Father's Sideshoots Part Two
Bruton/Thompson/Whitecotton Line
DAVID BRUTON--born Jan 1790, in South Carolina, died April 27 1869 (Webster Co MO), married Nancy Langford Feb 8, 1810. They resided but a short time in South Carolina; after their marriage they crossed the mountains by packhorse conveyance to Alabama; after a few years there, they went by boat to Tennessee and from there to Mississippi. After some little time there they moved to Webster Co MO, near the Devil's Den, July 8, 1841. He was a soldier of 1812. To them were born eleven children, Thomas, Benjamin, Dorcas, Hiram, Edia, Miles, Elizabeth, Tyrrell P, Clarinda, Jesse T, and David P.
Below we give a copy of a unique school contract, dated in 1826. The school was taught by David Bruton Sr, who afterward taught in Webster County when it was included in Greene County. The contract was as follows:
STATE OF TENNESSEE
McNairy County (misspelled Monary in document)
Article of Argeement
Made and agreed upon between David Bruton of the one part, and we the undersigned employers, witnesseth that the said Bruton doth obligate himself to an English School, the term of three months, and pay due attention five days in every week, keep good order in said school and learn the children put under him to read, write and the use of arithmetic if capable to receive the same, and any young man entering or entered to said school and refusing to submit to the rules of the school shall quit the school and pay for the time entered. And we, the subscribed employers, on our parts do promis to pay the said Bruton two dollars and twenty five cents per scholar for his services, board the said Bruton during the three months, one half to be paid in good seed cotton at the market price, and the other part to be paid in good pork at the market price, to be paid by the 25th of December next, to be delivered at Charles Spencer's. In witness thereof, we have set our hands and annexed the number of scholars each July 5, 1826.
Charles S. Spencer 2
Mikeil R. Boolt 2
George Reaves 1
James Colly 1
Joseph Clark 3
Samuel Redden 1
James Stewart 1
Wm Smith 1
Josiah Courtice 1
The original copy of this contract is in the possession of H.P. Bruton, Fordland, MO
Marriages Performed by Benjamin B Bruton,
m. g. 1875--1900 Christian Co MO
Thomas Gann & Mary Hood, Dec 16, 1875
Joseph A Hughes (Ben's wife Siloama's 1st cousin) & Elizabeth Burkhart, March? May? 4, 1876
John L. Johnson & Jane Ann Griffith, Sept 15, 1877
D J Thompson (Daniel Jackson? Siloama Bruton's 1st cousin) & Rosann Killough Dec 15, 1877
Isaac Shipman & Mary Robison, Sept 25, 1877
Archibald Bradley & Eliza Scott, Jan 22, 1880 (Eliza was B B Bruton's first cousin)
Joseph A Hacker & Eliza Jane (Melton) Wilkerson, Sept 1881
John Weatherman & Martha A Larkin, April 3, 1882
John Lemmon & S A Clinebell, Feb 27, 1883
John H Smith & Rose Holmes April 27 1883
Samuel Smith & Hattie Mauppin May 24, 1883
Horace Johnson & Susan Lenox Aug 25, 1885
R W Grayhan & Mary Lenox Sept 6, 1885
Samuel A Clark & Eliza Bradley Oct 18, 1885
W W Fain & Nancy J Nix, Feb 4, 1885
Thomas Swiers & Cidney Whitacre, Feb 5, 1889
Brannich Davis & Lucinda Johnson Oct 19, 1895
J A Harvill & Julia Hubbard June 20, 1895
David Davis & Mary Johnson Aug 4, 1895
S F Palmer & Zadie Daugherty Nov 1, 1896
Henry Schatt & Nancy J Daugherty Dec 27, 1896
Shirley Daugherty (male) & Rosa Duke, May 21, 1896 (B B Bruton listed as elder)
William K Gann & Margaret M Butler July 1, 1897
H M Gilliam (m) & N E Douglas (f) May 29. 1898
Andrew Holt & Emma Friend Oce 13, 1898
Amos M Johnson & Ermena Bray Dec 27, 1898
John Bilyeu & Minnie Hedgepeth Feb 9, 1899
N W Parrott & Mattie E Schafer March 2. 1899
Frank Jackson & Vadie Bliss March 19, 1899
W A Farthing & Lola Roper July 7, 1899
Flemon Sellars & Dovie Garrison Oct 8, 1899
James A Nelson & Mattie Bray June 17, 1900
THANKS (AGAIN!) TO MABEL PHILIPS OF THE CHRISTIAN CO LIBRARY FOR HER HELP IN COMPILING THIS LIST OF COUPLES FROM CHRISTIAN CO.
Bios of Isaac Avery Thompson &
George W Thompson from book Chadwick Then & Now compiled
by the Chadwick MO Museum in 1980s
(notes in blue are mine--Betty T)
George W Thompson & Sarah Jackson Bledsoe
George and Sarah Jackson Bledsoe Thompson spent more that forty years on the 80 acre farm now owned by John & Jane Hershey on Elkhorn Creek, located a mile north of Highway T and at the one time Bluff Spring (Monkey Joe as its better known) school district.
Here they reared a family of eight children, five girls and three boys, in a one room log house with a "side room" kitchen and long front porch. Grandpa & Grandma Thompson, as they later became known, celebrated every possible occasion including all holidays as well as family birthdays. So this old log house was the point of many local gatherings which at noon included a sumptuous dinner and occasionally in the evening a square dance--since Grandpa Thompson was a fiddler of no mean ability.
Grandma Thompson began her sojourn in Missouri west of Chadwick on Bull Creek. Her father James Jackson and wife (unknown Wheeler) Jackson settled there upon their arrival from east Tennessee. Among the children of the Jackson family were Sarah, the subject of this sketch, and another daughter Jane, two sons George and John and possibly others.
During their sojourn on Bull Creek, the mother died and is buried in one of the cemetaries there. Later Mr. Jackson married a Miss Mazella Cunningham. To this union were born eight children, four boys and four girls.
Later Mr. Jackson moved his family to Elkhorn Creek and settled about a mile south of what is now the Trow Bridge Ranch. Here our subject Sarah, and her husband Hardin Bledsoe, purchased a small tract of land adjoining her later home. To the Bledsoes were born four children, Martha, Mary Jane, Sarah and a little son dying as an infant. Shortly after their arrival here, Mr. Bledsoe developed a lung condition and died, leaving Sarah a widow with the three little girls.
Some months after his death, the youngest little girl (Sarah) met her death from burns recieved from an open fireplace in their log cabin. Later , following the close of the Civl War, George W Thompson, a young Confederate soldier, dirfted into the community and formed an acquaintance with the young widow. After a lapse of a few months they were married. To them were born six children, three boys and three girls: GeorgeWilliam Jr, Fronia (Sophrona), Avery, Mayme, James and Clara. Our subjects wrested a living from their little rocky farm. The food raised from the farm and garden were supplemented by the butter and eggs Grandma Sarah produced from her cows and chickens.
Conductor Lightwine and brakeman Charley McBride of the "Chadwick Flyer" were among her regular "Butter & Egg" customers for years. Twice each week she met them at Oldfield with her produce. In the day of open season hunting Grandpa George kept the table supplied with wild turkey and squirrel, which there were an abundance of.
In the early twenties our subjects became unable to operate their little home and retired to the home of their daughter Mayme, then the operator of the Greene County Hotel in Springfield, where they spent the remainder of their declining years. They now rest in Maple Park Cemetary.
Isaac Avery Thompson & Polly Goodwin
In Bradley Co George Town TN around 1848 Avery Thompson and Polly Goodwin were married. In 1849 (census records indicate 1845) Mahala Melissa Thompson was born there, followed by five sons, Alfred, Joseph (J.L.), Fate (Timothy Lafayette), David (David Leander) and William Thompson. Avery was a share cropper, owned no land, so it was very hard to make a living for the family. For entertainment music was the main go at that time, so each son owned a fiddle. They were very good fiddlers. Melinda (Should read Mahala) was small when President Lincoln was canvassing for president, but they all went to Nashville in a wagon to see him, and she was held up by her father to shake his hand.
They lived in a wooded area, wild animals were thick, so they gathered pine cones to keep a large fire at nights as panthers could tear the roof off and get a child. It took two days to go after groceries at the shopping fort. She (Mahala) was left in care of the boys. At one time Billy (William) got bit by a Copperhead snake, but on this occasion, she knew what to do. She chopped a live chicken in half and bound up his leg. After the chicken was removed it was green all over, but Billy was fine.
Time passed, the South became divided during the Civil War, families were torn apart. Brother fought Brother. Mahala fell in love with a rich slave owner's son. Avery, being a man of strong will and discipline, also for the Republic, refused to let them marry. Barney Lee was killed in a battle leaving Mahala with the child William Joseph Thompson, named after his two uncles. He was born May 1, 1878. When he was four years of age the family decided to move to Missouri where there were great possibilities and good soil for crops. Coming in a covered wagon took several weeks. Near Little Rock, Arkansas, Polly became very ill while carrying her seventh child. They stopped for awhile. Here the mother and child were buried along the way. But the family continued on. Mahala had to take her mother's place so now she had her hands full caring for the family. They traveled on and settled in a small homestead east of Chadwick, in a small one room cabin. (Family is listed in 1880 Saline Co AR census. Avery's pension records indicate that they were living in Christian Co MO by spring of 1881) Little Bill (William Joseph) went to school at Lead Hill when the weather permitted, but having to cross Swan Creek (it was usually up after heavy rains) so he missed most of his schooling. Here he went to school with his future wife Darthula Emmaline Gray and her sisters and brothers. She lived closer to school and did not have the river to cross, so she got to go to school more often.
The Thompson family was growing up. One evening Joe became very ill, and there were no doctors then in those parts. He said I am going to die. I want brother Fate to have my horse and Alfred my fiddle. The next day he was gone. His grave was put near the cabin. (this is completely fictional; Joseph L Thompson married Rosalie Felton 1888 in AR, had several children and eventually moved to OK!!) David was getting very restless with this way of life, so he decided to go out into the world and find something better. They never heard from him again, but supposed a wild animal had got him. Mahala had her second child when Billy (William Joseph ) was nine, James Riley Thompson. Children were loved, so he made a happy addition to the family, but one more mouth to feed. Billy began working at an early age for people around Chadwick. Soon he got enough to buy him a team of mules. With this he provided for his folks by making ties and props for the railroad. He put away for himself $80.00 in a little camel back trunk his mother had salvaged in her trip from Tennessee.
Avery Thompson passed away and was buried at the Old Boston Cemetary with a small cedar at his head. To this day that tree is his only headstone, but it is a very large tree now and several Thompsons are buried near him.( Thompson descendents put up a headstone under the cedar tree for Avery Thompson in the late 1980s). Uncle Fate moved to Branson MO, married and became a well-known Baptist minister ( actually according to census records he was living in Branson area of Taney Co 1870--1920 and never lived with his parents at Chadwick). William Joseph Thompson married (Darthula Gray) and was the father of children living near Chadwick at one time in Egg Tavern on a route that people had made going West.
Letters: Civil War Pension File Isaac
Avery Thompson
Nashville, Tenn April 21st, 1865
This is to certify that Isaac A Thompson has been a member of my Co D ever since its organization, and has always been a good, faithful soldier in discharge of all his duties: Therefore would cheerfully recommend if consonant with your judgement, that he be granted a furlough for (30) thirty days in order that [he] may take his family back to their home in East Tenn. Very Respectfully, DAVID FLOERKE, Capt Co D 10th Tenn Inf.
State of Tennessee, County of Bradley (not dated, but seems to be around 1867?)
Personally appeared before me, a clerk of the court in ...said county and State Louis L Mowery, who being truly sworn according to (illegible) says he was a Private in Co F, 10th Tenn Inf. (illegible) said was well acquainted with Isaac A Thompson, Private of said company; said that on or about June 17th 1862 the said Isaac A Thompson was taken to Small Pox Hospital of said disease which he contracted while in camps used in the line of duty and then he was (illegible) in hospital affected by said disease until on or about the 13th of March 1864, all of which time unable to return to his comission for duty. Said I. A. Thompson was an obedient soldier, strictly moral, and guilty of no bad habits whatsoever that would have subjected him to the disease of SmallPox which has yet disabled him. His capts or (illegible passage); by me also the Capts of said Co D 10th Tenn Inf testify (rest of passage illegible) Signed LOUIS L MOWERY, countersigned by J C TIPTON, clerk of the Circuit Court of Bradley Co TN.
(NOTE: Louis L Mowery was the brother of James Mowery who married Avery's sister, Melvina Priscilla Thompson. Avery's wife's sister, Caroline Goodwin, also married John Mowery, another of Louis' brothers).
State of Tennessee, County of Bradley,
On this 22nd day of November before me clerk of the circuit Court within and for the county and state aforesaid, Isaac A Thompson who being duly qualified according to law deposes and says that he is an applicant for an invalid pension and that his application is No 110680; that in reply to circular dated Nov 7th, 1867 which is herewith returned; he had to say that he has never been regularly treated for his disease since he left the United States Service by any physician; that he has applied to Dr. Boyle of Georgetown Tennessee who thought there was a fractured bone in his breast that caused the sore and wanted to cut it out, but applicant would not consent; that he also applied to Dr Mauly at Cleveland Tennessee, who proposed to burn out the sores on his breast with caustic, but applicant did not consent to that mode of treatment; that he also applied to Dr Ford of Cleveland Tennessee, affidavit is already on file in his claim, who advised him not to do anything for in stating that he thought it might heal up of itself after awhile; that these three physicians are the only ones he has ever received medical advice from since his discharge from the United States Service, and that none of them ever prescribed for him except Dr Mauly who gave him some herbs or roots to put into some liquor over time and requested him to drink it; that he is a poor man and unable to get the attention of physicians or to pay them for any services if they were rendered. He will further state here that the sores on his breast caused by the Small Pox heal over every two or three months, but that they never all heal over at the same time; that when one of the sores heals the others immediately break open and there is always one or more of them running or discharging matter all the time; that he is of opinion from his own feelings that if all sores healed up and remained so he could not live; that he does not know what to do for them, and that having received various opinions from the three physicians above named as to what treatment he ought to have all more or less conflicting, that result has been that he has received no treatment at all. Signed ISAAC A THOMPSON
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 22nd day of November 1867, as I certify that I know the affidavit to be respectable and entitled to credit, I further certify that I have no interest in this matter Witness my hand and the seal of said county J C TIPTON, Clerk Circuit Court Bradley Co TN
State of Tennessee, County of Bradley
Know all men by these pursuits that I, Isaac A Thompson of the 10th Civil District of Bradley County Tennessee, and late a private in Company "D:" of the 10th Regiment of the Infantry Tennessee Volunteers, hereby nominate, constitute and appoint and by these pursuits, have constituted and appointed J.CALEB MORGAN of Cleveland Tennessee my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name, place and stead to prosecute my claim No 110680 for Pension, and to do every act and thing in and about the premises for the successful prosecution of my said claim; for me and in my name as fully and completely as I might or could do were I personally present at the doing thereof. And I hereby revoke and countermand any and all authority by me heretofore given to all persons whomsoever, and particularly to G. A. EWING, for the above specified purpose. I hereby divest and request that any and all communications hereafter sent from the Pension Office in reference to my said claim be addressed and sent to my said Attorney, J CALEB MORGAN at Cleveland Tennessee. Witness my hand and seal this 13th day of April A.D. 1867 Signed ISAAC A THOMPSON Attest: C F CAMPBELL, HUGH WHITE, State of Tennessee, County of Bradley
On this 13th day of April A.D. 1867, personally appeared before me, clerk of the County Court within an for the county and state aforesaid, Isaac A. Thompson, a man with whom I am personally acquainted, who acknowledged the execution of the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed for the purposes therein contained. Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this 13th day of April, A.D. 1867 JOSEPH H DAVIS, clerk.
Nashville, Tenn March 12, 1868
State of Tenn, County of Davidson
I, RUDOLPH KNAFFL, formerly Surgeon 10th Tenn Vol was well acquainted with Isaac A Thompson who was a private of Co D, 10th Tenn Inf Vol, who when in the line of duty got the smallpox, and has been transported under my personal supervision to the Smallpox Hospital, in the year 1862, on or about the middle of May. The Smallpox Hospital was at that time in charge of Dr. Hagel (Hazel?). Said Soldier was stationed in camp near Fort Yollam and in the line of duty as a soldier when he contracted the disease, and was sent to the smallpox hospital near Nashville. DR RUDOLPH KNAFFL
Isaac Thompson Revolutionary War Pension
File 1832-35 Burke County, North Carolina
STATE of NORTH CAROLINA, Court of Pleas,
Burke County, October Court 1832
On this 22nd day of October 1832 personally appeared in open court
before the Justices of said court now sitting, ISAAC THOMPSON,
a resident citizen of said county and state, aged about 77 years,
who first being duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath
make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit
of this act of Congress (payed? illegible) June the 7th, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated
That he was first drafted under Captain JOHN HARDIN in 1776 or 1777 in the expedition against the Scotch Tories at the place then called Crop Creek (Now, Fayetteville) & further had a battle, and went further to Hock River, but got there the place of rendevous after the Tories were defeated---that they were to have served for 6 months but after the defeat of the Tories, they were marched back to COLONEL BATEMAN's who commanded in the Crop Creek expedition, and was discharged by said Bateman at his own house in the County of Rowan (Burke crossed out; it was Rowan county at the time of Rev War) State of North Carolina---That he was as he informed born on the Dan River, but cannot say where as he came from there when a child---that he resides in what is now the county of Burke---that when they marched to Crop Creek they went on through Salisbury (?) and were joined on their Rout by large companies of militia until they got to Crop Creek, where there was a larger force of american militia & Volunteers & the Scotch Tory forces being defeated they returned home---that he was then young & ignorant, so much that he can tell but little about the officers who commanded; for that what little he then knew is now forgotten in consequence of failure of memory-- that RUBEN WALKER was in the same (illegible) with him during the Expedition.
That he next served for the term of 3 three months as a private under said Captain THOMAS LITTLE (John Hardin crossed out) against the Indians at what was then called Cathey's Fort in the year 1777 or early in 1778---that his next tour of service was for the term of six months at Davidson's Fort on the head of the Catawba River, and shifted from that fort to a fort on Buck Creek, near the same & that they were often roused from Cathey's Fort backwards & forwards to Davidson's fort & so on as the Indians were troublesome---that he was in one skirmish with the Indians on the north fork of the Catawba--that he was for 6 months in the expedition against the Public enemy in what was called the Wilmington expeditions, at the time that the enemy were driven from or evacuated Wilmington in the year 1781 or 1782---that he was in an expedition which took a fort called Captain PAD MORE'S fort, a Tory Captain, chiefully (chiefly) in South Carolina---that JOSEPH McDOWELL was Captain under COL SHELBY when they took said fort.
I do hereby relinquish every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
QUESTION: Where were you born?
ANSWER: on Dan River on the Virginia or North side, I cannot say which
QUESTION: Have you any record of your age:
ANSWER: No
QUESTION: where were you living when called into service--where have you lived since. & where do you now live?
ANSWER: I lived here when called into service and ever since and still live here. It was then called ROWAN County (many crossed out words; possibly TYRON) now BURKE COUNTY.
QUESTION: State the names of those of the regular officers who were with the troops & the other particulars of your service
ANSWER; I do not recollect the names of any of the Regular officers who served with us for I was generally engaged with the Indians & Tories from the time the war broke out till the Peace, for our Country was over run with FAWNING & other Tories. I was once taken prisoner along with 9 men and our Captain CANADAY (KENNEDY), that was on our return from the Wilmington Expedition on Little River on the County of More (something crossed out) as I think it was then called.
QUESTION; Did you ever receive a discharge from the Service & if so by whom?
ANSWER: yes I received one from Col BATEMAN after my first expedition. I believe it was in my pocketbook when taken a prisoner by Fawning & his men never gave the book or papers or money back to me. I also lost all the papers that we had at the same time.
QUESTION: State the names of Persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your veracity & good behavior & your service in the Revolution
ANSWER: I think it is generally known in my neighborhood but expecially by Col JAMES ERWIN, the clerk of the County Court, and MARK BRITAIN, Esquire.
ISAAC (his mark, an X) THOMPSON Sworn to in open Court this 22nd day of October ( J.E. ERWIN, CLERK)
STATE of NORTH CAROLINA Court of Pleas
and Quarter Sessions, Burke County, Term October 1832
THOMAS LITTLE swears that when he commanded as Captain against
the Indians during the war of the Revolution, that ISAAC THOMPSON
served under him for at least the term of six months---that said
service was at the Forts at the head of the Catawba River
(Signed) THOMAS LITTLE JOHN DUCKWORTH Sworn
to in open court 22nde October 1832 (J.E. ERWIN, CLERK) Addendum:
And JOHN DUCKWORTH swears he served with ISAAC THOMPSON under
Capt THOMAS LITTLE as above described (signed) JOHN DUCKWORTH
I, JAMES ERWIN, Clerk of the County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Burke (this first part crossed out) and MARK BRITAIN who was for eight years Sheriff of said county do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with ISAAC THOMPSON who has described and sworn to the foregoing declaration---that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age---that he is reputed and believed to be in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion, sworn to and subscribed this 22nd of October 1832 in open court (signed) M BRITTAIN Sworn to in open court 22nd of October 1832 (J.E. ERWIN, CLERK)
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA Court of Pleas and
Quarter Sessions, Burke County, October 1832
RUBEN WALKER swears that he is well acquainted with Isaac Thompson
who has made the above declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of the act of congress up to June 7 1832---that I marched with
said THOMPSON in the Wilmington Expedition as by him described---that
we were engaged for a term of 6 months but after the Retreat of
the British, they were discharged & came home ---that he also
served with said THOMPSON in the expedition against the Scotch
Tories at Crop Creek as by him described (signed) RUBEN
(his mark) WALKER. Sworn to this 23rd of October
1832 (J ERWIN, CLERK)
AND THE SAID COURT DO DECLARE THEIR OPINION AFTER THE INVESTIGATION OF THE MATTER AND AFTER PUTTING INTERROGATORIES PRESCRIBED BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT, THAT THE ABOVE NAMED APPLICANT, ISAAC THOMPSON, WAS A REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER AND SERVED AS HE STATES AND THE COURT FURTHER CERTIFIES THAT IT OFFERS TO THEM MARK BRITTAIN, WHO SIGNED THE FOREGOING CERTIFICATE IS A RESIDENT IN THE COUNTY OF BURKE, THAT HE MARK BRITTAIN SHERIFF IS A MAN OF UNDOUBTED VERACITY A PERSON OF BOTH CREDIBILITY AND THAT HIS STATEMENTS DID (ILLEGIBLE) TO FULL CREDIT. (signed) J ERWIN, CLERK
I, JAMES ERWIN, Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of Burke do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of ISAAC THOMPSON for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 24th day of October, 1832 J E ERWIN, CLERK
STATE OFf NORTH CAROLINA Burke County, 21st
March, 1835
ISAAC THOMPSON swears that he served time in the year 1776 ( as
well as he recollects the date). He was drafted and ordered out
to serve the state of NORTH CAROLINA for the term of 3 months
against the Scotch Tories who inhabited the state in the Lower
Counties round about where Fayetteville now is. He was ordered
out by Colonel BATEMAN of the militia of Rowan that county was
then called & served under Captain JOHN HARDIN. The
infomation he recd from the Captain was that they were to serve
3 months or six months if required; he knows nothing of what the
acts of assembly were, but can only speak of what he was told
by his Captain. Colonel BATEMAN was the commanding officer &
HARDIN my captain---I served 3 months, if not longer. I
was then young & ignorant so that I had only to obey orders.
I knew nothing of the Law. As to the service I rendered
under Captain LYTTLE as a ranger in 1777-1778 I can speak
not positively of that. I was then young and adventurous,
had seen a little service & was pleased with it. Colonel CHARLES
McDOWELL was colonel & gave orders for the raising of men
to guard against the Indians. Captain JOHN HARDIN commanded
us at home and when he called on us I turned out as Volunteer
for three months and at the expiration of that term I again volunteered
for 3 months again as orders came from the same Colonel McDOWELL
to keep the company full and that is the way I account for
the six months service.
As to the service by me rendered in the expedition to Wilmington in the year 1781 or 1782, that statement must have been obscurely worded or misunderstood by the Comissioner of Pensions. I intended to say that I was ordered out for six months if so long required, but positively for 3 months & that I then served at least 3---Captain THOMAS CANADAY (KENNEDY) was my Capt & General CHARLES McDOWELL was the officer who ordered us out---I again say that I neither then knew, nor do I now know what acts of officers are as respects the militia service. I had to take for granted that what our officers told us was the truth---let me repeat, I was ordered out for 3 months and six if required & served at least 3 months---that we heard & knew nothing about the Law, but what our officers told us, being the extreme frontier county adjoining the Indian nation. (signed in his own handwriting) ISAAC THOMPSON This Liste above came ISAAC THOMPSON before us ROBERT C PEARSON a Justice of the Peace for Burke County and made oath that the foregoing statement is true to the best of his knowledge & belief (signed) R C PEARSON J.P.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA Burke County
I JOSEPH J ERWIN, Clerk of the Court of Please & Quarter Sessions
for the County aforesaid certify that R C PEARSON Esquire before
which the foregoing amended declaration was sworn to us a Justice
as above and that his signature is genuine In Testimony
whereof I have to set my hand and seal of office this 30th
day of March, 1835 (signed) J J ERWIN, Clerk
TREASURY DEPARTMENT/SECOND COMPTROLLER'S
OFFICE JUNE 4, 1839
Sir: Under the act of 6th of April, 1838, entitled: "an
Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of same at the Treasurye
of the United States," THE WIDOW OF ISAAC THOMPSON,
a Pensioner on the Roll of the North Carolina Agency, at the rate
of Thirty Dollards and -----cents per annum, under the law of
the 7th of June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the
4th of March 1838, to the 9th of June 1838, THE DAY OF HIS DEATH.
Respectfully yours, Albion K Parrish