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Hurst gwnj@shentel.net ==================================================================== Wharton Nunn, War of the Revolution pension, Claiborne Co., Tennessee -------------------------------- Jacket 1] Nunn, Wharton W. 974 Elizabeth [Jacket 2] Tennessee 34.587 Nunn [torn] in the State of Tennesee who was [torn]yate on the Company commanded by Captain Bowyer of the Regt. commanded by Ed. Woods on the Va. line for 3 years. Subscribed on the Roll of Est. Tenn at the rate of 80 Dollars ---Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834. Certificate of Pension issued the 2d. day of Feb.y 1839 and sent by C??? A. McClellan Hos. of Reps. Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838 $600.00 semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar. 39, 40.00 ======= $640.00 ======= Recorded by Dnl. Addison clerk. Book A2 Vol. 7 page 70. ---------- Deas. [torn] letter 03d Apr. Aug 20 1844 Paid at the Treasury under the Act of April 1838 from 4 March 1842 to 8 April 1842 Agt notified 26 Oct. 1844. --------------------------------------- State of Tennesee Claiborn County Wharton Nunn a petitioner to be placed on the Pension Roll and to obtain the benefits of the acts of congress this 7th of June 1832 whose original decleration is filed at this department amongst the suspended cases Amends his decleration and sayeth that untill the year 1833 or 34 he was not apprised of provision being made for such cases, .. that he had understood some years before that provision was made for them that had been disabled; that although he was wounded in the arm with a ball and his arm made somewhat stiff he still by the dent of industry made out to live; and thought he could not suceed, from what he had heard and for the last seven years he has been worn out with age and totally disabled in his arm he has been living on the charity of his son who is also very poor and large family very [illegible], and was not informed on the subject in any way that held out a hope of obtaining a pension untill the trial he made in Kentucky about thirty miles from this, when I was then carried to see a son of mine that lived near this place when the dicleration was made aforsaid to; that shortly after he returned home to a remote part of this County entirely secluded from any intelligence surrounded by Mountains and at least forty or forty one miles from the County Seat and very seldom ever see any person acquainted with such [illegible] and entirely unable to attend to any thing or go any where by reason of bodily infirmity and old age should have starved and died without the benefits of the provision made by Congress for the suffering soldiers of the revolution had it not been that Dr. A. Noel happened to see me where I now live and made inquiry into my case and after hearing the narative of my case told me he thought I could be placed on the pension roll and drew up my decleration accordingly and he had always been informed also that he would have to prove by an army Surgeon that his wound entirely disabled him and he did not know where to find one if he had been able to go and until lately he did not know where to find any person that knew of his services for he had understood his elder Brother Thomas Nunn was dead and not untill lately did he know to the reverse but is in hopes from his age the part of the County he was raised in and his character and others testimony which [blotted] company this his am[torn] decleration to place his case beyond suspicion. He further states as it respects his serving under any other Captain he can, only state by his memory not having an education that on various [torn] he was detached for certain services sometimes weeks & even months under other Captains L[torn] and [illegible] but always when he returned to [torn] Main Army he went under his same Captain he would also state that his name night have been transfered to other rolls than that of Captain Caseys; and his name might never been restored again on Cap.tn Caseys Roll; as he could na[torn] he futhter states that his extreme age his me[mory] has failed him but he still can name [torn] of those officers Captain & Lieutenants &c. that at times the command of detachments he was attached to the Baggage Waggon when we went under Genral Stark to Benington. I was under Lieu[tenant] Knox when the detachment was sent to take a Point; Gen. Wayne Commanded. I was in Major Lees detachment the Winter of 1777 we wintered at Valley forge and the Brittish in Philadelpia; the Battle of Monmouth Genl. Washington commanded; I was then under Captain Donovan who was of the Waggon Master; in which service I continued the most of the time after the battle of Monmouth, but was several times back again in Captain Caseys Company. I was one of the party under General Sulivan when he went against the six nations but was taken sick & returned after I got well to the main army again and to the Waggon guard and when my time was out I went to Col Wood who give me my discharge. I do not know where Captain Casey was at the time my memory does not serve me. I can only state being extemely old feeble [torn]ory both of body & memory. I can only state [torn] the leading matters the most of the dates I cannot tell the precise time of the events; I know it was in July that Stony point was taken and in the October after I enlisted that Burgone was taken; for we went into winter quarters soon after and at Brandy Wine I was there with the Bagage Wagon under Captain Donoven this was in September 1777 we was so often shifted in those times somethimes but few men that is is impossible for me to remember half in my feeble old age I have given the best account my memory will afford having no means to refresh it being no schollar cannot read but hope I have put things in a light with this testimony attached herunto that I may obtain my right ----------------- State of Tennessee Claiborne County Personally appeared before me the subscriber & justice of the peace for said County, Thomas Nunn of said County and State aforesaid who first being duly sworn in the holy Evagelist of Almighty god to to speak the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth touching the service of Wharton Nunn a pensioner to be placed on the revolutionary pension Roll and whose Declerations is now filed by the pension commissioner as a suspended case for further proof deposes and sayeth as follows that he was been acquainted with Wharton Nunn the term of eighty five years or there abouts that he knows that he entered the service in the revolutionary war at Winchester Virginia under Captain Casey in Col. Woods Regmt. I think and in the Brigade or division of Genl. Mulenburg and that he entered in the service for the term of three years from the time he entered which as well as I recollect was in the latter the year 1777 and was marched then on to to [sic] Pennsylvania to Valley forge in Jersey and was at the battle of Germantown Baskin Ridge and White plains and all the Company in them states in 1777 and to 1780 or 81. Question 1. How old are you now & have old is Wharton Nunn now? Answer. I am about eighty seven or eighty eight and Wharton Nunn is about eighty six as well as I recollect perhaps eighty seven. Question 2. Do know that the Wharton Nnn that now lives on the Clear Fork of Cumberland in the County is Identically the same that served under the Capt. Casey & in Col. Woods Regiment and under Gen.l Muhlenburg. Answer. I know him to be the same and know the facts of his enlistment as I was near Winchester at the time & saw him ap [torn] Question 3d. do you know what battles he was in if any and wheter he did not receive a wound in the right arm with a bullett and whether he was not in the Battle of Germantown. Answer. He did receive a wound in his arm and I have understood he was at germantown. Question 4. Please State if he was not in the battle under Genl Gates & Arnold at the taking of Genl. Burgoin. Answer I have no recollection that he was there but I do know he served during the three years preceeding the first of the year 1781. Question 5th. do you or do you not know that Soldiers of the revolution was frequently detached from their original Company for some particular service & gone for some months and retured again to their same officers again; and frequently that papers and Company Rolls were Lost and never obtained again and had to make new lists at Random Answer There were frequently lost and troops disperst & new rolls to be made out. Question 6th do you not know that the accidents in the question previous to this was frequently the cause of the names of many not being found on the original rolls that they entered the service in and although they served nearly through the whole of the Revolution. Answer According to my recollection and as I believe I know that fact, for at some of the battles that we was in we had to scatter. Question 7th please State as near as you can the number of years that Wharton Nunn served when he entered the service & what time he was discharged and whether he did not bring his discharge home with him & if you did or did not understand that iit was lost some years after the war Answer I know he enlisted for three years and was gone some longer before he returned I do not recollect at during his discharge but understood he served his whole time further this Deponant Sayeth not Thomas Nunn And I Peter Neil one of the justices of the place composing the County Court do certify that the forgoing deposition of Thomas Nunn was taken down in my presence According to the laws of this State and the acts and resolves of Congress and sworn to & subscribed to in my presence do futher certify that appelant is a credible person and in my opinion full faith & credit should be given to his statements on oath this 4th of September 1838. Peter Neil Justice of the peace for Claiborne County ------------------- 1. Mr. Nunn where & in what year were you born. I have no record was always [torn] in the year of Bradocks defeat [1755]. 2. Have you any record of your age and if so where is it Answer I never knew of any my father died when I was small & I never knew of any. 3. Where were you living when you were calld into service & where have you lived sence the Revolutionary War, and where do you live now. Anser I lived in King George County and went to Winchester on a vistt; after the war I lived there about four years and then moved to Shanadoah County and lived there four years and then to Wythe County all in Virginia and then moved to Claiborne County Tennessee & have lived here for the last twenty five years or twenty six 4. How were you calld into service were you draighted; did you Vollunteer, or where you a subsitute if a substitute who for I enrolld myself in Winchester or enlested Vollunatarily for three years & was not a substitute I was not sworn in I think calld continentall line 5th State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served any redgiments either continental or Malitia and some fo the circumstances of your service Answer besides those that had the command of me There was Col. Nevill Gen l Demarous such name of some Generals Putman we were sometimes in the lines with them -- Gen Washington pursued the Brittish commander towards Sandy Hook after the Monmouth [torn] did you ever receive a discharge from the [ser]vice and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it Answer I got my discharge from Col Wood in person it was lost with my pockett book about two years after Continued on the other side [Sta]te the names of persons to whom you [torn] known in your present neighborhood & [torn] who will testify to your character for [torn]eauty & truth and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution Answer George Hamblen, Esqr. Reuben Parrott James Parrott Wm. Buckhainon and indeed all my neighbors. State of Tennessee Claiborne County I do certify that the forgoing interogation was put to Wharton Nunn & athe answers recorded and stated above and annexed to his Dicleration to obtain a pension given under my hand & Seal George Hamblen Justice of the peace for Claiborne County State of Tennessee Caliborne County We the undersigned Cittizens of the County of Claiborne and State aforsaid have been acquainted with Wharton Nunn & from his appearance and other circumstances know the part of the country he came from & from our acquaintence believe him to have been a Revolutionary Solder and the states in his decleration & would give full credit to his Statments on Oath we are his neighbors and from age & infirmity is unable to get to Court given under our hands this day & year first written George Hamblen Esq. Nathan Buchanan Reuben Parrot Bartholomew Elliott Joel Parrott Eliza Huddleston James Parrott Jesse U. Lefaree Reney Buckhannon John Huddleston Edward King ----------------------- [Jacket] 3244 Tennessee Knoxville Elizabeth Nunn widow of Wharton Nunn who served in the Revolutioanry war, as a private Virginia Line Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars --- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of Mrch, 1848 Certificater of Pension issued the 22 day of Jany 1849 and sent to pensioner Tazewell term Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, page 300 Vol. Z ------------------------ State of Tennessee Grainger County On the first day of July one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before me George Cheek one of the justices of the peace in and for said County and state aforesaid Elisabeth Nunn A citizen of Said County aged eighty one or eighty two years old who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to Obtain the benefits of the provision of an act of Congress Passed July 7th 1838 entitled an Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows That she is the widow of Whorton Nunn who was a pensioner and served in the Continental line of Virginia in Col. Woods Redgment under Genl. Muhlenburg and was engaged in all the hard fighting and suffering that took place in Pennsylvania, New jersey and New york from the year 1777 untill the first of the year 1781 as well as she recollects; and was put upon the pension Roll at Knoxville East Tenn in March one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine his certificate bears date the 2d day of February 1839 at eighty dollars per annum {No. 31587}and rendered at this time in this County; I am informed and believe it is needless to detaill the particulars of his services as they are all on file with the department and contained in the evidence on which he was pensioned, She states that she was married to Wharton Nunn the Identical person named in the annexed certificated refered to that her name was Elisabeth Breeden before her marriage born and raised in Shanedoah County and State of Virginia daughter of Spencer Breeden; and two or three years before her marriage they moved to Surry County North Carolina on Little Fish River near where it empties into the big Adkin river; this was while the said Wharton Nunn was in the service and after he left the service some time he followed us to North Carolina, and was [illegible] in the Church at Crutchfield Meeting house, Parson Joseph Murphy was the Pastor; and where My Father resided and was Maried according to law by the said Murphy at the Said Meeting house which took place the first day of August seventeen hundred and eighty three; she states that she cannot procure any record from the Church books as they have long since destroyed as she is informed and believes that She has sent a memo and on the set down ages of her children [illegible] some years ago and which she believes to be correct. And the evidence of Henry Nunn to prove and identify herself and the evidence of other Testimony in [illegible] accompany this declartion the [illegible] Cupps deposition will be obtained which will prove her lawful Marriage beyond a doubt, living together at the time the Marriage took place, with the record of the Court will place her case She thinks beyond controversey and would refer the commissioner to them; her husband died the 8th day of April in one thousand eight hundred and forty two in this County leaving one months and four days pension due him on the day of his death in proof She would Refer to the evidence of Henry Nunn; She avers most positively that she is the lawful widow of the said Wharton Nunn never having married since his death; and she further declares that she was married to the said Wharton Nunn on the first day of August Seventeen hundred and eighty three and that her said husband died on the eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty two that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January one thousand seven Hundred and ninety four viz. That is at the time stated above Sworn to and subcribed the day and year first above written before me Leo. H. Cheek. Elisabeth (her x mark) Nunn Justice of the peace for Claiborne County ------------------------------- [Exhibit A] Family Register of Wharton Nunn John Nunn born July 10th, 1784 Nancy Nunn May 17th 1786 Jerry Nunn February 11th 1788 Elisha Nunn April 6th 1791 William Nunn October 12th 1795 Henry Nunn June 4th 1798 Peggy Nunn born November 16th 1800 Milly Nunn was born August 1st 1804.