Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 27,457, for George Parks, North Carolina
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE
N.C.

Parks or Parkes, George
Catharine 

NUMBER
W 27.457
B.L.Wt. 53670-160-5

CONTENTS
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30.633
Indiana

George Parks (33)
of Monroe Co. in the State of Indiana
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Lenore of the regt commanded
by Col: Isaacks in the N. Carolina
line for 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana
the rate of 40 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of May
1836, and sent to Hon.
G. L. Kinnard, H. R.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1836 $200.-
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. " 20.-
[total] $220.-

(Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.)
Recorded by Wm Allison Clerk,
Book E2 Vol. 7 Page 133,

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Lt to Hon [illegible] Dec 2d. 1843.
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258.755 act Mar. 3. '17
act. [illegible] '16
(38)
Catharine Parks, wid.
George Parks, pri
53670 of Jany 14/57
Ad:16 [illegible] Jany: 12/57
Bty.ldw

Revy. war.
La Feby 48 - 4868
[illegible] Act 1848.
[illegible]

John H. McCutchen
Present.

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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the acts of
Congress of the 7th July 1838 and of March the 3d 1843
State of Indiana 
Monroe County ss. (19)

On this 14th day of November 1843
personally appeared before the Probate Court of the County
and State aforesaid Catharine Parks a resident of the said
County of Monroe aged sixty six years past who being first
duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the fol-
lowing declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the
provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838.
and March 3rd 1843 granting pensions to widows of
persons who served during the revolutionary war.
That she is the widow of George Parks who was a private
in the Revolutionary war and whose services as a soldier
in the Revolution can be proven by the testimony filed
in the War office of the United States upon which he
the said George Parks was placed as pensioner of
the United States on the pension list roll of the Indiana
Agency which is respectfully given referance[sic] t. She also
declares that she was married in Surry County North Carolina
on the Sixth day of July 179_ to the said George Parks by
Obediah Martin and that her husband the aforesaid
George Parks died in Monroe County State of Indiana on
the Seventh day of December 1837. That she was not
married to him prior to his leaving the Service but the
Marriage took place at the time above stated. She fur-
ther declares that since the death of George Parks her hus-
band aforesaid she has remained and is still a widow
She declares that she is the identical Catharine Parks widow
of said George Parks who was placed on the pension list roll
of the Indiana agency at the rate of Forty dollars per
annum granted [illegible] May 13th 1836. Endorsed, Recorded in the
Pension office in Book E.2. Vol. 7 Page 135. by Wm Allison Clerk
and the pension certificate signed by Lew Cass Secretary of War
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which record is respectfully refered[sic] to the aforesaid certificate
being at this time in the declarants possession and will be for-
warded in due time for payment of arrears with the declar-
ants vouchers and for referance[sic] in behalf of this claim.
That the following are the names of the children of the said
George Parks deceased Elizabeth, James, Samuel, Polly, Benjamin
Pleasant, Nancy, Milly, Hannah, Meridith, Alfred,
Curtis, Sarah, Rebecca, Carlton, and two others which
died in their infancy. That the first named eight were of his
first marriage: that they were all over the age of sixteen at the
death of their Father. She declares that she has no record or
documentary evidence to support her claim nor does she
know where to obtain any: That she was Catharine Reed
before she was intermarried with the said George Parks at the
15) time before stated and in the said County of Surry* North 
Carolina

Catharine Parks herXmark

Subscribed and sworn to this fourteenth day of
November 1843 before me Aquillia Rogers (Seal)
Judge of the Probate Court of Monroe County Indiana.
The word "Surry" in the 20 line on page 1st & in the 15
line on page 2 being illegibly written, I erased the same
and inserted the same word as therein appears in the
two several lines.
D. Browning
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State of Indiana 
Monroe County S.S.
On this 14th day of November 1843 person-
ally appeared in open Court being a court of Record
for the County and State aforesaid James Parks resident
in said County and State aged sixty two years past
who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath
make the following declaration. He declares that at the age
of fourteen years past when living with his father George
Parks in the County of Wilkes North Carolina he well recollects,
of his father (the said George Parks deceased) leaving home to
be joined in wedlock with the foregoing (declarant) Cath-
arine Parks. That his father George Parks returned home
from Surry County in North Carolina where as he believes
and is satisfied of beyond any doubts that the said George Parks
his father was married to the said Catharine Parks and
returned the second day after he left home bringing
her as his wife.
and that they lived together as companions legally mar-
ried until the death of my father, the said George Parks and
that the said George Parks deceased and Catharine Parks his
widow before named was married in Surry County
North Carolina on the Sixth day of July 179_
as he ver-
ily believes and to his knowledge his father died in Monroe
County State of Indiana the 7th day of December
in the year 1837. That he was a soldier in the Rev-
olutionary war as I always understood from him
That he was the identical George Parks named in a pension
certificate described in the foregoing declaration by
Catharine Parks. That she the declarer is the identical
Catharine Parks widow of George Parks named in the de-
scribed pension certificate and that she is still a wid-
ow and that the number and list of names of the child-
dren of George Parks decd in the foregoing declaration
is correct and true - He further declares that to the
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best of his knowledge the foregoing declaration of Cath-
arine Parks is true and that she is of good character and
credibility
James Parks (LS)
Subscribed and sworn to this fourteenth day
November 1843 before me in open court.

Aquilla Rogers (seal)
Judge of the Probate Court of Monroe County Indiana.

State of Indiana
Monroe County 
On this 18th day of November 1843
personally appeared before the Probate Court now sitting in
Bloomington in the County and State aforesaid a court of record
by virtue of the laws of the State aforesaid William Puett of
said County & State aged forty six years past and after being
duly sworn doth make the following declaration - That he knew
George Parks and Catharine Parks named in the declaration of
Catharine Parks, twenty one years before the death of said Geo.
Parks and know him George Parks deceased and Catharine
Parks his widow to be the identical persons as before named
in said declaration - That he intermarried with Hannah Parks
daughter of Said declarant and George Parks decd twenty four
years ago last fall to the best of his recollection and inherited
apart of the estate of Sd George Parker deceased by virtue of my mar-
riage. That having heard the declaration of said Catharine
Parks read upon which she claims a pension I believe
it to be true to the best of my knowledge and from my knowledge
of her have no doubt of her varacity[sic] and say she is a creditable
person and that I do not of my own knowledge know at what [illegible]
George Parks decd and Catharine were married nor know of no family record
of said Marriage
William Puett (seal)
Sworn to and subscribed in open court before me the day
and year before written being a court of record
Aquilla Rogers (Seal)
Judge of the probate Court of Monroe County  State of Indiana
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State of Indiana
Monroe County 
On this the tenth day of
April in the year our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and thirty three personally appeared before me
Amory Kinny President Judge of the Seventh Judicial
Circuit of our said State of Indiana and Abram
Buskirk and Stephen P. Scall Associate Judges
of said Circuit Court in and for our said County
of Monroe being a Court of Record now
sitting George Parks a resident of said County
of Monroe in our said State aged seventy three
years on the fifth day of August one thousand
eight hundred and thirty two 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 was born in Amherst County
in the State of Virginia August the fifth in
the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and fifty
Nine
when a boy his Father removed with
him to Wilkes County in the State of North Carolina and settled on the Yadkin River
where he the said George Parks continued to
reside untill the Revolutionary War. That
he entered the service of the United States under 
the following named officers and served as here-
in stated to wit
That in his fifteenth year or perhaps
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he might have been a few months older being the
Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and seventy five or thereabout he may be a year
in consequence of his years and sickness
wrong his memory having greatly failed in consequence of his years and sickness the day and
month he can not dare to state, it was in the early
part of the summer of said year, he very well
recollects that the beef cattle had got in good
Order in the woods he entered the service of the
United States as a substitute for a period of
three months at and living in the County of Wilkes in the
State of North Carolina, to fill the place
of, and as the substitute of Cornelius Sale
(Senior) in the company commanded by Captain
William Lenore (the Lieutenants name was William
Gray of said Company) in the Regiment com-
manded by Colonel ______ Isaacs (his first
name forgotten) in the Militia of the State of
North Carolina. That upon his said
entering into service he obtained the appointment
of First Sergeant of said Company He was
rendezvoused at and marched from said
County of Wilkes & from the Court House
thereof to the site of, and was employed in
the erection, and after completing it in the
defense of Fort Defiance high upon
the Yadkin River. Said Fort had been
commenced & breast works created on one
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side and shelters for encamping by
troops previously there. In erecting and
guarding said Fort and in short excursions
through the neighboring country he served
out the full heard as his said three months
term of service which he performed faithfully
and to the acceptance of his officers. He
received no discharge in writing and believes
none of the troops who served with him [illegible]
any. He was dismissed at said Fort De-
fiance in the fall season of the same said
Year in which he entered the service Said
Company was a Fort Company. After reflecting
he might have been sixteen years old when entering
the service. 2 Yours

In the year seventeen hundred and seventy six
(is his list impression) in the spring season, he
was drafted in a Company of Footmen com-
manded by Captain Samuel Johnston in the Re-
giment commanded by Colonel Benjamin Cleaveland
in the Militia of the State of North Carolina
He was drafted and entered the service of the
United States at and then living in the County of Wilkes in said
State of North Carolina (for another & Second) tour
or period of three months. He was rendezvoused
at and marched from said place in said Comp-
any under said officer in an Expedition against the
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Cherokee Indians. He was marched to the Watauga
River (in what is now Tennessee)and was
employed part of his term in building Fort Carter
near the bank of said River on the south side.
He was employed in guarding said Fort princi-
pally and in almost daily short scouts in
the neighboring country. He served out the
full period of said term of service of three
months to the acceptance of his officers and
faithfully, and was dismissed at said Fort
at the said and of his term in the early part of
the summer of said year. He received no
discharge in writing, nor did any who served
with him, to his knowledge.
3d Tour

In the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine
he thinks it was (not confident) the season of
the year or month & day he can not recollect
certainly, he thinks in the fall season he
volunteered in the minute service in the company command-
ed by Captain William Senor (being mounted
Riflemen) in the Regiment commanded by
Colonel Benjamin Cleaveland in the militia
of the State of North Carolina for the period of
eighteen months and entered the service of the United States
and served on various expeditions in various
directions all of which he cannot now enumerate
with accuracy. Much of said service
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consisted during said term in maneuvering
and guarding
against small bands of Tories
his first rendezvous as well as he recollects was
at Wilkes Court House in North Carolina he then living in said County of Wilkes where
under said officers he was mustered and entered said service & from
said place marched to New River against
out lying tories, the Mountains and caves
about New River being "full of them" They
caught many of them & took them to Camp
prisoners. After four or five weeks they were
Marched back to Wilkes County N Carolina.
Not long after about thirty tories being in their
passage from the Hollows of the Yadkin River
(stopping at Parks Ford) through Wilkes and
Rutherford Counties to South Carolina plundering
stealing & doing other mischief in their way
this applicant with a portion of said Compa-
pany guarding said crossing, and the said Tories
attempting to cross were surprised and defeated
by this declarent [sic] and his comrades, but upon
being hailed said Tories retreated back across
the river and after being pursued by this appli-
cant and his party some distance it was ascertained
had made good their retreat by jumping their horses
down a steep bank, some of them though wounded.
No prisoners were made. After this a Young Whig
hunting on a cloudy day discovering a Tory Camp
& being informed by him of it this applicant and his
party of Minute men succeeded in surprising them [illegible]
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capturing seven of them. One party of minute men
hung two of them William Coel and Lem Jones and
whipping the rest nearly to death let them go.
This applicant and his party at another time took
a third Tory and hung him in "Hughs Bottom"
Not long after & all, during said eighteen
months service he and others of said Company of Min-
ute men captured old Solomon Sparks a celebrated
Tory. They employed a whig from a distant neighborhood
and a stranger to said Old Tory to decoy him out of his
house without his gun under the pretense of being a
traveller[sic] & enquiring the Road. They succeeded
admirably. He fought bravely without [illegible] and ad-
mirably injured this applicant by kicking him. He
was sent down the Yadkin in a canoe.
After tied
hand and foot on his back he repeatedly hollered "huira
for King George"
This applicant during said service
was at the taking of Peter Holt, a Tory.
Whilst stationed at Wilkes Court House
he was in a Sham Battle which was near terminating
Seriously some of the companies losing by flight, half or
hear it of their numbers leaving their hats & guns
returning to their homes. This applicant not one of those who fled.
During the time of said 18 months
Minute service this applicant under said Officers
was marched on the Expedition to King Mountain
to meet Colonel Ferguson and arrived near enough
to hear the firing, but this applicant (& the whole
company being then on foot did not arrive on the Moun-
tain in time to engage in the Battle. After
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said Battle this applicant was sent home in charge
of his Nephew Henry Park who was wounded in
the battle. He received the order of the officers
for such purpose and was instructed by them
verbally to be and to consider himself as dis-
charged upon taking care of said wounded
nephew home which he did at Wilkes County
North Carolina. He served his said eighteen
months faithfully and to the acceptance of his
Officers
lacking a few days say at most six
Besides the foregoing to King Moun-
tain he was marched in said 18 months under
said officers several tours against the Tories in some
of which he traversed the county up, about the
mountains & down the country south.
He went one tour under said officers
in said service to Ramsours Mills, after the battle
there. At another time to Salem & down
into the Deep River County.
The last expedition during said
eighteen months he marched under said Officers
was designed to reinforce General Greene at
Guilford Court House North Carolina in which
about the time of starting or on the March he was
placed under the command of Captain Richard Allen
in the Regiment commanded by Colonel [illegible]
On the day he joined General Rutherfords army
said Battle of Guilford was over before then this
Applicant & his troops arrived
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In all the said services under said officers he
served faithfully in the said War of the Revolution
He has never received one cent of pay for any
of said services. He has no documentary evidence
of any part of his said services nor does he know
of any person or persons whose testimony of any
part of his services he can or could procure
He hereby relinquishes every claim 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.
He has the record of his age in
his possession now
He never received and discharge
in writing for any of said services.
He lived after the war five or six years in Wilkes
County North Carolina then he removed to Burke
County in said State resided there about eighteen
years, and then he removed to Washington County
Indiana, when after resideding[sic] one season, he removed
to Monroe County in the State of Indiana where
he now resides & has resided for about sixteen
Years.
He is known to the Reverend Isaac
Read of Bloomfield to Jacob B Lowe, Joseph Reaves Elijah
Morgan John Sedwick John W Lee, Benjamen Parks & Henry Kirkham
who can testify as to his [illegible] for veracity and their belief of his
services as a soldier of the revolution.
George Parks hisXmark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year
aforesaid in open Court
A. Kinney
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256.755
Catharine Parks
widow of
George Parks.
Revolutionary
Pensioner [illegible]
29. July 48
Texas

Bounty Land
Act 3rd March 55
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State of Texas
County of Dallas SS.
On this 30th day of August A.D One thousand Eight hundred
and fifty six personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace
within and for the County and State aforesaid Catherine Parks
aged about 81 years or resident of Dallas County in the State of
Texas, who being duly sworn according to Law, declares that she
is the Widow of George Parks deceased who was a private in
the Company commanded by Captain _____ in the
regiment of forgotten Command
by Col. also forggotten[sic] in the revolutionary War, that her said
husband enlisted at forgotten, On or about the __ day of
AD. time not recolected[sic] for the term of also forgotten and continued in
actual service in said over for the term of six months and
was honorably discharged at not reccollected on or about
the__ day of ___ A.D. ___. She further states that she was
married to the said George Park in Surry County North Carolina
on the 7th day of July AD 1796, by an Obediah Martin
J.P. and that her name before her said Marriage was Catherine
Reed. That her said husband died at Monroe County
Indiana on the 7th day of December AD 1857, and
that she is now a widow. She makes this declaration for the
purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be
entitled under the act approved March 3rd 1855; and hereby
appoints John H McCutchen attorney at law, of Washington
City D.C. to prosecute the claim and receive the Warrant when
found. She also declares that she has not received a warrant
for Bounty Land under this or any other act of Congress nor
made any other application therefor. She also declares that
there is no public or private record of his said Marriage
within her knowledge and as further evidence of the justness
of her claim, she refers to her name enrolled upon the
Pension the Pension Roll in the Pension Office of the US
by which she is entitled to 40$ per Annum commencing 4th
March 1848, & continuing for life, [illegible] &c and also to her
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her said husbands discharge certificate now on file in the pension
office.

Catherine Parks herXmark

We Curtis Parks and Polly M Rawlins
residents of the County of Dallas in the State of Texas, upon
our oaths declare that the forgoing declaration was signed and
acknowledged by Catharine Parks, in our presence; and that
we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant
that she is the identical person she represents herself to be,
and we are disinterested witnesses, and that we knew the
said Catherine Parks & George Parks to live together, in his life-
time, ["to live together" crossed out] as man and wife & were so reputed in
the Community in which they lived, & that the said
George Parks died at the time & place as stated in the
foregoing declaration & that said Catherine Parks has never
married since the death of her said husband but is now his
Widow.
Curtis Parks
Polly M Rawlins herXmark

The forgoing declaration and affidavit were Sworn to and subscribed
before me on the day and year above written; and I certify
that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the
Claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I
have no interest in this claim
John M Rawlins J.P.

State of Texas 
County of Dallas SS
I, W. K. Martin, Clerk of the County Court in and for the
County and State aforesaid duly Commissioned and sworn,
do hereby certify that John M Rawlins whose genuine signature
appears above, is, and was at the time of signing the same
a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State
aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn; that all his
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Official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit;
and that the aforesaid County Court is a Court of Record
having general jurisdiction. I also certify that I have no
interest in the result of the case, and am not concerned
in its prosecution.
Given under my hand and seal of Office
at Dallas this 4th day of September
A D 1856
W.K. Martin Clk Co Ct Dallas Co.
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(40)
February 9, 1940.

Mrs. L. B. Taylor
Pace, Mississippi.

Dear Madam:

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file
in pension claim, W.27457, based upon service of George
Parks in the Revolutionary War.
George Parks or Parkes (the family signed both ways) was
born August 5, 1759, in Amherst County, Virginia. Names of his
parents are not shown. When a boy he moved with his father to
Rowen County, (later Wilkes County), North Carolina in the Yadkin River.
While a resident of Wilkes County, North Carolina, George
Parks enlisted in the summer of 1779, served three months as
first sergeant in Captain William Lenoir's company, Colonel
Isaacs' North Carolina regiment, and assisted in building Fort
Defiance on the Yadkin River. This service was rendered as a
substitute for his brother-in-law, Cornelius Sale. He
enlisted in the spring of 1777, served three months as private in
Captain Samuel Johnston's company, Colonel Benjamin Cleveland's
North Carolina regiment, enlisted in the fall of 1779, and served
eighteen months as private in Captain William Lenoir's company,
Colonel Benjamin Cleveland's North Carolina regiment, and Captain
Richard Allen's company, Colonel Locke's North Carolina regiment
and was in several skirmishes with the Tories.
After the Revolution he lived four or six years in Wilkes County,
North Carolina, then moved to Burke County, North Carolina, lived
there about eighteen years, then to Washington County, Indiana, lived
there "one season" then moved to Monroe County, Indiana.
The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed April
10, 1833, while a resident of Monroe County, Indiana. He died December
7, 1837 in said Monroe County.
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George Parks married July 6, 1795 or 1796, in Surry County,
North Carolina, Catharine Reed. The date and place of her birth
and names of her parents are not shown. The soldier was previously
married, the name of his first wife and date and place of marriage
are not shown.
The soldier's widow, Catherine Parks, was allowed pension on
her application executed November 14, 1843, at which time she was
aged sixty-six years and a resident of Monroe County, Indiana.
August 30, 1856, Catharine Parks, then a resident of Dallas
County, Texas, made application for the bounty land which was due
on account of the service of her husband, George Parks, in the
Revolutionary War. On this application she was granted bounty
land warrant No. [illegible], for one hundred sixty acres under the act
of March 3, 1855.
The names of children of George and Catherine are shown as
follow: Hannah who married William Puett, born about 1797, and
who in 1845 was residing in Monroe County, Indiana, Meredith,
Alfred, Curtis, Sarah, Rebecca and Carlton.
The names of his children by his first marriage are shown as follows:
Elizabeth, James born about 1781, who was living in Monroe County,
Indiana, in 1833, and at one time was State Legislator, Samuel,
Polly, Benjamin, Pleasant who was Colonel of Militia prior to 1843,
and had also represented his county in Indiana in the State Legislature,
Nancy, and Milly.
Soldier's father had eight sons and nine daughters, the only name
shown other than George was that of Samuel who was born November 28,
1757, in Amherst County, Virginia, and in 1836 was residing in Burke
County, North Carolina. He served a part of the time during the Revolution
with George. George and Samuel were the only sons of their father
who were not married prior to the Revolution. In 1836, Samuel had a
son, William A. Parks living in Monroe County, Indiana, near George.
George Parks' nephew, Henry Parks, was wounded in the battle of
Kings Mountain.
In 1833, one Benjamin Parks was a clergyman in Monroe County,
Indiana. In 1843, one Curtis Parks witnessed the signature
of Catherine Parks, and in 1849 a Curtis Parks was living in

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Both claims in file
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Red Oak, [illegible] County, Texas. In 1849 one
Milly T. Wise witnessed the widow's signature, by mark in
Dallas County, Texas, and in 1845, one George N. Puett witnessed
her signature, by mark, in Monroe County, Indiana.
No further family data are shown.
For information in regard to the location of the land cited
above you should address the Commissioner of the General Land
Office, Interior Department, this city, and furnish the warrant
number, the acreage and the act under which the warrant was issued.
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 Catharine Parks, widow of George Parks, you should address the
Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division,
this city, and cite the following data:
Catharine Parks, widow of George Parks
Certificate No.4868
Issued June 9, 1849
Rate $40.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1845, continued from 1845,
Act of February 2, 1845
Louisiana Agency, transferred from Indiana.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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We Isaac Reed a Clergyman residing in the
neighborhood of George Parks who is now an applicant 
for a pension and Jacob B Lowe, Joseph
Reaves, Elijah Morgan, John Sedwick Henry Kirkham
John W Lee and Benjamin Parkes, Clergyman.
residing in the same hereby certify that we are well
acquainted with the said George Parks who has subscribed 
and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be seventy three years of age,
that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood
where he resides to have been a soldier of the
Revolution, and we concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed the
day and year aforesaid
Isaac Reed
Minister P.C.
JB Lowe
Joseph Reeves
Elijah Morgan
John Sedwick
John W. Lee
Benj Parks
Henry Kirkham

Sworn and subscribed in
open Court the day
and year first aforesaid
A Kinney

And the said Court after an investigation of the matter and after putting
the interrogators prescribed by the War Department declare their
opinion that the said Applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served
as he states. It further appears to the court that said Isaac Reed is a Clergyman
of the neighborhood and that said Lowe, Reeves, Morgan, Sedwick, Lee
Parks and Kirkham are respectable and that their statements
are entitled to credit
A. Kinney
J.P. seall[sic] also judge
Abram Bushert
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State of Indiana to Clerk
Monroe County
I Jacob B Lowe Clerk
of the Circuit Court
of Monroe County in the State of Indiana
aforesaid do certify that the foregoing 
contains the original proceedings of the said
Court in the matter of the application
of George Parks for a Pension. Said
Court being a Court of Record.
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
Seal of Office this twelfth
day of April in the year of
our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and
thirty three. Said proceedings
make ten pages with this
JB Lowe Clerk of the
Court of Monroe
County Indiana
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(6)
State of Indiana
Monroe County
Personally appeared before me the
 undersigned a Justice of the Peace
in and for said County George Parks who being
duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith
that he is the identical person who made the foregoing
Declaration dated the 10th day of April 1833 that
from his old age sickness and consequent loss of memory
upon all the reflection he has had he is not able
to state the dates and events of the Revolution nor the
dates and circumstances of his service with satisfaction
and accuracy. At the time of making his
said Declaration he was in a public company at the Court House & as to time
and place not so favourable situated for recalling past & revolutionary
recollections as at home not knowing indeed before hand
that so much circumstantial minuteness was required.
After returning home and reflection he is able to recollect
many things which he did not then know were material or remember
at the time. [illegible] At the time of making his declaration
he was not certain as to the year of my first tour as
will be seen by a reference to my language. I stated it to
"have been in the year 1775 or then about that I might
be a year wrong"
I did not then recall I now
recollect directly in reference to said tour what year it was in.
I made the calculation from other dates such as my birth
marriage &c I was then apprehensive from the hurried and
imperfect calculation I made that I might be a year too
far back Although I reckoned in the year 1775. As to
the season of the year I was then and am still certain from
recollecting the circumstance of the beef cattle being in good order
in the woods. It may however have been a year, or even
two later than I then stated it to be, my impression. I
am inclined now to believe that it was in the year 1776
but can not say that it is a matter of memory, it is rather
of calculation from dates which he has; he alludes to record of
his own, and not of the history of the war by any person. I
might perhaps by reference to history have made a more
actual calculation but am advised and thinks himself that
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he ought to make his statement from his own memory entirely, or of
the help of dates which he has had in his own possession and hand writing
or the hand writing of others which he is familiar with, the
corrections of which when made he can recollect himself, so that
he shall state nothing which is not approved by his own memory
from which rule does not depart. It will be seen
that at the conclusion of his statement of his first tour in
said Declaration stated "that he says" he might have been sixteen 
years old when entered the service from which he ought to
have added then and does now that it would have
made the date of service in said first tour to Fort
Defiance in the year 1776 instead of 1775 and he further
says that it might have been a year later still, he
never could feel postive[sic]; but his best impression and
belief is that it could not have been later than said year
1776. I have a feint[sic] recollection of the Battle of
Holstein and think it was either a very short time after, or about
the time of my entering the service in my said first tour, and
he states positively that he served at least as long a
time as claimed for in his said first tour.
As to the Second tour described in his declaration his
best impression of memory is that this tour of service
as the next season after that in which he served his
said first tour, and therefore it must have been a year
later then stated in his declaration. It will be seen that
in his declaration he and the words "his best impression"
and he now states that he feels some uncertainly as
to the year & still day. If his first tour is stated
in his declaration a year too early as he now thinks
his second tour as dated in his declaration is one year
too early also, for the second was in his calculation based on
the first He is therefore now strongly impressed with the
belief that said second tour was in the year 1777 instead
of 1776 As to the season of the year and the circumstances 
he still makes the same statement except one
correction in regard to erecting Fort Carter. He omitted
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(8)
to state in his declaration that there had previously
been a fort at the same place or near it. What the
fort previously there was called he does not know. But
it was so impaired that a new fort was erected. He
recollects that they had in part to get new timbers.
The old gates of the former fort by repairing were used
for the new one. He recollects too, being informed
that the former fort had been visited and attacked
by Indians previously; but does not remember
the circumstances, especially whether any serious
fighting occurred or not. He states that he served at
least as long as stated in his declaration in said tour.
As to his third service as thirdly set forth in his
declaration, he states that of the year he can not be more
positive than in his declaration. The year stated there is at
near right as he is able to state, except that it may have been
a year later, he thinks not earlier. At the time of entering
the service it was called as is his recollection the "minute
service" and the men "minute men" and were composed of the militia
of the State of North Carolina. He as stated in his 
declaration was a mounted soldier and private during a part 
of said last service. At the commencement of this
his said third service he was as stated a mounted
Rifleman. In calling this service "minute service" he now
believes he erred. True he was organized as a minute man
but after going into actual service in the camp or field 
he ought to have called himself a volunteer in the
Militia of the State of North Carolina he will
however give the facts as definitely and clearly as he is
able. He has already stated that he served said
eighteen months in said last service fully except six
days. What he meant & now states is that the time from
the commencement to the time of my being disbanded was
eighteen months & reduced it six days for safety.
For some months after engaging in said service he was
employed in scouting the country around and at a con-
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siderable distance beyond the limits of his own or the 
adjoining counties. He had not expected to be employed
so much as he afterwards was. It was soon found however 
that we should be out from home and in the field
or camp constantly. During these eighteen months
I was not at home any one time except long enough
and for the purpose of visiting my family and repairing
my equipage and recruiting. Most of our
expeditions were longer and more laborious than
anticipated. We were constantly receiving news of the
depredations of the tours and Indians and sometimes 
urged by distressing calls to go several 
directions at once. He with his neighbours were
organized as and called "minute men" but about
the period of this service the Tories and Indians
especially on the Holstein River becoming very troublesome 
most of his expeditions were beyond the limits or
spend within which "minute men" had expected
to scout as will be seen by the detail of his
expeditions. At first we were very appropriately called
"minute men" the object of our formation being to hold
ourselves in "readiness" or under orders to march at a
"minute warning" and to scout in the neighborhood
or our own county against the Tories, or in case of
an attack upon the country higher up by the Indians.
such constant predatory was or such a battle as that
of Kings Mountain was at the time of our formation
unexpected. After going out of [illegible] neighbourhood
and continuing embodied for any considerable time and
in expeditions such as those I have mentioned in my
declaration (to Kings Mountain Ramsours Mill &c) we ought
perhaps to have been called by some other appellation
than "minute men" but the department can certainly
designate the character and worth of services from
fact better than names. It would seem strange
to this applicant as well as unjust and ungrateful
that his comrades or those who served with him
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(9)
with whom he marched through the same country
crossed the same rivers and underwent the same hardships
and peril in all respects should receive
pay as he is informed & believes and the claim of
this declarent[sic] be rejected merely from the difference
in the names by which they have designated
their services or in other words because they called
themselves militia men & he a minute man.
This declarant recollects that he was not called
a minute man during all of said service, and
also that he served in another expedition besides
those stated & which he forgot to state in his
declaration. In this expedition he well recollects that
he was not called a minute man. It was to Deep River
and in a corps of infantry. In some several of his
expeditions or excursions he was a footman and ought not
to have been called either a minute man or horseman, but
in which he can not recollect with safety; he has impressions
but they are not such as to rely on. With regard to the
tour of three months which in his declaration he stated as
his impression then was to have been performed in the year
1775 and which he now is impressed was in 1776 he
expressly swears that hostilities had commenced before
or about that time (in the same season) and that it was
performed during and after the beginning of the
Revolutionary War, that the hostility of the Indians
at that time was attributed to the instigations
of the British Government or its agents and that said
first tour was a part of the one continued great struggle
for independence against that Government and its
Indian allies. This declarant is clear as to the justice of
allowing him for eighteen months on account of said last
service Though at home during a few days at a time as
before mentioned he was not employed in any civil pursuit
nor profit to himself Both his mind and time were the
publics, and his short stay or visits at home were not more
then necessary to recruit himself and horse and carry
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necessary information and collect or procure money and
provisions and reinforcement or recruits. What he means
by recruiting is to raise help from his neighbors. In many
instances he is proud to say he was entrusted with the 
confidential communications between his superior officers and
different sections of whigs. His visits at home was
better for the government then had he been a regular for
he thus saved the government of the furnishing of so much
provisions &c.
He now recollects that in the Original arrangement of
his neighbourhood (in the organization of minute men)
it was designed that there should be alternate reliefs
and services. that is one portion should go one scout
and when a second call came the other portion serve &.
he was called a "minute man" during a part of said
18 months he still thinks. Though after it was ascertained
that his service would exceed an ordinary neighbourhood 
scout he ought to have been called
otherwise. For finding that he could not
pursue any other business long at a time, or not long enough
to be serviceable to himself and anxious to contribute to
the effectual defence of his liberty and country he prefered[sic]
constant service to the frequent alarms and interrupting
to which his section was subject. It is impossible for
him to state and he is afraid to attempt it. the dates
when he marched in one scout or expedition and
returned or passed through his own County or
by home in another and in a different and new
direction or when precisely or whereat he was
transfered[sic] (as was the case and voluntarily) from
One corps to another. For instance he can recollect
that sometimes for a few days in order to rest each other
light horsemen or [illegible] and footmen would change places. Some
portion of the time indeed he thinks now he may
have been a ranger in the proper sense of the
word. In several instances probably in one
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(10)
especially, the company he had been survey in being about
to visit their homes to be disbanded or not inclined to go
in an excursion some distance, he joined another
company, but he can not recollect where they were precisely
though probably near his home, nor whether his officers
and name of service charged or not. Though called
a minute man at the commencement of same
he was in every sense of the word a volunteer in the Militia
of said State of North Carolina and ought to have so
styled himself. Many of said excursions were long,
in mountainous country, and toilsome.
If it would be any
relief to the Department or examing[sic] officer he would be contented 
with an allowance for twelve months for this
eighteen months service although he swears positively that
he was more than twelve months constantly actively
and faithfully in the military public camp field
and garrison in embodied corps, and that during
said time not otherwise employed in any other pursuit
whatever, nor idle at home, or elsewhere. The records
which he mentioned in the first part of this amendment
of his age marriage &c he had not with him at the time
of making his declaration aforesaid and it now occurs
to his mind that a mistake of memory as to his record 
of his marriage by the help of which he undertook
to assist himself in arriving at the date of his first
tour must have taken place. He repeats that he served
not less than the following periods in the following grades to wit,
1 For three months as a first Sergeant in the company of Infantry
commanded by Cornelius Sale and as a volunteer substitute
in the Militia of North Carolina
2 & for three months as a drafted private in the Company
of Infantry commanded by Captain Samuel Johnston of said Militia
3 For more than twelve months under Captain William
Lenore, Richard Allen, & perhaps one or more captains
whose names he has forgotten, part of the time a mounted
rifleman or ranger, part of the time in infantry a
volunteer private, being voluntarily transfered[sic] from one
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to another company in one or two or perhaps more instances.
[illegible] one from that of a ranger to infantry
It will be seen by his
statement that during a part of this service he was detached with
small scouts, and stationed to guard the crossing places
or ford of streams where it was apprehended the enemy would
cross. In his last described service in his declaration
where he stated that he went and served certain other tours or
expedition under "said" officers, he ought to make a
correction In some instances he did not march under 
the same officers in their persons, but under their orders or
directions. In some scouts there probably was no commissioned 
officer commanding in person, although in every instance
as well as now recollected when any expedition was undertaken 
he was with his detachment destined according to
the order of Colonel Cleaveland or others, his superior officers.
George Parks hisXmark

I the said undersigned John W Lee do hereby certify
that this foregoing amendment to the declaration to
which the same is attached was this day by the said
George Parks subscribed and sworn to before me,
that I have been intimately acquainted with the said George
Parks for twenty years during which time in frequent
conversations he stated that he was a revolutionary Soldier
and detailed such circumstances as convinced me of the
truth of his statement,
that I confidently believe
from this, and from his unexceptionable character for
veracity and goodness, as well as from his declaration
and amendment that he served as he states in the war
of the revolution, and that this is the true and full
proceedings amendatory to said declaration as the 
same is now attached in my presence. Before
me this the eighteenth day of August AD 18[illegible]
John W. Lee Justice of the Peace {Seal}
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( 11)
Jacob B Lowe Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County
of Monroe in the State of Indiana (being about of
record) do hereby certify that John W Lee Esq
who has subscribed the above certificate is a magistrate 
or Justice of the Peace as he has therein
certified himself duly elected & qualified and commissioned
and was at the above time according to law, that his
above signature is genuine, and his above act entitled to
full faith and credit I also certify that the foregoing
is as it purports the true proceedings amendatory
to the declaration of George Parks Sr for a
pension under the Act of 7th June 1832
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto affixed the seal of
said Court and Office and
subscribed my name as the
Clerk thereof this 3rd day
of March AD 1836.

JB Lowe Clerk of Circuit Court
of Monroe County
Indiana
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(12)
State of Indiana
Monroe County
This day before me
the undersigned a Justice of the peace in
and for said County and State
personally comes James Park, Esq.
and being by me duly sworn according
to law upon his oath states that he
is the son of George Parks and that the
George Parks described in the foregoing
affidavit of Samuel Parks and proceedings
therewith the date whereof is the 14th day
of March 1836 before RC Pearson Esq
of Burke County North Carolina is the
identical George Parks who resides in said
County of Monroe Indiana and who
heretofore applies for a pension under
act of 7th June 1832, and to whose papers this
is attached.
James Parkes

State of Indiana 
Monroe County
I certify that now
the above named
James Parks Esq. who subscribed the above
certificate is by me duly sworn to the same
and that he is a credible person. Given
under my hand and seal as a Justice of
the peace aforesaid this fifteenth day
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of April 1836
F.T. Butler
Justice of the Peace {seal}

State of Indiana
Monroe County
I Jacob B Lowe, Clerk of
the Court of said County do hereby certify that
Frederick T. Butler, Esqr. is a Magistrate
as above in and for said County duly
elected commissioned and qualified according
to law, that his above signature is genuine
and his foregoing certificate entitled to full
faith and credit.
In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the Seal of the
Circuit Court of said County
as Clerk aforesaid this 15th
day of April AD 1836.
JB Lowe Clerk of the
Court of Monroe County
Indiana
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(13)
Affidavit of Saml Parkes relative to
services performed during the war of the
Revolution by George Parkes Senr of
Monroe County Indiana

State of North Carolina
Burke County
On this th day
of March 1856 Samuel Parks of the County
of Burke and State of North Carolina appeared
before me Robert C. Pearson one of the
acting Justices of the Peace in and for
said County who being first duly sworn
deposeth as follows viz
That he was born in Amherst County Virginia
on the 28th day of Nov 1757. that his Father
imigrated[sic] from that county when he was about
10 years old, and settled in Wilkes County N.C.
known then as Rowan Co where he remained
untill the year 1796 when he moved from
Wilkes into the adjoining County Burke where
he at present resides.
He further states that his Father had seventeen
children 8 sons and 9 daughters. That his
sons had all married and left his Father
previous to the war of the Revolution 
except George Parkes and himself that his
Brother George was likewise born in
Amhurst County Va that from a Record made
13
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by his Father which he ([illegible]) now has in possession
George was born on the 5th day of August
in the year 1759. That his brother the Sd
George resided with his Father in Wilkes
County (then Rowan) during the war or
at the commencement of the war of the
Revolution. That both himself and George
Parkes served in the war. That he remembers
 distinctly that the first service
performed by George Parkes was in the character
of a Substitute for one Cornelius Sale
(a Brotherinlaw of ours) that he will not pretend 
to say precisely the time this service
was rendered nor the length of time he
was engaged. he thinks however it was in
the year 1776 and that George was then about
41 years of age that he remembers he live served
in Capt Wm Swains Company of Militia
commanded by Col Isaacs that one William
Gray was a Lieut. in sd company that his
Brother was absent for some few months and
returned and that he understood from him
that during his service he had been part
of time engaged in building and
defending Fort Defiance in Wilkes County
He likewise says he understood from
him that he was a Sergeant in the
Army.
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(14 )
Says [illegible] applicant he will not pretend
to say precisely how long or at what
time though he thinks it was not longer
than six months perhaps not
so long the Sd. George Parkes again 
entered the service as a private under
the command of Capt Saml Johnson
in the Regiment of NC Militia under
the command of Benjamin Cleveland
This expedition he went on he understood
and believes to Watauga River [illegible] against
the Indians. & he acted as Injuant [adjutant?]
in this tour or the other. I am not certain 
which I think however it was the
first. He might wise have been Injuant[?]
this trip if [illegible] I have recollection
of it. my recollection does
not [illegible] me to state the length
of [illegible] this tour or the one performed
by him under Capt Lenore-
Another tour in which I myself served
George Parks also served. He was in
the service a few days before I entered.
this was in the year 1780. We served
under Capt Wm Swain a Regiment of
Militia commanded by Colonel Cleaveland
during this tour we marched
to Kings Mountain but did not ar-
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-rive at the place, the battle being over before
have we reached. after mustering the troops
engaged in the Battle at Kings mountain
we returned to Cains Creek in Burke Co
at which place I was discharged by Col.
Cleveland to take charge of some two
or three persons who were relatives of
mine and who had been badly
wounded in the Battle at Kings
mountain as to render them unable
to travel or continue in the service
I returned home with these men and
was not again in the service.
When I left Walking on Cain Creek
I left George Parkes in the Army and
did not see him again for
some months untill his return
home when I understood from him
that from Cain Creek when I left
there he had marched toward
[illegible]. I am again [illegible]
to say how long I was myself engaged
in the service I would
say however that I was out some
3 or 4 weeks and that George
was engaged longer but
how long he remained after I
left him I have no recollection.
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(15)
my recollection does enable me to
late particularly any thing further relation
to the services performed during 
the Revolutionary war by George Parks
the three tours spoken of and the most
important that and one of his having
performed. He served frequent
tours of short duration and that I
remember to have heard him speak of
war under Col Locke- this I think was
before the service in which was the
tour under Locke I remember myself.
He marched towards the Eastern
part of the State and was hone for 
some time but how long I will
not for I cannot say.
George Parkes and from Wilkes to
this County at the same I did- He
remained here untill about twenty
years [illegible] when he left- here and moved
to Monroe County Indiana where
he at present and I understand he left
here twice married his last wife was the
Daughter of Mr.  Reed by whom he
had five or six children when he left
Burke. He also had two sons James
and Pleasant who went with him from
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Burke when he moved to Indiana
William a Parks a son of mine
lives near his uncle George Parks
in the State Indiana.
Further this Deponent saith
not- Sworn to and subscribed
before me at Morganton
date first written
Samuel Parkes
R.C. Pearson   J.P.
State of N.C.
Burke County
I Robert C. Pearson a
Justice of the Peace in and
and for
Sd. County do herby certify that
I am acquainted and have
known for several years Saml.
Parks who has this day sworn oath
before me relative to services
performed by George Parkes of Monroe
Co. Indiana during the War
of the Revolution and that
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(16)
the said Saml Parkes a worthy respectable
Citizen of said and that
his character for truth is beyond
suspicion.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & seal this
14th March 1836.
R.C. Pearson JP 
State of N.C.
Burke County
I Daniel Moore an
acting Justice of the
Peace in and for Sd. County do hereby
certify that I have known Saml Parkes
for the last forty years that he is a
man of good standing in this County
and has always supported a good 
character. He has always been looked
upon as having served in
the Revolution as he states and
is entitled to every credit and
belief
Given under my hand
& seal 14th March 1836.
Daniel Moore JP {seal}
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State of North
Burke County
I Joseph J Erwin
Clerk of the Court of pleas & quarter sessions
for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that
R.C. Pearson who hath attested the foregoing
affidavit & Daniel Moore who [illegible] the
foregoing certificate are both acting Justices
of the peace for said county duly commissioned
and qualified according to law.

In testimony whereof I 
hereunto set my hand and
affix the seal of my office
 [illegible] in Morganton this
14 March AD 1836.
J.J. Erwin Clerk
By [illegible] DC

State of North Carolina
Burke County
I James C Smyth [illegible] one of the Just
presiding justices of the Court of pleas & quarter sessions in & for the
county aforesaid do hereby certify that Joseph J. Erwin whose signature
is appended to the foregoing proceedings is the clerk of said court duly
elected and qualified and that his attestation is
genuine given
under my hand & seal in Morganton this the 14th day of
James C. Smyth JC
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Bloomington Indiana April 24th 1826

Examiners Office

Now are returned the papers of
George Parks, together with the testimony
of Saml Pritty of N Carolina, and the testimony
of the Hon. James Parks of this County as to
the identity.
By a comparison of the statements
of the applicant and the said Saml Parks
there may at first seem to be a discrepancy,
but upon further examination they will be found
to corroborate. George Parks the
applicant states that from Kings Mountain
he went home in charge of his nephew Henry
Parks, and that after going there he was ordered
to consider himself discharged from that
expedition and that in a short time he went
in another expedition down the Country towards
Salem.  Saml Parts states that
he left George in the service, and that he (George)
continued in the same for some months.
Saml Parks was either not apprised
at the time of George Park having the care
of his Nephew home or if he was has forgotten
it and knowing that George was in the
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service some months a short time afterwards
naturally under the mistaken impression that
George continued in the Army untill
after
the expedition toward Salem without any
interval.
Geo Stone

Commissioner of
Pensions
Care of Hon. GL Linnard

George Parks
Pension
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(18)

House of Reps
11th May 1836.

J. L. Edwards Esq
Comr. Pensions

Sir
I have the honor herewith
to submit the pension declaration
pf Mr. Geo. Parks of
Monroe Co. Indiana.

With great respect
Yr. Most of Obedt servt
Geo. L. Kinnard
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of untill recommended to be collected. They are family in
favor of utility. birth days and such anniversarys[sic]
have little place in their minds. I also send a power of attorney of
Mrs Parks relative to her claim. yrs respectfully
George W. Hardin

10284
Catharine Parks
Inda
Act 7 July 38
admd
12 months
$40.

Hon. S. Breese
Senate
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(20)
State of Indiana 
Monroe County ss
I Aquilla Rogers Judge of the Probate Court
of the County and State aforesaid now sitting holden in
Bloomington in the County and State aforesaid a Court
of record by virtue of the laws of the State of Indiana do
hereby certify that from my knowledge and acquaintance 
with persons of credibility Catharine Parks who has signed
and sworn to the foregoing declaration and James
Parks and William Puett
who has sworn to and subscribed
the foregoing affidavits are of good character
and varacity[sic] and that they are entitled to credit all of
which foregoing testimony I have full confidence in the
truth of and recommend that a pension be granted
the applicant given under my hand and seal this
18th day of November 1843
Aquilla Rogers {seal}
Judge of the Court of Probate of the County of Monroe and
State of Indiana

State of Indiana 
Monroe County 
I David Browning Clerk of the Court
of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application
of Catharine Parks for a pension. And that Aquilla Rogers
whose name is signed to the foregoing declaration and certificate 
as Judge of the Probate Court of said County and State
is genuine and that he is duly commissioned and qualified
in office as Judge of said Probate Court and that said Court
is a court of record by virtue of the laws of the State of Indiana
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
seal this 18th day of November 1843.
David Browning Clerk of
the Probate Court Monroe County
Indiana
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10284
Bloomington Indiana November 23d 1843.
James L. Edward Esqr.
Enclosed I send you the claim
and vouchers in favor of Mrs Catherine Parks for a pension.
It is evident the applicant nor witnesses does not need.
lest the date of her marriage to record of it nor of the death
of said George Parks having ever been made in any of the
family record or her Sons Merideth and Curtis so informed
me in addition to the foregoing testimony in the case
But from the age of the children I am inclined to believe
she was married in 1795 or 1796 & her son Pleasant Parks
has been many years ago commissioned a Col of the Militia have several
times represented the adjoining County in which he lives
in the State legislature. James Parkes witness in the case represented
this County the only time he was a candidate
or was the arrearages of George Parks dec.d ever thought
untill recommended to be collected. They are family in
favor of utility, birth days and Such anniversary have but
little place in their mind - I also send a power of attorney of
Mrs. Parks relative to her claim.  Yrs respectfully

George W. Hardin

[written sideways]

10284
Catharine Parks
Inda.
Act 7 July 36
admd
12 months
$40

Hon S. Breese
Senate
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(21 )
Know all persons that I Catharine Parks of Monroe County
and State of Indiana do hereby and by these presents constitute
and appoint George W. Hardin of the County and State
aforesaid my true and lawful attorney for me and
in my name to obtain from the General Government
of the United States pension for me and in any name
under and by virtue of any acts of congress now in
force or which may be enacted hereafter whereby
I may be benefited or entitled to a pension by
reason and virtue of my intermarriage with George
Parke deceased late of the County and State aforesaid
and who was a pensioner of the United States before
and at the time of his death at the rate of forty dollars
per annum according to the act of Congress on account
of his the said George Parks services during the Revolutionary
war and under which act of congress I claim a
pension as the widow of said George Parks and I hereby authorize
the said Hardin to appoint an agent or agents at his will and
remove and revoke such agent or attorney at any time he
may think proper and I hereby warrant and defend any and
all consistant[sic] and lawful acts of the said George Hardin
my agent relative to seeking and obtaining a pension
as before named In testimony I here by subscribe my
hand and seal at Bloomington Indiana this 22 day of
November 1843

Catharine Parks herXmark
witness
Danl Lunderman 

State of Indiana
Monroe County 
Be it known that on the 22 day of November
1843, before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County
personally appeared the above named Catharine Parks and
acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his act and deed
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal
the day and year last above mentioned. 
Danl Sunderman {seal}
Justice of the Peace
Page 52

State of Indiana
Monroe County
I David Browning Clerk of the
Probate Court of the County of Monroe and State of Indiana
do hereby certify that Daniel Lunderman
is a magistrate in and for the aforesaid County and
State duly commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing 
Signature purporting to be his is genuine. In
testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal
of office and subscribed my name this 23d day of 
November 1843
David Browning Clerk
Probate Court Mo. Co. Ind.
Page 53

GIDEON, PRINTER.
(22)

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE.
Dec. 4th 1843

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," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending
the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, the widow of George Parks, decd.,
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Madison, Ind:
Agency, at the rate of Forty Dollars
and --- Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June
1832, has been paid at this Department, from the
4th of Sept. to the 4th Dec. 1837.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.
Page 54

(23)
Rockford Jany 4th 1844

Geo Hardin
Sir in relation to the marriage of George
Sparks & lady I have to inform you that there is
no record kept of Marriages in this State by the Clerk
of the Court except the Marriage license Bonds which
there nothing but the opening of the licence[sic] the
Magistrate or Ministers who perform the rites of
matrimony in this State keep the licence[sic]  and
then areever returned in the Clk office I
have searched for the bond of G Park & could
find none the marriage may have been published
as many were in those days.
your respectfully
W. Armstrong CCC
By HC Hampton DC
Page 55

(24)
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Widow's Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838,
Catharine Parks
widow of George Parks
who was a Private
and died on the 7th of December 1837
is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Forty
dollars and---cents per annum, commencing on the
4th of March, 1836, and terminating on the 4th of March, 1841, unless
the Pensioner married or died before the above mentioned date; in which case
the pension is not payable after the time of such marriage or death.

Given at the War Office of the United 
States, this 25th day of
March one thousand
eight hundred and forty four,
Wm Wilkins
Secretary of War

Examined and
Countersigned.
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
Page 56

Hon S Breese,
Senate
April 1844
Page 57

(25)
Senate Chamber
April 16, 1844

Sir.

I recd from you some time
since a pension certificate for
Catharine Parks of the Indiana
agency, and as you certain the
letter, covering the claim. I have
no means of knowing from
whom I recd it, having kept
no memorandum. Will you please
return the letter, an inform me
otherwise to whom I shall send
the certificate-- it bears date
25th March 1844 -
Very respy
Sidney Breese
8235
Page 58

(26)

Pension Office
April 17. 1844.

Sir.
The papers of Catharine Parks
were forwarded by
George W. Hardin of
Bloomington, Indiana. If you addressed
a letter to this office covering one from
him, it was I presume returned to you
when the receipt of your communication ┃
was acknowledged.
I have the honor to be,
very respectfully,
your obt. Servant,
J L Edwards

Hon Sidney Breese
Senate U. States.
Page 59

State of Indiana  S.S.
Monroe County
On this 29th day of November
in the year of 1844 personally appeared before me a
Justice of the peace in and for said County of Monroe
and State aforesaid Catharine Parks of said County
and State aged ____ years past and
after being duly sworn according to law doth make
oath to the following declaration. That she is the
widow of George Parks deceased (late) of said County
and State and who was a pensioner of the United Sates
and enrolled on the Indiana Agency before and at the time
of his death at the rate of $40 forty dollars per annum.
That she applyed for the benefit of the pension laws
of the United States of America as the widow of said George
Parks deceased, about the period of November in the
year of 1843, and about which time the legally empowered
George W. Hardin of Monroe County State of Indiana
her attorney to claim and obtain for her the benefits
of said act of Congress of the United States to which the declarant
is or were entitled. That she is informed by said
Hardin her attorney in fact that Mr J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of pensions at Washington City informed him
said Hardin by letter dated the 18th day of October 1844
that a certificate was issued the 25th of March last in the
case of declarants claim allowing pension of forty
dollars per Annum & she declares upon oath that she
has not received any benefit whatever either in a pension
certificate or money from any person whatever
and that she does not know or believe that any person
whatever has received a certificate for a pension issued
in her name and for her and that this declaration is made
in order to obtain a duplicate certificate or certificate
in lieu of the one which she is informed was issued as
above noted. and that she is still the widow
Page 60

of said George Parks and that from her advanced
age and general debility she is unable to attend
Court to file this declaration without much
inconvenience and exposure of health
Catharine Parks herXmark [seal]

Witness
William Edmondson
Curtis Parks

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above
mentioned before me and of the truth of which I am
fully satisfied
William Edmondson {seal}
Justice of the Peace

State of Indiana 
Monroe County SS
I William Edmondson
a Justice of the peace in and for Said County of Monroe
and State of Indiana do hereby certify that from my
knowledge and acquaintance with Catherine White who has sworn
to and subscribed the foregoing declaration that she is the
widow of said George Parks identified in said declaration
and that the said George Parks decd and said Catharine Parks
was known by me twenty years before the death
of said George Parks and I have known said Catharine ever
since the death of her husband George Parks before named
given under my hand and seal this 29th day of November
in the year of 1844.
William Edmondson {seal}
Justice of the Peace
Page 61

State of Indiana  S.S.
Monroe County  
Be it Known that on the 30th
day of November in the year of 1844 personally appeared 
before me Danl Sunderman Justice
of the peace in and for the County of Monroe and State of
Indiana George W. Hardin of said County and State
and after being duly sworn according to law doth on his
oath make the following declaration that as well 
as he recollects about the month of November in the year
of 1843, he as attorney in fact for Mrs. Catharine Parks
of said County and state he forwarded to J.L. Edwards
Esqr. Commissioner of pensions of the war department
of the United States of America the claim of said Catharine 
Parks Widow of George Parks decd for a pension under the
act of Congress as set forth in her declaration
supported by certain testimony forwarded to said Commissioner 
of pensions and that on the 28th
Instant he received a communication from said
J. L. Edwards Esqr. Commissioner of pensions of which
the following is an extract "Pension Office October
18. 1844. A certificate was issued on the 25 March
last in the case of Catharine Parks allowing a pension
of Forty dollars per annum" which certificate he
declares has not been received by him or by any person
else to his knowledge and that he has no knowledge of
said pension certificate or of any other evidence
issued entitling the said Catharine Parks to receive
a pension of the United States
George W. Hardin {Seal}
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above mentioned 
before me and I further certify that the said
George W Hardin is personally known by me
Danl Sunderman
Justice of the Peace
Page 62

State of Indiana
Monroe County 
I William F. Browning
Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County do
Certify that William Edmonson Esquire whose
Signature appears to the declation[sic] of Catharine
Parks and to the certificate thereafter each
dated November the 29th 1844 and also
Daniel Sunderman Esquire whose
signature appears to the declaration
George W Hardin dated November 30,
1844 are both acting justices of the peace
of the peace
of said County, duly elected, commissioned
and qualified into office that their
signatures are genuine.

Given under my hand and the
Seal of said Court as Clerk thereof
November 31, 1844
W.F. Browning Clerk
Protem Ct Ct M. Co. Ia.
Page 63

(28)
Bloomington Indiana November 30. 1844
J.L. Edwards Esqr.

I left home the 10th of October last
Kentucky and returned the 28th Instant when I
received from the post office here several official communications 
from you relative to pension claims [illegible]
entrusted to me for to obtain. one of yours dated October
18, 1844. refers only to the claims of Rachel Ross and
of Catharine Parks to which I will only reply by
referring you to the enclosed declarations [illegible] as regards
the case of Catharine Parks in your early attention to
the claims of Mrs C. Parks will meet the hopes of her and
her friends. Respectfully your obt. servt.
George W. Hardin
p.s. please enclose to me the pension certificate for
Catharine Parks or address one on the subject.
yrs. G.W.H.
Page 64

[bifold page]
[left panel]
7030
Ro Feb. 10, 1845

[right panel]
Catharine Parks 7030
Act 3d March '43
Admd @$40 per ann;
for 12 months &
also act of June '44
No Act  '43 -7030-
No. Act '44 -487-

Geo. W. Hardin
Bloomington
Indiana.
Page 65

(29)
Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress
of the 3rd March 1843 granting pensions for one year
to certain widows who have received pensions under the
act of July 7. 1838

State of Indiana 
Monroe County 
On this Thirty first day of January
in the year of 1845 personally appeared before
the subscriber William Edmondson a Justice of the peace
of the County of Monroe and State aforesaid Catharine
Parks a resident of said Monroe County and State of Indiana
aged sixty seven years who being first duly sworn
according to law doth on her oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions
made by the act of Congress passed on the 3rd March
1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who
served during the Revolutionary war. That she
is the widow of George Parks who was a private for
evidence of which refference is respectfully given to the
declaration and testimony in favor of said George
Parks upon which he was placed on the Indiana
Agency as pensioner of the United States under
an act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. also reference
is respectfully given to the declarants declaration and
testimony upon which she obtained a certificate of
pension under the act of Congress passed July the 7,
1838, which certificate was dated the eighteenth
of January in the year of 1845, granting her the
declarant forty dollars per annum under the said
act of Congress passed July 7, 1838. She further 
declares that she is still a widow.
Catharine Parks herXmark

Witness
James S. Sharp
Curtis Parks
G.W. Edmondson

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
before me
William Edmondson {seal}
Justice of the peace
Page 66

We the undersigned residents of Monroe County and
State of Indiana do hereby certify and declare upon oath
that Catharine Parks who has subscribed and sworn
to the foregoing declaration is the identical Catharine
Parks widow of George Parks deceased who was a revolutionary 
soldier and pensioner of the United States as
they verily believe. We declare that we knew the
identical George Parks herein before named during
his lifetime for the space of Eighteen years
before his decease and that we have full confidence
as to the truth of her foregoing declaration to the
best of her knowledge. Given under our hand
and seal this 31st day of January, 1845
James S. Sharp {seal}
Curtus Parks {seal}
George W. Edmundson {seal}

Witness
Geroge W Puett
Camillus Clay

State of Indiana 
Monroe County  S.S. 
Be it known that on this 31 day of
January 1845. before me William Edmondson a Justice
of the peace in and for Monroe County State of Indiana
appeared James S. Sharp, Curtis Parks & George W. Edmondson residents
of said County and State each of whom are personally
known to me to be creditable & made oath to the
above declaration according to law and subscribed
their names thereto in presence of
George H Puett and Camilas Clay of said
County and State and before me. Given under
my hand and seal the day and year last above written

William Edmondson JP {seal}
Justice of the Peace
Page 67

State of Indiana
Monroe County  
I William Edmondson a Justice of
the peace in and for Monroe County and State of Indiana do hereby certify that Catharine Parks
before named and who has subscribed and made
oath to the foregoing declaration to obtain the
benefit of the act of Congress passed March 3rd 1843,
is personally known by me
and the truth of
which declaration I am fully satisfied given
under my hand and seal this 31st day of January 1845.
William Edmondson JP {seal}
Justice of the Peace

State of Indiana Monroe County SS
I William F Browning Clerk of the Circuit
Court of the County of Monroe and State of Indiana
do hereby certify that William Edmondson whose several 
certificates aforesaid appear above and
whose signatures appears thereto was at the
date thereof an acting Justice of the peace in and
for said County duly commissioned and
qualified that his aforesaid signatures are genuine
and his official acts in that capacity
are entitled to full faith and credit. In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
Seal of Office at
Bloomington Ia. The first
day of February 1895
Wm F. Browning Clerk
Protem C.C.M.Co.Ia.
Page 68

(30)

Bloomington Indiana February 1. 1845
J.L. Edwards Esq Comr of Pensions
I here enclose the declaration and testimony
of Mrs. Catharine Parks to obtain the benefit
of the act of Congress passed 3rd March 1843, which
if satisfactory please forward to me the certificate
for it and if not sufficient inform me &c.
Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt.
George W. Hardin

P.S. I take the liberty to say if the enclosed vouchers are
sufficient to obtain the (benefit) certificate desired
and it be transmitted by or in the first week in March
it would be considered a favor as I expect to leave
(here) home for Kentucky in that week and expect to
be absent three months or longer and wish to prepare
the papers to receive the payment if any are payable
or if insufficient to try again to meet the requirements
before I leave home [illegible]
Very Respectfully
your obt. servt.
George W. Hardin
Page 69

(31 )
Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of
2nd February 1848, entitled "An act making further provision
for surviving widows and soldier of the Revolution"
State of Texas
Dallas County SS 
On this [illegible] day of April 1849,
personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of
the peace in and for said County & State duly commissioned
and qualified according to law and by law
authorized to administer oaths Catharine Parkes a
resident of Dallas County State of Texas aged in
her seventieth years past who being first duly sworn
according to law doth on her oath make the following 
declaration in order to obtain the benefits of
the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the
2nd day of February 1848 granting pensions to widows of
persons who served during the Revolutionary war.
That she is the widow of George Parks who was a
private in the war of the Revolution and was a pensioner of
the United States on the Indiana agency at the rate of
forty dollars per annum at the period of his decease. That
declarant was a pensioner under acts of July 7 1838, March
3rd 1843 and June 17, 1844 at the rate of forty dollars per
year and placed on the pension list of the Indiana Agency
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Catharine Parks herXmark
witness
Amelia Parks
Milly T Wise
Page 70

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above
written before me. I further certify that the declarant
is personally known to me.
Carlos Wise J.P. {seal}
Justice of the peace

State of Texas
Dallas County 
 I John W. Smith Clerk
of the County Court in and for said County
and State do hereby certify that Carlos Wise
is a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly
Commissioned and qualified according to law and by
law authorized to administer and that the foregoing
signature purporting to be his appears to me to be
genuine and is according to law. Given under
my hand and the seal of said County this 7th day
April 1849.
J. W. Smith
clk C dal C
Texas

Sir please send the certificate
to Curtis Parks Red Oak
Navarro County Texas
Page 71

Pleasant Run
Tex Nov 18th

Col. J Edwards Commisioner[sic]
Patents Washinton[sic]
City DC
Page 72

Pleasant Run
Tex Nov 18th

Col. J Edwards Commisioner[sic]
Patents Washinton[sic]
City DC
Page 73

(32)
November the 12th 1849

Col L Edwards

Dear Sir I wish you
to give me information concerning the case of
a widdow Parks, who has heretofore been
drawing a pension as a Citizen of the
State of Indianna, but having moved to
Texas in the year 1848 has failed to draw
her pension for the years 48 and 49. She
has her certificate. But does not know how
proceed to draw the pay due her.
you will
confer an especial favour on her and also
on all her acquaintances, by informing how
to proceed or what sort of proof to make
to procure her pension
I have been requested
to attend to it for her, as a charity case
and will be much gratified by your
timely attention, and deffinate instructions
to and in the case. We are so remote that
we have little or no means of acquiring
information only by letter.
I am sir most

Respectfully yours &c
Samuel T Bledsoe MD
Direct yours to Pleasant P.O. Dallas County
Texas
Page 74

[bipanel]
[left panel]

Refr 25 Mar. "44

Let. Hon S. Breese
April 17/74
Let to G. W. Hardin
Oct 18. 1844
Paid at the Treasury under
the Act 6 April 1838 from
1st Sep to 7. Decr. 1837. agt
notified, 6. Decr 1844

Duplicate certificate issued
18th January 1845 and sent
to G.W. Hardin, Bloomington
Indiana

[right panel]
8235
Madison, Indiana
Catharine Parks (34)
widow of George Parks
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who died on the 7 Decem. 1837
of Monroe Co in the State of Indiana
who was a Pri. in the Compy
commanded by Captain Lenore of the
regt. commanded by Col. Isaacks in
the N. Carolina line for 1 year

Inscribed on the Roll of Madison
at the rate of 40 Dollars
- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25th
March 1844 and sent to Hon
S. Breese, U. States Senate

Total Amount, $200.00
(Act July 7, 1838.)
Recorded by F. L. Swann- Clerk,
Book D. Vol. 1, Page 429.
Page 75

[bipanel]
[left panel]

refr.
[illegible]
Compr Apl 12, 49


[right panel]
6784

Madison
Indiana
Catharine Parks
widow of George Parks (35)
who was a Private
in the N.C. Line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
40 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
15 day of April 1845
and sent to
G. W. Harden,
Bloomington
Indiana,

(Act of March 3, 1843.)
and June 17, 1849

Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 220
Page 76

(39)
(53.670

[illegible]
Page 77

Revy

WIDOW, &c.
File No. 27457
Catharine Parks
Wid. of
George Parks
[illegible] Priv. [illegible]

Act Feb 2nd 1848
Index: Vol. M Page 146
(Arrangement of 1870.)
Page 78

[left margin]
[illegible] 7/9
June 26/49
Sept.
for [illegible]

Wid. Hist. to H.G. Hatfield
217 Dayton Ave. St. Paul, Min
Hist to Capt. Archer
Building Pens Officer
S. Richards, Indianapolis, Ind.
1907 Oct. 28 History to
Mrs. Mary M. Ray

1924, Apr. 5- Hist to Mrs.
Charlotte F. Rice [illegible]

1924 May 24 Hist to Mrs. J. [illegible]
1925 Nov 11 Hist to Mary Miller
1925 Dec 19- Hist to Ruth C. [Guy]
1927- April 28- Hist to

1940 Jul 9 Hist to
Mrs. L.B. Taylor sent
in S.7249 Daniel [illegible]
Page 79

[SONS OF THE REVOLUTION letterhead and seal]
"He who takes no interest in the history of his ancestors
does not deserve to be remembered by his posterity."

Minnesota Society,
Thirty-two E. Fourth Street,
Saint Paul.

25 Aug 93

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C

Dear Sir:
Kindly send me Pension Records
of the following Revolutionary Soldier:-
Daniel Moore of North Carolina unable to
identity
George Parks " " "
and oblige Yours very truly-
[illegible name]
secy.

Hon. William Lockner
Comr Pensions
Dept. Interior

The above is to K. G. Hatfield 217 Dayton Ave St Paul Minn
Resided of awarding unknown.
Page 80

George Parks, born 1757
died 1837
Sergeant in Capt. Wm Landis
company, Col. Isaac regiment,
North Carolina
served in 1776

[stamped]
O.W.&N.DIV
June 22 1895
Chief's Desk.

Wm Owens from
Shenandoah Valley
Virginia
born 1750 Died 1836
moved to Russell co. 1773
[struck through text] [illegible] give birth and
death

Please send a copy of
pension records of above
to:  Mrs. Samuel Richards
c/o Major M.J. Richards
Indianapolis
Indiana
Page 81

Bloomington Oct. 17, .07,
To the Pension Department:

Will you kindly examine
the pension roll for the
name of George Parks and
send mehis record. He was a revolutionary
soldier and fought
at Kings mountain. His
grave is at Ellettsville Ind.
and is decorated annually
by the D.A.R. And oblige
Mrs. Mary M. Ray
Bloomington, Ind.
729 Hunter Ave
Page 82

[stamp]
PENSION OFFICE
MAR 6, 1924


St Louis Mo
Mar 3-1924.
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
I should like to have
the certificate of Geo. Parks
services in the Revolutionary
war.
I am Charlotte Farrow Rice
wife of Claude McDonald Rice
daughter of Jas T. Farron and Alice
Parks Farrow, grand daughter
of Samuel Parks and Margrett
Arbuckle - great grand daughter
of Benj. Parks and Polly Parks
great great grand daughter of
Geo. Parks and Catherine Parks
Page 83

Geo. Parks, born Aug 5-1769
Amherst Co. Va

died Dec 7 - 1837 at Ellettsville
Monro Co Ind
(Katherine Parks Mulky)
References. D. A R No 38460
and D.A.R. No.7766.
Geo Parks at 17 enlisted under
Capt. Wm Lenoir & Col Benj.
Cleveland.
North Carolina
lines.
1832 he was
placed on the Pension
Roll of Indiana for 1 yrs
actual service as private
Hoping this
is proof
that I am entitled to a copy
of his records
Page 84

Your truly
Mrs. Charlotte Rice.
4879a Page Bvld [sic]
St Louis Mo.
Page 85

Ronan Montana
April 21- 1924

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions, Washington D.C

Dear Sir. I would like to have a
certificate of George Parks' services in the
Revolutionary war.
George Parks was born Aug 5-1759
in Amherst County, Virginia - Died Dec 7
1837 in Monroe County Indiana.

While a resident of Rowan County, North Carolina, he enlisted in 1776 and served
three months as first Sergeant in Captian[sic]
William Lenoir's Company, Col Isaca's[sic] North 
Carolina Regiment & In the Spring 1777
under Capt Samuel Johnston's Company
Colonel Benjamin Clevelands North Caroline
Regiment and Captian Richard Allen's
company, Colonel Locke's North Caroline
Regiment-

He was allowed pension on his application
excuted[sic] April 10, 1833. while a
resident of Monroe Co. Indiana

I am Mrs Alice Parks Farrow born
in Putnamville Putman Co. Indiana
wife of Jas S. Farrow.

Daughter of Samuel Edmond Parks.
Page 86

and Margrelle Arbuckle his wife
grand daughter of Polly Parks and
Benjamin Parks
great grand daughter of Geoge[sic] Parks
and Catherine Parks his wife (first wife)

DAR # 38460 Katherine Parks Mulky
DAR # 7766 Louise Parks Richards

Thanking you
Yours truly
Mrs Jas T. Farrow
Ronan Montana
RR #1
Page 87

George Parks, N. Carolina
moved to Monroe County, Ind
* Dates of his birth & death
" " birth & death of Catherine Reed, hid
2nd wife.

Date of their marriage & names & dates of any
children
" of his enlistment & discharge

any other information about him or
his family, especially his son
Alfred Parks

placed on Indiana pension roll
in 1832 for serving a private in
N. Carolina. Revolutionary war.

MRS. J. MILTON GUY
305 WEST SEMINARY STREET
DANVILLE, ILLINOIS

Recd Nov 1821
Page 88

426 N. Oak St.
Danville. Ill.
Nov. 13. '25

Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear sirs,
Can you give me
information in regard to
George Parks, a soldier in
the Revolutionary War in
North Carolina?  I would like
to have the date of his enlistment 
and discharge as well as
his company and Regiment.
Would like to have the date
of his marriage to Catherine
Page 89

Reed, also a list of the
children by that marriage,
also a former marriage.
If you have any other information
about him or his
family - I would be very
gratified to receive it as I
am trying to get my
papers ready for the
Daughters of the American
Revolution.

Very truly yours,
Ruth C. Guy
Page 90

[envelope]
220 Dickson St
Plymouth
Indiana.

[round stamp]
Plymouth, Ind.
Feb 23 1927
330PM

the Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office,
Washington, D.C.
Page 91

220 Dickson St
Plymouth, Indiana
Feb. 23, 1927

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:-
From the Revolutionary
War Pension records, will
you please send me information
concerning George Parks?
Who were his children or
heirs? Also his parents
and what part of North 
Carolina did he live, and
to what part of Indiana
did he move? Did he have
Page 92

a daughter Polly?

Yours Very Truly,
Mrs. Owen Barber
Page 93

[printed form]
O. W. and N. Division. 3-525.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., ______, 190__

In reply to your request of _____, received _____
for a statement of the military history of George Parks
soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (& his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau.
WId File 27.457

| Dates of Enlistment or Appointment.|Length of Service.|Rank.| Officers Under Whom Service was Rendered|Captain.|Colonel.|State.|

|Early sum. 76|3 mos.|1" Sergt.|Wm Lenoir|Isaacs|N.C.
|Spring 77|3 mos.| |Saml. Johnstone. Cleveland| |
|Fall 79|18 mos.| | Wm Lenoir|" "| |
| | | |Captured many tories among these the celebrated Solomon Sparks, Peter Stolt| | |
| | | |Richard Allen|Locke| |

sub for bro.in law Corneliius Sale.[crossed out]

Battles engaged in, did not arrive at Kings Mt. until the battle was over found his
Nephew Henry Parks wd in that engagement carried him home.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Wilkes Co. (then Rowan Co.) N.C.
Date of application for pension, Apl. 10, 1833.
Residence at date of application, Monroe Co., Ind.
Age at date of application, b. Aug. 5, 1759 Amherst Co. Va died Dec. 7. 1827 Monroe Co. Ind.
Remarks: Sol. mar. 2nd, Surry Co., N. C. July 6, 1795 or 6
wid. applin. Nov. 14, 1840 ai 66 res. Monroe Co., Ind. Catharine Reed.
1836 son. James testified in 1836 [crossed out]
1836 bro Samuel b. Nov.28. 1759 [crossed out]
over for children

Very respectfully,
Commissioner

over for children
Sol. father had 8 sons & 9 dau. all mar & left home except Saml & George [crossed out]
Page 94

Sol Mar. 1st

Chil.
Elizabeth
James
Samuel
Polly
Benjamin
Pleasant
Nancy

2nd mar.

ch. Hannah mar. Wm Puett
Meredith
Alfred
Curtis
Sarah
Rebecca
Carlton
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
April 5, 1924.

Mrs. Charlotte F. Rice,
4879A Page Blvd.
Saint Louis, Mo.

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in Revolutionary 
War pension claim, W.27467, it appears that George ParkS
was born August 5, 1759, in Amherst County, Virginia. While
a resident of Rowan County, North Carolina, he enlisted in
the summer of 1776 and served 3 months as First Sergeant in
Captain William Lenoir's Company, Colonel Isaacs North Carolina
Regiment. He enlisted in the spring of 1777 and
served 3 months as a private in Captain Samuel Johnston's
Company, Colonel Benjamin Cleveland's North Carolina Regiment.
He enlisted in the fall of 1779 and served 18 months
as a private in Captain William Lenoir's Company, Colonel
Benjamin Cleveland's North Carolina Regiment, and Captain
Richard Allen's Company, Colonel Locke's North Carolina
Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
April 10, 1833, while a resident of Monroe County, Indiana.
He died there December 7, 1837.
Page 96

Soldier married in Surry County, North Carolina, July 6,
1795 or 1796, Catharine Reed. She was allowed pension on her
application executed November 14, 1843, while a resident of
Monroe County, Indiana, aged 66 years. Their children were
Hannah (married William Puett), Meredith, Alfred Curtis,
Sarah, Rebecca and Carlton.

The following were children by a former marriage, name
of wife not stated: Elizabeth James, Samuel
Polly, Benjamin, 
Pleasant, Nancy, and Milly. 

Respectfully
Acting Commissioner.
Page 97

Rev. and 1812
War Section
May 24, 1924.

Mrs. J. T. Farron,
Ronan, R. R. 1,
Mont.

Madam;
I have to advise you that from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 27457, it appears
that George Parks was born August 5, 1759 in Amherst
County, Virginia.

While residing in Rowan County, North Carolina, he
enlisted in the summer of 1776 and served three months as
First Sergeant in Captain William Lenoir's Company, Colonel
Isaac's North Carolina Regiment.

He enlisted in the spring of 1777 and served three
months as a private in Captain Samuel Johnston's Company,
Colonel Benjamin Cleveland's North Carolina Regiment.

He enlisted in the fall of 1779 and served eighteen
months as a private in Captain William Lenoir's Company,
Colonel Benjamin Cleveland's North Carolina Regiment, and
Captain Richard Allen's Company, Colonel Locke's North
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Carolina Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
April 10, 1833, while a resident of Monroe County, Indiana. 
He died there December 7, 1837.
Soldier married in Surry County, North Carolina,
July 6, 1795 or 1796, Catharine Reed and she was allowed
pension on her application executed November 14, 1843,
while a resident of Monroe County, Indiana, aged sixty
six years.
Their children were Hannah, married William Puett;
Meredith; Alfred; Curtis; Sarah; Rebecca, and Carlton.
The following were children by a former Marriage,
name of wife not stated: Elizabeth, James, Samuel, Polly,
Benjamin, Pleasant, Nancy and Milly.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
Page 99

April 20, 1927

Letter is the
same, only
married name
not stated


Mrs. Owen Barber
220 Dickson St.,
Plymouth, Indiana

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Rev-
Page 100

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
December 19, 1925

Ruth C. Guy
428 North Oak St.,
Danville, Ill.

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim W. 27457 it appears that
George Parks, or Parkes, was born August 5, 1759 in Amherst
County, Virginia -. [illegible] boy 5 & [illegible]  Yadkin River- Wilkes Co.  N.C.

While a resident of Rowan County (which was later
Wilkes County), North Carolina he enlisted in the summer
of 1776 and served three months as first sergeant in Captain
William Lenoir's Company, Colonel Isaacs' North Carolina
Regiment. assisted   Fort Defiance Yadkin River
[illegible] substituted Cornelius Sale Sr.

He enlisted in the spring of 1777 and served three
months as private in Captain Samuel Johnston's Company, Colonel
Benjamin Cleveland's North Carolina Regiment.

He enlisted in the fall of 1779 and served eighteen
months as private in Captain William Lenoir's Company, Colonel 
Benjamin Cleveland's North Carolina Regiment, and Captain
Richard Allen's Company, Colonel Locke's North Carolina Regiment 
and was in several skirmishes with Tories. here
He was allowed pension on his application executed
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April 10, 1833 while a resident of Monroe County, Indiana.
He died December 7, 1837 in said Monroe County.

Soldier married in Surry County, North Carolina,
July 8, 1795 or 1796, Catharine Reed. She was allowed
pension on her application executed November 14, 1843
while a resident of Monroe County, Indiana aged sixty-six
years. [illegible] In 1856 she was living in Dallas County, Texas.

Their children were: Hannah who married William Puett, Dd 1797
1843 [illegible] Monroe Co. Ind.
Meredith, Alfred, Curtis, Sarah, Rebecca and Carlton.

The following were children by a former marriage,
name of wife not given: Elizabeth, James born about 1781,
was
Samuel, Polly, Benjamin, Pleasant, Nancy and Milly. was state legislature Monroe Co Ind
Was Col.l militia- [illegible] represents [illegible] co
[illegible] Legislature

Respectfully,
Winfield Scott
Commissioner.

Bro. Samuel in service
Nephew Henry Parks
Bro in law Cornelius Sale
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February 9, [illegible]

BA-j/OC
George Parks or Parkes
W.27457
Daniel Moore
S.7249
Mrs. L.B. Taylor

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request
the Revolutionary War record of George Parks who served as
captain in the North Carolina troops and that of Daniel Moore
of Virginia or North Carolina.

You are furnished herewith the only Revolution
record found of a George Parks who served with the North Carolina
troops, or of a Daniel Moore who served with the North Carolina
or Virginia troops.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator