Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 37,973, William Hays, N.C.
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Service: N.C. [handwritten] Hays, William [handwritten] Number: S 37973 [handwritten]
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Kentucky 2689

William P Hays of Warren Co in the State of KY
who was a Pr in the Company coommanded by Captain Hampton of the Regt commanded by Col in the Continental line for  Milobin?

Yr Pr $40.00

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 40 Dollars and 00 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of June _____ and sent to Hon C Thompson
Arrears to the 4th of  Mch 3x $120
Semi-anl. allowance ending 2 Sep $20
$140

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by J T Sprague, Clerk
Book C.2 Vol 71 Page 23
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37973 [handwritten]
INVALID
Revy [handwritten]
File No. 37,973 [handwritten]
William Hays [handwritten]
Pri Rev [illegible]
June 7. 1832 [handwritten]
Act: 18 March 18 [crossed out]
Index :–– Vol. 2 [ handwritten], Page 177 [handwritten]

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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State of Kentucky. Warren County ?

On this 28th day of May 1834 personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Warren Circuit Court now sitting William Hays, a resident in s'd [said] County & State aged 74 years this 10th of March next, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1787 with Col or Gen McDowell and served in the Regiment commanded by him under the following named officers _ &c. He will ans'r [answer] the interrogators proscribed by the War Office in ??? or due 

1st. He was born in Augusta County Va. on the 10th March 1761. 
2d. The book in which his age was recorded has been burnt together with the house in which it was.
3d. While a boy his father removed from Augusta Va to Rutherford County North Carolina. Where he lived when called into the service. He came to this state during the service, remained five years, returned to Rutherford as described and returned to Ky where he now lives.
4th & 5th. In the spring of that year & in the fall of which Ferguson was defeated at Kings Mountain it was shortly after planting corn - say about the 1st of April that he volunteered in the Company of Capt. Adam Hampton. of Maj Gray's Battalion & of Col or Gen McDowell's Regiment. He rendezvoued at Gilbert Town NC and there joined McDowell. He then marched into South Carolina to Sugar Creek while encamped there he learned the
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Approach of the enemy Commended by Cols. Fergueson & Dunlap being weaker than they ventured a short distance to an elevated & more [ILLEGIBLE] position, where we watched their approach. They came. & we fought them.  but were defeated and [recrossed] Lawrence Fork at Marford Iron works at a bridge here we called & offered them [passage]. In this attempt Capt Cooper of our Battalion was wounded by the sword of ^a British dragoon. We had again to give way but were not further pressured by the enemy. We lost 20 or so men ^if not more.  They were 5 to one. We then returned to Rutherford, where the applicant was taken with the yellow fever & furloughed by his Capt. He remained sick & on furlogh till after the Battle of Kings Mountain. Where he was discharged by Capt. He volunteered for six months, and [al] is[?] expiration received his discharge from his Capt. He was not more than a month [previous] to the expiration of his tour that he was taken sick. He claims therefore a pension for the whole tour. His service was performed in the year 1781.   
2ndly. The same fall, he removed to Ky. The next spring or early in the summer, (it is impossible for him to remember the precise period) hew as drafted into the company of Capt [Hoglen] for the purpose mainly of fortifying Fort Clark, at the fall of [illegible] _ now Lousiville - This was a three month tour. We surrounded the fort with picketing & a ditch of coverable depth. Gen Clark & his army were there- the applicant belong to Col Hugh McGary's regiment. I was a horeseman while here the applicant was [verified] for the [pension]
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Of conveying the magazine from Cpt Clark to [Old] town now [illegible] at which place McGary was commanded. And when his tour expires the applicant was discharged. This was in the year 1782
3dly after he was discharged from his tour there was a call for men to guard Denton Station. The applicant volunteered for this purpose on a three month tour, in the company of a Capt whose name he does not remember. The expedition was ordered out by Capt McGary. They were engaged in scouring the country and defending it from the Indians. During this tour the Indians attacked Hites station. We heard the guns and saw to its relief. When we reached them they had retracted. At the expiration of this tour he was  discharged. His tour was in the fall of the year 1782. To require him to state its precise commencement or termination were to require an [improbability]. He was a private in every Tour. He states that he knows Capt Potts, Hampton & [illegible] Maj Grey. He thinks John Miller was a Capt in this service. He might have been a [Leuit]
6 He read discharges in every town. They have all ben lost. He never took care of them, now believing them to be of any account.
7th He names the following persons to whom he has known in his present neighborhood, who can state his character for veracity do [illegible] who Hile Sutton [Gate] Math OHenry Motley Jonathan Hobson, [illegible] [illegilbe], & [illegible].
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever  to a pension or annuity except the present and  he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in an any states. He would further state that by reason of old age other loss of memory, he can not state precisely the commencement  & termination of his tours of Revolutionary service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than one year as a private & for such service he claims a pension. 
Sworn and subscribed this day & year [illegible] John Hobson desk 
William his X mark Hays
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Mr Zachariah Morris, a clergyman residing in the County of Marren[?] and Jeremiah Thomas and John S Claypole residing in the same hereby certify that we are [all] acquaintance with William Hays who has [subscribed] + sworn to the above declarators: that we believe him to be of the age he states; that he is reputed + believed, in the [neighborhood] where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn [illegible] this day a year abound [illegible] Zachariah Morri[fs]
Jeremiah [middle initial crossed out, word above illegible] Thomas
John S [Mark Middle Name Illegible Mark] Claypoole

And the [Illegible] Courts do hereby declare their opinion after the investigators of the matter [&] after [putting] the interrogators prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and the above further certifies that Zachariah Morris is a clergyman who has signed the preceding certificate, resident in [illegible] county and that Jeremiah Thomas + John S Claypole who have also signed the same are credible persons, resident in the same that their statements are [credible] to [credit]. 
Asher W. Graham Judge of said Court

State of Kentucky
Marren County, [illegible]

[L] Jonathan [illegible] desk of the [illegible] court of said county, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Contain the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Hays for a pension

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 10 day of June 18[2]4
Jon[illegible desk of Marren [Illegible] Court

Ho[m] C. Tompkins H.R.
31.2217 William Hays Kentucky
[?] 1780 Hays #40