Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4,655, for Francis Quarles, Virginia
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VA Quarles, Francis S.4.655
carded
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19072 19072
Cast Tennessee
Francis Quarles
... in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Dillard of the regiment commanded by Col. Morgan in the time for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of E. Tenn at the rate of 80 Dollars ______ Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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No. 28004
Francis Quarles Huox County Tennessee
from 1776 private...
$80
...
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War Department
Pension Office
May 7th, 1833.
Sir;
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules and the subjcined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
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Regulations under the Act of June 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend as well to the line as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board private armed vessels are excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrol, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
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alleged service as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension on account of service in the Militia, State Troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia:
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. 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 services.
6. To a Soldier. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
To an Officer. Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court if the same can be done in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant who can testify from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required and submit to the examination before a Judge or Justice of Court of Record of the proper county, and Judge or justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein request to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made in account of the services of any person who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent therein, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
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State of Tennessee Knox County: On this 9th Day of February 1833 personally appeared before me Benjamin McNutt and acting Justice of the Peace for said County Francis Quarles a citizen of said County aged nearly eighty-one years who having been sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 -- that he was born in Goochland County, Virginia, on the 7th day of February 1752, where he lived until he was about 16 years old when he moved to Cumberland County Virginia where he lived about two years when he moved to Prince Edward County Virginia where he lived a year or two when he moved to Pittsylvania County Virginia, where he lived at the commencement of the revolutionary war during his whole continuance and afterwards for five or six years -- he states that sometime about or shortly after the commencement of the war he entered the service of the United States -- he states that he enlisted into the 2nd Virginia Regiment of Minute men as a private, for a term of eighteen months, into a 
company commanded by Captain Thomas Dillard, and Lieutenant Joseph Roberts -- which 
Regiment was commanded by Colonel Morgan -- Applicant states that his Regiment 
rendezvoused at the same place where he enlisted, at Murdoch's old store in Pittsylvania County, and marched from there to Petersburg where it was stationed several weeks, and then marched to Richmond and from there to Cobbham on York River, from there to James town, from there to Gloucester Courthouse, having remained at each of the above places a few weeks, from Gloucester Courthouse we then marched, as we were ordered, back to Cobbham, and thence to James town, and from there to Gloucester Court house where applicant and his Regiment was discharged -- Applicant states that the main object of this marching and countermarching was to prevent the enemy from landing -- he states that some of the enemy landed at Jamestown, but were driven off by his Regiment
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 he states this is the only time he came in contact with the enemy while in this service -- he states that he fell in company with some of the Continental troops at Jamestown Williamsburg and perhaps some other places, while in this service but he does not recollect who were their officers -- he states that his Regiment was not of the Continental or Regular troops, but were militia he believes 
under some peculiar organization -- he states that he was under arms in actual service the whole eighteen months for which he had entered the service except about twenty days when he obtained a furlough to go home -- he states that he got a written discharge from his Colonel, Morgan, at the time his term of service expired -- he states that he has long since lost his discharge -- Applicant states that sometime after this campaign, it may be several years, he volunteered to serve as a private, under Captain Gabriel Shelton, and Lieutenant Crispin Shelton, he thinks in February or March he was enrolled, and marched by what route he does not now 
recollect, through North Carolina, into South Carolina, and joined a Regiment under the 
command of Colonel Buford [Abraham Buford] a few days before his defeat -- he states that he was at the battle there and pretty soon afterwards joined the Main Army under General Gates and was with him at the time of his defeat near Camden, after this defeat applicant returned home having served nearly six months -- Applicant states that in February or March afterwards he again volunteered into a company commanded by the same Captain Shelton and marched directly towards Guilford N. C. near which place and but a few days before the battle there, he joined the Brigade under General Stephens -- he states 
that at the time of the battle he was put out to guard the baggage and was not in the battle -- he states that shortly after the battle there, he returned towards home and was discharged --
Applicant states that sometime after this he again volunteered and marched to the siege of York and was there at the time
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of the surrender of Cornwallis, after this Applicant went two or three days as a guard to the prisoners towards Winchester and was then discharged and went home --he thinks he was about three months gone in this campaign, but has entirely forgotten who were 
his officers -- he states that his impression always has been, and now is, that he served four years in the Revolutionary war, but on account of his great age and great bodily infirmity he cannot detail the different campaigns which make up that service -- Applicant states that he was with the 
Regular Army at several times and places but he cannot recollect what Regiments they were or who were their officers -- he recollects of seeing Generals Washington, Greene, Lafayette and several others -- he states that he believes he obtained a discharge at the expiration of each of his campaigns but he has lost them -- he states that he has a record of his age in a family Bible now in possession of his son -- he states that he moved from Pittsylvania County four or five years after the war to Henry County Virginia where he lived a few years, when he moved to Wythe County Virginia where he lived several years, when he moved to Jefferson County Tennessee where he lived about ten years, when about ten years ago he moved to Knox County Tennessee where he now lives and has lived for ten years -- he states that the individuals in his neighborhood who can testify to his veracity and the reputation of his military services are John 
Canada, Wesley Huffacre, John Underwood, Peter Smith, Lewis Simpson & applicant states that he has no documentary evidence whatever of his services nor does he know of any person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services, he hereby relinquishes every claim to an annuity or pension, except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to & describe before me this 9th Day of February 1833
S/ Ben. McNutt, Justice of said County 
S/ Francis Quarles
(Francis Quarles, name of applicant)
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State of Tennessee
Knox County

We John Kennedy and Peter Smith -
citizens of Knox County do hereby certify that we are
well acquainted with Francis Quarles who has subscribed and
sworn to the foregoing declaration and have been so acquainted
for ten or fifteen years, that they believe him to be nearly eighty
one years old, that he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood
where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we
concur in that opinion-- we also certify that the above named
applicant is extremely [infirm], and also that there is none
in the neighbourhood where he lives
Sworn to & subscribed before me
this 9th day of February 1833
McNutt
his
John
Shennedy
11
a Justice of the peace for
Peter Smith
mark
And I the said Justice of the Peace do hereby declare my opinion
after the examination of the matter and after putting the interrogatories
prescribed by the war department, that the above
named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served
he states - and I do further certify that it appears to me
that John Kennedy & Peter Smith
who have signed the
foregoing certificate are citizens of Knox County, and medible
persons and that their statements are entitled to full creditalso
certify that the above applicant by reason of his quent
bodily infirmity cannot conveniently attend the courts of
this County. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal this 9th day of Feb 1833
Hutt
State of Tennessee
23004
Francis Quarte
1
℗
County
Justice of the Peace for Knox Cty.
I Charles McClung Clerk of the Court of Pleas and
Quarter Sessions for said County do hereby certify that
Benjamin McNutt before whom the foregoing certificates
were taken was at the time they bear date, and now is, an acting
Justice of the Peace for said County; that I am acquainted with
the said writing of said Justice and believe the above signatures are his
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and official seal this 14th February 1833
Chas McClung
By his Deed
Wm Swan
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23 The certificate to this applicant will be delivered to W. B. A. Ramsey, Knoxville, Tennessee.
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State of Tennessee
Knox County
Personally appeared before me, Benjamin McNutt, an acting Justice of trhe Peace for said County, Francis Quarles, who signed the foregoing declaration, and who being sworn... and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively so to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection, he served not the following periods, and always as a private for one years and six months. I served as a private in Captain Dillard's company of minute men, with the exception of twenty days which I was on furlough, for four months, and fifteen days I served as a volunteer, private in a company commanded by Captain Gabriel Shelton.
For two months as a soldier and private under the same Captain Shelton. For two months and fifteen days as a volunteer private, when he reached the siege of Yorktown, but he cannot remember who was his captain or officer in this campaign, making his whole service as a minute man one year, five months, and ten days, and as a volunteer private ten months for which he claims a pension applicant shares as he has done in his foregone declaration, that he does not believe the company of minute men in which he first served, were of the regular or Continental Troops, but some prevously arranged militia applicant states that he cannot, on account of extreme old age and infirmity, state more percisely than he has done, the incidents of his service he states as the reason why he did not get the certificate of a clergyman, that this is name in neighborhood.
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State of Tennessee
Knox County
I, Charles McClung, Clerk of the Court of Peace and Justice of the Peace for said County, do hereby certify that Benjamin Mc 
Nutt before whom the foregoing additional declaration was sworn to was there and saw is an acting Justice of the Peace for said County, and being will acquainted with the... writing of said soldier release the foregoing declaration to be pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal of office this 5th day of June, 1833.
Charles McClung.
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Francis Quarles
S. 4655
Ba-J/AWF
Laura Luttrel
1407, White Avenue
Knoxville, Tennessee.
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Francis Quarles, who drew a penison on account of his service in the Revolutionary, while a resident of Knox County, Tennessee.
The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in pension claim S. 4655, based upon the service of Francis Quarles in the War of the Revolution.
Francis Quarles was born February 7, 1752 in Goochland County, Virginia. The names of his parents were not given. He lived in Goochland county until about sixteen years old, then moved to Cumberland County, Virginia, lived about two years, moved to Prince Edward County, Virginia, lived about two years, and then to Pittsylvania County, Virginia, where he lived during the Revolutionary War.
Francis Quarles enlisted early in the Revolution and served eighteen months as private in Captain Gabriel Shelton's company, Colonel Buford's regiment, was in the battle of Buford's Defeat and battle of Camden. He served two months in Captain Gabriel Shelton's company, was at
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the Battle of Guilford Court House, but not actively engaged, as he was guarding baggage at that time. He marched to the Siege of Yorktown, was at the surrender of Cornwallis and served two months and fifteen days, name of officers for this service not given. No dates of service shown.
The soldier, Francis Quarles, continued to live in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, for about five years after the Revolution, moved to Herny County, Virginia, lived a few years, moved to Wythe County, Virginia, lived a year or two, then to Jefferson County, Tennessee, and thence to Knox County, Tennessee.
He was allowed pension on his application executed February 9, 1833, then a resident of Knox County, Tennessee, where he had lived about ten years. The soldier referred to his son in 1833, but did not give his name nor age.
The papers in this claim contain no further reference to the family of the soldier, Francis Quarles.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of the person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Comptroller Genera, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington D. C., and give the following data:
Francis Quarles
Certificate 19072
Issued August 2, 1833
Rate $80.00 per annum
Commissioned March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
East Tennessee Agency.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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February 25, 1931
Daley Quarles
618 W. Springfield Street,
Champaign, Illinois
Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 4655, that Francis Quarles was born February 7, 1752, in Goochland County, Virginia.
While residing in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, he enlisted and served as a private with the Virginia Troops as follows:
Soon after the beginning of the war, eighteen months in Captain Thomas Dillard's Company, Colonel Morgan's Regiment, sometime after this, about six months in Captain Gabriel Shelton's Company under Colonel Buford, was in the battle of Guilford, served two months in Captain Gabriel Shelton's Company, but was not in that battle, and after this marched to the Siege of Yorktown, was at the surrender of Cornwallis, and served two months and fifteen days. No dates of service given.
He was allowed pension on his application executed February 9, 1833, at which time he was residing in Knox County, Tennessee.
There are no data as to family.
The above is the history of the only soldier named Francis Quarels found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
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In order to identify the records of any other particular soldiers of either the Revolutionary War or War of 1812 surnamed Quarles, in whom you may be interested, the full name is essential with as much as possible of the following data pertaining to each; approximate dates of birth and death, places or residence at enlistment and after service, and given name of widow.
Very truly yours,
F. V. NORMAN
Acting Commissioner.
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June 4, 1926
J. O. Blakeney
121 Brown St.
Little Rock, Ark.
Sir:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 4655, it appears that Francis Qyarles was born February 7, 1752, in Goochland County, Virginia.
While residing in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, he enlisted and served as a private with the Virginia Troops as follows
Soon after the beginning of the war, eighteen months in Captain Thomas Dillar's Company, Colonel Morgan's Regiment; sometime after this, about six months in Captain Gabriel Shelton's Company under Colonel Buford, was in the battle of Buford's Defeat, and the battle of Camden, about the time of the battle of Guilford served two months in Captain Garbiel Shelton's Company
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pany, but was not in that battle, and after this, marched to the Siege of York, was at the surrender of Cornwallis, and served two months and fifteen days. No dates of service given.
He was allowed pension on his application executed February 9th, 1833, at which time he was residing in Knox County, Tennessee.
There are no data as to family.
Respectfully,
S. W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner.
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1407 White Ave
Knoxville, Tennessee
March 9, 1937

Mr. A. D. Hiller, Asst Administrator
Veterans Administration,
Washington, D.C.

[stamp in black ink reads "RECEIVED
MAR 10 1937
MAIL SUB-DIV.
VETS. ADM.
READER No. 16"]

My dear Mr. Hiller
Please send to me a copy, or abstract,
of the pension record, dates and family data
[check mark in left margin, added between lines "only me"]
of Francis Quarles, a revolutionary
soldier who served in Pennsylvania
and drew a pension in Knox County,
Tennessee.

With appreciation of your kindness,
Laura Luttrell
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618 W. Springfield St.
Champaign, Ill.
Feb. 2, 1931

Pension Bureau
Harrisburg, Penn.

Gentlemen:

Any information that you can give to me concerning
[added by hand "con"]
a Francis Quarles, who was in the War of the Revolution and
I am told drew a pension ere 1833, will be greatly appreciated.
And if you have the names of anyother Quarles who
are on the pension list for that War or the War of 1812. 
[added by hand "without even making search:
In order to iden. etc"]
I would be very pleased to have same.

Yours truly,
[signature added by hand "Daisy Quarles"

[stamp in black ink reads "REVOLUTIONARY & 1812 WARS
SECTION
FEB 5 - 1931
BUREAU OF PENSIONS"]
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J. O. BLAKENEY
INSURANCE
121 BROWN STREET
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS
Aug. 11, 1827.

Commissioner of Pensioners
Washington, D.C.
Sir;- Will you please send me full record of
Francis Quarles Rev. War Pensioner, Knox Co. Tenn.
1833.
And oblige Yours Respectfully
[signature added by hand "J. O. Blakeney
121 Brown St"]
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Wheeling W. Va October 12 - 1900
Honorable Commissioner of Pensions,
[stamp in black ink reads "O. W.  & N. DIVIS[illegible]
OCT 17 1900
RECEIVED]
Washington, DC.
Sir;
Having been informed that you
will give a record of any one that
has received a pension under the
pension laws of 1818 and 1832
I will be ever so much obliged if you 
could tell me whether Francis W Quarels
of Virginia or his heirs ever received a
pension. In a letter from A.T. Mooklar
of Mangohick Va in which he states that
Francis W. Quarles was an officer in
the Revolutionary war, and that his
mother was a daughter of
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Francis W. Quarles , and all
of her children received a
pension when quite young.
Hoping to receive a reply as
quickly as possible,
[Remain] yours respectfully
Earl Dabney Adams
# 65 - 15 Street
Wheeling, W. Va.

[stamp reads "PENSION OFFICE OCT 15 1900"; The letter "U." is enlarged and on the left side of the stamp, and the letter "S" is enlarged and on the right side.]
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4655
INVALID
File No. 4655
Francis Quarles
Private, Tenn. Line
Act: John 74732
Index:-Vol. A Page 306
[Arrangement of 1870]