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Proceeding heard on the application of Jeremiah Walker for a pension.

To the Hon. Seth Lewis, Judge of the fifth District Court of the State of Louisiana, holding court in & for the Parish of Saint Landry at the November Session, 1833.

The petition of Jeremiah Walker an inhabitant & resident of the Parish of Saint Landry & State of Louisiana holding (scratched out) with respect represents:  That he is desiring to apply for a pension by virtue of the act of Congress passed June the seventh 1832.entitled "An Act Supplementary to an act for the relief of the surviving Officers & Soldiers of the Revolution" deserving the benefit of said act as having served in the Continental Army of the United States at the time.  He therefore prays that your Honor would receive his declaration in open court on oath and that all such proceeding may be had in the promises as are in conformity with Law & Justice and as in duty bound.

___                                                Jeremiah Walker

On this 6^th day of December, 1833, personally appeared in open court before the fifth District Court sitting in & for the Parish of Saint Landry, State of Louisiana being a court of record, Jeremiah Walker, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7^th, 1832.  He says that he served as a substitute in the nine months service of the North Carolina troops, that he enlisted or hired himself as aforesaid at Old Bute Court House in said State under Capt. Robert Temple about the latter part of winter or early in the Spring of the year 1778.  The company was marched into South Carolina.  On the march Captain Temple and the other Militia Officers were superceded by Continental Officers.  He remembers that Col. Armstrong commanded the Regiment to which he was attached.  Deponent was engaged at the battle of Stono Point [this was probably where the Stono Ferry battle occurred] under the immediate command of Gen. Sumner of North Carolina who commanded the North Carolina lines at that time & on that occasion.   The deponent was then marched and Joined Gen. Gates and was present at Gate’s defeat near Camden.  Deponent after that defeat returned to Old Bute County, North Carolina.   Soon after his return home he entered as a volunteer in the North Carolina Militia under Captain Eaves who on the march out was wounded by Captain Richards in a personal encounter with swords, who retired in consequence of his wound from the command of deponents company and the same was disolved upon Capt. Daniel Harris under whom he served and was engaged in the battle of Guilford Court House under Gen. Greene.  Col. Williams commanded the company