Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11,472, for William Stewart, North Carolina

SERVICE
NUMBER
Nb
Stewart William
S 11472
carded
CONTENTS

to 6 St Mitchell 8 3 d due Feb 23 Dec 1838 paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from March 1837 to 4 Sept 1838 agt notified 12 Jany 1839 Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 Sept 1838 to 4 March 1838. agt no paid 16 Jany 1839.
G L White Feb 8 1855 G. L. White 23 Feb. 1855. J. B. White Feb 24, 57
due Sept 3, 1851 see agn y book
23.399 Virginia William Stewart late in the State of Va was a blank in the blank commanded Captain blank of the blank commanded Col blank in the blank for 9 months
awarded on the Roll of Virginia the rate of 30 - Dollars — Cents per annum commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of Jan 34 and blank S. Martin  blank C. & — blank
ears to the 14th of Sept 1835 195 vacant allowance ending blank 15 190
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by blank Clerk, Book E Vol. 64 Page 32

Declared in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7 th day of June 1832.
State of Virginia
Scott County ss.
On this 17 th day of December 1832 personally appeared in open court before the County Court of Scott County, Virginia now sitting William Stewart a resident of Scott County and State of Virginia aged 76 years who being 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 the 7 th day of June 1832.
Oct 8, 1780
That about a year or 18 months before the battle at King Mountain as he recollects, he first entered the service of the United States in the spring of that year under the following named officers, and served as herein stated, that is to say, he was then a citizen of Carolina, the County not known as it is now Tennessee, he in his first tour was a volunteer and went down on Big Creek which was then a frontier about 30 or 40 miles from home to guard the same on a three months tour this applicant was then very young, being only a little above 16 years old, and cannot recollect the names of any of his officers, except that he thinks one of the officers was named Steel, where they remained for three months, on said Creek a branch of Holston river, but the applicant cannot name the County because all that Section of Country lay along on the line between Carolina and Tennessee which was not then established, that they remained there during their whole tour; without anything to do except guarding the frontier. At the end of that tour this Applicant returned home but does not recollect that he ever got any written discharge.

2 Then again some short time before the battle of Kings Mountain, while this applicant was still a citizen of the same place, this applicant's brother David Stewart and his half brother George Stewart, were drafted to go to the Army but before the day of their rendezvous, Orders came that all should go that were able to go, when this applicant as his brother and half brother were going volunteered, and as he recollects it was about the month of September of the year in which the battle of Kings Mountain was fought that they commenced their march from Holston up Doe river and crossed the Yellow mountain at the ball place to Kings mountain, under Colonel Isaac Shelby and Colonel William Campbell, Captain George Harkness and the other officers not recollect ed , at Broad River on their journey a Council was held among the officers and it was determined to steal a march upon Ferguson at Kings Mountain accordingly the horse troops under Col. Shelby and Campbell went on leaving the foot Company and did steal the march on Ferguson and the battle was fought before the foot Company came up, this applicant was one of the foot Company, and arrived there the same evening after the battle was fought when the British and Tories were all taken prisoners and were under guard when the foot Company came up, who in fact when the foot Company arrived were delivered over to them to guard, the next day they marched from the battle ground a short distance up towards Salisbury and the next night held a Court Marshal and condemned 31 or 32 of their prisoners to be hung and in the same night did hang 9 of them but does not recollect the reason why the others were not hung. But the next morning they understood that Tarleton was near them and that they had nearly as many prisoners as there were men of them.

and had to make their escape, that they burnt two wagons loaded with the plunder which they had taken at the battle and marched on towards Salisbury and as this applicant recollects they hung another tory that day. They went on with the prisoners towards Salisbury until near Salisbury where they met another Company of Carolina troops who took the prisoners and relieved and that they were then discharged from that tour which was another three months tour. This applicant does not recollect that he got any written discharge then either and then the rest of the Company in which he was came on home, but this applicant staid in North Carolina near Salisbury for sometime perhaps a year after said battle when there was another draft and this applicant then and there substituted in the place of one Daniel Turney for another three months tour and the Company rendezvoused near Marion Town in Surry County under Colonel Cleveland.
Capt. Benjamin Searns, other officers not recollected and we had marched one day towards the army when this applicant was taken sick and by direction of his officers returned to his uncle's in Surry County and remained there unable for service near three months and in fact before this applicant was able to arrive at the army the tour was out so that he never joined the army in that tour at all nor got a discharge. But this applicant remained in Surry County Carolina for sometime but he does not recollect precisely how long before there was another draft when one Thomas Smiths was drafted in whose place this applicant substituted for a fourth three months tour and that they rendezvoused in the Marion Town Carolina now called Salem under Colonel John Cleveland, Captain Benjamin Searns and this applicant further thinks that there was there a Captain by the name of Joseph Phillips but of the name he is not certain that they

remained about two weeks in Salem before we marched out that they then commenced their march towards Guilford and when they were going out of the town of Salem at one end that looked back and saw the British dragoons under Cornwallis coming into the town at the other end they then marched about two miles before and then stopped, when they feared that those dragoons would pursue them and having a long prisoner with them, that they told him they were going on to join Greene Army and let him go supposing that he would go with that information immediately to the British dragoons and they then marched on in that direction about half a mile further and then suddenly changed their course across the County towards the Patake mountain using great caution not to leave any trail behind them which they could follow, that they marched on perhaps 3 miles in camped all night and the Company divided the next morning between the two Captains and went different roads this applicant marched under Hearn sometime after this Phillips the other Captain if that was the name and his men were taken by the British before they were arrived at the army and that the Company in which this appli- cant marched went towards Patake mountain but the British intercepted them also and delayed them so that they did not reach Greene Army before the battle at Guilford that after they heard of the battle at Guilford they did not go any lower down because Cornwallis and his army left there and went on towards Little York and they were discharged but this applicant does not recollect that he got any written discharge, some few months after this Cornwallis was taken in Little York this was the end of the fourth hour of three months each as above stated but the date of this applicants entry or departure from

24. 036
William Stewart
Declaration to obtain
a pension
No seal Admit as a parole Not authorized 9 months $30
Martin John S. Martin Estillville Ch Va

The service in any of the tours he cannot give except as he has stated. This applicant has described his marches fully as he believes, and has was not under any other officers except as above stated as he recollects. This Applicant does not recollect any other Continental officers or soldiers except as above stated. This Applicant has no documentary evidence by which he can prove any of the above facts, never having as he recollects received any written discharge, he does not know of any body now living by whom he can prove them, his brother & half brother and all others known to this Applicant then being dead. He hereby relinquishes all claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency of any State nor has it ever been.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. William Stewart.
We John Pendleton a Clergyman residing in Scott County and Thomas Strong residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Stewart who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 76 years of age and that he is believed and reputed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed this 12 th day of December 1832. John Pendleton Thomas Strong
And the said Court do hereby declare their Opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that John Pendleton who has signed the proceeding Certificate is

A Clergyman resident in the said County of Scott and that Thomas Strong who has also signed the same is a resident in said County and a credible person and that these statements are to credit.
I John S. Martin Clerk of the Court of the County of Scott, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Stewart for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal (there being no seal of office yet procured) this 10 th day of December in the year 1832. John S. Martin
State of Virginia Scott County ss
I John Wolfe presiding Justice of the Court of Scott County in the State of Virginia, do certify that John S. Martin who hath given the foregoing Certificate is Clerk of the said Court qualified under my hand this 10 th day of April, 1833. John Wolfe
I John S. Martin Clerk of the Court of Scott County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of William Stewart for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 10 th day of December 1833
John S. Martin

June 8, 1936
William Stewart-S.11472 BA-J/AWF
Mr. Walter G. King 9534 Santa Monica Blvd. Beverly Hills, California
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to William Stewart, Revolutionary War pensioner from Scott County, Virginia.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S. 11472, based upon the service of William Stewart in the War of the Revolution.
The date and place of birth of this soldier are not shown, nor are the names of his parents stated.
William Stewart enlisted, while a citizen of "Carolina", that part which was later Tennessee, in the spring of the year, about eighteen months before the battle of Kings Mountain, marched to Big Creek to guard the frontier, under an officer named "Steel", length of service three months. He enlisted in the month of September before the battle of Kings Mountain, served three months in Captain George Maxfield's company, under Colonels Isaac Shelby and William Campbell, marched to Kings Mountain, reaching there the afternoon of the day of the battle, and guarded the prisoners taken at the battle. He enlisted to served three months in Captain Benjamin Hearn's company, Colonel Cleveland's regiment, in a few days was taken sick and carried to the home of his uncle in Surry County, and was not able to rejoin the company. He later served three months in Captain Benjamin Hearn's
later served three months

company, Colonel John Cleveland's regiment. Definite dates of enlistment were not stated.
The soldier, William Stewart, was allowed pension on his application executed, December 12, 1832, at which time he was aged seventy-six years and living in Scott County, Virginia. He died September 3, 1851.
There is no reference in these papers to wife or children, and the name of his uncle, with whom he stayed while sick, is not shown.
The soldier's brother, David Stewart, and his half brother, Loving Stewart, were soldiers of the Revolution; they were both referred to in 1832 as deceased.
If you desire information relative to the name and address of the person paid the last payment of pension, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and give the following:
William Stewart Certificate # 23399 Issued January 17, 1834 Rate $30.00 per annum Commenced March 4, 1831 Act of June 7, 1832 Virginia Agency. 1832 7-6 56
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Rev May
11472 INVALID.
Nov. 21-1901 Geo. C. Stewart Genl Land Office 1936-June 8 Irish to Walter S. King
File No. 11.472
William Stewart Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 360
[Arrangement of 1870.]

WILLIAM L. COLLIER CO. REALTORS • INSURORS 9534 SANTA MONICA BOULEVARD BEVERLY HILLS CALIFORNIA
May 23, 1936.
Mr. A.D. Hiller, Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly furnish me with a copy of the pension papers of William Stewart , a Revolutionary soldier, who received a pension for his military service while living in Scott County, Virginia.
Thanking you for your courtesy in the matter,
I am,
Yours truly,
Walter G. King

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
January 3 d , 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," William Stewart, — a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Virginia, Agency, at the rate of Thirty — Dollars and Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March, 1837, to the 4 th September, 1837.
Respectfully, yours,
William H. Parrish Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office, January 9 th 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," William Stewart, — a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va., Agency, at the rate of Thirty — Dollars and  Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1837, to the 4 th March, 1838.
Respectfully, yours,
William E. Parris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.