Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4353, Abram Helton, N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Ab.
Helton, Abram or Abraham
S. 4353
CONTENTS
Carded

13965 West Tennessee
Abraham Holton Inf of Bedford Co in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Rogers of the regiment commanded by Col. O'Neal in the War of 1812 time for 7 months
Entered on the Roll of W. Tennessee at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of July 1833 and Death of M c Kisick Shelbyville.
Arrears to the 4th of March 46 66 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept 11 66
$58 32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Dan Bayg Clerk,
Book E Vol. 7 Page 87

A. Bellang
Declaration

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7 th June 1832.
State of Tennessee Bedford County Court.
On this 7 th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three; personally appeared in open court before the worshipful Samuel Phillips, William W. Clive and John B. Armstrong Esq s gentlemen justices of the peace, appointed to hold the court of pleas and Quarter Sessions for said County, now sitting, Abraham Helton Sen r a Resident of said County, Aged; said Deponent states, agreeable to the information he received from his parents Eighty years and upwards, who after being sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7 th June 1832. That he entered the service of the united States under the following named officers and served as here in stated, (to wit.) That he entered the service of the united States, in the County of Orange and State of North Carolina he thinks in the month of Septem r 1780 - as a volunteer in a company of volunteers under the command of Captain William Rogers in a Regiment commanded by Col. William Aitral in Genl. Butlers Brigade of Carolina Militia and was Mustered into service at Ramsays Mill on

Deep river in Chatham County in Said State, and after remaining there some time was taken Sick, and permitted to return home; he says that he recovered his health in a short time and was ordered out again; and marched to Hillsborough in said County of Orange, to assist in conveying and guarding some tory prisoners from that place to Harrisburgh in Granville County of Carolina which he did; and saw them confined in the Jail at that place; he states he was then marched back into Orange County; and in a few days was ordered out again and placed under the command of Lieut. Norman and was marched on a scouting or spying expedition, through, Randolph and Chatham Counties in said State of North Carolina, in order as he was informed, ascertain the movements of the Tories, who were at that time, very numerous in that section of of Country, and that he remained in service until the next spring he thinks in April or May 1781 but from the great length of time he is not certain which; Deponent further says that from old age and the consequent loss of memory he is not able at this period of his life to swear to the precise length of time he was in the service of the united States but according to the best of his recollection he serves not less than seven months in actual service for which he claims a pension, and that he has no documentary evidence whatever, and

that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify as to his service, except that he can prove by the testimony of Henry Moore Sen r and Martin Shofner - and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any Agency in the United States to his knowledge and that he hereby relinquishes all claims to any pension or annuity, except the present.
Interrogatories by the Court.
Int 1 st When and in what year were you born?
Ans r I was born in Orange County and State of North Carolina, agreeable to what my parents informed me, but the month and year, I know nothing about.
Int 2 nd Have you any Record of your age, and if so, where is it. -
Ans r I have no record of my age (whatever).
Int 3 rd Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live. -
Ans r I was a citizen of Orange County and State of North Carolina during the time I was in service and remained a citizen until after the close of the war and until the year 1806 when I removed to Bedford County Tennessee where I have lived ever since and where I now live. -
Int 4 th How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom. -
Ans r I was a volunteer altogether. -
Int 5 th State the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the troops where you served;

Such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service. — Ans d . I was not acquainted with any Regular officer, nor do I recollect the names or number of any particular Regiment, —
Q th 6 th Did you ever receive a discharge, and if so what has become of it. —
Ans d I never did receive a discharge in Milliney. —
State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their opinion of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution —
Ans d M c Henry Moon, Thomas Cummings, John Cook Martin Shofer, John Davis and but have no intimate acquaintance with any clergyman whose attendance I can at this time produce sworn to in open court this 4 th day of February 1833.
Thos M c Henry Moon his Mark
State of Tennessee Bedford County Court
This day Henry Moon Sun r personally appeared in open court and made oath in due form of law, and saith, that he is now upwards of seventy two years of age, that he was a Soldier of the Revolution and while serving as such, he became acquainted with Abraham Dillen who subscribed and was qualified to the foregoing declaration, at Ramsays Mill in the

County of Chatham and State of North Carolina, Same time in the fall of the year 1980 and that said Stetton was at that time a Soldier in Captain Ragen Company of Volunteers under Genl Butler, but how long he had been in Service or how long he remained in Service he does not know; He further States that he has been acquainted with the said Stetton for about nineteen years in his present neighborhood and that he believes him to be a man of strict honesty and undoubted veracity. Sworn to in open Court this 7. th day of Feby 1883. Jas M. Mackee Henry Moore
State of Tennessee Bedford County Court
On this 7 th day of February 1833. John Cooke and Custom House Officer Residing in Said Said County, person- ally appeared in open Court and after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that they are well acquainted with Abraham Hilton Sur d who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, and have been for the last thirteen years; that we believe him to be the age he states he is that he is respected and beloved in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Rev- olution and that we can ever in that opinion, they fur- ther state that Said Hilton is a man of strict honesty and un- doubted veracity and that his statements are entitled to credit. Sworn to in open Court. the day and year aforesaid. — John Cooke
Wm. Lisicki C.N.
John Cook Austin Shopner

And the said Court do hereby declare there opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War department, together with affidavit of Henry Hilton Colloren, that the said applicant Abraham, was a Soldier of the Revolution, and served as he states, and that they believe him to be the age he says he is, and it also appears to them that John Gaake and Austin Shapner are citizens residing in Bedford County and that they are credible persons, and that their statements upon oath are entitled to credit - and that they subscribed and were sworn to the preceding Affidavit, same at the Court house in Shelbyville, this 7 th day of February 1833.
M c Clure Samuel Phillips, John B. Armstrong
I James M. Kisicki Clerk of the Court of Pleas and quarter Sessions for Bedford County in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Abraham Hilton for a Pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of office, at office in Shelbyville this 20 th of April 1833
J. M. Kisicki Clerk

Abraham Helton Esq. Tennessee
From 1780 private yrs etc
$23.33 100 R H
J. M. Kusick Esq. Shelbyville Tenn.
J. M. Kusick Esq. Shelbyville Tenn.

Abraham Hutton Esq. Tennessee
From 1780 private Lymanth
23.33 100 Tenn
J. M. Nesbitt Esq. Shelbyville Tenn.
J. M. Nesbitt Esq. Shelbyville Tenn.

State of Tennessee Bedford County
This day Martin Shafner Sen r a resident of said County aged upwards of Seventy four years who after being sworn according to Law, deposes and saith that same time he thinks in the year 1780 he said deponent was in the service of the united States where he became acquainted with and knew Abraham Hutton Sen r at Ramseys Mill in Chatham County in the State of North Carolina, and that said Hutton was then a Soldier in the American Army, but how long he remained in service deponent does not know, deponent further says that he has been well acquainted with said A. Hutton in Bedford County for a number of years and believes his character for veracity to be unimpeachable, sworn to and subscribed this 18 th day of April 1833.
Jacob Coble (P)
Martin Shafner (P)
I Jacob Coble - an acting justice of the peace for Bedford County in the State of Tennessee do hereby certify that Martin Shafner Sen r who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit is a citizen of said County and is a man of strict honesty and integrity and that his character for veracity has never been questioned by any person to my knowledge and I believe him to be the age he states he is - Given under my hand this 18 th day of April 1833.
Jacob Coble (P)

I James W. Nisick Clerk of the Court of Pleas and quarters Sessions for Bedford County in the State of Tennessee do hereby certify that Jacob Noble Esquire before whom the foregoing Affidavit was Sworn to, and who also gives the foregoing certificate is now and was on the day of the date thereof an acting Justice of the peace for said County duly qualified and authorized to administer oaths, and that his signature thereto is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at office in Shelbyville this 20 th of April 1833 J. W. Nisick

Rev. Mass
4353
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File No. 4353
Abraham Hutton Sen.
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Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 168
[Arrangement of 1870.]