Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4,184, for Chapness Madding, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va
Madding Chapness
S.4184
CONTENTS
carded.

19026 West Tennessee
Chapman. Matthew of Madison in the State of Tennessee who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Edmunds of the regiment commanded by Col. Stevens in the Virginia line for 9 months
Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee at the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of July 1833 and Serial 144
Sabbel Jackson
Arrears to the 4th of March  60.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1 Sept  13.00
$73.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Dan Boyd Clerk,
Book 6 Vol. 7 Page 89

BRIEF in the case of  Chambers Maddux  of Madison County  in the State of  Tennessee  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? A Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 68 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. As a Gen.     In 1780 not stated private Capt. Clements. Maj. Henry Conway.   1781 3. do. Capt. Peter Gray, Col. Stevens.   not stated do. under Stan.   do. do. Capt. Wm. Dickson - Capt. Ch. Hutchinson.   says he served in all his campaigns about 8 months, 14 weeks - but it is impossible to discriminate his different terms.  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Wilson County, Virginia  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional evidence  Two witnesses state their belief of his services in the revolution - one of them saw him in the service at the siege of Yorktown.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Yes - The declaration consists of several scraps of paper - & are not initialed by Clerk's seal as required. 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Ch. F. Pleasants
Examining Clerk.

ct. 12340.
Champ's Madding from 1780 print 9 mths. $30.
Dr. H. Walbot Winnipeg 27 Feb. 1833.

Declaration of Charles Madding
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
State of Tennessee Madison County ss
In this tenth day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before John M. Shute James H. Rogers and Jacob Perkins Esquires Justices of the Court of Pleas and Sessions of said County now sitting Charles Madding, 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 7 th of June 1832
That he is Sixty eight or Sixty nine years of age Sometime during the present month, His Mother told him he was born in August 1763, and in 1779 he was on the Muster roll in Virginia, and in that State at that time all persons of the age of Sixteen were subject to Military duty. He has no record of his birth, but feels certain he is as old as he states. That he entered the the service of the United States in the Spring 1780, in Pittsylvania County and was drafted in the Military Service and attached belonged to a company commanded by Captain Blount of said County. The company to which he was attached belonged to and was attached to Third Regiment of Virginia Militia, assembled at Pittsylvania Court house and were mustered into service in June 1780, and Major Henry Conway was our Major, and marched on to Hillsborough in Carolina where we joined the army composed of Virginia and North Carolina militia and some Regular Troops. The Virginia militia were commanded by Genl. Stevens, and the North Carolina by Genl. Caswell and the Continentals by the Baron De Kalb, in July we marched from Hillsborough and had not marched far before Genl. Gates who had been appointed commander in Chief of the Southern Army took the command of the whole army were badly supplied with provisions.

and for some days had nothing to eat but green apples. The army crossed Pedee river at Clapp's ferry about twelve miles above Chesaw  Chesaw Hills, when the sick had amounted to a considerable number, say five hundred or 8 then un- dressed, and they were left at Clapp's ferry under the care of Major Connaway. Somewhere on the way between them and Camden He was detailed as a guard to six waggon, which was sent to the Widow Collins mill (situated some 30 or 40 miles below the Chesaw Hills on the south side of Pedee) for flour flour. The balance of the army continued on their march towards Camden & Carolina. After we had loaded our waggon with flour, we started, on our road to Camden the army, and when we fell into the road leading from the Chesaw Hills to Camden, about two and a half days drive from the Chesaw Hills, where we met the retreating army of Genl Gates. They had fought as the soldiers told us on the 16 th of August the day after we started from the mill. They were told the British were immediately in their rear and would be up directly, so they then turned our course with the flour, and drove on after the flying army, and drove two days and nights without stopping to eat or feed our horses until we got to Pedee river, which we reached at the Chesaw Hills in the night, and the ferryman refused to bring the boat over for us, supposing we were British (as he said) attempting to reconquer over. Next morning we crossed the river, and took up the river, with the view of reaching Clapp's ferry where Major Connaway had been left with the sick, who had gone about six miles where we stopped and got some feed for the horses and a mutton for ourselves to eat, and before we had eat we were come upon by a band of North Carolina Tories, who took us prisoners and drove off the flour. The Tories were about sixty in number and headed by George Roberts, who called himself Captain. and they carried us about half a mile to their camp, where we

found they had taken two wagons loaded with rum. one they took from Col Peter Perkins and the other from Benjamin Langford both from Pennsylvania Col. G. who had supplied our regiment with spirits on the march. The Tories detained us until the evening of the day they took us, and discharged us after taking from us every thing we had except the clothes on our backs. I was then lost from my Company and Regiment and made for home and got there about the last of August, and was taken sick directly after I arrived home. In consequence of many of our regiment returning home without leave, a Court Martial decided that all such should return and serve three months more. And another draft was had in Pennsylvania county, and we were ordered to march with them and join the Army at Hillsborough. But I did not march with the new drafts in con- sequence of my sickness, and Majr Conoway sent me a furlough until I should get well. I was sick about five weeks, after which I started by myself and overtook the army at Chesaw Hills on Reade, where the army at that time were stationed. And here I was attached to the Company commanded by Captain Peter May of Buckingham County Virginia, and our Regiment again commanded by Col Stearns. I came up with the Army early in December, Genl Green being the Commander. Early in January 1781 about 250 Regulars and 250 militia were ordered down Piedmont, about 100 miles to suppress a band of Tories, that were dis- trressing the County very much, and I was of that party. We marched all night and lay by concealed all day, and when we started expected to come upon them in four days, but were seven days, we came to their camp in the night and it appeared from their fires that they had just left them and we stayed at their two nights and one day, hearing nothing of them and started back to the Chesaw Hills nothing of con-

occurring on or return, when we arrived at the Chowan Hills. Genl Green had broken up the camp, and here we heard of Morgan's victory over Carlton at the Cowpens. He we were ordered on duty to pick up an after our Regiment which had been sent to assist in guarding about 500 British prisoners, taken by Morgan at the Cowpens, his purpose on the most direct course to overtake Col Stevens, and at Pittsburgh a boat house in February when we learned that the prisoners were have passed on with a sufficient guard. Our turn of three months has now opened, and we were discharged. While I was at home the British under Cornwallis, at a place called the Red House in Caswell County near the Dan river, and Piedmont, with many others of Pittsburgh County to go down to what was called the Island ford on Dan river and stationed ourselves with a view to prevent the British from crossing, at this place. They came to the ford and did not attempt to cross, while we lay at this place. Dr Bryant who was conveying provisions, to Genl Greene's Army, pressed me and many others, to go as a guard, with the provision waggons, we crossed Dan river at this ford, and with other guards the provision waggons over, from there to a place in Guilford County where Genl Green was encamped about eight miles from where Cornwallis was encamped, we lay with the Army that night, and the next day I was permitted to return home, and guard the waggons on their return for more provisions, a day or two after I got home I heard of the battle of Guilford - some time between the first and middle of September I was again drafted to go to the Siege of York when Cor- wallis was fortified, under the command of Captain William Dicks and Lieutenant Clement of Daniel, and before we reached York about half way between Old James Town and York our Captain took sick or feigned to be so, as we had heard some Draney

Cannonading, turned back, and Lieutenant de Gannier in on the Company, our Company joined another company a Regiment of Virginia Troops on our march - We reached the American Army between the first and the sixth of October 1781, then before York and James Rivers shut up both by Land and Sea, with the combined American and French Armies and the French Fleet. After my arrival I was placed under the command of the Capt Charles Fitzhugh of Virginia Troops and for twelve days and nights was constantly employed, in the throwing up works and digging the ditches, and I was one of the fatigued party who helped to erect the last battery that was erected by the besiegers, upon which six guns were to be mounted and would have been ready to have opened a fire the next day had Cornwallis not sent a proposition to cease hostilities until he could arrange the terms of a capitulation, and a day or two afterwards, the British Surrendered. I am an unlettered man and can rightly cannot give dates, and in those days soldiers have but little opportunity of information more than what took place immediately under their eyes - officers never talked to them about the plans of the their officers Army - they were told what to do, and we had to do it without asking the why or the wherefore, I know that La Fayette was there and many French officers whose names if I heard I do not recollect - Genl Washington was there in person, and I believe the greatest part of the American officers of distinction - The British marched out with drum beating and in full uniform, and with all their arms, and stacked them in front of the American Army, drawn up for the purpose - The remained some time after the Surrender - we were then sent to guard the prisoners to a place where they were to be kept, but being a stranger in the country and in acquaintance with its Geography, I do

most persons whether it was in Virginia or Maryland my impression is it was near the boundary between the two states, I started but did not go all the way, it was stated that the guard was large enough without the Pennsylvania militia, and we were discharged and marched home and reached there early in December. In the three campaigns related I served about eight months, exclusive of the time I volunteered on a short tour of about two weeks to guard the ford on Dan River and the provision wagons under D r Bryant. I received two discharges one at the at the close of each of the last mentioned campaigns, to the of which I have lost or mislaid. I have not seen them that I know of since I received them, being unable to read or write. After the war I lived about eight years in Pittsylvania County Virginia, and then lived seven years in Caswell County N. Carolina and then moved into Surry County Tennessee and lived eight years then lived fourteen years in the lower end of Smith County, and in the fall of 1821 moved to this County where he has lived ever since.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any the pension roll of any state. He does not know of any person who served with him who is now living except Clement H. Daniel who was his Lieutenant at the Siege of York R., who was alive about two years ago, which was the last I have seen him and he then lived in Shelby County Tennessee about ninety miles from here - I refer to Allen Hill, Adam Huntsman and Andrew L. Martin who have known me some years and will state my character for veracity.
Sworn to and subscribed to before me in open Court his Champe S. Maddux mark RAMSOUR clerk

And at the same time appeared Allen Hill, who being sworn in due form of law, saith upon his oath That he has been acquainted with Champness Cladding who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declar- -ation. He were born and raised in a mile and half apart in Pittsburgh County Virginia. He has always sustained a good character for honesty and truth, and I have the best reasons for believing him to have been a soldier in the Revolution, except that of serving with him myself. I have heard always from my earliest remembrance, heard that he performed two or three tours of militia service. I had some brothers and brothers in law that served the service, and they all spoke of said Cladding being a faithful soldier, and I never heard it denied. And I myself believe it as confidently as I can assert fact that I was not an eye witness to, In our various peregrinations through life, we have never been far apart, and have still known each other and for fifty years, and have now live in the same County, and I can say, that In old age said Cladding general character for honor honesty and truth is as good as it was in his youth. I will be sixty three years of age the 27 th of December next if I live to see that day. I believe him to be 69 years of age sworn to and subscribed } in open Court date above } Allen Hill A. McIver clerk
We Adair Huntman and Judson Martin residents of the County of Madison in the State of Tennessee do certify that, we are well acquainted with Champ- ness Cladding who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration: That we believe him to be sixty eight  seventy years of age

year of age as stated, That he is reputed to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed } in open court this day } above — RM Galt clerk }
Adams Huntsman A. L. Martin
And the said Court do declare their opinion after the investi- gation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War department, that the above named applicant was a soldier of the Revolution and served as he states. And the Court further certify that Allen Hill Adams Huntsman and Andrew L. Martin who have given the foregoing affidavit and exhibits are residents of the county of Adair and are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit. There is no regular clergyman living in the immediate vicinity and convenient to said Adair. In this country we have no regular stationed clergy, or Preachers being generally transient persons or circuit riders —
Wm Johnson J. H. Rogers J. Perkins
I Roderick de Tuer clerk of said Court do certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of Champhers claiming for a Pension
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Jackson on this tenth day of Aug st 1832 RM Galt clerk

Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
AWF
July 23, 1929.
Mrs. J. E. Madding, 5920 Franklin Avenue, Hollywood, California.
Dear Madam:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 4184, it appears that Chapness Madding was born in August 1763 or 1764 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
While residing in said Pittsylvania County, he enlisted in the spring of 1780 and was a private in Captain Clemson's Company, under Major Henry Conway in the Virginia Troops, in July he was sent as a guard to six wagons to procure provisions, on their return, were captured by Tories and held one day, he then returned home, having served three months.
He enlisted the latter part of 1780 and served three months in Captain Peter May's Company, Colonel Stevens' Virginia Regiment and marched down the Pedee River against the Tories.
He served about two weeks guarding the Fords on the Dan River, and returned home a few days before the battle of Guilford, no officers stated.

He enlisted in September 1781 and was a private under Captains William Dicks and Charles Hutchings, and was at the Siege of York and served three months.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 10, 1832, while a resident of Madison County, Tennessee.
It is not stated that soldier was married.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH, Commissioner.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Chambers  Headding 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? No VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes in part - 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 clergyman, but two citizens
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? Yes
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? Yes in part
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? Yes
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? Yes
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? No. One of the witnesses was in service with applicant at the siege of York Town. The other details nothing but confirms this belief.
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? Yes
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.

100-444444 War Section.
Nov 3 November 6, 1925
Mrs. Thomas Cassetty Nashville, R.F.D. 11, Box 51. Tenn.
Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 4184, it appears that Chapness Madding was born in August 1763 or 1764 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
While residing in said Pittsylvania County, he enlisted in the spring of 1780 and was a private in Captain Clemmons' Company, under Major Henry Conway in the Virginia Troops, in July he was sent as a guard to six wagons to procure provisions, on their return, were captured by Tories and held one day, he then returned home, having served three months .
He enlisted the latter part of 1780 and served three months in Captain Peter May's Company, Colonel

Stevens' Virginia Regiment and marched down the Pedee River against the Tories.
He served about two weeks guarding the Fords of the Dan River, and returned home a few days before the battle of Guilford, no officers stated.
He enlisted in September 1781 and was a private under Captains William Dicks and Charles Hutchings, and was at the Siege of York and served three months.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 10, 1832, while a resident of Madison County, Tennessee.
It is not stated that soldier was married.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

April 4-1929-
Commissioner of Pensions - Washington - D.C.
Chapman Maddux (Chapman or ) was in Rev. War from Pittsylvania Co. Va. (1st. census of U.S. 1785- lists him)
"Rev. Soldiers of Va" lists him:- S. of W. 1835 Pen. 3, Tenn. 83.
Please send application for pension - or any information your office has about him and his family -
Mrs. J. E. Maddux
5930 Franklin Ave.
Hollywood California.

Pension Bureau - Will you please send me a copy of the pension of Chambers Mad- dix? Reference Chambers Mad- dix, S. of W. 1835 Ref. 3 - Tennessee 83. (Va. State Library 1911-12)

Thanking you
Mrs Thos. Canetty
A. T. D. # 11 Box 51.
Knockville
Tennessee

1913 Sept 16. Data to Hon. Robt. P. Neill. aw see letter in claim aw Mrs Madden M9902 1925 Nov 6 Hish to Mrs Thomas cassette aw 1929 July 23 Hish to Mrs J. E. Madden aw
Rev May
INVALID.
File No. 4184
Elizabethton Part. Arv. Cent.
Act: _____
Index:—Vol. 4 , Page 235
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Jackson Madison County Tenn May 30 th 1833
J J Edwards Esq
Dear Sir — I herewith enclose again the application of bankruptcy eladding for a pension, together with the brief of objections. 1 st  The applicant had not stated with sufficient precision the length of the different terms of service . I trust the amendment will be esteemed satisfactory and that a pension for nine months service will be allowed. The Hon d William Fitzgerald promised to write a letter in behalf of this applicant which I presume he has done and to which I beg leave to refer. 2 nd  That the sheets of paper were not confined by a piece of tape or ribbon the ends of which should pass under the seal of the certifying officer .
I must take the liberty of saying a few words concerning this objection as it appears to be a common one (of which we were not notified when the first instructions were published), and made without regard to the reason upon which the rule is predicated. Where the reason ceases the rule should cease with it . The enclosed declaration concludes on the second sheet and the affidavits and certificate of the certifying officer with the seal, are all on the second sheet. It is evident and cannot be otherwise than a continuation of the narrative commenced on the first sheet. The deposition of element M c Daniel was afterwards procured, sworn to in a different County and before three Justices of the peace of the County of Shelby where he resided. Now Sir, the facts stated in the affidavit of M c Daniel attach itself , and connect itself more satisfactorily to the declaration than a piece of ribbon possibly could — The statement of M c Daniel was attached to the other documents only to preserve it lest it might be misplaced. Under these circumstances, which of the certifying officers ought to have confined the sheets together, with a ribbon with the ends under his seal to prevent any other paper from being attached to it? I am at a loss on this subject. I have endeavoured to remedy the defect, by procuring the clerk of the Court before a Commissioner

declaration was made to give another certificate as to the official capacity of John M. Johnson before whom the amendment affidavit was made, to authenticate the papers as directed.
I would call your attention to the application of Jonas Clark, which was sent back and the defects corrected and returned to your department, since which I have heard nothing of it. I wrote to a man by the name of John Clark who I understood lived in York district South Carolina, to state as to the service of said Jonas, and directed him to make an affidavit and transmit it directly to the war department. I also enclosed him a copy of the declaration. I have been informed he complied, and I expect the document lies among other papers, without your being aware of its application to the case of Jonas Clark - I also wrote to the same purport to Col William Park of Raleigh North Carolina, but have heard nothing from him - hopefully he forwarded his affidavit.
Clark had made out a sufficient case under the law to entitle him to a pension without the statements of these two witnesses, but he thought - as I do, it was the duty of every man to procure all the testimony reasonably in his power - Please look into this case, and also make search for the two affidavits above alluded to -
I forwarded at the same time with the application of Dillard (enclosed) the declaration and documents of John Dillard, of which I now have no account. It may have miscarried, or your answer may have miscarried or have been misdirected. Please advise me at least if such an application has been filed - He filed some documentary evidence, of which I retained copies.
Very respectfully yours
J. H. Talbot

Supplemental declaration State of Tennessee - Madison County (to wit),
Personally appeared before the undersigned John M. Johnson a Justice of the peace for said County, whom first being duly sworn, deposes 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 three months I served as a militia draughted private in the company of Captain Clemmons from about the middle of May 1780 to the middle of August following, but of this time he was only in the field from the first of June - For three months, during the winter 1780-1 under Captain Peter May of the Virginia militia. Major Henry Conway and Genl. Stevens. For three months during the summer fall of 1781, excepting a short time after the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at York - during the above second term, he was furloughed about two weeks, at the commencement, being sick, - I was credited by the State of Virginia for nine months militia service. If I am allowed a pension according to the whole time I served by law, I say I served nine months - If for the time I was actually in the field under arms, I served eight months, If for the time I was sick and on furlough I served eight and a half months, I however served two weeks as a volunteer to guard the passes on the Dan River and guarding the provision wagons on their way to the American Army immediately before the battle at Guilford Court house. If I am allowed for this service then I was nine months in the field , service (including the time I was on furlough.) If you reject the time on furlough and credit me for the guarding passes of the river and provision wagons, then I was eight and a half months in service -
Sworn to, & subscribed before me, this 30 th of May, 1833.
John M. Johnson
Campbell - Maddux mark
I, Rudolph M c iver Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Madison & State of Tennessee do hereby certify that John M. Johnson is and was at the time he tested the above affidavit an acting Justice of the peace for said County.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office done at office in Jackson on this 30 th of May A.D. 1833.
R. M c iver Clerk

I hereby certify on Oath that Bransford Maddox, now a Citizen of Madison County State of Tennessee, was a Soldier in the Company with me at the siege of York, and that I was then acting in the double capacity of first lieutenant to said Company and Adjutant, to the Regiment, then commanded by Col. Thos. Murreweather, of the Continental line, and that he performed his duty, as a soldier during the siege marched with the prisoners to Freder- icksburg in Maryland and rec- d an honorable discharge for a term of duty as did all others who performed the same service, since that time and long previous to there being any expectation of a pension being allowed to the veterans of the revolution, he informed me that he had performed the term of duty of Three months each in the South- ern at Gates defeat, the other in S. Carolina below the Cheraw Hills - the correctness of which statements I have no reason to doubt.
Raleigh Shelby County { Clement M. Davis September the 11th 1832 }

State of Tennessee Personally appeared before Shelby County, to wit, Francis Matthew Barnes, Warren H. Rudisill acting magistrates of said County. State of Tennessee, Clement McDaniel & maketh oath that the within Certificate is correct, given under their hands this 14 day of Sept. 1832.
W. Matthews James Warren H. Rudisill
State of Tennessee Shelby County, to wit Robert Lawrence clerk of the County Court for said County hereby certify that T. M. Matthews James Warren and H. Rudisill whose names appear to the above attestation of Clement McDaniel is, and was at the time signing the same acting justices of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned & quali- fied as & that all their official acts are entitled to full faith & credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Court at office in Raleigh on the 14 day of September A D 1832.
Robt Lawrence clerk Seal

12.340. Chapman Madding application for Pension

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Maddis, John GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 10,069 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED January 8, 1796 to Barnard Merkle, assignee
*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.