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Be it remembered
that a Court begun and held at the Courthouse in the town of Franklin,
County and State aforesaid on the sixth day being the first Monday in
August, the year of our Lord 1832. Thomas Stuart one of the judges of the
Circuit Courts of Law and Equity in said state being present presiding as
judge on this the 5th day of September in the year aforesaid personally
appeared in open court Roger Mallory, and making the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the seventh day
of June 1832, said Roger Mallory being a resident of the county and state
above written being 77 years old last May, who being first duly sworn
according to law doth make on his oath the following declaration.
That he was born on the 12th day of May 1755. That he entered the service of
the United States under the following named officers and served as herein
after stated. That some time in October 1775 by an order of Colonel Roe
Cooper of Elizabeth City County, State of Virginia, he being then a resident
of said county and state was ordered out with the troops to attack or take a
party of British then in a vessel on the Back[?] River. The vessel having
been driven ashore by a storm, the crew had deserted the vessel. That the
troops of whom he was one pursued them and took the whole of the crew, the
Captain excepted, being 13 in number. When this was done Colonel Roe Cooper
and Captain James Barron commanded. In about a week after, the town of
Hampton in the aforesaid county was attacked by five British vessels. To
defend the town the neighboring militia were ordered out by virtue of an
order of the aforesaid Colonel Roe Cooper, among whom he was one. An
engagement took place in which we took[?] five[?] of the British vessels and
the crew, the Captain excepted who jumped overboard and swam to the opposite
side – he the hotiel[?]. Woodford was commander at this engagement together
with Captain Bluford or Buford of the Regulars. This term of service
continued about a month.
Some time in the spring or summer he was drafted, then residing in York
County, Virginia, and during that summer he performed three several tours of
about two weeks. That he first marched to Williamsburg, thence to Yorktown
where the troops began the entrenchments upon which Com. Wallace finally
built. At York Col. Carrington of the Regulars commanded us, James Shields
was our Capt.
In the year 1779, then residing in King William County, Virginia, he was
drafted in Captain Christopher Tompkins’ Company of militia. Drury
Ragsdale,1st Lieutenant and Henry Fleet, 2nd Lieutenant, and on the 10th May
he was called on to join the army at Williamsburg, where he went. There[?]
Gen. Porterfield commanded. Thence we were ordered to York, where Gen.
Thomas Nelson of the militia commanded. Thence we were ordered to Hampton
where Colonel Geude[?] of the Regulars commanded. Thence we were again
ordered to return to York where we were discharged by General Nelson. This
term of service lasted three weeks.
In the latter part of the year 1779, he removed to Northumberland County,
Virginia, immediately on the Chesapeake Bay. Early in the spring of 1780,
standing in the first division of the militia in his company, he was drafted
in Capt. George Ingram’s company of militia, Col. Thomas Gaskins being Col.
of the county. During this year he served at different times, at least two
months guarding the creeks, rivers and the inhabitants near thereto from the
British and Tories.
In the spring of 1781 he served as a guard to the river inhabitants & etc.
for about a month, Ingram being his Captain and John Sidner[?], Lieutenant.
In July 1781 being still in the first division in his county he was ordered
out to Glocester and being sick he hired one John Kent as his substitute
whom he paid two hundred dollars and several articles of clothing. His
substitute remained in the service till the […?] at York. From the first of
July 1781, tho he had a substitute serving in his stead he was requested by
Colonel Gaskins to keep a horse and keep guard and look out for British
vessels and danger of any kind and give him the information and the alarm to
the county around. This service was preformed until September following when
he enlisted under Captain John Tracy for one year to collect for and drive
cattle and beeves to the army. In this service he continued until the
capitulation of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, after which he returned home
and he never received a discharge. He never received to the amount of one
cent for all his services.
He was born on the 12th day of May 1755 in the County of King William, state
of Virginia. That he resided as is above stated until the close of the war.
In the year 1783 he removed to Frederick County, Virginia, where he resided
one year, then he removed to Rockingham County, Virginia, where he resided
31 years, then he removed to Botetcourt County, Va., where he resided about
11 years, and in 1825 he removed to this county, Williamson, Tennessee,
where he has ever since resided.
He has seen the record of his age in his father’s bible, but he never […?]
it, and consequently forget not[?]. He was acquainted with his brother
Philip Mallory, who was first a Lieutenant and afterward a Captain with
Colonel Holt Richardson, with James Quarles, Major, with Henry Quarles,
Captain, with Colonel Benjamin Temple of the Horse, with Captain Giles
Rains; these were Regular officers, all from King William County, Virginia,
and with Thomas Pemberton, Captain of the Horse. He has no documentary
evidence whereby to prove his services, nor does he know of any person
residing in this state by whom he can prove his services.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except
the present and declares his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency
of any state.
[signed] Roger Mallory X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed in open court, 5th Sept. 1832.
[signed] Preston Hay, Clk. & etc.
I, John Mallory, aged 52 years, residing in Williamson County, State of
Tennessee, being the son, and the only son residing in this state, of the
said Roger Mallory, who has sworn to and subscribed to the above declaration
hereby certify that from my earliest recollection I have repeatedly heard my
father at different times rehearse, more or less in detail, the service and
tours of the facts set forth in his above declaration and that I fully
believe all the statements made in said declaration to be true.
[signed] John Mallory
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[signed] P. Hay, Clk. & etc.
The undersigned citizens of Williamson County, State of Tennessee, certify
that for many years we have been acquainted with Roger Mallory, an applicant
for pension under the Act of Congress of 1832, and the we are and have been
well acquainted with the John Mallory whose statement accompanies the
declaration of the said Roger, and that from the character of the said Roger
and John Mallory, as men of integrity, truth and honesty, we have complete
confidence in their statements, and place entire confidence in the truth of
their several statements. Given under our hands this 5th day of September
1832.
[signed] R.P. Currin; Robert Davis; Thos. Hardeman; G.W. Cheary[?]; Robert
C. Foster Sr.[?]
Sworn to and subscribed in open court, 5th Sept. 1832.
[signed] P. Hay, Clk. & etc.
April 3, 1947
Mrs. Jessie Mallory DeLamar
1908-10th Avenue
Columbia, Georgia
Dear Madam:
The data pertaining to Roger Mallory furnished herein was obtained from
papers on file in Pension Claim S.1684, based upon his service in the War of
the Revolution.
Roger Mallory was born May 12, 1755(old style) in King William County,
Virginia. The names of his parents were not given.
While a resident of Elizabeth City County, Virginia, near Hampton, he served
in October 1775, about one week in Captain James Barron’s Company, Colonel
Roe Cooper’s regiment, was in an engagement with the British and assisted in
capturing about thirteen of them; and in a few days served about one week in
Captain Buford’s Company, Colonel Woodford’s regiment, was in an engagement
with the British in defense of the town of Hampton. He moved to York County,
Virginia in 1777 and served during that year, three tours of two weeks each,
a part of the time in Captain James Shield’s company, Colonel Paul
Carrington’s regiment. He moved in 1779 to King William County under
Colonels John Hickman and Francis Gande. He moved in the fall of 1779 to
Northumberland County, Virginia and from the spring of that year served at
various times in Captain George Ingram’s company, Colonel Thomas Gaskins’
regiment, guarding the inhabitants from the British and Tories; in the
spring of 1781 he served one month under same officers, and from some time
in September, 1781 until the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown in Captain
John Tracy’s company. His service was as a private and with the Virginia
troops.
The soldier, Roger Mallory, moved in 1783 from Northumberland County to
Frederick County, Virginia and lived there one year and moved to Rockingham
County Virginia, where he lived about 31 years, then to Botetourt County,
Virginia and in 1825 moved to Williamson County, Tennessee.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 5, 1832, then a
resident of said Williamson County.
John Mallory, son of the soldier was 52 years old in 1832 and living in
Williamson County, Tennessee. He then stated that he was the only son living
in that state at that time. The name of the soldier’s wife was not given and
there are no further data relative to children.
Reference was made to soldier’s brothers; James, Francis and Philip Mallory;
Francis and Philip were officers in the War of Revolution.
In order to obtain the date of the last payment of pension ….
Very Truly Yours,
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
To the Administrator
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