Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3815, James Frost, N.C.

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(3 -- 1776)
Service N.C. Frost, James Isabella Number R. 3815 Contents

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Declaration In order to obtain the benefit of the 3rd section of the Act of Congress of the 4th July 1836.          
State of North Carolina     Johnston County }    Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions 
 May Session 1847.        
On this 26th day of May 1847 personally appeared in open court Rachel Britt resident of the County of Johnston aged 60 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress passed the 4th July 1836- That she is the daughter and only remaining child, of Capt James Frost who was an officer of the Revolutionary War and of Isabella Frost declared that her father the said Capt James Frost and her mother the said  Isabella Frost removed from the State Pennsylvania in the year 1775 as she has heard them declare and settled in the County of Hoke or Guilford, her father was an ironworker and came from the iron district of Pennsylvania and to the same Region in N.Carolina for the purpose of working in iron - So one year after the Revolutionary War broke out her father raised a company on a marched to the South as she believes to South Carolina and Georgia and was in a battle the name of which she cannot now remember distinctly as it is only from the memory of her father & mother that she has any knowledge of the matter; in this period her father was what either six

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[or] nine months the length of time, she cannot state positively, for the [unreadable]  recollections- what one year after this period, her father was called into service again in an expedition against the Tories in the Southern part of the state and was out about from home again as she has frequently heard from her mother three months. She has heard her father say he was at Ramsey’s Mills in what year she cannot pretend to say, in this, as well on all the Service he was engaged in, he commanded a company; the point of which, was raised in the County of Guilford and afterwards from Hoke or Rockingham from which counties he marched the men he commanded - at the battle of Guilford he was in Command of a Company and she has often times had him narrate the events of the action and of troops under him following the British Army Several days after the battle- her father served in the several tours he was in one year and a half from what she has heard and repeatedly declares and the statement she now makes is only from the recollection of the connection of her father & mother in relation to his service and which was convincingly believed by all who knew him. She further declares that her father intermarried with her mother whose maiden name was Isabella Van Dyke in the year 1769 in the State of Pennsylvania, what county, she cannot now say, but recollects having heard her father and mother frequently say they had two children from when they come to N.Carolina Ezekiel Frost the oldest and James Frost.

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Younger one James Frost  She States further that all who were acquainted with Captain Frost and Mrs. Frost, believe a fully in the history and statements of them herein, set forth by them.  
Arinton Avera
Sworn to and Subscribed in open Court on the day and year above written. -Thos Bagley MC

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State of North Carolina}
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions}
Johnston County}
[unreadable] 1847-
On this 27th day 1847 personally appeared in open Court Atherton Avera resident of said county aged 76 years, who having been duly sworn according to law deposeth and sayeth that he was well acquainted with Captain James Frost late of the County of Guilford and later of the County of Johnston that in the year 1795, Captain James Frost removed to this County with his wife the late Isabella Frost and a large family of children from the upper County Guilford or Stokes, for the purpose of opening and working a rich iron mine thus discovered here and still [unreadable] a rich vein of ore – that he lived here and died in the year 1815 – that he had two sons, Ezekiel and Jonas Frost the two oldest children and that he always understood from Captain Frost and Mrs Frost both those children are from before they immigrated from Pennsylvania and that there was little difference between his deponents age and Jonas Frost – the second child of Captain Frost – this deponent further states he intermarried with the daughter of Captain James Frost and therefore had any opportunity of knowing their ages [unreadable] from this intimacy – that his wife died in the year 1830, and that Mrs. Isabella Frost died about 1 October 1837, supposed to be in the 86 or 87 the year of her age.

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This deponent further states he has hundreds of times communed with Captain James Frost about his services in the Revolutionary War and heard him speak of being in several battles particularly at Ramsours Mills and of Guilford Court House – that in all the service he performed he was a Captain – that particularly [unreadable] an election for Captain was held by the candidates placing themselves in open space and the men were directed to march up to the man of their choice, and that every man of the Company marched up to Captain Frost – this deponent further states he is as well convinced that Captain Frost performed the service he spoke of as though he had satisfied them himself because he was old enough to remember the latter part of the War and the events narrated by him coincided with his own recollection of the events and verify Captain Frost was a man of great intelligence and respectability of character and had no motive in giving false statement of his service – he was also a man of scientific knowledge which was required in the business he carried on exploring and opening iron mines – He further states that from the ages of the two oldest children Ezekiel and Jonas Frost, Captain Frost and his wife must have intermarried long before the War of the Revolution, he knows it from the fact that they frequently compared ages with himself and there was not much difference between his own and the age of

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[unreadable] that Ezekiel was born in 1770 or 1771 and that Jonas was born about two years before they immigrated to this State;  there were a [unreadable] of other children, but these two were the oldest and herself the youngest of the family – she has no record of the time of the marriage and the Register of the ages of the children if any was kept must have been taken by the brothers above mentioned when they moved up to Hokes Guilford where they died a few years since.  That [unreadable] father with all his family moved to this county in the year 1795 for the purpose of working an iron mine then discovered and [illegible] & still believed to be [illegible] and died in the year 1815 [?] he was about 73 years old.  That she received with her brother and all the family land where she has still lived and that her mother [illegible] a widow up to the time of her death the October 1837 making an application for the pension due on account of the Service of her husband Captain James Frost because she was last aware she be as entitled to anything and this declarant herself has been [unreadable] recently apprized that she could recover the amount due to her mother, the said Isabella Frost deceased who was about 86 years old when she died – she therefore marks this application with the humble hope that monies due her mother the said Isabella Frost may be allowed her.  
Rachel Britt
Sworn and subscribed in open Court on the day and year above written
Thomas Bagley [seal]

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State of North Carolina}
Johnston County}
I Thomas Bagley clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for said county do herby certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings had in the matter of the application of Mrs Rachal Britt for the arrears of pension due to her mother Mrs Isabela Frost. I further certify that satisfactory evidence was then and there exhibited. [unreadable] Mrs. Isabela Frost and was the widow of Captain James Frost who was an officer of Revolutionary War and that she died the 1st October 1837 that Mrs Rachel Britt who has made this foregoing declaration is the only child surviving Mrs Isabella Frost that she is now and has heretofore been of highly respectable character and full faith and credit are due to all her statements, I further certify that Aaington Aucra whose deposition is hereto annexed is a man of highly respectable character and is fully as old as he states and that full faith and credit are due his statements all of which is ordered to be ccertified to the war department. 
In testimony whereof I have unto set my hand and affix the seal of said court, at Smithfield the 26 th of May 1847 
Thomas Bagley [seal]

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State of North Carolina}
Johnston County}
I Thomas Bagley clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for said county do herby certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings had in the matter of the application of Mrs. Rachal Britt for the arrears of pension due to her mother Mrs. Isabela Frost. I further certify that satisfactory evidence was then and there exhibited. [unreadable] Mrs. Isabela Frost and was the widow of Captain James Frost who was an officer of Revolutionary War and that she died the 1st October 1837 that Mrs. Rachel Britt who has made this foregoing declaration is the only child surviving Mrs. Isabella Frost that she is now and has heretofore been of highly respectable character and full faith and credit are due to all her statements, I further certify that Aaington Aucra whose deposition is hereto annexed is a man of highly respectable character and is fully as old as he states and that full faith and credit are due his statements all of which is ordered to be certified to the war department. 
In testimony whereof I have unto set my hand and affix the seal of said court, at Smithfield the 26th of May 1847 
Thomas Bagley [seal]

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and partly in one of the upper Counties, Stokes, as deponent always understood, where she had then a son living deponent remembers well to have seen the said old lady here in this county within some nine or ten years, the time he cannot distinctly settle. 
This deponent was often in the company of this said James Frost and remembers to have heard him often speak of the Revolution and of his own services in the said war and of his holding some commission in said service and has also often heard him and his wife speak of their having removed to this state from Pennsylvania as man and wife and as such this Deponent knew them and never heard the smallest intimation but that they were such lawfully in the estimation of all who knew them
This Deponent further saith not.
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 4th day of June 1847. 
Before executing this deposition Deponent further saith that of the children of James and Isabel Frost above enumerated that the two first Ezekiel and Jonas were as old or older than this Deponent and were always so considered when they associated together.
Executed the day and date above before me by being sworn according to law and subscribing his spoken name to the same.
Matthew Avena J. P.   David Avera

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State of North Carolina 
Johnston County}
I Thomas Bagley Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Matthew Aucra Esq. whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit is now and was at the time of executing the Same an acting Justice of the Peace in and fore Said County and that the Signature purporting to be his is genuine.  
Given under my hand and Seal of Office at Smithfield the 5th day of June 1847.
Thomas Bagley [seal]

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No 7. 758[?]
Isabella Frost decd.
wid. of James 
N.C.
Act 4th July 1830
To Geo. C. Ames Nov 5th 1857
J.C. Codner Jny 10 1856-
3815

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3815.
P.O Isabella Frost
Service: wid. F James
Enlisted: , 18 .
Discharged: , 18 .
Application filed: , 18.
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized. Contract. Cert. of Dis. Searched for, 18.

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Be it known that I Rachel Britt Heir at Law to Captain James Frost of the Revolutionary Army do constitute and appoint John C. Costner and Bryant Heathwood my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to demand and reclaim from the Commissioner of Pensions a warrant for the quantity of land due me from the United States and a certificate for any amount of money that may be due for pension commutation or unclaimed moneys with power to file a testimonial evidence or argument in Support of said claim to examine all documents or evidence and file at the department or elsewhere to appoint [unreadable] or attorney under the further purposes to make and at their pleasure to [unreadable] hereby confirming all and whatever my said attorney shall in my name legally [unreadable] to his [unreadable] in and about the [unreadable] (for good and just cause to run will known) Countermand and revoke all and every power of attorney or authority to any other persons.  Given witness my hand and seal this Twenty seventh day of October 1855.
O. C. Barbee
Rachel Britt [her mark] [seal]
Henry Barney
This day and year above written [unreadable]

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[unreadable] Rachel Britt who has inscribed her name to the foregoing Power of Attorney and acknowledged the Same to be her [unreadable] and deed for the purposes there mentioned
Joseph J. Reardon  J. P. 
State of North Carolina}
Harnett County}
I Benjamin T. Shaw Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Harnett County North Carolina do certify that Joseph T. Reardon whose genuine signature appears above is one of the acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Harnett.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this the 29th day of October A.D. 1855
B. T. Shaw
Clerk