Carroll County GaArchives Military Records.....Hinson, Lazarus September 14, 1833 Revwar - Pension North Carolina Militia ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Elizabeth Robertson http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00013.html#0003232 April 12, 2007, 10:06 am Revolutionary War Pension Record LAZARUS HINSON CARROLL COUNTY PRIVATE NORTH CAROLINA MILITIA $20.00 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE $ AMOUNT RECEIVED SEPTEMBER 14, 1833 PENSION STARTED AGE 82 HINSON, LAZEROUS SERVICE: NORTH CAROLINA S.16412  Page 2 Georgia 16.683 Lazerous Hinson of Carroll in the State of Georgia who was a private in the _________commanded by Captain________ of the Regiment commanded by Col. Literal in the North Carolina line for 6 months. Inscribed on the roll of Georgia at the rate of $20.00 dollars ____cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831. Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838 from 4 Sept. 1837 to 4 March 1838. Agt. Notified 4 Jany 1839. Paid as above from 4 Sept 1838 to 4 March 1839. Agent notified 7th Dec 1839 ---------------------------------- State of Georgia Carroll County On this 14th day of September eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before James H. Rodgers, William G. Springer and Lewis McCleroy, Justices of the Inferior Court of said county now sitting Lazerous Hinson a resident of said county of Carroll and State of Georgia, aged eighty years who being 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 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.  That he resided in Chatham County in the State of North Carolina when he entered the services, does not recollect the day and month in which he enlisted the service but states that it was in the spring of the year seventeen hundred and eighty. Page 4 And that the companies where he lived were classed as Nor______ and that the companies service alternately for the term of three months at a time. So his first term of service of which he now speaks was for the space of three months and that he was drafted and served under Captain William E. Goldson, Lieutenant John Brewer and Ensign Whitmill Arington.  The field officers were General Ramsey, Colonel Literal, Major Birdsong. That he was attached to General Gates army and marched to Camlin in South Carrollina where the British were stationed and where General Gates was defeated by the British. This deponent states that he was not in the Battle but was ordered to guard some wagons near the battle ground in the time of the engagement and that he marched from there back to Chatham County, North Carrolina when his time to wit, three months expired and he was discharged and another company Page 5 ordered out from the same county a few days before the battle at Gilford Courthouse in North Carrolina where Gen. Green commanded the Americans.  This deponent further states that he served a second tour of duty in the revolution for the term of three months. That this expedition was in obedience to a call by Gen. Ramsey for a battalion of eight horsemen to survey the Toriez. That the highest officer in command was Major Joseph Rosen, Captain William Goldson ( the same man who commanded the company in the other campaign) and that he himself was Lieutenant. That he marched over the country on Deep River and Rocky River and went once as far as to Pedee River and so around until his time was out. He states that he was a revolutioneer in this expedition. The he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service.  To the first interrogatory he answers that he was born in Stafford County Virginia in the year 1752. To the second he answers yeas and that it is in the family Bible. To the 3 he answers that he was living in Chatham County, North Carrolina and since the revolution he has lived in North Carrolina and Georgia and that he now lives in Carroll County, Georgia.  To the fourth he answers that the first three months he served was by a draft and that the other term was by volunteering. To the fifth Int. he answers that he was acquainted with Generals Green and Gates and that the other officers whom he knew are chiefly ___ within and that he does not recollect any particular continental regiments of the Militia.  To the sixth, he answers that he received discharge from Captain Goldson and that it is lost he knows not how and that he received a commission as Lieutenant from the Governor of North Carrolina and that it also is lost. To the 7th he answers that Major Wm. Beall and Daniel Fullbright are acquainted with him and that he expects they can testify to their belief of his service. Sworn to and subscribed before us: M. Spriger; James H Rodgers; Lewis McCleroy  We William Beall and Daniel Fullbright residing in the County of Carroll Georgia hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Laz. Hinson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty years of age and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we can concur in that opinion. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. SS: William Beall and Daniel Fullbright  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State. Sworn to and Subscribed this day and year aforesaid.  And the court do hereby declare their opinion that the mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. SS: Wm. E. Springer JIC Jacs H. Rodgers, JIC File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/carroll/military/revwar/pensions/hinson338gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 6.1 Kb