Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9580, for William Isaac Simmons, Georgia
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Service GA N.C.
Simmons, William Isaac
'or Isaac
Number R9580
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State of Georgia 
Talbot County
On the Twelfth day of January A.D. 1846 personally appeared in open Court before the Superior Court of said County now sitting for County purposes, William J. Simmons commonly called Isaac Simmons a resident of same County aged Eighty Seven years who being first duly Sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benifit [benefit] of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 That he entered the Service of the United States as a volunteer under Captain Solomon Wood and was mustered into Service under General Morgan and Colonel Thomas Wooten with which officers he served one year. He entered the army in the year 1780 at Wake Court House North Carolina and served in that State during said time of one year, during said Service under General Morgan  Declarant was engaged in several scirmishes [skirmishes] and was in a battle at the place then called Cross Creek now Fayetteville and also in the Battle at the Cow Pens in the year 1781. Declarants Father John Simmons having been wounded by a musket ball passing between the tendon & bone of the left leg during the last mentioned Battle & totally disabled from Service, he declarant received his discharge a few days before his term of service expired in order to carry his Father home. Said John Simmons finally died of said wound in Talbot County in the year 1837.
In a short time after receiving said discharge declarant enlisted under Captain Drury Cade in order to serve in the State of Georgia For a Bounty of Land offered by Said State. Under Said Drury Cade Declarant came to Georgia and was mustered into the Service under Colonel Clark in Georgia. Declarant served two years and received the Bounty Land as will be seen more clearly by reference to the certificates of J Houston & JW Horne which are hereunto annexed. Declarant now possesses no documentary evidence of his
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Services. He obtained a discharge from the army each time he left the same and kept three of said discharges in his possession of till the year 1837 when he handed them to Dr. Hamilton P Smead of said County in order to have his claim to a pension established and said discharges have been lost or mislaid so that they cannot be found as will appear by reference to the certificate of said H P Smead hereunto annexed, Declarants memory does not enable him to say by whom said discharges were signed. The Colonels commanding when they were obtain was as follows.  the first under Colonel Wooten the second under Colonel Wooten and the third under Col E Clarke  Declarant was born in the State of North Carolina in the year 1758 as will appear by reference to an old Family record hereunto annexed in which his age is put down under the name of W Isaac Simmons.  When called into service he was living in said last named State.  Since the war he has resided in the State of Georgia mainly in Wilkes & Talbot County in which last named County he now lives.  He first entered the army as a volunteer under Captain Soln [Solomon] Wood but afterwards enlisted, he was not drafted nor a substitute, William L Walker & Peter F Mahone and Hamilton P Smead can testify as to my character for veracity & their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution.  Declarant rendered his services in the army as William Simmons and supposes if his name is registered at all it is as William Simmons & not William I Simmons.  The reason of which is as follows.  He was at first called only William by his Parents.  But in the Battle of the Cow Pens his Uncle Isaac Nutt being killed.  His parents to perpetuate the memory of said Uncle after the war added the name of Isaac to that of William & said Uncle being a favorite he himself came in course of time to be called and known most by the name of Isaac, that William was his first name will appear by reference to the old family record above named & hereunto attached.  Said Record having been made by his Father as early as the year 1786
his mark [hand drawn X] William I Simmons
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Sworn to and subscribed in open court this the day and year above written. Declarant also relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension and says his name is not on the pension roll of of  the agency of any state. 
M. Blasshall J.J.C.
G. B. Trice J.J.C.
W. B. Bledsoe J.J.C. 
Georgia
Talbot County
Personally appeared in open court
William L. Walker
Who after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he has been personally of intimately acquainted with William I. Simmons for the space of fifty years, that from his first acquaintance with said Simmons he has been regarded and taken to have been a Soldier of the Revolution. Defendants Father having also been a soldier of the Revolution (t)he defendant has often heard him & said Simmons conversing of & concerning their service & has never heard the service of said Simmons doubted. Defendant knows of nothing against the good character of said Simmons for veracity & believes his statement written to credit. Defendant is sixty two years of age. 
Sworn to & subscribed to in open court
I concur in the above so far as 
an acquaintance of forty five
years will allow W. Bledsoe J.J.C.
 - G. B. Trice J.J.C. 
W.L. Walker
(?) David
Georgia 
Talbot County
I Hamilton P Snead of said county to hereby certify on oath that said W. I. Simmons handed to me sometime in the year 1836 or 1837 three papers purporting to be discharges from the army of the United States. My memory does not enable me to say by whom they were signed or what I finally did with them. But I am satisfied they were discharges from said army to said Simmons. 
H. P. Snead
Sworn to and subscribed to me this 12th March 1846 & I do further certify that said Snead was absent from the county when the above declaration was made & also that he is a person of good character & of veracity & is a resident of Talbot County. 
W. F. Brooks J. P.
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the war Department that the above named applicant was a Soldier of the Revolution and served as he states & the Court further certified that William Walker and Hopkins Daniel who have signed the foregoing certification are resident of said County and the other of Union and this state are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit. The Court further certifies that they know o no clergyman living in the immediate neighborhood of said applicant to make the necessary certificate, The Court also certifies that the old family record hereunto attached was taken from a very old Bible in open Court. The book appearing to be much damaged said leaf with others being book but bearing every evidence of belonging to said book there being in said Book two other records as follow in one place. John Simmons Senr was born January 4th 1748, and in another place John Simmons was born January 27  - 1780, and no more.  Interlined before signed  Wm B Marshall (signed ) J.J.C.  W B Casor (?) (signed) J.J.C.  Z. B. Trice (signed) J.J.C.  [ Georgia Talbot County] I George A Douglass clerk of the Superior Court  of said county do hereby certify that William B Marshall , W B Casor and Z B Trice whose proper signatures appear subscribed to the above & foregoing declaration  & affidavit were at the time of signing and are now Justices of the Inferior Court of said county  & I also certify that William F. Brooks whose proper signature is subscribed to H P Smead's affidavit is a Justice of the peace of said county & that all are duly commissioned  & qualified  and their acts as such entitled to full credit. Given under my hand and seal of office. March 12th, 1844.   G.A. Douglass ( signed)  C.I.C.
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NEW,
TESTAMENT
Of our LORD and SAVIOUR
JESUS CHRIST,
Translated out of the 
ORINGINAL GREEK;
And with the former
TRANSLATIONS
Diligently Compared and Revifed,
By His MAJESTY'S Special Command.
Appointed to be Read in Churches.
EDINBUGH
Printed by Mark and Charled K___, His Majesty's Printer
MDCCXCI
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...(illegible) born October 25,1756.                    Wm Isaac Simmons was  February 11,1758.   Frada (?) Simmons was born August 1,1771.   
Mary Simmons was born April 1st 1770.       Sarah Simmons was born  September 17,1777.  John Simmons was born January 27,1781. 
William (?) Simmons was born December 25,1784 (or 1786)                  (page Sealed)
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(Copy)   ( No. 50.) Georgia  
These are to Certify , that William Simmons a citizen is entitled to One hundred and fifty acres of Land, as a Bounty, agreeable to an Act and Resolve of the General  Assembly, passed at Augusta the 20' August 1781. As per Certificate E. Clarke Colo.  Given under my hand, at Savannah, the 25th day of March in the year of our Lord, One thousand seven hundred and eighty four. 
J Houston   
Attest  
D. Rees  Secy.                 
Executive Department,  Geo.                Milledgeville 7 December 1845   
I hereby Certify the above is a true copy of the original Certificate now on file in this Department Given under my hand and the seal of the Executive Department.  
J.U. Horne  
S.E.S.C.
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BA-J/EEL
William Simmons-R.9580
Mrs. V. M. Scanlan
121 College Street
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Dear Madam; 
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to William Simmons, also called Isaac, born in North Carolina, in 1758, who obtained bounty land in Georgia, on account of his service in the Revolutionary War; you request, also, information in regard to his father, John Simmons, born about 1738, and died in Talbot County, Georgia. You state that both William and his father participated in the battle of the Cowpens, where John was wounded.
There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file in this office, based upon the service in the Revolutionary War of the John Simmons, described by you. The record has been found of a William Isaac Simmons. That record is furnished herein, the data for which were obtained from the papers filed in pension claim, R.9580, based upon the service of William Isaac Simmons in the Revolutionary War.
William Isaac Simmons was the son of John Simmons, and was born February 11, 1758, in the state of North Carolina. A number of witnesses stated that his father was born January 4, 1743. He died in Talbot County, Georgia, in 1837. He stated that he was named William but after the death of a favorite uncle, Isaac Butt, who was killed in the battle of the Cowpens, the name Isaac was added to his name. The name of the mother of William Isaac Simmons was not stated.
January 12, 1846, William Isaac Simmons, then a resident of Talbot County, Georgia applied for pension and alleged that while residing in North Carolina, he volunteered at Wake Courthouse, in 1780, and served one year in Captain Solomon Wood's Company (a M Capt according to [illegible] could not found a Capt Wooten nor a Capt Drury Cade), Colonel Thomas Wooten's North Carolina Regiment; that he was at the battle of the Cowpens, in January, 1781, in which battle his father
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also participated, and that his father received a severe wound to the left leg, and that he (William Isaac) received his discharge a few days before his term of enlistment had expired in order that he might take his wounded father home. He stated that he was also at the battle of Cross Creek but gave no date in regard to this engagement, He stated further that after he received his discharge in North Carolina, he went to Georgia, and served in Captain Drury Cade's Company, under Colonel E. Clarke, in the Georgia troops for two years, for which service, he stated he was promised land. The records show that a William Simmons was granted two hundred fifty acres of land for his service in the Georgia troops.
The claim for pension of William Isaac Simmons was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof that he rendered the alleged service. 
There are no data as to wife and children and the date of soldier's death is not given.
The following family data are shown;
- (torn) ... born October 25, 1756.
W, Isaac Simmons ... born February 11, 1758.
Rhoda Simmons ... born August 1, 1771.
Winney Simmons ... born April 1, 1774.
Sarah Simmons ... born September 17, 1777.
John Simmons ... born January 27, 1781.
William Simmons ... born December 25, 1784.
Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller 
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator, 
-2-
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[This image is only the upper left portion of a letter]

Dear Sir,
Your
Same immediate
acquired. I [have]
Mr Pullo, or [ch]
Sons and 2 or 3,
County informs me
rights but [on]
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Wm I Simmons Ga
Act '32
soldier who served
Wm Simmons - name
changed to take an Uncle's
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May 6th 1852
Addl. evi: in 
case of Wm.
Simmons 
Ga
Thos. Lumpkin
[Pen Agent]
Hon. J. E Heath
Commr. of Pensions
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37.285
Wm. I. Simmons
Georgia
[3 lines stricken]
See [Illegible] [Rest of line stricken]
Could not [Illegible] Jun 23, /53
Decision of the Court
affirmed Sec Letter
to T. Lumpkin
[Line stricken]
June 7, 1832
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Decision of the Court
affirmed.
[Illegible]
Aug 11/53
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[Top line stricken]
REJECTED
9,580
P. O. 
Wm. I. Simmons
Service:
Printed list of 1852, shows cause of suspension,"For further proof."
{Rest of form has no entries]
[Left margin notes - ]
1938 - Mar 11 - Hist to Mrs. V. M. Scanlan [EL]
1938 - Sept. 19 - Mrs. V, L. Scanlan advised no further data [EL]
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W. M. SCANLAN
121 COLLEGE STREET
HATTIESBURG, MISS.
Aug. 15, 1938.
The Administration of Veterans' Affairs Washington,
Can you give me information concerning John Simmons and son William (Isaac) originally from Va., but moved into N.C. (northern), and then to Hancock Co., Ga., around 1780 or '82.
These men are my great-great grandfather and
my great uncle. I am anxious to learn if these are the same John and William Simmons, father and son, who fought in the battle of Cowpens. If you can help me I shall greatly appreciate it.
Thanking you in advance,
yours sincerely,
K. S. Scanlan.
(Mrs. V. M. Scanlan.)
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Stamped RECEIVED 3:15 AUG 17 1938 MAIL SUB-DIV. VETS. ADM. READER # 29
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Washington July, 1852
As the attorney for Wm. Simmons, alias Wm I. Simmons, I hereby certify that I have positive assurance that the reason for this claim being suspended since the 13 of June 1846, until 22nd August, 1851, when I examined the merits of the case, was owing to the ignorance of the claimant and as regards the knowledge of the proof of the said Simmons services. I as the attorney addressed the Comptroller of N. C. for an examination of his records, and upon such search he found record evidence or claim payments made to this old  Revolutionary soldier, clearly proving his allegations made in his two applications in 1836 and 1846.  see his declaration under act of 7th June1832.
Th. Lumpkin
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Pension Office,
July 12th, 1852.
Sir:
The claim of Wm J. Simmons, of Georgia, under the Act of June 7, 1832, in relation to which you addressed this office on the 23d of March last, is barred by the recent decision of the Secretary of the Interior, no testimony of any character having been filed in reference to it since the 15th of June 1846, when the objections of the Office to its admission were fully stated in my letter addressed to Thomas Green, Esq.
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Serv,
F. F. Triplett
For Commr.

Thomas Lumpkin, Esq.
Present
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82
Penns Office,
Sept 8, 1852.
Sir
In compliance with your request,
I have examined the certificate of the
Comptroller of N. Carolina for the purpose of  determining how far the payments [embraced] got refer to to the William I. Simmons of Geo. whose application for the benefit of the Act of June 7, 1832, has [been] suspended by this office - and you are informed that we cannot disclose the [Illegible] connection between those payments to William Simmons and the [pension of] said William I. Summons, as set forth in his declaration; and the question of identity, therefore, remains open. If William I. Simmons really served as alleged, there should be no difficulty in establishing his identity by old neighbors, and comrades in the war, for, if it be a fact that his father was dangerously wounded and his uncle fallen in the battle of
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the Cowpens (Jan 17, 1781) those incidents must have left a strong impression upon the minds of the friends and neighbors of the Family. But is a remarkable feature of the case, that his father survived the wound received in that battle until 1837; he did not apply for a pension either as an [united], or for service as a Revolutionary soldier.
But of claimants [accounts] on time as to his service in Georgia, and his reception of service from that state for said service - why not prove that service. It must, if his statements are correct, be susceptible of being sustained by Record evidence; and as it was for two years it would enable him to a larger pension than unto him granted to him, are of his identity with the payments [embraced] by the certificate of the Comptroller of N. C. [was] established.
Thomas Lumpkin Esq
Present.
[Sept 8/53]
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Pension Office,
June 7th 1853.
Sir,                                               
I herewith return the appeal of Thomas Lumpkin Esq.,  in the case of William I. Simmons of Georgia, whose claim under the Act of June 7th 1832, has been suspended by this Office, and respectfully request that he may be required, in accordance with the regulations of the department of the Interior of the 6th of February 1852, to cite the portion of evidence specially relied on to sustain the appeal.  Such vague and indiscriminate averments in an application to the appellate power,  cause much and valuable time to be wasted, and great embarrassment to this Office; whereas, if the question at issue was distinctly and fairly put, in connexion [connection] with the testimony intended to sustain the point contended for by the appellant, it could be easily comprehended by this Office, and promptly decided by your Department.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
Your Obt. Svt.
Commissioner.
Hon. Robert McClelland,
Secretary of the Interior.
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Marriage Abstracts Chatham Co, Ga
1805-1852
Men's           Women's    Spinner    Date              By Whom    (illegible)
Names          Names        Widow    license

John W.        Askwell
Simmons      Ann E               S        June 18, 1822    ____   ____   ____

1800 Census     Orangeburg Dist
                         Orange Co S.C.

William Davis to 45 no ch
William Davis    45 + wife to 45

Lancaster Co S. C.   1800
Robert Davis   45+  6 daughters  
            wife to  45    3 sons
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37,285
Wm I. Simmons
Ga 
Act of June, 1832
9580
    9.2  
    4
    8.7
  13
    5.2
  39.10
2/98.74
   49.37
    39
     2.50
   19.50
   78
     1.23
   98.73
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Thos Lumpkin
July 12/52
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99
Penns Office,
July 1, 1852.
Sir,
The claim of Wm I. Simmons of Georgia
under the Act of June 7, 1832, in relation to
which you addressed this office on the 23d of
March last is barred by the recent decision
of the Secretary of the Interior, no testimony of
any character having been filed in reference to it since the 13th of June 1846, when the objection of this office to its admission was fully stated in my letter addressed to Thomas Green Esq.
Thomas Lumpkin Esq
Present
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44./ Washington D.C.
Jany 14, 1853,
Thos Lumpkin
Rel: to case of W. I. Simmons
appeals from decision of Comr:
Col Niles
Jan 25/53
Referred to the Comr of Pensions
for a Report
Dept Int     }
Jany 24/53 }
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Washington  DC
Jany 24th 1853
Sir,
I am instructed by Col. Varnum of Ga. the attorney in the case, to appeal from the adverse decision made in the case of William I. Simmons of Ga. Act 7th June, 1832.
The objection to its allowance was insufficiency of proof as to the identity.
I have the honor
to be for Yr Obt Svt
Th Lumpkin
Hon A. H. H. Stuart
Secy of the Dept of
the Interior.
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Department of the Interior
Washington Augt. 13. 1853
Sir,
Your decision in the case of W. I. Simmons, has been affirmed and the Papers are herewith returned to you.
Respectfully,
Your Obdt Svt
R McClelland
Secretary
Hon L. P. Waldo
Commr of Pensions
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T. Lumpkin Aug . 16, 1833
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226
Pension Office
August 16, 1853
Sir,
The decision of this office, in the case
of Wm I. Simmons, of Georgia, Act of
June 1832, has been affirmed by the
Secretary of the Interior
T. Lumpkin Esq
Present
Rev
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March 27, 1846
W. I. Simmons
June 7, 1832

Col J. L. Edwards.
Commr. of Pensions.
Washington City.
D.C.
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Rich'd 18 March 1846.
Col. J. L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions.
Sir:
Enclosed is the application of William I. Simmons of Ga. for a pension under act 7 June 1832. He has [before] made an effort 10 years ago to get
the pension but his atto. lost his papers.
[Your] records will probably verify his statements.
I am Yr Obt Svt
Thomas Green
-
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Washington, D. C. 
July tenth, 52

Sir,
I have the honor to enclose herewith the comptroller of N.C. certificate showing service of Wm. Simmons, whose name was afterwards changed to Wm. I. Simmons, which case is now pending under Act of June 1832 from Ga.  Please place this on file with his papers.
I have the honor &c
Ths Lumpkin

Hon. J. E. Heath,
Commr.
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13 June 1846
318
Pen Off
June 13, 46
Sir
In the case of William I. Simmons who applies
for the first time for service in the N. C. & Geo'a troops in the revo'y war which would
have entitled him to a pension probably 28 years ago - certainly 14 years ago - it appears that his fathers register of his childrens ages which claimant swears was made as early as 1786, is on the leaf of a Bible published in 1791 - That Register shews the birth of Isaac Simmons with a "W." crowded on the left so as to shew that it was not all entered at the same time. Now he says that his original name was William only & that Isaac was an addition made after the war. It is very remarkable that his father should first enter his name on the family Register as Isaac only, if his statement be true that Isaac was an addendum after he had left the service - Discredited as his claim is by the forgoing, it is still further condemned by his narrative of the service for a part
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of which he asserts he received bounty Land in the name of Wm. Simmons in 1784 - A copy of the resolve of the general assembly of Ga of 20 Aug '84 shd. be forwarded to this office.

The first term he asserts was in 1780 under Capt Wood Col. Wooten in N. C. for 12 mo during which he was in the battle of Cross Creek (1776) Cowpens [edge of page cut off] 

There was no 12 mo men under N. C. authority except the years men of 1781 in the Line of that state - His name is not borne on the list of 12 mo men nor those of Capt Solomon Woo [edge of page cut off] & Col Thomas Wooten on the roles of the N. C. Line in which alone a term of 12 mo could have been rendered under N. C. authority.

The other term of service in the Ga. Line & for which he says he recd. bounty Land should be fully detailed as to the places of cantonment - battles marches - name, of officers of his own regt. & of other regiments serving with him &c & when by satisfaction or proof that he is the Wm Simmons who recd. Bounty Land

Enter on Ga Inden act 1832

Thos. Green Esq
Present
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March 23d 52.
Rel: to case of Wm. I. Simmons

Ths. Lumpkin
Present

Kirby
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Washington, D.C.
March 23rd 'E2

Sir;

By reference to my book I examd. on the 22nd August 1851, the case of Wm. J. Simmons, Ga Act 7th June 1832, and also the amended declaration made in 1846, and respectfully called the attention of your Dept. to the merits of the claim.  The difficulty in the case seems to have been that of identity.  Declarant served in the Revolution under the name of William Simmons, and afterwards he is proven took that of an uncle by name of Isaac from Isaac Nutt making it Wm. Isaac Simmons.  He addresses proof of his having been awarded two hundred and fifty acres of land, also the record of his birth, etc.   I have no record proof of his service, but will endeavor to attain it from N.C.  I trust however the fact of his obtaining the Bounty of land may suffice to grant him a pension.  I have the honor etc. etc. Th. Sumpkin

Hon. J. E. Heath, Commr.
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V. M. SCANLAN
121 COLLEGE Street
HATTIESBURG, MISS.

Feb. 19, 1938.

Veterans Administration, Washington 

To the Chief Clerk,

In the Pension Application of William Simmons, afterwards called Isaac in honor of an uncle named Isaac Nutte, killed at the battle of Cowpens, can you find the names of his dependents? William Simmons (Isaac) obtained bounty land in Ga. for two yrs. 6 mos service, which service was certified to by Col. Clark.  He was also in battle of Cowpens.  His father was John Simmons, born about 1738, died in Talbot Co. Ga.  John Simmons was also wounded in battle of Cowpens.  William (Isaac) was born in N.C. 1758.

I am trying to find out if this John Simmons is the same as the John Simmons, my ancestor, who went from N. C. (originally from Va.) to Hancock Co., Ga.

If you can help me, I shall greatly appreciate it.

Sincerely yours, 
Mrs. V. M Scanlan.
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September 19, 1938.

Mrs. V. M. Scanlan
121 College Street
Hattiesburg, Mississippa.

BA-J/ILL
William Isaac Simmons
R. 9580

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to you letter in which you request information in regard to John Simmons and his son, William (Isaac), who were in the battle of Cowpens and resided in Georgia in 1780 or 1782.

The records of this office show that in reply to your letter of February 19, 1938, in which you requested the Revolutionary records of the above noted soldiers, you were furnished the record of William Isaac Simmons, pension claim-R. 9580, and that you were advised then that no claim for pension or bounty land had been found based upon service in that war of the John Simmons described by you.  This office has no further data in regard to William Simmons than was incorporated in that report, dated March 11, 1938.

Very truly yours,

A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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State of Georgia
Talbot County

Know all men by these presents that I Isaac Simmons of said County do hereby constitute & appoint Thomas Lumpkin of Washington City my true and lawful attorney for me & in my name & stead to examine my declaration & papers on file in the Pension Office In Washington City and prosecute my claim for a Pension as a Revolutionary soldier as I know I served my Country faithfully in said war one year in North Carolina under Capt. Wood and then Captains the names not now recollected & Col. Wooten while in my first service & a few days before my time was out I was in the battle of Cowpens under Genl. Morgan  some moths after said battle I volunteered under Capt. Cade and marched under him to Georgia to get a bounty of land that was offered by the Counsail of Georgia to all soldiers that would serve to the close of the war on repulsion of the enemy 

Served in Georgia under Col. Clarke two years & six months for which I obtained a bounty of land & sold it to Mathew Arthur for which I was given a mare pony or horse  I served in both Campaigns under the name of William instead of Isaac Simmons as my name was changed after the war for an uncle who I favoured who was
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Killed in the battle at the Cowpens hereby notifying & confirming all that my said attorney may lawfully do by virtue of these presents

Given under my hand and seal this the 25th day of June 1851

Amzi Rudolph  
W. M. Varnum N. Public

State of Georgia
Lumpkin County

I Wier Boyd Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County do hereby certify that W. M. Varnum is a notary Public for said County Commissioned & duly qualified that his official acts as such are entitled to full faith & Credit & that his Signature to the above is genuine

Given under my hand & seal of office this 14th day of August 1851

W Boyd Clk
 
Isaac  X Simmons (Teal) his mark
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{State of North Carolina
{Comptroller's Office

I, William J. Clarke, Comptroller of public accounts in and for the State aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears of record in my office among the payments made by said State to sundry persons for a Military services in the Revolutionary War, as follows, to wit:

William Simmons
Book . 10.3 page 25 L9. S2 - specie
Book . 10.19 page 56 L4 - specie
Book . G.16 page 21 L8 S7 - specie

Indent or Army Certificate No. 1689 issued by lower Board of Salisbury Auditors L13 S10 specie - 

Warrenton Settlements L 5. S2. D2 specie - No. 108 -

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this 3d. day of May 1852

Wm. J. Clarke, Compt'r.