Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11029, Andrew Walker, N.C.

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Walker, Andrew
R. 11029
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress, of the 7 th of June A.D. 1832. -
State of North Carolina
Orange County. On this the 27 th day of November
A.D. 1834, personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the Court of Pleas & Quorum the Justices for the County aforesaid, now in Session, Andrew Walker, resident of the County aforesaid, aged about six years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following decla- ration, in order to obtain the benefits of the
Act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832. - That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, & served as herein stated.
That between the year 1777 and 1780, the precise year not remembered, the declarant volunteered, in the County of Orange, N.C. where he resided, as a private in the militia of the State - whether for the par- ticular emergency then existing, or for the then usual term of three months, the declarant can- not recollect - under the command of Captain Hugh Zinn, then of Orange aforesaid, and he was attached to his Company, which was organized & mustered on the Town of Nilsboro' N.C. - From Nilsboro' declarant was marched to Fayetteville N.C. - the strength of the Company at that time

23 march, busy to subdue the Tories in the neighbour- hood below Fayetteville - who were understood to have mustered a considerable force. The other Officers in Command in this expedition were Cols Rochester and Moore. Governor Caswell be- ing Commander in Chief. - A short time before the Regiment, to which declarant was attached, reached Fayetteville. The enemy were met & vanquished by the troops under Governor Cas- = well, at Blackwater below Fayetteville - so that the emergency which called out decla- rant's Regiment, no longer demanded service; and thereupon declarant was marched back to Hillsboro' and discharged by his Captain, after having been under Arms under said engagement, not less than four weeks and including four weeks, as well as his memory serves him. - His discharge is lost or destroyed.
Afterwards, and before the British occupied the Town of Hillsboro' in 1781 - but what particu- lar year not remembered - The declarant a- = gain volunteered as a private in the Militia, in the County of Orange, when he assented, for three months - and served that period under

the command of Genl. Alexander Mibane - who was Commissary to the Army - with John Rues del- late of Orange aforesaid, in procuring provisions for the who was Deputy Commissary under said Mibane, - as will appear by reference to the Affidavits of the said Rues herunto ap- pended. - He was discharged, he thinks by said A. Mibane, by parole. -
In the summer 1780 the declarant volunteered as a private in the Militia, for what particular term, he does not recollect, in the County of Orange, in a Company of Cavalry. Command- ed by Capt. George Hodge - which assembled was organized at Genl. Butler's residence, on Haw River, in said County of Orange. At this time Genl. Caswell was stationed, with the Militia of the State at the Cross Roads in Randolph County N.C.; and declarant was marched under Capt. Hodge from Orange to Randolph County & thence through the Country bordering on Piede River, in pursuit of Tories, for the purpose of disarming them & making prisoners of them. and converging them arms & prisoners to Genl. Caswell at Lord's Roads aforesaid. - Declarant was engaged in this service at least four weeks - and was discharged by his said Captain on their arrival at the place whence they set out on the expedition. This discharge was by parole. On declarant's return home from the last men-

tion service; he ascertained that he had been drafted in the County of Orange aforesaid, as a private in the Militia, for the term of three months - Whereupon he immediately entered the service again, under said draft, under the command of Capt. Sears, & joined the Granville Troops, who were on their March to join Genl. Gates in South Carolina. Delegates marched through Randolph County, - crossed the Red- Rim at Mooks Ferry - thence to where Rocky River runs into Pedee - thence down the Pedee to Mafus Ferry - and thence in the direction of Camden, S.C. On this last route, he met some of our soldiers returning from Gates' de- feat; whereupon he was marched back to Orange County, and was disbanded after being in actual service, under his engage- ment, two months . - In a short time after his return home from the last mentioned expedition, viz. in the Fall of 1780. Delegates volunteered as a private in the Militia for three months, in Orange aforesaid - and went into the service, under his engagement, under the command of Genl. Butler, with his Wagon & team, as a Baggage Wagon; he marched from Orange County to Salisbury, N.C. crossing Duplin at Bell's Mills, and the Yadkin at the Island Ford. At Salisbury, he remained until he was discharged, being employed in guarding the Jail &

prisoners then confined. He was discharged from this service by Genl. Butler, after having been in service under P. engagement, four months , instead of three for which he volunteered as aforesaid. - Declarant's capt was Capt Haden, Ensign Jas. Watson - Full Officers Col. Collier Major Sharp. - This discharge is lost or destroyed. -
The above is as as circumstantial an account of declarant's services in the war of the Rev- -olution, as his memory enables him to give - said some service rendered by him with his waggon & team for 15 days - being for by a contingent of officers into that service near the station by the name of the at the time Sir Peter Par- Riv was understood to be making for Charleston - and was discharged by Col. Martin at Wilmington, N.C.
The declarant hath no documentary evidence of his said service - & knows of no persons by whom he could prove said service, excepting James Clark, of Orange, N.C. whose affidavit is herunto appended - as is the affidavit of John Rivers, late of Orange, whose affidavit was taken in January 1833, when he made a declaration before a Justice of the Peace,

to obtain a pension, he then being infirm and unable to attend Court - which declaration hath not been presented to the Department of War, on account, as the declarant  has informed, of its informality. -
The declarant was born in the County of Derry in the Kingdom of Ireland , on 5 th of Feb. 1758. He hath a Register of his age at home in his Family Bible. He removed with his parents, to North Carolina, in the year 1772. - He landed at Wilmington N.C. & thence went to Orange County - where he hath ever since resided - and where he entered the service at each of the several times enumerated above. The declarant is known to the Rev d Thomas Rhea and James Forrest - who reside in his County. -
This declarant doth relinquish, hereby, 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 & subscribed.
Andrew H. Allen
J. A. G. G. G.
Mr Thomas Rhea a Clergyman, residing in Orange County, N.C.

and James Forrest residing in the same, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Andrew Walker, who hath subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 76 years of age; that he is reputed & believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolu- tionary war, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn to & subscribed, the day & year aforesaid. —
J. C. Taylor
James Forrest
James Forrest
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, & after putting the inter- rogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states — And the Court further certi- fies, that it appears to them that Thomas Rivers, who has subscribed & sworn to the above Certificate, is a trustworthy man, & that James Forrest, who hath subscribed & sworn to the same, is a credible person as is the said Thomas Rivers, and an credible persons, that their statement is entitled to credit: And that it further appears to them that James Clark Esq. and John Rivers, who have subscribed & sworn to the accompanying Affidavits, made before Joseph D. Hughes Esq., are credible persons that their respective statements are entitled to credit.
J. B. Gilbo. J.P.

J. Wrayhorn J.P.
Wm. H. Turner J.P.
I John Taylor Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for Crangfordshire do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Andrew Walker for a patent
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 27 Nov. 1831
J. Taylor Clerk

11.029
P. O. _____
Andrew Walker
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Andrew Walker
North Carolina
1. Rejected. ~
Site 4 feby: 1835
F.H. Maugum.
110.29
Letter to A.H. Sheppard July 21/32

House of Reps. July 14. 1852
J. L. Edwards Esq.
I am desirous to leave the grounds on which a Mr. Walker of Randolph County, Md. was denied a plescor about the year 1835-or 6 his Christian name is unknown to me - I suppose he applied under the Act of 1832.
Mr. Kelly at Shepherd

And to Walker
Hillsborough N.C. 3 Dec. 1834
Ms. Mail.
Pension Office Free
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions City of Washington D.C.
33.594
Ms. And to Walker

Hillsboro, N.C., Dec. 3 rd .
Sir,
Enclosed you will find the declaration of Mr Andrew Walker, a soldier of the Revolution. — You will perceive that the credibility of the witnesses, whose affidavits were made before a single Justice of the Peace, is entirely by the Court — it having been omitted by the Justice. —
Permit me to ask the early attention of the Office to the case of Mr Walker, and to be notified of the result. —
Yours respectfully J. H. Mangum

State of South Carolina This day personally appeared Orange County. I was before me Joseph H. Hughes one of the acting Justices of the peace for the county aforesaid James Clark Esq r of the county aforesaid who being duly sworn according to Law, doth State as follows That he was acquainted with Andrew Walker of the county and State aforesaid at the time of the war of the Revolution, and this deponent states that the said Andrew Walker he believes went with his Wagon, with the Army under Genl. John Butler from Orange County through Randolph County Crossed Deep River at Bell's Mill Then crossed Hugh Wary on to the Yadkin, from then crossed the Yadkin & took up camp near Salisbury remain in camp until the Truce Mon th expired which was the time of Guilford, it being in the latter part of the Summer of 1780 or rather in the fall of that year This deponent has entered the Seventyfirst year of his age
Sworn & Subscribed to before me this 9 th day of January A D 1835
J. Hughes J.
James Clark

State of South Carolina
I John Taylor Clerk of Orangeburg Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, Order that James B. Hughes left before whom the within Affidavit was made was at that time a duly qualified justice of the Peace & that his signature as a Justice there is genuine
With my Grand Seal of Office 27 th November 1834
J. Taylor
James Clarke Esquire
1834 1758. Oct 76

State of Carolina This day personally appeared Orange County before me J. D. Hughes one of the Justices of the peace for the County aforesaid. John Reves Esq. of the County aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to Law, doth State as follows Viz. that he was acquainted with Andrew Walker of the County of Orange, & that he was an active soldier in the Revolutionary war. This deponent says that he well recollects, that the said Andrew Walker entered the service as a volunteer, & when he the said deponent, was acting as Deputy Commissary for Alex. McLean that the said Andrew Walker was out with him the said John Reves as much as three months aiding & assisting in collecting cattle & driving them, & also in procuring other provisions for the Army - The said deponent says he further recollects to have seen the said Applicant at Granville Old Court House with his wagon & team in the public service - again I seen him in Caswell County says the deponent with his wagon & team in the public service - further the deponent says that the Applicant was a very zealous Whig & that he has no doubt that the Applicant rendered various other services to his Country, but not now distinctly recollected - the said deponent has outlived his Eighty fourth year -
Sworn to & subscribed to before me this 9th day of January A.D. 1833.
John Reves
28 3-28 2- 4,11 11 11
J. D. Hughes

State of South Carolina
I John Taylor Clerk of Brantley County Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions certify that Joseph D. [?] before whom the within affidavit was made way at that time a duly qualified justice of the peace & that his signature & attestation thereto is genuine
Attest my hand & seal of office 27th November 1834.
J. Taylor
Declaration
Andrew Waller
John Taylor Andrew Waller