Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,928, Patterson Childress, N.C. Or Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.B. of Va.
Childress Patterson or Childers.
R. 1928
Nancy
CONTENTS

1110
W. S. Childs Dumfries
1892 1110
Nancy Childs
Jen:
Act 7. July 38 hust. dis 1831
1928

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pension to certain widows
State of Tennessee } ss Jefferson County } On this 2 nd day of May 1844 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace Mrs Henry Childers a resident of the County and State aforesaid aged Seventy Six years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth in her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pension to certain widows That she is the widow of Patterson Childers who was a soldier in the Regular service in the Virginia Line in the war of the Revolution That her husband the aforesaid Patterson Childers entered the service in the year 1778 in the County of Buckingham in the State of Virginia under Capt Leonard Baker for three years and served until the aforesaid time the rest of the officers her husband was under besides Capt Baker she cannot recollect but refers the department to the Virginia Rolls and the testimony herunto annexed she further declares that she was married to the said Patterson Childers on the 12 th day of May Seventeen hundred and Eighty four that her husband the aforesaid Patterson Childers died on the 12 th September 1831 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place subsequent to the first of January Seventeen hundred and Eighty four viz at the time above stated and she is still a widow
Henry X Childers mark sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before

me a Justice of the peace for said County and I further certify that the said Mrs Henry Chilcote is from bodily infirmity unable to attend Court and full faith and credit is given to her statem- ents In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 2 nd day of May 1844.
Robt. Martin
Justice of the peace
State of Tennessee Duffey County } ss
We A. K. Meek and Benjamin Tenney Residing in the County of Duffey and State of Tennessee hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Mrs Henry Chilcote who has subscribed and sworn to the within declaration that we believe her to be twenty six years of age - and that her husband Patterson Chil- cote served as she states and that she is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where she resides and that we concur in her opinion sworn to and subscribed on this day and year aforesaid
Robt. Martin
A. K. Meek
State of Tennessee Duffey County } ss
Benjamin Tenney
Clerk of the County Court
of Duffey County do hereby certify
Term 1844 County Court
The declaration of Mrs Henry Chilcote certified on the 2 nd day of May 1844 by Robert Martin Justice of the peace for said County being submitted to the Court the said Court doth approve of his proceedings and acts in said case and hereby directs the Clerk to indorse the approval on the papers and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that A. K. Meek & Benjamin Tenney who has signed the proceedings certificate used in the County of Duffey are credible persons and their statements are entitled to credit
Wrenn Leavell Thompson Chairman of the County Court

State of Tennessee } Jefferson County } ss I Francis Fuller Clerk of the County Court of Jefferson County do hereby certify that the foregoing proceedings are the original proceedings had and approved of by the County Court of Jefferson County at its May Term 1844 relative to the declaration of Mrs. Nancy Childers to obtain the benefit of acts of Congress relative to Revolutionary pensions and I further certify that the aforesaid Richard Blackwell is and was a Justice of the peace for said County duly commissioned and qualified according to law and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Office in Damascus the 7 th June 1844 Francis Fuller Clerk of Jefferson County
I, W. H. Blackwell, Representative in the 28 th Congress of the U.S., do certify that James Fuller, whose name appears to the above cer- -tificate, was at the time it bears date, Clerk of the County Court of Jefferson Co. Tennessee, duly elected and qualified according to Law, and that the signature appears to be genuine.
Given under my hand this 19 th day of June 1844. W. H. Blackwell

State of Tennessee County of Blount Jefferson ss
Know all me by these presents that I Nancy Hamilton of the County of Jefferson and State of Tennessee do hereby constitute and appoint Maj. J. L. Plummer of Knox County State of Tennessee my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my behalf, to prosecute my claim as heir at law of Nancy (Childress deceased) Widow, of Paterson Childress who was a Revolutionary Soldier, And whose Claim was sent up some six or seven years ago to Pension Office Washington City D. C. I further authorise the said J. L. Plummer to appoint one or more substitutes under him and the same to revoke and discharge at pleasure, further, to cause said claim to be examined, to receive all moneys due as Pension, to sign any and all papers pertaining to said case, Revoking any and all other power of Attorney which may have been heretofore given. And confirming all things that my attorney the said J. L. Plummer may lawfully do in the premises
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 9 th day of May A.D. 1853
Nancy her X Mark Hamilton Seal
Attest M. Perry Samuel Brown
ACKNOWLEDGED, before me the day and year last above written and also I certify that I believe Nancy Hamilton to be the proper Heir, as described in the above. And that the above is true in all things as stated the 9 th May A.D. 1853.
Stanford Totten Seal Justice of the Peace for Blount County Tennessee

State of Tennessee County of Henry Shelby
I P. W. Coomey Clerk of the County Court of said County of Shelby and State of Tennessee do hereby certify that Radford Suttin before whom the foregoing acknowledgement was taken, was at the time, or date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature is genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court This 27 th day of May A.D. 1858
P. W. Coomey Clerk
I appoint Mr. J. M. McGill of Washington City D.C. to Execute this Power of Attorney and report to me Joseph L. Plummer
Executed before me

May 25, 1939.
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Mr. W. A. Grant 1109 Askew Kansas City, Missouri
BA-J/ady Patterson Childress R.1928 Cur
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter relative to Patterson Childers, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, R. 1928, based upon the military service of Patterson Childress in that war.
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Patterson Childress, the name is also shown as Childers, are not given.
Patterson Childress died September 12, 1831, place, and his age not shown.
Patterson Childress married May 12, 1784, place not given, Nancy, her maiden name not stated.
Patterson Childress' widow, Nancy Childress, applied for pension May 2, 1844, at which time she was aged seventy-six years and a resident of Jefferson County, Tennessee. She stated that Patterson Childress enlisted in Buckingham County, Virginia, served three years as private in Captain Leonard Balew's Virginia Company or North Carolina Company, and that he was discharged shortly after the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, at Yorktown.
Her claim for pension was not allowed as she failed to furnish proof of his services as required by the pension law.
The date and place of Nancy Childress' death are not given.

In 1853 Nancy Hamelton, daughter of Patterson and Nancy Childress, was living in Jefferson County, Tennessee, her post office address was Flint Gap, Knox County, Tennessee. She was then one of the heirs-at-law of Nancy Childress, her age not given. In 1854 her post office address was Mecklenburg, Knox County, Tennessee. There are no further family data.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

April 20, 1939.
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Mrs. John Lang 424 First Street N. W. Madison, South Dakota
BA-J/ady Patterson Childress R.1928
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to Patterson Childers, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, R.1928, based upon the military service of Patterson Childress in that war.
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Patterson Childress, the name is also shown as Childers, are not given.
Patterson Childress died September 12, 1831, place, and his age not shown.
Patterson Childress married May 12, 1784, place not given, Nancy, her maiden name not stated.
Patterson Childress' widow, Nancy Childress, applied for pension May 2, 1844, at which time she was aged seventy-six years and a resident of Jefferson County, Tennessee. She stated that Patterson Childress enlisted in Buckingham County, Virginia, served three years as private in Captain Leonard Balew's Virginia Company or North Carolina Company, and that he was discharged shortly after the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, at Yorktown.
Her claim for pension was not allowed as she failed to furnish proof of his services as required by the pension law.
The date and place of Nancy Childress' death are not given.

In 1853 Nancy Hamilton, daughter of Patterson and Nancy Childress, was living in Jefferson County, Tennessee, her post office address was Flint Gap, Knox County, Tennessee. She was then one of the heirs-at-law of Nancy Childress, her age not given. In 1854 her post office address was Mecklenburg, Knox County, Tennessee. There are no further family data.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

April 3 rd 1939
1109 askew Kansas City Mo.
Veterans administration Washington D.C.
AD 4
Can you ok furnish me the record of one, Patterson Childers , a Revolutionary war veteran from Tennessee? I think his home was Strawberry Plains Tennessee.
He was my great grand father and I would like to join the sons of the American revolution.
I thank you for any information you can give me.
Resp.
W.A. Grant.
1109 askew Kansas City Mo.

Madison, South Dakota
Feb. 27, 1939
U. S. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
Dear Sir:
Patterson Childers was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He lived in Tennessee. He was buried either in Southern Illinois or Northern Kentucky. He had at least one child, whose name was Abraham Childers. From this data, can you tell me whether he was a Pensioner?
Enclosed is a stamped addressed envelope for reply. Respectfully
net 3 3/4 x 5 3/4
Mrs. John Lang
3 stamped envelopes
424-1st St. N.W.
Madison, South Dakota

1939 apr. 20. Visit to Mrs. John Lang. A.D.Y. 1939 May 25. Visit to W.D. Grant. A.D.Y.
1928
REJECTED
P. O. _____
Nancy Childress
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Charges: 1852 Printed. Rejected Suspended Pensions Book Disenlisted: No Proof of Service. as Reasons for suspension.
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Joseph Linnage officer

State of Tennessee } Jefferson County. } ss 3
On this 3 rd day of May, 1844
personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace for said County Mr. Joseph Leneeway a resident of the County and State aforesaid aged twenty one years and after being duly sworn according to Law doth in his oath make the following Affidavit That he is well acquainted with Mrs. Nancy Childers who resides in Jefferson County Tennessee and was well acquainted with her husband Patterson Childers and knew them to live together as man and wife from the year 1784 up to the time of his the aforesaid Patterson Childers death which took place in the year 1831 Affiant further declares that he saw the aforesaid Patterson Childers discharged from service in Surry County N Carolina a short time after the surrender of Lord Cornwallis in York Town Virginia and at that time Affiant understood that the aforesaid Patterson Childers service had expired as a Regular soldier for three years in the war of the Revolution and Affiant had the aforesaid Patterson Childers say that there was bounty in hand due him and it was always understood in the neighborhood that the aforesaid Patterson Childers was a soldier of the war of the Revolution Joseph his X Leneeway mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me a Justice of the peace for said County and I further certify that I am well acquainted with Joseph Leneeway and full faith and credit is due his statements In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand This 3 rd day of May 1844
Robt. Martin Justice of the peace

Nancy Childs wid of Patterson Oct 1858
Mecklenburg V.9 Sep. 9. 1837
See
Mr Waldo, Comrs, Pension Office Washington City D. C.

State of Tennessee County of Knox
The memorial of Nancy Hamilton Heir at law of Nancy Childers or Child- erp, Widow of Paterson Childers or Childerp. I Nancy Hamilton would state to the commission of Pensions that my mother above mentioned applied for a Pension under Act of 1838, for the services of Paterson, Childers or Child- erp, But the Agent, Mr. Niwmen, who took the Declarations, and proof made some mistake, having written the name Childerp or Childers, you will see from the Papers, signed by my mother that she made her mark , which mistake was entirely owing to the fancy of the Agent in spelling the name, further Sir it seems that my Father was engag- -ed as a soldier Va, but his name is enrolled in the No, Carolina line, it is plain

that he engaged or started in the state of Virginia but it will be seen by reference to the proof that rendered service in Va, the only state where his name is to be found further you will find that said states join each other and that there is nothing mysterious in his serving in Va, I hope Mr Waldo, that you will have my mother's papers & proof examined and add up at this office as soon as convenient Resp...
Yaney Hamilton Daughter of Yaney & Salersen Childers or Childers
Mecklenburg Knox County Tennessee

Washington City
June 19 th 1846.
Sir,
I herewith present the papers in the case of Mrs. Nancy Childress, widow of Patterson Childress; Affidavit of Mary Cummitt, in the case of Mrs. Large, widow of Joseph Large. Pension certificate of John Horton, and proof of his marriage to Agnes Horton. Papers in the case of Mrs. Sarah Rankin, widow of Mrs. Rankin. Papers in the case of Mrs. Susanna Smith, widow of Nathaniel Smith, and in the case of Mrs. Elizabeth Sutton, widow of John Sutton, to all of which I respectfully call your early attention. Any answer you may give on business present by me to you will will please forward to me at Athens Tenn. if made between this and the next meeting of congress.
I am Sir,
Very Respectfully,
Your Obedient Servt..
J. M. Blackwell
Gen. L. Edwards Esq.
Comrs. of Pens.
P.S. The above mentioned papers are contained in the several packets.
J.M.B.

Knobville Tennessee
April 16 th 1855
Mr. Waldo
Dear Sir
My Mother Nancy Childreper Childers made out her papers or had them made out for the purpose of obtaining a pension for the services of her Husband Paterson Childreper or Childers, it has not been attended to. I desire to know what proof is wanting, and I will furnish the same if it can be had. My Father was a Revolutionist.
address me at this office and oblige
* Flint Gap Rosen Camp Tenn.
Nancy Hearn Campbell

1880 Mary Chaplin Van Horn Left New York for Philadelphia on the 23rd of the Wed Aug 11 1880

Wang Childs mother of Patterson Childs
Act July 1838.
Tenn Suspended
Col Anderson Dec 7/53
H. G. C. atchen Alty,

M rs Francis Hamilton
Sept. 16/54

8 Pension Office.
16 th Sept. 1854.
Madam,
Yours of 9 th instant, in re- lation to the claim of Nancy Childs widow of Patterson of Tennessee, has been received.
If, as you assert, the Decla- ration of Nancy was signed Child- ers, when it should have been Childers, you must adduce evidence to shew that the real name was Childers - that such was your father's name, and that he was the identical soldier who served in North Carolina, and that the widow and her witnesses were mis- taken in supposing he served in Virginia. The date of the marriage of Patterson and Nancy and of their deaths have not been proved.
Mrs Nancy Hamilton. Mecklenburg. Knock Co. N.C.

Feb. 4, 1846,
Adams case
May Hildreth
Edward
Essex Prison
Washington

Washington Feby 3 d 1846
Sir
The claim of Mrs Mary Widow  Tennessee has been placed in my hands for further prosecution before the Pension Office, She alleged in her declaration that her husband performed service in the Va. line under a Capt. Walaw I believe, since which on more mature reflection she has alleged was performed under a Capt. of the same name in the A. C. service, & application has been made to the records of that state & the enclosed certificate of the Compt. of public accounts of that state has been forwarded to me in proof of his services, it is to be hoped that fact of her having erroneously misstated the particular line in which he served will not deprive her of the benifit designs of the pension law under which she makes application. as I am informed she has in other respects complied with the regulations of the department, & I am informed by her attorney that she makes the statement to him before his application to A. C. for proof of his service in that line. I am Very Respectfully Your O ur Servant Nathan Leake
Hon J. L. Edward Com te of Pensions Present.

P Children

Raleigh N.C.
Comptroller's office
I William H. Collins Comptroller of Public Accts in and for the State of North Carolina, do hereby certify that the name of P. Childers appears upon Record in this office as having had issued a Special Certificate in his favor for Thirty one Pounds Six Shillings and four pence (£31. 6. 4) see Book A.M. page 46. No 15 given under my hand and seal This 10 th day April A.D. 1845
Wm H Collins Compt

Rev Mr July 22 1844
Sir
Ms. A. 9. 2. 22. 11 p.m. Aug 11. 1844
I have the honor to inform you that the deposition of Francis Hodges in the case of Elizabeth Dutton has been filed with the other papers. It is not a compliance with the requisitions of my letter to you of 9 inst. & consequently her claim is yet objected to in the particulars therein pointed out - Unless the requirements of that letter are fulfilled she can not be allowed a pension. In the case of Deborah Smith the deponents to the date of the marriage (it is inferred from their cross mark signatures) can neither read nor write. If so, no release as a general rule can be given to it. All claimants are required to adduce the best attainable proof and the relation of husband & wife is almost universally susceptible of record or documentary evidence from the files of the Clerks Office where the licence issued or the registers of the several branches of a family. In the case of Mary Sarge d dec d ? whose

death with the names of her surviving children is duly certified. The proof of the alleged date of the marriage is altogether insufficient to show that it took place at the designated date. Her claim can not be allowed until the proof on this point & in support of her husband's service shall be done as the rules require.
Her husband declared that he enlisted in N.C. under Major Boykin in 1781. W. Brocard He served 10 mo under Genl Sumter which should be verified by the records of N. or S. C. As her husband drew a pension during the four years to which that act of 7 July 38 is limited she is barred by the act of 30 April from that act. Nancy Childers claims for 3 years service of her husband under Capt Leonard Baker by enlistment in the County of Buckingham Va but neither her husband's name nor that of the designated captain is found on the records of the Va Line or State Troops in which alone a 3 years enlistment could have been made. The date of the marriage may be verified by the Hon. J. W. Blackwell records of Buckingham County Athens Va

Mrs. Nancy Hamilton
July 18/53
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Pension Office July 18 1853
Madam
In reply to your communication in relation to the case of Nancy Philareps widow of Patterson of Tenn. who applied for the benefits of the act of July 7 1838. I have to inform you that it occupies the same position now that it did when the enclosed letter of the 25 April 1846, was written to Nathan Seale Esq.
Mrs Nancy Hamilton Fleming Gap Knox the County Tenn.

Flint Gap E Tennessee July 25, 1833
Mr Waldo Cams,
Sir, the declaration of Nancy Childers, was sent to your office some 5 or 6 years ago the said V. Childers has since died having not received her Pension, and her proper Heirs desire to know what disposition was made of said declaration & proofs - she claimed for the services of Paterson, Childers deceased Revolutionary War act. of 1831 or 1832.
Please address Nancy Harnett daughter and Heir at law, of the claimant
Jas. L. Plummer
Mr Waldo Washington City, D.C.

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Pen off Apr. 23. 46
The certificate of the paymaster of N.C. showing a payment to one J. Childers for service in the N.C. militia has been offered as proof in the case of Nancy Childers whose declaration sets forth her enlistment in Buckingham County Va. for 3 years under Capt. Balcer of the Va. Line & whose papers do not disclose any fact which would show that her husband ever resided in N.C. Her narrative of the service is repeated by her witnesses who asserted that he understood when he was discharged in 1781 in Surry Co. N.C. that his time had expired as a regular under an enlistment for 3 years. Childers is a very different name from Childers. The one is a N.C. & the other a Va. name. You will inform Mr. Newman that it is not competent in an agent but on the

contrary highly objectionable in him to set up an entirely different claim in contradiction to claimant's oath & endeavor to sustain it by copies of records which have no relation to the name or claim as set forth by the claimant under oath.
Father Leakey Esq. Present
Warren Leakey 23 Feb 1890