Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S.6598, Samuel Bell, N.C.

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(3-1776)
SERVICE
N. C.
Bell, Samuel 
NUMBER
S. 6598
Canded

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16.598
North Carolina
Samuel Bell
Robeson Co in the State of N. Carolina
who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Coleman of the Regt; commanded by Co Lytle in the (illegible) line for 11ms. 

(illegible)scribed on the Roll of (illegible)th Carolina the rate of 3 (illegible) Dollars 66 Cents per annum. commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of Sept 1833 and (illegible). (Illegible)  McCutchen (Illegible)

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833 . $91.65
Semi-anl. allowance ending (illegible) 34-18.33

$109.98

{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by W. L. William; Clerk, 
Book (illegible) Vol. 6 Page 35

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State of South Carolina
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Union County
August Term 1833

On this thirty-first day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-three, personally appeared in open Court before the honorable the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Union County, now sitting, Samuel Bell, a resident of the County, State aforesaid, aged about eighty-three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, 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:

This declarant states that in the month of February 1777 he then resided in the county of Sampson in the State of North Carolina. Being a volunteer for six months, he then at the Court House in said County, was ordered to raise men to march to South Carolina under Colonel Owen; the declarant went to Court House voluntarily and had his name enrolled as a soldier for twelve months. Soon after, which time he marched to Wilmington, N.C., then up the Cape Fear River to a place called Cross Creek; from thence he marched to a place called Cheraw Hill on the Pee Dee River in South Carolina, having gone down the state line to the south and joined the army under the command of General Green at a place called Pon Pon. The company to which this declarant was attached was then commanded by Captain Coleman, and the above named Hardy Holmes, as stated, as Lieutenant. The officers were soon commanded by officers named McRee, Lt. Col. Little, and Major Griffitt McRee. This declarant went there to join officers of General Green’s command. Soon he marched to Brown’s Ferry, then to Ashley Hill, also in South Carolina. He was then to go near the City of Charleston, and he distinctly heard a cannon fired at the place, and several cannon heard at the camp. At this place he cannot remember all the army under General Moultrie for as accurately as well as he can recollect. Some short time after…

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…the said declarant received a furlough to return home with instructions to return when called into the service again, which call never was made upon him. He thinks he was in the service about eleven months, and only met Captain Hall on his way home, he was discharged in Charleston, S.C., in the year 1783. Declarant further states that he never was in any engagement, that he has no documentary evidence to support his claim. He received from one Lemuel Hardy Holton after his return home from service in the war, a certificate of his services, which he lost. He further says he has long since lost his belief, very old, and as he now feels his capacity, as he does at all recollections of ever bearing.

He further states that Hardy Holton, Joseph Wilson, Jesse Forster, Isaac Hammond & Dr. Samuel Tate formerly resided in this state and were in the service with him. He knows of the death of all except the latter of these persons, to whom he was quite near to him. He further states that there are persons now living in his neighborhood, being so old and feeble he can prove his services. This declarant further states that he proved his services before one of the states judges some years ago, for the above named people. His son went out to make applications to the Government for a pension and that he gave the evidence to secure James B. Butler a practicing attorney at law in the Courts of this county, who undertook to obtain his name, when he and then in command the papers had been laid to Washington City. Nothing is more has ever been heard of them since by this applicant.

Declarant makes the following declaration in answer to the several inquiries proposed by the Court, agreeably to the regulations of the War Department:
	1.	That he was born in Surry County in the State of Virginia in the year 1750.
	2.	That he has a record of his age at his place of residence and…
	3.	That he resided in Sampson County in North Carolina when he entered. That after he returned home from the service he continued there & resided until about the year eighteen hundred…

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and from there he removed to the county of Robertson in South Carolina where he lives at this time.
	4.	That he enlisted in the service of the United States, because he believed it to be his duty to assist his countrymen in arms in the achievement of their independence; in service went forward about twelve [weeks].
	5.	He further states, that he served under General Green, Col. Lytle & Major McRee whom he can recollect.
	6.	The general circumstances of my services are already detailed in my application and should they appear insufficient, I have sworn oaths to all the services & gave due discharge (regularly recognized) from officers with my highest honor but from service I am now known to many citizens among whom are Captain Jacob Blount and Henry Bellingworth Esquire of the latter. I have no more while I resided in the County of Jackson.

Signed by declarant with very clear. The above is a sworn declaration, and he asked his representatives & declare that my name is also on the pension role of the agency of any state.

Samuel Bell

Sworn & subscribed this 3rd day of August 1833.
A.M. Earle, C.C.C.
By J.S. Darrow Dpy

We Jacob Blount and Henry Bellingworth residing in the county of Robertson & being duly certified that we are well acquainted with Samuel Bell who has sworn & subscribed to the above declaration, that we believe him to be Eighty-three years of age, 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.

Jacob Blount
Henry Bellingworth

Sworn & subscribed, the day & year aforesaid.
A.M. Earle C.C.C.
By J.S. Darrow Dpy

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and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, 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 Jacob Blount who has signed the preceding certificate and also Henry Bellingworth Esquire are residents of the aforesaid county of the same neighborhood with Samuel Bell the declarant, that they are reputable and credible persons, and their statement is entitled to credit.

I, Archibald McEachin, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the county aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of application of Samuel Bell for a Pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and office this 31st day of August in the 58th year of American Independence A.D. 1833.

A. McEachin C.C.C.
By J.S. Darrow Dpy
N.C.

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24.407
Samuel Bell
N. Carolina

Adm 11 Months
$36.66

$73.32
$18.33
91.65

John McCutchen
Washington City

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WAR DEPARTMENT, Pension Office, September 6th 1833 
Sir: The evidence in support of your claim. under the ad of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will reality precious that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, {thus: } 1. you will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, showing the Service of Samuel Bell
Period when the service was rendered:  Feby 1782;  Duration of Claimant’s Service: 11 months;  Names and rank of the Field Officers under whom he served:  Captain Coleman, Major McRee, Colonel Lytle;  Age at present and place of abode when he entered the service:  83 years Sampson County North Carolina;  Proof by which the declaration is supported:  Traditionary Documentation
I am, respectfully, your obedient servant, J. L. EDWARDS, Commissioner of Pensions

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832

The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms “Continental Line,” “State troops,” “militia,” and “volunteers,” all persons enlisted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, or who were occasionally employed with the army in other civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and Store Keepers, &c., Tentmates, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and are not recognized as being in actual military service.

Four general classes of claims are embraced in this law:
	1.	The Regular Troops.
	2.	The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
	3.	Persons employed in the Naval Service.
	4.	Indian Spies.

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of the law as officers, including non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by submitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record in the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION.

State, Territory, or District of ___
County of ___ ss.

On this ___ day of ___, personally appeared (a) before ___
A. B. a resident (b) of ___ in the county of ___ and State, Territory or District of ___, aged (c) ___ years, 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 7th, 1832, that he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) ___, with (e) regiment (f) ___, and under the following named officer: (g) ___.

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served out the entire time for which he enlisted, when he enlisted and left service) the particular period, and rank and names of his officers; also if county in which he resided when he enlisted, and the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, continuing to include the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any (i) agency in any State, or (if any only) on that of the Agency of the State of ___.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.

I ___ Clerk of the ___ Court of ___ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of ___ for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this ___ day of , 18 &c.

If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the law will require in lieu of points out.

Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz.:

(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in ___ and C. D., residing in (the same) ___, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with ___, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be ___ years of age; that he is reputed and believed in, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed this day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that, 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 A. B., who has signed the preceding certificate as a clergyman, resident in the ___, and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the ___, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, ___ Clerk of the Court of ___, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of ___ for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this ___ day of ___, &c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.

If such surviving witnesses cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (f) and he will then endeavor to produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be known from the investigation of his claim, and in the composition of his narrative with the events of the period of his

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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposture, if one is attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.

The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
	1.	Where and in what year were you born?
	2.	Have you any record of your age; and if so, where is it?
	3.	Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
	4.	How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
	5.	State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.
	6.	(n) If a Soldier. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
	7.	(n) If an Officer. Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
	8.	State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.

The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.

The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons—one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant,—who can testify, from acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, adding the usual certifying to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.

The traditional evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in giving their belief as is general, and that as many doubts may exist about every claim.

Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before a Judge, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record. The Judge or Justice will certify the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.

Wherever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court of County under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that his signature annexed is his genuine signature.

No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in cases of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his oath, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.


(a) The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule as directed in the 6th paragraph.

(b) The name must be inserted in each declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not having it taken there.

(c) It is required that claimants are invariably to be particular to state:
	1.	The time of entering the service.
	2.	The length of his term of service, in the portion of the war when he served.
	3.	The officer under whom he served, and the regiment or corps in which he served.
	4.	To state the battles in which he was engaged, and the different places in which he was stationed.

(d) As some applicants were found to be under age, it is required that claimants will furnish satisfactory examination of the record of their age, wherever it can be obtained. If this cannot be done, the declaration will be admitted, and the other evidence deemed proper, as specified under article (c) (3) of these Regulations.

(e) If applicant has not received any discharge from the service, his declaration shall state the reasons why, or if any person was under 15 years of age, he is not required to be subject to any of the duties mentioned in the same cases, and evidence will be asked to prove such age and other particular and further details, as stated, in each statement giving place and dates of residence.

(f) There is no evidence more particular to the age, and every part of the district and how the character, repetition made by the character’s former applicant.

(g) The Court is requested to be particular with question as to where the applicant served, and if applicant entered the army before any stated to be special repeated evidence is to be required, names are to be mentioned in the county’s certificates, for each one noted.

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Mr. Joseph Brooks    BA-J/FEL Samuel Bell-S.6598
Fembroke
North Carolina
Dear Sir:
The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.6598, based upon the military service of Samuel Bell in that war.
Samuel Bell was born May, 1749, in Surry County, Virginia.
While residing in Sampson County, North Carolina, he volunteered in February, 1782, served as a private in Captain Coleman's Company under Major Griffith McRee and Colonel Lytle in the North Carolina Troops and was discharged in January, 1783.
After the Revolution, he continued to reside in Sampson County, North Carolina, until about 1807, then moved to Robeson County, North Carolina, where he was residing when he was allowed pension on his application executed August 31, 1832.
There are no data as to soldier's family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Samuel Bell, (S.6598). you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing all of the following data:
Samuel Bell, Certificate No. 16598, issued September 6, 1833, rate $36.66 per annun, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, North Carolina Agency. 
Very Truly Yours
A.D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
Sol. said Colonel William Lytle but as it was Archibald Lytle who was the Colonel. [unreadable] Christian Name.  I also omitted 10 Regiment given by Secretary of State so the nos. he gives do not agree with the nos. given by Heitmay

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INVALID.

File No. 6598
Samuel Bell
New Ann. Hubb.

Act: June 7th, 1832
Index: — Vol. C7, Page 26
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Nov 21-1902
R. M. Maxwell
Springfield Ill.

1927 Oct. 5 - Hask Co com aug.
E. E. Salech for R. H. Croach

1833 Feb. 21 - Rectory
by Jno. Rudson
Rec’d request in case
John Brown vs. E.G. 732.

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State of North Carolina,
Secretary's office
I William Hill Secretary of State in and for the State aforesaid; do certify that it appears from the Musterrolls of the Continental line of this State in the revolutionary war, that Samuel Bell a private soldier in Capt Coleman's Company of the 10th Regiment enlisted on the 7th day of February 1789 for the term of twelve months - nothing more is said of him on said rolls.

Given under my hand this 28th day of August 1832
[signature: W,, Hill]

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Hon'ble Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington City
D.C.

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Fayetteville North Carolina
30th August 1833
Sir!
Enclosed is the Declaration of Saml. Bell who applies for a Pension from the United States for Revolutionary Services, according to the last act of congress - When passed upon please inform
your [[mo. ob. servt.?]]
Robert McIntyre

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State of North Carolina Robeson County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions August Term 1833 - In this the 27th day of August A. D. 1833. personally appeared in open Court before Charles Moore, James Storm, and Thos A Norment Justices presiding in the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions holder in and for the County of Robeson in the State of North Carolina Samuel Bell, a resident of said County aged now about 84 years who being duly sworn according to law the truth to tell relative to his service as a soldier in the war of the American Revolution doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7th June 1832. – 
That he was born in Surry County in the State of Virginia he believes in the month of May in the year of 1749. That in the year 1782 a requisition was made by the State of North Carolina of the County of Sampson, that in the month of February 1782 he (then about 33 years of age) volunteered in a company of North Carolina militia under Captain Hardy Holmes in said county of Sampson for twelve months, that immediately after he marched under said Holmes to Wilmington, then up the River Cape Fear to Mr. Lenn’s Bluff, then along on the sea board to a place in the State of South Carolina called Pon Pon where General Green's army were encamped, that on his arrival there, he was placed under command of a Captain Coleman that he thence marched to Bacon's Bridge in South Carolina where he remained for some time, that thence he marched to Ashley Hill a place so near Charleston that he could distinctly hear cannon which were fired at

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that city, that he remained at Ashley Hills until the British evacuated Charleston which according to the best of his recollection was some time in the month of December A. D. 1782; that upon the recurrence of that event the company to which he was attached, were marched homewards into that he particularly recollects having been in Georgetown in South Carolina on his return, on old Christmas day in the year 1782, that he on his arrival at Wilmington in this state received a furlough to return home under instructions to hold himself in readiness to serve at a moments warning, That he returned home and was not required to serve any more that the whole time he served he believes to have been fully eleven months, the time he was discharged or furloughed having been some time in January 1783 - Declarant states that he never was in any battle that he has no documentary evidence. that his furlough is lost - that he did some years ago receive from the afore-mentioned Captain Holmes, a certificate of service but has lost it, and that the said Holmes in now dead - He further states that there is no person now living of whom he has any knowledge whose testimony he can procure to prove the fact of his having served as a soldier in the Revolution - This Declarant further states that he served under the following field officers. General Greene, - Colonel William Lytle and Major Griffith McRee the particular number or delegation of the Regiment to which he was attached he does not know and that

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he served at least for eleven months as a private soldier in the infantry militia as afore stated - that since the war of the Revolution he lived in Sampson County aforesaid until about thirty three years ago since when he has lived in the County - that there is no clergyman living in his neighborhood at this time. That he can prove his character by John Brown and Jacob Blount to whose testimony he begs to refer now. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension. 
Roll of the agency of [[?]] state 
sworn to and subscribed
in open court
A McEachen
Samuel Bell, his mark

We John Brown and Jacob Bloush residing in the County of Robeson in the state of North Carolina, confirm that we are well acquainted with Samuel Bell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be about eighty four years of age; that he is reputed and believed to be a soldier of the Revolution, in the neighborhood where he resided and that we concur in that opinion - we further certify that we believe him to be entitled to credit in regard to any statement made by him under oath. 
Sworn to & subscribed open court
J. Brown
Jacob Blount

Answers made by Samuel Bell the Declarant to the questions proposed by the Court is presented by the war department.

Answer to question 1st. I was born in Surry County in the State of Virginia in the year 1749.

Answer to question 2nd. I have, at my residence

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Answer to question 3. I was living in Sampson County in the state, and after the Revolution continued to live there until about 33 years ago when I moved into this County where I now reside. Answer to question 4. I volunteered in the Infantry militia of North Carolina for 12 months. Answer to question 5. I served under General Greene, Colonel Lytle and Major McRee there were some other field officers whose names I cannot now recollect the particulars of my service are stated on my declaration. Answer to question 6. I never received a final discharge - I received a written furlough about a month before the expiration of my time of service and my time expired before I was called upon - Answer to question 7. I am known to John Brown and Jacob Blount who reside in my neighborhood and who can testify as to my reputation as a soldier in the Revolution and as to my character for veracity.  Samuel Bell, his mark.
Sworn to and subscribed in this Court A McEachen 
And the said Court do hereby declare this opinion after investigation of the matter and after the interrogations presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he stated., and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that John Brown and Jacob Blount who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of Robeson County in North Carolina are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.  John Brown, Jacob Blount, Thomas A. Nariment, J. D. 
I Archibald McEachen clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Robeson County in the State of North Carolina certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Samuel Bell for a pension.  In testimony herein I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the 27th August A.D. 1833. A McEachen

Which he was attached, he does not

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Springfield Ill Oct 25 1902

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
DC

Dear Sir
     I wish to secure the record of the services of three of my Great GrandFathers in the Revolutionary Army to enable me to become a member of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Samuel Bell of Capt Coleman's Co 10th North Carolina Regiment
John McElhanon of Col Elijah Clarks Regiment of Georgia Vols
John Hodge of Col Elijah Clarks Regiment of Georgia Volunteer
Respectfully Yours
F W Maxwell
926 South 5th Street
Springfield Ills
[stamped in lower left corner: US PENSION OFFICE OCT 27 1902]

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E.E ESLICK COMMITTEES:
7TH DISTRICT TENNESSEE PUBLIC BUILDING AND GROUNDS WAR CLAIMS ELECTIONS NO. 1
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington D.C.
General Winfield Scott Oct 4 1927
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
Herewith is a letter from the Hon. R H Crockett, of Franklin, Tennessee, asking information as to certain soldiers of the War of the Revolution, namely:
Samuel Bell of North Carolina
Robert Bell
Samuel Eamindson if Rockbridge County, Virginia
Thomas Bell of North Carolina
I would deeply appreciate it if you will furnish this information, if obtainable.
Yours sincerely,
E E Eslick

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October 8, 1927
Honorable E.E. Eslick
House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. Eslick:
In response to your letter of the fourth instant, enclosing letter from Honorable R.H. Crockett of Franklin, Tennessee, I have the honor to advise you that this Bureau is unable to furnish the history of a soldier for the Revolution, unless a claim for pension or bounty land has been made on account of his services, and a careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file on account of the services of any soldier named Andrew Crockett, or to a soldier named Samuel Edmondson, who served with the Virginia Troops, all spellings of these names searched.
You are herewith furnished the histories of Samuel. Thomas and Robert Bell of North Carolina, as requested by Honorable R.H. Crockett.
From the papers in the Revolutionary War

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pension claim S. 6598, it appears that Samuel Bell was born in May 1749 in Surry County Virginia. 
While a resident of Sampson County, North Carolina, he enlisted February 7, 1782 and served eleven months as a private in Captain Coleman's Company, Colonel Lytle's North Carolina Regiment. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 31, 1832, while a resident of Robeson County, North Carolina.
It is not stated that soldier was married. 

[[right margin]] The rest of this letter is Thomas Bell S2973 & Robert Bell Wt. no 300 - 200 - L.T. N. C. Troops