Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3390, William George, Va.

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Service
Va.

George, William

Number
S3390

Carded

Contents

This Envelope Includes
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO

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19097
West Tennessee
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William George of Lincoln in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Fitzgerald of the rgt commanded by Maj Crosby on the Virginia line for 10 months.
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Inscribed on the Roll of W Tennessee at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
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Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of Aug. 1833 and sent to David Eastland Fayetteville

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Arrears to the 4th of March 
Some-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept

1666
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$83 30
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{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded  by Danl Boyd Clerk,
Book E Vol. 7 Page 79



Letter 25 April 1837 Gen.
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO

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Received of Charles C. Abernathy, Agent for paying pensions, at Pulaski, in the State of Tennessee Nineteen dollars and sixteen cents, being for six months and twenty seven days, pension, due to William George - deceased from the 4th day of September 1846 to the 1st day of April 1847 for which I have signed duplicate receipts 15th July 1847

James S Webb

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No 17381 -

William George
Lincoln County
Tennessee
From 1778 private
10 months
$33.33/100

return

Davis Eastland 
Fayetteville 
Tennessee

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BRIEF in the case of William George of Lincoln County in the State of Tennessee
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a court

2. If before a judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 76

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.
Vol in 1778

Duration of Service.
Years,  Months, Days.
About 10

Rank.
As a 
private

Names of the General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Gen.
Cpt. Fitzpatrick.  Maj. Crosby

5. In which battles was he engaged? Monmouth

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Frederick Co Va

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
On Roll

8. Are the papers defective that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Dyer Castor 
Examining Clerk

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State of Tennessee
Lincoln County     }  County Court October Term 1832

On this 25th day of October 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before the Justices of teh Court of Lincoln County, Tennessee, William George a resident of Lincoln County Tennessee, aged seventy six years, who being first duly sworn according to the law doth on his oath,   make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by act of Congress. Passed June 7rh 1832

I was born in Lancaster County, Virginia, on the 19th of July 1756 according to record left in my fathers family Bible but I do not know where it is now.- I entered the service of the United States some time in the month of February 1778. according to the best of my personal recollection as a volunteer [inserted] in the 8th regiment of Virginia State troops commanded (I now think by Col John Hlbertson. and Major Crosby.  I belonged to the company commanded by Captain Fitzpatrick - Our regiment was with the main army under General WAshington.  At a place called “the Valley Forge” on Schuylkill river, when I entered the service I continued with the main army until it left the Valley Forge and proceeded across the delaware river - we marched on through New Jersey, till we came to the neighborhood of Princeton at which place, there were fifteen hundred or twenty five hundred. men [inserted]  I now forget which, detailed (so many being taken from each company of our regiment, and placed under the command of Gel Scott as light infantry for the purpose of pursuing the British. Who were then marching toward Sandy Hook.-  I was one of those sent with Genl Scott - we continued our march after the British till we arrived at Monmouth, where we joined the forces under Genl Lee, & when we had a battle with the British. (I think on the 28th of June - as the British were stationed on a considerable eminence.  We were ordered by Genl Lee to retreat, at the commencement of the battle in order to gain more advantageous ground

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We retreated (I think about half a mile, then halted and fought for some time - at length both sides withdrew - we lay on our arms all night expecting to have another battle on the next morning, but when the morning came [inserted] the British were all gone -  We followed them part of the way to Sandy Hook - but finding that we could not overtake them returned to Monmouth, buried our dead, and remained there several days - I then went with the army to the White Plains, where we remained till late in the fall, when we marched down in New Jersey to a place called “Middle Brook” and then took up Winter Quarters  I remained in Winter Quarters till about Christmas when I obtained permission to go home having been in service about ten months - I never received a written discharge  I lives in Frederick county Virginia when I entered service & continued to live there five or six years after the war was over - I then went to Nova Scotia and Cape Briton and engaged in the fishing & boating business & about the year 1808 or 1809 I moved to Iredell county N. Carolina where I lived till January last when I moved to this county where I now live - i have no documentary evidence nor do I know of any person whose testimony I can procure to testify to my services - I kindly relinquish every claims whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & disclose that my name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state - 

Sworn to & subscribed this day & year aforesaid - 
[ ] Robt S Inge clerk          William George  his mark [inserted]  [mark looking like and x]

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and the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier + served as he states -
Abner Steed
Wm Edminston
Samuel Buchanan

I Robert S. Inge, clerk of the county court of Lincoln County, Tenessee, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of William George for a pension -

In testimony whereof I have hereinto put my hand and the seal of this court at office, this 25th of October 1832

Robert S. Inge Clerk

State of Tennessee}
Lincoln County}

On this 22nd day of April 1833personally appeared in open court before the justices of the County Court of said, county, William George, this applicant named in the foregoing declaration, who being duly sworn. I sweareth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot remember positively to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollections, he served not-less than ten months as a private in Captain Fitzpatrick's company and in the 8th..

In this court of Davis Eastland

Address
Fayetteville
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(over)

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Regiment of Virginia troops, for such services he claims a pension - Applicant also states that having but recently moved to this county from North Carolina, he does not know of any Clergyman whose certificate he can procure as to his character for veracity & revolutionary services, but would defer for that purpose to James Taylor and William Gashen who formerly lived in the same neighborhood with him in North Carolina.
Sworn to & duly _____ in open court
this day and year aforesaid  
last F. L. Kincannon Clerk. 

William his George
mark

Mr. James Taylor and William Gashen resident in Lincoln County Tennessee, certify to ___ resided in the same neighborhood with William George, the applicant afore named & who has sworn to the foregoing declaration ____ County, North Carolina. We have been acquainted with him about twenty five years - that we are well acquainted with him that we believe him to be about seventy six years of age - that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he formerly lived and also which now resides to have been a soldier of the revolutionary war, and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to &_____ the day & year aforeward.
F. L. Kincannon Clerk

James x his Taylor
mark
William x his Gashen
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 appeared to them that James Taylor and William Gashen who have ____& sworn to the preceding certificate are resident in this County and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit

W. F. Long
Will Smith
Samuel Todd

State of Tennessee}
Lincoln County}

I Francis L. Kincannon clerk of the county court of said county, certify that  the preceding affidavit and certificates, contian the proceedings of said court on the 22nd day of April 1833, in the matter of the application of William George for a pension

In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand & the seal of this court at office this 27th day of April 1833

F. L. Kincannon Clerk

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STATE OF TENNESSEE,}SS.
Lincoln County.}

BE IT KNOWN, That on the 7th day June 1847, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Eli George above named, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be x act and deed. In testimony whereof, x have hereunto set x hand the day and year last above mentioned

Wm Neeld J. P.

STATE OF TENNESSEE}SS
Giles County}

BE IT KNOWN, That on the 15th day of July 1847, before me Charles C Abernathy Pension Agent in and for said county, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared James S. Webb the Attorney named in the foregoing Power of Attorney, and made oath that he has no interest whatever in the money he is authorised to receive by virtue of the foregoing Power of Attorney either by any pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer, and that he does not know or believe that the same has been disposed to any person whatever.

Sworn and subscribed, the day and}
year last above mentioned, before me}
Charles C Abernathy Pension Agent.

James S. Webb

STATE OF TENNESSEE,}
Lincoln County.}

I Henry Kelso Clerk of the County Court of said county, holden at Fayetteville in and for said county on the 7th day of June 1847, do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said court that William George was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of Thirty three dollars and thirty three cents per annum was a resident of the county of Lincoln in the State of Tennessee and died in the county of Lincoln and state of Tennessee in the year 1847, on the 1st day of April that he left a widow but the following children, to ____, Eli, David William, John Joseph, Thomas, Needham Mary and Mahala George and that Eli George is the administrator of said estate - duly qualified as such according to Law- I further certify that William Neeld- is a Justice of the Peace in and for said, County duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission was dated on the 28 day of January 1847, and will expire on the 1st day of February 1853 andthat his signatures above written are genuine.

Given under my hand, and the seal of said County,
this 7th day of June 1847
Henry Kelso Clerk

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STATE OF TENNESSEE}
Lincoln County.}


BE IT KNOWN, That before me William Neeld a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, duly authorised by law to administer oaths, personally appeared

Eli George

and made oath in due form of law, that he is the administrator of William George the identical person who was a Pensioner and is now dead, and to whom a certificate of Pension was issued, which is herewith surrendered:
That the deceased Pensioner resided in Lincoln county, in the State of Tennessee for the space of about fifteen years before his death, and that previous thereto he resided in the State of North Carolina
Sworn and subscribed, this 7th day}
of June 1847}
Before me:
Wm. Neeld J. P.

Eli George 
Administrator

Know all men by these presents, That Eli George Administrator of William George deceased in the county of Lincoln State of Tennessee - was a  Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, do hereby constitute and appoint Jas. S. Webb my true and lawful attorney, for me and in name to receive from the Agent of the United States for paying Pensions in Pulaski, State of Tennessee, the balance of said Pension, from the 4th day of September 1846 to the 1st day Apirl of 1847, being the day of          death.
Witness my hand and seal this 7th day of June 1847
Sealed and delivered in presence of 
Eli George
Administrator

Two Witnesses
}John Goodrich
Saml. J . Isaacs

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Mrs. Penelope J. Allen
1710 West 43rd Street
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Dear Madam:
September 19, 1932
BA-J/MCS
William George
S. 3390
Reference is made to your letter of August 30, 1932, requesting the Revolutionary War records of James Lane and William
George.
The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file
in the pension claim, S. 3390, based upon the military service of
William George.
He was born July 19, 1756, in Lancaster County, Virginia.
While living in Frederick County, Virginia, he enlisted in February, 1778, served about ten months as private in Captain
Fitzpatrick's Company in Colonel John Helbertson's Virginia Regiment
and was in the battle of Monmouth,
He lived in Frederick County, Virginia, for five or six years after the Revolution and then moved to Nova Scotia and Cape
Breton where he engaged in the fishing and boating business. About
1808 or 1809 he moved to Iredell County, North Carolina, where he
lived until January, 1832, when he moved to Lincoln County, Tennessee.
.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 25, 1832, at which time he was living in Lincoln County, Tennessee.
The original papers in this pension claim contain no data
relative to the soldier's family.

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The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W. 8026, based upon the military service of
James Lane. 
He was born December 22, 1746, in Great Britain. The names of his parents were not given.
When he was about fourteen years of age he came to Rockbridge County, Virginia.
He enlisted at Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia, and
served as private with the Virginia troops as follows: in 1776, three
months under Captain Samuel Wallis and Colonel William Cheshare? (illegible
) and was discharged in October or November; then served three
months under Captain Thomas Harrison and Colonel William Trimble, date
of this enlistment not given; a few months later served three months
under Captain William Hughes.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 20,
1832, while a resident of Grainger County, Tennessee, having lived
there at least thirty years.
He died February 4, 1835.
The soldier married August 17, 1830, in Grainger County, Tennessee, Temperance Jennings.
She was allowed pension on her application executed June 25,
1853, while living in Grainger County, Tennessee, and she then
stated that she was about sixty-five years of age. In 1865 he
stated she was seventy-three years of age and a resident of Knox
County, Tennessee. In 1866 she stated she was seventy-six years of
age and was living in Knox County and that since 1861 she had lived in
Knox and Union Counties, Tennessee. In 1869 she was living in
Anderson County, Tennessee, and her post office address was Wallace's
Cross Roads.
She died August 14, 1872.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

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Apr 1 1905 History to Capt.
W. J. George, Grayson, Ky

1932 Sept 19 hist to Mrs.
Penelope J. Allen MCS

1940 Feb 28 hist to 
Mrs. M. B. Biggerstaff MCS

Rev War
3390 Invalid

File No. 3390
William George
Pvt.  --- line

Act:  June --- 3d
Index: --- Vol. A, Page 139

(Arrangement of 1870.)

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Payments to be made
at Nashville
by the Prest of W B Bank
Agent for paying Pension
or in the Agency of West [illegible] Tenness [illegible]
Recorded in the Pension office, in 
Book 8 Vol. 7
Page 79 by Darel [Daniel?] Boyd
Clerk.

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WAR DEPARTMENT
Revolutionary Claim.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, William George of the State of Tennessee who was a private of the infantry in the army of the Revolution is entitled to receive thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th March, 1832, and payable semi-annually on the $th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.

GIVEN at the War Office of the United States this second day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three

___________Acting Secretary of War.

Examined and Countersigned.
J L Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions.

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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of William George which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of war when he served?

V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to what amount of pension he is entitled? No

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one  under the Act of June 7, 1832?

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?

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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to  their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has no been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? No

XIII. If the applicant had no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicants service?

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?

EXPLANATORY NOTES.

*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by the reason of loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following 
grades; For ______ year ________ months, and ________ days, I served as a _________ For ________ months and _________ days, I served as a _________ ; and for such service I claim a pension.

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Pension Agency
Puluki
to April  1st 1837
Sir
The pension papers of Mr
Wm George are herewith enclosed
to you in conformity to
the
Circular from the Second Comptroller officer
under date 29th Sep 36

Yr obd svt
Thomas Mallthage

J S Edward
Commissioner of Pension
Washington Cty

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Grayson Carter CO Ky
3-21-95

Sir
I wish to know about the records concerning my grand father, Capt William George, he served in the Revolutionary War under Genl Washington and never received any pay neither did my grand mother George, who died since my memory, also Frank Underwood and Saml. Pryor all of Va
What ever information

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you can give me about this matter will be thankfully received and under many obligations to you

I am sir respectfully

Capt. W. George

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MRS. PENELOPE J. ALLEN
1710 WEST FORTY-THIRD STREET
CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE

August 30, 1932.

Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sirs:
Will you kindly send me a copy of the pension records for Revolutionary servcie of James Lane, of Grainger County, Tennessee, and William George, of Lincoln County, Tennessee; both pensioned under the Act of 1832.

Thanking you for your trouble, I am
Very truly Yours,

Penelope J. Allen

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Ponca City, Okla.
Feb. 6-1940

Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen,-
The Tennessee archives furnished one with this note - from a list of twenty four hundred pensioners - Revolution and War of 1812.
"William George - 1832 - list age 78 - also census of 1840 - served in the Virginia line -" He was living in Lincoln County, Tennessee.
Now my George family came from Lincoln Co. Tenn. and I am wondering if you could give me any data on this man, to whom his pension was paid, where, when, and date of last payment. Perhaps it will give something of his family. May I hear from you very soon? Thank you.
Mrs M.B. Biggerstaff.

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BA-J/MCS
William George, S.3390

Mrs. M. B. Biggerstaff
Ponca City
Oklahoma

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for information relative to  Revolutionary War soldier, William George, who served from Virginia and applied for pension while living in Lincoln County, Tennessee.

The data furnished herein were taken from papers on file in the pension claim, S.3390, based on military service of William George.

William George was born July 19, 1756, in Lancaster County, Virginia. the names of his parents are not shown.

While living in Frederick County, Virginia, he enlisted in February , 1778, served about ten months as private in Captain Fitzpatrick's company in Colonel John Helbertson's Virginia regiment and was in the battle of Monmouth.

He lived in Frederick County, Virginia, for five or six years after the Revolution and then moved to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton where he engaged in the fishing and boating business. About 1808 or 1809 he moved to Iredell County, North Carolina, where he lived until January. 1832, at which time he was living in Lincoln County, Tennessee.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 25, 1832, at which time he was living in Lincoln County, Tennessee. 

The papers in this claim contain no data relative to the family of William George.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension of William George, the name and address of the person paid and possibly the date of

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death of William George, it is suggested that you address the Comptroller General, Records Division, General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C., giving the following data:

William George, Certificate 19097, issued August 2, 1833, rate $33.33 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, West Tennessee Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator