Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46,254, for Hugh Mc Crary, North Carolina
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE
NC

McCrary, Hugh

NUMBER
S.46,254

Born in Ireland
CONTENTS
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

7520
West Tennessee
Hugh McCrary
of Bedford Co. in the State of W. Tenn.
who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Raford of the Regt. Commanded by Col. Thaxter in the N. C.
line for 15 mo. prvt [private] Inf
7 “ “ Con.

Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee
at the rate of 79 Dollars 16 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of April 
1833 and sent to J. McKisick Shelbyville

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $158.32
Semi=anl. [annual] allowance ending 4 Sept. 39.58
$197.60

{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Daniel Boyd, Clerk,
Book E Vol. 7 Page 88
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Know all men by these Presents that I John McCrory one of the children of Jane McCrory deceased the Widow of Hugh McCrory deceased who was a Pensioner when living under act of Congress passed 7th June 1832 given to him for services rendered in the Army of the Revolution. Do by virtue of these presents nominate constitute and appoint S.S. Williams my true and lawful Attorney for us and in our names to prosecute my Mother afsd [aforesaid] claim or claims in and to any pension or pensions due under Act of Congress passed 4th July 1836 or any other Act or Act of Congress heretofore passed for the services of my afsd [aforesaid] father in Army of Revolution and to administer on Estate of my late mother in Court or Courts holding in and for the United States and do any other act he may deem proper, my aforesaid father died on March 28th 1836 and my mother died on 9th day of February 1838 and left the following persons Hannah, John, Mary and Hugh the latter died after his mother. 
Given under my hand and Seal on this 14th April 1852 
In presence of R. S. Thomas} 
Lesley Taylor} 
John McCrory for the heirs {Seal}
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State of Tennessee} 
Bedford County}
I an acting Justice of the Peace do certify personally appeared John McCrory the above declarant is personally known to me and known to be a Gentleman of truth and respectability in whose statements the fullest faith and credit should be placed and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his own act and deed 
Given under my hand this day 14th of April 1852 

R. S. Thomas {J. P}
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State of Tennessee}
Bedford County} I John H. Oneal, Clerk of the County Court of said County, do hereby certify in that R.S. Thomas, whose genuine signature appear to the foregoing Certificate is now and was at the time of assigning the same, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly Elected and qualified as such and that full faith and credit is due to all his official acts as such 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of Bedford County Court, at office in Shelbyville, April 16th 1852 
John H. Oneal, Clerk
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State of Tennessee} 
Bedford County} SS
On this the 14th day of April 1852 Personally appeared before me R S Thomas an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State, afsd [aforesaid] John McCrory aged about (64) sixty four years who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed 4th July 1836. 
To Wit that he is the second child and heir at Law of Hugh McCrory who was a pensioner under act of Congress passed 7th June 1832, given to him for services rendered in the army of the Revolution which pension he received up to the time of his death at Eighty dollars or more. My afsd [aforesaid] father and mother were married in 1786, my Sister Hannah age about sixty five years old is father and mothers first child, and Mary age above fifty eight years old is father and mothers youngest child and that he has a record of all their ages which he now presents, the record is in the old family Bible and he has always heard it said that his father and mother were married in Mecklenburg Co "State of North Carolina. that his sister Hannah Father and Mothers first child was married to John Major in 1815 and my father and mothers Youngest child Mary was married in 1814. She was the youngest
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and was married first, they were both married in Bedford County Tennessee. I most respectfully ask the Hon” [Honorable] Commissioner to cause the claim to be allowed. 
Given under my hand this 14th day April 1852
Sworn to and subscribed before}
me on the day and year afsd [aforesaid]} 
John McEmory {seal}

R. S. Thomas {J. P.} for Bedford County 
I do certify that the word "May "was erased in the declaration 
R. S. Thomas {J. P.}

Ruben Manley 
Makes the following Affidavit to wit that he was well acquainted with Hugh McCrory deceased he got acquainted with him about the year 1814, and I have always heard it said that they were married in Mecklenburg County North Carolina and that the afsd [aforesaid] Jane McCrory decd [deceased] was the widow of Hugh McCrory decd [deceased] the pensioner who received his pension for service rendered in the Army of the Revolution. I know both of the afsd [aforesaid] person for a number of years and heard them speak of the marriage frequently, the afsd [aforesaid] Jane McCrory was Known as a lady of Veracity and respectability amongst us and to the best of my knowledge I think
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She is entitled to a pension under the act of Congress passed 4th July 1836.
Sworn to and subscribed} 
Before me the 14th April 1852} 
[crossed out - James Fizzell] Reuben Manly 

R S. Thomas {J. P.} for Bedford County 

I do certify that the above signature James Frizzell was erroneously placed 
R. S. Thomas {J. P.}

James Frizzell
Makes the following affidavit, To Wit that he was well acquainted with Hugh McCrory decd [deceased] for at least twenty five years or more and that I have often heard him speak of receiving his pension for his services rendered in the Army of the revolution granted to him by Congress in 1832 - also heard him speak about his marriage in Mecklenburg County North Carolina, when he died he left Jane McCrory his only widow who died about two years after him and that the for said Jane McCrory decd [deceased] is the widow of the same Hugh McCrory the pensioner, The family are Known to be of the highest respectability. Amongst us 
Sworn to and Subscribed. Before me}
on the 14th day of April 1852} James Frizzell 
R. S. Thomas {J. P.} for Bedford County
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I the Just subscribed Magistrate do certify that the above declarant is personally known to me and Known to be Gentleman of truth and respectably in whose statements, the fullest truth and faith should be placed. Given under my hand on this the 14th day of April 1852 

R S. Thomas {J. P.} for Bedford County
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State of Tennessee} 
Bedford County} SS 
On this the 19th day of August in the year 1832 -- personally appeared before John B. Armstrong, John L. Neill and Samuel Phillips Esqr [Esquire] -- Justices appointed to hold the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County and State aforesaid for the year 1832, Hugh McCrory, a citizen of and resident in the County aforesaid and State of Tennessee aged about seventy-four years who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed the 7th day of June 1832.
Deponent states that he volunteered in the service of his Country in the month of May 1778 for nine months at Guilford Court House in the State of North Carolina, under Capt. Raford [Robert Raiford] of the N. Carolina line 4th Regt. we were marched to Moon's Creek in Caswell County N. C. where we remained but a short time before we rec.d [received] furloughs to return home, to rendezvous again at a minute's warning -- in the month of November of the same year we received order to join our companies and rendezvoused with the Army at Salisbury -- from which place we were ordered to Charleston in the State of South Carolina we were then marched to what was called the ten mile House, near the said Town of Charleston, where we were ordered to Savannah in the State of Georgia. The officers in command were Col. Litle [Archibald Lytle], Col. Thaxton [James Thackston] and Col. Armstrong [James Armstrong] and said deponent believes Col. Thaxton was highest in command, until said Troops arrived at a little town on Savannah River, which he thinks was called Purrysburg, at which place he thinks Genl Sumner [General Jethro Sumner] to took [take] command. He further states that the troops remained in said Purrysburg during the winter and were as he thinks under the command of Genl Howe [General Robert Howe] a short time and afterwards under Genl Lincoln [General Benjamin Lincoln] who was highest in command after the departure of Genl. Howe. He further states that in the spring they were marched up the Savannah River on the South Carolina side, opposite to the Town of Augusta in the State of Georgia at which place the said troops crossed the Savannah River into the Town of Augusta -- at which place deponent believes news was rec.d [received] that the British Army had crossed the Savannah River at or near the town of Purrysburg, and were directing their course towards Charleston in the State of S. Carolina: the troops were then marched down the Savannah River on the Georgia side to the mouth of Briar Creek
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where they recrossed into the State of South Carolina, directing their march towards Charleston. He states that on their march to Charleston they had a small skirmish with a party of British troops from whom they took several waggons [wagons] loaded as he understood and believes with Rum, this skirmish he thinks was on Edisto River, though he cannot say certainly that it was. He states that the American Army followed on after the British troops until they were at a place called Bacon's Bridge, where the Americans halted. He states that the American guard were attacked at this place, but does not think any person was killed. He states that he still continued with the said troops in their various marches and counter marches and the several skirmishes that preceded the battle at Stono [Stono Ferry June 20, 1779] and that he was in said engagement, which he thinks was on the 20th of June and on Sunday, he also thinks Col. Roberts was killed in this engagement. -- He further states that from the vicinity of this battle ground, they were marched near a place called Port Royal as he understood and believes to prevent the British from leaving Bluford [Beaufort] Island, at which place he remained until his term of service expired, that he was then marched to Bacon's Bridge, from which place he was marched to the ten mile house, where he again volunteered to guard some prisoners to Salisbury in the State of North Carolina, which service he also performed. -- He was then legally discharged from the service of his Country. His discharge was signed by Col. Lytle dated in 1789 [1779] but he does not recollect the month or day of the month. -- Which discharge he has lost many years past. -- He recollects the names of Genl. Howe and Lincoln, as commanding at different times in this campaign – Genl. Sumner, who he believes was a Brigadier Genl. of the N. Carolina Line -- Colonels Lytle, Thaxton, and Armstrong -- Majors Armstrong [John Armstrong] and Dickson [Henry Dixon] – Capts. Raiford, Lewis, Roads [Joseph Thomas Rhodes] and Chapman [Samuel Chapman]. --
Deponent further states that he again Volunteered in the service of his Country in the year 1780 under Capt. Forbis [Arthur Forbis] - in a Regiment commanded by Col. Pacely [John Paisley] in Genl. Davidson's [William Lee Davidson's] Brigade. He does not recollect the name or number of the Regiment, in Rowan County in the State of North Carolina on the Yadkin River. -- From where he marched to six mile Creek in Mecklenburg County N. C. -- where he remained during nearly all the winter. -- when he was again discharged from the service of his Country by Col. Fifer [John Phifer] to whose Regiment he had been transferred. This discharge as he believes was dated February 1781 -- which discharge has also been lost. -- He believes he served during this term of upwards of three months, but cannot say the precise time. Deponent further states that he again Volunteered in the service of his Country in 1781 and as he believes in the month of March in the Light Horse in Capt. Walker's company and was commanded by Col. or Majr Lee [Lt. Colonel Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee].
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He states that he volunteered in Guilford County and was in a few days after being mustered in the service taken Prisoner by Col. O'Neill in the State of N. Carolina by Tarleton's [Banastre Tarleton's] troopers -- the same day he was taken prisoner he understood and believed that a battle was fought between Col. Lee and a Tory Col. by the name of Piles [Dr. John Pyle], this battle was fought within two miles of the place where said deponent was taken Prisoner. -- he was under close confinement by the British for some time -- He cannot now recollect exactly how long -- He was afterwards suffered to return home on Parole where [he] remained as he now believes about two weeks, when he broke his parole and again volunteered in the service of his Country in the County of Guilford State of North Carolina in a company of Light Horse commanded by Capt. Bashares [Asa Brashears] and joined Genl. Rutherford's [Brigadier General Griffith Rutherford's] army on the Cape Fear River, near the Raft Swamps, from which place we marched to a place called the Governor's Bridge in the vicinity of Wilmington, where they remained until the British left the said Town of Wilmington, when they took possession of said Town -- From which place we were ordered home and dismissed from the service of our country -- he said deponent does not recollect whether he rec.d [received] any regular discharge for these two last terms of service or not nor can he now say how long he was in actual service during these two latter terms, but thinks it must have been between three and four months. Deponent further states that he again volunteered in the service of his Country for three months, under a man who was called Major Rutherford and who he supposes was a Quarter Master, to ride expresses and assist in the Public Store at Guilford Court House in the State of N. Carolina which term of service he faithfully performed and was legally discharged by said Major Rutherford, this discharge was dated as he believes in the year 1782, and has since been lost. -- Said Deponent further states that he does not know of any person now living by whom he could prove more fully his several terms of service than he has heretofore done by the depositions of Benjamin Starrett and Francis McAmy [Francis McKaimy], whose depositions are now in the office of the Secretary of War, or the Secretary of the Treasury, to which he wishes references made, as the said Starrett and McAmy [McKaimy] have, since said depositions were made, removed to such a distance from said deponent, that his bodily infirmities render it almost impossible for him to see them and procured new depositions to forward with this declaration.
I Hugh McCrory do hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension
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role of the agency of any State in the United States. - 
[Question] Where and in what year were you born? 
Answer, In Ireland and about the year 1758 as I have been informed – 
[Question] Have you any record of your age and if so where is it? 
Answer, I have no record 
[Question] Where were you living when called into service: where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live? 
Answer -- In the County of Guilford in the State of N. Carolina -- From thence I removed to Mecklenburg County in the State of N. Carolina -- from thence I removed to the County of Bedford and State of Tennessee where I have lived ever since – 
The two next interrogatories are fully answered in the body of the above declaration. 
State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify [as to your character] to your veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier in the revolution. 
Answer, the Rev. Richard Cardwell, William Norvelle Esquire, Ballard Caldwell, Col. Samuel Clay, Col. Samuel Mitchell, Noble L. Majors Esquire -- Reuben Manly and Nathan Chaffin Esquire. 
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid
Hugh [his X mark] McCrory
Jas McKissick, Clk [Clerk]

We Richard Cardwell a clergyman residing in the County of Bedford and State of Tennessee and William Norvell residing in the County and State aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Hugh McCrory who has subscribed and sworn, to the above declaration. That we believe him to be seventy four 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 
Richard Cardwell 
Wm Norvell 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
Jas McKissick, Clk [Clerk]
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838. Entitled an act Granting half pay and Pensions to certain widows – 
State of Tennessee}
Bedford Circuit Court} December Term 1843 
on this 20th day of December 1843. Personally appeared in open Court John McCrary and Reuben Manley Esq. of the last Will and Testament of Hugh McCrory Deceased Before the Honorable Samuel Anderson Esqr. [Esquire] Judge of the 5th Judicial Circuit of the State aforesaid, who after being sworn according to law, doth on their oaths make the following declaration in order to obtain the [the] benefit of the provision, made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled an act Granting half pay and Pensions to certain widows. – 
These deponents further state that the aforsaid [aforesaid] Hugh McCrary departed this life on the 28th day of March 1836, leaving a widow, to wit, Jane McCrary, who has since departed this life in said Bedford County on the ninth day February 1838 at the advanced age of Eighty Eight years. They further state that they found among the papers of said Hugh McCrory deceased, a pension certicate [certificate] in the words and figures following (to wit) War department Revolutionary claim. I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832. Hugh McCrory of the State of West Tennessee, who was a private in the army of the Revolution, is entitled to receive Seventy nine dollars and sixteen cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1831 and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year. Given at the War office of the United States this Seventeenth day of April one thusand [thousand] Eight hundred and thirty three. Lew Cass Secretary of War, Examined and countersigned J. L. Edwards
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Commissioner of Pensions, payment to be made at Nashville by the Trust of U. S. B. Bank, agent for paying Pensioners in the agency of West Tennessee, Recorded in the pension office in Book E. Vol. 7 Page 88 by Daniel Boyd Clerk. They further state that their is no record of the Marriage of the said Hugh McCrary to his wife, Jane McCrary now deceased, and that she has not since the death of her said husband Hugh McCrary intermarried with any other person whatsoever, they therefore claim a pension for the lawfull [lawful] heirs of the said James McCrory deceased to be placed in their hands for the benefit of said heirs, as the Executors of sd [said] Hugh McCrary Dec.d [deceased] John M Emory {seal}
Sworn to in open court 20th day of December 1843 
Reuben [his X Mark] Manley {seal} Executors 
John T Nice Clerk 

This day being 22nd day of December 1843. Personally appeared in open Court before the Hon.r [Honorable] Samuel Anderson Judge &c Noble L. Majors and James Frizzell residents of Bedford County in the State of Tennessee who after being duly sworn according to law, doth on their oaths depose and say that they were present when said Hugh McCrary mentioned in the foregoing pension certificate, departed this life, on the 28th day of March 1836 and that they saw him Burried, [buried] they also state upon their oaths that they were present when said Jane McCrary the wife of said McCrary departed this life, or shortly afterwards, they state positively that they saw her Burried [buried] and that she departed this life on the 9th day of February 1838
Sworn to in open Court 22nd of December 1843 
Noble L Majors {seal}
James [his X mark] Frizzell {seal}
John T Nice Clerk
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State of Tennessee Bedford County 
The forgoing declaration and affidavits were sworn to in open court before me Given under my hand this 23d day of Decr [December] 1843 at Shelbyville Bedford County Tennessee 
S. Anderson Judge presiding 

State of Tennessee} 
Bedford Circuit Court} December Term 1843 
I John T. Nice Clerk of the circuit court of said County, do hereby certify that John McCrory and Reuben Manley were both sworn in open Court to the foregoing declaration by them Subscribed I further certify that Noble L Majors Esq. and James Frizzell, who subscribed and were sworn in open court to the forgoing affidavit, are citizens All of said County of Bedford, and that they are men of respectability and undoubted veracity 
{JC} In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my private seal, there being no seal of said Court, done at office in Shelbyville this 23rd day of December A.D. 1843, and in the 68th year of American Independence 
John T. Nice Clk [Clerk]
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I, S Anderson one of the Judges of the circuit court in the State of Tennessee presiding for Bedford County in said State do certify that John G. Neel whose signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate is now and was at the date thereof the clerk of the Circuit Court of said County of Bedford in said State. His attestation is in due form of law and entitled to full faith and credit. 
Given under my hand & seal this 23 Dec 1843 
S Anderson {JC} Judge &c
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State of Tennessee}
Bedford County} 
Court May Term 1836} Whereas it appears to the Court here, that Hugh McCrory, late of said County, is dead, and hath made his last will and testament in writing, in which he has appointed John McCrory and Reuben Manly Executors to the same, which will hath been exhibited into Court, and proved as the law directs; It is therefore ordered by the said Court, that letters testamentary of all and singular, the goods and chattels, rights and credits of the said deceased, issue to said John McCrory and Reuben Manly; they having qualified agreeably to law. These are therefore to empower you the said John McCrory and Reuben Manly to enter into and upon all and singular, the goods & chattels, rights and credits of the said Hugh McCrory deceased, and the same into your possession take, wheresoever the same may be found, and a true and perfect inventory thereof to make and return into our said Court within the time prescribed by law, and the just debts of the said Hugh McCrory deceased, to pay, and also well and truly to pay and deliver all the legacies contained and specified in the said testament, as for as the said goods, chattels and credits will thereunto entered, and the law charges. Witness William D. Orr Clerk of our said Court at office the first Monday in May 1836. and in the 68th year of the American Independence and under the seal of the Court 
William D. Orr Clerk 
of Bedford County Court
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9880 
Jane McCrary dec.d [deceased] 
Ten: Hugh 
Act 7. July 38.
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State of Tennessee} 
Marshall County}
This day being the Fifth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Forty three personally appeared before me James V. Ewing an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid - Benjamin Thompson a citizen of said County of Marshall aged Seventy three years and upwards, who after being duly sworn agreeable to law, doth on his oath depose and say that he was well acquainted with Jane Clark of Mecklenburg County in the State of North Carolina previous to her intermarriage with Hugh McCrary - and for many years after their Marriage, lived a near nabours [neighbors] to them in said County of Mecklenburg all of which took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and Ninety four and that they passed as husband and wife during the whole time of his acquaintance with them. Sworn to and Subscribed before me the day and year above Written 
James V Ewing {seal}
J. P. for Marshall County
Benjamin [his x mark] Thompson 

I James V. Ewing do certify that I have been acquained [acquainted] with Benjamin Thompson for the last seventeen years and that he is a man of undoubted veracity and of as good standing as any man in this country 
James V. Ewing {Seal{
JP for said County
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State of Tennessee} 
Marshall County} I Martin W Oakley Clerk of the County Court of said County, certify that James V. Ewing is and was an acting justice of the peace for said county when he signed the within certificate he having been duly commissioned and qualified as such, and that the signature to the same purporting to be his is genuine and that full faith and credit is due all his official acts as such, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 5th day of October A.D. 1843 
Martin W. Oakley Clerk of said Court 

State of Tennessee} 
Marshall County} I Burgess Hardin Chairman of the County Court of Marshall do certify that Martin W. Oakley whose signature appears to the above certificate is clerk of our County Court of Marshall duly elected and qualified for the same and that his certificate is due form of law that the seal attached to the same is the only seal used in said office and that full faith and credit an due all his official acts –
Given under my hand and seal this 5th day of October 1843 
Burgess Hardin {seal} chairman of Marshall County Court
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[crossed out - Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.]

[Stamped] – REJECTED 
[written sideways] Own

6667
P. O. Hugh McCrary

Service: _________

Enlisted: ____ ,18
Discharged: _____ ,18

Application filed: _____ ,18

Alleges: ______

Re-enlisted: ______

Attorney: ____
P. O. ____
___Recognized.  _____ Contract.

[written sideways] For papers see Ad ow Inv file #46,254
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

(3-230.)

No. 

[written sideways] 46254 Own

Name Hugh McCrary 
Rank: Private, Comp’y [Company] Raford 
Regt: Col. Thaxter N. C. 
{Agency. 
RATE PER MONTH, AND DATE OF COMMENCEMENT. 
1st. issue. { ---- Comm'g [Commencing]
2d issue. { ---- Comm'g [Commencing]
3d issue. { ---- Comm'g [Commencing]

DATE OF CERTIFICATE, AND TO WHOM SENT. 
1st issue. { ---- Sent to
2d issue. { ---- Sent to
3d issue. { ---- Sent to

Act 14th July, 1862. Bk. G. Vol. Page 
[R]egistering Clerk: 
[cut off]ability.}
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Act 7 July 1838 
9880 
Let to Hon G. W. Jones 
Jany [January] 26. 1844 
S. S. Williams July 28 1852 

6667
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Apl 30/52
Appl of Jane McCrory dead widow of Hugh Ten 32 

S. Williams P resent

[written upside down] Kirby

[written sideways] J. E. Heath Esq. Com. of Pens.
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Own Rej Files 

#6.667 

Hugh McCrary, 

Papers consl.d [consolidated?] with Ad. O.W. 
Inv. Files #46.254
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State of Tennessee} 
Bedford County} sct 
I, Judge or Clerk of the County Court of the County and State afsd [aforesaid] do certify that it was on this day satisfactory approved to me that Hugh McCrory decd [deceased] who was a pensioner under Act of Congress passed 7th June 1832, given to him for his services in the Army of the Revolution, that he died on the 28th March 1836 and left Jane McCrory his widow who died on the 9th day of February 1838 and left Hannah, John, Mary and Hugh (the latter died after his mother) the rest are her only living children 
Given under my hand and seal of office on this the sixteenth day of April 1852 
John H. Oneal, Clerk
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Ho of Reps Jany [January] 2nd 1844

Hon J.L. Edwards 
Comr [Commissioner] of Pensions 

Sir 
I have the honor to enclose herewith the declaration of John McCrory & Reubin Manly Esq. of the last will of Hugh McCrory Decd [deceased] for Pension which you will please examine at your earliest convenience and inform me of your decision 
Respectfully 
G. W. Jones
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Washington April 29/52

J E. Heath Esq

D Sir
I herewith file in your office the application of the heirs of Jane McCrory for your investigation - if you shall find they are entitled please direct certificate to 
Your Ob Svt [Obedient Servant]
J. S. Williams
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Shelbyville T.} Free 
[June?] 8}
The hon. S. D. Ingham 
Secretary of the Treasury 
Washington City
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Recd [Received] 22 June 1831 
3910.
Bedford Cty [County] Ten. June 4th 1831 

Dear Sir}

I received yours of the 6th of May Last wich [which] inform [informed] me that my claims could not be examined untill [until] I stated the company & Regiment I belonged at the close of the War - at the close of the war I served in Capt. Barret's Company of Lee's Regiment of horse I was taken sick and was furlowed [furloughed] by Col. Lee to return home this was the last Company and Regiment I served in after I Recovered my health I acted as an assistant comissary [commissary] at Gilard [Guilford] Court house under Maj Rutherford a continental officer of the North Carolina Line but at this day I do not recollect what Regiment he belong [belonged.] I was discharged by said Rutherford at the end of the war. 
I am your &c – s [signed] Hugh McCrary
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State of Tennessee} 
Bedford County} Personally appeared before me William Norvell one of the acting Justice of the Peace for said County Benjamin Starritt & made oath in due form of law that he was acquainted with Hugh McCrory Senr. [Senior] in the year 1778 & 1779 in the Regular Army under Genl Lincoln. After I joined the horse I was still acquainted with the said McCory when he was taken prisoner by the British at Gifford [Guilford], under Genl Green [General Nathanael Greene] them after the said McCrory was exchanged he Joined the horse under Genl Green & Continued in the Regular servis [service] of the United States army of the North Carolina Line untill [until] the close of the ware [war.] – 

Sworn to & subscribed before me this 3 day of September 1830 
B. Starritt
Wm Norvell J P
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[Illegible letter crossed out]
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Shelbyville T
Apl [April] 24 free
S. D. Ingham 
Secretary of the Treasury 
Washington City
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Recd [Received] May 1831 
Bedford Cty. [County] Ten. April 22nd 1831 p842 

Dear Sir}
I received yours of the 17th March last which inform[ed] me that I did not mention the state in whose Quota I served nor sufficiently indicated the corps or Regiment to which I belonged --- I first inlisted [enlisted] under Capt. Rayford fourth Regiment of North Carolina Regulars commanded by Col. Thaxton under General Sumner in 1778, and marched to Charlestown in South Carolina from thence to Peningsburg [Purrysburg] on savaner [the Savannah] river then Genl [General Benjamin] Lincoln took the command & I was marched to Augusta in Georgia & from there to Stono in South Carolina after the Battle of Stono the 4th and 5th Regiments were put together and commanded by Col Lytle I continued in the Regular service untill [until] after Genl Gates [Major General Horatio Gates] was defeated towards the close of that year I was discharged by Col Lytle in Salsbury [Salisbury] N. Carolina 1780 – 
In the year 1781. I enlisted (for during the ware [war]) in the Light horse under Capt. Walker whose company joined Col Lee's [Major General Charles Lee] Regiment of Draggoons [Dragoons] a short time before the Battle of Gildford [Guilford] a few days before that
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Battle I was taken Prisoner in a Skirmish Genl Green [General Nathanael Greene] Commanded at Gilford [Guilford] After I was exchanged I joined the horse again under Capt. Beshears and marched against the Brittish [British] & torys [Tories] at the Raft Swamps S. Carolina I was then joined to Genl Rutherford [General Griffith Rutherford's] Brigade Maj. Grimes command[ed] the horse. I was at the Utaw springs [Eutaw Springs] under Genl Green [General Greene] from their [there] I march[ed] to Gildford [Guilford] Court house & at the close of the war I was discharged by Maj Rutherford I was under some more officers during the war But it was a short time & they are two [to] tedious to mention I have stated all the particulars of my services 
I remain yours &c - 
Hugh McCrary

S. D. Ingham Secretary of the Treasury -
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Respectfully referred to the Hon. J. D. Ingham Secretary of the Treasury.
War Department
Pension Office
March 8th 1831
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Hugh McCrary 
Bedford Co Tennessee 

from 1778 private 
of Con. & Inf. 22 mths. [months]
Pr Inf. 15 months $50
 " Con. 7 “ 29.16
$79.16

Cap Raford 
Thaxton 
N. C. 

J. McKisick 
Shelbyville Tennessee
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Hugh McCrary which require further proof or explanation. 

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes 

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes 

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? 

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes 

V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout [amount] of pension he is entitled? No 

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes 

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes 

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes 

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? 

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes 

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? --

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? yes 

XIV. +If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? 
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? not on Rolls 

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? 

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No 

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? Yes

EXPLANATORY NOTES. 
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For -- year -- months and -- days, I served as a --. For -- months and -- days, I served as a --; and for such service I claim a pension."
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. 
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service. 
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers. 
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. 

The affidavits alluded to in the declaration were returned to the claimant on the 14 Oct. 1830 and do not appear to have been again recd [received] at the War dept.
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Shelbyville T. Revolutionary papers
Feby 16 [Free crossed out] 50

J. L. Edwards
Pension Office
Washington City;

[written upside down] Pension Office March 3, 1832
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Shelbyville Ten Revolutionary papers
July 31 Free

Asbury Dickins 
Acting Secty [Secretary] of the Treasury 
Washington City
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Recd [Received] Aug. 12th 1831
1828 papers to be consld [consolidated ?] with Ad OW 
Inv File 
#46,254
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Recd [Received] 12th Augt. [August] 1831 - 4003

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution Approved on the 15th day of May 1828" 
I Hugh McCrory of the County of Bedford in State of Tennessee do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the war and continued in its service until its termination at which time I was a private in Capt. Barrett's company which company was attached to Col. Lee's Regt. of Horse -- soon after the battle of the Eutaw Springs I was taken sick and furloughed by my Capt. Barrett after which I never joined his company but was retained in the service of Major Rutherford for the purpose of carrying letters from one garrison to another and assisting in pricing provisions for the Army &c I was not a Commissioned Commissary as you suppose from your last letter but only assisted in pricing provisions &c as I before stated I was discharged by Rutherford but by what authority I know not he might have been only a Commissary or forage Master for what I know nothing I do not know I was attached to Col. Lee's Regt. of Horse and in Capt. Barrett's company and was discharged after the close of the war at Guilford Court House &c 
I have heretofore made proof by Mr. McCrory [Francis McKaimy] of my having been in the Army &c and of which
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is now on file in your office &c
And I further declare that I was not on fifteenth day of March 1828 on the Pension List of the United States. 
I have now given you all the information in my power which may be of any service in pricing my Pension if you think that I am entitled to pay, say so if not, let me know for the time will shortly arrive when it will be of no service to me I could recount the many engagements in which I was engaged but it would be needless - &c – 
[Signed] Hugh McCrory

[paragraph crossed out - State of Tennessee} Bedford County} Before me an acting Justice of the peace for the County of Bedford and State of Tennessee personally appeared this day Hugh McCrary of the County and state aforesaid who did severely make oath that the forgoing]
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[crossed out - declaration is true as therein stated witness my hand this the 30 day of July 1831]
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant. was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states – 
And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Richard Cardwell who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman resident of the County of Bedford and State of Tennessee and that William Norwell Esqr [Esquire] who has also signed the same is a resident in the County and State aforesaid and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
Jos Neil 
Samuel Phillips 
John B Armstrong 

I James McKisick Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Session of Bedford County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Hugh McCrory for a pension. --- 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of office this 15th day of August 1832 
J. McKisick
Additional Evidence in the case of the application of Hugh McCrary

State of Tennessee} 
Bedford County Court} February Term 1833 
On this 9th Day of February 1833 Personally appeared in open Court Francis McKaimiy [S.1853] a resident of said County who after being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith, that he said deponent was
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a Soldier in the War of the Revolution, and while Serving as such he became acquainted and knew Hugh McCrory at the time a citizen of Guilford County in the State of North Carolina, and that said McCrory was at that time a Soldier in the Army of the United States -- deponent thinks it was in the spring of the year 1778 and that said McCrory did serve a tour of duty as a private Soldier for nine months. Deponent further states that afterwards he knew said McCrory in the service again in the early part of the year 1781 and that said McCrory was taken prisoner a short time before the Battle of Guilford, but how long he had been in service before he was taken prisoner deponent does not recollect, deponent further says that said McCrory has always supported the character of an Honest Citizen and that he never heard his character for veracity questioned by any person whatever. Deponent states that he (himself) is at this time upwards of Seventy years of age. Sworn to in open Court the day and year aforesaid. 
[Singed] Francis McKaimy
Jas. McKissick, Clk [Clerk]

And it appears to said Court, upon examination, that said Francis McKaimy who has subscribed and was qualified to the preceding affidavit that he is a credible person and that his statements upon oath are entitled to credit, done in open creed this 9th day of February 1833.
Samuel Phillips 
Wm McClure 
Jos B. Armstrong
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An amendment to the declaration of Hugh McCrory made at August Term 1832 of Bedford County Court in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832.

State of Tennessee] 
Bedford County} 
Personally appeared before me the undersigned an acting Justice of the peace for said County Hugh McCrory who subscribed and was qualified to the declaration above alluded to, who after being sworn deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively to the precise length of his Service; but according to the best of his Recollection he served not less than the periods [mentioned] below and in the following grades, to wit 
That he served not less than nine months on his first tour as a private Soldier and volunteer in Capt. Raiford's company as mentioned in the declaration above alluded to, and that he served not less than three months on his second tour under Capt. Forbes and that he served not less than four months a light horseman, private Soldier, and volunteer in Capt. Walker's company; and that he served not less than three months as a private Soldier, volunteer and light horseman in Capt. Brashears Company, and that upon his last tour of duty he served not less than three months, under Major Rutherford, as a private Soldier, making in the
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whole time of my actual Service of not less than one year and ten months for which he claims a pension -- Sworn to and Subscribed this day being the 11th day of February 1833
Samuel Clay, J. P.
Hugh [his X mark] McCrory

I James McKissick Clerk of the Court of Pleas and quarter Sessions for Bedford County in the State of Tennessee do certify that the foregoing contains the original and all of the proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Hugh McCrary for a pension and that William Nowell Esq before whom Benjamin Starrett was sworn was on the day of the date thereof an acting justice of the peace for said County and that Joseph Rosson Esqr before whom John McCrary was sworn [crossed out – was and still in] and now is and was on the day of the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace for Bedford County, also that Samuel Clay before whom the amendment to the original Declaration was sworn to is now and was on the day of the date thereof an acting justice of the peace in & for Bedford County. 
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of Office at office in Shelbyville the 13th day of February AD 1833 
Jas McKissick Clk [Clerk]
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John McCrory’s Affidavit
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State of Tennessee} 
Bedford County} January Fourteenth Eighteen Hundred and thirty three 

this Day John McCrary Personally appeared Before Me Joseph Rosson an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County oath and made oath in due form of law that He was Well acquainted with Hugh McCrary of Guilford County North Carolina, and that he the sd [said] Hugh McCrary Went a nine Months tower [tour] to South Carolina, as a volunteer or substitute he is not certain which. He also says that it was in 1779 or 80 He is not certain which that the said Hugh McCrary Started From Guilford Court House in the Nine months service - also he says that the said Hugh McCrary and Himself went another tower [tour] in 1781 under Capt. John Walker and that the sd [said] Hugh McCrary was taken Prisner [prisoner] by tarltons Draggoons [Tarleton’s Dragoons] in Orange County of North Carolina - the said John McCrary further states that from the information given him by his Father. He was born in the month of May in 1763 Whic [which] makes him about Seventy years old
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Sworn to and subscribed Before me this 14th Day of January 1833 
Test
Joseph Rosson {JP}
[signed] John McCrary 

I Do Hereby Certify that I have been acquainted with the above named John McCrary about 16 in Seventeen years and that I believe him to Be a Man Entitled to Full Credit - Given under My hand and seal at office this 14th Day of January 1833
Joseph Rosson {JP}
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1937

State of Tennessee}
Bedford County} February the 12th 1831
for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of “an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved on the 18th of May 1828. I Hugh McCrory of the County of Bedford and State of Tennessee do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental Army of the Revolution in the year 1778 in Gilford [Guilford] County N Carolina under Captain Raford of the N. Carolina line who was attached to General Sumners [Brigadier General Jethro Sumner] Briggade [Brigade] from this Briggade [Brigade] I was transferred to Genl Lincoln and continued with him in South Carolina until 1781 when I was discharged in July same year under the command of Colonel Lytle -- after my first term of service and expired in the Spring March of 1781. I enlisted during the war in a company of light Dragoons commanded by Captain Williams which company was attached to Genl Greens [General Greene] Brigade or Division and continued in the service untill [until] the close of the war except what time I was a prisoner of war having been taken at the battle of Gulford [Guilford] but was soon exchanged and Joined Genl Green at the close of the war I was discharged by Majr [Major] Rotherford [General Griffith Rutherford] at Guildford [Guilford] Court house in the State of North Carolina at which period I was a private soldier –
And I also declare that I afterwards received a certificate for the record of eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed on the 15th of May 1778. 
And I further declare that I was not on the 15th day of March 1828 on the Pension List of the United States
[signed] Hugh McCrary

Sworn to before me Saml Clay an acting Justice of the peace in Bedford Cty [County] 
Act 1828
46,254 OK
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State of Tennessee} 
Bedford County} Feby the 12th 1831
Before me Saml Clay – an acting Justice of the peace for the Court of Redford in the State of Tennessee personally appeared this day Francis McClary of the County of Bedford and State aforesaid being a man of Good repute did make the following oath or affidavit, that he was well acquainted with Hugh McCrary who made the forgoing Declaration in the Revolutionary war in the year 1778 & 1779 in the continental army of the Revolution, during the time he was attached to the army under General Lincoln I knew Hugh McCrory well after he had joined the Regular Corps under the command of General Green, he was at the Battle of Guilford under the command of Green I recollect well that he was in the Continental line at the close of the war I am well satisfied that said McCrory Continued in the service untill [until] the termination of the war & that he was discharged at the time the army was disbanded. I can not say positively that he enlisted during the war as I did not see him enlist. But our fathers lived in one mile of each other and always understood that it was for during the war he enlisted Hugh McCrary who signed the forgoing declaration is the same Idential [identical] man who I knew in the Revolutionary war at the several times and as above stated
[signed] Francis McClary
Sworn to before me}
Saml Clay J. P.}

State of Tennessee} 
Bedford County} Feby the 12th 1831

Before me Giles Burdett an acting Justice of the peace in the County of Bedford and State of Tennessee personally appeared this day Benjamin Starritt of the County of Bedford and State aforesaid and who is now on the Pension List of the U. S. did make the following oath as affidavit that he was acquainted with Hugh McCrory who made the foregoing declaration in the revolutionary war in the year 1778 and 1779 in the Continental
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Army of the Revolution during the time he was attached to the Army under General Lincoln. I knew Hugh McCrory well after he had joined the Regular Corps under the command of General Greene, he was at the Battle of Guilford under the command of Greene. I recollect well that he was in the Continental Line at the close of the war, I am well satisfied that said McCrory continued in the service until the Termination of the War and that he was discharged at the time the Army was disbanded. I cannot say positively that he enlisted during the war as I did not see him enlist but I so understood then and have no doubt now but that he did enlist during the war, Hugh McCrory who signed the foregoing declaration is the same Identical man who I knew in the Revolutionary war at the several times as above stated. 
Sworn to before me Giles Burdett, J P 
[Signed] B. Starritt

State of Tennessee Ss
I James McKissick clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter sessions for the County of Bedford in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that Samuel Clay and Giles Burdett Esquires before whom the foregoing affidavits and certificates ever given, now are and were at the time of signing their names to the same acting Justices of the peace in the County aforesaid and that they have been duly commission and qualified as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Bedford County Court this 14th day of February 1831 
Jas McKissick Clerk
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State of Tennessee}
Bedford County} I James Brittain pending Justice of the Court of pleas and quarter sessions for said County do hereby certify that James McKissick whose name appear affixed to the foregoing certificate is Clerk of the said Court over which I preside and that his attestation is in due form of Law Given under my hand and office in Shelbyville this 14th day of Febry [February] A.D. 1831
{James Brittain 
{Chairman of Bedford 
{County Court