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This information is contributed by Charles Hilliard Thomas Hilliard ---Revolutionary Pensioner. "Copied from application for headstones to the Quartermaster General U. S. A. Washington D. C. dated Apl. 13, 1927 applied for by James Walter Allen Dept of Justice Washington, D. C. Name: Thomas Hilliard Rank: Pvt Company: Capt. Gideon Gooch 1781, Capt Smith 1779 Granville Co N. C. Malitia Invalid Pension No 9576 Oct of 1832 Thomas Hilliard 2nd. Warren County,Private.North Carolina Militia $20.00 annual allowance. June 5, 1834 pension started. Born 1760 New Kent Co. Va Date of death: 1852 Thomas Hillard Pension page 1 Thomas Hillard Pension page 2 State of N Carolina Court of Pleas & to session Warren County August Term 1832 On thurs 27th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court before the justices of said court, now sitting, Thomas Hilliard of the county aforesaid, aged about 70 years--who being first- duly sworn according to law-oath or his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of this act of congress offered thirty th june 1832 to wit & that he was born in the county of New Kent State of Virginia-that when quite young his parents moved and settled in this county of Granville, N Carolina-& that he does not know his precise age-having no register of it-but is confident that he is upward of seventy years old. About the last of february 1779 he volunteered in Granville aforesaid for three months in the militia under the command of Capt. Smith & Lieut. Rice Worth of said county, that the company to which he was attached was marched to James Bilboes fishery on Roanoke River in the county of Mecklenburg,virginia, where they were employed in catching and barreling shad for the army. The fishery and seines being preped for that purpose. That he received at this and of the three months from Capt. Smith as he now thinks, a discharge which he has lost or mislaid & can not now find. In the next year 1780, this class to which he belonged furnished a substitute which exempted him from the draft then called for. about the last of january 1781, he was drafted in this county of Granville aforesaid for three months service as militia man under the command of Capt. Gideon Gooch and was marched with his company to Hillsboro N Carolina, where they joined the 12 months men, commanded by Col. Long of the county of Halifax N.C. and Maj. Armstrong, that he remained at that place, and was employed with the militia and State troops in protecting the general assembly of N.Carolina. Then and there convened and in keeping the Tories in check, who had threatened the general assembly and commited much mischief in the neighborhood and country around under Col. Flemming, by plundering houses, destroying property and in some instances killing the whigs. This affirmed states that at the expiration of this second service he received a discharge from Col. Long as well as he remembers but this with his other discharge has been lost or mislaid & that he can not name first hand , never considering them of any use after this termination of this war. He recollects the names of Capt. Trent & Capt. McFarland who commanded companies of militia at Hillsboro at this period. During this latter service he heard that the battle Guilford was fought and that General Greene afterwards marched with this american forces under his command toward the south, and Cornwallis with the Britis troops toward Wilmington,N.C. and back through Halifax, N.C. to Virginia. This applicant hereby relinquishes his every claim to a pension or annuity except this present, declares that his name is not the pension rolls of the agency of any state and that he never has received any compensation for his services. He proved of new, persons whose personal knowledge, he can prove his services, and this orderly corroboration testimony in his form is that presented by this respectable person who have among us do and subscribed this affidavit. He lived in Granville during his services aforesaid within a very few miles of his first residence, the county of Warren where as was taken from the county of Granville & was first earlier Butte and afterwards Warren. Sworn to in open court. Emual Drake CK Ct. Thomas Hilliard Warren County,NC Will Book # 42 Will of Thomas Hilliard In the name of God Amen, I Thomas Hilliard of the county of Warren and the State of North Carolina, being of sound & disposing mind & memory, do make & publish & declare the following to be my last will and testament, that is to say: First= I leave to my wife Sally Hilliard during her life or widowhood, all my estate, real, personal, mixed of whatever kind or description. 2ndly. My Will is that upon the death or marriage of my wife, whichever shall first happen, all of the estate lent her with the exception of the negroes & increases be sold by my executors herein after named ( and they may improvise accordingly) & that the proceeds of the sale together with the negroes and their increases be divided into eight equal parts or shares; & it bequeathed to my sons, John Hilliard, Tommy Hilliard, William F Hilliard, Bartlett Hilliard, & my daughter Mary White, each one share. And to my son Micajah Hilliard, two of land shares. The other and eighth share I bequeath to John Hilliard & his heirs & and assigns- on first nethertheless & to & for the following intents and purpose; that is to insure that he the said trustee shall do in all aspects and means as he may deem fit use and employ the same inference and prudence thereof from time to time & direct sum or sums as he may choose apply for & toward the support & maintenance of my daughter Martha Beckham & her family during her life or in her discretion & subject to his pleasure present and offer the said Martha to receive and apply the same to the purpose aforesaid and none other it being expressly intended and I hereby declare my will to be that the said share or any portion of it or the interest or profits thereof, shall in no event to his taking or subject to or for the present or future debts over engagements of her husband, Moses Beckham and upon this I further direct that at and upon the death of the said Martha, he, the said trustee do and shall dispose my legal and absolute estate, all said I have, and the interests and profits thereof if any, in hand to all the children. ------------------said Martha who may. It being at her death-----------share other. I expressly change this share with the sum of fifty two dollars and direct that the said share to William F Hilliard pay the same to my estate. And that the same be considered as a part of my estate and the share presented for and distributed in the general division here before divided. My will is that should my wife Sally desire at any time during her life to allot and set apart to any of the children any part of the estate let her -to that child for that purpose hereby authorize and empower her to allot and set apart to any such child or children excepting (Dandridge) not according in value the share or shares of such child or children such part of said estate that she may be able to spare-to bring a receipt for the share and that the same be made of and accounted for in the general division among my children that heretofore has been in this will to give to each of my children an equal share in the estate. I have omitted all shares for my son Dandridge only because I advanced previously a sum equal to what I suppose would be the equal of one share and the two shares given to my son Micajah are in consideration of a sum of money monthly given me and intended in full satisfaction. Lastly, I nominate institute and appoint my sons John, Tommy, & W F Hilliard and my wife Sally as executors of this will. I published & in testimony whereof I have hereto set my presence of hand and seal this 21st. day of october 1848. William Newman James Ellington Thomas Hilliard seal Warren County February court 1852 Presented here writing proporting to be the last will and testament of Thomas Hilliard was offered for probate and proved by the oaths of William Newman and James Ellington authoring witness for thereto &------------,John Hilliard one of the executors named qualified herein form as such. Test. W.White Clk. Thomas Hilliard and wife Sally Bowden are burried in the old Hilliard cemetary. The cemetary is located on the Hilliard farm sold to the Ellingtons in the 1800’s. Some of the old Hilliard records remain in an iron safe in the Ellington house. Their will was probated 1852 in Warren county. This also agrees with “The Bartlett Family”North Carolina State Library. Records of St.Peters Parrish ,Virginia Register of St. Peter's Parish, pages 161-186 - New Kent Co. VA. 1760 From St.Peters Parrish records page 161 Christened !8 May 1760 in St.Peters Parrish Chrch,Virginia |