Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6437, for William Longworth, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va
★ Longworth, William
R 6437
CONTENTS

No 35-210 William Longworth
Act 7. June 1832 North Carolina Rejected
Letter to Hon A. H. Shefford June 29 1841
N. Carolina

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873,
REJECTED
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P. O. William Longworth
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

X William Longworth Act 7 th June 1832 — Declaration for a pension County of Stokes North Carolina No 35210.
Wm Longworth Declaration for a Pension
H. A. H. Shepherd PSE
6437

William Longworth Act 7 th June 1832 - Declaration for a Pension County of Stokes South Carolina No 35210.
M m Longworth, Declaration for a Pension.
6437
H on A. H. Shepherd A. Q.

State of North Carolina } ss County of Stokes }
On this 9 th day of March 1840 personally appeared in open Court before the Court now sitting for the County of Stokes aforesaid William Longworth a Resident of said County & State aforesaid aged Eighty three years the 9 th of May 1839, who being first 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 June 1832, that he entered the Service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein after stated, first he enlisted he thinks in the fall of the year 1775 or 76 (From old age & loss of memory he cannot recollect which year) under a Col o Robert Carter in Richmond County and State of Virginia for a twelve Months Term, and was put under the Command of a Cap t Vincen Jackson, and Marched from said Richmond County Court house they said with eight hundred Regular Soldiers & Militia together, to the forks of Potomack River near the Osguoccon Mills, where we met the British Army said to be eight thousand in number, our Army gave them one fire & retreated in squads every direction almost. But we came together & met at a certain place he does not recollect the name but was aiming to join the main American Army at or near Washington City. But the Enemy prevented us from proceeding that course, when this applicant was taken sick with a fever & sent home to his parents in Richmond County aforesaid after having served seven months in this Service as part of the time of his enlistment, The next Service he turned out a Volunteer under a Cap t Peter Northon or Cap t Harrison he does not remember which in the County of Richmond aforesaid and served as a Minuteman and was marched to and fro up and down the Rappahannock and Potomack Rivers, to guard and prevent depredations being committed by the Enemy, against the citizens living on or near the River, some times under Cap t Harrison & then under Cap t Northon, some times one hundred in company & some times less

Some time, a left Number our Rendezvous place was at Richmond Court house, after our. Some times we would be out on such Scouts a month at a time & return & in a few days be called out again and in the whole of such services at the lowest estimate he served Ten months during the War including the last four when he went under Capt. Norton with about one hundred men intending to join Genl Washington's army at the Siege of Little York but before we got there Cornwallis had surrendered to Genl. Washington and our company returned home all of which services was Seventeen Months for which he thinks he is entitled to draw a pension as well as other soldiers, he thinks his name will be found on the Rolls at the War Department. he has no Documentary evidence in his possession, and that he knows of no person whose Testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service, and the Court having propounded the several Questions prescribed by the Pension Department   1 st he states he was born in Richmond County Virginia the 9 th of May 1756. his parents informed him  2 nd he has no other Record of his age —  3 rd he lived in Richmond County Virginia when called into service. and about thirty years of age removed to North Carolina Wilkes County and from there to Stokes County where he now resides  4 th he first enlisted under Col. Robt. Carter, & next volunteered under Capt. Norton & Capt. Harrison —  5 th The names of the principal officers that my weak memory serves me I have already named 
He hereby relinquishes every Claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State  Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year first above mentioned in Open Court  William his Longworth mark
Sworn to in Open Court  RD Golding Clerk

June Term 12 th June 1841
We Jacob Lammous. Moses Stewart. Lowell Fraser & Thomas Wilson Esq.
Free holders & Citizens of Stokes County aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Longworth who has sworn to and subscribed the above declaration that we believe him to be Eighty three years of age. That he is reputed and believed in the Neighborhood where he resides near Salem Stokes County, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above mentioned in Open Court
Test Reuben D Golding Clerk
Thomas Wilson Jacob Lammous Moses Stewart
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 (there being no belierman con- denient) that Jacob Lammous. Thomas Wilson. Moses Stewart & Lowell Fraser are credible persons and that their statement are entitled to credit
C. J. Baunus Ch. Solomon (J.P.) Wm. Lusk J.P.
I Reuben D Golding Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Stokes County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of William Longworth for a pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of my office and subscribed my name this 14 th day of June - A.D. 1841
Reuben D Golding Clerk