Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7,676, for Thomas Tart, North Carolina
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SERVICE
N.C. 
Privateer

Tart, Thomas 
NUMBER S.7.676

Carded
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Letter 4 Age Paid Ack to 3 Auditor 12 Jany 1839 Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4th Sept 1836 to 4 March 1838
 [] notified 25 Jany 1839

 23140
 North Carolina
 Thomas Tart
 Sampson in the State of N. Car who was a pr in the Compy commanded by Captain Williams of the —- commanded by —- in  the NC [*]
Line for 9 months - 
N.C. And Privateer [*]
July 26 []
Records completed

 Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina the rate of 30 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

 Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of Nov. and such A. []
[Coxe’s] Store P.O. Sampson Co. NC.

 Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 1833. 75
 Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 34 15
$90

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Nath. Rice, Clerk
Book 6 Vol. [] Page 76
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26.471 
Thomas Tart Pv. Capt. Blounts cards Reg’t. Sept 76 for 9 mos.

[Wm Hill]


A. Monk
 P.O. Coxe's Store
 Sampson Co N.C.
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State of North Carolina 
Sampson County ⎬ ss On this 15th day of August 1833 personally appeared before us James Bonnt and John King two of the Justices of the peace in and for the County aforesaid 

Thomas Tart a resident of Sampson County in the State of North Carolina aged 72 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.- 

That as near as he can recollect it was in the month of June 1779 a draft was to take place in the Company to which he belonged, for the term of nine months, that the Company was to furnish six men that in order not to stand a draft the Company made up two Hundred Dollars Continental money to any One who would volunteer, that rather than be drafted he took the money & volunteered under the comm of Capt Wm Williams, & that himself & what men were drafted from the regiment rendezvous at Windsor Bertie County & Staid there about a week & from Windsor they were marched to the Town of Halifax in Halifax County, but before they arrived at Hallifax they met some Continental Officers who took command of the militia, that when they arrived at Halifax, there
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was a considerable army stationed there- that he was placed in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Hogan & Major Hogg - Captain Redding Blount & Lieutenant Ruben Wilkinson - that they were there stationed as much as three or four weeks, that they were marched from Hallifax, to go to West Point Fort on the North River & as he understood to fill up the 3d North Carolina Regiment, that they marched under the command of the Continental Officers already named, that when the Regiment got to New Kent County Virginia Lieutenant Wilkinson as he was supposed got a parole to visit his Father In said County & took him along with him, to wait on him, after staying with the Father of L. Wilkinson some time, they went on after the army, But never Overtook them till they got to West Point, they went through, Richmond, Fredericksburg, Alexandria in Va Georgetown, Baltimore, Philadelphia-- Princeton NJ they staid all night-- Lieutenant Wilkinson slept in a tavern & he slept in a Colledge - 

 When they arrived at West Point they found their Regiment back of the Fort, and the Commons, that the regiment was their encamped in their tents until the Ballance of their time of service expired, that he believes there was several armies stationed about in that Country on the opposite side of the River, & some where above them on the River - that there was a large Iron Chain stretched across the River as he understood
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to prevent the British shipping from going up the River - that he never was in any battle That nearly all the time for which he volunteered he had to wait on his captain & Lieutenant in their tent untill Lieutenant Wilkinson & a Lieutenant Yarborough of another Company fought a duel, & Lieutenant Wilkinson was wounded in the left arm, that he had to attend him. While under the Doctor, they went up the River to a town called New Windsor where there was a hospital, while there under the Doctor, their time of service expired & the Company Discharged & his comrades that left home with him-- viz-- William Watford, Jobe Kale, John Hogard, Patrick Hogard & Nathan Colb returned home to Bertie County North Carolina without him,  that his Lieutenant told him to go to Philadelphia where he would find Colonel Hogan who would give him a discharge-- when he got to Philadelphia he understood that Colonel Hogan was promoted to the rank of General, he ordered him to be innoculated immediately with the Small pox & sent to the Hospital in Philadelphia that before he got well of the Small pox he was taken with the putrid Fever, that his life was for some time despaired of - that Doctor Jackson principal &  Doctor Ried assistant Superintended the Hospital
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when he was able to leave the Hospital general Hogan, wrote a discharge & gave him & told him he might go home-- but being yet suble & left alone he was at a loss what to do, he was told that he could get employ On Board a letter of Marque - Bound to the West Indies on a trading Voyage, he done so, & went on board the ship Jay

 formerly called the Ship Liverpool - they sailed from the port of Philadelphia & when they had left the Capes of Delaware, about three days they captured an English Brig, laden with supplies to the English Army at Halifax N.S. & sent her to Alexandria in Virginia — they sailed then to an Island called Eustatia of Saint Eustatia where they unloaded their Tobacco & Staves - & loaded the ship with Salt & Returned to the United States - the Ship was commanded by Captain Herman Coulter & John Douglass - Lieutenants Tanner & Fisher - when we got as far as Chester on the Delaware River the ice  prevented her going any farther. That he went to Chester & worked with a shoemaker for his victuals till he got his Share of the prize money, when he returned to his fathers house in Bertie County North Carolina being aboard one year & tenmonths - 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 or (if any)
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only on that of the agency of the State of N. Carolina 
Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid In presence of Jno King JP
Thomas Tart
Jas Bennett [?]
Question asked the applicant by James Bennet and John King two of the Justices of the peace & Justices of the Court of pleas & quarter Sessions for Sampson County North Carolina 

Question 1st. Where & in what year were you born
Answer - I was born in Nansemond County in the State of Virginia, the 7th of February 1761 - 

Question 2. Have you any record of your age & if so where is it-- 
Answer I have it on a Slip of paper Copied from my fathers large Family Bible
Question 3rd.  Where were you living when called into service
 Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War & where do you now live- 
Answer, When I was called into service I lived with my Father in Bertie County, I was absent by land & Sea, one years ten months after my return I was married -  I moved into the State of Virginia near where I was born & staid one year, then I moved Back to Bertie County & from thence about thirty three years ago I moved to the place where I now live on the North side of Kill Peacock Swamp & East side of great Coharie - Sampson County N Carolina
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6 Question 4th How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute & If a substitute for whom- 
W Answer, when a draft was pending for a term of nine months, & Our company was to furnish a quota of six men the company offered to give any any man that would go two hundred Dollars Continental money- so rather than run the risque [sic] of being drafted I took the money & Volunteered for the term of nine months- Question 5th State the names of some of the regular troops [sic] Officers who were with the troops where you served such Continental & Militia regiments as you can recollect & the general circumstances of your service
Answer - Colonel Hogan & Major Hogg the Regiment where I served & Captain [commanded] Redding Blount & Lieutenant Ruben Wilkinson Commanded the Company to which I belonged
 I have no recollection of any militia Regiments neither do I remember who the Officers were that Commanded at West point-- Our regiment were encamped on the Commons Back of the Fort & the Soldiers of the Fort & the soldiers of the regiment had no communication with each other & my Employment was to wait on the Captain & Lieutenant
 Question 6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service & if so by whom was it given and what has become of it —
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( Answer, I recd a discharge from the army 7 from to the General Hogan in Philadelphia after my return from waiting on Lieut. Wilkinson 
I know not what has become of it-- when I received It I had no Idea of its being of any advantage to me & then I entered on Board a letter of Marque on a cruise to the West Indies —Question 7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood & who can testify as to your character for veracity & their belief of your services as a solider of the revolution 
Answer, I know of no person who can testify at this time as to my services as a revolutionary Soldier a few years Back I could have done so. I don’t know whether any of them are yet alive or not, & If alive I know not where they live, as to my Character for Veracity. I will state the names of Thomas Thornton Senr & Westbrook Lee, who have known me for about thirty three years the time that I have resided in this County 
We Thomas Thornton Senr & Westbrook Lee Farmers residing in Sampson County in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that we have known & been well acquainted with the applicant Thomas Tart who has subscribed to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy two years of age, that he is believed
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8 & reputed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion, & that we believe him to be a man of Veracity
Sworn & Subscribed the day
& year aforesaid
 Thos Thornton
Westbrook [his mark] Lee
 Jno King
 Jos Bennett

We John King and James Bennet Justices of the peace as aforesaid do hereby declare as our opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interogatories prescribed by the War department, that the above named  applicant was a revolutonary [sic] Soldier and served as he states, & we further certify that Westbrook Lee & Thomas Thornton who has signed the preceeding certificate are Very respectable farmers of this County - that they are creditable persons & that their statement is entitled to Credit, & we further State that we have known the applicant & believe him to be a man of veracity 
Given under our hands the day & year first above written-
Jno  King 
Jos Bennett
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We further certify that the applicant Thomas Tart from Bodily Infirmity is unable to attend the County Court which is twenty [od odd], miles from him
Jno King JP
 Jas Bennett

 State of North Carolina
 I Thomas J Faison Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the County of Sampson do hereby certify that John King & James Bennett Esqr whose signatures appear above location & certificates of the Peace in & for said county duly commissioned and  before me and that of all faith and credit are due their official acts.

In Testimony whereof I have thereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of Office at Clinton this 20th day of August AD. 1833
In the 58th [year] of American Independance.
Thomas J Faison, Clerk
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WASHINGTON

Mrs. Henry L. Mellen 
Livingston
 Alabama 

October 14, 1931 BA-J/MCS Thomas Tart
 S.7676 

Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your letter of September 29th, requesting information in regard to soldiers of the Revolution. 

The data contained herein are obtained from papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 7676, based upon the military service of Thomas Tart in that war. This is the only soldier surnamed part or parts that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.

 Thomas Tart was born February 7, 1761, in Nansemond County, Virginia. in all, While a resident of Bertie County, North Carolina, he enlisted July 20, 1778, and served nine months as private and waiter in Captains William's and Reading Blount's Companies in Colonel Hogun's North Carolina Regiment. At the expiration of this service, he went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to receive his discharge. While there he was innoculated for the small pox. He became ill and when he was able to leave the hospital he went on board the letter of marque called Jay which was commanded by Captains Herman Coulter and John Douglass.  Said vessel sailed from Philadelphia bound for the West Indies on a trading voyage. When “they had left the Capes of Delaware about three days” they captured and sent to Alexandria, Virginia, an English brig which was laden with supplies for the English army at Halifax, Nova Scotia. They then sailed to Saint Eustatius Island and returned to the United States. Thomas Tart left the ship at “Chester on the Delaware River" and after working for a shoemaker for food, until he received “his share of the prize money”, he returned to Bertie County, North Hughes was Carolina, having been absent from home one year and ten months in all.

See Hertman for spelling of the servis used 1778 instead of 1777 for enlistment date as a.c.to Heitman Hogan was Brig. Gen in Jan 1779.
And U.C. State report must be correct as to service.
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After his return he married and moved to Virginia, near his birthplace. One year later he moved back to Bertie County, North Carolina , and about 1800 he moved to Sampson County, North Carolina, on the north side of Kill Peacock Swamp and east side of the Great Coharie River. 13, 1833, at which indication counted for Carolina, The name of his wife is not given and there are no data tive to children. 

Very truly yours, 
A. D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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 7676
 INVALID. 
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File No. 7676 
Thomas Tart Priv Rev. War
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Act: June 7th 1832
Index: -- Vol. [], Page 369
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Left side of page:
1931 Oct 14, hist. to Mrs.
Henry L. Mellen, UCS
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Livingston, Ala
Sept 29/31

Bureau of Pensions
 Washington

Dear Sir, I am writing to see if you can give me any information regarding an ancestor, am anxious to get it for the D. A. R. Chapter.

I have an old paper on which it is written the following:
“John Tart or Tartt, Rev. Soldier of Virginia”.

First - Virginia State line Regiment, serving in the Continental Army.

 Did he or any of his descendants move to  North Carolina. My grand-father James Tartt lived in Edgecomb Co., North Carolina.

If you can furnish any information regarding the Tart or Tartt family. Will feel very grateful.

Yours Truly,
  Mrs. Henry J. Mellen

Document is stamped Oct 1 1931
Receipt Section
Pension Files Sub-Division
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Admit as a private - 
9 mo $ []
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State of North Carolina 
Secretary of States Office

 I William Hill Secretary of State in and for the State aforesaid, do certify, that it appears from the musterrolls of the continental line of this State in the revolutionary war, that Thomas Tart a private in Capt Blount Co pany of the 10th Regiment enlisted on the 20th July 1778 for the term of nine months, that nothing more is said of him on said Rolls 

Given under my hand
 this 4th November 1833
W Hill
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT 
Second Comptroller's Office
 January 18th 1839
Sir:
  Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, Thomas Tart - a Pensioner on the Roll of the North Carolina Agency, at the rate of Thirty Dollars and [strikethrough Cents] per annum, under the law of the 7th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1836, to the 4th March 1838. 

Respectfully, yours,
[E. Parris]
 Comptroller
 To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.