Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6175, for Samuel Latham, North Carolina

SERVICE
NUMBER
916
Latham, Samuel
P. 6175
CONTENTS

State of Tennessee } The declaration of Hickman County } Samuel Latham in order to obtain a pension under the act of 7 June 1832
In this 12 th day of March 1832 before the honorable Perry W. Humphreys judge of the Hickman circuit court now sitting, in open court personally appeared Samuel Latham a resident of Hickman county aged about 74 years who being first duly sworn, doth on his oath make the follow- ing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress passed 7 th June 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated that is to say
- I was born in the state of Virginia Northumberland county in the year 1757 I lived until about 17 years of age when I moved to North Carolina Guilford county where I lived during the revolutionary war I first volunteered into Captain Robert Bell company James Callbrell lieutenant in the year I think of 1775 in the first of the winter We marched from Guilford courthouse where we rendezvoused, under Capt Bell down to Camden where we joined some troops under Col Francis Locke and Lieut -tenant Col Paseley of the N C Militia We encamped at Camden and remained there during our first tour which was three months. At the end of this tour we all got discharges signed by Capt Bell. My discharge is lost. I then returned to Guilford.
My second tour of three months I also volunteered, into Capt Davis company George Pierce Lieutenant - We marched

Under Capt. the Davis on towards Augusta to join Gen. Lincoln at head quarters. During this tour of three months the battle of Stoneo was fought as we were marching down an accident happened to me at the Cherokee roads near Baker's bridge. From the excessive heat of the weather and the thirst of the soldiers several of them fainted among whom I was one. In this condition one of the wagons carrying the baggage run over me cropping my right hip and popping off my left-shoulder. I remained here 23 days without being able to walk. Next morning after this accident happened I got discharge from Capt. Davis. This tour was commenced in the year 1864  1865 . About half of my three months expired before this accident happened and I was three or four hundred miles from home.
In my third tour I was drafted into William Dickson's Company. Lieut. Col. William Dickson was Col. I was drafted and stationed at Hillsborough to be in readiness to serve when called upon. I remained 7 months in this situation - at Guilford and got a discharge for 4 months. The terms of the draft were for 10 or 12 months usually called the live six months men. This discharge together with all my other discharges lost.
I have no record of my age
I was living as above stated in Guilford when called into the service. Soon after peace I moved to South Carolina and married on Saluda. Where remaining two or three years. I moved

to East Tennessee where I remained three or four years. I then moved to Illinois where I staid five or six years I then returned to West Tennessee and after living in various counties in this state settled in Hickman where I now live and have been living some time
I volunteered as above stated in my two first tours of three months each my last tour I was discharged
There was Gen Green Tillman Dickson and Hall Dickson and the others I have stated who were with the troops where I served. The general accounts of my services so far as I recollect I have stated
I received discharge in all my tours signed as above stated which are lost I am acquainted with Gannet Lane Hodge Adams leave Johnson and Balin Gordin a member of the convention of Tennessee who can testify to my character veracity and truthfulness of my services as a soldier in the revolution
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare my name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state
I want to subscribe to the way I mark
Yours affectionately Wm Eastly Clerk By Wm T. Blackburn

We
and
residents of Hickman county and state of Tennessee do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Latham who has sworn to and subscribed the for above declaration. That we believe him to be 75 years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution — that it appears to be inconvenient for him to produce a clergyman and that we concur in the opinion that he was a revolutionary soldier sworn to and subscribed this the day and year of said
And the said court do hereby declare his opinion after the investigation of the matter and after the putting of 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 him that
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are residents of said county of Hickman and that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit and that it appears inconvenient for said applicant to produce a preacher to certify for
J. Millington Early, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Hickman County do certify that Samuel Latham signed and was sworn to the foregoing declaration in open court at the March term thereof 1834 and that the same was attested by me on the same day being the 12 March — Given Under my hand & private seal (having no seal of office) this 2 nd October 1834 A. Early. Clk
By dep. W. S. Robertson

Rejected did not serve in mint see letter 2 nd Augt 1834 to Jas. M. Howey do. 21 Oct 34
6195

Henry - 11-10-78 Col. Geo. R. Latham - 2.5
Act of July 19, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
6170
P. O.
Sumner (Tennessee)
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

2 Pension office
Aug. 14th 1884
Jan. 31, 64
Mar. 1
Samuel H. Jones
Free
Hon Lewis Cass Secy of War Washington City
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St L Edward say Centreville Tenn July 20. 1831
Dear Sir
Enclosed you will find the papers of Samuel Nathan praying a pension — Mr Nathan is very old and unable to travel about to get evidence — He has however got the evidence of Mr Malugan who states he served with Mr Nathan one term. Mr Nathan has served several other terms but being unable to get the evidence of such service as required by the Dept. Indulged him to omit stating any other service except that which he could prove — His military service informes receives a pension now.
Please communicate to the undersigned as early as practicable
I am very Respectfully
James M. Cowley

Washington D.C. Dec 1893
True
Hon. James L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions War Department Washington D.C.
Mail
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How for Edward
Centerville Tennessee October 3 rd 1834
Sir
Some time in the month of July or August last I forwarded to the Department of War a declaration of Samuel Latham a citizen of this county (Hickman) that he might obtain a pension under the act of June '32 — I shortly after received a letter from you informing me that his papers had been examined and claim rejected because he had not served 6 months as the act of Congress required, and that his papers were filed in the Dept &c —
I frankly avow at the outset that this is intended as a renewal of his application, and I flatter myself that I can so explain this matter as to clearly convince & satisfy the commissioners of Pensions that the applicant is entitled to a pension and that it has been owing to bad management on the part of his attorneys as well as a misfortune in mislaying his first declaration that his claim has been rejected by the Gen. of Pensions —
At the March term of the Circuit Court for this county Mr Latham engaged the services of a young gentleman of the Bar who resides in Williamson County but who was in attendance on the Hickman Court to prepare his declaration. Mr Scowen prepared his statement & the applicant was sworn to it in open court & it was attested by the clerk on the same day 12 March '34 and owing to the inability of the applicant to secure some of his neighbors to sign the certificate attached

to his declaration (they not being at court) his papers were handed over to me by Mr Severy his lawyer in order that I might attend to it & finish it order his neighbor would attend for that purpose - by some means (not intentional) the declaration was mislaid so that it could not be found during the sitting of that court - At the July Term of the county court of this county the applicant applied to me to renew his application and I being busy in my professional labors referred the old man to a student of Law in my office, who I told him could prepare his papers - I however advised the old man to make his statement brief and to mention but two tours - which he did entirely leaving out one of his most essential tours and although the person who drew his declaration had a correct knowledge of the law - to wit that 6 months service was necessary to entitle him to his pension - But he entirely overlooked that part of the tour when the old man was wounded by the waggon running over him & was discharged from further service before his 3 months had expired - In reading it over to the court it also escaped my observation and I impute the rejection of his claim to the want of proper attention to his case by my student & myself I enclose the declaration drawn by Mr Severy and which purports to have been written, signed sworn to & attested by the clerk anterior to the date of any of the papers on file in your office, from the best of my recollection I think the facts stated in the enclosed declaration will bear comparison with the papers on file in your office

There has not been one word added to nor taken from the declaration enclosed, since it was found a few days ago after search, except the certificate of the clerk which is at the bottom of the paper & which I had placed there for the satisfaction of the commissioner of pensions - In referring you to the proof accompanying the papers on file - the testimony of Mr. Thalugen will be found - you will remember that he draws a pension and is entitled to credit -
The applicant in this case is a very old man & I need not add in the most indigent circumstances, if any man ever needed the small pittance which his country is willing to give to the patriots of the Revolution, he certainly is one. And the his failure to claim it, attribute to my own negligence in part to  his  circumstances - I know the commissioner of pensions only wants to be satisfied that the applicant was a soldier of the Revolution & that he comes under the law. & when satisfied of this he will bestow his due upon him with cheerfulness - I therefore submit his case again to the Department & solicit a careful & rigid examination of his case relying upon truth & justice to bear the applicant out in his just claim - Affidavits of these facts can be had if necessary -
Please address me on this subject so soon as action is had on the case -
Very Respectfully & obedient James M. Hovey

State of Tennessee - This day personally appeared John Mallagan St. Thomas County at his residence in said County before me George Hicks an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said County and made oath in due form of Law. That he became acquainted with Samuel Latham (who is an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of January 1832 & who now resides in the County of State of Georgia) about the year 1775 or 1776. and that said Latham and deponent entered the service of the United States as volunteers in the last of December or the first of January and as well as deponent recollects in the year 1775 or 1776 and volunteered under Capt Robert Bell and James Campbell Lieutenant at Gilford Court House State of North Carolina from thence went to Camden where was stationed three months (or the balance of the time) and volunteered for which was three months) under the command of Coln Francis Lock and General Matthew Lock and at the end of the three months the said Latham myself & the balance of the company returned home to Gilford County where said Latham & myself both resided - July 10th 1834
Sworn to & subscribed before me this day & date above
written Geo Hicks Justice of the Peace
John his Mallagan mark

State of Tennessee - Hickman County
I Samuel Blackman clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said County do hereby certify that George Hicks Esq. whose name is subscribed to the within certificate, is, and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his official acts as such
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of office at office in Centerville on this 19th July, 1834
Samuel Blackman Clerk
By Wm. A. Blackman atty
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7th 1832
State of Tennessee - ss. I, Clerk of the Court District Court of Pleas, Shelby County, Tennessee 1834
On this 14 day of July 1834 Personally appeared before me justice of the peace aforesaid Samuel Satharn a Resident of the County aforesaid & State aforesaid aged sixty five years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
That he entered the service of the united states as a volunteer in the year 1775 under the following named officers & served as herein stated that is to say -
I was born in the State of Virginia North the Holston County in the year 1759 where I lived until about the year 1786 when I moved to Guilford County North Carolina where I lived at the commencement of the Revolutionary war I first volunteered in Captain Robert Bell's Company James Campbell Lieutenant in the year I think 1775 in the first of the winter at Guilford Court house - From whence we marched under Captain Bell to Camden South Carolina where we found some troops under the command of Col Francis Lock Lieutenant Col John Pasby and General Matthew Lock of the North Carolina Militia where encamped at Camden and remained there during my first tour which was three months at the end of this tour we all got dis-

was signed by Captain Bell my discharge is lost I then returned to Guilford County, I think in the month of March or April 1876 my second term of three months I also volunteered into Captain George Davis Company & George Pierce Lieutenant I volunteered at Guilford Court House near which place I then lived I think in the spring of 1877 or 1878 which declarant does not distinctly remember we marched from Guilford Court House under Capt Davis in towards Augusta in order to join Gen. Sherman - in at head Quarters - which place I never reached owing to an accident that happened to me at the Cheraw ponds near Bates Bridge South Carolina. From the excessive heat of the weather & thirst of the soldiers many of them fainted amongst whom I was one & in the condition one of the wagons carrying the Baggage ran over me. Crossing my right hip & patting over my left shoulder I remain- -ed here 23 days without being able to walk next morning after the accident happened I got a discharge from Captain Davis who marched on towards Augusta with the balance of the Company - about half of my three months had expired before this accident happened & my discharge & I was then left three or four hundred miles from home the discharge which I got from Captain Davis is lost also.
I have no record of my age but from the

best information I have obtained from my parents before I was born in May 1829 in the County of Northumberland & State of Virginia I was living in the County of Guilford & State of North Carolina when I volunteered in the service of my first & second Tours of three months each soon after Peace I moved to South Carolina & married an Saluda where remaining two or three years I moved to East Tennessee where I remained three or four years I then moved to Illinois where I staid five or six years I then returned to west Tennessee and after living in various Counties in this State I finally settled in Hickman County where I now live and have been living for some time I hereby relinquish every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity and declare that except the present and desire that my name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state
his Samuel X Latham Mark
Learn to an open Court July 14th 1874
In haste ever, Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states after the investigation of the matter according to the rules of court and of the then regulations.
J. B. Warren (J.P.) Robert Anderson (J.P.) Wm. H. Payne (J.P.)

I Samuel Sebastian Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarters Sessions for Middlesex County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Samuel Latham for a pension.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at office this 14 th day of July A.D. 1834
S Sebastian Clerk By W. S. Sebastian D.C.C.