Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2281, Thomas Hackney, Va.
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Service    VA

Hackney, Thomas

Number S. 2281
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31577
West Tennessee
Thomas Hackney
of Montgomery Co in the state of Tennessee who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Leff of the ____ commanded by _____ in the Va line for 1 year

Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee at the rate of 40 dollars ____ sents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of Jan 1839 and sent 
C. Johnson, Clarksville TN

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838 $300.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 39, $20.00

$320

REvolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by D. D. Addison, Clerk
Book E2  Vol. 7  Page 92

Paid at the Treasury order the Acts of this 6th April 1838 from 4th March 1839 to 4 March 1940 
Agt notified 29 April 1941

Let to Hon J. G. Harris 28 Feb 1833
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State of Tennessee
Montgomery County  } S.S.

          This 17th day of October 1837 Thomas Hackney aged Eighty Three years old personally appeared before me James ^G^ Yates an acting justice of the peace for Montgomery County for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832 for the benefit of Revolutionary soldiers &  being duly sworn makes the following declaration - that he was born in Caroline County in the State of Virginia on the 25th of October 1753 as he was informed & believes from the Statement of his parents - that he has no Record of his age, tho he recollects to have seen it in the family Bible of his parents which has been long lost or destroyed - that he was removed by his parents to Spotsylvania where he had lived then at the Commencement of the Revolutionary War & through the war - that he was drafted as a militia man & served many tours of duty as such in defending the people on the coast from the attacks of the British - that he is convinced that he served altogether more than two years but is at this time unable to specify each campaign or the order in which the different tours were performed, owing to the failure of memory from his great age - he recollects however, that he performed one tour of duty of two months under Capt. Robert Lewis, when he was  first  marched to Fredericksburgh and was then marched into Louisa, where he was placed under other inferior officers whose names he does not now recollect, Lewis having returned & was marched to Richmond where he was placed under the command of the Marquis de Lafayette - he thinks Wayne was one of the Commanders & remained there until the burning of Manchester by the British, when the American troops retreated to the Rappahanoc & it was said Gnl. Jefferson run to the mountains - he was then discharged his term of service having expired - That he performed another tour of duty of two months under Capt. John Lewis, a brother of Capt. Robert Lewis as a drafted militia man & was marched to Williamsburgh & was then under the Command of Wayne he thinks - while stationed at Williamsburgh an attempt was made by the Americans to surprise a British [illegible] which had been established on the coast
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and had a skirmish with them and two men were killed - shortly after this his term of service having expired he was discharged & returned home- That he performed another tour of duty at Cabber Point, near Holt's forge  on James River, but does not recollect the names of the Captain but remember he was in a regiment commanded by Col Mathews & under the command of Gen. Nelson - they were sent there for the purpose of guarding the settlement from the attacks of the British who were then expected but did not come, after he had served his two months, he was again discharged home that he served another tour of duty of two months under the command of Gen. Lafayette but does not remember that inferior officers - he remembers to have joined  Lafayette at the Racoon ford on the Rappadan a branch of the Rappahannock and assisted in cutting a  road fifteen or twenty miles to what was then called the Three notched road, near Williamsburgh and after continuing there until 
 the expiration of his term of services was discharged
He was again drafted and went to [marked out: Norfolk] Little York in a company commanded by Capt.  Lund & was on the Gloucester side of the River at the time the Battle of York took place and was in hearing of the [deleted word] cannon during the Battle - and had a skirmish with the British on the Gloucester side [?] there was some forty or fifty prisoners taken & he was guard over them for several nights - he served five weeks on that tour & was discharged & returned home and had remained there not exceeding ten days, when he was again drafted to go with the prisoners to Frederickton in the State of Maryland [deleted word]  the guard he thinks was commanded by Majr. Johnson & the prisoners mostly Hessians - they marched with the prisoners up the Potomack & crossed the River near the mountain at Nolans Ferry
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they were detained a long time at Nolans Ferry & then went with them to Frederickton where they were kept until the expiration of his term, when he was discharged & went home - he thinks there was seven hundred prisoners -  He recollects having performed one other tour of duty as a substitute for a  [illegible] who was drafted but  whose name he does not remember - he was hired at Chesterfield Court house & received in payment a mare & knapsack & blanket & other clothing & was occupied most of the time in Chesterfield guarding the country against the British & Tories - he declares upon oath that he performed the several tours specified making in all one year, one month & one week & believes that he performed many others but which he is unable to remember but recollects well to have lost two or three crops in consequence of his being in the service & having no person at home to work for him - he believes that he received discharges for each tour of duty from the officers under whom he served but they have been long since lost or destroyed and that he has now no written evidence whatever of his services nor does he know of any living person by whom they can be proven - that he has been for many years unable to travel & never knew until lately of the passage of the pension law, which is the cause of his not having made an earlier application for the benefit of the law - after the Revolutionary war was over, he continued in Spotsylvania until about twenty two years ago, when he removed to Kentucky where he resided eight or ten years & then removed to Montgomery County Tennessee, where he still resides & has ever since he left Kentucky - that he is not upon any pension roll whatever & hereby relinquishes all claim against the United States except the pension provided by the Act of 1832
                               Thos Hackney

Sworn to & subscribed before me this 17th 
day of October 1837
James G. Yates    J.P.
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State of Tennessee
Montgomery County }  S.S.
        Reuben Ross a clergyman resident in Montgomery County & David Bunting a citizen resident of  County personally appeared before me James Yates an acting justice of the Peace for said and being duly sworn, say that they have been long acquainted with Thomas Hackney, that he has in the neighborhood where he resides, the character of having been a revolutionary soldier that he is verry [sic] old & they believe him to be of the age stated in the preceding declaration, of Eighty three years and that from his character they believe him to be a soldier of the Revolution & and to have served as he states in the preceding declaration
Reuben Ross
David Bunting
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 17th day of October 1837.
James G. Yates J.P.

State of Tennessee   }
Montgomery County }  SS  I James Yates an acting justice of the Peace for Montgomery County certify that I attended at the House of Thomas Hackney who is verry [sic] aged & verry [sic] infirm, too much so to be taken with safety to our court, that he was duly sworn by me to the preceding declaration and having interrogated him upon the subject, am of opinion that was a soldier of the Revolution and that he served as  stated in the preceding declaration_ the said witness Reuben Ross is a clergyman resident in our County & the said David Bunting a citizen of our said County & both are respectable citizens & entitled to credit - Witness my hand & seal this 17th day of October 1837
James G. Yates J.P.
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2281
Rev War
INVALD.
File No: 2281
Thomas Hackney
Priv Rev War
Act: June 7 1832
Index: - Vol. A, Page 157

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Clarksville Nov. 11th 1837

Sir,
Should anything be lacking to entitle the petitioner to receive his pention [sic] please inform me. 
Yours Rest,
J. N. Johnson
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[postmark"  Clarksville Tenn Dec 16]

free

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com of Pension
Washington City

[?] at Tenn.  Dec 29
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Clarksville
Dec 15th 1838
Dear Sir,
I went about a year ago to the house of Thos. Hackney & prepared a declaration for him which has been I suppose lost or never reached the Department.
I went again the other day & prepared the enclosed. he is apparently verry [sic] old & infirm, walks about the house but is I understand unable to ride--he has resided about ten miles from this place near twenty years--bears the character of an honest man--and his children are verry [sic] respectable & I have no doubt is entitled under the act of 1832.  I also know the magistrate & witness are worthy & reputable--allow me to request your early attention to the enclosed.
Verry [sic] respectfully
your friend
C. Johnson
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Thomas Hackney
[marked out: Indiana]
Suspended
See letter 25 [?]
1837 J. N Johnson
4409
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REJECTED
4409
P.O.: Thomas Hackney
Service:
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application filed:
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
April 20th, 1841

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States", Thomas Hackney a Pensioner on the Roll of the Nashville, Ten. Agency, at the rate of Forty dollars per annum, under the law of the 7 June 1832, has been paid at this Department from the 4th of March 1839 to the 4th March 1860.
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present.
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House of Reps

Feby 3rd 1853

Sir,
I have just rec'd a letter from a son of Thomas Hackney enquiring if there is not something due for arrears of pension to his father, he was upon the Revolutionary pension roll + has been dead for some years. Will you do me the favor to examine and  report to me at your earliest convenience + greatly oblige.

Respectfully,
J. G. Harris
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24,278
Thos Hackney
[marked out: Indiana]
Tennessee
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State of Tennessee }
Montgomery Co    }
I Samuel McFall clerk of the court of Pleas & quarter Sessions for the County of Montgomery certify that James G. Yates whose name is subscribed to the preceding affidavits & the Declaration of Thos Hackney for a pension is an acting Justice of the peace for said & that his official acts are entitled to full faith & credit. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the public seal of my office this second day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred & thirty seven.
Saml McFall Clk
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34.673

Thos. Hackney
Tennessee
admitted
Pr 1 yr $40
January 1, 1839

Name: C. Johnson
Clarksville 
Ten.

*Vertical text*
soldier and that he served as stated by him 
in declaration (illegible) of the
December the 4th 1838
G. E. Young, Justice of the Peace for Montgomery County
in the state of Tennessee


(State of Tennessee
Montgomery County)

Saml McFall Clerk of the County Court of
Montgomery certify that George E. Young who subscribed the preceding affidavits is now and was at the time of signing
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The Declaration of Thomas Hackney for the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the Act of Congress of June 1832 for the benefit of soldiers of the Revolution.

The said Thomas Hackney declareth after having been sworn that he was born the 25th of October 1754 as he has been always informed by his parents and believes to be true.  That he has no record of his age that he has seen it so stated in his fathers family Bible but what has become of that he does not know.  That he was born in the County of Caroline in the State of Virginia & when very young his parents removed with him to the county of Spottsylvania in the same state where he resided during the Revolutionary war & until about the commencement of the last war in 1812 or 1813. that he served the United States during the Revolutionary War as a draughted militia man seven different tours each of two months--that he is at this time from age & infirmity & a loss of recollection to specify the different times when these respective services were performed that he recollects distinctly to have performed four or five times as a drafted militia man from Caroline County each two months and was employed during the time in guarding the country up & down the Potomack at different points between Richmond & Fredericksburg from the apprehended attacks of the British--he feels confident that he served four tours each of two months & therefore claims only eight months service for the above specified service--he thinks & believes these tours were performed in the company commanded by Capt. Legg--he also recollects that Col Mathews had the command of the Company to which a great portion of the time tho he is unable at this time to specify particularly the time when under the command of Mathews.  he thinks Col Mathews resided near Norfolk and had his house burnt by the British.  he recollects also in one of those campaigns the British had burnt Manchester which is some where Richmond & they marched to attack them but never met them.  he recollects also during one of those campaigns to have marched to place then called Myers fort, after having been two days without provision where they remained a short time to recruit & get provisions & he recollects also a remarkable flash of lightning, which caused a great many horses to break loose while they remained at Myers fort--he also recollects another campaign for which he was drafted for two months
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in which he only recollects to have been engaged a considerable time in opening a road from the Racoon [sic] ford on the Rappadan a branch of the Rappahannock to the Three notched road as it was called at that time the balance of this tour was employed as he believes in guarding and protecting the citizens, but was no engagement nor does he recollect at that time to have seen the British. he was also drafted for another tour of two months to go to Norfolk and recollects having been marched along the road then called the three notched road, under the command of the Marquis de Layfayette. he believes also Wayne was along at the time--he recollects well to have often seen the Marquis but is not certain as to Wayne--he recollects also another tour of two months service, in which he was marching to join the main army, when they met American troops running after the defeat of Genl. Gates, but does not recollect ever to have seen that officer or Genl Washington. His two months tour above spoken of when they went to Norfolk expired before the Capture of Cornwallis and shortly after the capture of Cornwallis he was again drafted to go with the prisoners taken at Norfolk to Frederick Town in Maryland which he performed & reached his home in five or six weeks, which he sets down at five weeks service at least.  This was the last service performed by him--he recollects also in one of the trips toward Richmond guarding the cost, that he was discharged after a service of two weeks but is unable to specify which of the tours--the sd. Thomas Hackney confidently believes that he served at least seven whole tours each of two months but to avoid any error against the country, he consents that the whole of his service may be set down at twelve months actual service.  the principal officers that he now recollects with whom he served are Marquis De Lafayette, Col Mathews, Maj. Jamison, & Capt Legg but is unable to specify how or in which of the Campaigns these officers commanded. he is now verry [sic] old & verry [sic] infirm & has not for many years been able to go much from his plantation. his memory has greatly failed him.  he believes he recd. a discharge for most if not all the tours he served, but have been lost long since supposing them of no value to him whatever.
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he has not now any written evidence of his services & he knows now of no living witnesses by whom the same can be proved. he removed from Spotsylvania County about the year 1813 & settled near Bowling green Kentucky where he resided until ten or twelve years ago, when he removed to Montgomery County Tennessee, where he has ever since and now resides--he did not make application earlier for the benefit of the act of 1832 because he did not know of its existence until the summer of 1837 & as soon after as he could conveniently, he procured a declaration to made, which he believes was sent on about a year ago which he is informed & believes was not never recd. at the pension office in Washington.  he is not on the pension list of any State or of the United States and hereby relinquishes all & every claim to a pension or any other gratuity from the United States except the one provided by the act of 1832. he also declares that he does not believe from his age & infirmity that he could safely attend any of our courts of Record to have this declaration sworn to in the usual form and therefore applies to a Justice of the Peace.
Thos. Harkney
Sworn to & subscribed 
before me this 4th day
of December 1838
G. E. Young J. P.

State of Tennessee    }
Montgomery County}
This 4 day of December 1838 Revd. Reuben Ross a Clergyman of sd. County and Augustin Harris a citizen resident of sd. County personally appeared before me G. E. Young an acting Justice of sd. county and made oath in due form of Law, that they are acquainted with the applicant Thomas Hackney & have been for many years past, and that he has the reputation in the neighbourhood where he resides of having been a revolutionary soldier, and that they believe him to be about eighty six years as stated by him, and that he served as stated by him.  
Reuben Ross
Augustin Harris

Sworn to & subscribed before me this 4th day of December 1838
G. E. Young J.P.
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State of Tennessee   }
Montgomery County }
I G. E. Young an acting Justice of the peace for Montgomery County certify, that the preceding declaration signed by Thomas Hackney was duly sworn to before me, and the affidavit of Reuben Ross and Augustin Harris were also duly sworn to & subscribed by them in my presence, and that they are credible witnesses--and further sd. Thomas Hackney  is verry [sic] & inform & I went to his place of residence when the same was done and that sd. Hackney is too aged & infirm to attend our Courts with safety, to have sd. Declaration sworn to me open court in the usual form--that I examined him in relation to his services in the manner required by the department of war and am of opinion, that sd. Thomas Hackney was a revolutionary soldier and that he served as stated by him in sd. declaration.
Dec the 4th 1838  G. E. Young  Justice of the peace for Montgomery County in the State of Tennessee.

State of Tennessee    }
Montgomery County}
I Saml. McFall Clerk of the County Court of Montgomery certify that George E. Young who subscribed the preceding affidavits, is now and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace for the county of Montgomery duly commissioned and qualified to act as such & to administer oaths and that his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit.  In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the public seal of my office at Clarksville this 13th day of December 1838
Saml. McFall  Clk.

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34.673
Thos Hackney
Tennessee
admitted
Pr 1 yr $40
Jany 1, 1839
Hon. C. Johnson
Clarksville
Ten.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51-
12 - 5 - 41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Hackney, William GRADE Private LINE Lamb's Artillery (New York)
WARRANT NUMBER 7285 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED June 24, 1790
to Elkanah Watson, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.