Isaac Perkins: Revolutionary War Pension Application File, Part 9

"Battle of Eutaw Springs," engraved abt. 1859
South Carolina, September 8, 1781
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Update: The North Carolina Continentals

The last section I read of this book was Chapter 18, Eutaw Springs.

There seems to have been several changes in command for the 2nd North Carolina Regiment. I'm hoping to find another source that can elaborate on where these men were during the battle and what their contributions were. Till then, I'll have to set my notes next to the reading and see if I can make any connections.

Nearing the end of this file

We've come to the last few documents of Isaac Perkins' pension file. One might think that this is the end; however, it is just the beginning. After the documents are transcribed, in order for them to be purposeful in building Perkins' story line, they must be abstracted and the details put into a chronology.

But first, let's take a look at the last three images in the record set.

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Isaac Perkins: Image 33/35
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REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

Under the act, entitled, "An Act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15 May 1828.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT

24 Dec 1828

The annex paper relating to the claim of Isaac Perkins under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether it appears, by any records in the War Department, that the Claimant has received, or is entitled to receive, the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution.

R. Rush

The Hon. Secretary of War

War Depart.

Bounty Land Office

The records of this office to not show that Isaac Perkins of the North Carolina line ever received or is entitled to bounty land in the United States.

Robert Taylor

27 Decr 1828

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For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an "Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th May 1828. I Isaac Perkins of the County of Craven and the State of North Carolina do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution for three years or and for and during the war and continued in its Service until its termination; at which period I was a private in Captain Clement Hall's company in the second regiment of the North Carolina line.--- And I also declare and that I afterwards or was entitled to under a resolve of Congress passed the 15th May 1778.---And I further declare that I was not on the 15th day of March 1828 on the Pension List of the United States.

Sworn to before me                                                  his

Geo. A. Hall, J.P.                                             Isaac   X   Perkins

                                                                                     mark

Before me Geo. A. Hall, a Justice of the Peace of the County of Craven and State of North Carolina personally appeared Thomas H. Daves and John R. Good of the Said County who did Severally make oath that Isaac Perkins by whom the forgoing declarations was Subscribed is generally reputed & believed to have been a private in the Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated.----

Witness my hand this ninth day of August 1828.

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Geo. A. Hall, J.P.

[Handwritten on the back of the preceding document]

I James G. Stanly Clerk of the Court of the County of Craven in the State of North Carolina do certify that George A. Hall Esq before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer oaths. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 13th day of August One t in the year One thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.

J.G. Stanly C.C.

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I suppose it would have been more beneficial time-wise for me to have abstracted each record immediately after transcribing it. Hindsight, they say, is always 20/20. So my next task will be to go back over the documents and abstract them. And once that is completed, I will begin a chronology of Isaac Perkins' life events.