Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31749, Hopkin Howell, N.C.
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Service
N.C.

Howell, Hopkin or Hopkins

Number S. 31749
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Georgia 31.412
Hopkin Howell  Lincoln in the State of Geo. who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Welborns of the Regt. commanded by Col. Baxters in the Geo. 
line for 17 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia at the rate of 56 Dollars 67 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of May 1838 and sent Peter Lamar Lincolnton Geo.

Arrears to the 4th day of March 1838 $396.69
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 1838 28.33
$425.02
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by W.W. Addison clerk
Book C  Vol.6  Page 92
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Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838 from 4 March to 27 July 1838. Agt notified 29 July 1841
Same to Admn. - Agt. notified
17 Oct 1844.
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Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office,
July 20th, 1841.

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," One of 7 children of Hopkin Howell decd., a Pensioner on the Roll of the Georgia Agency, at the rate of fifty six Dollars and 67 cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department from the 4th of March, to the 27th July 1838. 

Respectfully yours, 
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Treasury Department, 
Second Comptroller's Office,
Nov. 9th, 1843.

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The Adm. of Hopkins Howell, decd. a Pensioner on the Roll of the Georgia Agency, at the rate of fifty six Dollars and 67 cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March to the 27th July 1838. 
Respectfully yours, 
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present.
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State of Georgia 
Lincoln County

On the 23rd day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight Personally appeared in open court the Superior Court of said County and State before Garnett Andrews presiding judge thereof it being the regular term of said Court.

Hopkin 1 Hopkins Howell Senior a resident of the County and State aforesaid aged seventy eight years the twenty second day of March last according to the information deponant had received from his parents there is no family record of his age and the said Hopkins Howell being duly sworn according to law in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 27th day of June 1832. 

That he entered the service of the United States as a militia man he thinks in 1780 on Jeffer's Creek in South Carolina where he resided at the time and was about seventeen years age as well as he remembers now and was attached to Captain Robert Welborns Company in Colonel Wm. Baxters regiment and marched down to [illegible] intending as was understood thereto join General Sumpter some short time after the Battle of that place before arriving at that place we were stopped and and [illegible] to the hanging Rock and there joined with General Sumpter and was in the Battle at that place which
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found ourselves immediately the sight of the British and appertained Genl Greene had marched with some prisoners he had captured into Virginia we were held and free day and night Eighteen days and pursued by the British in the that he joined by General Linnington & General Marion and all united with General Green at Guilford Court House 

Some two or three day before the memorable Battle at that place, after which General Marion Started toward Fayetterlee and the Company which deponant was attached marched with him, part of the way and turned over to Genl Linnington and marched to Cross cock and their served out in that Campaign seven months 7th a private  

Again deponent returned to where he was vailed and dering that and the succeeding two years he volunteered various times with Captain Wilborn and Col Baxter and others, and was marched in various cents in pursuit of tories searching & Sconing [Scouting] them out and was deponent believes in service at the various times one year as he was continually engaged in the section where he was raised, it was unsafe to remain out of the army.
  He served in the three regular campaigns seventeen months as a volunteer in the Masion scouting parties twelve months or more as a private in the Militia service as recited swears that he has lived in the Counties of Willer Jefferson Washington Appling & Ware & Luce fifty years or there that the deponant is greatly afflicted and has been for four year with a cancer in his mouth. 
which has hearty distroy the few day's he could have enjoyed his memory destroyed, and to prostration that he is unable to remember dates or names with accuracy, nor is he able to remember of any other living witness except John Grace Senior who testify in behalf of deponent  to six months service, to prove made of his services, nor has he any documentary testimony to offer as proof of his service he will be enabled to prove his character for veracity and standing 
 Revolutionary character and the reasonableness of my claims for pay to Thomas Grace and by this annexed affidavit in the 

Revd James B. Turner Allen R. Curry Edge and John Ken and the annexed affidavit of John Grace Senior of Situate County George deponent has never received a pension nor his name placed on any Pension Roll of any agency to his knowledged he has applied heretofore and rejected and the papers sent back to his agent in the County of Mace that he has applied and sent to obtain the  same to amend, but is unable to obtain them nor does he know the objections made heretofore to his appliation he hereby relinquishes all claims to pension
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but the present
Sworn to this date
first W pre present to the date inserted in open court before Joshua Daniel clrk LSC     
Hopkins  X Horrell his mark


Georgia 
Lincoln County }
Personally appeared in open court the superior court of said county & state now in session the Rev. James B. Turner, Allen K. Curry & John Reid all of whom being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that they are acquainted with Hopkins Howell, who has subscribed the foregoing affidavit and declaration, that they believe him of the age therein set forth, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have served in the American Revolution as a soldier and to which opinion they fully concur.
Sworn to in open court this 23d day of April 1838}
[signatures] James Turner
Allen K. Curry
John Reid
Joshua Daniel clk JSC
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Rev. James B. Turner who signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the county of Lincoln & State of Georgia, and that Allen K. Curry Esquire & John Reid who has also signed the same are residents of said county & state and are credible witnesses and that their statements are entitled to credit.  23d April 1838 Ss Garnett Andrews [illegible]
I Joshua Daniel Clerk of the Superior Court of the County of Lincoln and State of Georgia do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said county in the matter of the application of Hopkin Howell Senior for a pension, together with the annexed affidavit of Thomas Grace Senior of Tatnall County, certified by John T. Sharpe Justice of the Peace and Robert C. Surrency Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County of Tatnall.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office as clerk aforesaid this 23th day of April 1838.
Joshua Daniel Clk
Lincoln Superior Court
[seal]
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December 2, 1931
BA-J/MCS
Mr. W. B. Collins
Appling
Georgia

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to you December 2, 1931
BA-J/ur letter of November 12, 1931, requesting information in regard to Hopkins or Hopkin Howell, a soldier of the Revolution.

The data contained herein are obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 31749, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Hopkins or Hopkin Howell. 

He was born March 22, 1760, place not given. 

He enlisted in 1780 in South Carolina on Jeffreys Creek, where he resided at the time, and served seven months as private in Captain Robert Welborn's Company in Colonel William Baxter's Regiment and was in the battle of Hanging Rock. He then returned to "Dobbs County", North Carolina, on the Neuse River, where he was reared, and enlisted, date not given, served three months as private in William Douglass' North Carolina Company as a substitute for his brother, Henry Howell. He enlisted in 1781 and served seven months as private in Captains John Langston's and John Giles' Companies in Colonel John Sitgreaves' North Carolina Regiment. In 1781, 1782 and 1783 he served at various times, amounting to one year in all, under Captain Welborn and Colonel Baxter. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 23, 1838, at which time he was living in Lincoln County, Georgia, having previously lived in Wilkes, Jefferson, Washington, Appling and Ware Counties, Georgia.
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In 1838 he was referred to as Hopkins or Hopkin Howell, Sr. 
He died July 27, 1838, leaving children, their names not given.

There are no further data relative to the soldier's family. 

Very truly yours,
A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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31749
Reg INVALID

File No. 31,749
Hopkins Howell Senr
Rev War

Act: June 7th 32
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 194

Arrangement of 1870.

[2nd fold of page]

1931 Dec 2 hist. to Mr. W.B.
Collins    mics
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30456

Hopkin Howell

Ga

Allow 17 mos private
$56.66 per anum

N.C. Militia

Peter Lamar Esq
Lincolnton Ga
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State of Georgia, Tatnall county:  Personally appear before me John T Sharpe, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County.  John Grace Senior, a Revolutionary Pensioner and a resident of the said county, and state, 

who being by me duly sworn deponent and sayeth that he is acquainted with Hopkins Howell, Senior, who is an applicant for the benefit of the Pension Law of the United States, now residing as deponent understands in Lincoln County, in said state, recently lived in the county of Ware and same state and has known him for sixty years that his deponent became first acquainted with said Howell in the year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty, that they were engaged in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary struggles.  Seven months in the year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty One for which services deponent receives a pension from the government of the United States that said Hopkins Howell Senior was then a Private Soldier attached to the Company of Captain John Giles of the Militia in Colonel John Seagraves Regiment, no General to Command as deponent recollects and was during the seven months in the state of North Carolina, after organizing was marched to Rockfish Bridge, stationed there at least five weeks as Militia, deponent further swears that he has just reasons to believe and can verily believe that the said Hopkins Howell Senior was serve his Country faithfully during the time he states in his oath, as he thus said applicant has satisfied this deponent in his statement and what he deponent has himself seen and known that since the Revolutionary War said applicant has resided in various parts, as he is informed by him that deponent has known him in his Residence in the county of Tattnall & Ware as he forestated of his residence and that this deponent believes said applicant is entitled to receive a pension as he understands the pensions of the pension act and that his [unreadable] and afflicted situation as well as his
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advanced age makes him an object of charity.  Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26 day of March 1838.  
John T. Sharpe  J.P.          John Grace Senior    

State of Georgia, Tattnall County:   

I, John T. Sharpe, a Justice of the Peace in the aforesaid county, before whom John Grace Senior made and duly subscribed to the foregoing affidavit so hereby certify that the said John Grace Senior is a Revolutionary Soldier as recognized in the Community and receiving a Pension accordingly, that he is a man of good character, and veracity.  Given under my hand and seal this 26 day of March 1838.
John T. Sharpe  J.P.     [seal]

State of Georgia, Tattnall County:  I, Robert C. Surrency, Clerk of the Inferior Court of said county and state do hereby certify that John T. Sharpe, Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate and attested the affidavit of John Grace Senior [unreadable] at this date and time of attesting and certifying to the same as Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Tattnall and State of Georgia, duly Commissioned and qualified as such that the signature purporting to the his is genuine and entitled to full faith as a crest as such I do further certify that said John Grace Senior is recognized as a Revolutionary Soldier by all his acquaintances for which he is pensioned and whose word is affirmation would not be assaulted in this Community where he stands fair for veracity.
  
This testimony where of I have here unto set my hand and private seal there being no seal of office to our [unreadable] court.  This 26th day of March, 1838
Robert C. Surrency
Clerk [unreadable] Court Tattnall County  [seal]
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Lincolnton Ga
May 4th

Free
War Department

Honerable J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
City of Washington

[?] Hopkin Howell
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Lincolnton, Georgia
May 4th 1838

To the Honble J.L.  Edwards

Dear Sir

I herewith inclose (sic) to you the application of Mr Hopkin Howell Senior for a pension under the Act of Congress in reference to which I wrote to you some [illegible] time ago, enquiring after the original papers of 
 application made whilst he lived in Appling or Ware Counties. Those papers could not be obtained, and I have made this effort in his behalf, he being at this time as great an object as I have recollected to have seen to obtain the testimony of one of the witnesses a trip of 300 miles has been made to Tatnall & Ware
Counties, and he is so much imaciated (sic) from a cancer in his mouth it will be impossible that he can survive many months. His articulation & memory is much impaired.

You will be satisfyed (sic) & I trust of his services in part if not intirely (sic) and
relief to him would be in time to prepare a
burial, and he is a Charge to the Country at
a heavy expence (sic) his relatives are extremely poor and if ever one is to receive relief in the 11th hour it would be so to Mr. Howell.
Of the respectability of those who testify in his behalf none can do better. I have made these remarks not with the expectation it is to cause 
you to extend to Mr Howell what you could not do to others but his case will not bear mending. he will not live
to another court months in my opinion.

I am respectfully
your servant
Peter Lamar

Honble
J.L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
War Department
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Appling, Ga., Nov. 12, 1931.

The Commissioner of Pensioners,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Please send me all the data
on file in your department relative
to the military record of Hopkinson (or
Hopkins) Howell, who died in
Lincoln County, Georgia, in
1838, and who had been drawing
a pension from the government
for service rendered in said
war. The descendants of Mr. Howell
wish to use the information referred
to in making a family tree of the
Howell family.

Please give this your early attention.

Very Respectfully,
W.B. Collins