Henderson County TN Archives Military Records.....Anthony, Philip February 13, 1835 Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com June 24, 2006, 9:41 pm Pension Application Of PHILIP ANTHONY, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 68, Application #S21046 In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed 7 June 1832 State of Tennessee Henderson County On this thirteenth day of February 1835 personally appeared in open Court before Adam M. Brown, Daniel Ragsdal? and David Wilson, Esquires and Justices; “And holding the Court of Pleas and Quarters? Deposes in said county, PHILIP ANTHONY a resident of said county aged eighty years, who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed 7 of June 1832: That in April 1775, he volunteered under Captain Rudolph Conrad, Lieutenant John Sidman [however, the spelling found in John Wilfong’s pension statement, NC State Records is Sigmon] and Colonel Christopher Bateman [Actual spelling is Beekman], Rowan County North Carolina, to quell an insurrection of the Scotch inhabitants and marched to Cross Creek near Fayetteville [on the Cape Fear River, N.C.] where he was discharged after a service of five weeks, the Scotch Tories having been dispersed by Governor [of North Carolina] Caswell.” “In the summer of 1776 he was drafted for three months under Captain James Roddy and Colonel Charles McDowell and joined the regiment at the Quaker Meadows [on the South Fork of the Catawba River] to the residence of Col. McDowell and marched in a direction towards Prince’s Fort in South Carolina in the neighborhood of which there was a body of Tories under Scovell and [Col. Samuel] Brown who were in the habit of committing depradations on the property of the inhabitants then called Whigs (but a different kind of citizens from the Whigs of the present day) but before we reached there the Tories had been dispersed by a party of South Carolinians. The balance of this term of service he was employed in protecting the inhabitants from the depredations of the Tories and discharged after the expiration of three months.” “In the summer of 1777 he was again drafted under Captain John Russel for three months service and stationed at Cathey’s Fort on the Catawba Frontier in what is called Burk County, South Carolina. The object of this service was to act as spies against the Cherokee Indians and to protect the frontier settlement. He had no engagement with the Indians and was discharged at the expiration of his term of three months service.” “In the following spring of 1780 he was again drafted for three months under Captain William Johnson [Emmett R. White called him Whitson, in his Revolutionary Soldiers of Western North Carolina: Burke County, Volume I, but to this researcher the handwriting suggests Johnson.] and Lieutenant Oliver Spradly to serve as an Indian spy and for the protection of the frontier and employed in erecting a fort [which became called Wofford Fort] on the North Fork of the Catawba River at a place called the Turkey Cove in what is now Burk County but Rowan in the time of the Revolution. He had no engagement with the Indians and was discharged after the expiration of three months.” In July 1780 or early in August he was again drafted for three months under Captain Thomas Kenady [Kennedy], Maj. Joseph White and Colonel Charles McDowell. The troops assembled at Quaker Meadows and marched to Pacolet River and camped at Hampton’s Plantations where a company of British dragoons and Tories attacked us in the night and killed three of our men and wounded thirteen. In the morning we pursued them some distance and took some of the Tories prisoners. After this we retreated towards the mountains and after being accompanied by Colonels Campbell, Shelby and Sevier, and at King’s Mountain overtook the British Colonel Ferguson and had a severe battle in which Ferguson was killed and we took as prisoners nearly all his men that were not killed. After this battle in the month of October he was discharged, his term of service having expired. In the spring of 1781 he was again drafted under Captain Daniel Smith and Lieutenant Jesse Brown and served again as an Indian spy and stationed at Davidson’s Fort on the Catawba River. He ranged and scouted the county around but the Indians did not make their appearance and he was discharged after the expiration of three months, and Lord Cornwallis having surrendered that fall he was never called on to perform any further military duty. He states that the whole of his service during the war amounted to sixteen months and one week. Being an unlettered man and the transaction having transpired so many years past, and being attacked with a paralitic stroke and a waning memory he may have made some mistakes as to dates but feels confident he performed the several tours of duty before mentioned. He has no documentary evidence and knows of no person living by whom he can prove the performance of his services….etc. Interrogations Interrogatory 1-Where and in what year were you born? Answer- In Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, January 1754, the day of the month not recollected. Interrogatory 2- Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it? Answer- My age was recorded in a book kept by my uncle on the father’s side, who died many years ago in North Carolina, and I am unable to say what has become of said book. Interrogatory 3-Where were you living when called into service; Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live? Answer-When called into service I lived in what was then called Rowan County, North Carolina, but by a division of the County, now called Burk, and lived there seventeen or eighteen years after the close of the Revolution, and moved to Greenville District, South Carolina, then to Logan County, Kentucky, thence to Maury County, Tennessee, and thence to Henderson County, where I have lived for the last seven years. Interrogatory 4- how were you called into service? Were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute, for whom? Answer- I volunteered for the first tour of service and drafted for the others as stated in my declaration. Interrogatory 5-State the names of some of the Regulars who were with the troops whom you served, such Continental and militia regiments as you may recollect, and the general circumstances of your service? Answer- I was not engaged with any Continental troops or regiments and have no recollection of serving a Continental officer while in service to my knowledge, except Gen’l Morgan after the Battle of Cowpens and on his way to Virginia with the British prisoners taken at the Cowpens. At the request of Gen’l Morgan I carried an express from him to Gen’l Pickens. For the balance of the interrogatory, I refer to my declaration as containing as correct a narrative as I can give. I should have stated that Gen’l Rutherford was the commander-in- chief of the militia of the county where I lived and was called into service and was frequently with us. Interrogatory 6th- Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it signed and what has become of it? Answer- At the end of the several tours of service I have detailed, I received a written discharge from my Captain, which stated the time I had served under him, and as well as I recollect the compensations I was entitled to, but I never received one cent for my services. These discharges have long since been lost or destroyed, not supposing them of any value, I took no particular care of them. Interrogatory 7th- State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a Revolutionary soldier. Answer- I refer to James R. White and William Bartons, esquires, who are well acquainted with me. Sworn to and subscribed his In open Court this PHILIP x ANTHONY 13th February 1835 mark [Henderson County, TN] illegible writing State of Tennessee I, John A. Wilson clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Henderson do certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings of said court in the matter of PHILIP ANTHONY in an application for a pension. Etc, etc. I, William H. Burton, chairman and founding Justice of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Henderson in the State of Tennessee, do certify that John A. Wilson is clerk of said court, and that Edward H. Terrant is his deputy legally qualified as such and that his ____ and attestation in the foregoing proceedings are in due form of ___ and his signature where the same appears in the foregoing are genuine. Witness my hand and seal this 13th day of February 1835, W. H. Burton Lexington, T Hon. James K. Polk And in his absence I.L. Edwards, commissioner of pensions Washington City Lexington, Tennessee February 14th, 1835 Dear Sir, “At the request of PHILIP ANTHONY who is an applicant for a pension under the Act of 1832, I enclose you his declaration and documents for that purpose. He says you are well-acquainted with him, and feels assured you will attend to this matter for him. He was formerly a constituent of yours.” “I am well satisfied this old man is a very honest, conscientious man, his memory is very fail [frail] and his constitution quite infirm and should he be delayed much longer in getting a pension I fear it will be of no use to him- He employed some person here to ____ his declaration 2 years ago. He was told it was sent in, and that is the last he heard of it until lately, when Mr. ? Warmly? wrote in to the War Department and received for answer that the claim had been sent back for some defect, and to have it supplied and it has never come to hand. You will be particular in instructing the Commissioner of Pensions to advise me at Jackson, of the fate of the application and I will advise the old man. A letter to him at this place or Jackson would remain forever at the post office without his being any the wiser. Your friend H.H. Talbot Jackson, Tennessee September 5th, 1837 I.L. Edwards, Esqr, Dear sir, enclosed I send you the affidavit of identity of PHILIP ANTHONY, a pensioner of the United States: his power of attorney to me to receive his pension or that part due from the 4th March 1835 to 4th September 1837- at the Pension Agency established in Jackson, Ten, and with all the necessary certifications the pension agent here has instructed me. I therefore request that you will direct Mr. John W. Campbell, the Pension agent here to pay over to me the amount due Mr. ANTHONY from 4th March 1835 up to 4th of this month. Please also to drop me a few lines at the same time you write to Mr. Campbell, Yours very respectfully, Samuel McClanahan A page attached to the pension application, dated February 9, 1916, and addressed to Mr. B. C. Dancer, describing PHILIP ANTHONY’s Revolution service, on a line labeled Remarks: gives his date of death as Nov. 4, 1838, and says: “He left a widow, but her name is not stated, and there is no other data on the family.” A separate sheet, attached, indicates that the widow applied for his remaining benefit of forty dollars in 1838, under an act of 1838, paid from Sept. 4th 1837, to 4th November, 1838, the date of his death, on the roll of the Jackson, TN Agency at the time of his death. Jackson was in Henderson County. In 1835, his pension agent was J.H. Talbot, in Lexington, West Tennessee rolls. On another page, the outside cover is signed by J. H. Talbot, of Lexington, TN to Hon. J. K. Polk of Columbia, TN. 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