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THE DESCENDANTS OF J0HN CLOUD FROM 1740, BY PHILIP WILLIAM CLOUD
1058 EAST MORNINGSIDE STREET, SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI: JANUARY 12, 1976:
(1) John Cloud. Born: February 5, 1740. North Carolina.
Died: January 1840. Natchitoches
County, La. Married: Elizabeth Lacey,
Kentucky.
SERVICE Cloud, John
NUMBER
Ga.
S. 30.935
S.C. LOUISIANA
NA 22
22490
AT NATCHITOCHES IN THE STATE OF LOUISIANA WHO WAS: A private in the Co. Commanded
by Captain Steward of the Brigade Commanded by Col. Seriven in the Geo. Line
for two years.
INSCRIBED ON THE ROLL OF Louisiana with the rate of 80 dollars 00 cents per
annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831. CERTIFICATE OF PENSION ISSUED
the 15th day of Nov. 1833, and sent to Gen'l. H. Leavenworth, Fort Jesuse, La.
ARREARS TO THE 4th of Sept. 1833, 200.00
SEMI-ANU. ALLOWANCE ENDING Mar. 1834 40.00
$ 240.00
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
RECORDED BY ???? PALMER, CLERK
BOOK E. VOL. 8 PAGE 32.
STATE OF LOUISIANA) SS
PARISH OF NATCHITOCHES)
On this 27th day of August L833 personally appeared before the parish
court, parish of Natchitoches John Cloud a resident of said Parish of Natchitoches,
and State of Louisiana, aged ninety three years on the 5th day of February 1833,
who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make this following
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act
of congress dated June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States
under the following named officers and served as herein stated:
In the year 1776 as this declarent believes he volunteered in the
militia of South Carolina under General Williams. The name of the Captain of
Colonel of the Regiment he cannot now recollect. At this time he resided in
what was then called Wilkes County, State of Georgia. This tour lasted about
one month. The declarant cannot recollect precisely. He marched on this town
from White Hall in South Carolina to Rayborn's Creek. He recollects a Colonel
Thompson and a Colonel Richardson who served in the same outfit. In the same
winter or early the next spring he enlisted under Capt. Lenn Narbary for eighteen
months. The name of the Lieutenant of the Company was Hatton Middleton. At the
time he enlisted he belonged in the State of Georgia as before stated. He served
out his enlistment and received a discharge from Capt. Lenn Narbary, when discharged
he lived in his father's house in Georgia. When the house was burned by the
Tories his discharge (as on support) burned with it. During this time he was
stationed in a fort on Aquchee River. After his discharge he returned home where
the people were all then forted to protect themselves from Tories & Indians.
Soon after he returned from his tour under Capt. Narbary (he cannot
recollect in what year he was drafted in the Militia of Georgia and served under
Captain Duley. This tour lasted two weeks. He then belonged in Georgia, same
County as before mentioned, but were all now from home into the Fort. During
this tour he marched from Wilkes County, Georgia to the Cherokee Towns. Their
party killed some Indians and burned two Indian towns.
After the tour last mentioned, he very soon enlisted in said County
of Wilkes under Capt. John Steward of cavalry to scout against Indians in the
upper part of Georgia. He served under this enlistment eighteen months. He believes
that Captain Steward was commissioned by Congress or General Washington. He
was stationed during this tour on Broad River in Georgia for nearly the whole
time, but was sent to Fort Barrington. Colonel Scriven joined the command and
they marched up said river on a scout against Tories. He served out the whole
of this enlistment & obtained a discharge, which shared the same fate as the
one herein the before mentioned and was burned at the same time.
He then went over into South Carolina and volunteered under Captain Wilson,
General Williamson was the general in command. This tour lasted the whole summer,
or six months. The command marched to St. Mary's to attack St. Augustin. The
troops marched to St. Mary's where they lay for sometime and then returned back
& were dismissed.
The next tour he performed was in the Militia of Georgia, as a volunteer
under General Clark. He marched from South Carolina to Carr's Fort in Wilkes
County in Georgia. The troops at this time had to run off in the night & come
back in the night. He cannot say precisely how long this tour lasted and it
was not but a few days.
The next tour he served as a volunteer under the same General Clark.
He marched during this tour from Wilkes County, in Georgia to Augusta and the
tour lasted for one week, when a Colonel Cruger of the British Army came with
a reinforcement & drove off the Americans.
The next tour he volunteered under the same General Clark and served
the whole time as a soldier, and was engaged in no civil occupation or pursuit
until after the surrender of Lord Cornwallis.
He served as a private the whole time and in no other rank. He hereby
relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present,
and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any
State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
His
John (X) Cloud
mark
The G.B. Blane, a Clergyman residing in the Parish of Natchitoches and H.
Leavenworth residing in same parish hereby certify that we are acquainted with
John Cloud who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe
him to be ninety three years of age, that he is respected and believed in the
Parish where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we
concur in that opinion.
Sworn & subscribed this day and year aforesaid.
G. Blane H.
Leavenworth.
STATE OF LOUISIANA}
PARISH OF NATCHITOCHES) SS
Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, Parish
of Natchitoches, John Cloud who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that by
reason of old age, and the consequence loss of memory, he cannot swear positively,
as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection,
he served not lest than the periods mentioned in his declaration hereunto answered
and in the grade of a private soldier and as no other grade: To wit: For more
than two years; and that during that length of time he was not employed in any
civil pursuit.
His
John (X) Cloud
mark
Sworn & subscribed by making his mark this 27th day of August
1833 before me. H. Williams, Justice of the Peace, Parish of Natchitoches.
WHERE AND WHAT YEAR WERE YOU BORN?
ANSWER: I was born in North Carolina on a creek called New Light Creek, and
in the year 1740.
HAVE YOU ANY RECORD OF YOUR AGE, AND IF SO, WHERE IS IT? ANSWER: I have none.
WHERE WERE YOU LIVING WHEN CALLED INTO SERVICE: WHERE HAVE YOU LIVED SINCE
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, AND WHERE DO YOU LIVE NOW?
ANSWER: I have lived since the war of the revolution in the states of Georgia,
South Carolina, Kentucky and Louisiana. The other part of the question is answered
as fully as I am able in my declaration.
HOW WERE YOU CALLED INTO SERVICE, WERE YOU DRAFTED, DID YOU VOLUNTEER, OR
WERE YOU A SUBSTITUTE? AND IF A SUBSTITUTE FOR WHOM?
ANSWER: All that matter is as I have stated in my declaration.
STATE THE NAMES OF SOME OF THE REGULAR OFFICERS WHO WERE WITH THE TROOPS
WHERE YOU SERVED: SUCH CONTINENTAL AND MILITIA REGIMENTS AS YOU CAN RECOLLECT
AND THE GENERAL CIRCUMSTANCES OF YOUR SERVICE.
ANSWER: I cannot state these matters more fully than I have done in my declaration.
DID YOU EVER RECEIVE A DISCHARGE FROM THE SERVICE, AND IF SO, BY WHOM WAS
IT GIVEN AND WHAT HAS BECOME OF IT?
ANSWER: I have stated all I am able to say as to this question in my declaration.
STATE OF LOUISIANA)
PARISH OF NATCHITOCHES) SS
Bailey Anderson being duly sworn saith that he is personally acquainted with
John Cloud now of the Parish of Natchitoches and from conversation with him
in relation to the events of the war of ,the revolution as to facts which are
well known to this despondent
knows the said John Cloud-was a soldier and served in the Militia and otherwise.
This deponent has heard the declaration of said cloud read, which
is hereunto annexed and he has no doubt that said declaration is true and that
he served as therin stated.
His
Bailey (X) Anderson
mark
Sworn and subscribed by making his mark this 27 day of August 1833 before
me. F.H. Williams, Justice of the Peace, Parish of Natchitoches.
STATE OF LOUISIANA) SS
PARISH OF NATCHITOCHES)
Samuel Thompson being duly sworn saith that he is and or several years has
been acquainted with John Cloud the declarant in the declaration hereunto annexed
named, and that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides
to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary War. He has no doubt that he served
as stated in said declaration.
Samuel Thompson
Sworn & subscribed this 27 day of August 1833 before me.
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation
of the matter, and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department,
that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he
stated. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that in the
J.B. Blane who has signed the including certificate, is a Clergyman resident
in the Parish of Natchitoches, that Henry Leavenworth who has also signed the
same, is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
C.E. Greneauz, Judge of the Parish Court, Parish of Natchitoches.
I, Frederick Williams, Clerk of the Parish Court, in & for the Parish
of Natchitoches, as hereby certify that the foregoing contain the original proceedings
of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Cloud for a pension.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of F. Williams,
Clerk of the Parish Court, Parish of Natchitoches.
STATE OF LOUISIANA) SS
PARISH OF NATCHITOCHES)
Be it known, that before me, Fredrick Williams, a Justice of the Peace,
in and for the Parish of Natchitoches, in the State of Louisiana, duly commission
and sworn, personally came and appeared, William Cloud, a resident of the Parish
of Bienville, Noel Cloud, a resident of the Parish of Natchitoches, Jeremiah
Cloud, also a resident of Parish of Natchitoches, sons, and Ann Cloud, a resident
of the Parish of Natchitoches, a daughter of John Cloud, the identical person
who was a pensioner, and is now dead, and to whom a certificate of pension was
issued, which at the rate of ninety six dollars per annual was, after having
received the first payment from the United States agent, at the city of New
Orleans as an Invalid pensioner, and before the second payment became due, lost
or mislaid together with his original certificate of his discharge and a copy
of the proof of Identity, which enabled him to procure his pension, by his agent
and attorney in fact, Julius F. Bossier, at that time a cerchant of this place,
and who drew for him the first payment, who has since died, and deponents are
unable to account for such loss, and under Generals Williamson and Clark. a
private soldier in the Revolutionary War. That between the 25th day of January
and the 1st of February, he died 1840, aged about ninety eight years.
That the deceased pensioner resided in the Parish of Natchitoches, in the
State of Louisiana, for the space of about, twenty years before his death; and
that previous thereto he resided in different parts of said state, and also
in the States of South Carolina and Georgia.
His
William (X)
Cloud
mark
Declaring that he could not write his name.
His
Jeremiah (X)
Cloud
mark
Declaring that he could not write his name.
Sworn to and subscribed, ?t Natchitoches, this 6th day of March A.D. 1854.
Before me. F. Williams. Justice of the Peace, Parish of (Natchitoches, State
of Louisiana.
Noel Cloud one of the parties named in the foregoing declaration was
unable to attend on account of a long and serious illness. Ann Cloud, was recently
severely crippled, which made it impossible for her to attend with the others.
STATE OF LOUISIANA)
PARISH OF NATCHITOCHES) SS
Know all men, by these presents. That William Cloud, a resident of
the Parish of Bienville and Jeremiah Cloud, formerly of the Parish of Natchitoches,
in the State of Louisiana deceased, an invalid pensioner of the United States.
Ge. Heuley constitute and appoint as true and lawful attorney, for us, and in
our names, to receive from the agent of the United States for paying pensions
in the balance of said pension from the fourth day of January A.D. eighteen
hundred and thirty five, to the twenty fifth day of January A.D. eighteen hundred
and forty, being the day of his death. Witness our hands and seals, this sixth
day of March A.D. 1854.
His
William (X)
Cloud
mark
His
Jeremiah (X)
Cloud
mark
STATE OF LOUISIANA)
PARISH OF NATCHITOCHES) SS
I, William P. Morrow, Clerk of the sixteenth Judicial District Court,
in and for the Parish of Natchitoches, State of Louisiana afore-said, do hereby
certify, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to me as Clerk of said
Court that John Cloud, was a pensioner of the United States, at the rate of
eight dollars per month; was the resident of the Parish of Natchitoches, in
the State of Louisiana, and died in the said Parish and state, in the year eighteen
hundred and forty, between the 25 of January and the 1st of February of same
year.
That he left no widow, but children, whose names are William Cloud,
Noel Cloud, Jeremiah Cloud and Ann Cloud.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal
of said court, at Natchitoches, this 20th day of March A.D. 1854.
W.P. Morrow, Clerk
STATE OF LOUISIANA)
PARISH OF NATCHITOCHES) SS
Personally, came and appeared, before me, the under signed, Frederick
Williams, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the Parish and State aforesaid,
duly commissioned and sworn, Samuel Williams, a resident of the Parish of Bienville,
age fifty six years, and personal: known to me, who being duly sworn, deposes
and says that he first be came acquainted with John Cloud, deceased, the father
of William Cloud Noel Cloud, Jeremiah Cloud and Ann Cloud in Livingston County
in the State of Kentucky, in the year; eighteen hundred and eight, became personally
acquainted with him, his wife Betsy Cloud, all their children above named, and
was intimately acquainted with the deceased John Cloud and his wife Betsy Cloud
from that time up to the time of their deaths. Deponent always understood and
considered them man and wife. That they always recognized and called the persons
before named to Wit: William Cloud, Noel Cloud, Jeremiah Cloud and Ann Cloud
children of theirs and the children called them father and mother. Deponent
further states, that during the life time of the parents of William, Noel, Jeremiah,
and Ann Cloud, he was in the habit of spending a good deal of his time at their
house. Witness further swears, that he is neither directly or indirectly interested
in whatever may be received from Government by the applicants.
Samuel Williams
Sworn and subscribed , this 6th day of March A.D. 1854. Before me: F. Williams,
Justice of the Peace, Parish of Natchitoches, State of Louisiana.
STATE OF LOUISIANA)
PARISH OF NATCHITOCHES) SS
Personally, came and appeared, before me, the undersigned, Frederick
Williams, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the Parish of Natchitoches, in
the State of Louisiana, duly commissioned and sworn, Zepheniah Liles., a resident
of the Parish of Winn, State of Louisiana, aforesaid, age fifty six years, and
to me personally known, who being first duly sworn, deposes and says. That he
first became acquainted with John Cloud deceased) father of Willam, Noel, ,Jeremiah
and Ann Cloud, about thirty years ago in the Parish of Ouachita, Louisiana.)
That the wife of John Cloud was dead at the time. That he also became acquainted
with the children William, Noel, Jeremiah and Ann Cloud at the same time. Was
intimately acquainted with the father John Cloud up to the time of his death
in January 1840. That John Cloud in speaking of William, Noel, Jeremiah and
Ann Cloud, spoke of them as his children, and they spoke of him as their father.
That he always, so far as the knowledge of deponent extends, considered and
recognized as the father of William Cloud, Noel Cloud, Jeremiah Cloud and Ann
Cloud.
Zepheniah
Liles
Sworn & subscribed, this 6th day of March A.D. 1854. Before me: F.
Williams, Justice of the Peace, Parish of Natchitoches, State of Louisiana.
The deponent Zepheniah Liles, further swears, that he is neither directly
or indirectly interested in whatever may be received from the Government by
the applicants.
Zephiniah
Liles
Sworn & subscribed, this 6th day of March A.D. 1854. Before me: F. Williams,
Justice of the Peace, Parish of Natchitoches, State of Louisiana.
STATE OF LOUISIANA)
PARISH OF NATCHITOCHES) SS
Be it known, that on this sixth day of March A.D. one thousand eight
hundred and fifty four/ Before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and
for the said Parish and State, personally appeared William Cloud, and Jeremiah
Cloud before named, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be their
act and deed.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the day
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