Person:Thomas Pulliam (6)

American Revolutionary War Veteran

Revolutionary War Pension Information

Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 4, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :

Pullium, Thomas - entered service Culpeper County, Virginia, in Virginia regiment; granted Pension age 70 in 1832; Timothy Sisk & John Lillard made affidavit there then, per County Clerk of Court Francis T. Lightfoot. F-S5955, R1984.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 The Pension Roll of 1835: Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, in Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. (Washington, District of Columbia: Duff Green, 1835).

   Name: Thomas Pulliam
   Rank: Private
   Age: 72
   Birth Year: abt 1759
   Pension Enrollment Date: 4 Mar 1831
   Residence Place: Culpepper, Virginia, USA
   Death Date: 27 Aug 1831 - s/b 1832
   Service Description: Virginia militia

2.   Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.

   Pension Application of Thomas Pulliam S5955
   Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
   State of Virginia
   Culpeper County SS
   On this 13 day of August 1832, personally appeared in th open Court, before the Justices of Culpeper now sitting Thomas Pulliam a resident of the County of Culpeper in the state of Virginia, aged seventy 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 7th 1832. That he was drafted into the Militia service in the Company commanded by Captain Francis Nalle of the County of Culpeper State of Virginia, and marched in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel John Thornton from the said County and was marched to the Malvin Hill below Richmond [sic: Malvern Hill, 15 mi SE of Richmond] after being in service some time Colonel Allcock [probably Alcock] took command of the Regiment. That he continued in the service untill his term expired, which was for three months, and received his Discharge and returned home. That he was again drafted for a three months tour of duty in the Militia from the County of Culpeper in the Company commanded by Captain Armistead White, from the County of Culpeper and marched to the siege of York Town, and served his term of three months. That after the surrender [19 Oct 1781] he marched with the prisoners to Winchester, and after his tour expired was discharged at Winchester Virginia, that he served in all six Months, or upwards. He 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.
   Thomas hisXmark Pulliam
   NOTE:
   The following appears with the pension application of Owen Campbell (W6620).]
   State of Virginia } S.S.
   Culpeper County }
   This day Captain Robert Pulliam personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in the county aforesaid in the state of Virginia, and made Oath in due form of law, that he has been acquainted with Thomas Pulliam dec’d. an applicant for a pension from his infancy, that he said Robert Pulliam is sixty five years of age, and of his own knowledge knows, that said Thomas Pulliam served in the Revolutionary War, that said Thomas Pulliam was born and raised in the County of Culpeper State of Virginia, where he ever continued to live untill his death in the same neighbourhood with this affiant and that the said Thomas Pulliam departed this life the latter part of the month of September 1832. And this affiant farther certifies that he is well acquainted with Owen Campbell, that they were born and raised in the same neighbourhood, and that he knows that Owen Campbell entered the army in the Revolutionary War that they were during the war of the Revolution going to School together, Campbell then a man grown, and that he distinctly recollects of Campbell leaving the School to go in the army which he believes was in the year 1781. Given under my hand this 19th day of January 1833.
   A document in the file gives the date of death as 27 Aug 1832.
   
   http://revwarapps.org/s5955.pdf