Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16,567, Samuel Walker, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Walker Samuel
S 16,567
CONTENTS
Carded.

1386 Indiana
Samuel Walker
May 6 th in the State of Indiana who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Daxon of the  commanded by  in the Va line for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 20 Dollars  Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of June 1833 and David Samuel Hannah Centerville
Arrears to the 14th of March 40
Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept 10
$30
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 7 Page 134
See letter of Dec 33 to N. J. McInty. H. R.

Samuel Walker No 8516 Ft Wayne Ind for 1717 print 6 mths. $20.
Cop Paxon V o
Sam l Hannah Centerville

State of Indiana } Wayne County } ss.
On this 20 th day of August A.D. 1832, personally appeared in open court, before the Honorable Charles H. Est. President Judge now sitting, Samuel Walker, a resident of said County of Wayne and State of Indiana, aged seventy four years or thereabouts, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832.
That in the fall of the year 1777, or 1778, he, the said Samuel Walker, being then a resident of what is now, Rockbridge County in the State of Virginia, served as a private in a volunteer company of Militia, commanded by Capt. William Paxton, Lieutenant David Woods and Ensign Andrew Evans, which company marched to the mouth of the Kenhaway to convoy a quantity of provisions to the troops stationed at that place; for which service the applicant received credit for a three month's tour, but has no written discharge. Said applicant further states, that he subsequently served as a volunteer, a three month's

tour under Capt. Charles Campbell, who volunteered to march against the Tories in Carolina, but was ordered to the lower part of Virginia and marched to Portsmouth and was placed under the command of General Muhlenburg. The company of said Captain Campbell, together with a company commanded by Capt. James Hall and Capt. David Gray, all from Rockbridge were placed under the command of Col. Downman, after their arrival at Portsmouth.
Said applicant further states, that after serving the tours aforesaid, he paid his quota for the hire of two men under the law requiring every sixteen men to furnish one man for eighteen months service.
Said applicant further states that in the year 1791, when residing in the County of Woodford and State of Kentucky, he served a tour of duty under Generals Scott and Wilkinson against the hostile Indians, and marched in a company commanded by Capt. James Brown, Lieut. Wm. McConnel, under Colonel Barbée. Said applicant marched in said company as a mounted volunteer from Frankfort to the mouth of Kentucky river, crossed the Ohio river and proceeded to the Wea towns and after returning with the troops was regularly discharged.

Said applicant further states, that he has no documentary evidence to prove his services and that he knows of no person by whose evidence he can substantiate the same.
Said applicant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid.
his Samuel Walker
We, James Martin a clergyman, residing in the county of Wayne and State of Indiana, aforesaid, and George Hunt of the same, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Samuel Walker who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy four years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed the 20 th day of August 1832. James Martin
George Hunt

4 The Interrogatories following are now propounded by the Court, to which interrogatories the applicant answers in the words annexed hereto. Quest 1 st When and in what year were you born. Ans. I was born in the year 1758 in what is now called Rockbridge County Virginia the day or month I do not recollect. Quest. 2 nd Have you any record of your age and if so where is it. Ans. I have no recollection of my age. I can recollect to have seen my age set down in my father's big Bible. Quest. 3 rd Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live. Ans. At the time I served I was living in the said County now Rockbridge Virginia in the year 1784 I moved to Kentucky and for about the last twenty five years, I have lived in the County of Wayne Indiana where I now live. Quest. 4 th How were you called into service were you drafted did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? Ans. I was a volunteer because I found there was need of me. Quest 5 th State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops where you served, such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service. Ans. General Muhlenburgh was the regular General under whom we served and Col. Downman, I can recollect no more of the regular Officers. There were some regular soldiers in the same army with us and there were three Companies of Militia from the same County of now Rockbridge and some other Companies of Militia from the lower part of Virginia but from what Counties I do not recollect. Col. Downman had command of 500 men when I first went into the army but he gave it up and took the command of the three Companies from Rockbridge County. Quest. 6 th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it. Ans. I never received a discharge from the service the reason was I knew the Government had no money to spare and the men with

whom I served had but little thought of money they want to secure their liberty. Ques. 7 th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood and who can testify to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. Ans. I believe I could name the whole neighbourhood if it was necessary Judge Peab. Butler (one of the members of this court) Rev. William Scarce, Elijah Fisher and Rev. George Hunt I will name particularly. And the Court hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the foregoing interrogatories, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that James Martin who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the said County of Wayne State of Indiana that George Hunt who has also signed the same is a resident of the same County and State and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
State of Indiana } Wayne County } ss I am Thomas Hannah Clerk of the Wayne Circuit Court in the County of Wayne and State of Indiana do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the Application of Samuel Walker for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of our said Wayne Circuit Court at Centerville this 6 th day of September AD 1832
Sam d Hannah C.M.C.C

State of Indiana
Wayne County
State of Indiana } Before me John Brady a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared Nathaniel McClure Sen r and David McClure both of the county aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law, depose and say, that they believe the statements made in the declaration of Samuel Walker of said county, in order to obtain a pension for his services in the war of the Revolution, to be substantially true, that said Walker is considered a man of ve- racity and is generally believed to be such in his own neighborhood. And the said Nathaniel McClure further states that he has heard the said Samuel Walker and others converse on the subject of the said services forty years ago, that he has known said Walker ever since and has no reason to believe contrary to the said Walker's declaration, and that he lived near said Walker in Kentucky and knew of his services against the Indians at the time stated in Walker's declaration. — Nathaniel McClure
Sworn to, and subscribed to before me this the 13th day of August 1832. David H. Moore {Seal} John Brady J.P. {Seal}

State of Indiana Wayne County
Be it remembered that on the 18 th day of March 1833. Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Wayne, Samuel Walker, who being by me duly sworn deposeth 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 below and in the following grades, First, In the fall of 1777 or 1778 I served as a private volunteer under Capt. Paston for three months, in this tour we were employed driving beef cattle, and transporting flour as pack horses from Rockbridge County Va. to the mouth of the great Kenhawa river to supply the troops then stationed there with provisions, the weather during our march was very cold which caused us to suffer severely but we met no enemy. I afterwards served a three months tour as a private volunteer soldier under Capt. Campbell this company marched from Rockbridge County Va. to Portsmouth. After serving the tours aforesaid I hired John Meek as a substitute to serve in my place as a private soldier a tour of eighteen months, and afterwards I hired another substitute named Joseph Forsythe to serve in my stead as a private soldier another tour of eighteen months making by those two substitutes three years service. I served after this as a private volunteer in a company of mounted volunteers, commanded by Capt. Brown, which service I have heretofore attempted to state in my declaration to which I attach this affidavit as an amendment. In addition to the foregoing I served in a company of Spies commanded by Capt. William McDonald a tour of six months during which time I was alternately one week on duty and two weeks at home. And for the services above enumerated I claim a pension sworn to and subscribed before me, the day and year first above written, Given under my hand & seal
Samuel Walker mark
Danl Strattan J.P. Seal

State of Indiana Wayne County
I Sam d Hannah Clerk of the Wayne Circuit Court hereby certify that Daniel Strattan Esq r before whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been taken and acknowledged by Samuel Walker, and who has certified the same is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly elected, commissioned and sworn into office according to law, and further that the foregoing certificate purporting to be his is genuine. I do hereby further certify that John Brady Esq r , before whom Nathanial McCulloch and David M c Clure appeared and made oath as appears from his certificate thereto was at the time the same appears to have been certified an acting Justice of the Peace within for said County of Wayne duly commissioned and sworn according to law, and that the signature to said certificate purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of our said Court at Centreville this 18 th day of March A.D. 1823
Sam d Hannah Clerk

See From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 16567 , it appears that Samuel Walker was born in 1758 in Rockbridge County, Virginia.
While residing in said county, he served as a private in the Virginia Troops as follows-
In the fall of 1777 or 1778, three months in Captain William Paxton's Company, and soon after this, he served three months in Captain Charles Campbell's Company, Colonel Downman's Regiment.
He served at various times as a Spy in Captain William McConnel's Company, amounting in all to six months, dates of service not stated.

While residing in Woodford County, Kentucky, he served in 1791 under Captain James Brown, Colonel Barbée's Regiment, and was out against the Indians, dates of service not stated.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 30, 1832, while a resident of Wayne County, Indiana.
The date of his death is not given in said claim.
Respectfully,
WILDER S. METCALF Commissioner.
This letter is addressed to Mrs. Roy H Reynolds. Richmond Ind. See letter in John Cain V 3510 S.C. Troops

16.567 INVALID.
File No. 16.567 Samuel Walker Pri Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 395
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1925 June 24-14-10. to Mrs. B. E. Reynolds, Eng. See letter in John C. in W. 3510. S.C. Joseph.

Daniel Walker
W. J. Melats

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Samuel Walker — which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes  no The claimant should state how long he was in actual service during his first term, and the particulars of said term. VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes & has a device —

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? yes
XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth 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 below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.”

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
†QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
†QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.