Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21,383, for John Morgan, North Carolina

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.C.
Morgan, John
S. 21,383
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CONTENTS

2 West Tennessee
John Morgan
of Warren Co. in the State of Tennessee who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Phillips of the Reg't. commanded by Col. Armstrong in the N. Carolina line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of W. Tennessee at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per ann. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th day of Jan 1835 and sent to Hon. J. P. Forrester H.R.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '34. 280.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending March '35. 40.00 Died Jan 8, 1835 $320.00
{ Revolutionary Elain, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by D. Brown
Cler
Book E. - 2 Vol. 7
Page 97

Declaration in order to attain the Benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
State of Tennessee ) April Term of the Warren County ) Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions A.D. 1834
On this 8 th day of April personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Wm. Melgregor James. Smith, Philip H. Hunsucker the Court of said County, now sitting, John Morgan a Resident of the Barren Fork of Collins River in the County & State aforesaid aged Eighty years, the 24 th day of June next, who being first duly sworn ac- cording to Law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to attain the ben- efit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
That he entered the service of the Uni- ted States under the following named Officers & served as herein stated. That is to say In the month of January, 1776, he enlisted under one Whilfield Wilson (a Recruiting Officer) in Surry County in South Carolina, for the term of two years. Declarant served in Surry County & Camden at that time. After the Recruiting officer had recruited about 60 soldiers, we were marched to new Camden in South Carolina where we joined Col. Armstrong's Regiment. The Officers of that Regiment, under whom Declarant served, were Genl. Rutherford Armstrong Col, ————— Brown Adjutant Major ————— Micajah Lewis 1 st Lieutenant of the company to which Decla- rant belonged & Joseph Phillips, was his Com- -pany. Shortly after he joined Col. Armstrong's Regi- -ment, his company commanded by Capt. Phillips together with several other companies, were ordered to march down to Charleston, which order was executed. At Monk's Corner, which is

about 10 or 12 miles from Charleston, between the latter City & Camden they had an engagement with the Tories without serious damage to either town. we were stationed about 8 or 9 weeks. For Charleston we marched to Georgetown where we were stationed (says) 3 weeks. Thence we marched to Wilmington in North Carolina where we were stationed about 5 weeks. From Wilming- ton we marched to Cape Creek in NC where where we had a 2nd engagement with the Tories - took about 50 or 60 of their Prisoners & guarded them & marched them to Hillsborough in Orange County in NC where they were taken from us by another guard of the same Regiment. Declarant saw no more of them. From Hillsborough Declarant's Company marched to Salisbury in NC where we all got together began liking the different Companies of the Regiment The whole Regiment marched thence to Furry Court House where we were all discharged. My Discharge was signed by Col W. H. H. H. I have unintentionally lost a midline it is that after subsequent reach it has not been found After this discharge Declarant went back to where his Father then lived in Shenandoah County Virginia. This was in 1779. Declarant remained at his Father's home about 10 or 12 months about the expiration of which time Col Tipton who was a Major Col & Col Campbell: persuaded Declarant to enlist as a State Soldier, with a Brother of his (Declarant's) who had enlisted during the war. Declarant agreed & did enlist for the term of 2 years more. This was done at Millersburg now called Woodstock as Declarant has heard. At all events it was at the Court House of Shenandoah County. He was put under Captain Simon Morgan. Col G. - in W. H. H. H. was his Col & Genl Genl Stew- -son his Genl. From Woodstock we were marched down to Charlesfield, Bonners, between Petersburg & Richmond. Thence we marched into

Amelia County where we joined Genl. Maynards Regiment. After joining this Regiment we all went in pursuit up the British, to Richmond Virginia & from there to Old Jamestown Little York to Williamsburg & thence to York, Town where they had fortified themselves & where we over- took them & had the honor to be numbered in the engagement in which Cornwallis was captured & which put an end to a glorious war. Declarant after the battle & surrender was discharged. His discharge was signed by Col - Thomas Lamb. & dated 6th day of March.
in the year 1781 About 8 or 9 years ago. Declarant handed that Discharge to Dct. Wm Lawrence now of Nashville who was to apply for his Pension. It has been mislaid by said Lawrence so that Declarant can not get it. Pleasant Henderson who is now the Clerk of the Cir- -cuit Court for said County up of Mason & many others in this County have seen said Discharge & could prove any thing in relation to it if required.
Declarant therefore has no Documentary evidence Nor does he know of any person in this State whose testimony he could conveniently procure to establish his Service. Col Benjamin Lipton who resides on French Branch in East Tennessee can establish Declarants Service as above stated. But since his testimony can not be procured without trouble & expense & lying as he does a considerable distance off, neither of which he is able to bear.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or bounty, except the present & declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid William Edmondson lth John H. Morgan mark

The following interrogatories were propounded to the Deceased John Morgan by the Comt. of the said & the following answers made thereto by his wife, Mary.
1. Q. Where & in what year were you born?
Ans. I was born in Pulaski Co. Ky. on 26 th June 1954.
2. Q. Have you any Record of your age & if so where is it?
Ans. I have a Record in a little Book in my Father's hand writing. I have it at my house on the Barren Fork.
3. Q. Where were you living when called into service. Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War & where do you now live?
Ans. I was living in Henry County at the time when I first enlisted & when I enlisted the 2 nd time I lived in Shenandoah County Virginia. Shortly after we took Wallace I settled in Montgomery County Virginia where I lived 30 years. From there I moved to the Barren Fork of Cullin River in Warren County Tennessee where I have lived since.
4. Q. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you substituted & if substituted for whom?
Ans. I enlisted as a Volunteer as above mentioned in the Declaration.
5. Q. State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the Troops where you served - such Continental & Militia Regiments as you can recollect & the general Circumstances of your Service.
Ans. I recollect Genl. Wayne, Genl. St. Clair, Col. Phebe, Col. Gustin, Col. Gustin, Col. Morgan (Daniel), Capt. Fields, Capt. Lively, I saw Genl. Washington at Little York & Genl. Lafayette & others too numerous to name all of them. At the Regiment.

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John Jew  Mengus . Declaration to pro- -cure a Pension under the act of 7th June. 1832. admitted by Mr Edmsts.
for 1789 for 2 yrs 1789/80
on Va Roll see also N Hill cost
E E
24. Dec.
Hon. L. B. Foster

I. recollect. Col. Tipton's Regiment (Militia) Col. Hellers Regiment. Col. Mathews Col. Rutherford's Regiment - Col. Clane- -lans Regiment. Col. Lenoir's Regiment The genl. circumstances of my service is detailed particularly in my Declaration with this addition, that I was in the service appx. on about 3 years.
Q. 6. Did you ever receive a Discharge from the service? & if so, by whom was it given & what has become of it?
Ans. I recd a Discharge on the expiration of my first term of Enlistment, signed by Col. Edm- -dson, & at Little Fork, signed by one Nathaniel Lamb. Both have been de- stroyed or lost as particularly mentioned above in my Declaration.
7 Q. State the names of the Persons to whom you are known in your present Neighborhood, who can testify as to your Character for veracity and their belief of your services as a Soldier up the Revolution.
Ans. George Spangler, Daniel Spangler, William Young, Esq. Daniel Young, Esq. Samuel Hester & others.
We, Archibald Prater a Clergyman & James Esper - both residents of Warren County in the State of Tennessee hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Mungard who has subscribed & sworn to the above Dec- -laration. - That we believe him to be Eighty years old the 24th day of June next as he says in his Declaration. That he is respected & belie- -ved in the Neighborhood, where he resi- -des, to have been a Soldier of the Revolu- -tion & that we concur in that opinion. In witness to & subscribing the day & year aforesaid Archibald Prater. James E. Hasty • William Edmondson letter

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolu- -tionary soldier & served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that the individual who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Champlin Resident in Warren County & that Conrad  Updegraff who has also signed the same is a Resident of Warren County & is a cred- -ible person & that their statement is ent- -itled to credit
Wm M c Gregor Seal
Frank M c Gregor Seal
Philip Woodbury Seal
I William Edmundson Clerk of the Court of Pensions & Quota Leaps for Warren County in the State of Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the ori- -ginal proceedings in the matter of the application of John Morgan for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed my private there being no public seal of office This day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty four.
William Edmundson (S S)

I certify that Warren is the clerk of the circuit county court of Warren county Tenn and that his signature in this record is genuine & free & 22 1834
John B. Forster M. C.

December 7, 1932
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BA-J/REL
Samuel Marion-S. 4180
John Morgan -S.21383
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Mr. A.B Moore 21 East Cherry Street Chattanooga, Tennessee
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Samuel Marion and John Morgan, Revolutionary War pensioners. Their histories follow:
The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.4180, based upon the military service of Samuel Marion in that war.
Samuel Marion was born in January, 1750, in Goochland County, Virginia.
While residing in Goochland County, Virginia, he enlisted in 1776, served as a private under Captains Nathaniel Morris and Coleman Rice, Colonels John Mason, Taylor and Nathaniel Dandridge in the Virginia Troops, was at the surrender of Burgoyne, after which he guarded the prisoners to Albemarle Barracks; and was later at the siege of Yorktown and surrender of Cornwallis; length of service five years.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 27, 1834, at which time he was a resident of Lee County, Virginia. The application was made in Hawkins County, Tennessee.
It was not stated that soldier was ever married.
A sister of the soldier is referred to; her name was not given and there are no further data as to his family.
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The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 21383, based upon the military service of John Morgan in that war.
John Morgan was born June 24, 1754, in Culpeper County, Virginia.
While residing in Surry County, North Carolina, he volunteered in January, 1776, served in Captain Joseph Phillips' Company, Colonel Armstrong's North Carolina Regiment and was in an engagement with the Tories at Monk's Corner, South Carolina, and in another engagement at Cross Creek, North Carolina, length of service, two years; after his discharge, he went to his father's home in Shenandoah County, Virginia (name of his father not given), where he remained for ten or twelve months, then volunteered at Millerstown (later Woodstock), Shenandoah County, Virginia, served in Captain Simon Morgan's Company under Colonel Gascon or Gaston, was at the siege of Yorktown and surrender of Cornwallis and was discharged November 6, 1781, by Captain Nathaniel Lamb.
Could not find a Gascon or Gaston.
After the Revolution, he lived for thirty years in Montgomery County, Virginia, then moved to Barren Fork, Collins River, Warren County, Tennessee.
Pension was allowed on his application executed April 8, 1834, while residing in Warren County, Tennessee.
AB He died January 8, 1835.
There are no data as to wife and children.
The above is the history of the only soldier named John Morgan who was placed on the pension roll subsequent to 1834, while residing in the state of Tennessee.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.

John Morgan Tennessee
W. Hills certificate
W. Hills certf
H. J. B. Norton RR

State of North Carolina Secretary of State's Office 20th Decr. 1834.
Sir
I have examined carefully the documents in this office affording evidence of revolutionary services. for the name of John Morgan but do not find it to correspond with his declaration. I find the name of John Morgan a private in Capt. White's Company of the 6 th Regiment enlisted 26 th Ap l '76, for 3 years, discharged 10 th May '79, but I do not find that a soldier by that name enlisted for two years, yet I think it probable that he served as then having understood the names of many soldiers who served in the Southern Army in the early part of the war does not appear on the muster-rolls. Joseph Phillips was a capt. in the 4 th Regiment in 1776, and James Armstrong commanded the 8 th Regiment.
Very Respectfully
Your Ob t Serv t W. H. H.
Genl. L. Edwards Engr.

O. W. AND N. DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
May 8, 1907
Searched by Yill
Original No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant, went to Tenn in 1789.
Capt. John Morgan Soldier,
Service, Appl'd from Tenn Rev. War
Remarks: _____
No claim as above except Inv. 21,383
Chief of Division.

Revolution
21383
INVALID.
File No. 21,383
John Morgan
PR: Rev War
Act: June 7 th 89 th
Index: — Vol. 2 , Page 281
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1907 May 17. Heist to Mrs. Wm. P. Waggener. Ad. Aleutian Pass. 1932 Dec 7. Heist. to Mr. B. Moore Letter in case Samuel Marion, L. 4180 - Etal

See letter Dec. 16 1836 to Hon. J. B. Truesdell L. W. N. de
Hon. J. B. Truesdell H. R. Grafton Dec. 14
rec. Dec 14
This stamp is not changed since 1836. P. [unclear] [unclear] [unclear] P. [unclear] [unclear] [unclear]

This. day to wit 3rd day of January AD 1864. personally appeared before me an acting Justice of the Peace for the County of Warren in the State of Tennessee. Pleasant Henson - son of said County whom I do hereby certify to be a man of credible reports & honest character who after being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God, took an Oath to make to tell such matters as he had been interrogated touching the things contained in the application of John Morgan of Warren County to the War Department of the United States for a Pension under the Act of Congress of June 1832 concerning L. Luyett.
Question 1st State whether you are acquainted with John Morgan the Defendant in the Declaration for a Pension now before you? Ans: Saw
Question 2. Did you ever see said Morgan Discharge from the Service in the Rebel - Army? If so state the circumstances - which led to your knowledge of that Discharge & what has become

up the same?
Ans: In the year 1821 John Morgan produced to the Circuit Court of Warren County Tennessee his application for a pension which was allowed by the Court and ordered to be entered upon the minutes of said Court and Certified to the War Department of which Court I was then and am now Clerk. I refused to perform the above service, because that William P Lawrence who was employed by John Morgan to procure his pension failed and utterly refused to pay me the legal fees for rendering said services. When John Morgan made the application to the Circuit Court of Warren County, he produced his discharge signed by Nathaniel Lamb. In collect this the more distinctly, because in copying the discharge in the application, the Cofegat spell. Nathaniel Lamb. Nathaniel Lamb and in comparing the copy with the original before the Court. I made the correction in spelling. The original discharge I have never been seen. The following is a true copy of the original, inserted in the application to wit
The bearer John Morgan soldier in the Virg a Troops having nearly served the time for which he was enlisted He is hereby discharged from the service. Nath Lamb Capt Comdg
York Nov 6 th 1781
And further this deponent saith not Pharant Henderson State of Tennessee } Warren County } J. George Mr. Lemel and

Acting Justice of the Peace for the County of Warren in said State do hereby certify that the within Depo- -sition of Pleasant Henderson was this day taken by me in and for said State the body of the Defendant being in the presence and vicinity of said Pleasant Henderson In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this day & year above written
G. M. Jones Clerk
I certify G. M. Jones was an acting justice of the peace at the date of the above certifi- cate and I am well acquainted with witness who is clerk of the circuit court of Warren county and his statement are entitled to full credit Dec 12th 1834
John B. Forest A. G.