The State of South Carolina, York District:
On this 23rd day of October in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared James B. Fulton in open court now holding for the district aforesaid and the Honorable Isaiah(?) Evans one of the judges of the Court of General Sessions & Common Pleas of the said State presiding therein. The said James B. Fulton being now a resident of the state and district aforesaid ages sixty-eight years of age who being 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 viz. that he was born in Burlington County, town of Bordenton, New Jersey in the year 1765 on the 21 January as he learnt from his father’s family Bible in which his age was recorded which he copied into his own Bible. That his father and the declarant with him removed to Frederick County afterwards Montgomery County Maryland when the declarant was about six years of age. That he continued to reside there until the year 1781 and in this year he was drafted as a militia man and entered the service of the United States in May of that year under Captain Richard Walters of the 3rd Maryland Regiment commanded by Col. Adams and afterwards attached to Gen’l Gist’s Bridage under the command of General Washington. That his company first rendevouzed at Georgetown and marched from there to Annapolis to the regiment above named. That from there he marched under the same officers about the last of August or first of September to Yorktown where he remained in active service in the beseiging army and had the honor of bearing his part in the action which so gloriously resulted in the capture of Lord Cornwallis. That this declarant was drafted for the term of nine months. That after the Battle of Yorktown he marched back to Annapolis where he was discharged from service about as he thinks the first of December. He can state positively that he was in actual service as a private militia man for more than six months. That his discharge and has no documentary evidence of his service [sic]. That he removed to the State of South Carolina in the year 1787 and being at a distance from his fellow soldiers he can procure the evidence of no person that he knows of to his service except that of Aquila Dyson which is submitted. This declarant on being asked which of the regular officers he knew states that he knew Capt. _____, Capt. Gray, Gen. Wayne Steuben and Washington. He hereby relinquishes every claim to any pension or annuity whatever except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid in open court.
(signed) J.B. Fullton
Robert B. Walker, a clergyman residing in York District, and Benjamin Chambers residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James B. Fulton the named applicant and that we believe him to be of the age of sixty-eight years. That he is well known in this district. And in this district generally and in the neighborhood he resides in he is reputed and believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Etc. (signed).
Two Supporting Documents:
Land Office, Annapolis, Dec 3rd 1833:
It appears by a paper on file in this office headed as follows: “A List of 30 persons draughted in Montgomery County on a Tuesday the 15th day of May 1781 pursuant to the Act of Assembly entitled ‘An Act to Procure Recruits’,” on this list the name James B. Fulton appears for Class no. 14. On the militia Pay Roll the name is entered James P. Fulton. I have no doubt however that it is the same person. By this roll it appears that he was discharged on the 3rd day of December 1781 and received 16 [pounds] 10 [shillings].
(signed) George G. Brown
South Carolina, York District:
Before me Richard Sadler one of the Justices of quorum for the district aforesaid came Aquila Dyson who says on oath that in the year 1781 about the month of May he was in company with James B. Fulton heard him say that he was draughted on a [nine months] tour and was immediately going in the Army immediately [sic]. That a certain man by the name of Hickmon who served as a substitute for the father of this depondent was instructed to inquire in the army for the said Fulton reported when he came home that he saw Fulton in Washington’s army. That he heard Fulton boast at his [-----] of his being at the taking of Cornwallis when he was in company with men who could contradict him. That his transaction took [place] in the state of Maryland, Montgomery County. Sworn to and subscribed Oct 15th, 1833,
(signed) Aquila Dyson
Application of Anastasia Fulton for a Widow’s Pension:
State of South Carolina, York District:
On this twenty-seventh day of September eighteen hundred and fifty personally appeared before the Court of Ordinary which is a court of record sitting for the district and state aforesaid Anastasia Fulton a resident of the state and district aforesaid aged about eighty-six years past who first being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed on the second February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of James B. Fulton, late of the state and district aforesaid, who was a private in the Revolution and a pensioner under the Act of Congress of 7th June 1832 at the rate of twenty-two dollars ($22.-) per annum. That she was married to the said James B. Fulton in Montgomery County, Maryland on the 27th day of May 1787 by the Rev. James Hunt. That her husband the said James B. Fulton died on the 26th April 1848. All of which will appear by reference to the leaf or leaves from the family Bible hereunto [attached] being the true record of the events to which it relates. She further swears that she is still a widow and that she has never before made any application for a pension.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before J.M. Ross.
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Anastasia (A.S.F.) Fulton
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