Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31128, Solomon Hicks, S.C.

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SERVICE  S.C.
Hicks, Solomon
NUMBER S31128

CONTENTS

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Kent
13769 Solomon Hicks of Livingston in the State of Ken who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Pickney of the Regt commanded by Col Pickney in the South Carolina line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of June 1833 and sent to Hon Lyon Caddyville

Arrears to the 4th of March 160
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept 40
$200

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk
Book E Vol. 7 Page 12

[right side, tear though the middle]
[illegible] Act of the [illegible]
from 4 Sept ? to 4 Sep 1837
Agt notified ? July 1838

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S.C. Roll

on roll served private
2 years $80

Hon. C Lyon
Eddyville Ky

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State of Kentucky  SS.
County of Livingston)
On this tenth day of September personally appeared before the Circuit Court of Kentucky for sd County Solomon Hicks a resident of the said County of Livingston in the State of Kentucky aged seventy four or five years, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by act of Congress
ed June 7th 1832 - That he enlisted in the first regiment of the South Carolina line of continentals; in the year.---- with William Hicks who was Lieutenant in said regiment. That the said Regiment was a light Infantry Regiment; That Courtenay Pinckney was captain of the
Company and Thomas Pinckney Colonel of the Regiment. That he enlisted for two years- That his just experience of regular service [illegible] the battle of Sullivans Island. He and his Regiment were stationed [illegible] mes island and the second Regiment under the command of [illegible]
tion Sullivans Island.- That the enemy's fleet consisting [illegible] man of war sailed up between the islands and were fixed on [illegible] th That the battle lasted from ten in the morning until late at night and that the firing from the forts on both islands upon the enemy ships was [illegible] with the dawn of day, but that six of the vessels spread sail and moved off, having first set fire to the seventh which was the best that they had-- (it having got aground)

That he was stationed six months on James' island, about the same time Sullivans Island and the balance of his time in Charleston, when and where he received an honourable discharge upon printed paper, which he preserved for many years but which was at length worn out by time
and handling. He received the same from a man named Armstrong was (as deponent thinks) a Major or ranked as such; William Hicks, Lieutenant Courtenay Pinckney Captain & Thomas Pinckney Colonel [illegible] and General Gadsden Commander in chief.

That his service in the first Regiment was not his first nor his last; that he had previously served as a volunteer for three months under Capt Jesse Walton and Lieutenant Ben Cleaveland (who afterwards [illegible] to be General). This service was against the Insurgent Scotch [illegible] then lived in Surry County of Yadkin River in North Car [illegible] that it was after his return from this service against [illegible] that Hicks and Armstrong recruiting officers for the first [illegible] came to Surry County and enlisted him. After

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receiving his discharge from the first Regiment, he returned to serve and there was a call for men to go with the Commissioner to near the [illegible] between Virginia and North Carolina. He volunteered in the company which attended the North Carolina commissioners and served three [illegible]

Soon after his return from answering the line there was another call for men to go and meet Cornwallis who had landed troops [illegible] Ashley River opposite to Charleston and thrown up breastworks. He went as a substitute for three months in the place of one Carroll was drafted. - Allen was Captain - Lytle was Colonel. The [illegible] took the town-- but after Lytle and his command had been sent in to fight the Tories on Peedee. But the Tories dispersed and Lytle by 
keeping his men upwards of a month longer than the regular tours [illegible] ed them. He had various other tours of service and [illegible] ly with the Tories - The last was a three months tour in [illegible] pany against the Tories on Bush River and Saluda

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or [illegible] cept the present and he declares that his name is not a [illegible] roll of any agency in any State - Sworn to and  subscribed the day & year aforesaid in presence of
[signed] Solomon X Hicks his Mark

The above statement sworn to and subscribed this tenth day of September in the presence of the Court and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant
a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states
Rezin Daude (the Judge of Livingston Circuit Court)

I Robert C Bigham Clerk of the Livingston Circuit Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the Matter of the application of Solomon Hicks for a pension In Testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office
this tenth day of September in the year one Thousand Eight Hundred and thirty two -
Rol Bigham

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Answers to seven Interrogatories propounded to the said Solomon Hicks by the Court
Answer 1st I was born somewhere on Haw river in Virginia, in what year [illegible] not certainly know, and have no certain means of ascertaining. I was [illegible]ed fourteen or fifteen when I first volunteered to march against the [illegible]sents. I have been reckoning it up and think that I shall be 76 next year
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Answer 2d I have not I have only my memory & [illegible]

Answer 3d I lived in Surry County of Yadkin rivers when I first volunteered against the Scotch and also when I enlisted under Lieutenant Hicks . I have lived since the Revolutionary war part of the time in Surry, part in South Carolina, and for eighteen years, (the longer that I ever lived [illegible]
place) in Franklin County Georgia and having been living in this [illegible] for sixteen years.

[illegible] I always volunteered except once when I went to Fight Cornwallis & as a substitute for a man named Carroll, who gave me a chunk of [illegible] to serve for him three months - I took it and was detained in the [illegible] than four months-

Answer 5th I have no distinct recollection of more than I have mentioned -

Answer 6th I did receive a regular printed discharge upon the close of my term of enlistment- and kept it safely for many years but it was at length worn out by time and handling

Answer 7th I know Col McCawley. Doct Brown Squire Duval Robert Hodge and generally all the land holders in my sector of the County and also Major Wm Wills 
[signed] Solomon X Hicks his mark
Mark

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TREASURY DEPARTMENTS 
Second Comptroller's Office,
July 14. 1838.

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury
of the United States,  Solomon Hicks,
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Kentucky  Agency, at
the rate of Eighty - Dollars and "________"
per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has
been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Stept, 1836
to the 4th Sept. 1837,
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

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31 128
Revy INVALID.
File No. 31,128
Solomon Hicks
Priv  Rev War
Act June 7" 32
Index:--Vol. 2, Page 187

[Arrangement of 1870.]