Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R.1,579, Thomas Cadle, N.C.

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Service N.C. 
Cadle, Thomas 
Number R. 1.579

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State of Virginia
County of Raliegh [illegible]

On this the 25th day of July in this year Eighteen Hundred and fifty three, Personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Raleigh County now sitting Thomas Cadle a citizen of the County and State aforesaid aged Ninety Three years who bring duly sworn according to law doth on his breath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress pursued June 7th 1832. What he entered The service under the following named officers and served as Pension stated according to the best of his recollection and belief Viz What he was at the time of entering said service a citizen of Surry County in the State of North Carolina about the age of 15 or 16 years under the command of Capt [Captain] David Humphris for about six months in setting land from Cherish Mines and carrying it To Solsbury for The use of the American Patriots, from Thence he marched under the command of Captain Richard Vaunil of the Colo [Colonel] Cleveland Regiment to Ringo Mountain. Thence back to Solsbury and Thence Guarded the British prisoners. he was employed about five or six months but he does not account the year, but thinks it was in 1749 or 1780. He then enlisted in Colo [Colonel] Morgans Corps in which he served upwards of two years, during which time he marched to the Gap Roads on Martinville as Guard To The Baggage Waggons [Wagons], he also marched with a detatchment [detachment] and was in The Battle of the Caspers and Guilford, he was also at Starry Point and  was with the Company of Captain Stuart [Stewart] at the Seige [Siege] of York and was thence discharged after the surrender of Cornwallis and that his original discharge was afterwards discharged –

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 – with the burning of his dwelling House, the depo = nent [cuts off to next line] farther states that from old age laps [lapse] of time and consequent loss of memory, he is unable now to retail as minutely as he desires all the services he was engaged in, on the order in what to dates in which he said services have rendered but he believes a more particular account been given in a declaration made by him some time in the year 1830 only for the purpose of obtaining a Pension which was placed in the hands of Robert Lilley from whom he has not heard since that his said papers cannot be found, that accompanying his said declaration was a deposition of the John Atkins who was himself a Revolutionary soldier providing his services in whole or in part, that his said John Atkins in service dead and the deponent has no documentary evidence in his possession to which he can refer and he knows no persons at this time whose questioning he can presence who can testify to his services. He hereby relinquishes every clause Whatever to a pension or minority except the person and that his name, to his knowledge in that on the pension Roll of the agency of any State.
	Sworn to and subdivided the day and year aforesaid
	Thomas Mark Cadle
Mr Mathew Ellison or Clergyman residency in the County of Raleigh and State of Virginia, and American G [illegible] residency in the County of Raleigh and State of Virginia hereby certify that we are [unintelligible] with agreement with Thomas Cadle who has subdivided and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be about Ninety Three years of age, what he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood before his services –

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 – to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that [from information] we concur in that opinion.
Subscribed and Sworn To The day and year aforesaid
				Ed ,, M. Ellison
				Francis Hendrix
And the Said Court do hereby certify declare their opinion after the investigation of the Nation, and after putting the interrogators prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Ed Mathew Ellison who signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman Resident in the County of Raliegh and State of Virginia and that Francis Hendrix who has signed the same is a resid = ent [cut off to next line] of the County of Raliegh and State of Virginia is a evadible person and that this statement is entitled to credit
	I Daniel Shumate, Clerk of the County Court of Raleigh in the State of Virginia do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Said Court in the application of Thomas Cadle for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and seal 
of office this 25th day of July, 
in the year 1865.

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Answers to the interrogation perpended by the County Court of Raleigh County to Thomas Cadle who is an applicant for a pension, in open Court on the 25th day of July 1853
Question 1st When and in What year were you Born
Answer         I was Born in The County of Surry in the State of North Carolina and I think from                                                                all the information I have in the year 1760
Question 2nd Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it
Answer         I have a record of my age but have left it at home	
Question 3rd Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the  Revolutionary War, and where do you now live.
Answer        I was living in the County of Surry in the State of North Carolina when called into  service, Since removed to the State of Virginia Where I now live in the County of Raleigh
Question 4th Now were you called into service, were you draughted [drafted], did you volunteer,   or were you a substitute, and if you were a substitute, for Whom 
Answer         I was first draughted [drafted] into The Service afterwards enlisted in The Service
Question 5th State some of the names of the regular officers who were with the Troops where you served such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the ground circum = stances [cut off to next line] of your service
Answer 	I will after to the officers named in my declaration, and at the Siege of York [illegible] George Washington and –

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Declaration of Thomas Cadle for Pension under 7 June 1832
VA


RD. Burgess
Sept 27, 1853

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Question 6th Did you receive a discharge from the Service, and if so, by When was is given or Signed, and What has become of it
Answer        I received a discharge from the Militia Service and also a discharge from the Service at York all of which were destroyed with the burning of my Dwelling House
7th        State the names of Persons to Whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your Character for veracity and their belief of your Service as a Soldier of the Revolution
Answer     I could name a large number of Gentlemen who are regime, led both [me] who would Testify to my veracity, I will name Genl [General] Alfred Beckley, Revd [Reverend] Mathew Ellisson [Ellison], Clackson Prince Ergo, WM. Pearson Ergo, Papers Ginns Ergo Robert Lilley Ergo Col Archibold B Walker, [illegible]

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Sept. 27, 1853
Appl [Application] of
Thomas
Cadle,
	Raleigh Co.,
		VA
		   ..
	[illegible] ‘132.
	Original
RichD Burgess,
	Present.

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1579
[“REJECTED” is stamped above]
P.O. Thomas Cadle

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No. 38634
Thomas Cadle
		VA
		  ’’
RichD. Burgess Oct. 14 1853
[illegible]
June 7 1832

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State of Virginia
					Kanawha County Court
Deposition of George Hannagin of the County and State aforesaid akin Subscribed and Sworn to according to law before Daniel Smith Ergo a Justice of the Peace in and for The County and State aforesaid     Viz     What he was Born and raised in The County of Graydon in The State of Virginia adjoining The County of Surry in The State of North Carolina, and was [illegible] acquainted with a certain Thomas Cadle who was raised in the County of Surry in the State of North Carolina [“who was” is covered in ink] a Soldier in the War of the Revolution, What he was about the age of Ten or Twelve years when Thomas Cadle entered into the Service under the Command of Captain David Humphris under whose Command he was engaged in Getting outs land at Chissds Mines, and that he Served under The Command of Captain Richard Vaunil The part under time of his Service He does not Recollect either in time or place but is will against that he was gone from home upwards of Ten years and has every under to believe that he was engaged during that time in The Continental Service along with a large number of others who he was with acquaintants [acquaintance] with at the time, and who returned To Then several Homes in Company with the Said Thomas Cadle after the Surrender of Cornwallis at York.
								George Hannagin

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State of Virginia
				Kanawha County Court
This day personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for The State and County aforesaid George Hannegin who was duly qualified according to law To The within deposition, and I do also certify that I am well acquainted with the said George Hannagin and consider him to be a credible Witness, Given under My hand this 8th day of September 1853
									Daniel Smith [illegible]
I Alexander W Quarrier Clerk of the County Court of Kanawha in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that Genl [General] Daniel Smith is and was at the time of his signature to the foregoing certificate on outing Justice of the Peace in an for the County of Kanawha, and being well acquainted with his hand hereby find The Same To be Genuine and that all his official outs are entitled To full faith and Credit 			

In Testimony whereof
I have hereunto Set
My hand and Seal
of office This 9th 
day of September 1853
									A.W. Quarrier [illegible]

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State of Virginia
	Raleigh County Court
On this 15th day of July in this year Eighteen Hundred and fifty three, Personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Raleigh County (and State aforesaid) now sitting Robert Lilley a Citizen of The County and State aforesaid who being duly Sworn according to law, Deposition and Lengths Viz.     What Thomas Cadle had (he thinks some time in the year 18 [illegible] ) his declaration made and qualified to for the purpose of resolving himself of the Benefit of an act of Congress passed granting Pensions To Revolutionary Soldiers. And that accompanying said Declaration was a deposition made by a M John Adkins he does not recollect the particulars of the said Deposition further more that the said Adkins [illegible] of the Service of the said Thomas Cadle a soldier in the War of the Revolution and had served with him in the said War, whether he knew of the whole of the services or only a part, or whether he was with him during the whole period of his Service or only a part This deponent does not recollect. What he gave the said papers to a M Hall and that may have not since been found.
		Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
				 Robert Lilley
	I Daniel Shumate Clerk of the County Court of Raleigh and State of Virginia do hereby certify that the foregoing deposition signed by Robert Lilley was akin subscribed and Sworn to in upon Court
							
In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and seal
of office This 25th day of July 1853
						David Shumate

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State of Virginia
Raleigh County
On this 22nd day of August in the year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Three, Personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Raleigh County now sitting, Hiriam Hill a Citizen of Fayette County and State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law, depo[illegible] and sayth Viz,   What a number of years age Thomas Cadle had his Declaration drawn up and qualified to for the purpose of availing himself of the benefit of an act of Congress granting Pensions to the soldiers of the Revolutionary War and with said Declaration There won a Deposition of a Mr John Adkins Proving his services as a Soldier of war, which by him was proved either in whole or in part, the particulars of which he does not now p[illegible] fully recollect
	Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
						Hiriam Hill
	
           I Daniel Shumate Clerk of the County Court of Raleigh do hereby certify that the foregoing Deposition signed by Hiriam Hill Ergo of the County of Fayette was taken subscribed and Sworn to in open Court this 22nd day of August 1853
								
In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
seal of office
									Daniel Shumate

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Know all men by there present that I Thomas Cadle of the Army of the Revolution do hereby nominate Constitute and appoint Richard Burgess of the City of Washington my [illegible] and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to examine into, present and receive from the Government of the United States any and all claims for pension or otherwise that may be due to me for services in the Revolutionary War under any laws passed by Congress authorising [authorizing] such payments hereby resolving any and all other power here before granted for that purpose and declaring this to be [illegible] = cable [cut off to next line] and I hereby authorize and invest my said attorney with full and ample power to do and perform for me and in my home all and every act and thing in the premises which I could lawfully do and perform if personally present, and to receive every certificate of pension or other evidence of my Claim that may be [illegible]  and Granted therefore and hereby ratifying and confirming Whatever my said attorney should lawfully do in the prom = ises [cut off to next line] given under my hand and seal this 17 day of March 1852
								Thomas Cadle [illegible]

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Raleigh County State of Virginia Court
Be it known that on this 17th day of March Eighteen hundred and Fifty two personally appeared before me [illegible] duly a Justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid      Thomas Cadle, the person who exceeded the within power, being well known to men and unknown [illegible] The same to be his act and deed for the purpose Thomas set forth.
					Given under my hand and
Seal this day and of the year above written 
			Elijah Lilly  Seal 
[illegible]

State of Virginia 
Raleigh County
		I Daniel Shumate Clerk of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Elijah Lilly whose name is signed to the certificate above bearing date the 17th day of March 1852 was at that time and still is a acting Justice of the peace in and for said County, fully Commissioned as such, and that full faith and [illegible] is and ought to be given to all his acts as such, 		And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the above name Elijah Lilly and that I believe the Signature above to be Genuine
[illegible] under my hand, and the seal [illegible] said [illegible] this the 12th day of April 1832 [1852]
					Daniel Shumate

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Refer to the Pension
papers of
John Adkins
referred to
further –

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Commissioner of Pensions –

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To The					     Washington			 
    Commissioner of Pensions		Sept 27, 1853				
			Ser
				Included here with is the declaration of Ths,, [Thomas] Cadle for Pension under the Act 7 June 1832, With a Power of Attorney in my favor and two depositions.
							Respectfully
						        [illegible]
				                	R. Burgess