Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11661, Thomas Walston, N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N. 6
Walston, Thomas
S. 11661
CONTENTS
carded

North Carolina 23.318
Thomas Walton a Commoner in the State of N. Carolina who was a p— in the commanded by Captain of the Regt commanded by Col: Canine in the N. Car- line for 13 months —
Died 8 th October 1834.
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina at the rate of $3. Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th day of Dec r 33 and Sub H. W. T. S. Shepard - H R
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept 1832: 108.32 Pens. and allowance ending Dec 31. 21.66 $129.98
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Math. Rice Clerk, Book E Vol. 6 1/2 Page 79
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Let to Pay at t. Aug 26 1830 Order to pay - 31. Oct 1837

cern proved by Isaac Harrison he enlisted into the service left this part of the country and as he supposed into the service went into the service - He hereby appends all the Documentary evidence he has, the one purporting to be a certificate of service signed A. B. Col. Camden Regiment & dated on the 7 th Ap. 1781 - he cannot now remember why he took this Certificate & can only say he found it among his old papers - The other documentary evidence herewith appended he believes to be a certificate given him at the time he enlisted by the officer under whom he enlisted, but as the paper is partly destroyed & as he is not aided by his memory in the matter he cannot say with any greater certainty what the paper is - He thinks he had a discharge when he left the army but if he had he has lost it & cannot now find it -
He hereby relinquishes all sever 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 & subscribed the day & year aforesaid before me -
Thomas X Walston mark

Mr Evan Forbes a clergyman residing in the county of Cumberland and Luke G. Lamb residing in the same county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Malston who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration That we believe him to be of the age of seventy one years, that he is respected and believed in the neigh- -borhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Evan Forbes L. G. Lamb.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states - And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Evan Forbes who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing of the county of Cumberland and that Luke G. Lamb and Isaac Harrison & Jesse Pury whose signatures are herunto appended are creditable persons and that their statement is entitled to credit -

Declaration of Thomas Walston made in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7 th June 1832
State North Carolina bander bounty
On this 13 th day of November 1833 personally appeared in open court before George Forbes, Joseph Cartwright, Benj. D. Harrison & Mal. W. Brockhall
Justices of the Court of Pleas & Quarters Sessions for the County of Camden & State of South Caro- -lina now sitting Thomas Walston a resident of said County & State aged seventy one or there- -about 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 - He says that he first entered the service according to the best of his recollection in January 1782 & served at North West in the State of Virginia under Genl Isaac Gregory of Camden on this tour he served three months and was then dis- -charged but has lost his discharge - He is not certain but thinks his captain's name

was John Jones - a man by the name of Jasper Pickett was an Ensign in the Company to which he belonged - he remembers a man by the name of Salzer who had some com- -mand but cannot tell what office he held. He can prove by Jesse Perry that was with him during the time he served at North West Point he knows of no other person by whom he can prove his service and has no documen- -tary evidence by which  whom he prove it -
In the fall Spring of the year 1783 he enlisted into the service for one year and marched to Hillsboro in the state of North Carolina under the command of a Frenchman by the name of Peter Pouchee, and that said Pouchee was afterwards an Adjutant and finally ran away from the service - He remained at Hillsboro nearly the whole of the year for which he enlist- -ed and was under the command of Maj. Thorough- -good & Maj. Grafton, during the year he was once marched to Briar Creek under the command of his Officers but remained but a little time and then returned - He knows of no person by whom he can prove this time of service, but he avers that he served one whole year on the above enlistment  enlistment and he
Chas. H. [?]
John [?] 1783

I Cornelius D. Lamb Clerk of the court of pleas & Quarters Sessions for Camden County do hereby certify that the foregoing transcribed contains the original pro- -ceedings of the said court, in the matter of the application of Thomas Walston for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 13 day of November 1833 -
Just W. D. Lamb Clerk

Isaac Harrison maketh oath that he has been well acquainted with Thomas Walston since his youth that he was born in the neighborhood of this affiant and that he has always lived in the same county with him - This affiant further says that he was born in the year 1754 and that he recollects that it was said during the revolutionary war that Thomas Walston the applicant was gone into the service and he knows he was absent for a considerable length of time from the county and when he returned it was said or believed that he had been in the service and he has no doubt that such was the fact
Sworn before me in open court this 13 th of Nov. 1833 -
Isaac his Harrison mark

Isaac Pugh says that being duly sworn says that he was in the service with Thomas Wal- ton during the Revolutionary war at North West for three months, under Genl. Isaac Geryon
Isaac Pugh

This may Certify That Thomas Walston a Soldier in the State Legion his time of Service is out on the fifteenth day of March in the year of 1783 Given under my hand this 18 th day of March 1782

Rev. 1870
11,661 INVALID.
File No. 11,661
Thomas Walston
Dis. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1930
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 394
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Thomas Walston, Act 7 June 1832, North Carolina. Be so pleased to say up to what time he was last paid.
Passport Office } Aug 26. 1836 }
- To the 10th March 1834) 3d Aud. Office }

This certifies that Thomas Walston of the County of Camden and State of North Carolina Intested into the Service of the United States a Soldier for & during the time of Theodore Roosevelt in the year of A.D. 1898 - on a Surgeon of Duty to the Southward - and marched agree- able to orders Dr given under my Hand at Camden this 7 th day of Apr. 1898
A. B. Scott for Camden Regiment

Aug 22
W. H. Waldo New York
23318
FREE
James L. Edwards Esq. Chairman of Public Washington!

Aug 22
1/20 Walnut Mc 200
23318
FREE
Danny L Edward Ely Commissary of Prisoners Washington!

Pension Office
Dayton Ohio August 16 1876
James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir.
Thomas Waldo a pensioner under act 1872 was paid to 4 March 1874 known money to be paid to the 4 th March 1876 application has been this day made by his attorney
I am Sir respectfully your Obedient.
John W. Foster
Attorney

Admiral a pure Bureau p 4333
Ho W. B. Shepard H. R.

State of North Carolina
Secretary of State's Office
I William Hill Secretary of State in and for the State aforesaid, do certify, that the name of Thomas Walston is not to be found on the Musterrolls of the Continen- al line of this in the revolutionary war, or any other document in this Office affording evidence of service in said line
Given under my hand this 21 st day of December 1833.
W. Hill