Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1853, for Francis Mc Kaimy, North Carolina

SERVICE
NUMBER
Nb.
McRainy, Francis
S 1853
CONTENTS
Carded

Tennessee West
6311 Francis M c Whirry
of Bedford in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Brasher of the Reg t commanded by Col o Paisley in the N o Carolina line for the winter from 1780, for 7 months, 24 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Tennessee at the rate of 24 Dollars 37 1/2 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Feb y 1833 and sent to the P.O. at Tazewell P.O. Tazewell Va. W. W. Woolf P.O. Tazewell Va.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1832 39 00 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 March 1833 13 00
$ 52 00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Henry H. Hughes Clerk, Book 20 Vol. 9 Page 157

Frances M. Knirng
Declaration
Mr Polk

State of Tennessee Ys
Declaration in order to attain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7 th June 1832.
On this 13 th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo. — Personally appeared in open court before the Worshipful Samuel Phillips, John P. Armstrong and John B. Hill Esquires Gentlemen Justices of the peace appointed to hold the court of pleas and quarter sessions for the county of Bedford in the State aforesaid; Now sitting, Francis W. Rainy aged Seventyfour years and some months — who after being duly sworn according to Law in open court, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to attain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832. That he entered the Service of the united States under the following named Officer and served as herein stated to wit, That he entered the Service of the united States as a drafted Soldier in the County of Guilford and State of North Carolina on the first of January in the year 1780 and was placed in a Company Commanded by Captain Brasher, and quartered at Guilford Court house where he says he was taken from the ranks of S d Company by order of Col. John Paisley the Commanding Colonel; and ordered to take charge of Publick Waggon and team as a driver of the same and said Waggon was used in convey

=ing Publick Arms, powder, and lead, from Halifax Court house in Virginia, to Salisbury in the State of North Carolina; and to Guilford in the last mentioned State, and to various other places until his term of three months expired when he says he was dismissed by Major Rutherford and returned home; Deponent further States that he was drafted again in the same County (Guilford) between the 15 th and 20 th of January 1781. - and was placed in Captain Barnett's Company, and was again taken from the ranks by order of the Command- ing officers to take charge of another Publick Waggon as a driver, in Company with about twenty two others; and went to Newbern in Said State of North Carolina for salt for Genl. Greene Army; He States that before they returned about fifteen miles below Hillsborough he received infor- =mation that the British were there in Hillsborough and he says they were conveyed from there under the Command of Col. Gallese across Roanoke river at Layton Ferry into the State of Virginia where he says they remained until after the battle of Guilford, when they returned home and was discharged after delivering up the Waggons to the publick officers for a term of three months Service although he says he was very little more than two months in actual Service: - Deponent further States that while he was in this last mentioned term of duty his brother James McKainy was killed by

the Tories and some of Tarltons men; and that he then volunteered immediately under Captain Brasher Company under the command of Col. Paisley and was marched to Deep river in Randolph County in the State of N. Carolina in pursuit of a man by the name of Hanning a Tory Colonel, and from there he says he was marched into Chatham County where the army under Col. Paisley and Col. A. Neal joined their Armys together and encamped at Ramsays Mill on Deep river for some time; and while the troops remained there he says he was in an engage- ment or skirmish with the Tories; in which three Tories were killed and one American; and from there he was marched to some old Barracks in Chatham County and remained there some time; he says he was then dismissed till further order, after serving six weeks, he states that after that he was called on again by the same Captain and Col. and joined them at Guilford Court house; in about ten days after he was dismissed in Chatham, and was march- ed in search of Tory Captain by the name of Piles - was called Doctor Piles who it was said had collected a band of Tories near the County line between Chatham and Cumberland Counties and after serving on this expedition four weeks he was dismissed again until further orders He further says that he was called on again by the same Captain and Col. and was March in search of another Tory Captain by the name of

144 Fields but before the American troops reached the place where Fields and his men they had all fled off and he says he was marched back home and then dismissed he thinks he served two weeks in this Expedition making in the whole a term of Actual Service of Eight Months and ten days and that he has no documentary evidence whatever and that he knows of no person, except what he can prove by Matthew Cunningham's Affidavit which accompanies this his declaration; Whose testimony he can procure who can testify as to his Service; and also that he hereby relinquishes all and every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any regiment in the United States.—
Interrogatories by the Court
Int. 1 st Where and in what year were you born—
Ans. I was born 15 th of August 1758. in Orange County and State of North Carolina agreeable to the information received from my Parents.—
Int. 2 nd Where were you living when called into Service where have you lived since the revolution any way and where do you now live—
Ans. I lived in Guilford County North Carolina all the time I was in Service. and after the close of the Revolution until the year 1811 when removed to Bedford County Tennessee where I have lived ever since and where I now live—
Int. 3 rd Have you any Record of your age and if so where is it. Ans. I have not. but from the information of my parents I am the age stated in the foregoing Declaration

In 1776 when Were you called into Service, were you drafted; did you volunteer, or were you substituted and if a substitute for whom;
Ans. I was drafted in Guilford County at Carolina the two first towns I served and then I was a volun- teer until I was finally discharged.
In 1781 did you ever receive a discharge and if so what has become of it
Ans. I never received a discharge in writing, but verbally dismissed for all My Service.
In 1781 State the names of some of the Regular officers that were with troops where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your Service.
Ans. I knew Major Rutherford at Guilford and Major John Campbell; but do not recollect the names or number of any Regiment either Continental or Militia and My declaration this day subscribed and sworn to; contains a history of My Service in the Revolution as near as My Memory at this advanced age will permit.
State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood who can testify as to your character for veracity and their opinion of your Service as a Soldier of the Revolution.
Col James W. Harris, and William Norris Esqrs.
Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year aforesaid.
A. D. H. 1818
Francis M. Jones

State of Tennessee } Bedford County } November Term 1832.
On this 13 th day of November in the year of our Lord 1832. personally appeared in open court Col. James M c Kisick and William Morris & who being duly sworn according to law, doth in their oath, depose and say; That Francis M c Haimy who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that they concur in that opinion; and that they believe his statements upon oath are entitled to credit in a court of Justice; and also that they believe him to be the age he states he is; Sworn to in open court the day and year aforesaid. —
Col. M c Kisick Clerk
J. M c Kisick W. Morris
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion; of the matter after the investigation, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department; that the said Francis M c Haimy who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration was a Soldier of the Revolutionary War and served as he states; And that James M c Kisick who has subscribed

and Sworn to the foregoing Affidavit is at this time and has been for many years Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for this County; and that William Morrill Esqr. who has also signed the same is a deputy Sheriff in said County and has formerly been the high Sheriff of the same; that they are credible persons and full faith and credit are due to their statements upon oath or otherwise, Given under our hands this 13 th day of November 1832.
J. D. Kill Samuel Phillips John B. ...
I James M. Hise Clerk of the Court of Pleas and quarter Sessions for Bedford County in the State of Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Francis McNamee for a Prison, and that Jordan K. Holt Esq. before whom the accompanying affidavit was sworn to at now and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for Bedford County duly Commissioned & qualified as such
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office at office in Shelbyville the twentieth day of December 1832
J. M. Hise Clerk

Certificate No 6346 Rev. W.W.
1853
INVALID.
File No. 1853
Francis McKainy.
Miss N.T. Gine.
Act: June 7, 1892.
Index:—Vol. a, Page 242
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Francis McKainy

State of Tennessee Bedford County
This day Matthew Cunningham Sen r . a resident of said County aged Seventy two years the 6 th of July last. Who is now confined and has been for better than four years with the Rheumatism. — personally appeared before McLeod C. Hott an acting justice of the peace for said County Who after being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he entered the service of the United States time in the month of October but believes in the year 1781, but does not recollect the date of the year in the County of Gilford and State of North Carolina as a volunteer in Captain Geo. Person's company, and was marched into Randolph and Chatham Counties in North Carolina, against the Tories under the command of a Tory Col l by the name of Fanning When and when he knew Francis M c Kimney a volunteer soldier in Captain Brasher's company of Volunteers, and that he being M c Kimney served as such during the time that he served; but how long he served after-wards he does not know, Sworn to and subscribed
This 2 nd day of Novem r 1832.
Sworn to & subscribed before me
Lordan C. Hott
Matthew Cunningham