Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 5916, for John Killion, North Carolina

SERVICE
NUMBER
176
Hillion, John
R 5916
CONTENTS

The State of Indiana Orange County Set on this 11 th day of February one Thousand Eight hundred and thirty five personally ap- pears in open Court before the Hon- orable Thomas Van Arsdale Judge of the probate Court for the County of Orange in the State aforesaid John Killeen aged seventy five years in the month of June next who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the bene- -fit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 deponent states he entered the service of the United States as a private in the latter end of February in the year 1780 in consequence of a draft or call made by the governor of North Carolina the deponent being drafted he entered the service aforesaid under the following officers and served as hereinafter stated. That is to say he was drafted in the County of Lincoln in the said State of North Carolina and took up the line of March under the command of Captain John Hunsberger. That he marched from the County of Lincoln in the said State of North Carolina to the Town of Salisbury in the said State of North Carolina where he and the company to which he belonged was rendezvoused. Having remained a short time at Salisbury until other troops came in and formed a junction he was then in the early part of the month of March in the aforesaid year of 1780 marched from the said Town of Salisbury to the Town of Wilmington under the command of one General Charles M c Dowell of the militia having arrived at the Town of Wilmington there were a body of British troops encamped near said Town. being now in the same company in which he was first drafted and under the command of the said General Charles M c Dowell he was then marched in direction to where the enemy was encamp- ed - the line of Battle being formed by the Americ- cans who were militia under the command of the said General Charles M c Dowell - a sharp skirmish ensued between the said militia commanded as aforesaid and the enemy the British troops

The Skirmish having continued a short time the enemy related took to their Boats and went off while the militia held the ground. deponent was engaged in said Skirmish - deponent further states that the Virginia Troops to which he belonged had their headquarters near the Town of Wilmington that after the Skirmish at Wilmington he deponent was continued in the service of the United States for the term of six months and upwards and that whilst in the service aforesaid after the Skirmish near Wilmington as aforesaid he was engaged throughout the settlement in reconnoitering and watching the movement of the forces and others who were then hostile and disaffected to the glorious Cause of the Revolution and that in the month of September in the year 1781 (the day of the month not recollected) he received a written discharge under the hand of General Charles McDonell for six months service from the time he was ready engaged at Salisbury up to the date of said discharge which said discharge was destroyed by fire in the State of Tennessee the deponent's House having taken fire which consumed all his property therein contained This deponent states that he was born in the County of Lincoln in the State of North Carolina in the month of June in the Year 1759 according to the record of his father's Bible kept in the German language to which deponent had reference many years ago. The day of the month in which he was born is not recollected. The aforesaid Bible having been burned with his other property the deponent states that in the year 1820 he migrated from the County of Lincoln in the State of North Carolina to the County of Warren in the State of Tennessee where he resided eight years and in the year 1828 he removed from the said County of Warren in the State of Tennessee to the County of Orange in the State of Indiana where he has resided

For since upon oath states that he knows of no person living by whom he can prove his services - that the men in the company to which he belonged are either dead or have removed to parts to him unknown as also the men belonging to the same General command. he is known in the neighborhood where he resides by Alexander Morris Zachariah Smalley and Nathan Pritchett who testify bear testimony of the fairness of his character and their belief that he served as a soldier in the revolutionary war as here in stated. he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state -
Subscribed and sworn to in open court on this 11 th day of Feb ruary 1835 Thos M c Evilley
John Killian
State of Indiana Orange County Set
The Renssey Brack clergyman in the county of orange residing and I James Morris a citizen resident in the same county upon the oath in open court do certify that we are well acquainted with John Killian who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seven ty six years of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion sworn to and subscribed this 11 th day of February 1835
Briss De Witt James Morris

State of Indiana
Orange County ss
In the Probate Court of Orange County
Be it remembered that on the
Eleventh day of February One Thousand Eight hundred and thirty five personally appeared in open Court the aforesaid John Killian who made oath that the matters and things contained and set forth in the foregoing declaration are true in substance and in fact as he verily believes and the said court doth hereby declare its opinion that the afore named John Killian was a private lieutenant on a soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to him that Kinsey Teatch who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Orange that James Morris who has also signed the same is a citizen resident in the same County is a credible person (both of whom being duly sworn) and that their statements are entitled to credit.
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Witness D. M. Vey Clerk of said Court and the seal thereof at Pook the 11 th day of Feb y 1835 D. M. Vey Clerk

State of Indiana - Orange County
on the 11 day of Nov 1833 personally appeared John Brant, before the Court of Probate Now sitting John Brant a resident in the County of Orange in the State of Indiana aged nearly 70 years who being first duly sworn according to law, with me his oath to wit the following and then and there in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832 that he entered the service of the United States in 1780 as a private under the command of Captain John Brantberger that he was called into the service of the United States in consequence of a draft by the said Government being drafted by order of a call made on the militia by the Govt of North Caro- lina applicant was living when called to service in Lincoln County in the State of North Carolina that same the Revolution was on the side of the North Carolina until the year 1870 from which time he remained in North Carolina where he remained eight years that from 1780 to 1788 he was in the County of Lincoln in the State of North Carolina and in the applicant's service after the end of the war of 1780 he was in the command of Captain John Brantberger at Pensylvania Court House in the State of North Carolina at a place from thence to the town of Salisbury in the said State where applicant then was encamped and remained to the command of General Charles McDowell of the militia from Salisbury applicant was then called in the company of said Captain (and which was attached to the command of the said General Mc- Dowell to the town of Fayetteville in the said State of North Carolina that whilst at Fayetteville he was engaged in reconnaissance that neighborhood and watching the movements of the Scotch Tories who were residents in that part of the country and who were very extremely troublesome he remained in Fayetteville and in the neighborhood thereof and with the performance the various duties of a soldier

that whilst at Fayetteville the army to which he belonged was attached to and formed formed a junction with and army commanded by Genl. William Rutherford that applicant was marched from Fayetteville under the command of the said Generals Rutherford and Col. Brawley to the Town of Wilmington in the said State of North Carolina that when he reached Wilmington the enemy were in the act of retreating and moving off in their boats and other vessels after the army to which he belonged formed the line of Battle and fired upon the enemy but without any serious effect - and that the enemy having evacuated Wilmington and the adjacent neighborhood applicant was then turned in service and was retained as guard as occasion required that he served as guard in two towns that he was engaged in scouting parties was in the trenches and was frequently ordered from point to point in the neighborhood of Wilmington in order to make discovery of the movements of the enemy that applicant has only served seven months in Wilmington and its neighborhood when he received a written dis- charge from the aforesaid Generals John Brawley on being for the term of three months served and that despite after he received his discharge at Wilmington he returned to his native home in the State of North Carolina where applicant resided in Sifton says the distance being three hundred miles. applicant states that several years after the revolutionary war his native house was de- stroyed by fire. applicant states that his father and many articles thereon contained were either vapor- ed or consumed - applicant was born in Lincoln County in the State of North Carolina in the Year 1758 - that he has no record of his age but he alludes his frequent references to a family bible kept by his father in which the

age of the applicant was noted down, and the said Bill transferred into other hands, or was lost many years ago - - applicant can not positively state what has become of the Bill - that, applicant states whilst and during the revolution of some Bills lost to an orphanage of his brother's from one place to it on paper - which bill is dated in the 20 th day of June 1758 - applicant states that he is informed in the last  last  hand  hand where he resides by John who has  has  lost  lost as to his own Mary and Henry McCand for the  the  benefit  benefit of his services as a soldier of the Revolution and their benefit  benefit of his ser- vices as stated. So truly  truly  the  the  benefit  benefit every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not upon the pension roll of any agency in any state Second to and subscribed to the 11 th Nov 1833 John Ferriss McHenry Co Ill
State of Illinois County of McHenry ss I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in my office and of the whole thereof given under my hand and the seal of said office this 11 th day of November 1833
We the undersigned in the County of Orange in the State of Indiana and Joel Vandiver a Clerk residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Ferriss who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be twenty five years of age that he is useful and beloved in the neighbor- hood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion Second and subscribed to the 11 th Nov 1833 Joel Vandiver McHenry Co Ill

And the said Comt do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, And the Comt further certify that it appears to them that Kinsey Vauts who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergymen resident in the county of Orange and that Joel Vandiver who has signed the same is a resident in the county of Orange and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I M c vey Clerk of the Comt of Orange County certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Comt in the matter of the application of John Kelham for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 11 th day of Nov r 1833. J. M c vey CLK

Paoli Ia Mar 31
Free
Secretary of War
Washington City
9th Regt Inf
Mail
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3 Reg 20 John Killian Indiana
April 1. 1935. Pension office

Rejected; see letter 13 April 1835 to J. McKey. Pauli.
did not seem six months
✓916

No 28.600
Pat. No. 12345 John Killgane Orange Co. 5 Indiana
Rejected. served only three months. See letter Dec. 33 John Harvey Esq. Orange County.
Charles Stratford Department Indian Office Washington City D. C.
Dec 33

5916 - R
3-068.
(Old No. 3-649.)
6-20
Bureau of Pensions.
John Williams
May 11, 1853 75 (Nov 20, 1820) Orange Co. Ind (Pine Creek Twp)
May 80 (1833) John C. ...
Capt John Williams
born ...
Feb 3 ...
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
June 6, 1905 - visit to Mrs. Ino. K. Benare Atlanta Ill.
5916.
P. O.
John William
Service:
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Atlanta, Illinois.
May 20, 1905.
Hon. Vespasian Warner.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear sir;—
Some of the descendants of John Killian (or Killiam) desire to become members of the Daughters of the American Revolution; others desire to become "Sons". They know that their ancestor fought in the War of the Revolution; that he at one time lived in Mayville, Kentucky; - that his daughter Mary was born in 1785.
If his name appears upon your records will you kindly send me a certificate of that fact:- and also, if you have the dates of his birth or death, the name of his wife, the date of her death, or any other data or facts respecting her or her daughter Mary, will you kindly send them - also certified officially.
I will cheerfully pay any expense incurred in granting my request.
I remain
Yours Respectfully,
Armada S. Bevan.
(Mrs John S. Bevan.)