Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,606, Richard Curtis, N.C.

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(8-1776)
SERVICE   N. C.
Curtis, Richard
NUMBER   R.2,606
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CONTENTS
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STATE OF North Carolina
COUNTY of New Hanover
BE IT KNOWN, That on this Eighth ___
Day of August ___   A.D., eighteen hundred and fifty one ___ before the
undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared James 
Curtis ___ a resident of North Carolina in said county, and made
oath according to law that he is the son of the identical
Richard Curtis late of New Hanover County
who applied for a pension under act of 7th June
1832 and
who was a Revolutionary  . . . . soldier of the United States
and; that he has been
informed that the said Pension ought to be allowed; that he is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension,
and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting
said claim.
James    his    Curtis
               X
            mark

sworn to and subscribed, the day and
year aforesaid, before me

John McAuslan J. Peace

I, John McAuslan Justice of the Peace, in and for said County do hereby certify that
James Curtis who executed the foregoing paper is a
respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
John McAuslan  J. Peace
_________________________________________________
I,  L H Marsteller  Clerk of the Court of the County
and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that John McAuslan before whom the
foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly 
authorize by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed, is his signature.
IN TESTIMONY THEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and 
affixed my official Seal, this Eighth day of
August A.D. 1851
L H Marsteller   Clerk
by Daw Dickson DyClk

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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I  James Curtis

hereby constitute and appoint George C Ames   Esquire
my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the claim of Richard Curtis
for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due ; and I hereby authorize my said
Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments in Washington
City, or elsewhere ; to file additional evidence or arguments ; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for
said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to Thos F Ganse

to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed ; and to do all things that I might or
could do were I personally present.  Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall 
lawfully do in the premises.
WITNESS my hand and Seal this 8th day August A.D. 1851
          James    his    Curtis
                         X
                       mark
_________________________________________________
Signed and Sealed in the presence of
McAuslan

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STATE OF North Carolina
COUNTY of New Hanover

It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me L H Marsteller
Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions in and for said Co.
that Richard Curtis who was a Revolutionary soldier of the United States
-   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  - died on the 8th April
Eighth -  -  -  - day of April -  -  - eighteen hundred and forty three
leaving surviving him no widow but the following named children
to wit Charles C. Curtis, Richard Curtis, Nancy Riley
and Saley Antoine –
_________________________________________________
who are the
the only surviving children of the aforesaid, Richard Curtis, now known
to the [living]. –

               IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have 
               hereunto set my hand and affixed
               my seal of office this Eighth day of 
               August
               one thousand eight hundred and fifty 
               one
                         L H Marstellar Clk
                         by Daw Dickson DyClk

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[illegible writing – 8 or so lines of faded words – could be just bleed thru from another page(?)]

                  [illegible] R. Strange
                                    [illegible]

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State of North Carolina Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions
New Hanover County, September Term 1836
On this the 15th day of September A.D. 1836
before Edward B. Dudley, Nicholas N. Nixon, 
and John A. Lillington Esquires Justices of
the Peace now holding the Court aforesaid personally
appeared Richard Curtis, a resident of New
Hanover County in the State of North Carolina
aged eighty one years the 1st day of March last
who being first duly sworn doth on his oath
make the following declaration in order to obtain
the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7th
1832.
     That he entered the service of the United States
under the following named officers and served as
herein stated.
1st     In a company of Beaufort militia in the
spring of the year 1778 under Captain Henry
Bonner, Sargeant Charles Bynum in a regiment
Commanded by Col. John Tilman and served
three months as a private and was drafted, the
company collected at North Washington in said
County of Beaufort, marched thence to Kingston
on Neuse River and remained there the term out
and discharged in the month of July, joined two
companies of militia one from Jones County and
and the other from Cartaret, was in no battle this term
has no documentary evidence for this service and
knows of no person, now living by whom he can
prove it
2ndly    In the fall of 1779 he entered service
again in a company of Craven militia, under
Captain John Coleman, Nathan Brown he thinks
was a Lieutenant, George Rankin adjutant
being drafted or what then called, balloted
in for nine months, marched from [Newbern]

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to Cross Creek now Fayetteville, arrived there
a short time before Christmas, thence to Lumberton
on [illegible…ing] Creek in Robeson County, thence
to Briar Creek in S.C. thence to Camden,
and was there at Gates’s defeat, where the army
dispersed and this declarant together with
a body of troops met at Charlotte
N.C. remained there a short time, and was
discharged, (his term of service being completed)
in August 1780, and a part of the troops
that collected at Charlotte, marched thence
to Salisbury, but this declarant returned home
Two companies marched from Newbern to Cross
Creek, (the other company from Jones County,)
and were under the command of Col. John Tilman,
at Cross Creek or Fayetteville were put
under the command of Col. Polk; in S.C. Col.
Polk was taken sick and then were put under
Col. Irwin – who left us at Briar Creek, his
Col. at Camden he forgets, but thinks he was
under Gen. Gregory who was wounded -  he
was a private and served nine months in
this tour; a part of this term he served under
Captain Callender, his first Captain (Coleman)
being sick, was in the battle near Camden
After the battle Col. Caswell marched the
body of troops that collected as aforesaid to
Charlotte. Saw Gen. Marion after the battle,
at Charlotte.  He was discharged by Gen.
Blount – or rather by his order and his discharge
was signed by Dr. Pasteur surgeon for the
Craven militia, which has since been
destroyed by fire, his house having been burnt
and all his papers destroyed, and thinks he
can prove this service by Aaron Todd
and Joshua Brewington.

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3rdly,    On the 12th September 1780 he enlisted
for twelve months with William Bush a
recruiting Officer and served six months
as a private under Captain Joseph Rhodes
enlisted in Duplin County N.C. and rendezvoused
at Duplin Old Courthouse – William
Bush adjutant Andrew Cox he thinks was
Lieutenant – Campbell Major, in a regiment
commanded (he thinks by Col. Hill, marched
to Cross Creek or Fayetteville where he joined
two companies of regulars, one from Johnston
County N.C. and the other he thinks from Lenoir
then Dobbs, thence to the Brown Marsh in Bladen
County and had a skirmish there with the Tories
and British, commanded by Captain Mansin
in which they gained the advantage –
thence to the high hills of Santee, thence to the
Brushy Mountain and joined Gen. Green’s
army, thence to the Shallow ford on Yadkin
River, thence down the River to Jones’s ferry
thence across and up to the shallow ford
again, thence to Salem or Moravian Town
thence to Guilford C. H. (being pursued by
Cornwallis and his army,) where Gen. Green
determined to run no longer and prepared for
battle; In this engagement he was under the
command of Col Stephens or Gen Stephens
who was wounded and was from Virginia
The North Carolina militia gave way without
firing, The American army retreated after
considerable fighting – Not long after the battle
Cornwallis and his army commenced a march
for Wilmington and was followed by the
American army to Deep River, this applicant
with them, thence up across Eno River above Hillsborough
and encamped at the Haw fields, at

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which place he thinks Gen: Green left and marched
for the South; from the Haw fields he marched
to Halifax N.C. and was there discharged he
thinks in May not long after Cornwallis and
his army had passed on to Virginia, (not being
well able to continue his march, having been
wounded in the leg in the battle at Guilford
C.H.; four pieces of bone was taken out of his leg
by Doc. Pasteur;) by Col: Caswell, he believes
that is, was discharged by him – has no documentary
evidence and knows of no person alive
by whom he can prove this service
4thly,   After the last mentioned this applicant
went to his Uncle’s at Blanton’s ferry on the Roanoke
and staid there till his leg got well which was
about a month, and then started to see his
relations in Virginia, but at Windsor on
Chowan River he enlisted with Daniel Harger
in 1781 he thinks in July or August for and
during the War and served in a company
commanded by Capt John Coleman, adjutant
William Fields, Lieutenant Oliver Prince
in a regiment commanded by Col: Reddin
Blount, marched from Windsor to Potomac
River where he joined Gen Washington’s army
thence to Williamsburg, thence to York Town and
besieged it and remained there till Corwallis
surrendered, thence in a detachment to Petersburg
and discharged by Gen Washington’s
aid de camp whose name he forgets at the end
of the war he thinks in the first of the year 1783
perhaps in February or March, he forgets who
signed his discharge at Petersburg, having been
in service this tour eighteen months and perhaps
more, he thinks he can prove this service by Aaron
Todd though his memory is bad

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Answers to questions [propounded] to said
applicant by the Court.

1   I was born in the State of Virginia at a
place called Snow Hill about 14 miles from
Richmond (he believes) the 1st of March 1755
2nd   I have no record of my age, but according
to my father’s account of my age which I have
tried to keep since I believe myself to be of
the age above stated.
3rd -    In my first tour [or] when I entered it
I was living in Beaufort Cty N.C. my 2nd 
in Craven – my 3rd in Duplin and in my 4th
as stated in my declaration – Since the
Revolutionary war I have lived in Orange
County N.C. in Guilford Cty,,- in Sampson
Cty N.C., in New Hanover Cty and I now
live in New Hanover
4th   I refer to my declaration –
5th   Gen Washington, Gen Green, Gen Stevens,
Gen Gregory – Gen Gates – Baron DeKalb –
Col Tilman – Col Hill – Col Polk – Col Irwin
Col Blount, Gen La Fayette, Admiral De Grass
Captain Joseph Rhodes & many others, I recollect
several regiments of Continentals & militia – I refer
to my declaration –
6th   I rec’d discharges as stated in my declaration
and were all burnt as there in set forth –
7th   Gen M. W. Campbell, Benj: Farrow, Benj: &
Richard Beasley, John Newton, Thomas Craige
Owen Holmes Esquire, Anthony A. Wanet – Thomas
Capps, William Harris. Doc Harris and many
others I could name – also Gen Alex Mac Rae
Henry Martindale & John A Lillington and
John Hulet

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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or an annuity except the present
and declares that his name is not on the
pension roll of any agency in any State
Sworn to and subscribed
the day & year aforesaid                     his
                                               Richard     +     Curtis
                                                              mark
We John A. Lillington and John Hulett
residents of the County of New
Hanover do hereby certify that we are well
acquainted with Richard Curtis who has
sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration;
that we believe him to be eighty one years of
age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood
where he resides to have been a Revolutionary
soldier and that we concur in that
opinion
Sworn & subscribed the 
day & year aforesaid               A Lillington
	                                              his
                                             John     X     Hulett
                                                       Mark

And the said Court do hereby declare their
opinion, after the investigation of the matter
and after putting the interrogatories prescribed
by the War Department, that the above named
applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and
served as he states. And the Court further certifies
that it appears to them that John A Lillington
and John Hulett who have signed the preceding
certificate are residents of the County of
New Hanover and credible persons, and that
their statement is entitled to credit, and that
there is no clergyman residing in the neighbourhood
of said applicant.                  A Lillington  JP
Edw. B Dudley  JP               Nichs N Nixon  JP

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I, Thomas F. Davis  Clerk of the Court
of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for New
Hanover County do hereby certify that
the foregoing contains the original proceedings 
of the said Court in the matter of
the application of Richard Curtis for a
pension
                In testimony whereof I have
               hereunto set my hand and seal
               of Office at Wilmington this
               the 16th day of September AD
               1836
                                 Thos F Davis  CLK

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Acts of July 4, 1862, and March 3, 1873,   [this pre-printed line is crossed out]

2606
P.O.   Richard Curtis
Service:   
Enlisted:               , 18   .
[Dis]charged:   R E J E C T E D    , 18   .
[App]lication filed:            , 18   .
[illegible]ages:  
[Re-]enlisted: 
Attorney: 
P.O. 
               Recognized.                   Contract.
         Cert. of Dis.       Searched for           , 18   .

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Richard Curtis
N. Carolina
______
Suspended
______
let[illegible – 1 character]  13 Jany 1837
[illegible – 2 letters]  W. Hill [illegible – 1 character]  [illegible 3 letters]
R. Strange; [illegible – 2 or 3 letters]: 22d
Jany 1837.
Pat Murphy. [illegible – 3 or 4 letters] 30. 1837
[illegible – 3 characters]  [9.6.]    [illegible – 4 or 5 letters] Nov 24/51.
Same Augt. 11. 1852.

     2606

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                         Washington 13th Augt. 1857

Sir,
          You will find herewith two powers, 
of attorney, one given by Jas. Curtis, a son
of Richard Curtis of the Revolution, the other
given by M.J. Beasely, a daughter of [Jno.]
Holmes of the Revolution.  In these two
cases I ask to be permitted to examine the 
papers.
         I am very respectfully
                               Tully R. Wise
                              for G.C. Ames

Hon. J.E. Heath
        Commissioner

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(postmark =)
[--LEIGH]
Jan 
18
[illegible]

FREE



Jan 21,

James L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington

[JW. Syl,]
[illegible - about 6 letters]

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State of North Carolina
Secretary of State’s Office
17th Janry 1837


Sir
Your letter of the 13th instant, requesting
information as to the services of Richard
Curtis who claims a pension as a revolutionary
soldier, is received, and I regret to say
I do not find his name on any record in this
Office.  If he served at all he must have
been a militiaman.

Your Obt. Servt.
     	Wm Hill

James L Edwards Esqr.
     Commissioner of Pensions

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Washington May 20th. 1852

James E Heath Esq

     Sir
	I enclose herewith two 
affidavits from respectable and intelligent
Citizens of New Hanover Co. N.C. in support
of the claim of Richard Curtis, who was an
applicant for a Pension from that state.
	It appears from the correspondence
in this Case that the objection to its
allowance is the insufficiency of the proof 
of identity.  These affidavits show clearly
that Curtis was generally [illegible] a soldier
of the war of the Revolution, and will be
I hope sufficient to remove the objection to
this claim

	 	Very Respectfully
	   	     Your Obt [illegible]
	         	          Geo. C. Ames

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Richard Curtis’s 
Amended declaration

[illegible – 13 or 14 lines of faded words – could be just bleed-thru from another page]

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State of North Carolina
New Hanover County
Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions
June Term 1837

On this the 13th day of June A.D.
1837 before the Worshipful Justices of the
Court aforesaid personally appeared
Richard Curtis a resident of the County
of New Hanover aforesaid aged eighty
one years last March to amend his declaration
to obtain a pension under the
Act of Congress of June 7th 1832 who being
first duly sworn doth on his oath declare
   That he entered the service of the United
States under the following named officers
and served as herein stated.
   1st  In a company of Beaufort militia
under Captain Bonner, Lieutenant Ellison,
in a regiment commanded by Col: Tilman
Reddin Blount Major, he is not certain
when, but supposes it was in the spring of 1776
[3]      and served three months as a private, marched
to the high hills of Santee – to [Warchaw] –
& there discharged – was drafted for this
tour – when he entered the service he lived in
Beaufort County –
   2ndly   In a company of Craven militia under
Capt Coleman, William Bush Lieutenant
In a Regiment commanded by Col Polk in
[3]
1778 and served three months as a private and drafted

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soldier, marched into South Carolina and
was at Gates’s defeat.
   3rdly   Under the same Officers as before
immediately after the expiration of the last
tour and served three months as a private
and marched back into North Carolina on
[3]      the Yadkin and joined Gen: Greens army at
the Brushy Mountain was in the battle at
Guilford Court House and wounded in the leg –
pursued Cornwallis to Ramseys Mills
on Deep River & thence to Halifax, N.C.
and discharged –
   4thly   In a company of Bertie militia
as a volunteer in 1781 under Captain
Joseph Rhodes, William Bush Lieutenant
Col: Reddin Blount – and served three
months as a private, marched into Virginia,
[3]    and was at the siege of York Town
     This applicant maketh oath that the
reasons why he did not apply sooner are these
He first applied to John W. Stanley Esqr
to prepare his case and proof to obtain his
pension, he thinks it was in the year
1832 or 1833.  That Mr Stanley undertook the
business for him and done some writing
about it, but this Deponent believes he 
never finished it – as he never appeared
in Court to swear to my declaration – and
this Deponent was depending on Mr
Stanley to do the business until at length

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he (Mr Stanley) removed to the West – about
two years ago -     Then he committed his
business to Col: M. W. Campbell, who
proceeded to take some proof in the business
but this Deponent, although he insisted
upon Col. Campbell with great importunity
to proceed and complete the business –
never could get him to do so, and in despair
of ever getting him to do it, quit him
and entrusted it to Mr Murphy --- who 
is now prosecuting the claim – 
  Sworn & subscribed in open Court
                             		      his
                               Richard    X    Curtis
                                            mark

I, Thomas F. Davis Clerk of the Court
aforesaid hereby certify that the foregoing
amended declaration was sworn and
Subscribed in open Court –
		In testimony whereof I have
		thereunto set my hand & seal of
		Office this the 14th day of June
		A.D. 1837 –
				Thos F Davis ClK

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State of North Carolina
County of New Hanover
                       Personally appeared
before me Drum Millem – a Justice of the Peace
In and for said County, Richard Beesley who
being duly sworn, Deposeth and Sayeth, that from
almost the first of his recollection, that he was
personally acquainted with Richard Curtis, late
of this County, and who applied for a pension for
his Revolutionary Service, that said Curtis lived
in the neighborhood, to his death, He further 
Sayeth, that he has frequently, heard Richard
Curtis, in company with Aaron Todd and
Joshua Brewington (who was a pensioner) speaking
of having him in engagements in the Revolutionary
war, with other [matters] which transpired 
while in the service together, and that
from general rumour and their frequent
[conversatiny], he conscientiously believes that
Richard Curtis was a Revolutionary Soldier,
and should have been allowed a pension.
	And he further sayeth that said
that Curtis was an illiterate man, and that if he
has made any contradictory statements, it has
been through ignorance, and not intentially,
					          his
                                    Richard   X   Beeseley
                                                mark
[Swurt] to & [-unserihes]       
before me this the                                        
[6 h] Apl [183-]
Drum Millem J.P.

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State of North Carolina,
New Hanover County.

I, L.H. MARSTELLER, do certify that D Mac Millan and
W N Peden, whose signatures appear to the annexed
Depositions
were at the date thereof acting Justices of the Peace for the County
aforesaid.

 		Witness, L.H. MARSTELLER, Clerk of the County
		Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of New
		Hanover County, at office, under the seal of
		said County, the 29th day of
		April, A.D. 1852.

			L H Marsteller, Clerk.
			[--] Daw Dickson, DY, ClK.

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State of North Carolina
County of New Hanover
                       I do hereby certify that
I am personally acquainted, with Richard Beesley
as within and I believe him to be a highly respectable
Gentleman and a man of truth, and that therefore
his deposition should be entitled to full faith and
credit, 
		Given Under my hand and seal
this [6 h] Apl 18[33]      D Mac Millen J.P.  Seal

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State of North Carolina
County of New Hanover
                       Personally appeared
before me W.N. Peden – a Justice of the Peace
in and for said County, Henry Martindale who
being duly sworn; Deposeth and Sayeth, that from
the time he was grown, and that he is now about
Fifty Six years old; that he was personally acquainted
with Richard Curtis late of this County, and
who applied for a pension for his Revolutionary
Services, up to the death of said Curtis, 
He further Sayeth that he has frequently heard
said Curtis, in company with Aaron Todd and
Joshua Brewington the latter was a pensioner of the
United States, Speaking of their engagements
and Services in the Revolutionary war, and
from the impressions made by their conversation
frequently, and general rumour, that
he conscienciously believes, that Richard Curtis,
was a revolutionary souldeer, and should
have been allowed a pension,
	And he further Sayeth, that said Curtis
was an illiterate man, and that if he has
made any contradictory statements, it has
been through ignorance and not intentionally,

				    his
			Henry    X    Martindale
				   mark

Sworn to and Subscribed
before me March 29th 1852
W.N. Peden J.P.

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State of North Carolina
County of New Hanover
                       I do hereby certify that
I am personally acquainted with Henry Martindale
as within and I believe him to be a highly respectable
Gentleman and man of truth, and that therefore
his deposition should be entitled to full faith and
credit, 
	Given under my hand and seal
this 29th March 1852.
		W.N. Peden   Seal

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State of North Carolina
New Hanover County
                       On this the 19th day of September
1836 before the Subscriber a Justice
of the Peace in and for said County
personally appeared Joshua Brewington
a resident of the State and
County aforesaid aged about seventy
eight years who being first duly sworn
doth on his oath depose and say that
he served in the Revolutionary war
and is acquainted with Richard Curtis
of said County who is an applicant
for a pension under the Act of
June 7th 1832 and from what said
Curtis has related to me of events
that I know did take place [illegible – vis?]
Stacking arms at Bacon’s Bridge
and being attacked by McGirt
and his men a reconnoitering
party that made an attack on
our picket guard; and I believe
that I recollect the favour of Curtis
and believe him to be the same man
I saw in service in South Carolina
both from his favour and from several
incidental circumstances which
he has related to me
Sworn and Subscribed
before me the day

	     his
Joshua    X    Brewington
             mark

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and year aforesaid and
I hereby certify that said Joshua
Brewington is well known to me and
is entitled to full faith and credit
& cannot from bodily infirmity attend Court
	A Lillington,  JP

I Thomas F Davis Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter
Sessions for New Hanover County hereby certify that
John A Lillington is a Justice of the Peace as above
& that the foregoing signature is his –
	In testimony whereof I have hereunto
	set my hand & Seal of Office this 30th day
	September AD 1836 –
		Thos. F David  ClK

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Aaron Todd’s affidavit
in behalf of
Richard Curtis –

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State of North Carolina
New Hanover County
      	On this the 22nd day of September A.D. 1836
before the Undersigned a Justice of the Peace
in and for said County personally appeared
Aaron Todd a resident of the County and
State aforesaid aged eighty three years the
20th December next, and being duly Sworn
doth on his oath depose and say that he is
acquainted with Richard Curtis also a resident
of the State & County aforesaid and an applicant
for a pension under the Act of Congress of
June 7th 1832 and served with him in the
Revolutionary War as follows
1st     In an expedition into South Carolina
he thinks in the fall of the year 1779, this deponent
being in a company of Bertie Militia 
and said Curtis in another company, forgets
where the companies met, his memory being
very bad, but recollects very well of seeing
Curtis at Gates’s defeat and in Charlotte
NC, marched through Cross Creek now
Fayetteville, to Briar Creek, to where Gates
was defeated, to Charlotte, across the Yadkin
and encamped, recollects very well that said
Curtis spied the enemy which he (Curtis)
called the Red Coats at Phifers Mill, and
it enabled us to avoid the enemy, otherwise
they would have killed the detachment consisting
of twenty men and the Captain (being
a picquet guard) or taken us prisoners in
Phifers Mill whither we were going after
provision, having been without for five days.
  Four or five days previous to this the enemy
killed Col. Locke and a regiment of Four
Hundred light horse except six men as

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six men reported whom we said and one of
them wounded, that belonged to the Regiment
in an engagement at Charlotte;   After
discovering the enemy at Phifers Mill the
detachment (Curtis in it) marched on and
overtook the main army, crossed over the Yadkin
and encamped in an old field, thence a body
of five Hundred men turned out and
went in pursuit of the refugees or Tories up
the Yadkin and subdued them; dont recollect
of Curtis being with us in this expedition,
went to Hooser Town, and made tents of
lumber and rested three days & nights
thence back to the Island ford on the Yadkin
and discharged
2ndly   This deponent served another campaign
with said Richard Curtis, though
not in the same company, this deponent being
in a company of Bertie militia under Capt
Falks, marched into Virginia, recollects
seeing Curtis in Virginia at the Northwest 
Bridge, the enemy then said to be at the Big
Bridge twelve miles from us, this deponent
was put into the artillery company, and was no
more in the main army and recollects of
seeing Curtis no more, I know Curtis
was in Service in the South and in Virginia
for I saw him in both but dont recollect
much of him in Virginia; dont recollect
the date of this service but was discharged in
the Spring of the year at Norwest Bridge in Va
			  his		
             Aaron    X    Todd
			mark
Sworn & subscribed the day and year
aforesaid before me and I hereby
certify that said Todd is well known
to me and believe him entitled to full
faith and credit & cant well attend Court
		A Lillington  JP

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I Thomas F Davis Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter
Sessions for New Hanover County hereby certify that John A Lillington
is a Justice of the Peace as above & that the foregoing signature
is his –
		In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
		my hand & Seal of Office this 30th day of
		September AD 1836
				Thos F David  ClK