REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - JAMES WARE Contributed by: John Cain (jecain@worldnet.att.net) ************************************************************************ 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 *********************************************************************** From Revolutionary War Pension Applications, File S7816 for JAMES WARE, NC SC. Page 1. ------ Jany 13, 34 see let to agent at Natchez. ----- Letter to Pens agt ofc of Comptroller 24 April 1838. ----- To Penison Agt 7 May 1838 ------ Letter to Auditor 5 Nov 1838 ------ Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838 from 4 March 1838. Agt notified 10 Nov 1838 ------- Jany 26, 1833 Certificate made payable at Mobile at the request of Hon Ed D White and new certificate issued and entered upon the Alabama Roll Book D, Vol 10, P 207. ---- -------------------------------------------------------- MISSISSIPPI JAMES WARE of Jackson co. in the State of Mifsifsippi who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain ________ (blank) of the ______ Commanded by Gen Morris in N Carolina line for state troops for two years from 1780. NC and SC Oct 17, 1784 (?) Records Completed Inscribed on the Roll of Mississippi at the rate of 100 dollars and ____ Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831. Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Jany 1833 and S__ Hon Ed D White HR. Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 150.00 Semi=anl allowance ending 4 March 1833 50.00 ------ 200.00 Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832 Recorded by: Henry H Sy______. Clerk Book D Vol 10 Page 129. Page 2 ------ Declaration of JAMES WARE Jackson County, State of Mississippi. On this the twenty seventh day of October in the Year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared before me, John Farley Judge of the County Court of Jackson County, State of Mississippi, JAMES WARE, a resident of the above named county and state, aged seventy for 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 seventh in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty two. That he entered the service of the United States in May in the year of Seventeen hundred and eighty as a private under Capt. Reed in the militia of Rowan County, State of North Carolina where he was then residing, that he was at the battle of Camden " commonly called Gate's defeat" under the above named Capt. Reed on the sixteenth day of August Seventeen hundred and eighty. He further declareth that he was in the following year seventeen of January one thousand seventeen hundred and eighty one under Capt Armstrong at the battle of the Cowpens under the command of Major McDowell and Genl Morgan. In the same year he enlisted in the State troops under the command of Wade Hampton for the term of ten months in the cavalry was at the battle of the Eutaw Springs. After the termination of that time he enlisted in the cavalry that was attached to Genl Marian for the term of the war he remained in the above named cavalry attached to Genl Marian until the evacuation of Charlestown. When the cavalry was dismounted, he was put in the infantry of the South Carolina line that was reduced to three companies. One was commanded by Felix Warley, the second by Joseph Warley, and the third by Simpson Thyut (Theus?) who appointed him his orderly sergeant. He further declareth that he was discharged at Charlestown in year Seventeen hundred & eighty three by the above named Simpson Thyut (Theus). He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever 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 or /if any/ on that of the agency of the State of Mississippi. s/ JAMES WARE John Farley, Judge of Probate.