Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 4761, for Parris Pearson, North Carolina
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N.C.
Pearson, Parris                W4761
                or
               Paris
                Mary
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L Certs-
1- 1838
1 acts 1843&1844
Rep

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6701 
North Carolina
Mary Pearson
widow of Parris Pearson
N C
who was a Private
in the Revo.War

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of March 45
and sent to Hon R.M.Sanders,
H.Rep
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book on June 17 1844
Vol 2 Page 159
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State of North Carolina}
Wake County}

Know all men by these presents that we Paris Pearson & John Gilmore both of the county and state aforesaid are held and firmly bound unto his [illegible] Richard Cuswell Esquire Governor and his said supporters in office in the sum of Five hundred Pounds their to which payment well and truly to be made we bind ourselves, and each of us our and Each of our Heirs of [illegible] and severally firmly by those presents seated  with our seals and dated this 21st day of September a [illegible] 1785 (seventeen hundred and eighty five)

The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas the above [illegible] Paris Pearson hath applied for a License to be joined with Mary Gilmore in the Holy Estate of Matrimony and now if therefore there be no lawful cause to obstruct the marriage for which said License was obtained then the above obligations to be void also to be and remain in full former and virtue.

Test                    Paris Pearson {seal}
J Lane                John Gilmore {seal}

(The undo twenty first day, and seventeen hundred ^ five, {illegible} years the year and day the sworn was obtained)
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State of North Carolina Wake County}

Clerks office of court of Pleas [illegible] [illegible]. December 16th 1844 I James T Marriott clerk of the court of Pleas and Guarantor [illegible] of wake county and state aforesaid do hereby certify the foregoing to be a correct copy of the marriage bond of Paris Pearson, except that the words seventeen hundred & eighty five, and also twenty first day, is inserted in letters when in the original bond is in figures or the dates thereof In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said court and such [illegible] my name at office in Raleigh the 16th day of December [illegible] 1844. 

James J Marriott Clerk 
Bef W.H.High Clerk
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approved 


Hn R M Saunders 

[illegible]
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State of North Carolina}
Orange County} 

On this the Fifth day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and forty four [illegible] Mary Pearson before [illegible] Noah Trice one of the acting [illegible] of the plea for said county and made the following declaration on oath in order to obtain a pension by the several acts of Congress passed on the seventh of July Eighteen Hundred and  thirty this the third day of March Eighteen Hundred and forty three and the seventeenth of June Eighteen hundred and forty four and after being sworn doth declare under oath that she is the widow of Paris Pearson who was a soldier in the revolution war and that he entered the service in the county and state aforesaid i n a five months tour to the state of South Carolina and Georgia against the British and and tories commanded by Capt Lewis of Bledso and under the controle of General Ashe and Coln Carwell and after he returned home from the five months tour he again entered the service in a Horse Company and was in the battle at [illegible] Mills under the the control of General Butler and commanded by Capt Matthew Cullers and she further says under oath that she was married to her husband Paris  Pearson in the county of Wake and State aforesaid in the year seventeen hundred and eighty five and some years after tey commograted to the county of orgin where she has resided ever since and the said Paris Pearson died in the year eighteen hundred and thirty two and he was seventy one years of age when he departed this life and she further deposeth and says that she herself is now seventy five years of age and verry infirm and that her maiden name was Mary Gilmore and she further says that she nor her Husband Paris Pearson never was placed on the pension list of this or any state or territory and that she relinquishes all claim to a pension whatsoever except the present
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State of North Carolina}
Orange County}

I Noah Trice an acting justice of the Peace of said county do hereby certify that Mary Pearson the within applicant for a Pensioner is entirely unable to attend court to file her declaration from bodily infirmity & old age from an attack of Palsy and has become unable to get about for the last two or three years. 

Noah Trice J.P. 

State of North Carolina}
Orange County}

Court of Pleas & quarter September twenty A.D 1845. I John Taylor Clerk of the courts aforesaid do hereby certify that the above declaration of Mary Pearson & her account of her certificates of war for [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] Courts & that the court here presiding declares that the said declarant Mary Pearson is unable by reason of bodily infirmity to appear personally before the court here stating that the same declarant is a credible person and that her said declaration made before Noah Trice one of the justices of the peace of the said county of Orange and of this court, was made in direct form of the law, & that the court here ratify & approve the same.

[illegible]
office 24th [illegible] 1845
J.Taylor CC
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and she further says the reason that she has delayed forwarding her claim within this time was that she did not know that she could procure any evidence. Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written 

[illegible]
                                        her
Noah Trice J.P.         Mary X Pearson
                                         mark

State of North Carolina

I John Taylor Clerk of Orange County [illegible] of pleas & question hereby certify that Noah Trice esq. who signed the above affidavit as a [illegible] was at that time a daily quarter [illegible] of the pension. 

Notarized my hand & seal of office 25th Nov 1844
J.Taylor CC

Clerk of North Carolina 
I Carlett Campbell presiding sister of Congressional court of Pleas, and quarter [illegible] certify that John Taylor who signed the foregoing certificate is and was at the time clerk of [illegible] court and [illegible] [illegible] and credit should be given his official acts as such given under my hand and seal this 29th day of November 1844.

C.Campbell P.J.
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No 11534

Mary Pearson 

Widow of Paris 

NC 

Act of July 1838

[illegible] 8 mo/months. 
$26.64 per ann

No. 6987
[illegible] March 1843 AD

17 June 1844
$21.64-per ann

No 440

Sen RM Saunders 
House of Reps
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Sir-I return you the declaration of Mrs. Pearson, or I foreseen you may have overlooked the certificate of the [illegible] and the [illegible] of the declaration who certify she is unable to attend [illegible] from a [illegible] of her [illegible]-

Noah Trice is [illegible] to [illegible] as a [illegible] of [illegible] Pearson for Orange County-

Respectfully 

R.M. Saunders
[illegible]

J.L Edwards Esq
[illegible]
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State of North Carolina
Wake county
On this the sixteenth day of December All Eighteen hundred & forty four
came William Pope before me Jordon Homble one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid and made the following declartion [declaration] on oath. He deposeth and says that he is now in the seventy fourth year of his age and that he was born and raised in the county and state aforesaid near the city of Raligh [Raleigh] and has made said county his home all his life and further says that he was well acquainted with Paris Pearson who married Mary Edmond and that his Pias Pearson, was a soldier in the revolutionary war and went off in a five months tour to the State of South Carolina and Georgia against the British and Tories and he believes that he was commanded by Capt Lewis Bledson and after he returned home from said five months tour, he again entered
the service for a three month tour
in a horse company commanded by Capt
Matthew McCullers and he says that he was
not in the service at all himself, but that
he lived a near neighbor to the said Paris
Pearson and Capt McCullers and that
he knows when they went off into the
service and knows when thy [they] returned home and further says that he has heard the
said Paris Pearson say that he served
with the above named tours, and that
he was in the battle at Lindley Mills, and of
many other circumstances that did take place
while in the service in his presence and
the said William Pope further says that he
believes the said Paris Pearson did serve
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in both these tours, sworn to and subscribed
before me the day and year before written
J Wamble JW [signature]
William Page  [signature]

State of North Carolina
Wake County } I Jordan Wamble a magistrate in and for the County of Wake do certify that I am well acquainted with William Pope whos name appears to the foregoing declaration and that he is a man of good character and that full faith and credit is due and should be given to his oath or declaration in testimony whereof I do subscribe my name the 16th Dec. 1844
Jordan Wamble JW [signature]

State of North Carolina clerks office of Court of Wake County } Pleas & Quarter sessions
I James J Marriott Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of Wake aforesaid do certify that Jordan Wamble whose name appears to the foregoing certificate & declaration is an acting Justice in and for the said county that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I hereunto affix the
seal of said court and subscribe
my name at office in Ralhia [Raleigh]
the 16th day of Dec 1844
Ja J Marriott
By W.H. High
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North Carolina
Confed Office 

I William F Collins [illegible] [illegible] of [illegible] [illegible] county in and for the State of North Carolina do certify that the names of [illegible] Mccullers [illegible] on the Bank of [illegible] for the Comptrollers Department at Kinston for the year 1782 as having received pay for his confederacy at one time accounting to Twenty one Hundred and Eighty four [illegible] $21844 in currency as will appear in said Bank at [illegible] 31 that Captain Bledsoe Received as payment for his Confederacy (not designating the names of the [illegible]). The sum of three thousand one hundred and thirty nine pounds twelve shillings (3139.120) in currency given under my hand and seal of office this 27th day of December 1844. 

William F Collins [illegible]
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No. 11.534

Mary Pearson 
widow of Paris 
NC 
Act of July 188
m.850.32
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State of North Carolina
Johnston County 

On this the twenty first day of August in the year Eighteen Hundred and Forty Four came James Stephenson personally before me Amos Coats one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid and after being duly sworn deposeth and sayeth that he is now Eighty five years of age and that he was born in the state of Virginia and his father immigrated to the county and state aforesaid when he was about seven years of age and that he has made said county his home ever since and he further says on oath that he was well acquainted with Paris Pearson who married Mary Gilmore and that the said Paris Pearson was a soldier in the Revolution war and that he was drafted in the county of Wake and served a five months tour in the state of South Carolina and Georgia against the British and [illegible] and the said James Stephenson further says on oath that he was there and serve in the same regiment with the said Paris Pearson under the control of Gen Aske and 
[blank] 

Sworn to and subscribed before me this day and year above written 

James Stephenson 

[A.Coats] J.D.

I do hereby certify that I have been acquainted with with the above named James Stephenson for several years and that full faith and credit should be attached to his declaration. A.Coats J.P.
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State of North Carolina
Johnston County

I Thomas Bagley Clerk of the County Court of Johnston County do hereby certify that Amos Coats whose name appears as above time of executing the sworn & acting justice of the peace in & foresaid county August 27th 1844

Thomas Bagley Clerk
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9073

North Carolina 

Mary Pearson widow of Parris Pearson who was a pensioner under the Act of ______and who died on the _____1832 of [blank] in the State of NC who was a Pri [blank] in the Co [blank] commanded by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by [blank] in the Revolution War, line for 8 mos 

Transcribed on the Roll of NC at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of Mar 1845 and sent to Hon RM Sanders

Total amount, $[blank]

[Act July 7, 1838.]

Recorded by F.L.Swann, Clerk,
Book [illegible] Vol. 1 Page 297
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MHF

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Mrs. McLean called for these

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Uncle of Mr. McLean and was asking this information for his [illegible] [illegible]. 

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wanted by J.P. Pearson
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Blackwell Markham
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[notation middle of letter]

returned 

[signature]

J.Thomas Hefeir
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H.B. Steagall
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1927 Jan 26-Hist to Hon. H B Steagall-[illegible]

1927-Aug 11-[illegible] Hon-J T Heflin Rev Markham-MLB 

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Mary Pearson 
Widow 
Parris Pearson 

[illegible] Rev. War 

Act: [illegible] [illegible] June 17 [illegible]

Vol M Page 119
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No 534

Mary Pearson 
NC
[illegible] to [illegible] R. M. Saunders 
July 4 1845

[illegible] to same, Jany, 16 1845
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Dec 27, 45

Sir- I under the declaration of Mary Pearson a [illegible] resident & [illegible] old lady of this county-

Her [illegible] James Stephenson [illegible] is a pensioner & a [illegible] of [illegible] [illegible] & ground [illegible]- [illegible]  -Wm Pope is also a citizen of this country as [illegible] & a [illegible] certainly [illegible] be [illegible] [illegible] 

I [illegible] a [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] 

C. [illegible]
R.M. Saunders 

J.L. Edwards [illegible]
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