ANSON COUNTY, NC - MILITARY - James & Liddy Ross, Revolutionary War Pension File ----¤¤¤¤---- Pension Application for James Ross and his widow Lydia Pension No. 5857, Folder W.5-722. Pension No. 6001 (widow) The writing in some of these pages is very difficult to decipher, and my transcription certainly contains errors. Please send any corrections you note to happy@hal-pc.org State of North Carolina, Union County} October Session 1832 On the 10th day of October 1832 personally appears in open Court before the worshipful court of Pleas and Quarter session now sitting James Ross a resident of the County & State aforesaid aged 72 years a soldier of the Revolution who being sworn according to law, doth upon his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of June 7th 1832 - I entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. First I volunteered in February 1781 in the County of Martin under Capt John Kennady of Col. Whitmill Hills Regiments in the Brigade of Genls Eaton and Butler and was marched and join Genl Greens army at hanging rock thence through Hillsborough to Guilford Court House where we met the British army under Lord Cornwallis - I was in the battle at Guilford Court House in March 1781 -- Soon after which Capt. Kennady was disgraced and dismissed from the army. I was then placed under Capt James Evans and was at Ramseys Mills on Duck River when the Calvary had a battle with the British from thence in Genl Green's Army - was marched to Camden South Carolina - and was in the battle at Camden - against Lord Rawden in April 1781. Served at least five months and was discharged near Camden So Carolina by Col Guilford Dudley in July 1781. I again volunteered in the County of Martin No Carolina in August 1781 - under Capt Ballard in the regiments commanded by Cols, Major Eaton and Sewell - and was marched to Hillsborough, Salem & Salisbury and from there to S. Carolina on the Catawba River - Served four months and having been for some time in the hospital attending on the sick I was discharged in December 1781 by Doctors. I volunteered again in the County of Martin No Carolina in January 1782 in the light horse or Cavalry under Capt. George Cockburn attached to Col. Whitmill Hill's Regiment. Served nine months and was discharged in October 1782 - having served in all during the tree terms - Eighteen months When I removed from Martin County I left all my discharges - at the home of my father - they are all lost -- I have no documentary evidence - nor do I know of any person whose testimony I can provide to testify to my services. I hereby relinquish my every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension role of the agency of any state whatever. Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid. James Ross 1st Question by Court - Where and what year were you born? Answer. I was born in the County of Martin State of North Carolina on 8th day of June 1761 2nd Queston by Court - Have you any record of your age if ? Answer - A record of my age has been kept in the family Bible - but I do not recollect whether its not been drawn? 3rd Question by Court - Where were you living when called into Service - where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live? Answer - I was living in the County of Martin North Carolina when called into Service. I continued to live in Martin County for many years after the Revolutionary War and removed from thence to this County Anson about 33 years ago where I have continued to live ?? & where I now live. 4. Question by Court - How were you called into Service - were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a Substitute and if a Substitute for whom- Answer - I volunteered in every instance 5. Question by Court - State the name of some of the regular Officers who were with the troops with whom you served - Such Contintental and Militia Officers as you can recollect - and the general circumstances of your service - Answers- Genl. Greer a Regular Officer. - Genls Eaton, Butler, Dudley, & Sewell of the Militia. The names of the Regiment not recollected - my services were altogether in North & South Carolina - 6. Question by Court. Did you ever receive a discharge from the Service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it. I received my discharges but I have lost all of them. My discharge for my first term I recd from Col Dudley - for my second I recd my discharge from a doctor whose name I have forgotten 7. Question by Court. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and good behavior in your services as a soldier of the Revolution Answers - The Rev. John Culpeper and Joseph White Esquire are well acquainted with me James Ross Mr. Jno Culpeper a clergyman of the County of Montgomery N Carolina and Joseph White of Anson County State aforesaid - hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Ross who has Subscribed and sworn to the above declaration - that we believe him to be 72 years of age - that he is reported and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn to & subscribed? The day & year aforesaid. J Culpeper J White ---------- State of North Carolina, Union County} on this 22 day April 1849 Personally appeared before the Subscriber A. Steagall a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Liddy Ross a resident of Union County North Carolina aged 84 years who first being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the previous law made by the act of congress passed on the 2 day of February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war that she is the widow of James Ross who was a private in the army and belonged to Captain Evan's? Infantry and drew a pension under the act of the 7 June 1832 at rate of sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents per annum and died on the 1 day of January 1849 and she further avows that she is still the widow of the said James Ross and that they lived together man and wife 68 years and that the were married in Martin County NC before the war don't recollect any thing about dates sworn to and subscribed before me date above written. Test A. Steagall JP Liddy Ross (her mark) ------- State of North Carolina Anson County Be it known that before me William Allen of of the acting Justice of the peace for said county Elizabeth Griffin and after being duly sworn according to law deposeth and sayeth as follows that from the best information she has had and can get from her near neighbors that she is 67 or 68 years of age and that she is the daughter of James and Liddy Ross She states that she was 14 or 15 years of age when her father and mother moved to Anson County and that her mother had 13 children and she says she was well acquainted with Fredrick Courborn but does not now any thing about his age only he lived in Martin County NC when my father James Ross moved from that county Sworn to and subscribed this 11 day April 1850. Elizabeth Griffin her mark Wm Allen JP State of North Carolina Anson County Personally came before me William Allen a Justice of the Peace of said county Hampton B. Hammond and maketh oath in due form that he is personally acquainted with Elizabeth Griffin, that from his knowledge and the knowledge he has obtained from her neighbors, that she is entiled to full credit upon her oath or otherwise. Sworn to and Subscribed before H. B. Hammond Nie this 19th April 1850 WM Allen JP State of North Carolina Anson County I Norfleet D Boggan Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Anson do hereby certify that William Allen whose name appears above is a magistrate for the County of Anson duly certified? & qualified and that due faith and credit should be given to his official acts as such ?? ------- Lanesboro N.C. April 20 1850 Mr. J. L. Edwards Sir I send you enclosed some more certificates ress?ting? Mrs. Liddy Ross's marriage whether it will be satisfactory or not I truly cant tell but I now she has 12 or 13 children and the oldest is a virgin (on upon?) (or maybe Virginian?) seventy Mrs Elizabeth Griffin whose declaration I have taken - is a daughter of Mrs Ross is and has a number of grate grand children I cant get the certificates from Martin as they should be if this will not do I'll try again I think Mr E. Deberry? our representative in congress perhaps can give you some satisfaction assisting? the family of Ross's and Griffins and H.B. Hammonds? I'd like to hear from you when can visit With sentiments of high respect I am Wm Allen N. B. you will see by a close examination that in the declarations of Frederick Couburn that he stated sixty eight years ago was the marriage of James Ross and I see it is rased out and put fifty eight - and says he does not recollect the exact time and it also appears he does not know his own age- ? of this is every evidence to show that they have been living together as man and wife. ---- State of North Carolina Union County This day came before me the undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Union William Ross and after being duly sworn according to law deposeth and sayeth as follows That he was born in the date of seventeen hundred and seventy according to the records of his fathers family and is now of course now 81 years of age and that his brother James Ross and Liddy Courborn was married in the date of Seventeen hundred and 81 or 82 by one John Kenady a justice of the peace in and for Martin County at the house of Frank Courborn in said county the far ther (father) of said Liddy and they lived together in Martin County for the span of 17 years or thereabouts which and removed to Anson County on the date of 98, and my self and father & family moved to Anson now Union County in the date of Seventeen hundred and nintety nine and my brother James Ross and his wife Liddy lived together as man and wife until his death which took place on the 1 day January 1849 and that they had 11 children names as follows Elizabeth Dugal Polly Nancy Hugh Francis Liddy Spicy Sarah Thomas and Margret all the above statements he declares and believes is substantially correct sworn to and subscribed this 9 day April 1851 this C. Steves JP Wm Ross ---- State of North Carolina at Union County On the first day of September on thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personnally appears before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the said county and state, Lydia Ross widow of James Ross aged about 91 years a resident of Union County in the State of North Carolina who having duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of James Ross deceased who was a Private which will more full appar by reference to his Declaration now on file in the Pension Department. That she is now enjoying a pension as the widow of said James Ross under the act of 2nd Feb 1848 at $67.50 per Annum and that she is now a widow - of said James Ross. She make this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entiled under the act approved March 3rd 1855. Stegall JP Lydia Ross her mark Return to The Little Legend ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright. 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