MERIWETHER COUNTY, GA - MILITARY Rev War Pension Britain Meeks Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Gary Hawley Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/meriwether.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Britain Meeks Meriwether County, GA Private North Carolina Militia $21.10 per annum Certificate issued 15 Nov 1833 Greenville, Meriwether, Georgia Pension File # S 16478 Abstract of Pension Application for Britain Meeks Meriweather County - On this second day of September 1833 personally appearing in open Court before the Inferior Court now sitting. Britain Meeks, a resident of said County and State, age sixty nine years old and 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 pension made by the Act of Congress passed January 7, 1832, 1st that he was born on the eighteenth day of November in the year 1763 in Pitt County, State of North Carolina, has record of his age in an original entry in an old Bible now In his possession, was raised and lived there until grown, after marriage there and after the Revolution removed to Anson County same State where he resided upwards of twenty years. Removed from there In 1816 to Jones County, State of Georgia where he resided one year, removed then into Baldwin County said State, removed then to Gwinnett County same State in 1820 where he resided until February 1831 when he removed to this county, his present neighbors are John Rush, Bennett Lawrence and Marcus Caldwell, his present residence Meriweather County, Georgia. 1st Service: He entered service while he resided in Pitt County, North Carolina as a Revolutionary private soldier in Infantry of Militia under state authority when a draft was ordered and five out of six of his class was required, he was then In his sixteenth year of age, he signed up at Greenville, the Court House of Pitt County, N C. His Captain was Austin Spain, Lieutenant forgotten. Major forgotten. Colonel also his General was Caswell, his Christian name Richard he thinks, marched then to Kingston on Neuse River, Dobbs County, marched then to the town of Crop Creek, marched then to Cheraw Hills, South Carolina shortly after the British had been in possession of it. Injured at, marched then through the County by Ramsays Mills where remained not less than two days and left in the night for Carnden, S. C. in concert with the Army under General Yates. All this time he served as a Private and he thinks his Colonal was Caswell also a son of the General, but he is not sure. During the above service, marches and sta­tions his Corps was generally reconnecting and protecting the county against the Tores, supporting the inhabitants and as being prepared to repel further inroads of the British and remained little time at any point. 2nd Service: He served ten days as a Volunteer private in Infentry State Militia North Carolina under a call of public emergency, his Captain was-Moye, sometimes in the summer of the year 1781. Rejoined at Green­ville, Pitt County, North Carolina in which County he resided, scouted through Pitt and Dobbs Counties under an apprehension and report that a party of British attemp to retake some British prisoners which we had in custody and to observe the state of County lying between Greenville and Kinston. From this service was discharged at Little Contentany Creek in Pitt County, received no written discharge, and was discharged by Capt. Moye. He can not recollect the month or day of end of this service. Summary of Service 1st Service -- 6 Months--- 2nd service 10 Days ----- 6 Mo. & 10 Days in all. During these services he was engaged both times with an embodied Corps of Troops and was called into service by State authority that in all said service of six months and ten days he was in the field or in ________ nor during that time engaged in any civil pursuit. And he further swears and states that by reason of old age on constant loss of memory he cannot swear more postively that he has done as above but to the best of his knowledge and recollection he did not serve less than said periods and in said grades to wit. For six months and ten day I served as a Private Infantry Volunteer Militia and for which service service I claim a pension. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the pension note of the Agency of any State. And that he knows of no person by whom to prove his services as here set forth and that he has no original documentary evidence as proof or cooroberation of the same as a Revolutionary soldier which he has being long since lost or destroyed. Sworn to in open Court and subscribed now setting this day and year aforesaid. W.B. Ector, J. PC Britain X Meeks We Allen Dykes, Clergyman and John Rush both residing in the County of Meriwether, State of Georgia hereby certify that we are well aquainted with Britain Meeks who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be sixty nine years and upwards of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resided, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. W. B. Ector, J.PC Allen Dykes, Clergyman John Rush And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrogation presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he stated-- And the Court further certifies that it appeared to them that Allen Dykes Clergyman and John Rush who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of this County and are persons as they represent, are credible persons and their statement entitled to all due credit. W. B. Ector, J.PC Georgia Meriwether County S. Edward W. Hupy, Clerk