Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11699, John Winders, N. C.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N 6
Winders, John
R. 11699
CONTENTS

11699
P.O. John Winders
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.

John Winders
Missouri Act 7 June 1832
Rejected - See let. = Mr to Hon. W. Ashby July. 8. 1833
11699

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BRIEF in the case of John Winders of Cooper County in the State of Missouri . (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  a Court.  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  — — — — —  3. How old is he? 77 Years.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. As a Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 17 not recollected — — — 8 — — — — — privat Gen. Col. S. Barnega Maj. Lewis Watkins   again — — — — — — — 10 — — do. Gen. Lexington same Officer  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Duplin County North Carolina 
 7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? 
Traditionary Evidence.
 8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
No.
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
R. F. Pleasants
Examining Clerk.

Declaration of John Menders
Rejected

State of Missouri } County of Cooper } ss
On this 9 th day of November eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the County Court being a Court of Record and having a Seal held within and for the County of Cooper aforesaid now sitting, John Winders, a resident of the County and State aforesaid aged Seventy Seven years in March last who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832—
That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named Officers, to wit, Jacob Carnegea Capt. Levin Watkins Major, James Kenzie Brig. Gen. and Gen. — Listing the others not now recollected, some two or three years before Lord General Wallace went through the Country as near as I now can recollect, from Duplin County in the State of North Carolina in the Capacity of a Militia Soldier, marched to within ten miles of Wilmington N.C. at what was called the Long Bridge where we had a light skirmish & retreated and afterwards went up the River to a place called the "Goshen Swamps" — where we were discharged after three months Service — and some time near two years afterwards I volunteered and served about ten days under some of the same officers, we marched then to Rockfish Creek R

when we had a little skirmish with the Bro- -ith and advised  harm  compar and was no more called on, this last service was a short time before Lord Byron's surrender and further this Claimant saith, not
Subscribed and sworn to the day & year aforesaid
his John F. Menders mark
We William Thurman a clergyman residing within the county of Cooper aforesaid & A. J. Read residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Menders who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
William Thurman mark
Sworn to & Subscribed the 10th Nov 1832 - in open Court -
A. J. Read
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting 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 William Thurman who has signed the preceding certificates is a clergyman resident of the county of Cooper aforesaid and that Anthony J. Read who has also signed the same is a resident in the same & is a credible person and that their statements is entitled to Credit
Green Seal Joseph Patterson Judge

I Robert P. Clark Clerk of the County Court held within and for the County of Coopers- do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of John Winders for a pension
in testimony whereof I the Clerk aforesaid have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 18 th day of November in the year 1832
Robert P. Clark