Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10706, William Triplett, N.C.
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Service:  North Carolina
Triplett, William
Number:  R10706

Born in Virginia
CONTENTS
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William Triplett
Declaration for a pension
21016
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State of Kentucky Russell County and Circuit Sct: [scilicet]
October Term 1832
On this 30th day of October 1832 personally appear in open court before the Honorable John L Bouler sole judge in and for the now sitting William Triplett, a resident of Russell county state of Kentucky aged 69 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 pension made by the act of congress passed 7th June 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States as a drafted militia man in the month of ... in the year 1782 for five month under Captain William Sloan in Wilkes? County State of North Carolina.  He states at that time his mother was a widow and needed his assistance and after he had so entered this said service he was induced from maternal feelings to hire a substitute by the name of Jeremiah Ferguson for which he gave said Ferguson forty pounds and he states that said substitute faithfully performed the services as he was informed by his Captain after he returned. he again entered this service as a volunteer for three months in the same county and state
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under Captain John Kees, Lieutenant Thomas Isbell. he was marched from home towards to the Head of Cataba River to a place called Pleasant Garden, where he and his Company was joined to other troops under and at that time commanded by General Charles McDowell they remained their [there] for some time and was then marched on to the Cherokee nation of Indians where they took and destroyed several Indian towns remaining there and on the frontier untill (until) his turn expired and was Honorably discharged by his officers tho took no written discharge as he now believes if however he did does not now certainly recollect and if he did it is lost he states that he served eight months by his substitute and himself as before stated he states he has no documentary evidence of his service nor is there any witness by whose testimony he can now the same within his reach or knowledge
he states that he was born in Louden [Loudoun] County state of Virginia on the 15th
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Day of November 1763 according to the family register which he now has in his possession at an early age his father moved to the state of North Carolina taking this applicant with him where he remained until after the close of the Revolutionary War and untill (until) the year 1808 when he moved to and settled where he has ever since resided. 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 sworn to and subscribed this day and year of (curved arrow)
William Triplett
We John Lane a clergyman residing in the county of Russell and William Lair residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Triplet (Triplett) who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 69 years of age that he is reputed and believe in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
John Lane
William Lair

William Triplett this day produced his declaration for a pension which was signed by the said William Triplett and sworn to in open court and the certificate of John Lane and William Lair which is annexed to said declaration was also signed by them and sworn to in open court. And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after investigation of the matter
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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 it that John Lane who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the said county of Russell and that William Lair who has also signed the same is a resident in the same county and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
John L. Bridges
Circuit Judge

I Bryan S. Owsley clerk of the Russell Circuit Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Triplett for a pension 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 7th day of November A.D. 1832
Bryan S. Owsley Clerk

(Circuit Court seal)
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No 21016
William Triplett Russell
County Kentucky

Rejected. Service only 3 months, one
tour of 5 months performed by
a substitute.  See letter.
11 April 23 to W. Owens,
Columbia
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BRIEF in the case of William Triplett
County of Russell in the State of Kentucky
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  a Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 69

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.
hired a substitute
 in 1780.

Duration of Service.
3 months.
Rank. As a 
[Private - crossed out]

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Captain Kease, General McDowell


5. In what battles was he engaged?  None

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Wilks County North Carolina

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Traditionary evidence.

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  Correct

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Dyer Castor, Examining Clerk
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August 22, 1933.

Gertrude Hagler
R.F.D. #2
Golden City, Missouri.

BA-J/ILL
William Triplett
R. 10706  [pencil mark unclear]

Dear Madam:
 
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the
Revolutionary War records of William Triplett and John Hagler,
early settlers of Wilkes County, North Carolina.

A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and
no record found of a claim for pension or bounty land on file made to
the United States based upon service of a John Hagler, various spellings 
of the surname searched.

William Triplett was born November 15, 1763, in Loudoun County,
Virginia, and, at an early age, moved with his father to North Carolina.
In 1780, his mother was a widow; the names of his parents, and the dates
of their births and deaths are not shown.  William Triplett moved from
North Carolina about the year 1803 and settled in Russell County, Kentucky,
in which county he continued to reside until 1832.

On October, 30, 1832, William Triplett applied for pension and 
stated that in the year 1782, he enlisted in Wilkes County, North Carolina,
as private for five months in Captain William Sloan's North Carolina
company, but that because his assistance was needed at home, he hired a
substitute to serve the term of that enlistment, and that he volunteered,
again Wilkes County, North Carolina, marched from home and served three months as private in Captain John Kees' North Carolina company, and that
during this time, he joined the troops under General Charles McDowell and
assisted in the destruction of some Indian towns of the Cherokee Nation.

His claim was not allowed as he himself did not render service of
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six months as required by the pension law under which he applied.

It is not stated in the papers in this pension claim that William
Triplett, the soldier, was married.

Very truly yours,

A. D. Hiller,
Assistant to Administrator
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Unionville, Mo.
May 4, 1914
Bureau of Pension,
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
Please advise me whether or not William (Triplett's) name appears on your list of Revolutionary Soldiers.
If so, can you tell me the date of his birth and death. He was born in Va.
I am looking up my genealogy for the D. A. R. and shall appreciate any
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information you can give me along this line. 
Please find envelope enclosed, and thanking you in advance. I am yours truly,
(Mrs.) E. F. Haigler
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REJECTED

 10,706

P.O. ______________
 William Triplett

Service:_______________

Enlisted: _________________, 18  .
Discharged: ___________________, 18  .

Application Filed: ______________, 18  . (struck through)
(handwritten) Printed - Rejected & Suspended
Pensions - page 364-
Rejection - reason- "Service by Substitute." I. L. L.

Alleges: ____________________

Re-enlisted: ________________

Attorney: ________________
P.O. _____________________

______Recognized.  ___________Contract.

_________ Cert. of Dis.  Searched for _______, 18  .

(handwritten notes at top left of page)
1914 May 8 Hist
to Mrs. E. F. Haigler
 V. L.  M
1914 Dec 12 Mr. 
Elihu Haigler that 
she has been furnished
hist of the only (illegible)
triplett.
1933 - /aug 22- Hist.
to Gertrude Hagler. ILL
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Mr. Triplett
Kentucky
Rejected served only 3 months one time & 5 months as formed by a substitute.  See letter 11 April to M. Owen
Columbia
10706
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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 William Triplett which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
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 war when he served?
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 amount of pension he is entitled?
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
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?
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XI. If 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?
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
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?
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?
  If h has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
  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?
XVI. ++Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not answered?
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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 affidativ [sic] 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 ____ year _____ 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 expectations 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 declaration is highly objectionable.  It must in every case be clearly shown 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 the 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 must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidativs 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 affidativ, 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.
   In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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Mrs. Elihu Haigler,  
Unionville, Mo.

Madam:
   In response to your letter of the fifth instant, you are advised that this Bureau is unable to furnish the record of a soldier of the revolution, unless a claim for pension or bounty land has been made on account of his services, and the history of William Tripplet R File No. 10,702, Rev. War, the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of the Bureau was sent to you May 8. 1914.
  It is not the practice of the Bureau to furnish more than one such statement to the same person.
Very Respectfully, G M Satzgaber, Commissioner.
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Golden City - Mo.
Aug. 9, 1933

Veteran's Administration Bureau
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen; Will you please send me the Revolutionary record of WILLIAM TRIPLETT who was an early settler near Wilkesboro N.C.  He was married to Eleanor Harbin.  They had a family of five sons and three daughters.  The son's names names were, McKaja, Nimrod, Jesse, and Thomas.  The father and two of the sons were in the Revolutionary War.
Please send the record of JOHN HAGLER also.  He was an early settler in N.C. in what was then Wilkes Co.  He was married to Elizabeth Van Hoose of York State.  They had six sons namely John, Abram, Jacob, Issac, Benjamin, and William.
Please address
Gertrude Hagler,
Golden City, Mo.
R.F.D. #2.
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received aug 14 1933
mail sub-div 
header 18
vets. ady
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Unionville, Missouri, Dec. 5, 1914.
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
Can you give me any information concerning William
Triplett, who I think served in the War of the Revolution?
think he was the son of Capt. Francis Triplett, born
and died in Fauquier County, Virginia, (1728-1794), Capt.
Francis had children as follows: Hedgman born 1755, William
born probably 1757, Robert, Francis and Ann. Both Hedgmanand
his father, Capt. Francis served in the Revolution as
soldiers from Virginia, and I wish to ascertain if William
was not also a soldier in this war. William lived to the
age of 103 years, but I do not know his wife's name, nor
the place where he died, although probably Virginia or
Kentucky,
Any information concerning said William Triplett, his
war record, land bounty, or his family will be greatly
appreciated. Thanking you in advance, I am,
Most respectfully,
Mrs. Elihu Haigler
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
                  3-525
     DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
        BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
R 10706        Washington, D. C. _____, 19__

In reply to your request of _____, received ______ for a statement of the military history of William Triplett 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 ENLSITMENT OR APPOINTMENT.

LENGTH OF SERVICE.

RANK.

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.           COLONEL.


STATE.

Battles en gaged in,___________.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, ___________
Date of application for pension, ___________
Residence at date of application,__________
Age at date of application, __________
Remarks: ________________

              Respectfully ,


                   Commissioner.

(handwritten items too faint to read)