Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6783, John Dail, N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
N. b.
Dail, John
S. 6783
carded
CONTENTS

Enrolled on the Roll of Charlotte at the rate of 80 Dollars & Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued to the 70 th Regt of Penn a Res d Vols William H. Heston, P.H. Became entitled to draw Pension July 23 rd 1881. $20- Pension allowed from July 23 rd 1881 to Dec r 31 st 1881 $40- Total amount due William Heston $60-
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Recorded by Josephine Vol. 8

Int. Seal p. 67. Albany 09/10. Rev. S. Aug. 77 for 24/7.
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Jesse Wilson Hartford N.C.
Agent. Recd. Aug 23. 1832

State of North Carolina } on the 18 day of August 1832 Pendergraves County } personally appeared before the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Pen- dergraves in the State of North Carolina John Daile a resident of the aforesaid County of Pendergraves aged Seventy Seven years who first being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to ob- tain the benefit of the provisions by the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832 That he enlisted in the army of the United States on the 7 day of August 1777 with Captain Isaac Moore and served in the 10 Regiment of the North Carolina line under the following company officers to wit Isaac Moore Captain, Robert Nicholson first Lieutenant William Barker second Lieutenant, David Knight en- sign and under the following field officers to wit Colonel Shepherd and Major John Shepherd This deponent further swears that he was at the battle of Clinton in South Carolina and was at that time under the im- mediate command of Captain McCree and that his field officer was General Ash that this deponent was taken a prisoner at the Surrender of Charleston and detained a prisoner for a considerable time at length he made his escape from the Br and returned to Pendergraves County in the State Carolina where he was born raised and res when he enlisted, in the month of July 1777 the term of this deponent's enlistment which

Three years expired on the 7 of August Succeeding his re- turn home in July 1780 That he subsequently went to Halifax North Carolina and was there duly dis- charged by Captain Coleman and that his discharge was countersigned by Coln. Sharpe which discharge the deponent swears he has lost. That he resides now in the County of Newberry in the State of North Carolina and he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State or territory
Sworn to and subscribed in open His Court the 13 day of August 1832 John Dail brave
Unto John Muddell
William Bob will being duly sworn deposeth and says that he knows of his own knowledge that John Dail at that time and now a citizen of Newberry County in the State of North Carolina enlisted under Captain Isaac Moore in Newberry County in the year 1861 a soldier in the Army of the United States 10 Regiment of the North Carolina Line for a term of three years that the company officers and John Dail were

Isaac Moore Captain, Robert Nicholson first Lieutenant, William Barker second Lieutenant and David Bright ensign that the first field officers of the said John Daile were Coln. Shephard and Major John Shephard and this deponent further swears that to the best of his knowledge and belief the said John Daile was at the battle and surrender of Charleston where facts this deponent knows because he was a soldier himself under the same officers
William Bofwell
Sworn to and subscribed in open court
The 13 day of August 1832
That
John Woodcock
and the said Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the County of Newbern in the State of North Carolina do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant John Daile was a re- volutionary soldier and served as he and William Bofwell state above
I John Wood Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the County of Newbern do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original pro- ceedings of the said Court in the matter of the applica- tion of John Daile for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed the seal of my said office done in open Court this 13 day of August 1832
William Bofwell
John Woodcock

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6783. INVALID.
File No. 6783
John Dail Bri Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 st , Page 89
[Arrangement of 1870.]

John Seal
from 1777 private 3 years. $80.

State of North Carolina
Secretary's Office
I William Hill Secretary of State in and for the State aforesaid, do certify that it appears from the Musterrolls of the Continental line of this State in the revolutionary war that John Deane a private in Capt. Moore's Company of the 10 th Regiment enlisted on the 5 th day of August 17, for the term of three years, and that nothing more is said of him on said rolls.
Given under my hand this 30 th Nov. 1832
W. Hill

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John Dail - (or Dale) - probably S. Car. line - perhaps S. Car. or Va -
North Carolina
Imm File No 6,783 OK 508
Nov 12/79
Rejected Oct 18/20

State of North Carolina } For the purpose of obtaining Pendergraves County } the benefit of an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution approved on the 15 th of May 1828 I John Dail of the County of Pendergraves and State of North Carolina do hereby declare that I enlisted as a private in Captain Isaac Moores Company of the 10 Regiment on the 7 day of August 1777 for the space of three years that I served in the army of the Revolution until the capture of Charlestown in South Carolina when I was taken prisoner in which place I remained a prisoner until the day of June 1780 when I made my escape. I have never received any certificate for the reward of eighty dollars under a resolve of Congress passed 15 th of May 1778. I further declare that I was not on the 15 th day of March 1828 on the pension lists of the United States that after the war I procured a discharge from Captain Coleman that I afterwards gave the said discharge to John Musfroe to whom I transferred my said claim Sworn and subscribed before John Dail Alfred Moore P.
Personally appeared before me Alfred Moore one of the acting Justices of the peace for the County of Pendergraves in the State of North Carolina William Boswell and Jacob Lane and after being God duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of allmighty God depose and say that they are now and were in the year 1777 acquainted with the above affiant John Dail that said Dail was a soldier in the army of the Revolution that he enlisted in Captain Isaac Moores Company belonging to the 10 Regiment in the summer of 1777 that he served in said army till taken a prisoner in Charlestown 1780 Sworn and subscribed before me William Boswell Alfred Moore P. Jacob Lane

State of North Carolina Perngon County }
I John Wood Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Perngon in the State of North Carolina certify= That Alfred Moore Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken and subscribed and sworn to at the time of taking the same an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County of Perngon in the State of North Carolina and is duly qualified to administer oaths In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court aforesaid in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 28 year of American Independence and the 15 th day of June 1828
John Wood Clerk

Bertford Perquimons County NC
June 16 1828
Richard Bush Esquire, Here with you have the affidavit of myself setting forth my Claims to a pension under the act of 15 of May 1828 I enlisted you will see on the 7 of August 1777 for Three years I served until I was made a prisoner at the taking of Charleston in 1780 I made my escape from the enemy at Charleston when a prisoner in June 1780 and came home my time being nearly expired I did not return to the army. I am now old and poor being entirely destitute of property, Should I not be entitled to a pension under the act of 15 of March 1828 I shall make application for a pension under the former act. The Secretary will confer a great favour on me by inform- ing me of the requisitions of the Law to entitle me to a pension for my services in the revolution- ary war  Army . Should the affidavit herein con- tained entitle me to pay, you are hereby au- thorized to transmit the same to me in Bertford Perquimons County North Carolina
Yest John Mead
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