Return to Currituck Co.
Revolutionary War Pension Record
of
Joshua Ball
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North Carolina 17.897 Joshua Ball Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 44 Dollars 22 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831. Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of June '33 and sent [to] Hon. W.B. Shepard, Elizabeth City, N.C. Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 88.44 {Revolutionary Claim} Recorded by Wm. Miller, Clerk |
| State of North
Carolina Currituck County On this 29th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before Caleb Etheridge, Benjamin T. Simmons, John B. Jones and William Bray, Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County and state aforesaid, now setting Joshua Ball a citizen of said county of Currituck and State of North Carolina of the age of seventy three years who being first sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832. He says he was drafted in Currituck as a soldier in Captain William Russells company in March 1779 and ordered to South Carolina and the company was marched near Edenton North Carolina and then heard that the enemy was at Great Bridge Virginia whereupon we were ordered to Virginia where we arrived in a few days and remained stationed at North West in said state untill the latter part of August in that year when we marched into Currituck, N.C. and there the whole company were discharged but no written discharges were given nor has he any documentary evidence to prove his service. He further says that in the month of March 1780 he was drafted to go to South Carolina in Captain Alexander Whitehall's Company, Colonel Samuel Jarvis Regiment, the company was marched to the western part of the state of North Carolina and joined by General Sumners (?) Company or Army at the time of Gates defeat remaining in the western part of North Carolina untill discharged on the Yadkin River by Colonel Owin on the 23rd of October 1780 and that he has his discharge yet in his possession. He further states he can prove the first lower(?) of his duty above mentioned by Jesse Perry and the last above mentioned by Thomas Jarvis then a lieutenant in Whitehalls Company. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. |
| We Edward
Hardy a clergyman residing in Currituck County and State of North
Carolina and Foster Jarvis of the same place do hereby certify that
we are well acquainted with Joshua Ball who has subscribed and sworn
to the above Declaration, that we believe him to be of the age of seventy
three years, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he
resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that
opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid. (signed) Edwd. Hardy (signed) Foster Jarvis
Thomas Jarvis and Jesse Perry maketh oath that they are well
acquainted with Joshua Ball who hath subscribed and sworn to the
above Declaration and they know that he performed the service stated to be
in the knowledge of these affieants [sic]. And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certify that it |
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that Edward Hardy and Foster Jarvis who has signed the
preceding certificate an both clergymen and creditable persons and that
their statement is entitled to credit. I Spence Hall clerk of the
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Currituck and State of
North Carolina, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joshua
Ball for a pension. A corrected certificate of the Clerk in the former Declaration..... |
| The amended
Declaration of Joshua Ball made to obtain a Pension for his services
in the Revolutionary War. In making his statement more particularly
than he has done by his Declaration of the 29th of August 1832,
he says that he was first drafted as early as the first of March 1779 and he
thinks the drafts was in the latter part of February of that year and should
have stated the fact to be so but for fear of making his service
longer than it was & he chose rather to make it less rather than more.
He further states that he knows that he returned (?) to the place of rondevous (?) under the officer before named, as early as the fifth day of
March 1779 & he believes it was as early as the first of March of that year
but he cannot from defect of memory state the identical day. He
further states that he continued in the service untill the 20th
of August of that year & rather thinks he continued a few days longer, &
that he was then discharged but from the length of time & his age and
defective memory it is impossible for him to name the very day of his
discharge. He further states that he entered the service again as
early as the tenth of March 1780 & he believes it was as early as the first
of March 1780 but is here again compelled to decline stating the precise day
from the cause he assigned above & he says he was discharged as before
stated on the 23d of October 1780 & his discharge where with
inclosed [sic]. (signed) Joshua Ball
Personally appeared in open Court Joshua Ball and subscribed & sworn to the
above statement. |
| State of North
Carolina Currituck County We Caleb Etheridge, John B. Jones, William Bray and Benjamin T. Simmons, Esqrs. Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that Thomas Jarvis and Jesse Perry the witnesses named in the former Declaration to which this is annexed are credible persons and are entitled to be believed. I Spence Hall clerk of the County Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the
County of Currituck and State of North Carolina, do hereby certify that the
above contains a copy of the amended proceedings in the manner manner of the application of Joshua Ball for a
Pension. |
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I Spence Hall clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the
County of Currituck and State of North Carolina, do hereby certify that the
foregoing contains a true copy of the original amended proceedings of said
Court in that matters of the application of Joshua Ball for a
Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this the 28th day of May A.D. 1833. S. Hall, CCC |
| J.L. Edwards,
Esqr. Com'r. of Pen's. Washington City Dear Sir, Very respectfully |
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