Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5209, James Hopkins, N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Nb.
Hopkins, James
R. 5209
CONTENTS

Suspended Claim Act of July 7. 1832
James Hopkins. Missouri.
Power of Attorney to examine Claim.
Chas. Tucker. Atty Present.

Know all men by these presents That I James Hopkins of the county of Cedar and State of Missouri do hereby constitute and appoint Charles C. Tucker of Washington City D.C. my true and lawful attorney and agent to prosecute the claim for pension due my deceased father James Hopkins for services in the Revolutionary war, and for all and every amount of money and property that may be due me from the Government of the United States in right of my father James Hopkins deceased, under the act of Congress of date of any other act or resolution of Congress and I hereby authorize my said attorney to examine all papers and documents in relation to said claim or file in the department at Washington City or elsewhere to file additional evidence or arguments and to receive the certificate which may be issued for said claim and to appoint one or more subeditors under him for the purpose herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I person- ally present
Hereby Ratifying and confirm- ing all that my said attorney may lawfully do in the premises
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this

The 23 rd day of October A.D. 1854 In presence of James Hopkins Jas. B. Winton J. S. Marshall
State of Missouri } ss County of Cedar }
On this the 23 rd day of October A.D. 1854 before me a justice of the peace in and for the county and state above mentioned personally appeared James Hopkins and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his act and deed for the purpose therein mentioned
Subj. Berde S.P.
State of Missouri } ss County of Cedar }
On this the 23 rd day of October 1854 before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for the county and state above said personally appeared James Hopkins a resident of said county, and made oath according to law that he is the identical James Hopkins who executed the foregoing power of attorney, and that he is directly interested in said claim and makes this affidavit to be plea with such additional evidence or arguments as my said attorney may use in prosecuting said claim
James Hopkins
Sworn & subscribed before me the day and year above written
Subj. Berde S.P.

State of Missouri County of Cedar 3 ds
I James M Frazier Clerk of the Circuit and County Court of Cedar county do hereby certify that James B Noe _____ before whom the foregoing affidavit and acknowledg- ment were made and who has there- unto signed his name, was at the time of so doing a justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit
In testimony whereof I hereunto signed my name and affixed my of- ficial seal this 23 rd day of October 1854 James M Frazier Clerk By H B Linsay S b

[REDACTED] Be it remembered that at a County Court began Continued and held at the Court House in the Town of Bolivar in Polk County State of Missouri On the 5 th day of August A D 1847
Among At the time the following Proceedings took place
State of Missouri ss County of Polk ss
On the 5 th day of August 1847 Personally appeared in open Court being a court of Record for the County of Polk of aforesaid James Hopkins Resident in said County aged eighty two years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the full following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832 that he entered the Service of the United States under the following named Officers Thomas Farmer Colonel - Humphreys Major - Parish Captain This Affiant entered the Service of the United States as a Private Soldier in the Month of June 1781 in the Town of Hillsborough Orange County in the State of North Carolina where this Affiant then Resided This Affiant States that he was

draughted this Affiant States that he was engaged in the Battle at the Oulaw Springs in the State of South Carolina under the Command of Gen Green said Battle was fought on the 9 Septm 1781. this affiant marched from said town of Hillsborough to the town of Salisbury in the County of Rowan North Carolina from thence to the town of Camden in the State of South Carolina from thence to Thompson's Fort on the Congaree River from thence to the Oulaw Springs thence this affiant further States that he served under the aforesaid Officers as a private soldier in the field for three months during said time he was not engaged in any Civil Pursuit this affiant served with an embodied corps called into Service by authority of the United States that this affiant further states that he has no documentary proof to prove his services he once had a Discharge which is now lost this affiant further states that he knows of no evidence to prove his services except the Testimony of Margaret Shannon who lives in the County of Wayne and State of Tennessee the Disposition of said Margaret is hereto annexed

And this affiant states that he is the Identical Person Spoken of in said Deposition this affiant further states that after the expiration of his said service aforesaid he was drafted and was employed in Guarding Prisoners in Jail and to and from Jail and Guarding Prisoners as much as three months in the service of the United States during the said year of 1881 this affiant 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 Suborned and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
James Hopkins M. Davis clerk Polk Co. Mo.
We Henry Akard a clergyman residing in the County of Polk and State of Missouri and in the neighborhood of James Hopkins and Lyman Beeman residing in the same County aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with said James Hopkins

who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be eighty two 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
Henry Akard
Lyman Beeman
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
M. Hains clk Pcc
And the said County Court of Polk County in the State of Missouri 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 certify that it appears to them that Henry Akard who has signed the proceeding certificate is a well known man residing in the neighborhood of said Hop Run in the County

of Polk aforesaid and that Lyman Beeman is a credible person and that their statements is entitled to Credit
This day personally appeared in open Court James Hopkins and the Court Propounded to said Hopkins the following questions to which said Hopkins gave the following answers
1 Where and in what year were You born
Answer I was born in the County of Orange in the State of North Carolina in the Month of June 1765
2 Have you any Record of your age if so where is it
Answer I have no Record of my age in my possession at Present
3 When were you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you live now
Answer when I was called into the service I was living in Orange County North Carolina I moved from then to Sumner County Tennessee see I moved from said Sumner County to Polk County Missouri

I now reside in said County of Polk Q How were You Called into Service were You Draughted did You Volunteer or were You a Substitute if a Substitute for whom
Answer I was Draughted 5 State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops where You served such Continental and Militia Regiments as You can recollect and the General Circumstances of Your services
Answer I cannot owing to want of Recollection from a Recollection the Troops I served with I recollect Gen Green Col Tho s Farmer Mays Humphreys and Capt Purvis
6 Did You ever receive a discharge from the Service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it
Answer I received a discharge from the Service it was given by Col Tho s Farmer it was burned up ac- cidentally when my House was burned together with all the papers

State of Missouri } ss County of Polk } ss
I Israel W. Davis Clerk of the County Court of said County of Polk Do certify that the foregoing is a true and complete transcript of the Record of the proceedings in said Court in the matter of James Hopkins an applicant for a Rehearing as the same now remains of Record in my said office
Witness Israel W. Davis Clerk as aforesaid With the Seal of said Court affixed at Office this 25 day of August 1847
M. Davis Clerk

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
MCS/MLB
June 2, 1930
Cleo Hopkins Mc Kinney 470 S. Main Avenue Springfield, Missouri
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 5209, it appears that James Hopkins was born in June, 1865.
He applied for pension August 5, 1847 while living in Polk County, Missouri and alleged that while a resident of Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina, he enlisted in June, 1781 and served three months as a private in Captain Parish's Company, in Colonel Thomas Farmer's North Carolina Regiment and was in the battle of Eutaw Springs. He also alleged that in 1781 he served three months and was engaged in guarding prisoners.
He did not prove that his services while guarding prisoners was in an organized military corps and the claim was not allowed. The act under which he applied for pension required that he render at least six months service in a regularly organized military corps.
From Orange County, North Carolina he moved to Sumner County, Tennessee and from there to Polk County, Missouri.
His son, James, was living in Cedar County, Missouri in 1854 and stated that his father was then dead. There are no data relative to the wife of the soldier.
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner

No 37550 James Hopkins Mo. Set to W. H. Allen Abt 24th 1847.
act 7 June 1832

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1878.
REJECTED
5209
P. O. _____
James Hopkins
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
List of 1857 gives fol. reason for suspension, "not six mos. service"
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contra
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

W. H. letter
Sept 24. 67

Pension Office September 29th 1847
Sir,
The papers in the Case of James Hopkins have been examined and filed. The act of 5 June 1832 provides for those Officers and Soldiers Non-Commissioned only who rendered at the least 6 months service in a regular organized Corps in field or Garrison. Claimant has See p. 100 but one term which according to his own estimate was 3 months only. His alleged employment in guarding prisoners is not specified as required by the regulations and cannot be be taken into the estimate of his service.
Unless he can show clearly by the records in the Comptroller's Office at Raleigh NC or by the testimony of two or three witnesses who were themselves in service and who can state the time of his entering and the time and manner of his leaving the service with the company and field of operations under which it was performed his claim cannot be admitted.
Wm. H. Atkinson Esq. Pittsylvania Co. Va.

Original
Sept 9 47
James Hopkins
no 32
Bolivar no Aug 27 th
177
J L Edward Esq Court of Pensions Washington City DC
Mail

Dr Edward. Com Pension -
Dear Sir.
I send you the papers in relation to the pension case of James Hopkins. the reason the case has been so long delayed. - there is is he doubted. whether as he served as a private 3 months. and the other three months. was only engaged in guarding prisoners. jails and provision Waggons. - the question with him has been whether the latter would be regarded as service I advised him that the Government would have to pay for this. and our Member of Congress. Hon John. S. Phelps concurs. with me in opinion on this I know but little in relation to the pension laws. or the proper manner to prepare the papers If these should be incorrect please advise me how to proceed. Hopkins is very old and infirm and is really an object of Charity all who know him

Know that he would not claim a cent of the government he is not entitled to. Please advise me immediately of the action had on his case.
I am very Respectfully Yours S r . 1.
Wm H. Stetson

State of Missouri County of Polk
On this 5 th day of August 1847 personally appeared in open court being a court of Record for the County of Polk aforesaid James Hop King resident in said County aged eighty two 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 7 1832 that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers Thomas Harmer Colonel Humphreys Major Parish Captain This affiant entered the service of the United States as a private soldier in the month of June 1781 in the town of Hillsborough Orange County in the state of North Carolina where this affiant then resided this affiant states that he was draughted this affiant states that he was engaged in the Battle at the Eutaw Springs in the state of South Carolina under the command of Gen Green said Battle was fought on the 9 th Sept. 1781 this affiant marched from said town of Hillsborough to the town of Salisbury in the County of Rowan North Carolina - from thence to the town of Camden in the state of South Carolina from thence to Thompson's Fort on the Congaree River

from thence to the Eutaw Springs. This affiant further states that he served under the aforesaid officers as a private soldier in the field for three months during said time he was not engaged in any way. Citing present. This affiant served with an organized corps called into service by authority of the United States. This affiant further states that he has no documentary proof to prove his service he once had a discharge which is now lost. This affiant further states that he knows of no evidence to prove his service except the testimony of Margaret Shannon who lives in the County of Sumner and State of Tennessee the deposition of said Margaret is hereto annexed and this affiant states that he is the identical person spoken of in said deposition. This affiant further states that after the expiration of his said service aforesaid he was drafted draughted and was employed in guarding prisoners in jail and to and from jail and guarding prisoners as much as three months in the service of the United States during the said year of 1781. This affiant hereby relinquishes any 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
James F. Clay
sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Field Davis clerk Polk Co. Ct.
We Henry Akard a clergyman residing in the County of Polk and state of Missouri and in the neighborhood of James Hopkins and Lyman Beeman residing in the same County aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with said James Hopkins who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be eighty two 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
Henry Akard Lyman Beeman
sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Field Davis clerk Polk Co. Ct.
And the said County Court of Polk County in the state of Missouri do 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 Certify that it appears to them that Henry Akard who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the neighborhood of said Hopkins in the County of Polk aforesaid and that Lyman Beeman is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Israel M Davis Clerk of the Polk County Court in the state of Missouri do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Hopkins for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Bolivar this 3 rd August 1847. —
J. M. Davis CLK

By the Request of Capt. Henry Shannon. I have this day proceeded to take the Deposition or Statement of Mrs. Margaret Shannon aged about Eighty five years - She states that James W. Hopkins is her Brother, and that she is well acquainted with him and she further states, that she has a perfect Recollection of her Brother Jas. Hopkins serving a term of duty in the Revolutionary War, but how long or at what date she does not now recollect, but she thinks it was near the close of the War, at the time this Survey was rendered. We Resided in Orange County North Carolina, Question by the Magistrate, How old do you think Jas. Hopkins was at the time he went in to service Answer , he was about sixteen years of age her X mark Margaret Shannon
State of Tennessee, I. Z. P. Cantrell an acting Justice of Sumner County to peace for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing deposition of Mrs. Margaret Shannon was taken by me at the residence of Capt. Henry Shannon on the day of the 29 th March 1847 and was by me reduced to writing in the presence of the deponent and was by her subscribed in my presence -
I further certify that I am not agent or attorney and am in no way interested - Given under my hand and seal this 29 th day of March 1847
Z. P. Cantrell Justice of the Peace for Sumner County.
State of Tennessee I. William S. Munday Clerk Sumner County of the County Court of said County do hereby certify that Z. P. Cantrell is and was at the time of taking the above deposition an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified as such and that full faith and credit are and of right ought to be given his official acts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of Office at Office in the town of Gallatin, this 5 th day of April 1847.
Wm S. Munday Clerk

State of Tennessee } I Elijah Boddie Chairman of the County Sumner County } Court of said County do hereby certify that William G Munday is clerk of said Court and that his foregoing attestation is made in due form of law. Given under my hand and seal this 5 day of April A. D. 1847.
Elijah Boddie Chair. of S. C. Court
25 cents per said
Elijah Boddie
Chairman

N 37550 James Hopkins
Mo. at 7 June 1832 5209 2509

WAR DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL WASHINGTON
6-30-1931
MEMORANDUM TO:
Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, Washington, D.C.
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Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, Treasury Building, Washington, D.C.
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The Surgeon General, Washington, D.C.
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In order that headstones properly inscribed may be furnished, it is requested that the "Service" of the decedents named on the enclosed applications be verified and returned as soon as practicable to this office.
The regulations provide that the name of the State from which the decedents came be inscribed on the headstones. It is requested that this information be given and that any corrections be made in red ink on the form.
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The Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
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The General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C.
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In order that headstones properly inscribed may be furnished for the graves of the decedents named on the enclosed applications, it is requested that you furnish this office the correct spelling of the names and complete designation of the organizations.

Requested tombstone data for Jas. Hopkins, who served in Capt. Parish's U. C. Co.

470 S. Main Ave. Springfield, Mo. May 19, 1930.
Pension Bureau of the Revolutionary War Dept. Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
Will you please furnish me the pension record of James Hopkins who served as a private under Capt. Parish, Major Humphrey, and Colonel Thomas Farmer, N. Carolina. Regt. He died in Polk Co. in 1849. We expect to mark his grave at Fair Play in June and I also want to use this information for my D.A.R. Record.
Resp.
Cleo Hopkins McKinney

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July 3, 1931
The Quartermaster General Memorial Branch War Department, Washington, D.C.
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section MCS On
Dear Sir:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 5209, that James Hopkins was born in June, 1765.
He applied for pension August 5, 1847, while living in Polk County, Missouri, and alleged that while a resident of Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina, he enlisted in June, 1781, and served three months as a private in Captain Parish's company in Colonel Thomas Farmer's North Carolina Regiment and was in the battle of Eutaw Springs. He also alleged that in 1781 he served three months and was engaged in guarding prisoners.
He did not prove that his service while guarding prisoners was in an organized military corps and the claim was not allowed. The act under which he applied for pension required that he render at least six months service in a regularly organized military corps.
From Orange County, North Carolina, he moved to Sumner County, Tennessee, and from there to Polk County, Missouri.
His son, James, was living in Cedar County, Missouri, in 1854 and stated that his father was then dead.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Hopkins, James GRADE Sergeant "in the dragoons" LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 9618 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED August 26, 1789 to James Gray, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Hopkins, James GRADE Private LINE Rhode Island
WARRANT NUMBER 3225 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED May 28, 1792 to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.