Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9455, for Thomas Perkins, North Carolina

SERVICE
Nb.
Perkins, Thomas
NUMBER
S 9455
CONTENTS
carded.

5766 South Carolina
Thomas Perkins of Mobray dist. in the State of S.C. who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Prevard of the Regt. commanded by Col Dixon in the North Carolina line for Militia for 12 mo.
Inscribed on the Roll of South Carolina at the rate of 40 Dollars & Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of Febry 1853 and seal of the S.C. Griffin at R.
Arrears to 14th of Sept 1882 40.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending March 1883 20.00
$ 80.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Henry C. Sypnston Clerk, Book D. Vol. 8 Page 94
Paid at the Treasury under Act of 6 th April 1838 from 4 March 1836 to 11 th Sept 1837. Amount certified 30 May 1838
Order to pay 20 Sept 1838
Lt. J. M. Kelly March 13/53 Same ap d 20/53
Same Jan 12/56 Hon. J. B. Wright, Mch. 7/56 1889 April 23 J. A. Mangum children not entitled to pension
Act. Mch 10 31 - 1838 Mch 28 Sept 7 Prior

Feb 22 1855 Lafayette Co. Miss Feb. 22, 1855 Hon. Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War, Washington D. C.
Sir
I have been employed by Mrs. Delilah Perkins, Widow of Thomas Perkins late a Soldier in the Revolutionary War, to procure for her the two last years pension due him previous to his death, which has not been drawn, and also to procure for her the pension due to such widows after the death of their husbands. Thomas Perkins drew a pension as a 12 months Soldier, to within two years of his death, and I have been unable to learn why he did not draw for the last two years of his life.
By reference to the pension Roll it will be found that he was a pensioner for several years, he was drafted in South Carolina, resided after the War to the time of his death (which took place March 24. 1840.) in Newberry District, he received his pension at Charleston S.C. he married at the age of 63. Delilah Harris, who was only 16 years of age at the time their marriage. Can be fully authenticated. The Widow now resides in this County and is very poor and needy, and should be entitled to a pension from the Government. I wish to obtain it for her, and knowing that your sympathies are in favor of those who have suffered and fought in their Country's cause and the surviving widows, I have taken the liberty of addressing in regard to this old Lady's case, Will you be so kind as cause an investigation of the matter and let me know the result, and how to proceed in the matter

Mrs Perkins does not know whether her husband ever draw any Bounty Lands or not, if he has not I also wish to obtain the same for her
Most Respectfully
Your Obedt Servant
D. M. Kelly

The Carolina Henry Personally appeared before me Mary Perkins and after being duly sworn says that she recollects that her brother Thomas Perkins left home for to serve in the cause cause and in the behalf of the American Revolution and was gone about and gave But this deponent does not know of her since knowledge until where he served further than she has understood that it was in General her present Army em Sworn to before me Nov 13 th November 1832
Mary Perkins Mark
I James Cannon One of the Justices of the Court in and for the district of Columbia do hereby certify that Mary Perkins who made the above oath came not from bodily infirmity attending the Court. James Cannon D.L.

Newberry District.
Thomas Perkins' Applica- tion for a pension.

The State of South Carolina, Newberry District. } To wit,
On this thirteenth day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty, two persons appeared in Open Court before Richard Gantt Esq. Presiding Judge of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace and Common Pleas now sitting Thomas Perkins a resident of Newberry District in the State aforesaid aged Seventy five years 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 was born within ten miles of Hillsborough in North Carolina on the last day of March in 1757. he has no record of his age at present in his possession. He was living in Lincoln County North Carolina when he went into service, the year he was drafted he does not recollect, he was drafted some time after the Declaration of Independence, & went into the service under the command of Captain James Bernard, Major John Hampton, and the Regiment was commanded by Col. Dixon, and the whole of the force was commanded by Major General Nath. Green. From Lincoln North Carolina he marched to a little village whose name he does not now remember from thence to Cambridge South Carolina when the Americans besieged the British & was for several days, and he was engaged in repeated skirmishes during the siege, and was also employed in working on the ditches and mines that were dug & used to defeat & destroy the enemy. A short time before the surrender of the British army he was with others despatched as a guard of prisoners that were sent, & he accompanied them as one of the

guar to Salisbury North Carolina. From thence he was marched to Santa & again joined General Green, and remained there till the bloody battle of Eutaw on the eighth day of September 1781, in which engagement he was, and bore his part as a private soldier under the aforesaid officers, after that battle he was marched to Bacon's Bridge where he remained for several weeks, from which place he was discharged in writing after having served twelve months as a drafted man during the Revolutionary War. This applicant has no documentary evidence of his revolutionary services and he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure that can testify to his services except so far as his sister Mary Perkins may recollect the fact of his going into the service, remaining from home for twelve months & at the end of his service returning. He has several years ago lost his discharge in writing. He refers to the Revd Phillips Cromer & Henry Dorn in etc.
for his character and the reputation that he is a Soldier of the Revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to & subscribed in Open Court.
by Thomas J. Perkins mark
Y. J. Harrington. Clk at District
The applicant further declares that as far as he can remember he was a Drache during the war after it ended to what was called the North Carolina line Sworn to in open Court
Y. J. Harrington Clk at Dist
by Thomas J. Perkins mark

We Philips Groome
a clergyman residing in Newbury District and Henry Domeneck residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Perkins who has subscribed hereto to this declaration, that we believe him to be twenty five years of age that he is of good character and is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Given to subscribers in Open Court.
Y. J. Harrington Clk Deputy Secy
Philp Groome Henry Domeneck Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories foreseen interrogatories & after putting the interrogatories foreseen by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Philips Groome who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in Newbury District and that Henry Domeneck who has also signed the same is a resident in Newbury District and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Richard Gault P. Judge
I George J. Harrington Clerk of the Court of Pensions of the peace & Commonwealth. Please for Newbury District do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Perkins for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of my office this thirteenth day of November 1822.
Y. J. Harrington Clk. N. Dist.

I, Young J Harrington Clerk of the court of General Sessions of the Peace & of the Commonwealth Place of Salisbury District do hereby also certify that James Cameron Esquire who has signed & certified the affidavit of Mary Parker is hereunto annexed is a Justice of the Quorum in & for the said District and that his signature annexed is his genuine signature. Y. J. Harrington Clerk. N. Dist.

Thos Perkins of South Carolina
Admit 12 mo. pr.
Capt Burad
Col Dixie Homblie
$400 pr ann

BRIEF in the case of  Thos Perkins of Newberry  District  in the State of  South Carolina  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 75  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     "Some time after the Declaration of Independence" 12 Private Col Stewart, Col Dixon, Gen Green.  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Guilford  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Lincoln County, North Carolina  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? 
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Defective as to date of service, papers not attached
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Thos Perkins
Examining Clerk.

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September 23, 1926.
Mrs. Clarence H. Nobles, Deport, Texas.
Madam:
I have to advise you, that from the papers in the pension claim, S. 9455, it appears that Thomas Perkins was born March 31, 1757, within ten miles of Hillsborough, South Carolina.
While living in Lincoln County, North Carolina, he enlisted in 1781 and served a year as a private in Captain Brevard's Company, Colonel Nixon's Tenth North Carolina Regiment, he was at the siege of Cambridge, and at the battle of Eutaw Springs and was discharged April 28, 1782.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 13, 1832, while living in Newberry District, South Carolina.
He married January 10, 1817, Delila Harris, or Hawes, (name illegible) she was then sixteen years old. They had children, the only name stated was John.
Thomas Perkins died in Newberry District, South Carolina, March 24, 1840, she married again, name of husband

not stated. She lived in Lafayette County, Mississippi in 1855.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN, Acting Commissioner.

Saford Safford Co. Miss Feb. 22. 1856
Hon. D. B. Wright Washington D.C.
Dear Sir
I am the Agent of John Perkins a minor heir of Thomas Perkins dec. d a Soldier of the Revolution who resided and died in Newberry District S.C. he drew a pension to within two years of his death, but never drew the bounty to which he was entitled to. From the law in such cases I suppose the minor heir to be entitled not only to the arrears, but also to the same allowance the father drew, until that heir be come of age, I have several letters from the Dept. t of the Interior in regard to the matter, but they are not satisfactory, will you be so kind as to enquire particularly into the case and assist me in procuring the rights of the heir, The Widow of Tho. s Perkins has a second husband living, and I desire the minor heir to be entitled to the same allowance that the widow would have been had she remained a widow. Your attention to this matter will confer a favor upon the heir of an old soldier.
Yours truly
J. M. Kelly

House Bk. March 6 th 1837
Sir
I beg leave to call your special attention to the within letter and ask a speedy reply with instructions suited to the case. It seems to me there can be no difficulty as to the back pay
I am very respectfully your obed asst
DB Wright
Hanl J Mudd

Pension Office. March 18/55-
The Third Auditor will please certify the da to which within named pension was paid
Very respectfully
J. Cole Chief Clerk

Thomas Perrins paid to 4 March 1839.
Walter J. Manning
Auditor

La Grange Co. Ind. April 14. 1855 Commission of Pensions Washington D.C.
Sir,
A communication from your office of March 13. 1855. in relation to the appli- cation of Mrs. Delilah Perkins widow of Thomas Perkins a Soldier in the Revolutionary War has been rec d . advising me that Application should be made to the Third Auditor of Treasury who will furnish instructions to enable the widow to prepare her application for her pension, and that the date of her marriage must be transmitted to your Bureau. She was married to Thomas Perkins January 10. 1817.
Would it not answer every purpose for my letter to the Secretary of War which includes the application for her pension bounty, &c. and which is now in your office, to be transferred to the Third Auditor's office? If not, will you be so kind as to inform of the fact, and I will make out an other application and forward it to the proper office.
Respectfully
Your obedt Servant
J. M. Kelly

Safouka Miss Dec. 22. 1855, Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Sir
As Agent for the heirs of Thomas Perkins a soldier of the War of the Revolution, I make application for the pension and land warrant for bounty land due them, the said Thomas Perkins was a 12 months' enlisted man from North Carolina, but settled, lived and died in Newberry District South Carolina, he drew a pension to within two years of his death, I have the papers for the arrears due him, he never drew any bounty lands during his lifetime, and I wish to procure the land and whatever pension may be due to his heirs, and will you be so kind as to cause the necessary forms with instructions to be forwarded to me as early as practicable. Please also to inform me what amount Mr Perkins drew annually, as that has to be specified.
Respectfully
Your obed Servt J. M. Kelly

Hartford Mechanics Bank
Charleston 13 Sept 1838
J. H. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington
Sir
I forward herewith for authority to pay, Vouching Isaiah W. Thompson formerly Dutchill, and Thomas Perkins
I am Respectfully
Your Obt Servt.
A. Spear
Pension Agent

Treasury Department,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
May 19 - 1838.
Sir.
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States;" Thomas Perkins, a Pensioner on the Roll of the S. Carolina Agency, at the rate of forty - Dollars and .. .. Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March 1836 to the fourth of September, 1837
Respectfully, yours,
William K. Parrish Comptroller
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

State of North Carolina
Secretary of States Office
I William Hill Secretary of State in and for the State aforesaid, do certify, that it appears from the musterrolls of the Continental line of this State in the revolutionary war, that Thomas Perkins a private in Capt. Brevards Company of the 10 th Regiment, was mustered in the year 1781, and left the service on the 28 th day of A- pril 1782. (I have no doubt of his being a twelve months soldier). Given under my hand this 3 rd day of Sept r 1835.
W. Hill

Deport, Texas.
Sept. 18, 1926
Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
I failed to receive an answer to my letter of June 21, 1926; possibly it was lost in carriage.
I wrote in regard to one Thomas ✓ Perkins , who served in Rev. War, from North Carolina . Is there a record of his service, or a pension record, that would possibly mention where he made his home after the war? He was a brother of Wm. and Mass Perkins.
If you have record of service of John  of  B. and o o  Jefferson Bond during war of 1812, or their claim of pension I shall appreciate this also.
Thanking you for past favors, I remain
Cordially yours, Mrs. Clarence H. Nobles

McLennan Co McGregor Texas Apr. 11. 1889.
To the Honorable Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir: I write to you for information: (and that is this) Thomas Perkins of S. C. Newberry District. Joined the army of the Revolutionary war, at the age of about 16. It being I believe the last year of that war. He was in that war as a soldier, he did not marry until he was 64 years of age, and raised a family, some of which are still alive. Now are they not entitled to a Pension? If so, how shall the heirs proceed? By examin ing the record, you will see he was an honorable soldier. Please let me hear from you on this subject. Direct to McGregor To. McLennan Co Texas, and oblig.
T. A. Mangum

Rev. War
9455 INVALID.
File No. 94, 5-5-
Thomas Perkins Rev. War.
Act: June 1 st 1832.
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 292
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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