Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7090, for Thomas Joiner, North Carolina

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Joiner, Thomas
S. 7090
CONTENTS
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North Carolina N o . 31.983
Thomas Joiner of Mecklenburg Co in the State of North Carolina who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Thomas — of the — commanded by — in the North Carolina line for six months —
Rep'd: 15 Sept: 1842, let. 26 Sept: 42 to Saml. Silliman.
Letter to Pension Agt 7 Decr 1843. Same person 7 March 1844 Jno. Y. Bryant resp 21 1852
Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 20 — Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of September 1842 and sent to Samuel Silliman, Salisbury, N. C.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept: 1842 $ 250.00 Pension allowance ending 11 Mar: 43 10.00 $240.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } Act June 7, 1832. $
Recorded by W. Stewart Clerk. Book 6 — Vol. 6 1/2 Page 61

Sec for increase of
Power of Attorney

State of N. Carolina } Micklenburg County }
Be it known, That on this eight day of December A.D. 1851. before the subscriber a justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Sarah Saunders a resident of Micklenburg County, and made oath in due form of law that she is the daughter of Thomas Poiner. who made application for a pension, and was allowed at the rate of $ per annum, that she has been informed that the said Pension ought to be increased, that she is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent or Attorney may use in prosecuting said claim —
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me A. B. Cross J.P.
Sarah Saunders mark
I A. B. Cross a justice of the Peace in and for said County do hereby certify that Sarah Saunders who executed the foregoing paper is a respectable resident of this County and is, I believe directly interested in said claim as therein set forth —
A. B. Cross J.P.

State of N. Carolina Mecklenburg County
Knowall men by these presents, That I Sarah Saunders of the County of Mecklenburg and State of N. Carolina, do hereby constitute and appoint James C. Flow my true and lawful agent and Attorney to prosecute the claim of Thomas Poirier for any amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of Pension that may be due, and I hereby authorize my said agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the departments at Washington City or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable to James C. Flow to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do even I personally present, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorney and agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
Witness my hand and seal this Eightday of December A. D. 1851.
Signed and sealed in the presence of — Charles Burdett Cross Warren Dorette
Sarah Saunders
State of N. Carolina Mecklenburg County
On this Eightday of December A. D. 1851. before me the Subscriben a Justice of the Peace in, and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Sarah Saunders and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be her act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year aforesaid.
C. B. Cross J.P.

State of North Carolina Mecklenburg County } }
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me Braly Oates Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for the County of Mecklenburg that Thomas Joiner, was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $ per annum and he died on the 28 th day of May 1845, leaving surviving him the following named children viz all of the County of Mecklenburg who are the only surviving children of the aforesaid Thomas Joiner — And I further certify that Charles Barnett Croft is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office — this 27 th day of February A.D. 1852 —
B. Oates Clerk of Mecklenburg Co. Courts
State of North Carolina } Mecklenburg County }
Know all men by these presents that I James C. Flow of the County of Mecklenburg and State of North Carolina the Attorney named in the foregoing power of Attorney by Sarah Sanders, do hereby constitute and appoint Miss John H. Bryant of the City of Washington, my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name and place, to examine all the papers in relation to the application of Sarah Sanders in right of her Father Thomas Joiner, and to do all things in relation to said claim that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying all that my said attorney lawfully do in the premises — Witness my hand and seal this 30 th day of March 1852, Test, W. P. Davidson — James C. Flow Deed

Declaration of Thomas Paine
July 18 th 1840

State of North Carolina Mecklenburg County
On this 18 th day of February in the year 1840. Personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Superior Court of Law and Equity for said County. Thomas Joiner a resident of said County aged Seventy four years and being duly sworn. Doth on his Oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7 th day of June AD 1832. That he entered the service of the United States a common Soldier in the Militia of North Carolina under the following named officers and served as hereinafter stated, to wit That he was drafted in Johnston County North Carolina about the age of 16 years in the year 1779 as near as now recollects and served the term of three months in a company of Militia commanded by Captain Phillip Thomas, that he marched to Martinburg on the Cape Fear River from thence to the Mouth of Rocky River on the Pee Dee, from thence to a camp near Hillsboro in Orange County - and from thence to Fayetteville remaining a short time at each place, and was discharged at the latter place. Major Dennis, Colonel Lincoln and General Lillington were the principal officers in command during this term of service.
About six months after his return from this first tour of Military service, he hired as a substitute for James Kennedy in a troop of cavalry under the command of Captain John French, which company was employed in scouting parties, almost constantly moving and traversing the country, acting against the Tories, and was once stationed at Fayetteville for a few days. This term of service was for three months at the end of which time he was discharged. After about twelve months, he was again drafted in the Militia in Johnston County - a foot Soldier in a company commanded by Captain Griffin in the Regiment of Colonel Needham Bryan and marched to Wilmington, and remained there for three months in the year 1781 where he was taken ill with the Small Pox and was sent home about the time of the surrender of Earl Cornwallis at York Town in Virginia. Making the whole of his Military service in the Revolutionary War, the period of nine months .
He has preserved no written discharges, nor any documentary

evidence of his Military Service; Nor has he any record of his age but believes he was born in Johnston County in the year 1765. where he resided until the year 1814. when he removed to Cabarrus County and in 1817 removed to Mecklenburg County where he has resided ever since. That he knows of no living witness by which he could prove his Military Service, but relies on the Certificate of William Alexander & Evan Alexander his present neighbours, who can testify to his reputation and veracity. That there is no clergyman in reach of the Court who is well acquainted with him, so that he cannot procure the Certificate of one. — That some years past he procured a declaration to be drawn up, and leaving it in the custody of a clerk of Court to be certified and sealed it was mislaid or lost, and this is the cause of delay in presenting the present one.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a Pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Thomas his Joiner mark
We Evan Alexander and William Alexander residing in Mecklenburg County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Joiner who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration and that we believe him to be seventy four years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid William Alexander E. Alexander

And the said Court doth hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the before named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, and the Court further certifies that it appears to it that Evan Alexander & William Alexander who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in Mecklenburg county - are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Jennings B. Stull Clerk of the Superior Court of Law for Mecklenburg County North Carolina hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Joiner for a Pension and that the Honorable Thomas Settle is Judge of said Court for this term. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office the 18 day of February Anno Domini 1840.
Jennings B. Stull Clerk of the Superior Court of Law for Mecklenburg County -

Reuben
7090
INVALID.
File No. 7090
Thomas Jones
Miss Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:—Vol. 16 , Page 196
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Thomas Joiner North Carolina
= Suspended
• See let to May 1842 Sam t Silliman
Act y June 1832

July 20/57
Re: case of Mrs. Gairner
Kirby
Wm. A. C. Heath Commr. of Pensions.

Thos. Joiner died 28 May 1845; leaving Sarah Saunders,

2 March 1894
Harry L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington.

Union Office
Fayetteville July - 27 1846
James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions Sir:
On the first of Dec r last I received the papers in the case of Thomas Jones a pensioner under the Act of June 1832. at the rate of $20 per Annum. For your approval - the Statement claimed was from the 4 th Sept 42 to the 4 th Sept 1843 -
Please advise me if the application was received. If any reply was made thereto - or things from your Office to my own account here. in regard to the claim.
I am very respectfully your Obedient
Matthew R. St

Thos Lainer N 6 d 32-
July 1852
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J G Bryant

Washington City July 10 th 1882.
Sir:
Herewith I enclose to you a Power of Attorney from Sarah Saunders daughter of Thomas Joiner a Revolutionary Pensioner, on the North Carolina Roll, to James C. Flow, and one from said Flow, to the undersigned, in order to an examination of the evidences on file in the case of said Joiner, with the view to an increase of the Pension heretofore allowed.
Very respectfully Your obedt. Servt. John C. Bryant
How: J. C. Heath Comm r of Pensions.

35,335 Thomas Joiner North Carolina
Admitted for six months, Private bns. p 20— Coap—Thomas Col, N.C.
Act of June 1832
Saml. Selliman Salisbury, N.C.

Union Office
August 24th Dec 1 st 1843
J. L. Parsons Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir.
Please authorize the payment of Thomas Jones. id est of 1832. June 4 Sept 426 & Sept 43 p 20. for services rendered.
I am Sir very respectfully your Obedt.
Andrew
Ag.

Washington City July 21 st 1852.
Sir,
I beg leave to call your attention to the application and Power of Attorney filed by me, for an increase of the Pension heretofore allowed to Thomas Loiner, R. 31.983 on the N. Carolina Rolls, at $20.- per annum.
It would appear from the testimony on file in support of this claim, that Thomas Loiner was drafted in 1799, in Capt. Thomas' Company and served three months , - at the expiration of six months, he again entered as a substitute for James Kennedy in the Troop of Cavalry under Capt. John Trent, and was engaged in scouting against the "Forbes" - was at one time stationed at Fayetteville, and served in said Corps three months , when he was discharged. At the expiration of one year thereafter, he was again drafted in the Militia, in Johnston County, as a "foot soldier," in Capt. Griffiths Company, attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. Needham Bryan, by whom he was marched to Wilmington N. Carolina, and remained three months in 1781, when he was taken with Small Pox and sent to his home about the time of the surrender of Cornwallis at York Town. In the adjudication of his

claim and the exhibition of the foregoing facts as to the several services performed by him, he had by some strange inadvertance, been allowed for only six months service at the rate of $20. per annum. — I therefore request a review of the decision in this case, and that such additional allowance may be made, as the facts presented seem to justify, and which as I conceive has been unjustly and illegally withheld from him.
Sir, Very respectfully Your Obd. Servt. John G. Bryant
Hon. J. E. Heath Commr. of Pensions.

5 Sep 1842
Mr. Allison
Thos Turner
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James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Salisbury N.C. August 27 th 1842.
A. B. Edwards Esq.
Desir g your letter of May 6 th 1842 was duly received. in the following words -
"The declaration of Thomas Joiner has been examined and filed with suspended cases. He alleges three terms as a Militia man of N Carolina of three months each. Before a final decision can be made some more satisfactory evidence of his having been a revolutionary soldier should be exhibited. There are many persons now living in N Carolina who served in the Militia of that State some of whom may have known the applicant."
If no positive proof can be procured, the most satisfactory traditional evidence will be required."
The enclosed letter of William Henry Guy clerk of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Johnston County is negative of all positive evidence on the subject. The names of Brittain Roberts, Amos Atkinson, Benjamin Edsall, Chapman Hayles James Hott and Dickson Price were sent to the Clerk from whom to obtain information or depositions on the subject - all were Pensioners resident in Johnston County -
The enclosed documents intended to have been sent at a previous time but remaining unfinished lacking the signature of the Judge - is all the further traditional evidence that can now be furnished - both the Certifiers Evan Alexander and William Alexander are since dead -
If this does not prove satisfactory I regret to say that the applicant - although in the most needy and indigent circumstances - oppressed with age and infirmity - must surrender all hope of obtaining relief - and become a tenant of the Alms House - for the remainder of his life -
Respectfully your obedt Servt.
Sam l Sellman

May, 4. 1842
St. Louis
James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City.

Charlotte N.C. April 26 th 1842 J L Polivards Esqr.
Sir The Enclosed Pension- Claim has encountered many delays by the negligence of the officers of the court and the ignorance of the applicants friends & his age and infirmities and his extreme destitution or poverty, has rendered his friends few and far between. I think this is the fourth declaration that I have drawn for him in the last two years & living at a distance from this place & being obliged to leave something to be finished by others; always found the paper spoiled in some manner so that it became useless & this is the first time I have been able to get one finished
As attorney for the applicant I request you to inform me at Salisbury the result of your deliberation on the claim.
Respectfully your ob dt Servt Dan l Silliman

Sept 26. 1842.
Nb
Immediate attention
Thos. Fourn
James L. Edwards Esqr. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.
PAID

Salisbury N.B. Sept 20 th 1842.
J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Sir
The enclosed Pension Certificate to Thomas Dower came to hand this day, and I enclose it, respectfully asking a reconsideration of the matter, as I think there is some mistake. His declaration states three terms of Militia service of three months each time, making his whole Militia service nine months, upon which I believe the act of Congress of 1832 authorises a pension of thirty dollars per Annum, or eighty for military service of two years or more.
Respectfully your ob t serv t
David Williamson.

Paia 12/2 Sam. C. Gillem an Esq. Salisbury N.C.

Smithfield N.C. 2 nd August 1842.
Dear Sir,
Your letter of the 30 th May came duly to hand and am sorry to inform you that I can collect no information that will benefit Mr. Joiner. The Pensioners named in your letter are all dead, except James Hott, whom I have seen and examined. He is a very old man and has lost his mind in a great measure not being able to recollect the given names of his capt. He says he served at Wilmington under one Capt. Avera but has no knowledge of Mr. Joiner. Last week I made a tour on Little River. I found several people who were acquainted with Mr. Joiner but they knew of their own knowledge, nothing of the services of Mr. Joiner in the war of the Revolution.
Respectfully Yours
W. H. Guy

35.335 Thomas Joines North Carolina

State of North Carolina Mecklenburg County
On this 26 th day of April in the year 1842 Personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said County the same being a Court of Record Thomas Joiner a resident of said County aged Seventy six years and being duly sworn doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7 th day of June A.D. 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States a common soldier in the Militia of North Carolina under the following named officers and served as hereinafter stated, to wit.
That he was drafted in Johnston County North Carolina about the age of 16 years in the year 1779 as near as now recollected and served the term of three months in a company of Militia commanded by Captain Philip Thomas, that he marched to Martinburg on the Cape Fear River from thence to the mouth of Rocky River on the Pedee, from thence to a camp near Hillsboro in Orange County and from thence to Fayetteville remaining a short time at each place, and was discharged at the latter place. Major Dennis, Colonel Lincoln and General Lillington were the principal Officers in command during this term of service.
About six months after his return from this first tour of military service he hired as a substitute for James Rounday, in a troop of Cavalry under command of Captain John Kent, which company was employed in scouting parties almost constantly moving and traversing the country, acting against the Tories, and was once stationed at Fayetteville for a few days. This term of service was for three months at the end of which time he was discharged. After about twelve months he was again drafted in the Militia in Johnston County a foot soldier in a company commanded by Captain Griffin in the Regiment of Colonel Needham Bryan, and marched to Wilmington and remained there for three months in the year 1781 where he was taken ill with the Small Pox and was sent home about the time of the surrender of Earl Cornwallis at York Town in Virginia making the whole of his military service in the Revolutionary War the period of eleven months .
He has preserved no written discharges nor any documentary evidence of his military service, nor has he any record of his age, but believes he was born in Johnston County in the year 1765 where he resided until the year 1814 when he removed to Cabarrus County, and in 1817 removed to Mecklenburg County where he has resided ever since.

That he knows of no living witness by which he could prove his military service but relies on the certificates of David Kerr & John Flow his present neighbours who can testify as to his reputation and veracity. That there is no clergyman in reach of the Court who is well acquainted with him, so that he can not procure the certificate of one. That some time in the year 1836. he procured a declaration to be drawn up signed and certified by proper witnesses and leaving it with the Clerk of the Court to be certified & sealed, was mislaid & lost. That in February 1840 he caused another declaration to be drawn up executed and certified, but lacking the signature of the Judge in court it was mislaid until December 1841 & can not now be completed owing to the death of the persons who certified the same and the absence of the Judge - and this is the cause of delay in presenting the present declaration.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a Pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State to his knowledge - Sworn to and subscribed this
his Thomas Joiner mark.
C. T. Alexander clerk
We David Kerr and John Flow residing in Mecklenburg County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Joiner who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, and that we believe him to be seventy six years of age. That he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid -
John Flow
C. T. Alexander clerk
John Flow
And the said Court doth hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department, that the before mentioned applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to it that David Kerr and John Flow who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in Mecklenburg County and credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Thos J. Ginn C. C. C.

I C. T. Alexander Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Mecklenburg County South Carolina hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Joiner for a Pension and that Thomas J. Green is Chairman of the Court for this Term.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the 26 th day of April Anno Domini 1842
C. T. Alexander Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Mecklenburg County.