Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,392, Alexander Whitaker, N.C.

SERVICE
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Whitaker, Alexander
R 11,392
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34,670 Alexander Whitaker Illinois

State of Illinois } Alexander County } 1836 1751
I Alexander Whitaker of the county of Alexander in the State of Illinois a Revolutionary soldier of the United States aged eighty seven years on the 31st day of August last past in order to avail myself of the benefit of the acts of the Congress of the United States of America passed for the relief of the soldiers & officers who served in the Army of the United States in the war of the Revolution make the following declaration to wit That I listed as a private volunteer at the age of 18 years, for three months in the Company of Capt. Davis whose christian name I do not recollect, nor do I recollect the Regiment or the Commanding officer thereof, but the company in which I listed was under the command of Genl. George Sumpner - I listed in the month of August in the year 1769 to the best of my recollection. In the company under Capt. Davis I served three months and then entered as a volunteer into the company of Capt. William Wilson, for another three months who was under the command of Genl. Gates. In said Wilson's company I served three months also. after which last named three months I listed as a private  entered for the term of twelve months, in the company under the command of Capt. Jesse Nighen under Genl.
Morgan in which last named company I served eleven months & nine days when I was honorably discharged & received such discharge in writing from General Morgan which I gave into the hands of Capt. Nighen to take home who took it & I have never found it since - I entered the service as

above stated in Capt. Davis's Company at town of Salisbury, Rowan County in the State North Carolina - in Capt. Wilson's Company & at the same place & State - In Capt. Nightrise's Company at the house of one Ramseur on the Catawba River in the same State - & I was discharged in same State at a place on said River called the Horse shoe - Whilst in the service I was in the battle at the Hanging Rock in South Carolina - in the battle at Gates's defeat on Silver Creek in South Carolina - & in the battle at the Cowpens South Carolina - I was born in North Carolina on the Yadkin River - & lived in that State about one year after the close of the Revolutionary War when I moved into the county of Muhlenburg in the State of Kentucky - & from the State of Kentucky I moved in the year 1821 into Alexander County in the State of Illi- nois where I have ever since lived & where I now live - The companies in which I served as above stated belonged to the Revolutionary Army of the United States of America - & the services as above stated as having been rendered by me were rendered in the war of the Revolution - I have never yet applied for or received any pension from the United States - Captain Nightrise died in Kentucky many years ago & I do not at this time know of any person living by whom I can prove the foregoing services - his
Subscribed & sworn to this 16th October in the year 1838 Before me L B Lissacher
Alexander JW Whitaker mark
Justice Justice of the peace in & for the county of Alexander Illinois

United States of America State of Illinois - Alexandria County
So On this 16th day of October in the year 1838 personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in & for the county of Alexandria aforesaid George Cloud Elyson of said county aged fifty six years and Jeremiah Newman of same place aged thirty years & both of whom I certify to be credible witnesses & irreproachable & respectable persons - & who being duly sworn severally depose & say as follows - that  that they are well acquainted & have been well acquainted with said Alexander Whitaker who is now in their presence before in their presence subscribed & swore to the foregoing declaration - the said George for the last seventeen years & ever since said Whitaker came & settled in said County - & the said Jeremiah Newman for the last nine years - has well known the said Alexander Whitaker & ever since their deponents became acquainted with said Alexander Whitaker he has lived an honest & irreproachable life they their deponents have ever since such acquaintance with said Alexander Whitaker understood from several aged persons now dead & who knew him in the State of North Carolina that he was as such in the War of the Revolution a private soldier & served & was honorably discharged at or about the close of the war - this they have also understood from said Whitaker & some of the members of his family ever since they affirm knew him - & these deponents unhesitatingly say it now & ever has been since their acquaintance with said Alexander the common understanding & belief of the community in which he has lived & now lives that he is a revolutionary soldier, & was honorably discharged from service this they have never been questioned or doubted - and these deponents further depose that they have no reason to doubt & never have had or doubted that said Alexander served in the War of the Revolution as he has stated in his declaration & they fully believe all his said statements in his said declaration to be true in fact - & further they believe from their own personal knowledge of him, that he is incapable of making intentionally a misstatement - & his recollection at this time seems to be good - & his name unimpaired - & further their deponents say etc -
Subscribed & sworn to in the presence of of each other & in the presence of said Alexander Whitaker before me G. B. Lessee here a justice of the peace for Alex. Co. Illin.
George Cloud, Jeremiah Newman mark

State of Illinois
Alexander County ss. I George Cloud clerk of the county commissioners' court in & for the county of Alexander do hereby certify that L B Lisenbee Esq. whose name is subscribed as a justice of the peace to the foregoing declar- ation of Alexander Whitaker - & to the affidavits of George Cloud & Jeremiah Newman thereto attached before whom said declaration & affidavits were sworn to, was at the time the same were made & of his subscribing the same & now is an acting justice of the peace in & for said county duly commissioned & qualified and that as such full faith & credit ought to be given to his official acts
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of said court this 17th day of October in the year of our lord 1838
George Cloud, J. C. C. C. C. of Alexander County

11892
P. O. _____
Alexander Whitaker
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
REJECTED
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contra
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Alexander Whitaker Illinois
Suspended
Per let: 29 Dec 38 Rev. J. M. Robinson J. M. Baker.
11392
Act 7 June 1832

Senate
Dec 27 th - 1838
Mr Robinson respects to Mr Edwards and asks to call his attention to the enclosed letter and an answer early as Mr E's will find convenient -

Kaskaskia Illinois
Oct. 17th 1838
J L Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
I beg leave to submit for decision the application of Mr Alex r Whitaker for a pension as a Revolutionary Soldier and I would state that I have known the applicant almost ever since he first settled in Alexander Co. in this State and ever since he came among us it has been generally understood & believed that he had been a Revolutionary Soldier and as he was indigent he has been often urged to apply for a pension but he always refused while able to obtain a living by the labor of his hands He is now too feeble to work and owing to a cancer upon his face and the infirmities of old age he is and has been for some months confined to his room and is wholly dependent for subsistence upon an indigent son who has to provide for a numerous family of his own The old gentleman has always maintained a high character for honesty & integrity and I have no doubt is as deserving of the bounty of the Government as any other.
Your speedy action hereon is urgently requested
Very respectfully your obed t servant
David J Baker U.S. Attorney for Dist. of Ill.

J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Kaskaskia Dec r 15 1838 Illinois
to
J. L. Edwards Esq r Commissioner of Pensions Sir
I beg leave respectfully to solicit your attention to the application of Mr. Whitaker a revolutionary soldier residing in Alexander County in this State, to be placed upon the Pension list. This application I had the honor to submit to you on or about the 17 th of October last past and I have not as yet received an answer in relation thereto.
I am very respectfully your obed t serv t
David J. Baker