Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11040, Alexander Walker, Va.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Va.
Walker, Alexander
Jane
NUMBER
R. 11040
CONTENTS
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Letter to Commissioner of Pensions
Nov. 23 1850
Shady Spring, Va
November 11th
Hon. Alexander H. Stuart
Washington City
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Raleigh Courthouse Nov 15th, 1850
Dear Sir,
I wrote to you some short time ago with regard to pension matters & since then I have had three applicants for pensions one or Revolutionary soldier aged 97 years of the name of Thomas Cadle or Kadle. I do not know how he spells his name as he is entirely illustrate, he says that he was raised in North Carolina in the County of Surry, was drafted and served two Tours of six months each in the Militia of that State, then enlisted for during the War which lasted for three years after his enlistment his first tour in the Militia was under Capt. William Hardin his second Tour was under Capt. David Humphries until he arrived at Salisbury then was placed under Capt. Harris then after his discharge was enlisted by a Receiving office by the name of John Shepperd was then placed in Genl Morgan’s Corps, during his service he says that he was at the Battle of Shallow Ford in North Carolina on their route to Cleaveland was at the Battle of Kings Mountain, was at Genl Gates defeat, was at the age of little York
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where after the surrender of Cornwall he received a furlough with the understanding that he would not in all probability be called upon to return, his former discharges and his furlough he alleges was burnt with his house and all his other papers Mr. Cadle has a respectable reputation in this County but my ignorant with regard to pension matters, he tells me that he had his declaration drawn up and proved his services by a certain person who undertook to sum his pension, he is since dead and Mr. Cadle cannot tell what became of the papers and since that time the person by whom he proved his services is dead, and can only prove by respectable testimony, what his former Testimony was, the other two persons hold their discharge for services in the War of 1812-14 and if I succeed in establishing their Claims I will get well paid for my trouble more especially in the first case some years ago sisters and myself employed Mr. Brokenborough and James G Paxton of Rockbridge to secure the pension that our mother was entitled to as the Widow of Alexander Walker for his Revolutionary services as fully proved his services but could not positively prove the marriage.
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of my Father & mother, yet proved circumstances that could not leave a shadow of doubt of the fact, yet our Claim was rejected at the department on account that the marriage was not positively proven.
I hope you will advise me with regard to all these matters as early as possible.
Sisters desire to be remembered to you and Family
Verry Respectfully, Your Obedient Servant,
Archibold B. Walker 
[Illegible]
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State of Virginia
Botetourt County Set
I, Ferdinand Waltz, Clerk of the County Court of Botetourt in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that Madison Gilmore, before whom the foregoing affidavits of Archibald McClung and Elizabeth Stuart was made is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Bolton duly commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of my said office and subscribed my name this 17th day of October 1845.
Ferdinand Woltz, Clerk of the Court of Botetourt County
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State of Virginia
Botetourt County 
Affidavit of Archibald McClung made before me Madison Gilmore a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Blount
The affiant having been first duly sworn according to law deposed as follows to wit that he will be eighty two year old in March next. that he was a soldier of the Revolution, and is now a pensioner of the United States, that in the year 1781 he was drafted for a tour and left the County of Rockbridge about the first of August, and marched through the County of Augusta and crossed the Blue Ridge at Rockfish Gap, in passing the mountain the corps to which the affiant was attached met a corps of American soldiers who were returning from a of duty some conversation took place between the acquaintance and friends this meeting. There were some persons by the name of Guilford in the company to which the affiant belonged and there person got into conversation with some friends whom they found in the returning corps. These friends related to the affords some circumstances in relation to Alexander Walker who was down with them; that the said Walker had a personal conflict with some of the British soldiers called Rangers were thus named on account of the sort of
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which they used the affiant is very confident that the said Alexander Walker was with this Corps which was returning from a tour of duty the affiant had no personal acquaintance with the said Walker but he has distinct recollection of this conversation which he heard the Tilfords hold with their friends who had been down with Walker. the campaign was served by Walker in Eastern Virginia, according to the affiants belief and information he cannot state the precise length of this tour which the said Walker served, but he presumes it was for the usual person, nor he does he know whether he held an office. The said Alexander Walker lived on Hays Creek in Rockbridge County, and had married a lady whose maiden name was Jane Stead
and whose him as the affiant has been informed are applicants for [Illegible] of pension due their mother at her death. The affiant knows nothing of any of the said Walker other campaign. he had no known acquaintance with him, he believes that this tour was for the period of three months as that was the usual period for which the troops were called out and he heard nothing of a shorter campaign at the time
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State of Virginia
Blount County 
Affidavit of Elizabeth Stuart of Rockbridge County but at this time residing in Bolton County, made before me Madison Gilmore, a Justice of the Peace for said County of Botetourt
The affiant having been first duly sworn according to law deposed as follows to wit that the will be seventy eight years old in March next that her husband now deed was named Robert start and was a brother of Jane Walker widow Alexander Walker of Hays Creek, Rockbridge County, Virginia. The affiant has no personal knowledge of the marriage of the said Alexander Walker to Jane Stuart. She was however intimately acquainted with the said Dan Walker during a period of nearly sixty years. The affiant was married to Robert Stuart about the year 1789, who was a brother of the said Jane Walker and from that time they lived in the same neighborhood. Jane Walker at the time of the affiants’ marriage had five children (she [being the] eldest of whom was at the time about ten years of age). And had been married about twelve years hence he was probably married in the year 1777. The said Alexander Walker and same that were married in the County of Rockbridge, Virginia in which they both resided before their marriage
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The said Jane Walker died in December two or three year since her husband having died more than twenty years before they raised thirteen children were highly respectable people, and the affiant has no doubt they was lawfully married. The said Alexander Walker was always believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution the affiant has frequently heard his services spoken of and she has frequently heard him head of them and two companies in particular one against the Indians in 1774, in which the Battle of the Pount  was fought and in which the said Walker was severely wounded the other company was at the South, the said Walker being engaged the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. She does not know whether he was an officer the said Walker was probably engaged in service at other times, but the affiant does not recollect to have heard any of them particularly spoken of.
Elizabeth Stuart
Madison Gilmore, a Justice of the Peace for said County Botetourt, certify that Archibald McClung and Elizabeth Stuart before named personally appeared before me, and subscribed and swore to the foregoing affidavits to which their names are respectively signed, that they are person of veracity and I fully believe the statements to be true that account, advanced age they cannot conveniently attend court. 
Witness my hand this 14th day of October 1845.
Madison Gilmore
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of Congress of the 4th July 1836
State of Virginia
Rockbridge County
On this fifth day of January eighteen hundred and forty in personally appeared in open Court before the Court of said County now sitting, Archibald B. Walker, a resident of Rockbridge County in the State of Virginia aged forty five years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in behalf of himself and the other surviving children of Jane Walker deceased of said County, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 4, 1836. That the said Jane Walker was the widow of Alexander Walker deceased of said County who was an officer in service during the Revolutionary War. The declarant is matter to state very fully the details of the Revolutionary services of his father the said Alexander Walker, who has been dead about twenty five years. He has frequent by heard his father seek of his services in the Revolution, but most of the particulars have escaped his memory from lapse of time. The declarant believes from the information he has received that the said Alexander Walker held the rank of Lieutenant in the Militia from the commencement to the close of the war, that he was frequently drafted, and always acted in that capacity. His first service was performed in the 1774 having been called out against the Indians he marched from the County of Augusta as Lieutenant in a company. The troops were commanded by General Lewis, they proceeded to the Ohio River
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and had a bloody engagement with the Indians, the battle was fought at a place called Point Pleasant, the said Alexander Walker was dangerously wounded, by a ball which passed through his body. The declarant cannot state the precise length of his service at this time, he pre same however that it was not for a shorter period than three months, as it would have required near this period to have performed the march. The service of which there is any proof was performed in the year 1781. The said Walker it is believed to have performed a tour of Militia duty in the winter of 1780 and 1781. That he marched as Lieutenant in a company commanded by Capt. Gilmore of Rockbridge County, and performed a tour of duty in the State of North Carolina, that he was engaged in the Battle of the Cowpens. the length of this tour was four months. It is believed that the said Walker was discharged soon after the Battle of the Cowpens, but that he was almost immediately recalled to service, as he was engaged the Battle of Guilford Courthouse serving as Lieutenant in a company commanded by Captain Elliot. How long the said Walker served at this time the declarant cannot state, he however presumes that the our was of the usual length as troops would hardly be called from Virginia to North Carolina for a shorter period. The last service performed by the said Walker was in the Summer of 1781.
The declarant believes that he served as Lieutenant in this capacity and which was made in Eastern Virginia. He returned from this his last service [sometime in August] 1781. This tour is believed to
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have been three months long. From all the information which the declarant has received in reference to his father’s Revolutionary services, he believes that served not less than twelve months as Lieutenant having been called out four times, he may and probably was in service at other of which there is no proof. He was wounded three times whilst in service the declarant would further state that his father the said Alexander Walker died in the County of Rockbridge in the year 1820, and that said Jane Walker died on the 13th December 1843, and that they were married in the month of September 1777, according to the information which he has received, and that the said Jane Walker at her death left the following children to wit: 
Archibald B. Walker 
Elizabeth Walker 
Priscilla Walker 
Malinda Jane [Walker] Kelson, widow of Walker Kelson deceased of Kentucky
John C. Walker of Indiana
The said Marriage of Alexander Walker took place in the County of Rockbridge Virginia the maiden name of his wife was Jane Stuart. The declarant would [state] further that the said Jane Walker died without having drawn the pension which was due her on account of the Revolutionary services of her husband the said
Alexander Walker, and that this declaration is made for the purpose of applying for said pension[.] For the evidence of the Revolutionary services of the said Alexander Walker, the declarant refers to the accompanying affidavits.
Archibald B. Walker
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Virginia
At a monthly Court begun and held for Rockbridge County at the Courthouse on Monday the 5th day of January 1846, and in the 70th year of the Commonwealth this Declaration of Archibald B. Walker and for the purpose of having the benefit of an act of Congress on the subject of pension was produced in Court and subscribed and sworn to in open Court by said taken and the doth order it to be certified that the said Archibald B. Walker is a person of any and the Court further certify that they believe that said Alexander Walker deceased served as an officer in the Revolutionary War, at the different times and for the periods stated in the declaration and the Court also certify, that they have no hesitation in declaring their belief, that the said Alexander Walker was lawfully married to the said Jane Walker at the time stated in the declaration, as they were persons of the highest degree of respectability and that they died at the [Illegible] stated in the said declaration.
In testimony whereof, I, Samuel M. D. Reid, Clerk of said court have hereto subscribed my name and affixed my Official seal this 15th day of January 1846 and in the 76th year of the Commonwealth.
Sam M. D. Reid, Clerk
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State of Virginia
Rockbridge County to wit;
I, Samuel M. D. Reid, Clerk of the County Court of said County in said State do hereby certify, that Joseph Walker Esqr whose genuine signatures appears to the annexed affidavits of Joseph W. Culton, William Houston, Reverend James Morrison and Thomas H Walker. now is, and was at the date of said certificate an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that all his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereto affixed my official seal and subscribed my name this 12th day of April 1852 and in the 76th year of the Commonwealth
Samuel M. D. Reid, Clerk
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I, Joseph W. Culton of the County of Rock Judge & state of Virginia, certify that from boyhood I was acquainted with Alexander Walker [Illegible].
I never heard the cited intimation that he was lawfully married to Jane not. I fully believe that they were lawfully married. So far as I know not once in this community doubted that they were legally married. The respectability of the parties, and families to which the respectively belonged and their respectable standing in the might and all their lives under it in my opinion definitely impossible that they could [have been anything but] legally married persons. I recollect also to have heard my father say that Alexander Walker served in the revolutionary war was an office and also that he was wounded. I was born the 16th of Nov 1785 according to my fathers family record. Given under my hand this April 8th 1852.
Joseph W. Culton

State of Virginia Rockbridge County Viz.
Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County & State aforesaid, Joseph W Culton of the County and state aforesaid, and was sworn according to law to the above certificate. Given under my hand this 8th day of April 1852.
Joseph Walker
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I, William Houston of the County of Rockbridge and State of Virginia, [do] certify that I was born and raised in less than two miles of Alexander Walker and was well acquainted with him from the time I was a boy until the time of his death. I mediated but that he was legally married to Jane Stuart and I now knew or heard of anyone who ever doubted that they were lawfully married persons. I have often heard of my father speak of him as a brave man, and of his services in the Revolutionary War & think as an officer. 
I entered on my sixty sixth year the first day of June 1852. April 8th, 1852. 
William Houston

State of Virginia 
Rockbridge County
Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for the County & State aforesaid, William Houston Esquire of the County & State aforesaid and was sworn according to the above certificate.
Given under my hand this 6th day of April 1852.
Joseph Walker, Justice of the Peace
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I, James Morrison, of the County of Rockbridge and State of Virginia certify that in the year 1817, I became the Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of New Providence and have contented pastor of the said church until this time, that when I come here found that Alexander Walker and his wife Jane were members of the church in full communion and goods standing, and to continued until the time of the death of Alexander Walker died on the 25th of August 1820. His wife [lived for many years afterward]. The idea that Abram was not legally married never [occurred in] my mind, nor did I [met any doubts] erected on this subject. I consider it for that they could have had a connection with one church as communicants unless it had been well known that they were legally married and in addition to this their respectable standing as a family and the respectability of the parties both of Walker & Suart render it impossible that they could have [had] another relation to each other than that of legally married husband & wife, on the 24th day of March last I was fifty seven years of age; her under my hand this 8th day of April 1852.
James Morrison
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State of Virginia
Rockbridge County viz. 
Personally appeared before the subscribed a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, James Morrison of the county & State aforesaid, and was sworn according to law to the above certificate in under my hand this 8th day of April 1852.
Joseph Walker, Justice of the Peace
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I, Thomas H. Walker, of Rockbridge County and State of Virginia being called upon to depose respecting the marriage of Alexander Walker deceased to Jane Stuart, in order, as I understand, to facilitate the establishment of a claim for pension for military services, rendered by said Walker during the Revolutionary war; do make the following statement.
I am now, according to my family register, in my sixty eighth year, I was born, and always lived near to said Alexander Walker dec, and was well acquainted with both him, and his wife, the said Jane Wilker, I do not now entertain, and never did entertain the slightest doubt of their legal marriage. They lived together as man and wife, and no one of their acquaintances ever expressed, or entertained, so far as I know, and fully believe, the smallest doubt about the fact of their legal marriage. They were recognized as husband & wife by both those who were contemporary in age with themselves, and by these who were older than they were. And the conviction of their standing legally in that relation to each other, was perfect, and [aligned with] the minds of all their acquaintances, as manifested by the words and conduct of the latter. 
I have been at the house of said Alexander Walker deceased when he was visited by his father-in-law Alexander Stuart the latter has been also at my father's house frequently, he, the said Stuart, treated, and recognized the said Walker as his son-in-law. They, the said Alexander Walker and Jane Walker his wife, & their family were visited by her relations, and treated with all those courtesies which could not have been given, in the case of their not being legally married. That the said Walker & wife-- were members in full communion, in the Presbyterian church in the bounds of which they lived, and ranked with the most respectable portion of society. April 8th 1852.
Thomas H Walker
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May 14, 1852
Additional evidence in the case of Jane Walker, Widow of Alexander Walker of the Army of the Revolution, for Pension under the Act of 1838.
Kirby
Power of Attorney
Favor enclosed
R. Burgess
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State of Virginia 
Rockbridge County Viz
Personally appeared before the subscribed Justice of the Peace in the County and State aforesaid, Thomas H. Walker of the County & State aforesaid and was sworn accorder to law to the above certificate.
Given under my hand this 8th day of April 1852.
Joseph Walker, Justice of the Peace
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State of Virginia
Monroe County
Affidavit of Eleanor Walker made before me Conrad Peters a Justice of the peace in and for said County of Monroe on this tenth day of October 1845.
The affiant having been first duly sworn according to law deposed as follows to wit that the will be eighty years old on the 29th day of next November. that she is a sister of Jane Walker who died a year or two since in the County of Rockbridge the said Jane Walker was the widow of Alexander Walker who died many years since in said County of Rockbridge. The affiant was not present at the marriage of her sister Jane and the said Alexander Walker which took place about sixty eight years since, in the month of September. The affiant being nearly twelve years old at the time. She was caring at the time with her uncle Edward Hall in the County of Augusta, by whom he was raised the recollects that a month or two after her sister was married she and her husband the said Alexander Walker made a visit to the County of Augusta and called at the house of the said Edward Hall the affiant know that the said Allen Walker served in the Revolutionary War she cannot however state
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the length of his service; she recollects very distinctly that when he was going upon one of his company, he claims Edward Halls of Augusta and gave his horse to this affiant to ride back to his house in order that the might stay with his wife during his absence. She returned and stayed with her sister during the absence of her husband upon this tour she thinks that the said Walker served this town in the neighborhood of Jamestown in Virginia having heard him come upon the end he thinks that he was from home two or three months at this time. She has no distinct recollection of any other tour which he might have served during the Revolution at this time her sister the said Jane Walker had one child, or perhaps two. The affiant passed a good deal of her time in Augusta County and the said Walker might have been absent at after times in service without her known it. She cannot state whether he held an office in the army when in service, he was called Lieutenant. She has frequently heard him speak of having been at the [Battle of Point Pleasant] and of his having been wounded by a ball hurtling through his body whilst in that engagement she thinks that he was wounded in the arm at the same.
Eleanor Walker
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State of Virginia
Monroe County 
Applicant of Thomas Walker, a resident of said County made before me Conrad Peters, a Justice of the Peace for said County on this 10th day of October 1845.
The affiant having been first duly sworn according to law declared as follows to wit that he will be eighty two years old upon the eighteenth day of next December that he was well acquainted with Alexander Walker who died many years ago in Rockbridge County whose children are applying for arrears due their mother at the time of her death he has frequently heard said Walker speak of his revolutionary pension: of his having been at the battle of the court, and being wounded by a ball passing through his body near therein. The affiant saw the sears. he also heard him relate the incident of his conflict with a Hessian soldier whilst in an engagement during the Revolution.
The affiant is now a pensioner on account of his service in the Revolutionary War.
[signature] Thomas Walker
I, Conrad Peters, a Justice of the Peace for said Monroe County certify that Eleanor Walker and Thomas Walker personally appeared before me on this 10th day
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of October 1845 and subscribed and swore to the affidavits to which their names are respectively subscribed, that they are persons of veracity, and I believe the statements are entitled to full credit, and that in account of advanced age and of ling twenty five miles from the courthouse, they are unable to appear in open court.
Given under my hand the date above.
Conrad Peters J. P.

I, John Hutchinson, Clerk of the Court of Monan County certify that Conrad Peters is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office at Union this 11th day of October 1845 & in the 70th year of the Commonwealth.
John Hutchinson, Clerk
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November 24, 1933
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Alexander Walker -- R. 11040
BA-J/AWF

Mrs. Philip Spence
Wytheville
Virginia

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Alexander Walker of Rockbridge County, Virginia. 
The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, R. 11040, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Alexander Walker.
The date and place of his birth are not stated, nor are the names of his parents given. Alexander Walker married in September, 1777 in Augusta (that part which was later Rockbridge) County, Virginia, Jane Stuart, the daughter of Alexander Stuart.
Alexander Walker died in Rockbridge County, Virginia, about the year 1820, and his widow, Jane Walker, died December 13, 1843.
They reared a family of thirteen children; the following children survived their mother Archibald B. Walker, Elizabeth Walker, Priscilla Walker, Malinda D. Walker, Jane Kelso, widow of Walker Kelso of Kentucky, and John C. Walker of Indiana.
On January 6, 1846, Archibald B. Walker, then forty-five years of age and living in Rockbridge County, Virginia, applied for the pension, that might have been due his mother, Jane Walker, on account of the services of his father, Alexander Walker, during the war of the Revolution. The application was made in behalf of him
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self and the above noted children.
It is alleged in the claim that Alexander Walker, while residing on Hays Creek, Augusta County, Virginia, marched in 1774 against the Indians, under General Lewis, was in the Battle of Point Pleasant, where he was wounded by a ball passing through his body; that in the winter of 1780 and 1781, he served four months in Captain Gilmore's company, and was in the battle of Cowpens; was in the battle of Guilford Courthouse, where struck by a ball in his forehead; that it in the summer of 1781 he served around Jamestown, and that all of his service was as lieutenant.
The claim was not allowed as proof of six months’ service, as required by the pension law was not furnished.
Eleanor Walker, sister of the widow, Jane Walker, in 1845 was eighty years old and living in Monroe County, Virginia; she stated that she was reared by her uncle, Edward Hall, of Augusta County, Virginia, in 1845 Thomas Walker aged eighty-two years was living in Monroe County, Virginia. The relationship between Eleanor and Thomas Walker is not shown, nor is it stated that Thomas Walker was related to the family of Alexander Walker, Elizabeth Stuart, in 1845 the widow of Robert Stuart, brother of the widow, Jane Walker, was seventy-eight years of age and living in Botetourt County, Virginia. One James Walker in 1845 was fifty-four years old, no relationship to the family given.
In 1852 Thomas H. Walker was in the sixty-eighth year of his age and living in Rockbridge County, Virginia, and Joseph Walker at that time was about fifty years old and Justice of the Peace for Rockbridge County, Virginia. Their relationship to each other nor to the family was stated.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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4040
Jane Walker 
Rejected
Not on 1852 List
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6655
Jane Walker deceased,
Widow of Alexander
Va.
[Note: Some text has been crossed here.] 
11040
Act 4 July 1836
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Jane Walker, widow of Alexander Walker under Act July 4th 1836. Married Sept 1777. 4 Months as Lieutenant 1780-1781.
Thinks he must have served 12 months. Promoted 3 times. 
Robert Cummings - aged 71 years in 1845. Had conversation with Walker relative to his service in 1795 or 1799.
James G. [Illegible] Aged 48 in 1845. His father was a revolutionary soldier, has heard him speak of the service of Walker, was with him in the service &c.
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[Illegible] Jun 17, 1846
Dear sir, 
I enclose to you the papers in case of the heirs of Jane Walker deceased and hope that the evidence of service may be satisfactory to will not be able to obtain positive proof of the marriage which was celebrated in Augusta County. But in that part of it which is now included in Rockbridge County & will send to you the certificate of the Clerk of Augustin. 
Your obedient servant,
James Gardner Preston
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Declarant states that Alexander Walker was in service in 1774 3 mo. 2 tours in 1780-1781.
Robert Cummins heard said Alexander say he was wounded in 1776. Recollects but little else-- Walker told him he was a Lieutenant.
McClery, A Revolutionary Pensioner, swears that at while he & his to were at Rockfish Gap, another to meet them, and one Tilford told him (deponent) that one Alexander Walker was in the Co. he had no acquaintance with Walker
Elizabeth Stuart testifies to the Marriage, being about 1777, had heard Walker say he was in Items, one in 1776 & the other at the Battle of Guilford [Courthouse or Eutaw] Springs.
[Illegible] 48 years old. Heard his (Depo) father say that Walker was with him (dept father) at the battle of the Cowpens. A tour of 4 months, as Lieutenant, Walker has heard Alexander Walker say he was in battle in 1776 and also at Guilford. Job Walker to the same, this Walker testifies to the same
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William Walker testified to the Marriage prior to the termination of the service, knows he was in service for 23 months.
The additional proof now filed only goes to show that nobody ever doubted the legality of the marriage, neither do the office, we want the date of that certificate.
No proof of service or marriage.
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June 17, 1854
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278
Pension Office,
June 17, 1854
Sir,
I have the honor to enclose herewith a copy of a letter advised to A.G. Paxton, Esqr dated April 10, 1846 which furnishes the grounds upon which the claim of the heirs of Jane Walker, widow of Alexander Walker, an alleged revolutionary soldier and officer, was suspended at that time.
No material testimony has since been filed.
I herewith also enclose the letter of Mr. A. B. Walker communicated by one.
If you desire copies of the papers filed in this case, they will be cheerfully furnished.
Very respectfully,
Hon H.A. Edmundson
House of Reps
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R. Burgess 
August 13, 1852
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196
Pension Office
Aug. 13, 1852
Sir,
I have again carefully examined the claim Jane Walker decd of Va for the benefit of the of July 4 1836, and re-iterate that not a particle of material testimony has been advanced in the case, since the letter of my predecessor to Jas G Paxton Esq. dated Apr 10 1846. Not one of the objections urged against the admission of the claim there has been at tempted to be removed by the affidavit filed by you.
The Original Declaration asserts a claim for three tours, one in 1774, before the commencement
of the Revolution, one other, during which the battle of the Cowpens was fought, and in the last tour the Battle at Guilford CH was fought. There is no record evidence to show that he was ever in the service at all. Not one of the witnesses knew anything of his service, of except his sister who knew
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that he was out two or three months the office never expressed a doubt as to the legality of the marriage, but required proof as to the date of that event, the present affiants know nothing about the date, but believe the parties to have been lawfully married.
The five year rule, stated in my letter to you of the 9th last is therefore, applicable to this case. But if it were not, there is no such evidence of service or Marriage as to justify the office in the admission of the claim.
R. Burgess, Esq.
Present
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R. Burgess
August 9 1852
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122
Pension Office
Aug 9, 1852
Sir,
More than five years having elapsed since the last adjudication of the claim of Jane Walker deceased of Va and no additional evidence having been filed. In the meantime, the case cannot now be reopened without the production of material testimony, accompanied by an affidavit that it could not have been procured at an earlier date.-- The evidence now furnished is not material, the legality of the marriage is not doubted but the date of that event has not been established, would remark, too, that service of at least, six months must be established. The service shown by the papers now on file does not amount to six months.
R. Burgess, Esq.
Present
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April 10th 1846
Sir,
The claim of Jane Walker deceased has been examined & the papers filed. The service is vaguely & imperfectly set forth in the tradition which has been preserved, but it would appear that that the claim is asserted for tour one in 1774 (before the war) to the West terminating in the battle of Court Pleasant- another to S. C. when the battle of the Cowpens (Jany 81) was fought & the 3rd to N.C. terminating in the Battle of Guilford (March 81). In this narration it would appear that her husband was in service in SC in the battle of 17 January, returned to Rockbridge and was again drafted. Took up the March for N. C in Feby & was at the Battle of Guilford (15 March) when the Va Militia were dispersed & returned home.
-- These two tours could not amount to 6 months. Another tour is spoken of in Eastern VA terminating before the
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capture of Yorktown at of the same as at least a month service must be clearly & definitely set forth & established in order to sustain her claim-
The grade claimed should be established by the records of the County in which he was Commissioned and the date of the marriage verified by a certified copy of the marriage bond or some family register.
It [is not clear as to when] she was married.
James G. Paxton, Esq.
Lexington
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Pension Office
November 26, 1850
Sir,
In obedience to your request I have the honor to enclose herewith, the papers, seven in number, in the case of Jane Walker, widow of Alexander Walker, of Virginia, under the act of July 4, 1836.
We have been unable to discover that any papers have been filed in this office in support of the claim of Thomas Cadle, or Kadle, of North Carolina, under the act of June 7, 1832.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, Your Obt Servant,
J. L. Edwards

Hon. A. H. H. Stuart
Secretary of the Interior
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State of Virginia
Augusta County to wit
I, Jefferson Kinney, Clerk of the County Court of August in the State of Virginia do Certify that I have made careful examination of the marriage register directed by law to be kept in my office and can find no such marriage as that of Alexander Walker and Jane Stuart (there is no record of Marriages of any kind whatever in this office prior to the year 1785.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Staunton this 11th day of May 1832 and in the 76th year of the Commonwealth.
Jefferson Kinney, Clerk
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Know all men by these presents that we Archibald B. Walker, Elizabeth Walker, Precilla Walker, and Malinda D. Walker Heirs at law of Jane Walker, Widow of Alexander Walker of the Army of the Revolution, do hereby nominate constitute and appoint Richard Burgess of the City of Washing to our true and lawful Attorney for us and in our names to examine into prosecute and recover from the government of the United States any and all claims for pension or otherwise that may be due the aforesaid Alexander Walker in his lifetime for services in the Revolutionary her or to his widow Jane Walker since his death under any laws passed by Congress authorizing such payments, hereby revoking any and all other power heretofore granted for that purpose and declaring this to be invocable, and we hereby authorize and invest our said Attorney with full and ample power to do and perform for us and in our names all and every act and thing in the premises which we or either of us could lawfully do and perform if personally present, and to receive any certificate of Pension or other evidence of our claims that may be shed and granted therefore, and hereby ratifying and confirming whatsoever our said Attorney shall lawfully do in the premises.
Given under our hands & seals this 7th day of February 1852.
Witnesses
Archibald B. Walker
Elizabeth Walker
Priscilla Walker 
Malinda D. Wall
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State of Virginia
Raleigh County to wit
Be it known that on this 7th day of February Eighteen Hundred & Fifty two, personally appeared before me Henry S. Stanger, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Archibald B Walker, Elizabeth Walker, Precilla Walker, & Malinda Walker the parties who executed the within power being well known to me, and acknowledged the same to be their respective act & Deeds for the purpose therein set forth.
Given under my hand & seal the day and year above written.
Henry S. Long

State of Virginia
County of Raleigh
I, Daniel Shumate, Clerk of the County Court in & for the County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that Henry S. Long whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing affidavit, is & was at the time of signing the same a magistrate in & for the County & State aforesaid duly commissioned & sworn; that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith & credits & that the aforesaid County Court is a Court of Record having general jurisdiction.
Given under my hand & the seal of my Office at the Courthouse this 6th day of March AD. 1832.
Daniel Shumate, Clerk of Raleigh County Court
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In Rockbridge County Court June 3rd 1845
Be it remembered that on this third day of June 1845 Robert Cummings a resident of the said County aged Seventy one years personally appeared before the Justices of our said County in open Court and being first duly sum according to law deposed as follows, viz: That he was well acquainted with Alexander Walker late of said County and that he well remembers
[Illegible] between the said Walker and the year himself, [Illegible] the other in the year Seventeen Hundred & Ninety Nine respecting the services of the said Alexander Walker in the Revolutionary War; that the said Walker informed deponent that he was in the battle of the Point in which action he was shot through the body and in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in which he was struck by a ball in the forehead that the said Walker ported out the sear produced by the ball which struck him in the forehead which was distinctly visible to the day of his death that said Walker spoke of other engagements in which he had fought but deponent does not recollect that they are specified, the creation having reference chiefly to those battles in which the said Walker stated that he had been word that said Walk stated that he was a lieutenant in those action he farther stated that he was in service during six years that during that time he was scarcely at home at all. 
Sworn to & subscribed before us in open Court on the day in my after first above written.
Rott Cummins
And the said Court doth certify that the said Robert Cummins is a credible person & that his statements
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on oath are entitled to full credit.

Virginia
At a Quarterly Court begun and held for Rockbridge County at the Courthouse on Monday the 2nd  day of June 1845, and in the 19th year of the Commonwealth.
On the application of the heirs of Alexander Walker deceased for a pension. Robert Cummins, a witness, was sworn in Court and made oath to the facts and subscribed an affidavit in open Court and the Court doth certify that the said Robert Cummins is a credible witness and that his statements on oath and entitled to full credit.
In testimony whereof, I, Samuel M. D. Reid, Clerk of said Court have hereto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal this 15th day of January 1846 and in the 70th year of the Commonwealth.
Sam M. D. Reid, Clerk
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6655
Jane Walker
Deceased Alexander
Va
Act 4 July 36
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State of Virginia
Rockbridge County 
The affidavit of James G. W. Youel, Esq., made in open court before the court of said County on this 4th day of August 1845 affiant having been first duly sworn according to law deposed as follows to wit that he is forty eight years old, and is the son of William Youel a resident formerly of said County and who died in the year 1835 aged eighty five years the father of the deponent was a soldier of the Revolution, and frequently spoke of his comrades in service during the Revolution among others he mentioned the name of Alexander Walker who died many years since in said County. The father of the affiant lived two campaign in the revolution he in North Carolina of four months duration in which the Battle of Cowpens was fought. the other campaign was in the neighborhood of James Town Virginia and was of two months duration. The affiant recollects very distinctly that his father told him that he served with the said Walker in one of his companies and the affiant believes that it was the campaign in the Carolina. The said Walker served as Lieutenant in the campaign with the affiants father, and the deponent has an impression that the said Walker was Lieutenant in the company to which his father belonged Captain Gilmore of Rockbridge commanded the company at the Battle of the Cowpens to which the deponents father belonged the said Walker was a gunsmith and repaired the arms of the
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company to which he belonged in addition to his other services The affiant would repeat that his father served according to his statements a tour of four months in a campaign in & Carolina in which the Battle of the Cowpens was fought and that he was under the command of Captain Gilmore, and he is likewise under the impression and believes that the said Walker was Lieutenant in Capt. Gilmores Company during the last mentioned company. Jane Walker Widow of say Walker and a few years since leaving several children who are applicants for the arrearages of pension due her at the time of her death. The Father of the deponent was not at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. The time of service expired before that Battle was fought
James. G. W. Youel
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State of Virginia
Rockbridge County ss
Affidavit of James Walker made in open court before the court of said county in this 4th day of August 1845.
The affidavit having been first duly sworn according to law deposed as follows to wit that he is fifty four years old, and was during many years well acquainted with Alexander Walker who died a good many years  since in said county leaving a widow June Walker who died  a year or two since & whose  heirs are applicants for the arrearages, on account of the revolutionary services of her husband the said Walker. The affiant has frequently heard the said Walker speak of his services in the war of the revolution, and particularly of two campaigns, one of them was against the Indians in the year 1774. during which the battle of Point Pleasant was fought. The said Alexander Walker mentioned having been engaged in that battle and likewise that he was severely wounded by a rifle ball which passed through his body near the groin, and that after he was wounded he suffered very much from the loss of blood and thirst. General Lewis commanded the American Troops at the battle of the Point, and was killed during the engagement. The affiant cannot state how long the said Walker was engaged in that campaign: He likewise  heard him speak of having been at the Battle of Guilford where he was wounded slightly in the side of the head
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The affiant likewise heard the said Walker speak of an encounter which he had with a Hessian soldier who had in his possession on American Prisoner named Captain Elliot. Whilst the Americans were retreating the said Walker stated that he passed near the Hessian soldier who commanded him to surrender which he declined doing thereupon both parties fired the Hessian was killed and Capt. Elliot was released by Walker. The affiant thinks that he remembers having heard the said Walker relate another incident to wit that he was pursued by two British troops who commanded to surrender which he refused to do saying that he would kill one of the pursuers if they do advance upon him which they then declined. The affiant does not recollect any other campaigns of which Walker spoke of having been engaged in. He thinks however that he was in [other campaigns at different] times, but he does not remember the particulars. The said Walker was married to a lady named Jane Stuart before the affiant was born, of course he cannot state anything as to the marriage. The oldest children be at least ten or fifteen years older than affiant Jane Walker the Widow of said Alexander Walker survived her husband many years and died in December.
James Walker
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Affidavit of Thomas Walker made in open court before the Court of said County of Rockbridge on this fourth day of August 1845. 
The affiant having been first duly sworn according law deposed as follow to wit that he will be sixty one years old on the last day of next October, and was during a great length of time well acquainted with Alexander Walker who died many years since in said County leaving a widow Jane Walker The deponent resided in the neighbourhood of said Walker and has frequently heard his Revolutionary services spoken of the information in the affiant has in reference to the services of said Walker has been derived from the General conversation in the neighborhood and is as follows that he served in the year 1774 in the campaign against the Indians which resulted in the Battle of the Point Pleasant and that he was wounded by a ball passing through his body, that he likewise served in a campaign at the south, and was at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
The deponent has likewise heard the circumstances of his conflict with the Hessian soldier. his release of Captain Elliot and of his pursuit by two British Troopers sealed. The affiant has always heard that the said Alexander Walker was ardently devoted the American cause during the Revolutionary he however does not remember to have heard his other companies parties spoken of.
Thomas H. Walker
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Affidavit of Joseph Walker Esq made in open Court before the court of said County of Rockbridge on this 4th day of August 1845.
The affiant having been first duly sworn according to law deposed as follows to wit that he is about fifty years old and has heard the revolutionary services of Alexander Walker deceased of Rockbridge County, spoken of. He recollects that Alexander Crawford who is now dead, stated that he served at the Battle of Point Pleasant with said Alexander Walker and that he also served with him at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse Alexander Culton who is now dead, and who was a soldier of the Revolution, likewise told the affiant that he served with said Walker at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. The deponent does not recollect at present to have heard any of the said Walkers other Companies mentioned the said Crawford and Culton were persons of veracity and the affiant has no doubt that the statements were true.
James Walker
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Virginia
At a Quarterly Court begun and held for Rockbridge County at the Courthouse on Monday the 4th day of August 1845, and in the 70th year of the Commonwealth.
The Court doth certify that James G W Youel James Walker, Thomas H. Walker and Joseph Walker personally appeared in open Court and subscribed with their own hands the affidavits to which their names are respectively signed and made oath that the statements therein contained are true to the best of their knowledge and belief and the Court doth certify the said James Youel, James Walker, Thomas H. Walker and Joseph Walker are persons of high respectability and credibility, and that the said statements are entitled to full and entire credit which is ordered to be certified to the War Department of the United States.
In testimony whereof I Samuel M. D. Reid Clerk of said Court have hereto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal this 15th day of January 1846 and in the 40th year of the Commonwealth.
Sam M. D. Reid, Clerk
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U.S. Dept of the Interior
Land office
Washington D. C.
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Wythville, November 11, [Illegible]
Dear sir,
Please send me a full statement [on family members] and all dates, also full services, with dates and proofs from commander or commanders, etc. of Alexander Walker, who married Jane Stewart, and whose son Archibald B. Walker asked for pension or a land bounty after the mother’s death. [H]e lived in Rockbridge [Illegible].
Thanks.
Very truly,
Mrs. Philip A. Spence
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Mrs. Philip A Spence
Wytheville
[Illegible] 
Washington D.C.
(Rev. War Rec. Section)
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Wytheville, VA
Dear sir,
Please send me a completed genealogical record, with all dates and family data, also all proof of military services, affidavits of comrades, etc. for Alexander Walker of Rockbridge Co., VA, whose wife was Jane Stuart and whose son made application for pension or land bounty etc. 
After his mother’s death. I don't
know where or when she died. Send full statement for D.A. R. papers, and thanks.
Mrs. Philip A. Spence
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Wytheville, N. 12/33
Dear Sir,
To sum up our family history and a preparation of papers, please send me a complete genealogical outline with all data and dates also a complete statement of P. Pleasant and the [Illegible] alt. Walker was wounded at Pleasant.
[Illegible]
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Mrs. Philip A. Spence
Wytheville
General Accounting Office
Washington D. C.
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Wytheville
November 18/33
Dear sir,
I desire to secure some additional and information concerning pension claim R. 11040, and the war service of Alexander Walker. The Point Pleasant record has been confused with and the record of another man who was also there. Please [fully provide] the record giving names of all officer or any individuals mentioned, Samuel McDowell's name mentioned were any receipt for pay mentioned that that had been signed by him.
The  age and relationship of the Walkers and Stuarts [are] needed for D.A.R. and genealogical records for publication [Illegible] so please [provide a] statement [and] copies [of full] affidavits and name and address of all persons mentioned.
Philip A. Spence
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
GENERAL LAND OFFICE
WASHINGTON
NOV 22 1933
The attached communication has been received by the General Land Office and is referred for answer to the Director of Pensions, Veterans Administration, and the writer so advised.
Antoinette Funk
Assistant Commissioner.
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ADDRESS ONLY THE COMMISSIONER OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
GENERAL LAND OFFICE
WASHINGTON

IN REPLY PLEASE REFER TO 1517152 “K” MKH
Bounty land warrant.

Mrs. Philip A. Spence,
Wytheville, Virginia.
My dear Madam:
Referring to your communication of November 13, 1933, you are advised that an examination of the index in this office of the names of Revolutionary War soldiers who received military bounty land warrants has been made in an effort to identify a warrant that may have issued to Alexander Walker or Archibald B. Walker in consideration of Alexander Walker's services in that war, but without success. As the Director of Pensions, Veterans Administration, this city, has a more complete record of such soldiers your inquiry has been referred to that official for further reply.
If he is unable to furnish you information
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regarding said Alexander Walker, you might correspond with the Register of the Land Office at Richmond, Virginia, concerning a bounty land warrant that may have been issued to the soldier by the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Very respectfully,
Antoinette Funk
Assistant Commissioner.
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GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON
RECORDS DIVISION
IN REPLY PLEASE QUOTE
R-26092 -HD
January 10, 1934.

Veterans Administration,
Director of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Attention Revolutionary & 1812 Wars Section:

Sir:
The attached correspondence dated November 12, 1933, from Mrs. Philip A. Spence, Wytheville, Virginia, requesting the family history of Alexander Walker, is referred to your office for consideration and direct reply.
The writer has been advised of this reference.
Respectfully,
R. H. Fallon
Chief, Records Division.
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February 1, 1934
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Alexander Walker-R.11040
BA-J/AT
Mrs. Philip A. Spence
Wytheville
Virginia
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter of December 9, 1933, addressed to the Veterans Administration and to your letter of November 12, 1933, addressed to the General Accounting Office, which was forwarded to this office for reply, in both of which you request further information in regard to Alexander Walker, R. 11040, a Revolutionary War soldier, whose record was furnished to you by this office on November 24, 1933.
This office has no further information in regard to the soldier named above. The papers were examined carefully at the time the record was furnished to you and the data found in regard to his services, his residences, his family, and so forth were incorporated in the report. The name of Colonel Samuel McDowell did not appear in the papers in this claim.
It is regretted that this office is unable to aid you further in the matter. You will recall that the claim was not granted, and as the General Accounting Office has records of payments of the pensions, that office would not have record of this rejected claim.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator