Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Hand, Joseph July 1, 1833 Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com March 25, 2007, 4:50 am Pension Application Of Joseph Hand, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll ____, Application #W7625 Henry County, Georgia} On this the 1st day of July in the year 1833, personally appeared before the justices of the Inferior Court for said county, Joseph Hand, a resident in said county of Henry, aged as near as he knows, 78 years, who being duly sworn according to law, makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832; that he entered the service under the following named officers and served as hereinafter mentioned: He entered the service in the year General Gates was defeated at the 7 Mile Branch near Camden, he thinks in the latter part of the summer, as a substitute for Elijah ?Joice, who had been drafted in Guilford County, North Carolina under Captain Richard Varnum [Vernon.] Marched and met the main army under General Davis, Colonel Sowell, below Charlotte in Mecklenberg County. Captain Davey commanded the cavalry. Lay there until Cornwallis attempted to go through North Carolina. William High, James Conner and Jonathan Conner was in the mess with deponent. The American army approached Cornwallis. Colonel Sowell ascertained and informed us that the British Army was approaching. A retreat was made to near the Atkin [Yadkin] River, escaping the same at a Ferry called Sloan’s Ferry, and there halted. ?Next deponent and others, a detached party marched after Tories in the Fork of Yadkin River. Was gone two or three weeks and returned to headquarters at a mill near Sloan’s Ferry, where the ?army lay several weeks. During this time, a volunteer company [from the army] took Colonels Roberts and ?Benjamin [Tories] prisoners. They were sent to Hillsborough gaol [jail] and confined there till peace was made. About this time Cornwallis returned to South Carolina. Deponent took sick and lay at Salisbury until Captain Sharp ?presented his discharge from General Butler [in writing, which is lost] and he was three months in this service. He entered the service again as a substitute for one Matthew Shaw in Rowan County near Salisbury under Captain Sharp, in the spring of the year he thinks, but cannot recollect the date of the month, the month or year. Deponent entered the service for one year and a half in the eighteen months service. Deponent marched to headquarters at Ashley Hills, 7 miles below Bacon’s Bridge. General Greene commanded and Colonel Lightal [Lytle], Major Blunt was officers of deponent’s regiment. Deponent remained there until the British army left Charleston. He went into Charleston on the morning afterwards and remained there until Christmas holidays, and returned to headquarters at Ashley Hills. Deponent was then ?caught on James Island on New Year’s Day. The main body crossed next day ?Wapox Cut, a water communication between Stono and Ashley River made by the British when in Charleston. Deponent remained until July and escaped. Two weeks he was on Johnson Island. He and others ____ was then marched to ?Thirteen -Mile Spring on the North Carolina _____ and was there discharged by General Greene. ?His discharge was a printed discharge signed by General Greene. This discharge he placed in the hands of John Carmichael in Surry County, North Carolina. Carmichael ___ deponent. That the discharge was lost when at Ashley Hill. Captain Raiford, Lieutenant Campaine, second ___ [blank left by court clerk] Pasters was his company officers. Deponent served above 14 months, he thinks near eighteen, but is not willing to say more than 14 months of which he is certain, making with the first service seventeen months. Captain Thomas Cook of Henry County is the only witness he knows of to prove anything in relation to his service. In ____ his last service, it took place in the following manner. Under a regulation made at that time, each company was to furnish a certain number of men for 18 months service. The companies was classed and each class furnished one. In a class in one company in Surry County, it was Matthew Shaw’s lot to go. Deponent took Shaw’s place, for which he got ?10 dollars. He enrolled as one furnished by the company as its quota without being regarded as entered as a substitute. He was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. The year he does not recollect. He has no record of his age. He was living in Guilford County, North Carolina when he first entered the service. He entered the service as before stated, and has stated the officers names. He has lived in North ?Carolina two or three years, in South Carolina, Pendleton District, about 30 years, and in Georgia. He is known to John William and Jesse Johnston in Henry County as some of his neighbors. He has no documentary evidence. Captain Thomas Cook, an officer of the Revolution, will testify to his services…etc. Before the justices of Henry County Inferior Court} Personally came Thomas Cook, the witness named in the foregoing declaration, who, after being duly sworn saith that he was acquainted with Joseph Hand who is now before him. He has heard this declaration read and knows he enlisted for a service of three months and served it out. He knows he entered and was recorded ?with ?him in the second service for eighteen months. He was absent the time mentioned. Deponent said ___ and those of the same company after he ?returned, but was not acquainted with his marches during the second service. He is absolutely certain that he is the same man. Sworn to and subscribed this 1st day of July, 1833. Thos. Cook. The state of Alabama, Tallahoosa County} On this, the 1st day of November, 1851, personally appeared before me, Ezekiel Pickens, on of the judges for the Circuit Court of the state of Alabama, Kesiah Hand, a resident of Tallahoosa County in the state of Alabama, aged 80 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration…: That she is the widow of Joseph Hand, who was a pensioner of Henry County in the state of Georgia whose claim was presented by Andrew R. Moore of said county and state. She further declares that she was married to the said Joseph Hand in the state of South Carolina in the Pendleton District on the __ day of ___ 1792, and that she cannot procure any public record of her said marriage, there having none been kept. That her husband, the aforesaid Joseph Hand, died on the 24th day of August, 1835…She further swears that she is now a widow and that she has never before made an application for a pension, only for the arrearages of the pension due her said husband, and which she has never received. Kesiah Hand, her mark. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/hand498gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 7.2 Kb