Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,654, Augustus Wilson, N.C. Also Served In 1790 & 1794

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.C.
Wilson, Augustus or Augustin
R. 11,654
also served in 1790 & 1794
CONTENTS
1. May 1759 in Md. res at N. B. in what was later Sullivan Co Tenn) res in 1848 Anderson Co Tenn.

State of Tennessee Anderson County
on this 27 th day of January 1848 personally appeared before me Alfred Sharp one of the acting Justices of the peace for said County of Anderson and State of Tennessee Augustus Wilson of said County aged Eighty five years according to the account received of his mother who being first duly sworn according to law dath 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 and companies - I lived in what was then called South Carolina near the line of Virginia and near Greenville County Tennessee I was drafted to go to meet the British under Capt Robert Kilb and hired a substitute to go in my place by the name of Male in the year of 1780 or 1781 the date I cannot recollect
I think in the year Seventeen hundred and ninety I volunteered under Joseph Martin for three months for the purpose of guarding the Key Cave fort at the time Colonel Charles Stokely and served three months and ten days I started on first of January and was discharged the first of April same year I recd a discharge at the time from my Capt which has long since been lost so that I cannot now produce it
I was in no particular battles during my services But there were eight men killed out of the company I was in or the most of them out of it.

Isaac Baughman, John Benton, Hugh Benton, Daniel Benton, Jesse Benton, Burnell Senior, John Lemason, Ralston Baughman,
I again volunteered in the year eighteen hundred and ninety four under Capt. Henry Clarke to go against the Cherokee Indians to a place called the Chickymazy Towns But there was not in any regular Battles But in several skirmishes one on the look out mountain where we killed one or two Indians or likely more - we were there in the Service for about three months I do not recollect of getting any discharge
I was Born in the State of Maryland in the year eighteen hundred and fifty nine on the fourth of May
I have no Record of my age
I was called into the Service while living on Horse Creek in the extreme East End of Tennessee
I then moved into Knox County Tennessee and lived there several years and I then moved to Anderson County where I now live and has for the last forty years
I was drafted to go into the Service in the Revolutionary and served a short time and the other times I volunteered
I think Joseph Martin was a Regular officer Charles Robertson was our Commander in the Chickymazy campaign and the other my Capt. was the highest officer that I was under, I served as a guard at a boat landing station and very often scouted out through the country and in the other we marched something like one hundred and fifty or two

hundred miles down the Holston and Levisa Rivers
I Recd a discharge for my services for the first term for three months and ten days and it is last the other term I once Recd any discharge That I Recd of, it was signed by Capt Dorph Martin at the time I was discharged
William Sharp Robert Stuckelery Jacob Stuckelery Jacob Soy Lewis Miller Pleasant M Rogers George Miller Adam McCoy Reuben Cragg and a grate many others that has been long a guarantee with me and none are well
I have no documentary evidence nor do I know of any person who is testimony I can procure who can testify to my services
1. I have also submitted to the Department the aforesaid
I hereby relinquishes every Claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Alfred Sharp Augustus Wilson Justice of the peace for Anderson county
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace for Anderson County Augustus Wilson who being duly sworn deposes and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned in his declaration and in the following grades hereinafter stated in the Revolution

Served as a captain in the Indian war
for three months and ten days served as a private and about three months at the other time as a private and for such service I claim a pension — Sworn to and subscribed before me the date 27 th day of January 1848 Alfred Sharp Augustus Wilson mark Justice of the peace for Anderson county
We Pleasant M. Rogers a clergyman residing in the County of Anderson and state of Tennessee and William Sharp residing in the state and county aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Augustus Wilson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty nine years of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Indian war and that we concur in that opinion Sworn and subscribed to this 27 th day of January 1848 Pleasant M Rogers William Sharp
I do hereby declare that after the examination and perusing the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named Applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states in the Indian war, and I further certify that Pleasant M Rogers who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the County of Anderson, and that William Sharp is a credible per- son, and that their statement is entitled to credit
I do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the proceedings in the matter of the application of Augustus Wilson for a pension

and that the said Augustus Milton is in consequence of old age and other infirm- -ties unable to attend a court to make his declaration and that there was an alteration made in the declaration to make it Read (Eighty nine) and two arrarers made one and two on the margin and one mind added in the Certificate of Pleasant M. Rogers & William Sharp making it Read Revolution & Indian war by adding the word (revolution)
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 27 th day of January 1848
Alfred Sharp Justice of the peace for Anderson county
State of Tennessee, I. John Key, Clerk of the county court Anderson County to for the County of Anderson aforesaid do hereby certify that Alfred Sharp whose signature appears to the above certificate is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly and constitutionally Elected commissioned and qualified and that his signature is Genuine and Just faith and credit are to be given to all his official acts as such given under my hand and seal of office at office in Clinton this the 29 th day of January 1848
John Key clerk

No 37588 Augustus Wilson Trn act 7 June 1832

11,654
P. O.
Augustus Wilson
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleged: The printed list of 1852 gives cause of suspension:
Re-enlisted: "He did not serve six months"
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

N 37588 Augustus Nielsen Lgt to John Baker Sept 15 48
11957
act 7 June 1832

John Baker
Sept 15. 48

Pension Office September 15 1848
Sir,
The papers in the Case of Augustus Wilson have been examined and find upon the act of 7 June 1832.
In his Declaration Claimant states that in 1780 or 1781 he was drafted to go to meet the British under Capt Roffe, and that he hired a substitute. The above act of 7 June above referred to provides for actual service only rendered during the Revolutionary War. He therefore appears from his own declaration no actual service, during that War, and as that ended in 1790 or subsequently to the Conclusion of Peace in 1783, it not  entitled by any means afforded no ground for a pension. He has no claim whatever to a stipend, this application is therefore rejected.
To entitle Wilson to a pension he must show clearly that he rendered not less than 90 days actual service in line the period of the Revolutionary War. He has no claim for the service of a substitute. John Rankin Esq New Market Jefferson Co Tenn.

Newmanstown
Lebanon County Pennsylvania
July 10 th - 48
Dear Sir
I here with enclose you the Declaration of Augustus Wilson who is making application for a pension you will be kind the favor to have it attached to as early as practicable
Yours with Respect
John Baker
R. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Nilson, Barnaby GRADE Private LINE Maryland
WARRANT NUMBER 11819 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED March 11, 1791
to — not shown —
Official note: "On the 24 th March, 1835, this warrant was sent from the Gen. Land Office to this office and returned with a certificate that it had never been registered on the books of this office, and that Warrant no. 2067 for 100 acres had issued the 22 nd Sept. 1834 to the
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
heirs of Barney Nilson, that being the name as found in the final settlement certificate in the 4 th Md. Regiment."