Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4388, Elijah Hooten, N.C.
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Service
N.C.
Hooten, Elijah
Number
S.4388 [ S is for Survivor of the Veteran that had died]
Contents
Born in N.C.
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26794
West Tennessee

Elijah Hooten of White Co. in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the com commanded by Captain Edwards of the regt [Regiment] commanded by Col Williams in   
the N Carol [ North Carolina ] line for 6 months

Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee at the rate of 20 Dollars -- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of May 1834 and [illegible] J B Forester [illegible]

Arrears to the 4th of March              | 60.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 2 Sept   | 10.00
                                                          | $70.00

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Danl [Dan] Boyd Clerk, 
Book 6 Vol. 7 page 83
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Seller to Hon. W.B. Campbell 83 Ando. 9. Feb. 1841.
Paid at the Treasury under the Acts of the 6. April 1838 from 4 Sept. 1838 to 4 March 1840. Agt. notified 24. Feby. 1841
Paid as above, from  4 Sept. 1843 to 11 March, 1844. Agent notified 28 March 1846.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 
Second Comptroller's Office, 
June 20th, 1845. 

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 [illegible] of Elijah Hooten, [illegible] a Pensioner on the Roll of the Nashville, Ten. Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7 June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1843, to the 11th March 1844. 
Respectfully yours, 
Albion K Parris
Comptroller. 

To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.
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State of Tennessee 

White County SS.

On this 16 day of April 1834, personally appeared in open court before the Justice of the Court of pleas and greater sessions for said county now sitting Elijah Hooten or Whooten [Whorton], a resident of said county aged about eighty one years 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 7, 1832

That he entered the Service of the United States following named officers, and served as here in stated

He is old, and his memory frail: to the best of his recollection he entered the service as a private volunteer soldier under Captain Edward in Cumberland County North Carolina. He thinks this way some time in the latter part of the year 1779 - his engagement was for twelve months and he served it out. He was under the command of General Caswell: the troops to which he belonged joined General Gates on "deep River" at a place called "Cox's Settlement". He remained with Gates' army until Gates' defeat near Camden - He was in that battle - and can relate many of the occurrences  of the day - but it is deemed unnecessary. He will barely mention that his Captain and Lieutenant were both killed - his lieutenant's name was Castor. [Caster] This declarant was present, and near to his lieutenant, when he was killed. His Colonel's name was Williams. His engagements stated above was only for twelve months, but he remained in the services until the battle of Guilford, having joined General Greene's army, after Gates' defeat - his Captain's names
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A name (i.e. after the death of Edwards) he cannot remember the troops were dispersed and scattered after Gates' defeat, which circumstances makes it difficult for him to remember his officers at Guilford - He was in that memorable battle, and received a severe wound, which disabled him so that he could not serve any longer - he was taken home to Cumberland County - and was unable to walk at the close of the war. The scars, or indications of the wound, are at this day clearly to be seen, and inspected by the Court, it has occasioned him to be a cripple, [Disabled] ever since he received the wound, and will be continue to the day of his death - He cannot positively say, that was in the service two years as a private solider. 

He can however state that as his best impression and his positively sure of having served one year and six months - for which he claims a pension. He knows of no living ... ... whom he can prove his serving. He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll agency of any state. Answers to the interrogations prescribed by the war department and propounded by the Court. 

1. He was born in North Carolina, the county he does not remember - in the year 1753

2. He has no record of his age

3. When called into service he lived in Cumberland County, NC. From there he removed to Grayson County, VA from there to Kentucky near Scottsville - from there to Warren County, Tennessee, from there to White County, Tennessee, where he now lives -
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4. When called into the service he volunteered.
5. He has no acquaintance with any of the regular officers - except he knows the Commander in Chief -
6. He never received a regular discharge having been taken home from the field of Guilford badly wounded. 
7. He refers to the following person to whom he is known in his present neighborhood to whom he is known in his present neighborhood and who can testify as to his character for Verasity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution, there being no minister of the Gospel within his reach. 

Viz. Sharrach Price - Leke Bounds Leke 
England, & William Mills. & William Bullock - & William Bounds -

We Sharrah Price and William Mills both residing in the county of White hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elijah Hooten who has subscribed + sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Eighty one years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a solider of the revolution and that we xxx in that opinion.
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interroge atories 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 Shadrach Price and William Mills who have signed and sworn to the preceding certificate are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit Eastland A David Snodge 

1 Joseph Cummings . Son When A State of Tennessee White County I Jacobitham Clerk of the County Court of White County aforesaid do here certify that the foregoing contains the original seeing of said Court Court in the matter of the application of Elijah Hoolen for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office the 23 day of April A.D. 1834 Jacobitham Clerk White County Court By N Alham D.
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16, 1837

                                                    Elijah Hooten
                                                    S. 4388
                                                    BA-J/AWF
Miss Mary B. Hooten
404 South Hill Street
Los Angeles, California

Dear Madam:

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim S. 4388, based upon the service of Elijah Hooten in the Revolutionary War.

Elijah Hooten was born in the year 1753 in the state of North Carolina. The names of his parents were not given. 

While a resident of Cumberland County, North Carolina, Elijah Hooten volunteered late in 1779, served as a private in Captain Edward's company, Colonel Williams' North Carolina regiment, he was in the battle of Gates' Defeat and in the battle of Guilford Court House, where he was severely wounded, and returned to his home in Cumberland County, North Carolina.

After the Revolution he moved from Cumberland County, to Grayson County, Virginia, then to near Scottsville, in Kentucky, then to Warren County, Tennessee, Then to White County, Tennessee.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 10, 1834 at which time he was living in White County, Tennessee. He died March 11, 1844.

The papers on file in this claim contains reference to the family on the solider, Elijah Hooten.
In order to obtain the name and address of the
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person paid the last payment of this pension, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington D.C., and furnish the following data-

Elijah Hooten
Certificate # 26794
Issued May 29, 1834
Rate: $20.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
West Tennessee Agency.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator
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1939 Nov 16
 listed Miss Mary B. Hooten - see list letter in Thomas Horton W 670 

Revwan 4388
INVALID

File No. 4388
Elijah Hooten
Pvt. NC, line

Act: June 7, 1832
Index: - Vol. A, Page 176

{Arrangement of 1870}
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office,
February 11, 1841.

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensions, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Elijah Hooten, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Nashville Few: Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars and Cents for annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 6th of Sept, 1838, to the 6th March 1860.

Respectfully yours, Albion K. Parris

Comptroller

Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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November 16, 1837

Elijah Hooten
Horten- Her letter in Thomas Horton W.670

Miss Mary B. Hooten
404 South Hill Street
Los Angeles, California

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of William Hooten, Senior and Junior, Charles Hooten, henry Hooten and Thomas Hooten who in 1840 was living in Decatur County, Indiana, and the War of 1813 record of Jacob Hooten, Captain the Delaware Militia whose father was Elijah Hooten.

The War of 1813 records of this office have been searched and no claim for pension found based upon the service of Jacob Hooten under and spelling of the surname.

Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data and the limited trained (clerical) force available for furnishing such information, it is not possible to comply in full with each request.

The Revolutionary War records of Elijah Hooten and Thomas Horten or or Hooten are furnished herewith. It is looked at and will be of matter to you

Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator