Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1197, Mastin Durham, N.C.

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SERVICE                                                                                   
N. C.                           
Durham, Mastin                                 
Number
S 1197

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9392
Kentucky
Mastin Durham
of Wayne Co in the State of Kentucky
who was a pr in the Co commanded
by Captain Keye [?] of the regt commanded
by Col Isaacs in the NC
line for 6 Mla [?]

Inscribed on the Roll of Kent
at the rate of 20 Dollars -- Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of Sept
1833 and [illegible]
Simpson Monticello
Arrears to the 4th of March 40.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 10.00
50.00

[braces] Revolutionary Claim;
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Dan'l Boyd Clerk,
Book E Vol. 7 Pa

[right half of document]
See letter 2 Feby 1835
to Wm. N. Boats

See letter 6 Dec 36
[illegible] Williams copies of
papers no 1 & 2 sent to same
Dec 12 1836
let: 15 June 1839
W. Simpson Clerk

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9461
Mastin Durham
[illegible] 1 July 1780
6 months
5.10.15.16
[illegible] 20.1.7.

[crossed out words]

See letter Oct 31st, 32 to
Wm. Simpson
Monticillo
Ky:

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9461
BRIEF in the case of Mastin Durham
County of Wayne in the State of Kentucky
(Act 7 June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge: Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 77
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.                                Duration of Service.                          Rank              Names of General and Field Officers
                                                                                                                                          under whom he served.
[left hand margin partially cut off]

                                                Years, Months, Days.                      As a                Gen.
In 1779                                                                                                 private          Capt Jno. Keye
enrolled in the
[m]ilitia                                                                                                                        Capt Barton. Col Isaac,
was drafted in Service    time not stated                                                       Col. B. Cleaveland-- Ca [rest cut off]
                                                                                                                                        Wm. Campbell [illegible]

5. In what battles was he engaged? none mentioned
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Wilkes County N.C.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence,
by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? 2 Witnisses & Traditionary
written
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? There is
no official Seal nor certificate of any member
of Congress
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case 
above mentioned.

T. Waugh Examining Clerk.

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State of Kentucky, County of Wayne On the 24th day of August A.D.1832 personally appeared in Open Court before the Justices of the Court of the County aforesaid now sitting Mastin Durham a resident citizen of the United States in the County of Wayne & State of Kentucky aged Seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following amended 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 & served as herein stated.  He was born in the County of Hanover Virginia in the year 1755.  In the year 1779 he removed to the County of Wilkes in the year State of North Carolina & was in the same year enrolled in the Company of North Carolina Militia in said Wilkes County commanded by Captain John Keye & when the Company was classed off he thinks he fell in the 4th Division & in the latter part of the Summer of the same year there was a call made for one man out of each class or division of the Company to volunteer or Draft into the Continental service for Twelve months.  The class to which this Declarant belonged held a certain John Higgins to go & served the tour & they gave him One hundred and thirty Dollars.  This declarant's part of which he paid in a horse beast.  In the Fall of the same year, he removed to what was called the Coffey Settlement in the said County of Wilkes on the head of the Adkin River & was soon enrolled in the Company of Militia commanded by Captain John Barton and in the month of June or about the first of July in the year 1780 he was drafted into the service of the United States in the militia of North Carolina in the Fort Company Commanded by Captain John Barton,

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Elijah J. Isaacks being Colonel & marched down to Frohawk's mill and there joined the Main Army under General Rutherford.  He then marched with the Army to the mouth of Rocky River at old Colston's where they joined the Army under General Gates.  There then came an express for thirty men to be sent back to surprise the Tories in Wilkes and Burke Counties North Carolina & he with 25 or 30 others were sent back under Lieutenant Archer Allan.  He then joined the horse Company under Captain Moses Guest, Thomas Ferguson Lieutenant & Benjamin Guest Ensign.  He went with said horse Company from place to place wherever & whenever called upon.  The number of routes against the Tories he cannot now distinctly recollect.  He marched from the head of the Yadkin down to the Shallow Ford once to Moravian Town twice to Hamilton's Old Store, once to Long Thumbed Williams' under Colonel Benjamin Hearndon, once to Major Lewis' on the Yadkin once to Roan River, once to Major Givins' down the Yadkin, once to Thomas Baines', several times to Morgan Town in the County of Burke, to Cryder's Fort to Mathew Shump's, & the rich lands on the head of the Yadkin & to many other places about & through the Counties of Wilkes and Burke & sometime in the month of September 1780 Col. Benjamin Cleveland of the Militia of North Carolina gathered his forces together at Cryder's Fort & there this Deponent joined him & marched for King's Mountain he thinks they joined Col. William Campbell's Regiment at a place called Cowpens.  He then marched with the Army through a part of South Carolina down to the South of Green River & there he lost his horse & was turned into the Footmen under the command of Colonel Richard Allan & marched with them until they came to a place called Colston's old field & they then [illegible] the [illegible]

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with prisoners.  He joined his old company again and marched up the Country to Colonel Walker's in Rutherford County where the officers held a Court martial.  They then marched about 3 miles to a Widow Biggerstaff's where they hanged nine of the Leaders of the Tories.  They then started with the rest of them to Moravian Town.  He then marched about from one place to another until after February 1781 & then started for Guilford.  After the battle at that place he returned home.  By reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory he is unable to state precisely the length of his whole service but according to the best of his recollection it was about 18 months.  He obtained no written discharge & has no evidence by which he can prove his service except the testimony of Reuben Coffey & Levi Coffey. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present & he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any State by whom he believes he can prove that he was engaged in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War.  He resided in North Carolina until after the War & has been living in Wayne County Kentucky ever since the year 1811 - he has an old Bible in which is written the time of his birth.  He is known to the following persons who reside in his neighborhood & who will testify as to his character for veracity, viz.: Abel Shrewsberry, Rodger Oatts , J. Scllilles [?] [illegible]. He hereby relinquishes every Claim Whatever to a Pension or an Annuirty except the Present & he declares that
is not on the pension or roll of any Agency in Any State.

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid. 
Mastin Durham

We Francis P. Kline [?] a clergy man residing in the County of 
Wayne and State of Kentucky  and Rhodes Garth
residing in the same County hereby certify that we are 
well acquainted with Mastin Durham who has

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Subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that one believe him to be 77 years of age that he is [illegible][illegible] in the neighborhood. [illegible][illegible] to have been a soldier of the Revolution [illegible][illegible] concur in the same opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed the Day and Year aforesaid
Francis P Stone
Rodes Garth
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after [illegible] the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department and hearing the testimony of Reuben Coffey and Louis Coffey and doth who state they are between __ and __ years of age and that they know that the above named Mastin Durham was a soldier of the Revolution and served as above state and also the Statements of Abel Shrewsbury. Roger Oatty, John S Mills, James Jones, and Thomas Moody who reside in the neighborhood of the said Mastin Durham who declare on oath that the said Mastin Durham is [illegible] of good character for [illegible] and that they believe he was a soldier of the Revolution that the above named applicant was a soldier of the Revolution served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appear to them that Francis P Stone who signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of [illegible] and State of Kentucky and that Rodes, Garth who has also signed the same is a resident in the County of [illegible] and State of Kentucky and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I William Simpson, clerk of the County Court of the County of Wayne do hereby certify that the foregoing conclusions the assigned and amended proceedings id the said court in the matter of the application of Mastin Durham for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto let my hand and seal of Office this 20th day of June 1833.
William Simpson, Clerk
Of Wayne County Ct
Mastin Durham

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INVALID [handwritten in upper right margin] Rev War [illegible initials]
File No. 1197
Mastin Durham
Priv. N. C. Line
Act June 7, 1832
Index:--Vol. A, Page 103
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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[left half of document
Mastin Durham
Dec. 20 1836
Refd to the Committee or
Revolutionary Claims
Jany. 17th 1837
Comr dischd to lie

Crsing 19. ry to lis

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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
Mastin Durham which require further
proof or explanation.
1.  does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes.
2.  did the declarant cross out words declaration in the county where he resides? Yes 
3. if the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? [Squiggly line] 
4.  has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes 
5.  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 Dept to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? No
6.  has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes
7.  has he made a relinquishment of of every claim to any other pension than the one under the act of June 7, 1832? Yes
8.  has the court given their opinion? Yes 
9.  has the clerk given his certificate? Yes 
10. 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? No

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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 ? yr
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it P
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Yy
XIV. If the applicant had produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? Yy
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 applicant’s service? NO
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 1st-7th

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I HEREBY certify, that the accompanying pages numbered from one to four, inclusive, are truly copied from the originals in the Office of the Commissioner of Pensions, Department of War.
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

BE IT REMEMBERED, That James L. Edwards, who has signed the foregoing certificate, is Commissioner of Pensions; and that to his attestations full faith and credit are and out to be given.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the seal of the Department to be affixed on this tenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty six.
D.F. Butler
Secretary of War, ad interim

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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directions the pension to be paid according to the grade of pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
Quere XIV. Proof of Service
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the company and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses and the affidavits must be properly authenticated, as above.
Quere XVI. Mode of authenticating papers
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
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In every case where the clerk of the Court or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of [illegible] proving the official character and [illegible] of the certifying officer should such with the papers.

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Washington Dec. 5th 1836
House of Representatives
Peter. Hagour [?] Esq
     Sir will
you be so good as to
examine your office
and see whether or not
Col. Bealy [illegible] for
P [rest illegible] filed in your
office any papers in the
name of Mastin Durham
for an increase of Pension
and if he did enclose them
to me.
Yours respectfully
Sherrod Williams

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Hon. Sherrod Williams
Recd 6 Dec 36
Ansd Same hour
and informed of references
M-- at--

Martin Durham
[crossed out word] Pensioner
19392

Respectfully Referred to
the Commissioner of
Pensions-- War Depart.
Rcd [illegible] office
Dec. 6, 1836

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Peter Hagner Esq.
Third auditors
Office
Treasury department

Mastin Durham Rcd 6, 1835

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Washington Dec. 5th 1836
House of Representatives
Peter. Hagour [?] Esq
     Sir will
you be so good as to
examine your office
and see whether or not
Col. Bealy [illegible] for
P [rest illegible] filed in your
office any papers in the
name of Mastin Durham
for an increase of Pension
and if he did enclose them
to me.
Yours respectfully
Sherrod Williams

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House of Rep Dec 7th, 1836
J. L. Edwards Esq
Sir,
Your [illegible] of yesterday was recd. This morning in [illegible] to papers [illegible] in your office in the name of Mastin Durham for an increase of pension you will be so good [illegible] to have the papers. That ask for an increase of Pension copied and enclosed to mi.
Yours respectfully
Sherrod Williams

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Dec 8
Mastin Durham
JL Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Dn Wlliams 
RR

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State of Kentucky Wayne County On this 24th day of November 1834 personally appeared in open court before the court of Wayne County now sitting Mastin Durham a resident of said County of Wayne and State aforesaid aged 79 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 Reuben Coffey.
following named officers and served as herein stated. He states that he was drafted into the  service of the United States in the year 1780 and served three months in Captain John Barton's company the Regiment was commanded by Elisha Isaacs during which three months he was constantly employed in active service against the Tories. He further states that immediately after the expiration of the said three months service he volunteered into the service as a private in Captain Moses Guess's company of mounted men for six months and was kept in constant & active service during the whole six months at the end of said six months he states

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that he again volunteered into the service for three months longer and continued in the service till the end of the war during which service he was marched to join General Gates but did not reach him till he was defeated. We then marched against the Tories and were continually kept marching and counter marching protecting the Whigs from the depredations which the Tories & British were constantly making upon them all along the frontier settlements. He further states that when he made out his former declaration old age and the length of time that had elapsed since the revolutionary war made him cautious in his statements as to the length of time he had been in service and only made application for six months service since then he has conversed with old Mr. Rueben Coffee who served with him in the war of the revolution and  who is now drawing a pension for 12 months service in said war and whose deposition or affidavit is hereunto annexed proving the length of the service of this applicant in which he hopes will be considered satisfactory to the department that his claim to an additional allowance is just -- he receives

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now but for six months service when he is
justly entitled to pay for twelve months he
wishes therefore that this may be made a
part of his former declaration.
Sworn to and subscribed
Mastin Durham

We Able Shrewsbury and Frances P. Stone
residing in the Town of Monticello in the
State of Kentucky and county of Wayne hereby
certify that we are well acquainted with
the above named Mastin Durham who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration
that we believe him to be seventy nine
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. Sworn
to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Abel Shrewsbury
And the said court Frances P. Stone
do hereby declare their opinion after the [illegible]
legation of the matter and after [illegible] the intero-
gation prescribed by the War department that the
above named applicant was a Revolutionary

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Soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to been that Francis P. Stone who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Wayne. And that Abel Shrewsbury who has also signed the same is a resident in the County of Wayne and State of Kentucky and is an credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I William Simpson clerk of the Court of Wayne County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the awarded proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Mastin Durham for a pension.
The testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand and seal of office this 27th November One thousand eight hundred and thirty four.
William Simpson Clerk
Of the Court of Wayne County

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State of Kentucky 
County of Wayne
On this day of August AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the Court of the County aforesaid [illegible] Mastin Durham a resident citizen of the United States in the County of Wayne and State of Kentucky aged 77 years who being just 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 heunto states. He was born in the County of Hannover Virginia in the year 1755 in the year 1779 he moved to the County of [illegible] in the State of North Carolina and was in the same year of 1779 enrolled [illegible] in the Company of North Carolina(Milton) in [illegible] County. Commanded by Captain John Keye and when the company was [illegible] off he think he fell in the 4th Division and in the latter part of the summer of same year there was call made from [illegible][illegible] of each [illegible] division of the company to volunteer a [illegible] into the Continental service for [illegible]. [illegible] I know not which [illegible] the class which he belonged [illegible] a certain John Higgins to go serve the term and they [illegible] one hundred and thirty dollars this claimant [illegible] of which he pension a [illegible][illegible]. In the Fall of the same year he proved to what was called the Coffey [illegible] in the smae County of [illegible] on the head of the [illegible] River and was [illegible] in the Company of [illegible][illegible] by Captain John Barton and in the month of June in the year 1780 he was drafted into the service of the United States in

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the Militia of North Carolina in the Ford Company 
Commanded [illegible] Captain John Barton--Elisha J 
Isaacks being Colonel & Marched down to Frohawks 
Mill & there joined the Main Army under General 
Rutherford. he then Marched with the army to the 
mouth of Rocky river at One Calstens where they 
joined the Army under Gen Gates there then came an 
express for men to be sent back to Surprise 
the Jones in Wilkes and Burke Counties N C 
& he with twenty five or thirty Others were sent 
back under Lieutenant Archer Allin-- He 
then joined the horse Company under under [sic] Captain 
Moses Guess Thomas Ferguson Lieutenant and 
Benjamin Guess Ensign--he went with 20 horse 
Company from place to place Wherever & whenever 
called upon--the Members of [illegible] Against the Lines 
he cannot now distinctly recollect--He Marched 
from the head of the Yadkin down to the Shallow 
ford--Once to the Moravan [Moravian] Lawn Twice to 
Hamblis Old Store Once to Long thumbd Williams S- 
under Col Benj. Hearndon Once to Major 
Lewis on the Yadkin Once to Rorein [Roaring?] River Once 
to Major Lewis down the Yadkin and to 
Thomas Painer-several times to Morgan Town--in 
the County of Burke to Cryden Flat--to Mechaw
Shamps & the rich land on the head of the Yadkin 
& to several Other Places about through the Counties 
of Wilkes Burke NC Some time in the month of 
September 1780 Colonel Benjamin Cleveland 
of the Militia of North Carolina gathered his 
Forc. together at Cryden Flat & there he with 
others joined him & marched for Kings Mountain

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& he thinks they joined Col William Campbell's 
regiment at a place called Cawpens : he then 
Marched with the Army through a part of South Caro
-lina down to the Mouth of Green River & then he 
lost his horse & was turned into the Footman under 
the Command of Col Richard Allan & marched with 
them until they came to a place called Cotstens old 
field & there we met the Horseman with Prisoners 
& he joined his old Company again & marched up the 
Country to Col Walker in Rutherford County where 
the officers held a Court Martial--they then marched 
about three mile to a [illegible] Beggestaff where 
they hanged nine of^ the leaders of the Tories they then 
started with the rest of them for Moraven [Moravian?] Tavern 
he then Marched about from one place to another 
until after February 1781. & then started for 
Guilford after the battle at which place he 
returned home his Whole term of service being 
about between 12 & 18 months--he obtained no 
written discharge thus no evidence by which 
he can prove his Service except the Testimony 
of ["Reuben" crossed out] Lewis Coffey and Reuben Coffy by whom he believes he 
can prove that he was engaged in the Service 
he remained in North Carolina until after the war 
& has been living in Kentucky in Wayne ever 
since the year 1811--

He hereby relinquishes every claim Whatever to a 
pension or an annuity except the present & he 
declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of any 
Agency in Any state
	Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
	[signature] Mastin Durham

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We William Summers a Clergyman residing in the 
County of Wayne and State of Kentucky & Hiram 
Gregory residing in the same County hereby 
certify that we are well Acquainted with the ["Zachariah" crossed out] 
Mastin Durham who has subscribed and sworn 
to the above Declaration that we believe him to be 
77 years of age that he is reputed and believed in 
the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a 
soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in 
the same Opinion
	[signature] Wm Summers
	[signature Hiram Gregory
	Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after 
the investigation of the matter and hearing the Statement 
of Lewis Coffey & Reuben Coffey two credible and 
reputable persons who state on their oath that the 
[obscured] Mastin Durham was a Revolutionary 
Soldier and served as he States in the foregoing 
declaration, 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 ["James Sear" crossed out] William Summers who 
has Signed the preceeding certificate is a clergy 
man resident in the County of Wayne and 
State of Kentucky and that Hiram Gregory 
who has also Signed the Same is a resident in 
the County of Wayne and State of Kentucky and 
is a credible person and that their statement is 
entitled to credit
I William Simpson Clerk of the County Court of Wayne County do hereby 
certify that the foregoing contains the original preceedings of the 
said Court in the matter of the application of Mastin 
Durham for a pension Per Testimony whereof I have here 
unto set my hand and affixed my private Seal 
having no Seal of office as yet provided this 27 
day of August 1832
	[signature] Wm Simpson Clk
[lower left hand drawn seal "LS"]

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State of Kentucky Wayne County
On this 24th day of November 1834 personally appeared in open court before the court of Wayne County Court now setting Martin Durham a resident of said County of Wayne and state aforesaid aged 79 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 an served as herein stated. He states that he was drafted into the service of the united States in the year 1780 and served three months in Capt John Bectons Company the regiment was commanded by Elisha Isaacs during which three months he was constantly employed in active serve against the Loris. He further states that immediately after the expiration of the said three months service he volunteered into the service as a private in Capt. Moses Guess company of mounted men for six months and was kept in constant and active service during the whole six months at the end of the said six months he states that he again volunteered into the service for three months longer and continued in the service till the end of the war during which service he was marched to join Genl Gates but did not reach him till he was defeated we then were marched against the Loris and was continually kept marching and counter marching protecting the Whigs from the deposition which the Loris and British were constantly making upon them all along the frontier settlements. He further states that when he made out his former declaration old age and the length of time that has elapsed since

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The revolutionary war made him cautious in his statements as to the length of time he had been in the service and only made application for six months service since then he has conversed with old Mr. Reuben Coffy who served with him in the war of the Revolution and who is now drawing a pension for twelve months service in said war and whose deposition or affidavit is hereunto annexed paring the length of the service of this applicant and which he hopes will be considered satisfactory to the department that his claim to an additional allowance is just he receives now but for six months service when he is justly entitled to pau for twelve months he wishes therefore that this may be made a part of his former dictation.
Sworn to and subscribed 
Mastin Durham
We Able Shrewsbury and Francis P. Stone residing in the town of Monticello in the state of Kentucky and County of Wayne hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the above named Mastin Durham who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe hi to be seventy nine years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Able Shrewsbury
And the said Court Francis P. Stone 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 Francis P. Stone who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the county of Wayne and that Able Shrewsbury who has also signed

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The same is a resident in the County of Wayne and State of Kentucky and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I William Simpson clerk of the Court of Wane County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the amended proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Mastin Durham for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 27th November one thousand eight hundred and thirty four.
William Simpson clerk of the Court of Wayne County 
The Deposition of Ruban Coffey taken at the home of sade Coffey in Wayne County Kentucky on the 28 day of October 1834 agreeable to the request of sade Mastin Durham the Deponante Being of Lawful age and first duly sworn Deposeth and sath as follows to wit I was well acquainted with Mastin Durham in Lime of the old Revolution War and to the best of my recollection he served as privit twelve months or more in the company of Capt John Barton and Capt Moses Guess Captain we wore together in several Campaigns against the enemy and further this Deporant sayeth not subscribed Reuben Coffey the foregoing deposition of Ruban Coffey was this day taken subscribed and sworn to by the sade Ruban Coffey Before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace for Wayne County at the time and year above mentioned in the Capsion given under my hand this 28 Day of October 1834.
Jos Oatts Jp

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State of Kentucky
Wayne County Court SS
I William Simpson clerk of the Court of Wayne County do hereby certify that Joshua Oatts Esq whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was at the time of signing the same is yet an acting Justice of the peace in said county duly commissioned and sworn according to law and that his signature is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 27th Nov 1834
William Simpson Clerk
Of the Court of Wayne County

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State of Kentucky Wayne 
County Court Dec 24th 1838
Mastin Durham application for additional compensation upon an amended Declaration as follows, The said Mastin Durham appeared in open court now sitting who is a resident of said County of Wayne and state aforesaid aged in my 84 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following additional Declaration in order to increase his compensation under 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 here in stated.
He states that he was drafted in the service of the United States in the year 1780 in Wilks County North Carolina and served three months in Capt John Bartons company, the Regiment commanded by Elisha Isaacs during which service he was constantly employed in active service against the Louis. He further states that immediately after the expiration of the said three months service. The Loris and the British mustered so strong and true robbing and killing all over that part of the country that he again volunteered in the service of the United States as a mounted man

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And a private in Captain Moses Guesses Company of mounted men for another tour of three months in first underground at [illegible][illegible][illegible] in Bunk County and marched under Col. Benjamin Cleaveland and marched towards King Mountain following the trail of the British and Loris and after the Battle of Kings Mountain and Ferguson and the [illegible] were defeated we marched back with the prisons to old Col Walkins where we marched to the widow Bickerstaff when was held account [illegible], and i think 39 of the tries were condemned to be hung. But only nine of them was hung at that time.
About this time am volunteering for said town of [illegible][illegible][illegible] out and the British and Lories pushing so hard in every quarter we were [illegible] [illegible] to and requested to volunteer another tour of three months without returning home. Amid all in nowly all the [illegible] company volunteered [illegible] and Captain Moses Guess with myself another [illegible] of three months.
We then marched with and under our offices to the [illegible][illegible] with cell [illegible] prisoners where we met with another Body of [illegible] who took them and as I [illegible] marched

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Towards the barracks in Virginia byt we were ordered back towards Hamlins old Stone and marched there. Thence to Maya Lewis [illegible] to Mayor [illegible]. [illegible] into the Richlands and many other places [illegible] Bink Wilks and Ash County pushing the Loris and retaking the Henson regions and property that they robbed from the whiss. And about this time the country being all in arms robbing and killing and tour was again out of said three months. And I’m there again appealed to an [illegible] and friends to on country not to dissent on post at this trying [illegible]. And I again volunteered for another tour of three months under the said Captain Moses Guess as a private smith this greater part of an company in about which time Col or Gen Wallace [illegible] with his army we pursued him to the battle of Guilford and after I my Captain and Company was ordered spendily back to suppress this tries who [illegible] gatherings in [illegible] in the Counties of Wilks and Burk and on Quaker Creak and the Catawta have [illegible][illegible] [illegible] the tries till [illegible] time or [illegible] of said three months was again out and this [illegible] being mety much [illegible] retired me returned home in and out the surrender of Yorktown. Very weak and exhausted were all verbally discharged buy our Captain and officers and we were glad of it. But had no written discharges as I know of in my declaration first made out my [illegible]

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[illegible] was to state how long I was in service not so much as to [illegible][illegible][illegible] in particular. I then stated I was out for months on [illegible] but [illegible] to my best recollections this statement I have [illegible] to make more [illegible] and correct to suit this several towns. I am old [illegible] and very [illegible].
I am now a pensioner for six months for which I am thankful but sincerely think I might to [illegible] additional pension of six months more or in all 12 months which i respectfully claim of this war department of the United States. This my additional statement to obtain it sworn to and subscribed.
Mastin Durham
[illegible pencil writing]
State of Kentucky
Wayne County Court
I William Simpson clerk of the Court of Wayne County do hereby certify that the foregoing [illegible] the amended proceedings of said court in the matter of [illegible] application for additional compensation for a pension in testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal of office this 24th day of December 1838.
W Simpson clerk
Of Wayne County Court

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The same is a resident in the County of Wayne and State of Kentucky and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I William Simpson clerk of the Court of Wane County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the amended proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Mastin Durham for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 27th November one thousand eight hundred and thirty four.
William Simpson clerk of the Court of Wayne County 
The Deposition of Ruban Coffey taken at the home of sade Coffey in Wayne County Kentucky on the 28 day of October 1834 agreeable to the request of sade Mastin Durham the Deponante Being of Lawful age and first duly sworn Deposeth and sath as follows to wit I was well acquainted with Mastin Durham in Lime of the old Revolution War and to the best of my recollection he served as privit twelve months or more in the company of Capt John Barton and Capt Moses Guess Captain we wore together in several Campaigns against the enemy and further this Deporant sayeth not subscribed Reuben Coffey the foregoing deposition of Ruban Coffey was this day taken subscribed and sworn to by the sade Ruban Coffey Before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace for Wayne County at the time and year above mentioned in the Capsion given under my hand this 28 Day of October 1834.
Jos Oatts Jp

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State of Kentucky
Wayne County Court
I William Simpson clerk of the Court of Wayne County do hereby certy that Joshua Oatt Esq whose named in subscribed to the foregoing certificate was at the time of signing the same and is yet an acting Justice of the peace in said county duly commissioned and sworn according to Law and that his signature is genuine.
In testimony, whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 27th Nov 1834.
William Simpson clerk
Of the Court of Wayne County
M Beaty
Jan 31