Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,459, William Hagins, N.C.

SERVICE
Hagins, William
NUMBER
S 30.459
N.B.
CONTENTS
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25053 Kentucky
William Hagens Perry Co in the State of Kentucky who was a Private in the com ny commanded by Captain. Jarrell of the reg t commanded by Col. H. Mundy in the Kentucky line for 15 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 50 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of May 1833 and Heen I Love Preser d
Arrears to the 4th of Sept r 195 — Semi-ant. allowance ending March 95 — 150
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Sam l Bays Clerk, Book E Vol. 7 Page 13

No 18483
William Haysins Clk
Perry County
Kentucky
From 1780 Promoter 15 months
$450.
Wm. J. Love Present.
John Combs Clk.
Perry County Court
Kentucky
Perry Clk

BRIEF in the case of  William Hays  of Perry County in the State of Kentucky  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 73  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.     Volunteered In 1780 or 81 3 Private Capt Dowd, Col. Malmsbury   1/80- 3 " " Simpson, Col. Hays   Enlisted 1781 9 " " Johnston, Lt. Col.  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Cutaw Springs  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Rowan Fin County Ky.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living Witnesses & Traditionary evidence  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No Seal of office - The certificate of the certifying officer is not attached to the sheet of paper which contains the affidavit by a piece of tape the ends of the  I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Dyer Castor
Examining Clerk.

22.805 Wm Hays copy petition & schedule —
rejected June 15. 1831

State of Kentucky
Perry County Set
On the 20th of April 1831 before the Honorable Joseph One Circuit Judge of the Perry Circuit Court it being a Court of Record made so by act of assembly William Hagins a Citizen of Perry aged sixty five the 25th of June next in open Court upon his Corporal Oath filed the following petition & schedule to obtain the benefit of the several acts of Congress passed for the benefit of the officers and soldiers engaged in the Revolutionary War in the Land & Naval Service an Continental establishment that he the said Hagins about one month before the Surrender of Lord Cornwallis Wallace Surrendered at York Town in Virginia he enlisted for the term of two months in Rowan County North Carolina under Captain John Johnston in the first  regiment  Continental  Continental  line  line of the State of North Carolina Locke in the line of the State of North Carolina on Continental establishment this enlistment was to some out the term of an enlistment of John Ellis in and  regiment  that  that before he was placed in active service Shortly after Wallace Surrendered peace was made & he was discharged at Salubury N.C. by Captain Johnston aforesaid
And in pursuance of the act of Congress of the first of May 1820 I do hereby swear that on the 18th March 1818 I was a Resident Citizen of the United States and that I have not either directly or indirectly loaned or dis- posed of my estate so as to lessen the same so as to bring myself within the provisions of the acts of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval

Service of the United States in the Revolution any War approved 18th March 1818 and that the following is all the property or securities now due him or possessed possessed by him    Two horses Worth  $50    2 cows & Heifers worth  10    Heaps worth  15         $75-  
On the 18 March 1818 he owned property not exceeding the value of the above but in addition he owned fifty acres of land which he sold for $200 in common = with his paper then worth only $100 in Silver he refers to the due here attached
William Hagins  His family consists of him self and three children namely Daniel 21 years old I and 19 Sallie 17 all able to support them selves he is by occupation a farmer unable to support him self by work and his children remain with him none out of charity than any thing else but from their age he can not flatter him self that they will long remain with him the reason Why he has not sooner made this appri- cation is that he has been until a year or two past able to support himself by work and that he had been informed that his case was not embraced by the several acts of Congress  William Hagins

Sworn to and declared on the 20th day of April 1831-
I Jesse Coombs clerk of the Perry Circuit Court do hereby certify that it appears to the Satisfaction of the court that the said William Haging will serve in the Resolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common in my for the term of ten months under our engagement on the continental establishment I also certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is $75.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and private seal having as yet no public seal of office this 20th day of April 1831-
Jesse Coombs (Seal) clerk of the Perry Circuit Court Kentucky
I certify that Jesse Coombs is the clerk of Perry County, and his signature to the above certificate is genuine 26th April 1831 R. P. Lelchue

Nov. 8 th 1833
Pension Office
Respectfully to
Yours from the kindly love at the City.

State of Kentucky
Ferry County Set
On this 16 day of October 1832 Personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Perry Circuit Court now sitting William Hagens, by some called Higgins a resident of Ferry County & State of Kentucky and seventy three who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following de- claration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832 That he entered the service as volunteer in matter on his own Act of the United States in Rowan Army County, when he then lived in the year 800 or 81  1780 or 81 which he does not remember, for three months in Capt. Richard Company Richard Dowe St. Grimes, Engr Joseph Silons  in the in the Regt commanded by Col. Malumoday  Stalder (a freshman)

in the line of the state of North Carolina in Matilda. From the place of his entering the service he marched to Fry days bury Conoga River, S. to thence to Col. Thompson, thence to the Eutaw Springs where he was in the Battle, thence he marched with the Mission about Salbury. N.C. until his term expired when he was honably discharged in Rowan by Capt. Gordon before the Battle of Eutaw Springs by Capt. Gordon but about seven weeks after the Battle of the Eutaw Springs. On this trip he saw Genl Green, Col. Washington of the Regular Army. in the 1780s he volunteered (before the above term) in Rowan County N. Carolina the place of his residence he volunteered for three months under

cap? Humphres, St. Hanger, but 3 after cap? Kirtlett, in lead? Phil- = lips Ris t on the line of the state of Carolina. on this trip trip he marched from Rowan down to Sallasbury where he scouted out his turn of them months then about 12 miles on Bells Branch and served out his term of three months in guarding the Prisoners taken at Rings Mountain when he was honorably discharged in 1780 as he now believes by cap? Kirtlett.
In the year 1781 after the foregoing tours he enlisted in Rowan County Carolina in the Company commanded by cap? John Johnston for nine months in the Reg. commanded by led? Matthew Lock, in the line of the state of Carolina

on Continental establishment Under Genl. Rutherford. He continued to serve out his time of enlistment when he was honorably discharged at Salis- bury in 87. by Col. Whiston as? on this trip he only re- remembers in his company as regular officers that the officers , Lieut. Lock and Genl. Rutherford.
He was born in Per: Lancaster County. Has no record of his age. At each time he entered the service on his own account each time he lived in Rowan County since that he has lived in South Carolina, then to Georgia then to Ky in this County. As to the manner of entering the service he has explained

and his officers &zy-elan officers he has explained as fair as he knows at this time. His discharge was long since burnt up in his house. He never rec d any commission. He refers to Genl. Coombs lately Haddox and And r Wilson for his character. He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a Russian or annuity annuity except the Pensions and declares that his name is not on the Russian Roll of the Agency of any state, nor has it ever been. Never subscribed the day before up?
Wm Hazens
Achilles Craft of Perry County

aged 74 years says upon oath in open court that he knows of his own knowledge that the ap. d M c Hagens was at the Eutaw Battle as by him described. He was in the same Reg t . with him in Col. d M c Culloch's Reg t , who was a Continen- tal officer. A. Craft
Then being re-examined Concurrence, it is by the court that it is ordered to the Sec y of War that the And d Wilson, aged 52. Colby Haddon aged 54. son of Perry County & Neighbors of William Hagens. made oath in open Court, that they reside in Perry County in the neighborhood of the aforesaid William Hagens, who subscribed the foregoing declaration in their presence, for many years past. And

from his general good reputation as a man of truth they have the most implicit con- fidence in his statement as true in points of fact. It has for many years been reported and understood in the neighborhood that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and was confirmed in that opin- -ion and that he is about seventy three years of age.
Andrew Wilson
Col. 1792
Stephen Gardell
There being no Clayman Present or Consent to the ap- -plicant, It is therefore ordered by the court that it be returned to the Sec. of War that the ap. Achilles Leaft and Sec. Wilson lately Haddon and Stephen Gardell are reported as living in Perry County & neighbors

of the opinion that William Haynes an Andaleb with- nesses and to be believed on oath; And the said Court do hereby certify as its opinion after investigation of the matter and after receiving the information pre- scribed by the War Department that the above named ap- plicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
I Jesse Coombs Clerk of the King's Circuit Court By assenting certify that the foregoing con- tains the original pro- ceedings of said Court in the matter of the ap- plication of W. Haynes for a Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & hereunto seal having no public seal of office this 16 th of Oct. 1832
E. Smith H. H. H. H. 18453
Jesse Coombs CLK of the King's Circuit Court
Seal

State of Kentucky
Perry County Circuit Court
on the 24 th day of October 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Joseph Eve Judge of the Perry circuit Court, Daniel Brown, Thomas Kelly, and Miram Stumpes Who being first duly sworn according to Law state that they are resident citizens of the county of Perry and State of Kentucky and nearby residing in the neighbor- hood of William Hays, hereby certify, that we were well acquainted with the applicant for fifteen years who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy three years of age that he is residing, and believes, in the neighborhood where he used to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion we further state that the said William Hays departed this life in the county of Perry and State of Kentucky on the 8 th day of September 1833. And we further state that there is no - Clergyman living in the neighborhood of the said William Hays deceased - and one could not be procured - without considerable trouble and expenses sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Daniel Brown.
Thomas Kelly Miram Stumpes.

And the said court do hereby declare. Their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after perusing the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the above named Applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certify that there is no clergyman living in the neighborhood of said applicant and that one can not be got without considerable trouble and expense. And the court further certify that Archibald Craig Andrew Wilson Colesby Haddox Stephen Connel Daniel Brown Thomas Kelly and William Stump, who swore to and subscribed to foregoing declaration, is unconnected with the county of Perry and State of Kentucky and reside in the neighborhood of the said William Hays deceased is entitled persons and that their statements is entitled to credit. And the court do further certify that the said William Hays the Applicant departed this life the 8 th day of Sept 1833. A true record of the proceedings of the court  Perry circuit court do hereby certify that Joseph Love Circuit judge
I. John Leom Clerk of the Perry circuit court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original and amended proceedings

11 proceedings of the court  board in the matter between the estate of William of the application of William
Request for a pension. Intestimony
Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, one having been procured since the application was made this 23 rd day of October 1833. 42 nd year of the Commonwealth
Stephen L. Clark, clerk of the jury circuit court

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of William Hagins - which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? 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? 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? VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? 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? No see ad return of Clerk's seal

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?
No See the opinion of the court at the end of the declaration
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?
Living Witnesses
XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
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? No See papers
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, deposeth 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. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
† 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 official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
† 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.
¶ In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

30 459 Rev INVALID.
File No. 30, 459
William H. Higgins
Rev Rev Mrs
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 172
[Arrangement of 1870.]

REJECTED
4431
P. O. William H. Agins
Service: Consolidated July 14 1882 with the admitted Soldier File
Enlisted: N o 30.459 _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
30,459 Soldier
Alleges: _____
In Rowan Co N.C. Sept 1781 Col. Locklear
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.

William H. Agins Revs. Kentucky.
Rejected. See letter to Hon. R. S. Letcher June 15. 1831.

See letter of May 1832 to Sepia Combs Esq
44 31

Hagler? Rec & S
If his name is found enclose me the re- sult at Milwauke.
If his name is not found will shortly enclose proof. I had forgotten (having misplaced it) to enclose it before this. E. Smith

State of Ky Perry County ss.
On the 20 th of April 1831. before the Hon. Joseph Ely, Circuit Judge of the Perry Circuit Court, it being a Court of Record, made so by Act of Assembly. William Haging, a citizen of Perry aged sixty four the 25 th of June next in open Court, upon his Corporal Oath filed the following petition & schedule to obtain the benefit of the several Acts of Congress passed for the benefit of the officers and soldiers engaged in the Revolutionary War, in the land service on Continental establishment. That he the said Haging about one month before the surrender of Lord Cornwallis surrendered at York Town in Va, he enlisted for the term of ten months in Rowan County N.C. under Capt. John Johnston in the Regt. Com. commanded by Col. Francis Locke in the line of the state of N. Carolina on Continental establishment, this enlistment was to serve out the term of an enlistment of John Ellis in said Regt. That before he was placed

in active service, shortly after Wallace surrendered, Peace was made. She was discharged at Salisbury, N. H. by Capt. Johnston, afterward.
And in pursuance of the Act of Congress of the 1 st of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that on the 18 th March 1818 I was a resident citizen of the U. States, and that I have not either directly or indirectly conveyed or disposed of my estate so as to lessen the same so as to bring myself within the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval Service of the U. S. in the Revolutionary War"
approved 18 March 1818. And that the following is all the property or securities now due him or has repaid by him,
Two horses worth $ 50. Two cows & calves worth 10 2 Cows & calves worth 15 hogs worth $ 75
On the 18 March 1818. he owned property not exceeding the value of the above, but in addition

At the October term (17 of Oct r 1831) the said Higgins made oath as of that upon an examination of the records of the Perry County Court where the app d deed should be filed, it can not be found

but that he made the deed up? is true.
his Wm Hays mark
Mr Hays Rev John Smith
I depon Combs Clerk of the Perry Circuit Court do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said William Hays did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the proceedings de- claration, against the common quarry, for the term of nine months and upwards, under an engagement, on the Continental establishment. I also certify, that the deed aluded to was filed in my office but I can not find it. I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records

of the said Court; And I further Certify, that it is the opinion of said said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the ap- Schedule is $75. and no more. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my Private Seal (having no Public Seal of Office) of the s d Court, this 20 of April 1831. Stephen Combs Clerk
Seal
of the Perry Circuit Court Kentucky
I Joseph Ene Judge of the 15 Judicial Circuit of Ky do hereby certify that Stephen Combs , Clerk as ap d is and was acting Clerk of said Court that his certificate is in due form in law April 20 1831
Joseph Ene