Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9498, William Vaughan, N.C.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
N.C.
CONTENTS
Vaughan, William
NUMBER
S. 9498
carded
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Letter to Geo Husk by P.J. Fay
Octr 3rd 1842
Elleville N. C.
Date of  death
not available
AB



27.868
North Carolina
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William Vaughan
Anton in the State of N.C.
he was in the ____ commanded
of the Reg commanded by Col  Folton in the N. C.
line for 9 months
______________________________
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina
at the rate of 30 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of July
and sent N.M. Hubbs
Wadesboro, N.C.
_____________________
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 3
                                                        $ 90.00-
Semi-annl. allowance ending
   4 Sept                                              15.00
                                                           _________
                                                        $105.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832. 
recorded by Nath. Rice, Clerk,
Book E Vol. 64 Page 78.
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State of North Carolina
Anson County               SS
Declaration of William Vaughan on this 20th day of November 1833 I, James Gordon one of the acting Justice of the peace of Anson County at the house of William Vaughan he being very infirm and not able to travel to a court of record with
convenience aged 81 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 7th 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein Stated - I was a volunteer to serve in behalf of the United States , a private in a company of light horse in Cumberland County N Carolina, Marched under Col. Ebenezer Folsom and Capt John Blacker of Cumberland County Marched to the Sluey bridge on Cape fair River to keep the Torys from being and near the Bridge we met with some Tories that had just been  defeated by the Americans & we helpt to guard them to
David Smith for safe keeping then we were march to various Bridges to keep the Torys from crossing them from place to place untill we were  discharged by our officers serveral months, 
the day month not recollected, but think it was in  1776, And in the course of that year I moved to Anson County, NC . and in a short time I turned out a volunteer for six months  and marched under Col John Jackson and Capt John Stanfield to keep under the Torys in Anson County and the
adjoining county, marched to the South then back into Carolina then up the country & from place in pursuit of the Tories untill discharged,  served six months-- the year not recollected.
Not long after I was a volunteer again for six months and marched under Col. Wade & Capt Boggan , marched up the County on Rocky River then to the South then back again into Anson County then crossed Pedee River, them on to Drowning Creek to Betty Bridge. here we had a
Battle with the Torys & I had my horse shot in the action here the Americans got defeated then retreated back to the West & I was discharged, served six months the year not recollected.
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Also I was employed six months to provide Beef cattle for the regular army, when marching through this section of the County on their march to the South, the year not re
collected - I remember seeing Gen Gates as he march to the South, Also Gen Green and his army stopped a short time near my house when I lived at the cross roads near Mays mill
on Jones Creek. I have no papers to prove my services nor do I know of any person now living by whom I could prove all my services

It 1. where and in what year were you born
as in the State of Virginia South Hampton County January 1752
It have you any record of your age & if so where is it.  As no written record but my parents has told me I was born January 1st 1752.
It 3. Where were you living when called into service and where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live
A. I lived in Cumberland County N Carolina when Called into service and after my first six months Tour was out I month Anson County N C. near May mill where I have lived ever since.
It now were you called into service were you drafted did or did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom
As A Volunteer and serve the six months Tours in a horse company, and served six months tour employed in providing Beef cattle and other provisions for the regular army and other troops in service in N and South Carolina
the year not recollected.
25 State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served such Continental and militia
regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service
As Col Ebenezer Folsome. Col. John Jackson and Col Thomas Wade Major James Hare Capt John Blacker Capt John Standfield Capt Patrick Boggan & Capt Jimerson
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then were militia officers at the time of my service. Gen Gates and Gen Green were continental officers as as I understood
It 6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become it
As yes I received a written discharge from Col Folsome at the expiration of my first six months service and by Col Jackson and Col. Wade at my two terms of service but
what has become of my discharges I do not know.
7. State the names of persons to whom you are know in your present neighborhood & who can testify as your Character for veracity and their belief of your service as a soldier of the revolution.
A.  Joel Gulledge, Reuben Phillips 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name not on the pension roll of the agency of any State 
                         William Vaughn
                            his mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
 James Gordon


Joel Gulledge Clergyman residing in the same County and neighborhood and Reuben Phillips residing in the same, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Vaughan who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 81 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.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

Joe Gulledge
Reuben Phillips

I the said James Gordon do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the integratory prescribed by the war department that the above named
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applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states And the said James Gordon further certify that it appears to him that Joel Gulledge who has signed the preceding 
certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Anson and State of N Carolina and neighborhood, and that Reubin Phillips who has also signed the same is a resident in
the same place, and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. I also certify that William Vaughan the above named applicant is so infirm that he cannot travel to a court of record.
                                          James Gordon JP

State of North Carolina
Anson County              ⎬
 I ,William Dismukes ,Clerk of Anson Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, certify that James Gordon an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned & qualified, and that the above signatures purporting
be his is genuine 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed my Seal of Office at Waynesboro this 5th day of December AD. 1833
                              W. Dismukes JP
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March 7, 1933
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R. J. L.
Walter Ellis W.2431
William Vaughan-S.9498

Mr. Henry Godby
227 South Main Street
College Park, Georgia
Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to the husband of Mary Ellis, a pensioner of the Revolutionary
War who was residing in Gilmer County, Georgia, in 1840, and also in regard to William Vaughan, another pensioner of the Revolution
who was a resident of Anson County, North Carolina, in 1840. The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim W. 4431, based upon the service of Walter Ellis in that
war, whose widow was Mary, and 8.9498, based upon the service of William Vaughan in the Revolutionary War.
Walter Ellis
W.4431
The date and place of birth of Walter Ellis are not stated.
He enlisted, place not given, served a tour of three months under Captain William Harding in General Lillington's North Carolina Brigade and was discharged March 22, 1780; he also served a tour, length not stated, under Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Owen in General Butler's Brigade and was discharged November 16, 1781.
He died November 13, 1821, in Jackson County, Georgia.
The soldier married May 8, 1776, Mary, whose maiden name was not stated.
Soldier's widow, Mary, was allowed pension on her application executed March 13, 1840, at which time she was aged about eighty-four years and resided in Gilmer County, Georgia.
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Walter and Mary Ellis had the following children:
Elizabeth     born October 3, 1770
Ann                "     March 8, 1781
Stephen          "     August 27, 1783
James            date of birth not given.

In 1840, the Reverend William Ellis, then a resident of Gilmer County, Georgia, stated that he was a son of James Ellis and a grandson of the soldier, Walter Ellis.
In above year, one Elijah Ellis, relationship not stated, was a resident of Gilmer County, Georgia.
There are no further data as to soldier's family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the
Revolutionary War pensioner, Mary Ellis, widow of Walter Ellis, W.4431, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing all of the following data:
Mary Ellis, widow of Walter Ellis, Certificate No.3346, issued June 6, 1840, rate $20 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of July
1836, Georgia Agency. 
........
William Vaughan
5.9498
William Vaughan was born January 1, 1783, in Southampton County, Virginia
While residing in Cumberland County, North Carolina, he volunteered in 1776, exact date not given, and served one tour of three months in Captain John Blocker's Company, Colonel Ebenezer Folsom's North Carolina Regiment: after the termination of this service, he moved to Anson County, North Carolina, enlisted there and served two tours of three months each under Captains John Stanfield and Patrick Boggan or Bogan, and Colonels John Jackson and Thomas Wade in the North Carolina Troops:
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no dates are given for either of the last named tours: William Vaughan also served three months collecting beef cattle for the army:
dates and officers' names not given: he stated that he also served as a minuteman on a number of other short tours, dates and names of officers not stated; he was in an engagement at Beattie's Bridge. William Vaughan was allowed pension on his  application executed November 30, 1833, while residing in Anson County, North Carolina.
There are no data as to his family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, William Vaughan, S.9498, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing all of the following data:
William Vaughan, Certificate No. 27868, issue July 12, 1834, rate $20 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, North Carolina Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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Rev War
9498
INVALID
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File No. 9498
William Vaughan
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 32
Index: --Vol. 1, Page 388
(Arrangement of 1870.]

1933, Mar 7 - History
to Henry Godbey
letter in case later
Ellis N 4431-
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Mr. Davis
Oct 3. 1842


Hon. James L. Edwards, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC
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Pension Office
Fayetteville Sept 29 18222

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Please authorize payment of the stipend due William Vaughn.  Act 32. 
12 months of $30.00
of Voucher records
Sincerely your obt. servant
Jno. Huske
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State of North Carolina 
 Anson County                                      ⎬

 This may Certify that William Vaughan
was a Soldier in the revolutionary war. I remember being with him in the army in a horse company to keep under the Torys and other outliers in Anson County, and as my term of service was short I do not recollect how long  he served, but I recollect being in company within the army two or three times. And I further certify that I have known him to have been a friend to his country and that his statement is entitled  to credit-- Sworn to and Subscribed this 18 October 1833.
                        George Hammond
                                his mark
Test J. Gordon JP

I James Gordon Certify that George Hammond who is above mentioned is a credible person and is Entitled to credit
                       J. Gordon JP
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State of North Carolina
Anson County              ⎬ 
I William Dismukes Clerk of Anson Court of Pleas and Quarter Session certify that James
Gordon is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned & qualified, and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed my seal of office at Wadesboro this 25th December AD. 1833
                         William Dismukes, Clk
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North Carolina Anson County June the 19th 1834
personally appeared before me the  undersigned a Justice of the peace William Vaughan 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. That he served three tours and less than three months in each town, and one tour in gathering in provisions for the army but was under the impression that the tour was six months but will admit that I might be mistaken, but that I was in actual service from home for the share of nine months for which service I claim a pension and many other Short tours as a minute man but cannot recollect the length of service the first tour was a private under Col. Folsom & Capt Jno Blocker, a volunteer in the horse troop, the second term was under Col. Wade & Capt Bogan, the third tour was under Col Jackson & Capt Standfield, and many other
Captains, and Company was in service at the same time by the authority of the State of North Carolina to serve in behalf of the
United States, a volunteer -  
Sworn to & subscribed the date above written.

                                   William Vaughan
                                     His mark
Wit. Reuben Phillips JP

I also certify that I believe that the above applicant served as he has above stated & that his testimony is entitled to credit.
Reuben Phillips JP
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State of North Carolina

I William Dismukes Clerk of the County of
of Anson certify that Reuben Philips is a Magistrate for said County and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of Office the 21st day of June AD 1834
Wiliam Dismukes JP
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Admit private
9 months $30
Neal M Hubbard
Wadesboro NC
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the
Wardsborough N Carolina June 19 1834
J. L. Edwards Esq
Sir
William Vaughan has again been examined
and you have herewith enclosed the papers together with the last examination. Mr. William Vaughan is a poor old & infirm man but for the loss of memory & the long lapse of time he admits that he might a been mistaken as to the tenth of his service but that he served three tours not less than three
months in each tour in actual service from home besides his tour in gathering beef cattle for the army, And many short tours in the minute service that he cannot make a statement of in consequence of the loss of memory  he now claims a pension for nine months for his three tour that he served as a volunteer the he says. nine months is fair short of his military services during the revolutionary war. Also there is not a single doubt remains in this country but that the applicant served a greater longer tour that he claims a pension for.
I transmit the papers to your consideration again, he claims a pension for nine months
for his three volunteer tours, besides the tour in providing provisions for the army. & minute services.
your verry Respectfully.
Nealy M Hubbard
agent for applicant
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FREE
Pension office
J. L. Edwards Esq
Washington City