Matthew Stroud (abt. 1747 - aft. 1832)

Born about 1747 in Brunswick, Virginia

Ancestors

Died after 1832 after about age 85 in Shelby, Alabama, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

He appears on the 1779 tax list in Orange, North Carolina.

Pension Application

"On the third day of the term, being the 14th day of April, 1824, personally appeared in open court, it being court of record having authority to an unlimited amount and the power to fine and imprison for the County of Shelby aforesaid, Matthew Stroud, aged seventy-seven years a resident in the aforesaid County of Shelby, and who being duly sworn according to the law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Act of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818, and the first of May, 1820, that he; the said Matthew Stroud, enlisted for the term of: years on the......... day of .......in the year of Our Lord Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-Five in the State of North Carolina under the command of Colonel William McCaully in the lineof the State of North Carolina in the Third Regiment of the Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in the said until in the year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-Eight, when he was discharged from the said service in Brunswick County, in the State of Virginia; that he was in the battles of Brandywine, the battle of Lindley's Mill on Cain Creek, North Carolina, also at Guilford battle in the same State, and in all of which battles and during my service I held the rank of Major, all of which battles above enumerated was during the time that he belonged to the Continental Line and that he has lost his discharge and that he has no other evidence now in his power and 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 other manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent 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 other than what is considered in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed, to-wit: One feather bed and clothes worth about fifteen or sixteen dollars and one bed worth two dollars. Some household furniture consisting of kitchen and other furniture worth about twenty-four dollars, fifteen head of hogs, worth about twenty dollars.

I do further state that my occupation is farming, but from my advanced age and sickness, I am unable to pursue it to advantage. I have no family except my wife, who is very old and unhealthy, and we are now dependent upon the charity of our Country for a support.

Matthew (his X mark) Stroud

Sworn to and declared on the 14th day of April in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-four.— From Minutes of Shelby County Circuit Court, April Term, 1824.

There is another application in 1832, so we know he was still alive (and living in Shelby, Alabama) at that time.

Sources

• North Carolina census substitutes
• Revolutionary War pension applications
• Bob Thrift Gedcom, Publication: 28 Oct 2001
• 1830 US census - Shelby, Alabama