Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7062, for Abraham Ihrig, North Carolina

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.6.
Shrig Abraham or Trick
8.7062.
Carded
CONTENTS

Set 27 April 1837 Pen Agent. Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March 1837 to 4 Sept 1837. age Notified 18 Sept 1837.
Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 Sept 1837 to 4 March 1838. age Notified 20 Dec 1838.
J. G. Noel, July, 8/58.
7104
North Carolina
Abraham Stock.
of Rowan Co in the State of North Carolina who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Henry of the Regt. commanded by Col. Locke in the N.C. Mtn Batt for 8 mos. from '79
Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 24 Dollars 11 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of March 1833 and sent to Hon. A. H. Shepherd H of Reps.
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833. $ 53. 32 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept 1833 13. 33
$ 66. 65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, Book 2 Vol. Page 44

17.705
Abraham Irish
from 1779 private 8 months $26.66
W. T. ...
Hon: A. R. Shepperd

BRIEF in the case of Abraham Irick of Rowan County in the State of N. Carolina (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? about 73 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1779 5 Private Gen. Capt. Gray } N.C. Col. F. Locke }   1781 3 " Gen. Greene  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Guilford  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Rowan County N. Carolina  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional evidence and one living witness, who testifies to the 5 mo's term of service  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? they are duly authenticated 
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Wm Gordon Examining Clerk.

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832
State of North Carolina Rowan County } August Court of Pleas and Quarta session A.D. 1832
On this 22nd day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open court being the Court of Pleas and Quarta session of the County of Rowan now sitting Abraham Strick or Abrey commonly called Abrey a resident of Rowan County in the State of North Carolina aged about twenty three years who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oaths make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832 - That he entered the service under the following named officers and served as hereinafter stated - He states that he was born in the year of 1787 in Rowan County - that he has no record of his age - that when he was called into service in the battle in Rowan County, that he has lived in the County since the revolution & has continued & live in the County ever since - He states that he served his County during the re- volutionary war in the battle at least eight months, under two different engagements - that he was drafted in the first place in the year of 1779 1779 upon a few months tour under Capt James Craig Peter Haunt being the Lieutenant, that his company was attached to a regiment commanded by Col Francis Lock under the general command of Genl Richard - that his company spent the term of duty in South Carolina - that they marched first towards

lowards Charleston - and then turned towards the Savannah river, and at the Battle of Brim Creek,
- his company with others were stationed as a he recollects that Genl. Ash commanded the American force at the battle.
Corps of observation on the opposite side of the river - at the end of five months he was discharged in company of the Captain - which he has lost - in
the year 1781 he was drafted the second term for three months - about the time when
Cornwallis marched towards the Salisbury - and was ordered on together with others on guard duty but came to light at the battle of Guilford
- he then was marched through the country of Chatham & where he was present to South,
Carolina and after in the battle at Camden
- the American Army being under the command of Genl. Greene after the battle he was detailed as a guard to conduct British Prisoners
to Salisbury where he after to guard them under the expiration of his term when
he was discharged which discharge he has lost he states that he has no documentary evidence
of his service - and that he knows of no person whom testimony he can procure who can
testify to his services - except affiant making affirmable affidavit as to general reputation & his
on oath
He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the interest that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State before the
State in open court the
24 th August 1832
Jno Giles Esq

John Blue resided in the County of Rowan and State of North Carolina, in all the while that he is well acquainted with Abraham Frick who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that during the revolutionary war he served with him the five months four mentioned in the the declaration, in the company commanded by Capt James Craig - Peter Gantt Lieutenant in a regiment commanded by Capt of Frank Francis Lock - under the general command of Genl Rutledge - that they marched together to South Carolina near Charleston - and then towards Charleston the Savannah river and were stationed together in a corps of ob- servation - at the Battle of Brier in Georgia on the opposite side of the river, that he knew of his own knowledge that during around out his 5 months there and was honorably discharged - that he always understood and believes that there after said facts remain another term of three months.
Sworn to in open Court
24 th August 1832 Jno Giles ad
John Blue
(Handwritten signature of John Blue)
We Jacob Raburn & John W. Walter residing in the County of Franklin and State of North Carolina
do hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Abraham Frick who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 73 years of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighbo- hood where he resides & has been a soldier in the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to in open Court
24 th August 1832 Jno Giles ad
Jas. Raburn
J. W. Walter

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Jacob Ribelin and John Walter
who signed the preceding certificates & affidavits are credible persons, and that their statements are entitled to credit.
Attest Chairman
I John Gile, clerk of the Court of Pleas and Sessions for Rowan County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Abraham Smith or Abner for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and sealed the same this 25th day of August A.D. 1832
John Gile
Abner Smith John Gile
Abraham Smith William Gile

Rev War
7062
INVALID.
File No. 7062
Abraham Snick
Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 185 , Page 188
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Elm Wood Saline Co. Mo
8 th May 1838
Womun Primary Washington D.C.
Sir
You will please find enclosed a duplicate of Abraham Smith discharge from Service in the Revolutionary War
I am employed by the Executor of the Estate to ascertain what may be due the sd Estate from the General Govt of anything in the way of loans or any bank pay you was not called for
I send you the duplicate kindly on if being it can at once ascertain what may be coming of anything

and I also send you the copy of the original Catalogue of George Whitton for services in 1 st war and wish to know if any money or lands are yet due the S d his The other claims sent from S d I have not been able as yet to get sufficient evidence in these cases
The above points are still in S d from whom I have been to get proofs of after if any thing is due there but I have no doubt but there is land and stock his if not money
Hoping to hear soon from you at this office
I am Resp d fully J. Estlin

Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office,
Dec r 13 th 1838.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Abraham Frick a Pensioner on the Roll of the Fayetteville N. C. Agency, at the rate of Twenty Six — Dollars and Sixty Six — Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832 — has been paid at this Department, from the Fourth of September 1837 to the Fourth of March 1838
Respectfully, yours,
William H. Parrish Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Abraham Trickett which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? No VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? None XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? No # Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? Yes XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
¶ QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
¶ QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
☞ In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
# The witness has made a declaration under act of June 7 1832. From his papers it would appear that he is a person of credibility. This claim has therefore been allowed.

2 cases
Elmer Me
May 17
Abraham DICK N.C. - Oct 1832
Eleanor Miller N.C. Oct 1843
Commission Merchants
Washington
District of Columbia

Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office,
September 15. 1838.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Abraham Irick a Pensioner on the Roll of the N. Carolina Agency, at the rate of twenty six Dollars and sixty six Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March 1837 to the 4 th of September 1837.
Respectfully, yours,
William B. Parsons
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.