Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Williams, John, Colonel April 1, 1853
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Colonel John Williams, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll __, Application #W9147
Rockcastle County, Kentucky}
	On this 1st day of April, 1853, personally appeared before me, Jesse 
Lear, an acting justice of the peace for the county and state above named, Mary 
Lumpkins, aged about 80 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, 
doth on her oath make the following declaration…:

	That she was married to John Williams in the County of Lincoln, state 
of Kentucky on the 28th day of February, 1793, and that he served for a 
considerable time in the army of the Revolution as a colonel. He went from the 
state of North Carolina. She does not recollect whether he belonged to the 
North Carolina militia or North Carolina Continental line, but thinks he 
belonged to the North Carolina Continental line. That her aforesaid husband 
died the last day of February, 1796, after which death she was married to John 
P. Lumpkins about 10 miles east of the Cumberland Gap in Tennessee on Christmas 
Day in the year 1800, who died on the 11th day of September, 1847 in this 
county. That she is now a widow, never having married since the death of her 
last husband, John P. Lumpkins. That she is a poor widow and most respectfully 
asks the Commissioners of Pensions to grant her a pension…for the services of 
her first husband aforesaid, John Williams, deceased, a colonel in the army of 
the Revolution.
	
	She most respectfully asks that her aforesaid claim be met with a 
favorable and early consideration from the honorable Commissioners of Pensions 
and other officers of this department. That the reason she haven’t applied 
sooner for a pension for her first husband Colo. John Williams is that her last 
husband, John P. Lumpkins, deceased, claimed to have been a soldier in the 
militia of Virginia for some two years in the Revolution and was hunting proof 
of his services up to his death and she continued the same for some 4 years, 
when she was told she had a right to apply on account of her first husband’s 
services in the Revolutionary War, which she thought her 2nd marriage had 
de____ from applying and that she has been hunting up proof ever since she was 
informed she had the right to apply on account of her first husband Colonel 
John Williams, deceased, and commenced taking proof last fall. That she has 
never drawn a pension on account of her first or last husband, deceased. That 
she had one child by Colonel John Williams, her first husband, deceased, spoken 
of as aforesaid, and some 8 raised by John P. Lumpkins, deceased. Her first 
child died at 15 years old, which she had by Col. John Williams, deceased, her 
first husband, deceased, aforesaid.

County Laurel, State of Kentucky}
	On this 5th day of August, 1853, before me, John Casteel, a justice of 
the peace for the county and state above named, personally appeared, John 
Fairbush [could this be a member of the Forbis family?] a Revolutionary 
pensioner of this county, who being first duly sworn as the law directs,  upon 
his oath, makes the following statement:

That some months since he gave his statements relative to the Revolutionary 
services of Colonel John Williams from the state of North Carolina and his 
statements more fully is now required, as near as his memory serves him, some 
time in the fall of 1775, he became acquainted with the above named John 
Williams at his brother’s in Randolph County, who was paying his address to his 
sister, ?Ann, who was living with his brother. That his sister always told him 
she was engaged to said Williams, but she died the same fall. That the said 
Williams was an uncommon fine looking man. That he often heard him spoken of by 
men who spoke as they were associates of said Williams; Colonel Vail, Knox, and 
others as being a fine colonel and was among the first in the field at the 
breaking out of the old war. 

That in the fall of 1776, he saw said Williams in actual service of the United 
States acting as colonel with the county of, he believes, Guilford, North 
Carolina, and other times that he don’t know what county Williams entered the 
service, but in the spring of 1795 was the first time he saw Williams after the 
war. Said Williams was then living in Madison County, Kentucky, and both knew 
each other at sight, and said Williams called him his brother-in-law and talked 
over the times he saw him, the said Williams in the old war. That he (Fairbush) 
has no services granted him prior to 1778, after which time he never saw said 
Williams in the service. He thinks the said Williams served near three years as 
colonel in the state of North Carolina from his own knowledge and what he heard 
from others, and came from the county of Guilford and state of North Carolina, 
and was in Kentucky but a short time before he married his wife, Mary, whose 
name is now Lumpkins. He has known Mary Lumpkins ever since he first saw her in 
Madison County, KY before her first husband’s death, Colonel John Williams. 
That the said Mary is wholly entitled to a pension for the Revolutionary 
services of her first husband, Colonel John Williams, deceased, that he is not 
interested in said pension nor acting as agent. August 5, 1853. John Fairbush, 
his mark.

County Laurel, State of Kentucky}
	On this 5th day of August, 1853, before me, John Casteel, a justice of 
the peace for the county and state above named, personally appeared, Jacob ?
Gableart, a Revolutionary pensioner of Laurel County, Kentucky, who being first 
duly sworn as the law directs, on his oath makes the following statement;

	That several months since, he gave his deposition relative to Colonel 
John Williams services in the old war from the state of North Carolina. That he 
was always informed by Colonels Moore. Knox and Ervin who said that they had 
been associated with Williams in the old war. That said Williams entered the 
service in the Revolutionary war at the breaking out of the old war and served 
the United States faithfully for upwards of two years in the state of North 
Carolina. That in the summer of 1776, he saw the said John Williams acting as 
colonel in the state of North Carolina in the county of Stokes. That he thinks 
in the year 1795, he met with Williams in Madison [end of record as shown on 
HeritageQuestOnline.]	

Additional Comments:
There is a typewritten letter to a descendant, Mrs. G. W. Rogers of Great 
Falls, Montana, dated June 22, 1926, which states that there is also a huge 
volume of correspondence from an E. Smith which evidently had no weight with 
the Bureau, but is likely to be loaded with more details of Colonel Williams’ 
life and service.

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