Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 361, William Alexander, N.C. S.C.

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N.C.		Alexander, William		S.361
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		1115.
West Tennessee
==========
William Alexander.
Private.
Captain John Branden's company of the North
Carolina volunteers and S.C. May 15/05.
		Records completed. [illegible]
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Ratio of disability, total
Date of ["discharge" crossed out] closing the testimony } 18th August 1824
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[page torn] scribed on the roll of West Tennessee.
[page torn] eight dollars per month, to comment on the
18th August 1824
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Certificate of pension issued the 11th of February 182[page torn]
and sent to Hon. R Allen. H or Rep
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Arrears to 4th September $4.67
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1825 48.--
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				$52.67
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[page torn] act 4th Feby 1822/

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Afft of
Wm Alexander
The applicant

[at left]
ders application for pension this 18th day of August 1824
	[signature] Robert Allen commissioner

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District of West Tennessee
Smith County }
		persuant [pursuant] to a commission [commission]to me directed from the Honble  [Honorable] John McNair, Judge of the unites states courts for West Tennessee I have this day caused William Alexander of the county 
of Sumner personally to appear before 
me who being first duly sworn, on his 
oath says that he is about seventy eight 
years of age that during. the revolutionary [revolutionary] war. he was a resident citizen 
of Rowan County North Carolina that 
in the year 1775 he entered the service 
of the United States a private soldier in 
Capt John Brandons company against 
the common Enemy and in the year 
1776 he was appointed by Genl. Griffith 
Rutherford to the command of a company [company] of Volunteer spies on a campaigne [campaign] against the Hostile cherokee Indians and in that capacity marched his company

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into the cherokee nation and while engaged 
in the line of his duty in an engage
ment [engagement]^ near the seven mile Mountains on the 8th day of September 1776 
he received a gun shot wound in his^ Right foot 
a bullet having entered at the top of the 
["foot" crossed out] near the arch of the foot and came 
out at the bottom which then disabled 
him from further duty during that 
campaigne [campaign] and for a length of time 
afterwards but after having recovered
so far as to do duty on horse back his 
anxiety to serve his country induced 
him again in the year 1781 to enter 
the service in Col Hamptons Regiment 
in the south Carolina line as a captain 
in said Regiment where he remained 
ten months and was on Several 
Engagement amongst them the Battle 
of Cowpens the Battle and Siege of 96. Fort Mott, Beggin 
church, Granbury ["& cowpens" crossed out] and 
continued until discharged that he 
continued to reside in Rowan county 
NCarolina until the year 1796 then

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then removed to Sumner county in 
the state of Tennessee where he has ever 
since resided that his occupation has 
always been that of a farmer that when 
young he believed that he had a competency [competency] to procure a subsistance [subsistence], and in principle was [cross out] averse to pensions or being pensioned and for that reason never before made any application 
for a pension.^ and is not on the pension roll of any state but now overtaken with 
old age, and his circumstances some 
what reduced, in dificult [difficult] hard times 
with an aged partner depending upon him 
for support he has been constrained to ask 
from the government that which in better 
times he had intended never to claim 
that it is out of his power to procure the 
Evidence of any of the commanding 
officers under which he served, that^ which is now furnished is the best in his power to procure 
sworn to and subscribed this 18th day of august 
on the year 1824
		[signature] Will. Alexander
[signature] Robert Allen commissioner

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I do hereby certify that William 
Alexander is a man of good 
character and deserving of 
full credit on his oath 
	Augt 18th 1824
		[signature] Robert Allen
		commissioner
		Augt 18th 1824

I have closed the Examination of witnesses 
and completed the Testimony in William Alex
ders [Alexander's] application for pension this 18th day of 1824
		[signature] Robert Allen commissioner

[perpendicular to above]
Afft of
Wm Alexander
The applicant

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District of West Tennessee Smith County
	All that know is, that my father in intered [entered]
the service of the United States^ as a private under the 
command of Capt. John Branden in an operation [operation] carried on against the Cheroke [Cherokee] Indians^ in 1776 that the 
detachment was commanded by Brigadier Genl. Griffith Rutherford, I was too young for a soldier 
but recollect well that my father marched 
with the attachment and that he returned 
when the rest of the men returned and had a 
which I understood he received in a battle with the Cherokes [Cherokees] on the siˇven [seven] mile mountain wound in his right foot that he was brought back on^ a bier supported by two horses that he suffered very much from the wound and has been rendered incapable by the wound of making a days march at any time since and that he has rendered many and various services to his country since which he has always been compelled [compelled] to perform on horseback I am fifty four 
years old -- that he my father had at the time 
he intered [entered] the service in the County of Rowan and 
state of North Carolina and continued to do so 
untill 1796 when he removed to the State of 
Tennessee Sumner County where he has resided untill the present time -- That his occupation is

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and always has been that of a farmer -- and further I 
have nothing to say --
		[signature] Rd Alexander

District of West of Tennessee
Smith County
	This day Richard Alex
ander aged fifty four years appear
ed [appeared] personaly [sic] before me and being 
first duly sworn on his oath 
says that the contents of the state
ment [statement] made have by him and 
subscribed with his name is Just 
and true to the testing his knowledge and 
belief sworn to and subscribed before 
me this 18th day Sept 1824
	[signature] Robert Allen Commissioner
		[signature] Rd Alexander

	I do certify that Richard Alexander 
who signed the above is a man of strict 
varacity [veracity] and worthy of the fullest credit 
	[signature] Robert Allen commissioner

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					January 13, 1940
					BA-J/AWF
					William Alexander
					S. 361 [initialed by hand "GEN]
Mrs. Charles D. Lanier
161 Lake Avenue
Greenwich, Connecticut

Dear Madam:

	Reference is made to your letter in which 
you request the Revolutionary War record of 
William Alexander, born in 1746, died in 1830, 
had a son, Richard.

	The data which follow were obtained from 
papers on file in claim for pension, S. 361, 
based upon disability of William Alexander 
incurred while in service in the War of the 
Revolution. 

	The date and place of birth of William 
Alexander, and names of his parents are not 
given.

	While a resident of Rowan County, North 
Carolina, William Alexander entered the service 
sometime in 1775, served as a private in Captain 
John Brandon's North Carolina company; he was 
appointed in 1776 by General Griffith Rutherford 
to command a company of volunteer spies, and 
marched to the Cherokee Nation, was in an engage-
ment with the Indians near Seven-Mile Mountain, 
September 8, 1776, where wounded in the right foot, 
which disabled him from further military duty, until 
in 1781, when he returned to the service, and was 
Captain in Colonel Hampton's Regiment of South 
Carolina Cavalry; he was in the battles of Cowpens,

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Fort Motte, Biggens Church, and Siege of 
Ninety-Six.

	William Alexander moved from Rowan County, 
North Carolina, in 1796, to Sumner County, Ten-
nessee [Tennessee].

	He was allowed pension from August 18, 1824, 
on account of disability resulting from the wound 
mentioned herein, at which time he aged about 
seventy-eight years, and living in Sumner County, 
Tennessee.

	William Alexander referred in 1824 to an 
"aged partner depending on him for support", but 
gave no name. His son, Richard Alexander, was 
fifty-four years old in 1824, then in Smith County, 
Tennessee.

	William Alexander died August 4, 1830.

	The papers on file in this claim contain no 
further discernible family data.

		Very truly yours

		A. D. HILLER
		Executive Assistant
		to the Administrator

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[right side of page]
Rev War
INVALID.
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File No. 361
William Alexander,
Priv. N.C.* Vols.
& Capt
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Act: July, 4. 1822
Index:—Vol. A, Page 5

[Arrangement of 1870.]
N.C. & S.C.*
Records completed. May 15/05. St.

[left side of page]
1907 Sept. 20. Hist. to Miss Peytona Barry c
1913 July 5. "  "  S. M. Young ¢
[crossed out "1931 Aug. 8 - "  " Jessie Young Irvine [illegible]]"
Irvine - see her letter
in Wm. Alexander S 6496
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1936 - Sept. 28 - list to Mrs. Su
W. Miller army
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1938 Feb. 4. Mrs. Wm. Irvine
no further inf. A.D.Y
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1940 - Jan. 13 - list to Mrs
Chas. D. Lanier army

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Wm. Alexander, private, at $8
per month, from 18 August 1824.
West Tennessee roll. He belonged
to the N. Carolina Volunteers. Send
the certificate to Hon. R. Allen
H.R. -- Allowed, under act of 
4th Feb. 1822 ~

Commissioner to
Robert Allen

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J. L Edwards Esq
Pension office
War Dept

[perpendicular at right]
See letter to Honble
John McNairy.
Nov. 4. 1824.
[flourish]

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J. L Edwards
	Sir
		Please do inform me 
whether or not William Alexander of 
Sumner county Ten -- has been placed 
on the pension list or what has come of 
his application
	Your Obt Servnt
		[signature] Robert Allen

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United States
West Tennessee }
	District. }
		I, John McNairy Judge of the courts 
of the United States for the Districts of East & West 
Tennessee by Authority of the act of Congress, passed 
the [cross out] 4th day of February 1822. - entitled, "An act to 
[illegible] and continue in force, an 'act to provide 
for pensions who were disabled by known wounds 
received in the revolutionary war, & for other 
purposes, Do hereby especially authorize and 
commission Robert Allen esquire of this county 
of Smith and District of West Tennessee to take 
all evidence pursuant to the rules and regulations 
of said act, for substantiating the claim of William 
Alexander of the county of Smith and District of 
West Tennessee to be placed on the pension list of 
the United States, by reason of Known wounds 
received in said war, or [illegible] [cross out "as perscribed in 
the fourth section of "An act concerning invalid 
pensions" passed the 25th of April 1808"] while in 
the actual service of the United States in the 
line of his duty. And when the same shall 
be compleated [sic], to return the evidence affid

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certificates and proceedings had hereupon, together 
with this commission to the Secretary for the department 
of War. Given Under my hand and seal at Nashville 
the 20th of July in the year 1824.
	[signature] John McNairy [hand drawn seal]


I Nathaniel A McNairy clerk of the Courts 
of the United States for the District of West 
Tennessee, do hereby certify that John McNairy 
whose name is affixed to the foregoing commission 
is and was at the time of signing the same Judge 
of the Courts of the United States for the District 
of East and West Tennessee --

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto 
[obscured] my hande [sic] and affixed my seal 
[obscured] office, at office in Nashville this 
[obscured] 4 day of August in the year 1824
[obscured] of the Independence of the United 
[obscured] the 49th --. [signature] N. A. McNairy clk
	By [signature] Jno Carsen Dep

[illegible seal affixed lower left]

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Wm. Alexander --
Invd. 10 Apl. 1806 [illegible]
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Recd. 24 Sept. 1824.
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Claimant,
Huntsville, Tenn:

[perpendicular to above]
J. L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
War Dept

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		Carthage 31st Augt 1824

Sir
	"  Enclosed I send you the application of 
Capt William Alexander of Sumner [page torn] 
for a pension -on account of Wounds.
	If you have occation [sic] to write to him address 
the letter to Huntsville Ten
	I have the honor to be sir
		Your Obt Servat
		[signature] Robert Allen

J L Edwards, Esq

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Commission
to
Drs Brooks & Ray

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United States
	West Tennessee
		District
	To Doctor John H. Ray of the Town of 
Carthage in Smith county and Doctor Henry Brooks 
of said county & district.
	Pursuant to an act of Congress 
of the United States, passed the [cross out]^ fourth day of February 1822 
entitled, "An act to revise and continue in force 
'an act' to provide for pensions, who were disabled by 
known wounds received in the revolutionary war 
and for other purposes" You are hereby appointed 
and authorized to examine William Alexander 
who claims to be placed on the pension list of 
the United States conformably to the acts of Congress 
in such case made & provided; and you are 
to report in Writing and on Oath or affirmation, your 
opinion of the nature of his disability and in what 
degree it prevents him from obtaining a subsistance [sic] 
by manual labour; and in your proceedings in the pre=
misses [premisses] you are to be regulated and governed by the 
acts of Congress in such cases made & provided, Given 
under my hand & seal at Nashville the 20th July 1824
		[signature] John McNairy [hand drawn seal]
		District Judge

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District of West Tennessee
	Smith county } 18 August 1824
It is hereby certified that William 
Alexander a captain of a company 
[cross out] volunteer spies employed 
against the Cherokee Indians 
is rendered incapable of performing 
the duties of a soldier by reason 
of wounds or other Injuries inflicted 
while he was actively in the 
service aforesaid and in the line of his duty viz in an 
engagement on the 8th Sept 
in the year 1776 with the hostile 
Cherokee Indians -- By satisfactory 
evidice [evidence] and accurate examination 
it appears that on the 8th of 
Sept in the year 1776 being engaged 
against the hostile Cherokee Indians 
at or near a place called the 
seven mile mountain in the 
Cherokee nation, he received 
a wound by a ball, in the inner 
side of his right foot, and is thereby 
rendered not only incapacitated 
for military duty but in the opinion 
of the undersigned is totally disabled 
from obtaining his subsistance [sic] by 
manual labor.
		[signature] H Brooks Surgeon
		[signature] JH Ray Surgeon

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District of West Tennessee
Smith county }
	Pursuant to a commission 
to me directed from the Honble John 
McNairy Judge of the United States courts 
for West Tennessee I have this day 
caused Surgeons Henry Brooks and 
John H Ray to affirm before me who 
being by me duly qualified on their 
oaths do say that the report on the 
other side here signed by them 
is correct and true to the best of 
their belief sworn to & subscribed this 
18th day of augt 1824 before me
	[signature] Robert Allen commissioner
		[signature] H Brooks Surgeon
		[signature] J H Ray Surgeon

I do hereby certify that the above named 
Physician Henry Brooks & John H Ray are 
both considered reputable in their profession 
and entitled to full credit on their oaths word 
given under my hand this 18th day of augt 
1824
		[signature] Robert Allen commissioner

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Afft of Wm
Brandon
Witness

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District of West Tennessee
Smith county }
		Pursuant to a commission 
to me directed from the Honble. [Honorable] John McNairy Judge of the United States courts for West Tennessee I have this day caused William Brandon personaly [personally] to appear before me who being first duly sworn, on his oath say that he is about seventy six years old at this time a resident citizen of Smith county Tennessee that he is well acquainted  with Capt William Alexander 
now present and an applicant for 
a pension, that he himself went out 
on the same expedition against the 
hostile Cherokee Indians in which the 
said Wm Alexander was wounded, that 
he then lived in the same neighbourhood [neighborhood] and went out under the command of Capt John Branon that on the 8th day of September 1776 in the Cherokee nation 
the spy company commanded by Wm

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Alexander being a small distance ahead 
of the company in which he marched 
the Indians commened [commenced] an attack on 
the army and Wounded Capt William 
Alexander in the^ Right foot that he seen him 
a few moments after he received the 
wound and was appointed to nurse 
and take the said Wm Alexander 
home he was so disabled as to be 
incapable of further duty that he 
has known the said Alexander and 
been acquainted with him ever since 
and knows that after he recovered 
sufficient to do duty he entered the 
service of the United States again and 
was an active and vigilent [sic] officer 
against the common Enemy when 
ever his country needed his services 
that the occupation of the said William 
Alexander is that of a farmer that he 
resided in Rowan county state of 
North Carolina during the was

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of the revolution and at the time he was 
wounded that in the year 1796 he 
removed to Sumner county in the 
State of Tennessee where he has 
ever since continued and at this 
time does reside further sayeth not 
Sworn to and subscribed before 
me this 18th day of August 1824
	[signature] Robert Allen Commissioner
		[signature] William Brandon

I do hereby confirm that Wm
Brandon the above named witness 
is a man of credit and deserving 
of being believed on his oath 
Given under my and this 
18th day of Sept 1824
	[signature] Robert Alen commissioner

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Physicians
certificate

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Afft of
Rchd Alexander
witness

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		Tenn
		Gallatin Sept 13th
			1907
Capt Watkins
	I send you Judge Hulls letter 
which you will please show, to your friend Mr. 
Kelley, who was so kind & prompt, to look for Capt 
Alexanders record. I told Judge Hull what a 
splendid Official he makes. The Capt Alexander 
("Black Billy") of Mecklenburg was not my ancestor. 
From reading the letter from the War Department 
you will see, there was another Capt William 
Alexander; possibly he was from Rowan Co. North 
Carolina; I am not sure. Tell Mr Kelly to please 
look once more, & I will not trouble him again. 
I know it is asking a great deal, but believe he will 
do this for a hopeless invalid. My grandfather was 
wounded at Cowpens & moved to Sumner County 
Tenn^ after the was where he died in 1830 in his eighty fourth 
year. I expect he applied for a pension too. I think 
the Capt A_ that the Adjutant General speaks of is 
my ancestor & I wish to know something further of 
him. Please return the letter enclosed as I prize 
it greatly. You will greatly oblige me.
		Yours
			[signature] Peytona Barry

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SAM M. YOUNG
DIXON SPRING, TENNESSEE

	Jun 27th, 1913.

Bureau of Pensions,
	Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs:-
	I wish to get what information I can touching 
the life and career of William Alexander of Rowan County, 
North Carolina, (later of Sumner County, Tennessee), a 
soldier of the Revolutionary War. My impression is that 
he served under Captain Richard Brandon and under Gen. 
Griffith Rutherford.
	I shall be glad if you will furnish me in detail 
all the information obtainable from the records on file 
in your bureau.
	Also, I shall be glad to have what information 
you can furnish relating to the military service of 
Thomas Draper of Berkeley County, or Union County, South 
Carolina, who is supposed to have been a soldier of the 
Revolution and of the War of 1812. He may have enlisted from Union 
County, or Union District, or Spartanburg 
County or district or Pendleton County or District, but 
I think more likely from Berkley County. The family lived 
at or near Monk's Corner in that county, and William Draper 
a brother of Thomas served under General Marion.
	Please let me hear at the earliest date possible 
and oblige,
		Your truly,
		[signature] SM Young.

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Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

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Monmouth Kans
Sept 7--1936		Widan r.
Bureau of Pensions:--
	Will you please send 
me the record of '7 
Wm Alexander -- Invalid 
file #361 Old nar Invalid 
	cert: 361 mel
	I am particularly 
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			Br
interested in his ancestry 
and if any reference 
to this parents or 
descendants is made 
I would like to have 
it. Thanks very 
much. Send to 
	Mrs Susie Wilson Miller
	Monmouth Kansas.

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[circular stamp at upper right "RECEIVED JAN 29 1938"]

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington. D.C.

My Dear Sir:
	Would it be possible for me to have a copy of the Pension papers of Captain William Alexander of Sumner county, Tenn; at which place he was living when the Pension [pension] was granted in August of I824.

This Capt. Alexander was an ancestor of mine and I am endevoring [endeavoring] to get his history to use in D.A.R. records, and 
if I can have a copy I will be very appreciative.

		Most sincerely,
		[Mrs. Wm.) [signature]
                Jessie Young Irvine.
		I400 Young street.
		Aberdeen, Washington.

January 25th, I938.

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[top of page cut off]
Greenwich, Connecticut
Mrs. Charles D. Lanier,
President

			January 2, 1940

Commissioner of Pensions
United States Pension Records
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

	Will you kindly provide me with 
the pension record of William Alexander, claim #5361, [by hand "S.361 not 5361"]
born in 1746 died 1830, who was the father of Richard 
Alexander^ born in 1769.
	Thank you for an early reply.
		Sincerely yours,
		[signature] May Dela Lanier
		Mrs. Charles D. Lanier

[circular stamp at upper right "RECEIVED JAN 4 1940 MAIL SUB-DIV Reader No. 24 VETS ADM"]

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February 4, 1938.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx	
BA-J/ady	
Mrs. William Irvine
1400 Young Street
Aberdeen,Washington

Dear Madam:
	Reference is made to your letter requesting the 
record of Captain William Alexander of the Revoution-
ary [Revolutionary] War who was granted a pension in August 1824, at 
which time he was a resident of Sumner County,Tennessee.
	This office has no further information in regard 
to William Alexander cited above than that which was 
furnished you August 21, 1931.
		Very truly yours

		A. D. HILLER
		Executive Assistant
		to the Administrator

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September 28, 1938

William Alexander-S.361
BA-J/AWF
Mrs. Susie W. Miller
Monmouth
Kansas

Dear Madam:

	Reference is made to your letter in which you 
request the Revolutionary War record of William 
Alexander, pension number 361.

	The data which follow were obtained from 
pension claim, S. 361, based upon disability of 
William Alexander incurred while in the service.

	The data and place of birth of William Alex-
ander [Alexander] are not given, nor are the names of his parents 
stated.

	While a resident of Rowan County, North Caro-
lina [Carolina], William Alexander entered the service in 1775 
and served as a private in Captain John Brandon's 
North Carolina company; he was appointed in 1776 by 
General Griffith Rutherford to command a company of 
volunteer spies and marched to the Cherokee Nation,and 
in an engagement with the Indians near Seven-Mile 
Mountain on September 8, 1776, he was wounded in the 
right foot, which disabled him from further duty, until 
in 1781, when he again entered the service as captain 
in Colonel Hampton's regiment of South Carolina Cavalry; 
he was in the battles of Cowpens, Fort Motte, Granby, 
Biggens Church, and Siege of Ninety-Six.

	He moved from Rowan County in 1796 to Sumner 
County, Tennessee. He was allowed pension, from 
August 18, 1824, on account of disability resulting 
from the above mentioned wound. He was at this time

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a resident of Sumner County, Tennessee, and aged about 
seventy-eight years.

	William Alexander referred in 1824 to an "aged 
partner depending on him for support", but gave no 
name. His son, Richard Alexander, was aged fifty-four 
years in 1824, then in Smith County, Tennessee.

	William Alexander died August 4, 1830.

	The papers in this claim contain no further reference 
to family.
		Very truly yours

		A.D. HILLER
		Executive Assistant
		to the Administrator

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	August 21, 1931

						BA-J/AWF
						[by hand] S.361

Jessie Young Irvine
1400 Young Street
Aberdeen, Washington.

	The following are the histories of the only 
soldiers named William Alexander who served as captain in the South Carolina Troops, that are found 
on the Revolutionary War records of this office.

S. 361, William Alexander

	It appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 361, that William Alexander, 
while residing in Rowan County, North Carolina, entered 
the service in 1775 and served as private in Captain 
John Brandon's North Carolina company; that in 1776 
he was appointed by General Griffith Rutherford, to 
command a company of volunteer spies, and marched to 
the Cherokee Nation, and in an engagement with them 
near Seven-Mile Mountain, was wounded in the right 
foot, September 8, 1776, which disabled him from further duty, until in 1781, when he again entered the 
service as captain in Colonel Hampton's regiment of 
South Carolina Cavalry, was in the battles of Copens, 
Fort Motte, Granby, Biggens Church, Siege of Ninety-Six and served ten months.

	He was allowed pension, from August 18, 1824, 
on account of disability resulting from the above mentioned wound. He was at this time a resident of Sumner County, Tennesse, and was aged about seventy-eight 
years. He moved from Rowan County, North Carolina in 
1796 to Sumner County, Tennessee.

	In 1824, the soldier referred to an "aged partner 

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depending upon him for support", but gave no name.

	His son, Richard Alexander, was aged fifty-four  years in 1824.

	The printed list of invalid pensioners published 
in 1835, reported this William Alexander as a resident 
of Maury County, Tennessee, and that he died August 4, 
1830.

[by hand at right perpendicular to above]
The rest of this letter in 
William Alexander S. 6496

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Rev. War Section.

				July 5, 1913.

Mr. S. M. Young,
Dixon Spring,
Tennessee.

Sir:-
	In response to your letter dated the 27th and received the 
30th ultimo, you are advised that from the papers in claim Invalid 
File No. 361, Rev. War, it appears that William Alexander was 
allowed pension for total disability, as a Private of North 
Carolina troops, from August 18, 1824, under the Act of February 
4, 1822.
	In his application for pension, executed August 18, 1824, 
he stated that he was about seventy-eight years of age and a 
resident of Sumner County, Tennessee; that he resided in Rowan 
County, North Carolina, when he enlisted in 1775, as a Private 
in Captain Brandon's company against the common enemy; that in 
1776, he was appointed by General Griffith Rutherford to command a company of volunteer Spies against the Cherokee Indians 
and while in an engagement with them at Seven-Mile Mountain, 
September 8, 1776, he sustained a gunshot wound of right foot 
which disabled him from further duty until 1781 (day and month 
not stated) when he served (on horseback) as a Captain in Colonel Hamton's regiment of South Carolina troops for ten months

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Inv. File 361-2.

and was in the battles of Cowpens, Fort Motte, Granby, Biggens 
Church, and the siege of Ninety-six.
	In 1824, his son Richard Alexander, aged fifty-four years 
stated that n 1796 his father removed from Rowan County, North 
Carolina, to Sumner County, Tennessee, where he had continued 
to reside.
	The printed list of invalid pensioners published in 1835, 
reported this William Alexander a resident of Maury County, 
Tennessee, and deceased August 4, 1830.
	Very respectfully,
	[signature] GM Saltzgaber
	Commissioner.

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Sept. 20, 1907.
Miss Peytona Barry,
	Gallatin, Tenn.
Madam:
	In reply to your letter dated the 13th instant, 
received on the 16th by reference of Captain Watkins, 
an employe of this Bureau, you are advised that from 
the papers in claim Invalid File No. 361 it appears 
that William Alexander was allowed pension for total 
disability, as a Private of North Carolina troops, from 
August 18, 1824, under the Act of February 4, 1822.
	In his application executed August 18, 1824, he 
stated that he was about seventy-eight years of age and 
a resident of Sumner county, Tennessee; that he resided 
in Rowan county, North Carolina, when he enlisted in 
1775 as a Private in Captain Brandon's company against 
the common enemy; that in 1776 he was appointed by 
General Griffith Rutherford to command a company of 
Volunteer Spies against the Cherokee Indians, and while 
in an engagement with them at Seven-Mile Mountain, 
September 8, 1776, he sustained a gunshot wound of right 
foot, which disabled him from further duty until 1781 
(day and month not given), when he served (on horseback) 
as a Captain in Colonel Hampton's regiment of South

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Carolina troops for ten months and was in the battles of 
Cowpens, Fort Motte, Granby, Biggens,Church [sic], and the 
siege of Ninety-Six.
	In 1824 his son Richard Alexander, aged fifty-four 
years, stated that in 1796 his father removed from Rowan 
county, North Carolina, to Sumner county, Tennessee, 
where he had continued to reside.
	The printed list of invalid pensioners published in 
1835, reported this William Alexander a resident of Maury 
county, Tennessee, and deceased August 4, 1830.
	Very respectfully,

		Commissioner.

(Enclosure.)