolutionary War record of William Deakins who, you state, received a pension under the Act of 1818 while living in Davidson County, Tennessee; that of Tandy Senter who received a pension in 1832 in Roane County, Tennessee, and the War of 1812 record of a Lieutenant Nathaniel Smith who resided in Grainger County, thence to McMinn County, Tennessee and about 1838 or 1839 went to Texas. 
No claim for pension has been found based upon service in the War of 1812 of Lieutenant Nathaniel Smith who resided from 1838 or 1839 in Texas, nor for service in the Revolutionary War of a Tandy Senser.  The record of William Deakins, of Williamson County, Tennessee, is furnished herewith.  It is not shown that he lived in Davidson County, Tennessee, nor is that name borne on the list of 1818 pensioners of that county, and the name Tandy Sensor has not been found on the list of 1832 pensioners.  It seems there must be some mistake in your citations.
Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assitant
to the Admistrator
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WORKS PROGESS ADMISTRATION
FOURTH DISTRICT OFFICE
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
March 23, 1937

Veteran's Administration,
Washington D.C. 
Revolutionary Pension Department

Dear Sirs:
Will you kindly send me the pension record for service in the Revolutionary war of William Deakins, who drew a pension in Davidson County, Tenn.  having qualifi9ed under the act of 1818. 
Thanking you for your courtesy, I am
Sincerely
Penelope J Allen
Penelope J Allen, State Supervisor
Historical Records Project.
War Memorial Bldg.
Nashville. Tenn.

(seal) Recd Mar 25 1937 Mail Sub Div
Vets ass
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Aug. 17, 1917
Commissioner of Pensions.

My dear Sir:

Will you please send me the military record of William Deakins who fought in Revolutionary war.

He was originally of Maryland, but went to North Carolina either during or shortly after Rev. war. After a few years in N.C. he went to West Tennessee and settled in Williamson County. He drew a pension.

I shall appreciate it if you will send me his military service as soon as possible.

Hoping for an early reply, I am
Respectfully,
(Miss) Edna Stewart,
353 McCallie Avenue,
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Rev. Sec; 4DL[?]
Feb. 8, 1916.

Commissioner of Pensions:

I am seeking information about one of my Revolutionary ancestors, William Deakins, and will greatly appreciate it if it is possible for you to furnish same.

William Deakins came from Pennsylvania to Washington County (N.C.) Penn., thence to Williamson Co. Tenn. and we think he finally went into Missouri.

He served in Revolutionary war but whether his service were in Pennsylvania or Washington Co. N.C. I do not know, though, I think it is probable he saw service in Pa. but may have served in both states.

If he were granted a pension I should like to know the dates of his birth and death and whether he were home in Pa. or in Europe.

We think he was married twice. If so, I am descended from the first wife, Fannie, by whom he had two children. If the name of a second wife is recorded please give that, and the names of all the children and any dates pertaining to the family. I do not know whether he died in Williamson Co. Tenn. or somewhere in Missouri but we think he probably died in the latter state. If possible please state where he died.

I hope you will find some record of him
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and that you will furnish me all information you have which pertains to him and his family.

I assure you, I will greatly appreciate same and trust that you will give this your prompt attention.

Very Respectfully,
(Miss) Mary Stewart,
353 McCallie Ave.,
Chattanooga, Tennessee.

[seal] U.S. PENSION OFFICE.
FEB 10 1916 [/seal]
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38659
INVALID.
Revy

File No. 38,659
William Deakins
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March 18
Index:--Vol. 3, Page 125

[bracket] Arrangement of 1870. [/bracket]
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1916 Feby 18 Miss Mary Stewart V.L.M.[?]
1917 Aug. 21 Hist to Miss Edna Stewart.
1937 May 14 Hist. to Mrs. Penelope J. Allen MLR[?].