REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - BENJAMIN GLOVER Contributed by: David Glover (david.glover@msfc.nasa.go) ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** 4756 ALABAMA _______________________________________________ BENJAMIN GLOVER of Madison County in the State of Alabama who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Harris of the _____ commanded by Gen. Washington in the Va. and N.C. Militia for fourteen months from.... _______________________________________________ Inscribed on the Roll of Alabama at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. _______________________________________________ Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of Jan. 1833 and sent. C.C. Clay H R _______________________________________________ Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $70.00 Semi-Annual allowance ending 4 March 1833 $23.33 Died Feb. 20, 1840 Debt'd $93.33 A.D. Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832 Recorded by Henry H. Sylvester Clerk Book D Vol. 10 Page 201 STATE OF ALABAMA MADISON COUNTY On this 24th day of October 1832, personally appeared before me, John C. Grayson, a Justice of the Peace for said county of Madison, Benjamin Glover, a resident of said county of Madison, aged seventy-nine 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 and served as herein stated: Affiant was born in the county of Arnold in the State of Maryland the 17th day of June 1753, and removed into the State of Virginia, Fauquier County, and about the year 1773 there was a call from that county for 500 men, and one Benjamin Harris, being then a Capt., turned out to raise a volunteer company, to go to Gen. Washington whoes headquarters was somewhere near Philadelphia. Affiant volunteered under said Harris, Capt. Blackwell commanded the Militia, a part of the said quota of 500. Affiant was marched with the said Benjamin Harris company through the country to Frederickstown, and from there went to the Susquehanna for further orders where they should join the general army. They lay at the banks of the Susquehanna for a considerable time before the company had reached this station, the news had been received that Gen. Washington had fought the battle of Brandewine. The army remained on the banks of the said river until they received orders from the Commander-in-Chief to return to their homes, there being no immediate use for these troops. Affiant states that he had volunteered for six months in this expedition, and affiant states he was in this trip in service the six months he volunteered for. After this, affiant moved from Virginia to North Carolina, and was there but a little time until he went on several scouting parties after Tories. The time in this kind of service not remembered. After this, affiant was drafted in Wilkes County in said State to go to join Gen. Green on the Pe Der River, and affiant will state his officers: William Wall was the Capt., Benjamin Cleveland was the Col. This company went through Salsbury and Charlotte on to the encampment of Gen. Green, but when the company reached the point proposed, Gen. Green had marched to the State of South Carolina in great haste, it was said almost in a run, and Talbott pursuing him with all speed. The army with which affiant was, or rather company, finding it impossible to overtake Gen. Green, were marched to Salsbury, about fifty miles off. There they were in much demand, and affiant and the said company were stationed there as guard to the prisoners. Five hundred British were taken at the Cowpens, and five hundred Tories taken at Rougellas' Mill, a Tory. These Tories were taken by Col. Morgan by a device of burning a pine log and sending them word that he would fire on them immediately if they did not give up their arms. They submitted without resistance. He guarded these prisoners for about two months. They were then removed into the state of Virginia. Affiant accompanied them as a guard as far as the river Moho, and there the Virginia troops took them in possession, and affiant was discharged and made his way home from the Virginia line. His way lay through a country beset with Tories, and in addition there were British Light-horse scattered through the country, so that affiant had to make his way home along by paths and secret ways, sometimes sleeping by day and traveling all night. He was in bed at a house which he thought secure but was surprised by a British Col. by the name of More. He took him prisoner, affiant learning then for the first time that he was in a half a mile of Col. Wall's main Army. He was however discharged in a short time, and he returned home to his friends who had supposed him dead. For this expedition he was drafted for three months but was detained as above stated for about five months in active service. Next he volunteered from said County under Capt. Ralwin Jud, and Cleveland (Col.). This expedition was for the King's Mountain, and this affiant being of the foot did not reach the mountain before the battle, but they came within hearing of the battle. They could hear the firing of the guns discharged, before the news reached them that the battle was over. Col. Cleveland's men, and Col. Campbell's men were ordered to conduct the prisoners, about seven hundred in number, to the barracks in Virginia. Affiant went with said troops as a guard. Affiant cannot remember the name of the battle, but it was about the first of pulling-fodder time. After this affiant returned home, after being in service in this campaign about four months, but the time not distinctly remembered. While affiant and the Army were about to King's Mountain, the Tories, taking advantage of our absence embodied at a place called Shallowford, and the old men and boys that were left turned out and met the Tories at a mountain just by the said ford on the Adkin River, and there had been a battle in which 14 Tories were killed - the rest running away. On affiant's return, he after cupping out a sufficient number of bullets out of lead of that battle ground, shouldered his napsack again, in obedience to a general order that a certain number of men should be raised to defend the country from Tories and British and the Indians then encited by the British to repeated hos-tilities. At this time the whole country seemed to be in commotion, and every man was called on to be ready, or to go into immediate service. Affiant was called out into service under one Captain John Robens and went with him over on New River to disperse the Tories, and divers other places wherever the enemy seemed to be embodying or approaching. Roben's men of which affiant was one went immediately to that spot, there being engaged. Affiant was not ordered to join the main army but was stationed about at different points to repell the enemy in the shape of Tories, etc. In this service, affiant was in the service of the United States about five or six months. Affiant served a short time while at Salsbury as above stated under a Continental officer by the name of LeVard, a Capt. Affiant will here state he has given the above account in the best manner he could, that from his extreme age and infirmities more than age, those things that passed in service in his youth have almost vanished from his fading memory, that time and disease have so impaired his faculties that he can recall with great difficulty its torpid energies into action, particularly about things that took place more than half a century ago. The time of his age/record thereof was in a family Bible but now burned or lost. Affiant states that after peace was declared, he moved to the State of Georgia in the county of Elbert. From there he removed to the County of Madison and State of Alabama where he has lived ever since. He will prove his service by John Glover and Ezekiel Craft. Affiant will further state here what he had forgotten that while in Wilkes County in the State of N.C., according to the regulations of the War Department of that day, he with sixty others hired a substitute by the name of David Mires to enlist for the term of three years. He did so serve after being thus employed, but affiant, notwithstanding he paid ten dollars as his portion for this substitute, was constantly under arms as above stated and thinks he served his country during the Revolutionary War three years as a Revolutionary Soldier, can prove his service by E. Craft & John Glover. Said 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. Affiant will here state that for all his service rendered as above, he never has yet received one cent. his mark Benjamin Glover Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of October, 1832. John C. Grayson, J.P. We, Ezekiel Craft, a clergyman residing in the county of Madison and State of Alabama, and Edward H. Vann residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Benjamin Glover who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion (?). Ezekiel Craft Edward H. Vann Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of October 1832. John C. Grayson, J.P. And the said Ezekiel Craft further states that he is a neighbour and intimate acquaintance of the said Benjamin Glover, and having conversed with him often many years ago mentions many little circumstances as to the time of the fall a rain, a description of the country through which he marched, a description of the officers and the lines of march satisfies this affiant that he served as above stated in his declaration for affiant was then in the Army and on one occasion was on one side of the River Adkin while said Glover was on the other. The officers as stated in the declaration affiant was well acquainted with. And this affiant will state that from the known integrity and honest walks of life of the said Benjamin Glover he has no hesitation (in addition to the circumstances as stated) to declare his firm conviction that the whole statement as set forth in his declaration is true in substance and fact. Ezekiel Craft Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of October 1872. John C. Grayson, J.P. STATE OF ALABAMA MADISON COUNTY John Glover a brother of the said Benjamin Glover and a resident of said County of Madison makes oath that he was well acquainted with each expedition as above stated in the said Declaration of the said Benjamin and he states that he well remembers that he the said Benjamin did serve as a volunteer in Virginia and North Carolina and as a militiaman in the said State of North Carolina from Wilkes County. And he here states that he did render the services to the government as stated in his declaration every iota of it and he states the statement as to the expeditions, the time of services he knows to be true for he was his brother and he was either with him or near him during the time of the Revolution. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of October 1832. John C. Grayson, J.P. October the 24th, 1832 John Glover (his mark) STATE OF ALABAMA MADISON COUNTY I, Richard B. Purdom, Clerk of the County Court of said County do certify that John C. Grayson before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, is now and was at the date of the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned as such, and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such. In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County Court Office in Huntsville, this tenth day of November A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two and of American Independence the fifty seventh. (Seal) Rich. B. Purdom STATE OF ALABAMA COUNTY OF MADISON Be it known that before me, Thomas H. Woodall, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared James S. Glover, Elizabeth Glover (wife of Richard Glover), Silas M. Glover, Polly Vann (wife of Jesse Vann) and Nancy Grayson (wife of John C. Grayson) and made oath, in due form of law, that they the said James S., Elizabeth, Silas M., Polly and Nancy are the sons and daughters of Benjamin Glover, the identical person, who was a pensioner and is now dead, and to whom a certificate of pension was issued, of which the following is a true copy. "War Department Revolutionary Claim I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States on the 7th June 1832, Benjamin Glover of the State of Alabama who was a private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive forty six dollars and sixty-six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1831, and payable semiannually on the 4th of March and 4th of September, on every year. Given at the War Office of the United States, this 24th day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. Lew Cass Secretary of War" Examined and authorized. T.L. Edwards That the deceased pensioner resided in Madison County in the State of Alabama for the space of about twenty-six years before his death and that previous thereto he resided in the State of Georgia. Subscribed and sworn before me this 1st day of July 1840. Thos. H. Woodall J.P. James S. Glover Elizabeth Glover Silas M. Glover Poll(e)y Vann Nancy Grayson (Rubber Stamp) Final Payment Voucher Received from GAO