Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21142, Lewis Collins, S.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
S. b.
Collins, Lewis
S. 21142
CONTENTS

27. 609. Pension - Agency
Order to pay 13. April 1838.
Lewis Collins
of Haverhill in the State of Penn who was a P te in the Company commanded by Captain Stear of the Reg t commanded by Col Williamson in the So. Carolina for the  service  in  the  Revolution .
8 1/2 Mo Pr $ 28. 33.
Enscribed on the Roll of Danville  Agency at the rate of 28. Dollars 33. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th day of Sept r and sent to
34 S t Mitchell, Rogersville, Tenn.
arrears to the 4th of Sept r '34 99. 10 1/2 Pemi-anl. allowance ending 4 th Mch '35. 14. 10 1/2
$ 113. 32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E. C. Spayden Clerk, Book C. 2 Vol. 7 Page 147

31.818
Lewis Collins Simpson
f 17 76 p 8 3/4 m $ 28.33 33 / 100
Lewis Mitchell Rogersville Simpson

Declaration of Lewis Collins In order to Obtain the benefit of an act of Congress of the 9 th June 1832 State of Tennessee On this 16 th day of August 1834 County of Hawkins personally appeared before me Lewis Mitchell one of the acting Justices for the county of Hawkins Lewis Collins resident of the county of Granger and State of Tennessee aged eighty 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 provision enacted by the act of Congress passed June 9 th 1834
That he entered the service of the united States in the year 1796 first of August as a drafted private under the command of Cap t James Sloan in the regiment of Col o Williamson and marched against the Cherokee Indians that were doing mischief on the frontiers of South Carolina I was then living in the state of South Carolina, the name of the county I think as well as I now recollect was Montgomery it was on the waters of Broad river Cap t Steans Company met at his house and we marched on to the frontiers of said state and joined Williamson at a place where the Indians had killed two families by the name of White and Parrish we marched on from there without any particular occurrence until we arrived in the nation at a town called Keewee on Keewee river so called by the Indians we there stationed ourselves as the Indians had left the place we scouted about in the nation different times and different directions we took some Indians killed some, we also destroyed their crops of potatoes, and corn by cutting down their corn we also burned all the houses and huts we could find and then we returned home upon the same route arrived home about the fifteenth of December when we were dismissed without any discharge being 4/ given four months and fifteen days as well as I now recollect In the year 1798 I had hired myself to make a crop in South Carolina Montgomery County with Mr Charles Thompson as I was not then a man of a family, and there was

a call for men and I was drafted again I went under the command of my same Captain James Dean I went from the same County the Company of my Comp y was to join some regiment as I understood some where near Ninety Six but on our march my Cap t told us that he had received Orders that we were not wanted and we returned home again and was dismissed but we returned home again The last of May we were gone one month I returned home and finished my crop and then left the state of South Carolina and went in to the state of Virginia to my father's home in Montgomery County I resided in that County until the year 1781 when there was a call for men there had to go out of the Captain's Company I was in five men there was a draft and it fell to my lot to go again I entered the service again In Montgomery County State of Virginia first of June 1781 under the command of Cap t Gordon we joined the regiment of Col o Malbury and marched on through some part of North Carolina the Counties I do not recollect and joined General Green at a place called the High Hills of Santee We marched on from there towards Charleston in South Carolina. On our march we engaged with a party of British at a place called the Suckaw Springs under the command of Col o Stuart as I was told Here a severe battle took place I think as well as I can recollect some time in the first of September. We defeated the British and took a great many prisoners I was drafted for three months but when my time expired I could not get off until new recruits came in I was ordered to the regiment of Col o Lock who took charge of the prisoners we went on with the prisoners near Salisbury where we were met by a new guard and there we were discharged I received my discharge from Col o Lock which I have long since lost I returned home I think as well as I can recollect near the first of November being gone five months and I never was cut any more

This applicant further states the cause of his making his declaration In the County of Hawkins is, he lives near the line of Hawkins County he is very old and frail and has lost his hearing in a great measure he goes about but very little and what intercourse he has with the neighbours and chiefly in Hawkins as he belongs to the Baptist Church and the Church to which he belongs is in Hawkins County and it is all the place to which he goes for several years This declarant knows of no and who he can providing service by he says he has no documentary evidence of his service he hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity and declares except the present his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any State sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me
Levi Atchison
Levi Collins his mark
State of Tennessee
Hawkins County
Personally appeared before me Levi Atchison One of the Justices of Hawkins County Levi Collins who being duly sworn deposes 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 periods mentioned below and in the following grades for four months and fifteen days I served as a private under Capt. Stearns for one month I served as a private a second time under Capt. Stearns for five months I served as a private under Capt. Gordon and for such service I claim a pension sworn to this 16 th August 1834
before me Levi Atchison
Levi Collins his mark
16th August 1834

Questions proposed to Levi Collins applicant for a pension
1 st Question
Ans I was born in the year 1754 in the state of Virginia in what county I do not know
2 nd Question
Ans I have none, only what my father told me
3 rd Question
Ans I was in the state of South Carolina and in the state of Virginia from Virginia I moved to the state of Tennessee Granger County where I now live
4 th Question
Ans I was drafted every time
5 th
Question
Ans Capt. Mear Capt. Gordon, Col. Lock, Col. Malbury, Col. Williamson
6 th Question
Ans I received one from Col. Lock which I have lost
7 th Question
Ans Rev. John H. Hill, John Coffey, William Malicaat, David M c Curdy Esq r
State of Tennessee
Hawkins County } We Thomas Cramley a clergyman residing in the County of Hawkins and state of Tennessee and John Coffey residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Levi Collins who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration we believe him to be eighty years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that he has remained a good member in the Baptist society for many years and that we concur in that opinion sworn to and subscribed
This 16 th August 1834 before me
Levi Collins
John Coffey mark Thomas Cramley

And I Lewis Mitchell one of the acting Justices in and for Hawkins County do hereby declare My Opinion after the investigation of the matter and after perusing the Interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named Applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And I further certify that it appears to me that Thomas Crawley who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Hawkins and that John Coffey who has also signed the same is a resident in County of Hawkins and is a creditable person and that their statement is entitled to credit given under my hand this 16 th day of August 1834
Lewis Mitchell P
I also certify that it appears to me that by age and great bodily infirmity the applicant is unable to go before a court or judge of a court to make the following declaration he lives in a retired part of the County and a large mountain to cross in going to the court house given under my hand this 16 th August 1834
Lewis Mitchell P
State of Tennessee Granger County We whose names are annexed residents in the County of Granger do certify we are well acquainted with Lewis Collins who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be of the age he states in his declaration, that he is a respectable member of the Baptist society in Hawkins County, we further certify

we believed him to be a man of integrity that he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a revolutionary soldier and we concur in that Opinion given under our hands and seal this 17 th August 1834 John Crawley Dawson Collins
State of Tennessee Hankins County } I Stockley D. Mitchell Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the County and State aforesaid do certify that Lewis Mitchell before whom the foregoing proceedings were had is an acting Justice of the Peace and was at the time the same were done an acting Justice of the Peace of said County and State duly commissioned and qualified and that his signatures purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of office at office in Rogersville this 26 th day of August A D 1834
S. D. Mitchell Clerk By M c Mitchell D. Clerk

Power of Atty from Norrell & Edmund Collins So Y. G. Hassler
Revolutionary Power of Attorney from heirs of Lewis Collins Pleasants, Tennessee
Tennessee admitted 1832 =
Filed 1 June 1833 F. E. Hassler Washington

Know all men by these Presents: Dowe Collins and Edmund Collins heirs at law of Lewis Collins deceased, a revolutionary pensioner his certificate being dated Sep 4 th 1832. (Pineborough Tenn Agency) is recorded at the Pension Office Book E 2 Vol 7. Page 147 by A.T. Sprague Clerk, do hereby constitute and appoint Hassler of Washington City our true and lawful attorney for us and in our name to prosecute against the government of the United States, and before any Department thereof any and all claims we have to arrear of pay and pension money under any and all acts and resolutions of Congress - and also to prosecute any claim we may have for land. Head or enh. or Land Warrant - by reason of the military service of our deceased father. Said attorney is moreover authorized in our name to demand at any department of said Government, a re-examination of any decision hitherto made, touching our interests and to obtain from any departments or archives thereof any and all information relating to our claim.
Said Attorney is moreover authorized to do all legal acts, necessary to carry the foregoing purposes. Hereby confirming all acts legally to be done in the premises by our said Attorney.
Witness our hand and seal this seventeenth day of February 1853.
W. McKain.
Dowe his Collins
Seal
Edmund Collins mark
Seal
State of Tennessee Can before me on this seventeenth day of February 1853 Dowe Collins and Edmund Collins and in due form of law acknowledged the above power of attorney to be their free act and deed, for the purposes set forth therein.
I certify that I am neither interested in the result of said Application or in its prosecution.
Richard P. Hill Justice of the Peace Knox Co. Tennessee

State of Tennessee & certify, that Richard Keyes the person Knox County whose genuine official signature is subscribed to the certificate in the other in written, was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace of and for said County and State duly commissioned and sworn as such and authorized to take such acknowledgements.
I am neither interested in this claim nor concerned in its prosecution. In testimony of all which I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at my office in Knoxville Knox County Tennessee March 9 th 1853.
Geo. W. C. Cox,
Justice of the Peace Knox Co. Tenn

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Lewis Collins
Pr. Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 77
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Townborough 3 rd April 1838
Sir
Enclosed are the papers in the case of Lewis Collins a pensioner under the Act 7 th June 1832 who has not applied for his pension for more than twelve months you will please instruct the Pension Agent at Townborough to pay the amount due him and oblige yours Respectfully
Chas W. Meek
James L Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D. C.