Isaac Perkins: Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Application File, Part 10

In Summary: Abstracts of Isaac Perkins' Pension File
Part 1:
Isaac Perkins: Image 1/35: Cover page

N.C., File: S41953

Image 2/35: Isaac Perkins: Service Record

Enlisted 16 May 1777/8 for a 3-year term (2 sources with conflicting year of enlistment)
Officers: Captain Stevenson and Colonel Sheppard; Captain Clement Hall and Colonel John Patton
Private, 2nd Regiment, North Carolina line
On N.C. Roll: Pension: $8 per month, beginning 9 June 1818
Certificate of Pension: 30 Nov 1818
Amount due on 4 Mar 1830: $18.06
Died May 23, 1830

Muster Roll: Captain Clement Hall's 2nd North Carolina Batalion

Served at White Plains, New York
Line 20: "Isaac Purkins": enlisted 16 May '77, term: 3 years
Served with Martin Black: line 21: enlisted 16 May '77, term: 3 years
Served with Isaac Carter: line 47: enlisted poss. 28 Oct '76
Served with John Carter: line 62; enlisted poss. 1 Jan 1777: tern: "1", for the duration of the war

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Quantitative estate appraisal
Land Deed: Contained within pension file, a handwritten transcription from the original handwritten copy found at Craven County Register of Deeds
Isaac Perkins Estate File (1834), 10 pages, FamilySearch.org

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Served 10th North Carolina Regiment under Captain Silas Sears
1777: Marched to Valley Forge, PA
Redistribution of soldiers moved him into the 2nd Regiment under Colonel Patten and Captain Clement Hall
Served with 2nd Regiment in its Northern Campaign
Marched to Charleston, SC and taken prisoner
Escaped and served in NC militia till end of war
Served a total of over three years, no discharge given
Comrade at arms: Osborne Clark
Referred to his wife, Deborah, age 66 in the year 1829

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Land Indenture: From Isaac Perkins to his brother-in-law, Isaac Carter
For the sum of $50.00
South Side Neuse River, at Head of Handcock's Creek
150 Acres
Originally granted to Perkins by patent

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