Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8937, for Samuel Parks, North Carolina
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
N.C.

Parks, Samuel

NUMBER
S.8937.

Born in Va
Carded

CONTENTS
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33.210
North Carolina Asheville
_______________________________
Samuel Parks, dec'd
of -- in the State of N.C.
who was a Private in the -- commanded
by Captain -- of the -- commanded by -- commanded by -- in the *Revolution for two years
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Inscribed on the Roll of Fayetteville at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commencce on the 4th day of March, 1831 & ending 23rd October 1844 -
Certificate of Pension issued the 14th of Feb. 1854 and sent to Hon. J. L. Clingman
Arrears to the 4th of House of Reps
Semi-annual allowance ending

{Revolutionary Claim
{Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by H. R. Weightman Clerk
Book E. Vol. 62 Page 69

*N.C. Line Nov. 17/04.
Records completed.
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No. 3
Revolutionary Claim
John S. Parks
Declaration
Nov. 17/51
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State of North Carolina
county of Burke S.S.

On this 11th day of November AD  one thousand eight hundred and fifty one personally before the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said County and state John S. Parks a citizen of Burke Co.  N.C. [North Carolina] and who being by sd. [said] Court 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 an act of Congress passed he 7th day of June 1832, granting pensions fo Revolutionary soldiers; (and their heirs in certain cases)

That he is the son of Samuel Parks who resided for many years in Burke county N.C. and who was a private in Captain Lewis' Company [Joel Lewis] and he believes in the Regiment commanded by Col. [Benjamin] Cleveland in the militia service of North Carolina, in the Revolutionary war, and that at the time he entered said service he the said Samuel Parks was a citizen of Wilkes County State of North Carolina.

Declarant further that his father Samuel Parks entered said service about the beginning of said war, that he stated often that he was in said company and Regiment at the date of Independence or at least, the men were drawn up at Wilkesboro N.C. and the Declaration of Independence. but he does not know whether this declaration was the one made by Congress or, the one made by the State of N.C. in Mecklenburg County North Carolina. [Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, May 20, 1775.]

Declarant further States that he has heard his father Samuel Parks speak of a Major [Joel] Lewis and
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Captain Cleveland, but as regards the length of time he served under each one of these officers he cannot now recollect, but has heard  his father state that he served different, and many tours, and that he continued in this way, serving by tours during the whole war and that portion of his time he was engaged in the expedition against the Cherokee Indians. 
He further states that he knows of no discharges or any other papers belonging to his father Samuel Parks which related to his military service, during the Revolutionary war, that if he had such he knows nothing of them whatever. That his father was he believes an enlisted soldier as he frequently so stated while living, and that he also stated, that he served in all during said war over three years.
Declarant further states that his father Samuel Parks died on the twenty third day of October one thousand eight hundred and forty four. Sworn to and subscribed in open Court on the day and year aforementioned.
[Signature]
John S. Parks [seal]

We Thos. Carlton, a Clergyman residing in said county and Alexander Perkins residing in the same do hereby certify that we were well acquainted with Samuel Parks who was reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and that they fully concur in that opinion, and that he was a very old man at his death and of good character. Sworn to and subscribed in open Court on the day and year first above mentioned.
[Signatures]
T*** Carleton Clergy
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Alex. Perkins [seal]

The Court hereby certifies that Thomas  Carlton is a Clergyman residing in this county and that Alexander Perkins is a credible person residing in the same and that their statements are entitled to credit and the Court concurs in that opinion, and that John S. Parks is his reputed son.
[Signature]
Geo. Copening Chairman

State of North Carolina}
Burke County}
I Wm. S. Sudderth Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for the County of Burke, do hereby Certify that George Corpening is Chairman of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in said County and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of Office at Office in Morganton on the 11th day of November A. D. 1851.
[Signature]
Wm. S. Sudderth Clk
[Seal]
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Daniel R. Goodloe
Attorney
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Know all men by these presents that I Elizabeth Pendland of the county of Buncomb State of North Carolina one of the daughters and legal heirs of Samuel Parks deceased who died in Burke County North Carolina and who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war from N. C.  do hereby constitute and appoint Daniel R. Goodloe of Washington City my true and lawfull Attorney irrevocably for me and my name and in the name of all the heirs at law of said Samuel Parks to prosecute and obtain from the Commissioner of Pensions, The Secretary of the Initerior or any other officer of the United States Government the Pension Certificate to which we are now entitled as said heirs, granting unto my  said Attorney full power to exam all papers that are now on file, to file additional evidence if necessary, and to do all things in as full and perfect manner as I could do were I personally present and acting for myself. Giving all recipts that may be required in the final settlement of this my claim. Hereby revoking all Powers of Attorney at any time hereto for executed by any of the parties or heirs in this matter interacted, granting unto said Attorney the space of 12 months to complete the case in, during which time I am not to employ any other Attorney or Agent.
Witness my hand and seal this fifteenth day of September A. D. 1853
[Signature]
Elizabeth Pendland o her mark [ seal]
Signed sealed and exeuted in pursuance of [smudge]
[Signature]
John N. Weston

State of North Carolina}
County of Buncomb} SS. On this 15th day of Sept.
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September A. D. 1853 personally appeared before me the undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county and State, Elizabeth Pendland and to me well known and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her own act and deed for the purpose therein mentioned and that she executed the same of her own free will and accord. I further certify that I believe she is directly interested in said claim; that I am not concerned in the prosection, nor am not intersested therein in any manner whatever. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal on the day and year last above written.
[Signature]
Andres Rogers J.P. [seal]

State of North Carolina}
County of Buncomb} SS.
On this 15th day of September A. D. 1853 personally appeared before me the undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county and state Elizabeth Pendland - who being first duly sworn according to law says on her oath that she is the legal heir (daughter) of Samuel Parks deceased who was a soldier in the  Revolutionary war and who died in the county of Burke N. C. never  having received a Pension in his lifetime to her knowledge. That since his death John S. Parks her brother has filed Papers for said Pension, but is now doing nothing at it, that she wishes to file, additional
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wishes to be informed why said claim is rejected. She further states that by reference to the papers that are now on file in the Department the fact that she is a daughter and an heir of said Parks will fully appear.
[Signature]
Elizabeth Pendland [dot] her mark [seal]

Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written and I hereby certify that ___  is a woman of good character and is in this matter interested as set forth above by her I further certify that I have no interest in said claim nor am not concerned in the Prosecution In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand on the day and year last above written.
[Signature]
Andrew Rogers J. P. 

State of North Carolina}
County of Buncomb} SS. I, Robert B. Vance Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said county do certify that Andrew Rogers Esq. whose genuine signature appears to the above, is & was at the time of signing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county & state, duly commissioned & sworn.
Given under my hand & seal of office at office in Asheville the 16th September 1853.
[Signature]
R. B. vance Clk
[Seal]
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 
ow   3-525
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C. , ........................., 19.....

S.F. 8937

In reply to your request of.............., received ....................... for a statement of the military history of  Samuel Parks a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained his son's application for pension on file in this Bureau.

[Headings]

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. | STATE.

[blank] | 2 years | Pvt. | Capt. Lewis, Capt. Johnson, Capt. Wm. Lenoir, Col. Cleaveland| N. C. 

Battles, engaged in, [blank]

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Wilkes Co. N C. 

Date of application for pension, by son John S. Parks Nov. 11. 1851.

Residence at date of application, of son John S. Parks Burke Co. N. C.

(Age at date of application,) born Nov. 28 1757 in Amhurst. Co. Va. died Oct. 23. 1844 in Burke Co. N.C.

Remarks: Soldiers wife died before he did her name is not stated; the following children survived him: William, George, Benjamin, Gabriel, John S., Ransom, Martin, Mary or Polly Alexander, and Elizabeth Penland.

Respectfully,

Commissioner.
[note - Date & place of birth obtained from affidavit of Samuel Parks in claim of his brother George Parkes W. F. 27.457.
d-2850
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State of North Carolina}
Caldwell County}

I, S. P.  Dula Clerk of the Court of Pleas &  Quarter Sessions of the County of Caldwell & state aforesaid do hereby certify that James C. Harper Esq'r. the subscribing witness to the foregoing affidavit of Col. William Davenport is an was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace duly qualified and authorized to administer oaths as such and his official act are entitled to full faith & credit and I further certify that his signature to the same is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my office down in Lucen this 19th day of December A. D. 1853

S. P. Dula C. C. C.
By C.C. Jones D. C. 
[Seal]

I am well acquainted with Col. Wm. Davenport, James C. Harper Esq, . S. P. Dula and C. C. Jones and they are all men of the highest respectability and entitled to credit.
[Signature]
W. Clingman
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The State of North Carolina}
County of Burke}
Be it known that on this day 11th of Nov. A.D. 1852 personally came before me the undersigned an acting Magistrate in & for the county of Burke and State aforesaid John S. Parks of sd. county who being duly sworn deposeth that he is the identical John S. Parks in whose name and for whose benefit a Declaration was some year or more ago presented at the Pension Office claiming a Pension for the Revolutionary services of his father Sam'l Parks dec'd. This deponent swears that he has good reason to believe & does believe that his father the sd. Sam'l served as set forth in sd. Declaration - that he has often times heard him speak of his differnt tours of service, fatigue & suffering expeienced whilst in the service that he has heard him speak of his companions in arms none of whom are now living as Deponent believes - that he has heard several pensioners say that they knew of their own knowledge that his father the sd. Sam'l Parks
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that shortly after the passage of the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832 when application was made by a number of soldiers who had served in the revolutionary war his father being asked why he did not make application for a Pension on account of his revolutionary services remarked "that he was well enough off that the law he thought was a good one, and was designed for the benefit of those who were worse off than himself" - that a shosrt time before he died he was advised to make application for a Pension and being told by a friend that altho he was in easy circumstances as regards the goods of this world it was his duty to have his name enrolled as a pensioner with the other Patriots of the nation, he concluded he would do so, and engaged the services of a friend to call on him at some fututre time and prepare his Declaration but that before anything was done his father died. This Deponent further swears that he was not aware untill he was advised shortly before he filed his Declaration that
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State of North Carolina}
Coldwell County.}
On this twelfth day of December A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty, three, Personally appeared before me James C. Harper - the undersigned, an acting Justice of our Court of pleas and quarter sessions (a court of record) of Coldwell County North Carolina, Colonel William Davenport a highly respectable citizen of the county aforesaid to me well known entitled to the highest credit - aged eighty three the twelfth of last October - And who being by me first duly sworn according to law declares on his oath that he knew Samuel Parks ever since the year ninety four or five certainly as surely as ninety five & that said Samuel Parks was then universally regarded by all who knew him as a highly respectable citizen and soldier of the revolutionary war, no one doubted as I ever understood his being a stanch Whig & true soldier. Affiant father Martin served nearly during the whole war & it was then & ever since understood that said Parks served with said Davenport part of the war. Affiant further maketh oath that he had known said Samuel Parks ever since the year ninety five intimately up to the time of his death which occured some nine years since, said Parks was engaged in actual service in the war of the reolution when Affiant was a boy of some ten or twelve years of age - Affiant has often conversed with said Parks during his life of the many interesting incidents which occured during his service in the revolutionary army. Many of which were concured in by other old revolutionary soldiers & officers of the army. This affiant further maketh oath that he has never known any other Samuel Parks in North Carolina of revolutionary fame & therefore does not entertain a doubt as to Samuel Parks having served in defence of his country on the side of the Whigs in the revolutionary war for a considerable length of time but precisely how long
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this affiant can not now state. Affiant takes pleasure in testifying not only to the well established character of Samuel Parks as a revolutionary soldier but to the high standing & good character of said Parks as a man of unquestionable veracity strict integrity & high honour - no one individual of revolutionary reputation as a private in North Carolina, had a higher stand as a man of honor & truth than the aforesaid Samuel Parks up to the date of his death - I lived a neighbour to him during a long life & during all of which time his reputation as a man of character & revolutionary fame remained unblemished & at his death left as fair a character behind him as any man in the state. Affiant had often heard his father in law General William Lenoir who was in service off and on during the whole war speak of the revolutionary services of the aforesaid Samuel Parks as well as his true Whig principled in the most complimentary words. The foregoing facts constitute only a small portion of the history of the said Samuel Parks & Affiant having known him well and intimately testifies with pleasure & further that is no citizen of North Carolina who ever knew the aforeaid Samuel Parks but would readily concur & endorse the foregoing statements & further that deponent sayeth not.
[Signature]
Wm. Davenport [seal]

State of North Carolina Caldwell County. the foregoing affidavit was sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I hereby certify that Col. William Davenport is disconnected and a disinterested witness in the case of Samuel Parks, that he is an aged and highly respectable citizen of the county to me well known and any statement he would make entitled to the highest credit In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 12th day of Dec. A. D. 1853
[Signature]
Jas. C. Harper J. P.
[Seal]
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North Carolina}
Burke County}
On this 16th day of Nov. A. D. 1852 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared James H. Perlkins and Thomas Walton - made oath in due form of law that they were well acquainted with Sam'l Parks of Burke County Father of John S. Parks whose affidavit is hereunto annexed that the said Sam'l was a highly reputable citizen of the county of Burke, a man of property and altho it appears that during his lifetime he never made application for a Pension these deponents state from the general aspect of the oldest and most respectable citizens he was regarded as having served in the war of the Revolution and that altho they (Deponents) have no personal knowledge of his servcies they have no doubt but that he did so serve as stated in the declaration of his son John S. Parks now on file in the Pension Office Sworn to and
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subscribed the day and year above written
[Signatures]
Tho. Walton
James H. Perkins

I R. C. Pearson a Magistrate in and for the county of Burke do hereby certify that James H. Perkins and Thomas Walton who have subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidaviat are both men of unblemished character and that any statement made by them is worthy of credit and belief.
I also certify that I was acquainted with Samuel Parks dec'd and that I concur in the appearance specified by the witnesses as to his services in the revolutionary war and also as to his correct and upright character and gentlemanly deportment in the community where he lived
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 16th day Nov: 1852.
[Signature]
R. C. Pearson J. P.
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I Wm. S. Sudderth clerk of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county of Burke in the state of North Carolina do hereby certify that R. C. Pearson before whom the foregoing affidavits were made and who signed the cetificates thereto is and was at the signing of the same a Magistrate for our said county of Burke and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of Office at Morganton this 20th day of Nov. A. D. 1852.
[Signature]
W. S. Sudderth C. C.
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Act of Congress extended to him or that he was entitled to make application in right of his father.
Further the deponent saith not - Sworn to & subscribed before me date above
[Signatures]
John S. Parks
Witness
R. C. Pearson J. P. 

I Robert C. Pearson a Magistrate in and for the county of Burke and State of North Carolina do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John S. Parks who has subscdribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit that he is apparently about fifty years of age that he is a man of good character and standing in the community where he resides and that I consider any statement that he would make on oath deserving of the highest confidence. Given under my hand this 16th day Nov. 1852
[Signature]
R. C. Pearson J. P.
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State of North Carolina}
Caldwell County}
On this twelfth day of December A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifth three - Personally appeared before me William Puett the undersigned, an acting Justice of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions (a court of record) of Caldwell county and state aforesaid Colonel William Dickson on and & highly respectable citizen of the county aforesaid a gentleman to me well known a disinterested witness in the case of Samuel Parks and entitled to the highest credit. who after being duly sworn according to law by me before signing this affidavit Declared on his oath that he had lived a neighbour to Samuel Parks deceased who died some nine years ago and since the year eighteen hundred and two or thereabouts had often met said Praks & known him intimately during his life frequently having interchanged hospitalities & visits which occured with said parks during the time said Parks was in service in the revolutionary war of the campaigns said Parks served in are of which statements made by said Parks this affiant had no doubt were true for the said Parks was a man of good character & strict truth. This affiant has always understood said Parks was a revolutionary soldier & has no doubt he did actually serve in the revolutionary army he was a man some eighteen or nineteen years older than affiant whose age is seventy eight October last This affiant has from early life had a general acquaintance in western Carolina. The rejoin in which said Parks resided and served as a soldier & does not hesitate in attempting the belief that the aforesaid Samuel Parks was the identical Parks who rendered the
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service in the revolutionary war from the fact that there was never any other Samuel Parks in western Carolina of revolutionary fame & the whole service rendered by said Parks was alledged to have been rendered in this rejoin of the state. This affiant has never heard the fact of Samuel Parks being a revolutionary soldier questioned by any man said Parks died in this neighbourhood or the place where he had lived for the last fifty five or sixty years. This affiant further maketh oath that he had no interest whatever in the case of Samuel Parks & futher deponant sayth not.
[Signature]
Wm. Dickson [seal]

North Carolina Caldwell County - the foegoing affidavit was sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I hereby certify that Col. William Dickson the maker of the above affidavit is a highlly respectable citizen of Caldwell County & state aforesaid a person to me well known and a disinterested witness in the case of Samuel Parks declaration for a pension and any statement he would make is entitled to the highest credit. In testimony thereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal. This twelfth day of December A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty three
[Signature]
Wm. Pruett J.P.

I am well acquainted with Col. Wm. Dickson and Wm. Pruett Esq. and they are entitled to full credit.
[Signature]
T. L. Clingman
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State of North Carolina}
Caldwell County}
I S. P. Dula Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the County of Caldwell and state aforesaid - do hereby certify that William Esq'r. the subscribing witness to the foregoing affidavit of Colonel Willaim Dickson, is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned & qualified to administer Oaths as such and his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit, and I further certify that his signature to the same is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my office at office in Lenoir this 19th day of December A. D. 1853.

S. P. Dula Clk
By C. C. Jones D. C. 
[seal]
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Know all men by these presents that I John S. Parks of the county of Burke and state of North Carolina have constituted and appointed & by these presents do consitute and appont B. M. Edney of the county of Buncombe & state aforesaid my true & lawful attorney irrevocably for me & in my name to receive from the United States the pension certificate due me as the heir and executor of Lauren Parks deceased or any money or moneys which maybe due by the United States on any account whatsoever hereby rendering all former powers of attorney made or executed by me to any one in this behalf or concerning the prescribed aforesaid hereby rendering null & void absolutely to all interests and purposes & of effect to all interest and purposes & of non effect all powers of attorney heretofore made or executed by me with full power to do all lawful acts adn things whatsoever touching the premises and any attorney or attorneys under him for the purposes aforesaid hereby confirming all an whatsoever my said attorney shall in my name legally do or cause to be done in and about the premises - In testimony whereof I hvae hereunto set my hand and affixced my seal this 20th day of Jan'y A. d. 1854 
[Signature]
John S. Parks [seal]
Witness

[Signature]
R. C. Pearson J. P. 
[Seal]
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purposes therein mentioned I hereby certify that I am not concerned in the prosecution of the foregoing claim for a pension & that I am wholly disinterested having no interest whatsoever in said matter. Given under my hand and seal this 21st day of Jan'y A. D. 1854
[Signature]
R. C. Pearson J. P.
[Seal]

State of North Carolina} I W. S. Sudderth Clerk 
Count;y of Burke} hereby certify that R. C. Pearson before whom the foregoing power of attorney has been acknowledged & who had hereunto subscribed his name was at the time of such acknowledgement a Justice of a court of record in and for said county and state duly commissioned and sworn and authorized by law to take the same In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office at Morganton - on this the 24 day January A. D. 1854

[Signature]
W. S. Sudderth Clerk
of Burke County Court
[Seal]
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No. 2
Revolutionary Claim
______________________
Jno. S. KPark's
Case
Nov. 0851

39.76
20
787/8
__________
$87.45
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State of North Carolina}
County of Burke} SS.
On this tenth day of November A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty one personally appeared before the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions now sitting for said County and State M. Spainhower, Alexander Perkins, credible and disinterested witnesses and who being by the court first duly sworn according to law depose and say on their oaths, that they were personally and well acquainted with Samuel Parks who was for many years a citizen of said county and state, and was reputed and believed by those who knew him, to have been a soldier of the revolutionary war, that , that opinion was general, and they believe uncontradicted; that said Samuel Parks left no widow at his death, his wife haviang died before him, but that he left the following children, who are now (they believe) living, viz; William Parks, George Parks, Benjamin Parks, Polly Alexander, Elizabeth Penland, Gabriel Parks, John S. Parks, Ransom Parks & Martin Parks and that these children are now scattered to a great distance, and that John S. Parks the Declarant in this case was the Executor by virtue of the will of said Samuel Parks his father, and that said Samuel Parks died on the twenty third day of October, A. D. one thosand eight hundred and forty four, that said John S. Parks is his reputed son. They further state that they are disinterested in this matter.
[Signatures]
Alex'r. Perkins [seal]
M. Spainhower [seal]
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Sworn to and subscribed in open court on the day and year above written, and the court hereby certifies that M. Spainhower and Alexander Perkins are credible & disinterested witnesses, and that from their testimony which is entirely satisfactory, they certify that said Samuel Parks died on the 23rd day of October A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty four, and that their statement as to the number of chldren and their being scattered is correct.
[Signature]
T. Geo. Walton J. P. Chariman
of Co. Co..

State of North Carolina}
Burke County}
I Wm. S. Sudderth Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Burke do hereby certify that Thomas G. Walton is Chairman of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said County and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office at Morganton on this 10th day of November A. D. 1857
[Signature]
Wm. S. Sudderth, Clk Co. Co.
[Seal]
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Sam'l Parks - N.C. - sus-52

Com - - Octd. 13-52
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Washington Jan'y 25 1853
Hon. Jas. E. Heath
Comm'r. of Pensions

Sir

In the case of Sam'l Parks of North Carolina who claims a pension udner act of 7th 1832, you have just forwarded me a copy of the letter of the sect'y of the Interior dated Aug. 31st 1853 affirming your previous suspension or rejection of said claim, thence very obviously overlooking the important material additional evidence filed by me in the case on Nov. 2d 1852, subsequent to the above mentioned letter of Aug. last &
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which subsequently furnished evidence, it will be seen, upon examination, shows conclusively when considered with the evidence previously furnished, that the present claimant, the person of the same name on the rolls of North Carolina, & thus settles the question of identity, in favor of the present claimant, which appears to have been the only question of difficulty in the case.
A readjudication therefore of the claim upon the merits is respectfully solicited.
I have the honor to be your ob't srv't
[Signature]
M. Thompson
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State of North Carolina}
Caldwell County}
This day personally appeared before me Jas. C. Harper an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County Col. William Davenport aged eighty two years, who after being duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith that he was intimately acquainted with Samuel Parks late of Burke County, deceased, for the space of fifty years previous to his decease and that the said Samuel Parks was universally recognized and respected as a Revolutionary Soldier. and that he frequently heard said Parks speak of the services he performeod principally against the Tories, and particularly the services performed in the Campaign against the Tories and British which resulted in the Battle of Kings Mountain at which place however the said Parks did not arrive until after the Battle being on foot and not able reach the Battle Ground until the day after the Battle took place and said Deponent further says that it is his impression that said Parks served under either Captain Samuel Johnson or Captain William Lenoir and further that the said Parks was a man of character above
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all suspicion and whose word was considered as undoubted truth and further said deponent saith not
Sworn to and subscdribed before me this 16 th day of June A. D. 1853.
[Signatures]
Wm. Davenport
Jas. C. Harper J. P.

I hereby certify that I am personally and intimately aquainted with William Davenport whose name appears attached to the foregoing Deposition and that he is a man of truth and respectability whose word and deposition may be fully relied upon and I further certify that I have no interest directly or indirectly in the application about to be made for Pension in the foregoing case.
[Signature]
Jas. C. Harper J. P. [seal]

State of North Carolina} I, J. P. Dula Clerk of the 
Caldwell County} County Court for the County & State aforesaid herby certifies that James C. Harper the Subscribing Magistrrate to the foregoing is an acting Justice of hte Peace of said County duly sworn and commissioned and that all his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit in Testimony whereof I have herunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Lenior the Eleventh day of October 1853.
[Signature]
S. P. Dula  Clk
[seal]
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No. 1  No. 38.393
Sam'l Parks dec'd
N.C.
Act 7 June 1832
let 25 Aug't. 1852.
Oct 51

S. Godwin, Present
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State of North Carolina
October 18th, 1851.
Comptroller's Office

I, William J. Clarke, Comptroller of public accounts in and for the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that it appears of record in my office, among the payments made by said State, to sundry persons for Military services, in the Revolutionary War, as follows to wit:
Samuel Parks
Book A. No. 11 Page 27 £12 S 6 specie

And the following Indents or Certificates issued by the Commissioners of Army Accounts at Hillsboro

No. 3762 August 20th 1783 £39 S7 D6 specie.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office.
[Signature]
Wm.  J. Clarke Compt'r.
[Seal]


12.1
49
38.7.6
________
100
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Washington Nov. 12th 1853

Sir

I herewith inclose the affidavit of Col. Wm. Davenport in the case of Sam'l Parks dec'd and respectfullly ask a re-examination of the claim.
Respectfully &c.
[Signature]
M. Thompson
per C. Clement Venable

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Com'r of Pensions
Washington
D. C.
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Samuel Parks dec'd
N. Carolina
Act June 7. 1832 -
Admitted 2 yrs. private
at $80. per annum
from March 4, 1831 to 
Oct. 23. 1844 when he died 
Certificate payable to 
John S. Parks, his Executor for the 
benefit of himself,
Wm. Parks
George Parks
Benjamin Parks
Polly Alexander
Elizabeth Penland
Gabriel Parks
Ransom Parks
and Martin Parks
his only surviving children 
Enclose certificate to 
Hon. J. L. Clingman
H of Reps
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Brief in case of Samuel Parks, dec'd Burke County and State of North Carolina
Act June 7. 1832

Claim, original

Proof exhibited, (if original.) [blank]

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.
Service - Proved by certif. of pay'ts by Compt'r of N. C. and tradition - 

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

[Signature]
S. G. Dodge
Examining Clerk.

Name and residence of Agent
B. M. Edney
Asheville, N.C.
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Commissioners decision respecting claim of Sam'l Parks dec'd. N. C. affirmed by Sec'y Interiors.
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Department of the Interior
Washington June 10th. 1853

Sir

The Report you have submitted in the appeal of M. Thompson Esq. in the case of Samuel Parks deceased claiming the benefit of the act of June 7, 1832, has been duly considered, and your decision therein approved.
The papers in the case are herewith returned.

I am, very repectfully,
Your Obd't Serv't
[Signature]
R. McClelland
Secretary


Hon. L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of 
Pensions
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Washington D. C. Aug. 25 1852

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir

I respectfully solicit a reference to the accompanying letter from A. E. Hagler Esq. especially so much thereof as is underlined &c reference to the papers in the case of "George Parks" &c reexamination of the claim of Sam'l Parks of North Carolina. It is believed that no intelligent person out side of your office
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who knew Sam'l Parks or the evidence upon which his claim to a pension for his revolutionary servcie rests, ever entertained a doubt as to the validity of said claim. A reexamination of this claim with that degree of intelligence competency & impartiality which should attend such investigation, would it is believed, result in the admission of said claim.
I have the honor to be &c.
[Signature]
M. Thompson
Atty. for Parks
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P.S. Such claims should be examined with a disposition to admit them if valid, & not (as now appears to be the esprit de corps) with a predisposition of union to reject them upon any & every pretext that can possibly be imagined or devised.
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State of North Carolina}
Burke County.}
I, William S. Sudderth, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Sessions, in and for said County, do hereby certify, that John S. Parks is the lawful Executor of Samuel Parks dec'd as appears from the last will & testament of the said Sam'l Parks dec'd which is now on file in my office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my Seal of Office, at Office in Morganton on this the 15th day of January 1852.
[Signature]
William S. Sudderth, Clk of Co.
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Pension Offiice
August 25th 1852

Sir,

I have examined the claim of Sam'l Parks of N. C. under the act of 7 June 1832, but find that he is not sufficiently identified with the soldier referred to in the certificate of the Comptrolloer of N. C. to authorize the allowance of the claim.
I am respectfully
your ob't srv't
[Signature]
F. F. C. Triplett
Act'g Comm.

S. Godwin Esq.
Present
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Washington D. C.
Jan'y 29 1853
M. Thompson
Rel: Claim
Sam'l Parks

Referred to the Commissioner
of Pensions
of Report Dept. Int. 
Jan'y. 29/53
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Washington Jan'y 29th 1853
Hon. A. H. H, Stuart
Sec'y of the Interior

Sir

On 3rd Nov. last I filed a power of atty for the prosecution of the claim of Samuel Parks dec'd of North Carolina under act of 7th June 1852, & filed, on the same day, [illegible] additional evidence in support of the claim, and have since been answered by the Commissioner of Pensions, with a copy of your official letter to him of 21st Aug. last affirming his ([smudged] correct) previous rejection or suspension of the claim. In
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this silent reference to your letter aforesaid. Without other reference to the case, he evidently overlooks or entirely disregards the aforesaid important additional evidence, filed in connection with the case, subsequently to your said letter, and by reference to which as is evident.
You will find upon examination; the claim of said Parks is legal and valid and therefore appeal from the comm'r of Pensions & ask that the case be acted upon with the least practicable delay as the claim has been long pending in the  [illegible]
I have the honor to be,
[Signature]
M. Thompson
Atty. for Parks
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A reexamination of the claim of Sam'l Parks dec'd of N. C.  Act of 1832. called for - additional evidence fothcoming
P'r of atty.
To
M. Thompson
Dec'r 2nd 1856
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PAGE 1.
POWER OF ATTORNEY - Revolutionary Pension Claims.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I*, John S. Parks of Burke County State of North Carolina son of Sam'l Parks dec'd of sd. County
hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint M. THOMPSON, of Washington City, D. C., my true
and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of my deceased Father for any amount of Revolutionary Penson, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby
authorize my said Agent to examine all papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file
in the Department at Washington City, or elsewhere; evidence or arguments;
and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises, and revoking all former powers.
Witness my hand and Seal this 16 day Nov 
A. D. 1852
[Signature]
John S Park [seal]

Signed and sealed in the presence of
[Signature]
R.C. Pearson


STATE of North Carolina} SS.
County of Burke}
On this 16th day of Nov: A. D., 1852.
before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared John S. Parker and acknowledged the foregoing Power
of Attorney to be his act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, the day and year aforesaid.
[Signature]
R.C. Pearson J Peace

*In this blank, if the claimant be alive, he will insert his name, and execute the power. If
he be dead, the widow, if alive, will insert her name, (stating the fact that she is his widow,) and execute the power. If both be dead, then any one of the children may insert his, or her name, stating the fact that he or she is the son or daughter) and execute the power. If there be neither father, mother, child, or children, then there is no person entitled under the
existing rules of the Department, and the power of Attorney need not be executed.
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PAGE 2
__________
STATE of No Carolina}
COUNTY of Burke}
day of Nov
Be it Known, That on this the 11th day of Nov.
A. D., eighteen hundred and fifty two, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared John S Parker a resident of Burke County, and made oath according to law that he is the identical John S Parker who executed the foregoing power of attorney, and that he is directly interested in said claim, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as said Agent may be in prosecuting said claim.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and
year aforesaid, before
[Signatures]
John S Parkes
R. C. Pearson J. Peace.

I, C. Pearson Justice of the Peace, in and for said County do hereby certify that John S Parker who executed the foregoing paper, is a
respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
[Signature]
R. C. Pearson J. Peace.

I, W. S. Sudderth Clerk of the County Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that R.C. Pearson before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscriber, is his signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this 16th day of Nov. A.D. 1852
[Signature]
W. Sudderth C. Clerk.
[Seal]
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PAGE 3.

STATE OF North Carolina}
COUNTY OF Burke.}

It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me that John S Parker who executed the foregoing Power
of attoney is the son of Samuel Parker dec'd and it is alledged by the sd John that Sam'l Parker was a Revolutionary Soldier of the United States and that  he died on the 23rd day of  October eighteen hundred and forty four leaving surviving Wm. Parkes, George Parkes, Ransom Parkes, Martin Parkes, Gabriel Parkes, May Alexander, Elizabeth Penland and John S. Parker the last namead being Executor of the last Will & Testiment Sam'l Parkes dec'd and that the above named are the only surviving children of the aforesaid. Sam'l Parker dec'd
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 16th day of Nov. one thousand eight hundred and fifty two.
[Signature]
W Sudderth C. C. C. 
[Seal]

NOTE. -- If the original Claimant or person in whose right the claim was made, be alive, then there is no use for the above certificate, but simply the power of attorney. But if he or she (as the case may be) be dead, then the exact period of his or her death must appear. If the widow execute the power of attorney it must also appear when the marriage took place, and that she is still a widow. If there be neither father nor mother, the period of the marriage, and of the death of each, must appear;
and also, the name or names of the surviving child or children. If, he, or she, (as the case may be) was a pensioner, state that fact, and also the amount received per annum; but if a claimant merely, state that fact.
The above certificate must be executed by the Clerk of the Court under his seal of office.
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See Clingman Certificate on the other side as to character of Witnesses
[Signature]
S. Godwin

No. 5 Saml' Parks
July 15/52
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See Clingman Certificate on the other side as to character of Witnesses
[Signature]
S. Godwin

No. 5 Saml' Parks
July 15/52
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Stae of N. Carolina}
Burke County} SS.
On this 10th day of March A. D. one thousand  Eight Hundred and fifty two personally appeared before me the undersigned an acting Justice of the County Court (a court of record) for said county and state T. L. Moody, Charles Collett, Samuel Stewart, Charles McDickson, J. H. Collett, S. Webb, all, credible and disinterested witnesses, who being first duly sworn according to law, declare on their oaths that they were personally and well acquainted with Samuel Parks who lived for many years in Burke County N. C. and also died there, that he was a man of good character, and was reputed and believed by those who knew him to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary war, that that opinion was general and uncontradicted as far as they knew; that they fully secure in that opinion, as his own converstaion would go far to show that he was conversant with many Revolutionary transactions. They further state that they know of no one now living who served with said Parks - all those who stated that they served with him being now dead - That they are entirely disinterested in this matter.
[Signatures]
Charles McD Dickson [seal] 
Thomas L. Moody [seal]
James H. Collett [seal]
Charles Collett [seal]
Sering Webb [seal] 1
Samuel Stewart [seal]
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Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year hereto written and I hereby certify that T. L. Moody, Charles Collett, Samuel Stewart, Charles McDickson, James H. Collett, and Soring Webb are credible and disinterested witnesses and their testimony is entitled to full faith and credit, and that they are all old men and avg. citizens of this county
[Signature]
Levi Laxton J. P.

State of North Carolina}
Burke County}
I W. S. Sudderth, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for the County of Burke do hereby Certify that Levi Laxton whom the foregoing declaration was approved now and was at the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace for said County and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my sesl of office at office in Morganton this the 12 day of March 1852
[Signature]
Wm. S. Sudderth Clk Co. Co.
[Seal]

I am well acquainted with James W. Collett Charles Collett, Sercy Webb, Samuel Stewart and know them to be persons of reliability and entitled to full credit. July 15th 1852
[Signature]
T. L. Clingman
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Ashville, N.C.
February 2nd day 1852

Hon. P. Waldo - Commissioner of Pensions - 

My Dear Sir,

The case of Parks which has long been suspended for want of Identity, a revolutionary case which I filed in July or August 1852 - from Burke County N. C. - I now desire acted on , as I herewith enclose the most conclusive proof as to the man & the services  from two of the most highly respectable gentlemen in our state, Samuel Parks is the name a most worthy & respectable soldier, as you will perceive from the proofs enclosed. I also refer you to Mr. J. L. Clingman as to the high standing of the two Gentlemen who testify as to Mr. Parks' identity the only additional proof required was as to his identity
Very respectfully,
Your obedient Servant

P.S. I herewiwth enclose my power of Attorney to act in said case - the receipt of which & the additional proof enclosed you will please acknowledge that I may know they are received.
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31 Aug. 1852/No. 71

Decision of the Commissioner respecting claim affirmed by Secretary of the Interior.
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Department of the Interior
Washington Aug. 31st 1852.

Sir,

I have examined the testimony in the case of the heirs of Samuel Parks dec'd and fully concur with you in the opinion that the identity of Samuel Parks with the person whose name is borne on the rolls of North Carolina is not Sufficiently established - your decision in the case is therefore affirmed and you will so please advise General Edney - The papers are herewith returned to the Pension Office.
I am very respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
[Signature]
Alex. H. H. Stuart
Secretary.

James E.  Heath Esq'r
Commissioner of Pensions
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PAGE 1.
POWER OF ATTORNEY - Revolutionary Pension Claims.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I*, John S. Parks son a;nd lawfyl heir of Sam'l Parks dec'd hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint M. THOMPSON, esq.,of Washington City, D. C., my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of my Father Sam'l Parks for any amount of Revolutionary Penson, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Department at Washington City, or elsewhere; evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises, and revoking all former powers.
Witness my hand and Seal this 12th day October A. D. 1852
[Signature]
John S Park [seal]

Signed and sealed in the presence of
[Signature]
A. E. Hagler


STATE of North Carolina} SS.
County of Burke}
On this 12th day of October A. D., 1852.
before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared John S. Parker and acknowledged the foregoing Power
of Attorney to be his act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, the day and year aforesaid.
[Signature]
R.C. Pearson J Peace

*In this blank, if the claimant be alive, he will insert his name, and execute the power. If
he be dead, the widow, if alive, will insert her name, (stating the fact that she is his widow,) and execute the power. If both be dead, then any one of the children may insert his, or her name, stating the fact that he or she is the son or daughter) and execute the power. If there be neither father, mother, child, or children, then there is no person entitled under the
existing rules of the Department, and the power of Attorney need not be executed.
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Claim of Sam'l Parks dec'd for revolutionaroy Pension  Act of  Congress 7th June 1832
__________
STATE of No Carolina}
COUNTY of Burke}

Be it Known, That on this the 12th day of October A. D., eighteen hundred and fifty two, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared John S Parker a resident of ----- in said County, and made oath according to law that he is the identical John S Parker who executed the foregoing power of attorney, and that he is directly interested in said claim, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as said Agent may be in prosecuting said claim.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and
year aforesaid, before
[Signatures]
John S Parkes
R. C. Pearson J. Peace.

I, Robert C. Pearson, Justice of the Peace, in and for said County do hereby certify that John S Parker who executed the foregoing paper, is a respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
[Signature]
R. C. Pearson J. Peace.

I, W. S. Sudderth Clerk of the County Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that R.C. Pearson before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscriber, is his signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this 12th day of October. A.D. 1852
[Signature]
W. Sudderth C. Clerk.
[Seal]
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Washington Dec. 2, 1852

Hon. Jas. E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir

You are asked to reexamine, & to admit the claim of Sam'l Parks dec'd of North  Carolina, under act of 7th June 1832
I have the honor &c.
[Signature]
M. Thompson
Atty. for Parks
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N.C. wars men
89.501 to 92.776


before but no so full..
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Sam'l Parks dec'd-
This claim has been twice disallowed for want of proof of identity - 
Since then we have the aff'ts of Col. Wm. Davenport and Col. Wm. Dickson the former aged 83 - both of whom testify to his reputation among Rev'y soldiers as an ardent Whig and a man of the highest character for veracity and a  man of high character - and as one reputed to have served long. The former has often heard his own father-in-law, Gen'l Wm. Lenoir speak of Parks services in the most complimentary terms. Both testify that they never hear of any other Sam'l Parks in the service, and particularly that there was not to their knowledge any other man in Western N.C. of the name who enjoyed a Rev'y reputation. Col. Davenport says 'no one individual of rev'y reputation as a private in N.C. had a higher stand as a man of honor & truth." Both agree that he enjoyed the
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confidence and friendship of Rev'y Officers and men and that they confirmed his statements of his services - Davenport knew him intimately ever since 1795 and Dickson since 1802. The high character of these affiants is certified by Hon. T. L. Clingman  
Certif's I found by Com'rs    £12.2.6
at Hillsboro who settled         49.     
pay of western service one     39.7.6
previous certif. of £12.6 -      ________
Wilkes, Caldwell & Burke       £100.10
counties adjoin.

Col Davenport had made an affi't before but not so full.

N.C. wars men
89.501 to 92.776
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Lenoir N..C.              Paid 3
8th Sept. 

Hon. Jas. E. Heath
Com'r of Pensiosn
Washington City

Sept. 15 - 52

J. S. Parks rel
to his father's claim

Address of M. Thompson
Present.
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Perkinsville Sept. 4th 1852
Burke County N.C.

Hon. J. E. Heath

Sir in November last I filed a declaration in the department claiming a pension for my Father's revolutionary Services under the management of a Mr. John B. Woodfin and now under Superentendance of a Mr. Westall & I have thought proper to change the management of the claim owing to the way they do business and send a Power of Atty to Col. M. Thompson to manage the claim for me you will please inform me how the claim stands should the claim be allowed hereafter you will issue the certificate in to the hand's of my agent Col.. M. Thompson yours Respectfully
[Signature]
J. S. Parks

P.S. direct your letter to 
A. E. Hugler
Lenoir Caldwell City
N.C.
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Lenoir N. C.
16th Aug't 1853

Col. Thompson

Sir

I see from a letter from the Commissioner of pensions that you sent to our Friend R. C. Pearson the Parks claim has been rejected allow me to inform you Since that time I have got the evidence of whiley respectable old Lane 85 or 90 years old who knew Sam'l Parks for the last 50 or 60 years who swears that he had heard Parks tell over his military services again and again and further Swears that Parks Served under Capt. Lenoir and Capt. Johnson I will further state to you if you will refer to the list pensioners in Indiana you will find that George Parks Sam'l Parks Brother was Pensioner on the Evidence of Sam'l Parks who swore he served with George Pakrs as I understand you will please examine into the papers of George Parks claim and report to me at your earliest opportunity whether it is worth while to send my further evidence in the claim or not also state the result of Rachel Smith's claim I am preparing to some other new claims which think will be good claims you will please write fully about the parks claim as I fully pursuaded that I will be able to get the necessary evidence to get the claim allowed yours Respectfully
[Signature]
A. E. Hegler

Col. M. Thompson
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(Copy)

Pension Office
August 30/52

Hon. A.H.H. Stuart
Secretary of the Interior

Sir,

At the request of General Edney whose letter is herewith enlosed. I have the honor to transmit to you the papers in the case of Sam'l Parks dec'd of N.C. numbering from the 8 inclusive, whose heirs claim a pension under the act of 7th June 1832, and whose claim has been suspended by this office for evidence of identity. Mr. Parks lived up to 1844, twelve years after the passage of the law, without claiming its benefits. This of itself is presumptive evidence that he did not consider himself entitled.
His heirs have only now, seven years after his death and 19 after the enactment of the law, thought proper to assert a claim, which they do, without giving dates, beginning or ending of tours or duration of service, as the rules require, but allege in general terms that he served in the militia of N.C. during
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the Revolutionary War. There is no evidence filed of anyone who served with him, or pretend to have any knowledge of his service, and the only thing relied upon to establish it is the certificate of the comptroller of N.C. showing that a Samuel Parks rec'd certain indents or payments from that state for military services. 
The statement of the present claimant was no doubt to a certain extent, based upon that certificate, as its date is anterior to that of the declaration.
Samuel Parks cannot be considered an uncommon name & there may have been half dozens or more in the service, and I consider it very unsafe to appropriate evidence of service that may be produced from the Comptroller's Office to any one of that name who may choose to apply.
We always require strong proof of identity, but in this case there is none.
I have the honor to be &c
very resp.
Signed J. E. Heath, Comm'r.
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B. M. Edney
Argument -
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Washington August 28 th 1852

To the Commissioner of Pensions - 

Sir

In the case of Samuel Parks, I confess after a full & thorogh examination, I can not conceive upon what ground the case is suspended. The identity of the soldier with the service (as stated in the Comptroller's certificate) is as fully & amply made out as testimony can establish any fact - particularly where the testimony is of necessity secondary which the law allows in cases of this description & that the comrades of the claimant or soldier are all dead. I fully proven by reputable testimony whose known good characters are certified to by Mr. J. L. Clingman. The fact that you assign no reason why you doubt the identity of the soldier with the service is proof conclusive that none at all exist. I pray therefore this case may be transmitted forthwith to the Hon. Secretary of the Interior whose accute mind & clear perception will instantaniously dispel the flimsy doubts, which have so strongly clouded your mind & left you in a state of confusion about a very plain case - I have the Honor of being very respectfully your obedient servent - 
[Signature]
Att. for Declarant
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Nov 52 No. 8
Revolutionary Pension Claim 
of Sam'l Parks dec. of N. C.
_____________________________
Additional 
evidence within.
______________________________
Reexamination of the case
cal. for Dec'r 2. 1852
[Signature]
M. Thompson
Atty
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State of North Carolina}
Burke County}
Be it known that at a court of Pleas & Quarter Session opened and held for the county of Burke at the CH in Morganton on the 4th Mon'd in Jan'y A, D, 1845 Present the Worshipful James Avry, F. P. Glass, Jas. S. Collins

the following record was made

"The last Will & Testament of Sam'l Parks dec'd being presented in open court by John S. Parks and John  Parks the Executor, therein named and the same being duly proved by the oath of Joseph Rinfield and Thomas Carlton the subscribing witnesses there to it was ordered that the same be recorded and that the Executor's there in named be qualified by such which was done accordingly."

I Wm. S. Sudderth Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the Court of Burke, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a copy of the Record made
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in the matter of probate of hte last Will & Testament of Sam'l Parks as appears from the records in this office.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office at Morganton this 2th day of Nov. A. D. 1852
[Signature]
W. S. Sudderth C. C. C.

[the beginning of sentences are across the bottom of the page but could not be interpreted]
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No. 28.393
_____________
Sam'l Parks dec'd
N.C.
Let S. Godwin, Aug. 25/52

Rep't  papers to Sec'y Augt. 30/52
Let Gen'l Edney Sept. 3/52
M. Thompson Jan'yy 24 1853
Sec. Int'r June 8/53
June 7 1832
M. Thompson 29th Sept. 1853.
1832
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Refer to the Commissioner of Pensions for a Report
Dep. Int.
Aug. 28/32

Let M. Thompson
Nov. 19/1853
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Ctf. jacket enclosed
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Nov. 3d 1852
______________
Revolutionary 
Pension Claim
of 
Sam'l Parks
decd of N. C. 
Pr. of Atty.
from his son
Jno. S. Parks
to 
M. Thompson
Fil'd Nov. 1 1852
Papers Cal'd for
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Nov. 2-1901
H. W. Clark
Montgomery Ala
_____________________
1919 Jan'y 11 Hist. to Fitzhugh

8937
Rev. War
INVALID.
_____________
File No. 8937
Samuel Parks
Pri. Rev. War
_______________
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:-Vol. 1st, Page 28
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Rev. War
mcd

DECEMBER 31, 1918.

COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.

SIR:
WILL YOU SEND ME A STATEMENT OF THE MILITARY HISTORY OF JEZREAL PENN, OF MARYLAND, ALSO SAMUEL PARKS, OF NORTH CAROLINA, SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR?
RESPECTFULLY.
[Signature]
Fitzhugh L. Penn

[note- reg.]
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Montgomery Ala. Oct. 1901

Commissioner of Pension
Washington
D. C. 

Dear Sir,

Will you please cause an examination of the records of your department and tell me if Samuel Parks of Va. name appears upon rolls for services rendered in the war of the Revolution - 1776 -
Respectfully
[Signature]
H. W. Clark

[stamp - O.W. DIVISION
NOV 1 1901
RECEIVED]

[stamp - U.S. PENSION OFFICE C
OCT 30 1901]