Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,895, for William Morgan, North Carolina

SERVICE
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★ Morgan, William
S. 41,895
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16,024 10
North Car.
William Morgan
of Craven County in the state of N. Carolina who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Robert Herring of the N. Carolina line, for the term of Three Years
Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 17 of June 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 26. of Novr 1819 and sent to Thomas Watson Esq. Newbern N. Carolina
  Arrears to 4th of  Sep 1819  20. 80    Semi-ann. all'ce ending  Mar 1820  48. 00    34 Mo 18      30        $68.80  
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Carolina

Mr Morgan 22
16024
Mar: 20
Thurs
Morning also
C.A.O. J.L.E.

District of North Carolina } Craven County }
On this 15th of March in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty one personally appeared in the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid (being a Court of Record proceeding according to the course of the Common Law, keeping a record of its proceedings, having a power to fine and imprison) and hereinafter mentioned in part of and against William Morgan who being duly on his oath sworn in open court according to Law doth depose and say that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows viz in the Tenth Regiment commanded by Colonel Mebane, in the Company commanded by Captain Herring - Captain Taylor - Fetter - as will appear by the original declaration of this declarant dated on the day of AD. This applicant further saith that he has received a pension of Twenty Eight dollars per month according to Certificate No. 18024 and has received a payment of sixty dollars part thereof.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1878 - and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War"

passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, Contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed:
Schedule &c -
One gun, one plough - and his apparel - This declarant is by trade a Cart wheel maker, has no wife, has five children who have all left him and are poor and shifting for themselves - declarant is at this time a resident of the County of Lenawee in the State of North Carolina - his name is and declared on his mark William Morgan the 15 th March 1821.
J. S. Brantley
I James G. Stanley Clerk of the court aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are true copies from the records of the said Court, and I do hereby certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount of the value of the property exhibited in the said schedule is less than one hundred dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court on this 15 th of March 1821
J. S. Brantley

41895
Leigh INVALID.
File No.
41.895-
William Morgan Dr New York
Act:
18 March 18 th
Index:—Vol.
8
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[Arrangement of 1870.]

To the Honorable the Secretary of War of the United States.
The petition of William Morgan of the State of North Carolina humbly shews that your petitioner in the month of July 1777 enlisted as a private soldier in the North Carolina Continental line, that he was attached to the tenth regiment and under the immediate command of Captain Harman Herring - Lieutenant Roundtree & Ensign Shute, that he served for the whole period of his enlistment viz three years and was discharged at Richmond in the State of Virginia - That he was then attached to the new levies under the command of Genl. Lincoln, was taken prisoner in Charleston South Carolina & remained a prisoner fourteen months - Your petitioner further states that he is now nearly seventy years of age in indigent circumstances, that he needs the assistance of his Country for his support & he therefore prays the benefit of the Act of Congress providing for persons in his situation -
Respectfully
William his Morgan mark
Sworn to in open Court 17th June A.D. 1819
J. S. Stewart

Thomas Taint maketh oaths that he was a soldier in the North Carolina Continental line during the Revolutionary war & knows that William Morgan did serve as a private soldier in said Continental line more than nine months - Thomas Taint
p. 17. Sworn to in open court June 17th AD 1819 J. S. Brantley
State of North Carolina Craven County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions June term AD 1819
The petition of William Morgan accompanied with the affidavit of Thomas Taint was presented to the court and being sworn to and submitted in open court, it is ordered that it be certified to the Secretary at war of the United States, that it appears to the satisfaction of this Court that the petitioner William Morgan did serve in the Revolutionary war against the common enemies as stated in said petition and that said petitioner is now in reduced circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for his support.
Witness James G. Stanley Clerk of said Court under the seal of said Court at Newbern the 17th day of June AD 1819
J. S. Brantley

William Morgan Private Certificate 79 - 82 10 th N. Carolina Regt
It is desired that the report on this application be communicated to Thomas Watson Northern, C.R.C. the petitioner not living near a Post Office and the Judge sitting at a distance from the petitioner.
Admitted
Post Office - The Sec. State, will place furnish any evidence, his office may prefer, of this man's service
State of N. Carolina Secretary's Office 10 th Nov. 1819.
I William Hall Secretary of State in & for the State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that it appears from the Musterroll of the Continental line of this State in the Revolutionary war, that W m Morgan a private in Cap t Quinn's Company of the 10 th Reg t was mustered the day of 1779 for 3 years. Neither the length of time he served or date of discharge is mentioned. Given under my hand
the date above
W m Hall

421 The Honorable Free The Secretary of War. (Pension Office) Washington City.

Have the Govt. to return the decision upon the enclosed Petitions, to Thomas Matson Esq. Post Master, Newbern, N.C. —