Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,136, James Brayhill, Va.

SERVICE
Va.
NUMBER
S. 32,136
Braykill, James or Broghill
CONTENTS

No 32.360
Illinois.
James Brayhill, deceased. of Tazewell in the State of Illinois who was a private in the co commanded by Captain Fountain - of the commanded by in the Virginia line for 8 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Springfield at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834. & ending 7 January, 1842, the day of his death
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th day of July 1845, and sent to John Boyle, Lieutenant, Illinois
Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. H. Stewart Clerk, Book E - 2 Vol. 8 - Page 116 -
Repd by letter to Agent - 26th July, 1845

34.776
James Brughill dec d Illinois
must be to read Smith Harrison etc

State of Illinois County of Lawrence
On this sixth day of September in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty seven, personally appeared in Open Court before the Hon: County Commissioners Court of the County and State aforesaid, a Court of Record, James Brayhill, a resident of said County of Lawrence, aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth in his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June y th 1832. To wit. That he the said James Brayhill was born in Caroline County in the State of Virginia as he is in- formed and believes or is about the Twenty Ninth day of April in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty seven by one. That he had no record of his age. That when he entered the Military Service of the United States he resided in Halifax County in the State of Virginia. That he resided from seven to ten years after the War in Pittsburgh County in Virginia & removed from there to Wilkes County North Caro- lina, on Watauga Creek and resided there about Twenty two Years, and removed then to McMinn County Tennessee & there resided two years & then came to this State and resided about two years in Sangamon County and then removed to this County four years ago last March and has resided here ever since. That when about Eighteen years of age, he cannot say when of old age and the great lapse of time tells in what Year, but a very short time after Col. Daniel Boon was taken prisoner by the Indians at the Salt lick in the State of Kentucky in the early part of February he volunteered under Captain Thomas Sillard of Pittsylv- ania County, Thomas Hutchinson Lieutenant & Charles Hart Chis Enders he believes, to go to Kentucky to fight the Indians. That he with the said Company went to Kentucky to Boons Station called then Boonsboro or the Bank of the Kentucky River, the men then stationed engaged in scouting and skirmishing with the Indians until some time in June and was washed down and arrived about the first day of July following, having been absent from home about four months and one half - That he received no written discharge, and thinks it very probable that he was entered on the Rolls of the Company as James Bray in stead of Brayhill his proper name in as much as he was frequently called by the name Bray
Feb 1776
4/25 1776

That he again entered the service about the first of May in the Spring before Genl. Gates' defeat, he cannot remember the Year - He was then under Captain Paul Waddleton of Hol- ifax County Virginia. The Lieutenant I think was by the name of Jones. There was also a Captain Fountain from the same County. That he was marched with the Company to which he belonged to Hillsboro North Carolina. He there remained about two months, troops coming in every day, until the arrival of General Gates with his army. Our Company was then attached to the Command of General Stephens. I think his Command consisted of four Regiments, the first known as the Honest first, the Black-Jawed second, the Bloody third, the Lousy fourth. That his Company was attached to the first Regiment. I think that our Colonel's name was Col. Richardson. I think the name of our Adjutant was Samuel Cobb. I do not remember the names of the other Captains Commanding Companies in said Regiment excepting Captain Fountain. I remember at Hillsboro General Gates, General De Kalb, Colonel Doye, General Marion. In a week or two after the arrival of General Gates, the whole army, with whom I was, took up the line of March for South Carolina. We marched very rapidly till we arrived near Camden South Carolina, when one morning very early, about day light the army fell in with the English under Command of General Cornwallis - Our Command immediately broke and retreated in complete rout till we arrived at Mott ferry on the Pedee River. - General Stephens here got wounded in the battle. I did not see the battle. I was with baggage wagons. From the Pedee we then marched to Hillsboro - We there remained about a fortnight and were then discharged. That is to say we were told that those who chose might go home - I received no written discharge - I was in the service this time also about four months and a half. I think it probable also that here my name was entered on the Rolls as James Bray - In this action usually called Gates defeat, General De Kalb was killed - In the month of August before the surrender of Cornwallis, I again volunteered under Captain Fleming Bates, of Halifax County. Captain Roberts & Capt. Falkner also Commanded Companies from the same County. We marched then immediately

under the command of Col. Rogers to New York Town where I was drafted into the artillery and placed in the Company of Capt. Saltonstall. We were under the command particularly of General Lawson. I here remained in constant active service, throwing up intrenchments &c until the surrender of York Town by Cornwallis - I do not remember the names of many of the officers except Genl Washington & the Marquis de la Fayette. We were discharged in the latter part of October. I here being included within the ages I received a written discharge, after the surrender I was again placed under the command of Capt. Bates. I think my discharge was signed by him. I have long since lost it - I was in service this time about two months, making in all ten eleven months I served during the Revolutionary War - I know of no living witness by whom I can prove my said service - I was almost a private - I can refer the Court to Benjamin Briggs Esqr and William B Cook, to whom I am known in my present neighborhood who can testify to my character for veracity, and their belief of my service as a soldier of the Revolution. I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of any agency since to subscribe the day and
James H. Morrison Clk James H. Morrison + Brayhill marks
We William B Cook, a minister of the Gospel, residing in Lapeer County in the State of Illinois and Benjamin Briggs residing in said County do hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with James Brayhill who has been to subscribe the foregoing declaration; That we believe him to be seventy six years of age; That he is reported and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary, and that we concur in that opinion.
Subscribed the day William B Cook and your obedient Ben Briggs J. H. Morrison Clk
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 soldier

of the revolution, and served as he states. And the Court for this certificate, that it appears to them, that William B. Cook, who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergy- man resident in Lapeer County, and that Benjamin Briggs, who has also signed the same is a resident in the same County and is a credible person, and that the statement is entitled to credit. J. T. Rootback
James Fisher
Aden Hull
I John H. Morrison Clerk of the said County Commis- sioners Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing con- tains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Briggs for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this day of September in the Year of our Lord One Eighteen hun- dred & thirty seven.
John H. Morrison Clerk
34.776
James Briggs deed Illinois

State of Illinois Sayrewell County ss.
I, John H. Morrison Clerk of the County Commissioners' Court within for said County do hereby certify that Abel Kingman, Elias Ogden & Wm. S. Rankin whose signatures appear to the foregoing affidavit are judges of the County Commissioners Court of said County and that James Boykhill whose name is subscribed to said affidavit was duly sworn this day in open Court and also subscribed the same, I further certify that the said Court is a Court of Re- cord
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hands and affixed the Seal of said Court at Trenton this 3 rd day of March A.D.
1845
John H. Morrison Clerk

State of Illinois Tazewell County ss
Before us, the authorized Commissioners of the "County Commissioners Court of said County of Tazewell in State of Illinois aforesaid - now in Session, on
this the 3 rd day of March 1845 - personally appeared James Brayhill of said County, and also personally long well known to us, as a person of high credibility, and reputation, who, being of lawful age, and first duly sworn according to law, doth, in order to obtain a pension for his mother, on oath declare that his late father James Brayhill, of said County, and State, deceased, departed this life, in said County, and State, on the "7 th day of January 1842". He further declares that his mother's first name was Rebecca - Rebecca Brayhill, alias Bailey that she is still a widow, having never married since the decease of her said late husband James Brayhill aforesaid - sworn, and subscribed, with his seal affixed, before us on the day, and year above written -
Abel Kingman Elias Ogden A. S. Rankin
Judges of the Commissioners Court of said County
James Brayhill (L.S.)

James Brayhill Illinois
Suspended
See let: 19 June 1839 Edw: Jones.
let: 11 Jany, 1842 Hon: J. T. Stewart, let: 1 July '42 to B. H. Gaines.
let: to Mr. Boyle, Jany: 25. 45. " Same. 3 rd May 1845.
Act 7 June 1832

For letter dated July 1, 1842, to B. F. James.
See claim of Samuel M c Clintock R. File 66 24.
James Brayhill

32 136 Key INVALID
File No. 32, 136
James Blayhill Rev Rev War
Act: June 1 st 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 57
[Arrangement of 1870.]

No 34776 James Brayhill died Ill.
on 7 June 1832
Adm o 8 mo p er $26 67 / 100 per ann.
Commencing on 4 March 1831 and terminating on 7 June 42 the day of his death payable to his widow Rebecca Brayhill.
John Poyle Esq r Treasurer Ill.

Jan 15 - 45 TOWN
FREE
James Hopmyll - St. Andrew St. Edwards Reg. Co. Compts or Pensions Washington D.C.

J. L. Edwards Esq. 4
Sir - Mr. Edward Jones, a Lawyer sent on papers - proofs &c of Mr. Brayhill's services - and while the matter was pending the applicant died - Most respectfully Be pleased to examine his case John Bayle -
I authorize Mr. John Bayle to set up an inquiry at the pension office, whether a pension was not due to my late father on the papers sent on - and now to his widow Brayhill His name James Brayhill Fremont 3 d Jan. 1845 -

Nov 20 James Brayhill Oct 1832
Genl. J. B. Greville Grosvenor Gardens St. Asaph
pp

Freemont Nov 6 th 1838.
James S. Edwards Esq v Commission of Pensions. Sir
I herewith transmit the application of James Brantley of this county for pensions.
The declaration would have been forwarded soon but mislaid by the Clerk of the Court.
Respectfully
Your Oat Servt.
Edward Jones

Jan 11. 1842
W. Broghe
J. G. Chapman Esq. House of Commons Washington City J. Stuart H. R.

Washington
Jan 9 th 1842
Dr Sir
I will thank you to inform me what disposition has been made of the applications of two of my constituents for Rev. Pensions - Their names are James Broyles and — M c Clintock
Yours OM but
J. G. Edwards Esq } Comm. of Pensions }
John T. Stuart

Payment to be made at Springfield by Jas. F. Reed Agent for paying pension- ers, in the Agency of Illinois
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E. 2 Vol- ume 8 Page 116 by W. H. Hensel Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7 June, 1832, James Brayhill, decd. who was a priv: in Ruelly's Regt. was entitled to a pension at the rate of twenty six 66 per ann: comm: 11 Mar: '31, and endg: 7 July '42, the day of his death: which will be paid upon the production of the proper vouchers to Rebecca Brayhill his widow.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this — 25 — day of July one thousand eight hundred and forty=5
Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
Commissioner of Pensions.

James Brayhite, decd. Admits 8 months private Issue Certificate in favor Rebecca Brayhite his widow from 4. March 1831. to 7. Jan'y. 1842. the day of his death.
28 Newington Somers Place St. Edwards Lodge Que

March 17, 1848.
Wilson Reg 5 march
Adams case
Rebecca B. Mayhew
alias Bailey.
James
sent
2 00

Tremont, Laclede Co Ill. 3 rd mo 1845
James L. Edwards
Respected Sir -
I now inclose to you, in conformity to the requisitions of your sole letter to me, in the case of late James Boayhill James Boayhill's his last solemn declaration before an Honble Co. Common Pleas Court, as to the last of his late father's departure - and the last name of his mother, the surviving Widow. Most respectfully &c &c John Boyle Agent
P.S. I hope that ere this is sufficient attestation has been given to the marriage of my late father-in-law. St. L. Feb. 10 th , Sarah Anne Grant - J.B.

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress. passed June 7 th 1832
State of Illinois ss
Tazewell County ss On this ninth day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & forty, personally appeared James Broyhill in open Court before the Hon. the County Commission- ers Court in & for said county (being a Court of Record), a resident of said County of Tazewell & State of Illinois, aged seventy nine years and four months, who being duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, 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 herein stated. On the first day of February, the year not remembered, while residing in Halifax County Virginia, he entered military service, under one Captain Thomas Dillard, but does not remember, whether the said Dillard, was commissioned by the State of Virginia, or by the United States. Thomas Hutchins was the first Lieutenant & Charles Hutchins. Ensign. The company rendezvoused in Pittsylvania County Virginia (in which County the said Dillard resided) on the tenth of the same February, & on the same day started for Boones Station Kentucky. When he & the company arrived at Boones Station, they found the place in the charge of a Company from Virginia, under the command of one Captain Watkyns, which they relieved. They remained at the Station three months engaged in scouting against, & skirmishing with the Indians, when they returned by slow marches to Virginia, and were then discharged from the service at a Block House on the H. Station. He entered the service for three months, but was in actual service over four months. He received no written discharge. He again entered the service in the spring before Gates' defeat, year not remembered. He volunteered, under one Captain Paul Waddleton of the first Regiment of Four- under the command of General Stearns. The Regiment was commanded by one Colonel Holt. Richardson. He also remembers Major Boyle, and Captain Fountain in the same Regiment. His Company, under the command of Waddleton & Fountain's Company, were both

from Halifax County Virginia. The two companies went together to Hillsboro North Carolina, When the Regiment, with the three others under the command of General Stevens surrendered. They laid there about ten months, until Gates arrived with the army from the North - The four Regiments under Stevens, followed Gates to the South, to Camden at which place the army was defeated - This declarant did not go to Camden, but stopped at the Big Pedee, being one of the rear guard in charge of the command under General Stevens. Major Harry Conway had command of the guard. Immediately after the defeat, every soldier shifted for himself. This declarant returned to the Little Pedee, where he found a great many of the soldiers belonging to Stevens Brigade - He then returned to Hillsboro & was there immediately discharged from the service. This declarant received no written discharge. He volunteered for three months, but was in the service five. This declarant, the third time entered the service, about the first of August immediately preceding the surrender of Cornwallis. He volunteered under one Captain Fleming Bates of Halifax County Virginia, Captains Roberts & Faulkner commanding Companies from the same County. We went to Yorktown under the command of Colonel Rodgers, & there found the army collecting under General Washington. This declarant was then taken from Bates Company & placed under Captain Faulkner of the Artillery. This declarant was present when the army of Cornwallis grounded their arms. The British troops marched out of Yorktown, in solid column, between the lines of the American Army, into an old field, where they deposited first their drums, with the fifes on the heads of the drums; struck their colors into the soil, laid their guns on the ground, fired about & marched back into Yorktown. This declarant, with his company & others was engaged in working upon the Breast Works & other fortifications during the most of the time that they were there up to about the period of the surrender of Cornwallis. Previous to the surrender, this declarant was ordered out, to gather corn for the horses in Camp, under one Stephen Rand Forage Master. After the surrender he was again placed under the command of Captain Bates, when he was taken sick and discharged. He had first together with eight or ten others, received a discharge from the surgeon, but at his request Captain Bates gave him a separate discharge (written) which he has since lost -

This time your declarant was in the service three months. Your declarant knows of no surviving witness, who has personal knowledge of the above services of your declarant to whom he can refer to prove the truth of the foregoing declaration. This declarant was born in Caroline County Virginia, in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred & Sixty one. He knows of no record of his age except in the Register of his Grandfather William Boychill kept in a book which is either lost or destroyed. After the Revolution I removed from Halifax County Va. to Pittsylvania County Va. from thence to Wilkes County North Carolina, from thence to Tennessee & from thence to Fayette County Illinois where I still reside. This declarant is known in his neighbourhood, to Benjamin Briggs Esq. Philander Dean, Neil Johnson, John H. Morrison, Littleton D. Garth & James Wibray, & who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. And this declarant hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State -
James Boychill
Sworn and subscribed to the day & year aforesaid - before me
John H. Morrison Clerk, C. C. C. & C.
He said that he is a very poor memory in the present time and that he is not sure what he is saying in the present case and that he can only testify to the best of his recollection.
Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a justice of the peace in and for said County of Fayette Illinois James Boychill, who being duly sworn, deponeth and saith, that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below and in the grade of Private. For one year I served as a Private, and for such service I claim a pension -
James Boychill
Sworn to & subscribed
before me this 8 September A.D. 1840
Wm B. Barker Justice of Peace

providing as to the pecuniary length of his services, but according to the best of his recollections he served not less than the period
State of Illinois.)
Tazewell County. } ss.
I, J. H. MORRISON, Clerk of Tazewell County Commissioners' Court, do hereby certify, that M. B. Harker Esq. whose name appears to the foregoing certificate, was on the day of the date thereof, an acting Justice of the Peace for said County, regularly Commissioned and qualified, and as such full faith and credit are, and of right ought to be given to all his official acts.
GIVEN under my hand and seal of office, at Tremont, the 9 th day of September 1840
J. H. Morrison Clerk

We Neill Johnson a clergyman residing in the County of Fayette and State of Illinois, and James Wibray residing in the same County & State hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Burghill who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration. That we believe him to be seventy nine years of age past. That he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution. & that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid before J. H. Morrison Will Johnson James Wibray Clerk of said Court Fayette and County
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, & after presenting the interrogatories presented 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 Neill Johnson who has signed the preceding Certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Fayette aforesaid and that James Wibray is a credit person; and that their statement is entitled to credit. J. John H Morrison Clerk of said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Burghill for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this ninth day of September in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty
John H Morrison Clerk

June 13. 1845
Adal ter care Rebecca Moore
Miss L. Edwards Esquire Conway Pension Washington D.C.
Ms. B. 1. 6 v. 10 p. 12

State of Illinois } At a County Commissioners Court, Take well County Set. } held at Tremont, the County x in said State personally appeared before us, the County Commissioner aforesaid, Lemm Brayhill of said County, who being of lawful age and first duly sworn, according to law, did depose as followeth. VIZ: That his late father, (whose widow is now looking for a pension) was a resident for years in said County of Take well, Illinois, and departed this life on the "7 th day of January 1842"; that his mother is still a resident of said Take well County a widow, who never married since the death of her late husband, James Brayhill, - that her first name was Rebecca - and her name before marriage was Bailey - Sworn, and subscribed before us, in open Court on this, the 2 d day of June 1845 -
Signed - L Brayhill (Seal)
Sworn, and subscribed before me on day, and year above (last) W. S. Rankin  Elias Ogden  Abel Kingman  Judge
State of Illinois } Take well County Set. } I, John H. Morrison, Clerk of the Court of Commissioners of said Take well, Illinois, held (as above) on the 2 d day of June 1845 in, and for said Take well County, Illinois - do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court - That the late James Brayhill Senior was a resident of said Take well County, Illinois.

That he died in the said Lakeville County, in the State of Illinois aforesaid on the 27 th day of January "1842"; that his widow is still a resident of said Lakeville County, Illinois - having never married since her late husband's, James Royhill's death; that her first, or given name is Rebecca - and her name before marriage was Bailey.
I further Certify that the aforesaid County Commissioners' Court is by Law de- clared to be a Court of Records and I further Certify that W. S. Rankin, Elias Ogden and Abel Kingman whose names are subscribed to the foregoing Affidavit of James Royhill are Judges of said County Commissioners Court duly qualified &c
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Commissioners Court at Tremont in said County this 2 d day of June A.D. 1845
John H. Morrison Clerk