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Daniel Sullivan, Act 7 June 1832, N, C, Agency Revolutionary War Pensioner, S7661 The following information is from the agency book filed in the National Archives gained by first consulting an index to the various pension Acts and the years the payments were made: Agency Book E Act of 1832 - Payments 1832-18148 Page 342 - Act of 7 June 1832 - North Carolina Daniel Sullivan, Pvt., paid from March 1833 - last payd. September 1841, No date of death. (The above indicates that the pensioner was living on September 1841, but had died by the following March 1842 when another payment would have been due. Since there is no date of death, the National Archives will not search among the thousands and thousands of vouchers of Revolutionary War pension payments-there would be no family information because the payment was made to the pensioner himself).
Source: Daniel Sullivan, S7661, Revolutionary War Pension, The National Archives, Washington, D, C, Copied September 2, 1956 by Mrs. Mabel Van Dyke Baer Washington D. C, DANIEL SULLIVAN, Va. service, Revolutionary War, N. C. Agency; Cert, 16347 for $20 p.a, iss. 31 July 1833 from 4 Mar. 1831, Act 7 June 1832; sent to Wm. Roane, Morganton, N, C, (Allowed pension for 6 mo. service). Daniel Sullivan, resident of Burke Co., N. C., 70 years or thereabouts, applied for a pension pursuant to the Act of 7 June 1832, application dated 29 January 1833; deposed that in the Fall of 1780 he was called to march and join General Green; a pvt. in militia when he was 16 or 17 years old; under command of Col. Peter Perkins, Pa, mil., Capt. Thomas Smith; discharged after the battle of Guilford in Fall; ordered by Col. Penn, Va. militia, under Col. Cloud to oppose Tories on New River over the mountains, for 3 mo.; next tour under Major Marr against Tories about the Moravian towns in Stokes Co., N. C.; he signed his mark. In answer to interrogations Daniel Sullivan stated he was born in Pittsylvania, Va., March 2, 1763; from a memorandum taken from the County Court of Pittsylvania when he was bound out as a child; he was ignorant of writing so depended on what he was told by others who have examined the records for him; he was living in Pittsylvania Co., Va., when called into service and for five years after the war lived there and adjoining county of Henry, Va.; then moved to Burke Co., N. C., where he then lived (1833); he further stated he marched in the Revolutionary War according to orders; was a volunteer under Col. Perkins; joined Green's army near Banister Bridge not far from Halifax old town in Va.; Lee's Legion was with him and Col. Washington with his light horse; continued until before the battle of Guilford when furloughed to go home and get clothing; his home was not more than 50 or 60 miles from Guilford Court house and he reached the army again in the morning; after the battle he was in light infantry under Col. Washington from the old iron works, in close pursuit of Cornwallis near Cambden (sic) called Log Town; it was set on fire; Capt. Shaw gave him his discharge; he was out against the Tories under Cloud; they were stationed near the Gap of Blue Ridge about the head of the Dan River and called out at various times and permitted to go home after they performed duty; then called out again "and away we went;" when with Gen. Greene he was on duty with the commissary stores; on duty against Tories skulking about in such a way "we did not know where our enemy was, or when we would have to fight," He signed his mark, 28 January 1833. Richard Bird, Minister of the Gospel, Burke Co., N, C. deposed he was acquainted with Daniel Sullivan for 20 years, James Erwin, Clerk of the Court, and James G. England, J. P., Burke Co., N, C, attested and certified. Joseph Pyatt, Burke Co., 25 January 1833, deposed he was returning home from the army not far from Salisbury, N. C. and met Daniel Sullivan with his knapsack and "he said he was from the army and had been to Logtown and shot at the British." Notation: Date of death not on agency book. (This refers to the book of accounts of payments of semi-annual pension to pensioner. If the date of death is not entered in the book the last payment of pension was made to the pensioner himself, and there will be no information concerning his widow or heirs receiving the last payment.)
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