Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5519, for Reuben Pennel, North Carolina
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And the Said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrogatories presen[ted] by the War department that the above named applican[t] Was a Revolutionary Soldier and that he Served as he States  
And the Court further certify that it appears to them that John Culpeper who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman Resident in the County of Montgomery No Ca and that R. Rogers who also Signed the Same is a resident in the County of Anson State of North Carolina and is a Credible person and that their Statements are entitled to credit &c -  
Wm Johnson Chairman 
of Anson Court 
 
I William Dismukes Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions do herby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the Said Court, in the matter of the Application of Reuben Pinnion for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 13th day of October 1832 
W Dismukes Clk
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State of North Carolina 
Wilkes County  - } 14th day of August 1832 at Fort Defiance Benjamin Pennel (who is often Called Benjamin Penion) appeared before me William Lenoir a Justice of the Peace of said County and Solemnly made Oath in due form of Law, that he by the best Account he can obtain at this time about 63 years old and that in the time of the Cherokee Indian war he lived with his Father in Surry County, N. Carolina, and that he this Deponant [sic] well Remembers that his Brother Reubin Pennel entered into the Service as a Soldier in the Indian war under Captain James Sheppard, and Lieutenant Edward Lovel, in the Regeament [sic] of Militia of Said County of Surry Commanded by Colonel Martin Armstrong and that when he Returned with the other Troops, he brought home an Indian Basket or two made of Cainspits and that he frequently heard his said Brother Reubin talk of various transactions that happened while he was in the Indian Towns, - And also that he Remembers that his Brother Reubin was in the Militia Service Several other times, and particularly in the expedition to Kings Mountain and that he was then under the Command of the aforesaid James Sheppard. 
Sworn to and Subscribed Before me Wm Lenoir J.P. } 
Benjamin his \ mark Pennel 
 
I William Lenoir do hereby Certify that I was an Officer in the Regeament [sic] of Militia of Surry County, and that Colo Martin Armstrong Commanded said Regeament [sic] in the expedition against the Cherokee Indians in the Summer and fall of the year 1776 under General Griffith Rutherford. 
I also Certify that the above mentioned Captain James Sheppard was in the Battle at Kings Mountain, which I well Remember by the Singular Circumstance of his [illegible word crossed out] informing me in the [insert caret] time of the Battle that he could [insert caret] not get his Gun off, and Asking me what he should do. but at present I remember but few of the names of the Soldiers that were in either of said expid[ition] [sic] 
14th August 1832 
Wm. Lenoir
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State of North Carolina 
Union County } Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions January Term 1854. 
On this the Third day of January A.D. 1854 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for Union County in the State aforesaid Reuben Wilson Pinion alias Pinyan a resident of Union County in the State aforesaid aged Fifty Three years on the 1st day of February last and who being duly Sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the various acts of congress passed July 7th 1838, March 3d 1843, June 17th 1844, February 2nd 1848 & July 29th 1848, & any others under the present claim applicable. 
That he was born on the first day of February 1800 in Anson County, which part of Anson County was cut off & forms now part of Union County N.C. by an act of Legislature of N.C. at the Sessions of 1842 & 1843. 
That he is the only living child of Reuben Pinion alias Pinyan & Lydia his wife late of Stanley County N.C. which County of Stanley was cut off & erected into Stanley County from Montgomery County N.C. by the Legislature of N.C. about 1840. That his father & mother aforesaid are both dead. That his father the said Reuben Pinion alias Pinyan was a private Soldier in the South Carolina Militia in the war of the Revolution as he has heard & believes which will more fully appear by reference to the records of the Pension office in Washington city in the District of Columbia. That upon an application made through Col. James Gaines of Montgomery [& Col inserted above Montgomery] Co. N.C. [insert caret] Branch [unsure – maybe Branan] of Wadesboro N.C. his father the Said Reuben Pinon [above is inserted a line of text crossed out that reads by evi[illegible] pro[illegible]] alias Pinyan was placed upon the pension roll & continued as pensioner of the United States for several years anterior to his death, at the rates of Sixty three dollars 33/100 per annum. 
He further declares that his mother Lydia was married to his father the Said Reuben, by one Joshua Williams Esquire, an acting Justice of the Peace in Anson County North Carolina, Sometime in the fall of Seventeen hundred & ninety three, (1793,) as he has been informed & believes & that his mothers maiden name before marriage was Lydia Bond
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first duly sworn State that they were well acquainted with Reuben Pinion & Lydia his wife – That the above declarant Reuben Wilson Pinion they also well know to be the son of the said Reuben & Lydia – The the [sic] Said Reuben W. is Fifty Three years of age. That his father Reuben Pinion alias Pinyan was generally reputed to be a revolutionary Soldier in the South Carolina Militia & was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Sixty thee [three] 33/100 dollars per annum until his death. That the said Reuben Senr was married to one Lydia Bond in Anson County N.C. about 1793 as they have heard & believe. That they were well acquainted with the family for 40, or 50, years & that they are Fifty years of age [insert caret] or thereabouts. That old Reuben died in the Spring of 1843 – that his widow Lydia aforesaid – never afterwards married but died his widow in Decr 1849. That they left no living child except the abovenamed Reuben Wilson Pinion alias Pinyan. That there is no public or private record of the marriage that they know of. But that the sd Reuben & Lydia lived together & were generally reputed & believed to be man & wife & that they have [insert caret] heard persons say they were present at their marriage - & that one Joshua Williams Esqr a magistrate of Anson County performed the ceremony of marriage between them as aforesaid That the Said Reuben Pinion Senr died in Stanly County N.C. Spring of 1843 about 3d of March & the said Lydia his widow & the mother of the said Reuben W. Pinion alias Pinyan, died in Cabarrus County N.C. on the 18th day of Decr 1849 both of them died intestate. That Jacob W. Little of Stanly County was the admr. of Reuben Pinion alias Pinyan alias Pennel decd & that he says he does not know what has become of the pension certificate of R. P. Senr.  
Sworn to & Subscribed in open Court at January Term 1854. 
R Rogers  
B. A. Austin 
M Austin 
D A Covington Chairman of Union County Court
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State of North Carolina 
Anson County } 
I Norfleet D Boggan clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid do hereby Certify that I have made diligent Search for the marriage License Bond of Reuben Pinian & Lydia Bond, and there is no Such bond to be found in my office  
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Affixed my Seal of of [sic] Office and Subscribed my name at Wadesborough this 7th day of September AD 1854. 
Norfleet D Boggan clerk
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Pen Off. Sep 26 1854 
[lightly written] 21 Jany 43 
Sir 
Reuben Pennel or Peniose, NC. Roll, Act 1832, $63 33 per An. Please state to what time paid. 
Very Respectfully 
S. Cole 
for A[illegible] 
 
JR Atchison Esq 
Third Auditor 
 
Triplett
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No 15,125. 
Lydia Pinion [illegible] 
No 1376 alias Pinyon 
Act July 29/48 
N.C. 
S M. Knight (Evans) [unsure] March 15/54 
Same “ July 20/50 
(Rejected under 1838) 
July 7, 1838.
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[Printed form with handwritten details] 
 
WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 5519 
Lydia Pennel alias Peniose 
Widow 
Reuben alias Pennell / Peniose } 
Pvt. Rev: War 
Act: July 29, 1848 
Index: - Vol. M, Page 120 
[Arrangement of 1870.]