Shroud, Hampton

REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - HAMPTON STROUD, Catahoula Parish, LA
Contributed by: Leatha A. Betts (jlabetts@burgoyne.com)
Date: July 2002

Revolutionary War Pension application for Hampton Stroud, S36,789, p. 64-70

State of Mississippi
To Wit:

Hampton Stroud, a citizen of the county of Wilkinson in the said state, and late of Chester County in the state of South Carolina. This day personally appeared before me, John P. Hampton, one of the Judges of the Superior Court of law and Exfacto in said State of Mississippi and made oath, that he enlisted into the service of his country at the commencement of the Revolutionary War as a private soldier and continued to serve in that capacity, later in the Regular Army or as a volunteer against the British and Tories, until the Independence of the United States was served and acknowledged. That he served in Capt. George Wade's Compnay under General Sumpter and fought at Sumpter's Battle in the Catawba, and in a great number of skirmishes with the Enemy and their friends the Tories. He also fought in Capt. John Nixon's Compnay under General Williamson, of South Carolina; also in Capt. Smith's company under General Lincoln and fought at Stone's Ferry in the State of Georgia. That in a skirmish with the British and the Tories in South Carolina, was severely wounded in the right hand near the wrist of the area, by the cut of a sword, and in the left shoulder, by a musket ball. That he afterwards served in Capt. John Land's company and in skirmish near the Rocky Mount in South Carolina, he was taken prisoner and put in Irons, on board of a prison ship, where he remained until the close of the War, when a general exchange of prisoners, Fort Jehu. That he served his country faithfully, in the most dangerous and perilous situations, and has suffered much from fatigue, hunger, and wounds and cruel treatment inflicted on him by the enemy. That he has never received the compensation due for his services, nor any pension either from the General, after Governments; and that he is now old and severely in need of the appurtance of his country.

Hampton (x-his mark) Stroud

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 25th day of Aug. 1818

I, Henry Hampton, late of South Carolina, do certify that the above named Hampton Stroud served during the Revolutionary War for sixteen months at one time in a regiment commanded by Gen. Thomas Sumter and after the expiration of said service, continued his services to his country as a private soldier in some corps under the command of the said Sumter after he became a General and that the said Stroud was esteemed a brave soldier and from the first term of service herein mentioned received an honorable discharge.

Henry Hampton, Capt. in the 6th Reg. S. Car.
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Declaration in ordering to be continued to be on the Pension List under the Act
of May 1st 1820.

State of Louisiana
Parish of Catahoula

On this 3rd day of July 1827, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record for the parish of Catahoula and 7th Indisial District, State of Louisiana, Hampton Stroud, a resident of the said parish and State aforesaid, aged seventy years, who being suly sworn according to the law on his oath unto the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the Act of Congress of the 18 march 1818 and 1st May 1820.

That the said Hamton Stroud enlisted for the term of sixteen months on the ___day in the ____in the State of South Carolina in the Company commanded by Capt. George Wade in the Regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Sumpter in the line of South Carolina on the Continental Establishment. That he continued to serve in the said Corps until the expiration of the term of his enlistment, and after continued to served in different corps of the Revolutionary Army until the close of the War. When he was discharged in the State of South Carolina, that during the War he was in thirteen pitched battles, besides many skirmishes, was wounded at the Battle of the Hanging Rock and was afterwards taken prisoner by the British who threatened to hang him as they did his Brother, because he was accused of being a Whig and of hanging the Tories. That he hereby relinquinshes any claim whatsoever to a pension except the present. That his name has been placed on the pension list. That the number of his certificate is 8763 and that he never before exhibited a schedule of his property because he was not required to do it in obtaining his original certificate as a revolutionary pensioner and for that having lost said original certificate and of his position and being ingnorant of the necessary forms of proceedings under the Several Acts of Congress relating to revolutionary pensions until he obtained the advice of Council and then had said original certificate secured at the War Department. And in persuance of the Act of Congress of the 1 May 1820 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 Day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gifts of sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part doing with the intent thereby to diminsh it so as to bring myself with the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled as Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War prepeared on the 18th march 1818, In that I have not nor has any person or persons in trust for me any property or servants contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is continued in schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed. That since 18 March 1818, no changes have taken place in my property except the purchase of one feather bed and a few hogs being fifteen head of hogs that said Bed and Hogs schedule are in Estates of which I am possessed at this time having certify had sold under auction two old plough horses and four cows and calves to satisfy the costs that accrued against me in a suit which went against me in endeavoring to regain possession of a horse which had been stolen and sold to me. That I have no family being with me except my wife who is about fifty-seven years of age, whom I have to maintain or be maintained by my son, having lately been unable to work and have to live with my son who is indigent circumstances himself and a large family to support-- I have no occupation except farming which I am unable from age and infirmity to do but better but not enough to support within myself or wife where infirmity are incurring.

 I have received no pension for some years-- Hampton (x-his mark) Stroud

Sworn to and declared in Open Court on the 3rd day of July 1827
Saml. Lightner
Parish Judge in and for the Parish of Catahoula

I, Joseph J. Williams, Deputy Clerk for the District and Parish Court for the Parish of Catahoula State of Louisiana and do certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Hampton Stroud did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceeding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months and afterwords under one engagement in the Continental establishment and I do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule hereto annexed are truly copied from the *** and said court-and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited on the aforesaid schedule is fifty dollars.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of said
court this 3rd day of July 1827
J. J. Williams, Dep. Clerk
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Hampton Stroud received $61.18, 18 July 1827, contined annual payments until 22
April 1844.