Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1834, Daniel Horton, N.C.

SERVICE
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Horton Daniel
S. 1834
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5562
Sonsborough Agency -
Daniel Daniel Horton Jr. of Washington in the State of Tennessee - who was a M r : in the Compy commanded by Captain Dobson - of the Regt - commanded by Col: M c Gowen - in the N. Car: line for 1 year from 1778 -
Inscribed on the Roll of Sonsborough Agency at the rate of 40 - Dollars -- -- Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of Feby. 1833 - and Ser v : Hon: John Blair. House of Reps -
Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832 60 - Pens ant . allowance ending 4 th Mar: 33 20 - $80 -
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Nathan Rice - Clerk Book (D) Vol. 9 Page 206
See letter 25, Ap r : 34 to Hon: John Blair Present.
do 30 Jan y 1835 See Cite B.P. A t Feb. 6. 1837
Letter Hon J. Blair 22 Sept 1837
Order to pay 13 Oct 1837
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 of the 6 th Ap r 1838 from 4 March 1838 to 18 Aug y 1839 the day of his death. Ag t notified 20. Aug y 1840

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
August 15 th 1840.
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," The child n of Daniel Horton, Sr. a Pensioner on the Roll of the Jonesborough Agency, at the rate of Forty 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 March 1838, to the 18 th August 1839, the day of his decease.
Respectfully yours,
William B. Lewis
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

State of Tennessee Washington County
September Term 1832.
On this 23 rd day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Samuel Pawle Judge of the Circuit Court of Law & Equity for Washington County Now sitting Daniel Thornton Esq. who being 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 is Eighty Years of age. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as here in State County that in the Summer of 1776. as well as now recollected. he was a Lieutenant of Burke County North Carolina. and volunteered in said County. about the 1 st of June in said year. and in Valley under Capt. John Dobson. Lieutenant John Ruple and joined Colonel McDowals Regiment in said County. was marched down in said State to the South fork of the Catawba River. to a place called Ransoms Mills. where there was a body of Forces encamped. said to be Eight or nine hundred in number. where there was a hard battle. between Colonel McDowals Regiment & the Forces. in which Battle his P st Capt. John Dobson was killed. and Lieutenant John Ruple. took the command. of the company. when he was discharged by his P st Lieutenant. Then Capt. John Ruple after having served three months and returned home to Burke County. he states that in the fall of 1779. as well as now recollected he volunteered in the County of Burke and State aforesaid. for the term of three months in Colonel Washingtons Dragoons Enrolled under Capt. William Kennedy. was marched down Broad River to the Grande Shales on the

Packotote River. when he joined the army under the command of General Morgan. was then marched up Broad River to the Cowpens. where there was a Battle fought between General Morgans army and the British under the command of Tarleton. in which the British were defeated. The Americans Took near Eight hundred British prisoners. from them were marched to the Eutaw Springs. where. There was a Battle in which General Sumpter was. The principle commander General Morgan having joined Sumpters army at that place. in which Battle the Americans were defeated. he said Colonel Washington was taken prisoner at said Battle. he also states that his said Capt n William Kennedy was either killed or taken prisoner. he states that he was verbally dis- charged. shortly after said Battle but does not recollect by whom after having served full three months. he states that in the latter part of the summer 1780 he again volunteered in Burke County North Carolina and enlisted under Capt n Joel Lucas. and joined Colonel Edwards Regiment. and marched to Kingsmountain on his march was joined by Colonel Campbell's Reg t from Virginia. and also Colonel Shelby Reg t from Tennessee. Then marched to Kingsmountain where There was a battle fought between the Americans under the command of the before named officers and the British under the command of Colonel Ferguson who was killed in said Battle. and his army defeated. and principally killed and taken prisoners. when he received a written discharge for a three months Term. from his said Capt n

Left and returned home.
Shortly after his return home he 38 from Pymountain he moved to Surry County North Carolina, where he volunteered and enrolled under Captain Daniel Right of 2 d County, was marched to Crapereck North Carolina where he joined General Greene's army where he remained thru months, and after - came a weather discharge for three months, from Captain Daniel Right, he states that he served in the war of the Revolution in the four several Terms as above stated full twelve months in actual service, three of which Terms he received written discharges for, which discharges was lost soon after the war of the Revolution with his packet book, which contained the same, he states there is no President minister of the Gospel in his neighborhood who can testify to his service or the regulations of the War Department to Greene he has no documentary evidence of his service and that he knows of no person, whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever 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 and subscribed. The day and year aforesaid Daniel Horton Debt in open court for V Anderson To the Hon. 1832 Judge
We John Purcell & George Dunn Yerapants of Workington County State of Tennessee hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Horlon who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration

That we believe him to be Eighty years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
The copy and year aforesaid. Sworn to and subscribed
John Russell
George his Inman
Mark
And the said Court doth hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting 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 certifies that it appears to him that John Russell & George Inman are residents of Washington County Tenn cc and are credible persons. and that their statement is entitled to credit.  of our  of our  judge of the kind  of the kind  of the state of Tennessee  of the state of Tennessee
I James Anderson Clerk of the Circuit Court of Law & Equity for Washington County Tenn cc do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Daniel Horton for a pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 13 th day of September 1832
Jas V Anderson Clerk
Daniel Horton
Nov 17 1832
Sent by John Blair

HNH
May 6, 1925
Daniel Horton $1834
Miss Nan Horton Cleveland, Tenn.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 1834 it appears that Daniel Horton resided during the Revolution in Burke and Surry Counties, North Carolina and served as a private in the North Carolina Troops as follows:
He enlisted about 1780 and served three months in Captain John Dobson's Company, Colonel McDowell's Regiment, also one tour, length not stated, in Captain John Russell's Company, three months in Captain Joel Lewis' Company, Colonel Cleveland's Regiment, three months in Captain Daniel Wright's Company, Colonel Smith's Regiment and three months in Captain William Kennedy's Company under Colonel Washington. He was at the battles of Ramsour's Hill, Kings Mountain, Cowpens, Eutaw Springs and in several skirmishes with Indians and Tories.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
Miss Wilson said just say under Col. H. I don't say Col. as it was under Col. H. I don't know how many men in the troops were under him if the General did not know

September 13, 1832 while living in Washington, County, Tennessee aged eighty years. He later moved to McMinn County, in said state.
Soldier died August 18, 1839 leaving children whose names are not given and the name of his wife is not stated.
Respectfully,
WILDER S. METCALF. Commissioner.

1925-May 6-Heir: To Miss Nan Horton MMS 1925-May 22-Heir: to N.K. Horton, Jr. MMS
Rev War.
1834.
INVALID.
File No. 1834
Daniel Horton Jr. Pro. N. C. Gen.
Act: June 7. 1832.
Index:—Vol. a , Page 175-
[Arrangement of 1870.]

War Department Pension Office September 25 th 1834
Sir,
The affidavit made by Daniel Hester for the purpose of obtaining an increase of his pension has been examined, and it is herewith returned. He claims for services for one year as one of what was termed the "New levies" of North Carolina Militia, and that he entered the service in 1780; and also for a term of three months, after the battle of Guilford. In his original declaration the applicant sets forth a term of three months in 1780, during which, he was in the battle of Kings Mountain, and which has been computed in fixing the rate of pension already granted. His claim for increase on account of his being one of the levies cannot be allowed. His statement of his having served three months in the neighbourhood of Wilmington immediately after the battle of Guilford is not in accordance with the facts as they occurred. An increase of pension on account of the last alleged service cannot therefore be allowed.
I have the honour to be, Very Respectfully Your O bt Servant J. L. Edwards
Hon John Blair Present,

Feb 4
Can Dale M
5562
EBRE
Mr James L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

D. Horton

State of Tennessee
Washington County
3
On this 10 th day of September
1834
appeared in open court before the Honorable Samuel Paul Judge of the court. Daniel Herlen a prisoner of the United States, and for the purpose of increasing said prisoner to correspond with his servitude performed made & dis- closed the following amendatory declaration to wit that in the war of the Revolution he resided in Burke County & Carolina, and there performed his military service, part of which he omitted to give in in consequence of John Blair his attorney at the time informing him that it was unnecessary to give in any service not within the provisions of the act of June 1832, and his impression at the time was that the services hereinafter stated were not provided for. at the time declared had his claim made out as construction had been given to the law and few if any pensions had been allowed to any in this quarter - & for the reason aforesaid the service hereinafter set forth was not then set forth in his declar- ation the communication to his attorney to wit in the year 1780 he enrolled himself in Burke County North Carolina as one of the New levies so called under the act of North Carolina and was put under

(Capt John Rapel, and the overkill Indians in league with the British being in open hostility & very many Tories also killing & plundering, Burke County being then a frontier County of the old settlements of N Carolina the men thus raised were sent through the upper parts of the State to quell & keep in subjection the Tories & said Indians & did perform that duty by laborious services, of forced marches by day & night travels from one quarter to another where the enemy appeared & was in several skirmishes with the Indians & Tories & continued his term of service, and was discharged verbally & returned home
to this service above that in addition left out of his original declaration he in 1781. before the surrender of Cornwallis hired himself as a substitute for one William Skew- kins drafted to perform a term of duty & was as a substitute assigned placed under Capt Daniel Wright & Col Smith, of Col Greene's command & was marched from Burke where he ended to Wilmington in pursuit of Cornwallis when on his march thru N Carolina & Virginia upon

his march to York Town, that the British was fortified at Wilmington & there took stop- ping, remained until his term of time of three months expired & he was discharged by his said Captain, he omitted to state that this expectation was immediately after Green's defeat at Guilford, & the militia, pursued the Army under Cornwallis down Deep river & Cape Fear to Wilmington where he was discharged as aforesaid, which discharge he has lost. He gave both these towns into his attorney Mr Blair but he informed him that he could not get an issue for Subpoena, or for the twelve months there being no such call legally author- ized, but which declarant has since dis- covered was a mistake. He therefore claims an increase of pension for the aforesaid terms of duty thus omit- ted.
I solemnly subscribe in open Court. his Daniel H. Horton mark
State of Tennessee } I James V. Anderson Clerk Washington County } of the Circuit Court of Law do hereby certify that the foregoing amendment declaration was made sworn to & subscribed in open Court given under my hand & seal of office this 10th day of Sept 1834 James V. Anderson

Certify that the foregoing statement as regards the opinions to insert in the original declaration are truly stated that the claim was amongst the first which I made out, & was under the impression that the substitution was not within the provisions of the Law, nor was there a law for more than 3 months' tours, in which he was mistaken not having the instructions before him. that Horton's declaration omitted those services by reason of misconception of the law or instructions.
John Blair
Sept. 10th 1834

Amended declaration of Daniel Horton for emancipation
on Iowa County agency filed by J. B. Blair
11 Jan - 1841 H. M. Harkness

State of Tennessee Washington County
On the 14 th day of December 1830 before the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said County appeared Daniel Horton the subscriber & made oath that he was placed upon the list of Revolution- ary pensioners on the Jonesborough agency at the rate of forty dollars per annum & received payment from William H Blair agent up to the 4 th day of Septem- ber 1835. since when he has not drawn any thing. The reason why he has not applied was that he removed to McMinn County & the district forbade his coming so far for the half yearly allowance he states that he resides beyond the Knoxville agency & is now compelled to pay the same to travel to Jonesborough & wishes to be transferred to said last mentioned place to commence on the 4 th of March, next.
I own & subscribed this date above. his W H Blair Daniel Horton Justice of the Peace mark
The above is sent you in order to obtain instructions for the payment of the claim on presentation of the proper vouchers P.S. send the order as soon as possible J. M. Blair

State of Tennessee, Town of,
I John Ryland Clerk of the Circuit Court of Washington County do hereby certify that William K Blair Esq whose signature appears to be signed to the foregoing certificate appears to be in his own proper handwriting, and that he is and was at the time of the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County. And that full faith and credit is due to his official acts as such. Given under my hand and seal of office at office in the Town of Jonesboro this 12 th day of Dec r 1836
John Ryland Clerk
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This letter was drawn from the letters she says it was unanswered. Don't know why it happened. I don't know where it went. Cleveland, Tenn. January 29 th 1925 Department of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs,
Will you please send me the official record of a Revolutionary soldier, one Daniel Horton.
He was from Washington Co, U.C. (later it was Washington County, Tenn.) and was enlisted in the North Carolina militia and was under the command of Col. DeWitt in the battles of the Appomattox, Kings Mountain and perhaps others. An early reply would be greatly appreciated. Respectfully yours,
Miss Nan Horton.

Cleveland, Tenn, March 18 th '25
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.,
Dear Sir, -
Please let me know as soon as possible whether you have any record of the services of Daniel Horton who fought in the Revolutionary war. He enlisted I think under Col. John Sevier and was in the battles of Kings Mountain, the Cowpens and others. He was from Washington County Tenn,

of Three North Carolina - I would greatly appreciate your kindness in looking up this record for me. Thanking you,
I am very truly Yours,
H. K. Horton Dr.
Cleveland,
Tenn.

mmntI
May 22, 1925
W. K. Horton, Sr., Cleveland, Tenn.
Sir:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 1834 it appears that Daniel Horton resided during the Revolution in Burke and Surry Counties, North Carolina and served as a private in the North Carolina Troops as follows:
He enlisted about 1780 and served three months in Captain John Dobson's Company, Colonel McDowell's Regiment, also one tour, length not stated, in Captain John Russell's Company, three months in Captain Joel Lewis' Company, Colonel Cleveland's Regiment, three months in Captain Daniel Wright's Company, Colonel Smith's Regiment and three months in Captain William Kennedy's Company under Colonel Washington. He was at the battles of Ramsour's Mill, Kings Mountain, Cowpens, Eutaw Springs and in several skirmishes with Indians and Tories.
He was allowed pension on his application executed

September 13, 1832 while living in Washington County, Tennessee aged eighty years. He later moved to McMinn County in said state.
Soldier died August 18, 1839 leaving children whose names are not given and the name of his wife is not stated.
Respectfully,
WILDER S. METCALF. Commissioner.