Wayne County, NC - John Wise Revolutionary War Record

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Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions 
in Wayne County
1823-1844
C.103.30002

State of North Carolina Wayne County - On the 19th day of Februry 1823
Personall appeared in open court being a Court of Record of said State
having the power of Jining & imprisoning, John Wise, aged about Seventy
Seven years resident in the county & state afore said who being first
duly sworn according to Law doth upon his oath declare that he served
in the Revolutionary War as follows, That he enlisted for the first time
in the month of June 1776 in the Company Commanded by Captain William
Ward of the fifth regiment of the North Carolina line in which Company
he served one year. That he enlisted the second time at Vally Forge in
Pennsylvania under Captain Benjamin Coleman of the same regiment in the
month of December 1777 and was afterwards transfered to the Company
Commanded by Captain Phila Taylor, in which he served two years & was
discharged at Home in South Carolina having Mustered for a Considerable
time as a Corporal before his said discharge, and that he was in the
Barrles of Brandy wine & Germantown. He further swears that he was
resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 &
that he has not since that time by Gift, Sale or in any measure disposed
of his property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish
it as to bring himself within the provisions of an act of Congress intitled
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 & that he has not nor has any person in Trust for him and 
property of Securities or Contracts or debts due to him nor has he any
income other than what is contained in a Schedule hereunto __ and by him
Subscribed (to wit)

One Female mare value about                  $40
Four shots                                     4
Twelve pigs                                    6
One Sow                                        3
Two pots                                       2
Two dishes                                     5
Five Knives & four forks                      50
Two plow hoes                                  1.50
One axe                                        1.00
One water Pail                                40
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                                             $63.70

John Wise - Sworn to and Subscribed on the 19th day of february 1823 before 
the Court of pleas & Quarter Sessions for Wayne County
                                                        P. Hooks  clk

The said John Wise doth upon his oath further declare & say that he is by
occupation a farmer & lives upon rented lands that he is not able to pursue
his labours by reason of an injury in his sholder received in the line of
his services in the Revolutionary War that he has living with him one son
aged about twenty two years and one daughter aged about thirty years but
neither of them contribute to the support of this declarant

                                            John Wise

Sworn to subsented 19th Feb 1823                        P. Hooks  Clk

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