Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9820, Hugh Cunningham, N.C.

SERVICE
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Cunningham, Hugh Mary
No. 9820.
CONTENTS

Missouri, 4183,
Mary Cunningham, widow of Hugh Cunningham, who died on the 20 Septem r , 1824, of in the State of Missouri who was a Pri r , in the Co commanded by Captain of the commanded by in the Mo. time for 18 months,
Letter to Pen Agt 19. Oct 1846 Same 25 Oct 1847
Letter to Pension Agents to J. E. Walsh, Jan y 25 1849. Letter to Wm. C. Anderson with enclosed letter to Messrs. J. H. Walsh Oct. 25: 1849
Inscribed on the Roll of Missouri at the rate of 60 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 day of April 1845 and sent to E. H. Brown, Present
Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending
Revolutionary Claim Act July 4, 1839 Section the 3
Recorded by A. L. Swann, Clerk, Book Vol. 1 Page 203

foregoing is a true copy of the Record in my office.
In testimony whereof I the clerk as aforesaid have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 14 th day of Aug. o AD 1844
Isabella Dargle
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Mary Cunningham widow of Hugh Mrs
ad 14 July 1836
Pension
m 80 d 24
adm 18 mo. p. m.
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E. J. Brown Clerk

State of Missouri County of Greene } SS
Personally appeared before the undersigned an acting justice of the Peace in and for said County Mary Cunningham aged eighty years who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her Oath, make the following Declara- tion, in order to obtain the benefit of the 3 d section of the act of Congress approved the 4 th July 1836 granting pensions to widows
This Declarant states that she is the widow of Hugh Cunningham, formerly Mary Kent who was, a soldier in the War of the Revolution that he entered the service of the United States on the 1 st of April Seventeen hundred and eighty as a volunteer for three months, from 3 Rowan County North Carolina, under Captain Joseph M. Cunningham Major Loff and Col. Craig; during said tour he was engag- ed in pursuing the Tories and protecting the inhabitants from them. After the expir- ation of said tour he remained at home but a very short time, when he was called out again under the same Officers. He was absent this 2 time two months. He again returned home but was again called out on the 1 st September Seventeen hundred and eighty and continued almost constantly in the service until in January Seventeen hundred and eighty two This Declarant states that her said husband was absent from home engaged in the service about fourteen different times the first time for the first time for three months the second for two months and the balance of the times she believes he was absent about six weeks each time upon an average

This Declarant states that her husband was at the battle of Cowpens under Capt Cunnigham then Major Loff and Col. Brang and General Morgan. He was also in a small skirmish under Major Merrill who made an attack, upon Col. Tarleton on the Adkin River at a place called the old Trading ford and here Merrill was taken by the Tories and hung. Her said husband was in no other engagements during his services except some small skirmishes with the Tories. Her said husband was engaged almost all the time of his services, against the Tories who infested that country to the great annoyance and the destruction of the property and lives of the people.
This Declarant states that her husband received a discharge from Gen. Davidson that said discharge has been lost. She has frequently seen said discharge. She states that she was married to the said Hugh Cunnigham by the name of Mary Kent in Rowan County North Carolina about the 1st of March Seventeen hundred and eighty and that said Cunnigham died in Rowan County North Carolina on the 20th of September eighteen hundred and twenty four that she has never married again but is now and continues to be a widow.
Text"> She believes that her husband served under Col. Brang as a horseman for about six months. She also states that after the war Gen. Davidson used to call on her husband often.

and she has frequently heard them talk about the incidents of the war sworn to & subscribed } before me this August } her 3 d 1844 } Mary Gunningham Mark Simon D Bird J. P. G. C.
State of Missouri County of Greene } SS This is to certify that I am well acquainted with the above Declarant and that she is an old lady of respec- tability and trust, that the foregoing statement is entitled to full faith Given under my hand this Aug- ust 3 d 1844 Simon D Bird J. P. G. C.
State of Missouri County of Greene } SS I Joshua Davis Clerk of the County Court of Greene County do certify that Simon D. Bird is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for Greene County commis- ioned and qualified according to law and that all his official acts are entitled to full credit In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal to Office at Office

State of Missouri In the County Court August Term County of Greene in the Year of our Lord 1844
At a County Court began and held on the 5 th day of August 1844 present the Honorable Justices Wm B. Blount Bennet Robbins and Wm C Price Justices Esq. Thos D. Kearn sheriff and Joshua Davis Clerk
Be it remembered that on the 5 th day of said Term of said County Court and on the 9 th day of said Month (Aug.) amongst then the following proceeding were had in the words following to wit
"This day was exhibited in open Court the Declaration and affidavit of Mary Cunningham and the Certificate of Simon D. Davis known to this Court to be an acting Justice of the peace for Robbins Township of Greene County Mo duly elected commissioned and qualified that the signature purporting to be his we believe to be genuine and that full faith and credit should be given to all his official acts as such." Joshua Davis Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Greene do certify the foregoing is a true copy of the Record in my office.
In testimony whereof I the Clerk as aforesaid have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 9 th day of Aug. AD 1844 Joshua Davis Clerk

Rev. an 2 Wars Section
AWF/HMD aw
May 2, 1930.
Mrs. Chalmers B. Gibbens 627 Juliana Street Parkersburg West Virginia.
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 9820, it appears that Hugh Cunningham while a resident of Rowan County, North Carolina, enlisted April 1, 1780 and served at various times until in January 1782, about eighteen months in all, as a private in Captain Joseph M. Cunningham's Company, Colonel Craig's North Carolina Regiment, and under Major Merrill in the North Carolina troops; was in the battle of Cowpens and in a skirmish at Trading Ford on the Yadkin River.
He died September 20, 1824 in Rowan County, North Carolina.
He married March 1, 1780 in Rowan County, North Carolina, Mary Kent of said county. She was allowed pension on her application executed August 3, 1844 while living in Greene County, Missouri, aged eighty years.
The above noted is the history of the only soldier named Hugh Cunningham found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
The Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to George Drake.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.

1927-Mch. 22-Act to Mrs. Thos. Smith M.M.F. 1929-July 23, Hist to Mrs. Willard Shaw - M.E. C. 1930-May 2-Hist to Mrs. Chalmers B. Sibbens
Revolutionary South Carolina  WIDOW, &c.
File No. 9820
Mary Cunningham  Wid. of  Hugh Cunningham  Port Royal line  22 E
Act: July 4/36, Sess 3d
Index:—Vol. A , Page 161
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Mary Cunningham
Maw of Hugh
Ms Let to H. S. Kennedy Mar. 2. 1844.
act-4 July 1836

March 21 st 1730 the within Couple was joined together by Rev. Smith
CUNNINGHAM, HUGH (N.C.) W-9820

State of North Carolina Rowan County
To my Regular Licensed Ministers of the Gospel of whomsoever dissemination having been of late, or to any lawful Magistrate of the same County
By virtue of Authority to me given by Act of the General Assembly of the State at by an Act entitled 'An Act to repeal an Act entitled an Act to repeal an Act entitled an Act entitled' any of you to solemnize the Rites of matrimony between Hugh Cunningham and Mary Kent of this County and join them together as man & wife in the Holy State of matrimony given under my hand this 10 th day of February Anno Domini 1780
J. B. Gibson Clerk

Agency, Notarial, and conveyancing Office, Washington City, 29 th March, 1845.
Sir:
Herewith I enclose the certificate of the Comptroller of North Carolina in favor of Hugh Cunningham , a Revolutionary soldier of the N. C. line , amounting to £65.10.
The declaration of Mary Cunningham , the Widow of Hugh , was sent you some month, since from Bolivar, Mo. by M. D. Hendrick , with whom I am concerned, and at whose request I have obtained from Raleigh the certificate.
Please inform me when it is acted on.
Very Respectfully, Yr. Ob t St.)
Edm. F. Brown, Agent.)
The Commissioner } of Pensions }

St Louis January 12 th 1849. Honble S. L. Edwards. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D. C. Dear Sir
Enclosed herewith we send you for examination and order for payment to the Pension Agent of this City, the pension application of Mary Cunningham for 12 months, pension from 4 th Sept. 1847 to Sept 4. 1848 in amount $60 = The Pension agent here has done us the favor to make an endorsement on this paper to which we respectfully call your attention You perceive the power of attorney, (you are however aware of this) will expire in 90 days from the date of their being granted, your order therefore will be required, to ensure its payment, without allowing advantage to be taken if the time should have expired. Your early attention will give us pleasure, we have not forgotten your prompt attention in a previously similar application.
Yours Respectfully.
J. O. Wash

Pension Agency, St. Louis, Mo October 14 th 1847
Sir
I enclose for examination the pension papers of Mary Cunningham, Augustin Sims and James Barham, all revolutionary pensioners on the Roll of this Agency and last paid to 4 September 18 September 1846.
I am very respectfully your Ob. Servt.
Wm. C. Anderson Agent
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commr. of Pensions Washington City

St. Louis Feb. 16. 1849. Honble S. L. Edwards. Commissioner of Pensions. Washington City. D. C. Dear Sir.
We herewith transmit you for Examination 3. orders of Paymaster on the Pension Agent of this place, one being for pension 1 year from the 4. Sept 1848 to 4. Sept 1849, the application of Mary Cunningham for $ 60.00 James Barham for $ 32.33 John Seeger for $ 48.00 $ 130.33
You will confer a favor on us by giving this matter as early and attention as your duties will permit, we feel much indebted to you for your prompt acquiescence in our wishes in a former similar instance
Yours Respectfully.
J. O. Walsh

W.B.
Rec d . March 28. 1845.
E.H. Brown
James H. Brown Esq. Washington D.C.
W.B.

Compt Office Raleigh
March 26 th 1845
William G Collins Comptroller of Public Accounts in and for the State of North Carolina do hereby Certify, that the name of Hugh Cunningham appears of Record in this office as having had issued in his favor for Military Services The following Special Certificates (as follows) One Certificate for Fourteen Pounds Eight Shillings ($14.8) see Book No 5 page 8. Also one other Certificate for Twenty Eight Pounds ($28) see Book No 8 page 7, Also one other Certif- -icate for Twenty Three Pounds Two Shillings ($23.2) given under my hand and seal this the 26 day March A D 1845
Wm G Collins Compt
14. 8. 0 28. 0. 0 23. 2. 0 65. 10. 0 20 8/1310 164 82 1/2

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Bolivar, Polk Co., Missouri August 18, 1844
Sir.
Enclosed I forward you the Declarati- on of Mary Cunningham of the adjoining County (Green) for a pension also the Certificate of her marriage with her said husband, which you will please file and inform me when to apply for record evidence attesting his services &c.
In the case of Judson Parrott, of this County who applied for a pension in consequence of wounds received in the Florida war, in May last, nothing has been heard. I forwarded you, in June, the Affidavits of Col. Wm Henry Russell and Captain C. B. Rogers of Gallaway County Mo and the affidavit of Dr. Cruise of Howard County and I presumed that that would be sufficient evidence to place Parrott's name upon the Invalid Pension roll You will please answer touching both above cases soon
Yours
Respectfully
M. D. Hendrick

Booneville Miss 28 Church St. Jan. 21, 1927
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir, Do you have any record of services in the Revolutionary war of David Files (wife Mary Files) or James Files (wife Sarah Holcombe Files)? They were from
Pendleton county S.C. Also please send, if you can, the Revolutionary record of Thomas Gresham wife (Mary Gresham) of Georgia and the record of Hugh one only Cunningham from Mecklenberg county N.C. We know they did service but have no record of what they did.

Any information will be greatly appreciated.
Thanking you for an early reply I am
Very truly yours, Mrs. Thomas L. Smith.

Parkersburg, W. Va
Feb. 26. 1930
Department of Interior Bureau of Pensions Washington D. C.
Dear Sir:
(1)
I am looking up the record of George Drake who came from England and probably settled in Virginia - His children were Rev. John Drake, James Drake and a daughter Hannah Drake. His son, Rev. John Drake was born in 1775 - Have you any record of his, (George Drake) activities in the Revolutionary War.
(2)
Also Hugh Cunningham who came from Ireland and settled on the banks of the Potomac, Fairfax County Virginia. He had eight sons (Adam, Ephraim, Benjamin, William, Walter, Edward and Thomas) - Any data you may have shall be greatly appreciated by me - very truly yours
Mrs Chalmer B. Gribbens 627- Julian Street.

401 N. Fourth Street Cambridge, Ohio. April 1, 1929.
Pension Bureau, Dept. of Interior, Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
Will you please send me the Revolutionary War record of Hugh only  Cunningham Sr. who served in the Pennsylvania Militia from Pastang Township, Lancaster County, Pa.
Would you please advise me if David Shields of Berkeley County, Va. was given a pension for service in the War of 1812? If so how could I get a copy of pension statements also his service records. David Shields was married to Mary Cunningham and moved to Ohio near Bellaire, Belmont County in 1817.
Thanking you, I am
Yours very truly, Mrs Willard Shaw.

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section MEE/HDM
July 23, 1929.
Mrs. Willard Shaw 401 N. Fourth Street Cambridge Ohio.
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 9820 it appears that Hugh Cunningham while a resident of Rowan County, North Carolina, enlisted April 1, 1780 and served at various times until in January 1782, about eighteen months in all, as a private in Captain Joseph M. Cunningham's Company, Colonel Craig's North Carolina Regiment, and under Major Merrill in the North Carolina Troops; was in the battle of Cowpens and in a skirmish at Trading Ford on the Yadkin River.
He married March 1, 1780 in Rowan County, North Carolina, Mary Kent of said county.
He died September 20, 1824 in Rowan County, North Carolina.
She was allowed pension on her application executed August 3, 1844 while living in Greene County, Missouri, aged eighty years.
The above is the history of the only soldier named Hugh Cunningham found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau, and

the War of 1812 records fail to show that pension was ever claimed on account of the service of David Shields.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.

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March 22, 1927
Mrs. Thomas Q. Smith 28 Church St., Booneville, Miss.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 9820 it appears that Hugh Cunningham while a resident of Rowan County, North Carolina, enlisted April 1, 1780 and served at various times until in January 1782, about eighteen months in all, as a private in Captain Joseph M. Cunningham's Company, Colonel Craig's North Carolina Regiment, and under Major Merrill in the North Carolina Troops, was in the battle of Cowpens and in a skirmish at Trading Ford on the Yadkin River.
P He married March 1, 1780 in Rowan County, North Carolina, Mary Kent of said county. TP He died September 20, 1824 in Rowan County, North Carolina.
She His widow Mary was allowed pension on her application executed August 3, 1844 while living in Greene County, Missouri aged eighty years. P The above noted is the only soldier by that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Respectfully
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.
was pensioned for that much which was cancelled from his state reports & amount paid