Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25,689, for John Mc Crory, North Carolina
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(3—1776)
SERVICE
NC
McCrory, John
Catharine
NUMBER
W.25.689
B.L.Wt.18389_160_55
CONTENTS
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19340
West Tennessee
John McCrory
of Maury Co. in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Gordon of the regt commanded by Maj. Lewis in the N. C. Militia for one year from 1781.
Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee at the rate of 40 Dollars – Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of August 1833 and Mr. W. Campbell Columbia Ten
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $80
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep “ 20
$100
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Wm. L. Allison Clerk,
Book C Vol. 7 Page 89
Decd
Paid at the Treasury under the Act 6 April 1838, from 4th March to 23d Aug 1837. Agent notified 7 Decr 1844
Settle to H. B. Martin
10 Dec 1846.
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3978
Tennessee Nashville
Catharine McCrory
widow of John McCrory who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars 00 Cents per annum on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued 4th day of April 184[?] and sent to Hon F. K. Zollicoffer
Ho. of Reps.
Recorded on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 186 Vol. A
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113.180
Act March 3/55
March 2
Catharine McCrory widow of John McCrory soldier
Revolutionary War claimant is a Revolutionary Act Feby 3d/55 & refers to evidence on file her husband entered the service [illegible] No Ca
Private N. C. Troops
Term Feby 53-3978
Ad. Hoac’s Mar 14/56
Dodge
Jazewell G. Dillon
Columbia Tenn
cir J. G. Dillon Jany 856
Vol M1, page 96
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13266
Jno. McCrory
J
From 1781 Private
1 yr $40
Mr. W. Campbell
Thos. J. Peters mailed to Columbia
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]
BRIEF in the case of John McCrory
County of Maury in the State of Tennessee
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? about 69
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.
Sub: In 1781
Duration of Service.
Years,
Months,
About believes 12
Days.
Rank.
As a
private
Names of Generals and Field Officers under whom he served.
Gen.
Capt. Gordon Maj Jno Lewis
Maj Cropton
5. In what battles was he engaged? None, guarding prisoners and hunting tories
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Guilford N. C.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living witness & traditionary
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The clerk has no seal
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Chs. W. Forest
Examining Clerk.
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State of Tennessee
Court of Pleas and quarter sessions
September sessions 1832
Maury County
On this thirteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court, before Robert Wortham, John Vincent, and [illegible] Esqs, Justices of the Peace for the county aforesaid officiated to hold at the court of pleas and quarter sessions now sitting – John McCrory, a resident of the County and State aforesaid aged about sixty nine years last May – Who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7th 1832 – that he entered the service of the United States under the following named offi
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Officers and served as herein stated
This applicant states that he entered the service of the United States the fall of the year 1781- as a substitute for Jeremiah Reeves, who had volunteered in the company of Captain Berskins of the County of Guilford within State of North Carolina, in which County this applicant lived at the time he entered the service, he went from Guilford County to Salisbury the place apported for Rendezvous – At Salisbury this applicant was put under the command of Captain Charles Gordon, who with his company was attached to the command of Major Joel Lewis – This applicant understood& believes that these were twelve months troops raised according to an act of Assembly of the State of North Carolina and does not now know whether there was any Col. over their troops or whether there was any higher officer than Major Lewis in the Regiment there was a Major Cropton sometimes in command best nas
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very little with us – This applicant remained at Salisbury N. C. with Capt. Gordon & company, he thinks about three months as a guard upon Salisbury Jail, where Colonel Bryant, Lieut. Col. Hampton and Captain White whom were British, or Tory officers, were confined, with a good number of Toreys, who this applicant thinks had been taken at Kings mountain – Col. Briant, Lieut. Col. Hampton & Capt. White were tried for their lives and condemned to be hung but were several times respited and eventually pardoned by Governor Martin – and were afterwards sent to the British to be exchanged as prisoners of war – After this [illegible], Majr. Lewis, who had still remained at Salisbury, and Capt. Gordon and his company left Salisbury, still leaving a small guard on the jail & prisould[?] and marched down the estuary, in the direction the main body of the army had taken – Major Lewis had been furloughed[?] applicant lost by honor – with [illegible]
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to join Capt. Gordon’s company, in a few days at a place called Dowd’s Mill on Deep River, where applicant accordingly with Maj. Lewis, & Capt. Gordon and marched with them down the Country, with the view of joining the main body of the States Troops [crossed text] who had [illegible] at Salisbury. Maj. Lewis & Capt. Gordon, from their place took [end crossed text] we then passed through a country with which this applicant is entirely unacquainted, best recollects well that he joined the main body of the State Troops, after having passed through a Forge and dismal Swamp very difficult of passage called “Ashpole Swamp” from this place the troops all returned to Dowd’s Mill & left Captain Gordon – and about twenty five men who were left there, for the purpose of keeping down the tories in that immediate neighborhood – This applicant returned with the main body of the troops to Dowd’s Mill, here Maj. Lewis had seen Tory prisoners who had been taken down the Country [illegible]
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Applicant remained some considerable time at & about Dowd’s Mill – the troops were a good deal scattered from this point – and were stationed at different points in the country as well for the convenience of getting provisions as for the more important purpose of keeping down and awing the strag[g]ling torries & pillaging parties in the country
From this point applicant was marched to Coxes Mill in Randolph County remaining there some considerable time – From this point he went to Brewers Mill, in Chatham County on Haw River. From the time applicant left Capt. Gordon’s company he was not particularly attached to any Capt.’s Company – At Brewers Mill, Capt. Gordons men, came to as Captain Gordon as applicant understood from these men was called to Salisbury N. C. to answer a charge (as applicant understood) which was made against him by some Tory prisoners who he (Gordon) had sent to Hillsboro – applicant never heard anything more of this charge – From Brewers we went to Lindleys Mill, on Cain [Cane] Creek
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Applicant was sick when he marched Lindleys Mill, remained there some considerable time, sick – say a month – the twelve months for which he had been called out had now, very nearly, if not altogether passed – From this place the soldiers were ordered to march to Hillsboro as applicant understood, there to deposit their arms – and at some given time afterwards were to [illegible] at the same place to receive their discharges – This applicant having been sick and unable to march to Hillsboro, Major Lewis loaned him, a poor little old-Public horse, to ride home – which died very shortly after he got home – At the time appointed for the soldiers to meet at Hillsboro to receive their discharges, applicant being still sick and unable to travel, sent his brother in his place, to receive his discharge – but Maj. Lewis rejected to give applicant a discharge, because he had not returned the poney or horse – which applicant could not then do as he (the Poney) was dead –
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This applicant was born in Ireland, came to America in 1775 – he has no record evidence of his age, but from the best information he can get believes he was born in the year 1763 – and believes he was about sixty nine years old in May last (1832) – Applicant as is above stated was living in Guilford County State of North Carolina where he entered the service where he continued to live after his return from the army until the year 1790 – he has ever since that time (1790) been a resident of the State of Tennessee – and now lives in Maury County in sd. State as is above stated – He never was attached to any Continental Troops – He has no documentary evidence of his services. He knows of no man in his reach by whom he can prove his actual service except Andrew Carnahan who is now an old man, and lives in a distant County, but whose sworn and certified affidavit will accompany this application – Applicant states that Absolom Bostick, who is a preacher of the gospel and John G. Carr, are his neighbors and are well acquainted with him and will testify as to his
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character for veracity and their belief as to his services as a soldier of the Revolution-
This applicant hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state or territory-
John McCrory
Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year aforesaid
Thos. J. Porter clerk
We Absolom Bostick a Clergyman residing in the State of Tennessee and County of Maury and John F. Carr residing in the same County & State – do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John McCrory who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be about sixty nine years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood
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neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day & year aforesaid –
Absolom Bostick
John F. Carr
Thos. J Porter Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant, was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Absolom Bostick who has signed the proceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in Maury County, and that John F. Carr who has signed the same is a resident of the same County, and is a credible person, and that their statements is entitled to credit.
Robert Wortham JP
John Vincent 
Jas Hucy J. P.
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I Thomas J. Porter Clerk of the Court of Pleas and quarter sessions of the County of Maury, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of John McCrory for a pension-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 15th day of September 1832
Thos. J. Porter Clerk
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113,180
No.
Declaration of Catharine McCrory.
(widow of John McCrory)
for bounty land
Act 3d, March, 1855.
Sergewill G. Dillon, Agent
Columbia, Tennessee.
Received April, 1855.
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State of Tennessee
County of Maury
S. S.
On this 3rd day of April A. D. One thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a justice of the peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, Catharine McCrory, aged 83 years, a resident of Maury County in the State of Tennessee, who being duly sworn according to law, declare, that she is the widow of John McCrory, deceased who was a soldier of the American Revolution, from the State of North Carolina, that she is a Pensioner on the Pension Rolls, at Nashville, and paid by Joel M. Smith, Pension Agent, at Nashville, Tennessee, that the following is a copy of her original pension certificate now in her possession (to wit). Department of the Interior Widow’s Pension I certify that in conformity with the 2nd Section of the act of February 3: 1853, Catharine McCrory widow of John McCrory, who was a private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of forty dollars and per annum, commencing on the 3d of February, 1853; and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage. Given at the Department of the Interior, this Fourth day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty four (signed) R. McClelland Secretary of the Interior
examined and countersigned
L. P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions
that her said husband entered the Army of the American Revolution for a period unknown to affiant, and served two months in said war, that she cannot state the name of his Captain or any particulars whatever with exactness
General Lewis of the army of the American Revolution of the State of North Carolina, was one of his officers, that her said husband was honorably discharged. She further states that the No. of her said original pension certificate is 3978, which was issued from the Department of the Interior on the 4th day of April 1854, and will be found recorded in the Pension office, in the Roll of Pensioners page 186, Volume A. recorded by G. S. Getty Clerk. She further states that she was married to the said John McCrory in Bedford County in the State of Tennessee, on the --- day of August, A. D. 1813, by one James Dixon a Justice of the Peace for Bedford County Tennessee and that her name before her said marriage was Catharine Wilson, that there is no public, or official or private family record of her said marriage with her said husband John McCrory aforesaid to her knowledge and none can be produced, that her said husband died in Maury County in the State of Tennessee/
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On the 23rd day of August AD 1837, and that she is now a widow. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the “Act approved March 3, 1855.” She also declares that she has not received a warrant for Bounty Land under this or any act of Congress, nor made any other application therefore than the one above mentioned.
Witness William Tate		Catharine McCrory
Witness Thos Percy
We William Tate and Thomas Percy, residents of Maury County in the State of Tennessee, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Catharine McCrory, and that she made her mark in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person, she represents herself to be.
William Tate
Thos Percy
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim, that the foregoing copy of the Pension certificate set forth in claimants declaration is a true and perfect copy of her said original certificate in her possession.
Ezra Hardeson Seal
Justice of the Peace
State of Tennessee
County of Maury S. S.
On this 3rd day of April A. D. One thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me a justice of the peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, William Tate and Thomas Percy, persons of respectability and credibility, residents of the County of Maury, in the State of Tennessee, who being duly sworn according to law, depose and say, that they are personally acquainted with Catharine McCrory, who has made the foregoing declaration for Bounty Land under the act approved 3d March 1855, as the widow of John McCrory deceased, late a soldier of the American Revolution, that they knew the said John McCrory in his lifetime, and knew that he the said John McCrory, aforesaid, and the claimant Catharine McCrory, lived together as husband and were so reputed to be husband and wife by the entire community, that the said John McCrory, husband of said Catharine McCrory, is now dead that he died in Maury County in the State of Tennessee, on or about the 23d day of August, A. D. 1837, that
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said Catharine McCrory, aforesaid is now a widow, they further swear that the Pension certificate as set forth in the foregoing declaration of the claimant, Catharine McCrory, is a true, perfect, and genuine copy of her said original Pension certificate now in her possession, as widow of the aforesaid John McCrory, deceased, they further swear that they have no interest in the claim, and that they, deponents, do reside in the County of Maury in the State of Tennessee.
William Tate
Thos Percy
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written, And I certify that I know the affiants, William Tate, and Thomas Percy, to be credible persons; and that they do reside in Maury County, State of Tennessee.
Ezra Hardeson {Seal}
Justice of the Peace
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Sir:-- I request that my claim to bounty land under the act of Congress approved March 3, 1855, may be examined and if entitled, I desire the sum to be sent to Tazewell G. Dillon, Esq. Columbia Tennessee, who I constitute my attorney in fact, for that purpose and for my benefit.
Acknowledged before me the 5th day of April A. D. 1855.
Ezra Hardison {Seal}
Justice of the Peace
State of Tennessee Maury County
I John B. Padgett, Clerk of County Court of said County which is a court of record, certify that Ezra Hardison Esq. before whom the foregoing several affidavits were made, is now and was at the time of signing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are due his official acts as such, and that the signatures thereto purporting to be his are genuine
Given under my hand and the seal of said court done in office in Columbia in said court the 4th April 1855.
John B. Padgett Clerk
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State of Tennessee
Rutherford County
On this 7th day of September 1832, personally appeared before me John W. Corly Esquire, an acting Justice of the Peace for the County of Rutherford and State of Tennessee, Andrew Carnahan, aged seventy years, two months and twenty seven days, a resident in the County & State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, upon his oath doth say, that he was well acquainted with John McCrory who now resides in Maury County Tennessee, about the year 1781, when he resided in Guilford County North Carolina. In the fall of the year 1781 the said John McCrory entered the service of the State of North Carolina in the militia of that state. That he was in the service with him, and that they both belonged to the same company, which was commanded by Captain Charles Gordon, and the regiment was commanded by Majr. Joel Lewis; and he also thinks a Major Crafton had a command in said regiment. He has no recollection about the Colonel of the regiment; nor does he think there were a Colonel belonging to the same. Said regiment was raised by act of Assembly of North Carolina and was called the “State regiment” or “State troops”, and was called into service for twelve months; but he thinks the regiment was never filled up entirely according to the provisions of the act of assembly, which he supposes was the cause there was never any colonel in command in it. Affiant states that he and the said John McCrory went from home together to Salisbury when the troops rendezvoused, and entered the service together in the company as above stated, and they were, during a considerable portion of the time, messmates. They remained at Salisbury, together with the balance of their company to guard the jail in which were confined a number of Tory prisoners, amongst whom, was a Colonel Briant, Lieutenant Colonel Hampton & Capt. White, which said three prisoners were tried, convicted and sentenced to hang. But when the day for their execution arrived, they were respited for a few days, and he thinks they were respited as often as twice. They were finally pardoned, and the privilege was granted them of being exchanged with the British, as prisoners of war, and they were accordingly sent off to Augusta Georgia, under a guard, for the purpose of being exchanged. After said prisoners were sent off, affiant and said John McCrory, together with the balance of Capt. Gordon’s company, left Salisbury to go down the Country, in which direction, the regiment to which they belonged, had proceeded; they with said Capt. Gordon’s Company, having been stationed at Salisbury for about three months. Affiant states that he and said John McCrory were furloughed by Majr. Lewis, to go by home, which they accordingly did; and again in pursuance to their orders, again joined their company at Dowd’s Mill; and then proceeded on down the country to overtake the regiment. Before they came up with the regiment, an unfortunate affair occurred between it and a detachment of light horse, belonging to Gen. Sumter’s army. When they & Sumter’s men first saw each other, both conceived that they were coming in contact with a party of tories, and under that impression, fired at each other, by which one of Sumpter’s men was killed. They being much inferior in numbers to the regiment of infantry
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retreated immediately after the fire; and in the retreat one of their men was thrown from his horse, who was taken up by the opposite side; and from him they first learned the mistake under which each side had been labouring. This is the account which affiant learned of the affair from some of the regiment after he came up with them. When the affair took place, affiant was near enough to hear the firing. Soon after joining the regiment, it proceeded to return up the country; but Capt. Gordon, with twenty four men, amongst whom affiant was one, remained behind to guard the tories and keep them from rising, wars being entertained that if all the whig military forces left the country, they would take up arms. Affiant states that after this, he did not see the said John McCrory again for some time, perhaps three months, he saying returned with the main body of the regiment. When affiant returned however, up the country, he saw said John McCrory probably at Brewer’s Mill, and he remembers certainly to have seen him at Linley’s Mill, with a detachment of the troops; and he entertains no doubt but that he was in the service all the while after they separated. After seeing him at Linley’s Mill, affiant thinks he proceeded to Salisbury, and McCrory, as he supposes, went home, never having seen him from this time until he saw him at home. He has no reason to believe that he left the service before, or until near about the expiration of his term.
Andrew Carnahan
Subscribed & sworn to before me
J. W. Corly JP
State of Tennessee
Rutherford County
I John R. Laughlin Clerk of the County Court of Pleas and quarter sessions of said County, do hereby certify that J. W. Corly before whom Andrew Carnahan made the foregoing affidavit, is an acting Justice of the Peace for said County of Rutherford duly elected and qualified according to law and that his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said Court to be affixed at office in Murfreesborough 7th day of September A. D. 1832.
Jno. R. Laughlin, Clerk
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the 2nd Section of the act of 3d February 1853.
State of Tennessee S. S.
County of Maury
On this 21st day of January one thousand eight hundred and fifty four personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Associate Justices of the County Court of the County of Maury and State of Tennessee Catharine McCrory a resident of the County of Maury and State aforesaid aged 77 years, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3rd February, 1853, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War; that she is the widow of John McCrory who was a private in the company (now unknown to her) in the war of the American Revolution that his Pension Certificate remained in her possession until about the year 1847 when she let Esquire Healstood now decd have it to procure the arrears of her said husband from the 4th November to 4th Sept 1839 that it is now lost to her, that her said husband at the time of his death was a Pensioner under the Act of Congress the 7th June 1832, at the rates of forty dollars per annum and was paid at Nashville, Tennessee, and she refers to the original papers on file at Washington D. C. as to the service of her said husband; she further declares that she was married to the said John McCrory, deceased on the 5th day of September eighteen hundred and fourteen; in the County of Bedford and State of Tennessee by one James Dickson, Esq., an acting Justice of the Peace for the County of Bedford and State of Tennessee, that her said husband died at his dwelling house in the County of Maury and State of Tennessee on the 23rd day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven; that she was not married to him prior to the second of January eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated, she further declares that she is now a widow and has never married since the death of her said husband aforesaid, that there is no [illegible] record in existence of her marriage with her said deceased husband John McCrory
Witness Thomas Percy
Witness William Tate
Catharine McCrory
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written and I hereby certify that the said declarant Mrs. Catharine McCrory, from bodily infirmity is unable to attend Court and that she is personally known to me to be the widow of John McCrory deceased late a soldier of the American Revolution and she is a resident citizen of Maury County and State of Tennessee.
Ezra Hardison
Associate Justice of the County Court of Maury County in the State of Tennessee.
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State of Tennessee S. S.
County of Maury
On this 21st day of January one thousand eight hundred and fifty four personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the associate justices of the County Court of said County of Maury and State of Tennessee
William Tate and Thomas Peace, two resident citizens of said county and state aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law depose and say that John McCrory late a soldier of the American Revolution is dead that he died in the County of Maury and State of Tennessee, on or about the 23d day of August A. D. 1837, that he was the husband of the declarant Mrs. Catharine McCrory, who is the widow of said John McCrory deceased that they knew the said John McCrory and his said widow to live together as husband and wife, that the said Catharine McCrory, has never married since the death of her said husband aforesaid but has remained a widow ever since and now is a widow that the said John McCrory was a Revolutionary Pensioner at the time of his death and paid at Nashville Tennessee, they further swear that said declarant Mrs. Catharine McCrory is a resident of the County of Maury and State of Tennessee, that Nashville Tennessee is the nearest convenient agency for the payment of her pension, they further swear that they are disinterested.
Thomas Peay
William Tate
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and hereby certify that the said Thomas Peay and William Tate are resident citizens of the County of Maury and State of Tennessee, that they are men of respectability and credibility, and entirely disinterested.
Ezra Hardison
Associate Justice of the County Court of Maury County in the State of Tennessee
Sir,		21st January, 1854.
I request that my claim to pension under the Act of Congress of the 3d February 1853, may be examined and my name placed on the Pension list payable at Nashville Tennessee and that the certificate of my being placed on the Pension list may be sent to Sayewell G. Dillon Esq. at Columbia Tennessee.
I am respectfully your obedient serve.
Catharine McCrory
Witness William Tate
Witness Thomas Peay
Signed before me as witness
Ezra Hardison Associate Justice
To L. P. Waldo Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.
State of Tennessee
County of Maury
I John B. Padgett, Clerk of the County Court of said county, which is a court of record having general jurisdiction, certify that Ezra Hardison, before whom the several affidavits and declarations as appears above, were made, and who has thereto signed his name in his own proper hand writing is now, and was at the time of signing the same an acting and associate justice of the peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn & that full faith and credit are due his official acts as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affix the seal of said court at office in Columbia this twentieth day of February one thousand eight hundred and fifty four.
John B. Padgett Clerk
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]
Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 25.689
Catharine McCrory
wid of 
John McCrory
Pri Rev War
Act: Feb 3rd 53
Index:--Vol. M, Page 26
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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2 Sept to: 23d Aug 1837
“[?]th”
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18.389
Ho Ams
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April 1” 54
Catharine McCrory
Wid of John:
Nd 4,511 Maury Co.
Tenn.
Act/53
$40 per an:
Com: Feby 3.7853
Revy
Hon: F. K. Zolicoffer
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Pension Office, Official Business
Commissioner
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Columbia, Tennessee
5th March, 1856.
Sir:
In the application of Catharine McCrory, widow of John McCrory, deceased, No. 115,180 for bounty land under act 3rd March, 1855, herewith enclosed in conformity to yours of the 8th January 1856, (Revolutionary Claims,) requiring the claimants to produce record evidence of 14 days service I send you the certificate of the Comptroller of the State of North Carolina, showing that John McCrory served one month in the Revolutionary War, John McCrory, deceased, husband of claimant you will see received according to the enclosed certificate £1.17.46 which you will see by reference to the pay table of the Revolutionary army is the pay for one month service (see Triplett’s Pension Laws, i4 under head of pay of a private) This claim was regularly reached on the character of your department on the 8th of January last, from which see your letter, and suspended for record evidence of 14 days service and it is now supplied please take up her claim (Revolutionary) immediately and open a warrant in the name of Catharine McCrory, for 160 acres, which please enclose to me at Columbia, Tennessee.
I am respectfully your obedient servant,
Tazewell G. Dillon.
J. Minot Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
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No.
Declaration of Catharine McCrory,
(widow of John McCrory)
for Bounty Land.
Act 3rd March, 1855.
Tazewell G. Dillon, Agent
Columbia, Tennessee.
Received	April, 1855
No.
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Columbia, Tennessee
4th April, 1855.
Sir,
Herewith enclosed I send you the application of Mrs. Catharine McCrory widow of John McCrory deceased late a Private Soldier of the American Revolution for bounty land under the act 3rd March, 1855. She could not state the name of her husband’s Captain in the Revolution, but enough is stated to show that she is entitled to 16 acres of bounty land under act 3rd March, 1855.
She is on the pension roll payable at Nashville Tennessee by Joel M. Smith, Esq. I have set forth a copy of her original Pension certificate it was issued by you on the 4th April 1854 under the 2nd Section of the act 3d February 1853, it is No. 3978 and will be found recorded in the Pension office, in the Roll of Pensioners, page 186, volume (A.) recorded by G. S. Getty Clerk, it has always been the wage of your Department to let Revolutionary claims take precedence of all other claims on the calendar of your office please to be so kind for this old lady the widow of a Revolutionary solider to have her bounty land warrant for 160 acres issued immediately and give your personal attention to it on account of the claimant, she is very old and if it was put down on the calendar and took its turn there according to the time it reached the office she might not live to get the benefit of it, and it is but right in her case that it should issue immediately so that whilst she is alive she might get the benefit of it, these favors are and will not be asked often as I know of but two Revolutionary widows in the whole county of Maury please therefore as soon as you examine her declaration herewith enclosed and the book suggested of your office to issue a warrant in her name for 160 acres which send to me at Columbia, Tennessee, and by doing so you will much oblige the widow and undersigned.
I am respectfully your obedient servant.
Tazewell G. Dillon
L. P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions
Washington,
D. C.
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Make the result of this application known to be at Columbia Ten.
M. W. Campbell
12.266
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]
Brief in the case of Catharine McCrory, widow of John
Maury County and State of Tenn:
act 3d Feby: 1853.
Claim, (“original,”)
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832.
Two person certify to general reputation of marriage & cohabitation.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Hon. F. K. Zollicoffer
Ho: Reps:
Name and residence of Agent
J. [illegible]
Examining Clerk.
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]
GIDEON, PRINTER.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER’S OFFICE.
April 27, 1844.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled “An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,” and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The widow of John McCrory decd. a Pensioner on the Roll of the Nashville, Ten. Agency, at the rate of Forty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7 June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March to the 23d August 1837.
Respectfully, yours
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
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Tenn
Catharine McCrory
wid ala
John 19340
Boynten
Hon. F. K. Zollicoffer
H. R.
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Columbia, Tennessee
Sir,
Herewith enclosed I send you the application of Mrs. Catharine McCrory (widow of John McCrory deceased late a Soldier of the American Revolution, and a Pensioner drawing a pension at the time of his death at the rate of $40.00 per annum) for a pension of 5 years half pay under the 2nd Section of the Act of Congress of the 3d February, 1853, she does not know the name of the Captain of the Company that her husband served in Regiment and from this circumstance about the year 1847 Ezra Hardison now dead (who died with the [illegible] in 1848 reachersville) procured the possession of her husband possession certificate from her in order to procure the arrears of pension owed her deceased husband John McCrory from the 4th March 1837 to the 4th September, which she has never had nor seen since she let the [illegible] Ezra Holsboll deceased have the [illegible] it will be very easy to find the original papers though they were preposed by McLeary W. Campbell, Esq. of this place and her deceased husband was pensioner under the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832 I believe please to examine his claim only place her on the pension list at Nashville, Tennessee and send to me at Columbia, Tennessee the certificate of her being placed on the pension list.
I am respectfully your friend and obt. servt
Tazewell G. Dillon
L. P. Waldo Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington,
D. C.
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Official
Pension Office
L. P. Waldo Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington,
D. C.
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Columbia, Tennessee
22nd, March, 1854.
Sir,
From the language of my letter to you of yesterday forwarded the Hon. F. K. Zollicoffer in the matter of Mrs. Catharine McCrory widow of John McCrory late a soldier of the Revolutionary War) for $40.00 per year for life under the 2nd Section of the Act of the Act of the 3d February 1853, instead of 5 years half pay I inadvertently put in 5 years half pay in my letter when it should have been 40.00 per annum for life or surviving widow [illegible] please to file the my letter with the purpose please to issue the certificate.
I am respectfully your obedient servant
Tazewell G. Dillon
L. P. Waldo Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington,
D. C.
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State of N. Carolina 
Comptroller’s Department
I Geo. M. Brooks Comptroller of Public Accounts in and for the state aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears of record among the payments made to Sundry persons for military service in the Revolutionary War, as follows
Jno. McKrory
Book no. D10 Page 14 £2.17.6 specie
Allowed Salisbury District
March 1784
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said office in Raleigh on this the 28th day of February 1856
Geo. M. Brooks
Comptroller
N. C.
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FREE
Boynton
J. Minot Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington,
D. C.
[There is one stamp]
COLUMBIA
MAR 6
1856
TEN.
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State of Tennessee, County of
On this	day of		, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and 	personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, 	aged 	years, a resident of 		county, in the State of Tennessee, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical 	, who was a 		in the company commanded by Captain		, in the 	regiment of 		commanded by Colonel 	, in the war with 	for the term of 	, and continued in actual service in said war for fourteen days: that he has heretofore made application for bounty land under the act of September 25, 1850, and received a land warrant, No. 	, for     acres, which he has since legally disposed of, and cannot now return.
He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the additional bounty land to which he may be entitled under the act approved the 3d day of March, 1855. He also declares that he has never applied for nor received, under this or any other act of Congress, any bounty-land warrant, except the one above mentioned.
Witness:
Witness:
We	and 	residents of	in the State of Tennessee, upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by 		in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that he is the identical person he represents himself to be.
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
To the Commissioner of Pensions—Washington D. C.
SIR:-I request that my claim to Bounty Land under the Act of Congress approved March 3d, 1855, may be examined and if entitled, I desire the sum to be sent to T. G. DILLON, Esq., Columbia, Tennessee, who I constitute my Attorney in fact, for that purpose and for my benefit.
Acknowledged before me the	day of
A. D. 185
J. P.
State of Tennessee, County of
I, 	Clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby certify that		Esq., whose signature appear to the foregoing affidavit and acknowledgement and was at the time of signing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that the signatures thereto purporting to be his are genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this 	day of 		185
Clerk.
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Know all men by these presents that I Catharine McCrory of the County of Maury and State of Tennessee widow of John McCrory a revolutionary pensioner of the United States do hereby constitute and appoint James B. Winn my true and lawfull attorney for me and in my name to receive from the Agent of the United States for paying pensions in Nashville State of Tennessee the balance of said pension from the 4th day of March 1837 (the time to which he was last paid) to the 23 day of August 1837 The day of his death Witness my hand and seal this 27 day of June 1846
Sealed and delivered in presence of Jno. S. Jarderman
Joseph Officer 
Catharine McCrory
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State of Tennessee S. S.
Maury County
Be it known on the 27 day of June 1846, before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared Catharine McCrory the above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year above mentioned
J. C. Spinks 
Justice of the Peace
State of Tennessee S. S.
Maury County
Be it known that on the 27 day of June 1846 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared James B. Winn the attorney named in the foregoing Power of Attorney and made oath that the same was not given him by reason of any sale, transfer, or mortgage of the pension or arrears of Pensions therein authorized to be received by him.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year last mentioned before me J. C. Spinks
Maury County
Justice of the Peace
James B. Winn
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State of Tennessee S. S.
Maury County
Be it known that before me J. C. Spinks a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared Catharine McCrory and made oath in due form of law that she is the widow of John McCrory, the identical person who was a pensioner and is now dead and to whom a certificate of pension was issued. But I cannot here state a true copy for the following reasons that sometime in the summer or fall of 1844 she delivered said pension certificate to a certain gentlemen to trie [try] and get said arrears of pension for her said gen-
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tlemen lives a considerable distance from her and she never has seen him since the day she delivered said Pension certificate to him, nor she does not know where said pension certificate is at this time. That the said John McCrory the deceased pensioner resided in Maury County in the State of Tennessee for the span of seventeen years before his death, and previous thereto he resided in Bedford, and Davidson Counties in the State of Tennessee. And previous thereto, he resided in the State of North Carolina
Sworn to and subscribed this 27 day of June 1846
J. C. Spinks
Justice of the Peace
Catharine McCrory
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State of Tennessee
Maury County S. S.
I William E. Erwin Clerk of the County Court of Maury in the State aforesaid holder of the Court house in the town of Columbia in and for the County aforesaid on the 6th day of July 1846 do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that John McCrory was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of forty six dollars and	cents per annum was a resident of the County of Maury and State of Tennessee and died in said County of Maury and State of Tennessee in the year 1837, on the 27th day of August. That he left a widow whose name is Catharine McCrory. I further certify that J. C. Spinks is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Columbia this 6th day of July 1846.
Wm. E. Erwin Clerk
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The amended declaration of John McCrory of the county of Maury State of Tennessee
State of Tennessee
Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions
June Sessions 1833
Maury County B-
On this 10th day of June one thousand eight hundred & thirty three, personally appeared in open court 
James [illegible] Peter Williams John Mack and others	Justices of the County of Maury aforesaid assigned to hold the Court now sitting John McCrory, a resident of the county & state aforesaid aged about seventy years – last may – who being first duly sworn according to law – doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 – (as an amendment to his declaration made in this court on the thirteenth day of September 1832) – This applicant again states that he entered the service of the United in the Revolutionary War in the fall of the year 1781 – as a substitute for Jeremiah Reeves, who had volunteered in the company of Capt. Bethany of Guilford County N. Carolina – on a tour of twelve months – Applicant would now state again, that he continued in the service of the United States, as a substitute
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for said Reeves – for the full term of [illegible] of (at least) one whole year. – Twelve Months he cannot state the precise day he entered the service, or the very day on which he quitted the service – but is very certain that he served as much as twelve months at least for which services he claimed a pension.
John McCrory
Subscribed & Sworn to in open court – This 10th day of June 1833
Thos. J. Porter Clk
I Thomas J. Porter Clerk of the Court of Pleas and quarter sessions for the County of Maury do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court of Pleas & quarter sessions of Maury County aforesaid of 13th of September 1832 in the matter of the application of John McCrory for a Pension – And also the amended declaration of said J. McCrory, this day made in open court for the same purpose.
Thos. J. Porter Clk
I certify that Thos. J. Porter Esq. whose signature is affixed to the foregoing declaration & amended declaration of John McCrory for a pension, is the clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for Maury County Tennessee; and that I have no doubt – the annexed papers are the originals cited are in Court.—
Augt. 15th 1833.	James K. Polk