GONZALES CO. TX - TEXAS REVOLUTION PENSIONS: WINFIELD ALFORD Contributed by: Joan Renfrow ******************************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ******************************************************************************** TEXAS REVOLUTION PENSION CLAIM APPLICATION Winfield Alford The State of Texas County of Gonzales To the Hon. Comptroller of said State of Texas – You petitioner Winfield Alford now a citizen of the County of Gonzales said State, aged Sixty Seven years, States that he was a private soldier in the revolution which separated Texas from Mexico in A.D. 1835 & 1836 – That in the fall of A.D. 1833, petitioner sent from his residence then near San Phillippe, Austin County and joined a company near San Antonio under command of Randal Jones – Petitioner says he entered service in said company as a soldier against the Mexican troops in San Antonio under Genl Cos, till the said company was disbanded whereupon petitioner without leaving San Antonio or vicinity, joined a company commanded by Travis at San Antonio in the campaign against the Mexican Genl. Cos and entered services in said command in A.D. 1835 as said San Antonio De Bexar – That afterwards prior to the battle of San Jacinto, he was under command of Capt. H. N. Cleveland, Capt. McNutt having been made a Major – that he was after the battle at San Jacinto, part of the garrison stationed at Victoria Texas – Wherefore he prays that after due investigation of the facts here in stated, he may be ajudged entitled to a certificate enabling him thereupon to draw a pension annually for services in accordance with the Pension Act approved 13th day of Augt 1870 – and do hereby appoint, Everett Lewis my agent & attorney for me to receive the same. Winfield Alford ********************************** The State of Texas County of Gonzales Before me a Notary Public duly commissioned & qualified in afore said County, personally appeared this day, Dr. Thomas Polk to me known well as a truthful respectable citizen of said County. Who after being sworn by me on his oath says – That he knew the applicant for a pension under the act approved 13th day of August AD 1870 Winfield Alford in the year AD 1833 – That affiant and W. Alford said then resided in Austin County and from there went together and first joined a company at the Cibolo Creek near San Antonio under command of Capt. Randall Jones in the fall of 1835 in the campaign against the Mexican forces at San Antonio under command of Genl. Cos – That after said Company disbanded affiant joined the command of Travis, and he does not know whether said Alford joined the same company or one under a different Capt. but he knows that said Alford did join another company after Capt. Jones’ was broken up – and was in said service at San Antonio in the fall of AD 1835 – And affiant thinks that said Alford was in said company commanded by said Travis. This affiant was in the said campaighn till the capture of the said Mexican troops in San Antonio in 1835 – in which seige, B. R. Milam was killed – that said Winfield Alford may have continued in the Revolutionary Army of Texas but affiant does not know this fact of his own knowledge – Affiant says that the applicant W. Alford is the same person above mentioned, and now resides in Gonzales County Texas – And is Sixty five or Seventy years of age. And that he believes said W. Alford justly entitled to a pension for service, under the pension Act approved August 13th AD 1870. Thos Polk Sworn to & subscribed before me this the 29th day of September 1870 to which I certify under my hand & Notarial Seal W. V. Collins J.P. & Notary Public G.C. ********************************** State of Texas County of Gonzales Winfield Alford of said County and State personally appeared before me the undersign authority who being duly sworn according to Law declares that he is the identical Winfield Alford who was a private in Capt. W. B. Travis Company of the army of Texas in the year AD 1835 and that while in said Company he participated in the battles at the Old Mill & at Conception near San Antonio in the said year AD 1835 and affiant further says he was born in the County of Franklin in State of North Caroline that he is Seventy One years of age and that he imigrated to the State of Texas in the year AD 1832. And affiant further declares that he is the identical Winfield Alford who received a Bounty Warrant of Land for Military service rendered between January 1832 and the 15 day of October 1836 Winfield Alford (his X mark) Subscribed & sworn to before me to which as Clerk of the District Court of Gonzales County I certify under my hand & official Seal June 22nd 1874 F. Chanault Clk C.C.G.C. ********************************** Contributor’s Note: Other items included in this file are: Affidavit of Identity: Major T. S. Lee – Gonzales Co. also mentions that Alford was a participant in the Battle of Conception in 1835. dtd: 8/13/1870 Letter from Attorney, Everett Lewis Affidavit of Identity: John Burleson of Travis Co. mentions that Alford was a fellow participant at the Seige of Bexar in 1835. Notice of Suspension (not dated) Letter dated 5/29/1874 from Miller & Sayers, Attorneys in Gonzales, requesting information as to why the pension for Alford has been suspended. Letter dated 6/22/1874 from Miller & Sayers, Attorneys in Gonzales, requesting information as to why the pension for Alford has been suspended. Affidavit of Identity: T. J. Allcorn of Washington County, Texas mentions that he served in the same company under Travis and was in the same battles as Alford. Affidavit of residence and the status of living, of Winfield Alford for the approval of pension. dtd: 7/1/1874 Pension Claim No. 1135 for Winfield Alford of Gonzales County was approved August 5th, 1874 and was paid $250.00