Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 42607, Nathaniel Waddell, Va.
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Va - Waddell, Nathaniel - S 42607
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Order to pay & letter to [illegible] C. Boulder 10 Fate
1838.
Virginia
Act 15 May 1828
Nathaniel Wade
Capt [illegible] Va
Dragoon
$100. per annum
Died 1st October 1835
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I certify that I enlisted first under Captain James Jones as a [illegible] in the regular army for 2 1/2 years in the Virginia the line [illegible]
pay and served under General Lee at the expiration of my first enlistment-- Capt Jones died and his first Lieut Caramon Madison was promoted to the Captain when near Philadelphia.  I enlisted under Captain Caramon Madison for during the war and served with him to the end of the revolutionary war, principally to the North
as a trooper  in the Virginia line on Continental pay.
Given under my hand seal this 28th November 1828.
Nathaniel Waddell

[illegible] County to wit
This day Nathl Waddell personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace for the County afordsd State of Virginia and duly acknowledged the above his hand seal & also made oath to the truth of the above Certificate - given under my hand and seal this 26th November 1820-
[illegible]
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Nathl Waddell
Declaration &
Power to A Ogden
& J R Nute

[illegible]
What line
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Revolutionary Claims
[B. ] 
Form of a Declaration to be made by the 
Non-Commissioned Officers, Musician, and Privates.  

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act, entitled ""An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th
of May, 1828, I, Nathaniel Waddell of 
Nottoway Parish in the county of Nottoway
in the State of Virginia do hereby declare, that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued in its service until its termination; at which period, was a* private in Captain Cape Cassamon Medesane's Virginia Line.  And I also declare, that I afterwards received certificates for the reward of eighty dollars; to which I was entitled, under a resolve of Congress, passed the 15th of May, 1778.

And I further declare, that I was not on the fifteenth day of May, 1828, on the Pension
List of the United States. - probably the Virginia line. 

Witness my hand, this 23rd day of September. in the year 1828

Nathaniel Waddell

Before me, [illegible] Jeffers a Justice of the
peace in the county of Nottoway in the State of Virginia personally appeared, this day, Sarah Barton and Archibald Burton of the said county, who did severally make oath that
Nathaniel Waddell by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.

Witness my hand, this 7th day of October in the year 1828
[illegible]   

I Frances Fitzgerald Clerk of the Court of the County of Nottoway in the State of Virginia
do hereby certify, that Edward Jeffress
before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time, a Justice of
and duly empowered to administer oaths.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this 6th day of Nov 1828.
Frances Fitzgerald

Sergeant, Corporal, Musician, or private, as the case may be.
The claimant, though not on the pension list on the 15th May, 1828, may have been on the list on or since the 3d of March, 1826, and afterwards stricken of; if so, he will add, and that I have received of the United States, a pension, since of March, 1826, the sum of
dollars, paid to me by the Agent for paying pensions in the State of
Here insert a Justice of the Peace, or other Magistrate duly empowered to administer oaths-
Justice of the Peace, or otherwise, as the case may be.
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42607
INVALID
File No. 42, 607

Nathaniel Waddell
Dragoon 
Rev War
Act: 18th May 1828
Index: -- Vol. A

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Nathaniel Waddell Virginia $100 per annum

Act 15 May 1828.

To what time last paid
Pension Office
10 Feb. 1838
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To I. L. Edwards Esqr.
Mail

Commissioner of Pensiones
Washington City
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Senate Chamber
Richmond Va
Febry 7th 1838

Dear Sir

I exhibited the enclosed papers to the agent here for pensions, who on inspecting them directed me to inclose them to you, stating that all claims of more than one years standing must first pass your examination. You will please return them with the proper directions as soon as possible. I live in the County where the pensioner died &
where his family, J. H. Knight resides and am now a member of the Genl. Assembly of Va
Yours
Louis C. Bouldin
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To I. L. Edwards
Commissioner of
Pensions-
Washington
City
Mail
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Richmond
Feby 7th 1838
Sir
This day I inclosed to you a record of Nottoway Court & a power of attorney, but forgot to inclose the accompanying certificate of
Pension
Yours
Louis C Bouldin
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[illegible] County January 11 1829.

I acknowledge the receipt of yours under date
of the [illegible] December 1828 enclosing the decisions from the Treasury department on the case of pensions from this [illegible] under the act for the of the way of certain surviving officers & soldier of the war of the revolution at the request of Nathaniel Waddell. I enclose to you the affidavit of Hampton Wallace of this County, in further support of his claim for a pension. He tells me that he knows of no officer now living that he could apply to [illegible] as his service was principally to the North- the [illegible] of the both Waddell & [illegible] for men of undoubted truth and respectability can be sustained by all their neighbor if required.  the case of John Miles who resides in [illegible] some 3 or 4 miles from me. I have not yet seen, but [illegible] he have any further testimony in support of his claim. it will be furnished. I did [2 words illegible] to authenticate the [4 word illegible] by annexing the County seal certifying that a Justice of the peace, in as much as you can of necessary for the surety of the Treasury, to the papers on the law of John Miles.
 I am requested by M Thompson
Waller for you to procure for him blank forms, in order
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that he may apply for a pension. I have no more
to communicate, shoud always be glad to hear from you the proceedings of Congress and remain for faithfull political friend
John H Knight
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Act 1828
Settled at
Treasury
Consd with
Invalid file
the
#42607
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Recd 17 January 1829.
Washington Jan. 16, 1829
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Sir
I have need for the evidence to [illegible] and the application of Nathaniel Waddell for a pension, [illegible] which case I ask [2 words illegible] I send a letter from the Magistrate including the affidavit to show the good character of the Witness.

I have also to request a [illegible] on the
additional Evidence submitted in the case
of Ferguson Taylor

Respectfully
[illegible]
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Nottoway County 11 January 1829
Honorable William T. Archer

Dear Sir 
Should you succeed to getting my pension or procure a draft on the bank of the United States at Richmond and for the same to me. 
[illegible]
Nottoway Country

Nathaniel Waddell

Witness
John A. Clay
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(additional)

Hampton Waller
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The affidavit of Hampton Waller of the County of Nottoway Virginia who being first sworn upon the holy evangelist of Almighty God.
taken this 4th day of January 1829 at [illegible] store in the County aforesaid..... deponent and saith, That from his own knowledge and that of the information of others, Nathaniel Waddell was a regular soldier of Cavalry in the Continental army of the revolution and that the said Nathaniel Waddell enlisted for the war and served as a regular in the said Continental army took to the North and South to the termination - the said same Waddell has resided nearly the whole time since the revolution in my neighbourhood and that the said Nathaniel Waddell has the character of a man of truth and that of being honest and
respectable and further this deponent saith not
Hampton Waller

Nottoway County To wit
Hampton Waller personally appeared before me justice of the peace for the County aforesaid paid and subscribed the above
in the presence, and also made oath to the truth of the same. Given under my hand seal this 11th day of January 1829
John A. Knight
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No of Original by west 886

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
1811
4 Dec 1828.

Nathaniel Waddell of Nottoway Parish in the County of Nottoway in the State of Virginia has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled ""An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution,” approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private
in captain Medeson's company, in the cavalry regiment of the Virginia line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, - nothing

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by
the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary
FA Dickins

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
6th December 1828
[marked through "It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to"]

It further appears that Nathaniel Waddell is not now on the pension list of the any agency, and has not been so since the 3 March 1826

The name of Nathaniel Waddell
Cannot be found among those of the Virginia line,
to whom certificates for the gratuity of Eighty
Dollars were issued-
[illegible]
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General Land Office
23 Dec 1828

I do hereby certify that the name of Nathaniel Waddell does not appear on the list of Warrants issued by the register of the Land Office at Richmond and so far as they have been recd at this office
[illegible] Graham
[illegible]
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Revolutionary Claims.

Under the act entitled" An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
23 Dec 1828.

The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Nathaniel Waddell under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether it appears, by any records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive,
the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental Line of the Army
of the Revolution.

R. Ruth 
the Hon. SECRETARY OF WAR.


War Depart
Bounty land office
The records of this office do not shew that a
Nathaniel Waddell of the Virginia line ever
received or is entitled to bounty land of the United States nor do they show as far as I can see that any such officer as Capt Cassamon Medison of any line served to the end of the War
Robert Taylor
24 Decr 1828