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This file was contributed and copyrighted by: Mary Ann Nichols ================================================================================= March 1998 Thomas Hawkins, A Revolutionary War Soldier Part of the PENSION APPLICATION OF THOMAS HAWKINS OF CONECUH CO, AL The state of Alabama County of Conecuh On this fifth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four personally appreared Thomas Hawkins in open court a resident of said Conecuh County and State of Alabama of ninety three years of age who being first duly sworn according to law doth make on his oath the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832. That he volunteered in the service of the United States in May 1776 in the company commanded by Capt George Avery, Chandler Avery being Lieutenants. He resided at this time of volunteering in Union District State ofSouth Carolina and was in the serves near a year before he was in any battle. The first being the battle at Kings Mountain, South Carolina. Colonels Lacy Campbell and Cleveland commanding. That after the Battle at Kings Mountain he enlisted in a horse company under captain George Avery. That he acted as Lieutenant but never received a commission. The company was under General Thomas Brandon. He states that his service was registered on the list of the State of South Carolina - That he saw it on the list as registers source five or six years after the Revolution - at Granby South Carolina where the State ..... there was-- Answers to interrogations proposed by the court-- He was born on or about the tenth day of January AD 1751 - on the waters of Nottoway River in Virginia. He has no record of his age - that it was recorded in a bible - which was taken from him by the tories during the revolution. He was living in Union District South Carolina but removed from South Carolina to Georgia and from Georgia to Conecuh County, Alabama where he now lives. He volunteered - He has already stated the names of the officers He has stated that he acted as Lieutenant but was never commissioned and enver recived a discharge He states the names R. O Jackson, James Towlinson, Churchill Jowes {?}, J. V. Perryman, N. Stallworth, C. H. Stallworth- He state that the reason that he has not recieved his pension before this he has heretofore made a declaration but from inattentiveness on informality his decaration has not been acted on. He does not know any person whose testimony he can procure to prove his services. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or anuity except this present and declared that his name is not on this pension roll of the agency of any state- Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid. Thomas Hawkins That he enlisted for three years in the horse company above stated. That he was engaged in the battle at the fish Dam Ford and Broad River under Colonel Sumpter in which twenty two of the enemy was killed and three prisoners taken. Eight days thereafter he was in the Battle at Blackstock hill on Liger River in which Colonel Sumpter was wounded. The next battle in which he was engaged was the Battle of Cowpens. When the Company to which he belonged was under General Morgan and Colonel Pharr. The next Battle or Siege was at Ninety Six in which they were engaged near four weeks. This company was then under Colonel Wm Pharr and General Gorum??. That as the morning of the battle at Eutaw Springs they took some fifty or sity prisoners and the company under Captain Avery were ordered to ------ them ----was in the year 1781 . He together with the company to which he belonged were dismissed at Eutaw after the battle. He never recieved any final discharge - they were dismissed by General Greene. That he engaged five years during which time he was not at home but once and was not at home during the three years that preceding the battle at Eutaw. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Claim for Military Service I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7th June 1832, Thomas Hawkins, deceased, who was a private of Cavalry in the Revolution, was entitled to a pension and having died on the 5th October 1849, his only surviving children, John Hawkins, Calvin Hawkins, Stephen Hawkins, Wiley Hawkins, William Hawkins, and Fanny Beckum are entitled to the amount at the rate of One hundred dollars per annum commencing 4th March 1831, and ending 5th October 1849, when he died ---- Payable to John Hawkins, Administrator, Given at the Department of the Interior, This sixth day of January One thousand eight hundred and fifty - five signed Secretary of the Interior and Commissioner of Pensions