Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41802, for Marmaduke Maples, North Carolina

SERVICE
N. E.
NUMBER _____
Waples, Narvaduke
S. 41802
CONTENTS

16,369 R North Carolina
Marmaduke Maples of Lincoln Co. in the state of North Carolina who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Shepherd the North Carolina line for the term of 6 years
Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 of October 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of Jan y 1820 and sent to Hon. W m Davidson House of Representatives.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1819 81.31 Semi-annual all ce ending 4 March 1820 48
10 4/30/31 $ 129.31
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Notified duly July 5: 1821 to Hon. David M c Reynolds Lincoln Co. N.C.

State of North Carolina Lincoln County
Marmaduke Maples in order to obtain a pension from the government of the United States under the act of Congress for her Revolutionary services, as follows to wit That early in the year 1777 as he the deponent believes in January he enlisted himself a soldier in Captain John Welch's company of the eighth North Carolina Regiment on Continental establishment for the term of three years. Joined said regiment shortly before the North Carolina troops marched from this state to join the northern army under the command of Genl. Washington. That he continued with said army through the campaigns till the term of his enlistment was nearly expired and then re-enlisted for during the war in which time he was transferred from Capt. Welch's company to Capt. Hargett's of the same regt. and the reduction of the Regiment was transferred from Hargett's company to Capt. Partain's of the third Regiment from thence to Capt. Clement Hall's company of the second regt. where continued to do duty and When the North Carolina troops were ordered to the South he marched with them under the command of Brigadier Genl. Hagan leaving the garrison called West Point on the Hudson as he believes in the fall of 1779 and reached Charleston South Carolina the spring following before the commencement of the siege of that garrison by the British forces under the command of Sir Henry Clinton. As the deponent fought there in defense of the garrison under Genl. Lincoln during the siege was surrendered a prisoner of war with the rest of the troops of the garrison to the forces by the capitulation taking place

Who the deponent remaining a prisoner at that place fifteen months ten of which was confined in a prison ship In July 1782 agreeable to a cartel agreed on for the exchange of prisoners of the two armies he the deponent with a number of other prisoners taken in the garrison before men- tioned and also where was conveyed by British ships to a place called Old Town State of Virginia where they was received by the Marys Dille Feugette who then commanded the American forces near that place He the deponent with about fifty others (being all of the South Carolina line that had remained prisoners to that period out of one thousand when captured the rest being dead or enlisted with the British with the exception of a few that made their escape) was marched under the com- mand of Colo Robert Mahone of the North Carolina line to Hillsborough in this State Shortly after arriving there was with their late exchanged taken prisoners by a band of people called Tories under the command of Markel and Fenning who had made an expedition against that place it being the time when Thomas Burke gov then governor of this State was captured On their retreat toward Wilmington in this State by reason that the de- ponent was in a low state of health and not able to travel he was admitted to remain on parole as a prisoner of war

Some time after and when he had recovered his health he was commanded by James Paul a Capt. in the North Carolina line to join him with a few soldiers he had collected at Cross Creek (now called Fayetteville) intending to join the American army. This being near the close of the war they did not march from that place till news of peace arrived. He the deponent then obtained from Capt. Paul under his signature a final discharge from said army with some other papers relative to the before mentioned services part of which he has now to produce.
This deponent further states that soon after the conclusion of peace he became a resident of South Carolina thereby failing to receive information of the setting of the commissioners at Warrenton and Halifax in order to liquidate the claims of the soldiers of the North Carolina line. Though unknown to him at that time his claim was a fraudulently obtained from the commissioners by Major Thomas Dunwoody of the North Carolina line, and he committing sundry other frauds of in similar claims was convicted in a court of justice and punished therefor. He the deponent being after ward informed that his claim had been settled made application to said Dunwoody for restitution which was refused or delayed and idea then prevailing that said Dunwoody was insolvent which so discouraged the deponent under the situation he was then

pleaded that he was he was not disposed to be at the expence of instituting a lawsuit for the recovery but sold his claim on said Dunks at a very reduced price and further saith that since the expiration of lease he has not received any compensation from the General government neither monthly pay nor bounty in kind for said services Further saith not
Marmaduke Napier
Subscribed & sworn to before
at Linedtown this 31 st October 1818
Henry Francis Jnr
Recd Hon: Mr. Davidson
19 Dec. 1818
Hon. Secretary at War
Hon. R. Hanson Washington City
H. P. Taylor

16.369
Marmaduke Maples
Con D.L.E.
Maples
John W. Lewis

State of North Carolina } Court of pleas & quarter Lincoln county } Sessions April Sessions 1821
On this 26 th day of April 1821 personally appeared, in open Court, being a Court of record for the County aforesaid, aged Marmaduke Hester Hester, aged about 61. or 62 years, resident in the County aforesaid who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that his service in the Revolutionary war as follows. That he enlisted for the term of three years, & as well as he now recollects in the month of January 1777 in the State of North Carolina in the company commanded by Captain John Welch in the Regiment commanded by Col. James Armstrong being the 5 th Regiment in the North Carolina line in the Continental establishment, and that he continued to serve in the said corps until transferred to the 4 th Regiment in the same line, & then to the 2 nd Regiment & company commanded by Captain Clement Hall, & that he continued to serve in the last mentioned corps until near the expiration of the term of his enlistment; when he re-enlisted for during the war, that he continued to serve in the last mentioned corps till the close of the war, at which time he was regularly discharged, which discharge he has sent on to the war office in a former application for a pension under the act of Congress 18 th of March 1818, on which application he received a pension certificate from the war department, dated the 20 th day of January 1820 N o 16.369. That he was in several important Battles, that he was taken prisoner at the fall of Charleston South Carolina, where he continued a prisoner for the space of fifteen months when he was exchanged. & shortly after re-captured at Hillsborough North Carolina, & continued a prisoner till near the close of the war. And that he has no other evidence now in his power of said services. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th of March 1818 and

That I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any in common other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, & by me subscribed.
   1 Small young horse - - - - $ 22-50   1 cow 4 year old calf - - 16-00   1 Small hog - - - - - 1-00   1 Bed & furniture - - - - - 20-00   2 Iron Pats - - - - - 1-00   1 do Oven - - - - - 2-50   1 Pewter Dish & 4 Plates - - - 1-12½   6 diff Plates - - - - - 2 12½   9 Tin cups - - - - - } 1-00   3 do Pans - - - - -   1 beffer Pat. - - - - - } 1-00   10 cups & saucers - - - - -   1 Small Plough - - - - - } 1-25   2 Bed Hoes - - - - -   1 Razor & shaving glass - - 0-87½   1 pair of old cards - - - 0-75   4 Knives & forks - - - - - 0-37½   3 old chairs - - - - - 0-62½   1 Tub & 1 churn - - - - - 0-50   1 Table - - - - - 0-50   $72 12½  

The family of Marmaduke Maples consists of his wife 65 years of age his daughter 22 years of age his grand daughter 3 years & 6 months old & himself 61 or 62 years of age, he has for several years followed teaching school, but from his age & deafness is rendered incapable of pursuing it at this time to much advantage.
M a m Maples
I Vardry McBee clerk of Lincoln County Court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the annexed schedule is Seventy two Dollars & two and a half cents In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 29 th day of April 1821 April 1821 In testimony whereof I have set my hand & seal of office at Lincoln
Vardry M c Bee Clk
State of North Carolina I Daniel Hoke President Lincoln County In testimony of the business of the County Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions met for said County do hereby certify that Vardry M c Bee who made the foregoing certificate with the seal of office thereto is clerk of said court that his said certificate is in due form & in substance to all due faith & credit as such. In witness whereof I have set my hand & seal at Lincoln the 1 st day of May 1821
Daniel Hoke J Pres

Met
October 12, 1925
Mrs. Foster Ezell 501 S. Cedar St. Florence, Ala.
Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 41802, it appears that MARWADUKE MAPLES enlisted in Cumberland County, North Carolina, in January, 1777, and served as private in Captains John Walsh's, Harjett's, Tartanson's, and Clement Hall's Companies, Colonels James Armstrong's, Abraham Shepard's, and John Patten's North Carolina Regiments; he was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth, and at the siege of Charleston where he was taken prisoner May 12, 1780, and held on a prison ship for nine months. He was exchanged in July, 1781, at "Old Jamestown" in Virginia. He then marched to Hillsborough, North Carolina, under the command of Colonel Robert Mebane, at which place he was again taken prisoner by a band of Tories but on account of his physical condition he was released. When he recovered his health he enlisted in Captain James Pearl's North Carolina Company but soon the War came to a close and he was discharged.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 31, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Lincoln County, North Carolina.
In 1821 he stated that he was about sixty-one or sixty-two years of age and he then referred to his wife, aged sixty-five years, a daughter, aged twenty-two years, and a granddaughter, aged three years and six months, no names given.
The above noted is the only soldier by the name of Marmaduke Maples found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner

Certify that Marmaduke Maples who during the present War is charged having in agreeable to his hand his copy of
to early Col. M c Carolina Line
Maples, Marmaduke N.C. S 41892

I hereby certify that marmaduke maple was a soldier enlisted during the late war, did faithfully be being one of those that was captured in the fall of charleston when Reliev returned to Hillsborough under the command of Col. Robert Mabane By a cartel taking place for the exchange of said prisoners on arrival to Hillsborough then and there taken by Fanning's Party and afterwards being in a state of health not being able to do duty until he was able to do duty being near the close of the war given under my hand this 3 day of Feb. 1865
J. D. Reuel Capt. in to N. Carolina Regt
Maple, Marmaduke N.C. 541802

Charles Duke of Naples's discharge from some of the revolutionary war

RECEIVED OCT 5 1929 PENSION

1925 Oct. 3 Pension Office
Sept. 25-1925
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
Please give me the record you have of Colonel Archibald Lyth of North Carolina.
I know that he served to the close of the war.
I want to know when he died and where, if you please. I have written you before

several months ago but had no answer.
Sincerely,
Mrs Foster Ezell, 501 S. Cedar St.
Florence Alabama
P.S.
Have you any report on James V. Murrah rev. soldier of Virginia? but I know not where he was  not in 1799 in 1799 or of Marmaduke Maple of N.C. - Please make some reply.

1925 Oct. 12. H. S. to Mrs. Foster & E. Gell Vol. 1
41802
INVALID.
Rev y
File No. 41802 Marmaduke Maple Dr. Dr. Dr.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 307
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Marmaduke elliptic
Err!

   Names & Rank Companies Dates of Commission & Discharge Batt. of Regt. Occurrences     10th Regiment Abraham Sheppard Colonel   Marmaduke Maples p. Mar. 77 39th  
State of North Carolina Secretary's Office 4 th Dec r 1818 I hereby certify that the above is a true abstract from the Musterroll of the N. Carolina Continental line in the Revolutionary War
Given under my hand the date above
Wm. Hill Secretary of State

Memorandum 7 May
Free
Recd 13 May 182
M. B. H. O. K.
J. C. Calhoun Esq. Secretary of War City of Washington

Lincolnton N o Carolina 3 rd May 1821
Dr r , Enclosed You will Rec d the official Copy of Rec d & c of Old Mr Marmaduke Chaples. And I expect an answer to this place Informing him whether he is Reinstated & if so at what time the old Man might apply at the bank in Fayetteville to Rec d his pay as he is necessitated exceedingly for it. And I Immagined as well entitled as almost any other Pensioner
Yours with Esteem Percy W m Lee
W. H. Harrison S. H. H. H. H. H. H.

State of North Carolina Lincoln County
January 24th 1819
Then came William Gibbs and Thomas Maples being first met and being duly sworn they agreeing in substance as to what they have to relate touching or concerning the matter in which they are sworn and each deponeth and saith that he hath been acquainted with Marmaduke Maples for a number of years past and at their first acquaintance with him they discovered that he was affected with an eruption or inflammation of the blood which produced ulcers or sores on his skin and that the said disorder still appears as usual from the time of their first acquaintance with him and further saith that from the appearance of said disorder that they the deponents doth apprehend and believe that it is most very painful and distressing in its operation and also a very great obstacle in the said Maples's performing any kind of bodily fatigue as had labor &c.
And the deponents further saith that in the course of their acquaintance with him the said Maples that they have frequently heard him in conversation touching said disorder and gave it as his opinion that said disorder had originated in consequence of an injury

has learned in the blood while confined in a prison- ship in the time of the Revolutionary war and be- ing a prisoner with the British army at Charleston South Carolina he being one of those troops sur- rendered in the capitulation of that place for the troops under the command of Genl. Lincoln And further saith that from the manner in which they have heard said Maples express himself on the subject and the opinion they had ever entertained of his conduct that they the deponents did and yet does believe that said Maples was of the opinion that said disorder had originated from the causes as he stated they having no idea that there could be any design or any circumstances that could have influenced said Maples to dissemble or give out any thing contrary to his opinion on the subject
And these deponents further saith that they understand and believe that said Maples is in very narrow or indegent circumstances as to effects And that from his advanced period in life and de- bilitated state of body they do not conceive that he is capable of pursuing in any extensive manner any kind of hard labor to procure a maintenance for himself and family Sworn to before me
Gilbert William West

William Davidson Esqr Charlotte Wickhamburg No Carolina —————
Handed by Mr. Melick
know

Simsbury November 9th 1819
Sir - Being a resident of the District which you represent in the General Government and one of your constituents and having business to transact or negotiate with the General government I am again induced to solicit your favor in my appearance of the same
I have sent you inclosed a certificate made out by the Judge of the Superior Court in the form which you instructed me in your former favors accompanied with my discharge from the services of my country in the revolutionary war with one other certificate corresponding therewith also an abstract from an abstract from the war office in the Secretary's office of North Carolina This abstract does not exactly correspond with my oath in respect of the Regiment in which I first entered I first entered in the eighth North Carolina Regiment and that abstract states it to be the tenth This I cannot account for on no other principle than as I suppose that on being transferred from the eighth to the second I was mustered

as transferred from the Lenth as I had previous said transfer been doing duty with the Lenth regiment after that it has been a mistake in taking off the general abstract by one of the Lenth Regiment being entered by my name and regiment crossed in carrying out for this inconsistency I have attempted to account for in an additional note annexed to the certifi- cate which an examination will appear
I have also sent you enclosed the former certificate which you have had and returned to me again I no idea that they will be of any particular service in the business though being no use to me to keep and light carriage I thought fit to send them on thinking that they would probably give a fuller explanation of my services than could be contained in the form of the certificate last granted I also thought as the two first was intended for formal appli- cations with sufficient evidence of my services and only being rejected for want of form and the form now being amended as to become complete that under these circumstances that probably my time

would be allowed to go for me or the first of these applications. There is one you are to be the judge or if you think proper by whether or no it will succeed
I have no further information to give you on the subject it now remains for you to act on the case as you think proper
See before I also must with great sincerity acknowledge my sense of my obligation of gratitude to you for your former services in the case which I now select a continuation of your services I also promise you that any augmentation of that debt already incurred will not be neglected or forgotten by one who feels as I do a duty to act your success - Yours S c C
To W m Davidson Esq r  W m M c K
P.S. When you know the event and if I succeed please to write and inform me and you are willing to undertake I will forward a power of attorney to you authorizing you to draw such money as may be allowed me by the rise of the present system of business C M M

To. Honble Secretary of War Washington City.
John A. [unclear] 19 June 1862

State of North Carolina Lincoln County DISTRICT OF
On this 23 d day of April 1819, before me, the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Superior Courts of Law and Equity for the County of Lincoln and said State , personally appeared Marmaduke Maples aged Fifty years, resident in Lincoln County in the said district, who, being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war:" That he, the said Marmaduke Maples enlisted for the term of three years in the year eighteen hundred and 77 in Cumberland County in the state of North Carolina in the company commanded by Captain John Welch of the Regiment commanded by Colonel James Armstrong in the line of the State of North Carolina on the Continental Establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, until the end of the war, when he was discharged from service in Fayetteville state of North Carolina that he was in the battles of Monmouth and at the Siege of Charleston S.C. Brandywine and Germantown
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
John Patton Marmaduke Maples I, John Patton Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify that it appears,
to my satisfaction, that the said Marmaduke Maples did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months at one time, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his country for support.
23 April 1819 John Patton

State of North Carolina Lincoln County
Marmaduke Maples  Maples further deposes that from the abstract here with sent it appears that he was attached to the 10th Regiment of the War the Carolina line but that he was enlisted both in the first instance in the 8th then transferred to the 10th the regiments were then reduced as well as he now remains to them in number and he was then transferred to the Second Regiment when entered during the war in this last regiment he was entitled by Capt. Clement Hall and John Patton was Capt. of said Regiment
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 23. day of March 1819 Marmaduke Maples J. P. Dutton J. H.
State of North Carolina Lincoln County I Lawson Henderson Clerk of Lincoln County Superior Court of law in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that the Honorable J. P. Dutton before whom the foregoing

Depositions were sworn & subscribed to one of them judges of the Superior courts of Law & Equity within said State and that due faith & credit ought to be given to her attestation as such Given under my hand & seal of Office at Lincoln this 20 th day of July A.D. 1879 and in the 43 rd Year of the Independence of the United States
W. H. Henderson

Secretary at War

State of North Carolina Lincoln County On this Thirteenth day of February year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen Before us the subscribing Justices in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared Marmaduke Maples aged sixty years Resident in the said County of Lincoln aforesaid who being by us duly sworn according to law doth in his oath make the following declaration in order to ob- tain the provisions made by the late act of Congress entitled An act to provide for certain persons en- gaged in the land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war That he said Marma- duke Maples enlisted for the term of three years in the month of January and year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven in Cumberland county and State aforesaid in the company commanded by Captain John Welch of the eighth North Carolina Regiment on Continental establishment commanded by Colonel James Armstrong and in the fall of the same year was turned over to the tenth North Carolina Regiment commanded by Colonel Abraham Sheppard and by a Reduction of the number of Regiments of the North Carolina line he was soon after transferred to company command by Captain Clement Hall of the second Regiment commanded by Colonel John Patton of the North Carolina line on Con- tinental establishment that he continued to serve in the last mentioned corps or regiment in the service of the United States till the before

mentioned term of his enlistment was nearly expired and that he then requested for during the war continued in the company and regiment last mentioned in the service of the United States till the capitulation of Charleston South Carolina when he was with the rest of the troops of fighting in defense of that garrison surrendered prisoners of war to the British forces besieging that place that he underwent a prisoner of war at that place for the the term of fifteen months nine months of that time he was confined in a prison ship he then being exchanged -id that soon after he was exchanged he was recapt- -tured that he continued a prisoner of war till near the close of the war at which time he ob- -tained a final discharge from the service of the United States as a soldier which discharge with some other vouchers relative to said services he hath recently forwarded to the war department in the care of William Davidson Esq Representative from the Merleventh congressional district of the State of North Carolina in the Congress of the United States that he has was in several important battles Very Monmouth Charleston Brandywine & Germantown
And further saith that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of said services Sworn to & Declared before us the Day & year aforesaid
Miss Celine H John W. Wilson Jr Benjamin Hays Jr
Marm Naples

7 Tho Michael Cline John Wilson Zachariah Stacy Esqrs do certify that it appears to our satisfaction that the said Michael Cline (Wilson) did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preced- -ing declaration against the common enemy for the term of five years at one time in continental establishment and we now transmit the proceedings by us taken with the testimony had thereon to the Secretary of for the war department pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of con- gress We are also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his country for support
Michael Cline John Wilson Esq. Zachariah Stacy Esq.
State of North Carolina Lincoln County
I Vardry M c Bee clerk of Lincoln county court of pleas and quarter sessions do certify that Michl Cline John Wilson and Zachariah Stacy Esqrs are acting Justices of the peace in and for said county duly sworn and commissioned as and that all due faith and credit be due to their official attestations as such in testimony whereof I have set my hand and affixed the seal of office this 15 th day February 1879
Vardry M c Bee

State of North Lincoln County
Marmaduke Napier came before me the subscribing Justice and produced a paper which appears to contain a brief statement of his revolutionary services and sworn to before the Honorable Henry Smith one of the judges of the Superior courts of law and equity in this State and as a Supplement thereto makes the following statement to us to which he swears Do Wit
That he has for a number of years past been grievously afflicted with a bodily infirmity viz an eruption or inflammation of the blood accompanied with an affection of the nervous system which he supposes might be termed a species of the scurvy and which has been a very great impediment in performing any kind of bodily exercise or hard labor and further states that he has ever retained the opinion that the cause of said complaint was produced by and injury sustained while confined in the prison ship mentioned in the preceding statement as the symptoms thereof appeared immediately after his releasement therefrom
This deponent further states that by the causes aforesaid with other misfortunes he is reduced to very indigent circumstances which induces him to solicit the assistance of the government of the United States and therefore Prays that a contribution be made to the relief of his present necessity by granting him a compensation for the before mentioned services which he so long since should have received or allowing him an annual pension sufficient for a comfortable support in order to render his decline

later days (which from his dislocated State it may be sup- posed will not be long) more comfortable than what they may otherwise be. He is the more encouraged to hope that such a contribution will not be withheld from him when he reflects that on viewing his long and faithful services devoted in behalf of his country under such distressing circumstances it will in all probability produce a conviction that his case does in an obvious and palpable manner demand a Relief by the Government aforesaid. And for which he avers himself in duty bound to Pray for G: C Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5 th day of November 1818 Jacob Reinhardt J.P. Marm Miples
State of North Carolina Lincoln County
I Varney M c Beck Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions in & for the County aforesaid do Certify by these presents that Jacob Reinhardt Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit was made & who attested the same is an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said County - duly sworn & commissioned & that his official attestation are intitled to all due faith & credit as such - In testimony whereof I have set my hand & seal of office at Lincolnton the 5 th day of November in the 43 rd year of the Independence of the United States A.D. 1818 Varney M c Beck