Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5356, Samuel Hughes, Va.
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Service
Va

[black star stamp]
Hughes, Samuel

Number
R. 5356
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Samuel Hughs
Missouri
Act 7 June 1832

Rejected  See letter
to Hon: W.H. Ashley
February 8th 1833

5556
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[crossed out]
REJECTED
5356

P.O.
Samuel Hughs

Service:
Enlisted: 18
Discharged: 18
Application filed: 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P.O.

Recognized
Contract
Cert. of Dis.
Searched for 18
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Rejected
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BRIEF in the case of Samuel Hughes

of Cooper County in the state of Missouri

Act 7th June, 1832

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
a court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
[dash]

3. How old is he? 79 years.

4. State his service as directed in the form annexed.

Period. In 17 [dash]

Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days.
about 3 
hired a substitute to whom he paid $1000. & a horse gun &c. Time of service not stated[?]. 

Rank. 
As a private

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Capt. Jos Moreton
Gen. Greene

5. In what battles was he engaged?
Guilford

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Pittsylvania County Virginia

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
Traditionary Evidence.

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication, and if so, in what respect?
no.

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
B.F. Pleasants Examining Clerk.
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Declaration of Saml Hughs.

[upside-down] Rejected
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State of Missouri }
County of Cooper } SS
	On this sixth day of November in year ^the 1832 personally appeared in open court held within & for the County of Cooper aforesaid now sitting Samuel Hughes a resident of the county of Cooper and state of Missouri aforesaid aged seventy nine years in April last 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 officers, towit, Joseph Moreton Capt. and General Green (the others not now recollected) in the spring season of the year [blank] from the County of Pittsylvania ["County" crossed out] in the State of Virginia in the capacity of a militia soldier, marched into the state of North Carolina to Guillford Courthouse where he was in a severe battle, and pursued the British from there to Deep River where with seven hundred others he was discharged after having served a tour about three months, and he further declars that in the fall season of the same year he was again called into service and his family being in such a situation that he could not well leave home and that he hired a substitute by the name of [left blank] Eldridge to go in his place whom he gave a thousand dollars in money and a good horse & a good rifle gun and some clothing, who served in his place as he was informed faithfully at the battle of Little York where Gnl. Corn Wallace was taken prisoner; and that he had no written discharge, and that he now has
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no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services.
Question by the court. where & in what year were you born - Answer, I was born in the year 1753 in Hanover County Virginia
Question by the court. Have you any record of your age? if any where is it? Answer I have in my own Bible at home which was taken from my father's Bible.
Question by the court. where were you living, when called into service, where have lived since the revolutionary war, and where do you now live? Answer I lived in Pittsylvania County Virginia when I was called into service, and since The Revolution have lived in Virginia Tennessee & Missouri & now live in Missouri in the county of Cooper
Question by the court. How were you called into service? I was called into service as a militia man.
State the names of persons to whom you are know in your neighborhood
I can state Charles Ragen Berry, Anthony F Read, John Miller & others who can testify to my character and good behavior but none who can testify to my services 

Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid  Samuel Hughes his X mark

Mr Peyton Nowlin a clergyman residing in the county of [crossed out: Cooper] Saline & state aforesaid and John H. Hutcheson residing in the [crossed out] County of Cooper & state aforesaid hereby certyfy that we are well acquainted with Samuel Hughes who was subscribed & sworn to the above declaration
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that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid  Peyton Nowlin Jno. H. Hutchison

And the said court doth hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after puting the interrogations presented by the [illegible] that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states  And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Peyton Nowlin who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident of the county of [crossed out: Cooper] Saline aforesaid and that John H Hutchison who has also signed the same is a resident in the [crossed out] County of Cooper and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Green Seat[?]
A F Read
Jos. Patterson   Judged

I Robert P. Clark clerk of the County Court held within & for the County of Cooper aforesd. do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Samuel Hughes for a [portion of page covered by a seal] 

[In] testimony whereof I the Clerk [afo]resaid have hereunto set my [ha]nd and seal of office this sixth [say] of [crossed out: October] November in the year Eighteen Hundred & thirty two.
Robert P Clark clk