ASHE COUNTY, NC - PENSIONS - Jesse Toliver Pension Application
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	JESSE TOLIVER REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION
Transcribed from National Archives microfilm records by Sallee Garner, 
July 1991

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of 
the 7th of June 1832
State of North Carolina
Ashe County

On the 1st day of March 1834 personally appeared before us the undersigned 
two of the acting justices of the peace for said county and state 
aforesaid aged seventy-eight years as he believes has no record of his 
age. Who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the 
following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of of [sic] the act 
of Congress passed June 7 1832 [:] that he was born in the state of 
Virginia Fauquier County, that when young his father removed to James 
River about 30 miles above Richmond in Virginia lived there about 3 years 
+ removed to Wilkes County North Carolina four or five years before the 
Revolution was in this part of the country and that he entered the service 
of his country when about 18 or 19 years of age as a volunteer + as a 
Ranger under the following named officers[:] William Lenoir was Captain 
and Barnett [?] Owens was Lieutenant[;] that he with the company was 
ranging the county on Reedys River + New River two months against the 
Cherokee Indians (our station[?] when[?] ranging[?] was on the head of 
Reedys River + at old fields [?] on New River) + then were marched to the 
Cherokee Nation on Tennessee [?] River[.] We were marched[?] by the 
Catawba River and on Swannanoa [?] + then by Pidgeon River and by [...] 
and into the Indian towns on [...][;] we burnt and destroyed the Indian 
towns + huts that we found[;] stayed in that part of the country three 
months[;] had no fighting as the Indians fled when we came into the 
nation. Captain Cleveland[?] and his company was there. Martin 
Armstrong[?] was colonel + Genl Rutherford was commander in chief. The 
troops was then marched back + discharged. The second term of my service 
again a volunteer under Captain Lenoir + Colonel Herndon we was marched 
from Wilkes County through Iredell up[?] Hunting Creek + through the [...] 
settlement on the waters of the Catawba against the Torys[.] The Battle 
was fought when we were in about ten or fifteen miles of this place and 
when we arrived we saw the dead lying on the field the Torys was defeated 
and we were marched home after being out in service two months. The third 
term of my service again a volunteer under Captain William Lenoir againast 
the Torys that was commanded by one [...] Coffee or one Roberts as he 
understood we were marched from Wilkes County to the Catawba[.] We pursued 
the Torys as they retreated until they joined the British Army near Kings 
Mountain under one Ferguson. The time that I served in thes trip was one 
month and a half. We were then marched back home. The fourth term of my 
service again a volunteer under Captain Lenoir + Colonel Campbell for the 
purpose of joining the Army at King's Mountain we marched from Wilkes 
County up the Yadkin River to Johns River by Morganton[?] by the Cowpens 
and that plain[?][;] all that had horses went on + left the foot men and 
got to the Battle that was fought at Kings Mountain[.] The Battle was 
fought before the foot men arrived as I was one of them we met part of the 
Army with the prisoners + I was put as one of the guard over them + went 
with the prisonners [sic] to Salem and to the old town[;] stayed until my 
three months was out and then returned home---The fifth term of my service 
again a volunteer under Captain Lenoir against the British that was 
plundering and doing other other [sic] depredations near Salisbury in 
Rowan County and Stokes County when we got there found that our force[?] 
was not able to come to battle we retreated and came home + stayed about 
two weeks collecting some reinforcement and then we were marched by 
Guilford Court House to the High Rock [?]force[?] on the Haw River[?] in 
Orange County there we joined General [G...] Army we lay there some time 
and while there Colonel Micajah Lewis was the colonel of the Regiment that 
I belonged to he the said colonel went with some others to spy out the 
force of Cornwallis Army and got shot. I well remember to have seen him 
after he died. I saw General [G...] and believe that General Sumpter was 
there I was in service during the two last above [... ...] five months and 
then we marched home. I was with Captain Lenoir some other small trips in 
collecting horses + cattle for to hire substitutes in place of drafted men 
that lay out and would not fight for their country and some short trips in 
pursuing small portions[?] of Torys. I never obtained my discharge as my 
Captain went and came home with me. I have no documentary evidence of my 
service and the survivors that is now living that was with me is living at 
a considerable distance from me[;] Captain now Genl Lenoir is still living 
in Wilkes County and some others is there as I understand. But I have been 
for some years unable and still is so that I cannot travel to see them[.] 
Soon after the [...] war was over I removed to Ashe New River now Ashe 
County North Carolina and have lived here ever since. He hereby 
relinquishes any claims whatever 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. Sworn to before us this day and year above written.

				     his
				Jesse X Toliver
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State of North Carolina}
Ashe County} [...] [D...y] [Sint...?] and James McMillan [...] residents 
of the county + state aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted 
with Jesse Toliver who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration 
that we believe him to be about seventy eight years of age that he is 
reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a 
soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion Sworn to and 
subscribed before me this 18th day March 1834

[D...y] [Sint...]

James McMillan

State of North Carolina}
Ashe County} and we the undersigned two of the acting magistrates or 
Justices of the peace for said county + state aforesaid do hereby certify 
that after putting the several interrogatorys prescribed by the war 
department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and 
served as he states, and we further certify that it appears to us that 
[D...y] Sinter[?] who has signed the preceding certificate is a Baptist 
clergyman resident in the county aforesaid and that [blank space] who has 
also signed the same is a resident of the county county [sic] aforesaid is 
a creditable person and that their statement is entitled to credit and we, 
the aforesaid Justices do further certify that we are well acquainted with 
Jesse Toliver who has sworn to and subscribed the above declaration is 
unable to attend court from bodily infirmity given under our hands and 
seals the 18th [...] March 1834

Abe [B...]

State of North Carolina}
Ashe County}

I John Ray Clerk of Ashe County do hereby certify James Maxwell and Abe 
Ballallitan[??] who has signed the foregoing declaration and affidavits 
are acting Justices of the peace in and for said county and that their 
signatures herewith [...] are genuine given under my hand at office this 
18th day of March 1834.

Jno Ray Clerk

[SEAL]

State of North Carolina}
Wilkes County}

Be it known that before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in the 
aforesaid County personally appeared Genl William Lenoir and made oath in 
due form at law that he was well acquainted with one Jesse Toliver now of 
Ashe county N C during the Revolutionary War, that the said Jesse belonged 
to a company of militia commanded by himself, [...] a part of the time of 
that arduous and difficult period and that the said Jesse performed 
several tours of militia duty under him both against the Indians British 
and Tories but the particular length of each tour or the particular 
circumstances under which they were performed this deponent cannot from 
the lapse of time and loss of memory pretend to recollect he is however 
satisfied that the said Jesse Toliver performed as much service under him, 
as any other individual ever under his command during the period 
aforesaid. This deponent further states that the militia commanded by him 
and to which the said Jesse Toliver belonged was called out in the way 
most usual at that time there being nothing like complete organization or 
arrangement existing owing to the disturbed state of the country-- Wm 
Lenoir

Sworn to + subscribed before me this 12th day of March 1834

John Martin [J...]