Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 4201, for Alexander Mc Mennamy, North Carolina

N. e. McMenamy Alexander SH207

Alexander McMenamy S.F 4201 N.C.
4-20-1901

Exhibit A Bare Creek } whereas Alex r McManamy is not able to do (court martial) duty as a Soldier we deem it necessary to give him a furlough until he will recover his health and then to return to his duty again under pain of being dealt with as a deserter given under my hand This 12 day of June 1779
Exhibit A
Stephen Moore Col

in land ... Silver ...
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Alexander McMenamy
8.7.4201
71 C.

Exhibit B
Caswell County 28 th June 1782
This is to certify that Alex r M c Reneway Served a tour of duty in the Militia Service of this State of North Carolina on the Upper dition under the command of Maj r General Caswell in the summer 1780 as a first Bengnet in the Comp y then under my command
George Oldham Capt n
5 Months 19 days

Exhibit C. Hillsborough December 20 th 1782. I do hereby certify that
Alex r M c Manamy who is captain of a company in the regulars in the first reg t of North Carolina State troops is discharged from service by the authority of the united States given under my hand
Alexander Martin gov r of N.C.

The amended declaration of Alexander McMen - namz in order to obtaine the benifit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832.
On this 5th day of July  November 1833 personally appeared G Mitchell (Now holding the Circuit Court for the County of Wilson in the State of Tennessee) he being one of the Judges of Law & Equity for the said State of Tennessee) Alexander McMen namz as a resident of the County of Wilson in the said State of Tennessee aged 74 years according to the family Register, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following amended declaration in order to obtaine the benifit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - That he entered the service of the United States at the time and under the officers as stated in his original declaration (as well as he can remember from all age and a considerable loss of recollection) - The evidence furnished by him and that accompanied his original declaration seemed to be satisfactory to the Department that declarant had served eight months as a private soldier and five months and fifteen days as a 1st Sergeant - and the only objection taken which prevented the favourable action of the Department on his claim was that it was stated in the return made to him that the discharge purporting to be from Govn? character was not genuine. Declarant had presumed as stated stated in his original declaration his several discharges from the destruction of time by carelessly roofing them

around a Quill under a hope that they would be of some service to him in a coming day - and that when necessary to be used they would be as he believed conclusive evidence in his favor. in this reasonable expectation Declarant has been disappointed for after having faithfully served his country for twenty five months without any reward, and after having as he believed produced the last evidence of that service - he is told indirectly that he has been guilty of forgery in the discharge given by Govr. Martin - Declarant will again repeat his services as Captain under Govr. Martin as well as the circumstances connected with his discharge and leave it with the department to determine whether said certificate of discharge is genuine or a forgery. On the 18th of December 1782 as well as he remembers Declarant enlisted as a soldier in the Company commanded by Captain Jacob Ragsford in the 1st Regiment of North Carolina State Troops - before they were mustered into service - Ragsford his Captain was arrested for stealing tried before a court martial and not found guilty and broke of his commission on Ragsford's removal it was the wish of the Company that he had commanded that Declarant should be his successor and as the Lieutenants and Ensigns yielded their pretensions to promotion Declarant was commissioned Captain in said Company by Govr. Martin at Hillsborough N.C. where they rendezvoused - on the 24th of December 1782

Declarant while in the command of said company was engaged in traversing various parts of the State of N. Carolina in pursuit, dispersing and Capturing the Tories - many of whom were taken conducted to Hillsboro. and from thence to the barracks in Albermale Virginia where he under- stood they would be exchanged for Whigs that had been Captured by the British Army - at other times Declarant was engaged in guarding the Jail in Hillsboro. where the Tories prisoners were confined Declarant was in constant an active service while acting as Captain until he was discharged on the 20th day of December 1780. The Troops were notified by Gov Martin of the day on which they would be discharged - they met at Hillsboro N. Carolina for the purpose of there they surrendered their arms and received discharges - by companies - Gov Martin - called for the commission of Declarant for the purpose of forwarding it to the Secy of  the  Secy of the  the General Government as he said it named evidence for Declarant and the Government may pay any pecuniary for the pay of the officers and soldiers which was at that time expected and he received his commission and he has no doubt on proper examination that the same will be found in Washington or in the Secretaries office in the State of N. Carolina. as to the certificate of discharge Declarant cannot tell whether

Said Discharge is in the hand writing of Gov. Matteson or not as he is unacquainted with his hand writing - he thinks it probable it may not be as the discharges were written before the companies were paraded to receive them and it is more than likely that he called in the aid of others to assist him in preparing them. but one thing declarant well remembers and positively avers to be true that he received the discharge appended to his original declaration from the hand of Gov. Matteson himself while standing at the head of his company. Declarant knows of no living witness by whom he can prove the length of his services - or the grade which he held in the army! - most therefore rest his claim upon the evidence embodied in his original declaration - supported by this explanation - since he received the objections to his claim declarant has spent much time in endeavoring to learn if possible where he might find one of his companions in arms - by whom he could prove his services he has written to Col. Berolince for this purpose but he does not know that there is one now alive - Declarant feels that he served twenty five months and ten days 8 months as a private soldier 5 months 12 days as first sergeant and 12 months as Captain during the whole time.

Declarant was engaged in active Service and never received for his services but eight dollars which he received as a bounty when he enlisted as a soldier in the company to which he was afterwards promoted to a Captain - Declarant says he never did receive a Certificate for a sum equal to a quarter the amount of full five years pay which he is advised he would have been entitled to under a resolution of Congress of the 22 of March 1783 instead of the half pay for life to which he was entitled under the resolve of the 21st of October 1780 - Not having shared in the bounty provided - for the officers of the Revolutionary War by the several acts of Congress - when he might lawfully have done done so - he now insists and will not be content with any provision short of the pay of a Captain under the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 7 th  June 1832 - in addition to the evidence unfolded in his original decla- -ration herewith returned - Declarant has procured the Certificate of William Sanders and Cornelius Sanders - who have a traditional evidence - of his services in the Revolutionary War as actually himself long before Declarant knew of any provision for the soldiers of the Revolution - they live in another County and Declarant could not procure their attendance at Court and was

Constrained to take this affidavit before the nearest justice of the Peace to them the said William Sanders and Cornelius Sanders are known to the Honble John Bee the Representative in Congress from this district as men entitled to their enact- ment having furnished the best evidence which he can procure - the length of time his old age and extreme poverty considered he submits the whole to the consideration of the department - he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state in the Union
Sworn to and subscribed in open court this 1st November 1833
Test Wm J Martin clerk Alex F Kimmerly
State of Tennessee Wilson County ss This day personally appeared James Dunnan and acting justice of the peace in and for said county

State of Tennessee This day personally Wilson Locusty 3 came before me James Dunnan and acting Justice of the peace in and for D o county William & Cornelius Sanders of Rutherford county & state aforesaid, and being Duly sworn Depose & saith they have been acquainted with Alexander McMinn way for about eighteen years and have frequently heard him say many years ago he was in the revolutionary war and that part of the time he spent as a captive and for this these deponents saith that sworn to & subscribed before me this 4 th November 1833
William Sanders Cornelius Sanders James Dunnan