Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6,960, William Hawkins, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Hawkins William
S. 6,960
carded
CONTENTS

Virginia 12.950 William Hawkins
of Mason in the State of Virginia who was a pri: in the company commanded by Captain Gallaway of the Regt commands by Col. Lewis in the Virginia line for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 20 Dollars Cents per annu. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th day of June '33 and sent W. B. Lewis Washington D. C.
Arrears to the 4th of March '33 - 40 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Sept. " - 10
$50
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Wm Miller Clerk Book 8 Vol. 6 Page 12

See letters May 10 1838 to P. & F.
& H. I. Fisher
Letter to B. ... Jan'y 1839.
Paid at ... under the act of ... April 1838
from 4 ... to 4 March 1838. - a/g ... 30 Jan'y 1839
Paid as above ... to 4 Sept 1838 to 4 ... Agent Notified 22 ...
Date of ...

State of Virginia } to wit Mason County }
On this fourth day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Three personally appeared in open court before the County Court of Mason now sitting William Hawkins a resident of the banks of the Ohio river in the County of Mason and State of Virginia aged Sixty Eight years last June 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 the 7 th 1832
That he entered the service of the said William Hawkins entered the service of the United States under the following named officers - and also under the following detailed circumstances - and served as herein stated - He was born on the 30 th day of June in the year 1764 in the County of Rockbridge State of Va. - His first tour of duty was in the capacity of a pack-horemaster for the Army under the Command of Genl. McIntosh who in the fall of 1778 marched against the North-western Indians - his then extreme youth prevents his recollecting the precise day or even month upon which that tour of duty was performed - in the fall of 1780 Col. George Skilton at the town of Pincastle Botetourt County Va. called for Volunteers he volunteered under Capt. James Robinson and under his command marched through the country watered by the rivers Dan and Smith crossing both to Old Hosier Town North Carolina where Major Campbell met and took the command of the Company in which he was - Marched thro. Salem to the Yadkin river crossed it to Salisbury from thence to Hillsboro in the State of North Carolina - Joined the Army under Genl. Morgan at or near a place called New Sowards Mill from thence marched to Salisbury N.C. - from thence to Guilford Court house in February 1781 was discharged the written evidence of which is lost - returned to Botetourt - in August 1781 became a substitute for one Robert Harvey in a Company commanded by one Capt. John Galarway assembled at Burrills Mill 242 miles below Williamsburg Va. Joined a Regt. of Riflemen commanded by Col. Saml. Lewis marched to Yorktown Va. then joined the Army under Genl. Washington there continued and participated in the Siege and capture of Lord Cornwallis after the consummation of which as one of the Guards went with the English prisoners 100 miles towards Winchester

but before reaching that place received from Major Patrick Lockhart a written discharge which has since been lost he has no documentary Evidence whatever. and he knows of no person whose Testimony he can procure who can testify to his services — He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension role of the agency of any State whatever
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Wm Hawkins
We Andrew Muggen ————— residing in the County of Mason and Isaac Newman ————— residing in the County of Mason hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Mr. William Hawkins who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration — that we believe him to be upwards of 68 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 and that further there is no clergyman residing in the neighborhood of his the applicants residence
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
A Muggen Isaac Newman
And the said Court 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 certifies that it appears to them that Andrew Muggen who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident of the County of Mason and that Isaac Newman ————— who has also signed the same is a resident in the County of Mason that they are credible and respectable persons and that their statement is entitled to credit and that there is no clergyman residing in the neighborhood of the Applicant

July 15, 1937
Mr. Lee O. Wolfe Titonka Iowa
William Hawkins S. 6960 BA-J/AWF Qu
copied m.c.s.
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of William Hawkins of Virginia, and William Yates of Virginia, both of whom later lived in that part of Virginia which was later West Virginia.
The Revolutionary War records of this office have been searched and no claim for pension found based upon the service of a William Yates as described by you.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S. 6860, based upon the service of William Hawkins in the Revolutionary War.
William Hawkins was born June 30, 1784 in Rockbridge County, Virginia. The names of his parents were not given.
He served in 1778 as pack-horseman under General McIntosh and was engaged against the Indians in the Northwest, length of this service not shown. He enlisted in the fall of 1780 and served until sometime in February, 1781, as private in Captain James Robinson's company in Colonel George Skillern's Virginia regiment. He enlisted sometime in August, 1781, served as a private in Captain John Galaway's company in Colonel Samuel

Lewis' Virginia regiment, participated in the siege at Yorktown and was discharged soon after. His entire service amounted to more than six months.
The soldier, William Hawkins, was allowed pension on his application executed February 4, 1833, at which time he was living in Mason County, Virginia (West Virginia) on the "banks of the Ohio River".
The papers on file in this claim contain no reference to soldier's family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and furnish the following data:
William Hawkins Certificate # 12950 Issued June 18, 1833 Rate $20.00 per annum Commenced March 4, 1831 Act of June 7, 1832 Virginia Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

October 10, 1934
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BA-J/MCS
William Hawkins, S. 6960
Honorable Clyde Williams House of Representatives Washington D.C.
My Dear Mr. Williams:
Reference is made to your request for information in regard to the Revolutionary War records of William Lynch of Carroll County, Maryland, and William Hawkins of Mason County, Virginia.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon the military service of soldiers in that war. A careful search of the records fails to show such claim on file on account of the service of a William Lynch who lived in Carroll County, Maryland.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S. 6960, based upon the military service of William Hawkins.
He was born June 30, 1764, in Rockbridge County, Virginia. The names of his parents were not given.
In 1778 he served as pack-horseman under General McIntosh and was engaged against the Indians in the Northwest, length of this tour not given. He enlisted in the fall of 1780 and served until sometime in February, 1781, as private in Captain James Robinson's company in Colonel George Skillern's Virginia regiment and he stated that after this service he returned to Botetourt County, Virginia. He enlisted in August, 1781, served as private in Captain John Galloway's company in Colonel Samuel Lewis' Virginia regiment, participated in the siege and capture of Cornwallis at Yorktown and was discharged soon afterward. His entire service amounted to more than six months but less than nine months.

He was allowed pension on his application executed February 4, 1833, at which time he was living in Mason County, Virginia, on the "banks of the Ohio River".
The papers in this claim contain no data relative to the soldier's family.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. William Hawkins Sur. File 6960
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1878 Private under Col. M. L. Smith against   the North Western Indians.   Fall of 1880 Feb 1881 James Robinson George Williams Pa   Aug 1881 John Coloney Saml. Davis   his own afterwards  
Battles engaged in, * Siege and capture of Corral Creek  Residence of soldier at enlistment, near the mouth of the Ohio River  Date of application for pension, Feb 1890  Residence at date of application, at the mouth of the Ohio River  Age at date of application, born June 20 1862 in Rockbridge Co. Va.  Remarks: No children in family

Titonka, Iowa
July 3, 1937
Veterans Administration Old Records Division Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs:
Will you please send me any further information and family data included in any records that you may have in the Old Records Division in which the following two men, who served in the Revolutionary war, or their widows received pensions or land grants:
(1) William Yates , who was a resident of Fauquier county, Virginia, during the period of the Revolutionary war. Wife, Nancy (Ann). To Harrison county, Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1801 or 1802. Died between 1821 and 1836(?). on 19 VA
(2) William Hawkins , resident of Fauquier county, Virginia, where he leased land in 1770. Wife, Elizabeth. In Harrison county, West Virginia, in 1811, and died there between 1819 and 1836. "One William Haken (name also borne as William Hawkins) served in Revolutionary war as a private in a company designated at various times as Captain James Quarles' and Captain William Long's company, 2nd Va. Regt., commanded successively by Colonel Gregory Smith and Col. Wm. Brent. He enlisted for 3 years, date not shown. He reenlisted for the war in 1779."
Both lived in Leeds Parish, Fauquier County, during residence in Old Virginia.
Thank you very much for such information as you may be able to supply.
Respectfully yours,
Lee O. Wolfe Lee O. Wolfe Titonka, Iowa

CLYDE WILLIAMS AT LARGE MISSOURI
HOME ADDRESS: HILLSBORO, MISSOURI
COMMITTEE: BANKING AND CURRENCY
Congress of the United States House of Representatives Washington, D.C.
Hillsboro, Missouri,, October 6, 1934.
Veterans' Administration, Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
I have an inquiry about the revolutionary pensions of William Lynch of Carroll County, Maryland, and of William Hawkins of Mason County, Virginia.
If you have any records of these gentlemen, will you kindly advise me what they show.
Very sincerely yours,
Clyde Williams
CW:PD

January 24, 1933
Administrator of Veterans' Affairs Washington D. C.
Dear Sir:
Kindly furnish me uncertified photostatic copies of six pages from the Revolutionary War pension claim of William Hawkins, S. 6960.
Very truly yours
Remitter:
Robert L. Hogg NOB # 488 Wash. D.C.
Received payment 90 cents January 24, 1933
W. C. Stokes
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

Rev. & 1812
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BA-J/MCS
January 24, 1933
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
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Rev. War pension claim of William
Hawkins, S. 6960
Actual
1 of each page
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$0.90
6 pages
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Kindly leave margin of 1 1/2 inches at top of each page and return papers in each case in folder with correspond- ing name and number.
Chief of Rev. & 1812 Wars Sect.
Photos mailed Jan 31, 1933
T Ac. Div. notified 90 cts to be credited to Miss R. C. C. P.

Soldiers deposition dated Feb 4, 1833 — 3 pages Letter from Henry Fisher dated Apr 15, 1833 3 pages 
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January 24, 1833
Rev.
Rev. A. B. L. B. B. B. B.
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Rev. Rev. position of William
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Hawkins, S. 6880
Verdict
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Kindly leave margin of 1 1/2 inches at top of each page and return papers in such case in folder with correspond- ing name and number.
Chief of Rev. A. B. L. B. B. B. B.
Rev. A. B. L. B. B. B. B. 1 of each page total 6 pages

727 1/2 Hampshire St. Litchey, Illinois. 10-23-09.
Commissioner of Pensions.
Dear Sir:-
Will you please give me all the information you can regarding Pensions drawn by John Hawkins and W m Hawkins who were in American Rev. I am so anxious to join a Chapter in my City and need more evidence. That I know my great grand father W m Hawkins who married Jane Bayne daughter of Geo. Bayne was in the A. Rev. and have my line complete as to a descendant, but have been asked for more information. Won't you help me? great My grand father W m Hawkins married Jane Bayne and W m Hawkins father was named John. I must know more of John & who he married. They both were in this War. Enlisted from Va and it is hard to trace owing to lost Rec. &
An early reply is greatly desired. Thanking you in advance for all favors I beg to remain. Resp. Sarah Love Justice.

Respectfully referred to the Chief Record Division for consideration and reply to writer. One dollar bill which accompanied this letter has this day been returned to Mrs. Justice.
A. H. Thompson (H.M.) Chief Finance Div.
Oct. 26/09.

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by George M Moore
Claim No. Oct 29 1909
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier William Hawkins
Service Va  Res
Additional Service _____
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 190_____
No claim, combination records _____, 190_____
REMARKS:
No O.H. I.H. or R as above Try Reg F 475-Rev. Service 1824 ! Fh. 6960

Revised
696.0
INVALID.
File No. 696.0
William Rankin
Pr. New York
Act: June 1st 88
Index: — Vol. 165 , Page 160
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1909 Oct 30 List. To Sarah Love Justice N.Y.
1933 Jan 31 Photos mailed to Hon. Robt. L. Ogden and Re. Div. notified W.C.T.U.
1934 Oct 10 List. to Hon. Clyde Williams. W.C.T.U.
1937 July 15: Miss E. Lee A. Wolfe copied in C.S.

War Department Pension Office March 13 1833
Sir
The declarations of Francis Collier and William Hawkins have been examined.
The claim of Collier has been admitted, and his certificate will be handed to you.
The declaration of Hawkins is herewith returned for amendment. — He must state distinctly the length of his service — he says, that he "entered the service in the fall of 1780, and was discharged in May 1781," again, that he entered in August 1781, and was discharged some time after the Battle of Yorktown, which was on the 17th Oct 1781. It will readily be perceived that a statement so indefinite in the important point cannot be received and have a favorable action.
Yours Respectfully J. M. [initials]
William P. Lunsford Esq. Second Auditor's Office
J. L. Edwards

Point Pleasant, Mason County, Virginia, April, the 18 th , 1833.
Dr. Sir,
On my return home after an absence of four weeks; Thos. Lewis Esq. Clerk of Mason Co. Ct., placed in my hands the original papers of an applicant for a pension, under the Act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832; together with a communication from yourself, and also one from J. L. Edwards Esq., relative to the application aforesaid. The application was made by Mr. William Hawkins, and contains the following Statement. His first term of Duty was in the capacity of a pack horseman for the Army under the Command of Genl. McKittrick; who in the fall of 1778, marched against the North-western Indians; his then extreme youth, prevents his recollecting the precise day, or even month, in which that term of Duty was performed. In the fall of 1780, Col. George Skelton at the Town of Hincastle, Botetourt County, Va., called for volunteers; he volunteered under Capt. James Robinson, and under his Command marched through the country watered by the rivers Darr & Smith, crossing both to old Fluvier Town, North Carolina, where Major Campbell met and took the Command of the Company in which he was, marched thro. Salem to the Yadkin River, crossed it to Salisbury from thence to Sipes, in the State of North Carolina; joined the Army under Genl. Morgan at or near a place called New Sovern Mill; from thence marched to Salisbury, North Carolina; from thence to Guilford Courthouse in Feby. 1781, was discharged, the written Evidence of which is lost; returned to Botetourt. In August 1781, became a substitute for one Robert Harvey, in a Company commanded by one Capt. Chas. Galaway - encamped at Barriff's Mill 242 miles below Williamsburg Va., joined a Regiment of Riflemen commanded by Col. Samuel Lewis; marched to Yorktown Rd., joined the Army under General Washington; there continued and participated in the Siege and Capture of Lord Cornwallis; after the consummation of which, as one of the Guard; went with the English prisoners 100 Miles towards Winchester, but before reaching that place, received from Major Patrick Lockhart, a written discharge, which has since been lost &c. &c.
The objections to the placing this applicant upon the pension roll stated

by Mr. Edwards are First — Uncertainty as to the length of time that the applicant was in the service.
Permit me to examine this one objection first, singly and apart from all other; and I think it will be found that the objection is unfounded. In the first place the law, if I understand it, allows no pension to any one, who was in the service of the country a shorter period than 6 months, and only one fourth of the full pay to those who did not serve 12 months. — Now in the 1st place, to say nothing of the applicant's service under Genl. McIntosh. — He entered the service in the fall of 1780, and was discharged in Febry 1781. — November, I believe, in the last full month, now, count, say the middle of November 1780, the middle of December 1780 was one month, the middle of Jany. 1781 was two months, the middle of Feby. was three months, so that I think that half the artateness in arithmetic, which has been manifested in legal criticism, would have satisfied the officers of the Government, that here was a three months two service. — Then he entered the service in August 1781. — Count again, — say the middle of August, — the middle of Sept. was one month, the middle of October was two, now Cornwallis had not yet surrendered; Mr. Edwards says that event took place on the 17th; now, I say it took place on the 19th. of Oct. — Let him turn to the History of the country, or to the archives of his department; and see which of us is right: and if in deciding on the right of others, with all the means of information in his power and immediate control, he can thus make a mistake of two days; how ever he, or any other reasonable man expect, that an applicant whose memory is debilitated by age, at this distance of time, with a proper regard for the solemnity of an oath, can swear to a precise day. on the contrary, my own Experience in Examining Witnesses in Courts of Justice, satisfies me, that the very thing which which  thinks  thinks is an insuperable objection to the allowance of this claim, is, or ought to be, its greatest merit; and procure its allowance. But to proceed, the applicant states his presence at the surrender, his guarding of the prisoners, and his subsequent discharge. Now the 19th of Oct. was certainly more than two months; then there

must necessarily have been some time consumed in making arrangements for the removal of so large a body of Men, as the prisoners were, say 8 or 10 days; this would bring us to the 29 th of Oct., then a March of 100 miles would consume something like 10 days more, this would bring us to the 8 th of November, now seven days are wanting to make out the last three months service; Suppose the officer chose to discharge him, had they not a right to do so? surely they had, and in discharging him, was it thought that because a week was wanting to make up the full term of three months, that that ought to deprive him of his pay for that term of duty; if not, why should it deprive him of the little gratuity, which his country, but for a legal quibble, would gladden his heart with, in the evening of his life; but if a week is wanting to compleat his 6 months service in the McIntosh Expedition entirely forgotten, cannot a week be gotten there, from a service performed in the there far west, upon a very dangerous service Expedition; in extreme youth, surely this would be proper, any other construction of the Law would defeat the beneficent purposes of the country. I shall not trouble you with any other objections, as you stated, as this is I correctly understand you, is the important one
Henry I. Hiker
The supplemental affidavit upon the original declaration was put there in consequence of printed instructions sent by you to me with the papers of Mr. Rader of Jackson City N.W.
These lines were originally intended for Major Lewis - his absence however renders it necessary to direct them to you
H. I. H.

A Pleasant
Three
May 10 - 1883
Con.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City District of Columbia
600000 Official 3

Point Pleasant Mason County Virginia
Sir, After waiting now upwards of three years for the appearance of some agent of the Government to examine and report upon the propriety of the Government resuming the payment of the pensions of the Revolutionary pensioners of this county without even hearing of the approach much less seeing one I am again requested by those aged and disappointed and as they think neglected if not much injured men to write to you informing you of their facts and recalling your attention to their situation because by possibility in the multiplicity of business they may have been inadvertently overlooked. And I will beg leave to say to you that I have not the smallest doubt but that these long suspensions and omni- omission of examination is more the result of carelessness than of a purpose of business as a similar demonstration has written in Richmond proved to me. I do not mean to say yet I believe I could do so in what quarter this supposed negligence lies but if necessary I assure you I shall not fail to state it.
The names of the suspended pensioners here are - Luman Gibbs, Thomas Waddle, Robert Love and William Hawkins.
Be pleased to answer this communication at your first convenience and oblige them old men as well as myself
Yours &c. very respectfully
Henry J. Kimms May the 9 th 1837.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
December 9 th , 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," William Hawkins, — a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va. , 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 4 th of Sept., 1838, to the 4 th March, 1839.
Respectfully, yours,
William B. Parsons Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

Admit or parole before 8/20-
Major W. B. Lewis

I Thomas Lewis Clerk of the Court of Mason County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of application of William Hawkins for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 6th day of February 1833
Thos Lewis Clerk
Virginia Mason County } to wit Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid the within named William Hawkins who being duly sworn deponeth and saith that by reason of old age as well as a hurt upon his head which was received many years ago and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service nor to the particular days that he entered or left the service upon but he is positive that the services by him rendered to his country as detailed in the within declaration exceeded the period of six months though it did not amount to nine months and for six months service I claim a pension given under my hand the 2 d day of April 1833.
Wm Hawkins
Sworn and subscribed to before me the 1 st day of April May 1833 as witness my hand and seal the day and year last aforesaid
A. Waggner
Virginia Mason County To wit
I Thomas Lewis Clerk of the Court of Mason County do hereby certify that Andrew Waggner whose name appears to the last preceding Certificate was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the peace in the County aforesaid in the State of Virginia duly commissioned & qualified as such and that full credit is due to all his official acts as such as well in court as otherwise in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of my office this 3 rd day of May 1833
Thos Lewis Clerk

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
January 21 st , 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," William Hawkins, — a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, V a , 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 4 th — of March, 1837, to the 4 th March, 1838.
Respectfully, yours,
William H. Passmore Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.