Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45844, Joab Horne, N.C.
Page 1

(3-1776)
SERVICE                                           NUMBER
N.C.                   Horne, Joab           S.45844
Page 2

Florida 25,948. Joab Horne. Walton Co in the state of Florida who was a Pri in the company commanded by Captain Wilson of the Rich commanded by Col Hart in the No. Carolina Militia.
10 Mon pr $ 33.33 1/3
458445
Inscribed on the roll of Florida at the rate of 33 dollars and 33 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Certificate of Pension issued the 31st day of Sept and send to 18321 John McCutchen, Washington.  Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 83.32 Semi-an allowance ending 4 March ’34 $16.66. Total 100.98
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by J.T. Sprague Clerk Book E Vol 8 Page 138.
See letter to prior (illegible) Mobile AB 12 Quin 13
In order to P. Aqt. July 19, 1837
Letter to B.D. Wright 3 June 1839. 
Duplicate certificate if used 20th July 1839 and sent to Benj. D. Wright, Pensacola Florida.
Page 3

Territory of Florida Western District Walton County
On this 19th day of November 1833 personally appeared before the Superior Court for his state and County aforesaid Joab Horne a resident of said Walton County aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to his oath on his oath sworn the following declaration in order to obtain the transfer of the provision made by the act of Congress papers January 7th 1832. That during the revolutionary war and before the battle of Guilford Court House in North Carolina this affiant living in Edgecomb County in said state was drafted in the militia of said state of North Carolina His date of this event he cannot remember. He was drafted for five months served the full time. His officer was General Wily Jones (whom Aid Den Camp was a Wm Webb, Colonel Hart Captain Exum Phillips and Lieut Bethel
Page 4

Bell. His officiant with his corps which was the Infantry joined General Gates at Hillsborough North Carolian and continued to serve with General Gates arm until the time of this applicants discharge. Though the two corps were not always together. This applicant was discharged at Hollowford on the Yadkin in same state of North Carolina. This applicant further states that sometime afterwards perhaps two years after the Battle of Guildford Court House though this applicant cannot now remember the time, he volunteered in the light Infantry and was employed in surging the two counties of Nash and Edgecomb in said state of North Carolina and the command of Colonel Hart, Captain James Wilson and Lieutenant Ford. In this service applicant was engaged five months waited two weeks and was discharged in Edgecomb county immediately after the new of the defeat of Cornwallis was received. He has lost both of his discharges. He knows of no person living by whom he can establish his said services. He
duly relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state or lif…
Page 5

The said Joab Horne having been sworn in open court the following questions when propositioned by the court.
When and in what year where you born?
Answer: In Halifax County North Carolina in the year 1753.
Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
Answer: My father wrote down my age in a book and I since had it copied into my pocket book.
Where were you living when you were called into service? Where have you lived since the revolutionary war? And in where do you know live.
Answer: I was living when called into service in Edgecomb County. N.C. I lived there during the war service thence to Georgia when I lived several years thence to Walton County when
Page 6

when known him?
How were you called into service? Were you drafted? Did you volunteer or were you a substitute? & If a substitute for whom?
Answer: At first I was drafted for five months. Afterword I volunteered and served nearly five months. 
State the names of some of the regiment officers who were with the troops where you served. Such continental & militia regiments or you can recollect said the given circumstance of your services.
Answer: I can state the names of the officers in my declaration.
Did you receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it signed and what has become of it.
Answer: I think my discharge from my first tour of service was signed by Col Hart & it is lost. From my last tour of service there was no discharge the error being undone
Page 7

State the names of pensioners to whom you are known in your permanent neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your service as a soldier of the Revolution.
Answer: Mr. Compton, Mr Saville & Mr Mothershead who are known to him.
Sworn to me and subscribed in open court November 19th 1883 H.G. Ramsay Clerk
Joab Horne (his X mark)
Richard I Compton being duly sworn in open court says he is well acquainted with Joab Horne the applicant that he has lived in his neighborhood several years that his character and veracity is irreproachable. He believes said Joab Horne to be able seventy nine years old and also that said Horne served in the Revolutionary war and such is the general belief in the neighborhood in which said Horne resides. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me November 19th 1833 in open court H.G. Ramsay Clerk. Richard I Compton.
Page 8

Jeremiah Saville being also duly sworn says that he lives in the neighborhood of the applicant Joab Horne. He is well acquainted with him and believes him to be a man of irreproachable veracity. That he believes said Horne to be seventy eight or seventy nine years of age. That the belief in the neighborhood in general that says Horne was soldier in the Revolution and that in that belief this applicant concurs. 
Sworn to me and subscribed in open court November 19th 1883 H.G. Ramsay Clerk
Jeremiah Saville

William M Mothershead a minister of the Gospel being also sworn says he knows the applicant Joab Horne that his character for truth & veracity is good. That he supposes said Horne to be about seventy nine years old. That it is generally believed in the neighborhood in which Horne resides that he was a soldier of the revolution and is that belief this applicant concurs. That this applicant though an most preacher considers Walton County his place of residence.
Wm. M Mothershead
Sworn to me and subscribed in open court November 19th 1883 H.G. Ramsay Clerk
Page 9

Only on that of the agency in the state of North Carolina
Sworn to me and subscribed in open court H.G. Ramsay Clerk
Superior court Walton County
Joab Horne (his X mark)
And said purpose Court of Walton County and duly declare its opinion that the above named applicant Joab Horne was a revolutionary soldier as he states.
In testimony where of I, John A. Cameron, Justice of said Court (illegible) at Walton county aforesaid on this 20th November 1833
J.A. Cameron
Page 10

{written} mailed without review
{typed} April 21, 1936
Mrs. W.C. Carpenter Apt B, 12 2260 Peachtree Road Atlanta, Georgia
Joab Horne S. 45644 Ba- J/mlb
Dear Madam:
The data herein were obtained from the papers on file in claim for pension, s.45644, based upon service in the Revolutionary War of Joab Horne.
Joab Horne was born in 1755 in Halifax County, North Carolina; the names of his parents are not shown.
While residing in Edgecomb County, North Carolina, Joab Horne enlisted, date not given, and served a tour of five months as private in Captain Exum Phillip’s company, Colonel Hart’s North Carolina regiment. He volunteered, date not stated, and served four months two weeks as private in Captain James Wilson’s company, Colonel Hart’s North Carolina regiment, and was discharged in Edgecombe Count, immediately after the news of the surrender of Cornwallis.
After the Revolutionary War, the solider moved from Edgecomb County, North Carolina, to Georgia, where he lived several years, thence to Walton County, Territory of Florida.
There are no family data in the claim.
In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name of the person paid and possibly the date of death of Joab Horne, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, the city, and cite the following: - Joab Horne, Certificate no 25946, issued January 31, 1834, rate $33.33. per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act June 7, 1838, Florida Agency. Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller Executive Assistant to the Administrator
Page 11

1916 Apr. 6 Hist.. to T. Gordon
Freeman Letter in S.F. 3197
Larkin Smith
1917 Aug 29 Hist. to Mrs. J L. Hind
1936 Apr. 21 Hist. to Mrs. W. C. Carpenter

INVALID
Revy Widow,  &c.
File No. 45, 844
Joab Horne
Flord or N. C.
Act 7 June 1832
Index: Vol. 3, Page 234

[Arrangement of 1870.]
Page 12

J. L. Edward Esqr.
Commissioner of Pension
Washington
Page 13

Pensioner July 9, 1839
Sir, Enclosed herewith to said the evidence of the case of Joab Horne pension in triplicate. I will thank you to enclose the new pension certificate to me or to Mr. Horne at this place. Having of late had frequent occasion to revoke the remark to others know take the liberty of saying to you that though I have at different times been obliged to come from withall the department of ______
Was hiring then, I have no where found the same presumptions and ready attention to his info that I have observed in your office.
I am with _____  _____ yrs. Benjn D. Wright
Page 14

County of Escambia
Territory of Florida 
On this the 8 day of July 1839 before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the County of Escambia personally appeared Joab Horne who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formally belonged to the companies commanded by Capt Exum Philips and James Wilson in the regiments commanded by Colonel Hart in the service of the United States that his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the state of North Carolina as he supposes his services having been _____ by surrendered in that state That he received a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War which certificate he has lost or misplaced, not having been able to find it for nearly two years.
Sworn to & subscribed before me this the day of pension. James W Ernest GPEC

William Coon being duly sworn being a person of full age declares
Page 15

That he well knows Joab Horne a revolutionary pensioner whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit and knows him to be the same person there in described.
Sworn to & subscribed before me this the 8 day of July 1839. James W Ernest Justice of the Peace E.C.
William Coon

James W. Ernest
Justice of the peace and for Escambia County Territory of Florida  do hereby certify that William Coon enclosed name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit concurring the identity of Joab Horne is to and well known and is a person of veracity. In testimony where of I have hereunto set down this the 8 day of July 1839. James W. Ernest Justice of the Peace. L.C. 

I Micajah Crupper Clerk of the County Court Escambia County to hereby certify that James W. Ernest is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county given under oath & under the office this 9th day of July 1839 at Pensacola M. Cruppen Clerk
Page 16

And the said court does duly declare its opinion after the investigation of his brother and after (illegible) prescribed by the War Department. Its the above named applicant is a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And this court further affirms that it (illegible) that William M. Mothershead, who (illegible) the previous certificate is a clergyman resident in the county of Walton and that Richard L. Compton and Jeremiah Saville who are sworn the same are residents in Walton County and are credible persons in that their statements are entitled to credit.
In testimony whereof I John A. Cameron, Justice of said Court of Walton (illegible) with (illegible) home at (illegible aforesaid, this 20th November 1833. J.A. Cameron, Justice D. M.
Page 17

I Henry G. Ramsay Clerk of the Superior Court for the Western District of Florida & county of Walton do hereby certify that the forgoing contains the general proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Joab Horne for a pension. 
In testimony where of I leave here unto sit my hand and seal of office. This twentieth day of November 1833. at Alaqua in said County. H.G. Ramsay Clerk 
{seal attached}
Page 18

29,346
Jacob Thomas
Joab           Florida
Adm 10 Months.

John McCutchen
of Washington City
Page 19

J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
May 31
J Edwards
[ black circular date stamp]
PENSION OFFICE
May 22
Page 20

Pensacola FL May 15, 1839
Sir. 
I am requested by Joab Horne of this neighborhood to inform you that he has lost his pension certificate granted I think in 1834 and to ask that another may be sent to him.
You will confer a formally communicating with me on the subject. If any proof of the loss of the certificate be required I can furnish it. If not please enclose the new or duplicate certificate to me. I am with great respect your, Benjn D. Wright

J. L Edwards
Com of Pensions
Page 21

April 21, 1934 xxxxxx
Mrs. W. C. Carpenter 
Apt. B, 12
2280 Peachtree Road
Atlanta, Georgia

Thomas Bateman R. 606
Joab Horne  S. 45844
RA-J/MB

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of Thomas Bateman, R. 606, and of Joab Horn, in order to verify the Revolutionary War record of Captain Exum Phillips, and in which you request, also, the record of service which this Captain Phillips may have rendered during the period for 1789 to 1815.

There is no claim for pension on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War nor the subsequent period to and including 1815 of any soldier with name Exum Phillips, under any spelling. The record of Thomas Bateman and Joab Horne are furnished herewith as shows in claims for pensions based upon their service in the Revolutionary War. 

Very truly yours,
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
Page 22

Stamp:
U.S. Pension Office Aug 27 1917
Page 23

Cordele GA,
Aug 23, 1917
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir,
Please send me at your very earliest convenience the record of service in Revolutionary War of Joab Horne who enlisted from Edgecomb Co North Carolina and was living in Walton Co. Florida (in 1833 at the age of 80 yrs.)
Very Truly,
Mrs. J.L. Mims
Page 24

Rev Sec H
Atlanta, Georgia
April 6th 1916
[black circular date stamp]
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
O APR 7 1916

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir;
Will you please send me a records of the service in the Revolutionary War of the pensioners "Jacob Horner of Walton Co., Florida in 1834" and "Larkin Smith of Oglethorpe Co. Ga. in 1833"
These ancestors of mine are in your published
Page 25

list of Revolutionary Pensioners and I would like to get my family records that may be with the paper  
Yours very truly
T. Gordon Freeman
1166 Dekalb Ave.
Atlanta, Ga.
Page 26

Mrs. Williston Cox Carpenter Treasurer
Atlanta Chapter, D.A.R. 
2260 Peachtree Road, Apt B. 12
Atlanta, Georgia
April 12, 1936
Pension Dept Washington D.C.

Gentlemen:
Will you please send me a copy of the Pension papers Captain Exum Phillips of Edgecomb Co. N.C for the War of 1812 _______ and of Thomas Bateman of Greece Co. Miss.
I wish also a copy of the Pension of Joab Horn of Edgecobe Co. N.C. as these I theech are filed in R. 606 Pension Dept.
I am trying to complete "1812" paper for the "W.S.D. of 1812" Society.
Thank you for an early reply. I am Gratefully yours, Mrs. W.C. Carpenter
Page 27

National Society United States Daughters of 1812 National Headquarters, 1481 Rhode Island Ave N.W. Washington D.C. Business Headquarters Office of the President National
Mrs. John Francis Weimann, 2214 Battery Street, Little Rock, Ark.

[Handwritten: Atlanta GA April 6, 1936, 2260 Peachtree Rd. Ap B12]
Prism Commission Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
I desire a copy of the pension for Revolutionary service for Capt. Exams Phillips Edgecomb Co N.C. I believe clauses of R. File 606 Pension Dif verifies such a claim. 
I desire to find his family record, or any services civil or military that he might have had for the period of 1789-1813 -
Thank you for any assistance
I am very gratefully yours,
(Mrs.) W.C. Carpenter
Page 28

Revolutionary War Record Section 3-525
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions Washington DC _____, 19___
S.F. 45844

In reply to your request of __________, received _______ for a statement of the military history of Joab Horne a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 

Dates of enlistment or appointment, length of service, rank, [Officers under whom service was rendered] State.
Check mark, 5 mos, Prt. Captain Exum Phillips, Colonel Hart, N.C.
1781, 4mos 2 weeks, Prt, Captain James Wilson, Colonel Hart, N.C.
Battles engaged in, none stated.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Edgecombe Co. N.C.
Date of Application for pension, Nov 19, 1833, His I was al.
Residence at date of application, Walton County, Flo
Age at date of application, b. in 1753 in Halifax Co. N.C. 
Remarks: There is no data on file as to family. He moved from Edgecombe Co N.C. to Georgia these several years. Then moved to Walton County Flo. * Incorrectly printed Jacob Horne on 1835 list of pensioners.
Respectfully, Commissioner
[handwritten: discharged immediately after defeat of Cornwallis"]