Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7875, John Wheeden, N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Wheeden, John
S 7875
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CONTENTS

Rev War ✓
7875
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File No. 7875
John Wheeden Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 13 , Page 403
[Arrangement of 1870.]

North Carolina. 23. 749
order to pay - June 29, 1837
John Wheeler, — of New Hanover in the State of N. Car. who was a pr. in the Comp'y, commanded by Captain Dabbard of the — commanded by — in the N.C. line for 12 1/2 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of N Carolina at the rate of $1. Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th day of April 1830 and Sub. Rev. J. J. McKay - A.P.C.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1834 124.98 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1834 20.83
$145.81
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nath. Price — Clerk Book 6 Vol. 64 Page 79.

State of North Carolina } Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions New Hanover County } March Term 1834. —
On this the 12 th day of March 1834 before the worshipful Justices of the Court aforesaid viz Hon ble Miller Lewis H. Marshall, James Howard, & Dugald M c Duffee personally appeared John Wheeden, a resident of the Town of Wilmington in the County of New Hanover in the State of North Carolina aged seventy seven last November 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 & served as herein stated. —
1 st In a company of Duplin militia under Captain John Williams, Samuel Houston Lieutenant, in a regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Rutledge, in the brigade of Gen Moore, being ordered out to go against the British then on board their Fleet in Cape Fear below Wilmington, in the spring of 1777 and served three months as a private and left this service in the summer of 1777, that he was a volunteer; that he was in no battle; that he marched from Duplin to Wilmington, thence into Brunswick County at Odom's Mill, and there stationed awhile, thence back to Wilmington where he was discharged; that he served with no continental regiments or companies that the regular Officers, he knew were Capt Joseph Rhodes, Captain Dozier, Capt Coleman, Curtis Ivey, that he has no documentary evidence and knows of no persons now alive by whom he can prove this service. — 2 nd In a company of Duplin militia in May 1778 under Captain William Hubbard I was subsequently,

transferred to the command of a Captain whose name this applicant forgets, Samuel Houston Lieutenant, in a regiment commanded by Col James Kenan in the brigade of Gen. Nash and served two & a half months as a private, he engaged for three months as a volunteer and having been taken sick at the expiration of two & a half months was thereupon furloughed & came home. — marched from Duplin to Wilmington, thence to betwixt Wilmington & Jumping Run where he joined Gen Nash's brigade, and continued till he was taken sick and furloughed as aforesaid; that he has no documentary evidence, & knows of no person alive by whom he can prove this service,
3rdly In a company of Duplin militia under Captain William Hubbard, Thomas Quinn Sargeant, the other company Officers he forgets, in a regiment commanded by Col James Kenan and joined Gen Sellington's forces near the Big Bridge in New Hanover County, in the first of the year 1781 and served three months as a private, that he was a volunteer; that he was in no battle, but there was a skirmish with the enemy on the East side of the North East River near the Big Bridge aforesaid — that he has no documentary evidence & knows of no person now alive by whom he can prove this service —
4thly In a company of Duplin cavalry under Captain James Gillespie, Samuel Houston Lieutenant, Daniel Sootherland Ensign, ordered out by Col James Kenan in or about May 1781 to go against the enemy under Major  Brigadier  General  Major Craige , and served four months as a private, was fired upon at several times by the enemy, but never in a regular battle at some occasions fired upon the enemy, that he marched for the most part through all Duplin County also in New Hanover County and to Wilmington where he was discharged — that he has no documentary proof & knows of no person by whom he can prove this service —

Answers of aforesaid applicant to the Questions prescribed by the War Department —
1 In Virginia in November 1756. —
2. I have a record of my age at home taken from my Grandfather's Bible.
3 I lived in  lived in  Dublin Co  Dublin Co = when called into service; since the war I've lived in Brunswick & New Hanover Counties, & I now live in New Hanover Co.
4. I refer to my declaration —
5 I beg leave to refer to my declaration
6. I never received a discharge in writing
7. Gabe Holmes, William Harris, John McCauslin, Murdock McKay, Joshua James, Charles B. Morris, Alexander Anderson
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn & Subscribed the day John Wheeden Year aforesaid
Thos F Davis Clk
We, Charles B. Morris and Jeremiah Nichols residents in the Town of Wilmington hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Wheeden the aforesaid applicant, that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the said Town to have been a Revolutionary soldier; and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn & Subscribed the day C B Morris Year aforesaid Jer. Nichols
And the said Court hereby certifies that after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a Revolutionary soldier & served as he states, —
And the Court further certifies that it is made appear

to them that Charles B. Morris & Jeremiah Nichols who have signed the preceding certificates are residents in the Town of Wilmington and credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit and return and further that said applicant is rather a silent individual and not well known by any clergyman resident in the Town aforesaid.
Rev. William J. P.
L. H. Marsteller, S. P.
J. P. Howard - J. P. D. M. Duffey J. P.
John Wheeler
Rev. J. P. Howard
I, Thomas H. Davis clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for New Hanover County hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Wheeler for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office & subscribed my name this the 12th day of March A. D. 1834
Thos. H. Davis Clerk