Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,653, Sion Daniel, N.C.

SERVICE
N.6.
Daniel, Sion Mary
NUMBER
R.2653
CONTENTS

13968
Decl.

State of North Carolina
Wake County } ss. On this 3 rd day of Jan y 1848 personally ap- peared before me E. W. Billiard as acting justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, Mary Daniel, (whose maiden name was Mary Culp- pepper) Resident of said County and State, aged eighty two years, who being first duly sworn according to law, with an her oath, makes the following decla- ration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of bon- gaps passed July 7 th 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows:" And the Act granting one year's pension to certain widows, passed 3 rd March 1843; Also the act of 17 th of June 1844, continuing the pensions of certain widows. — That she is the widow of Simon Daniel who was a Private Soldier in a Cavalry Company of the North Carolina line, and also a Commissary in the War of the Revolution. That he resided in the County of Wake and State aforesaid, when he entered the service of the United States in said War; that his Father Peter Daniel sent him to Wake County to School, to prevent his going into the service (As she has frequently heard her husband the said Simon Daniel say, and fully believes;) And, that while at School, some time in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy seven she thinks, he the said Simon Daniel quit School, and enlisted in said Cavalry Company for eighteen months, and served out the same as a Private Soldier and Commissary in the War aforesaid; that she has heard her husband say that he was in the Battle at Brandywine, and that there he saw Gen- eral Washington for the first time; That she has also understood from her husband the said Simon Daniel, that the last six months of the time for which he enlisted, he acted as Commissary. And that aft- er the expiration of the time of his enlistment as above stated, he came home to his Father's house in the County of Halifax N.C., but did not remain long afterwards, before he went to Halifax Town, to a Muster that had been appointed there, for the purpose of drafting soldiers for the War; and as there hired by a man, who was drafted to go into the service (his name she does not now recollect) and that he the said Simon Daniel ent- ered the service again, as a substitute for a tour of three months, and served out the same; after the expiration of which, he was hired again by another man, who was drafted, and served as a substitute another tour of three months; he then acted as Commissary again, (her husband said, as well as she can recollect,) until hostilities —

- ceased, or until the time of the War. - She further declares that she was lawfully married to the said Sion Daniel in the month of February, Seventeen hundred and eighty six, and in the County of Nash & State aforesaid by Hardy Griffin Esq r of said County; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but that the mar- -riage took place previous to the first of January, Seventeen hundred & ninety four; Viz: at the time above stated, as will fully appear by the leaf herunto attached, which was taken out of her husband's old family Bible, and contains the true ages of her four oldest Child- -ren, whose ages are registered in the hand writing of their Father the said Sion Daniel; That she has never in law married since the death of her husband the said Sion Daniel, but still continu- -es his widow. - Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
Mary his Daniel Mark
E. B. Williams J.P.
I the said Justice of the Peace, do hereby certify that Mary Daniel who has this day sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration before me, is an old lady of respectability and truth, and that full faith and credit is due to her oath. - I further certify that she is, from old age, and bodily infirmity unable to attend Court to make her said declaration. Given un- -der my hand this 3 rd day of Jan y 1878
E. B. Williams J.P.

THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST,
Translated out of the ORIGINAL GREEK: AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS
Diligently Compared and Revised, By His MAJESTY's Special Command.
APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES.
O X F O R D:
PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS, By W. Jackson and A. Hamilton, Printers to the University.

Benjamin Daniel son of Simon Daniel & Mary his Wife was born in the Year of our Lord 1786 and on the 3 rd Day of December at Surrey.
Elizabeth Daniel Daughter of Simon Daniel & Mary his Wife was born the 28 th Day of November 1788
Winifred Daniel Daughter of Simon Daniel & Mary his Wife was born March 28 th 1793

November 12th 1856
To the Committee of Pension
Washington D.C.
There was an effort made to collect a Revolutionary Pension for my wife's mother Mary Daniel widow of Simon Daniel who rendered services in the Revolutionary War a part of the time as a commissary the other service is unknown to me we were informed that there was a large amount of money due the widow died in May 1855 her agent Mr. Daniel came to the house about two years before she died and took all of the papers of the widow and cut the family record out of her family Bible we have not been able to find the agent since he came & got the papers it is respectfully asked if there was anything ever allowed on a claim like the one above described

You will please send an answer to this to Smithfield North Carolina on or before March 1 st 1881 for J. C. Goad son { his wife Giles

REJECTED
2653
O.
Mary Daniels
Service: wid. of Simon Daniels
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
O.
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

No 13968 Mary Daniels mo of Sam Daniels NC
act 7 May 1838

Washington DC September 10, 1849.
Sir,
Enclosed is the declaration of Mary Daniel, widow of Simon Daniel, under the Act of 7th July, 1838, and its supplements. Your early action upon the same will much oblige Your Most Obt. Servt Th. Dampier.
Col. J. P. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions.

Hon. James E. Heath Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D. C.

Nash County N.C. March 2 d 1853.
Sir
I wish you, if you please, to allow my Attorney or Agent, Mr. Thomas Lumpkin of Washington City D.C. the liberty to examine my declaration and all the testimony on file in your Office, relative to my claim for a pension on account of the Revolutionary services of my deceased husband Simon Daniel; and when my pension Certificate is issued, if my claim is allowed, you will please deliver it to my said Agent, Mr. Lumpkin for me.
Hon. Jas. E. Heath Esq. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
I am Sir, with high regard Your humble petitioner her Mary F. Daniel Pmark
Witness
John Hall

Mary Daniel N. C. Oct 1838 Responded
Y Lumpkin M. B. 55 C.E. acty W. H.

No 13968
Mary Daniels N.C.
Letta Thomas Sumpter 30 th Oct 1849 J.B. Coitner Jany 15 1857-
265 B
act 7 July 1838