Lenoir County, NC - Pensions

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JOHN HARTSFIELD - RW PENSION

Copy of original found at the NSDAR Library, Washington, DC in the John 
Hartsfield Folder. Permission to post give by the DAR Library.

NOTE: The handwriting on this document is very small and almost impossible 
to read. There are a lot of ?? and  ----- Where it is typed the copy did not 
copy well in places.

Written in hand at the top of the page

The sub ---became the substitute of W Iler who was --- three months and as his 
bible recorded ---- New River, Onslow County where he was discharged after a --- 
having served in all twelve months --- discharged - rest of sentence not readable


I hereby relinguish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the 
present and declare that my name ------

Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid.

Signed by John Hartsfield

We, Levi Braxton, a Clergyman in Lenoir - marked through and something else 
written in but can’t read - County, State of North Carolina, and William Sutton 
residing in said County, Lenoir County hereby Certify, that we are well acquainted 
with John Hartsfield whereas subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that 
we believe him to be about seventy five years of age, that he is reputed and 
believed to have been a Soldier at the Revolution; and that we ---  that opinion.

Signed  Levi Braxton
Wm. Sutton

Sworn and subscribed, this 9th day of October A.D. 1832

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the 
matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, 
that the above name Applicant was a Revolutionary Solder, and served as he states.  
And the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that Levi Braxton  who has 
signed the preceding Certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the Greene and that 
William Sutton who has also signed the same, is a resident in the County of Lenoir 
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

J. J. Daniel

Samuel H. Hart, Clerk of Court of Greene

Where were your born?

In Dobbs County N. Carolina

In what year?

About 175 (last number cut off)

Have you any record ?? of your age:

I have in my Bible at home

Where were you living when called into service?

On what ??? Dobbs County N. Carolina

Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War?

Near Wheat Swamp, Dobbs County

Where do you now live?

At the same place

How were you called into service?

In the first place I became I voluntered and served six months ??? - in the 
second place I became the substitute of David Hartsfield and served three months.  
In the third place I became the substitute of Wiliam Iler ?? and served three 
months

Who were some of the regular officers that you served under?

Gen. Ashe, Wm. Caswell & Abraham Shepard though I do not know whether they ?? 
considered in militia officers ???

Did you receive a discharge?

I did on ??? John Poynter ?? which is havis enclosed on ---- which I have --- or 
another from a man whose name I have lost

State the names of Persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and 
who can testify s to your --- and their belief of your services as a soldier of 
the revolution

Levi Braxton, W. Sutton, John Gray, Jacob Parrott, John Kennedy, Jesse Kennedy, 
James Brown ??, Benjamin Parrott

Signed John Hartsfield.

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