Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21098, Fransis Bundron, N. C.

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[3-1776]

SERVICE
N. C.
*
Bundron, Fransis
           or Francis

NUMBER
S.21098

Carded
CONTENTS

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East Tennessee    27,630

Francis Bundron
of Claiborne Co. in the State of Tenn.
who was a pt [private] in the Company commanded [by] Captain O'Neal, of the Regt [Regiment] commanded [by] Col. Hunter in the No Carolina line for Militia ------
6 Mo [months] Pt [Private]    $20.00

Inscribed on the Roll of East Tenn.
at the rate of 20 Dollars ‘’’ Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23d day of Sept. ‘34 and Sent to B. F. Cloud, Tazewell, Ten.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. ‘34     70.00
Semi=anl. [annual] allowance ending 4 Mar ’35    10.00
$80.00

{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by J T Sprague, Clerk
Book C.2 Vol. 7 Page 57

[right side] Altered to From Joseph to Francis Bundron – 18th Oct ’34 reported to Agent ‘’’

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[written sideways] Revolution
21098
INVALID

File No. 21,098 [written sideways] Own

Francis Bundron

Pri. Rev War

Act: June 7", 32”

Index: - Vol. 2, Page 51

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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State of Tennessee} 
Claiborne County} This day being the 18th of December 1833 personally appeared before the Court of Pleas and quarter Sessions the same being a court of Record Francis Bundron aged 70 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832. 
States that he entered the servis [service] of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. 
That he resided in the County of Rockingham in the State of North Carolina and early in the month [of] January 1781 that he was drafted to perform a three months Tower [sic, tour] of duty as a private in the Army of the United States and that he belonged to a company commanded by Capt. O'Neal which said company was attached to the Regiment commanded by Colonel Hunter and the Regiment to which I belonged marched from thence to Deep River near Guilford Court House where we were stationed for some short time and from thence we marched to Ramsours Mills where we were stationed for some short time and from there on to Gilford [Guilford] Court House and from there to New Garden Meeting House

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where we had a very severe and bloody battle with the British in which engagement we were repulsed and driven back by the enemy to the Court House and applicant states that shortly afterwards his term of service expired being at the end of the said three months and that he Received his discharge from Capt. O'Neal which said discharge he has lost or mislaid so that he cannot produce the same he states that he served three months in the above mentioned campaign and that he received no wounds and the same.

And this applicant begs leave further to Represent to the department that after he returned home from the last above mentioned campaign that he moved to the County of Henry in the State of Virginia and that sometime in the month of June in said year of 1781 that in the County of Henry and State of Virginia aforesaid that he substituted himself into the service of his country in the Room and Stead of Thomas Jemison a citizen of said County of Henry as a private for the term of three months and that he belonged to a company commanded by Capt. Crite which said company was attached to the Regiment commanded by Colonel Wallace and we marched from thence to the Mobline

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where we had a very severe and bloody battle with the British in which engagement we were repulsed and driven back by the enemy to the Court House and applicant states that shortly afterwards his term of service expired being at the end of the said three months and that he Received his discharge from Capt. O'Neal which said discharge he has lost or mislaid so that he cannot produce the same he states that he served three months in the above mentioned campaign and that he received no wounds and the same.

And this applicant begs leave further to Represent to the department that after he returned home from the last above mentioned campaign that he moved to the County of Henry in the State of Virginia and that sometime in the month of June in said year of 1781 that in the County of Henry and State of Virginia aforesaid that he substituted himself into the service of his country in the Room and Stead of Thomas Jemison a citizen of said County of Henry as a private for the term of three months and that he belonged to a company commanded by Capt. Crite which said company was attached to the Regiment commanded by Colonel Wallace and we marched from thence to the Mobline

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Hills [sic, Malvern Hills] in the State of Virginia where we were stationed three weeks and from thence to old Williams Burg [sic, Williamsburg] where we were stationed for some time and were then ordered to march near Yorktown where we were stationed for some time and this applicant states that while the Regiment was stationed near Yorktown that this applicant together with about one hundred and fifty Troops were ordered out on a Scouting Expedition and this applicant states that the next morning after they left their encampment that the British light Horsemen fell upon them and in the battle that this applicant had two of his fingers on his left hand nearly cut off by a cutlass and his hat cut off of his head and applicant states that shortly afterwards his Time of Service expired which was for three months: as a private and that he then received his discharge from Capt. Crite which said discharge he has lost or mislaid so that he cannot produce the same he states that after putting the whole of his services together that he did serve in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary

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war for the term of six months as a private he states that he has no documentary Evidence of his services nor does he know of any living Testimony by whom he can prove his services by. [Illegible sentence crossed out] 
He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pention [pension] or an annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency of any state whatever.

Questions Propounded by the Court 
1st Where and in what year were you born? 
Ans [Answer] I was born in Buckingham County in the State of Virginia in the year 1764 

2d Have you any record of your age and if so where is it? 
Answer. The Record of my age is in the Possession of my brother who resides in the County of Warren in the State of Tennessee. 

3d Where were you living when called into service where have you live and have you lived cinse [since] the Revolutionary War [?] 
Answer. I lived in the County of Rockingham in the State of North Carolina and in

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the County of Henry in the State of Virginia when I was called into service and I have lived a while cince [since] the Revolutionary war in the State of Virginia and I now live in the County of Claiborne in the State of Tennessee.

4th How were you called into service[;] were you drafted; did you volunteer or were you a substitute, and if in substitute[,] for whom[?] 
Answer. I was drafted and I [volunteered crossed out] at [Illegible] months Towers & Substituted for three months in the room of Thomas Jemison a citizen of Henry County in the State of Virginia 

5th State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served, such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service. 
Answer. I knew General Washington General Greene, Major Duvall and many others. 

6th Did you ever receive from a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom[?] 
Answer. I received two discharges one from Capt. O'Neal and one from Capt. Crite. 

7th State the names of some of the persons in your neighborhood who know you and who can testify as to your character for

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veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier in the revolutionary war. 
Answer. I know John Mays Esqr [Esquire], James Spradling and many others

Francis Bundron
Sworn to and subscribed 
decr [December] 18th 1833
Benj F Cloud clk [Clerk]

State of Tennessee}
Claiborne County} I Jonathan Mays a Citizen Resident in said County do hereby certify upon oath that I am well acquainted with Francis Bundren who is making this application for pention [pension] and that I believe him to be the years of age that he states and that it is reputed and believed in the -- Neighborhood where he lives that he was a soldier of the Revolutionary war and that I concur in that opinion –
Jonathan Mayes
Sworn to in open Court}
This 18th decr [December] 1833}
Benj. F. Cloud clk [Clerk]}

State of Tennessee}
Claiborne County} I Joseph Neal a Clergyman Resident in said County do herby [hereby] certify on oath that I am well acquainted with Francis Bundren who is making this application for a pention [pension] and that I believe him to be the years of age he states and that it is Reputed and believed in the Neighborhood

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where he resides that he was a soldier of the Revolutionary war and that I concur in that opinion.
Joseph Neal
Sworn to in open Court 
Decr [December] 19 1833
Ben F Cloyd clk [Clerk]

And the said Court do hereby declare theire [their] oppinion [opinion] after the investigation of the matters and after putting the interogatories [interrogatories] prescribe by the War Department: that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soulder [soldier] and served as he states, And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Joseph Neil who has signed the preceding cetificate [certificate] is a Clergyman Resident in the County of Claiborne & State of Tennessee aforesaid and Jonathan Mays who has also assigned a certificate is a resident of said County and State aforesaid and a creditable person and that thire [their] statements are entitled to Credit

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I Benjamin F Cloud Clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter sessions for the County aforesaid do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding in the matter of the application of Francis Bundron for a pension.
Given under my hand and Seal of Office in Tazewell this 19th Oct. 1833
Benjamin F Cloud clk [Clerk]

[written sideways] 31,963 Francis Bundron Tennessee f 1781 6 –
$20.
B. F. Cloud
Tazewell Tenn.