Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,263, John Webster, Continental (Va.)
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Service: Continental (Va)
Webster, John
Number: R.11.263
Maggie
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Deposition of 
Mary Ray in 
Favor of Jno Webster
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State of North Carolina 
Stokes County                   (SS)

On this 27th day of December 1834 personally appeared before me Charles Banner one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid. The widow Mary Ray at her place of residence in the County aforesaid where her husband George Ray Decd resided next before his death. She being about Eighty years of age and of good sound mind & memory and of respectable character for Veracity & credit & She being sworn according to Law to declare what she knows or remembers of her brother the late John Webster Decd late of Rockingham County North Carolina, services as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, declares that the said John Webster was her Brother that she perfectly remembers that he enlisted in the Service of the United States as a private Soldier in the Cavelry [sic] the date she recollect but it was in the County of Amherst in Virginia where we then lived about two miles from Lynchburg and that her Brother was absent from home in the Service aforesaid as she believes for the space of three years or more tho she cannot remember how much longer; that she remembers of his telling our parents on his return home of his having been engaged in Battles against the British & that onetime he picked up a wounded man & assisted him  so that he recovered & many other occurrences he related that had happened during his Tour in the Service which she at this time owing the length of time & infirmaries of old age cannot recollect. But that she is of opinion that her said Brother John Webster did actually perform the Services for which he has claimed a pension. Sworn to & subscribed the  day and year first above written before me. 
C Banner J.P.
Mary [her x mark] Ray
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State of North Carolina)
Stokes County)

I John Hill Clerk of the Court of Pleas and
quarter sessions for Stokes County certify that Charles Banner
whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit is a duly
commissioned qualified & acting Justice of the peace in
for our said County & that the foregoing signature
purporting to be his is genuine
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed
my official seal at Germanton this 15th day
of January 1835.
M. Hill, ccc
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State of North Carolina)
Rockingham County)
August Sessions 1832

On this 30th day of August 1832 personally appeared in
open Court, John Webster Sr. aged seventy three years
who being first duly sworn according to law doth say
his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain
the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress
passed March 7th 1837.

That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the
year 1776 in the 1st Virginia Regiment of the regular line
under the folowing named officers for a term of three
years in the Cavalry. Spotsward Dandruge Captain
William Penn Lieut. and Lindsey was Ensign.
Theoderic Bland was Col. Comdr. our company was
organizing at Fredericksburg Virginia, from there march to
Williamsburg & from there to Little York, where we
remained about two months, from thence we marched
to Baltimore thence to Philadelphia. Thence to headquarters 
at Morristown in the State of New Jersey where we
remained near one month, under the command of General
Washington. Fought in the Battle of Brandywine, also at
Monmouth Court Court also at the Battle of
the White Plains.

Was living at the time he entered the service in the County of
Amherst in the State of Virginia. fourteen men of us entered
at the same time from the same County. Some of their names are as
follows. Richard Pendleton, Wm W Daniel, John Holeman
who both died with the Small pox & were buried in one grave.
Frederic Davies who died at little York, William Tucker
the winter the British lay in Philadelphia, he was under the command
of General Pulaski went into winter quarters at Trenton
above Philad. was with Genl Wayne at the Paoli Tavern where
we were betrayed by one of our own men and the Tavern
keeper who deserted & gave the British notice of our situation.
We were surrounded by the British horses before we knew it &
near sixty men were killed on the ground. Genl Wayne by a
stratagem which he used made his escape near the close
of his term of service. We were marched to Winchester Virginia
where I was discharged the service, he further states that his
discharge together with every thing he had in the world was
Burnt in his dwelling house, several years ago, and furthermore
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that this is the first application he has ever made for a
pension that he resides in Rockham county or any part of Guilford.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

Ro. Gallaway ccc

John Webster

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the
above named applicant was a Revolutionary solder and
served as he states.

Sampson E. Eugen, J.P.
J. A. Miller  JP
William Gilliam JP 
I Robert Galloway Clerk of the Court of Pleas
and quarter sessions held for the County State
aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains
the original proceedings of the said Court in the
matter of the application of Jn Webster for a
pension.

In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto that my hand and
affixed the seal of office the
30 day of August 1832
R. Gallaway ccc


3682
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Revolutionary Claim

Act 7th July 1838

Pleasant Webster
Administrator of
Maggie Webster dec.
who was the widow of
John Webster dec. a private 
in Capt. Dandridge's
Co. Col. Bland's Regiment
of dragoon[?] Cavalry in the
Revolutionary War.

North Carolina
Comm of Pensions
Coll.
[...illegible]
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State of North Carolina)
County of Kington)SS

On the 1st day of March1834 personally appeared before the
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said County and State. Pleasant
Webster resident of said County and State aged 62 years, who being
duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following 
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made
by the act of Congress passed on the fourth day of July 1836 granting
pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war;
that he is the administrator of Maggie Webster deceased who
was the widow of John Webster deceased a late revolutionary soldier
and resident of the County of Rockingham State of North Carolina
that about the year 1832 or 1833 his said father John Webster did make
application for pension under the act of the 7th of June 1832 for his
services as a private in the Virginia Cavalry in the war of the
revolution and that he has heard that said application by the
said John Webster his father was suspended because the proof produced
by his said father was not satisfactory to the war department, because
the name of his father was not found on the rolls at Richmond or
Washington and that in consequence thereof the testimony of two
persons must be adduced who served with his said father. He does
hereby declare that at this remote period he finds that all the comrades 
of his said father are dead or removed and trusts that the
accompanying proof will prove satisfactory; that he has always
heard and verily believes that his said father went into service
from Amherst County Virginia about the month of
in the year 1776 as a private in a company of Virginia Cavalry
commanded by Capt Spotswood Dandridge, in a regiment
commanded by Colonel Theodric Bland, and served at least
two other years, when he was honorably discharged. That a short
time after his father left the service his house was destroyed by fire
together with all his valuable papers and that he has good reason 
to believe that among them was the certificate of his discharge. 
And he further declares that he has often heard old
men of that day speak of his father's service and of incidents
connected with it, one of which, alike creditable to his feeling 
as a man and conclusive proof of his daring courage, was as follows
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On one occasion, after an engagement and during the retreat of the
Americans (he thinks at the battle of Brandywine), a half spent
cannon ball struck the commanding officer of his coming within
eighty yards of the British line. That his father immediately
dismounted raised the wounded soldier to his horse and
escaped with him, amid shower of bullets from the enemy
and shouts of applause from his countrymen, that it
was determined to commission him; but that upon enquiry
it was found his education was not sufficient to make
him an efficient commissioned officer; that he has often
heard this incident related by his said father John Webster
and also by old men who knew him well and knew this
to be a fact. He further declares that Maggie Webster his mother was
married to the said John Webster, from the best information he can
gain about the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine
(1779) in the County of Amherst & State of Virginia by one duly
authorized law to administer the rights of Matrimony.
And that her name previous to marriage was Maggie Walker
and that he has no other proof of said Marriage than
that herewith presented; that her said husband died in the
County of Rockingham State of North Carolina on the 31st of
July 1833; that she was married to him at the time above
stated: he further declares that she remained a widow
until the day of her death, which occurred in said County & state
about the 15th day of March in the year eighteen hundred and forty
two (1842) and that she left the following children surviving to wit:
Polly Thickman, Betsy Carter, Sally Glenn, Richd. Webster, James Webster
Pleasant Webster, Joseph Webster Abner Webster, Benjamin Webster, Rebecca Foy 
and that the following are still alive, Mrs. Polly Hickman, Betsy Carter, Sally
Glenn, Pleasant Webster Sher Webster, Benjamin Webster & Rebecca Foy.

Pleasant Webster, adm.

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before the
aforesaid Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions and it is hereby certified that the 
applicant is a credible person or that his statement is worthy of credit.

W. B. Carter Chairman
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State of North Carolina) SS
County of Rockingham)

I, W M Ellington, Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter
Sessions for the aforesaid County, do hereby certify that at a
term of said court begun & held at the Court house thereof on the
25th day of February 1854 the foregoing declaration of
Pleasant Webster was presented before said Court duly sworn
to by the declarant, attested by our Chairman thereof William
B. Carter Esquire and admitted to record. Also the affidavits of
Brett Stovall and Judith Neal which had been previously
Sworn to & subscribed before Wm B. Carter Esquire our said
Chairman both the affiants being as it appeared to the Court
so old and infirm that they could not attend said Court without
great inconvenience & hazard to their lives were presented
and admitted to record. And further that satisfactory evidence
was adduced before our said Court that John Webster a late
revolutionary soldier died in said County on the 31 day of July in
the year eighteen hundred and thirty three (1833) leaving his widow
Maggie Webster Surviving him and that said Maggie Webster died
in said County on the day of March in the year eighteen
hundred & forty two (1842) leaving the following named
children surviving her viz, Polly Hickman wife of Wm Hickman,
Betsy Carter wife of James Carter, Sallie Glenn, Richard Webster, James,
Pleasant,  Joseph, Abner & Rebecca Foy. And  that the following, are the surviving
viz, Polly Hickman Betsy Carter, Sallie Glenn, Pleasant, Abner & Benjamin Webster
& Rebecca Foy.  And I do further certify that said evidence is based
upon the affidavits of said Brett Stovall & Judith Neal both highly
respectable persons. The former of Patrick County Virginia but well
known in this county when he spends a good deal of his time with his
children, the latter of this County of Rockingham, North Carolina.
This day openly presented to our said Court & admitted to read having been
previously attested by our said Chairman Wm. B Carter and that Pleasant Webster whose
declaration was made as aforesaid is the legally constituted
administrator of Maggie Webster deceased & as such has given bond and
Security amounting to three thousand dollars ($3000.00) In testimony
whereof I hereto set my hand & seal of office at Wentworth on the 28th day of February
A.D 1854
W.M. Ellington C.C.C.
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State of North Carolina
County of Rockingham

 I William B Carter
Chairman of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing
affidavits of Brett Stovall and Judith Neal
was presented at the February Term of our said Court
having been previously subscribed before and
Sworn to before me also the declaration of
Pleasant Webster all of which we attested by me
and ordered to be authenticated according to law
I do further certify that William M Ellington
is the Clerk of our said Court, and that authorized
by law to affix the seal of our said County, all of
which has been done in due form

W.B. Carter   Chairman
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State of North)
Stokes County)

on this 18th day of January 1835
before me Charles Banner a Justice of the peace in & for the
County aforesaid personally appeared John Crittondon at the
poor house of the County aforesaid (he being a pauper) aged
Seventy years and of good sound mind & memory
& of undoubted character for veracity & truth who being duly sworn
according to Law deposeth & saith on his oath, that he with his
parents in the time of his infancy resided in Amherst County
Virginia about three miles from Richd. Webster the Father of John
Webster decd. late of Rockingham County N. Carolina who has latterly
departed this life; that he was well acquainted with said John Webster
when he enlisted as a light horse man in the cavalry of the U. States
in the County of Amherst aforesaid, with several other of his near
neighbors with him enlisted in the same service, to wit, Wm Cook,
David London, Richard Pendleton & Wm McDonald & others, the officers
who they were under he cannot recollect; But he remembers particularly
Well that said John Webster & the others above named enlisted & went
into the service aforesaid, & some of them never returnd home, but
that said John Webster returnd home. That he enlisted about the
commencement of the Revolutionary war & returned home to his
parents in the year 1779 or 1780 to the best of his remembrance,
that afterwards said John Webster & his parents emigrate to North Carolina
Guilford County, a part of which is now Rockingham
County & he Intermarried to a Margaret Walker & some years
afterwards he had the misfortune to have his mansion house &
household furniture consumed by fire. this deponent states that
he has been well acquainted with the said John Webster ever since up
to the day of his death, which happened last summer was a
year ago, he having removed from Virginia to N. Carolina about
the same time of Webster removal; and that he has frequently
heard said this Webster relate the occurrances that had happened
in several Battles that he had been engaged in against the
British towards the North; & that he had fought under General
Washington &c. And this deponent fully believes that what
he stated was the truth that said Webster always maintained
the Character of a resolute soldier, & good friend to the
liberty of the United States Sworn to & subscribed the day &
year first above writen.

John Crittondon

before me
C. Banner, J.P.


I hereby certify that John Crittendon who swore & subscribed the
above Deposition is a credible person and that his testamony on
Oath is entitled to credit and that Mary Ray who swore to &
Subscribed her Deposition on the 27th Decemr 1834 which is hereunto
attachd is a pious old Lady & her Testamony is entitled to credit also
Given under my hand this 18th day of Jany 1835.

Banner J.P.
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State of North Carolina)
Stokes County)

I John Hill Clerk of the Court
of pleas and quarter sessions for the County of Stokes
aforesaid, Certify that Charles Banner whose name
appears to the foregoing affadavit & certificate is a duly
Commissioned qualified & acting Justice of the peace in
& for said County and that the foregoing signature
purporting to be his is genuine
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In Testamony whereof I have hereunto
affixed my seal of office and subscribed
my name at Germanton this 18th
day of January 1835
Jno. Hill cc
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May 5, 1934.

Mr. Edward Young
Stokesdale
North Carolina.

BA-J/ILL
John Webster
R. 11263

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the
Revolutionary War record of John Webster of Rockingham County, North Carolina.

The record of John Webster is given herein as shown in the
papers on file in pension claim, R. 11263, based upon his service in
the Revolutionary War.

John Webster, son of Richard Webster, lived with his parents
about two miles from Lynchburg, Amherst County, Virginia, as a boy and
at the time of the Revolutionary War, and moved later, with his parents,
to the part of Guilford County, North Carolina, which was later Rockingham
County. The name of his mother is not shown.

On August 30, 1832, John Webster referred to then as senior),
aged seventy-three years and a resident of Rockingham County, North Carolina, 
applied for pension; he stated that he enlisted in 1776 and served
in Captain Spotswood Dandridge's company, Colonel Theodorick Bland's 1"
regiment of Cavalry, was in the battles of White Plains, Brandywine,
Paoli and Monmouth and was discharged at the expiration of service of
three years.

The claim was not allowed as proof of service as required by the
pension laws was not furnished.

The soldier married about the year 1779, in Amherst County, Virginia,
Maggie, or Margaret, Walker, her age not given.

John Webster died July 31, 1833, in Rockingham County, North Carolina; 
his widow, Maggie or Margaret Walker, died March 15, 1842 in
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the same county.

The names of the following children who survived their mother,
Maggie or Margaret Webster, are given: Polly, wife of William Hickman;
Betsey, wife of James Carter; Sallie Glenn; Rebecca Foy; and Richard,
James, Abner, Pleasant, Joseph, and Benjamin Webster.

In 1854, Pleasant Walker, the son, was sixty-two years of age and
resided in Rockingham County, North Carolina; the other children living
then were Polly Hickman, Betsey Carter, Sally Glenn, Rebecca Foy, Abner
and Benjamin Walker.

In 1854, one William B. Carter was a Justice of the Peace in Rockingham
County, North Carolina, and in that same year, one Theodorick
Carter was referred to as a Revolutionary War soldier, no relationship
to the family stated. In 1854, Judith Neal of Rockingham County, North Carolina, 
stated that the soldier, John Webster, married her own aunt.

In 1834, soldier's sister, Mary, the widow of George Ray, was a
resident of Stokes County, North Carolina.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Assistant to Administrator.


2.
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REJECTED
11263
John Webster

Service:
Enlisted:  18
Discharged:  18
List of rejected + Suspended
Pensions-- page 272- Suspended

Heirs John Webster (decd.)
name not being on Va. Rolls, he is
Required to produce 2 witnesses
who served with him.
JLL

Re-enlisted:
torney:
P. O.
Recognized.
-
Contra
Cert. of Dis. Searched for  18

[hand written notes]
1928- Nov. 8 Hist to Lizzie Webster. M.E.E.
1932- Dec. 9 Hist. to Mr. Harris Z. Tucker, Ill
1933-Dec. 26. H. Z. Tucker and rel. to Theo Carter
1934- May 7- Hist. to Edward Young. J.L.L.
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Hon. A. H. Shepperd
30 Jan: 1828

OC
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Depart of War
Pension Office
Jany 30 1835.

Sir

I  have received the papers of Jno.
Webster decd and have placed them upon the files
of this office.

The name of Mr. Webster should certainly
appear with the Va. rolls, but as it does not, positive
proof of his enlistment, of the time and manner of
his leaving the service will be required by the testimony
of his credible witnesses who must have had personal
knowledge of the fact.

Should such proof be presented, it will then
be necessary to present the certificate of the Court,
stating the time of Mr Websters death, and the name
of the Widow of any, if none, the names of his
children.

I have the honor

A W Shepperd
H o Rep
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John Webster decd.
North Carolina
-
Suspended
30 Jany 1835

Hon. A. H. Shepperd-
Hon. R.C. Purgson 30th Mar. 1852
11263

Act 7th June 1832
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State of North Carolina)
County of Rockingham)

On this the 11th day of February 1834 personally 
appeared before me one William B Carter, an acting Justice
of the peace for said County, Brett Stovall, who being first
duly sworn declares that he was well acquainted with John
Webster who was a revolutionary soldier and lived and died
in the aforesaid County; and he further declares that his
acquaintance with the said John Webster commenced in
his boyhood, that their fathers were neighbors and that
they grew up together went to the same school and that
he was as well and intimately acquainted with the afore
said John Webster as it was possible for neighbors sons
to be; that he well knows that the fact that the said Jno
Webster enlisted in the revolutionary service in the
County of Amber & and State of Virginia in the year
1776 under Captain Spotswood Dandridge as a
private and in a regiment of Cavalry commanded by
Col Theodoric Bland; that he was absent & fully three
years and though he was not in the service with him
yet he has no earthly doubt nor did he ever doubted
for a moment by any one that the said John Webster was
in the service all the time during the three years of
his absence, in fact he has often heard those who served
with him in the army declare that the said John Webster
was in the service for the length of time stated above 
and that he left the service with the reputation of being
not only a soldier but a gallant and daring one. He
further declares that said revolutionary soldier, after
wards removed to the County of Rockingham, State
of North Carolina in which County and State he, the
said Webster died on the 1st day of July 1833 and
that the said John Webster was married to his wife
Maggie Webster in the County of Amherst & State of Virginia 
on the day of about the year 1779 and that
previous thereto her name was Maggie Walker and
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he declares that he has derived the above information in
regard to said service, marriage and death in the
following manner. Viz that he was raised in the same
neighborhood with the said John Webster, Knew
both him and his family well, knows the fact that
he did enlist and when he enlisted, for he was living
near said John Webster's fathers at the time; that he
was also living in the same neighborhood at the time
of said Jno Webster's marriage with Maggie Walker
was very familiar with all the circumstances attending 
the marriage and thinks that he was not
to the best of his recollection, more than one hundred
and fifty yards from the house in which he was near
at the time the marriage took place; that he was
frequently at his house after he moved to the County of
Rockingham State of North Carolina and lived not
more than twenty or twenty five miles from him at
the time of his death. He further declares that said Jno
Webster lived in the County of Rockingham State of
North Carolina until the day of his death and that
he is disinterested in making this affidavit and
that he is 89 years of age
Brett Stovall

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written
and it is hereby certified that the affiant is a credible
person and aged 89 years
W. B. Carter, J.P. &
Chairman of the Court
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State of North Carolina)
County of Rockingham)

On this the 17 day of February
AD 1834 personally appeared before me William
B Carter a Justice of the Peace for said County
Judith Neal who being first duly sworn according to
law declares that she was well acquainted with
John Webster a revolutionary soldier who lived and
died in the aforesaid County. She further declares
that she has often heard, old men who are now
dead & who were known to be revolutionary soldiers
declare that they served in the Revolutionary war with
John Webster and that though she knew him well
and lived near him from his early manhood up to the
time of his death, and that she never heard it doubted
for a moment but that the said Webster was in fact
in the service during the Revolution, on the Contrary
she has often heard, Theodorick Carter a Revolutionary
soldier declare and that too upon his death bed that
he the said Carter & said Webster were Soldiers together
in the Revolutionary war and that said Webster was not only
a soldier but a daring one. That said Revolutionary
Soldier died in the County of Rockingham State of North Carolina
on the 31st day of July in the year 1833 and that the
said John Webster was married to his wife Maggie
Webster in the County of Amherst and State of Virginia
the month & year she does not now recollect and that previous
thereto her name was Maggie Walker. And she declares
that she has derived the above information in reference to
marriage service & death from the fact that he Webster married
her Aunt & she saw them a short time after their marriage.
 It was generally known that they [...illegible] had married his
[...illegible] at his death, But know nothing of his will except as
noted above. She declare that she is disinterested in making this affidavit
that the said Webster in Rockingham County till his death.

Judith her [hand written X] mark Neal

Sworn to and subscribed the day & year above written.
hereby certified that the affiant is a credible person
aged 88 years. 
W. B. Carter J. P.
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Washigton D C
20 March 54

Dear Sir

I herewith enclose several
applications for Revolutionary pension
under act 7 July 1838 and several
powers of attorney with proper endorsement
there in regard to suspended
revolutionary claims to which you
will please attend.
Yours Respect
R. C. Purgson
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John Webster

Amended Case

R H Shepperd
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Rockingham County )
North Carolina)

Personally appeared before 
me the undersigned a Justice
of the peace of the Court of Pleas
and Quarter Sessions of said County, John Webster
who being duly sworn deposeth and saith
that he resides in the County of Rockingham &
State of N. Carolina. that he made the declaration
to which this affidavit is affixed at the Court House
of said County in open Court.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a
pension or an annuity, except the present.
and declares that his name is not on the
pension role of any agency in any State.
He further states that he has no documentary
evidence of his service, having had them all
burnt in his dwelling as he has already set forth
in the body of his declaration nor does he
know of any living witness, whose testimony he
can procure as to his service. 

John Webster

Sworn and subscribed this 18th day of January 1833
Richard Wall J. P.  (seal) 


State of North Carolina)
Rockingham County)

I Ro. Gallaway, Clerk of Rockingham County Court
do hereby certify that the foregoing [...illegible]
the original proceedings in the matter of the
application of Jno. Webster for a pension & 
that Richd Wall is an acting Justice of the
Peace for said County & his acts as such entitled
to credit.

In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand dated the seal of
said Court the 29 day of January
1833

R. Gallaway C. C.
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I certify that the applicant John
Webster has long been known by me,  that he
is reputed a man of very fair character
& I doubt not that he was a revolutionary
soldier and served as he has stated. 

A. H. Shepperd
6 Feb. 1833
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618-Eighth Ave. S.W.
Roanoke, Va

Dept. of the Interior
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

Please give me the pension
record of John Webster who served
in Rev. War. I think he served under
and in Theodrich Bland's command.
I would also like to know where I
might get information on soldiers of
the war of 1812. who did not
make application for pension

Yours truly
Lizzie Webster
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Stokesdale, N.C.
Nov. 17, 1932

Veterans Administration
Washington D.C.
Dear Sirs:

Will you please give
me what information you have ┃
relative to John Webster a
Revolutionary War Soldier of
Virginia? He died in 1833 in
Rockingham Co. N. C. 

His wife was Maggie Walker.  They
married in Bedford Co. Virginia, in
1779.

Thanks,
Harry Z. Tucker

[received stamp] RECEIVED NOV 21 1932 MAIL SUB-DIV
READER 12 VETS ADM
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Stokesdale, N.C.
Nov. 18, 1932

Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs

Please give me the
Rev. War Record of Theoderick
Carter. This man died,
in Rockingham County, N.C.
in 1833. His wife, was
Diannah. This man
served, perhaps in Va., as
he came from that state
to Caswell County, N.C.
before coming to Rockingham
County, N. C.

Harry Z Tucker

[received stamp] RECEIVED NOV 21 1932 MAIL SUB-DIV
READER 12  VETS. ADM.
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Madison, N. C.
October 7, 1933

Veterans Administration
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sirs:

I have your letter of November 1, BA_J/MMHF:MLB. I wish
to thank you for your interest in my request for information on a letter,
or affidavit, written by Squire William B. Carter, of Rockingham County,
North Carolina, stating that Theoderick Carter was a soldier in the
Revolutionary war. I am sure the date was 1853 or 1854.

I am under the impression that the affidavit probably
can be found on some of the various letters written concerning the
Revolutionary War service of John Webster, of Rockingham County, N. C.
The clerk who found the reference to said Theoderick Carter, wrote me
in regard to the service of John Webster at the time. I am sorry I
cannot locate the letter, but probably you can find it on your files.

Hoping you may be able to find the reference to Theoderick
Carter, which you have somewhere among your records.

Yours very truly
Harry Z. Tucker
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December 26, 1933


JOHN WEBSTER
R. 11263
BA-J/MMHF:MLB

Mr. Harry Z. Tucker
Madison
North Carolina

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you cite the
Revolutionary War claim for pension of John Webster, of Rockingham
County, North Carolina, as the source of your information in
regard to the Revolutionary War service of one Theoderick Carter.
With this information which you possessed, the claim has been located.

The papers in Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 11263,
John Webster, whose record was furnished you on December 9, 1932,
have been examined. Statement in regard to Theoderick Carter's
Revolutionary War service was not made by William B. Carter, but
was a sworn statement made by Judith Neal on February 17, 1854,
before William B. Carter, Chairman of the Court of Pleas and
Quarter Sessions for Rockingham County, North Carolina.

The affidavit of said Judith Neal was in support of the claim
for pension of John Webster. She stated that she had often heard
Theoderick Carter, a Revolutionary War soldier, declare, and that
too upon his deathbed, that he, the said Carter, and said Webster
were soldiers together in the Revolutionary War. She gave no
details of the service of said webster or Carter, nor date of death
of the latter.

As previously stated, there is no claim for pension on file,
based upon service in the Revolutionary War of a Theoderick Carter.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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December 9, 1932.

BA-J/ILL
John Webster
R. 11263

Mr. Harry Z. Tucker
Stokesdale
North Carolina.

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letters in which you request
the records of Theodorick Carter and John Webster, soldiers of
Virginia in the Revolutionary War, who resided later in Rockingham
County, North Carolina.

A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made
and fails to show a claim for pension or bounty land on file based
upon service of any soldier named Theodorick Carter.

The record of John Webster furnished below is obtained from
the papers on file in pension claim, R. 11263, based upon his service
in that war.

John Webster, son of Richard Webster, lived with his parents
about two miles from Lynchburg, Amherst County, Virginia, as a boy
and at the time of the Revolutionary War, and moved later with his
parents to the part of Guilford County, North Carolina, which was
later Rockingham County. The name of his mother is not shown.

On August 30, 1832, John Webster, then referred to as senior,
aged seventy-three years and residing in Rockingham County, North 
Carolina, applied for pension; he stated that he enlisted in 1776 and
served in Captain Spotswood Dandridge's Company, Colonel Theodorick
Bland's 1st Regiment of Cavalry, was in the battles of White Plains,
Brandywine, Paoli and Monmouth and was discharged at the expiration
of service of three years.

The claim was not allowed as proof of service, as required by
the pension laws, was not furnished.

The soldier married about the year 1779, in Amherst County,
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Virginia, Maggie or Margaret Walker, her age not given.

John Webster died July 31, 1833 in Rockingham County,
North Carolina; his widow, Maggie or Margaret Webster, died March
15, 1842 in the same county.

The names of the following children who survived their
mother are given; Polly, wife of William Hickman; Betsey, wife of
James Carter; Sallie Glenn; Rebecca Foy; and Richard, James, Abner,
Pleasant, Joseph and Benjamin Webster.

In 1854, the son, Pleasant Walker, was sixty-two years of
age and resided in Rockingham County, North Carolina; the other
children living then were Polly Hickman, Betsey Carter, Sally Glenn,
Rebecca Foy, Abner and Benjamin Webster.

In 1854, one William B. Carter was Justice of the Peace in
Rockingham County, North Carolina, and in the same year, one Theodorick
Carter was referred to as a Revolutionary War soldier, no relationship
to the family shown. At that time, one Judith Neal of Rockingham
County, North Carolina, stated that John Webster (the soldier), married
her own aunt.

In 1834, the soldier's sister, Mary, widow of George Ray,
was eighty years of age and resided in Stokes County, North Carolina.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Assistant to Administrator.

[hand written footnote]This history was reviewed & corrected by Mrs French.
ILL - 12 /9 /32
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November 8, 1928

Lizzie Webster
618 Eighth Avenue, S.W.
Roanoke, Virginia

Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary
War pension claim, R. 11263, it appears that John Webster
(son of Richard Webster) applied for pension August 30,
1832, at which time he was a resident of Rockingham County,
North Carolina, aged seventy-three years, and alleged that
while a resident of Amherst County, Virginia, he enlisted
in 1776 and served three years in Captain Spotswood Dandridge's 
Company, Colonel Theodoric Bland's Virginia Regiment
and was in the battles of White Plains, Brandywine,
and Monmouth.

The claim was not allowed as there was not proof of
the alleged service as required by the pension laws.

It also appears in said claim that soldier married
about 1779 in Arherst County, Virginia, Margie or Margaret
Walker.

He died July 31, 1833, in Rockingham County, North
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Carolina, and she died March 15, 1842, leaving the following
children:

Polly Hickman, wife of William Hickman; Betsy Carter,
wife of James Carter; Sallie Glenn; Richard Webster; James
Webster; Pleasant Webster, a resident of Rockingham County,
North Carolina in 1854 and then aged sixty-two years; [inserted hand
written note]Joseph Webster-corrected on original;  Abner
Webster; Benjamin Webster; and Rebecca Foy.

Soldier's sister, Mrs. Mary Ray, was a resident of
Stokes County, North Carolina in 1854 [hand written correction]1834, and then aged eighty
years.

For the military record of soldiers of the War of 1812,
it is suggested that you apply to the Adjutant General, War
Department, Washington, D. C.

Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
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Stokesdale,
N C
April, 24, 1934.

[received stamp]RECEIVED APR 27 1934 MAIL SUB-DIV



Veterans
administration
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs,
please send me the Revolutionary
War record of John Webster of
Rockingham County, North Carolina.
His application for pension is
on record in your office.

Many thanks,
Edward Young,
Stokesdale,
North Carolina