CRAVEN COUNTY, NC - MILITARY - Elizabeth Bull, Widow's Revolutionary War 
			       Pension Application
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AMBROSE BULL, PENSION FILE, REV. WAR, File Number R1418
DECLARATION:
In order to obtain the benefit of the 3rd section of the Act of Congress on
4 Jul 1836.
State of Georgia }
County of Pike ) SS
On this sixteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before me William Harris, one
of the Justices of the Inferior Court of the County and State aforesaid,
ELIZABETH BULL, a resident of the County of Pike and State of Georgia, who
being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the
following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made
by the Act of Congress passed 4 Jul 1836:
That she is the widow of Ambrose Bull, who was a private soldier in the
Revolutionary War; that the said Ambrose Bull volunteered in Craven County
in the State of North Carolina, and according to the best of her knowledge
and belief in or about the month of March one thousand seven hundred and
seventy nine, the day and the month she does not recollect; that he served
in a company commanded by Captain Roach, whose Christian name she believes
was Charles or David, and left the service at the expiration of six months,
the term for which he volunteered to serve.
And that said company was attached to a regiment commanded by Colonel Jonas
Johnson; that her said husband resided in the County of Craven and the
State of North Carolina when he entered the service as a volunteer, and
marched from thence to some point in the State of South Carolina and on the
march passed through the town of Kingston in the County of Lenoir in the
State of North Carolina.
That she does not know or recollect that her said husband was in any
engagement or battle;
She further declares that she was married to the said Ambrose Bull in the
said County of Craven in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven by a
Justice of the Peace, who furnished a Certificate of the said marriage
which was in her possession, but has been lost or mislaid within the last
six years.
That her husband, the aforesaid Ambrose Bull died in the month of March one
thousand seven hundred and eighty nine in the said County of Craven, where
he had previously resided, and that she has remained a widow ever since hat
period; that she has no documentary evidence to support her claim; that
she is unable from the lapse of time or death of individuals to obtain
testimony to prove the service of her said husband, but recollects that
FREDERICK JOHNSON and William Winham, who are now deceased served in
Captain Roach's Company with her said husband.
That she was born in the month of January seventeen hundred and fifty
three; is eighty five years of age and is laboring under bodily infirmities
incident to old age.
				 /s/ Elizabeth her mark Bull

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first written before me. 

				/s/ William Harris, 
				Justice of the Inferior Court.

A note concerning William Windham mentioned in the pension application of
Ambrose Bull. Craven County Court Minutes,p. 355 mentions an action by
Malachi Johnson as plaintiff and Samel Griffiss, Adm. Of estate of Wm
Windham, def. Verdict for deft. Thomas Nelson, foreman of Jury Also at
a later time John Duncan filed suit against Griffiss as Admr. Of Winham and
this time found for plaintiff.


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