Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,444, David Gross, N.C.

SERVICE
Nb.
Gross, David
NUMBER
S. 30.444
CONTENTS

Kentucky 31.575
David Grop
of Clinton in the State of Ky.
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Free of the Regt. commanded by Col. _____ in the N.C. 6 th
time for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Ky.
at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th day of Aug st 1838 and sent R. A. Dabney Albany Clinton Co Ky
Arrears to the 4 th of March 1838 $140.00 Pemi-ant. allowance ending 4 th Sept. " 10.00
$150.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by R.H. Addison Clerk Booked Oct 2 Vol. 7 Page 21
Sept. 12 Nov 18 R. A. Dabney.
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 th April 1834 from 4 th March to 21. Oct 1839. the day of his death Agt notified 29. Oct 184

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
October 22 d , 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 of David Groff, deceased a Pensioner on the Roll of the Kentucky Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars and 62 1/2 Cents per annum, under the law of the 4 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March, to the 21 st October 1839, the day of his death.
Respectfully yours,
Edward B. Parsons
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

34.395 David Groff Kentucky
admitted for six months 4.20.

State of Kentucky } Clinton County } County Court January Term 1838.
On this the fifteenth day of January, 1838. personally appeared in open court before the worshipful Justices of the County Court of Clinton aforesaid, David Grop a Resident citizen of the County of Clinton State of Kentucky aged ninety three years from the best information and calculation in his power which he thinks is correct having no record of his age and after being duly sworn in open court makes the following Declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832.
He States that he entered the service of the service of the United States in Sur- rey County North Carolina a volunteer Soldier, under Captain Jacob Fries ag- ainst the Indians and accordingly marched off under said Captain he does not at this time recollect the inferior or under officers recollects that there was two of his intimate acquaintance with him namely Frederick Long and Peter Myles he recollects he entered said service in the latter part of the summer does not recollect to be certain the precise day nor month he has but little doubt that it was in August, and from calculation he thinks it was in the year one thousand eight
volunteer. under capt. Jacob Fries 3 months year 1778 discharged voluntarily

Seven hundred and Seventy Eight, he Ranged the frontiers to different points and pl- aces through the mountains through Wilkes County including the fall fall season of the year and received a verbal discharge from said Captain some time in the fall cannot recollect the precise day of month, having served three months -
1779 He again volunteered to serve a three month the War and entered the service in the said County of Surry sometime in the 3 months Ensuing Summer to serve a tour against the British entered the service under under Capt Sanders his first name not now rec- ollected he entered said service some time in the Summer Season the month nor day not Recollected marched to Sallis verbally Berry, and thence to Charlotte and went discharged after the British and marched down into the South State and after having went to various points and places was again verbally discharged having served three months and not having joined the main army this tour
He again volunteered under Capt William Hull sometime in the Early part of the next Summer he does not Recall at the precise time he thinks it was in the month of June can not say certain as to the day and

march off and finally joined Sumpter's Army and went on and was in the battle of the Hanging Rock and received a small col. art wound in the Right arm near the in-shoulder and went on to the hospital at Camden and was there under the care of a physician at that place about one week soon got well the Bullet not going deep enough in the arm to injure the arm seriously, continued at Camden for verbally, some time does not recollect how long discha- and marched toward Charlotte after ged the British thence to Salisbury and afterward returned home and was ver- bally discharged by said Captain having served three months.
He again volunteered under Captain Spears his first name not Recollected entered the service some time in the summer of 1781 went to Hargettown and went to various other places and went to the Moraven town after and finally marched the Yadkin and was again verbally discharged by his said Captain having served two months was discharged at a Town called Hamtsville and returned home.
2 mo on the Town capt Spears ver disc h.p
He continued was born in Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania, and from there he went to Surrey County

North Carolina at about fourteen years old and continued there until the Revolution he had a wife and several children when he first entered said service, entered the service at about thirty four years of age, Continued in said County of Surry until about twenty years after the time of his quit- ting the service herein alluded to and moved to where he lives in Clinton County Kentucky where he has lived for the last thirty six years that he has no doubt that has no doubt but he can prove by his neighbors generally that he is reputed as having been a Revolutionary soldier and a man of veracity he thinks that Doctor Ragland George N. Denton and Isaac Denton and Robert Croft would depose to his good character and reputation as a Revolutionary soldier he states that he has until the establishment of Clinton lived very remote from the courthouse in the old County Cumberland, and did for a long time intend to apply for a pen- sion and from time to time did set times send word to some men that he want- ed some attorney or man of business to come and prepare his case, that owing to old age and living remote he did not go to have the business alluded to and as he was therefore dependent on others the same was wholly neglected until one time a gentleman that was a law- yer, a Mr Cheek prepared some papers from the great distance

he lived off he does not know whether the papers were finished out and sent to the Department or not, he appli- cant knows of no person by whom he can prove his service by that actu- ally knows and saw him serve, but believes he can prove by a certain Mesh a Green, that lives in Tennessee and was acquainted with him and his officers, or some of them in Surry County where he entered service things completely convincing that he applicant served and and many other facts relative to the marches from that county during the Rev- olutionary war. Mr Isaac Denton the only Clergyman in his neighborhood being alive He hereby relinquishes every claim what- soever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the Pension Roll, of the agency of any State. sworn to and subscribed David F. Goch in open court the day and date above written

We Jesse Smith & Isaac Wright & John Miller being resident citizens of the county of Clinton state of Kentucky hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Groop the present appli- cant for a pension, and that he is reputed among his acquaintance as a man of veracity and that we believe he served as he states and that we believe, he is 93 years of age as he states,
Isaac Wright
Jesse Smith
his John Miller mark
and the court hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after puting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named David Groop was a Revolution- ary soldier and served as he states and the court certify that it appears to them that Isaac Wright Jesse Smith and John Miller are resident citizens of the county of Clinton in the state of Kentucky and are entitled to credit. They have sworn to the preced- ing affidavit and signed the same
John Wade

Vol. 100-10 p. 100-10
State of Kentucky Clinton County Set January Term 1838
I Rice Massey Clerk of the Court of Clinton County in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of David Groff
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and private seal there being no seal of office provided at office the 16 th day of January 1838
Rice Massey Clerk of the Court of Clinton County

Albany Clinton county Kentucky August the 23 rd 1838.
I have the pleasure of informing you that I have received your communications to me of the 9 th July, and of 23 rd July last past relative to the Revolutionary services of David Grop living near this place. I went to Grop directly after receiving your letter of the 9 th above spoken of. I despaired of his making any amendment to his original narrative, as he was very low and had been in some kind of fits. I procured the affidavit of Doct Oley, & Ragland Relative to his Character and condition, afterward having learned that he had in some measure improved I endeavored to amend his Declaration: it seems he is very frail his memory seems as good as perhaps might be supposed from his age. he seems too frail to talk long at the time he seems to know nothing of dates wholly illiterate. I will inform you that Mr Chock alluded to in his Declaration lives a considerable distance from him nearly a full days Journey. I herein enclose the amended Declaration (I enclosed the affidavit of Doct Ragland to you some time past I suppose that you had not received it at the time of your last communication to me).
I Remain your most Obedient humble Servant
Robert A. Dabney
The Honorable J. L. Edwards. com d of pension Washington city D. C.

Albany Clinton County Kentucky April 2 nd 1888
I will inform you, that I enclosed to the Pension office, from this place Pension papers, in favor of David Grof, of this County, claiming a pension under the act of the 7 th June 1832, having been looking for some intelligence for near a month I thought it advisable to solicit information respecting the claim,
your humble servant
Robert J. Dalbey
The Hon J. L. Edwards Comm r of Pensions Washington City. D. C.

Clinton County Kentucky July 24 th 1838.
Dear Sir
Being called on by Mr. R. A. Dabney to testify as to the character of a Mr. David Groff as he (Groff) had alluded to and in a Declaration filed in your Office.
As to the character I have been partially acquainted with him for the eight or nine years and for the last three years have resided within less than one mile of him I have never heard either his honesty or veracity impeached and think his neighbour generally look on him as an honest man. He is illiterate of recluse habits and ordinary mental endowments.
As to his having been a revolutionary Soldier I know nothing further than that I have heard him spoken of as such frequently and never heard any person doubt the truth of it but on the contrary have heard it remarked that he had repeatedly narrated his services long before there was any thought of his drawing a pension and from conversing with him personally I was irresistibly impressed with the belief that he was a Soldier of the revolution. From his appearance I am inclined to think he must be upwards of ninety years of age. Since he set forth his declaration he has been attacked with Epilepsy which has impaired his mind and his memory especially.
I have the Honor to be The Hon S. L. Edwards Yours Respectfully C. T. Ragland
State of Kentucky Clinton County
Personally appeared before me Horace Emerson a Justice of the

peace for the county aforesaid Doctor Oley S. Ragland a resident citizen of the county of Clinton state of Kentucky. he being a man with whom I am intimately acquainted a highly respectable man and after being duly sworn for that purpose on his oath states that his foregoing letter written by him self and addressed to Genl Edwards commr of Pensions, so far as stated of his own knowledge is true and as stated on the information of others or as his opinion he believes to be true
Sworn to and subscribed this 24 th day of July 1835. before me Thomas H. Harrison
O. S. Ragland

State of Kentucky Clinton County set I P. H. Lulu deputy Clerk for Rice Moxey Clerk of the Clinton County Court Certify That Hiram J. Emerson a Justice of the peace in and for Clinton County Kentucky whose name is signed to the foregoing Certificate is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the peace as aforesaid and that his signature was written in his own proper hand and that full faith & credit is due to his said Certificate given under my hand and seal
Seal There being P. H. Lulu Clerk My seal office provided for Rice Moxey Clerk The 24 th day of July 1838

State of Kentucky } Clinton County }
April the 4 th 1838 personally appeared before
me John Irwin — an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid John Miller a Revolu- tionary pensioner of this county with whom I am intimately acquainted a man of good character & veracity, and after being duly sworn on his oath states that he has had an intimate acquaintance with David Groop of this county who has applied for a pension under the law of 1832, and that from an acquaintance of fifty years and upwards, he states said applicant has always been reputed as having been a Revolutionary soldier. This he states from an intimate acquaint- ance of the time as above stated, and he further states that he was well acquainted with  the certain Frederic Vanner of Surry County North Carolina, a respectable man, and that said Frederic Vanner used to say that said Groop served with him in the time of the Revolutionary war, but how long this witness does not know, or recollect to have ever heard sworn to and subscribed the day and date above written
John Irwin J.P.
John Miller his mark

State of Kentucky Clinton County Set
I Rice Masey Clerk of the Clinton County Court in the State aforesaid do certify that John Irwin Esquire whose name is signed to the within certificate is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Clinton duly Commissioned and qualified as such, and that his said signature is genuine
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and private seal, there being no seal of Office provided at Office this 7 th day of July 1838 and of our said Commonwealth the 4 th year
Rice Masey Clerk

Albany January 16th 1885 Clinton County Kentucky
I herein inclose the Pension Declaration of David Grop of this county claiming a pension under the law of the united States under the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832, with the affidavit of Meshac Green please communicate the result of the investigation to me at this office
The Honorable
J L Edwards
Comm Pensions
Your humble Servant
R A Dalbey

Albany Clinton Co Kentucky July 23 rd 1838
To The Honorable,
The commission of Pensions your letter of the 9 th this instant has been received, in answer to the Declaration and proceedings of David Grop Relative to his Pension Claim under the act of Congress of the 7 th June 1832 which I mailed at this place some time last winter. I have procured the letter of Doct O. J. Hagland of this county, and his affidavit as to the contents of the letter. I do not now recollect the other persons referred to in Grop's Declaration by whom he intimated that he could prove character and the traditional account of his service. Perhaps George Denton was one. I have from the most authen- tic sources that David Grop is in very low health, and probably never well recovered. I believe he served as a Revolutionary soldier and wish to afford him all the assistance I can in getting his claim. I have sometimes apprehended, that he had not clearly discriminated, between his Sons. He may for what I know recover his strength and intellect, but from his vast age I think he will not be has manifested

Great anxiety to hear from the Department I have been surprised that I have not heard before. I have some few days past addressed you a few lines enclosing in the same the affidavit of John Miller an old Revolutioner in support to of the claim of Grogg. I earnestly request you to write to me as soon as you receive this letter and affa- davit.
Your obbt Servt Robert A Dabney Attorney for
The Honorable David Grogg J L Edwards Washington City D.C.

Albany Clinton County Kentucky July 17 th
1838
I enclose you in this letter the affidavit of John Miller Relative to the Revolutionary services of David Grop and Earnestly solicit information on the subject.
Your humble servant
P. A. Dabney
The Hon
J. L. Edwards Esq
Comm ee of pensions
Washington. D.C.

Morgan Co. Tennessee May 14 th 1838 your letter of Enquiry of the 20 th April 1838 was received by me at the post office on Saturday last on Examination of the affidavit of Marshall Green therein enclosed I have to inform you that I am per- sonally acquainted with Thomas Jack Esquire the Justice of the Peace who administered the oath and from the signature thereto purporting to be his I have no hesitation in saying it is his own Genuine Signature I have also obtained the within En- closed statement of Thomas Jack Esq r who administered the oath which is herein enclosed with the said affi- davit the signature however pur- porting to be signed by me as Clerk is in the hand writing of my Deputy Robert A. Dubrey
Your humble Serv t Edmund G. Hington Clerk of the County Court of Morgan Tennessee
J. L. Edwards
Com r of pensions

May 13 th 1838
At the Request of Edmund G. Hington Clerk of the County Court of Morgan County Tennessee I do certify that I attended in the month of January at Martha Greene house and took His Deposition in the cause of David Grop Admin = othed the oath to the said Greene and signed officially As Justice of the peace Thomas Luck

State of Tennessee Morgan County
Be it known that on the day of January A.D. 1838 before me Thomas Jack a Justice of the peace in and for the county of Morgan personally appeared Mashac Green a very old man and an old Revolutionary pensioner being a resident citizen of Morgan County and a man of undoubted veracity with whom I am personally acquainted and after being duly sworn for that purpose according to law made the following affidavit that he was intimately acquainted with one David Groop in the County of Surry in the State of North Carolina knows that Groop volunteered in Surry County and started off under Capt William Bell in the summer of 1780 and was absent for the space of several months during which time he still understood from the family that Groop was in the army after the return of Groop he saw and conversed with him on the subject Groop informed him that their company was attached to Sumpter's army and that he was at the battle at Hanging Rock and received a wound on the right arm stated that he received it from the enemy in action that it did not penetrate the bone but was only a flesh wound so that it did not disable him and for a short time he then saw Groop passing about occasionally for some months perhaps the next spring he again volunteered under Capt Spears to march on to Moravon towns against Cornwallis was absent a considerable time and returned home again he never heard of no remarkable events of that campaign but knows that Groop remained in Surry County several years after the close of the war does not know of any other service performed by said Groop of his own knowledge but have heard it said that he served one or two besides Alitney never served directly in the company with Groop at any time Groop's services being

performed before his commences but know tho' Grof still remained in the County after the close of the war he states that he has not saw Grof for many year but from every discription and circumstance believes that tho' David Grof of Clinton County Kentucky who is now making application to have pension papers prepared is the Identical David Grof who served in the revolution as before described sworn to and subscribed the day and date first above mentioned. his Mathias Green mark
Thomas Jack a Justice of the peace
State of Tennessee Morgan County 3 SS
I Edmund G. Hington, clerk of the County Court of Morgan aforesaid, do certify that Thomas Jack Esquire was an acting Justice of the peace for the County of Morgan in the state of Tennessee and that full faith and credit is due his official acts as such that he was an acting Justice as aforesaid at the time of signing the same and now is; and his said foregoing signature to the foregoing affidavit is in his own proper hand writing.
Given under my hand and seal of office at office in Montgomery This 9th day of January A.D. 1838,
Edmund G. Hington Clerk

30 444 Rev INVALID.
File No. 30 444
David Gross
Rev Mr
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 165
[Arrangement of 1870.]

David Groff. Kentucky suspended
See letters 28 th April 1838 to Robert A. Dabney and Edwin G. Kingston, Clerk Court of Morgan Co. Tennessee let 9 July 1838 R. A. Dabney, do. 23 rd July 1838

State of Kentucky
Clinton County } on this the 22 nd day of August 1838
personally appeared before me David  David Pomeroy a Justice of the peace in and for the county of Clinton aforesaid. David being a resident citizen of the county and state aforesaid aged ninety four years from his best information having no record of his age, and after being duly sworn for that purpose on his oath makes the following amendment, to his Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th June 1838
He states that he enlisted the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as here in stated. He volunteered to serve a three months tour in Surry County North Carolina under Captain Jacob Free, to go against the Indians, according to his best recollection in the fall season of the year but from his loss of memory cannot state with certainty the month nor day but believes it was the fall of 1779 he served on the frontier of North Carolina stationed a while about one and a half miles from Wilks Court house, until some other companies came up and ranged through the mountains and served three months and was verbally discharged by said Captain Free in Surry County, at Captain Sanders' house about twelve miles from applicant's own house having served three months, he cannot state with certainty the day nor date further than it was and the Expiration of the full term of three months
He again volunteered to serve a three months tour under Captain Sanders and entered service some time perhaps two months or there about after the expiration of his said first tour he cannot state the day nor month with certainty further than he thinks from

his recollection of the weather being warm it was probably some time in March as he recollects that said tour included the warm season of the year or partly so, that went under said Capt to the Moraven towns after the British moving toward the south state and reconnoiter and scouting about found no other forces and was finally discharged near Charlotte having served three months was verbally dis- charged by said Capt Sanders in the warm season of the year, 1780. as he believes from calculation, He again,
He again volunteered, in perhaps two or three weeks or thereabout after the expiration of his last mentioned tour under Capt. Mull he cannot state with certainty the day but it was a short time before the battle of the Wilmington Rock, he went on and was joined to Sumpter's force and was in the said battle and was shot in the right arm in said engagement, was taken to the hospital at Camden and was there attended to by a Physician, his name he does not think he was charged his man- ery with continued there awhile got well the wound left a large ugly scar, and on after he got better, after the British to Charlotte and Salisbury, and was verbally dischar- ged near home by said William Mull captain, having served three months,
He again volunteered to serve a tour and entered the service sometime in the latter part of the summer 1781 as he believes from

Calculation and entered service under Captain Spears and went down to the Morain Towns and at Hoosier town after the British and re- turned home and went in a day or two down the same direction and to the same place again and was marched back and was verbally discharged by Captain Spears at a Little Town on the Yadkin. He states that according to his best recollection he served two war- the this War. He states that he cannot state with further certainty the precise period of his entering each War of service and quitting the same. that he is no scholar and has no record of the dates or any document to re- fresh his memory as to dates and that his Declaration is made from his best judgment and knowledge of the dates from calculation on reference to events. he was born in Lan- caster County Pennsylvania came to the North Carolina Surry County at about 14 years of age. that he had been living in Surry County about twenty years before his first War of duty, and had been married about ten years before said War. he lived in Surry twenty twenty years after the war and then moved to where he now lives in Clinton County Kentucky upwards of thirty six years past he prays that this may be considered as an am- endment to his original Declaration He states that Stockels took down his statements that he did not nor does not know whether he sent them to the War office or not that he lived remote from him many miles off was never at Barkerville where the court house was in his life that he has been too infirm for traveling many years past that he has no

written as documentary evidence of his service and is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State
Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 22 d day of August 1838
David his Grop, mark
Hiram Jemerson Jpble
State of Kentucky Clinton County ss
I, Hiram Jemerson one of the Commonwealth's Justices of the peace in & for the County aforesaid do certify that the foregoing amended Declaration of David Grop was sworn to and Subscribed before me at the residence of said Grop in the County of Clinton and State of Kentucky. And would further certify that from his Narrative given touching his Revolutionary Services in conversation while at his house and an exhibition of the Scar from a Wound received, while in the service and his character for truth, honesty and correctness. I have no hesitation in stating that I believe he rendered the services as stated in his declaration and believe from his appearance he is of the age he states himself to be 94 - and from his frailty could not conveniently at the Courthouse. Given under my hand this 22 d day of August 1838
Hiram Jemerson Jpble
State of Kentucky Clinton County ss I, H. Leslie Deputy Clerk of the Court Moses, Clerk of the Clinton County Court Certify that Hiram Jemerson whose name

now known to me was under my hand this 22 nd day of August 1838
Hiram Emerson J.P.
State of Kentucky By Clinton County for J. H. Leslie Deputy Clerk for Rice Moses Clerk of the Clinton County Court Certify that Hiram Emerson whose name
is assigned to the foregoing Certificate is and was at the time of assigning the same a justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid and that his said Certifi- -cate is in due form of law and full faith and Credit is due to his said Official act Certifi- -cate Given under my hand
and private Seal there being no seal of office provided this 22 nd day of August 1838
J. H. Leslie Clerk for Rice Moses Clerk