Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,629, Hickman Williams, N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.C.
Williams, Hickman Winna
P 11,629
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19,423. R
411684
West Tennessee
Hickman Williams,
Lawrence Co in the State of Tennessee who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Jacob Turner of the regiment commanded by Colonel Sumner in the N. Carolina line, for the term of 2 1/2 years from May 1776 to 17
scribed on the Roll of West Tennessee at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 17 th of February 1825
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th of April 1825 and sent to H. H. Buchanan Esq. Lawrenceburg, Tenn
Arrears to 4th of March 1825 $ 4. 45 Semi-ann. all'ce ending April 1825 $ 48
$ 52. 45
{ Revolutionary claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. } March 1. 1825

Dec 20 th 1851
✓ Minna Williams widow of Aukwa Williams
Pension claim made Oct 4 July 1836
V Ellis atty present du 19/51

No 7.795
Winna Williams dec d wid of Hickman Tenn.
Act 11 July 1836
V. Ellis Present.

State of Tennessee County of Lawrence
On this 4 th day of April 1837 personally appeared before the undersigned Justice of the Peace in for said County Isaac W Alford administrator of Winnah Williams dec d who was the widow of Nickman Williams late of this County deceased, & made oath in due form of law & according to the best of his knowledge information & belief, that Nickman Williams was a soldier of the continental line in the War of the Revolution in the State of North Carolina, & served several years in said War, & that he was inscribed on the pension Roll of the Nashville Tennessee agency in or about the year 1825 under the act of March 18 th 1818 I saw a pension till his death in the year 1826 that he was a resident of this County - that he left at his death, him surviving, a widow named Winnah Williams of whom this affiant is administrator that said widow was originally named Winnah Clifton I was

married to said Hickman Williams at the County of Franklin in the State of North Carolina at the time of the exact date not recollectd but prior to the year 1780 before the termination of the service of her said husband Hickman Williams in said War of the Revolution, and that said Winna Williams widow of said Hickman Williams died in this County on the 21 st or 22 nd day of September 1837, whereby she became by reason of surviving the passage of the act of Congress of July 4 th 1836, to a pension from the 4 th day of March 1831 at the rate of eighty dollars per year to the day of her death, that by reason of her ignorance of her just rights she did not claim the same whereby the same enures to the benefit of her children - that said Winna Williams the widow aforesaid left the following children now surviving to wit

Nancy Alford (formerly Williams) Willa Williams Thomas Williams, James Williams, Jesse Williams, Elizabeth Chaffin (formerly Williams) Dilla Williams, and Patsey Steele (formerly Williams) and that Mrs. Alford is as aforesaid
the admr. of her estate & claims the amount of pension due to said Ninna Williams widow aforesaid at her death in behalf of her the sole use of the said surviving chil- dren of said Ninna Williams & asks that a certificate for the same may issue the delivery to Vespasian Ellis for him Isaac M. Alford
an Administrator
Sworn to Subscription before me this 4 th day of June 1851
R O Pans

19,584
William Williams,
Lawrence Co. Tenn.
M. H. Buchanan,
Lawrence Co. Tenn.
Recd Mar. 18 th 1863
June July 23 rd 1863
War Department
Washington
D.C.
28 71,

State of Tennessee
Sauvage County, Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions January Term 1825
On this 6 th day of January 1825 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record for said County. Richard Williams aged 62 years on the 21 st or 22 nd day of February last resident in Sauvage County Tennessee who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, to wit that he enlisted for two years & a half as returned but far one year as he intended in the last of May 1776, in the County of Wake in the State of North Carolina that he served under Capt. Jacob Turner in the third regiment commanded by Col. John Sumner of the North Carolina line in the Continental establishment & that he continued to serve in said Company & regiment until discharged in Halifax North Carolina in the summer of 1777 in August by Col. John Williams but has long since lost his discharge that he never was in any engagement but was guarding & in Charleston at the time of the battle of Sullivan's Island, that my family consists of myself aged as aforesaid, able to do some work but not able to support my family, My wife aged about 66 infirm & unable to support herself My Daughter Milly about 40 able to support herself. My Daughter Sally about 36 able to support herself & Polly about 18 able to support herself. That the reason he did not apply before the passing of the act of the 1 st of March 1823 was & is because he has always been able to support his family by his labor until reduced by a spell of sickness in the Spring of 1824, that he is by occupation a farmer, that he has disposed of none of his property since the year 1818 but for the use of his family & I have no evidence of my service or discharge but my own oath

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it so as to 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 the Revolutionary war passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 or any of the acts passed subsequently thereto about the said matter & 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 hereto annexed & by me subscribed.
Nickman Williams
Schedule
15 Acres of land in Eddy for which I owe $45.00 & the fees to receive a grant 13 Cows & 3 yearlings, 1 Small Heifer, One Horse One Man & one Year old Colt, 2 Saws & Digs, 4 head of Hogs, 1 Rifle & 1 shot gun, 1 large & 1 small Trunk, 4 Boxes, 2 sets of tea Cups & Saucers, 2 pots & 1 oven, 2 large Dishes 11 Plates, 2 Axes & 1 Farm hawk, 1 Mattock, 2 Shovel Plows, 2 Wheeling Hoes, 1 Table & 7 Chairs 1 Hand saw, 2 Augers & 3 Chisels, 1 Drawing knife, 1 Shovel & Tongs, 2 Gups, 2 Butter Pats 2 Spinning wheels & 1 Looking glass All I own except for my land is $17,52 \frac{1}{2} & I have no debts coming to me but $1.25
Nickman Williams
Sworn to a clear and on the sixth day of January 1825 before Richard Hill Esq. M.A. & Geo. H. Lewis
Justices of peace County W. H. Buchanan

J. M. H. Buchanan Clerk of the county Court for Lawrence County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court & I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property enumerated in the aforesaid Schedule is one hundred and thirty one dollars & seventy five cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the  my private seal of the said Court there being no publick seal, at office This 17th day of February 1825
Private Seal
J. M. H. Buchanan Clerk of Lawrence County Court

State of North Carolina, Secretarys Office
I William Hill Secretary of State in & for the State aforesaid do certify that the name of Hickman Williams does not appear on the muster-rolls of the continental line of this State in the revolutionary war, but on reading his declaration it is believed he served as therein stated. A Warrant has issued for two and a half years services of Hickman Williams in the revolutionary war, on the Certificate of a Field Officer, certifying that he had served for that length of time as a private soldier in said war.
Given under my hand at office in Raleigh this 20 th April 1825.
W. Hill

Heina Williams, affidavit
filed by V. Ellis atty Munich Nov. 17/51

State of Tennessee, Lawrence County This day personally appeared before me Robert A. Parrish an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County of Lawrence William A. Edmiston aged forty years who made oath in due form of law, that he was well acquainted with Min- erva Williams, widow of Sherman Williams, and that she died in said County on the 21 st day of September 1837 or about that time, and that Isaac W. Alford is her administrator,
Sworn to and subscribed before me 30 th August 1851.
Wm A. Edmiston
R. A. Parrish
State of Tennessee } ss.
Lawrence County } I Stephen A. Carrick clerk of the county court of said county do hereby certify that R. A. Parrish whose name appears to the attested to the above affidavit of Wm A. Edmiston, is now, and was at the time of signing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county and State aforesaid duly elected, commissioned and sworn, and that the signatures thereto purporting to be his, are genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my seal of office at office in Lawrence- burg on the 9 th day of December A. D. 1851. Stephen A. Carrick clerk

Pension Office
March 15 th 1852.
Sir;
The declaration of Isaac ee Alford who claims to be the Administrator of Edinna ee Williams dec d late widow of Hickman ee Williams of Tennessee, who was pensioned under the Act of 18 th March 1818, has been examined and filed under the Act of 4 July 1830.
You have furnished no evidence of the appointment of Mr Alford as the Administrator - no evidence of the date of the marriage of the parties and no certificate of the Court showing the date of the death of the widow and the number and names of her surviving children. Nor is there in this case any evidence of the service of the Soldier. He was pensioned under the Act of 1818 on his own statement. He alleged that he served in the N. C. Line from May 1776 to August 1777. I have examined the records of that

service here as far as we have them, but his name cannot be found thereon.
There is a certificate in the papers from the Comptroller of N.C. dated in 1825 which says his name is not found on the muster rolls of the Continental Line of that State but from his declara- tion it is believed he served as therein stated and that a warrant had issued for two and a half years services of Nick- man Williams in the Revolutionary war on the certificate of a field officer cer- tifying that he had served for that length of time as a private soldier in that war.
I should like to be furnished with a copy of the evidence upon which the war- rant was granted. It may be that that soldier and the one to whom a pension was allowed under the act of 1818, are different individuals.
Very Respectfully
Your obedt Servt.
J. J. C. Riplett
For Com of Pensions
V. Ellis Esq.
Present.

No 7795
Winna Williams decd. widow of Stickman
Tenn
Act 4 th July 1830.
To W. Ellis. March 15-1852
11629

11,629
P. O. Minna Williams
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contr.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Winn Williams

State of Tennessee, Laurence County.
This day personally appeared before me R. H. Parish an acting Justice of the peace for said county William A Edmiston a credible and disinterested Witness aged about 45 years, and made oath in due form of law that Winna Williams Widow of Heickman Williams and being the same person upon whose estate Isaac W Alford is administrator, died on or about the 21 st day of September 1837. Which date affidavit is satisfied is correct from the charge upon affiants books, he having made the coffin in which she was buried,
This January 13 th 1852 Sworn to and subscribed before me January 13 th 1852.
Wm A Edmiston
R. H. Parish
State of Tennessee, Laurence County
This day personally appeared before me R. H. Parish an acting Justice of the peace in said County, Bridger Williams aged eighty one years, a credible and disinterested Witness and made oath in due form of Law, that he was well acquainted with Heickman Williams and his wife Winna Williams in their lifetime and from his boyhood to the time they respectively died, and knows that they were married upwards of seventy years since in the County of Franklin North Carolina (the exact date not recollected but knows it to have been before the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. Affiant is a nephew of said Heickman Williams, and resided in the neighborhood where they were married, and they came immediately after their marriage and resided with affiants father in his house for some time thereafter. Affiant fixes the date of their marriage from his own age together with several other circumstances that make it satisfactory to his mind that said marriage was prior to the year 1780. Affiant knew them from his childhood until their death, having lived near them during most of the time. The said Heickman Williams died in the year 1826. and probably in the month of March of that year, and his wife Winna Williams (formerly Winna (deceased) probably in the year 1837. leaving a number of children of whom are now surviving only the following children to wit. Nancy Alford (formerly Williams) aged about seventy years. Willa Williams, Thomas Williams, James Williams

Jane Williams. Elizabeth Chaffin (formerly Williams) Ella Williams & Patsy Price (formerly Williams). Affiant further states that Winna Williams was the identical person who was widow of Hickman Williams, and that said Hickman Williams was a pensioner at the time of his death. Affiant states, that the Winna Williams widow of said Hickman Williams is the person upon whose estate Isaac W. Alford is administrator.
Sworn to and subscribed before me February 19 th 1852.
Brady Williams
R.D. Parish (P)
State of Tennessee, Lawrence County
This day personally appeared before me R.D. Parish an acting Justice of the peace in said county. Isaac W. Alford administrator of Winna Williams deceased, a credible witness, and made oath in due form of law, that he has examined and find no record of the marriage of Hickman Williams and Winna Williams (formerly Winna Chaffin)
Sworn to and subscribed before me this February 19 th 1852.
Isaac W. Alford
R.D. Parish (P)
State of Tennessee } 33
Lawrence county } I Stephen A. Carrick clerk of the county court of said county do hereby certify, that B. D. Parrish whose name appears to the certificate to the foregoing affidavit of Mrs. A. Edmiston, Bridget Williams and Isaac W. Alford, is now, and was at the time of signing said certificate, an acting Justice of the Peace within, and for the county and State aforesaid, duly elected commissioned and sworn, and that the signatures thereto purporting to be his are genuine - In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my seal of office at office in Lawrenceburg on this the 19 th day of February A.D. 1852.
S. A. Carrick clerk

State of Tennessee } ss. Lawrence county } I Stephen A. Garre tt clerk of the county court of said county do hereby w certify that Isaac M. Alford whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit is and was at the time of signing the same administrator upon the estate of Minnie Williams deceased widow of Heilman Williams, that he was legally appointed as administrator such, at the June Term of the county court of said county for the year 1851, and that the signature thereto sub- scribing to be his is genuine, and that he gave bond and qualified as such as the law directs at said June Term. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office at office in Lawrenceburg on the 19 th day of February A.D. 1852. S. A. Garre tt clerk