Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4419, for Thomas Ingram, Virginia

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Ingram Thomas Ingham or
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23378 West Tennessee Thomas Ingham of Wilson Co. in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the com d commanded by Captain Simmons of the reg t commanded by Col.  in the line for 
Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee at the rate of 30 Dollars  Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 day of Sept r 1834 and then John Bell M c R.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept r 75.00 Semi-ant. allowances ending March 13 00 $90.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. C. Boyd Clerk. Book 6 Vol.  Page 84
W. A. Dine.
Records corrected. Apr. 20, 1904.
Let to Pat. Sept. 19. 1835.
Duplicate certificate found and forwarded to Persianus Lebanon, Tennessee, Oct. 23 d 1835.

29. 204
Mrs. Ingraham Tennessee
Jan 17 th 1897 # 3.0
Hon John Bell H. R. clerk.

Declaration
In order to attain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7 th - 1832.
State of Tennessee
Wilson County } On this day
of December 1832 personally appeared in open Court being a cause of pleas & quarter Sessions now in Session for the County of Wilson & State of Tennessee, Thomas Kingham a Resident of Wilson County & State of Tennessee aged thirty one years the 6 day of June last, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7 th - 1832. That he Entered the Service of the United States, and served as herein after stated. He was born & raised in Southampton County State of Virginia and at the age of 16 or 18 years old I Entered the service of the United States, on a military expedition there was a draft for men same time in the Winter of 1780 in the latter part of that year is the Company which I belonged in Southampton County aforesaid, out of which my father was drafted who not long before had served a term, I became his substitute and was attached to serve six months I earned the hire of much soon after under one Capt. Simms a military officer, marched several days under said Capt. Simms until the Disjoint Companies composing the Regiment united when the officers of said Regiment of Superior Command dismissed Capt. Simms from further service for same cause not now recited by this applicant, and placed one Capt. Cummings in Command of the same, his first name not at this time recited, we proceeded on our march towards James River, for the purpose of stopping a party of the British at a place called Long Bridge near James River where we were and coming within cannon shot of the fort we fired a few rounds or

fires from the fort, a Rebel was ordered and was ordered up James River some distance passing through what was called the desert and called a halt at a place called Brandy Station or Black Bottom where we in camped for about two months perhaps more after which we continued our march up James River having learned that the British had left the fort at Langley It was expected that they would make an attack on Petersburg or Richmond we passed through different parts of the country after getting news of the British leaving at the fort & on the River, where we stayed then and then about guarding the James & Country and watching the movements of the Enemy Also during the time from that Service until the expiration of our service of six months, and from 5 or 6 days and we then returned home but did not receive any Dischar- ge but it was understood that we would get our Discharges from the State afterwards but it so turned out the money that was called Continental money became so depreciated in value that I never afterwards made any application for the Discharge or the money, for the service, there was at that time quantities of that kind of money that had become of little or no use to the holders, and was not ever expected to be of any worth to them, when the war I never applied for money or Discharge, the before mentioned Regiment was commanded by General Hollingsworth; Col. Henry Matthews, Major Stuart; Major DeLoach; and Major Jackson I think that was his name if so he was an agent - after my return home as before mentioned some 15 or 20 days there came an order that I was drafted in the Company which I belonged in South Hampton County assigned and one Substituted was drafted for the term I think of six months and became his Substitute and took up the line of

March in a few days after and marched to Brandy Station near Leesburg from there turned up and River passing through Petersburg and continuing up the River to the neighborhood of the Town of Richmond we in camped some weeks at a place called Deep Run where we marched then down the River near Brandy Station where we stayed some time then again returned up the River passing through Disputanta consisting of that part of the Country protecting the Towns & the neighboring Country from least dependence of the largest during the war there had & hiding places staying at no one place long at a time where we stood until Genl. Waller was shut up in York Town and surrounded by Washington's army it was then considered by our officers the we would be of little or no use in that part, where we then were and so we were then dismissed from further service with considerable haste & hurry the officers not having or taking time to write our discharges we were permitted to return home without, under a promise that we would all receive our Discharges some time hence, but I believe none were ever given at least I heard none nor never made any applica- tion for one for the same reason mentioned in the first letter in the Declaration, and further after I had returned home after serving three months & some few days we heard that Waller had surrendered his whole army which was considered about the close of the war and one still more early about my discharge and also the further deprivation of the money in addition to the distance I had to go to attend and altogether declined it. His last letter

was in the year 1781 the time we broke up perhaps was in October of that year the Company to which I belonged was commanded by Capt Cummings The Regiment commanded by Genl Beallington Col Barrington was Major Fowatt & Major Deering and also Major Jackson & Gist of the Regiment - The length of time of my two terms as before mentioned is nine months & some few days.
after the Revolution was I Resided in Southampton County Virginia about three years I then moved to Northampton County State of North Carolina where I Resided about five years from there I went to Chatham County in the state of North Carolina and Resided there for about two years from there I returned back to Northampton County in said State where I Resided about 12 years from there I moved into Halifax County where I Resided about 15 years from there I moved to Wilson County State of Tennessee where now Reside and have Resided near two years. - my place of nativity according to account given me by my father & mother was in Southampton County Virginia, there is no Record of my age that I know of, but the information that I have is entirely traditional, that I was born the 6th day of June 1762 in Southampton County of which I was born up in that County until I Entered the Service as before mentioned, after the close of the war I lived in the several States & Counties as before mentioned and now Reside in Wilson County Tennessee have Resided here for for about two years as before mentioned, the manner in which I was called in to service, the name of the officer, respecting the Discharges & Refusal being had to the Declaration and fully appear, I will also state that I served in the army the two terms as before mentioned as a private soldier - as to proof of my services I have

no living witnesses that I know of, which I at present live (as mentioned in this Declaration) has been too short to have an extensive acquaintance I am acquainted with all perhaps in the immediate neighborhood: to wit Robert Johnson Tallman Hartfield George D Hoase Jarett Payd & others I am acquainted with several in the town of Salem as I live in a mile & a half of that place - Col John H. Lewishead Adam Lewishead Merchants Baker John Hearn General Brown James H. Johnson Joseph Johnson & others, all of whom I think if required could so far as their acquaintance with me speak favorably so far as being a man of honor to truth. they having not long been acquainted with me perhaps they could not give any opinion whether I was or was not a soldier of the Revolution - I can prove by two witnesses Mary Chambliss & Allen Ingham who lived near to me in the same neighborhood in North Carolina for several years that I was there generally reported to have been a soldier of the
Respectfully I hereby relinquish any claim whatever to opinion or annuity except the present and declare that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to in open court the 24 th Dec 1853. Josiah H. H. Clerk.
his Thomas H. Ingham M c R
Recd the enclosed letters of the pecuniary Constitution the Court of pleas & quarter sessions of the County of Salem I hereby now in Session do declare and affirm after putting the interrogatories to the applicant as prescribed by the War Department and testimony of the witnesses as well as the information we have attained otherwise of the truth & veracity of the applicant that he was a soldier of the Revolutionary war and served as stated in this Declaration and the Court further certifies that John Jones - who has assigned the

Testificate herunto an end is a clergyman Residing Residing in Nelson County and that Henry Chambers Allen Ingram whose affidavit is herunto annexed is Resident Citizens of Nelson County the creditable person and that the statements as made under oath is entitled to credit given under hands this 26 th day of December 1883 in open Court
James Somers Silas Farmer Justice of the Peace D. K. B. H.
I John Ingram clergyman Residing in the County of Nelson Tennessee do hereby certify that I have been lately acquainted with Thomas Ingram the applicant mentioned in the Declaration and Subscribed Thereto and that I have no hesitation in stating that he is as old as he states himself to be in said Declaration as to his being a soldier in the Revolutionary war I cannot speak having personally been acquainted with him but the testimony of Henry Chambers of whom I have been acquainted for some years I can place confidence and from his affidavit above set forth I am of the opinion that he the said Thomas Ingram was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he has stated John Ingram
Sworn to in open court 26 th Dec 1883 J. P. W. Glavin Clerk
State of Tennessee December Court A.D. 1883
Nelson County Commission open Court Henry Chambers and Allen Ingram Resident Citizens of the County aforesaid and made oath that they have been acquainted with Thomas Ingram in the state of North Carolina Halifax County where he last lived before his immigration to this state for about 15 years or more who ever knew him during in the same neighborhood with him since his arrival to the County and at this time living near neighbors to him

during our acquaintance with him while he was in Delaware County north eastern he was then always reported in his neighborhood to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary war neither have we ever heard or understood from any person authoritative to the contrary and we chiefly believe & state that it has been always believed and so understood by his neighbors in north eastern that he was a soldier as before mentioned see further state we believe him the said Thomas to be a man of good honest character and a man of truth
Henry Chambers A. J. Ingram
Sworn to in open court 26 th Dec 1833 Josiah S. McClain Clerk
State of Tennessee Wilson County ss
I Josiah S. McClain Clerk of the county court of said county, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Thomas Ingram for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at office in the town of Lebanon this 8 th day of January 1834
J. S. McClain Clerk

Rev War
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File No. 4419
Thomas Ingham
Pa. N.C. line
Act: June 17/32
Index:—Vol. A , Page 188
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Pa. Va. Line. Records corrected. Apr. 20/1904.

FREE
J. Edwards Esq. Minister of Pension Washington City
Oct 21 LEBANON Tenn. The Ingenious J. B. [illegible]

War Department Pension Office September 19. 1835.
Sir,
An application for a duplicate Pension Certificate, in lieu of one lost, has been received here, in the name of Thomas Ingram. Such a name does not appear on our books. If you are the person for whom application is made, you must give a statement under oath why your name was written throughout the papers upon which your claim was admitted as Thomas Ingham , and on the enclosed as Thomas Ingram in every instance.
I am very respectfully Your Ob t . Servant. J. L. Edwards
M r . Thomas Ingham Lebanon Tennessee. }

6 Application for a new certificate
County of Middle and State of Tennessee on this 1 st day of August 1835, before me the subscriber, a justice of the peace for said County of Middle personally appeared Thomas Fugate who on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Capt. Simmons and after its disbandment by same man said Capt. Simmons was dismissed from the company which belonged and also Capt. Cummings commanded the company that Regiment commanded by Col. McAnulty Quarters Department to the electors. Whereby said and now on the file of the War Department, will more fully appear in the service of the United States that his name was placed on the pension Roll of the State of Tennessee that he received a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War, which certificate on or about the or some time after the 4 th March last perhaps in May 1835 as well as he now resides he made a power of attorney to Garrison Brown citizen of the County of Middle to draw his pension up to the 4 th March last of which said power was duly drawn and returned but is in power by the said Brown that he give the certificate to Thomas Fugate to be returned to him and the said Fugate informs him that said Return said certificate for the purpose of said and the said said Fugate states that he has lost the same - the above certificate that is last of said was granted to him from the War Department some time in the latter part of 1833. or the first part of 1834. as well as he now resides for thirty dollars per month semiannually Signed and subscribed before me the date first written Thomas Fugate his mark Justice of the peace

State of Tennessee
Wilson County ss This day came before me one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for the said County Henry Chambers and made oath that that the individual named Thomas Ingram is the same individual Thomas Ingram named in the said within certificate and that he is the same who heretofore received a certificate from the War Department in 1833 or 1834 as a Revolutionary pension for thirty dollars per month semiannually and that he received a power of attorney from the said Ingram and drew his first pension of twenty dollars per month at Cashville, and that from time to time he drew the said pension for many years in Cashville and ever since he resided in this County and he now lives near Cashville to him and that he well knows him to be the same Thomas Ingram who received a certificate from the War Department and the within affidavit.
Henry Chambers
Subscribed and sworn to this 1 day of July 1835 to this 1 day of August 1835 I do hereby certify that Henry Chambers whose name is subscribed to the above affidavit is a man of truth and integrity and a resident of the said County.
James M. [unclear] Justice of the peace
State of Tennessee
Wilson County ss This day came before me one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for the said County Jordan Brown and made oath that same time about the 7 th or 8 th day of May last Thomas Ingram whose name is subscribed to the within affidavit constituted and appointed me his legal authorized attorney in his name legally authenticated for the purpose mentioned in his affidavit filed by him and I drew from the pension agent at Cashville fifteen dollars being the half yearly pay up to the 4 th of March last 1835 and gave the money together with the certificate of pension to Thomas Ingram for the purpose as mentioned in the affidavit of the said Thomas Ingram who has since found the said pension has lost the same.
Subscribed and sworn to this 1 day of July 1835 James M. [unclear] Justice of the peace for said County
Jordan Brown

State of Indiana This day came before me one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the 3rd County of Spence County and made oath that he was in ever shall be neither James Brown who was authorized by power of attorney to draw the promissory for the sum of Dollars, one which money was received by him the said Brown and handed him the said Spence to get the with the promissory certificate for the purpose of paying out the money which was due, and to give the certificate to the persons about the time as mentioned in the affidavit of the said Brown which money he paid over, and by some means that cannot be accounted for, lost said certificate and of his papers which has not been found or returned to him since he therefor believes that it is finally lost Given to and subscribed before me this 1 st day of July 1835
of the peace for King & Country
State of Tennessee Wilson County ss. I, Josiah W. H. Glain Clerk of the County Court of said Wilson County hereby certify that George H. Bullard is a Justice of the Peace as above and that the foregoing signatures purport to be his own genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this first day of Sept 1805
John McClain Clerk of the County Court of Wilson County

2000 8 19 1835
State of Tennessee } This day came before me George H Ballou William Canning } one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for the said County of Stewart County and made oath that some time in 1833 or 1834 he employed William L Duffett an attorney to prepare & draw up a Declaration for the purpose of obtaining a certificate of pension as a Revolutionary Soldier from the Board of War records. The of course papers of June 1832 my said attorney drew said Declaration together with the necessary certificates of proof etc and by which I obtained the pension certificate above alluded to but cannot say whether my name placed therein was written Ingham or Ingham (in as much as the same is lost) however suppose it was the name of Ingham from a letter recently received from the Board of War records in my possession which states that the Declaration now on file at the Board of War by which my certificate was admitted is in the name of Thomas Ingham and the written application for the duplicate aspects is in the name of Thomas Ingham. the only explanation or reason I can give is the following. I employed the said Duffett to draw the Declaration as before stated and did not as I now understand tell him how my name was spelt and if I had attempted it, it would have been inserted whether it would have been correct so as to have given the proper pronunciation pronunciation from nearly identical however I can neither remember exactly and has since been attempted to write my name but do not make a practice of writing my name to any paper here for a long time used my mark. I have always understood and always called my name Ingham the same persons has called me by the name of Ingham this generally before about three first acquaintance with me and this was the case with Duffett who drew my Declaration I had been acquainted with him but a short time before
Sworn to and subscribed his Thomas T Ingham before this 10th Oct 1835 Mark
THOMAS INGHAM
State of Tennessee } This day came before me George H Ballou William Canning } one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for the said County and made oath that some time in 1833 or 1834 he was employed to draw up a Declaration for the above named Thomas Ingham for the purpose of his official investigation, and as well as he knows at that time that was his true name, had not been acquainted with the applicant long previous to the writing the same, he from his first acquaintance called his name Ingham and indeed that he has his name and never knows better until some time afterwards he does not remember that he was informed by the applicant in regard to his name until some time afterwards, said Ingham is nearly identical with his other name name or any other name that he now remembers, and he has no hesitation in stating that the above named Thomas Ingham is the identical Thomas Ingham who drew the certificate from the Board before mentioned and that it was as he has before stated is the name of Ingham and by and from the Deponent stated.
Sworn to and subscribed his Thomas T Ingham before me this 10th Oct 1835 Mark
THOMAS INGHAM

State of Tennessee Wilson County ss
I Josiah M c Clain Clerk of the County Court of said Wilson County do hereby certify that George H Bullard Esq whose name appears on the right hand page to the affidavits of Thomas Ingram and William L Supt is Magistrate as there stated, and that his said signatures are genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of office this 10 th day of October 1835 J M c Clain Clerk of Wilson County Court

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Inkerston, Robert (or Inkester) GRADE Private LINE Cranie's Continental Artillery (Massachusetts)
WARRANT NUMBER 4494 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Feb. 23, 1796 to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.