Benjamin Glover (born 1753 - died 1840)
RECORDS IN WILKES COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
1779: |
From Wilkes Land Entry Book
(1778-1782), Entry #1121: 14 Aug 1779: BENJAMIN GLOVER entered 200 acres of land on Luke Lee's Creek near path that crosses said creek that goes from Craines to Suttons. |
1782: |
From Wilkes County tax lists (1782,
N.C. Archives, 1784-1799, Wm. Lenoir Family Papers, N.C. University Library,
Chapel Hill, N.C. BENJAMIN GLOVER - single man listed 200 acres land, 1
horse, 3 head cattle. |
1783: |
Wilkes Will Book 1, p. 93: 30 Jan.
1783 Bastardy Bond - BENJAMIN GLOVER charged with begetting a bastard boy child upon body of Elizabeth Adams. JAMES GLOVER and JAMES SUTTON, bondsmen. |
1784: |
28 Oct.: It is ordered by the court
that BENJAMIN GLOVER, James and William Crane, the hands in the Bent,
Walter Waters, Mereda Minton, Henry Jones, Thos. Johnson, William Tribble,
Jacob Nicholds, Berry Laws, William Whittonton, Isaac Low, Jr., Isaac Reaves,
John Wilson, Robert Haise, Patrick Hamrick, view and work on road from fork
of road above court house to the fork at Thomas Holman's. (Men in a given
neighborhood, as a rule, were ordered to keep up the road in their
neighborhood. This was the highway system of that period.) Wilkes Court of Pleas & Quarter
Session Minutes (1778-1797): 28 Jan. 1784: BENJAMIN a member of a
trial jury. BENJAMIN GLOVER listed 200 acres of land, 1 poll tax. |
1785: |
BENJAMIN GLOVER listed 200 acres of
land, 1 poll tax. 28 Jan. 1785: BENJAMIN GLOVER vs. Daniel (or David) Slone - discontinued. (This is all the information recorded as to why Glover was suing Slone.) |
1786: |
26 April 1786: BENJAMIN GLOVER, member
of trial jury. BENJAMIN GLOVER listed 200 acres of land. (The only GLOVER in Wilkes County at this time |
1787: |
Of interest - listed in the same
district as BENJAMIN GLOVER in 1787: Elizabeth Adams, 1 male under 16 over
20; 2 white females, all ages. No slaves. Capt. Judd's District, Wilkes County,
N.C., 10 June 1787: BENJAMIN GLOVER; 1 male 21-60; 1 male
under 21 over 60; 1 female, all ages. BENJAMIN GLOVER listed 1 poll tax
(indicating he was in Wilkes County at tax time, paid a poll tax, but from
deeds, had sold his land.) NO GLOVERS IN WILKES COUNTY, NORTH
CAROLINA, AFTER 1787 ON ANY TAX LIST. Court of Pleas & Quarter Session
Minutes: 26 July 1787: Power of Attorney from BENJAMIN
GLOVER to Carlton Keeling; ord. recorded upon oath of JOHN BROWN. 9 Aug. 1787, Wilkes Deed Book B-l, p.
78: North Carolina granted BENJAMIN GLOVER 173 acres on big branch Luke Lees
Creek - path from Cranes to Suttons. (Note: Sometimes when the entry was
surveyed, it did not survey to be the number of acres that had been entered.) WB1, p. 222, 10 July 1787: Power of Attorney from BENJAMIN GLOVER, Planter, to Carlton Kealin to make sufficient title in fee simple to Isaac Parlier for a tract of land said GLOVER has sold said Parlier and given bond in amount of 300 pounds. Witness: John Stuart, John Brown, Philamon Crane. BENJAMIN X GLOVER (HIS MARK). (Oftentimes in the copying of a document the scribe would one time denote he could sign his name; again that he made his mark. This makes it difficult to determine whether the said persons could actually sign their names. Records are accepted as written since there is no way of knowing which is the fact in above case.) |
1789: |
DB B-l, p. 79, 20 Jan. 1789: BENJAMIN GLOVER sold to Isaac Parlier for 50 pounds. 173 acres big branch Luke Lees Creek, path from Cranes to Suttons. /s/ BENJAMIN GLOVER (indicating he could sign his name). |
1790: |
29 July 1790, Deed from BENJAMIN GLOVER to Isaac Parlier for 173 acres land ordered recorded. (Apparently this was date Parlier registered the deed.) |
Elbert County, Georgia, was cut off from
Wilkes County by an Act of the Georgia Legislature 10 Dec. 1790. It consisted
of all the area of Wilkes County lying on the north side of the Broad River,
from the mouth to the main fork, then up the south main fork to the Franklin
County line.
All of the area of original Elbert
County lying between the north and south forks of the Broad River was placed in
Madison County in 1811, and another area of approximately 20 square miles was
added to Madison from Elbert in 1819. The formation of Hart County in 1853 took
another large tract from Elbert, roughly the entire southern half of the new
county. Other adjustments have been made, but none of major importance.
A census of Elbert County for 1790 was
reconstructed from the 1790 Wilkes County tax digests for the 11 militia
districts that made up Col. John Cunningham's Battalion and which encompassed
all the area put into Elbert County in December 1790 after the tax digests had
been completed.
GLOVER RECORDS IN
ELBERT (WILKES) COUNTY, GEORGIA
There is no 1790 census of the State of
Georgia. There is an incomplete tax list of 1795, Elbert County, which reveals
that James Glover and Benjamin Glover paid taxes in that county. (Elbert was
formed from Wilkes in 1790.)
Benjamin Glover and James Glover voted
in the referendum for the Constitutional Convention in 1795.
Mention is made in Gone to Georgia of
several GLOVERS in the Abbeville District, South Carolina, and of Benjamin
Glover's brother William. In 1827, William Glover, a Revolutionary Soldier, was
living in Franklin County, GA, drew Troup and Muscogee Counties land granted in
1830 and 1842. William Glover was born in 1760, in Prince George's County,
Maryland, and enlisted in 1778 or 1779, in Wilkes County, North Carolina, served
with Col. Benjamin Cleveland (and others), moved to Elbert County, GA, in 1786
(James and John were taxed in that area) and subsequently moved to Franklin
County, GA, in about 1800, and there, he applied for a pension. [See section on
William Glover, Revolutionary Soldier.]
A large family of Glovers lived across
the Savannah River in Abbeville District, South Carolina, and unfortunately
many of those Glovers had the same names. According to Sarah E. Mason, a
descendant of this S.C. Glover family, there appears to be no close
relationship between the two families. It is difficult to separate these men in
the Georgia Land Lottery lists.
There is the arrangement of District
Companies, Col. Cunningham's Battalion, Wilkes County, GA, Militia, dated 1790,
that pinpoints where John, James, William and Benjamin Glover lived in 1790.
This record shows that Benjamin lived in Sec. TT-91; James in UU-43; John in
TT-63; and, William in TT-78. These sections were located along the north side
of the Broad River, a short distance from the point where the Broad River
flowed into the Savannah River which formed the state line between Georgia and
South Carolina.
A town, Petersburg, GA, was located at
the junction of the Broad and Savannah Rivers. Across the Savannah, there was a
town called Vienna in South Carolina, and from the beginning, these two towns
were in competition. Petersburg consisted of 40 acres. This area is now under
the waters of the upper reaches of the Clark Hill Reservoir.
After the Revolutionary War, Tory
property was confiscated, and the Tories were run out of Georgia. Wilkes County
was formed in 1777, named for John Wilkes, English Statesman. Many settlers
came to this area soon after the War ended. The Land Law of 1783 entitled heads
of family to 200 acres by paying office and surveyor fees. An additional 1,000
acres could be purchased for 1 shilling per acre.
1784: 3
shillings per acre, limit of 1,000 acres. Free land, if applicant fit in 5
classes relating to "service".
1785: Maximum
amount was 1,000 acres, for office and surveyor fees.
1790: Wilkes
County was divided, parts went to Elbert, Oglethorpe and Lincoln Counties.
The Virginians who came into this area
were considered to be snobbish and looked down their noses at the settlers from
North Carolina whom they considered to be nothing but ruffians. There was quite
an influx from 1783 through 1790. The Jordans from Virginia claimed to descend
from Pocohontas. The Popes came directly from North Carolina. Some North
Carolinians settled along Long Creek, and from Long Creek eastward through
Wilkes County, the North Carolinians were largely in charge.
By 1800, the Valley was full of
inhabitants. Tobacco was king. It was shipped down river to Augusta. Then,
cotton crops took over. Slavery existed from the beginning of the settlement,
and in 1800, there were 2,600 slaves in Oglethorpe County alone.
Dionysius Oliver came from Virginia in
about 1776. He had fought at King's Mountain. By 1784, he received 650, 3,650,
and 950 acres of land, a total of 5,250 acres, in Wilkes County. He named the
town Petersburg for the town in Virginia where he was born in 1735. He began
selling lots in Petersburg in 1786. To his son, John Oliver, he sold all
outlying lands he had between the Broad and Savannah Rivers. John bought and
sold lots and engaged in the merchantile business. When he died in 1816, John
had a large plantation and 64 slaves. His father, Dionysius Oliver sired 11
children.
Another settler was LeRoy Pope. He was a
speculator-banker who later founded Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama. In
1793, he received a fraudulent land grant in Franklin County, GA.
Organized banks were established in
1807, and the greatest period of prosperity took place between 1798 and 1808.
Railroad connections had updated shipping by water, and the town of Petersburg
began to die. Residents left in droves, and by 1829, the town was almost
deserted.
Many of the settlers in and around
Petersburg moved into Madison County, M.T. (AL), in the area of Huntsville.
Some of these were the Popes, the Bibbs, the Tates (Tait), the Olivers, the
Walkers, and many more.
Flora in Wilkes County, GA, consisted of
pine, walnut, poplar, white oak, ash, hickory, chestnut, birth, beech, wild
grass, pea vines, shrubs, reed cane. Names of the creeks were Powderbag,
Pistol, Troublesome, Buckhead, Hound, Wildcat, Panther, Beaverdam, Buzzard,
Drunken Camp, Flat Rock, Coldwater, Deep, Fishing, Doves, Lighwood Log, Cedar,
Bluestone, Millstone, Hardship, Long Creek, War Creek, Red Lick, Mud Lick, Camp
Town, Dry Fork, Big Shoal, and Rocky Comfort.
(From Old Petersburg And The Broad
River Valley of Georgia - Rise and Decline, by Coulter.)
1792: BENJAMIN GLOVER listed as a Petit
Juror in Elbert County (January term 1792)
7-26-1792, John Hubbard and wife Sally
to BENJAMIN GLOVER, 200 acres adjacent to Frederick Brasel. James Bell, JP, and
Augustine Bryan, Test. "DAR Vol. III, Historical Collections of Georgia"
26 July 1792: Elbert Co. Ga., sold to
BENJAMIN GLOVER of said county, for 40 pounds, 200 acres, part of 746 acres
granted to John Hubbard, 5 Nov 1791, the 200 acres, adj. Fredrick Brasils
survey, near and above Glovers Spring, down spring branch to Gouders Branch,
down branch to Hendricks, Gouders, down branch, in fee simple. (signed) John
Hubbard, Sally Hubbard. Wit: James Bell, J. P. Augustine Bryan, Registered 14
Aug 1792. "Elbert County, GA Deed Book A (page 88)"
4 May 1794: Josiah Certain Sr. and
Elizabeth, his wife, to Josiah Certain Jr., all of Elbert County, GA, for 35
pounds Dry Fork of Falling Creek Waters, 100 acres, adj. BENJAMIN GLOVER.
(signed) Josiah (I) Certain, Elizabeth (X) Certain. Wit: Thos. Cook, J. P.,
Registered 20 July 1797. "Elbert County, GA Deed Book D (page 81)"
4 May 1794: Josiah Certain Sr. and
Elizabeth, his wife, to John Certain, all of Elbert County, for 16 pounds, 100
acres, having the plantation where Josiah Certain Sr. now lives, adj. BENJAMIN
GLOVER’S SPRING. (signed) Josiah (I) Certain, Elizabeth (O) Certain. Wit: Thos.
Cook, J. P. Registered 30 May 1796. "Elbert County, GA Deed Book C
(page 117)"
1802: BENJAMIN GLOVER on Elbert County,
Georgia Tax List.
16 Mar 1803: Hillery Hendrick and
Elizabeth, his wife, to William B. Key, all of Elbert County, for $1400, on
Falling Creek Waters in said county, 300 acres, 250 acres was granted to
Hillery Hendruick in a grant for 400 acres, 7 Oct 1785, 50 acres was deeded to
Hendrick from John Hubbard in 2 deeds, 35 acres and 15 acres, adj. The above on
north side, and adj. Said Key, BENJAMIN GLOVER, John Sartin, John Hubbard,
Joshua Cook, and James Bell, in fee simple. (signed) Hillery (X) Hendrick,
Elizabeth (X) Hendrick. Wit: William Hightower, J. P., James Bell. Registered
30 Apr 1803. "Elbert County, GA Deed Book H (page 138)"
[note;
Hillary Hendrix b.1754 Edgecomb Co, SC, d.1844 Yalobusha Co, MS. Wife's name
Elizabeth b.1768 Hall Co, GA. They were married in 1789 in Hall Co, GA. Hillary
lived in Elbert co., GA, Floyd co., GA, Lawrence co., AL and Yalobushaco., MS.]
1805 Feb. Term, Elbert County, GA: Mary
Braddy and Thos. Wilkins, Adm. of James Braddy, Dec. BENJAMIN GLOVER and John
Sertain, Securities. [Braddy was actually Brady.] "DAR Vol. III,
Historical Collections of Georgia"
1806 Feb. Term: JAMES GLOVER appointed
Guardian of Eli and Sally Brady, Minors of James Brady, Deceased. "DAR
Vol. III, Historical Collections of Georgia"
13 July 1809: Inquisition of Reuben
Lindsay, lunatic: Book Accounts from Lindsay’s Store: BENJAMIN GLOVER and JAMES
GLOVER (son of Benjamin) listed. "Elbert County, GA Deed Book M (page
47)"
10 Apr 1810: Robin Andrews and
Elizabeth, his wife, of GA., to Thomas Barron, now of Elbert County, for $450,
on Dry Fork Waters of Falling Creek, 122 ½ acres, adj. BENJAMIN GLOVER, Reubin
Cook’s old line, Smith Cooks old line, Jane Hubbard’s old line. (signed) Robins
Andrews, Elizabeth Andrews. Wit: Thd. Pearce, J.P., John Roberts. No record
date. "Elbert County, GA Deed Book M (page 144)"
[note:
Robinson Andrews, born Dec. 07, 1771 in Buckingham County, VA. Died Jan. 07,
1843 in Bibb County, GA. Married Elizabeth Goss on Oct. 24, 1796 in Elbert
County, GA.]
In the Application for Pension, War of
1812, James Glover, oldest son of Benjamin Glover, states: "was honorably
discharged at Fort Hawkins, Georgia on the ___ day of September A. D. one
thousand eight hundred and thirteen, by the ____ rolls of said company, never
having rec'd a discharge and had another man to serve out the balance of my
time AS I WAS THEN LEAVING FOR ALABAMA."
18 Nov 1813: BENJAMIN GLOVER to David
Mattox, both of Elbert County, for $600, on Falling Creek Waters in said
county, adj. South by Patrick Butler, Smith Cook on west, by John Hubbard on
North, William Kee on east, 200 acres. (signed) BENJAMIN (x) GLOVER. Wit: Oct.
Spencer, David Clark, John Butler. Elbert County: proved by David Clark, 18
July 1814, Henry Kinnebrew, J. P. "Elbert County, GA Deed Book P (page
69)"
BENJAMIN GLOVER IN MADISON COUNTY, ALABAMA
On 27 August 1810, per Cert. No. 1243,
Benjamin Glover, Assignee [of Joel Grizzle] entered the NW/4, Section 11
Township 5 South Range 1 East, 159.40 acres. Patent No. 1243, Vol. 112, Page
350, Land Records, dated 9 July 1821, signed by Commissioner of the General
Land Office for the President, James Monroe, reveals that Benjamin Glover had
made full payment for the above described land. [See certified copy from
Eastern States Office, Alexandria, VA, 22304, 3-7-1986, by B.E. Clapp.]
Section 11 T5S R1E is located in Madison
County, AL, three sections directly south of Big Cove between the Flint River
on the east and Green Mountain on the west.
The first Glover marriage Of record in
Madison County, M.T., is that of Benjamin [K.] Glover and Barshaby Clements, 25
March 1814. This Benjamin Glover will be referred to as Benjamin K. or Ben K.
It is believed that he was a nephew of Benjamin Glover, Revolutionary Soldier.
The second marriage is that of James
Glover to Elizabeth Green, 29 February 1816. This James Glover was a son of
Benjamin Glover, Revolutionary Soldier. Another early marriage is that of Mary
(Polly) Glover, daughter of Benjamin Glover, on 24 Sept. 1818, to Andrew
Nelson. Her father signed as Security.
1830 Madison
County, Alabama, census:
Benjamin Glover 70-80 |
1 female 60-70 |
1 male 30-40 |
1 female 20-30 |
1 male 15-20 |
|
The name of the wife of Benjamin Glover
has never been found. If the female 60-70 in the above census was his wife, she
is not mentioned in his application for pension filed two years later in 1832.
The three younger people in this census have not been identified.
Other Glovers listed in the 1830 census,
Madison County, are Ben K., James, John, Jonathan, Richard, Richard, Silas and
William Glover.
Close neighbors in 1830 were Ben K.
Glover, John Glover, Jesse Vann (who had married Mary Glover Nelson), Silas M.
Glover, Ezekiel Craft, Dempsey Vann, Bryant Vann, Thomas Vann, Richard Glover,
and Jonathan Glover.
There is no tax list of Madison County
for 1814, but in 1815, Benjamin, James, Richard and the Estate of James
Glover paid taxes.
Benjamin Glover, on 5 Dec. 1832, sold to
Thomas Vann for $1250, the NW/4 11-5-1E, containing 128 acres beginning at the
SW corner of said quarter section running 128 rods due north along said section
line thence due east 160 rods to the eastern boundary, thence due south along eastern
boundary 128 rods to the SE corner, then due west along southern boundary 160
rods to beginning, with tenements. Benjamin Glover signed with an
"X", and witnesses were John C. Grayson and Edward H. Vann.
Acknowledged by "Benjamin Glover, Sr." on 25 Dec. 1832. No wife is
mentioned.
That same year Benjamin Glover applied
for a pension as a Revolutionary Soldier.
MILITARY
RECORD OF BENJAMIN GLOVER
Before the new courthouse was built in
Huntsville, Alabama, in 1966, there was a statue of a soldier on the courthouse
square. Attached to the statue was a plaque which named Revolutionary Soldiers
who had lived and died in Madison County. The names of Benjamin Glover and
Ezekiel Craft were included. This statue was erected and dedicated by the
Twickenham Town Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1939. The plaque
was removed and is now in the lobby of the new courthouse.
The name of Benjamin Glover is included
in various lists of Revolutionary Soldiers from Virginia and North Carolina.
His name also appears in the supplement of the index, Daughters of the American
Revolution, Patriot Index, as "Glover, Benjamin, b. 6-17-1753. Married,
wife's name unknown, d. 2-20-1840; Private, N.C., Va."
It must be pointed out here that the
listing of the family of Benjamin Glover, in the book A Roster of Revolutionary
Soldiers and Patriots in Alabama, Alabama Society Daughters of the American
Revolution, Louise Julich, published in 1979, p- 240-242, is not correct. The
1st wife and the children by her (Barshaba Clements and children James, Salina,
William, Benjamin, Mary, Calvin, Andrew, Sarah, Wylie, Richard, Ambrose, Sarah)
should not be listed. This was the family of Benjamin K. or Ben K. Glover,
believed to be a nephew of Benjamin Glover, Revolutionary Soldier.
The second family listed, wife unknown,
children James S., Elizabeth, Silas M., Mary (Polly), Nancy, is the family of
Benjamin Glover, Revolutionary Soldier.
[On page 137, this same book, under John
William Connally, listed as children are some of his grandchildren and also
children of John O. Connally. The
2nd wife listed was the wife of his
son.]
Dates to remember when reading Benjamin
Glover's Application for Pension.
1777: 11
Sept., Battle of Brandywine
1780: June,
Battle of Ramsour's Mill
1780: 16
Aug., Defeat of General Gates at Camden, S.C.
1780: 7
Oct., Battle of Kings Mountain
1781: 17
January, Battle of Cowpens
1781: 15
March, Battle of Guilford Courthouse, N.C.
Benjamin Glover died on 20 February
1840, in Madison County, AL, where he is buried. Local historians have searched
for his burial place in vain. Some descendants are of the opinion that he
probably was buried in the old part of the Green Valley-Vann Cemetery on the
old Big Cove Road.
After his demise, Benjamin's heirs
applied for the unpaid portion of pension due him, and Richard B. Purdom was
named as their attorney. In an affidavit dated 23 June 1840, Purdom stated:
" …. that he (Benjamin Glover) left no widow, but 2 sons and 3 daughters
whose names are James S. Glover, Elizabeth Glover (wife of Richard Glover),
Silas M. Glover, Polly Vann(wife of Jesse Vann), and Nancy Grayson (wife of
John C. Grayson)."
Benjamin Glover died intestate, and
there are no court records of a settlement of his estate. Apparently, he sold
his property before his death and went to live with one of his children thus
avoiding probate (a common practice then). He patented the NW/4 of Sec. 11-5-1E
in 1810, and on 5 Dec. 1832 (8 years before his death), he sold that property
to Thomas Vann. This probably accounts for there being no probate records on
him. He held no land at the time of his death. [This paragraph written by
Dorothy Scott Johnson, Professional Researcher of Madison County, AL.]
Dorothy Scott Johnson, Profession
Researcher (and personal friend), Huntsville, AL, wrote the following on 14
April 1985.
"Please note on the overlay plat
that on this latter tract of land
(N/2 SE/4 Sec. 11-5-1E) there is what is
called the Vann Cemetery, more recently called Green Valley Cemetery. I met an
elderly gentleman who gave me some interesting information regarding it. The
original cemetery was located among some trees on top of a hill. The main road
ran about a city block from the spot and a lane ran off the main road (old Big
Cove Road) to the cemetery. At one time a house stood at the intersection of
the main road and lane and this elderly gentleman lived there with his parents
when he was a child and played among the tombstones. He could not recall the
names on the stones but did tell me that there were several box tombs there;
that in later years someone had 'cleaned it off' by digging a hole and burying
the existing tombstones to make way for a nice cemetery. I re-visited this
cemetery this week and took a roll of film not yet developed. It was easy to
spot some slight 'sinks' among the tall trees and it appeared to me that there
had been two different groupings of graves -perhaps two different families? I
cannot help but feel this is actually THE OLD GLOVER CEMETERY also and that
Benjamin K. Glover and perhaps others of his family are buried there along with
the later Vanns. The cemetery is now beautifully maintained.
4756
ALABAMA
_______________________________________________
BENJAMIN
GLOVER of Madison County in the
State of Alabama who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Harris
of the _____ commanded by Gen. Washington in the Va. and N.C. Militia for
fourteen months from….
_______________________________________________
Inscribed on
the Roll of Alabama
at the rate of
46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
_______________________________________________
Certificate of
Pension issued the 24th day of Jan. 1833 and sent. C.C.
Clay H R
_______________________________________________
Arrears to 4th
of Sept 1832 $70.00
Semi-Annual
allowance ending 4 March 1833 $23.33
Died Feb. 20,
1840 Debt’d $93.33
A.D.
Revolutionary
Claim
Act June 7,
1832
Recorded by
Henry H. Sylvester Clerk
Book D Vol. 10
Page 201
STATE OF ALABAMA
MADISON COUNTY
On this 24th day of October 1832,
personally appeared before me, John C. Grayson, a Justice of the Peace for said
county of Madison, Benjamin Glover, a resident of said county of Madison, aged
seventy-nine years, who being first duly 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 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United
States under the following named officers and served as herein stated:
Affiant was born in the county of Arnold
in the State of Maryland the 17th day of June 1753, and removed into the State
of Virginia, Fauquier County, and about the year 1773 there was a call from
that county for 500 men, and one Benjamin Harris, being then a Capt., turned out
to raise a volunteer company, to go to Gen. Washington whoes headquarters was
somewhere near Philadelphia. Affiant volunteered under said Harris, Capt.
Blackwell commanded the Militia, a part of the said quota of 500. Affiant was
marched with the said Benjamin Harris company through the country to
Frederickstown, and from there went to the Susquehanna for further orders where
they should join the general army. They lay at the banks of the Susquehanna for
a considerable time before the company had reached this station, the news had
been received that Gen. Washington had fought the battle of Brandewine. The
army remained on the banks of the said river until they received orders from
the Commander-in-Chief to return to their homes, there being no immediate use
for these troops. Affiant states that he had volunteered for six months in this
expedition, and affiant states he was in this trip in service the six months he
volunteered for.
After this, affiant moved from Virginia
to North Carolina, and was there but a little time until he went on several
scouting parties after Tories. The time in this kind of service not remembered.
After this, affiant was drafted in
Wilkes County in said State to go to join Gen. Green on the Pe Der River, and
affiant will state his officers: William Wall was the Capt., Benjamin Cleveland
was the Col. This company went through Salsbury and Charlotte on to the
encampment of Gen. Green, but when the company reached the point proposed, Gen.
Green had marched to the State of South Carolina in great haste, it was said
almost in a run, and Talbott pursuing him with all speed. The army with which
affiant was, or rather company, finding it impossible to overtake Gen. Green,
were marched to Salsbury, about fifty miles off. There they were in much
demand, and affiant and the said company were stationed there as guard to the
prisoners. Five hundred British were taken at the Cowpens, and five hundred
Tories taken at Rougellas' Mill, a Tory. These Tories were taken by Col. Morgan
by a device of burning a pine log and sending them word that he would fire on
them immediately if they did not give up their arms. They submitted without
resistance. He guarded these prisoners for about two months. They were then
removed into the state of Virginia. Affiant accompanied them as a guard as far
as the river Moho, and there the Virginia troops took them in possession, and
affiant was discharged and made his way home from the Virginia line.
His way lay through a country beset with
Tories, and in addition there were British Light-horse scattered through the
country, so that affiant had to make his way home along by paths and secret
ways, sometimes sleeping by day and traveling all night. He was in bed at a
house which he thought secure but was surprised by a British Col. by the name
of More. He took him prisoner, affiant learning then for the first time that he
was in a half a mile of Col. Wall’s main Army. He was however discharged in a
short time, and he returned home to his friends who had supposed him dead. For this
expedition he was drafted for three months but was detained as above stated for
about five months in active service.
Next he volunteered from said County
under Capt. Ralwin Judd, and Cleveland (Col.). This expedition was for the
King's Mountain, and this affiant being of the foot did not reach the mountain
before the battle, but they came within hearing of the battle. They could hear
the firing of the guns discharged, before the news reached them that the battle
was over. Col. Cleveland's men, and Col. Campbell's men were ordered to conduct
the prisoners, about seven hundred in number, to the barracks in Virginia.
Affiant went with said troops as a guard. Affiant cannot remember the name of
the battle, but it was about the first of pulling-fodder time. After this
affiant returned home, after being in service in this campaign about four
months, but the time not distinctly remembered.
While affiant and the Army were about to
King's Mountain, the Tories, taking advantage of our absence embodied at a
place called Shallowford, and the old men and boys that were left turned out
and met the Tories at a mountain just by the said ford on the Adkin River, and
there had been a battle in which 14 Tories were killed - the rest running away.
On affiant’s return, he after cupping
out a sufficient number of bullets out of lead of that battle ground,
shouldered his napsack again, in obedience to a general order that a certain
number of men should be raised to defend the country from Tories and British
and the Indians then encited by the British to repeated hostilities. At this
time the whole country seemed to be in commotion, and every man was called on
to be ready, or to go into immediate service.
Affiant was called out into service
under one Captain John Robens and went with him over on New River to disperse
the Tories, and divers other places wherever the enemy seemed to be embodying
or approaching. Roben's men of which affiant was one went immediately to that
spot, there being engaged. Affiant was not ordered to join the main army but
was stationed about at different points to repell the enemy in the shape of
Tories, etc. In this service, affiant was in the service of the United States
about five or six months.
Affiant served a short time while at
Salsbury as above stated under a Continental officer by the name of LeVard, a
Capt. Affiant will here state he has given the above account in the best manner
he could, that from his extreme age and infirmities more than age, those things
that passed in service in his youth have almost vanished from his fading
memory, that time and disease have so impaired his faculties that he can recall
with great difficulty its torpid energies into action, particularly about
things that took place more than half a century ago. The time of his age/record
thereof was in a family Bible but now burned or lost.
Affiant states that after peace was
declared, he moved to the State of Georgia in the county of Elbert. From there
he removed to the County of Madison and State of Alabama where he has lived
ever since. He will prove his service by John Glover and Ezekiel Craft.
Affiant will further state here what he
had forgotten that while in Wilkes County in the State of N.C., according to
the regulations of the War Department of that day, he with sixty others hired a
substitute by the name of David Mires to enlist for the term of three years. He
did so serve after being thus employed, but affiant, notwithstanding he paid
ten dollars as his portion for this substitute, was constantly under arms as
above stated and thinks he served his country during the Revolutionary War
three years as a Revolutionary Soldier, can prove his service by E. Craft &
John Glover.
Said affiant 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. Affiant will here
state that for all his service rendered as above, he never has yet received one
cent.
Benjamin
Glover (his mark)
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 24th day of October, 1832.
John C. Grayson, J.P.
We, Ezekiel Craft, a clergyman residing
in the county of Madison and State of Alabama, and Edward H. Vann residing in
the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Benjamin Glover who
has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be
seventy nine years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood
where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution and that we concur in
that opinion (?).
Ezekiel
Craft
Edward
H. Vann
Sworn
to and subscribed before me this
24th day of October 1832.
John C. Grayson, J.P.
And the said Ezekiel Craft further
states that he is a neighbour and intimate acquaintance of the said Benjamin
Glover, and having conversed with him often many years ago mentions many little
circumstances as to the time of the fall a rain, a description of the country
through which he marched, a description of the officers and the lines of march
satisfies this affiant that he served as above stated in his declaration for
affiant was then in the Army and on one occasion was on one side of the River
Adkin while said Glover was on the other. The officers as stated in the
declaration affiant was well acquainted with. And this affiant will state that
from the known integrity and honest walks of life of the said Benjamin Glover
he has no hesitation (in addition to the circumstances as stated) to declare
his firm conviction that the whole statement as set forth in his declaration is
true in substance and fact.
Ezekiel Craft
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 24th day of October 1872.
John C. Grayson, J.P.
STATE OF ALABAMA
MADISON COUNTY
John Glover a brother of the said
Benjamin Glover and a resident of said County of Madison makes oath that he was
well acquainted with each expedition as above stated in the said Declaration of
the said Benjamin and he states that he well remembers that he the said
Benjamin did serve as a volunteer in Virginia and North Carolina and as a
militiaman in the said State of North Carolina from Wilkes County. And he here
states that he did render the services to the government as stated in his
declaration every iota of it and he states the statement as to the expeditions,
the time of services he knows to be true for he was his brother and he was
either with him or near him during the time of the Revolution.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
24th day of October 1832. John C. Grayson, J.P.
October the 24th, 1832
John Glover (his mark)
STATE OF ALABAMA
MADISON COUNTY
I, Richard B. Purdom, Clerk of the
County Court of said County do certify that John C. Grayson before whom the foregoing
affidavits were sworn, is now and was at the date of the same an acting Justice
of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned as such, and that full
faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereto
subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County Court Office in
Huntsville, this tenth day of November A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two
and of American Independence the fifty seventh. (Seal) Rich. B. Purdom
STATE OF ALABAMA
COUNTY OF MADISON
Be it known that before me, Thomas H.
Woodall, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally
appeared James S. Glover, Elizabeth Glover (wife of Richard Glover), Silas M.
Glover, Polly Vann (wife of Jesse Vann) and Nancy Grayson (wife of John C.
Grayson) and made oath, in due form of law, that they the said James S.,
Elizabeth, Silas M., Polly and Nancy are the sons and daughters of Benjamin
Glover, the identical person, who was a pensioner and is now dead, and to whom
a certificate of pension was issued, of which the following is a true copy.
"War
Department
Revolutionary
Claim
I certify that in conformity with the
Law of the United States on the 7th June 1832, Benjamin Glover of the State of
Alabama who was a private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive
forty six dollars and sixty-six cents per annum, during his natural life,
commencing on the 4th of March 1831, and payable semiannually on the 4th of
March and 4th of September, on every year.
Given at the War Office of the United
States, this 24th day of January, one
thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Lew Cass
Secretary of War
Examined and authorized.
T.L. Edwards
That the deceased pensioner resided in
Madison County in the State of Alabama for the space of about twenty-six years
before his death and that previous thereto he resided in the State of Georgia.
Subscribed and sworn before me this 1st
day of July 1840.
Thos. H. Woodall J.P.
James S.
Glover
Elizabeth
Glover
Silas M.
Glover
Poll(e)y Vann
Nancy Grayson
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Know all men by these presents, that we,
James S. Glover, Richard Glover, and his wife Elizabeth, Silas M. Glover, Jesse
Vann and his wife Polly, and John C. Grayson and his wife, Nancy, of the County
of Madison, in the State of Alabama (the said James S. - Elizabeth - Silas M. -
Polly and Nancy being the sons and daughters of Benjamin Glover, deceased, who
was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States), do hereby institute and
appoint Richard B. Purdom, of the County and State aforesaid our true and
lawful Attorney in Fact, for us and in our names to recover from the Agent of
the United States for paying pensions in the Town of Huntsville,
in the State of Alabama, the balance of
said Benjamin Glovers' pension, from the fourth day of September eighteen
hundred and thirty-nine to the twentieth day of February eighteen hundred and
forty, the day of his death.
Witness our hands and seals, this First
day of July 1840.
James S.
Glover seal
Richard Glover
(His mark) seal
Elizabeth
Glover seal
Silas M.
Glover seal
Jesse Vann seal
Poll(e)y Vann seal
John C.
Grayson seal
Nancy Grayson seal
Sealed and delivered
in the presence of
Test. Peter
Maples
W. Robinson
STATE OF ALABAMA
MADISON COUNTY
Be it known that on the 1st day of July
1840 before this subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County,
personally appeared the above named James S. Glover, Richard Glover and his
wife, Elizabeth, Silas M. Glover, Jesse Vann and his wife Polly, and John C.
Grayson and his wife Nancy, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to
be their act and deed, respectively. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my
hand the day and year last above mentioned.
Thos. H. Woodall, Justice of the Peace
STATE OF ALABAMA
MADISON COUNTY
Be it known that on the sixth day of
July 1840, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County
personally appeared Richard B. Purdom, the Attorney named in the foregoing
Power of Attorney, and made oath that the same was not given him by reason of
any sale, transfer or mortgage of the pension or arrears of pension therein
authorized to be received by him.
Rich. B.
Purdom
Subscribed and sworn this day and year
last aforesaid, before me.
Jn. B. Eldridge, Justice of Peace
The State of Alabama Orphans' Court of
Madison County, Special Term, this 23rd day of June 1840.
I, Richard B. Purdom, Clerk of the
County Court of Madison County, in the State of Alabama (and of the Orphans,
Court of said County) do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been
exhibited to said Court that Benjamin Glover was a pensioner of the United
States, at the rate of forty-six dollars and sixty-six cents per annum, was a
resident of the County of Madison, in the State of Alabama, and died in the
County and State aforesaid, on the twentieth day of February, in the year
eighteen hundred and forty, that he left no widow, but two sons and three
daughters whose names are James S. Glover, Elizabeth Glover (wife of Richard
Glover), Silas M. Glover, Polly Vann (wife of Jesse Vann) and Nancy Grayson
(wife of John C. Grayson).
In testimony whereof, I hereto subscribe
my name and affix my seal of office, at office in Huntsville, this twenty-third
day of June A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty and of American
Independence this sixty-fourth.
Rich. B. Purdom, Clerk of the Cty. Ct.
of Madison County., State of Alabama.
I, Richard B. Purdom, Clerk of the
County Court of Madison County, in the State of Alabama, do hereby certify that
Thomas H. Woodall and John B. Eldridge before whom the foregoing affidavits
were sworn are now and were at this date of the same, Justices of the Peace in
and for the County aforesaid and that the foregoing signatures perporting to be
theirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe
my name and affix the seal of said Court at office in Huntsville this sixth day
of July A. D. Eighteen hundred and forty and of American Independence the
Sixty-fifth Year.
Rich. B. Purdom
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