Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,506, Isaac Furgurson, Va.

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Service
Va.

Furgurson, Isaac
Nancy

NUMBER
R.3,506

CONTENTS

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19.358
West Tennessee
Isaac Furgurson
of Williamson Co. in the State of Tennessee
who was a private[ in the company commanded
by Captain Turner of the reg't commanded
by Maj. Nelson in the Virg'a Mila
for 9 months from 1779

Inscribed on the Roll of Tennessee
at the rate of 30 Dollars ---cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of August 1833 and sent to Thomas 
[for?] service. Franklin.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $ 60
semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept ''15
                                                           -----
                                                          $75 -

Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832


Recorded by [Wm?] Allison clerk
Book E Vol 7 Page 78

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State of Tennessee Circuit Court for said County
Williamson County July Term AD 1843

On this twentieth day of July AD 1843
personally appeared here in open court before the
Honorable Samuel Adams Nancy Furgurson a resident of the said County of Williamson aged near eighty years who being first dully sworn according to law doth make on her oath the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision [illegible] the
act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled "An Act and the other acts of Congress granting pensions to widows granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That she is the widow of Isaac Furgurson who was a private in the army of the revolution in the State of Virginia, and whose name is upon the pension roll for the Agency of that Tennessee, as a revolutionary pensioner having been placed there in the year 1833 as appears from the original pension certificate which is now in her possession and which is dated the 28th day of August AD 1833; a copy of the same is here to appended as marked A. and made a part of this declaration; that the said Isaac Furgurson served several tours of duty as a private in the Virginia troops as she always understood from him in his lifetime. She understood from him he lived in the County of Halifax in the State of Virginia when he entered the service and he had served a tour of nine months before his intermarriage with her. After their intermarriage, he served an other tour of six months. He entered the service this last time in said County of Halifax sometime in the early part of the year 1781. the declarant is unable to give a detailed statement of the incidents and events of the several tours of service of said Isaac Furgurson. But she supposed such incidents and events are fully stated in the declaration of said Isaac Ferguson which is now on file in the proper office

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She further declares that she was married to said Isaac Furgurson on the 27th day of October 1779 in the said County of Halifax in the State of Virginia and that her said husband died on the 2nd day of September AD1841 in the said County of Williamson. The only records she has or knows of of her marriage with said Isaac Furgurson is an entry in their family bible which entry is in the following words and figures to wit "Isaac Furguson & his wife Nancy was married October 27th 1779" This entry is, as the declarant believes in the hand write of said Isaac Fururson. She further declares she was married to said Isaac Furgurson before he performed his last tour of service and previous to the first of January 1794 viz. at the time above stated and she removed with her said husband from Halifax County in the State of Virginia in the year 1806 and settled in said County of Williamson in which county she continued to live with her said husband until his death at the time above stated and where she still resides. She further declares that she has never intermarried with any other since the death of her said husband but has
remained and still is a widow, and that, her said marriage with said Isaac Furgurson took place before he performed his last tour of service above mentioned

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before Mark L Andrews Clerk of said circuit court for said County of Williamson in open Court

Nancy Furgurson X her mark

M. L. Andrews clk C

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We George W. Barker, Joseph Burnett & William S. Stevenson residing in the said County of Williamson in the State of Tennessee hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nancy Furguson who has sworn to and subscribed the above declaration that we were well acquainted with her late husband Isaac Furguson in his lifetime that she and said Isaac Furguson lived together and raised a family as husband and wife and were always so reported in the neighborhood of their residence and we believe their reports to have been so. We further certify that the said Nancy Furguson is a woman of good moral character and full faith and credit is due to her statements
Sworn to & Subscribed in open Court 24.th July 1843 
M L Andrews Clerk

Jos. Burnett
G. W. Barker
Wm A Stephenson

And the said Court hereby certifies that it appears to them that the said Nancy Furgusson (sic) is the widow of the late Isaac Furgusson. And the said Court further certifies that it appears to them that George W. Barker, Joseph Burnett & William Stevenson who have signed this preceeding certificate are credible persons residents in said County of Williamson and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Given under my hand this 20.th day of July 1843. 
S. Anderson
Judge presiding
Williamson County
Tennessee

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(A)
War Department
Revolutionary Claims

I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832 Isaac Furguson of the Agency of West Tennessee who was a private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive thirty dollars and    cents per annum during his natural life commencing on the 4th of March 1831 and payable semi annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year. 

Given at the War office of the United STates the 28th day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
Lew Cass
Secretary of War"
Examined and countersigned
Geo. W. Crump
Acting Commissioner of Pensions

I Mark L. Andres clerk of the Circuit Court for said county of Williamson do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Nancy Furgusson for the benefit of the provision made by the several acts of Congress for the widows of Revolutionary soldiers. I further certify that the words" and other acts of Congress granting pensions to widows" were inserted and unterlined before the declaration signed the declaration. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 20.th day of July AD 1843.
M. L. Andrews

(written sideways on page) 9314

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Isaac Furgurson's
Declaration
12,324

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(this page is so faded as to make all but a few words illegible)
State of Tennessee}
Williamson County} 
this 7.st day of Sept [illegible]1832 [illegible] a resident of said County, [illegible] according to law [illegible] 20th [illegible] as a volunteer under  [illegible] Governor Davidson [illegible] had {illegible] with the company against [illegible] here the company to which he belonged [illegible] collected from the [illegible] After this [illegible] were stationed at these fortifications while the [illegible]  moved over the river in order to cross and move up and attack the british at a given time. At the time appointed the artillery were stationed at the [illegible] commenced the cannonade [illegible] but from accident the men who had gone before did not cross  [illegible]

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enough to command a simultaneous attack and the British retreated without sustaining much damage. Our artillery Capt. in this section was killed with with (sic) a bomb through the americans [illegible] the next day Dunmoor sailed up the Potomac as if to attach Calling one but did not do it.  H[illegible] marched this up the same River to a place called Cherry Point where he [illegible] after two or three days. He had not been there more than a day or two when Dunmoore sailed down with his fleet by him and escaped and he was pursued (him crossed out) no further. He was then marched back home and got a discharge from Cap. Turner for a three months tour, which discharge he does not recollect what has become of it. He went to school untill the next summer of 1780 or 79 when a considerable force of the British having landed at Crancy Island on James River opposite Portsmouth in the neighborhood of which they  were doing great ravages to the country, there was a call for volunteers and he entered a volunteer company commanded by Capt. Peter Rogers several companies volunteering and some drafts in militia going from the same county and on the same expedition against these British. He was marched accordingly [illegible] Halifax and down to Hampton. We then marched on and were landed at Portsmouth after the forces were collected at Hampton Gen. Lawson commanded them. When he and the men with him had crossed over to Portsmouth, he then saw that the Brittish has burned Norfolk. At Portsmouth and thereabouts he lay some time his Gen. watched the manoevers of the Brittish, until they left those parts and he returned home

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geting a second discharge from Capt. Rogers for a three months tour of service. He does not recollect what became of it. He remained at home until 1781 when there was another call for men. The Brittish had collected and garrisoned themselves at Ninety six. He entered in company commanded by his old Capt. James Turner and was marched with the company from Halifax to Salsbury the place of rendezvous. Where Major Ross a continental officer took the command of the men, and he was marched by him immediately to ninety six where Gen. Green commanded. He then was put to work raising fortifications and making entrenchments. This place was besieged for some time and one or two places of minor importance were taken , when Lord Rawden [illegible] reinforcement compelled him to raise the siege.  When Gen. Green raised the siege, he marched his men with this applicant northward and having crossed Broad River, he made a stand the Brittish being then on the opposite side. He then marched his men, toward Camden, but before he got there, he halted, and sent his baggage with two or three hundred militia of whom he was one, to the high hills of Santer. He was marched day and night over and this dangerous routs and after after a fatiguing march of several days he arrived a the place where the baggage was to be left. Green in the mean time had fought the battle of Eutaw Springs he marched from the high hills of santer to Salsburg where the prisoners taken at Eutaw had been sent, and this applicant and the militia who were with him, commanded by Major

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Armstrong took charge of the prisoners and delivered ^ men at a place called Halifax old Town in Pitsylvania County. Then he returned home receiving his third discharge for a tour of three months service.
He was then employed by the quartermaster William Morris to haul a load of provisions amunition & to Salsburg . After that he was procured to take another load to Port Royal which was about two hundred miles. Then he took or was engaged to take a load of flour to head quarters then at little York, but before he arrived Cornwallis surrendered. He was engaged in this business at least one month for which service he never received one cent. He was born in N Carolina. Edgecomb County. He volunteered every [illegible] tour but the last in which was drafted. He was acquainted with Green, Ross, Nelson, and Lawson who were with the troops with whom he served & have a record of my age now in my possession taken from my father's family bible. He has no documentary evidence except those he has named which he lost. He knows of no one in this country except Charles Pistole who can testify to his services as stated. ^I have lived in Virginia Halifax County until 1845 when I moved to Williamson County Tennessee where I have been living even since and [illegible. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state. 
       his
Isaac  X  Furgurson
        mark

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court, 30th August 1832. 
Preston Hay clk

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I Charles Pistole do hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Isaac Furgurson for 50 years, that I served one tour of three months ^ with him and saw him at ninety ^six, and was with him in the retreat from ninety six Lord Rawdon having compelled Gen. Green to raise the siege. I was with him guarding the baggage which Gen. Green had ordered to the high hills of Santer, was with him and served with him at Salsbury guarding the prisoners which Gen. Green had taken at Eutaw Springs and also from Salsburg to Halifax old town where the prisoners were left. I have heard his declaration and know that a great part of the service he has stated is true having seen it with my own eyes. I know he has been respected ever since the war in the several neighborhoods when he has lived to have been a soldier of the revolution. I know him to be a man of veracity and honor.
         his
Charles Pistole senr.
           (/) 
         mark

Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
Preston Hay clk le.

We Donaldson Potter a clergyman resident in the edge of Mauny County of ajoining Williamson David Black also a resident of Mauny County near the line dividing Williamson and Mauny and Thomas Hardemon, resident in Wmson County hereby certify that we (illegible crossed out) have been many years acquainted with Isaac

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Furgusson, ^who has subscribed and swron to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 75 years of age, 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, this the day & year aforesaid. 

Donnaldson Potter
David Black
Thos Hardeman

Sworn to and subscribed in open court, (1st Sept 1832 crossed out)
P. Hay clk le.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states; and the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Donnaldson Potter, who has subscribed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman residing in the county of Maury, and state of Tennessee and that David Black also of Maury County and Thomas Hardeman of Williamson County , who have also signed the preceding certificate, are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
Thos Stuart
Judge &c.

I Preston Hay clerk of the circuit court of Williamson county & State of Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing contain the original proceeding of said Court in the matter of application of Isaac Furgurson for a pension.   In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & private seal their being as yet no seal of office, this the day and year aforesaid.
Preston Hay Seal (circled)

I Felix Grundy do certify that Preston Hay is clerk of the Williamson Circuit Court and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name this 11th day of June 1833 
F. Grundy

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I Thomas Stuart Judge of the circuit court of Williamson County do hereby certify that it appears to me that Charles Pistole senr who has sworn to and subscribed the preceeding certificate is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit.
Given under my hand at Franklin in Williamson County and State of Tennessee this 7th day of June 1833.
Thos. Stuart.

State of Tennessee}
Willaimson County} I Thomas Hardemon certify that Thomas Stuart whose signature is attached to the above certificate is Judge of the circuit court of Williamson County, Tennessee and that said signature from my knowledge of his hand writing is in his proper hand (writing crossed out)
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 24th day of June 1833
Tho. Hardeman

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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 3-525
OM   DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washing, D. C. Nov. 8, 1920

In reply to your request of   ___, received ___ for a statement of the military history of Isaac Furgusson a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application  for pension on file in this Bureau.  Rc. 3506.

(Table with columnar headings)
Dates of enlistment of appointment.
1777
Summer 1778 or 79
1781

Length of Service
3 mos
3 mos.
3 mos.

Rank
Pvt.

Officers under whom service was rendered.
Captain
Jas. Turner
Peter Rogers
Jas. Turner

Colonel. 
(checkmark)
(checkmark)
(checkmark)

State. 
Va. 

Battles engaged in, Siege of 96.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Halifax Co. Va.
Date of application  for pension, Sept. 1, 1832 - Clac.
Residence at date of application, Williamson Co. Tenn.
Age at date of application, b. Edgerman Co. N.C.
Remarks: He marr, Oct. 27, 1779 in Halifax Co. Va. Nancy - In 1806 he removed to Williamson Co. Tenn. and died there Sept. 2, 1841 No ur. fam data.

Cannot verify Officers
Team service not noted
Respectfully, 
Commissioner.
6-2856

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Isaac Ferguson
Tennessee
from 1779 private
q master $30

Thos. M. Sconce
Frankline Ten

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

I. Does the declaration show were the applicant resides? yes

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

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 the war when he served?  yes

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 determine to what amout (sic) of pension he is entitled? yes

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

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

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes

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? (Yes, his private seal having no seal of office it has no device or inscription crossed out) 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? yes

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? -

XIII. If the applicant has 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 as to his service? yes
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?  (Service was Per crossed out) No, the court has.
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 applicant's service?  yes

XVI. ** Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? (yes crossed out) No

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

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the 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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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 directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the 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. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of eath term of engagement; the particularly place of places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during whihc the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.

*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 regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

**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 atttached 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. 
(image of hand pointing right) 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 congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

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[illegible] No 9314
Nancy Ferguson
Isaac
Tennes
Rejected
Seth Campbell H McEwen Depr

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(upside down) 3506

(right side up, stamp) FRANKLIN TEN; JUL 24
John L. Edwards
Care of the Secretary of War
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
District of Columbia

(upside down) 49314
Nancy Ferguson
Isaac 
Tennessee 
Act 7th July '38

Free

(sideways)
9314
Aug 1/43.
Nancy Ferguson
July 7/38
Tenn.
Isaac 32

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Franklin July 20th 1843
John L. Edwards Esqr.
Dr Sir= Enclosed is the declaration of Mrs. Nancy Furgurson, the widow of Isaac Furgurson in order to obtain the benefit of the pension laws on which your action is respectfully asked. There declaration and the affidavit and certificate have been drawn without the aid of any of the forms which the department has prescribed for applications of this particular character and indeed without access to any of the forms, other than those for ordinary applications under the general pension laws. So that there may be some slight iinacuraties (sic) in the [illegible] draught there be any and the papers should be returned for such cause be kind enough to send us the proper forms and Instructions. pointing out specifically what is requisite to put the application in due form.

In the Lapis. however, that all may be found right and the application granted as it stands.  [illegible] remain
With the highest respect
Campbell J. McEwen

(P. W. B[illegible] crossed out)

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Nov 18
Lake
CCW

(stamp) RECORD DIVISION NOV 19 1920

(stamp) U. S. PENSION OFFICE A NOV 18 1920

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2c stamp Rev Sec  CSW

1415 Grand Ave.
Fort March Lex.
Nov. 15, 1920

Com -0 of Pensions
Washington.
Dear Sir:

What data can you give me concerning one "Isaac Ferguson Pensioner) buried at spring Hill Williamson Co. Tenn." The 29003-4 D. A. R. year book gives the above.

Very sincerely,
Mrs. Hill F. Lake

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Del Rio, Tex.
10-15-20
(stamp) U. S. PENSION OFFICE OCT 20 1920

Please give me pension record of Isaac Ferguson (with all family datta) who was 17 years of age. When he died in 1835. and resided in Williamson or Williamson Co Tenn. He was from Virginia. Very respt, Mrs. J. L. Barnes.

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Tuesday Res S. C.
(stamp) DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

United States Com. of Pens.
Will you kindly send me all the data you have of Isaac Fergurson died in Tenn, buried at Spring hill - drew a pension = was 77 in

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1835. from Virginia. Want all family data his records gives.
Ineiry for, Mrs. J. L. Barnes who has not yet received any records from the War department
Respectfully
Annie B. Gowens
Organizing Rgent
N. S. D. A. R. Del Rio, Tx.

(sideways) Gorine

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(left hand side of page)
1920, Nov. 8 Hist to
Mrs. J. L. Barnes, c/o Annie B. Gowen - En-
1920 Dec. 10 Hist to 
Mrs. Will F. Lake. En

(right hand side of page)
3506
P.O. __
Nancy Ferguson
Service:__
Enlisted:  __ , 18  .
Discharged: __, 18  .
Application filed: __, 18  .
Alleges: __
Re-enlisted: __

Attorney: __
P. O. __
__Recognized. __ Contract.
__ Cert. of Dis. Search for __, 18  .