Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18896, for Shaderick James, North Carolina

SERVICE
NUMBER
N. 6.
James, Shoderick or Shederick
S. 18896
B.L.Wt 36556-160-55.
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CONTENTS

32684
South Carolina Shadrack James
of Union in the State of South Carolina who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Cole of the Regt commanded by C. Moore in the line for 7 mos & 7 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Charleston at the rate of 24 Dollars 10 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of Dec - -em 1849 and sent to Hon. D. Wallace , House of Reps.
Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, } Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Book II
J. P. Chase Clerk, Vol. 6, Page 70.
13510
A

Mar 3
215381 Oct 1/55
Martha Francis
Minor Chief of
Shadrick Francis
Rev Pensioner
Martha, minor child of Shadrick James
Capt
Col
Dis
Rev
Revolutionary War
She June 22- 32684
Ad 1600 Regt 30th Pa
Brig Gen
Rev
J. M. Gadsby Unmarried
Vol 1-6

State of South Carolina  On this 23 day of June Aurion District  1846 personally appeared in Open Court now in Session before the Court of Ordinary (it being a court of Records) Shadrach James a resident of Said District aged Eighty Two Years Who being first duly sworn accor- -ding to Law doth on his oath make the follow- -ing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
That he entered the Services of the United States Under the following Named Officers and Serv- as herein stated. That he entered the Services in the Fall of the Year 1780 in Capt Josiah Licks Company as a volunteer One William Moore was Our Colonel one Archibald Murphy was our Major. We Marched from Chester County S.C. (Wherein he the deponent resided) to Halifax Court House Virginia to meet General Greens Army but missed them We then Marched after them and overtook them in North Carolina the Place not recollected Wherein he then joined said Army and was in the Battle at Guilford Court House S.C. which was lost Thursday the 15 th day of March 1781 and next day after the Battle in the evening about Sunset he got his discharge after that he was drafted and served a term of three months during which term he marched

to Guilford Court House, Virginia and was not killed. They were then sent back, and after the term of his draft was out he was discharged. after that when Hillsboro N.C. was invaded by the Tories he went as a volunteer to Hillsboro N.C. and drew a pair of fine boots and was discharged. That during his services while with General Green Army he was at a skirmage on Haw River at a place called Ready Fork and a battle at Torrence on the Greensboro Road in Carolina. This deponent further declains that he has no documentary evidence of his services and that he knows of no person now living whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declains that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. This deponent further declains that the reason why he has not made application for the pension due him at an earlier date is that he knows of no man living whose testimony he could procure that could testify to his services because he removed from Caswell County N.C. some time in the year 1795 to South Carolina and of course his comrades were left in N.C. at least a distance of two hundred miles. He further declains that since the pension law was passed that he wrote to several of his former place of residence inquiring after his old comrades that he could recollect and

The answer that he got was that they had all died and removed to the West This is the reason for not applying for his pension and was always under the impression that he could not get his pension unless he could prove by comrades the whole length of his services This deponent further declares that he done all his services as a private soldier
Sworn to and Subscribed in Open Court the day and date first above mentioned J. J. Pratt Judge of the court of ordinary.
his Shedrick James Marks
I Willis Walker a clergyman residing in Union District South Carolina hereby certify that I have been well acquainted with Shedrick James who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration for the last forty years that I believe him to be eighty five years of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that he concurs in that opinion
Sworn to and Subscribed this 23 day of June 1826 J. J. Pratt Judge of the court of ordy.
Willis Walker
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears that Willis Walker who has signed the preceding certificate

is a respectable clergyman resident of Union District South Carolina and that his Statement is entitled to credit
J. S. Pratt Judge of the court of ordinary Union District S. C.
State of South Carolina Union District } I W. J. Bryan clerk of the court of Union District South Carolina do hereby certify that J. S. Pratt is the Judge of the court of ordinary for said District and that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his is genuine and that all due faith and credit are and ought to be given to all his attestations as such
In testimony Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed the Seal of Office at Union Court House S.C. This 23 day of June 1846
W. J. Bryan Clerk of the Court of Union District

State of South Carolina Union District
On this eighth day of June A D one thousand eight hundred and fifty five persons ally appeared before me a Magistrate within and for the District aforesaid David James aged Forty one years, a resident of the same district and State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law declares that he is the Guardian of Martha James a Minuor, who is the daughter of the deceased Shadrach James deceased, who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the rate of _____ dollars per Annum; That he is ignorant of the time of service of the said Shadrach James deceased, and begs leave to refer to his claim for pension now on file in the Pension office for proof said service; That the said Shadrach James died at his residence in the District aforesaid on or about the twenty seventh day of April - A D eighteen hundred and fifty two - leaving three surviving and this at law, his widow Henry James and her infant, the said Martha James who is now fourteen years of age, and also seven other children of a former marriage of whom the declarant is one, all above the age of twenty one years That the widow the said Henry James died on or about the fifteenth day of February A D eighteen hundred and

Fifty Three, and that the said Martha James is the only child of the said Shadrach James deceased, under twenty one years of age
He further declares that from his own knowledge the said Mary James widow of the said Shadrach James deceased applied for and received the sum of pension due him at his death, and filed with that application the certificate of pension issued with to the said Shadrach James deceased to which certificate and application he refers as evidence of identity of his ward with the said Shadrach James deceased
He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which the said Martha James may be entitled under the Act approved the 3 d of March 1855 -
David his James mark
We George Brown and Benjamin Holmes residents of Union District in the state of South Carolina upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by David James in our presence; We further declare that we are well acquainted with his ward Martha James and that she is a minor within the age of twenty one years, to wit, of the age of fourteen years; That we were also well acquainted with Shadrach James deceased in his lifetime who was a

a revolutionary pensioner as we are informed and believe that we know as well as man can know that the said Madison James deceased was the father of the said Martha James who was born in wedlock and always acknowledged by the said Madison to be his daughter that Madison James and his widow Mary James are both dead and died about the time stated in the foregoing declaration; and that the said Martha James is the only child of the said Madison James deceased under twenty one years of age
George Brown B. H. Holmes
The foregoing declaration and affidavit was sworn to and subscribed before me on the day of year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the said Martha James is the person represented to be, and that I have no interest in this claim
W. H. Mung, Magistrate.

State of South Carolina Union District
J. Immerissick Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for Union District in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that W. W. Meng Esqr before whom the within declarations and affidavits were read (as appears by his name in his own hand writing attesting the same) is and was at the date thereof a Magistrate in and for said District duly appointed & qualified and had signed the Roll kept according to law in my office; and all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit. In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, the 24 th September A.D. 1855. J. Immerissick (Clerk)
County Clerk's Claim of Matthew Lauer By Fanny Lauer
Filed by J. Immerissick Union District S.C.
213-381

State of South Carolina } Personally appeared Greenville District } before me Isaiah Cox one of the magistrates in and for the Said State and District Philip James and made oath in due form of law that he was brought up in the State of North Carolina Caswell County and was living in Said State and County at the time of the Revolutionary war and further States that he is a brother of Shadrock James now a citizen of Union District in the State of South Carolina and further States that his brother Shadrock James was a Soldier in the revolution- ary war and served two terms of three months each and one term of five or six weeks in the North Carolina line in the war under General Greene and further States that Said James was in the battle at Guilford and was at Halifax Court House and further States that he cannot recollect all the particulars of the services his Brother rendered and further States that his Brother went off in the army and that when he returned home Said that he had been in the service and so Said other Soldiers that served with him and States that he has hired James William Charles and Nathaniel Gutterys and Richards Sanders say that they was with Said Shadrock James in the army and knew him This witness further States that he has no records of his brother's age but always understood that he was born in the year Seventeen hundred and sixtyone. Sworn to and Subscribed before me This 15 th November 1849. Isaiah Cox M.G.D. } his Philip X James mark

I certify that I am personally acquainted with the within witness and he is a man whose statements entitled full faith and credit given under my hand this 15 th November 1849
Isaac Cox M.G.D.
The State of South Carolina } I J H one clerk Greenville District } of the court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for Greenville District in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Isaac Cox Esquire before whom the preceding affidavit was made, as appears by his name in his own hand writing attesting the same was at the date thereof a Magistrate for the District aforesaid, who had been duly appointed and qualified and had signed the roll kept according to law in my office
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Greenville Court House on the thirteenth day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty nine and in the Twenty Fourth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America
J H OSRE C. C. P.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
N. 7. 18896
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Shedrick * Shedrick James * a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. * Soldier signed by mark
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Full 3 mths 1781 1 mth 16 1781 Pvt. Josiah Leek William Moore N.C.   Afterwards 3 mos. and to Halifax Co. H. Van   ✓ 5 mos. " Hillsboro N.C.  
Battles engaged in, Guilford Co. H. R. Army Fork on Haw River + at  Guilford Co. N.C. Residence of soldier at enlistment, Guilford Co. N.C. Date of application for pension, June 20, 1846. His el. was ab. Residence at date of application, Union Co. S.C. Age at date of application, 82 years
Remarks: Died Apr 27, 1852 in Union Dist. S.C.  leaving widow Nancy and a daughter Martha who was  14 years old in 1855. Also several children by a former marriage  whose names are not stated other than David James who was 47 yrs  old. Widow died Feb 15, 1858. (Soldier moved to S.C. in 1795)
Respectfully,
He had brother Philip
Commissioner.

P 18896
INVALID.
1915-Adj. 4 Hist. to Mr. L. J. Hanes. Letter in W. L. 25-721 Same Mozley
File No. 18896
Chas. Richard James
Rev Rev War
Act: June 7 th 89
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 191
[Arrangement of 1870.]

N. 27312
Shadrach James se
Mr. & Mrs. D. S. D. S.
Feb. 29/76
From D. Mallon Ref 10 491
act 7 June 1832

Ms. 556
St. Aug

215381
Free
Commissioner of Revenue Washington City D.C.

James W. [?]
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Please Report to me the Condition of the Pension Claim of Shadrack James - The Agent in this Case is A. S. Homesly of North Carolina -
D Wallace
Jan'y 9 th 1849 -

37,312
Shedrick James South Carolina Paper Making Application for a Pension
Resides Act 1832
admitted
P. Private of 2nd day 34/100 com: 4th March 1831
Hon. T. Wallace
W.R.
Hon. D. M. Barringer
W.R.

State of South Carolina } On this 23 day of June Union District } 1846 Personally appeared before me one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for said District Joseph Fowler and Myrmae Fowler _____ residents of said District and made Oaths in due form of Law that they are well acquainted with Shadrach Jones of this District who is about to make application for a Pension That he believes him to be Eighty Five Years of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that he concur in that Opinion and that he is a man of veracity and truth whose character cannot be disputed
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and Year above written before me
Reuben Coloman Magt
Lot. Fowler Myrmae Fowler
State of South Carolina } Union District } I Reuben Coloman the Magistrate before whom the above affidavit sworn to and Subscribed do hereby certify that Joseph Fowler and Myrmae Fowler are men of known respectability whose veracity and character cannot be disputed. I further certify that I am well acquainted with the aforesaid Shadrach Jones and that his respected and beloved in the neighborhood to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that I

Concur in that Opinion
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 25 day of June 1846
Reuben Coleman
Some words in pencil, Magt (A.D.)
The State of South Carolina to Union District
I William B Keenan
Clerk of the Court for Union District in the State aforesaid do certify that Reuben Coleman at the time of signing the above certificate was an acting magistrate in and for the District aforesaid that the said above signature purporting to be his is genuine and that all of his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of office the 25 day of June A.D. 1846
W. B. Keenan Clerk of the court of Union District

No. of Neps. July 15, 1826.
Sir,
I enclose you the declaration and papers of Patrick James for a pension
Yours. &c.
A. W. Cassinger
Col. Edwards.

Relieve N C Compt Office
William Holley Comptroller of Public Accounts in and for the State of North Carolina, do hereby Certify that the Name of Shadrack Parris appears of Record in this office as having had the following Special Certificates issued in his Name for Military Service, (V3) One for Three Pounds, Two Shillings (£3.2) see Book A. No 11 page 24 Also another for Twenty Pounds, Five Shillings (£20.5) see Book No 26 page 67 The last Certificate mentioned is in the Name of S. Parris given under my hand and Seal this 30 day June A. D. 1846
Wm. Holley Compt
Duplicate

The State of South Carolina } Union District } personally appeared before me Reuben Coleman a Magistrate in and for the Dist of Union William Norris and made oath in due form of law - and sayth that he has been personally acquainted with Shedrick James for upwards of twenty five years and further states that said James was always reputed to be a soldier in the revolutionary war and also states that he has heard said James say repeatedly after Congress had passed a law giving the revolution soldiers a pension that it was a bad law and said that he had been paid enough for his services and he would not claim it as he could do without it and further sayth that he has talked with said James respecting persuading him to claim a pension he ought to have his right and further said, a few years past the said James became willing to try for a pension and he made a declaration as he heard said James say and further states from his long acquaintance with said James he has no hesitation in saying that in his opinion that the claim is just also sayth that the said James is reputed and believed in his neighborhood when he was said to have been a soldier of the revolution war to and subscribed before me this 19 th of Nov 1849 Reuben Coleman } Magistrate } William Norris

The within named William Norris further states that he has no hesitation in saying that the said James has lost his reelection on account of old age known to before me at the within R Coleman alias
I certify that I am personally acquainted with the within named William Norris and he is a man whose statements is entitled to full faith and credit the 19 th of Nov 1849 } Reuben Coleman alias
The State of South Carolina } Union District }
I William S. Heman Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas & General Sessions for Union District in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that Reuben Coleman Esquire before whom the preceding affidavit was made as appears by his name in his own handwriting attesting the same was at the date thereof a magis- trate in and for the District aforesaid who had duly appointed and qualified and signed the Roll kept according to Law in my office
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this twentieth day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and forty nine and in the Seventy fourth year of the sovereignty & Independence of the United States of America
Wm S. Heman Clerk

The State of South Carolina
Union District 3 personally appeared before me Robert W. Harris a Magistrate in and for the District of Union. Rucker Coleman and made oath in due form of law, and saith that he has been personally acquainted with Shedrick James for thirty years and says that the said James was always reputed to be a soldier in the revolutionary war and states that he has heard the said James say repeatedly after Congress had a law giving the revolution soldiers a pension that it was a bad law and he could live without it and further saith that he has talked with said James repeatedly persuading him to claim a pension he ought to have his rights, and further said a few years past the said James became willing to try for a pension and he made a declaration and further states from his long acquaintance with said James he has no hesitation in saying that in his opinion that the claim is just also saith that the said James is reputed and believed in his neighbor- hood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and saith that he has no hesitation in saying that the said James has lost his recollection on account of old age. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19 th of Nov r 1829.
(Robt W. Harris Magt)
Rucker Coleman

I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the named Deuben Coleman and that he is a man whose statements are entitled to full faith and credit
November 19 th 1849
Robt V. Harris Magt
The State of South Carolina Union District
I William J. Keenan Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for Union District in the State aforesaid do certify that Robt V Harris Esquire before whom the proceeding affidavit was made as appears by his name in his own handwriting attesting the same was at the date thereof a magistrate in and for the district aforesaid who had been duly appointed and qualified and signed the Roll kept according to Law in my office
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office the twentieth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & forty nine And in the seventy fourth year of the present Independence of the United States of America
W. J. Keenan Clerk

House Reps as Washington Dec 1/49
Sir
I have the honor to inclose additional evidence in the Pension Claim of Shadrick James of the District of Columbia. S.C.
By reference to the Record you will see that this Claim for Revolutionary services, was first presented by A. S. Homesley Esq. of North Carolina - I called your attention to the Claim in January last - I am personally acquainted with Shadrick James - and at one time examining him myself in reference to his Revolutionary Services. I found he was a Very Conscientious Man - & extremely careful to state the truth - and nothing but the truth - I, in the course of his examination, became

Perfectly satisfied that he served in the Revolutionary war - but it was clear that his memory was so much impaired - that he could not recollect the extent of his services.
Hence the burden of proof in his case rests almost altogether upon the witnesses who have testified in his case -
I have no doubt of the justice of the claim, & submit it to you with confidence
I have the honor to be Your Obedient D Wallace
Am L Edwards

The State of South Carolina } Union District }
I B Johnson Judge of the Court of Ordinary for the District and State aforesaid do hereby certify that David James whose name appears to the annexed declaration is the regularly appointed Guardian of Martha James a minor under Twenty one years of age that the said David James having filed in my office his bond with sufficient sureties and complied with the law in all other respects letters of Guar- dianship over the estate of the said Martha James with the usual powers as such
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at my office this 24 th day of September A. D. 1855
B. Johnson Judge of the Court of Ordinary of Union District