Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4370, Samuel Higgason, Va.

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Wiggason, Samuel
S 4370.
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Died 2-14-1835- See Agency Book
1190
West Tennessee
Samuel Higgason
of Sumner, in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the Army commanded by Captain Fort - of the Regt commanded by Col: Harvey in the Virginia line for 2 years from 1777
Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee at the rate of 80 Dollars. - Cents per ann. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th day of October 1832 - - - and sent to M rs . Blackmore. Gallatin, Ten.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 120. - Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 th March 1833 40 $160. -
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk, Book D Vol. 9 Page 150

2983
Samuel Higgason Tennessee
Good night the year. Minutes class of 80.
SPARK IGNITION
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BRIEF in the case of Samuel Hoiggason of Sumner County in the State of Tennessee. (Act 7 June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? In Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 89 years.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.      Spring of the year In 1776. was again called into service in the fall of the year 1777 - and believes the last of the year 1780 -  3 — Private  Gen. Charles Dabney - the Militia Capt Benjamin Timberlake    2  Col. Hawey's Bf. V. Militia Capt Fox    1 Artificer Capt Hawkins Comp. of Artificers  
Drafted in
acted to guard the Prisoners at Albemarle Barracks he believes more than
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Louisa County Virginia 
 7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? by traditionary evidence & by living witnesses as to his service of one year as Artificer - 
 8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Examining Clerk.

State of Louisiana Sumner County S.S.
On this 18 th day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Now Sitting Samuel Haggason a resident citizen of Sumner County State of Louisiana aged Eighty nine 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 the 7 th 1832—
That he was drafted as a militia man in the service of his country in the spring of the year 1814 1816 (the month he does not now recollect) for the term of three months that he rendezvous at Richmond Virginia and was commanded by Captain Benjamin Timberlake of Louisa County and was attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. Charles Dabney of Hanover County Virginia — That he marched from Richmond to Jamestown and from there to Williams =burgh where he remained some time — he was then marched back to Richmond his term of service having expired he was honorably discharged his

dis charge was signed by Col. Dabney he has lost or destroyed it many years since - he was again called into service as a militiaman sometime in the fall of the year 1777 dates he cannot now recollect and acted as a guard to guard to guard the prisoners confined at Albemarle Barracks how long he remained in this service does not now recollect he believes more than two years while in this service he was commanded by Captain Benjamin Timberlake and Capt Fiske and was attached to Col. Hargreaves Regiment of Virginia militia - whilst at the Barracks he believes in the fall of the year 1780 - after obtaining leave of his officers he enlisted for the term of one year as an artificer in Captain Martin Hawkins Company of artificers - that he was marched from Albemarle to Richmond and there continued to do duty as an artificer making making Coffins & mending waggons & carts etc for the use of the army until some time after the defeat of Lord Cornwallis when his term of service expired and he was discharged at Richmond Virginia his discharge from this service was signed by Captain Martin Hawkins he has lost it but that he always served

Ex. B. 1
as a private Soldier - that he has no wrighten evidence of his services as a Soldier in the Revolutionary War. but has the direct proof of Richard Jonson to a part of his services That he was Born in Hanover County State of Virginia in the year 1743. that he has no record of his age in this State - That he lived in Louisa County Virginia when he entered the services that he remained in Louisa County Virginia for several years after the close of the war - he moved from thence to Sumner County State of Tennessee where he now resides and has lived for the last thirty Years - He hereby relinquishes every claim what -ever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State
Sworn to in open Court August 15th 1832 A.H. Douglass Clerk
Samuel H. Higginson

State of Tennessee
Sumner County I do hereby certify that I was personally acquainted with Samuel Haggerson who has since appears to the above declaration for a pension during the Revolutionary war and do state that I know of my own personal knowledge that he did serve the term of one year under Captain Martin Hawkins as he has stated in his Declaration and I have known him well ever since and believe him to be entitled to credit.
Sworn to in open Court August 15th 1832 Test A. H. Douglass Clerk
Richard Johnson
We Richard Johnson a clergyman residing in the County of Sumner and John Patterson residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Haggerson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty nine years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid In open Court
Test A. H. Douglass Clerk
Richard Johnson John Patterson Jr. Thos Anderson

Sworn and subscribed the day and year of
In open Court
Just A. H. Douglass Clerk
Richard Johnson
John Patterson Jr.
Thos Anderson
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the war department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the county of Sumner and that who has also signed the same is a resident in same county and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Alfred H Douglass Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Sumner County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Haggerson for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office this 15 th August A.D. 1832. and 57 th year of American Independence.
A. H. Douglass Clerk

Please and Inasmuch as do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Haggan for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this day of August 1892.

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section AWP/cel AWP
October 11, 1928.
Mrs. William Gason 727 Clinton Street Harriman, Tennessee
Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 4370 , it appears that Samuel Higga- son was born in 1743, in Hanover County, Virginia.
While residing in Louisa County, Virginia, he en- listed and served with the Virginia troops as follows:
In the spring of 1776, three months in Captain Ben- jamin Timberlake's Company, Colonel Charles Dabney's Regiment; from the fall of 1777, two years in Captains Benjamin Timberlake's and Fox's Companies, Colonel Harvey's Regiment, and from the latter part of 1780, one year as artificer in Captain Martin Hawkins' Company.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 15, 1832, while a resident of Sumner County, Tennessee.
There are no family data.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner.

1925 Oct 11 - Heil R. microfilm. Caen Eng.
Reopen
4370
INVALID.
File No. 4375
Samuel Higgason
Port. Wash. Line
Act: June 7, 1832
Index: — Vol. A , Page 172
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Revolutionary War Section:
Gentlemen:- Will you please send me all data your files contain, including family data, of the following Revolutionary War pensioners;
Daniel Chumley, Wilson county, Tenn., under Act of 1832,
Samuel Higgason, Sumner county, Tenn., under Act of 1832,
I wish this data for family records I am preparing.
Thanking you for your prompt attention to this matter, I am,
Yours very truly,
Rueben Smutley Cason
Mrs. William Cason, 727 Clinton Street, Harriman, Tennessee.
December 14, 1927.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Samuel Higgason which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes
V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes  yes .
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? yes XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes. XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeh and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days. I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.”

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
† QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the affidavits must be properly authenticated, as above directed.
‡ QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.