Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8505, for Micajah Pruett, Virginia

SERVICE
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Pruett, Micajah
R 8505
CONTENTS

35.012
Micajah Pruett Tenn.
Act 7 June 32
Thos N Frazier Pikeville Tenn.

8505

Declaration in Order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
State of Tennessee Bledsoe County } Be it remembered that on this first Monday and 4 th day of May 1840 personally appeared in Open court before the Worshipful Justices of the County Court of Bledsoe now sitting at the Courthouse in the town of Piker's Mill Mikajah Pruett, a resident Citizen of the County of Bledsoe and State of Tennessee aged about Seventy Three years and ten Months, 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 June 7 th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers And served as hereinafter stated to wit -
That he was draughted by regular authority from the State of Virginia, and entered the service of the United States about the first of February 1788, in the County of Bedford and State of Virginia, and that he entered said service as a private soldier in a company of Militia Commanded by Captain Thomas M c Reynolds, in the Battalion Commanded by Major James DeCloman, and in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel James M c Newethers. That he was ordered, and immediately marched from the County of Bedford under the officers aforesaid to Petersburg in Virginia, and from thence to a place called Cabin Time, and from there to a place called Moccasin Hills, where he was Stationed for the space of six or eight weeks -

From Mappin's hill he was ordered and marched to York Town in the State of Virginia. And from York Town he was ordered home, and discharged On or about the first of June 1788. he having been in the actual service of the United States about the space of four months. That he received a written discharge from his Captain the aforesaid Thomas M c Reynolds That he resided with his mother for some years after he was so discharged, with whom he deposited his said discharge for safe keeping. That his mother kept said discharge in her house untill some years after when her house was burned down, and said written discharge consumed together with said house
Affiant further States that he remained at home after he was so discharged as aforesaid. for about the space of six or eight weeks. And then was draughted again, and entered the service of the United States the second time On or about the fifteenth of July 1788. in the County of Bedford and State of Virginia. And that he served as a private soldier in a company of Militia Commanded by Captain Jeremiah Yearley. in a Battalion commanded by Major James DeCorman and in a Regiment commanded by Colonel James Meneutheus. The Major and Colonel being the same officers under whom he had served the first time
That he was ordered to March and did March from Bedford County in the State of Virginia to Petersburg, and from there to York town And from York to New castle On Pamunkey River, where he remained in Cantonment for the space of three or four weeks. After which he was regularly ordered home, and

discharged, as well as he can at this distance of time recollect, on or about the twentieth of October 1781, having been in the actual service of the United States the last four three Months and five days, as near as he can now recollect That he received a written discharge from his Captain the aforesaid Jeremiah Goarley, which last mentioned discharge was also consumed together with his other one at the burning of his Mothers house in the manner hereinbefore Stated - That he was in the actual service of the United States as before stated two different tours Amounting in all when taken together to the space of at least seven Months as he Vearly believes if not more. And he further hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present And further declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State whatever - Affiant further States that all the documentary evidence which he ever had of his said service was his discharges aforesaid, which have been lost as before stated, and consequently can not be produced now - That he knows of no person now living by whom he can prove the performance of the services herein before specified and for which he claims a pension
Affiant further States, upon interrogatories being put to him by the court, That he was born in the County of Bedford in the State of Virginia in the year of our Lord 1765, but that he does not know on what day, That he has no record of his age, nor ever has seen one, But that his Mother often told him he was born in the year 1765.

That he was living with his Mother in the county of Bedford and State of Virginia as before stated at the time he entered the service of the United States, that he has lived since the termination of his service in the county of Bedford in Virginia - Swann in the State of North Carolina - Union district in South Carolina - Pudele County in the State of North Carolina - Anderson County in the State of Tennessee, and now lives in Bedford County and State of Tennessee. That he was draughted, as before stated. That he is unable to state the name of any of the Regular officers, except one General who was called General DeMarcus and other Militia officers herein before stated. That he received two written discharges from his Captain and were lost as before stated. That he is personally known to James S. Narney and Samuel Cuthbert -
all of whom can testify as to my character for veracity and their belief of my services as a soldier of the revolution. That there is no Clergyman in his neighbourhood with whom he is acquainted or to whom he is in any wise known. Sworn to and subscribed in Open Court
Mr. Kajah his X Smith mark

We James T. Narney and Samuel Cottingham all residing in the county of Bladsoe and State of Tennessee do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Mekasah Pratt who has subscribed and sworn to the annexed declaration that we believe him to be twenty three years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution And that we concur in that opinion Sworn to and subscribed James T. Narney in Open Court Samuel Cottingham
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 that James T. Narney and Samuel Cottingham who have signed the foregoing certificate are creditable persons and that their statements are entitled to credit -
Am Schooffield Chairman of Bladsoe County Daniel H. Cooke. W. Brown Associate Justice

State of Tennessee
Blount County
I James A. Bullock clerk of the county Court of Blount County do hereby certify that the annexed and foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Mekajah Pruitt for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office at Office in Knoxville this 4 th day of May A D 1840.
James A. Bullock (Clerk)

Isaac Pomett
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By the this case I send Mr!
Oct. 1892, in form.
Charles G. Smith

State of Tennessee County of Bledsoe
Be it Known, that on this Third day of March A. D. 185 3 before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Tamsey Harden
resident of the state of Tennessee in said County, and made oath according to law that she is the child of Micajah Pruett who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of 1818
That she is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint SAMUEL M. KNIGHT , of Washington City, my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute the claim of Micajah Pruett for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Department at Washington City or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City, D. C. Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
Tamsey Harden the only child now living
Sworn to, Subscribed, and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said Tamsey Harden to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged.
William Brown Justice of the Peace for Bledsoe County in the State of Tennessee
State of Tennessee County of Bledsoe
It is Hereby Certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Court of Bledsoe County that Tamsey Harden the party who has sworn to, and acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney, is the identical child of Micajah Pruett deceased soldier aforesaid. I further certify, that William Brown Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, was, at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office, this Third day of March 185 3
James S. Patsy
1. Claimant's name or names in full.—2. Post Office address. 3. "That he is the identical man," or, "that she is the widow of the identical man," or, "that he or she is the legal heir of the identical man," &c., &c. 4. Leave this line blank.—5. "He is," "she is," or "they are."—6. Revolutionary soldier's full name.—7. Claimant's signature.—8. Claimant's name.—9. Magistrate's signature. 10. "Identical," "widow of," or, "child of."—11. Magistrate's name.—12. Clerk's signature.
N. B.—Should two or more heirs join in the foregoing, the plural should be substituted for the singular number.

Micajah Pruett
Jer:
Suspended.
Sub. let. to Thos. K. Frazier of June 22 d 1840
act 7 June '32

85 05
P. O. Micajah Pruitt
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Pikeville Tennessee May 7 th 1840 Mr. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Enclosed you will please receive a declaration and annexed certificates, in order to obtain for the benefit of the declarant therein Mikajah Pratt a Pension under the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 It is to be hoped that the enclosed documents will authorize the Department to issue him a pension certificate for some amount at least. He is Very old and badly crippled, and has lived in much obscurity and destitution in the Cumberland Mountains of Bedford County for some years passed.
If upon examination you should find any thing omitted in the document which can be supplied by the declarant you will inform me so soon as convenient. The Old Man lives in such obscurity that he had not learned that there was any act passed for the benefit of Militia Soldiers of the revolution until recently as I am informed.
You will please inform me of the result of your investigation so soon as convenient.
I am with Much Respect Your Obedient Servant
Thos. N. Hargis

May 21 1840
Mail
Dennefee Micajah Prewett
Act 1832
Free
Honorable J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.