February 23, 1830

Hon. J. C. Martin, H. of R.

Sir: The papers in the case of Thomas Fulton have been examined. He alleges to have belonged to a company of rangers stationed on the frontier of Virginia to repel hostile incursions of the Indians in 1775, and continued six months. In 1776, he was drafted and marched to Detroit, and remained six months. In 1778 was drafted for three months and was marched into N. Carolina. In 1781 enlisted for nine months to guard the Virginia frontier as in his first tour, and in the last year of the war was drafted to go to the Ohio under General Wayne, when hearing of the surrender of Cornwallis was discharged. He resided on the frontier of Virginia and in common with other frontier inhabitants voluntarily associated themselves for their own protection from Indian depredations. Those who were so engaged were never considered as being placed on the footing of soldiers drafted or enlisted for the public defense and were not called out by authority of the State nor entitled to pay. The tour of three months to N. C. was of a different character but having been for three months instead of the required six months, therefore. The claim has been accordingly rejected.

Declaration Amendeth

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 1st of June 1832 State of Tennessee, Wayne County:

On the ninth day of September 1835 personally appeared before me, John C. Richardson, an acting Instru. of the ____ and for said county, Thomas Fulton, a resident of said County and State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration test:

That he had no Register of his age other than as follows. He was married the day he was twenty two years of age which was the 25th day of August and his first child was born about nine months thereafter, who from information had he believes to have been fifty five years old last May. Consequently, the declarant must have been born on the 25th day of August 1757. That he was enrolled on the musterlist at sixteen in Augusta County, State of Virginia which must have been in the year of 1773. That in the April of the year following (1774) he volunteered and served three months tour against the Shawnee Indians in the State of Virginia under General Andrew Lewis, Col William Lewis, Maj. Donley, & Captain James Gay during this service he was in the Battle fought with the Shawnee Indians near the mouth of the Big Kanhawa in Greenbrier County, Virginia in which Battle Col. Lewis was killed. He was discharged from this service at Col. Dickinsons on Calf Pasture River, Augusta County, Virginia February of the following year (1775). He was drafted and served a three months tour at Dunlap's Fort in the head of Green Brier in protecting the Virginia Frontiers form the Indians and he entered this service by order of Col. Dickinson of Augusta County and while in service, was under the immediate command of Captain Alexander Dunlap who was the highest officer in command at the Fort. He was discharged from this last service by Col. Dickinson after he served out his time and returned home.

In August of the year following (1776) he was drafted and served a six months tour against the British at Fort Detroit in this service he was under the command of Gen'l Sullivan (the Col & Maj. he does not remember) and Capt. James Guy during the time he remained at Detroit there was an engagement had by a part of our men with the Indians about a half a mile from the Fort in which engagement as well as he can recollect nine or ten Indians were killed. He was discharged from the service by Col. Dickinson after he was marched back again to Augusta County. During all the aforementioned service he lived in Augusta County.

In the fall of the next year (1777) he removed to Green Brier County in the State of Virginia in the year after (1778) he volunteered and served a three months tour under Maj. George Paris against the Tories in Montgomery County, South Carolina. He engaged in this service voluntarily without any orders or requisitions for men by the Gen'l or State Authority.

The year of the taking of Cornwallis, he was drafted about the first of March to join Gen'l Wayne. Arriving at the Falls of Ohio with intention of going to Orleans to repel the British at that place. When we had marched as far as Logan's Station in Kentucky fore received news of the Surrender of Cornwallis and men disbanded and discharged at Logan's Station in this service there were five companies under the command of Maj. John Quirk, a Regular Officer, my Captain was Andrew Hamilton. I was drafted into this service by order of Col. Donley of Green Brier County, Virginia and in the fall of the same year He enlisted for nine months and served under Captain Hugh Caferton (?) in guarding the Virginia Frontier in Green Brier County against the Indians during the whole Nine months. He was only one week at home, the officers in command were Col. Conley, Maj. George Clendennen and Captain Caferton above named. He was discharged from this service at Savannah in Green Brier County. He is unable to prove any of the above state service except one three months tour which he proved by Jacob Kissinger or Rissoner, (a pensioner on the roll of West Tennessee) whose testimony was forwarded to the War Department with his former declaration which reference he had stated that he has stated his services as fully as his advanced age and loss of memory will permit. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any Agency in any State......

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Thomas X Fulton

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Subscribed to by John A. Richardson

Thomas M. East, Clerk

James C. Alderson, Clerk

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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832.

State of Tennessee, Wayne County. ss.

On the thirteenth day of September 1834, personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the County court of Wayne County, now sitting Thomas Fulton, a resident of the said county of Wayne in the State of Tennessee, aged as far as he can recollect seventy seven years the 25th day of August last, who being first duly sworn according to law doth as his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. He was drafted in Augusta County, State of Virginia in the year 1775 and marched under the command of Captain James Guy (or Gay) in Colonel Dickinson's Regiment to Fort Detroit for the purpose of repelling the British who were trying to affect a landing at that place. He continued in this service at Detroit five months and then marched back again to Augusta County in Virginia and discharged, having continued in all, in the service at that time six months the term for which he was drafted. About two months after being discharged from the above services, he was again drafted and served a three months tour, under Captain Alexander Dunlap in guarding the frontiers on the Head of Green Brier River at the Clover Licks in the following year he volunteered and served a three months tour under Capt. James Guy, Col. Andrew Lewis and General Thomas Lewis against the Shawnee Indians and was in the battle fought with the Shawnee Indians at the mouth of the Big Kenhawa (sic) which Battle continued from about sunrise till the sun was only about half an hour high in the evening in the year 1777. He was again drafted in Green Brier County, Virginia and marched under the command of Captain Andrew Hamilton and Major Quirk who was a Regular officer to Logan's Station on Dicks River in the State of Kentucky against the Indians and continued in the service at this time three months there and in this service five companies, one under Captain Armstrong, one under Captain John Woods, the other two I do not now recollect at the Caf.... In the year 1779 he listed to guard the frontiers of Virginia and served nine months in this service under Captain Hugh Caferton and Colonel George Clendenon and General Thomas Lewis during this nine months Tour he was engaged on New River at he mouth of Green Brier and at the mouth of Big Kenhawa Point Pleasant ____?

1. Where and in what year were you born?

1st answer: I was born in Amherst County, State of Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. as near as I can recollect in the year 1757.

2nd ansr. I have no record of my age.

3rd ansr. When called into service I lived in Augusta County, Virginia and lived there during the time of the then first mentioned tour of service at the time of the two last mentioned tours, I lived in Green Brier County, Virginia, from thence I moved to Knox County, Tennessee, from thence to Clark County, Kentucky, from thence to Wayne County, Kentucky, from thence to Lawrence County, Alabama, from thence to Wayne County, Tennessee where I now live and have lived about seven years.

4th ansr. I have stated how I was called into service in the foregoing part of this Declaration

5th ansr. and also as many of the names of the officers as I can recollect and the circumstances of my service.

6th ansr. I never received but one discharge which was given by Col. Dickenson for the first tour and which I have lost.

7th. The Rev. Cary W. Pope, Thomas G. Harvey, Esq., William Williams, William Kisner, William Nettle, Jacob Meredith, William Murphey, Esq.; and many others are all acquainted with me and can testify as to my character for veracity and their belief of my service as a soldier of the Revolution.

He knows of no person by whom he can prove any part of the service except the last tour of three months, which I can prove by Jacob Kisner, who was with me and who lives in the Western part of this State (and whose evidence is hereunto annexed do.)..........Again his mark and Thos. M. East, Clerk. Rev. Cary W. Pope, a clergyman residing in the County of Wayne and William Williams and Thomas G. Harvey certify that they are acquainted with Thomas Fulton who is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a soldier of the Revolution. 10 Sept. 1834.