WILKES COUNTY, NC - MILITARY - William Triplett, Rev. War Pension Application State of Kentucky Russell County and Circuit October Term 1832 On this 20th day of October 1832 personnally appear in open court before the Honorable John L. ______ sole Judge in and for the Circuit, William Triplett a resident of Russell County State of Kentucky aged 69 years who being first sworn according to law on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States as a drafted militia man in the month of ____ in the year 1780 for five months under Captain William Sloan in Wilkes County State of North Carolina. He states that at that time his mother was a widow and needed his assistance and after he had so entered the said service he was inclined from maternal feelings to hire a substitute by the name of Jeremiah Ferguson for which he gave said Ferguson forty pounds and he states that said substitute faithfully performed the service as he was informed by his Capt. After he returned he again entered the service as a volunteer for three months in the same county and State under Captain John Kees_______ he was marched from home towards the head of Cataba River to a place called Pleasant Garden where he and his Company was joined to other troops under ____ at that time Commanded by Charles McDowell they remained there for some time and was then marched on to the Cherokee Nation of Indian where they took and destroyed several Indian towns remaining there and on the frontier until his term expired and was honorably discharged by his officers. He took no written discharge as he now believes if however he did it is lost. He states that he served eight months by his substitute and himself as before stated he states he has no documentory evidence of his service nor is there any witness by whose testimony he can prove the same within his reach or knowledge. He states that he was born in Louden County State of VA on the 15th day of November 1763 according to the family register which he now has in his possession. At an early age his father moved to the State of North Carolina taking this applicant with him where he remained until after the close of the REvolutionary War and until the year 1808 when he moved to and settled where he has ever since resided. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state sworn to and subscribes the day and year of. William Triplett. Letter in Pension File of William Triplett R10706 August 22, 1933 Gertrude Hagler R.F.D. #2 Golden City, Missouri Re: William Triplett R10706 Dear Madam: Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of William Triplett and John Hagler, early settlers of Wilkes County, North Carolina. A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and no record found of a claim for pension or bounty land on file made to the United States based upon service of a John Hagler, various spellings of the surname searched. The record of William Triplett is given below as found in the papers on file in his pension claim R 10706, based upon his service in that war. William Triplett was born November 15, 1763, in Loudon County, Virginia, and at an early age, moved with his father to North Carolina. In 1780, his mother was a widow; the names of his parents, and the dates of their births and deaths are not shown. William Triplett moved from North Carolina about the year 1803 and settled in Russell County, Kentucky, in which county he continued to reside until 1832. On October 30, 1832, William Triplett applied for pension and state that in the year 1782, he enlisted in Wilkes County, North Carolina, as private for five months in Captain William Sloam’s North Carolina Company, but that because his assistance was needed at home, he hired a substitute to serve the term of that enlistment, and that he volunteered again in Wilkes County, North Carolina, marched from home and served three months as private in Captain John Kees’ North Carolina Company, and that during this time, he joined the troops under General Charles McDowell and assisted in the destruction of some Indian towns of the Cherokee Nation. His claim was not allowed as he himself did not render service of six months as required by the pension law under which he applied. It is not state in the papers in this pension claim that William Triplett, the soldier, was married. Very Truly yours, A.D. Hiller Assistant to Administrator __________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Deborah Thurman Parks ___________________________________________________________________