Revolutionary War Pension File of Samuel Weaver - b. Nov 26, 1755 in VA d. Nov 14, 1842 Laurel Co., KY - Personal - http://maxpages.com/generations/Samuel_Weaver_Rev_War

I ordered the Revolutionary Pension file on Samuel Weaver many years ago from a gentleman who made regular trips to Washington, D.C. primarily to copy files. This is not the first time I have transcribed this file, the last copy was lost when I had a hard drive failure. There are parts of this file that I can not read due to the fact that the writing is just to faint to read, there are also parts of this file that I can't read simply because of the handwriting of the times. Because of the time factor I am going to go ahead and post it online now, but my sweet husband (who is much better at reading the handwriting) is going to go thro it himself and I will be updating this page, I just don't know when. The majority of the file is ok, and in my opinion the important parts are all there, but even still, I will be updating it, I just can't tell you when. As with the other pension files on this site, the page numbers are for my reference only. If someone would like a copy of the pension file, please email me and we'll make arrangements :), to the best of my knoweldge the file is complete, but as I said, I didn't not copy it myself, so I can't be 100% sure.

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Weaver, Samuel W. 8993
Mary

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Paid at the Treasury under
the act of April 6" 1836 from
4th Sept 1840 to Sep 4 1841
Agt Notified Aug 13th 1842
???? Hon. John White
Dec 30, 42
Set to Hon John White
June 8, 1844

31725
Kentucky
Samuel Weaver
of Laurel in the State of Kentucky
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Camplin of the ??? commanded
by Col Hastin in the N.C. Mila
line for 6 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
a the rate of 20 Dollars - cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of Mar
1840 & sent to Hon. John White, H. Rep.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1840 $180.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep 40 10.00
$190.00
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by DM Lundy(?) Clerk,
Book E2 Vol. 7 page 52

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Laurel County State of KY
On this 15 day of April 1836, personally appeared before Abraham Huntes(?), a Justice of the peace for Laurel County ap(?) Samuel Weaver a resident Citizen of said County, now aged (born in 1755) who ????? ????? ??????? ??????? according to law doth on this oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of this act of Congress ????? June 7, 1832. That a few weeks before the fall of Charleston in South Carolina in the Revolutionary War, in the state of North Carolina, Surry County he was drafted to serve for three months, and was placed under Jacob Camplin (or ????? ?????? Camplin) as Capt and they marched from there towards Charleston in S.C. but on the way he was detached from the Company to ????? ???? baggage waggoner(?)

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his Capt. ap marched on to Charleston and in the siege was wounded in the knee - upon his return he was selected to return with him home to Surry County and wait upon him and he did so and at the end of his term of service (2 months) he was discharged by Capt. Camplin in Surry County - his discharge was in writing but which he has long since lost. He does not now recollect the name of his Col or Maj neither does he remember his Lt or Ensign. ?? the Company he belonged to he remembers the name of Matthew Peggs - he recollects his name particularly as he was told by his Capt., that during the siege at Charleston he stopped shooting and lit his pipe. Four days after his discharge he volunteered for three months in the Militia

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of said state in Surry County for three months under Capt. Bostic (?) from there he was marched to Hilsborough in N.C. the place of reudivous, from there he was marched to join Genl Marion in S.C. After remained with Marion a little upwards of four ????? he was marched back to N.C. and when his time expired (3 months) and but a short distance from the Movavian ?????? he ???? VA(?) a written discharge from his Capt ap(?) - which he has long since lost - He does not remember the name of his Let or Majors. After his return but after serving under Hasting as will be explained he enrolled himself as a minute man for and during the war under Capt Camplin aforesaid and he was repeatedly called out under him in scouting parties against

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the Tories - this ???? he served(?) ??? this(?) engagement was almost every month, and some times after(?) during the war, near three years, or perhaps a little upwards during this time he performed ?? service in N.C. on the Yakin (?) broad River - deep(?) river and Haw(?) river. On these trips he got several discharges, which he has lost. The Let or Majors if any he does not remember. Previous to this he volunteered and went in to VA and served a trip of between four and five weeks under Capt George Hastin(?) of Henry County, VA. This trip was to go to the Battle of Gilford(?) in N.C. but when they had reached the Battle ground in about ?????? miles, they

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meet the American troops retreating. ???? ????? happened he was on a ???? to VA at an Uncles near Hastin(?) - Whether he was a Capt or Col. he does not remember, but supposes he was a Col as he was the Commander and had near six or seven hundred men under him - He recd a discharge (long since lost) from Hastin and not including two weeks he entered the minute service as ap(?). For this trip he volunteered for no particular term, but served as long as was reg. He would further state that there were two men of his own name who were drafted as he understood, in his Muster(?) of N.C. one of them lived in Surry(?) Coty(?), the other he does not recollect in what county he lived, neither does he know in whose command they were in(???) but is understood that

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done of them desearted and joined the enemy at Savannah ???. He mentions this for fear it might be supposed he was the man. He would further state, that shortly after the close of the war he recd of Capt Camplin a written discharge for his services as a minute man as ap(?). After that he moved to Tennessee in Washington County and volunteered to serve an expedition under Capt John Wood, Under Col. Sevien (formerly God -of-Ten)?????? in the Chirikee Nation of Indians. The time he served he does not remember - but he remembers when they started rasen(??) ???? were not full enough to ?????, and when he returned corn was generally gathered and cribbed. During this trip a treaty was made with the Cherikees at Little River in Ten. He does not remember weather he got a discharge(?), but

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was marched home by his Capt and dismissed.

1st He was born in Cumberland County, VA, the year he has stated.
2. He has in his possession a record of his age.
3. He lived in Cumberland or Rockingham County VA when the Revolutionary commenced and when called into service he lived in Surry County, VA, since he lived in Ten and Kentucky, where he now lives.
4.The ?????? he entered the service he has described - he was always a private and upon his own account.
5. He recollect, during the service he save Gen. Washington and Genl. Francis Marion. He would state that a ?????? years; since he remembered his Col and Gens, but his memory is almost gone. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension

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(first three lines are not readable)
The reason why he has not applied sooner is that he had a ???????????? to have it said he was fed by the government and ??? ???? ??? ??? ???? ??? years he thought it hardly worth while to apply.

his mark X
Samuel Weaver

Laurel County KY
I Abraham Hunter(?) a Justice of the Peace for the afore said County (???), that on this day Samuel Weaver made oath before me to the foregoing petition according to law. I also certify that he is not able to attend court. I also certify that his memory is frail and ?????? impaired. I also certify that he is a man of good character and I have no doubt his statement is true.
Given under my hand this 15 day of April 1836
Abraham Hunter (?)

Laurel County, KY
This day Thomas Robertson, a preacher of the gospel, aged 65 years and a resident citizen of Laurel County ap(?) upon his oath disclaims(?)

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that he has known the aforesaid Samuel Weaver for many years and well acquainted with his general character, and (?) from (?) his general good ?????? he would implicitly rely upon him upon oath, and he has no doubt his statement ap(?) for a pension is true.
???? 13, 1837
Ths Robrnson

State of KY
Laurel County SS

Thomas Robertson the above this day subscribed & sworn to the above according to law. Given under my hand as a Justice of the Peace for the county ap(?)
Nov. 13, 18837
Abraham Hunter(?) JP

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State of Kentucky
Laurel County

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid Samuel Weaver aged eighty five this 26th of this month who being duly sworn deposeth(?) and saith that by reason of old age and the consequence laps of memory, he can not swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grades in the war of the Revolution ?????? ??????? months ??? ???? three(?) months as a volunteer and as a minute man upwards of two years, until the close of the war as a private under ?????
engagements and for such service I claim a pension. that he resides in Laurel County and has ever since the year 1814. As well as he can remember he will give a faithful history of his services and in ??????? he will state as to dates he not rely upon his memory, being so greatly(?) impaired(?) by age. He thinks about two months before the surrender of Charleston S. Carolina by General Lincoln, as he now thinks that was the name of the American Commander, he was drafted for three months in Surry County, N.Carolina & entered the service under ??????

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Camplin(?) as his Capt. who marched his company out in to the stretch of South Carolina within 15 or 16 miles of the City of Charleston, then besieged(?) and a call was made for men to say and guard baggage wagons and he was one of these, he supported(?) about thirty, but for what cause the baggage (??) was kept there at the time he can not say, but suppose(?) it was be cause(?) ???????? up(?) the ???????, and this(?) ????? after the city surrendered. His Capt (his Capt of the baggage wagons under whom he served he can not remember his name) arrived at this camp, and how he got from Charleston he does not know, but when he got to the baggage, he was shot in the ????, which he said he received during the siege, and then took him to assist him home and attend to him, which he did. Then(?) under much difficulty and troubles they wound being very sever. After getting back to the home of Capt. Camplin in Surrey County, N.C. Where he was after the next morning after getting(???) to his house, Capt Camplin told him to go home, his three months having expired. He went home to his fathers one & a half miles from his Capt and after remaining at home four days his father, Daniel

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Weaver a few days before his return had been drafted for three months as a private. As he had got attached(?) to the camp, and the ???? of ???? given to his mother to ???? with his father; and her(?) ?????? requiring his attention, he resolved to go himself (???? ???? ???? ???? for his father to march) if the officers would ???? receive him, he told this to his father and mother (his father was then within three or four months of muster free) but his father was preparing for the trip and said nothing in reply. He went to the court house ??????? In the 5th day after his return, in company where his father had been ordered to ?????????? and enter the service, where he straight ?????????? to an officer, where he??????? ??? the commander of his father, and told him he was his son, that he had been in the army, and wanted to be accepted in the room of his father as a volunteer - the officer whose name he can not

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remember, tho he has for year tried to do so, said I should be accepted in this room as his father, and seemed to much gratified - he was ?????? in the room of his father as a volunteer and his father discharged and went home. On the same day the gentleman who received(?) him(?) marched his company (he was called Capt(?)) and he now believes he lived in Salisbury, NC(??) to Salisbury, there in to the state of VA: as he now believes to protect Petersburg in VA from the British, but they did not reach there. Within 20 or 30 miles perhaps forty in VA they ????? as he now thinks between 500 & 1000 men of the American Army, on their march towards the south, the British having gone away but when he can't remember. When he meat them, they joined them, was marched back to NCarolina, and then he thinks to Gen Marion of South Carolina, but whether he met with Gen

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Marion in NC or SC he does not know, but he thinks it was ??? Pe ?? river or some of its waters. After meeting with Marion, they had several skirmishes with the Tories, he thinks three or four, all in the night except one the day ????? ????? was killed and five taken prisoner. He thinks in this days fight there was a Capt. Cunningham (under Capt. Faning(?) a Tory, to ???? to him Cunningham was taken(?)but he can not say positive. This battle took places he supposes about 10 miles from where they first joined Gen. Marion. This Capt who received him in the place of his father didn't march with the company from Surry(?) C.H. N.C., but the Company was put under a gentleman called Capt Mc .but he supposes it was a short

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way of calling his name proper(?) he was an Irishman, but his name he can not call to memory, he was the Capt that marched them in to VA & back to Genl. Marions ?? - After the skirmishes ?? Capt. Mc ?? was detached with his company to Salisbury, NC where he was put in a hospital to attend some wounded men and sick soldiers, where he stayed until his three months were out, when he was discharged at the end of his time he got a paper when discharged by some ????, but his name he does not remember, who had charge of hospital, who was acting as surgeon under a man called ?????. ?????? (a dutchman, high character as a surgeon) - during the times he was with Genl. Marion, a British Officer as he was told came into camp, but for what he does not know, he was washing & baking sweet potatoes on the coles - Genrl Marion stepped

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up with the British Officer and remarked he believed he would take breakfast, he ???? ???? of the request, pulled out his potatoes, wiped the ashes off with a dirty handkerchief, placed them on a pine long( which was all the provisions they had) and Genl Marion and the British Officer partook of them. His has been told by some, that this has been recorded in the life of Genrl as a dinner, but this was a breakfast.
After being discharged at Salisbury, NC he returned to his fathers in Surry, SC and remained a short time. Then (being set ???? by his father to ???? for clothing) he went in to ???? County, VA to ???? Uncle of his, when Let(?) George Hastings or perhaps Col. Hastings called for volunteers to go and meet the British under Lord Cornwallace then in N.C. five or 600, joined among(?)

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them he was one, but for no particular times. the Col marched them for with in to N.C. and got to Guilford(?), just at the close of the battle. they retreated several miles - next day he was sent back to help bury the dead. The third day after the battle Col Hastings marched his corps back to Henry Cty VA, where they all disbursed & went to there respective homes. he does not now remember where was his company officers. On this service he thinks his was ?????? some thing upwards of a month - he got no discharge. Shortly after getting back to Henry he received a letter from his first Capt Camplin in Surry County N.Carolina to return and see him & he would put(?) ?? better business then he had been doing. He returned to see Capt Camplin and enlisted under

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Capt Camplin as a minute man as then ???? for and during the war. Under him and men sometimes ordered by him, he was ??????? to the close of the war, on scouting parties, marched frequently at a distance some times believe 20, 20, 40, 50 and as high as sixty miles sometimes in VA and on the waters(?) of the Aoleim(?), and adjoing counties around Surry, to watch and ????? the people from the ravages of the Tories, and they ????? in ????? encounters they had with the Tories, but the number his memory fails him. Under this last engagement, he has no doubt he was in actual service upwards of two years. When he this(?) entered it was but a very short time after the battle of Guildford(?) N.C. When the war closed he got no discharge - ????? he thought of none (????)

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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the pension(???), and declares that he's not on the pension roll of the agency of any state or territory. He further declares that he lives ?????? the county seat of Laurel about nine(?) miles - he has not been ????? for ??? a seven years - and is unable to ??? them, he is so debilitated in body, that ?????? of his belly being broken???

The reason why this application was dated at this time, he will explain. Until about five or six years ago he was apposed to being dependent upon his country for support but about that time he filed ???? which as he told (??) was sent on to the main office but sent back for affidavits(??), but in some way(??) had been misplaced, he has been unable to ???? ???? unable this time (??). His

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wife Mary is now about 78 or 9 years of age very much afflicted and he feels it duty to ask for the assistance of his country.
Sworn ??????? to before this day of November 1839
His Mark
Saml Weaver

Sworn to the 18th ?????? in the printed form of the War Department ???????
1st I was born in (???) Cumberland County State of Virginia in 1755 - as my Register says.
2. I have a record of my age (made by my father now in my possession)
3. When called in to service I resided in Surry County, N. Carolina since that time I have lived in Tennessee, South Carolina and now live in Laurel County, Kentucky

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To the 4th He has explained the ???????? ???? the service.
To the 5. He has as far as his memory serves him states the officers as far as he now recalls, he does not remember now any of his ??????????? officers. The circumstances of his service he has explained as far as he can now remember.
6th As to his discharges and the manner of leaving the service he has ?????? as fully as he can remember, the discharges he got at the hospital he can not tell what has become it.?? For some(??) cause he never applied to Capt. Camplin for a discharge, being there?? illiterate, and not thinking they would be of any service to him & does not suppose he thought of getting them, or would be of any service to him after he had been ?????? in Continental army.(??)

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