Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3886, for Zachariah Shaw, North Carolina

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.C.
Shaw, Zachariah
S 3886
Carded
CONTENTS

25505 Miss Tennessee
Zachariah Shaw.
of Gibson in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the 1st Regt commanded by Captain Jones of the 1st Regt commanded by ... in the ... line for ... 3 ... of Tennessee
Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee at the rate of 35 Dollars & ... Cents per annum. to commence on the 1th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of Jan y 1839 and applicant V. ...
70 17 50 87 50
Arrears to the 1th of Sep t 87 50 Pension allowance ending 17 50 115 00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Dan B. ... Clerk. Book ... Vol. ... Page 97

21.063
Zacharias Shaw
B. Shaw G. A. Shaw Declaration
from 1876 print of Canals & Inf's 9 months.
P. Can 6 m $25. - P. Inf 3 m 10. - 35. -
No allowance can be made as a captain, and counsel allow for time not spent on voyage by the regulations.
Applicant: Trenton. Tennessee

State of Tennessee Gibson County
This day personally appeared before me John A. Raines
an acting justice of the peace for the county and state aforesaid, Zachariah Sherr of the said county, at the residence of the said Sherr, he caused the said Sherr from age, disease and bodily infirmity as not able to come before me at my office - And he the said Sherr here made the following declaration on oath administered in due form of law, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Bongraves passed on the 7th of June 1830. For the benefit of the soldiers of the revolution.
He states that he was born in the State of Vir- -ginia, the county he does not remember, as he is informed by his father, who, he is also informed removed to the county of Wake, State of North Carolina, when this declarant was of the age of three years, where this declarant was raised - He further states that from the information of his father he was born on the 17 th day of December 1758. - that he has no record of his age, that he is now about 78 years of age.
He states that he entered the service of the United States, in the county of Wake in the State of North Carolina in the month of April 1776. - under Captain James Jones - My Lieutenant was named Medary - (Cornet Armstrong) - He states that he can not recollect the names of the field officers - for his mem- -ory is now very frail and bad. He entered the service as one of a company of light horse made up by Capt. James Jones to serve for two years and a half and marched directly from Wake County North Carolina to Charleston South Carolina, when the Company

to which I belonged arrived in to Charleston, declarant- states that the British Fleet bearing in the Harbour of that city - He recollects crossing the river big Pedee On his way to Charleston. He does not now remember the river he crossed at the city, but well remembers it was very wide & in crossing in a boat he fell asleep and the water by some means was thrown over him, which awoke him and for a short time on awakening he was much alarmed, the names of other rivers he does not remember. He remained in the service at Charleston and in its vicinity for the space of six  several months and was employed in excursions about that place - at the expiration of that term he hired a substitute, one Zachariah Shaw his brother to serve out the balance of his term and declarant- then returned home - My brother not very long after my departure was taken sick and returned home and died - He my brother came home on Furlough signed by Genl. Lee. This furlough has long since been lost. - He for the states that John Shaw the brother of declarant- was a captain of Militia, and was called into service in that city, after three months, owing to the domestic situation of his brother's domestic affairs, he his brother could not go into the service, and declarant took his place and served in that capacity during his term which as well as he remembers declarant & seven others were discharged at the same time by Genl. Greene. He states that in the foregoing service, he marched from Wake County N.C. and marched to Granville Court house and then to Hillsboro and then to the Hanging Rock on the Pee- dee river and there joined Genl. Greene and here he spent

us back, there were eight Captains of us, discharged at the same time. The claimants discharge has long been lost. From bad recollection claimant cannot give the date of the foregoing service - He states that at Hillsboro Genl. Butler took command of the troops to which he belonged. He was well acquainted with him and by that means is able to recollect his name - He thinks his Col. was by the name of Col. McBane - He knew Col. Lexington from Halifax - He states that when the British approached Guilford he was drafted for them as a private and marched on men to that place and was taken prisoner - He hired a substitute and returned home. On this trip one also from Charlotte  the  other was Capt.
He says that besides the foregoing service, he served three other trips in the Militia for three months each but from loss of memory, he is not able to give any circumstantial account of them - He further states that he was not in any General engagement and that he served for more than two years - He states that during the war he paid several hundred dollars in hiring persons to serve - He states that he does not know of any living witness except one by whom he could prove his service. And he is one Joseph Gallagher, who served with the claimant in South Carolina, and that it is impossible for him to get said Gallagher's testimony, because he lives at a distance from the claimant - He refers to Thomas Jones, the son of Capt. James Jones under whom the claimant served in South Carolina, to Col. Simpson the and to the Reverend

Alexander M. Williams for his reputation as a man and also to his character as a whig and Soldier of the revolution - He further declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State or territory - He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, except the present - Sworn to & the foregoing before me at the residence of said Zachariah Shaw the 30th of Septm 1833.
Zachariah Shaw
John G. Raines
State of Tenn Simpson County } This day personally appeared before me John G. Raines a justice of the peace for said State and County. Simpson Shaw a citizen of said County, who being first sworn in due form of law, on oath, that he is well acquainted with Zachariah Shaw of said County, who has made the foregoing declaration for a pension & that he has known him for fifty years, that he knows him to be a man of veracity and truth. He well remem- bers when said Zachariah Shaw returned from the ex- -pedition to Charleston. S.C. He also recollects that he was often in the service of the country during the revolutionary war, but deponent was young & can not state it circumstantially - He well recollects that he once went out and dined in the room of de- -ponent's father. He states that the said Zachariah Shaw has always been reputed and known to have been a soldier of the revolution - He states that the said Zachariah Shaw as deponent believes, served

as a Captain, when he was in the service in the room of deponents father as mentioned in the foregoing part of this affidavit. He further states that by age and disease the said Zachariah Shaw's memory is greatly impaired. Sworn to & subscribed before me the 30th of Sept. 1833. Simpson Shaw
John A. Raines
State of Tennessee
Gibson County
This day personally appeared before me John A. Raines
an acting justice of the peace for said state & county Thomas Jones of said county, who made oath in due form of law that he has been acquainted with Zachariah Shaw, who makes the foregoing declaration for a pension, for at least forty years. That he is a man of veracity & truth and has always been reported to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that he concurs in that opinion - and that deponent has always heard it said & reported that said Zachariah Shaw served in the company commanded by Capt James Jones, the deponents father. He states that he has always heard it said and such is the reputation of those acquainted with said Shaw, that he served as a Captain as is stated in his declaration. Thos Jones
Sworn to & subscribed before me 30th Sept. 1833.
John A. Raines

State of Tennessee Gibson County - This day personally appeared before me John W. Raines an acting justice of the peace for Gibson County, Alexander M. Williams a minister of the gospel, who being first sworn in due form of law, made oath that he is well acquainted with Zadok Zadach- -iah Shaw, who makes the foregoing declaration for a pension. He states that the Shaw is a man of undoubted truth, and that he has always been reported to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that he concurs in that opinion and believes that said Shaw served as is stated in his declaration. He states that said Shaw is very aged and infirm and is confined to his home. Sworn to & subscribed before me on the 22 d of Sept r 1838 Alexander M. Williams
John W. Raines And the said John W. Raines justice of the peace as aforesaid, do hereby certify and declare it, as his opin- -ion, after investigating the matter and after hearing the interrogatories, prescribed by the War Department, the answers to which are embodied in the foregoing declaration that the said Zadok Zadachiah Shaw was a soldier of the Revolu- -tion and served as he states, and the said John W. Raines further certifies that it appears to him that Thomason Jones, Simpson Shaw & others under Mr. Williams minister of the gospel, are all citizens of Gibson County and credible persons and that their affidavits therewith are entitled to full credit.
John W. Raines (18)

State of Tennessee
I Thomas Fite Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Gibson in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Robert H (Raines) Esquire, whose name appears to the foregoing declaration and affidavits and statement of opinion in the matter of Zachariah Sharr's Service as a soldier of the revolution, is an acting justice of the peace of said Court & County and that the afore- -said signatures are in his proper hand, all of which appear by the records of said Court - and that such signatures and credit are & of right belong to his official acts as such justice. In testimony whereof the said Thomas Fite Clerk as aforesaid has hereunto set his hand & seal of office this 2nd day of October 1833.
Thomas Fite Clerk

Reformed
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File No. 3886
Spencer Shaw Port St. G. line
Act: June 7/932
Index:—Vol. a , Page 337
[Arrangement of 1870.]