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This day appeared
in open court Robert Stewart and filed his declaration for the purpose of
obtaining a pension with a schedule of his estate to wit ordered, which was
subscribed and sworn to which said declaration and schedule are in the words
and figures following to wit; District of West Tennessee on this 8th day of
October 1820 personally appeared in open court being the Circuit Court of
Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Williamson and a Court of
record by Act of Assembly of the state of Tennessee, Robert Stewart, aged
seventy four years a resident of Williamson County and said District who
being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he
served in the Revolutionary War as follows; that he, the said Robert Stewart
entered the service on the 12th day of January, 1777 in the state of
Maryland in the company of Captain Daniel Dorsey in the fourth regiment
commanded by Col. Calvit Wall and Lieutenant Col. Samuel Smith and in the
Maryland Continental Line. His original declaration heard date as well as he
recollects is the 18th day of July 1818 and he has heretofore received his
Pension, and the number of his certificate as it appears from the back
number 7419, that he was in the following battles; Staten Island,
Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Stony Point and at Camden (where he was
taken prisoner and carried to Charleston, South Carolina and put on board an
Old Bess which lay at anchor in Cooper river. He was exchanged about three
months afterwards and then joined the army at Cheraw[?] Hills in North
Carolina (General Green then in command) at the Cowpens and lastly at
Guilford Courthouse. He was discharged on the 20th December, 1780 by order
of Colonel C. Hall in Frederick Town, Maryland after the close of the
Revolutionary War.
State of Tennessee and in pursuance to an Act of Congress on first May, 1820
I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on
the first day of March, 1818. And that I have not since that time by gift,
sale or any manner dispersed with intent thereby to diminish it so as to
bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled “ an Act
to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the
United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18th day of March,
1818 and that I have not nor had any person in trust for me or property and
securities contract, in debt due to me nor have I any income other than what
is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed: one cow
worth $15.00, household furniture, $1.50.
[signed] Robert Stewart X his mark.
Subscribed and sworn to in open court, 8th October, 1820.
[signed] Thos Hardimon, clerk
He the said Robert Stewart further states that he is infirm now and cannot
support himself by his labors and says he has a wife, fifty odd years old,
has three daughters, the eldest 33 years of age who is his and goes by the
name of Mary, the second 25 years of age by the name of Peggy and the other
about 18 years of age by the name of Patsy and also one boy about 15 years
of age by the name of James, all of which contribute very little to his
support in life. Says he lives in a small house on the land of one Nathaniel
W. Forbes. Says he was by occupation a farmer but is not now able to attend
to any business.
Sworn to and declared in open court on the 6th day of October 1820.
[signed] Robert Stewart X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed in open court on the 6th day of October 1820.
[signed] Thos Hardimon, clerk
Which being heard and understood on the examination of testimony it is
considered by the Court that the total amount of value of the property
exhibited on said schedule is worth the sum of sixteen dollars and fifty
cents and no more and it is also appears to the Court that the said
declarant and witness are worthy of credit.
[I, Thomas] Hardimon clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of
Williamson County in said state do hereby certify that the foregoing oath
and the schedule arranged and copied from the records of said Court. I do
further certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount
in ratio of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is sixteen
dollars and fifty cents. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said Court on this 23rd day of December, 1820.
[signed] Thos Hardimon, Clerk
Of the Court of Pleas and Quarter
Sessions for Williamson County
To the Honorable J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, the petition of Robert
Stewart states that on the 12th day of January in the year 1777, he enlisted
as a soldier in the Maryland Continental Line for three years under Capt.
Daniel Dorsey in the fourth regiment commanded by Col. Hall and by Lieut.
Col. Samuel Smith and served under that enlistment two years and eight
months. Then a fresh bounty of one hundred dollars was offered to such as
would enlist during the Revolutionary War, your petitioner accepted it and
enlisted during the war and served the United States faithfully and
continually during the war and after the end of the war he was discharged
and received his discharge and sold all that he was entitled to from his
being a soldier as aforesaid to a certain Aldridge and delivered to him his
discharge to enable him to get petitioner’s pay and he does not know where
it is. Your petitioner was in the battle of Brandywine, in the battle of
Germantown, in the battle of Monmouth and at the taking of Stony Point under
Gen. Wayne. He was in the battle of Camden where Gale was defeated and there
was taken prisoner and remained a prisoner for three months, was exchanged
and was with the Americans at the battle of Guilford and in the battle of
the Cowpens and he was in many skirmishes. Your petitioner never has
received any pension from the United States nor from the state of Maryland
nor never has received any land or pay since he was discharged or anything
in lieu thereof except forty three dollars in goods which he got from said
Aldridge and he hereby relinquishes all claims to any pension he may be
entitled to under any law, except under the Act of Congress of the United
States of the 18th March, 1818. After the war he married and moved to Loudon
County, Virginia, remained there nine years, then removed to North Carolina
where he remained twenty years, then he removed to the state of Tennessee,
where he has resided several years and now lives in Williamson County in
Tennessee. He states that he is seventy one years old, has a family, is
poor, and unable to work. His eyesight has failed very much and he hears
badly. He possesses neither land, home, nor cow, and is in very reduced
circumstances and needs the aid of his country. He does not know of any
person in Tennessee who knew him in the army. He therefore prays that a
pension may be allowed to him pursuant to the said Act of Congress.
State of Tennessee to wit:
Personally appeared before me, Thomas Stuart one of the Judges of the
Circuit Court for the state of Tennessee, Robert Stewart and made oath that
the facts stated in the above petition are true. Sworn to and subscribed
before me this 10th day of July, 1818 in Williamson County in the state of
Tennessee.
[signed] Thos Stuart; Robert Stewart X his mark
State of Tennessee to wit:
This day personally appeared before me, Thomas Stuart one of the Judges of
the Circuit Court for the state of Tennessee, Colonel David Craig who having
been first duly sworn makes oath that Robert Stewart, the above petitioner
has lived in his neighborhood for six or seven years and his general
reputation has been that he is a man of truth and honesty. That for a year
or two past he has been particularly and personally…[end of document.]
Mary Wood August 31, 1936
Woodbury, Tennessee Robert Stewart
S.39089
Dear Madam:
Reference to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record
of Robert Stewart, who was pensioned April 27, 1819, and died in Williamson
County, Tennessee.
The record of Robert Stewart is given herein as found in Pension Claim
S.39089, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
Robert Stewart enlisted January 12, 1777, in and for three years as private
in Captain Daniel Dorsey’s company, Colonel C. Hall’s fourth Maryland
regiment, served until November 1, 1780, when he reenlisted for the duration
of the war and was discharged December 20, 1783, in Frederick Town,
Maryland, by order of Colonel C. Hall. During his service he was in the
battles of Staten Island, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, the taking of
Stony Point, the battle of Camden (Gate’s defeat) where he was taken
prisoner, carried to Charleston, South Carolina and held captive on board
the “Old Bess”, which lay at anchor in Cooper River, was exchanged in about
three months and joined the army at Cheraw Hills in ‘Carolina’ and was in
the battles of Cowpens and Guilford.
After the war, the soldier married (date not shown) and moved to Loudon
County, Virginia, remained nine years, then moved to North Carolina and
remained twenty years, then moved to Tennessee.
Robert Stewart was allowed pension on his application executed July 18,
1818, at which time he resided in Williamson County, Tennessee, where he had
resided six or seven years. He was then aged seventy one years; date and
place of his birth and the names of his parents not shown.
In 1820, the soldier stated that his wife was “fifty odd years old”, but he
did not give her name, nor the date and place of their marriage. Robert
Stewart had three daughters and one son living at home in 1820, shown as
follows: Mary, aged 33 years, Peggy, aged 25 years, Patsy, aged 18 years and
James, aged about 15 years. There are no further data regarding his
children.
One Thomas Stuart of Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee in 1818, was
then one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Tennessee, no relationship to
Robert Stewart shown.
In order to obtain the data of the last payment of pension, name of person
paid and possibly, the date of death of Robert Stewart, you should apply to
the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this
city and cite the following:
Robert Stewart
Certificate number 9919
Issued April 27, 1819
Rate $8.00 per month
Commenced July 18, 1818
Act of March 18, 1818
Tennessee (West) Agency
Very Truly Yours,
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
To the Administrator
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