Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,577, Johnson Wamack, Ga. N.C.
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(3-1776) SERVICE
GA. [handwritten]
Wamack, Johnson [handwritten]
NUMBER
S. 32.577 [handwritten]
N.C [handwritten]
Bonair VA [Perhaps Bonair, VA the city handwritten ]
CONTENTS
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Arkansas 31.372  
Johnson Wamack
of Madison Co in the State of Arkansa [sic the document is damaged, it appears the last s in the word Arkansas was ripped/torn].
who was a Private in the Company command by Captain Branham pf the Reget. command by Col McDowell in the N.C. a line for 9 mons & 29 days

Inscribes on the Roll of Arkansas at the rate of 33 Dollars 22 Cents per annu [m is cut off]
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension ifsued [sic "issued"] the 29 day of Maye [sic]
A. Yell 1838 and peat He on Na of Rep.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1838 $222.e
Semi=anl. allowance ending on 4 Sept.p - 16.6 [next decimal place is missing page appears damaged]

$238.1 [next decimal place is missing page appears damaged]

Revolutions Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832
[The foregoing in in curly brackets]

Recorded by [bold] DD Addison Clerk,
Book [bold] E. Vol. [bold] 2 Page [bold] 135 [perhaps 135 the number is damages hard to read]

Letter to Pen Agt 11 Aug 1838.
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State of Arkansas
County of Madison [ the above lines are in a curly bracket] ss.

On this 30th day of October 1837, personally appeared in open court before Joseph M. Hoge sole Judge of the Circuit Court (a court of record) in and for the county of Madison aforesaid in court sitting Johnson Wamack a resident of the county and state aforesaid aged seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to the law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congresy [sic] passed June 7th 1832.

That he entered into the service of the United States a private in the volunteer militia company of Horse men or mounted gun men commanded by Captain Jonathan Kemp at an old field Capt Kemp's muster ground, near Pleasant Gardens on the Catawba River in the county of Burke and State of North Carolina and as is his best recollection on or about the 20th of June 1780. That from there he proceeded in said company under command of Capt. Kemp to caney creek a branch of Broad River near the county line of Rutherford county (N.C.) where said company rendezvoused and remained several days and were with other companies, comprehending in all, about three hundred men, placed under command of Colonel Charles McDowel. Whilst at said rendezvous, receiving inteligence [sic], that Cols. Furguson commanding a superior force of British and Tories, was marching to attack us, we retreated in the derection [sic] to the Watauger River about five miles, where we were overtaken and fired on by a detachment from Furguson's division commanded by Maj. [appears to be a tiny m above the period, could be a scribble] Dunlap. We returned their fire, but being unable to content with so superior a force, we retreated to the Powder Mills on a Creek near the Watauga River where we joined a Virginia Regiment commanded by Colo. Campbell. In this little engagement, we had one man killed (Peter Branks) and we took three prisoners, one a Dragoon, and the others private Tories. From the Powder Mills we proceeded under command of Colonels Campbell and McDowel southward, over a mountainous country to a place called Linville_ Cove on waters of the Catawba River where we encamped for several days.
From Linville _Cove, Capt. Kemp's company was detached up the Catawba in quest of a Tory party under Capt. Branham; upon our approach Branham's party retreated and we rejoined Colonels Campbell and  McDowel about forty miles from Linville_Cove. In the mean time, receiving a large reenforcement [sic], Colonels Campbell and McDowel no longer avoided an engagement Furguson; but marched in pursuit; whilst on our march Richard Coody - French and this declarant were sent westward through the mountains, to conduct to the main army, a small party of Georgia Troop, part of Colonel bolarks [lolarks unsure] command, of which we had received inteligence [sic]. We found and conducted a few men of said party into the Settlement, who, being sick and unable to proceed, we left them and refaired [sic]to the main army an Broad River shortly after the battle of Kings_mountain. From there we proceeded on our return as far as Colo. Walkers in Rutherford County (N.C.) when we discharged on our about the 25th of October 1780 as is declarants best recollection.
Declarant again entered into the service of the United States, a private in the volunteer militia company of mounted gun-men or Horse men under Captain Joshua Inman in the county of Burke and State of North Carlina at Captain Kemps and as is his last recolection, on or about 15th April 1781. From Capt. Kemp's, Capt. Inman proceed with his company to join and did join General Gree at the seige of ninety_sise, Capt Inman, with is company went to Augusta in Georgia and and assisted in taking Burntfoot Brown's Fort, and Fort Grayson, after which , declarant was discharged at Augusta on or about the 25th June 1781 as his best recollection.
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On or about the 1st of July 1781, as is his best recollection, declarant again entered into the service of the United States, a private, under Capt. Abner Beckham commanding a  volunteer company of mounted militia at Spirit Creek Bridge in the State of Georgia, said company being part of a Regiment, of which Francis Boykin was Maj., Thomas Lewis Colo. and all under command of General Twiggs.

The Tories having committed great depredations in the neighborhood of Spirit Creek Bridge when where Genl. Twiggs was encamped, parties were sent to explore the country, asscertain [sic] the position, force, and movements of the Tories, and to guard the inhabitants from further annoyance. Declarant Jessee Boykin, Richard Coody and _Finn were detached, with orders to explore the country in the neighborhood of John Pinnion a Tory Capt, collect information relatively to the force, position and designs of the Tories and report themselves to Maj. Boykin at the widow Aldays near Waynesborough on the waters of Brier Creek. Whilst on said service passing through Pinnon' lane, we were fired on by the Tories, and declarant receiving a ball in his right side fell from his horse. The Tories did not repeat their fire, but returned, and declarant was assisted by his party and put on Coody's horse, his own having run off when he fell from him. He was conducted by Coody and his party to the widow Alday's when they were met by Maj. Boykin. From Alday's we proceeded to Genl. Twiggs encampment at Spirit Creek Bridge. On our way, we were attacked by a party of Tories under Capt. Pinnion. An engagement ensued, the Tories were repulsed, their Capt. (Pinnion) killed, and Philip Thomas, a private wounded in the knee. The ball lodged in declarant's side was cut out, and he remained in the Hospital at the Bridge untill [sic] he was sufficiently recovered to travel when he received a written discharge signed by General Twiggs, Colo Lewis, Maj. Boykin and Capt. Beckham on or about the 25th of October 1781, as is his best recollection and returned home.
Declarant, on his oath states, 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 grade of a private soldier (Towit) I served as a private  under Capt. Kemps in Colo. Mc Dowel's Regt. as stated above, For Four months, and Five days. I served as a private under Capt. Inman as stated above For Two months. I served as a private under Capt. Beckham  in Colo. Lewis' Regiment and under General Twiggs, as stated above For Three months and Twenty-four days, forming a total of Nine months and Twenty-nine days and for such service I claim a Pension. [in left hand margin Hon. A. Yell illegible possible date]
Declarant on his Oath further states, That in the year 1835, he procured his declaration for a Pension to be made out and signed and swore to the same, the the circuit court of Washington County then Territory, now State of Arkansas: that he obtained a favorable decision thereon by the Hon. Archibald Yell then Judge of said court, that said declaration, shortly afterwards, as this declarant is informed was forwarded by his attorney David Walker to the War Department. That the Commissioner of Pensions as he is informed suspended his said claim, principally for want of precision in setting out the length of his service and for want of conformity with the regulations prescribed by the department, but did not decide on the merits. That his said Declaration has no bee returned to him. That he's frequently endeavoured [sic] to procure a second application to be forwarded; but has been unable hitherto to do so. Thus from want of education, and a knowledge of biseness [sic] of this kind, want of health and disappointment of those on whom he depended to draft his declaration, and not to an abandonment of his claim, are to be ascribed his long delay in a second application for a Pension.
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This Declarant, on his Oath State, That he has no documentory [sic] evidence to offer, and knows of no witness by whom he can prove his services as a Revolutionary Soldier. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present, and declars [sic] that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State or Territory.

And the said court in conformity with the requisetions [sic] of the department of War propounded to the declarant the questions following, to which on his Oath he answereth as follows (Towit)

1st Where, and in what year were you born? I was born in Goochland County State of Virginia on the 2nd day of January 1762, as I have been informed and believe. 

Have you any Record of your age, and if so, where [2nd written in left hand margin] is it? I have no Record of my age. Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived [ 3rd written in left hand margin] since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live? When called into service, I lived in Burke County State of North Carolina, Since the Revolutionary War, I have lived in Pendleton South Carolina in [large blank space] State of Tennessee, in Lawrence, Crawford and Washington counties in the State of Arkansas, and I now live in Madison, a new county taken from Washington county State of Arkansas. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a [4th written in left hand margin] substitute, and if a substitute for whom? I volunteered. State the names of some of the Regular Officers [5th written in left hand margin] who were with the troops where you served, such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service?  General Green commanded at the siege of Ninety Sise whilst I was there; I know of no other Regular Officer whose name I remember who was with the troops at any time when I served.  Colonel McDowel's colo Campell's and Colo. Lewis's volunteer militia Regiments are all I can now recollect so as to name them, although there were other Regiments in service where I served. The preceeding part of this declaration embraces, so far as I now remember all the material circumstances attending my service. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, [6th written in the left hand margin] by whom was it given, and what has become of it? I was always discharged, but with the exception of One, the discharges were verbal only. At Spirit Creek Bridge, I received a written discharge, given my by Capt. Beckham, as I believe, and signed by him and other Officers as before herein stated. It got out of my possession many years ago, I know not how, nor what has become of it. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your [7th written in the left hand margin] present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a solider of the Revolution? I refer to [written edit insert above sentence "Martin Johnson, Pleasant M. Johnson, Randolph R. Caffee and Burrel Homesley" 4 original names in the document are scratched out] in my neighborhood, who, amongst others, would, I doubt not bear testimony to my character for truth, and their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid [signed Johnson Wamack with "his" written above the signature]
in open court, [signed H.B. Brown CLK]
We Charles B Whiteley a clergyman residing in the county of Madison and state Arkansas, and Martin Johnson Pleasant M Johnson Randolph R Caffee and Burrel Homesley residing in Madison County State aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted
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with Johnson Wamuck [Wamack is name first given on page 1] who has subscribes and sworn to the foregoing Declaration. That we believe him to be seventy-five years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion. We do also Certify, That we have examined said Wamuck's [Wamack] side, and that there is therein the appearance of a wound made by a ball, and we doubt not, was made by a ball received by him as stated in the foregoing declaration. [the following signatures are stacked on top of each other on the right had side of the document in the following order; Charles B. Whitely, Martin Johnson, Pleasant M Johnson, R R Caffee, Burrel Homesley, below Burrel's signature appears three letters "mah"]
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court [large signature H. B. Brown Clk]

And the court doth hereby declare the opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogation prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the said court further certifies that Charles B. Whitely who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in the county of Madison and State of Arkansas, ans that Martin Johnson, Pleasant M. Johnson Randolph R Caffee & Burrel Homesley who have also signed the same are residents in the county of Madison and State of Arkansas and are all of them credible persons and their statement entitled to credit. 
[signed on the left hand side of document by J.M. Hoge, Judge [small mark to the right of signature, illegible] 

I [signed Henry B Brown] Clerk of the circuit court of Madison County in the State of Arkansas de hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court, in the matter of the application of Johnson Wamuck [Wamack] for a Pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand a seal of my said office this 31 day of October in the year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven
Clerk of the Circuit Court [Court second court is scratched out] of Madison County State of Arkansas
[large signature H. B. Brown Clk at bottom of document no visible seal on document, but there appears a large, faint octagonal shape to the left of the last paragraph and signature, this at one time may have been a seal]
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 
3-535
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D.C., ____, 19__

In reply to your request of ____, received____
for a statement of the military history of [handwritten Johnson Wamack] a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. [handwritten S32577 and underlined ]

[Six column typed table, column headings in all CAPS]

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
June 20, 1870
Apr. 15, 1781
July 9, 1781 
[each date handwritten in column]

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
4ms 5 das
2ms
3ms 24 da
[each hand written in column]

RANK.
Pvt.
"
"
[Pvt. handwritten first in column with the quote marks subsequently below it ]

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENERED.
[This column is broken into two columns]

CAPTAIN.
Jonathan Kemp
Joshua Inman
Abner Beckham
[names are handwritten in the column]

COLONEL.
Charles McDowell
[blank space]
Thomas Lewis
[names are handwritten in the column]

STATE.
N.C.
GA.
"
[The state initials are handwritten in the column, including the quote marks below GA]

[Below the columns there are a series of prompts and blank spaces for written answers]

Battles engaged in, 
Carely Creek N. C, Siege of Ninety-Six, attacking of Burntfoot Browns Fort and Fort Grierson 2 skirmishes with Torries  in one of which was winged in right side [Handwritten beginning with a curly parentheses to indicate all these belong on one line.]

Residence of soldier at enlistment, 
Burke Co. N.C. [handwritten]

Date of application for pension,
Oct. 30, 1837, [illegible] [handwritten]

Residence at date of application, 
Madison Co. Ark. [handwritten]

Age at date of application,
born in Goochland Co. Va, Jan 2, 1762 [handwritten]

Remarks: 
There is no data on file as to family
The  soldier's name does not appear as Warmack. [handwritten with the "r" in Warmack underlined.]

Respectfully,
Commissioner.
6-2856
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26464
Joshua Warmack
Ark
M. Ab.

[Allan GM 2 gor
Moral - H 33.22
M allan

w. Muhha] [Best guess]

Hm. A Yell
HR.
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The hon. Mr. Yell, of Arkansas member of the House of Representatives is perfectly well acquainted with the witnesses in this care of Johnson Wamack, and can certify if necessary to their credibility.  Report the case to him.
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Return to Box 175 Van Buren [handwritten]

Arkansas History Commission
Dallas T. Herndon, Secretary
Little Rock, ARK.

[Upper Right hand side is a US Postage stamp and post mark seal that reads: VANBUREN JUL 17 BPM 1915 ARK]

War Department
Pension Bureau,
Washington
D.C.

[In pencil handwritten on middle left hand side: Rev Sev C 2
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MEMBERS OF BOARD
E.A. McCULLOCH, CHAIRMAN,
LITTLE ROCK,

J.H. REYNOLDS,
FAYETTEVILLE

J.N. TILLMAN
FAYETTEVILLE

J.J. DOYNE,
CONWAY

A.C. MILLAR,
CONWAY

H.B. McKENZIE,
PRESCOTT

J.E. WOOD,
MARIANNA

J.F. MAYES,
FT. SMITH

MSS CLARA B. ENO
VAN BUREN [handwritten check mark next to her name on the left hand side]

ARKANSAS HISTORY COMMISSION
(ACT OF ARKANSAS)

[Eagle & Shield State Seal of Arkansas illustration]

Rev. Sec C 2 [handwritten in pencil top right hand corner of page]

OFFICE AND MUSEUM IN THE NEW STATE CAPITOL
[line]

A DEPARTMENT FOR THE PRESERVATION AND PUBLICATION OF HISTORICAL MATERIAL
[line]

A MUSEUM FOR THE EXHIBITION OF DONATIONS AND LOANS OF HISTORIC RELICS
[line]

ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO DALLAS T. HERNDON SECRETARY

See env. Bore 175 [handwritten]
LITTLE ROCK. ARK. [scratched out and handwritten above is: Van Buren, ARK. July 16, 1915.]

War Department
Pension Bureau.
Washington, D.C.
My Dear Sirs:
While doing some research work at the rooms of the Arkansas History Commission. I was shown the Revolutionary Pension Claim paper of Johnson Warmack of Arkansas. A copy of which I am sending you. I would like very much to know from what state he served and his service as I am collecting all information possible in regard to the Revolutionary soldiers buried in Arkansas so as to have it on file at the Arkansas History Commission Rooms.
I would also like the service of Isaiah Mobley and Clement Mobley both of the Seventh Carolina Militia. They were given on the Pension Roll of 1833 & 34 as living in Crawford Co. Arkansas.
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I shall appreciate it very much if you can send me their services.
Besides being a member of the History Commission I am Chairman of a D.A.R. Committee for Locating Revolutionary Soldiers graves in Arkansas. 
Thanking you in advance.
I am very truly
(Miss) Clara B. Eno.
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32577 [handwritten]
Reey [not sure, handwritten]

INVALID.
[line]
File No. 32577 [handwritten number the 5 is illegible]

Johnson Wamak
Priv Rev War

[line]

Act: June 7th 32" [handwritten date]

Index: - Vol. 2, Page 438

[Arrangement of 1870.] [Brackets are included in at bottom of page]


No Other declaration on file - 
All combinations searched-
and no, claim recorded on rejerted [best guess] book
enter as received or as returned
1910 July 24. yCisl [best guess] to Miss Clara B. Eno. AW [looks like initials]
Copy of Johnson Womack's Pension cefret [best guess]. to her. The name is incorrectly spelled
Warmack [r is underlined] ahereon. AW.