Return to Currituck Co.
Revolutionary War Pension Record
of
Thomas
Williams
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North Carolina 6634 (7) Thomas Williams of Currituck in the State of N. Car.
who was a pri. in the com. commanded by Captain Wicks of the Regt
commanded by Col. Mathews in the Inscribed on the Roll of North Car. at the rate of 60 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831. Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of March 1833 and sent to Hon. W.B. Shepard and member of Congress Arrears to the 4th of March 1833
$120.00 {Revolutionary Claim} Recorded by E.D. Bullock, Clerk |
| State of North
Carolina} Currituck County } On this 29th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before Caleb Etheridge, John B. Jones, William Bray and Benjamin T. Simmons, Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Currituck and State of North Carolina now sitting Thomas Williams a Resident of the county and State aforesaid of the age of sixty years & eleven months 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 7th of June 1832. He saith that he was born in Princess Anne County Virginia and turned out a volunteer under Captain Amos Wicks of that County some time in the month of May 1778 and marched to North West Bridge in Norfolk County Virginia and was placed under command of Colonel Thomas Matthews then Colonel of the Virginia Troops in the Continental line and remained in the Company for four months and was then discharged without writings and have no documentary evidence to prove this service but can prove I was a soldier at Northwest Bridge by John Williams, Jesse Perry and Joshua Ball. He further says that he in common with the other militia of Princess Anne County was called in the Years 1779 & 1780 to guard the Coast along the Princess Anne Shore and principally at Cape Henry. He says that this service was performed in regular Rotation of the different Companies of Princess Anne County and that in the 2 Years mentioned he was in service six months under Captain Thomas Old and Lieutenant Tully Moseley; that he has no documentary evidence to prove |
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does he know any person living by whom he can prove it. He further
says that he volunteered in said County of Princess Anne in January 1781
under the Command of Captain Amos Wicks and Lieutenant George
Walker and marched to Norfolk Virginia and had a small skirmish in
February and another soon after at Kempsville Princess Anne County Virginia
and on the 9th of March 1781 was taken a prisoner and remained a
Prisoner in Portsmouth Virginian untill the surrender of Lord Cornwallis in
October of that Year by which surrender he was liberated. He has no
documentary evidence to prove this service but can prove by John Williams
his confinement as a prisoner and that he carried him clothing and that the
family understood that he was a prisoner. He hereby relinquishes 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. Sworn and Subscribed the day and Year aforesaid signed Thomas Williams We Edward Hardy a Clergyman residing in the
County of Currituck and State of North Carolina and Foster Jarvis of the
same place do hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas
Williams who hath subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we
believe him to be of the age of 60 years 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. |
| October 28, 1929
Honorable Charles A. Jones [Jonas?]
My dear Mr. Jones [Jonas?]
Annotated Notes for Thomas Williams: |
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