Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32534, for James Stewart, North Carolina
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Service: N. C. 

Steward, James

NUMBER: S 32534
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Georgia 23.681
James Stewart
[ILLEGIBLE] Co. in the State of Georgia
was a Private in the Company commander 
Captain Slone of the Reg commander 
Col. Davidson in the N. C. [illegible] 
for 6 months.
Inscribed n the Roll of Georgia
at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum 
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of
March 1834 and sent to Hon. T. Foster
H. of Reps. [illegible] 
[illegible] to the 4th of March 34   $60
[illegible] allowance ending 4 Sep. 34  $10
total $70
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Eli Brown, Clerk
Book E. Vol. 6  Page 103.
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Let to Hon. T. Chase
Feb 24, 183?
Letter to John Stewart
Duplicate Certificate
17 June 184? [illegibble]
J.C.  Alford [illegible]
[illegible] to 3 Auditor Jany 1841.
Paid at the Treasury under the 
Act of the 6 April 1838 from
4 March 1834 to 4 March 1840
Agt notified 23 Feb 1841.
Hon [illegible]
July 25/52
Hon L. J. Gartrellayn [illegible] 
1861.
under the
1838 from
Mar 1840
1861.uphy


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State of Georgia
Heard County
In this seventeenth day of December Eighteen hundred and
thirty two personally appeared in open Court before us Samuel Ward, Thomas Auberry, 
John Jean the [illegible] Court of Heard County now sitting James Stewart a resident of
Georgia in the County of Heard aged Sixty Eight years who being duly sworn accord
to law in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress. He the said James
Stewart on oath states that he entered the Service of the United States on oath states that he served under the following named officers and served as herein Stated the said Stewart entered the service Eighteen hundred and Eighty one under the command of General Griffin [illegible] who was Chief Commander and Col. George Caverson and John Slone Capt of the Company in which he the said Stewart served though he does not now recollect the day or month on which he entered into the service, but knows that it was some time in the early part of that year and remained in said service till the latter part of the same year when he was given liberty to return home
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though not finally discharged being subject
to be recalled back at the disposition of 
the commanding Officers. The said James Stewart 
states that he resided in the State of North 
Carolina and in Roan County at the
time that he was called into the service &
that he was drafted to serve in the Revolutionary war at Sixteen years of age
He was in no battles but was stationed
frequently on the tories to prevent or intercept 
the passage of the tories. He said Stewart does not now distinctly recollect when
he quit the service during the war. He said James Stewart is now old and infirm & 
could recollect many other facts but for his infirmity and old age.
James F Stewart (his mark} 

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court
this 17th day of December 1832
Saml Ward J.J.C.
John Jean J.J.C.
Thomas Awbrey J.J.C.
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James Stewart 
[illegible]
Wm Stewart
[illegible] Claim Increase from
Houston
Heard Co. Ga
Draw $20 
increase to send the particulars of service
Dec 27/[illegible]
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Houston, Ga
December the 18th 1830
Mr. L B True
Dear sir I rec a communication from you wishing to form an agency in
this vicinity I was from home at the time and nearly all the persons entitled
to claims under the last act of congress having applied I was compelled to decline offer but I have one case that I wish to state to you and solicit your advice on the subject. My Father learned a Stewart Revolutioner and is drawing a small pension he has drawn twenty
Dollars per anum since the year 1834 now he wishes to know through you
if there is nothing more that he is
entitled to as a Revolutionary Soldier
pleas inform me or James Stewart
address Houston Heard Co Ga
Yours Truly
William Stewart
Will the Commissioner of Pensions have
the goodness to allow me the privilege of seeing the papers filed in this case.
oblige. Very respectfully yours L. B. True
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September 27, 1934.
Mrs. A. T. Kerr
717 9th Court S.
Birmingham, Alabama

BA-J/Ill
James Stewart
S. 32534
Dear Madam:
    Reference is made to your letter in which you request the
Revolutionary War record of James Stewart, a pensioner of Heard County, Georgia.
    The record of only one James Stewart who was a pensioner of Heard County, Georgia, has been found. The data given herein are
found in the papers on file in his claim for pension, S. 32334, based upon service in the Revolutionary War.
    James Stewart, while a resident of Rowan County, North Carolina, enlisted sometime in April 1781, and served six months as private
in Captain John Stone's company, Colonel George or William Davidson's regiment of North Carolina troops.
    He was allowed pension on his application executed December 17, 1833, at which time he was a resident of Heard County, Georgia; he was then sixty-eight years of age, the date and place of his birth and names of his parents not shown. He was living in Houston, Heard County, Georgia, in 1830.
    Soldier's son, William Stewart, was a resident of Houston, Georgia, in 1830; the name of his mother is not shown, and there is no reference to the marriage of the soldier.
    In 1840, one John Stewart was a Justice of the Peace for Heard County, Georgia; no relationship to the family was stated.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Assistant to Administrator

The statement in letter of Aril 20, 1840, Franklin Co. N.C. is a mistake.
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States, of the Court further certifies that
it appears to them in that the said James & Wm Barkley who has [illegible] the preceding  
certificate is a clergyman residing in this vicinity and the William Barkly who has also signed the same is a resident of the vicinity and is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit.
Saml Ward J.J.C.
John Jean J.J.C
Thomas Awbrey J. J. C.
I William Sullivan, Clerk of the [illegible] 
Court of Heard County, do hereby certify
that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of said Court in the matter
of the application James Stewart for
a pension
In testimony whereof I have
hereinto set my hand there being no
seal of office this 17 day of Dec 1832
Wm Sullivan  D.C.J.P.
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Georgia
Ward County
Personally appears in in open Court before us 
Thomas Auberry, Samuel Ward Alexander G. Peddy & Cicero D Hudson Judges of
said court of the County of Ward &
State aforesaid James Stewart who after
being duly sworn deposeth & saith that in answer to the new 5 questions propounded he states that he served as a common soldier from the best of his recollection & on the middle of April until the middle of October being drafted to serve a tour of six months
duty.  This was in the year seventeen hundred
eighty one. This was the only tour that he served. 
To the 7th question propounded he answered that he relinquishes every & all other claim or claims except the one under the provisions of the act of June the 7th 1832.
James Stewart (his mark)

Sworn to & subscribed before 
us this 1st day of Aug 1833
mark
Sam Ward
A.G. Peddy J.J.C.
Thos Auberry J.J.C.
C. D. Hudson J.J.C.
Georgia
Ward County 
I do certify that these proceedings are just and true given under my hand and seal this July first, 1833.
P. H. Taylor
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Georgia
Ward Co ⎬We James Wafer & William Barkley the former being a clergyman and the late
a respectable citizen each residing in
the vicinity of the said James Stewart
residing in (the same) do hereby certify that
we are well acquainted with the said
James Stewart who has subscribed & sworn
the above declaration, that we believe
him to be Sixty Eight years of age, that
he is a man of fair standing & [illegible] veracity & integrity in the neighbourhood where he resides.  We believe him to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion
James T. Wafer
Wm Barkley 

Sworn & subscribed to in open Court this
17 day of December 1832
Sam Ward J.J.C.
John Jean J.J.C
Thomas Awbry J.J.C.
We find the said Court do hereby declare
the opinion after an investigation of
the matter having but the interrogatories
which have been prescribed by the war
department, that the above named applicant
was a revolutionary soldier & served as he
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Georgia Heard County

In the Inferior Court of [illegible] County

We the justices of the Inferior Court of [illegible] County do hereby certify that Paschal H Taylor who has signed the within certificate is legally the Clerk of our Court, that in the said Court [illegible] seal of the officer but that good faith and credit [illegible] signature of said clerk.

3d day of February 1834

A.G. [illegible]
[illegible]
John M. Wain

I have satisfactory [illegible] that P. H. Taylor who has saigned this within certificate is Clark of the Inferior Court of Heard County, Georgia and that the signature is genuine—18 Feby 1834

Thomas F. Foster

[ Following written perpendicular to page and over above writing:]

[illegible] $20
Hon Tho F. Forster
HR
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Application for a New Certificate

State of Georgia, Heard County: On this 20th day of April 1840

Before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Heard, personally appeared James Stewart, who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain John Slone, in the regiment commanded by Colonel William Davidson, in the service of the United States, that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of North Carolina and that he received a certificate of the fact, under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War, which certificate on or about the month of (month not recollected) in the year 1834 at the Town of Franklin, State and County first above written, was lost or mislaid, so that he has not been able to find or recover it and that the manner of the destruction of loss of his pension certificate, he could, and as he believed, never can account for except by the negligence willful or accidental of his agent Wm. H. [illegible] who had assisted him in drawing his pension for the first three years and has since that time left the State of Georgia without giving any account of what ever [illegible] with the certificate and that he possesses no means that he knows of to ascertain whether he yet lives that he might procure his affidavit with ease. Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above written 

John Stewart
James Stewart (x his mark)
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State of Georgia, Heard County

On this the 20th day of April 1840 before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the said County of Heard personally appeared Beniah McClendon, who on his oath declares that he we;; knows James Stewart to be the same person described in the within or foregoing affidavit Sworn and Subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid.
Benaiah McClendon
[ditto mark] [ditto mark]

Wilson Strickland J. P. [mark]
[ditto mark] [ditto mark]

State of Georgia, Heard County

I do hereby certify that Beniah McClendon the subscriber to the above affidavit is a person of veracity this 20th April 1840
Wilson Strickland J. P. [mark]

Georgia, Heard County

I do hereby certify that John Stewart and Wilson Strickland are acting Justices of the peace and for the state and county aforesaid and that due credit should be given to their actings and doings. [illegible] under my hand & private seal these being no seal of office this 21st April 1849
Bailey Bledso[?] [mark]
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Reply referred to the Secretary of War
Dept of War
11 Nov 1839

P. 491 [faint and illegible]
November 11, 1839
Pension Office
Mr Evans

{Following upside down:]
Houston, Geo [illegible]
1 Nov
Hon. John Forsyth
Washington City, D.C.
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Houston Heard County Georgia 30th October 1839

Dear Sir.

You will please pardon this intrusion upon your time, when we inform you that[struck out] the object of this address is to solicit your services and kind attention, in the case of James Stewart, an old Revolutionary pensioner who resides amongst us. He has had the misfortune in his old age to lose his eye-sight and is in need of of [sic] what has been allowed by the Government, viz $20 pr annum of which he has been for several of the last years past deprived of for want of his pension certificate, which it seems has by the carelessness of some of his agents or friends been wholly lost or mislaid so that he cannot come at it, an attempt has we learn been made by his friends some years since, to get his pension certificate reestablished and instructions sent him by J. L. Edwards from the War Department in form of a printed sheet, to inform him how to proceed in order to the attainment of his object, which instructions has been also lost. The old man now sends on his affidavit, taken before a Justice of the peace, to the pension office,  (War Department) directed to J. L. Edwards which we hope will answer his purpose, but in case it should not, we have taken the liberty of droping [sic] this notice, to the end that he may have a representative at hand, who can give the necessary explanations in conclusion we would just say that in the restoration of his list rights and priveleges [sic] the cause of humanity would be served and your friends laid  under lasting obligations
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We are Sir most respectfully yours
Timothy Pittman
J. T. Smith
A. G. Teddy
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Stewart Pension
Houston
Heard County
[illegible]

Hon. J.C. Alford
HR
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Pension Office
Apl 9th 1858

Sir
In answer to that portion of the enclosed letter of W. H.  Mell Esqr. which relates to the claim for a pension of James Stewart. I have the honor to state that there is but one claim filed in this office from the State of Georgia in the name of James Stewart and he was pensioner @ the rate of $20 per annum under the Act of 7th June 1832 on the 12th March, 1834 this pension certificate was sent to the Hon. T. F. Foster of the Ho. Reps.

If the claim to which your correspondent alludes was for half pay or commutation he should so state and also indicate from what State his application came.

[illegible] S. J. Gartrell, Ho. Rep.
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Georgia, Heard County

I Julius C. Alford do certify that Baily Blasal is the clerk of the Inferior court of said county and that the forgoing signature is genuine April 21st 1840

JCAlford [signature]
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1934-Sept 27-Hist to Mrs AT Kerr, ILL

32-534
Reg INVALID

Tile No. 32,534
James Stewart
[Illegible] Rev War
Act: June 7th 32
Index: Vol 2, Page 396

Nov 21, 1901
Geo C Stewart
Gen'l Land Office
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178 [circled]
270 [in other hand]
Pen Office
Feby 25 [183?]

Sir

I have the honor to return Mr Stewart's letter and to inform you that his father was allowed a pension of $20 per annum for 6 months' service, which was all he was entitled to. No law has been passed increasing pensions [illegible] Revolutionary soldiers.

Mr. C Murphy [illegible]
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Birmingham, Ala, Sept 6, 1934

Pension Dept.
Washington, DC

Wanted information of pension on James Stewart American Revolutionary Services. He was an Irish immigrant landed in South Carolina but lived in Ga. Married March 25 1776, died Feb 6 1854. Received a pension and lived until his death in Heard Co. Ga. Have no information of his pension other than he received one of $20.

If nothing is found in Amer. Revolutionary Service possibly it can be found in the records of War of 1812.

Thanking your [illegible]
Yours truly
Mrs AJ Kerr
717 9th Court St.
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13 Nov 1839
John Stewart
G.C
Record#49 page 47
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War Department, Pension Office, 13th Nov 1839

Sir,
The papers in the case of James Stewart, a pensioner under the  Act of the 7th June 1832, are herewith returned. The enclosed printed instructions should be strictly complied with. James H