Talbot-Baldwin County GaArchives Military Records.....Simmons, William Isaac January 12, 1846
Revwar - Pension North Carolina Light Dragoons
************************************************
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:
John Simmons http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007486 December 13, 2019, 1:01 pm

Revolutionary War Pension Application
On this the Twelfth day of January A.D. 1846 personally appeared in open Court
before
the Inferior Court of said County now sitting for County purposes William I Simmons
commonly
called Isaac Simmons a resident of said County aged Eighty Seven 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 7th, 1832. That he entered the Service of
the United
States as a volunteer under Captain Solomon Wood and was mustered into Service under
General
Morgan [Daniel Morgan] and Colonel Thomas Wooten with which officers he served one
year.
He entered the Army in the year 1780 at Wake Court House North Carolina and served
in that
State during said time of one year, during said service under General Morgan
Deponent was
engaged in several skirmishes and was in a Battle at a place then called Cross
Creek1
now
Fayetteville and also in the Battle at the Cowpens2 in the year 1781. Declarant's
Father John
Simmons having been wounded by a musket ball passing between the tendon & bone of
the left
leg during the last mentioned Battle & totally disabled from service, he declarant
received his
discharge a few days before his term of service expired in order to carry his Father
home. Said
John Simmons finally died of said wound in Talbot County in the year 1837. In a
short time
after receiving said discharge declarant Enlisted under Captain Drury Cade in order
to serve in
the State of Georgia for a Bounty of Land offered by said State, under said Drury
Cade Declarant
came to Georgia and was mustered into the service under Colonel Clarke [Elijah
Clark] in
Georgia Declarant served two years and received the Bounty Land as will be seen more
clearly
by reference to the certificates of J. Houston & J. U. Horne which are hereunto
annexed.
Declarant now possesses no documentary evidence of his Services. He obtained a
discharge
from the Army each time he left the service and kept three of said discharges in his
possession of
till the year 1837 when he handed them to Doctor Hamilton P. Snead of said County in
order to
have his claim to a pension established and said discharges have been lost or
mislaid so that they
cannot be found as will appear by reference to the certificate of said H. P. Snead
hereunto
annexed. Declarant memory does not enable him to say by whom said discharges were
signed.
The Colonels commanding when they were obtained was as follows the first under
Colonel
Wooten the second under Colonel Wooten and the third under Colonel E. Clarke.
Declarant was
born in the State of North Carolina in the year 1758 as will appear by reference to
an old family
record hereunto annexed in which his age is put down under the name of W. Isaac
Simmons, 

when called into service he was living in said last named State, Since the war he
has resided in
the State of Georgia mainly in Wilkes & Talbot County in which last named County he
now
lives. He first entered the Army as a volunteer under Captain Solomon Wood but
afterwards
enlisted, he was not drafted nor a Substitute, William L. Walker & Peter F. Mahone
and Hamilton
P. Snead can testify as to my character for veracity & their belief of my services
as a Soldier of
the Revolution. Declarant rendered his services in the Army as William Simmons and
supposes
if his name is registered at all it is as William Simmons & not William I Simmons.
The reason of
which is as follows. He was at first called only William by his Parents. That in the
Battle of the
Cowpens his uncle Isaac Nutt being killed his parents to perpetuate the memory of
said uncle
after the war added the name of Isaac to that of William & said uncle being a
favorite he himself
came in course of time to be called and known most by the name of Isaac, that
William was his
first name will appear by reference to the old family record above named & hereunto
attached.
Said record having been made by his Father as early as the year 1786.
S/ William I. Simmons, X his mark
[William L. Walker and Hopkins Daniel gave a standard supporting affidavit.]
[p 4]
Georgia Talbot County} I Hamilton P Snead of said county do hereby certify on oath
that said W
I Simmons handed to me sometime in the year 1836 or 1837 three papers purporting to
be
discharges from the Army of the United States. My memory does not enable me to say
by whom
they were signed or what I finally did with them, but I am Satisfied they were
discharges from
said Army to said Simmons.
S/ H P Snead
State of Georgia Talbot County} Know all men by these presents that I Isaac Simmons
of said
County do hereby constitute & appoint Thomas Lumpkin of Washington City my true and
lawful
Attorney for me and in my name & stead to examine my Declaration & papers on file in
the
Pension Office in Washington City and prosecute my claim for a Pension as a
Revolutionary
Soldier as I know I served my Country faithfully in said War one year in North
Carolina under
Capts Wood and other Captains the names not now recollected & Colonel Wooten while
in my
first service & a few days before my time was out I was in the battle at the Cowpens
under
General Morgan some months after said battle I volunteered under Captain Cade and
marched
under him to Georgia to get a bounty of land that was offered by the Council of
Georgia to all
soldiers who would serve to the close of the War or expulsion of the enemy served in
Georgia
under Colonel Clarke two years & six months for which I obtained a bounty of land &
sold it to
Mathew Arthew [?] for which I was given a mare pony or horse I served in both
Campaigns
under the name of William instead of Isaac Simmons as my name was changed after the
War for
an uncle who I favoured who was killed in the battle at the Cowpens, hereby
ratifying &
confirming all that my said Attorney may lawfully do by virtue of these presents
Given under my hand and seal this 25th day of June 1851
S/ Isaac Simmons, X his mark


Additional Comments:
The above was transcribed and found at http://revwarapps.org/r9580.pdf
It appears that his application was denied due to lack of supporting evidence.
 His discharge papers were lost and he could not provide any other evidence.
 He did indicate that he had received a Bounty land grant for his service.
 To the best of my knowledge his application was still denied. He was still living
in 1840 in Talbot and was on the 1850 census in Talbot with no age listed. He had to
be at least 91 in that year. He is most likely buried in Talbot. No evidence of his
grave site found yet.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/talbot/military/revwar/pensions/simmons1604mt.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/

File size: 7.2 Kb