Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10587, Benjamin Carroll, N.C.

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(3-2770)
Service 
N.C
Carroll, Benjamin 
Nancy 
Number 
W. 10587
Contents

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]
29.759
North Carolina
Benjamin Carroll
Orange in the State of No Ca:
who was a pr. in the [not filled in] commanded
by Captain [not filled in] of the [illegible] commanded
by Col [Colonel] Farmer in the No Ca:
line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina
at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of July: 35
and sent D.L. Barringer
H.R.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 34  _________ 280-
Semi-anl. Allowance ending Mar: 35  __ 40-
 ________________________________________ $320-
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Nath:Rice ~ Clerk,
Book E Vol. [illegible] Page 49

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Feb 14
[illegible] attention 
32.634
Admit as private 
2 years $80
Transferred to the War Department by request. 
Treasury Department 
14 Feb. 1855

Hon. D. L. Barringer 
HR 
Hon. D. L. Barringer 
HR

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State of North Carolina
Orange County
Court of Pleas and quarter sessions May Term 1833

Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
On this 30th day of May 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the court of
Pleas and quarter sessions now sitting Benjamin Carroll a resident of Orange County State of North Carolina aged about eighty 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 officers herein named and served as here Stated.
1st. That he was first drafted into the Militia for a Term of three months in the County of
Orange and was attached to a company commanded by Capt Etheldred Jones (commonly called Capt Dred Jones) of Wake County, Lieutenant Trent (who was by birth an Irish man) and marched to Deep River at a place called Bells Mill, from there to Salisbury. Thence to the Island ford on the Catawba, under a Col Farmer where he was in a slight skirmish with the British, and retreated to Torrence's Tavern where they were attacked By the British Cavalry, and retreated from Thence to the Adkin [Yadkin] River below Salisbury when he joined the main army under General Green -- Then on the retreat, that he was attached To the baggage guard and in a few days thereafter his term of service Expired and he returned home, he rec'd no written discharge.

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He cannot state the day or month when this First Tour commenced But thinks it was in The fall of the year 1780 and he returned Home in January or February 1781. 
2nd That in a few days after his return from His first Tour of service, he volunteered his service in the Militia and Joined a Col. [Colonel] Lock and was put under the command of a Capt [Captain] Whitesell and a Lieut [Lieutenant] Neil or McNeil and Joined the army of Genl [General] Green on the South side of Dan River with which he continued until The Battle of Guilford, he was in the Brigade commanded by Genl [General] Butler in That Battle which was dispersed and He returned home after a service of six weeks.
3rd Some Time in the Summer of 1781, the day not now recollected, he entered the service again as a substitute for a certain Samuel Hutchinson for a Tour of three months and was mustered under a Capt [Captain] John Watson in Orange County and marched to Salisbury N Carolina, there He was placed under a Capt [Captain] Merritt and a Lieutenant Lock and marched By Charlotte and the Waxhaws to Camden thence across the several branches of the Santee and finally to the Eutaw Springs and was in that Battle in Sept 1781, from there he returned to Camden in Guard of the British prisoners and thence to Salisbury where he

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was discharged by a Lieutenant Clark. 
4th That in the fall of the year 1781 he enlisted In a company commanded by a Capt [Captain] Clem Hall and was alternately commanded by Cols [Colonels] Armstrong, Dickson, Lytle, and Majors Donoho, Raeford and that said enlistment was For twelve months, in the County of Orange, and marched to Salisbury Charlotte, Ninety Six, and to a place Called the Pon Pons to Head quarters then to Bacons Bridge then To the High Hills of Ashly River where he continued until he was discharged -- in the Fall of 1782 the day and month not remembered -- having served his full time of twelve months – about 8 months of which he was a private and four months a waggoner in the commissarys service -- and that all His other services were in the rank of a Private. 
5th Shortly after his discharge and without having left the army he again entered The service and mustered for the war and continued at the High Hills under Genl [General] Green until the peace was proclaimed when he was discharged by a Capt [Captain] Mills – which he thinks was in The fall of 1783. he knows of no person by whom he can prove his service except as follows. Elijah Dollar served with him in his first Tour of three months. He knows of no one by whom he can prove his second Tour. James Dollar served with him his third Tour -- the muster roll shows his service in his 4th and fifth Tours.

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He relinquishes all claim to any other pension or annuity except the present and that his name
Is not on the pension roll of any state or Territory.
Sworn to and Subscribed This day and year aforesaid
Benjamin Carroll by X mark
J Taylor [illegible] [signature]
add below before Signature 
Answers of the Declarant to the several interrogatories prescribed by the war department
To the 1st he answers He supposes he was born In Orange County North Carolina being There from his earliest recollection, does not know in what year from family tradition he is in his eightieth year since last Christmas.
To the second. Has no record of his age – nor ever had one -- but derives his knowledge from the statements of his dec'd [deceased] mother.
To the 3rd He says he has always lived In Orange County and entered the service In each Tour in orange county except when he mustered for the war and then He was at the High Hills of Ashly River.
To the 4th he says he has stated how he entered the service in each Tour in the body of his declaration.
To the 5th He says he knew Capts [Captains] Dixon, Hall, Mills, Coleman and others. Majors Donoho, Raiford, Sharpe and others. Colns [Colonels] Armstrong, Dickson, Lytle, Malmedy (a Frenchman). Genls [Generals] Butler, Davidson, Morgan, Green. he has stated in his declaration such other matters as pertains to this Interrogatory.
To the sixth he says he had a discharge for

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The regular Service but has lost it, it was signed by Capt [Captain] Mills. He states that he is particularly Known to Thomas Bilbo & Wm [William] N Pratt, Justices of The Peace in his neighborhood.
Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day & year above
Benjamin Carroll X his mark
J Taylor [illegible] [signature]
We Thomas Bilbo and Wm [William] N Pratt residing in the County of Orange hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Benjamin Carroll who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe Him to be about Eighty years old, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur In that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
T Bilbo J.P. [signature]
W N Pratt J.P. [signature]
J Taylor [illegible] [signature]
Personally appeared in open court Elijah Dollar aged 73 years a soldier of the revolution who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath say, that he has known Benjamin Carroll the above declarant from boyhood, that he knew Him during the revolution and served a tour of three months with said Carroll in the Militia under Col [Colonel] Farmer and was with said Carroll at Torrance’s Tavern when attacked by The British Cavalry and believes him to have served the full Tour of three months.
Sworn to & subscribed In open court, date above
Elijah Dollar [signature]

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James Dollar a resident of Chatham County aged about 70 years, personally appeared in open court, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on His oath say, that he has known Benjamin Carroll the above declarant ever since he was a boy, that the said Carroll must now be about 80 years old, that he knew him in the service in The Revolution, and served with him a Tour of three months, first under Capt Watson & Then under Capt Merritt in the summer of 1781 and was with the said Carroll In the Battle of the Eutaw Spring, and Knows that said Carroll served out his Tour of three months. 
Sworn to & subscribed in open court the day & year above.
James Dollar X his mark
J Taylor [illegible] [signature]
And the said court do hereby declare their opinions, after the investigation of the matter, and after puting [putting] the interrogaries [interrogatories] prescribed by the War department, that The above named applicant was a soldier of the Revolution and served as so stated, and the Court further certifies that Thos [Thomas] Bilbo and Wm [William] N Pratt [illegible] and Elijah Dollar, resident of Orange County and James Dollar resident of Chatham County, who signed the above Certification and deposition, are residents as stated and that they are credible persons and that Their statements are entitled to credit.
W Montgomory J.P. [signature] Jn Trolinger J.P. [signature] [3rd illegible signature]

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I John Taylor Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Orange do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Said Court in the matter of the application of Benjamin Carroll for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of office, this 30th day of May 1833.
J Taylor Clerk [signature]

I have been long acquainted with Benjamin Carroll the above applicant and have no doubt of the truth of his statement in regard to his service having drawn his declaration, and examined him critically - his being an unlettered man - his general character for veracity is undisputed
D L Barringer [signature] [illegible]

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[left side of page]
[illegible]

[right side of page - typed form with handwritten responses]
North Carolina
Nancy Carroll widow of Benjn [Benjamin] Carroll who was a Private
in the Revolution N.C. Husband died 31 Jany [January] 1846
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars – Cents per annum, to commence on
the 31 day of Jany [January] 1846
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of August, 1848, and sent to Hon A. W. Venable Member of Congress

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[illegible]
Nancy Carroll
wo [widow] of Benjamin
NC
Act 7 July 1838
married 1786
husband died 31 Jany [January] 1846
Rejected
[illegible] Act 17 June 44
$80.00 per an [annum] [illegible]
31st January 1846
Hon A. W. Venable
Member of Congress

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State of North Carolina
Orange County

On this the 7 day of August - 1847 personally appeared before me William N Pratt one of the acting Justices of the Peace and a member of the County Court of the said County. Nancy Carroll a resident of the aforesaid County and state aged about Eighty one years who being duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain
the benefit of the act of congress passed on the 17th of June 1844 for the benefit of certain widows of Revolutionary soldiers.

That she is the widow of Benjamin Carroll of the said County who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and rec'd [received] [illegible] a pension (under the act of congress of 1832) of Eighty dollars per annum on the account of his service in the said war as will fully appear by reference to his papers on file in the pension office.

That she was married to the said Benjamin Carroll in the year of 1783 or 1784 -- in Wake County in the afforsaid [aforesaid] state - that she and the said Benjamin Carroll did live together [illegible] to his death which took place on Saturday 31st day January 1846 -- – That she has not since married but remains the widow of the said Benjamin Carroll.

Sworn to & subscribed on the date above
before me.
W. N. Pratt J.P. [signature]
Nancy Carroll X her mark

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I the said Justice of the peace certify that Nancy Carroll who has this day sworn and subscribed to the foregoing declaration is the Identical widow of Benjamin Carroll who was a pensioner as she stats [states]  -- I also certify that she is a person of truth and Respectability and further that she has not married since the death of the said husband but remains his widow.
Given under my hand on the aforesaid date
W. N. Pratt J.P. [signature]

State of No [North] Carolina
Orange County

I Jacob Peeler of the County & State Aforesaid do hereby certify that I am well and intimately acquainted with Nancy Carroll Widow of Benjamin Carroll dec'd [deceased] of the County & State aforesaid that I have Known her upwards of Sixty years that they were married together before Seventeenhundred and ninety four or at least they were living together as Husband & Wife before I was married and I have Been married upwards of forty five years. I make this Statement of my own personal Knowledge for She Nancy Carroll is my sister and I have Known her sixty or seventy years and I never herd [heard] anything said to the contrary but what they Said Benjamin Carroll & Nancy was lawfuly [lawfully] married in the County of Wake at the House of Christian Peeler in the year 1783 or 1784 by Magor [Major] Umphrey [illegible] of Said County and I further State that She is the Widow of Benjamin Carroll that is She has not married Since the death of her Husband Benjamin Carroll. Sworn to & subscribed before me. W N Pratt JP [signature] J Peeler [signature] Jacob Peeler [signature]

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I Jacob Peeler do further State of my own personally knowledge that I was at the marriage of the Said Benjamin Carroll and Nancy Peeler now the [crossed out: wife] Widdow of the Said Benjamin Carroll all though a boy I Remember it well for it toock [took] place in my Fathers House and they was Married as before Stated by one Magor [Major] Umphreys in the County of Wake N.C.
Sworn to and Subscribed before me
W N Pratt J.P. [signature] August 7th 1847- Jacob Peeler [signature]

State of No Carolina
Orange County

I William N. Pratt one of the Justices of the peace in and for the county & state aforesaid certify that I am well acquainted with Jacob Peeler he is a person of truth and his statements are Entitled to credit given under my hand this 7th August 1847
W N Pratt J.P. [signature]

I Joseph Allison Clerk of orange County do hereby Certify that I am well acquainted with Jacob Peeler and have been for a number of years and his Statement on oath or of oath is Entitled to Credit & Belief given under my hand this 23d day August 1847-
J Allison C.C.C. [signature]

Sworn to and subscribed before me day and date above written
Wmson [Williamson] Parrish J.P. [signature]

I the said Justice do hereby certify that the Declarant Nancy Carroll is an aged & infirm person and not able to attend Court to make her Declaration
W N Pratt J.P. [signature]

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State of North Carolina

I Joseph Allison Clerk of the Court of Pleas & quarter Sessions for Orange County, do hereby certify that the within Declaration of Nancy Carroll was duly submitted to the Court of Pleas & quarter Sessions of said County of Orange at the November term of said Court AD 1847 -- that the same was read examined & approved by said Court whereupon it was ordered that the Clerk so certify to the war Department

I further certify that William N Pratt & Williamson Parish are magistrates as stated within & that the within signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office & subscribed my name this 26th day of November AD 1847
J Allison CCC [signature]

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[typed form with handwritten responses]
N.C.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 10587
Nancy Carroll
Widow of
Benjn [Benjamin] Carroll
Priv [Private] Rev War
Act: June 17th /44 [1844]
Index:-- Vol. A Page 117
Arrangement of 1870.

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State of North Carolina

Know all men by these presents, I Christian Peeler am held and firmly bound unto his Excellency Richard Caswell, Esqr. Governor, Captain General, and Commander in Chief, and his successors in the sum of Five Hundred Pounds for the true payment thereof, we bind ourselves, and each of our heirs, executors and administrators, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals, and dated this thirteenth day of January Anno Domini 1786 (seventeen hundred & eighty six)

The Conditions of this obligation is such, that if Benjamin Carroll hath, the day and date of these presents, prayed and obtained a licence to solemnize the rites of matrimony between him and Nancy Peeler – Now if there shall not hereafter appear any lawful cause to obstruct the marriage, then this obligation to be void, or else to remain in full force & virtue

Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of John Cocke
Christian Peeler [signature] [circled: seal] X his mark

North Carolina
I Joseph Allison Clerk of the Court of Pleas & quarter sessions for Orange County do hereby certify that the above & foregoing is a true & perfect copy of the marriage bond of Benjamin Carroll to Nancy Carroll as the same appears of record in this office except the words "seventeen hundred & eighty six”

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In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court at office in Hillsborough this 17th July AD 1848
J Allison CCC [signature]

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owned
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10587

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[pre-printed form with handwritten responses]
2131
Revolutionary Claims.
Treasury Department
10 Jany [January] 1835.
Benjamin Carroll of [not entered] in the County of Orange in the State of North Carolina has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution", approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a private in captain Mills company, in the regiment of the North Carolina line, and that he [handwritten insert:  does not state whether he] received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778, and further, that he was not on the 15th of May 1828, on the Revolutionary pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3rd of March, 1826, nothing

The Third Auditor is requested to report him for the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
Exd Ref
[handwritten vertically] OK [illegible] 10587 [end vertical handwriting]

By order of the Secretary
Francis A Dickins [signature]

Treasury Department
[handwriting inserted] no record of [illegible] [end of insert]
Third Auditor's office
14th January 1835
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to [line struck out] It further appears that Benjamin Carroll is [handwritten insert: not] now on the pension list of [crossed out: the] any agency, and has [handwritten insert: not] been so since the 3rd March 1826 [crossed out: in the state of] The name of Benjamin Carroll does not appear among those of the North Carolina line to whom certificates for the reward of Eighty Dollars were issued -
Peter Hagner Aud [signature]

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Department of War
Bounty Land Office
Jany [January] 15 1835
The name of Benjamin Carroll, is not returned on the records of the North Carolina line on file in this office among those, entitled to bounty land from the U. States; nor does it appear that a Land Warrant was issued in his name --
Wm [William] Gordon [signature]

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Recd [Received] 8 January 1835
2131
State of North Carolina
Secretary of State’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 Benjamin Carroll a private soldier in Capt [Captain] Hall's company of the 10th Regiment enlisted in the year 1781,
for the term of 12 months and left the service on the 10th day of November 1782, and was mustered again for the War in January 1782.

Given under my hand
this 25th March 1833
W Hill [signature]

I do hereby certify that the above certificate was signed by William Hill Secretary of State, and that there is no seal of his office
D L Barringer [signature]
Mem [Member] of 22nd Congress

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Pension Office
June 29th, 1848

Sir,

I have the honor to return herewith, Mr. Pratts letter, and to inform you that the papers in the
case of Nancy Carroll, widow of Benjamin Carroll, have been examined and filed.

The service of claimant's husband is admitted, but the evidence as their regard their marriage does not shew [show] to the satisfaction of this Department that it took place prior to 1794. The proof upon this point Consists entirely of the affidavit of a single witness, who has not shown by any well remembered fact associated with that event, the date upon which his recollection of the date thereof is based. If no record or documentary proof can be obtained,  the testimony of Jacob Peeler should he supported by the affidavits of other Witnesses

I have the honor to be
Very respectfully,
Your Obt. [Obedient] Servt. [Servant]
J L Edwards [signature]

Hon. A. W. Venable,
House of Representatives

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Prattsburg orange County N.C. July 18th 1848

Dear Sir

I am able to send you the proof the Department or Commisioner of pensions Requests that is the Marriage Bond of Benjamin Carroll to Nancy Peeler in the year 1786 the oald [old] lady was mistaken in saying she was married in Wake County it was in orange she was married as appears from the Bond there filed. I hoop [hope] you will do me the Kindness to attend to the Micha
Horn case for me as well as this and send me the certificates as soon as they can be obtained. I want you to attend to the Micha Horn case particularly and if you can procure a certificate for the same you shall be well paid for your trouble pleas [please] send me a pamphlet or the act of congress with regard to the Mexican soldiers [illegible] as there is a good many In my neighbourhood that wants to sell their Claim and I want to know in what weigh they can draw their money or land and if died in the service who is to claim it and to whom the 1st Soldier's claim is due

I am Yours [illegible]
W N Pratt [signature]

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(8 - 1770)

SERVICE
N.C.

Carroll, Benjamin Nancy

NUMBER 
W.10587

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Commissioner of Pensions

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[illegible]
23 [illegible] 1848

Enclosed I send you the papers of Nancy
Carroll for a pension [illegible] please attend

[illegible signature]

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Benjamin Carroll NC. Act 7 June 1832 $80.00
To what time was he last paid
[illegible signature]

Pension Office
August 14 1848

Died 31st Jan. 1846
Paid to his death
[illegible signature]

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N 13673
Nancy Carroll
NC
[illegible] Hon A. W. Venable
June 29 '48
Act 7 July 1838

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State of North Carolina
Wake County 
I James T. Marriot Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of Wake aforesaid do hereby certify that the marriage bond of Benjamin Carroll to Nancy Peeler cannot be found in my office. diligent search has been made several times.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said court and subscribed my name at office the first day of Augt [August] 1847

James T. Marriott [signature] Clerk
of Wake County Court