Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,347, Robert West, N.C. S.C.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
N. C.
S. C.

West, Robert

NUMBER 
R. 11347

CONTENTS
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Robert West

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State of Illinois,
Gallatin County
On this third day of March
1834 personally appeared in open court before the
Circuit Court in and for the said
County now sitting Robert West, a resident of the said County of Gallatin, aged sixty nine 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 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.
He was born in Orange County, North Carolina
in the year 1765, and has no record of his age,
the family bible in which it was kept having been
with all the other household property of his
father's family plundered by the tories during the
war of the revolution. He was living in the
State of North Carolina, near Kings mountains
on a creek which he thinks was called King's
creek, but the name of the county or district
he does not now remember, at the time he entered the service of the United States; in the Fall of the year 1780,
he volunteered as a private under Captain
William Twitty, in the regiment of Colonel Grimes
He volunteered and served for a tour of one
year during which time the company of Capt.
Twitty was engaged in scouting in the states
of North & South Carolina. They had no engagement with the enemy, nor were they attached at any time to the main army though occasionally the company fell in with detached portions of it stationed at different points. He does not remember the names of any of the
commanders of these portions of the army as he ┃
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had no opportunity to become acquainted with them nor does he now remember the names of any of the officers of the regiment to which he belonged except those of his captain, and colonel, already given. After performing this tour of twelve months duty captain Tenilty [?]
and his company including this applicant were dismissed at Lincoln county in North Carolina by Col. Grimes. During this period this declarant was engaged in no civil present, but entirely in the military service. He did not get a written discharge
his company being discharged verbally by the Colonel.
After remaining at home about a year this applicant again volunteered for one year's tour of duty as a private under
Captain Joseph Humphreys, in Colonel John Lindsey's regiment of South Carolina militia, the family of this declarant having then removed to Newberry district in South Carolina - during the greater part
of this tour the company of Captain Humphry and another of the same regiment commanded according
to the applicant's best recollection, by a captain Wilde were engaged in scouting and protecting the most exposed settlements from the attacks of the tories, Captain Cunningham, a notorious tory had perpetuated sundry outrages upon the undefended
inhabitants, and to observe and counteract his movements and operations was the principal object to which Captain Humphrey's company was
directed. The district (or counties) of Newbury and Lawrence were the parts of the county to which principally the protection of the two companies was
afforded. This species of service was that in
which this applicant was engaged
for several months of this tour, during which time he knew none of the officers of the regiment except the Colonel, his captain & company officers and
and the captain whose name he thinks was
Wilde. While there engaged in activity
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the company had no engagement, tho they put to flight several small parties of tories. After several months had been consumed in this scouting service Captain Humphrey's company was ordered to join General Sumpter, on the Wateree creek. Colonel Lindsey with his regiment joined Sumpter at on that creek. In a few days after Col. Lindsey joined Gen Sumpter, this [illegible] with his whole force, composed of about 2000 men took up the line of march to Rocky Mount in North or South Carolina, in which of
the two this applicant does not now remember. At the Rocky Mount Gen. Sumpter attacked a body of British troops and tories, stationed there, and in houses provided with portholes and fortified in many respects. In the attempt of Gen. Sumpter to force the enemy from his portion, he was unsuccessful, and was obliged to retreat. From thence Gen. Sumpter led his men to the Hanging Rock, in North Carolina where another body of British was posted. Gen Sumpter attacked this force, with as unsuccessful a result as in the former
case. The Americans were overpowered, and
compelled to retreat. After this Gen. Sumpter proceeded with a view to join Gen. Gates at Camden but before he reached that place on express informed Gen Sumpter of the defeat of Gates. Coronel Lindsey then conducted his regiment to Newberry district, where they were held in readiness to rejoin Gen Sumpter, but Captain Humphrey's company
was again engaged in scouting as at
first. In this service they continued until
after the peace between Great Britain and
the United States. A number of the tories
still resisting, and rendering it necessary
to retain same armed force to compel
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them to submission.  At the end of this 
tour of one year, during the period of which
this applicant engaged in no other pursuits
but that of arms in the service of his 
country, he was, with the rest of his 
company honorably dismissed from service
in Newberry district, by the Captain, no 
written discharge being given.  While Capt.
Humphrey's company was under General
Sumpter this applicant does not remember
the names with certainty of any of the 
officers, except those before named, his 
Captain and company officers, and Colonel
Lindsey.
After the close of the revolution this applicant
moved from Newberry district
to Pendleton district, South Carolina,
where he continued to reside until last 
March, when he started for Gallatin
county, Illinois, where he now lives.  
He has no acquaintance in this state, who 
is a clergyman, having resided in it so short 
a time, but he believes that David Wilson
and William D. Clay who are both
credible men, his neighbors the former living in Hamilton for many years & known to him
and who knows
him, will testify as to his character for veracity,
and their belief of his services as 
a soldier of the revolution - the said Wilson having
known this declarant in South Carolina is the 
reason only he is selected from
a foreign county.
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 
if any only on the state pension roll of this 
state of South Carolina, which the benefit
of which he hereby wholly relinquishes here.
He has no documentary evidence of the
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foregoing facts nor does he know of any
person whose testimony he can procure, 
who can testify to his service

Robert West  X  his mark

Sworn and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid.

Leod White, Clk

We, David Wilson residing in Hamilton county, Illinois, and William D. Clary residing in the county of Gallatin and state of Illinois 
hereby certify that we are well acquainted
with Robert West, who has subscribed and sworn 
to the above declaration; that we believe him 
to be sixty nine 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

David Wilson
Wm D Clary

Sworn & subscribed the 
day & year aforesaid.

Leod White, clk

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 David Wilson, and William D. Clary
who have signed the preceding certificate, is a
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are both respectable and credible men, the former
resident in the adjoining county of Hamilton, 
and the latter resident in this county, and that 
their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Leonard White, clerk of the circuit court for 
Gallatin county, Illinois do hereby certify that the 
forgoing contains the original proceedings of the 
said court, in the matter of the application of Robert
West for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have 
hereunto set my hand and seal 
of office, this third day of March, 
eighteen hundred & thirty four - 

Leod White 
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Sworn to and subscribed the day and 
year aforesaid.
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Robert West


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30.204
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Suspended 
Illinois
Robert West
See Letter to 
A. F. Grant Esqr.
28" August 1834.

11347
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.

11.347
P. O. [blank]
Robert West
Service:  N. C.
Enlisted:  [blank date]
Discharged:  [blank date]
REJECTED
Application filed:  [blank date]
Alleges:  [blank]
Re-enlisted:  [blank]
Attorney:  [blank]
P. O.  [blank]

[blank] Recognized.  [blank] Contract
[blank]  Cert. of Dis.  Searched for [blank date]
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War Department
Pension Office
July 17th 1834

Sir,

The papers in the case of 
Robert West have been examined, and 
they are herewith returned.
The applicant
should distinctly set forth each tour of 
service, stating the officers under whom 
he served in each tour, the duration of 
each term of engagement, and the particular
place or places where the service was
performed &c., as required in note e.
in the enclosed printed sheet.
A very 
full account of the applicants services
will be indispensable to a favorable
decision.

I am Respectfully
Your obt Srvt [obedient servant]

Geo. Wm. Crump


A. F. Grant Esqr.
Equality Ill
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Commr of Pensions
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Equality Ill.  Augt. 8, 1834

Sir,

I beg leave to re-transmit the papers in the 
case of Robert West, an applicant whose statement
made much less in detail than the present, entitled
him to a pension in the state of S. Carolina, which 
he enjoyed until his departure for this section of 
the Union.
I trouble you again with this subject in 
the hope that upon a re-examination of the documents
relating to it, you will grant the certificate
without further delay - You say "the applicant
should set forth each tour of service" 
&c. "as required in note e of this printed instructions" - Now a comparison of the original 
declaration and amended declaration of 
West with the instructions conveyed
in note e, embracing this form of a declaration 
(amended) thus given will show that the note is strictly and literally,
and in every specific particular, complied
with.  By that note this applicant is required
to show - The period of service - this he shows
distinctly in his amended declaration; Next, the 
rank - this also in his amended declaration he 
shows to have been that of a private;  next, the
officers - this appears both in his original and 
amended declaration; Next, the duration of 
each term - surely this is plainly stated in his
amended declaration; next the place or places
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where the service was performed &c. &c. &c.
all of those facts shown in his original 
declaration.  That they are not repeated in 
his amended declaration can be no 
objection unless you abandon your printed
note e, containing the very form applicable
to this case; in which nothing of 
the details of the service is embraced
or appears to be contemplated.  The only possible
difference between the form of an amended
declaration given is note e, to which you
will discover I have been referred by a direction 
in the margin, and that of Mr. West
is that the latter is somewhat more
precise than the former, in computing the 
aggregate of the applicants different terms 
of service.  This can hardly be an objection 
with the department.
As one man is as likely to err in the 
construction of a law, or the practice arising 
under it, as another, and as this case
is as fully made out as any one of the many
in which I have succeeded, I indulge the 
hope that the application will be re-considered
and that too with the best lights that 
are within the reach of our executive officers
I am persuaded that the Department must
either abandon her former regulations or
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the subject, as contained in the printed
instructions, and as acted on in the numberless
instances, on this claim of Robert West
must be allowed.  To suppose the former
branch of the alternative would be to 
suppose all want of uniformity and derision.

I am, sir,
very respectfully,
your obdt servt [obedient servant]
Alex. F. Grant
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Amended declaration of Robert West for a pension as a revolutionary soldier:

State of Illinois, Gallatin county, ss.

Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a 
justice of the peace in and for the said county of Gallatin, 
Robert West, 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 
three months [three months marked through] one year I served as a private in Captain 
Twitty's company in Colonel Grimes regiment of North
Carolina militia; having four times during the said
year entered the service for a term of three months
each, under the same Captain, and in the same
regiment.  For another year I served as a private
in Captain Joseph Humphreys' company, in Colonel
John Lindsey's regiment of South Carolina militia [edge of page torn]
as before, entered the service during the year four
times, on tours of three months each under the same Captain and in the same regiment; and for such 
service under eight different engagements, and making
two entire years' service, I clam a pension.

Robt. West  X  his mark

Subscribed and sworn to 
before me, this 4th day of 
June, 1834.

T. D. Hewitt
J. P.


State of Illinois,
Gallatin county, ss.

I, James Caldwell, clerk of the county commissioners
court for said county do hereby certify that Tyler 
D. Hewitt, who has certified to this taking of the foregoing
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affidavit of Robert West, and was at the time
of the date thereof, an acting justice of the peace
in and for the said county of Gallatin, duly commissioned
and qualified, and that the signature
purporting to be his, subscribed to the foregoing
attestation, is his genuine signature.  In witness
whereof I have hereunto set my 
hand, and official seal, at Equality
in the said county of Gallatin, this 
17th day of June, 1834. 

James Caldwell clk CCCGC

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