Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9576, Thomas Hilliard, N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER
16.
Hilliard, Thomas
S 9576
Carded
CONTENTS

Paid at the Treasury under the Act of March 4 th April 1838 from 4 March 1838 to 4 th Sept 1838 - Age notified 2 Oct 1839.
Order to pay Sept 30 th 1842
Order to pay 23. Sept 1844 Same 7 Oct 1846
Inscribed on the Roll of N o 6 - at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of March 1833 and Rent for Mr J. Hawkins M c Bean
arrears to the 14 th of March 1833 $ 40.00 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept 33 10.00
$ 50.00
Revolutionary Claim Jan 7, 1831 415

Hilliard, Thomas N.C. 29576

State of North Carolina } Court of Pleas & Sessions Warren County } August Term 1832.
On this 27 th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of said Court now sitting, Thomas Hilliard of the County aforesaid, aged about 70 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 March 3 rd 1832 - To wit:-
That he was born in the County of New Kent State of Virginia - that when quite young his Parents moved and settled in the County of Granville N. Carolina - That he was not known his precise age - knowing no register of it - but is confident he is upwards of seventy years old - About the last of February 1779 he volunteered in Granville aforesaid for three months in the Militia under the Command of Capt. Smith & Lieut. Rice, both of said County - that the Company to which he was attached was marched to James River's fishery on Roanoke River in the County of Mecklenburg - Virginia - where they were employed in catching and barveling shad for the army - the fishery and seine being prepared for that purpose - When he received at the end of the three months from Capt. Smith of he must think - a discharge - which he has lost or mislaid & cannot now find.
In the next year 1780 - The class to which he belonged furnished a substitute which exempted it from the draft. Then called for - About the last of January 1781 - he was drafted in the County of Granville aforesaid for three months service as a Militia man - under the command of Capt. Gideon Greach and was marched with his company to Hillsboro N. Carolina - where they joined the twelve months men - commanded by Col. Long of the County of Halifax N.C. and Maj. Armstrong - That he remained at that place - and was employed with the Militia and State troops in protecting the General Assembly of N. Carolina then and there convened - and in keeping the Tories in check, who had threatened the General

openly and committed much mischief in the neighborhood and County adjoining under Col. Fanning - by plundering houses - destroying property - and in some instances killing the Whigs - This affiant states that at the expiration of his second service he received a discharge from Col. Long, as well as he remembers - but this with his other discharge has been lost or mislaid, so that he cannot now find them - never considering them of any use after the termination of the war. He recollects the names of Capt. Trent & Capt. McFarland who commanded Companies of Militia at Hillsboro at the period. During this latter service he heard that the battle of Guilford was fought - and that Genl. Greene afterwards marched with the American forces under his command towards the South - and Cornwallis with the British troops towards Wilmington N.C. and back through Halifax N.C. to Virginia.
This affiant hereby acknowledges every claim 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 - and that he never was received any compensation for his services.
He knows of no person by whose personal knowledge he can prove his services - the only corroborating testimony in his power is that furnished by the respectable persons who have known to and subscribed the annexed affidavit. He lived in Granville during his service aforesaid within a very few miles of his present residence. The County of Warren where he has ever since resided being taken from the County of Granville - it was first called Bute - and afterwards Warren. known to in after years
Basel (Drake's Mill)
Thomas Hilliard

April 12, 1934
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Thomas Hilliard-8.9576 BA-8/ATF
The Quartermaster General Historical Branch War Department Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War record of Thomas Hilliard.
The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, 8.9576, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Thomas Hilliard.
He was born in New Kent County, Virginia and when quite young moved, with his parents to Granville County, North Carolina; the date of his birth and names of parents are not given.
While residing in Granville County, Thomas Hilliard enlisted and served as a private with the North Carolina troops, as follows: from February, 1778, three months in Captain Smith's company; from January, 1781, three months in Captain Gideon Gooch's company, Colonel Long's regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed, August 27, 1832, then aged about seventy years and living in Warren County, North Carolina.
The application for headstone, dated April 13, 1927 and one dated April 3, 1934, both for Thomas Hilliard, also a letter from Mrs. T. J. Miles, dated March 31, 1934, addressed to Quartermaster General, U.S. Army, Washington, D.C., are all returned herewith.
Very truly yours
A. D. MILLER Assistant to Administrator

3 1734
admit pri 6 mo $20.00

We Cassell Drake & Clapp - residing in the County of Franklin state of Massachusetts and Joseph Sims residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Williams who has subscribed and sworn to the here- to annexed - that we believe him to be about 70 years of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood in which he lives, to have been a soldier of the Revolution that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Cassell Drake C.M.B.
Cassell Drake
Joseph Sims
And the said Cassell Drake hereby declares that in order to the truth of the foregoing, and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the Court, and that the above named application was a true and correct statement of the facts, and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Cassell Drake who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clapp - residing in the County of Franklin and that Mr. Sims who has also signed the same is a resident of said County State and is a credible person & that their statement is well to be credited.
I Cassell Drake Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Sessions for the County of Franklin aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Mrs. Williams in a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 27th day of August A.D. 1832
Cassell Drake C.M.B.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
September 24, 1839.
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," Thomas Billiard, a Pensioner on the Roll of the N. Carolina Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars and  Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 1 st of March 1838, to the 1 st September, 1838.
Respectfully, yours,
William B. Parrish Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

Rev. branch
9576 INVALID.
File No. 9576
Thomas Hilliard
New Roll Hall
Act: June 1 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 173
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1934 Apr. 12 - Recd - to Museum - Branch all slips returned as of

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WAR DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL WASHINGTON
1933
Memorandum for            The Surgeon General, Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, Commandant, United States Coast Guard, Treasury Department, The Commissioner of Pensions, Interior Building, General Accounting Office, F Street, between 4th & 5th, N. W.
1. The attached application has been submitted to this office for Government headstone to be erected at the grave of the decedent named thereon. In order that the proper inscription may be placed on the stone it would be appreciated if your office would verify the name and service on the application, checking and making such corrections in red ink as may be necessary to show the correct spelling of the name and complete designation of the organizations.
2. In addition, please advise State from which decedent came.

Custom Office
Daytonville Sept. 18 th 1844
James L Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Revenue
Sir,
Please authorize the payment of Thomas Atkinson's acct 1832. 12 mo. $20. for another rec. issued
I am Sir,
respectfully your obedt. Servt.
Andrew H. Agassiz