HAYWOOD COUNTY, NC - MISC - John Runyan Revolutionary War Pension Application,
			    1829
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State of North Carolina, Haywood County, Revolutionary War Pension
of John Runyan

Superior Court of Law, October term 1829

This is the entire transcript of the pension application made as
noted in the original court document at the State Archives, Raleigh,
NC. No disposition of the claim has been found in the Archives or in
the list of RW pensions files. Should anyone locate the disposition of the
file, whether approved or disapproved, please advise. Also, please advise
if anyone knows of JOHN RUNYAN/RUNION's whereabouts prior to the dates
in the affidavit or subsequent to that, including place of death or burial. 
I would also be interested in any information about this person, his ancestors 
and his descendants.

'...'State of North Carolina, Haywood County, Superior Court of Law,
October term 1829:
On this tenth day of October 1829 personally appeared in open court,
being a court of record for said County of Haywood in the sixth judicial
district of North Carolina, John Runyan, aged seventy seven years, and being a
resident of said Haywood County, who first duly sworn according to
law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war,
that he was enlisted by Captain Thomas Arthur for eighteen months, that he
belonged, and was attached to the twenty-fourth Regiment of the
Virginia Continental Line, that he rendezvoused at Petersburgh, and while
there, his Colonel was Colonel Alexander Parker, and his Captain was Thomas
Arthur, that he was at the seige of Savannah and at the battle of Little
York, and was regularly discharged at the close of the war at Petersburg by
General Mulenburg, that he has lost the certificate of his discharge and has
no means of proving that he served as aforesaid save by the muster roll
deposited in the War Department, and by the affirmation and oath of Thomas 
Shepard and Nancy Shepard, who remained with his family while he was 
absent in the service of the United Confederated
States, that he is incapable of supporting himself, that, that he
has no family with him but his wife, his children having married and gone
off in different parts of the United States, that some are still remaining
in this county and that he lives with first with one and then another, that
he has no property of any account, not even of the value of ten dollars,
saving his wearing apparel, and his bed and furniture - and I John Runyan do
solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on
the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift,
sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with
intent thereby so to diminish it and to bring myself within the provisions
of an Act of Congress entitled "an Act to provide for certain persons
engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the   United States in the 
Revolutionary War", passed on the 18th day of March
1818, and that I have not, nor has any person, formed in trust, any
property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any
income other than the means of living contained in the schedule hereto
annexed, and by me subscribed (to wit) - one bed and furniture at $10.00 and
my wearing apparel.
Subscribed to in open court October 10th 1829
Jno B Love, Clerk John Runyan (X - his mark).

I, Thomas Shepard upon my oath do say that the said John Runyan was
enlisted by said Thomas Arthur and that I was present at the time he
enlisted, and that he went off with the said Thomas Arthur, that he
was absent from his family about two years, and that he returned after
the capture of Cornwallis, that he was present when he showed his
certificate to his old Captain, the said Arthur, who told him that it was
regular - Arthur resided in Virginia, being near to that of John Runyan, and
that the schedule returned and sworn by him is true to the best of my belief.
Sworn in open court October 10th, 1829
Jno B. Love, Clerk Thomas Shepard (X - his mark).

I, John B. Love, Clerk of the Superior Court of Law in and for the
County of Haywood, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, and the
schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court,
and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court, that
the total amount in in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid
schedule is of the value of ten dollars saving his wearing apparel.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of the said court on this 10th day of October, 1829..'.

Robert Runion
POB 19188
Topeka, KS 66619
Run0564@kscable.com