Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10255, for John Strain, North Carolina

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
96.6.
Strain, John. Isabella.
P. 10255
CONTENTS

5570
Townborough & Gage
John Tirain
of Wash - in the State of Connecticut who was a sergeant in the Company commanded by Captain Wood - of the Regiment commanded by Colonel in the Continental line for 1 year from 1780
Inscribed on the Roll of Pensions Revolutionary War at the rate of $10 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of Febry 1832 and John Tirain Plainfield, N.H.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 600 Remun. allowance ending at 200 800
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk, Book D Vol. 9 Page 209
10 255
let: 10 Oct 1837 to 76 on W. B. Carter

John Blair Esqr
9827
from 1780 private 12 months
$2666 $40.
4 months at 100 per month 400
By John Blair

State of Tennessee Washington County
September Term 1832.
On the 13th day of September 1832, personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Samuel Powell Judge of the Circuit Court of Law & Equity for the County and State aforesaid now sitting. John Strain a resident of Washington County State of Tennessee aged twenty two years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following affirmation, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. First, that he was a resident of Orange County North Carolina in the year 1779. That in the fall of said year he was drafted in said County, under Capt. William Williams of said County, and in called under Capt. John Wood. He being a harness Maker by trade, was put to making harness for the Teams which belonged to the Army, was stationed near Hillsborough, where he remained, in the foregoing employment for the term of four months and a half, and received a written discharge from his said Capt. Wood for at least the term above stated, which discharge he has casually lost. He states that in the winter of 1780, and the beginning of the year 1781, he was a resident

of Orange County North Carolina. and returned in said County and joining the army enlisted under Capt. William Williams of said County. was marched to Haw River on a creek called Eno where he joined General Butler's Army. was generally during his said tour out on scouts. watching the movements of the British Army and Tories. This applicant being well acquainted with that section of Country. he states that he was sent out an oft employment. by the order of General Butler with instructions. to communicate the movements of the British and Tories. to him General Butler. he states that he does not recollect that he was under the command of any particular officer in his scouting tour. from the army of General Butler. in which service he continued at least four months and half. previous to the termination of which term General Butler had marched his army toward Guilford Court house. and this applicant was not discharged by any order or by discharge either written or verbal. anchoring the by the tacit consent of the officer under whom he entered the service. he states that he was repeatedly out after the Tories ranging the neighbourhood. frequently with Colonel Abner Thomas. and at other times under no particular

offences which I was in all amounted to not less than between three & four months. He states that in all he served in the War of the Revolution not less than twelve months . He states there is no preacher of the Gospel in the Neighbourhood where he resides, who can testify as to neighbourhood Reports of the declarations given in the War of the Revolution. He states that he has no documentary evidence, nor does he know of any person, whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service, he hereby acknowledges every claim 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 and year aforesaid Sworn at Dept Term 1832 in open court Sept 2nd 1832 John Strain
We Joseph Duncan & John Ryland residents of the County of Washington & State of Iowa hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Strain who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration. That we believe him to be seventy two years of age. That he is United and believes in the neighbourhood

whom he used to have him a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Acknowledged and subscribed the day & year aforesaid Joseph Duncan sworn in open court Sept Term 1832. Jas V Anderson Clk John Ryland
And the said Court do hereby declare its opinion that After the investigation of the matter and after propounding the interrogatories prescribed by the Secretary of War, that the above named applicant was a soldier of the Revolution and served as he states, and the Court further certifies, that it appears to him that Joseph Duncan & John Ryland who have signed the preceding interrogatories and answers of the Court of Washington, are reputable & their Statement entitled to credit.
Is correct Judge of the Court of the City of New
James V Anderson Clerk of the Circuit Court of Law & Equity for the County of Washington do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of John Strain for a pen- sion, in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of office this 13th day of Sept 1832. Jas V Anderson Clk

I know the within John strain he is of high respectability besides in the Court of the County in which I reside. J. W. Blagden

FAMILY RECORD.
BIRTHS.
BIRTHS.
Dolly Strain was born the 18 th day of October 1788
Robert Strain was born the 6 th
Robert Strain was born the 6 th day of November 1790

FAMILY RECORD.
MARRIAGES.
MARRIAGES.
John Strain and Isabella Allison were married December ye 20 th 1787

State of Tennessee Washington County
Declaration of Robert Strain for himself and the other heirs of Isabella Strain died, widow of John Strain and a Revolutionary Soldier & pensioner under act 7th June 1832.
Robert Strain a citizen of the County & State affirmed aged sixty years appeared before me William H Smith one of the acting Justices of the peace for said County duly authorized to administer oaths & upon her oath states that her father John Strain , was a Revolutionary Soldier who established his claim to his said pension under the act of June 7th 1832. at the rate of forty dollars per annum and drew at that rate at the Jonesborough agency from the 4th of March 1831 to the 14th of March 1840, & died on the twenty first day of March 1840, leaving a widow (mother of declarant) whose name was Isabella who survived her said husband and lived in said John Strain until the 10th day of January 1847 when she died, also unaffirmed of her rights under the different acts of Congress herein after recited & set forth, leaving as her legal heirs, the following named persons. Mary Strain now Campbell Jane Strain (now Biddle) John Strain Annalena Strain now Corroll & Declarant Robert Strain who are the whole of the heirs of said Isabella Strain deceased Declarant states that her father John Strain & Mother, (then Isabella Allerson) were married in the County of Washington & State of Tennessee on the 20th December 1787, and lived together as man & wife from the day of their marriage until the day of the death of said John Strain, & she the said Isabella remained widow until the day of her death neither ever having been married to any other person.
Declarant further states that the annexed proof of the marriage is the best of which the case is now susceptible & he prays it to obtain for himself & coheirs the rights vested in his mother under the several acts of Congress. To wit, under the act of March 8th 1843 the said Isabella Strain being widow at the date of its passage, was entitled to claim of allowance to claim her heirs are entitled to one year's pension and under the provisions of the act of June 17th 1844. She the said

Isabella was entitled to receive so much of the four years pension therein provided as accrued up to her death. (out from the fourth day of March 1844 to the tenth day of January 1847 when she died. & not having applied (from ignorance of her rights) but being confirmed upon her by the aforesaid acts became a vested right in her & which descended to her heirs upon her death one of whom declarant is. and now for himself & the other heirs her the application prays the allowance to him & his coheirs of the pension or gratuity afforded by the acts aforesaid to which his mother if living would be entitled, & being dead descended to her children & legal heirs before named.
Declarant states that by the provisions of the act the of 3 rd April 1844: and the construction given thereto (See Secretary Wilkins answer to commissioner Edwards inquiry on page (826) of young pamphlet laws & constitutions published) John Strain the Pensioner, died between the 4 th of March 1836. and 4 th of March 1841. Isabella Strain is also entitled to the unfulfilled term of five years not covered by her said husband's receipt to wit. from 4 th of March 1841 (his last draw) or 20 th March 1840 his death, to the 4 th of March 1841. and which with the other provisions made for widows set forth herein before they claim as the children & legal heirs of Isabella Strain
Sworn & subscribed
before me this 20 th October 1851
Robt. H. Strain
W. H. Smith Justice of the Peace

Lowestoft Oct 26 1857
Hon J E Heath
I enclose you the Revolutionary claim of the Heirs of Isabella Strain for the annuity due her as widow of John Strain, & which you will please act upon & when decided give me the result.
Very respectfully,
John Blair

John Scraim. Inverness agency. Ann $40. per ann. due 1 June, 1832. Do when term paid?
Yours sincerely Yours, 29. 1832.
F. G. C. (signature) op d to 4 th March 1840. B. S. B.

Rev:
Woodborough June 25 1852.
I was so frequently notice by the heirs of Isabella Murray, what has become of their claim, that I have thought it advisable to drop you a line to know if the court certificate enclosed you a short last was received. After being received, you signed the certificate of the court to the Sheriff instead of the papers originally sent you, make before a picture out of court that certificate I enclose you 60¢. As it is I have had nothing since please have an explanation if it was received.
Respectfully
Yours at Service W. O. Burroughs

Dr Sir;
Jonesborough Apr 13 th 1832
enclosed with this you will receive the twenty (18) claims for pension twenty of them made out in Washington County & the residue in Green, which when examined you will advise me of to this place
Yours respectfully
John Blair

James L. Edwards Esqr of the Territorial Bureau

No 14.517
Isabella Strain wid. of John
Tenn
Act 7th July 1838 V.
Letter Jno Blair July 19/38
Same Oct 2 1838
Rejected
10255

REJECTED
1A 2551
P. O.
Isabella Strain
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Hon J E Heath
Leicester April 6 th 1852
The enclosed certificate of the court in the claim of Isabella Strens heirs was requested by you some time since but from the fact that the court was off some time I could not before obtain it. I now enclose it to be connected with the original papers for decision respectfully
your obed servt John B. Mans

Mo Strain of Ten, pensioner, act 1832, at 40/8, 1 year pri - -
died 21 March 1840. His wife Isabella died 10 Jany 1847. - leaving the following child n :
Mary Campbell,
Jane Biddle
Mo Strain
Annalina Carme &
Robt Strain,
Maries 20 Dec 1787,
No claim —

State of Tennessee } April Session 1802 Washington County } of County Court.
I William H Smith clerk of the County Court of said County do certify that the satisfactory evidence was adduced in open Court to prove, & did prove before the said Court that Isabella Strain deceased widow of John Strain a Revolutionary pensioner departed this life in the County of Washington and State of Tennessee at the late residence of her husband on the tenth day of January .. one thousand eight hundred & forty seven leaving at the time of her death the following named children to wit Mary Strain, who married Alexander Campbell Robert W Strain, Jane who married James Wilder, Christian, Mary, Sarah & John A Strain being the whole surviving children at her death and that the said Isabella Strain remained widow and unmarried up to the day of her death all which being proved to the satisfaction of Court it was ordered & adjudged that the same be certified to the proper department by the Clerk of the Court and which is accordingly done by me in pursuence to said order
In testimony whereof I have to these presents set my hand & affixed my seal of office at Spivey in Overborough this fourth day of May one thousand eight hundred & fifty two W H Smith CLK

22.14.517 Revolution of claim Heirs of Isabella Strain widow of John Strain - deceased
Isabella Strain Mary John - John
Act 7 July 1838
Act d. 21 March 1840
J. Blair, Lancaster John -

State of Tennessee } October the 28 th 1857.
Washington County }
Robert Strain one of the children & heirs of John Strain deceased appeared before me William H Smith an acting Justice of the Peace for said County & made oath that he often saw the family record kept by his father in his own hand writing of the marriages & deaths occurring in the family; that the same came to her hands in the family Bible & is now in the present condition in which he left it at her death, in her own hand writing & which he exhibits to the clerk of the Court William H Smith, in order to have cut out & forwarded as evidence of the time of the marriage of said John Strain & Isabella Allison & that upon the death of John Strain & Isabella respectively their deaths were recorded by the family & are set forth in said entry as he has stated in her original declaration John Strain on the 21 st March 1840 & Isabella on the tenth day of January 1847.
Robt. H. Strain
Sworn to & subscribed
before me this date above
W. H. Smith Justice of the Peace
John Ellison age fifty nine (59) a practicing Physician in said County and known to me to be of high character & standing & entitled to full credit States on oath that his father John Ellison was a minister of the Gospel in the Presbyterian Church in the portion of (now Tennessee) known as Washington County before the Revolutionary war closed, that John Strain & wife Isabella were members of his father's church at his earliest recollection married as he believes by his father & he knew no family better up to the day of their death, & tho' not present at their marriage yet shortly after knew them to attend his father's church as man & wife & to have lived together as such in harmony & sustaining good Christian character until the day

of their death. He believes the number & names of his children are correctly stated by Robert Strain in his foregoing Declaration sworn to & subscribed before me this 20th day of Oct 1857 W. H. Smith Justice of the Peace John E. Cisson
John Blair a citizen also of said County came before me aged sixty one years, & stated on oath that his father & family resided at his earliest recollections in the immediate vicinity of John Strain & they were then living as man & wife, and as he understood, were married by Rev. John Cisson. They to his knowledge lived together as man & wife in Concord, until March 1840. When John Strain died, as he understood, indeed he knew of his being in Jonesborough on the fourth of March 1840, and then drawing his pension & shortly thereafter in some month heard of his death, which certain was in March Eighteen hundred & forty John Strain had held the office of County Clerk from the formation of the State Government up to some years before his death, than whom no man in the County maintained a higher reputation. Sworn & subscribed The children's names are correctly given by Distinct before me this 20th October 1857 W. H. Smith Justice of the Peace John Blair

State of Tennessee Washington County
Be it remembered that on this
27. day of October 1857. personally came before me, W. Wilson an acting Justice of the peace for said County & State. Such person being a citizen of said County & well known to me to be person of veracity & made oath that each of them were well acquainted with John Strain & Isabella Strain his wife, in their lifetime, that John Strain died at his residence in Washington County on the twenty first day of March (1840) Eighteen hundred forty one that Isabella Strain his wife remained a widow & unmarried until the day of her death, which happened in the same County & on the same farm her husband died on the tenth day of January one thousand eight hundred forty seven.
Sworn to & subscribed before me this date above
Test W. Wilson Justice of the peace

State of Tennessee } I M. H. Smith clerk of Washington County } the County Court of said County do certify that I have carefully examined my office for the Marriage Licence and Bond of John Strain & Isabella Allison and cannot find either. I also certify that prior to the year 1800 but few Licences were ever returned to office being no law requiring their return - being gen- erally retained in the possession of the Minister or Justice who solemnized the rites. And I also further certify that Robt W. Strain exhibited to me at my office a Large Family Bible purp- orting to be the family Bible of John Strain dec d from which I cut out the foregoing attached portion of the family Record. which is known to me to be in the hand writing of the said John Strain dec d he having been for many years previous to his death a public officer of said County and his hand writing generally known. And I also further certify that M. H. Smith and G. W. Nelson Esq s whose names appear to the foregoing and attached affidavits were at the time of signing the same acting Justices of the Peace for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and seal of Office at Office in Forestburgh This 28 th day of October 1851 M. H. Smith clk B