Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8,358, James Duke, N.C.
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SERVICE
N.C.

Duke, James

NUMBER
S. 8358

Born in N.C.

Carded
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23.754
North Carolina

James Duke of Montgomery in the State of N.C. who was a pr: in the [blank] commanded by Capt. _____ of the Regt commanded by Col. Etherington in the No Ca: line for 7 mo; 12 days

Inscribed on thie Roll of N. Carolina at the rate of  24 Dollars and 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th daypf April 34 1834 and [illegible] Hon Edward DeBerry _ HR

Arrears to the 4th of March 1834
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept.

73.98
12.33 (underlined)
$86.31

{Revoluntary Claim,}
Act June 7, 1832.

(Re)corded by Nath. Rice Clerk.
(bo)ok E Vol. 64 Page 51
 
[Right side of page] 

Letter to Pen Agt & 3 Auditor
8 Nov 1839

Order to paying 27 Dec 1842

Date of death 
not in AB
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28 023
James Duke 

Hon E. Deberry 
[struck:  Allen Carpenter]
Wadesboro
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Admit as private
7 mo 12 days
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State of North Carolina }
Montgomery County }  
July Session 1833

On this second day of July 1833, Personal appeared in open court before the Court of all Justices of said Court for the County of Montgomery now sitting James Duke a resident of said County of Montgomery State of North Carolina Aged Sixty Nine 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 the 7th 1832.  That he Entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and Served as Herein Stated,  he states that the 1st engagement That he entered the Service in Northampton county North Carolina [interposed: for nine months that he volunteered or enlisted] and marched to Halafax town of No Carolina under Capt. James Bradley - and was put under the Command of Maj Thomas Short and Colo Etherington Redgmint and Marched to Lewisburg then to Hillsbor-ough Then to a place called the Ridge or pine tree House in South Carolina between The Water Ree  & Congo Ree Rivers Expecting to March to Join General Green but for Some Cause was discharged at the pine tree house in  Gastonia by the Maj. Thos Short or Colo. Etherington having been taken sick at
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at Halafax and now overtook the army about the 15th day of November 1781 having served six weeks. 

He further says that he entered the 2nd engagement immediately after his discharged.  that he Volunteered or Joined the army as a volunteer under Capt. Samuel Thornton at the pine tree house in South Carolina for six months to March against the indians and tories he says that he Volunteered in the dragoon or light horse service and that he bought his own horse & was told that he would get 200 acres of land as a bounty that he volunteered for as a horse man and marched under Capt Thornton and Colo Arnold Watley to Augusta in Georgia - then to a Small town called Rightsburg and then to Phillips's fort which was commanded by Colo. Phillips where we continued a short time and then went in pursuit of the indians on the Frontiers of Georgia and had several different engagements with them and killed some of them and put the others to flight - we then returned to Phillips's Fort and was discharged there [obscured] about the 15th day of May 1782 [interposed: by Capt Thornton] having served six months and he further states that he bought another horse & returned Home to Northampton
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County in North Carolina having lost his 1st  horse in Little River about twelve miles from Phillips's fort and he further States that in both said engagements that he served sevent months and two weeks and he further States that he Recd discharges in both Said engagements but has lost them or has no recollection What has become of them and he further says that he has no codumentary evidence or knows of no person living in this part of the County whose Evidence he can procure to prove his services 
he hereby relinquishes every Claim Whatsoever 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 and Subscribed The day and year aforesaid.  
James Duke

We Benja" Kendall, a Clergyman residing in The County of Montgomery State of North Carolina and [interposed:  Frederick Randle] residing and in the Said County of Montgomery hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with James Duke who have subscribed and Sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a revolutionary Soldierand that we concur in that opinion Sworn to and Subscribed the day & year aforesaid
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F. Randle
Benj Kendall 

Interrogatories by The Court

Ques the 1st  Where and in What year were you born
Ans:  in Northampton County No Carolina Some time in the date of 1764

2nd  have you any record of your age. 
I have none I have understood that my father died when I was about 18 months old and if he left any I never saw it. 

3rd Where were you living when Called into The Service where hav eyou lived since the revolutionary War and where do you now live
Ans  In Northampton County when Called into the Service and Continued there till about two years after the war and then Moved to Franklin County and Continued there about four years  Then I Came to Montgomery County where I now live. 

4  how were you called into the Service were you drafted or were you a Volunteer or were you a Substitute and if a Substitute, for who
Ans.  I was in both engagement a Volunteer

5th  State the names of Some of the regular Officers who were with the troops where you provide such Continental  Ridgments and Malitia Ridgemints as you can recollect and the General Circumstances of your Service

Answer  I did not march with an Continental officers or Ridgmints as I recollect in either engagment.  Colo Etherington had with him about
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About three hundred men when in Halafax and that marched under Maj Short to the pine tree House in So Carolina  Tho I think they were Militia there was no other troops with us   
In my 2nd trip there was about fifty men marched with us under Capt. Thornton & Col Watley we arrive near Phillips fort and was Joined by others but I think they were all malatia. 

6th did you ever receive a discharge from the Service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it. 
Anw  I think that I recd discharges in both said engagement but have lost them. 

7th  State the names of persons who whom you are known in your present neighbourhood and who can testify as to your Character for Veracity and their belief of your Services as a revolutionary soldier. 
Ans.  [struck: Doctor]  Benj Kendall [struck: Jno Culpepper Senr Thos Waddell Junr] [interposed:  Frdrick Randle Esqr] or any of my neighbours Can [struck: state] Testify as to my character and Veracity and that Reputations says I have been a soldier tho there is no many living in this part of the Country that was acquainted with me then. 
James Duke

And the Said Court do hereby declare their opinion after investigation of the matter and after Putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department that the above named applicant
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Was a revolutionary Soldier and Served as he states and said Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Benjn. Kendall who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman and resident In the County of Montgomery: and that Frederick Randle a free holder who has also signed The same is a resident in the said County of Montgomery and is a Creditable person and that their statement is entitled to Credit. 
John Dockery JP 
Eli Harris JP 
M. Howard JP 

I John B Martin Clerk of the Court of  Montgomery County do hereby Certify that The foregoing Contains The orrignal proceedings of Said Court in the matter of the application of James Duke for a pension as a revolutionary Soldier in testamony where of I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of Office this 2nd day of July 1833
J. B. Martin Clk
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June 7, 1938
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BA-J/EEL
James Duke-S. 8358

Mrs. Emmet Morris
1735 Center Street
Little Rock, Arkansas

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request to know if the records of Colonial soldiers can be obtained in Washington and request the Revolutionary War records of John Taylor Duke, James Duke, Henry Duke and William Duke, the latter a pensioner.

This office has no record of service rendered in the colonies prior to the Revolutionary War.

There are no claims for pension on file based upon the service in the Revolutionary War of Henry or William Duke, as described by you nor of a John Taylor Duke. August 12, 19[illegible], you were furnished the records of William Duke, S.6808, said William Duke having served in the North Carolina troops. You are furnished herein the record of James Duke, the only soldier of that name that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S[illegible], based upon the military service in that war of James Duke.

James Duke was born in 1764, in Northampton County, North Carolina. The names of his parents are not shown. His father died when James was aged about eighteen months.

While residing in Northampton County, North Carolina, James Duke volunteered and served as a private in Captain James Bradley's Company, Colonel Etherington's North Carolina Regiment, and was discharged November 15, 1781, having served six weeks: he volunteered at Pine Tree House, South Carolina served in Captain Samuel Therston's Company of [illegible], Colonel Arnold Watley's Regiment and was discharged May 15, 1782, having served six months. In the last tour, he went on an expedition against the Indians on the frontiers of Georgia.
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After the Revolution, James Duke lived in Northampton County, North Carolina, for about two years; then moved to Franklin County, that state, and lived four years, thence to Montgomery County, North Carolina, where he was living when he was allowed pension on his applicaiton executed July 3, 1835.

There are no data as to wife or children.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolunntary War pensioner, James Duke (S.8358), you should address The Comproller Genera, General Accounting Office, Records Division this city, and site the following data:
James Duke

Certificate No. 23754
Issued April 4, 1834
Rate, $34.66 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1851
Act of June 7, 1852
North Carolina Agency. 

Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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1938- June 7.  Hist to 
Mrs. Emmet Morris Et 

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Rev War
8358
INVALID.

File No. 8358
James Duke
Priv. Rev. War

Act:  June 7th 1832
Index:  Vol. 1st, Page 104
(Arrangement of 1870)
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Washington D.C. 
Aug 11th 1852

Sir
Enclosed we send you a power of Attorney from James Duke a [interposed: Rev] pensioner under act of 7th June 1832, please have the papers set out so that I can examine them & oblige

Yours respectfully 
John Y Bryant

Hon Jas E Heath 
Comr of Pensions
Washington
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W Edwards
Pension office
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House of Reps April 1 1934

Mr. Edwards

Inclosed I send you the amended Declaration of James Duke of N. Carolina

I have long been well acquainted with {interposed: him] as he lives in my own County  He is an honest man and his Declaration well entitled to credit

Respectfully
Edmd Deberry 

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Pension Office
Frey Wirths  Dec 19" 1842


J.L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir, 
Please examine and authorize payments to be made to James Duke a pensioner act of 1832 whose papers are here-with enclosed. 

Very respectfully 
Your Obt Svt
JM Huske
Agt
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State of North Carolina }
Montgomery County }

Personally appeared before Me Fedrick Randle an acting Justice ofthe Peace in and for Said County James Duke who have sworn and subscribed to the annexed declaration for a pension, who being duly Sworn deposeth and Saith, That in his 1st engagement when he entered the Service under Capt Bradley that he was a Soldier in the Service of the United States and that to the best of his knowledge and belief that all his officers were duly and Lawfully appoin-ted officers of the United States and obeyed as such.  and further States that in his second engagement that he was also a Soldier of the United States that he had bought his own horse for the purpose of returning home but was induced to enlist or Volunteer under Capt Thornton For Six months and was told he would get two hundred acres of land in the State of Georgia as a bounty and he believes that his officer was duly & Lawfully appointed, and that he served the whole time or four hundred miles from home so as to employ all his time [interposed: in] the Service to the neglect of his domestic concers or business.  Sworn to and Subscribed this 18th day of March 1834
James Duke
Test
Frk Randle J.P.
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STate of North Carolina}
Montgomery County} 

I Federick [interposed: Randle] an acting Justice for Said county do certify that James Duke who have Subscribed & Sworn to the above affidavitt is a respectable citizen and that I believe his declaration is entitled to credit given under my hand this 18th day of March 1834
Frk Randle JP

State of North Carolina}
Montgomery County} 
I John Martin Clerk of the Court of Peace & quarter Sessions for Montgomery County Certify that Fedrick Randle is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing Singature purporting to be his is genuine. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and Subscrib-ed my name this 24th day of March in the year 1834
J.B. Martin
Clerk of the Court of Montgomery County
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Know all men by these presents that I James Duke of Stanley County State of North Carolina, do hereby constitute and appoint John Y Bryant of the City of Washington District of Columbia, my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name, place, and stead, to claim, recover and receive for me any sum of money due and unpaid to me on account of any arrearages or increase of pension which may be due to me, under existing pension laws, to file such evidence as may be required, make such arguments as may be requisite, to accrue and collect such sums of money as may be found to be due as aforesaid, Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney may do or cause to be done in the premisses.  

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 14th day of July 1852
James Duke     (seal)
his X mark 

Witnesses
W S Pemberton
G.A. Allen 

State of North Carolina}
Stanley County } SS
Be it known that on the 14th of July 1852, before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appears [interposed: James] Duke above named and acknowledge the foregoing power of Attorney to be his act and deed. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned. 

William alen J.P. (seal)
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State of North Carolina}
Stanley County}  SS

I Richard Harris Clerk of the County Court of hte County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that William Allen is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 20th day of January 1843 [struck: and will expire on the day of 18] and that his signature above written is genuine. 

Given under my hand and the seal of said County his the 15th day of July 1852
R Harris  Clerk
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May 16 1938
Veterans Administration
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sirs:

I'm enclosing a slip with the names of several Dukes of whom I need information. I have been searching for the whereabouts of John Taylor Duke, Sr, for several years, since he left
Brunswick and Lunenburg counties, Virginia, about 1765. I have just found that he went to Georgia in 1784, although he may have been there earlier.

I'd like to know in what state he was living when he enlisted in the Revolutionary army, I shall appreciate every particular bit of information of him and his family.

I presume, from the Virginia tax lists, that he had sons James, Henry, David, and John Taylor Duke, Jr., who appear also in Georgia.

I have been writing a history of the Dukes who were early settlers in Virginia.

I don't know that it will help you to help me, but I give you another Henry Duke (than those on the enclosed list ) who died 1782, in Georgia, leaving sons, Charles, and Thomas; also brothers Thomas and James Duke.  He refers to " my honored father and mother who are to live with my children" I believe that he
was also in the Revolution.

This is a rather large assignment and a fee for the work will be promptly paid.

Again assuring you how much I shall appreciate any help that you can give me, I am

Yours sincerely
Jennie D. Morris
Mrs. Emmet Morris
1723 Center Street
Little Rock, Arkansas

John Taylor Duke's first transaction was in 1733 and his death date would enable me to fix his birth date fairly well.

Can information of Colonial soldiers be found in a department in Washington?
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John Taylor Duke, Sr.
John Taylor Duke, Sr., Certificate of Col. Elijah Clark that he served as soldier in Batt of Minute Men though not a soldier of this State (Georgia) and prays for 250 acres in Washington Co.: 
"Knights Roster of Rev. Soldiers in Ga.", page 62. He seems to have had sons, James, Henry, David, and John Taylor Duke, Jr., Thomas.
John Taylor Duke was in Brunswick and Lunenburg Counties Virginia till about 1765. May 7, 1784 and May 17, 1784, he had two grants of 277½ acres each in Washington County, Ga.  In Virginia records his wife was Jane.
John Taylor Duke, Jr., evidently his son had a grant also. He was a Revolutionarysoldier [sic], Cerrificate [sic] of Col. Elijah Clark.  The grant lay in Washington County, Ga., and lay next to John Taylor Duke's(Senior ).
Taylor Duke has the same entry. He was  granted 287½ acres in 1785.  He had a son James. Taylor Davis wife was Sarah. all the information as to his father and family will be appreciated.
Another James Duke, served in the battle of Minute Men, though not an inhabitant of Georgia and land was granted to his heirs.
HENRY DUKE, Captain, Cert. of Elijah Clark that he was commissioned a Captain in the Battle of minute men, in 1784,- Knights
Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, page 70. Page 313 shows him listed as Captain- Major. This Henry Duke is said to
have lived in Orange County, North Carolina, and to have had a son, Taylor Duke who married, in 1801, Dicey Jones. Information of this Henry will be greatly appreciated.
It seems that there was also another Henry mentioned as a Revolutionary soldier. His wife was Nancy ; died in Henry County, Ga., about 1826.
William Duke, had a pension claim; entered service under Col. John
Stuart and Col. Elijah Clark, and under Capt. Henry Duke in 1776; Left the service two years after 1776. At that time he resided in
Wilkes County, Ga. He was first lieutenant. I need father and wife and children of this William Duke and all particulars available