Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11114, Henry Ward, N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.C.
Ward, Henry Charity
R. 11114
CONTENTS

Certificate of the Clerk must be authenticated by Secretary of State or a Member of Congress. Accts of husband's death not dated, no proof of marriage, and the specifications of senior and junior claims not satisfactory. Papers should be returned.
No agent

V No 1435
Charity Ward
Pa
Letter to A. H. Stevens
July 10 - 1846
In Cagill's called for
111 14
act 4 July 1846

11114
P. O.
Chality Warl
Service:
Henry
Enlisted: REJECTED, 18
Discharged: , 18
Application filed: , 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized. Contract

Honble. Secretary of War
Danville
8 th Jan y . 1846
My Sir
Some considerable time past M rs Charity Ward by her friend sent on a declaration for pension and not being aware that to secure an answer she had to write to that effect - at her request I write to obtain some information in regard to the result of the decision on her papers for pension - or whether a certificate of pension has been offered to her. She is aged and very inferior and in need and will be of great advantage to her if the Department should think her case such as to be entitled - as I live in her immediate neighborhood - will you please to inform me (if not contrary to your rules) the situation of her claims
Very respectfully Your H ble . Serv t .
J. M. [unintelligible]
[unintelligible]
James Long

Deed of Gift 1845
State of Georgia } January term 1845 Madison County } Superior Court
On this 13 th day of December  January 1845 personally appeared before the Honorable the Superior Court held in and for said County James Sanders Esq. a resident of said County and State aged Eighty two years - past - who being first duly sworn according to law saith that he formerly lived in Surry County State of North Carolina and was personally acquainted with Henry Ward and Charity Ward - and that they were legally married on the day of  Seventeen hundred and seventy five and that he deponent witnessed the marriage ceremony - And deponent further states that himself and the said Henry - volunteered in Surry County and marched into Rowan County there they joined a considerable number of volunteers and attached themselves to Capt. Reeds Company of Infantry on the 24 th day of June Seventeen hundred and eighty and served as private in the North Carolina Infantry and shortly after they joined Capt. Reeds Company Maj Lewis took Command of said Company and they marched in pursuit of Forbs - until coming near Cornwallis Army when they returned and skirmished through the adjacent Counties until the 24 th of September 1780 - when they were discharged and returned home and some few days after deponent - and the said Henry volunteered and joined Lieutenant John Blalock in Captain Woodbridge Company of horse on the 1 st day of October 1780 and served as private in Cavalry in a Company Called County Rangers raised for the express purpose of suppressing the Forbs - and guarding the frontiers of the Country the said Troops marched to Salem in N.C. there joined some Troops from Virginia and continued skirmishing through the Country until Cornwallis marched through North Carolina when said Company joined General Pickens army and pursued Cornwallis to near the

virginia line when Lieutenant Blalock's Company of Count's Rangers was detached to return for the protection of the Country against the Tories- which duty he continued performing as Count's Ranger until peace was made in 1783 under Capt. Woodridge and Lieutenant Blalock- having no other Civil pursuit- or Occupation other than serving his Country That this deponent was sick when the Battles at Shallowford on Clin and at King's Court-house was fought-
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court-the day and date first written
Attest
W. H. 1816
James Sanders
And the said Court do hereby declare in their opinion after the investigation of the matter Mrs. Charity Ward is the widow of Henry Ward who is said to have been a soldier in the War of the Revolution And the said Court- after having examined the acts and proceedings of William Sanders- a Justice of the Inferior Court of Madison County in certifying to the Board infirmity of Mrs. Charity Ward with approval thereof And the said Court further Certifies that James Sanders is a respectable person and Creditable witness
Attest-
W. H. 1816
John Griffith 1816
William Sanders 1816
Elisha Ware 1816
State of Georgia Madison County 38 & John P. Caldwell 1816 I Walter H. Griffith Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County Certify that William Sanders is an acting Justice of said Court- duly Commissioned and legally qualified and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his is genuine and that the foregoing are the Original proceedings before said Court- In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal
Having no seal of office Walter H. Griffith C. L. G.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the third section of the act of Congress of 4 July 1836.
State of Virginia } Madison County } ss
On this 29 th day of November 1844 personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Inferior-Court-in and for said County and State the same being a Court of Record Mrs. Charity Ward a resident of said County and State above written aged Eighty four years past-who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the acts of Congress passed July 4, 1836 That she is the widow of Henry Ward who was a private soldier and served in the War of the Revolution in the North Carolina Militia as herein stated, to wit-11 he volunteered on the 20 th day of June Seventeen hundred and eighty in Surry County State of North Carolina and joined a Considerable number of volunteers in Roan County and became organized. he was attached to Capt- Reed's Company shortly afterwards Maj Lewis a Continental officer took the Command of said troops then within a few miles of a large number of Torgs. the Torgs fled- he was then marched with said troops in pursuit of them until Coming near Cornwallis's army- when it was considered imprudent by the officers to pursue them further the troops returned and skirmished through the adjacent Counties until the 24 th or 25 th of Sept- when his term of service expired and he returned home after being out about three months after to wit- on the 12 th day of October he joined Lieutenant John Blalock in Captain Giffen Woodbridge's Company of County Rangers for the purpose of pursuing the Torgs and what was called delinquents he marched from Surry County under Lieutenant Blalock to Salem in North Carolina there joined some troops from Virginia and remained as rangers for taking the Torgs- and protecting the Country when Cornwallis marched through NC the said Company was attached to Genl. Pickens Army- and pursued Cornwallis to near the Virginia line when said Company was detached to return for the protection of the Country against the Torgs- He which
2. 1845 R. D. Johnson

duty he was performing as County Ranger under Lieutenant Blalock and kept - Woodbridge until the treaty of Peace in 1783 - leaving this deponent and their three little Children at home that he followed no other civil pursuit - or occupation other than serving his Country he was in the Battle at Shallowford on Adkin River and was near the ground when the Battle was fought - at Guilford R.H. but - was not engaged in it - that deponent has no documentary evidence of the said Henry Ward services But states the above and foregoing from her knowledge of the facts and as she was at the time informed and has since heard her husband and others speak of That she knows of no person now living who could testify to any of the foregoing facts other than James Sanders Esq - of Madison County Ga And deponent further declares that she was legally married to the said Henry Ward on the 22 nd day of December November hundred and seventy five, in Surry County State of North Carolina from whence they removed to Georgia where her husband died leaving her as his widow and that she is still his widow all of which will more fully appear by reference to proof herunto annexed Charity her Ward mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first written before me a Justice of the Inferior Court of Madison County Georgia I further certify that Mrs Charity Ward from Bodily infirmity is unable to attend Court In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 29 th day of Novr 1844.
William Sanders J. I. C.