Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 20187, Titus Jennings Turner, N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
N. C.
Turner, Titus Jennings
R. 20187
CONTENTS

State of North Carolina Wake County
I Benjamin S. King clerk of the Court of Pleas and Sessions Sitting for the County of Wake do hereby certify that Henry Brown Esq. before whom the within affidavit was made, was an acting Justice of the Peace of said County at the time of signing his name thereto and that his signature is in his proper hand writing.
In Testimony whereof I have here set my hand the seal of office at Raleigh this 15 th (October 1828) B. S. King

State of North Carolina, this day came James Stinson before me Henry Brown J.P. Wake County a trustee of the peace in and for the County aforesaid
Titus Jennings Turner who being by me duly sworn sayeth on his oath that for the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act entitled an act for the relief of certain Revolutionary officers and soldiers in the army of the Revolution approved on 15th of May 1828 that I the Titus Jennings Turner of the State of North Carolina and many of the time do hereby declare that I enlisted in the army of the Revolution in Spasburg William Ward's Company in the 5th Regiment of the North Carolina Continental line and that I was bound to obey the orders of my superior officers and to serve until discharged by the orders of the Continental Congress and I enlisted in the month of May in the year 1778 and continued to serve as a private of common soldiers for about twelve months when I was discharged and obliged by sickness to military service in the year 1778 and 1779 in aid to the States of South Carolina and Georgia and was in the militia service in the year 1780 and in the year 1781 was in the militia service and served in the militia in equal rotation with others and then in equal rotation with others in several tours of about six months more 1781 I was a soldier belonging to a Regiment of Artillery in the fall of the year and Joel Lewis my captain and was attached to General Clinton's army doing South Carolina and continued to serve as a private of the State of North Carolina until the first day of March in the year 1783 when I was discharged and that I obtained a military land warrant for six hundred and forty acres of land for my service in the Revolution army being as much quantity of land as was allowed by the State of North Carolina to any private soldier
Test Henry Brown J.P.
Titus Jennings Turner
October 6th 1828
Sworn to
before me Henry Brown a trustee of the peace in the County of Wake and State of North Carolina personally appeared this day James Stinson and Corbell Woodward and said County who said severally made oath that by virtue of the foregoing Declaration was subscribed Titus Jennings Turner is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the army of Revolution in manner as therein stated.
Test Henry Brown J.P.
James Stinson his Corbell Woodward
I hereby certify that James Stinson and Corbell Woodward is considered a credible whose oaths and testimony is to be relied upon and considered in
The day & date above written H. Brown J.P.

by the business of the north for the year 1782 it may be seen that 500 acres of land was the greatest quantity allowed to any private soldier at the north along continental line

To the Honorable Richard Rush Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America Sir as my name is not inserted in the muster Roll of the North Carolina Continental line of the Revolutionary Army though I was one of the first that was enlisted in that Army Some incident or event unknown to me have caused the said omission Such like Casualties being but too often unavoidable and by an act of the Legislature of the State of North Carolina passed at a Session begun at Fayetteville on the  second day of November 1788 1789 Chapter the Sixth it said that whole Regiments or Privates who served in the Continental line of this State are not to be found on the muster rolls may officers of the United States and and having lost all my Discharges I have no other means nor ways to prove that I served with you or was acquired with me in the Revolution and that being not an officer as King's or of Service I have not where they are and having not known not I heard of the before of Congress allowing allowing the money alluded in the act of the 15th of May 1822 to Soldiers for the said before as not known of by but few if by any where I was at the close of the Revolution and it but a few years ago that I have known of said before and the officers and soldiers where I knew not nor do I yet know to that it was inconsiderable and insufficient to me to obtain a Certificate of my being entitled to that money and as the manner of my enlistment was without the saying any period of time it seems a simple Confirmation to the equal to and synonymous with the War Department where there was for patriotism in the army and in Congress was also a desire to have continued the men in the public defense especially as disciplined Soldiers as as I desire was much needed as I am so that excellent General George Washington to apply for the men to be entitled for a longer time than others had been

and the most accurate construction is according to as the beginning and the cause and subject matter for a gift or gratuity of uncertain things the election seems to belong to him for whom benefit was made and sit the kness of affection as an acceptable cause of my leaving for the regular army I presume not to you for be not to be able to you but with all due deference of my own skill and deference to your capacity and to alleviate my necessity of  the  of  the  of  the Confidence in your ability and integrity perception of the liberty for which I have heard of you I shall be happy to see you confirmed the validity of my claim if my claim be admitted and the money from the third of March to the third of September be not sent it will be most convenient to me to get it at the Branch of the United States Bank at the town of Fayetteville in Cumberland County North Carolina I subscribe myself your Real and Sincere Friend and wish you ultimate Success Silas Jennings Turner
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The honorable Richard Root I have I have no witness of this last sickness and present it only as a most informal to the honorable Richard Root desire that my business in all the exigency which as to require that my business in all accelerated with all consequence speed therefore please hasten to me as to the point that this application of the money be placed in the hands of the military service be requested and the hands of the said evidence be returned back to me but let it may be not admitted I read my report the evidence of my military sent back to the post office in Raleigh as soon as possible I have considered my claim Silas Jennings Turner

Titus Jennings Turner Declared on oath that he was not on the pension list of the United States on the sixteenth day of May in the year of one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6 th day of October 1828 Geo d Henry Brown, J p Titus Jennings

Thos Jennings Turner - Rot- No. Car. line -
North Carolina -
Ev d one old Book. + Ref. "Wid - St. & Ind. - 8 other old books.
(Evidence insufficient) abt 1828 No Record Last

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
8 Nov 1828
Titus Jennings Turner of _____ in the County of Wake in the State of N Carolina has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain _____'s company, in the _____ regiment of the N Carolina line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, Nothing
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By Order of the Secretary J. W. Dickinson.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
13 - November 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to _____ in the _____ note
It further appears that Titus Jennings Turner is now on the pension list of the any - - - - - agency, and has been so since the 3. March 1826 at the rate of dollars per month.
The name of Titus Jennings Turner, cannot be found among those of the North Carolina line, to whom certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars, were issued - P. Hagman Adm

Not recd
War Dept: Bounty Land Office
16 May 1829
The records of this office do not show that Titus Jennings Turner of the N o . Carolina line ever received or is entitled to bounty land of the United States.
Robert Taylor

State of North-Carolina.
I, Daniel McDiarmid , Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Cumberland County, do certify that the name and signature of Stephen Senter Esqr which appears to the annexed Official  Stephen Senter Esqr is in the proper hand writing of the said and that he at that date was an acting Justice of the Peace for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit is due to his official acts.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF , I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the County Seal, at Fayetteville, this 4 th day of September A. D. 1828 and in the 52 nd year of American Independence.
D McDiarmid
certificate for Seal

State of North Carolina This day came Jesse Amsley land county Jesse Amsley Personally before me Stephen Senter one of the Justices of the peace to keep the peace for said county who being duly sworn sayeth on his oath that he the said Amsley served as a soldier in a regiment of Regular soldiers of the state of North Carolina which Regiment was commanded by majors Joel Lewis & Bennet Crafton and doing military service as Continental troops in the war of the Revolution was of the united states of America and that Titus Jennings Turner served also in the same above said Regiment as a soldier and that while the said Amsley and the said Turner was serving in the said Regiment in the year of 1782 the same Regiment was marched into and in aid to the state of South Carolina and did perform military service in South Carolina sworn to and subscribed before me this 18 th day of August 1828
Witness
Stephen Senter JP
Jesse Amsley his mark
I hereby certify that Jesse Amsley is considered a creditable man whose oath and testimony is to be relied on trusted to and confident in and that he is not interested with said Turner in this case -
Stephen Senter JP

State of North-Carolina.
I, Daniel McDiarmid , Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Cumberland County, do certify that the name and signature of Stephen Sinton Esqr. which appears to the annexed Affidavit is in the proper hand writing of the said Stephen Sinton Esqr. and that he at that date was an acting Justice of the Peace for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit is due to his official acts.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF , I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the County Seal, at Fayetteville, this 4 th day of September A. D. 1828 and in the 52 nd year of American Independence.
D. McDiarmid
certificate of Seal of

State of North Carolina I hereby certify that the following is a true copy of the record of the proceedings of the Court Martial held at the City of Philadelphia on the 14th day of July 1823 before me W. Gerald Officer of the Army and Navy said Court being duly sworn sayeth on his oath that himself and the undersigned officers were assembled in said Court as members thereof and that William Edwards Company in the 5th Regiment for man and arms was in full view of the Court and that they were then and there ordered to obey the orders of their superior Officers and that the said William Edwards was charged by the Continental Congress and they were in the service of the United States from the year of 1775 and 1777 and that the said William Edwards was in the service of the United States for a longer time and a longer time and a longer time when the Regiment was disbanded and that the said William Edwards was in the service of the United States for a longer time and a longer time and a longer time before this 14th day of July 1823
William his J. Talton mark
W. Gerald
I hereby certify that William Talton is a fair and a credible man whose oath and Testimony as to the facts stated to be true and correct and that he is uninterested with said General
W. Gerald

State of North Carolina } Ransom Saunders clerk of the County Johnston county } Court of pleas and quarter sessions for the County aforesaid Do hereby certify that William Saunders whose name appears signed to the within instrument of writing was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County. And that due faith and credit is and ought to be given his official acts as such Justice Testimony I have set my hand this the 8 th August 1828 R Saunders clerk
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Rejected.
Ex'r. OLD WAR.
No. 20.187
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
Titus Jennings Turner.
Pr
Capt H m Ward's Co
5 th N. C. Line.
Very Well
Died at
REJECTED
other claim.
, 187 .
Clerk.
Application filed: _____ , 18 .
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
Evidence insufficient Oct 1828.

State of North-Carolina.
To all to whom these presents shall come, GREETING:
It is hereby certified and made known, that William  Alex Eger whose signature appears to the annexed  Certificate was, at the time of signing the same and now is, Secy  of State : as such, he is an officer duly qualified and empowered to give said certificate which has been done in the usual and pro- per manner: full faith and credit are and ought to be given to all his official acts.
In Testimony whereof, I, JAMES IREDELL , Gov- or, &c. have caused the Great Seal of the State to be here- unto affixed, and signed the same at our city of RALEIGH on the 18th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty- and of the Independence of the United States the
By the Governor,
Chas. B. Muse Private Secretary.

Titus J. Turner, Mem o of Warrant for his services

No 1220 Titus Jennings owner a private 640 Acres. Warrant issued 1 st July 1825. drawn by himself
The above is a true statement Given under my hand this 16 th Octo. 1828. W. Bell Sec ry