Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,573, William Walker, N.C.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE
N.C.
Walker, William
NUMBER
S.32.573.
Born in N.C.
CONTENTS
This Envelope Incudes
Final Payment N.C. Voucher
Received from GAO
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255.63
Willaim Walker
of Hardin County in the State of Tennessee
who was a private & adj in the company commanded by Captain Hardin of the regiment commanded by Cob. M. Bowell the N. Carolina line for 3 months private
8 months Lieutenant
2 months Adj.
Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee
at the rate of 126 Dollars 66 cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 day of February 1834 and November 6 Dunlap HR
Arrears to the 4th of Sept.
$316.67
63.33
$380.00
Semi-annual Allowance ending 4 March.
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Daniel Boyd
Book E Vol 7 Page 99
Alabama
Decatur Agency

Bin Transfer of letter to Honorable R. Chapman C. Foley 1838
Same person 1 May 1838
Bin to Pen. Agent Letter to Hon. R. Chapman 4th May 1838.
To Decatur Alabama from Jackson Tennessee from 4 Sept. 1837-16 July 1838.
Paid at Congress Treasury audited Under act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 Sept 1837 to 4 Sept 1838 Agent Notified 29 July 1839
Order to pay $ Letter to Hon. R. Chapman 7 April 1840
Paid as above from 4 March to 4 Sept. 1840. Agent Notified 5 June 1841
Dead Paid as above from Sept 4 to 3rd July 1841, Agent Notified April 18th 1842
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State of Tennessee}
Hardin County} Circuit Court November term 1832.

Be it remembered that on the 13th day of November 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Honorable William B. Turley judge of the 10th Judicial Circuit now sitting for the county of Hardin William Walker a resident of the County of Hardin and state of Tennessee 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 congress papered July 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated viz.

He was born in Mecklenburgh County N. Carolina in the year of 1760.  he has seen a register of his age in his father's Bible but does not know where it is now. He entered the service of the United States in the year of 1780 in the N. Carolina line in Rutherford County under Capt. Benjamin Hardin in the spring of the year and was marched from Rutherford to Mecklenburgh County there we joined General butler from there we marched towards Savannah River where we joined General Lincoln at a place called Cherokee pond in South Carolina. Hence moved down to a place called Bakers Bridge near Dogert there we remained for sometime we were accompanied
Count Pularki and his regiment of servicemen shortly after Pularki left us and went onward Savannah he then said Walker went from there to Stono Ferry and was in the battle at the at place. Col. Mcdowel was the commandant of the regiment when he marched from Rutherford but he believes as the day of the Battle at Stono he was commanded by Col. Eugene of Charleston he served in this tour three months as a minuteman and was discharged at Stono shortly after the battle but how long since lost his discharge after he returned home he remained about 10 months he then volunteered to keep down the Tories and entered the service under Capt. Rankin for ten months he this affidavit was (illegible) and served as Lieutenant under Capt. Rankin, Col. Singleton was then commander
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the first engagement he was in after he entered on this tour was at the head pain creek when Capt. Dunlap a British officer overtook as we were retreating toward the Watonga the enemy proved to hard for us and were compelled to continue our retreat after we camped the Yellow Mountain we recruited & Col. Seven or Col. Shilly joined us and we went back to fight Fergusons & the Tories before we met Ferguson we were joined by Col. Campbell and Cleveland from the top of Yellow Mountain until we got to Kings Mountain he placed out the Pecket guarding every night he was in the battle of Kings Mountain and in the advance guard that but on the battle before he retreated over the Yellow Mountain he was at the taking of Pat. Moones fort on the part in Spartanburg county South Carolina from the kings mountain he returned home the Tories were numerous he took his mother who then had retained as a person for the purpose of putting her in his fathers setting to keep the whigs from burning down the house Major Ferguson before the battle had made his head quarters in my father's house he carried his mother over the yellow mountain to Watonga for refuge from the Tories he then joined company of Militia who volunteered to go to Ninety Six to assist General Green this affidavit was the Captain of said Company he marched to Ninety Six and joined Greens' army was not there then long before General Green retreated this affidavit (illegible) and his company
S32573
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being well acquainted with the county acts as pilots to General Greens Army for eighteen miles he served two months in this campaign as a Captain he then returned home. He was in the battle of Poet
Pacolet river and was a lieutenant in that campaign he does not recollect what time he was out in the tour or how long he toured out for he following during the British from Pacolet River to Princes fort on tiger river then we were impelled to retreat he believes he served in the tour two months. 
He on the first day of March 1782 again entered the service of the United States under the command of Col. Joseph McDowell and Singleton as a volunteer to fight the Cherokee Indians. he was appointed adjutant and acted as such during the whole tour which was two months in this expedition we destroyed two towns of the Indians called little Charleston & big Charleston we killed some and took again many prisoners . My brother Felix Walker was a lieutenant in the Continental he had another brother by the name of John Walker who was in the continental line and died in Charleston.
Joseph Ballar of Shelby County and Willaim Robertson of Hardin County are acquainted with me & knows of my serving my country I hear precured their affidavits as do here append there to accompany my statement Thomas Gray Hank Roberson of Hardin County are also acquainted with me and have known me for sometime and can testify as to the credit of my service
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and character for veracity. He has no discharge to provide He has a certificate signed by Col. Joseph McDowell and others which he also attaches to his statement.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state Sworn to in open court.
Orville Harrison Clerk
William Walker
We Thomas Grey & James Robinson are residents in Hardin County do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Walker who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 72 years of age. That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed in open court.
November 13, 1832
Thomas Gray {seal}
James Robinson {seal}

Orville Harrison clerk

And the said William Walker States that he never had a regular commission as a lieutenant or Captain that he elected to the aforesaid offices by the volunteer companies which he commanded but it was not customary for the volunteer officers to have the commissioned out he remained in Rutherford County N. Carolina until about the year 1870 where he moved to Tennessee and has resided in Hardin County Tennessee the last eight years.
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court Nov. 17 1832
William Walker

An the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories required by the War Department that the above names applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the court do faith certify that it appears to them that Thomas Gray and James Robinson who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in
S32573
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in the county of Hardin and are creditable persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.
William B. Luley
Judge 10th Circuit Tennessee

I Orville Harrison Clerk of the Circuit Court of Hardin County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of application of William Walker for a pension.
IN testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and private seal & having not yet precured a public seat this the 17th November 1832
Orville Harrison Clerk
State of Tennessee /William Lurley judge of the 10th Judicial
{Seal}
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I certify that Orville Harrison was clerk of the circuit court of Hardin County Tennessee of the date of the within certificates and that his name is signed in his own proper handwriting.
William c. Dunlap
January 27th 1834
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G. Walker

State of Alabama
DeKalb County}

Be it know that before me Willis Banten a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared George W. Walker and made oath in due form of law that he is the administrator of William Walker the identical person who was a pensioner and is now dead, and to whom a certificate of pension was issued of which the following is a true copy.

" War Department
Revolutionary Claim

" I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832 William Walker of the State of Tennessee who was a private Lieutenant & adjutant in the army of the Revolution is entitled to receive one hundred and twenty six dollars and seventy six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1831 and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 1st day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty four. 
Lewis Cals.
Secretary of War

Examined and countersigned
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

That the insured pensioner resided in Dekalb county in the state of Alabama for the space of three years before his death and that previous thereto he resided in Hardin County Tennessee 
Sworn and subscribed this 21st day February
George W. Walker 
Administrator of William Walker deceased
21st of February 1842 before me
Willis Banten {J.P}
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Know all men by there presents that I George W. Walker of DeKalb County and State of Alabama administrator of William Walker deceased who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States do hereby constitute and appoint William O. Winston my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to receive from the Agent of the United States for paying pensions in Huntsville State of Alabama the balance of said pension form the fourth day of March 1841 to the 3rd day of July 1841 being the day of his death. Witness my hand & seal this 21st day of February 1842.
George W. Walker {Seal}
Sealed and delivered in presence of us
Willis Banten
John McCay

State of Alabama 
Dekalb County
Be it know that on the 21st day of February 1842 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared George W. Walker above named and acknowledged to 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.
Willis Banten {J.P.}

State of Alabama 
Dekalb County
Be it known that on the 21st day of February 1842, before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared William O. Winston the attorney named in the foregoing power of attorney and made oath that the same was not given him by reason of any sale, transfer, or mortgage of the pensioner or means of pension therein authorized to be received by him.
William O. Winston

Sworn and subscribed the day and year last above mentioned before me
Willis Banten {J.P.}

(stamped at bottom of document)
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
RECEIVED FROM GAO
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State of Alabama
Dekalb county}

I Alexander W. Majors, Clerk of the County Court holden at Lebanon in and for the County of DeKalb and State of Alabama, do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that William Walker was a pensioner of the United States, at the rate of one hundred and twenty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum, was a resident of the County of DeKalb in the State of Alabama and died in the said Couty and State in the year 1841 on the 3rd day of July that he left no widow and that administrator was applied for and granted by said Court to the said George W. Walker by which he is duly authorized to act in that capacity on the state of the insured pensioner the said William Walker. And I do further certify that Willis Banten whose name appears to the foregoing affidavits and certificate of identity is now and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Lebanon this 28th day of February in the year of our Lord 1842.
A. W. Majors Clerk of the county court of Dekalb A.L.

{Stamp located at bottom of document reads:
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER RECEIVED FROM GAO}
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO

ENT
No. 14.505,

by
William Walker
leadman of 7
Pen. Huntsville AL
Act 7 June 1832
$42.33
1 April 1842
2
Act 6 April 1838
Record 491 dated 2 April 1862
Sent to Lealing 4 April 1862
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO

Deceased
The DeKalb County States to George W. Walker Administrator of William Walker Pensioner Huntsville Roll Act 7 June 1832, for his pension from 4 March to 3 July, 1841. The day of his death 122 days at $126.66 per annum, per voucher filed herewith--$42.33

Ready pay to 3rd Audit-Office
1April 1842
Stated by Deslynn

@ Comptroller's Office
April 2nd, 1862
David T. Pennington}
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Application for a Transfer
County of DeKalb S.S.

On this the 28th day of March 1838 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of DeKalb personally appeared William Walker Senior who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain's Rankin & Bateman in the regiment commanded by Colonel Jacob in the service of the United States that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Tennessee from whence he has lately removed and that he now resides in the state of Alabama when he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be then payable in future. The following are his reasons for removing from Tennessee to Alabama are that the major part of his children had removed to that state & that he wished to be near to them that they might attend him in his declining years.

Sworn to and subscribed
before me the day and year aforesaid written
George W. Walker
an acting Justice of the Peace J.P.
William Walker
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The State of Alabama
DeKalb County }

this day personally appeared George D. Leeth before me George W. Walker a Justice of the Peace for said County who being first duly sworn dese & saith William Walker, Senior is the pensioner set forth in the within affidavit and that he is the very same person described in the said affidavit and that officiant knew that said W. Walker whilst a resident of Tennessee drew money as a pensioner.

Sworn to & Subscribed
before me this 28 day of March 1838
George D. Leeth
George W. Walker
Justice of the peace an acting Justice of the peace
The state of Alabama
Dekalb County} 
I George W. Walker a Justice of the peace for said county do certify that George D. Leeth whose signature appears to the above affidavit and who has sworn to the same is a person of unblemished veracity & probity.
Given under my hand and seal this 28 day March 1838.
George Walker {Seal}
An acting Justice of the Peace

State of Alabama
DeKalb County}

I Alexander W. Majors Clerk of the county court of Dekalb County do hereby certify that George Walker whose name and signature appears to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of making this certificate an acting Justice of the Peace in said County duly commissioned & sworn as such and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to all his official actions as such.
Given under my hand aforesaid date & foregoing no public seal of office at office this 2nd day of April A.D. 1838
And the 40th American Independence 61 year
A. Majors Clerk
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The State of Alabama
DeKalb County}

I Polydore Vaylor Judge of the County Court of the Conty of DeKalb do certify that Alexander W. Majors whose signature appears as clerk of said court to the foregoing certificate is genuine and was at the time of making the same and is now clerk of said court and that due faith and credit is and ought to be given his official acts and deeds as such.
Given under my hand and seal this 2nd day of April 1838.
Polydore Vaylor {Seal}
Judge of the County Court of DeKalb County

Washington City May 2nd, 1838.
I Reuben Chapman representative in Congress from the first District in Alabama which includes DeKalb County that Alexander W. Majors who made the foregoing certificate as clerk of the county court of said county, is clerk of said court, and was at the date of said certificate and I believe the signature purporting to be his is genuine.

Reuben Chapman
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office
April 2nd, 1842.

Sir:

Under the date 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," The administrator or William Walker, deceased a Pensioner on the Roll of the Huntsville AL Agency, at the rate of One Hundred & 26 Dollars and 66 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department from the 4th of March, to the 3rd July 1841.

Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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September 15, 1932
BA-J/AWF
William Walker
S.32573

Mr. Robert W. Walker
814 Fifth Avenue
Fort Worth, Texas

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to William Walker, a lieutenant with the North Carolina troops, War of the Revolution.

The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S.32573, based upon the Revolutionary War service of William Walker.

Wwilliam Walker was the son of John Walker, and was born in 1760 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

William Walker served with the North Carolina troops, as follows:

He enlisted in Rutherford County, North Carolina and served three months in Captain Benjamin Hardin's company, Colonel McDowell's regiment and was in the battle of Stono Ferry. About ten months later, he volunteered and was appointed lieutenant, served in Captain Rankin's company, Colonels Singleton's and Charles McDowell's regiments and was in the battles of Pacolett River, Thickety Fort, Cane Creek and Kings Mountain, length of this service not stated. After the battle of King's Mountain, he returned home and found that Major Ferguson of the British Armu had taken his father's house for his headquarters and held his mother a prisoner, his mother's name was not stated. he rescued his mother and carried her over the


{handwritten note on letter states 10months service at Kings Mountain}
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Yellow Mountains to Watauga for refuge from the Tories. Shortly after this, he was elected captain of a company of militia and marched to Ninety-Six and serve two months.

He was appointed about March 1, 1782, adjutant and served under Colonels Joseph McDowell and Singleton, was out against the Indians and Tories, burned some of their towns and took some prisoners.

He stated that he remained in Rutherford County until 1810 and then moved to Tennessee.

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 13, 1832, at which time he was living in Hardin County, Tennessee.

In 1838 he had moved to Dekalb County, Alabama, to be near some of his children who lived in Alabama. Names of children not specified.

One, George W. Walker was a justice of the peace in 1838 in DeKalb County, Alabama, no relationship to family shown.

The soldier had two brothers, Felix and John Walker, who also served in the War of the Revolution. Felix was at one time a member of Congress from North Carolina.

The soldier, William Walker, died July 3, 1841.
There are no further data in this claim relative to his family.

Very truly yours.
A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator



{handwritten note on letter indicates William Walker lived in Tennessee for 8 years.}
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William Walker
Tennessee

from 1779 private
Lieutenant to Adjutant 13 months
Private 3 months $10
Lieutenant 8 months 96.66
Adjutant 2 months 20.-
$ 126.66

No proof of service as Captain
service as such herein not allowed
could have served but six months as Lieutenant under Captain Rankin & Col. Singleton

Hon W.C. Dunlap
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State of Tennessee
Hardin County}

Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions March Term 1833.

The supplemental declaration of William Walker to a declaration made by him in the circuit court of Hardin County at the November term aforesaid circuity court in the year of our Lord 1832 in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress papered July 34d 1832.

Be if remembered that on this the 19th day of March in the year of our Lord 1833 personally appeared in open court he for the Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter sessions of Hardin County the same being court of record William Walker aged about 72 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in addition to the one heretofore made in the circuit court of this county at November term 1833 in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress papered the 7 July 1832.

William Walker states addition to what he has heretofore stated that he never received any commission for any of the offices he held during the revolutionary war that he was elected by the company's to which he belonged. Lieutenant and Captain, that he never applied for or obtained a commission, neither does he believe it was at that time customary to do so that the elections took place about the time he was called in to service 
and there was not time to obtain a commission. He believes in such cases it usual to accept such election to the command of the regiment, and their the matter
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ended until the officer elects would make further addition for his commission. He this applicant never did apply for any commission the reason why was that he had not time to do so immediately after being elected and before it was convenient for him to apply or obtained one the time for which he had entered the serve would have conflicted.

In the expedition against the Cherokee Indians this applicant was appointed adjutant by Col. Singleton with Col. McDowell who commanded the regiment to fill the place of Balden who had taken sick and went home, this applicant states that he did not receive any commission or statement in writing of his appointment. It was not customary in those days for gentlemen to receive their communication to writing. he this applicant has served whole Companies without seeing a sheet of paper.

This applicant in his other declaration states in his certificate that he never had received a commission for others Lieutenant or Captain but he supposes that statement was not found by the officers of the war department as the certificate is made to itself below the declaration and as Mr. J.L. Edwards in his letter to the Hon. A.H. Sevier say that I should produce my commissions or show what has become of them, this presumed by this applicant that this would not be required when the applicant states that he never received a commission. This applicant states that he never received any other discharge than the one named in his first declaration neither as an officer
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Private

Sworn to & subscribed in open court March 19th 1833
William Walker {Seal}
John Houston Clerk

And the said Court do herby declare this opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories required by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he has stated and the said court do further certify that it appears to them that Thomas Gray and James Robinson whose names are subscribed to the certificates made in the circuit court of this county on the behalf of the above named applicant are respectful citizens of said county and that their statement are entitled to credit.

David Robinson {Seal}
Archibald Davis {Seal}
James Houston {Seal}

I John Houston Clerk of the said court of Hardin County do herby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of William Walker for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said court at office the 20th day of March 1833.
John Houston Clerk
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32 573
Revolutionary INVALID.

File No. 32,573
William Walker
Lieutenant Revolutionary War
Act: June 7, 1832
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 436
{Arrangement of 1870}

1930-Sept. 11 Hist sent to Hon. W. L. Nielson
1932 Sept. 13 Hist. sent to Robert W. Walker, Esq.
1940 June 11 Hist. sent to Mrs. John C. Lesher aws.
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State of Tennessee
Hardiman County}

this day applicant William Robertson a resident citizen of said county and creditable witness before me William F. Duncan an acting justice of the peace of said county and authorized to administer oaths and made oath that he is acquainted with William Walker now a citizen of Hardin County Tennessee that he has known him for fifty two years and more and that he this applicant has seen the said Walker in the service of the United States during the revolutionary war, and that he belonged to the North Carolina Militia and he this applicant saw the said Walker in the battle of King Mountain along the taking of Patrick Moore fort in Spartanburg.

Sworn to & subscribed before me on the 1st October 1832.
William L. Duncan J.P.
William Robertson
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State of North Carolina
Rutherford County}
20 June 1782

To all persons to whom there presence that greeting ye. Know ye that we the subscribers Justice of the Peace & general officers for said county & others do certify that we do know are well acquainted with the bearer William Walker & that he is a person of good frame & reputation & is a respectable family & a true friend to the United States & know as the said William Walker has notified unto us here in true form of framing in Rutherford Count in Virginia on this of a mare that was stolen from him & other lawful business there are therefore to request all person who may meet with the Walker to give him such credit as may to come and with the important particulars giving him said William Walker.
William Emeril Lewis J.P.
Alexander Caughey
James Whitmore T.T.
Joseph A. Dowell Clerk
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State of Tennessee
Hardeman County}
this day personally appeared Joseph Ballew before me a creditable witness and a respectable citizen and made oath that he has been acquainted with William Walker for about sixty years in the year 1780 May Ferguson of the British Army took possession of John Walkers house the father of said William Walker and made it his headquarters and drove Col. John Walker and his family out of said house and took the said William Walkers mother prisoner one confined here in the cellar to keep the whigs from burning the house I saw said William Walker at the Battle of Kings Mountain I also saw him at the battle of Pacolet River at Ned Hampton's plantation, under the command of Col. Charles McDowell the said William Walker was a Lieutenant under Capt. Rankin at the battle of Kings Mountain he also held that commission at the Battle of Pacolet River his brother Felix Walker served as member of Congress from N. Carolina was aa lieutenant in the Continental line I was also said William Walker in a campaign against the Cherokee Indians in the year of 1782 when we marched to big Charleston & little Charleston on the Tennessee river the said Walker then held a commission I believe and adjutant from the time I first saw the said William Walker in the army of the North Carolina Militia until he left the same was about three years he was pretty constantly in the army during the whole time I understood he was in the Battle at Stono Ferry before I saw him in the army.
Sworn to & subscribed before me
John L. Walker
1st October 1832
William S. Duncan J.P.
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State of Tennessee
Hardeman County}

I Thomas Hardeman clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the aforesaid County of Hardeman do certify that William L. Duncan whose name is signed to the within probate and one thereto attached is now & was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said county was duly commissioned & qualified according to law & that due faith and credit & respect to be given to all his official acts as such.
In faith and testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at office this 2nd day of October 1832
Thomas J. Hardeman Clerk

I William Polk Chairman of said county do certify that Thomaas Hardeman who has signed the above certificate is clerk of said county and that his attestation is in due form.
Given under my hand this the 3rd day of October 1832.
William Polk chairman
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State of Tennessee
Hardeman County}

I William Polk presiding Justice of the court of Pleas & quarter sessions for the county of Hardeman & State of Tennessee do hereby certify that Thomas J. Hardeman whose name is signed to the within certificate is and was at the time of signing the same clerk of said court and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his official acts as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my ha d and seal this 2nd day of October 1832.

William Polk J.P. {Seal}
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Payments to be made

at Nashville
by Rest. of William Bank agent for paying pensioners in the Agency of West Tennessee

Recorded in the Pension office in book E. Vol. 7
Page 99 by Ian Boyd Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832, William Walker of the State of Tennessee who was a private, Lieutenant & Adjutant in the army of the revolution is entitled to receive One hundred & seventy six dollars and sixty-six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semiannually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States this 1st day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.

Lewis Cap
Secretary of War

Examined and}
Countersigned}

J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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War Department
Pension Office
January 25, 1833

Sir

The papers in the case of Wiliam Walker are herewith returned. He should either produce his commissions or show what has become of them. As the clerk of the court has no public seal of office, you or some other member of Congress acquainted with the clerk's signature, should certify that it is genuine.

I have the honor to be 
very respectfully
your obedient servant
J.L. Edwards

Hon A. H. Seiver
House of Representatives
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office,
July 20, 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," William Walker, a pensioner on the Roll of the Huntsville Alabama Agency, at the rate of One Hundred & 26 Dollars and Sixty Six Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept., 1837, to the 4th Sept. 1838.

Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
May 28th, 1841.

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," Wiliam Walker a pensioner on the Roll of the Huntsville Alabama Agency, at the rate of One Hundred 26 Dollars and 66 cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March, to the 4th Sept. 1840.

Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present
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JUL 2 JAC

House

J.L. Edwards, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

July 14
William Walker
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Pension Agency
Jackson
June 30 1838

Sir
Your favor of request has been received William Walker a pensioner under the act 7 June 1832, who is entitled to 126.00 per annum, has been paid his stipend up to 4 Sept 1837 inclusive.

Very Respectfully
your obedient servant
James Campbell
Pension Agent

J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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In at H.C. 30


W. Walker

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Hon. R. Chapman
H.R.
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House of Rep.
April 28th 1838

Sir,
I beg learn to enclose you the application of William Walker a pension of the Tennessee Agency, to be transferred to the Alabama Agency at duration having lately removed to DeKalb County in that state.

Respectfully your obedient servant
R. Chapman

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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In at May 3
W. Evans

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
R. Chapman H.R.
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House of Reps.
Washington May 2nd 1838

Sir:

I beg learn to enclose you this application of William Walker pensioner for a transfer which you returned to me on yesterday for my certificate of clerkship which you will find annexed thanks

With great respect
your obedient servant
R. Chapman

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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W. Evans Feb. 5

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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House of Rep.
February 3rd 1838.

Sir:

I beg learn to enclose you the application of William Walker for a pension for a change of the place receiving his pension from Tennessee to Decatur Alabama was to which he has removed.
Your Obedient Servant
R. Chapman

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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WAR DEPARTMENT
PENSION OFFICE,

Sir:

IN conformity with the regulations of this Department, you have this day been transferred from the Roll of Jackson Tennessee to that of Decatur Alabama to take effect from and after the 4th Sept. 1837.

I am Sir, respectfully
Your obedient servant,
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Mr. William Walker
U.S. Pensioner
care of Hon. R. Chapman
Somerville
Morgan County
Alabama
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO

FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO

FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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1107 Fourteenth Street
Modesto, California
Dec. 16, 1939

Veteran's Bureau

Dear Sirs:

Will you please send me a complete copy of record of William Walker, age 78-resided in DeKalb Co., Alabama. June 1, 1840 with G. Walker, Census of Pensioners of the Revolution 1841 p. 147.

I Thank you
Grace T. Lesher

Mrs. John C. Lesher

{Stamped: Received December 20, 1939, Mail Sub-Division record number 29 Vets. Admin}
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William L. Nelson
8th Dist. Missouri

Room 374
House Office Building

Residence
Columbia, Missouri

Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.

Member
Committee on Agriculture

September 8, 1930.

Hon. E.W. Morgan,
Acting Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Morgan:

Please advise me what your records show with regard to William Walker, who was born in Virginia and was given a Revolutionary Land Grant in Hickman County, Tennessee, also Joseph Hoden, of Fluvanna County, Virginia.

Thanking you, I am

Sincerely yours,

W.L. Nelson

{Stamped: Pension Office September 9, 1930}
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TRADES ASSEMBLY
OF FORT WORTH AND VICINITY
LABOR TEMPLE 401 1/2 CALHOUN ST.

Fort Worth, Texas
August 22, 1932.

U.S. War Department
Revolutionary War Section
Washington

Commissioner:

I have a record of William Walker, born in North Carolina 1758, was Lieutenant in the 2nd North Carolina, was taken prisoner at Charleston, 12 May, 1780; exchanged 14th June, 1781.

I wonder if you have any record of this William Walker in the Revolutionary War, or any record of such a Walker in the Pension Department.

Would be pleased to hear from you.

It may be that the record I have may not be right, as to date of birth.

Respectfully,
Robert Walton Walker (1852)
814 Fifth Avenue.

(Stamped: Pension office sub-division Received Sept. 6, 1932 War Section and Aug. 27 1932 Old War records}
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Rev. & 1812
Wars Section
AWF:MLB

September 11, 1930

Hon. W.L. Nelson
House of Representatives

My dear Mr. Nelson:

Reference is made to your letter of September 8, desiring information concerning the Revolutionary War soldiers, William Walker and Joseph Hoden.

This bureau is unable to furnish the history of a soldier of the Revolutionary War unless a claim for pension or bounty land has been made to the United States on account of his services.

A careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file on account of the services of Joseph Hoden.

You are furnished herewith the history of the only William Walker of Tennessee:

It appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 32573, that William Walker, the son of John Walker, was born in 1760, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

He served with the North Carolina troops, as follows:

He enlisted in Rutherford County, North Carolina and served three months in Captain Benjamin Hardin's company, Colonel McDowell's regiment, and was in the battle of Stono Ferry. About ten months later, he volunteered and was appointed lieutenant, served in Captain Rankin's company, Colonels Singleton's and Charles McDowell's regiments, and was  in the battles of Pacolett River, Thickety Fort, Cane Creek and King's Mountain, length of service not stated. After the battle of King's Mountain, he returned home and found that Major Ferguson of the British Army had taken his father's house for his headquarters and held his mother a prisoner. His mother's
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name is not stated. He rescued his mother and carried her over the Yellow Mountains to Watauga for refuge from the Tories. Shortly after this, he was elected captain of a company of militia and marched to Ninety Six and served two months.

He was appointed about March 1, 1782, adjutant, and served two months under Colonels Joseph McDowell and Singleton, was out against the Indians and Tories, burned some of their towns and took some of them prisoners.

He stated that he remained in Rutherford County until 1810, and then moved to Tennessee.

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 13, 1832, at which time he was living in Hardin Conty, Tennessee.

In 1838, he moved to Alabama, to be near some of his children who lived there. Their names are not specified.

One, George W. Walker, was a justice of peace in 1838, in DeKalb County, Alabama, no relationship shown.

It is stated that the soldier had two brothers, Felix and John, who also served in the War of the Revolution. Felix was at one time a member of Congress from North Carolina.

The soldier, William Walker, died July 3, 1841.

It does not appear in the claim that this was the William Walker who, you state, received a land grant in Hickman County, Tennessee.

For the information relative to land grants located in Tennessee, it is suggested that you correspond with the North Carolina Historical Society, at Raleigh.

Very truly yours

E.W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner

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January 11, 1940

BA-J/AWF
William Walker
S. 32573

Mrs. John C. Lesher
1107 Fourteenth Street
Modesto, California

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of William Walker, who was living in 1840, in DeKalb County, Alabama.

The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, S.32573, based upon service of Wiliam Walker in the War of the Revolution.

William Walker was born in the year 1760, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He as the son of John Walker, the name of his mother not given.

William Walker served with the North Carolina troops, as follows:

He enlisted in Rutherford County, North Carolina, served three months in Captain Benjamin Hardin's company, Colonel McDowell's regiment and was in the battle of Stono Ferry. He remained home about ten months and volunteered, was elected lieutenant, served about ten months in Captain Rankin's company, Colonels Singleton's and Charles McDowell's regiments and was in the battles of Pacolett River, Thickety Fort, Cane Creek, and King's Mountain. after the battle of King's Mountain, he returned home and found that Major Ferguson of the British Army had taken his father's house for his headquarters and held his
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mother a prisoner; he rescued his mother and carried her over the Yellow Mountains to Watauga for refuge from the Tories. Shortly after this William Walker was elected captain of a company of militia, marched to Ninety-Six and served two months. He as appointed about March 1, 1782, adjutant and served under Colonels Joseph McDowell and Singleton, was out against the Cherokee Indians, burned some of their towns and took some prisoners length of service two months.

William Walker remained in Rutherford County, North Carolina until sometime in 1810, then moved to Tennessee.

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 13, 1832, at which time he was living in Hardin County, Tennessee, in which county he had lived about eight years.

He moved in 1838 to DeKalb County, Alabama, to be near some of his children who lived in Alabama. Names of children not designated.

One George W. Walker was a justice of the Peace in 1838 in DeKalb County, Alabama, no relationship to family shown.

William Walker had two brothers, Felix and John Walker, who also, served in the War of the Revolution. Felix Walker was at one time a member of Congress from North Carolina.

William Walker died July 3, 1841.

The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernible family data.

In order to obtain the name and address of the person who received the lasty payment of this
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pension, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and furnish the following data:

William Walker
Certificate #25560
Issued February 21, 1834
Rate $126.66 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Alabama, Decatur Agency

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from the GAO

Hon. R. Chapman
Pension Office
AW

W. Randall

FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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Sent 28th February

Free

Hon. Reuben Chapman
Representative
Washington City
D. Columbia
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Lebanon DeKalb 28th February 1842

Dear Sir

Enclosed you will find the pension papers made out by the Administrator of William Walker deceased for the amount of pension due the said Wiliam up to the time of his death, I wish you to send them to the proper Department and have them audited and allowed and issued a Treasury Draft for the amount to be forwarded on to me made payable at Huntsville your attention to the above will greatly oblige your friend. 
William O. Winston

House of Rep.
Washington City
March 31st 1842

Sir:

the papers referred to in the above letter from Col. William O. Winston of DeKalb County Alabama relating to the application the audit of William Walker deceased a pensioner for arrears of pension you will find enclosed you will please correspond with Col. Winston the attorney for the audit on the subject and act according to his instructions.
Will great respect
your obedient servant
R. Chapman

Peter Hogan Esq
3rd Street
Washington City