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Birth: Feb 1752 Death: 17 Feb 1834 Milledgeville / Baldwin / GA
Qualifying Service Description:
ALSO PVT, Captain ANDREW WAGGONER, Colonel JAMES WOOD, 12TH REGT
Additional References:
Rev War Pension *S37901
NARA, M881, COMP MIL SERV RECS, ROLL #1075
Spouse: XX XX Children: James;
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Excerpted from the Revolutionary War Pension of James Duncan, *S37901:
Georgia Baldwin County SS:
James Duncan on this 19th day of November Eighteen hundred and twenty seven, personally appeared in Open Court (the Superior Court of Baldwin County being made a Court of record by the Constitution and Laws of said State), who being duly sworn saith, that he is at present a resident in the Town of Milledgeville in the State and County aforesaid aged seventy four years in February last, doth on his oath say and make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the first of May 1820. That he the said James Duncan in the year 1776 enlisted for the term of two years, at Pittsburg on the Ohio under the command of Captain Andrew Waggener, attached afterward to the Regiment of Captain James Wood, in the Continental line. That he served nearly the whole of the term of his enlistment and was honorably discharged by Colonel Wood at Winchester Virginia. That sometime in the year 1781 a few days before the Battle at Guilford in North Carolina deponent lost his pocket book containing said discharge which he has never been able to find it. That he was eighteen months as a volunteer in the southern army under General Green, that during the whole of the Revolutionary War he was engaged in the service of the United States that he was at the Battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Guilford, Eutaw Springs at the Siege of Ninety Six and in divers other skirmishes and reconnoitering parties. That in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income whatever nor any property, but the necessary bedding and clothing for myself and family.
Sworn to in Open Court before me this 19th November 1827.
James Duncan
Author: Kenneth Scott Collins
James Duncan b. 2/1752 d. 2/17/1834 BALDWIN COUNTY, GEORGIA
In 1776, he enlisted at "Pittsburg on the Ohio" and served as a private in the Virginia Continental Line. He later received a pension for his services as a resident of Milledgeville, Georgia.
Buried: Milledgeville City Cemetery.
See: (1) Abstracts of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots. Reported to D.A.R. in 1936.
(2) Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine. February 1970, p. 159.
(3) Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, v. 1, p. 1038.
(4) Georgia's Roster of the Revolution, p. 438.
(5) The Pension Roll of 1835, p. 135.
Source: Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 1, by Ross Arnold & Hank Burnham with additions and corrections by: Mary Jane Galer, Dr. Julian Kelly, Jr., and Ryan Groenke. Edited by: Ryan Groenke.
A Georgia County-by-County compilation of Revolutionary War Patriots who made Georgia their permanent home and died here, including information on service history, birth dates, death dates and places of burial with an index.
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