Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3264, Benjamin W Daniel, N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Nb.
Daniel Benjamin N
S 3264
Born in N.C.
carded.
CONTENTS

West Tennessee
Benjamin W. Daniel of Stewart Co in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Cole of the regt, commanded by Col. Wade in the M.C. M. time for 6 months for 1834.
Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 day of July 1833 — and sent to H. or C. Johnson, Clarksville.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $ 4.00 — Pensional allowance ending 4 Sep " 10. — $ 50. —
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. M. Allison Clerk Book 6 Vol. 7 Page 76
Added to pay 13. Sep. 1837. Letter to P. P. Presley 13. Sept 1837. Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 1 st April 1838 from 4 Sept 1837. to 4 March 1838. Age notified 3 rd Jan 1839. Let to H. C. Johnson July 19 1841
Paid as above from 4. Sept 1839 to 4. Sep 1840. Age notified 28 July 1841
Paid as above from 4 th September 1840 to March 4 th 1841. Agent notified April 21 st 1842.
Paid as above from 4. Sep 1841. to 4. Sep 1842. Age notified 27. Sep 1844.
1884 Sept 3. Margaret Shaw - heir, have no claim to arrears of pension. (Sent printed circular) Prior

State of Tennessee Stewart County
November Term 1832
On the 7 th day of November eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before John Lee George W. H. King and William Ellis the Justices composing the County Court for the County of Stewart and state of Tennessee now sitting Benjamin W. Daniel a resident of the County of Stewart and state of Tennessee aged eighty five 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, That he vol- unteered in the service of the United States under the fol- lowing named officers and served as herein stated. I volunteered in Rowan County North Carolina the particular date from the infirmities of age cannot now be recalled The term of service was for three months, Captain William Cole was our Captain and Colonel Thomas Wade was our Superior Officer, We marched down on Pee- dee River and were stationed at a fort on that river for some considerable time while there for a large part of the time I was acting as commissary for the company. After our weakening up at this fort we were marched to Drowning Creek where we had an engagement with the Tories at a place called Cole's Bridge or Betty's Bridge he does not know which, in this engagement we were de- feated and had to make our escape the best way we could I made for home on foot having lost my horse during the action. I was not discharged regularly owing to the disorder and confused state of things after the battle

Some time after our return from the town of service above alluded to, General Rutherford was in that part of the country intending to act against the British & Tories and I with others volunteered under him and went again into the service of my country. The term for which I volunteered under General Rutherford was at least three months but I am unable to say how much more. For the names of the officers under Rutherford I have no evidence documentary or otherwise to aid a memory almost destroyed by a period of more than four score years. We marched down the country for a long distance to a mill called I think McFall's Mill. While there the army under Gen- eral Butler was encamped on the opposite side of the creek that supplied the mill. The rea- son that this fact is recollected is that there were in the army under General Butler some old friends that I had known in youth and were from the part of the country I had been born and raised in From then on speaking up. We marched but in what direction I am unable to say there having nothing transpired during the period to impress it on my mind. When I returned from that campaign news arrived of the capture of Captain Wallis and we were all dismounted Where were you born and when I was born in Wake County North Carolina I have no record of my age and don't remember the exact year or month When were you born when you entered the service where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live

I was living in Rowan County North Carolina, From then I moved to Rutherford County in the state of Ten- nessee and after a twelve months residence there I moved to where I now live in Stewart County in the state of Tennessee where I have lived thir- teen or fourteen years
How did you enter the service? by Draft or did you volunteer or were you a substitute and for whom
I volunteered on both occasions But have no documentary evidence to refer to for further particulars I hereby Relinquish all claim whatever to a pen- sion or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the Pension roll of the agency
of my state
By Benjamin W Daniel
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year afore said in open court
by Adl Powell
Sub J. Williams
Witnesses and Davis Moore residing in the state of Tennessee on a county of Stewart do certify that we are well acquainted with Ben- jamin W Daniel who has subscribed to & sworn to the foregoing declaration that he is an honest industrious citizen and a man of veracity that we believe him to be eighty five years old and that we have no doubt but that he served in the revolutionary war as he has stated
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year afore said in open court J Williams clerk
Travis Moore Georgeathy

And the said Court does hereby declare its opinion after an investigation of the Matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Soldier of the Revolutionary War and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to it that George Calhoun and Lewis Moore who have signed and sworn to the foregoing certificate are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit
John Lee
Benj W. Daniel
for - [unclear] 6/20/31
H. C. Johnson Clifford
G. M. Rains William Ellis
State of Tennessee Stewart County
I William Williams Clerk of said Court do hereby certify that the proceedings - the original papers on the application of the said Benjamin W. Daniel for a pension before the County Court of Stewart at their November Term 1832 and which is ordered by said Court to be certified
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office in Dover the 7th day of November 1832
W Williams Clerk

February 19, 1940.
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Mr. W. H. Daniel Ninth Street Building Huntington, West Virginia.
BA-J/GC Benjamin W. Daniel S.3264
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Benjamin Woodson Daniel, born in Wake County, North Carolina and who applied for pension from Stewart County, Tennessee, application #83284.
The pension number 83284 does not pertain to a Benjamin Daniel. The record has been found of Benjamin W. Daniel of Tennessee and North Carolina, pension number S.3264. His record is furnished you herein.
Benjamin W. Daniel was born in Wake County, North Carolina, date of his birth and names of his parents are not shown.
While a resident of Rowan County, North Carolina, Benjamin W. Daniel volunteered and served three months as private and commissary in Captain William Cole's company, Colonel Thomas Wade's North Carolina regiment and was in a battle with the Tories at Cole's Bridge or Betty's Bridge; volunteered in the year of the surrender of Cornwallis, served three months under General Rutherford against the British and Tories. Exact dates of his service are not shown.
He moved from Rowan County, North Carolina to Rutherford County, Tennessee where he lived one year then about 1818 or 1819 he moved to Stewart County, Tennessee, where he was residing when allowed pension on his application executed November 7, 1832, at which time he was aged eighty-five years.
Date and place of marriage of Benjamin W. Daniel and name of his wife are not shown.

In 1884, one Margret Shaw of Metropolis, Illinois stated that her father, Benjamin W. Daniel, was then the only surviving son of Benjamin W. Daniel the Revolutionary War soldier and pensioner who died about February 1847. No further family data are shown.
The soldier's application was witnessed by Travers Moore and George Cathy.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the exact date of death of Benjamin W. Daniel you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
Benjamin W. Daniel Certificate #13882 Issued July 9, 1833, Rate $20.00 per annum Commenced March 4, 1831 Act of June 7, 1832 West Tennessee Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

In answer to your enquiry of 19 th ult whether there is any arrears of pension due to the heirs of Benj n W. Daniels on account of his services in the war of the Revolution, you are advised that there is no provision of law existing which gives to his children or other heirs the to claim a pension or arrear of pension for his services in the above mentioned war after his decease
Your attention is invited to the enclosed printed Circular -
Sept 2. 1884 - Margaret Shaw Care J. C Shaver - Metropolis Ills Print
83264

1940 - Feb 19 - Nick to 25 H Daniel cc
Revhan
3264.
INVALID.
File No. 3264
Benjamin H. Daniel Pitt. N.C. Neila
Act: June 7/32
Index:—Vol. A , Page 89
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Benj W. Daniel Tenn
for — final 6 mo. $20.
Pension Stamps
Rev. Mr. Johnson
Nov. 29
The Agent for Revolutionary Pensions in the War Department
Washington City
N. B. Johnson Clarksville Tenn
ms

Washington
28 th Nov.
Dear Sir,
Inclou thru application for a pension which I shall be very thankful to have acted on as early as practicable
Yours fr'ly &c.
E. Johnston

NAVY DEPT Navy Department.
Bu. Equipment & Recruiting.
Aug. 28. 1887.
Respectfully re- ferred to the Com- missioner of Pensions, Writer so informed.
Adm. English, Chief of Bureau.

please send to me a copy of my Graduation Certificate Recd. of Pension I mean Ben- -efit to Daniel Kreifum Mother. Went Show by O'Brien

3,264
J. C. SHAVER ATTORNEY AT LAW.
OFFICE IN THE SHAVER BUILDING, COURT SQUARE.
METROPOLIS, ILLS., Augh 19 th 1884.
Hon Sec. of the United States Navy Washington D.C. Dear Sir,
Please inform me at your earliest convenience - whether Benjamin W. Daniel, deceased late of the War of the Revolution. What I desire to ascertain is if there is any thing due to said soldier ancestor of mine of pension to him or to his heirs. He the said Benjamin W. Daniel was born on the pension books of the United States at his death (Wid. Febry etc.) 1849, or thereabouts. This request is made by me as and for the benefit of my Father Benjamin W. Daniel, who is his only living and surviving son
Very respectfully Margaret Shaw

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
March 29 th 1842.
Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Benjamin W. Daniel, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Nashville Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars and  Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1840, to the 4 th March 1841.
Respectfully, yours,
John C. Calhoun
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
Dec, 12 th 1843.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, Benjamin W. Daniel, ————— a Pensioner on the Roll of the Nashville, Ten: Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars and ————— Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1841, to the 4 th Sept. 1842.
Respectfully, yours,
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

Im at W Evan
Sept 12

Free
J. L. Edwards Esquire Commissioner of Pensions War Department Washington City

Dover 29. August 1837
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Dear Sir,
Enclosed please find the Certificate and Power of Attorney of Benjamin W. Daniel a Revolutionary Pensioner of this County -
You will see that he has not drawn since the 4th. September 1835, leaving 3 payments now due him - The reasons he assigns for not drawing oftener, are that he is very infirm and lives a considerable distance from any one who is competent to draw up his papers, property, and also that he was not apprised of the rule requiring him to apply in any given time, and more particularly of the new rule which took effect the 4th. March last requiring the Pensioner to draw every 6 months - Please attend to this and return the papers to me as soon as convenient at this place, - As regards myself, I refer you to the Hon. Felix Grundy -
Respectfully
Yr. Hble. Svt.
C. Priestley

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
December 18 th , 1838.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Benjamin W. Daniel, — a Pensioner on the Roll of the Nashville, W. Ten: Agency, at the rate of Twenty — Dollars and — Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1837, to the 4 th March, 1838.
Respectfully, yours,
William H. Parris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
July 2 nd 1841.
Sir :
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Benjamin W. Daniel, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Nashville, Tenn. Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 4 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 1 st of Sept. 1839, to the 1 st Sept. 1840.
Respectfully yours,
Wilson B. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

WILL H. DANIEL ATTORNEY AT LAW NINTH STREET BUILDING HUNTINGTON, W. VA.
February 1, 1940.
Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:-
Revolutionary War: Benjamin Woodson Daniel, Application # 83 284 Tennessee.
Will you please give me the data with respect to the pension granted to Benjamin Woodson Daniel, application # 83 284, said to have been born in Wake County, North Carolina, applied for pension from Stewart County, Tennessee, a soldier of the Revolution; and if the records show:
Date and place of birth, To what organization attached, Witnesses to application Date of death.
Were there any court proceedings after death of soldier which would give the names of his beneficiaries?
Any other information allowable under regulations.
Yours very truly,
W. H. Daniel W. H. Daniel.
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