Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 32,602, William Wilkerson, N.C.
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[Typed form with written responses]
(3-1776)
SERVICE
N.C.
Born in Va
CONTENTS
Wilkerson, William
NUMBER
S 32.602
See N. A. Acc. No. 874
No. 050 190 Not Half Pay
William Wilkerson
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31.583
Madison Indiana
William Wilkerson
Monroe Co. in the State of Indiana
who was a Private in the Company of commander
by Captain Henderson of the Reg commander
by Col. Harris in the
line for 6 months
subscribed on the Roll of Madison
at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
---
certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Jan
1839 and sent Hon
Hope
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838 $1500
and ending 4 Mar. 31, 10.00
ct. 31583
$160.00
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by D.D. Addison Clerk 
Book 2 Vol. 7 Page 14
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State of Indiana
Monroe County}
On this the fourth day of March
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and thirty five personally appeared before me the under
Signed Stephen N. Seall
One of the Associate
Judges of the Circuit Court of said County of Monroe in said
State said Court being a County record composed of a President
and two associates Judges William Wilkerson aged
about ninety years of age resident in said County of Stone
and State of Indiana 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 and served as hereinafter stated to wit.
He was born in Kings County Virginia. He never could
read or write. His father had a record of his age, which at his
death may have been disposed of among the other children or lost
before that time at any rate he has no knowledge of the now
from the information record from his father and as well as he
has been able to keep it in his memory his best impression was
& is that he is now about ninety four years old. He may
be a few years younger or some older
He states that by reason of his great; old age and especially
sickness (having been attacked about the first of August last
and not recovered) and the consequent loss or failure of memory
he can not swear positively as to the date of the several tours
hereinafter mentioned nor can he enumerate many circumstances
all of which he could before his sickness ^ had stated with some degree
of accuracy but he recollects clearly and swear positively
that he served not less but the periods mentioned (hereinafter)
below and in the following grades
He recollects Braddock Defeat he was at the time a small
boy. He recollects well the Regulation Battle which
was fought I think on or near Little Aleman River in Randolph
Guilford Orange or adjoining County in North Carolina
his father having removed to Granville County in said
State of North Carolina when he applied
when his [illegible]
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[illegible]
about the time of the Regulation Battle he was at that time
twenty years of age at least & probably older. He was
but a short time after this battle married to his first
Wife He recollect some of the circumstances as they were
related at the time of the Battle and about He thinks
that Colonel Branson General Passons (not perhaps
then a General Merrill Husbands, Butler & were some
what distinguished either in the Battle or the bringing
of it about. He thinks Colonel Harris was there
The Regulators commenced the Battle by firing upon some of
that men of Colonel Harris, while some attempts were
making to enquire into the intention or purposes of
the regulators.
Old Doctor or Colonel Pyles who
may in the Tory Band or perhaps their leader at the
time they were surprised or either mister Colonel
Lee & Whig Troops In British at the Race paths
in Guilford or Randolph or thereabout the ap
plicant has the impression was there from report at
the time, as also Governor Tryon
He resided in said County of Granville, North Carolina
untill entering the service for the first town following
[illegible] He entered the service of the United States as a Volunteer
unto Solder in the Militia of the State of North Carolina
in the company commanded by Captain John Hender
son in the Regiment commanded by Colonel R.
Harris Son times during this town the troops which
he served were as strong & sometimes much less than
a full regiment.
They were marched in small bands
to and rendezvoused at Randolph Court House then
Marched to Caswell Court House thence about Far River
then about Hillsborough in Orange County North Carolina
we crossed tot River Little Run Ender Supped &
Little River of Peedee. He can not recollect where he
was dismissed. They had march to various points wherever
they might be needed to guard against the deputation
of the Tories way He was his best impression
dismissed
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near to Hillsboro.
He voluntered in said town to serve three
months which time he served at least, to the satisfaction of his
Office. He cannot state certainly the time when he entered the
service in this first to but thinks as his best recollection that he
about thirty four or five years of age, he is not positive
It was (the time of entering this first town about the year of
the Battle of Black Water when the whigs defeated the Scotch &
Killed their Colonel McCloud. It was in the month of May &
his best impression in that year the said year of that
Battle. His memory like that of most others is naturally
^ or habitually deficient as to dates & he is not able to state what year
(2d) He entered said service again for a second term as a private
in the Militia of North Carolina in the Company of Mounted
men commanded by Captain Joseph Gill, said company
was not joined to any other company detachment or command
and was principally in operation against Tories scouting the
Country about Dan, Stanford, and Littler Rivers. The latter
a tributary of Pedee. During this term he was crippled
badly by falling with his shoulder or collar bone against his
and in consequence attempt to leap his horse or a cow
He entered in this term to serve three months. He served at least three
months, & was dismissed at home or in the neighbourhood he can
not state the date of this second tour. It was the same
year he thinks of his first tour and within a few days or
week at most after the end of his tour first aforesaid mentioned
His best impression is that to the said tours were in the year Seventeen
hundred and seventy six or seven. The first commencing early in the
month of
May and the said second in August of said years
(3d) He entered the same again for a third tour as a volunteer
private soldier in the Militia of North Carolina in the Com
pany of Infantry commanded by Captain Micajah
Ballock to serve for three months. said company may
not joined to any other or higher command. They marched
first to Colonel Pyles which was in Guilford County
is his impression, thence to Guilford Court House
and after scouting the various directions marched
home & then dismissed. He served faithfully in this
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war for three months. This third tour of service
to the best of his recollection was in the year seventeen hundred
and seventy nine and in the summer season of said year.
It might and sums to be an impression it commenced, in
the Spring of said year, and ended in
the summer of said year toward the middle of it
(4th) He again for a fourth tour entered the service in the
Militia of the State of North Carolina as a Volunteer
private soldier in a company of Infantry under
Captain Jones Fuller to serve three months
the said Company and this applicant met at Oxford
in Granville County North Carolina he then residing
in said County & marched for Neuse River at a
point new the fork of that River Little River, then
they were marched to a place where the Tories were said
to be embodied: they had disappeared before we and
there we were then marched in several directions
to different places in quest of the Tories to points
when our officers expected to find them. He served in
this town three months and upwards. Although the Officers and
length of service in this his 4th town he retains clearly in his
memory he is uncertain as to the year and time of year. This to
may have been at is his impression in the same year with his said third tour
After the end of said fourth term a short 
time there being of a call for men they were called into
the service in a manner resembling or draft the
not so understood and called at the time. The neighborhood
& county being notified met & putting tickets
into a hat ballotted or drew lots for the town. This
applicant having drawn a ticket to serve hired a
man by the name of Weaver as a substitute and
gave him sixty dollars to serve three months being
the time they were called on to serve his said substitute
served out the three months to the acceptance of his
Officers as he was informed and believed
Afterwards being called out in the same manner
for a tour of nine months he paid John Tuggle
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as a substitute to
some said nine months, which he
performed to the acceptance of his officers as he was informed
After which hang again called out in the same manner
he served in the service untill after the Battle of Guilford
He was called out for three months but then being nothing
forth to do after said Battle he was dismissed before
the expiration of the three months. He served at least
two months. He can state what year the Battle of
Guilford took place in. He had served
two months or was it at the time of said Battle
and continuing in the Army a short time after
made this tour said two months. At the present
moment he is unable to recall the name of the
Captain of the Company in which he served said last
two months.
However deficent in recollecting the names of
some of his officers and many circumstances he is clear
and swear positively that he served not less than the
periods stated court. (Recapitulation)
(1st, For three months in his said first tour under
Captain John Henderson
2d For three months in his said second tour under
Captain Joseph Gill
(3d) For three months in his said third to under
Captain Micajah Bullock
(4th) for three months in his said fourth to under
Captain Jones Fuller and
(5th) For two months under a Captain whose name
he can not now recollect. He swears that during
said times a period of time he was constantly in Camp
and field in regularly organized corps, and not in any other
or and pursuit that his said services were laborious and
during much of the time especially when out of his own County
he had to undergo the greatest fatigue, and hardship owing much ┃
to the constant vigilance necessary to guard against the various
band of tories under Colo Fannon and others, and
against the foraging and other parties from the British Army
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In answer to the interogations prescribed by the War Department
he make the following answers
as to the 1st Intergatory he say what year he
was born in but believes he is about ninety four years
old as been stated in the body of his Declaration
As to 2d He has already stated that he neither has any
and of his age nor does he know where it is
As to the 3rd Intergatory He was living in Granville
County North Carolina when entering the same in
all his said town at the end of the War I was
still living in said County. I resided there about fifteen
years after the war ended. I then moved to the Great
fishery at the Narrow of the Yadkin in Rowan County
in said State & lived there near twenty years, there
removed to Kentucky into Knox County when I lived
eighteen or twenty years. & then I removed to Monroe
County Indiana where so line and have for four years
and upwards. Upon reflection he thinks he did not live quite
being at said Ferry as stated above.
As to the 4th He volunteered in his said four first to my
hand substitute in the two next & drew lots in the last
as before stated.
5th Colonel Taylor of the Militia perhaps he might
not have been since I saw him every & was
well acquainted with him. Colonel Judge, Williams
one not say whether a regular or militia Officer
Colonel White Militia officer might or not have been
in Surety Colonel Buston, Colonel Henderson
He never reared nor applied for a discharge.
7th Christopher Cox, William Johnston, Joseph Johnston
Revolutionary soldier and pensioner, Joseph Parks, Old M
Hensly, Jacob Romans, Samuel Smith, David Johnston Revolution
Pensioner, Moses Wilson, & others are persons to whom he is known
in his present neighborhood who can testify as to my character for
veracity and belief of my revolutionary services as well 
as those whose certificate are hereto annexed, and as will
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others in the several neighborhood in which I have heretofore
lived. He states that he is unable to appear in Court
and has been for a considerable time as before stated.
He states that during his said town as well as the War of
the Revolution Granville County aforesaid in almost or
perhaps quite unevenally a whig County, that consequently
his situation at home as men fortunate then these of
the Whigs of Randolph, Chatham, & other Counties in that
Section of the State, and when he was marched in said
expedition which were mainly against the Tories of other parts
before his arrival in the tory neighbourhood they had been
Quelled by the whigs residing nearer to them. This probably
is the reason why he or his troops were in no battle. Although
One of the spirit of appliant troops in the organization
was to resist the British should come, he was not any time
in any engagement with them or operation directly against
any of their troops.
In one of said town on which he hired
a substitute he (said substitute, and in engagements against
the British as he any informed. This applicant & service,
and marchings were performed mainly in his said to us
about Flat River Ennoree Pedee, Far River, Haw River
Big Aliman Little Aliman & other streams mentioned.

He entered the same, and served as a
private in all of said tours.
He will he has no doubt
upon giving himself longer time, and reflecting recollect
the name of his Captain in said two months service in
which a state herein the object of his expedition was to
reinforce the "head General in the south, and in a great
battle which was then expected” would be fought some where
in that part of the country. They were destined at the same
time that they were ready to contract the motions of
small bands, to go to whatever point might be necessary
Whilst they were halted during said two months for some 
days some superior Officer was kept informed of their posi
tion, so that they could at any time be found and receive
orders for the above purpose
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He has been twice married & had twenty one children
fifteen sons and six daughters, not being entitled
to a pension under the old laws he never applied
He has followed the range (or stuck raising in back
settlements ever since a few years after the close of
the Revolution with the exception of the time he lived at
the great fishery on the Yadkin. 
His father gave him
land the had two good farms in said County of Granville N.C.
but having spent more than a thousand good dollars in
the War, lest crops & had other body, he moved into
the range in Granville out some distance from the nieghborhood
 of his father he had resided, then to the Fishing &
again & since into the range. Living in the Range in
Knox and in the extreme part of this County among
the Hills of Salt creek he never knew that he could
probably get a pension under the present act untill
about a year ago. He then went to Louisville to see a
Brother who he was informed resided there, by whom he expected
to him his services, not then knowing but that post proof
is necessary in his case. When he got to Louisville he
was told that a very old man on the name had some
time previously did there-- he never got off his horse but
turned & came home. He knows of no person now
by whom he can prove a personal knowledge of his same
The person (JD Lowe) now making out his Declara
tion as his son informed him promised to wait his
house last summer for this purpose, but did not
& this applicant being taken sick soon after his
return from Louisville he thinks in consequence of his
fatiguing journey has not be able to attend to the
business untill lately. He never received any pay for any of his services
He has no documentary evidence that he know of and knows of no 
person whose evidence of personal knowledge of his services he can
procured. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on 
the pension Roll of the Agency of any State
William
Wilkerson
X
mark
Wilkerson
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Henry Wilkerson and Solomon Wilkerson residing in the
neighborhood and being well acquainted with William
Wilkerson who has sworn to the above declaration and
of his sons certify that the are, the first twenty seven
of age the later twenty nine, that we belive him
be ninety years of age or upwards, that ever since
recollecting they frequently heard him state that
had been a soldier of the revolution and served
about as described in his said Declaration, that in
all the neighborhood in which he has resided since
in being able to remember he as reputed and
believed to have been and is the one in which he now
to resides a soldier of the Revolution and that and
concur in that opinion.
Henry Wilkenson his + mark &
Solomon Wilkerson
I James Anderson certify that I have been well acquainted
with William Wilkerson aforesaid, & applicant
a pension, that he has the third
where he resides and in said County Kentucky
I being well acquainted with him in both places
that said William Wilkinson in the both said
third deputed and believed to have been
a solder of the revolution and that I concur
in that opinion
James
Anderson
his + mark
I James Brummet a clergyman, residing in the same neighbour
hood of the said William Wilkerson hereby certify that
I am well acquainted with the said William Wilkerson
who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that
I belive him to be ninety years of age or upward; 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 without the least doubt, without having heard
any expression of doubt from others.
James Brummet
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I the said Stephen P. Hall Judge of the said Monroe Circuit
Court in our said State of Indiana declare my opinion after
the investigation of the matter and putting the interrogatories
prescribed by the War Department that William Wilkerson the
foregoing named applicant for a pension was a revolutionary
Soldier and served as he states. And I do further certify that
James Brummet who has signed the foregoing Certificate is a Clergyman
resident in the same neighborhood with the said William Wilkinson and that the
said Henry and Solomon Wilkerson and James Anderson who have signed said
Certificate are residents in the same neighborhood with said applicant and that his
statements are entitled to credit. I do also further certify that appears
to my satisfaction that the applicant is not able to attend Court and that I
have in pursuance of the Act of Congress attended at the house of a friend of
said applicant and sworn him to his foregoing declaration and put
said interogatory to him and where on the day and year aforesaid
he sworn to the same and when and when also said Witnesses sworn to and
subscribed there said Certificate, and that part of said Witnesses could not be
congruently proved in Court. And that the foregoing fine leaves contain my true pro
ceedings in said matter.
SP Seall pres Judge of the
Court of Common County Monroe
Jacob D Lowe Clerk of the front Court of Monroe County Indiana being a
Court of record, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original
and true proceedings being present of the Hon Stephen P Seall in the
matter of the application of Wilkerson William for a pension, that the
said Stephen P Seall is one of the Judges of said Court as he
as above certified himself and that the above signature purporting
to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
affixed my Seal of office as such Clerk
and subscribed my name this the Sixth
day of October AD eighteen hundred and thirty five of the
Court of Monroe County
Indiana
R
2
33.541
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Jane Beightel
Oakland
Illinois
Dear Madam:
January 31, 1933
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William Wilkerson-S.32602
BA-J/AF
Reference is made to your further inquiry in
regard to pension or land that might be due on account
of the services of one William Wilkerson or Wilkinson,
War of the Revolution.
A further search of the Revolutionary War records
has been made in your behalf and the claim of one other
William Wilkerson has been found under File No. S. 32002.
that record is given below, as it may aid you in family
research.
William Wilkerson was born in King George County,
Virginia, date not given. He stated that he was a
small boy at the time of Braddock's Defeat. His father,
whose name is not given, moved to Granville County,
North Carolina.
William Wilkerson, while residing in said Granville
County, enlisted and served as a private with the
North Carolina troops, as follows:
From in May 1776 or 1777, three months in Captain
John Henderson's company, Colonel R. Harris' regiment;
in same year, three months in Captain Joseph Gill's
company; in 1779, three months in Captain Micajah Bullock's
company; again in 1779, three months in Captain Jones
Fuller's company; in 1781, two months, names of officers
not given.
About ten or fifteen years after the Revolution
William Wilkerson moved from Granville County, to the
great fishery at the Narrows of the Yadkin River in
Rowan County, North Carolina, from there to Knox County,
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Kentucky, thence to Monroe County, Indiana.
The soldier, William Wilkerson, was allowed
pension on his application executed March 4, 1835,
then living in Monroe County, Indiana, aged about
ninety-four years.
He stated that he was twice married, marrying
the first time when he was about twenty years of age.
he did not give the names of his wives, no dates
and places of marriage. He had twenty-one children:
fifteen sons and six daughters.
In 1835 his sons Solomon and Henry were aged
respectively, twenty-nine and twenty-seven years,
and were then living in the same neighborhood with
their father, James of other children not given.
The soldier, William Wilkerson, referred to
a brother as having lived in Louisville, Kentucky,
name of brother not shown.
There is no provision of law that would entitle
a descendent of a soldier of the War of the Revolution
, to a pension based upon service in that war.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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Dec 12 1886
In answer to your letter recd on the 9th Inst
addressed in the Hon B. Herman, by him before
to this office, & relative to the services in the war
of the Rev, by your father Wm Wilkinson who
died in Indiana, I have to state that a
pension was allowed to a Wm Wilkerson who
resided in Indiana & is identified as the
one of your enquiry by the injury to his collar
bone, but he did not serve in the Continental
line nor to the end of the war - He appears
to have served a short tour with the Militia in
the partisan warfare which existed in the
Carolina & he was not entitled to commutation.
The soldiers who served in the militia
was paid by the State in which he resided
& a claim for depreciation of any would be
it is believed against the State, as
there is no law existing for the settlement
of a claim of the character by any one of the
Executive Dept of the present
general goverment
To Thom Wilkerson
Walton
Ind
Dec 13 1886
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[illegible] Apt 11.39.
let 24 July 1849 to
Lowe do to Hon W. W.
May 12. 1840.
-
Letter to J. F. D. Lanin
Auditor 30th Sep 1840
Paid at the Treasury
the act of the 6th April
from 4 March to 4
1839. Agt Notified 13
1843
1874 Oct. 24. John Bleightel- that
information wanted of object of his any
John  Beightel-- that the law,
pay of man have been recently mater
changed limiting the right to be widow
no widow, to children under 16
1886 Dec 13 Isom Wilkerson that he did
serve in the Continental line not to end of
war & he was not the entitled to
Commutation-- as militia were paid
the state in which soldier served, also
for depensation would be against the sate
Wed. 21/18. Aut
last payment
to whom I
date death &c
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Indiana Pension agency
Madison Apl 5 1839
J. L. Edward Co of Pensions
Sir
William Wilkinson
of this State claims pension at rate of
28 he can pro 4 March 1831 -
under a certificate granted 26 Jan. 1834.
His name has not been reported the
shall I pay him?
Very respt
J.D. Lanin
apt
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Bloomington Indiana June 1839
J. L. Edwards
Com of Pension
Sir
Some years ago
I forwarded the application of William
Wilkinson for a pension under act 7th June
The Department proposed to allow him a
small pension & thinking he desired more
it has been attempted to prove additional
testimony.
Finding now the Department
is now requested to send me a certificate
of pension. "A similar request was
made some time back, but the letter
probably miscarried
The sum decided to be allowed at first  is not recollected at us 20 or 30
or 40
Respectfully
JL Edwards
JB Lowe
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House of Reps
17th Jan. 1839
James L Edwards Esqr
Sir
I am requested to
furnish for the widow of a revolutionary
soldier the law & forms under & by which she
can entitle herself to the pension or half
pay for life provided by law. The request does
not state under what law the claims I will
thank you if you will furnish me the
forms under the different acts applicable
to such a case. I am also informed that the papers
of William Wilkison [Wilkerson] of Monroe County
Indiana for a pension have been filed in
your office & that he is entitled to receive
say $20 per annum which he is
now willing to receve trusting to have the
amount increased hereafter. I must
also request your answer upon this
subject & that his certificate (if granted,
may be forwarded to me that I every
send it on to his Atty. The Gentleman
through whom these request have
been made is highly respectable, being
Col John W Lee of Bloomington Ind
In with great respect
William Herod
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March 6, 1933
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WILLIAM WILKERSON
S. 32602
BA-J/MMHF: MLB Our

Jane Beightel
Oakland, Illinois

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter of February 4, with further
reference to Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 32602, William
Wilkerson, of North Carolina, and in which letter you state that
it is not a pension in which you are interested, but a large
amount of money which is due the heirs of said William Wilkerson,
and that one Hamond Wilkerson was advised from Washington, D. C.,
many years ago, of the legacy.
It is regretted that this office is unable to aid you in
this matter. There is no record in this office of the correspondence
referred to above with Hamond Wilkerson. Your inquiry may
pertain to some special claim made to Congress and not to the
then Bureau of Pensions. As previously stated, there is no law
under which descendants of soldiers of the Revolutionary War are
entitled to pension based upon service in that war.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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(OFFICE OF AUDITOR FOR INTERIOR DEPARTMENT)
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Washington, Dec 24th 1908,
The Commissioner of Pensions: Sir: In reply to your letter of 20th inst. you are informed that, according to the latest account rendered by the U. S. Pension Agent, at Madison, Ind. the records of this office show payment to have been made to William Wilkerson, Rev. War Act 1832 As certificate No. 31.583 at $20, 12 months to 4 March 1842. The pensioner was living and had lived in the State of Indiana for eleven years, and previously in Kentucky, Letter herewith returned. Respectfully, 2632,500. By Robert S. Person
By Auditor.
 J. R.
(PENSION U.S. 26 DEC 1906)
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Suspended
let 29 March 1836
Hon W. Kendricks
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
October 10th 1840
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, William Wilkerson -
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Madison, Ind. Agency, at
the rate of Twenty
Dollars and Cents
per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832
has
been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March
to the 4th Sept 1839
Respectfully yours,
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
J Seaver
Acting comptroller
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
present
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BA.J EEL
William Wilkinson
S. 937 )
A.D. Hiller
Washington DC
January 21, 1933
Dear sir
In reply to your statement of January the 9 (1933)
the Recorder showes from Raleigh North East
that there as three William Wilkersons
Enlisted in the Revolutionary War and
all there of them belonged in Coswell
County No 1 Enlisted for 9 months
But Age are Date of Enlistment not
named No. 2 Enlisted for month
But age are Date of Enlistment not name
No.3. Enlisted I may the
(29) 1777. At the Age of 42 year
is the way the Record from there
and it home that he Enlisted
for 3 years service and it
shows that they was all under
Captain Wilson Denision and So
this was one I was looking for that
Enlisted at the age of 42
truly yours Jane Beightel Oakland
Ills
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January 12)1933
Dear sir}
AS i can Remember of Hearing
my farther say that he said
A Land warrant some place
for the said that his father
Always told him that Deed
Have a claim on land
And all my fathers Brothers
said that the told them the
some thing And you see
I was wanting to find about
this very thing of course they
all said he always said that the
Government appropriated
Land for the satisfactory of the
soldier And sailors of the
Revolutionary War. And that he
had claim In it.
Very truly yours
Jane Beightel
Oakland Ills
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January 12) 1933
William Wilkerson S. 1937
Washington DC
Received your statement of January the 9, 1933
In Rearden to William Wilkerson a solder in
the Revolutionary W A R Well, Now I will tell
you the Reason that ware you in regards
the matter was because & Remember when I
was Girl that my Father Come one time
and called my mother and told her
that his Brother Hamond Wilkerson Had
Got A Letter .AT. Nashville, Indiana
from Washington City Enquiring for the
heirs of William Wilkerson a solder in
Revolutionary War and stating there
was a large amount of money there
coming to his Heires and I can Remember
at Just A.S. Well as of it had been today.
Well there is the Legal Haires of
William Wikerson but they never did get
It .AT. All thanking you very mutch
your statement very truly yours
Jane Beightel 
Oakland Ills
Page 27


[illegible] William Wilkerson S. 32602
BAF AWF  (6 )

Dear sir in Reply to your statement of January 31 1933
I Have heard my father say that his father
moved from Ky to Monroe County and
and then he moved from there to Brown
County Indiana and that he was living in
Brown County When He Died on A Litle
farm that he owned at the time of
his death on a Litle Creek called
Crooked Creek and the said that
He went out on their Litle farm just
while before he died and located
the place where He wanted to Burried
And the said that they burried in
Right on the place that he located
and the said that he was the first
one to Burried there but there is a
Right smart sized cemetery there
now and I have found by the
figuers and numbers on His tomb
store the Exact Date of this Birth 2 over
Page 28

And also the Excat Date of this
house that he was bornd January the 11. 1735
and that the Died August the 18. 1842
making at the date of his Death one Hundred
and seven years and seven months and
Seven days old and his wife died July
1846 - Well the statement you sent me
shows that he was married twice
and father of 21 Children will I never
did here my father say any thing about that
at all. But the said that this mother name was
former known before her and his father
was married Well I know of ten
children of this family & Boys and
2 girles well here of the names of
those that no of 1 Solmon 2 Henry
3 Isom 4 James 5 William 6 Valentine
7 Davis 8 Hamond this same one
that the Letter was wrote and sent
to from Washington City to
Nashville Indiana inquiring of him
of the years of William Wilkerson
And now there is the 2 Girls name Emeline and Peggy
Page 29

3
William Wilkerson $32602
BAFLAWE
Well solomon after this father moved to
Brown County Indiana Located At a Littel
Place Green County Indiana Between Bloomington
and Bloomfield Indiana now called
salary Indiana will the way it come
to get it name was that soloman
started a littel store there and then
after that they established Post office
there and called it sulfury and
Salmon Wilkinson searved as Justice
of piece there for some time and
Finilay He got Kicked in the head
with a Horse and Busted His skull
and Died of the accident and Henry
and William they went away into
missouri some where and located
there but I do not when at and
Hamond Wilkerson was located on what
I called Grave Creek in Brown County and
Where he died
Page 30

FEB 10 1933
MALL SUB-DIV.
READER 6
VET ADM
4
and James Wilkinson lived near
Elkinsville Indiana When he died
And Valentine lived near Elkinsville
when he died and Isom was
located AT Whalesborough and
little town between Columbia
Indiana and Seymore and when
he Died And Davies Died in
Monroe County Indiana near
Bloomington Indiana and
Emeline Wilkerson Died at
Brownstown Ind But Peggy I
Do not no when she died at
Will I just sending a littel statement
In Regardes to Relationship and
this a true statement
Very truly yours
Jane Beightel
Oakland Ills
Page 31

Veterans Administration
Washington D.C.
2/ 4/ 1933
Old War my
Fate &
32602
William Wilkinson S32602
Dear sir your statement of January 31
AT. Hand. was very glad to get it sure
Well I Dont understand this that I our
looking after to Pension at all but
I understand it to be a Legacy of money
are an Estate that was suposed to be
there at Washington City for the Heirs
of this name that we have there before
us for one very good strong Reason
Why will have in the Reason that I
Rember when I was girl my father come
Home one time and called my
mother told her that this Brother
Hamond Wilkinson Hand got Letter
from Washington City Meaning
for the Heirs of this man that we
now Have his name before me and
stating that there was a large
Amount of money then for this Heirs
Page 32

2

Will I understand this to be an estate
instede of a pension and that just
why I am looking after this
case Well I can remember
that I am telling just as well as
if it had been to Day
---
And I no that they must have
Hamond Wilkersons name and
Address Right there on there
Recorder of to day some
where for Because Hamond Wilkerson
find that time In Brown County
Indiana and Post office
Adress was Nashville Indiana
and that Letter I am telling
you about was sent to
Direct from Washington City to
Hamond Wilkerson
Nashville Indiana
Very truly yours Jane Beightel Oakland Ills
Page 33

RECEIVED
FEB 13 1933
PENSION INDEX
SECTION
Page 34

[Typed form with written responses]
Revy INVALID
File No. 32 602
File No. William Wilkerson
In Rev War
Act: June 7 32.
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 456
{Arrangement of 1870.]
Dec. 29 /08, Stone Miller
Status of claim &
de copy inside
1918, Apr. 24. History to
Andrew Wilkerson F
1919 Jan. 14. Rome Beightel
wife descendants no
title an
1924 Feb.: Rome Beightel
again not, no title
1926 Feb 27. Hon Frank Gardner
1930 Apr 18 Hist to m
Winifred Myers
1933 Jan 31
list to Joe
Beightel aug
1933 Mch 6- Jane Beightel
advised in regard to pension
legacy
Page 35

3 - 397.
Old No. 3 -- 399.)
Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Army and Navy Division.
Div Ex'r.
Cert No. 31,583 
William Wilkerson
N. C. Mil.
War Revolution Washington, D.C., Dec. 21, 1908
SIR:
For use in the above-entitled claim for pension, you are requested to
furnish this Bureau with a report in the case of William
Wilkerson
pensioned under the act of June 7 1832 by certificate
No. 31. 583. issued Jan. 26. 1839, Madison Agency,
showing date of last payment, to whom paid
and if possible, date of soldiers death, an early
reply will be appreciated.
Very respectfully,
THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT,
J C Davenport
Acting Commissioner
THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERRIOR DEPARTMENT
Treasury Department,
(PENSION OFFICE 26 DEC 1908)
(OFFICE OF AUDITOR FOR
INTERIOR DEPT.
23 DEC 1908
Pension Division)
Page 36


November the 12 1874
Mr Jos Sockey
Sir yours of October
the 29 com to hand
and I have went to all
the heirs and the Best
information they
can give me is they
say he lived in North
Carolina they County they
Don’t knows
he in
rowan County or the town
closest to whais they
he lived was by the
name of rown
and they dont know
Whitch of the and it is
his word he resieved
is he got
his Coller
Bone Broke and he
Page 37

moved to No County
by Ky cain tuckey [Kentucky] and
from then he
moved to Brown County
Indiana and and from
there to Green County
and then he moved
Back to Brown County
and their she died
So this is all they
knows except the
We can find the papers
that Soliman Wilkerson
had before he died
not since he died the
papers has got lost
and we cant find
them at this time
very respectfly yours
Mr Jos Sockey
John Beightel
Bloomington Indiana
Page 38

if you want
any proof that he
is the said William
Wilkerson [illegible]
his able to prove
that he is the same
man inquired for
Same whose pension
is insured for
this will was able
to state as None
of the hairs can
read or rite they have
forgot
protty neer all they
know about Whair
he lived
yours truly
John Beightel
Page 39

October the 10 1874
Mr JH Bakes
Dear Sir I resigned
your kind and Wellcome
letters and was glad to 
hears from you and
you said in your leter
it was ready to be attended
to at an early day
and i have rote to you
since I recieved your
leter
and have got no
Anser
from you yet
and
i will be glad
to
hears
and to
from you
hear something
of Bout it I had the
Athority from the airs
as their attorney colect
it the names of the
Page 40

pension We Don’t now
Bot
We now that
it is their ready to send
for we got a leter from
the man that was
attended to it before
the late war herote to
ous that
it was this
ready
time
to send at that
Bout Jesse Shipfly
Bering
A is at that
time
Bay marige he rote on
and stoped it Because
him and his Wife Dident
Agree to gether and she
said that he should
Not have any of it and
he stoped it
to
so my
say Bout him and
his Wife is parted and
he is married to A Nother
Wooming [women] So he aint  A
Page 41

is at this time
So We Wont
it as soon as
We can out it for
Wee Stane in
Need of & it
pay at
So if
your
Pleas
attend to it soon as
posible and sent it
to our or give
ous so infor
mation from it
Send it
to
John Beightel
Bloomington
Indiana
yours John Beightel to
Pension
Department
Page 42

6408 VA
11818 ala
Finance DIVISION.
32.602 Ind
Department of the Interior,
PENSION OFFICE,
Washington, D.C., Oct 29, 1874
Respectfully returned to John Beightel
Esq Bloomington Ind to state
the information wanted of
Wm Wilkerson revolutionary
Pensioner
Jos Sockey
Acty. commissioner.
Page 43

William Wilkerson
lived in the County
of State of
Indiana-
He was my wifes
Grandfather
and
I make the inquires
for the benefit of her
father - son of said
William Wilkerson
his other Heirs-
John Beightel
Bloomington
Ind

Wilkerson
William
had his coller
Bone Broke
my object is
for the benefit
of said William
Wilkersons hairs
the house to
Bee maid of is
to divide it out
to the heirs
he lived in North
Carlinia at the time
he enlisted that
is the words went
tell County Not known
John Beightel
to
Jos Sockeiy
Page 44

(DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
PENSION OFFICE
28 OCT 187)
to
Page 45


Department of the Interior
Pension Office
Washington, D.C. --- Oct 20 1874
Sir,
Yours of Sept 18 and 10th inst are received, relative to William
Wilkerson a revolutionary pensioner, but as you do not state when
he lived, or other facts by which he could be identified, makes it impossible
to answer your enquiry. The object of your enquiry is not
Stated nor for whose benefit the information is desired or the
use to be made of it – A brief statement of the above, should be
endorsed on this letter and returned -
Very respectfully,
Jos Sockey-
acty Commissioner
Mr John Beightel
Bloomington Indiana
Oct 20 1874
Mrs Capen has case}
Page 46

1937- Ten
8408 Va
32602 Ind
September the 18 1874
to the pension depar
tment
I preserved your
leter and was glad
to hear from you
you said for me
to quir you
the
Number of
Pension
Bout Wel Don’t
Now
the numbers of it. 
Bout it is William Wilkerson
Revolutionary War
Arill
Who got 
Notice
of it 
a litle
while
Before the
late
War Bot Jesse
Page 47

Shiply he rote
on out
Stopt it
Because his
wife and him  
fell out
and She said 
that he 
should not
have any of the
money Bout they
has parted and
he is maried again
to it Nother Woman
and the airs ar of
Willing to first
amp will quit it
and they requested
me to quit it for
them Davis
Wilkerson is my
Father in law and
he lives with me
Page 48

Or if mile and half
East of Bloomington
Indiana rite
south bend
and shall
Bout it
Direct
to
John Beightel
Bloomington
Indiana
Very respectfully yours
John Beightel
Page 49

4 /17-18
Norman Station
R.R.I
Rev Sec
his
and
to Commissioner of Pensions
of Washington D.C.---
your Letter Received in
Regard to that Recordes
of William Wilkinson
He was Brone [Born] January
the 11. 1735. Died August
the 18. 1842 he served
the Revolutionary war 3 years
under Captain Con Wallace
Division
truly yours
Andrew Wilkerson
Address Norman Station
in law of Roy Miklesk, Indiana
Page 50

4 / 30 = 18 
Rev see
jun
to Department of interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.
in reply to your letter of the 24
instant in regard to the Record
of William Wilkerson a Solder
in the Revolutionary war
his wife
Madin name
Was Denise franks as for
the State of Marrige i Do not
positively Know
i will try to tell
you to the best of
Knowledge what I 
know about it
(PENSION U.S. 3 MAY 1918)
Page 51

his Wife Died acording
to my understanding
July the 4. 1840-
I cant give you all the
names of his child
But will try to give
all can as far
as is know Boy names
Saulmon Wilkerson= 1
Davis Wilkerson= 2
Henry Wilkerson= 3
Bill Wilkerson=4
Hammond Wilkerson=5
James Wilkerson=6
Voletine Wilkerson=7
Isom Wilkerson=8
Girls names
Eline Wilkerson=9
Peggie Wilkerson=10
to Best my knowledge the all the names I know
Page 52

I will try and
Give it Just as near
as I can to this
in the Best i can
do in can furinsh
you all kinds proof
that those our the
Leagel Haires of
William Wilkerson
Respectfully
Yours Andrew Wilkirson
Norman Station
Indiana
Page 53

Oceanlake Oregon
Feb. 6 1930
Pension Dept.
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir,
would you kindly send
me the Pension record of
William Wilkinson of Monroe Co.
Indiana
for the Revolutionary war
also record of William Wilkerson
Brown Co. Indiana Rev. War
and the name of their wives
any living my Rev. ancestor
Miss Winifred Myers
-
Page 54

In reply to your request of..,
received..,
for a statement of the military history of William Wilkerson
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension
file in this Bureau.
S. F. 32.602
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
RANK.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
COLONEL.
STATE
May, 1776 OR 1777 / 3 Mos / Pri / John Henderson / R. Harris / N.C.
3  / Joseph Gill
Soon after Spring 1779 / Micajah Bullock
1779 / 3 / Jones Fuller 
1781 / 2 / names of officers not stated
Battles engaged in,
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Granville Co, N.C. 
Date of application for pension, Mch 4, 1835 His & was al
Residence at date of application,  Monroe Co. Ind.
Age at date of application, about 94 years. Born in King George Co, Va.
Remarks: Soldier was mar. when he was about 20 yrs
of age, name of wife not stated, nor date and place of her death.
He again married, date and place not stated, nor name of wife. 
He had six daughters and fifteen sons, no name stated
Except (Henry 27 yrs Solomon 29 yrs) 1835
The modern letters not integral part of 
the claim & therefore the 
family data in there
not used his letter
Page 55

(PENSION U.S. 13 JAN 1919)
to Department of the Interior
of Washington D.C. 
Dear Sirs I thought i
would Rite you a letter
inquiry of William Wilkerson
a solder in the Revolutionary
War as I understand
He belonged to a North Carolina 
Regiment as  I understand there
is a Bounty of Money
or unpaid salary when
was Due The Solder
in the trasuer [treasurer]
for him our his Haires
if you please look it up
and let me know at the
Earliest possible date
Page 56

truly
Rome Beightel
Isabel
Illinois
Box 23-
Page 57

Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
AWF / HMM
April 18, 1930.
Miss Winifred Myers
Oceanlake
Oregon.
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension
claim S. 32002, it appears that William Wilkerson was born in
King George County, Virginia, date not given.
While residing in Granville County, North Carolina, he enlisted
and served as a private with the North Carolina troops as
follows:
From May 1776 or 1777 three months in Captain John Henderson’s
Company, Colonel R. Harris' Regiment; soon afterward three
months in Captain Joseph Gill's Company; in the spring of 1779 three
months in Captain Micajah Bullock's Company; in 1779 three months
in Captain Jones Fuller's Company; in 1781 two months, names of
officers not given.
About ten years after the Revolution he moved to Rowan
County, North Carolina and lived there about twenty years then
moved to Knox County, Kentucky, then to Monroe County, Indiana.
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 4,
1835, at which time he was living in Monroe County, Indiana and was
aged about ninety-four years.
The soldier was married when he was about twenty years of
age, name of wife not stated, nor date and place of her death.
again married, date and place not stated nor name of wife given.
He stated that he had six daughters and fifteen sons. The
only names mentioned are Solomon and Henry who, in 1835, were aged
twenty-nine and twenty-seven years respectively.
Page 58

The above noted William Wilkerson or Wilkinson is the only
soldier of that name who was pensioned for services in the War of
the Revolution while living in Indiana.
Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
Page 59

returned as requested
These letters were left
here by the
Hon. Frank Gardner
House of Rep
on Feb. 1926 who
requested that I write
him a letter telling
him heirs had no
title -
He did not
see these pension
claims, be duly talked
with me about the
laws in general.
Page 60

February 27, 1926.
Honorable Frank Gardner,
House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. Gardner:
In response to your personal inquiry
of the twenty-sixth instant, relative to the pensionable
statue of descendants of soldiers of the Revolution, I have
the honor to advise you, that there is no provision of law
that would entitle the descendants of said soldiers to pension
in their own right, or to arrears of such pension.
Herewith are enclosed your three letters from Mr. Andrew
Wilkerson, of Bedford, Indiana, R. F. D. 3, and the
copy of your letter to him, dated August 11, 1928.
It is proper to add, that there are two Revolutionary War
pension claims for soldiers of the North Carolina Troops,
named William Williamson, or Wilkerson, namely: Survivor
1937, and survivor 32602, in regard to which, various descendants
have written to the Bureau as to their rights to
pension and all of them have been informed that they had no
title. Among those inquirers as an Andrew Wilkinson, of
Oolitic, Indiana, who was informed through the Honorable
Cox, May 22, 1912, and again directly on March 11, 1813.
Very truly yours,
WINFIELD SCOTT,
Commissioner.
Page 61

Rev = War Sec
To department.
Rev. & 1812 Wars
Section, Bureau
Rome Beightel
Oakland, Ills.
Feb. 15, 1924.
Sir:
I have to advise you, that there is no provision of
law that would entitle the heirs of a soldier of the Revolution
to bounty land or pension on account of his services.
You were so advise on January 14, 1919.
The Bureau has not and would not undertake to decide
who were the descendants of said soldier, on account
of the fact that there is no law granting them any money.
Respectfully,
Washington Gardner
Commissioner.
Page 62

13= 1865
[Department] of the Interior
us of Pensions
Washington -D-C-
Dear Sirs as I am the man that
wrote to you some time ago in
Regards to William Wilkerson
a Solder in Revolutionary War and i
Received a Letter from you stating that
You only Had one Haire name there
on record and his name was Davis
Willerson A Son of William Wilkins
and it seemed as they Letter Read
---
that you understood that he was
the Only hear of William Wilkerson
and also we understand that it
was said he just Had 2 Hairs
Andrew Wilkerson
and William D Wilkin
which was said to be Done
of Davis. Wilkerson Will you
Please tell us who wrote this Report and
Sent in Very Respectifully yours Rome Beightel
Oakland Illinois
Page 63

Jan. 14, 1918
Rome Beightel
Box 23
Isabel Ills.
In reply to your letter of the 10 instant, you are
Advised that there is no provision of law that would now
entitle the descendants of a solder the Revolution to
pension or bounty land on account of his services.
Very respectfully,
G W Saltzgaber 
Commissioner.
There are two pensioners of N.C. Troops
named Wm. Wilkerson or Wilkinson
and in both cases heirs have been
making inquiries as to title
but I filed this letter in S32602
person named Beightel had been
writing in this claim since 1874
Page 64

December 29, 1908.
Hon. J. M. Miller,
House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. Miller:
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt on
the 19th instant of a copy of House Bill No. 15527, for
the relief of Andrew and William D. Wilkerson, sole surviving 
heirs of William Wilkerson, late of 3D Regt. North Carolina 
Vols. Revolutionary War, with request
dated to 18th instant, that your committee be furnished
all facts and information concerning the matter with an
opinion as to the merit of the claim, and in reply to
advise you that the soldier, William Wilkerson, 
private in Capt. Henderson’s Co., Col. Harris’ Regt., 
North Carolina Vols., Revolutionary War, was pensioned 
under  the act of June 7th, 1832, at $20 per year from 
March 4, 1831. The records of the Treasury Department 
show that the soldier was paid up to March 4, 1842, but 
there is no evidence on file to show when the soldier died or 
that Andrew and William Wilkerson are his sole surviving heirs,
and in the absence of such evidence it is impossible for 
this Bureau to express an opinion as to the merits of the claim.
Page 65

-- 2 -
Hon. J. M. Miller.
A call had to be made upon another Department
which will account for the delay in answering your 
communication. 
Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.