Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7,580, for Andrew Neill, North Carolina
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N C  Neill, Andrew  R 7580
Mary
Born in N.C.
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Let 18 Augt 42 Hon
N. M. Watterston

Tennessee
31805
Andrew Neill
of Marshall Co in the State of Tennessee
who was a private in the Compy commanded
by Captain Kennedy of the regt commanded
by Col Mcdowell in the N Carolina
line for 6 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Nashville
at the rate of 20 Dollars -------- Cent per annum [torn] commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd day of Octr
1840 and sent to B Williams
Lewisburgh, Tennessee

Arrears to the 4rh of Mar 1841   $200.00
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 sep '41  10.00
$210.00
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by D McCurdy, Clerk
Book E2, Vol. 7, Page 99
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832
State of Tennessee
Marshall County             S S

On this 2nd day of March 1840 personally appeared in open court before the county court of said Marshall county now sitting Andrew Neill a resident of said Marshall County and State of Tennessee aged Eighty-five years, who being first duely 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 7 1832.

Declarant served on tour of three months duration under Captain Thomas Kennedy and Marched from Burke County North Carolina to South Pacolet, south Carolina and was in an engagement against the British and Tories at that place, who were commanded by Dunlap, that the British and Tories were there beaten, Declarant further states that Captains McFadden and Kemp and Colones Charles McDowel & Major Joseph McDowel were in company this tour, but Declarant does not know whether any officers of the Regular Armey were along or not.  Declarant does not now recollect of any other remarkable event that took place during this tour. Declarant does not recollect the month or year in which he started but believes it was in the Spring or early part of Summer.

Declarant also served on tour of three months under Captain Jonathan Kemp, and thinks he started in the month of September, against Colonel Ferguson of the British Armey and that Captain Kemps company retreated over the Yeldon Mountain and reamined for about two weeks
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in the Spring or early part of Summer

Declarant also served on tour of three months under Captain Jonathan Kemp and think he started in the month of September against Colonel Ferguson of the British Armey and that Captain Kemp's company retreated over the Yeldon Mountain, and remained for about two weeks and when the company commenced their return they received news that the Indians had come in and done mischeif on the frontier and Declarant with others were detached to stop them and went accordingly but the Indians were gone; Capt Kemp with part of his own company and others went on and fought Ferguson at Kings Mountain, where the Americans were victorious. Colonels Campbell, Shelby, and Savier were at the Battle of Kings Mountain. Declarant did not join Captain Kemp any more until the three months expired. He then went home to Burk county North Carolina where he met with Captain Kemp (he and Declarant being neighbors) where he gave Declarant a discharge. Declarant has no recollection of being attached to any Regiment this tour or whether he say any officers of the regular army or no.

Declarant also served three months under Captain James Davidson, starting from Burke Count North Carolina in the month of August as he believes and guared Forts Wofford and Davidson on the North Carolina Frontier, and was employed at different times in scouting after the Indians along the Frontier. The Indians crept up to Fort Wofford and fired in at the Port holes and killed one man named Lee and wounded another, but Declarant at that time was out with a scouting party. Declarant was not in any Battle this time - Fort Wofford
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Fort Wofford was on the North Fork of the Cataba River and Fort Davidson was high up on the main Cataba River

Declarant also served three months under Captain Joseph McDowell cousin of Major Joseph McDowel commencing about the month of November in the same kind of service as under Captain Davidson only we were mounted on horses, two men named Gardner and Justice who came into Fort Davidson from the settlements were killed by the Indians in hearing of the Fort after they started home and we pursued the Indians but could not find them.  This three months were spent in guarding Forts Wofford & Davidson and scouting after the Indians on the North Carolina Frontier

Declarant also served one other three months under the same Captain Joseph McDowel commencing he believes in the fall soon after the frost had killed the potatoe vines he was marched from Burke County to Wilmington North Carolina against the British when Declarant got to Wilmington the British were gone and after remaining there some time Declarant was marched home in Burk County and discharged. General Rutherford was our head commander but he does not know whether Rutherford was a regular officer or not. The British had just got out to sea when Declarant got to Wilmington.

Declarant also served three months under his father Captain William Neill of Burk County North Carolina commencing shortly after he returned from Wilmington his three months was taken up in guarding Forts Wofford & Davidson and scouting after the Indians and protecting the settlements against Indian Outrage. The Indians were very troublesome on the North Carolina Frontier; coming in small parcels and doing mischief and disappearing - a small party come and killed John Davidson his wife and child high up on the Cataber River and carried off his negroce.
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the settlements against Indian Outrage. The Indians were very troublesome on the North Carolina Frontier; coming in small parcels and doing mischief and disappearing, - A small party come and Killed John Davidson his wife and child high up on the Cataber River and carried off his negroce

Declarant served all the above named terms as volunteer and had regular discharges from all the Captains under whom he served as named but had his house burned with all his papers in Burke County North Carolina and knows of no person now living by whom he can prove his service or any part thereof except Vilet Cathey and Easther Read of Marshall County Tennessee.  Declarant is now very old and frail and cannot recollect the precise day month or year on which any of his service commenced or terminated but feels certain that he served all the times above named.

Declarant would have applied for Pension sooner but he has lived ever since the year Eighteen hundred and Eighteen in Marengo County State of Alabama and was never apprised that the law extended to Militia and Volunteers until about three years ago and then he employed an attorney to attend to his Pension who died before any thing was accomplished and being quite frail Declarant then give the matter over until his step son Joseph McDowel brought him back to Tennessee where he had formly lived this present Winter

In answer to the Interrogatories of the War Department, Declarant answers first that he was born in Rowan County State of North Carolina in the Month of April Seventeen hundred and fifty-five
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Second : that there was a record of his birth and age in his father's Books but the Cherokee Indians robed his farther's house in Rowan County North Carolina and destroyed his Books among other things and if any record has ever been made since Declarant does not know it; but has been informed and believes that he was born in the month of April seventeen hundred and fifty five but if he has ever heard on what day of the month he has forgotten it

Third : that Declarant lived in Burke county State of North Carolina when he was called or went into Service each and all the times and continued to live there for about four years or perhaps more after peace was made and then moved to Davidson County Tennessee within about ten miles of where the ____ of Nashville now stands; and about the year Eighteen hundred and six removed South of Duck River about seven miles near a place called the Big Spring where the Town of Farmington now Stands, in that part of Teretory which was shortly after included in Bedford County Tennessee and resided there until about the year Eighteen hundred and Eighteen, and then removed to Marengo County State of Alabama and ____ resided there until the fall of Eighteen hundred and thirty nine and then removed back to the same neighborhood near the Big Spring formerly in Bedford County but now in Marshall County State of Tennessee where declarant now lives.

Fourth : Declarant was  a Volunteer in evry instance, was never drafted nor enlisted nor did he ever serve as a substitute.

Fifth : Declarant has no recollection of ever being under the command of any regular officer nor does he know that he was not : - he was in service when General Rutherford, Colonel Charles McDowel and Major Joseph McDowel were in company but if they or either of them were regular officers Declarant does not now recollect it. Declarants brother William Neill was a Lieutenant in the regular army some whare in the North
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mand of any regular officer nor does he know that he was not : - he was in service when General Rutherford, Colonel Charles McDowel and Major Joseph McDowel were in company but if they or either of them were regular officers Declarant does not now recollect it. Declarants brother William Neill was a Lieutenant in the regular army some whare in the North and come home into Burk County North Carolina to recruit men and went down on Broad river and heared of some Tories and joined the whigs against them and was killed at Ramsair's Battle. Declarant was in the battle at south Pacolet South Carolina where the Americans repulsed the British and Tories and started to Kings Mountains after Colonel Furgusson but was sent off with a scouting party after the Indians

Sixth  Declarant received discharge from all the captains under whom he served as set out in his declaration and they were all burnt in his house in Burk County North Carolina

Seventh  Vilet Cathey and Esther Read are the only persons that I know [torn] now living who can testafy any thing as to my service and they can as well testafy as to my charactor for varasity as any other persons.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of any State

Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid

Andrew Neill
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Fort Wofford was on the North Fork of the Cataba River and Fort Davidson was high up on the main Cataba River

Declarant also served three months under Captain Joseph McDowell cousin of Major Joseph McDowel commencing about the month of November in the same kind of service as under Captain Davidson only we were mounted on horses, two men named Gardner and Justice who came into Fort Davidson from the settlements were killed by the Indians in hearing of the Fort after they started home and we pursued the Indians but could not find them.  This three months were spent in guarding Forts Wofford & Davidson and scouting after the Indians on the North Carolina Frontier

Declarant also served one other three months under the same Captain Joseph McDowel commencing he believes in the fall soon after the frost had killed the potatoe vines he was marched from Burke County to Wilmington North Carolina against the British when Declarant got to Wilmington the British were gone and after remaining there some time Declarant was marched home in Burk County and discharged. General Rutherford was our head commander but he does not know whether Rutherford was a regular officer or not. The British had just got out to sea when Declarant got to Wilmington.

Declarant also served three months under his father Captain William Neill of Burk County North Carolina commencing shortly after he returned from Wilmington his three months was taken up in guarding Forts Wofford & Davidson and scouting after the Indians and protecting the settlements against Indian Outrage. The Indians were very troublesome on the North Carolina Frontier; coming in small parcels and doing mischief and disappearing - a small party come and killed John Davidson his wife and child high up on the Cataber River and carried off his negroce.
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the settlements against Indian Outrage. The Indians were very troublesome on the North Carolina Frontier; coming in small parcels and doing mischief and disappearing, - A small party come and Killed John Davidson his wife and child high up on the Cataber River and carried off his negroce

Declarant served all the above named terms as volunteer and had regular discharges from all the Captains under whom he served as named but had his house burned with all his papers in Burke County North Carolina and knows of no person now living by whom he can prove his service or any part thereof except Vilet Cathey and Easther Read of Marshall County Tennessee.  Declarant is now very old and frail and cannot recollect the precise day month or year on which any of his service commenced or terminated but feels certain that he served all the times above named.

Declarant would have applied for Pension sooner but he has lived ever since the year Eighteen hundred and Eighteen in Marengo County State of Alabama and was never apprised that the law extended to Militia and Volunteers until about three years ago and then he employed an attorney to attend to his Pension who died before any thing was accomplished and being quite frail Declarant then give the matter over until his step son Joseph McDowel brought him back to Tennessee where he had formly lived this present Winter

In answer to the Interrogatories of the War Department, Declarant answers first that he was born in Rowan County State of North Carolina in the Month of April Seventeen hundred and fifty-five
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10 669
Mary Neill
Andrew Ten ee

Suspended

Letter to M. W. Oakley 10 Sep 1844
L M Watterson Aug. 18 '42
Act July 7, 1830
75.80
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35,005
Andrew Neill
Tennessee
Admitted
Pr : 6 mo $20 ---
Cap Kennedy, Col
McDowell, N.C.
Act of June 1832
B Williams
Lewisburg, Ten
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7580
Rejected
Mary Neill
wid of Andrew
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The printed list of 1852 of Rej. & Sus. Rev pension claims, page 403 shows Mary Neil widow of Andrew of Lewisburg Marshall Co. Tenn. suspended. "For proof of service by N. C. Records."

No papers relative to her application and claim found in case when opened by me.
L. H. Oct 16 1911
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Andrew Neill
Tennessee
Suspended

See let. 17 April
1840 Hon. H. M. Watterson
let : 9 Sep 1840 to
B. Williams
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Lewisburg, Marshall County
Tennessee
March 17th 1840

Hon. John L. Edwards

Enclosed is the Declaration and evidence of Andrew Neill an applicant for Pension. If any thing is wrong please let me know as early as practicable as he is very frail and altogether in kneedy circumstances

Your
Obt Servt
B Williams
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State of Tennessee
Marshall County

I Vilet Cathey aged about Seventy four years being duely sworn do say that I was well acquainted with Andrew Neill a citizen of said Marshall County who is an applicant to the United States for a pension for his services in the war of the Revolution, all the time of said war and that I know that he was in the Service under Captain Thomas Kennedy, one tour, and under Captain Jonathan Kemp one tour and under Captain Joseph McDowel two tours and under his father Captain William Neill one tour. I cannot now recollect his having served under Captain Davidson. I do not know anything of the time or duration of a tour more than I recollects hearing persons say when their friends would go into service that they would be gone three months -- I am very certain that Andrew Neill always served out the time that he engaged for as he always bore the name of a true whig and brave soldier in his neighborhood, and those who returned before their time was expired were generally subject to some sensure or ridicule

Vilet her x mark Cathey

Sworn to and subscribed
before me this 21st day of
July in the year 1840

Benj C Brantley
Justice of the peace 
for Said County
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State of Tennessee
Marshall County

I Martin W Oakley clerk of the County Court of said Marshall County do certify that Benjamin C Brantley whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit is and was at the time of signing the same one of the Justices of our said Court and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testamony whereof I have hereunto set my and affixed my Seal of Office This 31st day of July A. D. 1840

Martin W Oakley clerk
of said Court

State of Tennessee
Marshall County

I Benjamin Williams chairman and presiding magistrate of the County Court of said Marshall County do certify that Martin W Oakley who signed the above certificate is and was at the time of signing the same the clerk of our said court, duly elected and qualified, and that the signature and Seal is genuine. Given under my hand and Seal This 31st day of July 1840

B Williams (Seal)
Chairman Marshall
County Court
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Yours through Hon Mr Watterson come to hand stating that Andrew Neill would have to prove by other testamony than his own that he served out all the time named by him in his Declarations. He had learned that it was possble that one William Devers who served a good deal of the time with him was yet alive, and residing near Jackson in this State; but a correspondence on the subject has not discovered him : and I went to see Vilet Cathey and Easther Read, and obtained the affidavit of Vilet Cathey, but Easther Read is in a very low state of health and almost entirely deaf - If evidence as to general character would avail any thing Mr Neill could obtain to almost any extent from persons who have known him for the last thirty years

The applicant is dependant upon his friends entirely for support - he was worth a handsome living and was swindled out of it and his son murdered.

Should this evidence not be sufficient, let me know

With respect
Yours &c
B Williams
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Lewis
war
Lewisburg Tenn
10th Oct 1840
Hon. John L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
D. C.

Oct 22
Mict
Tenn
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Lewisburg Ten Oct 6 1840
Hon John L Edwards
Com of Pensions

Yours of the 9th Sept before me in which you say that Andew Neill cannot draw over Six months pension unless he can prove his actual service more satisfactorially. He will take pension for six months provided it will not prevent him from receiving hereafter for additional service if it should be in his power to prove

Direct his certificate to Martin W. Oakley Clerk of the County Court, Lewisburg Marshall County Tennessee

Yours with respect
B Williams