Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4727, James Wilkerson, Va.
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Va.
Wilkerson, James
S. 4727
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Certificate of Pension issues the 3. day of May. 1833 and sent to [illegible] Ohio.
Arrears to the 4th of May . 33. 149.34
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 [illegible] 1833 37.33
$180,, 67

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by [illegible] Clerk, 
Book E, Vol. 8. Page 28.
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Wilkerson
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832-

The State of Ohio
Warren County, on this day of October personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common please at Lebanon in & for the County of State [illegible] now sitting James Wilkerson a resident of the Township of Washington in the county of Warren and State aforesaid aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration to[crossed out] in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832-What he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as a herein stated. He enlisted in the United States service about the last of July or the first of August 1781, under Capt. James Hudage Lane for the Term of Eighteen months in the county of Loudon & State of Virginia rendezvoused at Leesburgh in said county and marched from thence under said Capt Lane to Fredricksburgh & from there to Petersburgh where the Regiment was made up and the Companies organized when he was placed under the command of Capt Sam Selden remained in that county until the 1st of December of the same year from then he marched Southward under the command of Col. Green to a place called Cheraw Hills in South Carolina on the Pede River where Green took up winter quarters in 1781 and about the first of march of the same year marched under Gen. Green from there into North Carolina and stopped at [lined out "Cliffords"] ^  Guilford Court house at which time & place he was at the request of Gen Green placed in the artillery department & from hence accompanied the baggage wagons to Prince Edward Court house in Virginia. Gen Green had a successfull engagement at Guilford Court house with Cornwallis - was at Prince Edwards court house until the last of April or first of May part of the Baggage was ordered
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to go to the army and myself with one other artificer accompanied it and joined the army the day after the siege commenced at ninety six and from ninety six Genl Green marched to the high hills of Santee not far from Camden and remained there untill about the first of September then marched for the [lined out "cataraugt"] Eutaw Springs where another engagement took place between Genl Greens Army and the British in which the former were succesful, this petitioner with Benjamin Clever were sent with the army ^to the Eutaw Springs^ After this Genl Green marched back to the high hills of Santee and remained there untill after the taking of Cornwallis, then marched down South Carolina to a place called round @ and took winter quarters about 40 miles from Charlestown about the 2'd of Jany 1782 the men enlisted for 18 months were then paraded & marched from thence into North Carolina to a place called Salesbury ^as he thinks^ and then discharged without money or mode of conveyance and four or five hundred miles from home, the certificate ^Marked H^ is now in the possession of petitioner, dated 2 Jany 82 and subscribed by "H Pendleton Capt Corn A.S.A." as enclosed herein  - was born in the State of Virginia on the 29th day of Nov 1758 as appears by a record of his age contained in a prayer book now in his possession

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 the agency of any State - Sworn to & subscribed the day & year first aforesaid- [signature] James Wilkerson
[signature] J K Wilds Clerk

[lined out "and the"] Hezekiah Stitez a clergyman residing in the County of Warren and Joel Drake also residing in said County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Wilkerson who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 73 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion
[signature] Joel Drake
[signature] Hezekiah Stitez
sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid}
JK Wilds clk
And the said Court do hereby declare
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their opinion after the investigation of the matter [lined out "after presenting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department"] that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Hezekiah Stitez who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Warren afs'd, and that Joel Drake who has also signed the same is a resident in the same County and isa ^credible^ person and that their statement is entitled to credit, I Jonathan R Wilds clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for the County afs'd do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of James Wilkerson for a pension- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas at Lebanon this 4th day of October AD 1832--
[signature] J K. Wilds clk
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November 9, 1939
BA-J/MCS
James Wilkerson, S. 4727

Mrs. Esther Forkner
6 East Street
Lebanon, Ohio
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to James Wilkerson, a Revolutionary War soldier who was born November 29, 1758, in Virginia. The names of his parents are not shown.
James Wilkerson enlisted in Loudoun County, Virginia, late in July or early in August, 1780, and served as private with the Virginia troops under Captains James Hudage Lane and Samuel Selden; on July 20, 1781, he was transferred to the Corps of Artificers under Captain N. Pendleton and was discharged January 2, 1782.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 3, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Washington Township, Warren County, Ohio.
The papers in this claim contain no data relative to the soldier's family. The data shown herein were obtained from papers in claim, James Wilkerson, S. 4727.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension of James Wilkerson, the name and address of the person paid and possibly the date of death of this soldier, it is suggested that you address the Comptroller General, Records Division, General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C. giving the following data:
James Wilkerson, Certificate 7996, issued May 3, 1833, rate $74.67 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Ohio Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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LEBANON OHIO [illegible] 27

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Adm'd
5 1/2 mo Artificer
12 1/2 mo. Private

FREE
Tho Gorwin MG

James L Edwards Esqr.
Pension office
Washington City
D.C.
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[very faint script]
Camp Round O Jan 2. 82
[illegible] Certify that James Wilkerson in B Davis
[illegible] in the Corp of Artificers
under my com'd from the seventeenth Day of July 81
[illegible] the second of Jan 82 both days included
[signature upside down] John Wilkerson
[signature] Maj Crump (sp?)
[signature] N Pendleton Cap't Com'dt A.S.A.

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Return this also

S. File 4727
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July . . 16 days
August . 31
Septr . . 30
Octr . . 31
Novr . 30
Dec . . 31
Jany . 2
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171 at 1/6 Dolas /p day 28 ½

Sir Please pay to James Wilkison the sum of Twenty ^eight^ Dollars & a half specie for the within services
your mos obse.
A. V. Crump (sp?)
DLM [illegible]
Camp 2" Jany 1782

[illegible] eight
Col'o Carrington

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James Wilkerson
Va S.4727
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Additional statement of James Wilkinson a resident of Warren County Ohio an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of the 7th of June AD 1832 This applicant further states that in his former application he finds on reperusing it there is this mistake to wit It is stated that he entered into the service of the United States in July or August AD 1781 It should been stated to have been in July or August AD 1780. This applicant is certain (from the following fact) that he is not mistaken in this. He was over twenty one years of age when he enlisted, & was 22 years of age on the 29th Nov 1780 he knows that he served 18 months in the whole in the one tour as stated in his former application. He served in the artificer department the time stated in the certificate marked A being about five months & a half & all the ballance (sic) of the time a private soldier in the ranks. That he served all of said time in the field & no part of the time in the garrison. The Captain Selden mentioned in his original application he recollects was killed at the seige (sic) of 96 He cannot learn that there is any person living who can prove by part of his service, nor can he at this age state more particularly the length of or the grades in which he served, & further saith not
[signature] James Wilkerson
Sworn to & subscribed before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace for Warren County Ohio Apl 27th 1833
[signature] Benj Blackburn J.P
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The State of Ohio Warren County SS.  Personally appeared before me the undersigned at the same time & place afs. Thomas Corwin who being sworn saith that James Wilkinson who has subscribed & sworn to the aforegoing statement is the same James Wilkinson who made application for a pension under the act of 7th June 1832 before the court of Com. pleas for Warren Co. Ohio on the 3d of Oct 1832 whose papers have been returned to R. Corwin with objections
[signature] Thomas Corwin
sworn & subscribed before me at the Co. afs. the 27th of Apl 1833
[signature] Benj' Blackburn JP
The State of Ohio}
Warren County} ss I, Jonathan K Wild, Clerk of the court of common pleas for the County of Warren & State of Ohio, hereby certify that Benjamin Blackburn Esq. is an acting Justice of the Peace & the above signature purporting to be his is genuine & that he is duly commissioned & qualified &c In testimony whereof I have herein set my hand & affixed the seal of the court aforesaid at Lebanon this 27th day of April A.D. 1833.
[signature] J. K. Wild, Clerk W.C.O.
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REv War
4724
INVALID.
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File No. 4727
James Wilkerson
Pri. Va. Line
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Act: June 7 1832
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 408
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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1927 Jan. 29 hist to Rosalie L Van Doren  WCS
1939 Nov. 9. hist to Mrs. Esther Forkner MCS
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Maple Farm
Clarksville, Ohio
November 27, 1926

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U.S. PENSION OFFICE 
F NOV 29 1926

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir: -
I have been endeavoring to trace my ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary war as we are planning a new D.A.R. Chapter at Lebanon, Ohio ---
The three that a particulary (sic) interested in at the present time are
1st Paul Vandervoort or Vandervort of New York.
I have several such named men but do not have enough to know if one was my 
great, great grand father. This particular Paul Vandervoort was the son of Nicholas Vandervoort and Abigail Halstead and born in 1753 or 55 either in Orange County New York or Long Island.
If you do not have any of the genealogy of the Revolutionary soldiers can you suggest where I can find it.
2nd James Wilkerson, born Nov. 9, 1758 in Orange County, Va. and tradition
has it that he was at the battle of Eutaw Springs
Any information you will give me will be very much appreciated as I have consulted
all government departments except yours for this information.
Yours very truly,
{signature] Rosalie L Van Doren
3rd. Thomas Ludgington of Connecticut.
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Lebanon Ohio
Oct 25, 1839.

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RECEIVED
OCT 27 1939
MAIL SUB-DIV
Reader No. 2
VETS ADM

Veterans Bureau
Revolutionary War Dept.
Washington, D.C
Dear Sirs: I am anxious to find all available record of James Wilkerson. I have the following facts taken from the History of Warren County, published in 1882. James Wilkerson, who was a Revolutionary soldier was born in Virginia on November 29, 1758, and there married Sarah Moore. He moved to Kentucky from Virginia, and in 1805 came to Ohio, and settled in the eastern part of Warren County. He brot (sic) a family of nine children - three sons and six daughters. He died in December 4, 1834, his wife dying July 17, 1841.
I also have from the Wilkerson Family Bible the same birth and death records, also find them recorded on tombstones in the Wilkerson cemetery on the old place settled by the said James.
One of James and Sarah's daughters, Mary, born Sept. 14, 1793, was married to Dixon Smoot (also from Virginia) in 1815. They were the parents of James Smoot, my grandfather.
Rosalie Van Doren, of Washington Township has received the same record I am seeking; her great-grandmother was another daughter.
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I will greatly appreciate any and all records you can send me.
Very sincerely yours.
Mrs.) Esther Forkner
6 East St
Lebanon
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RECEIVED
OCT 27 1939
MAIL SUB-DIV
Reader No. 2
VETS ADM
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[initials at upper right] W.A.S.
Rev. & 1812 War Section
January 28, 1927
Rosalie L. Van Doren
Maple Farm
Clarksville, Ohio
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 4727, it appears that JAMES WILKERSON was born November 29, 1758, in Virginia.
He enlisted in Loudoun County, Virginia, in ^late^ July or ^early^ August, 1780, and served as a private with the Virginia troops under Captains James Hudage Lane and Samuel Selden; on July 20, 1781, he was transferred to the Corps of Artificers under Captain N. Pendleton and was discharged January 2, 1782.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 3, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Washington Township, Warren County, Ohio.
There are no data on file relative to his family.
The Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to Paul Vandervoort (searched under all spellings of the name ) and a Thomas Ludgington.
Respectfully,
[typed signature] WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner