Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,760, Lemuel Cartwright, N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER
NC.
Cartwright, Lemuel
R. 1760
CONTENTS

Samuel Catwright
SL
32.593
let 4 Feb 1855
No claim allows an 8 mo lease in Bark Pine Brk. due not that the year - That Bark was on the 3 rd March 29 and it appears that the H.C. Dunbar who was engaged in the Bark found a 5 mo lease -
in Brantford County
the same as above

State of South Carolina } Hyde County }
On the Twenty-fourth day of November Anno Domini One thousand Eight hundred and thirty-four personally appeared in open Court before us Benjamin R. Sanderson William Farrow and John W. Carruth Justices Composing the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions now sitting for the County of Hyde and State of said, Samuel Cartwright a resident of Mattamuskeet in the County of Hyde and State of North Carolina, aged about Eighty four 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.
We entered the service of North Carolina  the United States under the following named Officers herein stated.
I was drafted as a militiaman in the State Troops of North Carolina for the space of six months in the fall of the year 1777 to the best of my recollection, but I believe it was between the years 1776 and 1780, and I entered the service immediately after being drafted, about the first part of September under the Command of Captain Edmund McRae who was stationed or lived in Beaufort County North Carolina. From Beaufort County I marched under Captain Edmund McRae to Kingston Pender County - Thomas Hanton, David Spencer, Billy Little, John Williams, Edward Gray, James Walton, William Harris, John Harris and Stephen Harris were drafted with me and lived in Mattamuskeet, and marched in Company from Hyde County and joined Captain McRae in Beaufort County. On the arrival of Captain Edmund

We met at Kingston under whom I together with other militiamen from Hyde County marched, we joined the recruits there assembled and was commanded by Major John S. Elliott, Major and Col. William Gastree, the son of the Governor of North Carolina. William Dennis of Carteret County was the Adjutant of the Brigade. General Ash and General Bryan were both at Kingston in Command. We remained at Kingston several weeks waiting for recruits, & marched from Kingston towards South Carolina, through which State we marched and arrived at the Savannah River where we remained about 3 days, we then crossed the Savannah River and entered the State of Georgia at the lower end of the Town of Augusta, where we remained to the best of my recollection two or three days. We arrived at the Savannah River about the 14 th February. The British Army was then commanded by Lord Cornwallis, and was about one mile below Augusta. In a short time after the arrival of the American Army, the British marched down the River on the Georgia side, and as soon as they broke up their Camp, we crossed, and pursued them and continued the pursuit four or five days, until we arrived to River Creek. The Bridge over which had been destroyed by the enemy. We then camped about four days. The enemy then marched down River Creek some distance when they recrossed it and marched up it to where we were encamped. A general engagement then took place between the Americans and the British which lasted about one hour, and we being overpowered by numbers retreated to the Savannah River which we crossed and encamped on the South Carolina side. On the day of the Battle, we were joined by several Companies of Regular Troops. The Americans were commanded by General Ash and Bryan. We remained four days encamped on the South Carolina side of the Savannah River and the British

on the Georgia side - whereas they moved either up or down the river, we moved and kept opposite to them to keep them from crossing into South Carolina - we remained there until other troops came to us, when at our time had already offered we were moved to Wilmington in North Carolina under the command of Major John Pointer and Captain Edmund M c Ree - At Wilmington, we were discharged by Major Pointer. Together with the militia from Hyde County & Beaufort marched from Wilmington in company with Captain Edmund M c Ree to Beaufort County where he left us, and returned to Hyde County. I received a discharge in writing from Major Pointer at Wilmington North Carolina, which I have long since lost or it has been destroyed, as I did not think I ever should be called on to produce it, or should receive any pay at any future day for my services - I served about Eight months - I left home about the first of September and returned home about the first of April following. I received in South Carolina four dollars, which was all I ever received for my eight months service - I have no documentary evidence of my service, and the names of no person, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service. He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declared that his name is not on the pension roll of any State - All the persons with whom I was drafted are now below the level of manhood, and subscribed, the day, and gone aforesaid Lewis and Cartwright
The said Lemuel Cartwright being personally examined before me on oath deposed and said in answer to the following interrogatories Question 1 st Where and in what year were you born Answer In Pasquotank County N.C. in the year 1750

Question 2 nd Have you any record of your age, if so where is it - Answer I had a record left by my father in his Bible, which I found years ago copied in my own, as this was very much worn, this I gave to my nephew John Carlingtont and do not know what has become of it -
Question 3 rd Where were you living when called into service when have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live -
Answer I was living on Mattamuskeet in the County of Hyde N.C. and have since and do now live in the same place
Question 4 th How were you called into the service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom -
Answer I was drafted for six months, and served eight months -
Question 5 th State the name of some of the Regular Officers who were with the Troops when you served, also Continental & Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service
Answer I can now only recollect the names of Generals Ash and Bryan, and of Colonels William Patnee, Colonel Perkins, Eason, and Alston, and of Majors Geo. L. McSwaine and John Poirier and Adjutant William Hammett, and Captain Emmanuel McRae - And for the general detail of the circumstances of his service, he answered as before stated in his affidavit as above, to which he referred
Question 6 th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it

Answer
I did receive a discharge, which was given by Major Pointer, and has been lost or destroyed
Question 7 th
State the name of the persons to whom you are known, in your present neighborhood, and who can testify to your present character for veracity and their belief as to your services as a soldier of the Revolution
Answer
I refer to John Gordon, one of the Justices for holding the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Hyde, and to Henry W. Spencer, High Sheriff of the County, and to Joseph Williams a Revolutionary Soldier, whose certificate and affidavit is herewith annexed, and to Joseph Sanger, late one of the Magistrates of said County and to Benjamin Williams, Isaac Sanger, Thomas Barnes, and Joseph Williams Jr.
I Joseph Williams Jr. residing in the County of Hyde etc. do hereby certify, that I am well acquainted with Samuel Cartwright, and have known him for more than fifty years and I do personally know that the said Samuel Cartwright who has known to and subscribed to the above declaration was drafted as a militiaman in the Revolutionary war that he left home in company with others drafted at the same time, and was absent as was said and believed as a militiaman for many months - Known to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid
his Joseph X. Williams Junior Mark

We Ananias Sadler and Israel Brooks Residing in the County of Hyde hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Cartwright who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, we believe him to be eighty four years of age. That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, that we concur in that opinion known to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid An Sadler Israel Brooks
And the said Court, do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and putting the interrogatories presented by the war department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary War. And the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Ananias Sadler and Israel Brooks who have signed the preceding certificates are Residents of the County of Hyde and are Credible persons and that their statement are entitled to credit, And the said Court further Certifies that Joseph Williams Senior whose certificate and affidavit are hereto annexed as to the Revolutionary Services of Samuel Cartwright is a Credible person, that his statement is entitled to Credit.
  B. R. Saunders  J. P.  } Justices non-holding the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Hyde    Isabel H. Harris  J. P.    William Farro  J. P.    November 1834.

I Riley Murray Clerk of the Court of Pensions and Requests Delegates for the County of Hyde, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Cartwright of Hyde County for a Pension
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of my office This 24 th day of November A.D. 1824.
Riley Murray Clerk, Colo.

No. 1760
REJECTED
, Ex'r.
OLD WAR INVALID.
Lemuel Cartwright Me
P. O.
Service :
Enlisted : _____, 18 .
Discharged : _____, 18 .
Application filed : _____, 18 .
Alleges : List of suspended claims printed in 1852 shows cause of
Re-enlisted : suspension as follows: "For further proof and explanation."
Attorney :
P. O.

Sam Cartwright N.B. Hyde Co.
Ad. not now 6mo
Suspended. See lib. l. G.W. Barrow. June 27. 1831. do - Aug 25. 1835
1760
Ad 7 June 32

Aug 24
FREE.
Hon. George M. Bruns Acting Commissioner of Pensions Post-Department Washington City
And the same bond
Several Cartouches

Washington August 11. 1835
Dear Sir, Herewith the foregoing of Pension Your note of the 27 th ultimo in relation to the application of Lemuel Cartwright for a pension, has been rec d . The only objection which seems to have been raised by the Department to the appli- -cation, is that he says "he was drafted by the state of"
I was aware when preparing the papers of Mr. Cartwright that a service of three months only in our state troops , would not entitle the appli- -cant to a pension under the act of Congress, but Sir, it was my intention & so it was the fact, in the statements of Cartwright to me, that although he was drafted by the state of N. Carolina, he served under the officers and the authority of the U. States for the term specified in his application for a pension. It was my intention, in accordance with the instructions of Mr. Cartwright to state his service & the failure is my fault & not his. Mr. Cartwright is a very able Quaker, & in the hurry of the moment in preparing his statement of service in Court, I did not fully explain

what he meant by saying he was "drafted in the state troops". You will please enclose his papers to me at Middletown Hyde County N.Y. & I will introduce before the Court such testimony as will satisfy the War Depart- ment of the error, & convince you that Mr. Cartwright is a soldier of the Revolutionary War, & served in the ranks of the troops of the United States. The Court opens on the 30 th instant, & if you can send me his papers by that time all doubts will be removed by further proof.
Your ob d Serv t ?
J. W. Barron

7. W. Barrow Esq. Middleton Hyde County N. Carolina

Raleigh 9 th March 1835.
Sir
Your letter of the 1 st instant in favour of Lieut. Cartwright was received this morning. I have carefully searched the musterrolls, and book of settlements of soldiers claims, in this office for the name of Lieut. Cartwright, but do not find it. He probably belonged to the Militia and I have no Militia rolls in my office. I regret the failure as I am desirous of serving the old soldiers.
Very respectfully
Your Ob t Serv t
W. Hill
J. W. Barrow Esq r .

Middleton Hyde County June 1. 1835
Sir
Inclosed you will receive the application of Samuel Cartwright for a pension. The enclosed papers were returned to me for the want of the regular certificate of the clerk of Hyde County Court. The certificate is in the very words prescribed by the War-department. As to his service in the State troops of N. Carolina, it appears to me that all the troops of the different States during the war, were received into the service of the U. States & were commanded by the officers of the Confederacy. He served eight months & received his discharge from the officers of the United States. He was drafted in the State troops, but served in the cause of the United States. I wrote to the Secretary of State of N. Carolina to know if the name of Samuel Cartwright was on the muster roll of the State troops in his office, & his answer is herewith enclosed. In preparing the papers of Mr. Cartwright, I only took the

certificates of those who were present in court I could have obtained the evidence of twenty who knew of his absence from home & his service as a militiaman if it had been necessary under the rules of the War-department. There was no person living in his neighborhood, & I took the most respectable men. I hope he will before the long receive the bounty of his government & be placed on the Pension roll of the U. S.
If however further evidence of his service shall be required, please remit me his papers as soon as possible & I will procure it - Let me know however what further evidence is required. Yours ob: Serv:
J. W. Parrow
To
Hon. J. L. Edwards Col. of Pensions

War Department Pension Office Aug. 25. 1835.
Sir
Samuel Cartwright alleges that he was drafted in the State troops of N.C. for six months, and that he actually served before he was discharged for the space of eight months.
Altho' Mr Cartwright has not stated the period when the draft was made, the service described places it in the unit 1779, then , for he states that he was in the Battle of Brandywine, which took place in March 1779. The claimant has fallen into several errors in his declaration; In the first place, he alleged service in the militia and not in the State troops; and in the second place, the militia were not subject by the laws of the State to be drafted for more than three months, unless to fill vacancies or to supply the deficiency of enlistments in the regular army. The militia of N.C. however, that went to the South in 1779 performed a term of five months, altho' bound to perform three months only after leaving the limits of the State of N.C. By an act of the Genl Assembly passed Dec r 1779 the troops were ordered to be raised from the militia by enlistments or draft, for three months, to supply the place of those at the north when terms would expire on the 1 st of Feb y following.
Mr Cartwright states that he returned about the first of Apr l , but he must be mistaken when he states that he returned upon the 1 st of Sept. 1778. From all the facts that can  be ascertained, it is very clear that he could not

have found six months, and of course is not entitled under the law. The papers remain as file
Yours
J. W. Parrow
Aug 25 35
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J. W. Parrow Esq. Washington D.C.
Ms. A. 9. 2. 20. 337

McBarrow
June 27 1831
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War Department Pension Office June 7 th 1835.
Sir
I have rec d the paper in the case of Sam Cartwright and have placed them on file.
By a recurrence to the Acts of the Assembly of Md during the revolution, it will be observed seen that no troops were raised by the authority of the State, for a longer period than three months, at a time, unless where they were drafted to serve in the regular army.
If Mr Cartwright does not pretend that he ever served but one term, he could not have served more than three months, and of course cannot be entitled under the law to a pension. T
Yours
Mr Barrac G Middleton Hyde Co N Car