Triplett Family - William Triplett - Pension Request Documentation

This is a response letter written in 1933 to Gertrude Hagler who requested information about William Triplett's pension record from the National Archives. It reads as follows: 

August 22, 1933.

BA-J/Ill

William Triplett

R. 10706

Gertrude Hagler
Golder City, Missouri.

R. F. D. #2

Dear Madam:

          Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of William Triplett and John Hagler, early settlers of Wilkes County, North Carolina.

          A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and no record found of a claim for pension or bounty land on file made to the United States based upon service of a John Hagler, various spellings of the surname searched.

          The record of William Triplett is given below as found in the papers on file in his pension claim, R. 10706, based upon his service in that war.

          William Triplett was born November 15, 1763, in Loudoun County, Virginia, and, at an early age, moved with his father to North Carolina. In 1780, his mother was a widow; The names of his parents, and the dates of their births and deaths are not shown. William Triplett moved from North Carolina about the year 1803 and settled in Russell County, Kentucky, in which county he continued to reside until 1832.

On October, 30, 1832, William Triplett applied for pension and stated that in the year 1782,  William Triplett applied for pension and stated that in the year 1782, he enlisted in Wilkes County, North Carolina, as private for five months in Captain William Sloan's North Carolina company, but that because his assistance was needed at home, he hired a substitute to serve the term of that enlistment, and that he volunteered, again in Wilkes County, North Carolina, marched from home and served three months as private in Captain John Kees' North Carolina company, and that during this time, he joined the troops under General Charles McDowell and assisted in the destruction of some Indian towns of the Cherokee Nation.

          His claim was not allowed as he himself did not render service of six months as required by the pension law under which he applied.

          It is not stated in the papers in this pension claim the William Triplett, the soldier, was married.

Very truly yours,                       

A.D. HILLER                    ,

Assistan t to Administrator.

 

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