Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6863, for Henry Mank, Virginia
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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Indian War 1774 (Va) Mank, Henry.   R. 6863
N.C  Mauk or
CONTENTS
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No. 12.325 Man
Henry Mank 
Tennessee
6,863
Rejected - see let.
of the 16 Feby 1833 to the 
Hon L. Blain
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Henry Mank
of Tennessee
Rejected
See letter 16 Feb 33
to Hon. J. Blair
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6863
P.O. Henry Mank
Service:
Enlisted: , 18
Discharged: , 18
REJECTED [stamped]
Application filed: , 18
Alleges: , 18
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized. Contrac
Cert. of Dis. Searched for , 18
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Henry Mank
12.325
Rejected, Service having been performed which was before the Revy war in 1774, excepting a short tour of ten days in 1780, and no allowance can be made for service performed by substitute.
See letter 16 Feb 33. to Hon. J. Blair,
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State of Tenessee Sullivan County
September Term 1832
On this 24th day of September 1832, personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Edward Scott Judge of the circuit court of Law & Equity from said county Henry Mank, a resident of the County of Sullivan & State of Tenessee age seventy eight years who being duly sworn according to the law, doth on his oath. Make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7, 1832. That he intered the service of the united states under the following name officers and served as a here in stated [illegible] that in the summer of the year 1774 he was a citizen of the Augusta county Virginia. He volunteered in said county to go to the head of the Patomack river. That being a frontier country and frequently [illegible] by the Shawnee, Mowhack and Mingo Indians. who were in league with the British in the war of the Revolution. & [illegible] in said county under Capn. Samuel Wilson he was marched to the head of the middle [illegible] of the Patomack River to a place called the crabapple bottom and [illegible] in [illegible] as aforsaid about the first of June in said year. & served as above stated in scounting after the said Indians & building said fort un till sometime in July when it was understood that the Indians had left that section of country. he was then verbally discharged by his said Capn after having served one month or more as aforsaid in the service of the united states. The state that shortly after his return from the avove tour of duty he again volunteered in Augusta County Virginia to march against the Shawnee Tribe of Indians who were killing & taking the whites prisoners
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immediately after his in rollment in the said county of Augusta under Capn John Skidmore he was put to making packsaddles in wich imployment he continued for about the time of one month which packsaddles were for the purpose of packing provisions on horseback for the army. the country from the [illegible] of [illegible] buy the mountainous country & wilderness on to the Indian [illegible] which was [illegible] between one & two hundred miles. he states that about from the first to the tenth of August 1774. he was marched under his said Capn Skidmore for the [illegible] of [illegible] when [illegible] James Colonel [illegible] Regiment the Liutenant Colonel was also named Lewis whom the army remained some days when he was marched an [illegible] walkers mountain  [illegible] [illegible] mountin and to the  canawa river near the mount of the Elk river when the army remained some time [illegible] in  herding [illegible] for the purpose of taking [illegible] down said time for the said army ws then marched down said river to its junction wiht the ohio reiver when the army remained some days [illegible] to the Battle at that place which Battle he was in it commenced early in the morning and continued until night of the same day & in which Battle there was killed an the ground and died of wounds about three hundred [illegible] [illegible] of the whites & it was thought near about one half of the Indians it was said the Indian [illegible] consisted of about Eighteen hundred warriors after said Battle he with the army remained at the point some days was then marched near [illegible] Run within a short distance of the Indian [illegible] which were set an [illegible] by the Indians when they
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the approach of the whites, & when they were me
by Gournan Lumber of Verginia & the Indian chief Co
Cornstack was then marched back to the point he states the
his said Colonel Lewis was killed in said Battle was then
Verbally discharged by his said Capt John Admon &
a certificate on which he understood he could
draw Land but never did draw and they are said ┃
then returned home near on the same out he was
marched out, he states that from the time of his mother
until discharged as aforesaid he served five months &
a half month or more. he states that some four or for
years after said Town above, he moved to what is name
Sullivan County in the State of North Carolina
that in the summer of July 1780 he was drafted in the said
County of Sullivan Tennessee the State of North Carolina
enrolled under Capt George Maxwell of said County to
---
gard a fort on big creek now Hawkins County Tenn
the North Carolina was marched under his said Capt
to said fort & continued them & in that neighborhood
scouting after the charter Indians who were in life
with the British in the war of the revolution & served
as stated for the full sum of ten days say & returns and
in actual seven
twelve days. when he was verbally discharged
by his said capt Maxwell, he states that that he is
the war of the revolution and from his own
services he herd substitute who performed the differed
Yours for time as the situation of his family could not
admit of his long have when drafted in which was
in many causter all his property. He states that in
the war of the Revolution he served as above stated
in the several Towns above stated
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months and then weeks or more aside from that this situation (?unreadable) he said as above stated, he has no documentary evidence of this service neither does he know of any persons whose testament
he can prove who can testify to his service that there is no resident minister of the Gospel residing in his neighbourhood
who can testify to his service except the Revd Thomas Lowen who in the same law of this acclaimant and which account he
this applicant does not wish to take his certificate. he timely relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity
except the present, & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
 W Anderson C US ( signature)
Henry Mank (Signature)
W. Arthur Anderson & Thomas Morison
Residents of the County of Sullivan & State of Tenessee hereby certify
that we are well acquainted with Henry Mank who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy-eight years of age that
he is reported & he lived in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion. Sworn to & subscribed this 27th day of September 1832
W Anderson C US
Nathan Richardson
Thomas Morrison
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And the said Court doth hereby certify & declair therein his opinion after the investigation of the matter & 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 him that Nathan Richardson & Thomas Morrison a residents of the County of Sullivan & State of Tennessee & that they are credible persons & this statement is entitled to credit. Edw Scott one of the Judges of the Circuit Courts of Law and Equity in and for the State of Tennessee aforesaid- I  William Anderson Clerk of the circuit Court of Law & Verity for Sullivan County State of Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the aplication of Henry  Mank for a pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal [crossed out:there being no seal of office] -- this 27th day of September 1832. Wm Anderson Clk