Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8870, for Joseph Lumpkin, Virginia

SERVICE
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Lumpkin, Joseph
S 8870
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed 7 th June 1832. -
State of North Carolina } Court of Pleas & Quarter Granville County } Sessions - August Term 1832.
On this 10 th day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open court, before William M. Child, Thomas B. Littlejohn and Benjamin Bullock the court now sitting Joseph Lumpkin a resident of the county and State aforesaid made  oath aged twenty four years on the 19 th September 1832, 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 7 th June 1832
That he entered in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War as now herein set forth -
This affiant cannot distinctly recollect the day, month, or year in which he commenced his service; but thinks it was in the month of May A.D. 1777 - He was born in the County of Essex, but removed in his infancy to the County of King & Queen in the State of Virginia, where he resided during the whole period of his service. His first tour was under his Uncle Henry Lumpkin as Captain - The other company officers he cannot recollect nor does he remember the names of any of the field officers in this tour - His term of service was forty days, and he marched to Williamsburg and Little York, about which places

he was kept on duty - This as well as most of his other tours of duty was neither by draft nor enlistment nor as a broken team, but the Colonel of King and Queen William Lyne detached so many from each company in his regiment, and as the length of service was for the period of forty days the Militia were frequently called upon and when the term of one detachment was about to expire, another was sent off and the first returned home - I never received a written discharge at the expiration of any tour of duty - This tour of forty days was performed, I discharged & returned home -
40 Same thing happened after this time. I was again sent on a like tour of forty days duty; and as I performed our tour as a substitute for my father Anthony Lumpkin I think this was the one; but my memory does not serve to state with confidence. My Captain was John Pollard; the other company officers I do not recollect - We were commanded by Col. Thomas Nelson - This tour of forty days was performed and I discharged as stated in regard to my first tour -
I am unable to recollect how long a time intervened between the different terms of service, but I was required to perform a third term of service of forty days again under Capt. John Pollard, and Col. Thomas Nelson had the command of the whole detachment - Upon the expiration of my time, I was discharged and went home -

In the same manner I was required and did perform three other tours of forty days duty under Captain Pollard and always commanded by Col. Thomas Nelson - In one of them Capt. Pollard returned home and Capt. Philip Randle took his place - In all these tours of Duty the scene of duty was at Williamsburg and York town and the country round about. I was in no engagement or battle, but was often dispatched to defeat driving the enemy in the many & constant incursions made upon the country by them in this part of the State, but was never able to reach the place of Invasion before the Enemy had retired or had been forced to embark on board their vessels - In one of these tours of duty the relief did not arrive in time and Col. Nelson retained our Company on duty ten days after our time had expired making fifty instead of forty days service.
In the seventh and last Tour of duty I entered on the service as a Substitute for William Edmondson of Caroline County & State of Virginia; in the Country I joined the army in Hanover some time in the month of June before the capture of Cornwallis at York - I do not recollect who was our Company officers, but Thomas Matthews was our Colonel - We marched from Hanover toward York town and were on duty about that town, for some time and thereabouts until the last of June or first of July & my term of service

having expired I was discharged and returned home - I cannot recollect the number of days I served in this tour; but Colonel Johnson whose subordinate I was, had only marched from Carolina to Hanover an adjoining country; I then took his place and completed his term of service - I am confident I served as much (probably more than) twenty days -
The time of service in which I performed duty was for work done in the Military Store Department at Prince Edward Court House in Virginia as evidenced by the Enclosed Certificate of Nathaniel Irish Commissary of Military Stores - I was to have received three fourths of a Dollar pr. day but have never received a Cent for it -
He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a Pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any State or Territory -
Subscribed and sworn to the date first above written.
Personally
Joseph Lumpkin
John Wood and Andrew Samuel both residents of Granville County make Oath viz. The said John Wood Testifies and declares that he served with Joseph Lumpkin in the first tour of duty as set forth in the foregoing declaration; and he knows that well knows that said Lumpkin performed sundry other tours of service, but is unable to state any particular one - He lived in the same County & household in the same company with said Lumpkin in King George State of Virginia of Virginia and that said Lumpkin was repeatedly on duty in the Army -

And the said Andrew Samuel makes Oath that he was a near Neighbour to Joseph Lumpkin in King & Queen County and State of Virginia before & during the Revolutionary War, that he went to School with him, lived in the same County, & mustered in the ordinary Militia in the same Company - That he knows that he performed three of the Terms of duty as stated in the foregoing declaration viz. that under Captains Lumpkin, Pendleton or some other - This affiant belonged to the Continental Establishment & therefore was not on duty with the said Lumpkin - But he this affiant was often at his father's house and there learned that said Lumpkin was frequently on duty in the Army - And both John Wood & Andrew Samuel declare that they have perfect knowledge of the Service of said Lumpkin as stated by them and they are perfectly well assured that his statement is just & true subscribed & sworn to 10 th Aug. 1832 in Court John Wood Andrew Samuel
And the said Court doth hereby declare their opinion that Joseph Lumpkin the affiant in the foregoing declaration after the investigation of the matter, that

the said Lumpkin was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states -
We further certify that John Wood and Andrew Samuel who have subscribed the affidavit following said declaration and sworn to the same are each men of respectable character & credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit
Witness our hands & seals 10 th August 1832. -
W. B. Durd J. B. Bullock M c L. Littlejohn W. B. Member Jp. 3 of the Court Jp. 3
W. Stephen H. Sneed Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarters Sessions for the County of Granville and State of North Carolina, Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of application of Joseph Lumpkin for a pension. -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office This the 10 th Day of August A.D. 1832.
State of North Carolina Granville County
W. Stephen H. Sneed Clerk
Joseph Lumpkin came before me W. B. Durd a Justice of the Peace for said County & then who being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says as follows: vizt. That in making out and drawing up the foregoing declaration for a Pension, he omitted to have inserted therein the following fact in relation to his last Tour of Duty vizt. That he enlisted for a term of six months service in the Military Store Department, from the County of King & Queen and State of Virginia; that in the discharge

of this duty he served two months of his time in the City of Richmond and three months at Prince Edward Court House, that is within about a mile of Thaxton - That he was discharged after serving five months as evidenced by the enclosed Certificate of Nathaniel Dick the Commandant of the detachment on this duty dated 18 th May 1781
The duty that was required of this detachment was principally to make and fill cartridges and cartridge boxes but the latter of which I was chiefly employed - A part of my pay had been previously paid, but the amt. stated in said Certificate was what remained due on my discharge on that day -
At The close of the Revolutionary war this officer returned to his residence in King & Queen, from which early in the reign of King William where he lived nine years; thence he removed to & lived in the County of Essex one year - From Essex he removed to Georgia where he lived eight years; at the expiration of which time he removed from Virginia and settled in Granville County, North Carolina where he has continued to live ever since -
He has a Register of his age - now in the family Register, and took his own age from his father's family Register
He never received any other discharge than that now sent -
He is unable to prove his service by any other other witness than those that have testified in his behalf -
He expects to be able to obtain the Certificate of Mr. Amos Lee and of the Rev. James King, the Pastor of the Church to which he belongs as required by the Instructions of the War Department - subscribed as soon as this 8 th day of March 1833. before me

William Amis Sen. resident of Granville County Certifies that he has known Joseph Lumpkin the Declarant in the foregoing declaration for about thirty years, that he thinks he is more than twenty years of age, that he is respected and beloved, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that he concurs in that opinion. Subscribed & sworn to this 2 nd day of March 1833. Wm Amis Sen
Joseph Lumpkin
State of North Carolina } The said James King, native of Granville County } Granville County, do hereby certify that he is the person who has been known to the Declarant for about thirty years, that he believes him to be more than twenty years of age, that he is respected and beloved in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolu- tion, and that he concurs in that opinion. He further states that he believes the said Lumpkin is a minister of the Gospel in good standing. Given under my hand this 22 nd day of December 1833. Subscribed & sworn to before Me Thos B Barnett
James King
State of North Carolina } Granville County - } I, James M Wiggins, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid, hereby certify, that James King whose signature appears to the foregoing affidavit is a minis- ter of the Gospel in good standing; and that Thomas B. Barnett Esquire whose signature appears above is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Granville and that due faith and credit should be given to his official acts as such - Given under my hand & seal of office at office in Oxford the 20 th day of January AD 1837 - James M Wiggins CLERK
State of North Carolina

Granville and that due faith and credit should be given to his official acts as such -
Given under my hand & seal of office at office in Oxford the 20 th day of January A.D. 1837 -
James M. Wiggins CLK
State of North Carolina Granville County
I Thomas B. Littlejohn, Chairman of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that James M. Wiggins, whose signature is affixed to the foregoing, annexed, certificate, is now, and was at the time of signing the same, the Clerk of the said Court, and that his said attestation is in due form of Law. — Given under my hand & private Seal, (there being no Official Seal) at Oxford the 2 nd day of January A.D. 1836.
Thos. B. Littlejohn (not Sealed)

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Joseph Lumpkin 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. S. file 8870
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     May 1777 40 days Pvt. Henry Lumpkin William Lyne Va.   * Sept 1777 110 " John Pollard Thomas Nelson   ✓ 170 " John Pollard Philip Pendleton Thomas Nelson   to May 30, 1781 5 mos. under Nathaniel Greene in Military Stores Dept.   June 1781 20 days ✓ Col. Thomas Matthews  
Battles engaged in, none. Residence of soldier at enlistment, King & Queen Co. Va. Date of application for pension, Aug. 10, 1832. Allenton. Residence at date of application, Granville Co., N.C. Age at date of application, Sept 19, 1758. Farmville Va. Remarks: He was in a unit of Virginia Continental Line under Gen. Greene.

J.H.M.11 Sept. 5, 1916. Rev. Sec.
Dear Sir:
Please send me
Revolutionary record of Joseph Lumpkin of Granville Co. North Carolina.
Mrs. S. P. Tilt
1339 Peachtree Street. Atlanta, Ga.

WILLIAM L. PEEL, PRESIDENT. ROBT. F. MADDOX, VICE PRESIDENT.
THOS. J. PEEPLES, CASHIER.
JAS. P. WINDSOR, ASST. CASHIER. JAS. F. ALEXANDER, ASST. CASHIER.
THE AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK OF ATLANTA.
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $ 1,000,000.
ATLANTA, GA.
Person and record of Joseph Lumpkin of N.C. who was a Georgian N.C. None on Agency book 1818-1832. Mrs W L Peel 469 Peachtree St.

1911 July 18. Hist. to Mrs. W. L. Pul- 1916 Sept. 20 " " " S. O. Tilt & C
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File No. 8870
Joseph Lumpkin David Rev. Ward
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:—Vol. 122 , Page 230
[Arrangement of 1870.]

31,223 North Carolina
Joseph Lumpkin of Granville in the State of N. Carolina who was a private in the comp y commanded by Captain H. Lumpkin of the regim t commanded by Col. Nelson in the militia line of Virginia for 6 mo s 20 days.
Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 22 Dollars 22 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 rd day of October 1837 and sent to M. E. Royster, Young's Cross Roads, Granville Co. N. Carolina. arrears to the 14th of Sept r 1837. $144.30 Pemi ant. allowance ending 4 Mar 1838 11.10 $155.40
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. M c Curdy Clerk, Book 2. Vol. 6 1 / 2 Page 64.

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Debt
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Prince Edw. G. house May 30. 1788
I do certify that there is due to Joseph Lumpkin for working in the Mil. St. Dept the sum of Thirteen hundred & ten Dollars which will pay him to this day Induive
Nat. Irish Comm. Mil. Stores

Adm 2 bond 20 days period St. Martin $ 22.25 per ann
Mr. M c D Royster Youngs Wood Granville Co N.C.

Personally before me M c Royston a Justice of the Peace of the County of Granville North Carolina Joseph Lumpkin 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 thirteen years in the manner set forth in his declaration in grade of a common Soldier and for such he Claims his service This 20 Sept 1837 - M c Royston JP
State of North Carolina
Granville County - 3 J. James McWiggins, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County and State aforesaid, hereby Certify, that Marcus McRoyston, Esquire, whose signature appears to the for- going Certificate, is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Granville, and that due faith and credit are due to his official acts as such.
Given under my hand and seal of office, at office in Oxford, the 25 th day of September, A.D. 1837.
Jas. McWiggins. Clerk