Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31,819, for James Leeper, North Carolina

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26.467.
James Leeper
Arkansas Territory
Adm 1 year & 3 Months
Wm M. K. Bale
Fayetteville 
Arkansas Territory
[crossed out words: John McCutchen Washington City]

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United States of America
Territory of Arkansas
County of Washington
On this ninth day of December in the
year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Thirty Three personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Thomas P. Eskridge one of the judges of the Superior Court in and for the Territory of Arkansas and assigned by law to hold circuit Court in and for the Third Judicial Circuit of said Territory of which the County
of Washington Composes a part, James Leeper a resident of the County of Washington and Territory of Arkansas aged Seventy two years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress passed the 7 of June 1832
That he entered the service of the United States during the Revolutionary War under the command of General [Alexander] Lillington, General [Benjamin] Lincoln, Col. Andrew Hampton, Captain Joseph Nail, Lieut. Peter Forna, Ensign Jacob Glance and orderly Sgt. John Jenkins in the month of December 1779 and was discharged on the 24th March 1780 - that he was in the service three months. That he resided in the [illegible] county North Carolina and was drafted and

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any battle
marched from Charlotte in said state by way of Camden to Charleston South Carolina and was not in any battle during the above time of service. And that he volunteered in the Month of April 1780 under the command of Col. William Graham and captained Gronicle [William Chronicle] who was killed at [British General Patrick] Ferguson defeat at Kings Mountain, and was discharged in the October following after remaining in the service six months, during this time he was principally in Lincoln and Rutherford Counties North Carolina and that this service was in an expedition against the Tories of North Carolina - and that he substituted himself in the place of Matthew Leeper a resident of the County of Lincoln
N.C. in the month of April 1781 under the command of General Green [Nathanael Greene], Col. Thomas Palk, Captain Samuel Espy [Espey] St. John Abernathy and marched from near his place of Residence in the County Lincoln to the Hanging Rock in South Carolina by way of the Waxhaw meeting house in S.C. and was discharged about the first of June following and was in the service one month, and was not engaged in any battle. - That he enlisted in what was called the Ten Months State Troops in July 1781 under the command of Col. Wade Hampton, Maj. Blooford. [Abraham Buford] Capt. William McKinsey[McKenzie], Lieut James Robinson, and marched from near his residence
in the County Lincoln N.C. to the interior of South Carolina and there passed from one neighborhood to another, and

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and after remaining in the service three months was discharged by Maj. Blowford, [Abraham Buford] and that he was drafted in the year 1781 and called into service under Col Dixon (Since General Dixon) Capt James White and hired Matthew Leeper as a substitute and he remained two months in the service and was discharged
both residents at that time of Lincoln County North Carolina  and that there is no person in this country by whom he can establish the above facts, Matthew Leeper, Alexander Porter Matthew Armstrong, Joseph Hart and Thomas Lane were all residents of the County of Lincoln State of North Carolina they last I heard from them - they can if living testify to the same facts also Joseph Henry and Robert Henry both of Benton County N.C.
if living can testify to the same facts, and that he has no docmentary evidence by which he can establish the abovementioned facts. And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State
or Territory  ⎬
James Leeper
sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid
B H Smithson Clk
And the said Court do hereby declare
their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
the
Theo P Ekridge

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[Interrogatories page 1]

Interrogatories Propounded to the Said James Leeper by the Court 

Ques. 1- When and in what year were you born? 
I was born in Augusta County Virginia in September 1761-

Ques 3. Where were you living when you were called into Service, Where have you lived since and where do you now live?  I was living in Lincoln County North Carolina when I was called into the Service of the United States, and since the Revolutionary War I have lived in Haywood County North Carolina, Franklin County Tennessee, Jackson County Alabama, and I  now live in Washington County Arkansas Territory-

Ques. 2 Have you any record of your age? I have no record of my age it was lost at the time of the sale of my fathers estate

4. How were you called to service- were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a Substitute, and if a substitute for whom?- I was drafted twice, enlisted once in what was then called the State troops, and at one time Substituted for Matthew Leeper --

5- State the names of some of the Regular officers, who were with the troops when you served; such continental and militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service-  It is so long since the Revolutionary War that I cannot recollect the regular officers except General [Benjamin] Lincoln, Maj [Henry] Dixon and Maj. [Thomas] Hogg - I do not recollect the names of any of the Regiment either continental or Militia. the I recollect no particular circumstances that transpired during my service except the Battle of Ramsour's Mill [North Carolina, 1780], but was not in the battle-

6 Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so by whom were given, and what has become of it

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[Interrogatories page 2]

I received two discharges from Service from Maj Blooford [Abraham Buford] and the other from Capt. Jos] Neal, [Joseph Nail]  both of which are now lost. From the tour I served under Col. [William] Graham. I was with many others dismissed without a discharge

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that John Cureton who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Washington and that Edwin G. Snead and Lee C. Blakemore  who have also signed the same are residents in the county of Washington & are respectable persons and that their statements are entitled to credit-
[signed] Tho. P. Esteridge

I Bryan H Smithson  clerk of the circuit Court in and for the county of Washington aforesaid do hereby certify that the forgoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the matter of the application of James Leeper for a pension,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand as clerk and affixed the seal of office this ninth Day of December Ad. 1833, and of the independence of the 
United States the fifty Eight-
[signed] B C Smithson Clk

[illegible seal attached]