Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19148, Etheldred Dance, N.C.

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(3-1776)

SERVICE 
N.C.

Dance, Etheldred
Sarah

NUMBER
W. 19148

CONTENTS

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16.585
North Carolina
Etheldred Dance of Nash Coy. in the state of Nor. Carolina who was an Ensign in the regiment commanded by Colonel. Sumpter of the North Carolina line, for the term of two years & 6 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina as the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4th of September: 1819

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 of Mar: 1820 and sent to the Hon. W.N. Edwards House of Representatives.

Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1820		$120.58
Semi-anl. all’ce ending Sep: 1820	120.
5 mo. 2y/30/31			$240.58
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}

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Notification sent November 17. 1820 to Hon W. Edwards H.R.

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Etheldred Dance

With the Secretary of State of North Carolina we pleased to give the necessary certificate of the service of this applicant and send the same with these papers to the War department.
	Pension Office
	[Illegible] 5th, 1820

	The name of Etheldred Dance does not appear on the [Illegible] of the No. Carolina Line 10th [Illegible] 1820
	W. Hill

	Hon W. N. Edwards H.R.

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State of North Carolina Nash County
	On this twenty fourth day of September, 1819, before me the John R. Donnell one of the judges of the Superior Court of Law and Equity for the said state, personally appeared Etheldred Dance, aged sixty nine years, who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, make the following declarations in order to obtain the provision made by a late act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States during the revolutionary war”, that he the said Etheldred Dance enlisted for the term of two years and six months some time in the year 1776 the county of Edgecombe, in the state of North Carolina in the company commanded by Captain John Gray of the third Regiment commanded by Colonel John Sumner in the line of the state of North Carolina on the on the Continental Establishment and [Illegible] the commission of Ensign; that he continued to serve in the said [Illegible], [Illegible] months service of the United States for the space of two years and six months, when he was discharged from service is the state of North Carolina: that he was in the battle of Sullivan’s Island, and after, as a volunteer in that of Guilford; and that he is in reduced circumstances; and “stands in need of the assistance of his country support, and that there is no other evidence now in his power [Illegible] that which accompanies this declaration.
	Sworn to before me this 24th day of September 1819
	Etheldred [his + mark] Dance
	J.R. Donnell J.L.L&E

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Henry Drury
	Maketh oath that Etheldred Dance was and continued in the service of the United States in the Continental army in the revolutionary war as a soldier for the space of twelve months at one time.
	Sworn to before me the 24 of September 1819
	Henry [his + mark] Drury 
	J.R. Donnell J.L.L&E

	Joel Terrell and David Rix make oath that they are well acquainted with Etheldred Dance and [Illegible] declare that prove his poverty and reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support 
	Sworn to before me this 24th day of September 1819
	J. Terrell
	D. [Illegible]
	J.R. Donnell J.L.L&E

I John R. Donnell Judge of the Superior Court of law and equity for the state of North Carolina hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that Etheldred Dance did serve for the term of nine months at one time on the Continental Establishment in the war of the revolution against the common enemy. It also appears to my satisfaction that the said Etheldred Dance is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and I now transmit the proof of proceedings had before me to the secretary for the Department of War according to the provisions of the act of Congress.
	J.R. Donnell J.L.L&E

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North Carolina Nash County} I Jno. H. Drake clerk of the superior court for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that the honorable Jno R. Donnell esq. whose signature appears to this instrument at different places, in one of the acting judges of the superior court of law and equity for the state aforesaid. Given under my hand and seal of office the 23rd day of September 1819
	Jno. H. Drake Clk.

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Ethd. Dance

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State of North Carolina Nash County} On this 15th day of August 1820 personally appeared in open court it being a court of record for the said county expressly made by the law of this state, Etheldred Dance aged sixty nine years, resident in said county who being first duly sworn according to, doth on his oath declare he serv.d in the revolutionary war as follows (To wit.) in Capt. John Gray’s Company of the third regment commanded by Col. Jethro Sumner and the Continental Establishment in the line of the state of no. Carolina and that he has [needed/receivd?] his pension certificate. The No. of which is 16585 and solemnly swears that he was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with the intent thereby so to diminished it as to bring my bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in Revolutionary War, passed on on the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed (To wit) half dozn. common chairs, one small feather bed, and few plates & dishes that he has no real property that his family consists of himself and wife she is about sixty years of age and is very seldom able to do any kind of work that he is sixty nine years of age.
	Sworn to & declared on in open court
The 16th Augt. 1820
Etheldred Dance
Wm. Hall Clk

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State of North Carolina Nash County} I William Hall clerk of Nash County court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the [Illegible] hereunto [Illegible] are [Illegible] copied from the records of said court. And I do further certify that is the [Illegible] of said court that the total amot. in value of the properly exhibited in the aforesaid [Illegible] is seventy dollars in testimony whereof I have hereunto let my hand & seal of the said court the 16th day of August A.D. 1820.
	Wm. Hall Clk

State of No. Carolina Nash County} I Samuel Westray chairman of the county court of pleas and quarter sessions for the county of Nash aforesd. do hereby certify that William Hall whose signature appears to the [Illegible] certificate is and was at the time of signing the same. The acting clerk of the said court of pleas and quarter sessions for the county of Nash afores’d. and that due faith & credit is paid to his attentions as such given under my hand this 21st day of September AD. 1820.
	Sam. Westray. C N.C. C

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10459
North Carolina
Sarah Dance dec’d.
Widow of Etheldred Dance  ^N.C. who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 4th Feb. 1828 of Green C. in the state of A.L. who was an Ensign in the Compy commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regm commanded by Col. Sumpter in the Revolutions for 2 years.
Inscribed on the roll of N.C. at the rate of 240 dollars [blank] cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. And ending 28th August 1839 when she died.
	Certificate of pension issued the 18th day of July, 1848 and sent to Hon. J.R.J. Daniel, Hos. of Repr.
	Total amount, $[blank]
[Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by Thos. Lumpkin, Clerk
Book 2		Vol. 1		Page 287

Reported
Pay all to Henry Dance & Rhoda Tabbot. Only surviving children.

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13158
Declaration of Sarah Dance dec’d.
Wdw. of Etheldred
NC
Act 7 July 1838

Hon. J.R.J. Daniel
HR

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	Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th, 1838, entitled an act granting five year’s half pay and pensions to certain widowers.

State of Alabama Green County} County Court. August Term 1846. On this 4th day of August 1846, personally appeared before the county court in and for the aforesaid county of Green, Henry Dance, son of the late Etheldred dance deceased pensioner, and formily a resident of Nash County North Carolina, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declarations, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th, 1838, entitled an act of granting half pay and pensions to certain widowers.
	This declarant the aforesaid Henry Dance, in behalf of himself and the other heirs of the said Etheldred Dance pensioner dec’d; states that the aforesaid Etheldred Dance was an Ensign in the North Carolina Continental line, as the heirs understand, and as such, served the United States in the war of the Revolution; and that the aforesaid Etheldred Dance was placed on the North Carolina pension roll sometime in the year 1820, and was allowed an annuity of $240. That said Etheldred Dance was married in the county of Nash and State of North Carolina, sometime in the year seventeen hundred and ninety one, to Sarah Woodard, and as husband and wife, they lived together, until the death of said Etheldred Dance, who died on the 4th day of February 1828; and that his widow the aforesaid Sarah departed this life on the 28th day of August eighteen hundred and thirty nine.
This declarant further sets forth on his said oath that the said Sarah Woodard was not married to the aforesaid Etheldred Dance prior to his leaving the service, but that the marriage took place previously to the first day of January (1794) seventeen hundred and ninety four Viz: at the time above stated.
And this declarant further sets forth on his said oath, that the aforesaid Sarah, did not marry after the death of her said husband Etheldred Dance, but remained his widow until her death. Decl-...

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…-arant has no family record which will go to show the date of the aforesaid marriage but has always understood from his Father and Mother the aforesaid Etheldred and Sarah Dance, that they were married in the year herein before mentioned, and he is fully satisfied that they were. Sworn to and subscribed on the day and date first above written.
Test. A.R. Davis Clerk G.C.
Henry Dance x

State of Alabama Greene County} I, Attoway R. Davis clerk of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence was this day furnished said court (now in session) that Etheldred Dance late pensioner, and a resident of the county of Nash state of North Carolina, was married lawfully to Sarah Woodard in the year seventeen hundred and ninety one. And I further certify that satisfactory evidence was also furnished said court, that his widow the aforesaid Sarah, died on the 28th day of August eighteen hundred and thirty nine; having surviving the following two children, both of lawful age, Viz; The declarant Henry Dance and Rhoda who intermarried with William H. Talbot. Satisfactory evidence was also furnished said court, that the declarant Henry Dance, is a man of truth, and to his statement is due full faith, and credit.
	In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of my office, at office in the town of Eutaw, this 4th day of August A.D. 1846
	Attest. A.R. Davis Clerk GC

	The State of Alabama, Greene County. I, Alexander Graham judge of the county court of said county, do hereby certify that attorney A.R. Davis, whose genuine signature…

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… is affixed to the foregoing certificates is clerk of said county court duly commissioned and qualified that full faith and credit are due and should be given to all his official acts as such. Given under my hand at the court home of said county. This the 4th day of August A.D. 1846.
	Alex Graham
	Judge of the county Court S.C.

State of North Carolina Nash County} I Francis M. Taylor clerk of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county aforesaid, do hereby certify that I have, upon application, made diligent search in my office, it having the place required by law, for all marriage bonds, or bonds for licenses issued for marriages in said county, to be deposited; and can find no bond for licenses issued, for the married of Etheldred Dance to his wife Sarah Dance, whose maiden name (I understand) was Sarah Woodard. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my hand, and affixed my seal of office, at office in the town of Nashville No. Car., this 14th day of November 1846.
	Francis M. Taylor CLK

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State of North Carolina Nash County} On this 24th day of December 1847, personally appeared before me William H. Abernathy, an acting justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, Coleman Woodard a resident of said county and state, aged sixty four years, who being first fully sworn accordion to law, doth on his oath certify that he was well acquainted with Etheldred Dance who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the rate of two hundred and forty dollars per annum, also with said Etheldred Dance’s wife Sarah, whose maiden name was Sarah Woodard, & who was an aunt of this affiant; and affiant is very confident that the said Etheldred and Sarah dance were lawfully married or said to have been lawfully married, before the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four; that he did not witness the marriage, but knows that they lived together as man and wife until the death of the said Etheldred Dance, & affiant has no doubt they were lawfully married. This affiant states upon his oath, that he thinks that he ^was not more than eight and is confident he was not more than nine years old, when the said Etheldred and Sarah Dance were married; that he can just recollect when his aunt Sarah Dance, who was then Sarah Woodard went off to marry the said Etheldred Dance and as well as his memory serves him, it was in the spring of the year seventeen hundred and ninety two when the said marriage between the said Etheldred & Sarah Dance took place.
	He further certifies that Roda Dance the oldest child of the said Etheldred and Sarah Dance (he knows) is now about fifty five years old; and that he well knows that Henry Dance the third and youngest child of Etheldred & Sarah Dance was born on the fourteenth day of July seventeen hundred and ninety seven; that the said Henry Dance is only four…

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… days younger than affiant’s brother William Woodard, who, he knows, was born on the tenth day of July seventeen hundred and ninety seven, though there was no record ever kept of his said brother William Woodard’s age that he knows of. Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written. Before me
	W.H. Abernathy JP
	Coleman [his + mark] Woodard

I the said justice of the peace do hereby certify that I know Coleman Woodard who has this day sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit before me to be a man of respectability and strict veracity, and that full faith and credit is due to his oath. Given under my hand this 24th day of December 1847.
	W.H. Abernathy JP

State of North Carolina Nash County} I Francis M. Taylor clerk of the court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the county aforesaid, certify that William H. Abernathy whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing affidavits and certificates is an acting justice of the peace in and for our said county, and that full faith and credit are due to all of his official acts as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said court at office in Nashville the 25 day of December A.D. 1847.
	Francis M. Taylor CLK

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State of North Carolina Nash County} I Francis M. Taylor clerk of the court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the county aforesaid, certify that I have made diligent search in my office (it being the place required of by law for all marriage bonds or bonds for licenses issued for marriages in said county to be deposited, and can find no marriage bond or licenses issued for the marriage of Timothy Crickmore and Nancy Batchelor, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of our said court of office in Nashville the 23rd day of November AD 1847
	Francis M. Taylor CLK

State of North Carolina Nash County} On this 21st day of December 1847, personally appeared before me William H. Abernathy, an acting justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, Nancy Crickmore, widow of Timothy Crickmore & whose maiden name was Nancy Batchelor, a widow of said county and state, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath certify that her husband did not keep a record of their children’s ages in his lifetime, and that she has no family register or document to go to prove the date of her marriage; but that she well remembers that she was lawfully married to the said Timothy Crickmore two days before Christmas, which was on the twenty third day of December in…

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… the year seventeen hundred and ninety two, and this affiant well recollects, that Etheldred and Sarah Dance, (whose maiden name was Sarah Woodard) had been living together as man and wife sometime prior to her marriage to the said Timothy Crickmore, and was said to have been lawfully married, and affiant has no doubt they were.
	She further certifies, that her oldest child Catharine Crickmore, if living, would have been fifty four years old on the twenty eighth day of August last, and that she very well knows, that Roda Dance the oldest child of the said Etheldred and Sarah Dance, was born before the birth of the daughter she said Catharine Crickmore.
	Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
W.H. Abernathy JP
Nancy [her + mark] Crickmore

I the said justice of the peace, do certify that I am well acquainted with Mrs. Nancy Crickmore who has this day sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit before me, and know her to be an old lady of respectability and strict veracity, and that full faith and credit is due to her oath. I further certify that I do not believe that she would make a statement on oath, unduly, she was fully confident that what she was going to make oath to, was a fact. Given under my hand this 24th day of December 1847.
W.H. Abernathy JP

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Rev.& 1812 Wars Section
[Illegible]

October 9, 1930
Mrs. Payton Haddox
3909 Bunting
Fort Worth, Texas

Dear Madam:
	You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.19148, that Etheldred Dance volunteered in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, was commissioned April 16, 1776, Ensign of Captain John Gray’s Company, Colonel Jethro Sumner’s Third North Carolina Regiment, was in the battle of Sullivan’s Island and served two years and six months when discharged.
	He later volunteered and was in the battle of Guilford, no further details of this service given.
	He was allowed pension on his application executed September 24, 1819, while living in Nash County, North Carolina, aged sixty-nine years.
	He married in February, 1791 or 1782, Sarah Woodard. He died February 4, 1828 and she died August 28, 1839, in Alabama.
	They had three children: Rhoda, born about 1792, married William H. Talbot and was living in Alabama in 1846. James, born about 1794, died prior to 1846 and Henry, born July 14, 1797, residing in Green County, Alabama in 1846.
	Henry and Rhoda were allowed the pension due their deceased mother.

	Very truly yours
E.W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner.

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1906 Sept. 7.  History to J. E. Duff.
1926 May 25. Hist to Hon. A. Capper and
1930. Oct. 9. Hist. to Mrs. Payton Maddox. [Illegible]

Rev. Widow, &c.
File No. 19148
Sarah Dance. Widow of Etheldred Dance. Ensign Rev. War.
Act: July 7th 1838
Index:-
Vol. A,
Page 171
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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V. No. 13158
Sarah dance dec’d
NC
Letter to Hon. J.R.J. Daniel 31. Dec. 1846[1866?]
To same June 15 ‘47
To same Sept. 17. ‘47
To same Jany 12. 48

Act 7 July 1838

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W. 13158
Sarah Dance as
NC
Set to Hon. J.R.J. Daniel 31st Decm. 46
“	“	Same 	15 June 47
“	“	do 	17 Sept 47.
“	“	do	12 Jany 48
“	“	“	April 4 ‘48

Act 7 July 1838

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Etheldred Dance NC. act 18 March 1818 $96.00
	To what time was he last paid [Illegible]

Pension Office July 15 1848} Died 4th Feb. 1828. Paid to his death.
[Ilegible]

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June 6, 48
In case of Sarah Dance
Sarah Dance [Illegible]
Hon. John R.J. Daniel

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State of North Carolina Nash County} On this 21st day of February 1848, personally appeared before me William. H. Abernathy an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, Daniel Batchelor, a resident of said county and state, aged seventy seven years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath certify, that he well knows, that his sister Nancy Batchelor, was married to Timothy Crickmore, either in the winter seventeen hundred and ninety two, or seventeen hundred and ninety three, by the age of his oldest daughter Margarett, who, he knows, was born in January seventeen hundred and ninety two, and affiant thinks that his said daughter Margarett, was not more than twelve months old, and is very certain, she was not [Illegible] two years old, when his sister Nancy, was married to the said Timothy Crickmore; and affiant is very confident, that Etheldred Dance, was married, or said to have been married, to his wife Sarah, whose maiden name was Sarah Woodard, and had been living together as man and wife some considerable time, when the marriage between his sister Nancy, and the aforesaid Timothy Crickmore took place; which marriage he very well knows, did take place, before the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four; and at the time above stated.
	Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written before me
W.H. Abernathy JP
Daniel [his + mark ] Batchelor

I the said justice of the peace do certify that I am well acquainted with old W. Daniel Batchelor, who has this day sworn to, and subscribed the foregoing affidavit before me, and know him to be a man of respectability and truth and that full faith and credit is due to his oath.
Given under my hand this 21st day of February 1848.
W.H. Abernathy. JP

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State of North Carolina Nash County} I John W. Bryant Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county aforesaid certify that William H. Abernathy whose genuine signatures appear to the foregoing affidavits and certificates, is an acting justice of the peace in and for our said county, and that full faith and credit is due to all his official acts as such.
	In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed my seal of office in the Town of Nashville on this 21st day of February 1848.

[Illegible] J. W. Bryant CLK

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State of North Carolina Nash County}On this 19th day of February 1848 personally appeared before me William H. Abernathy, an acting justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, Dempsey Morris a residency of said county and state, aged sixty eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, certify that he was well acquainted with Etheldred Dance deceased pensioner of the United States, and also with his wife Sarah, whose maiden name was Sarah Woodard; and that he well knows that they were married or said to have been married, before the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four; and affiant is very confident that the said marriage took place, as far back as seventeen hundred and ninety two; that he did not witness the marriage, but heard of it shortly after it took place, as there was much talk about Sarah’s marrying, as old a man, as Etheldred Dance, and well knows, that the said Etheldred and Sarah Dane, were married before seventeen hundred and ninety four, from a chimney, which his father had built to his house in the year seventeen hundred and ninety four, by Thos. Hamilton, who put the date on the Chimney when he finished it; and this affiant well knows, that the said Etheldred and Sarah Dance, had been living together as man and wife, as much as two years, if not more, when the above named chimney was built. Sworn to and subscribed on the day & date above written before me. 
W.H. Abernathy JP
Dempsey Morris

I the said justice of the peace do hereby certify that Dempsey Norris who has this day sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit before me, is a man of respectability and truth and that full faith and credit is due to his oath. Given under my hand this 19th day of February 1848
W.H. Abernathy JP

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W. 13158
Sarah Dance [Illegible]
Widow of Etheldred
NC
Act 7 July 1838
Married before 1794
Husband dec’d 1828
Widow dec’d 28 Augt 1839

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State of North Carolina Nash County} On this 1st day of May 1847, personally appeared before me William H. Abernathy, an acting justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, John Melone, a resident of said county and state, aged seventy eight, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath certify that he was well acquainted with the late Etheldred Dance of this county (who was a soldier of the Revolution, & a pensioner of the United States) and also with his wife Sarah whose maiden name was Sarah Woodard before she intermarried with said Dance; That he lived in the neighborhood where the said Etheldred and Sarah Dance were married, at the time said marriage took place; and as well as he can recollect it was in the year seventeen hundred and ninety one where the said Etheldred and Sarah Dance were said to have been married, and he has no doubt but they were lawfully married, for he knows that they lived together peacefully as man and wife until the death of the said Etheldred Dance which took place as well as he can recollect, in the year 1828. He well knows that the said Etheldred and Sarah Dance were married or said to have been married before the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety four, for if his oldest son James Dance was now living he would be upwards of fifty four years old.
	Sworn to, and subscribed on the day & year first above written before me.
	W. H. Abernathy JP
	John [his + mark] Melone

I the said justice of the peace certify that old Mr. John Melone who has this day sworn to, and subscribed the foregoing affidavit before me, is a man of respectability and truth and that full faith & credit is due to his oath. Given under my hand this 1st day of May 1847.

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State of North Carolina Nash County} I Francis M. Taylor clerk of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county aforesaid, certify that Wm. H. Abernathy whose genuine signatures appear to the foregoing affidavit and certificate is and was, at the time of signing  the same, an acting magistrate in and for our said county, and that full faith and credit is due to all his official acts as such. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and subscribed my name, this 3rd day of May 1847.
	Francis M. Taylor CLK

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W. 13158
Sarah Dance dec’d
wid. of Etheldred
NC
Act 7 July 1838
[Illegible] 2 years Ensign
 $240 00C
From 4 March 1836 to 28 August 1839, the day of her death payable to Henry Dance and Rhoda Talbot only running children of Sarah Dance dec’d.
	Hon J.R.J. Daniel
House of Rep.

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Remarks on evidence as sufficient.

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In the case of Sarah Dance
In this case Etheldred Dance having been rightfully a pensioner, it is only necessary to prove by credible testimony that Sarah Dance, his widow, was married to him prior to 1 Jany. 1794 to authorize the opening of a certificate. This I respectfully submit has been proved in a matter which ought to be deemed satisfactory & I believe would be deemed in any enlightened judicial tribunal in the country.
	The clerk has made search & no marriage bond can be found. The marriage therefore must have been by publication or bond. The applicant swears there is no family record of the marriage. The rules of law [Illegible], therefore, let in any pertinent testimony going to show that the marriage took place prior to 1 Jany. 1794 to be judged and weighed according to the ordinary circumstances of life.
The petitioner swears that he always understood from his parents they were married in 1791. Such matters are frequently subject of fireside conversations of mothers & parents to their children & therefore raining a strong presumption in favor [Illegible], there being no [Illegible] in such cases but to communicate the truth.
Nancy Crickmore says she was married herself 23 Dec 1792 & she well recollects Etheldred & Sarah Dance had been married sometime before & were said to have been lawfully married which she believes. She says her last child Catherine Crickmore if living would have been 54 yrs this 28 Augt 1847 & knows that Roda Dance the oldest child…

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… of Etheldred & Sarah Dance was born before her daughter Catherine. Here are two facts likely to make the next considerable and lasting impression, to which Miss Crickmore refers as evidence that Mr. Dance was married prior to 1794 fit the [Illegible] to be believed, the fact is established to all [Illegible].
	But Daniel Batchelor, the brother of Mrs. Crickmore, confirms the facts stated by his sister, mainly as will appear from his evidence from the birth of eldest daughter Margaret’s birth about which it is morally certain he cannot be mistaken.
	There is other testimony confirmatory of the evidence of these [Illegible], which I will not take the trouble to refer to, having confidence in the testimony of these witnesses.
	J. R. J. Daniel

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House of Reps.
Jany. 3. 1848
Col. J. L. Edwards, Com. of Pensions}

Sir, I forwarded additional evidence in the care of Sarah Dance to be filed with the other evidence already on file. It will probably be found sufficient. [Illegible] possible in [Illegible].
	Very respectfully your obd. servt.
	J. R. J. Daniel
I send also additional evidence in the care of Nancy Crickmore
	J. R. J. Daniel

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Halifax N.C. Aug 23/47

Dear sir
	I enclose you by request the affidavit of Nancy Crickmore in the case of Sarah Dance to be considered with the other papers in the case.
	Very Respectfully your obt. Servt.
	J. R. J. Daniel

Col. J. L. Edwards, Com. of Pensions, Washington City}

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State of North Carolina Nash County} On this 10th day of November 1846, personally appeared before me W. H. Abernathy an acting justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, Mrs. Milly Turner a resident of said county and state, aged eighty years; who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, certify, that she was well acquainted with Etheldred Dance, (late a resident of the county aforesaid, and a pensioner of the United States, at the rate of $240, per annum,) and also with his wife Sarah, whose maiden name was Sarah Woodard; that she well remembers that she said Etheldred Dance and Sarah, (whose maiden name was Sarah Woodard) were lawfully married in the county aforesaid, sometime in the spring of seventeen hundred and ninety one, (1791) for she was personally present, and witnessed the marriage, and knows that it did take place at the time above stated.
	Sworn to, and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me
W. H. Abernathy JP
Milly [her + mark] Turner

I the said justice of the peace do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Milly Turner who has this day sworn to, and subscribed the foregoing affidavit before me, and that I know  her to be a woman of strict veracity and that full faith and credit is due to her oath. Given under my…

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… hand this 10th day of November A.D. 1846.
W. H. Abernathy JP

State of North Carolina Nash County {On this 11th day of November 1846, personally appeared before me William H. Abernathy an acting justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, Abraham Whitfield and Ricy Whitfield, residents of said county and state, aged seventy seven & seventy five ^years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on their oaths certify, that they were both intimately acquainted with Etheldred Dance (late a pensioner, and resident of the county and state aforesaid) and also with his wife Sarah Dance, whose maiden name was Sarah Woodard;
	That they did not witness the marriage, but were living in the neighborhood, when and where the marriage took place; and as well as they can recollect, it was in the spring of seventeen hundred and ninety one, when the said Etheldred and Sarah Dance were said to have been married; and they have no doubt they were lawfully married; for they lived together as man and wife from the time they were said to have been married, which has been (they well know,) as much as fifty five years back, if not now, until the death of the said Etheldred Dance which took place on the 4th day of February 1828, sworn to, and subscribed on the day and year above written in the [Illegible] before [Illegible].

Before me W. H. Abernathy JP
Abraham Whitfield
Ricy [her + mark] Whitfield

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I, the said justice of the peace, do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Abraham Whitefield and Ricy Whitfield and know that they are persons of strict veracity and that full faith and credit is due to their oaths given under my hand this 11th day of November 1846.
W. H. Abernathy JP

State of North Carolina Nash County {I, F. M. Taylor, Clerk of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county aforesaid, do here certify that William H. Abernathy whose genuine signatures appear to the foregoing affidavit and certificate, is, and was, at the time of signing the same, an acting magistrate in and for, our said county, and that full faith & credit ^is due to all his official acts as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my hand and affixed my seal of office, this 11th day of November A.D. 1846.
F. M. Taylor CLK

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State of North Carolina
	Office of Secretary of State
J. William Hill Secretary of State in and for the state of North Carolina, do hereby certify, that it appears of record in this office, that a warrant for bounty land was issued for the services of Etheldred Dance as an Ensign in the Revolutionary War for the term of two and a half years. Said warrant was issued in obedience to a Resolution of the General Assembly of this state, on the 11th day of April 1823 and is No. 1048.
	Given under my hand this 3rd day of March 1847.
	W. Hill Secretary of State

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James L. Edwards Esquire
R. Pensions Office
War Dept.

Etheldred Dance
W.16.585
[Illegible]. 21 Mar: 1826

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H.R. 16th Nov. 1820
Sir,
	I inclose you the case of Ethd. Dance, which you will oblige me by acting upon as soon as possible. There are other claims before you forwarded by me. will Thank you [Illegible] inform me of their fate.
	Very respectfully,
	Yr. obt. servt.
	W.N. Edwards

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State of North Carolina, Nash County}
	On this 6th day of July 1847, personally appeared before me William W. Boddie an acting justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, Nancy Crickmore a resident of said county and state, aged seventy nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, certify, that she was well acquainted with old Mr. Etheldred Dance, and also with his wife Sarah, whose maiden name was Sarah Woodard, and that she well knows that the said Etheldred and Sarah Dance were married or said to have been married before the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, by her own marriage. That she was married to her husband Timothy Crickmore on the 23rd day of December seventeen hundred and ninety two, and she well known, that the said Etheldred and Sarah Dance, were married, (or said to have been married,) and were living together, as man and wife, before her marriage to the said Timothy Crickmore took place. That she did not witness the marriage of the said Etheldred and Sarah Dance, but was living in the neighborhood where they were married, and heard of the marriage when it took place, and she has no doubt, but they were lawfully married, for they lived together as man and wife until the death of her husband the said Etheldred Dance, after which , his widow, the aforesaid Sarah Dance, moved from this county to the state of Alabama with her two children, Henry and Roda Dance, where, she has understood, she died.
	Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above mentioned before me
	W.W. Boddie J.P.
	Nancy (her mark) Crickmore

	I the said justice of the peace certify that I am well acquainted with Mrs. Nancy Crickmore who has this day sworn…

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-to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit before me, and know her to be a woman of respectability and strict veracity, and that full faith and credit is due to her oath.
	Given under my hand this 6th day of July 1847
	W.W. Boddie, JP

I Francis M. Taylor Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Nash County State of North Carolina, certify that William W. Boddie whose genuine signatures appear to the foregoing affidavit and certificate, is an acting justice of the peace in and for our said county, and that full faith and credit is due to all his official acts as such.
	In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed my seal of office, this 7th day of July 1847.
	Francis M. Taylor Clk.

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State of North Carolina, Nash County}
	On this 25th day of December 1847, personally appeared before me William H. Abernathy an acting Justice for the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, William Woodard a resident of said county & state aged fifty years, who being first-duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath certify, that he was well acquainted with Etheldred Dance (who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, at the rate of two hundred and forty dollars per annum,) and also with his wife Sarah, whose maiden name was Sarah Woodard, & who was an aunt of this affiant and that she well knows, that the said Etheldred and Sarah Dance, lived together as man and wife, from the time affiant can first recollect, until the death of her husband the said Etheldred Dance, that-said Etheldred & Sarah Dance were married before affiant was born as he has understood from his mother & fully believes; and affiant well recollects to have heard his Mother say that his aunt Sarah Dance was married to the said Etheldred Dance in the month of February, seventeen hundred and ninety five. That Roda Dance the eldest child of Etheldred & Sarah Dance (he thinks) is now about fifty five years old; that James Dance, the second child, (if living) would be about fifty three years old; and that Henry Dance the third and youngest child of the said Etheldred and Sarah Dance, (as he has always understood from his mother & aunt Sarah Dance) is only four days younger than affiant; and that he was born on the tenth day of July seventeen hundred and ninety seven, as he has always understood from his father & mother.
	Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written before me
	W. H. Abernathy JP
        William (his mark) Woodard

	I, the said Justice of the Peace do hereby certify that I am well acq-

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-ainted with William Woodard who has this day sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit before me, and knows him to be a gentleman of respectability and truth, and that full faith and credit is due to his oath. Given under my hand this 25th day of December 1847.
	W. H. Abernathy JP

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State of North Carolina, Nash County}
	On this 25th day of December 1847, personally appeared before me William. H. Abernathy an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, Kiziah Masingill a resident of said county and state, (aged sixty eight-years), who being first-duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath certify, that she well knew Etheldred Dance of this county, who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the rate of two hundred and forty dollars per annum, and also, with his wife Sarah, whose maiden name was Sarah Woodard, and was sister to this affiant, and affiant is very confident that the said Etheldred and Sarah Dance were lawfully married or said to have been married before the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety five; and this affiant has no doubt they were lawfully married, for they lived together as man and wife until the death of her husband, the said Etheldred Dance, who died she thinks in the year 18 hundred and twenty eight. This affiant is very confident that the marriage between the said Etheldred and Sarah Dance took place in the month of February seventeen hundred and ninety two, that she knows that she was not more than thirteen years old when the said marriage took place, and that she well recollects when her sister the said Sarah, went off to marry the said Etheldred Dance, and knows that it was in the year 17 hundred and ninety two when they were married. She further certifies that Roda Dance the oldest child of Etheldred & Sarah Dance (she knows) is as much as fifty five years old; that James Dance the second child (if living) would be about fifty three years old, and that Henry Dance the third son and youngest child of the said Etheldred & Sarah Dance (she knows will be fifty one years old next July.

	Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written before me,
	W. H. Abernathy JP
	Kizia Masingill

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I the said Justice of the Peace do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Mrs. Rizia Masingill who has this day sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit before me, and know her to be a woman of Respectability and truth, and that full faith and credit, is due to her oath. Given under my hand this 25th day of December 1847.
W. H. Abernathy JP

State of North Carolina, Nash County
	I Francis M. Taylor, clerk of this court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the county aforesaid, certify that William H. Abernathy whose genuine signatures appear to the foregoing affidavit and certificates is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for our said county and that full faith and credit are due to all of his official acts as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said court at office in Nashville 25th day of Dec. 1847
	Francis M. Taylor Clk.

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	The State of Alabama, Greene County {On this the 9th day of March A.D. 1847, personally appeared before me Joseph W. Taylor an acting Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid. Doctor Alfred Clement, a resident of said county & state who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath certify, that he attended old Mrs. Sarah Dance, widow of Etheldred Dance dec’d during her last illness in August A.D. 1839 in which month she died but the precise day of her decease. This affiant cannot state having kept no memorandum thereof.
	Sworn to & subscribed before me on the day & date above first written.
	Attest Jos. W. Taylor J.P.	Alfred Clement
	I the said Justice of the Peace, hereby certify that Doctor Alfred Clement, who has this day sworn to & subscribed the foregoing affidavit before me, is a gentleman of high respectability & truth, & that full faith & credit is due to his oath. Given under my hand & seal this 9th day of March 1847.
	Jos. W. Taylor J.P. [Seal]

	The State of Alabama, Greene County {On this the 9th day of March A.D. 1847, personally appeared before me Jos. W. Taylor an acting Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid, John Culpepper, a resident of said county & state, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth certify upon oath that old Mrs. Sarah Dance, widow of Etheldred Dance dec’d., departed this life sometime in the month of August one thousand eight hundred & thirty nine, the precise…

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… day of the month he cannot state, having kept no memorandum thereof: that he assisted Mr. Henry Dance in making the coffin of the said Sarah Dance dec’d. Sometime in the month of August A.D. 1839 but as he made no charge for his services he is unable to state the day of the month having made no written memorandum or particularly charged his memory with the precise date: that he assisted Mr. Henry Dance in putting the remains of the said Sarah Dance dec’d in the coffin. Sworn to & subscribed, on this day & year first above written, before me
	Jos. W. Taylor J.P {John Culpepper
	I the said Justice of the Peace, do hereby certify that John Culpepper who has this day sworn to & subscribed this foregoing affidavit, before me, is a gentleman of respectability & truth & that full faith & credit is due to his oath. Given under my hand & seal this 9th day of March 1847.
	Jos. W. Taylor J.P. [Seal]

	The State of Alabama, Greene County {On this new 9th day of March A.D. 1847.
	Personally appeared before me Jos. W. Taylor an acting Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid. Caswell Eads, a resident of said county & state, who being first-duly sworn according to law doth certify whose oath that he was present at the burial of old Mrs. Sarah Dance, widow of Etheldred Dance dec’d & that the burial took place sometime in the month of August in the year one thousand eight hundred & thirty nine, the precise day of the month he cannot state.
	Sworn to & subscribed before me the day & year above written.
	Jos. W. Taylor J.P. {Caswell Eads

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I the said Justice of the Peace, do hereby certify that Caswell Eads who has this day sworn to & subscribe the foregoing affidavit before me, is a gentleman of respectability & truth & that full faith & credit is due to his oath. Given under my hand & seal this 9th. day of March 1847.
Jos. W. Taylor J.P. [Seal]
 
The State of Alabama, Greene County} 
I Attoway R. Davis Clerk of the County Court of Greene County aforesaid, certify that Caswell Eads and Joseph W. Taylor whose genuine signatures appear to the foregoing affidavits and certificates are and were at the time of signing the same acting Magistrate in and for our said County, and that full faith and credit is due to all their official acts as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my office this 10th day of March A.D. 1847

A.R. Davis Clerk County Court CLK

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Adm.
Hon. W.H. Edward, of N.C. H. of
	The state authorities nominated & appointed officers, who were afterward commissioned by Congress.

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The Honble
J.L. Calhoun
Secretary War Depart.
Washington
[Seal] RAL N.C., Feb. 12

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Raleigh, 11th Feb.ry 1820
The Honble. J. L. Calhoun
Sir,
	Since sending away the Declaration of Etheldred Dance, I find on the minutes of the Congress of 16th April 1776 that he was appointed an Ensign in Capt. Gray’s Company for Halifax District, but whether he accepted and served or not I am not able to say.
	Very Respectfully your most obt. srvt.,
	Wm. Hill

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N° 6264
The First National Bank Of Leesville, Louisiana
August 27th, 1906.
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Sir: 
Referring to the enclosed record of Ethelred Dance, I will appreciate any information that your office may be able to furnish me relative to that gentleman.

Respectfully,
J.E. Duff
[Seal] O.W. & N. DIV. FIL, Aug 30 1906
[Seal] Pension Office, U.S., Aug 30 1906

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From Mrs. Payton Maddox
3909 Bunting, Ft. Worth, Texas,

To
Commissioner of Pensions
Have you any record of a pension being issued to a Revolutionary War veteran named Etheldred Dance, who was from either Virginia or North Carolina. He was with Washington at Valley Forge and had his feet frozen there, or was there a pension given to his widow Mrs. Elizabeth Woodward Dance?
Thanking you for any information.

Mrs. Payton Maddox
[Seal] Pension Office, UDS, Sep 18 1930

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United States Senate
Washington, D.C.  May 22 , 1926.
Respectfully referred to
The Hon. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
This was attached to a letter from Homer Eiler of 1518 Grove Street, Topeka, Kansas. Requesting the record of Ethelred Dancy, a Rev. War pensioner from Edgecomb Co., N.C. perhaps from Tarboro, who died about 1828. No Ethelred Dancy it is undoubtedly Ethelred Dance, W.19148, Mr. Eiler’s letter returned to Senator Capper under reply
Respectfully,
Arthur Capper
9-345. U.S.S

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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section. 
May 25, 1926
Honorable Arthur Capper, United States Senate, 

My dear Senator:
In response to your inquiry of the twenty-second instant and the enclosed letter of Mr. Homer Eiler of 1518 Grove Street, Topeka, Kansas, I have the honor to advise you, that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 19148, it appears that Etheldred Dance volunteered in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, was commissioned April 16, 1776, Ensign of Captain John Gray’s Company, Colonel Jethro Sumner's Third North Carolina Regiment, was in the battle of Sullivan's Island and served two years and six months when discharged.
He later volunteered and was in the battle of Guilford, no further details of this service given.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 24, 1819, while living in Nash County, North Carolina, aged sixty-nine years.

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He married in February 1791, or 1792, Sarah Woodard. He died February 4, 1828 and she died August 28, 1839, in Alabama.

The had three children; Rhoda, born about 1792, married William H. Talbot and was living in Alabama in 1846. James, born about 1794, died prior to 1846 and Henry born July 14, 1797 was residing in Green County, Alabama in 1846.

Henry and Rhoda were allowed the pension due their deceased mother.

Very truly yours,


WINFIELD SCOTT,
Commissioner.