Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,953, Vetchell Young, N. C.

SERVICE
N.B.
Young Vetchell or Vachel Catherine
NUMBER
R. 11,953,
CONTENTS

Declaration of Palmina Hooper of Claiborne County, Tennessee, for arrears of revolutionary pension , as only child and heir at law, of her mother Catharine Young, deceased, who was entitled to a pension as farm wife and widow of Vetchell Young dec d . for services rendered by him in the revolutionary war. Under Acts of July 4, 1836, & July 7, 1838, but died without making her application, as widow of Vetchell Young.
Richard M. Young, atty of Washington City D.C.

State of Tennessee Blair County ss Be it remembered that at the Term of said Court held in and for said County on the sixth day of October A.D. 1850 eighteen hundred and fifty six personally appeared before said Court in open Court Patience Hooper a resident of said County who being first duly sworn on her oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the arrears of pension due to Catharine Young the mother of this declarant and wife and widow of Betchell Young an account of the services of said Young her father in the War of the Revolution under the various acts of Congress in this behalf and especially that of July 4th 1836 and 7th June 1838.
She states that her father the said Betchell Young was a private and served for two years in the War of the Revolution and she thinks he served in the organized Troops of North Carolina and thinks he was in the Regiment of Col. Washington and that he was a Dragoon - She is not able to state the names of his officers, nor the time he entered and left the service that he her said father died in 1799 - that this declar- ant was born in the year 1776 and was married to William Hooper who died on the 14 th day of April 1811 - that said Betchell Young and Catharine were married in Madison County Maryland near the City of Baltimore about the year seventeen hundred and seventy (1770) - that this declarant has resided in said County of Blair for forty five years past - that she is the only living child of said Betchell and Catharine Young - that said Young her father died in the year seventeen hundred and ninety nine (1799) in the County of Wilkes in the State of North Carolina and that her said Mother Catharine Young died near Indianapolis Indiana about the year eighteen hundred and

forty five. She cannot name the precise day of her death but relies therefor upon such proof of that fact as she may be able to obtain. That said Young she thinks from what she has heard him say served during nearly the whole of the War of the Revolution, but is certain that he served as long as two years, that her father and mother immediately after their marriage removed to Dukes County North Carolina where they resided during the War and until a short time before the death of said Nathaniel Young, when they moved into Wilkes County where he died as aforesaid. That the reason why the declarant did not make an earlier application is that she was not apprised till lately that she was entitled to the pension due to her mother, and that she is unable to state why her mother made no application in her life time. That she believes that no record of the family was kept by her father, but that the annexed record and the facts stated therein of the family of her late husband William Hooper, is and are correct and true. That said record is in the hand writing of her late husband William Hooper and was at least a portion of it written by him fifty some years ago and ever since it was written it has been in her possession. That neither said Young nor his widow ever received or applied for a pension. That after the death of said Young his widow remained unmarried up to the time of her death.
Subscribed and sworn to in Open Court the day and year above mentioned Wm. G. Payne Judge etc.
By Patience Hooper Mark
Also at the same time of said Court and before said Court, personally appeared Nathaniel W. William Hooper who

on his oath say that he is a son of William and Patience Hooper that his said father died on the 14 th day of April 1844 that he is well acquainted with the hand writing of his deceased father and knows the annexed family record to be the hand writing of his father and that he has known the said record as the record of the family from his earliest years and that since his first remembrances it has been in possession of his mother Patience Hooper that this affiant is 56 years old
Subscribed and sworn to in open court on the day and year aforesaid
Wm. G. Payne Judge
my N. W. Hooper mark
State of Tennessee Blount County
Thos. S. Johnson
Clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings of the said Court at the October Term thereof in the year 1856 in the matter of the application of Patience Hooper for the arrear of pension due to her in right of her mother the late Catharine Young, and the Court orders that it be certified that William  William M. Hooper a son of the declarant is a credible witness
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said Court this 6 th day of Oct 1856
Thos. S. Johnson Clerk

11.953
P. O.
Catharine Young
Service:
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: Claim filed too late to be on printed list of
Re-enlisted: 185-2, of Rejections.
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

No Catharine Young dec d Widow of Vetchel
Tennessee
Richard M. Young
Nov 12 1856-
same, March 6, 1857-
11953
July 4 1836

Catharine Young Datchell Sen original
H
George C Whiting Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

R. M. Young March 6/87

Pension Office, March 6, 1857,
Sir,
If it were proved that the Vachel Young, who received £ 9, 13, 8 for services rendered, in North Carolina, during the war of the Revolution, was the husband of Catharine Young, whose daughter is claiming arrears of pension, no allowance could be made, as the payment does not indicate a service of six months. No effort seems to have been made to establish the date of marriage,
Richard M. Young, Esq Present

Nov 12/56
R.W. Young H

Pension Office
Nov 12 1836
1836
Sir
The application of the daughter of Catharine dec d Widow of Peter Young of Tenn has been examined and filed under the Act of July 4 1836 and will be placed upon the suspended file to await proof of the several allegations made in the claim,
Richard M Young Esq Present

Washington City February 13. 1857 Hon George C. Whiting Commission of Pensions, Sir,
On the 4 th of November 1856, I filed in the Pension Office, the Declaration of Patience Hooper of Claiborne County, Tennessee, for arrears of Revolutionary Pension, as the only surviving child and heir at Law, of Catharine Young now deceased, who was the wife and widow of Vetchell or Vachel Young deceased, for services rendered by the said Vachel Young, from North Carolina during the Revolutionary war. I now enclose to you the Certificate of George W. Brooks Comptroller of North Carolina, for the purpose of showing the amount of service performed by Vachel or Vetchell Young from that state during the Revolutionary war.
Will you please have the papers already on file examined in connexion with this certificate, and inform me , whether any, and what further evidence is required to entitle the claimant to the arrears of pension she applies for —
Very Respectfully &c Richard M Young atty Patience Hooper of Tennessee.

Certificate of the Comptroller, George W. Brooks of Raleigh -North Carolina, dated December 25, 1856. of the Military Services of Vachel Young during the revolutionary war.
Richard M. Young, Attorney

State of Alabama Comptroller's Department
I Geo. W. Brooks Comptroller of Pub. Accounts in and for the state aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears of record in my office among the payments made to sundry persons for military service in the Revolutionary War as follows Viz;
Vachel Young
Book No 8. Page 287, £ 9 13 13 8 in Spec. allowed in the Salisbury District, July 1784
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said office at Raleigh on this the 28 th day of December 1856
Geo. W. Brooks
Comptroller
£ 9 13 8
1793
24.12 1 / 2
3 months 219 days