* REVOLUTIONARY WAR *
Cornelius Clements, DAR Ancestor Number A009187, fought at the Battle of King's Mountain.
* PVT CORNELIUS CLEMENTS *
b. May 20, 1757 - d. July 28, 1860
* Appreciation-
Thank you to Robert Clark for visiting the gravesite of Pvt Cornelius Clements and for providing a photo of his marker stone for the memorial page in his honor. Pension # S.8218, BOUNTY LAND WARRANT # 7430-160-55
Cornelius Clements
State of North Carolina, Rutherford County
On the 23rd day April 1834, personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions now setting Cornelius Clements a resident of the United States in the County of Rutherford and State of North Carolina aged 77* years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following statement in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832 Sayeth that by reason of Old age and consequently loss of memory he cannot swear to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his memory not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grades and for which service he claims a pension.
From the best of my recollection in the winter of 1780 I was drafted under Capt. Gilkey
[Robert Gilkey] commanded by Col. Hampton [Andrew Hampton] we was marched in pursuit of Ferguson [Maj. Patrick Ferguson] down Broad River into South Carolina near Thicketty Fort.
From there we returned home. This tour was not less than one month. On my return I was
ordered on and stationed on the lines in Mumford's Cove where I stayed until my three months was out. In the latter part of the same year I was called again under Capt. James Withrow and Col. Miller [Lt. Col. James Miller] and Major Singleton [probably Major Richard Singleton]. This was not less than three months. We was first marched down Broad River [from S.W., NC into N.W. SC,] to South Carolina, then across to Catawba on the Yadkin [River, Northern N.C.] we was kept moving during this service. Major Singleton who kept the command was very industrious. In the summer of 1781 I served a tower [tour] of three months under Capt. Lumpkin [Ewell Lumpkin] and Col. Malmandy's [Francis de Malmedy, Marquis of Bretagne] command. I was joining the main Army under General Green [Nathanael Greene] at the high hills Santee, at which place we made our stand, from that place marched back to Charlotte N.C. where we was discharged. This makes my service Nine months and for which service I claim a pension. I hereby do relinquish every claim to pension except present and declare his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of the state whatsoever.
Question 1st by the Court: Where and what year were you born.
Answer: From information I was born near Augusta Georgia in the year 1757.
Question 2nd: Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
Answer: I have it from the family record at home.
Question 3rd: Where was you living when called into service? Where have you lived during the Revolutionary war? And where do you now live?
Answer: From the best of my recollection I came to Rutherford County North Carolina in year 1779 and have remained in the same County ever since.
Question 4th: How were you called into service? Were you Drafted? Did you volunteer? or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom?
Answer: I was drafted and served as above stated three tours 9 months.
Question 5th: State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served such Continental and Militia regiment as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service.
Answer: I recollect to have served under General Green and Col. Malmandy, Col. Hampton, Col. Miller and Major Singleton. I know we had much trouble and fatigue we was often closely pursued by the enemy. We sometimes rushed them close.
Question 6th: did you ever receive a discharge from the service? and if so by whom was it given and what was become of it.
Answer: In my first two tours I have no recollection that I rec'd any. In my last tour I rec'd a
discharge which there with enclosed.
Question 7th: State the names of some persons to whom you are known in your present
neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and good behavior and you service as a revolutionary Soldier.
John Padgett - William Watson – S/ T.F. Burdutt, Clk. –
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Cornelius Clements, DAR Ancestor Number A009187, fought at the Battle of King's Mountain.
* PVT CORNELIUS CLEMENTS *
b. May 20, 1757 - d. July 28, 1860
* Appreciation-
Thank you to Robert Clark for visiting the gravesite of Pvt Cornelius Clements and for providing a photo of his marker stone for the memorial page in his honor. Pension # S.8218, BOUNTY LAND WARRANT # 7430-160-55
Cornelius Clements
State of North Carolina, Rutherford County
On the 23rd day April 1834, personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions now setting Cornelius Clements a resident of the United States in the County of Rutherford and State of North Carolina aged 77* years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following statement in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832 Sayeth that by reason of Old age and consequently loss of memory he cannot swear to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his memory not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grades and for which service he claims a pension.
From the best of my recollection in the winter of 1780 I was drafted under Capt. Gilkey
[Robert Gilkey] commanded by Col. Hampton [Andrew Hampton] we was marched in pursuit of Ferguson [Maj. Patrick Ferguson] down Broad River into South Carolina near Thicketty Fort.
From there we returned home. This tour was not less than one month. On my return I was
ordered on and stationed on the lines in Mumford's Cove where I stayed until my three months was out. In the latter part of the same year I was called again under Capt. James Withrow and Col. Miller [Lt. Col. James Miller] and Major Singleton [probably Major Richard Singleton]. This was not less than three months. We was first marched down Broad River [from S.W., NC into N.W. SC,] to South Carolina, then across to Catawba on the Yadkin [River, Northern N.C.] we was kept moving during this service. Major Singleton who kept the command was very industrious. In the summer of 1781 I served a tower [tour] of three months under Capt. Lumpkin [Ewell Lumpkin] and Col. Malmandy's [Francis de Malmedy, Marquis of Bretagne] command. I was joining the main Army under General Green [Nathanael Greene] at the high hills Santee, at which place we made our stand, from that place marched back to Charlotte N.C. where we was discharged. This makes my service Nine months and for which service I claim a pension. I hereby do relinquish every claim to pension except present and declare his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of the state whatsoever.
Question 1st by the Court: Where and what year were you born.
Answer: From information I was born near Augusta Georgia in the year 1757.
Question 2nd: Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
Answer: I have it from the family record at home.
Question 3rd: Where was you living when called into service? Where have you lived during the Revolutionary war? And where do you now live?
Answer: From the best of my recollection I came to Rutherford County North Carolina in year 1779 and have remained in the same County ever since.
Question 4th: How were you called into service? Were you Drafted? Did you volunteer? or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom?
Answer: I was drafted and served as above stated three tours 9 months.
Question 5th: State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served such Continental and Militia regiment as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service.
Answer: I recollect to have served under General Green and Col. Malmandy, Col. Hampton, Col. Miller and Major Singleton. I know we had much trouble and fatigue we was often closely pursued by the enemy. We sometimes rushed them close.
Question 6th: did you ever receive a discharge from the service? and if so by whom was it given and what was become of it.
Answer: In my first two tours I have no recollection that I rec'd any. In my last tour I rec'd a
discharge which there with enclosed.
Question 7th: State the names of some persons to whom you are known in your present
neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and good behavior and you service as a revolutionary Soldier.
John Padgett - William Watson – S/ T.F. Burdutt, Clk. –
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* REVOLUTIONARY WAR *
Cornelius Clements, DAR Ancestor Number A009187, fought at the Battle of King's Mountain.
* PVT CORNELIUS CLEMENTS *
b. May 20, 1757 - d. July 28, 1860
* Appreciation-
Thank you to Robert Clark for visiting the gravesite of Pvt Cornelius Clements and for providing a photo of his marker stone for the memorial page in his honor. Pension # S.8218, BOUNTY LAND WARRANT # 7430-160-55
Cornelius Clements
State of North Carolina, Rutherford County
On the 23rd day April 1834, personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions now setting Cornelius Clements a resident of the United States in the County of Rutherford and State of North Carolina aged 77* years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following statement in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832 Sayeth that by reason of Old age and consequently loss of memory he cannot swear to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his memory not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grades and for which service he claims a pension.
From the best of my recollection in the winter of 1780 I was drafted under Capt. Gilkey
[Robert Gilkey] commanded by Col. Hampton [Andrew Hampton] we was marched in pursuit of Ferguson [Maj. Patrick Ferguson] down Broad River into South Carolina near Thicketty Fort.
From there we returned home. This tour was not less than one month. On my return I was
ordered on and stationed on the lines in Mumford's Cove where I stayed until my three months was out. In the latter part of the same year I was called again under Capt. James Withrow and Col. Miller [Lt. Col. James Miller] and Major Singleton [probably Major Richard Singleton]. This was not less than three months. We was first marched down Broad River [from S.W., NC into N.W. SC,] to South Carolina, then across to Catawba on the Yadkin [River, Northern N.C.] we was kept moving during this service. Major Singleton who kept the command was very industrious. In the summer of 1781 I served a tower [tour] of three months under Capt. Lumpkin [Ewell Lumpkin] and Col. Malmandy's [Francis de Malmedy, Marquis of Bretagne] command. I was joining the main Army under General Green [Nathanael Greene] at the high hills Santee, at which place we made our stand, from that place marched back to Charlotte N.C. where we was discharged. This makes my service Nine months and for which service I claim a pension. I hereby do relinquish every claim to pension except present and declare his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of the state whatsoever.
Question 1st by the Court: Where and what year were you born.
Answer: From information I was born near Augusta Georgia in the year 1757.
Question 2nd: Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
Answer: I have it from the family record at home.
Question 3rd: Where was you living when called into service? Where have you lived during the Revolutionary war? And where do you now live?
Answer: From the best of my recollection I came to Rutherford County North Carolina in year 1779 and have remained in the same County ever since.
Question 4th: How were you called into service? Were you Drafted? Did you volunteer? or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom?
Answer: I was drafted and served as above stated three tours 9 months.
Question 5th: State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served such Continental and Militia regiment as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service.
Answer: I recollect to have served under General Green and Col. Malmandy, Col. Hampton, Col. Miller and Major Singleton. I know we had much trouble and fatigue we was often closely pursued by the enemy. We sometimes rushed them close.
Question 6th: did you ever receive a discharge from the service? and if so by whom was it given and what was become of it.
Answer: In my first two tours I have no recollection that I rec'd any. In my last tour I rec'd a
discharge which there with enclosed.
Question 7th: State the names of some persons to whom you are known in your present
neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and good behavior and you service as a revolutionary Soldier.
John Padgett - William Watson – S/ T.F. Burdutt, Clk. –
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Cornelius Clements, DAR Ancestor Number A009187, fought at the Battle of King's Mountain.
* PVT CORNELIUS CLEMENTS *
b. May 20, 1757 - d. July 28, 1860
* Appreciation-
Thank you to Robert Clark for visiting the gravesite of Pvt Cornelius Clements and for providing a photo of his marker stone for the memorial page in his honor. Pension # S.8218, BOUNTY LAND WARRANT # 7430-160-55
Cornelius Clements
State of North Carolina, Rutherford County
On the 23rd day April 1834, personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions now setting Cornelius Clements a resident of the United States in the County of Rutherford and State of North Carolina aged 77* years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following statement in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832 Sayeth that by reason of Old age and consequently loss of memory he cannot swear to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his memory not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grades and for which service he claims a pension.
From the best of my recollection in the winter of 1780 I was drafted under Capt. Gilkey
[Robert Gilkey] commanded by Col. Hampton [Andrew Hampton] we was marched in pursuit of Ferguson [Maj. Patrick Ferguson] down Broad River into South Carolina near Thicketty Fort.
From there we returned home. This tour was not less than one month. On my return I was
ordered on and stationed on the lines in Mumford's Cove where I stayed until my three months was out. In the latter part of the same year I was called again under Capt. James Withrow and Col. Miller [Lt. Col. James Miller] and Major Singleton [probably Major Richard Singleton]. This was not less than three months. We was first marched down Broad River [from S.W., NC into N.W. SC,] to South Carolina, then across to Catawba on the Yadkin [River, Northern N.C.] we was kept moving during this service. Major Singleton who kept the command was very industrious. In the summer of 1781 I served a tower [tour] of three months under Capt. Lumpkin [Ewell Lumpkin] and Col. Malmandy's [Francis de Malmedy, Marquis of Bretagne] command. I was joining the main Army under General Green [Nathanael Greene] at the high hills Santee, at which place we made our stand, from that place marched back to Charlotte N.C. where we was discharged. This makes my service Nine months and for which service I claim a pension. I hereby do relinquish every claim to pension except present and declare his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of the state whatsoever.
Question 1st by the Court: Where and what year were you born.
Answer: From information I was born near Augusta Georgia in the year 1757.
Question 2nd: Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
Answer: I have it from the family record at home.
Question 3rd: Where was you living when called into service? Where have you lived during the Revolutionary war? And where do you now live?
Answer: From the best of my recollection I came to Rutherford County North Carolina in year 1779 and have remained in the same County ever since.
Question 4th: How were you called into service? Were you Drafted? Did you volunteer? or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom?
Answer: I was drafted and served as above stated three tours 9 months.
Question 5th: State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served such Continental and Militia regiment as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service.
Answer: I recollect to have served under General Green and Col. Malmandy, Col. Hampton, Col. Miller and Major Singleton. I know we had much trouble and fatigue we was often closely pursued by the enemy. We sometimes rushed them close.
Question 6th: did you ever receive a discharge from the service? and if so by whom was it given and what was become of it.
Answer: In my first two tours I have no recollection that I rec'd any. In my last tour I rec'd a
discharge which there with enclosed.
Question 7th: State the names of some persons to whom you are known in your present
neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and good behavior and you service as a revolutionary Soldier.
John Padgett - William Watson – S/ T.F. Burdutt, Clk. –
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