Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7,370, for James Renolds, North Carolina
Page 5

the service; that he was in the battle of
"Stono Ferry", that he was also at the battle of
the "Seige [Siege] of Charleston", where he was taken prisoner, together with many others, one of whom, Captain Kedar Ballard of Gates
County, North Carolina, is now living,
and sent on board of a prison ship then
lying in the harbor of Charleston; that
he was sent round in a Flag ship from
Charleston, South Carolina, to old Jamestown
in Virginia, when he was exchanged and
permitted to go home; that he was dis-
charged at Jamestown, he thinks, in the year
1782 or 1783.-- That he marched through
the intermediate country between Perquimons
[Perquimans] County in North Carolina and Charleston in South Carolina, and that when he entered the service he enlisted for three years, but that it was nearly four years from the time of his enlistment to the period at which he arrived at Jamestown in the Flag Ship. -

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency in any State.
Sworn to, and Subscribed, the day and year
aforesaid.
James his X mark Renolds
[illegible initials encircled in a cloud shape]
Page 6

We,  Rich'c  D. Webb & Thos. G. Benton
residing in the County of Nansemond & State of Virginia, hereby certify, that we know James Renolds, who has, in our presence, subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration; that we believe him to be of the age he represents, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. - We also certify, that by reason
of old age and bodily infirmity, the said
James Renolds is unable to travel to the
court house of this County to make his
declaration, which is the reason he has done it before a single Magistrate. -
Rich'c. D. Webb.
Thos. G. Benton

State of Virginia, }
County of Nansemond, }
Personally appeared before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid, James Renolds, subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and made oath to the truth and correctness of the same - And I hereby declare it as my opinion, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. - And I further certify
that Rich'd. D Webb Thos. G Benton who have signed the preceding certificate, are residents of Nansemond County and are highly credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit. - Given under my hand and Seal this 14th day of November 1833.
Jno B Benton. J.P.  Seal [encircled in a cloud shape]
Page 18

Rev Sec H
Parsons, Kansas, October 1, 1917

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Will you kindly consult your records of the War of the Revolution and give me the war records of the following persons insofar as you have them?
James Reynolds. (Believed to have been in Montfort's North Carolina Company.)

Nathaniel Green.

Peter Rader.

All three of these are supposed to have resided in North Carolina at the beginning of the war.

Thanking you for your kindness, I remain,

Very sincerely,
Mrs Belle Reynolds Knight
1723 Belmont Ave.
Parson,
Kansas.

night
Kansas
Page 21

23.197
Page 24

Summerville, Gates County, N.C. }
August 20th. }

Free

Revolutionary Claims

To the Honourable [Honorable] Richard Rush
Secretary of the Treasury of the U. States
Washington City
Page 25

James Runnels or Reynolds - Pvt.
N. Car line
# 4.078 [illegible] [line crossed out]
[illegible]
North Carolina
Evidence insufficient Act 1828
No Record. Rej on old Books -
  "        "      Wid. Invalid - as above
See H 15.956 Adt Wids [line crossed out]
Dont fit Draws N H Line
No record [illegible] Feby 14/81
Page 32

Know all men by these presents that I James Runnels in the County of Gates in the State of North Carolina, do hereby constitute and appoint Benjamin Sumner Esqr. my true and lawful attorney with a power of substitution, for me, and in my name, to receive from the United States the the (sic) amount of pay now due to me, under the act entitled ""An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution, approved
15 May, 1828, as a Soldier in the 6th. regiment of the North Carolina line of the Army of the revolution.
Witness my hand and seal the 25th day of July in the year 1828. -
Sealed and delivered }
in the presence of }
John J. T. Gary
James his X mark Runnels   Seal [encircled in a cloud shape]

Before me Demsey Knight a Justice of the Peace in the County of Gates in the State of North Carolina, personally appeared this 25th day of July 1828. James Runnels whose name is subscribed to the foregoing power of
attorney, and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed, and also declared
that the same was not given by reason of any transfer, or of any attachment, levy, or seizure, by any legal process whatever, of the pay therein authorized to be received, but that the said pay is intended to enure wholly to his personal benefit. Witness my hand this 25th day of July in the year 1828. -
Demsey Knight J.P

I, Jethro Sumner Clerk of the Court of the County of Gates in the State of North Carolina, do hereby certify that Demsey Knight Esqr. before whom the foregoing power of attorney was acknowledged is a Justice of the
Peace.

[signature cut off from copy]
Page 36

Before me Demsey Knight a Justice of the Peace duly empowered to administer oaths, in the county of Gates, State of North Carolina, personally appeared this day General Kedar
Ballard of the said County, who made oath that he was a captain in the North Carolina line in the army of the Revolution, that he was taken prisoner at the capitulation of Charleston, was quartered at Hadul's point for about eighteen months and then suffered to return home
upon his parol [parole]; that he was not exchanged during the continuance of the war, nor received any discharge at its conclusion: that he well knew James Runnels who made the above declaration, and that that [crossed out] the said James Runnels was to his certain knowlege [knowledge] a private (in Captain Joseph Munford's company) in the North Carolina line of the army of the Revolution, that he was taken prisoner at Charleston, quartered at Haduls's point, and returned to North Carolina along with him the said Kedar Ballard on his parol [parole], and that he does not believe that the said James Runnels was ever
exchanged during the continuance of the war.
Witness my hand this 20th day of Aug. in the year 1828.
Demsey Knight J.P

I Jethro Sumner Clerk of the County Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of Gates in the State of North Carolina,
do hereby certify that Demsey Knight Esqr. before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn, was at the time a Justice of the peace for said county, and duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this 20th day of Augt. in the year 1828.
J. Sumner. Clk.