Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10834, Joshua Hightower, S.C. Va.
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SERVICE
S.C.
Va.
Hightower, Joshua

NUMBER
S10834

Carded
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[Document is in poor condition, portions of document are  missing.]
31835
Hightower
[illegible] in the State of Alabama
as a private in the Company. command
Captain Glenn of the Regt command
Col. Fleming in the Virginia 
6 months. Va. and S.C. Mch 23/25
Records completed.
on the Roll of Tuscaloosa
... of 20 - Dollars ___Cents per annum
the 4th day of March, 1831.
of Pension issued the 15th day of March 1841 _____ and sent to Hon. Jas. Dillett Claiborne, Alabama
to the 4th of Sept. 1840 $190:
semi annual allowance ending 4 March '41 $10:
[total]$200:
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Wm C Lantzinger
Book E. 2
Vol. 8
Page 90

Date of death not on AB
Reported
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13942
Joshua Hightower
Alabama

Allow of six months.

Hon Jas Dellett
HR
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Declaration of Joshua Hightower of Marengo County in the state of Alabama in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832 the State of Alabama} Marengo County}
On this 26 day of September 1840 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace and for the County & State aforesaid Joshua Hightower a resident of said County of Marengo & State aforesaid aged one hundred and one years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein dated this affiant was born in Richmond County in the state of Virginia in the year 1739. Some time after 
 hostilities had commenced between the American Colonies and the mother country, and some two or three years before the declaration of Independence, this affiant cannot State distinctly the precise dates he entered the service as a volunteer in Brunswick County in the State of Virginia in a company commanded by Captain Glenn but this affiant cannot recollect his Christian name.  The company of Captain Glenn in which this affiant served was placed under the command of General Muhlenberg - William Fleming was the Colonel of the Regiment in which this affiant served and a man named Bernis Jones was a major. Lewis Holloway this affiant knew was a Lieutenant in the Company - The troop force placed under General Muhlenberg was marched to a place called Long Bridge or The Long Bridge on the edge of North Carolina where a British Colonel named Fordice had built
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a Fort and was occupying the same with his Command.
This affiant was present and was in the attack upon
this Fort and in the taking of the same - The Fort
consisted in breastworks thrown up and was
occupied by the British forces but a few weeks.
In the attack upon this Fort or breastwork a
considerable number of the British were killed
and among the number killed was the Commanding 
Officer of the British whose name this affiant
thinks was Fordice- This fort or breastwork was
on a River called at the time Elzabeth or Elizabeth 
which empties into the James River not far 
from Portsmouth in Virginia. This affiant
recollects the River was navigable for Small
Boats as high as the long Bridge the place at
which the first battle in which he participates
was fought. This affiant was engaged in this
service about four weeks. He cannot at this
distance of time recollect to state the time precisely.
Within three or four weeks after this service was closed
this affiant again entered the service as a volunteer
in a company commanded by Captain Howell
Eldredge was under the same Col William Fleming
and also under the same General Muhlenberg.
The affiant volunteered upon this occasion to serve
nine months and was stationed at a place called
Babb and full or near which a man named Head & another had mills & there was a smaller town at the
place which had been destroyed by the British but
this affiant cannot recollect its name. This affiant
served the nine months for which he volunteered
and was sent out frequently on scouting parties to
different places during the time - at the experation 
of their term of nine months General Muhlenberg
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requested the volunteers under his command to remain
in service twenty eight days longer until the arrival 
of General Washington who was expected from
the north with the regular army. The volunteers &
this affiant among the number [illegible] the
request and remained in service the twenty eight days.
General Washington failing to arrive
with his army Colonel William Fleming requested the volunteers to remain in service still longer
and they continued about twenty days
longer and were then discharged, but this
affiant has no recollection that he received
a written discharge. Within a very few days
after being discharged from this tour of service
the British took & burnt Petersburg in Virginia.
General Steuben understood by this affiant to have
been a frenchman was in command of some force
at Chesterfield Court House in Virginia, and the
affiant again volunteered under Captain Buckner Stith
who joined the forces commanded by Genl
Steuben and was marched with the forces under
his command to a place called Ping fork on
James River at which place Genl Steuben had a
small skermish with the British, and 
then marched his men into Prince William County.
Where the affiant was again discharged and
went home after having served not more than
Twelve days.  After remaining at home about
three months this affiant again entered the service
as a volunteer under one Captain Frederick Lucas
and was carried to the Head Quarters of General
LaFayette who was called by the troops 
Genl Demarcus or Marquis this affiant was under the command of Genl 
La Fayette at James Town
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and was in a fight at James Town with the British. This affiant served his 
tour about five months and after the close of it volunteered under one Captain Saipes and went into North Carolina under Col. Peter Horry for a time of nine months and served out the time as after his Commission of Service was over. This affiant again volunteered under Captain James Saipes and went to James Town, while at James Town under the command of Colonel Richard Elliott, Colonel Dicks arrives at the place and directs Col. Elliott to discharge all his men except one Company. This one Company that remains in Service was Commanded by Captain Buckner Stith and this official belongs to it. Captain Stith moved easily, marched his Company to York Town. 
and joined his regiment of Col. Dick in [illegible] from Jamestown to York town.
Captain Sithes company [illegible] several hundred reading cable afar our arrival at York town we [illegible] during the siege upon digging [illegible] most of the time, for about twenty days before Lord Cornwallis surrendered his arms to General Washington. After the surrender we remained at York Town four or five days and then marched with the British prisoners to the Bank of the Shanandoah River near Winchester as a part of the guard. In going from York Town to the Shanandoah River this official was under the Command of his Captain Buckner Stith, Thomas James was Colonel and General Merriwether had Command of the American Troops sent to guard the prisoners.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
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[or annuity] to a pension or annuity except the
present and declares that his name is not on the
pension roal of the agency of any state
Joshua Hightower

Sworn to & Subscribed before
me this 26 September 1840.
John Schirm J.P.

We John Collier - a clergy man serving in 
the County of Marengo and State of Alabama and
Benjamin G. Shields residing in the same County
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
Joshua Hightower who has subscribed and
Sworn to the above declaration that we believe
him to be at least one hundred years of age
that he is reputed and believed in the neighbor
hood where he resides to have been a soldier of
the Revolution and may we concur in that
opinion
John Collier
B. G. Shields

Sworn to & subscribed before 
the undersigned Justice of the
Peace in for said County
B. G. Shields
the 22 day of October 1840
J A Martinere

I concur in the above expressed opinion

Interrogatories propounded by the undersigned
Justice of the Peace to the said Joshua Hightower
1. where and in what year were you born
answer in Richmond County in Virginia in the
year 1739
2d Have you any record of your age, and if so
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where is it
Answer I have no record of my age but state the
time from information of my parents [illegible]
when I was young but remember the year
[illegible] by [illegible]
Where were you living when called into
service, where have you lived since the
Revolutionary war and where do you
now live
Answer - In Brunswick County in Virginia
having removed from Richmond to Brunswick
where about eight or ten years old - Brunswick 
County I removed to Wilkes County in
Georgia after the close of the war but 
dont recollect the year lived in [illegible]
County till the year 1819 and that
year removed to the Alabama
have lived in Mingo County Alabama
since 1819 to the present time
How were you called into service
answer I voluntered upon every occasion
where I served
State the names of some of the regular
officers with whom you are
I have already stated the names of such
as I served under and have already explained
the circumstances attending my service as
fully as any memory will now enable me - 
If the [illegible] of Col Dicks Regiment are
in existence or the roll of 
the company in which I served can be 
found I have no doubt my name will
appear. I do not know whether any
the wills are in existence or not - I filed
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a declaration of my services as a revolutionary
soldier shortly after the law of 1832
passed and had it forwarded to the war
department by mail but have never
heard from it since. I engaged the services
of a lawyer to present my claim in proper
legal form several years ago & he has
been often urged to allow to my business
but he postponed it from time to time
and finally died without doing any
thing with my business - I state this to
explain the delay which has occurred in
preping my claims - Joshua Hightower
John Schirm J.P.

The said Joshua Hightower being duly sworn
says that he is unable by reason of extreme
old age and consequent bodily infirmity
to attend Court to make this declaration
and therefore has made the same before a
Justice of the Peace 
Joshua Hightower
John Schirm JP

I do hereby certify that in my opinion
Joshua Hightown now present before me
is too aged & infirm to attend Court with
reasonable convenience or comfort to himself 
John Shinn J.P.
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State of Alabama}  I Thomas J. Woolf Clerk of the
Marengo County}  County Court of said County do
hereby certify that John Sherim and Julius A. Martinere
whose names appear to the foregoing within instrument of
writing are and were at the date of the same acting
Justices of the peace in and for said County and State
and all their official acts as such are and ought
to be entitled to full faith and credit as such
In Testimony of which I have hereunto set
my hand seal of office at office in [illegible] on
this the 21st day of November AD 1840 and
65th year of the Independence of the United States
T. J. Woolf
Clerk

13.942
Joshua Hightower
Alabama

Hon. Jas Dellet
HR
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September 22, 1939.
BA-J/CC
Joshua Hightower
S.10834
Mrs. E.D. Turner
1208 South Main Street,
Cedartown, Georgia.

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Thomas, Richard, William, Joseph and John Hightower, stating that there were nine brothers.

You are furnished herein the history of Joshua Hightower, the only soldier with that surname found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.  The data given below were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S.10834, based upon the military service of that soldier in the Revolutionary War.

Joshua Hightower was born in 1739, in Richmond County, Virginia, and when eight or ten years of age moved to Brunswick County, Virginia.

While residing in said Brunswick County, Virginia, he volunteered, date not given, and served four weeks as a private in Captain Dunn's company, Colonel William Fleming's Virginia regiment, and was in a battle at the Long Bridge on "Elizabeth River near the edge of North Carolina"; in three or four weeks after the termination of the above service, he again enlisted and served ten months and eighteen days in Captain Howell Eldridge's company, Colonel William Fleming's Virginia regiment; and again enlisted and served about twelve days in Captain Buckner Stith's Virginia company and was in a skirmish at "Piney Fork" on the James River.  In about three months he again enlisted and served five months in Captain Frederick Lucas' Virginia company and was in the battle of Jamestown under General LaFayette; after the close of this tour, he served nine months in Captain Snipes' company, Colonel Peter Horry's regiment; he later enlisted and served under Captain
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after which he marched as a guard to the prisoners taken at Yorktown, as far as the Shenandoah River, near Winchester, Virginia. No dates are given for any of the above services.

After the Revolution, he moved from Brunswick County, Virginia to Wilkes County, Georgia, where he lived until 1819, then moved to Marengo County, Alabama.

There are no data as to the family of the soldier, Joshua Hightower. 

In order to obtain the date of the last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Joshua Hightower (S.10834), you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data;

Joshua Hightower
Certificate No.31835
Issued March 15, 1841
Rate $20.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of Jun 7, 1832
Alabama Agency.

Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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13.94
Joshyua Hig
Alaba

Admitte

Pr: 6 mo
Cap Glenn
Fleming, Va

Act 7 Jun

Hon. James Del
member of cong
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The State of Alabama}
Marengo County.} 
Before me John Schirm a Justice of the
peace in and for the County of Marengo and
State aforesaid [illegible] personally appeared
Joshua Hightower who being duly sworn
according to law says that in his declaration
heretofore made on Oath before the said John
Schirm Justice of the peace as aforesaid he
has stated as full and as truly all the facts &
circumstances connected with his services
during the war of the revolution, as his
memory would enable him - this affiant has
heard read a letter from J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions addressed to the Hon.
James Dellet of the House of Representations
of the U. S. under date of the 18 January 
1841. in which it is said that "some further
proof of the alleged service of this offical
should be produced - from extreme old age and
bodily infirmity this affiant is unable to find
or produce any evidence of his services beyond
what he has already furnished. If any of
those with whom he served and whose names
he has stated in his declaration yet survive
their places of residence are unknown to him
If no record evidence has been served of the
names of those who composed the various companies
and command referred to in the declaration 
of this affiant and in which he served
has been preserved by those whose duty it
was to keep the [illegible] & make the necessary
return it was not the fault of this affidant
and there is now no means within his reach to
supply their opinions. This affiant with
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on the desire to state truly and correctly the
services rendered by him has made two declarations
in which he has stated all the particulars of
his services the no of tours - the duration of each
the names of his officers and the expeditions
in which he was engaged, as fully minutely
and correctly as his memory after the lapse of
so much time would enable him of these
declaration entitle him to the benefit
of the provision of the act of Congress
allowing Pensions to the soldiers of the
revolution he is ready and anxious to
receive his pay but if the testimony of
living witnesses is required this affiant
is unable to produce it. He fears he has
outlived most all of those who served
with him-
Joshua Hightower
Sworn to & Subscribed before
me this 22d February 1841
John Schirm J.P.

I John Shinn a Justice of the peace as
aforesaid do hereby certify that Joshua
Hightower whose name appears above
is the same individual who filed before me
some time ago a declaration in order to obtain
a pension may have known the said
Joshua Hightower for twenty years past &
that he has the appearance of being a very
old man & is from extreme old age quite
infirm - I further certify that the said
Joshua Hightower is generally reputed to have
been a soldier of the revolution and
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that he retains the character of an honest
man in the neighborhood where his is best
Known -
Witness my hand & seal this 22d Feb 1841
word "twenty" witnessed before John Schirm J.P.
signing -
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Rev War
10.834
INVALID.
File No. 10,834
Joshua Hightower
Priv Rev War 
---
Act: June 7th 1832
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 173
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1932 - June 1 - Hist to  EEL
J M Hightower
Letter referred to 
Rec. Div. for reply
in regard to Fla.
War record

1932 - Oct 12- Ad. J. M.
Hightower to Ad. Co. G
for date of death of
pensioner EEL

1933 - Jan. 4- JM Hightower
he was ad, on Oct 2 - as to
to get date, death &
told him again to apply to C. G. EEL

[illegible] May 22 - Hist. to Mrs
[illegible]  Hightower [illegible]  
[illegible paragraph]

1937 - June 28 Mrs. J. M. Hightower [illegible] 
no John Hightower [illegible] 
1939 Sept 22 hist to
Mr. E L Grimes
cc
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Pine Bluff, Arkansas,
December 27th, 1932

Veterans Administration,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs;

Attention, Mr. A. D. Hiller, Assistant etc,

Refer BA-J/ILL

Will you kindly give me the information promised in your letter to me dated October 4th, 1932?. Partys'name is: Joshua Hightower, soldier, Revolutionary War. And oblige Yours very truly,

J. M. Hightower
#1400 West 2nd Ave
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Pine Bluff, Arkansas,
September 30th, 1932.

A. D. Hiller, Asst, Admr, Etc.
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir;

"Revolutionary Claim For Pensions,
Pensioner S.-#10834, Joshua Hightower,
Allowed on his application dated April 26th, 1840.
Marengo, County, Alabama,

Your letter to me dated June 1st, 1932:
Will you kindly give me date of death of this pensioner and WHERE?

Also wont you please give me all names appearing on proof of death of this party, as furnished your office?

Thanking you for the courtesy
I beg to remain
Yours very truly,
J. M. Hightower
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Joseph Otti, President
Phone Maple 8550

Otti Manufacturing Company
741 West Third Street
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
April 11, 1933.

The Pension Bureau.
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:
I am writing you to see if you can help me, my giving you a very slender thread to begin with: Hardy Hightower was a great grandfather of mine and Hardy's father was a Revolutionary soldier.  I want to find out this soldier's given name and his war record and all the data you can find.  Hardy was born in North Carolina and I presume his father joined the war from that state, but you might search in the records of VA. also.
This is my last resort in this matter, and I have been unable to pay for a thorough search, but surely it can be gotten in your office.
Thanking you for your great favor and hoping to hear from you with information which will mean a great deal to me, I am,
Yours Truly,

Mrs. Bettie Hightower Otti
90401/2 W. 4th Street,
Oklahoma City, Okla.

P.S.
I imagine any data you find on the name Hightower will be the one I want.
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PINEBLUFF, ARK
JAN 14
1230 PM
1935
THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS

RECEIVED JAN 16 1935
(UNREADABLE)

VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON, D.C.
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Pine Bluff, Arkansas,
January 10th, 1935.

My Dear Sirs;

Will you kindly give me what record you may have on the 'Hightower' name from year 1775 to year 1808?

Any aid, suggestion, or advice you may offer would be highly appreciated.

The "Depression" left me unable to employ a geneaologist.

Yours very truly
signed James M Hightower
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VICTOR MAUS
POST COMMANDER

ALLEN SHEPPARD
1ST VICE COMMANDER

CHAS. FRAZIER
2ND VICE COMMANDER

MIS TOMASZEWSKI
3RD VICE COMMANDER

WENDELL D. LEE
FINANCE OFFICER

Z. V. ASHCRAFT
SERGEANT-AT-ARMS

WM. P. ELLIS
SERVICE OFFICER

HERBERT L. SMITH
POST CHAPLAIN

C. B. CRAIG
JUDGE ADVOCATE

DR. S. E. SMITH
POST SURGEON

LOYS HIGHTOWER
POST ADJUTANT

LOYS HIGHTOWER
POST HISTORIAN

Allen Hearin Post No. 32
INCORPORATED
American Legion
PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS

May 30th 1937

Veterans' Administration
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir ;

Will you please give me all date filed in you office on the military service in the American Revolutionary War, covering the period of 1775--'83 of the following soldiers ?

Joshua Hightower,
Thomas Hightower
Raleigh Hightower
John Hightower

I regret being
I regret being unable to name military unit of each name ,

Yours very truly,

James M. Hightower
(Signature of James M. Hightower)

Received Jun 12 1937
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CEDARTOWN
AUG27
11 AM
CA.

THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS

RECEVIED AUG 28 1939
MAIL SUB-DIV
READER No. 4
VETS ADM

Veterans Administration
Washington, D. C.
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Cedartown Georgia
Wish to ----- records in the Hightower 
side for D. A. R_ and would appreciate 
any information that you might 
have _(Thos, Richard, Wm, Joseph, 
John)_ know that there were 9' 
Brothers that come to this country in
its early days_
Thanking you in advance
yours truly
(Mrs E. W.) Lucile Hightower Turner,
1208 South Main St.
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May 22, 1933

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BA-J/EEL
Joshua Hightower-s.10834

Mrs. Bettie Hightower Otti
904 1/2 W. 4th Street
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to a Revolutionary War soldier with surname Hightower, to aid you in your search for the record of the father of Hardy Hightower.

You are herewith furnished the history of Joshua Hightower, the only soldier with that surname found in the Revolutionary War records of this office. The data given below are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S.10834, based upon the military service of the soldier in the Revolutionary War. 

Joshua Hightower was born in 1739, in Richmond County, Virginia, and when eight or ten years of age moved to Brunswick County, Virginia.

While residing in said Brunswick County, Virginia, he volunteered, date not given, and served four weeks as a private in Captain Glenn's Company, Colonel William Fleming's Virginia Regiment and was in a battle at the Long Bridge on "Elizabeth River near this edge of North Carolina"; in three of four weeks after the termination of the above service, he again enlisted and served ten months and eighteen days in Captain Howell Eldridge's Company Colonel William Fleming's Virginia Regiment; and again enlisted and served about twelve days in Captain Buckner Stith's Virginia Company and was in a skirmish as "Piney Fork" on the James River. In about three weeks, he again enlisted and served five months in Captain Frederick Lucas' Virginia company and was in the battle of Jamestown under General Lafayette; after the close of this tour, he served  nine months in Captain Snipes' Company, colonel Peter Horry's Regiment; he later enlisted and served under Captain James Gunn and Buckner Stith, Colonels Richard Elliott, Dick and Thomas Jones in the Virginia Troops, was at the siege of Yorktown and surrender of Cornwallis, after which he marched as a guard
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to the prisoners taken at Yorktown, as far as the Shenandoah River, near Winchester, Virginia. No dates are given for any of the above services. 

After the Revolution, he moved from Brunswick County, Virginia, to Wilkes County, Georgia, where he lived until 1819, then moved to Marengo County, Alabama.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 26, 1840, while residing in Marengo County, Alabama.

There are no data as the family of the soldier, Joshua Hightower.

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 the Revolutionary War pensioner, Joshua Hightower(S.10834), you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing all of the following data;

Joshua Hightower, Certificate No. 31835, issued March 15, 1841, rate $20 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Alabama Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to the Administrator.
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BA-J/MMHF/eel
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Joshua Hightower-s.10834

Mr. J.M.Hightower
1400 West 2nd Avenue
Pine Bluff, Arkansas

Dear Sir;

Reference is made to your letter of December 27, 1932, in which you request the data which you state was promised you on October 4, 1932, in regard to Joshua Hightower, S.10834, Revolutionary War soldier.

The records of this office show that in response to your request of September 30, 1932, you were advised on October 12, following acknowledgement of your letter on October 4, that 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 the Revolutionary War pensioner, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington,D.C., citing all of the following data;

Joshua Hightower , Certificate No.31835, issued March 15, 1841, rate $20 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Alabama Agency.

You were informed as above because the date of death of Joshua Hightower is not shown in the papers in the pension claim, S.10834, in this office, nor do the names of persons appear in regard to proof of death of that solider. 

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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October 12, 1932

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Joshua Hightower-S.10834
BA-J/EEL

Mr. J.M.Hightower
1400 West 2nd Avenue
Pine Bluff, Arkansas

Dear Sir;

Reference is made to you letter in which you request that you be furnished the date of death and all names appearing on proof of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Joshua Hightower, S.10834, whose history was furnished you on June 1, 1932.

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 the Revolutionary War pensioner, Joshua Hightower, S.10834, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., citing all of the following data;

Joshua Hightower Certificate No.31835, issued March 15, 1841, rate $20 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Alabama Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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June 1, 1932

BA-J/MMHP

Mr. J.M.Hightower
Pine Bluff
Arkansas

Dear Sir;

Reference is made to your letters in which you request information in regard to soldiers of the Revolutionary War and Florida War- 18-- with surname Hightower, also relative to securing data from English-records.

A search of the Revolutionary War records of this office has been made and the record of only on Hightower found, which is that of Joshua. His record is furnished you herewith.

Your letter has been forwarded to the proper division for reply in regard to Florida War records. 

For information in regard to English records, it is suggested that you address The Secretary, Public Record Office, London, England.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administer.
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June 1, 1932

Joshua Hightower - s. 10834
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BA-J/EEL

Mr. J. M. Hightower
Pine Bluff
[illegible] 

Dear Sir

The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolution in claim for pension, s.10834, based upon the military service of Joshua Hightower in that war.

Joshua Hightower was born in 1739, in Richmond County, Virginia, and when eight or ten years of age moved to Brunswick County, Virginia.

 
While residing in Brunswick County, Virginia, he volunteered, date not given, and served four weeks as a private in Captain [illegible] Company, Colonel William Fleming's Virginia Regiment and was in a battle at the Long Bridge and Elizabeth River near the edge of North Carolina; in three of four weeks after the termination of the above service, he again enlisted and served ten months and eighteen days in Captain Howell Eldridge's Company, Colone William Fleming's Virginia Regiment, and again enlisted and served about twelve days in Captain Buckner Stith's Virginia Company and was in a skirmish at "FineyFork" on the James River.  In about three months, he again enlisted and served five months in Captain Frederick [illegible] Virginia Company and was in the battle of Jamestown under General Lafayette; after the close of this tour, he served nine months in Captain [illegible] Company, Colonel Peter [illegible] Regiment; he later enlisted and served under Captain James [illegible] and [illegible, Colonels Richard [illegible], Dick and Thomas James in the Virginia Troops, was at the siege of Yorktown and surrender of Cornwallis, after which he [illegible] as a guard to the prisoner taken at [illegible], as far as the Shenendoah River near Winchester, Virginia.  Not dates are give for any of the above services.

After the Revolution, he moved from Brunswick County, Virginia, to Wilkes County, Georgia, where he lived until 1819, then moved to [illegible] County, Alabama.
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He was allowed pension on his application executed April 26, 1840, while residing in Marengo County, Alabama.

There are no data as to his family.

Very truly yours

A. D. Miller
Assistant to Administrator.

Date of death 
not on AB
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June 26, 1937.

RA-J/EEL

Mr. James M. Hightower
Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

Dear Sir;

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary records of Joshua, Raleigh and John Hightower.

As stated in letter to you February 23, 1935, the record of Joshua Hightower, s. 10834, which was furnished you June 1, 1933, is that of the only soldier with that surname found on the Revolutionary War pension and bounty land records of this office.

It is regretted that this office has no further data to aid you in your research. 

Very truly yours,

A.D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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February 23, 1935
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Joshua Hightower
S. 10834
RA-J/MMHP;MLB

Mr. James M. Hightower
Pine Bluff
Arkansas

Dear Sir;

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of all soldiers with the surname Hightower who served during the period from 1775 to 1808.

The pension records which contain claims based upon service during the period cited by you, have been searched and only one claim for pension found of a solider with that surname. It is that of Joshua Hightower, S. 10834, a Revolutionary War soldier whose record was furnished you June 1, 1932. 

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Joshua Hightower
Alabama

suspended

Sent let 18 January 1841

Hon James Dillet

Act of June 1832
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J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Washington Jan. 13 1841 
J.L. Edwards Esquire 
Sir
I beg leave to call your attention to the enclosed declaration of Joshua Hightower and will thank you for such intimation as it deserves 
Very Respectfully 
your Obt Servt 
James Dellet