Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1813, Caleb Feris, S.C.
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SERVICE NUMBER
S.C. Feris, Caleb S1813
or
Farris
Born in Penn. carded
CONTENTS
This Envelope Includes
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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4937
Tennessee West
Caleb Feris
of Mr w  [illegible] in the State of Tennessee
who was a Private in the Coming commanded
by Captain Houston of the Reg commanded 
by Col Stein in the South Carolina line for 6 mos. & 25 days 

Inscribed on Roll of W Tennessee
at the rate of 22 Dollars 73 cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of  [illegible]
1833 and Reuss Ho W  [illegible]
W  [illegible]

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832     $34.13
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar '33     11.37
$45.50
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by GC Stiles Clerk
Book D. Vol  [illegible] Page 148

IDead.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of Cce  6. April 1838 
from 4th March to 11. June
1838. Agt Notified 5 May April [crossed out]18111
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Caleb Faris

Aomileed
6 mo 25 days private

35 cents
20      [illegible]
2.75    275    5
22.75
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State of Tennessee Court of Pleas & Quarter
Maury County S. Sepion September Term 1839
On this 18th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Court before James Henry Robert Wortham & Peter Williams Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sepians for said County, now sitting Caleb Farris a resident in the County & state aforesaid aged sixty seven years, who first-having duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
Applicant states that he was born in the County of chester-State of Pennsylvania in the year 1765. that his Father moved to the state of South Carolina in 1766. York district where applicant resided when he entered the service as a drafted Militia man for a three month tour under the Command of Captain James Houston and Lieutenant Thomas Bratton, Houston was unable to march and the command of the Company then devolved an Lieutenant Bratton for the banner of the Lores, applicant was marched with his company to Woodward in Fairfield District, where he joined the
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Regiment Commanded by Colonel William Bratton, then marched to a Marshalls mills on the waters of the Congaree river where he was camped about three weeks he was then marched to Howells ferry on the Congaree where General Sumpter took the entire command of the whole force including State troops. Applicant says he was then marched to Rump on the road to Grangburgh where he heard of the defeat of the state troops under Colonel Wade Hampton, by the tories commanded by the notorious Colonel Cunningham in the neighborhood of Grangburgh on Edisto river. He states that after Colonel Hamptons defeat he marched under General Sumpter to Grangburgh and took possession of it - where he staid about three months, he says that campaign closed the 25 day of December 1781 wanting four or five days of four months. Applicant states that the first of July 1782 he was drafted for a second tour of three months from York District South Carolina under the command of Captain Chambers he was marched from York district through the District of Fairfield to the Lawn of Grangburgh, he states that not far below Grangburgh Colonel Richard Winn who afterwards died in Maug
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County Tennessee, took command of the Regiment and marched into the 
State of Georgia he thinks parts of three
Regiment comprised Colonel Winns
command which was principally emplo
yed in pursuing and harrasing the 
Tories  sometimes in South Carolina and sometimes in Georgia. Applicant says 
when he was not in pursuit of the Tories
he with Colonel Winns Regiment was 
engaged in collecting beef cattle for
General Greens army then lying at a 
place called the [illegible] hole in South Carolina. Applicant says he left the services first of October 1782.
 The states that he was no battle   That he has no documentary [illegible]of his age or his service that he knows
no persons whose testimony he can procure
who can testify to his services except  
William Whiteside  and his brother
Isaac Farris Applicant says he lived
in York [illegible] South Carolina from
the close of the war till 1804. he then
moved a to the County of Davidson Tennessee
where he [illegible] one year
then moved  to the State of Kentucky where he lived three years, he then
moved to the County of Maury Tennessee
in 1808, where he has resided ever since, and where he now resides.
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He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any state.

Sworn and subscribed this day and year
aforesaid

S.J.Porterchakl  [signature]
 Caleb Feris [signature]

We William Whiteside  David Dobbins & Jonathan Webster residing in the county of Maury State of Tennessee] hereby certify that we are well acquainted  with Caleb Farris who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Sixty Seven years of age, the said William Whiteside says that he served with this applicant in the revolutionary war- in the same Regiment the said David Dobbins and Jonathan Webster say that applicant is reputed and he lived in the  neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution and that  we all concur in that opinion

Sworn and subscribed this day and year
aforesaid

Tho J. Porter clerk {Signature]  
Wm Whiteside  [signature]                          David Dobbins  [signature]     
Jonathan Webster [signature]
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And the said Court as hereby declare their opinion after the in interrogation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatores prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states said the Court further certifies that it appears to them that William Whiteside David Dobbins and Jonathan Webster who have signed the preceeding certificate received in the county of Maury State of Tennessee are credible jurous and that their statement is intitiled to credit.

Jas Huey
Robert Wortham
Peter Williams

I Thomas J Porter Clerk of the Court of Pleas and a Quarter session for said county, hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceecings of the said court in the matters of the applicatons of Caleb Faris for for a pension.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this 
18 day of September A.D. 1832
X
Thos J Porter
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Caleb Farris

admitted

palk
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Brief in the case of Caleb Farris of Maury County in the State of Tennessee
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disable by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? Sixty seven years
4. State hist service, as directed in the form annexed. 

Period.
Drafted in 1781
1782 July 1

Duration of Service. 
Years, Months, Days. 
             4 (up ----day)
             3

Rank.
As a

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Gen. Sumpter
Capt. James Houston, Col. Pratton
Capt Chambry Col. ---

5. In what battles was he engaged? None
6. Where did her reside when he entered the service? York --- S. Carolina
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? --- served with applicant the two other --- to traditionary evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect?
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 
--- Examining Clerk.
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Pension Certificate 
Silas & John T. Ferris

FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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[Handwritten]

State of Tennessee
Maury County  ⌇

4 Mar  38
Be it known that at a Court of [illegible] and Quarter Sessions [illegible] for the County aforesaid at the court House in the Town of Columbia on the 4th day of January personally appeared in open Court Silas Feris and John T. Feris all of said County and satisfactorily proven to the Court here that the said Silas Feris and John T. Feris are the Surviving Children of  Caleb  Feris lately of said County Deceased who died on the 11th of Jun 1838 leaving a widow who died on the {space} day of [space]  11838 and that at the time of his death he had been placed on the pension List [illegible] of the United States, under the Acts of Congress of the 7th of June 1832, and was the identical Caleb Feris theretomentioned on an original pension certificate in his [illegible] on the day of his death and which is here shown to the court and of which the following is a true copy ⌇

War Department
Revolutionary Claims

I Certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 7th June 1832, Caleb Farris [Feris] of the State of Tennessee who was a private in the Revolutionary Army is entitled to receive Twenty two Dollars and Seventy Five cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1831 and payable  Semiannually, on the [illegible] of March, and rth of September in every year  Given at the war office of the United States this 14th day of January One thousand eight hundred and thirty three ~
 
⌇  Lew Cass [Signature]
Secretary of War

Examined and Countersigned}
J.L.Edwards [Signature]

and we the said Silas Feris  and John T. Feris further testifies that their said father Caleb Feris was entitled to a pension at the rate of Twenty two Dollars and Seventy five cents per annum from the 4th day of March 1838 to the 11th day of June 1838 when he died for Services rendered the United States during the Revolutionary War, and that at the time
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of his death he resided in said County and had resided there for the space of 28 years past previous thereto he resided in York County State of South Carolina sworn to and subscribed in open court here the day and date above written

Silas Faris (Seal)
John T. Faris (Seal)

Wm. E. Erwin Clerk 

Know all men by these presents that in Silas Feris and John T. Feris the only surviving children of the late Caleb Feris of said County; deceased do hereby Constitute and appoint Moses A. Wiley our and each of our Attorney true and lawful Attorney for us and each of us to receive from the Agent of the United State for paying pensions at Nashville in said State of Tennessee the pension due to our said father Caleb Feris deceased from the 4th day of March 1838 to the 11th day of June 1838 when he died 
witness our and each of our hands and seals
Silas Faris (Seal)
John T. Faris (Seal)
Which said power of Attorney was duly acknowledged in open court here by then the said Silas Feris and John T. Feris to be their own act and deed 

On testimony whereof and of the foregoing proof before the court J. William E. Erwin Clerk of said Court have here unto subscribed my name and assigned the seal thereof at office this 4th day of January 1841
Wm. E. Erwin Clerk
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State of Tennessee
Maury County

Be it known that on the 7th day of January 1841 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appears [illegible]
A. Wiley the attorney named in the foregoing powers of attorney and made both that the same  was not given him by means of any sale transfer or Mortgage of the pension or arrears of pension therein authorizes to be received by him.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year last above written.

William W Coleman [illegible]
for Maury County

Moses A Wiley
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Rev War 
1813
Invalid
File No. 1813
Caleb Farris
Private South Carolina Line
Act: June 7, 1832
Index: - Vol. A
Page 120
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Nashville 20 April 41
J. M. Smith
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Pension Office
Nashville Tenn:
April 20th 1840

At the request of Moses A Wiley, the attorney for the heirs, I enclose you the voucher for drawing the arrears due to their father at the time of his death.

Very respectfully
Your obedient Servt
J M Smith
[illegible]
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Treasury Department,

Second Comptroller's Office

May 1st, 1841

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,". The child of Caleb Faris, [illegible] a Pensioner on the Roll of the [illegible] Agency, at the rate of Twenty two Dollars and 75 Cents per annum, under the law of the 4th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March, to the 11th June 1838.

Respectfully yours,

[illegible]

Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions,

Present
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Payment to be made at Nashville [illegible] by the [illegible] Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of

West Tennfsee

Recorded by [illegible] Clerk, in Book D rob.9 page [illegible]
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War Department
Revolutionary Claim

I certify that in conformity of the Law of the United States, of the 7th June 1832, Caleb Farris of the State of Tennessee who was a private in the Revolutionary Army in entitled to received Twenty Two dollars and Seventy five cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1834, and payable semi=annually, on the 4th of March and the 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United State, this 14th day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.

Lew Cass
Secretary of War

Examined and Countersigned
JL Edwards
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War Department.
Revolutionary Claim
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Caleb Farris of the State of Tennessee who was a private in the Revolutionary Army
is entitled to receive Twenty two dollars and Seventy-five cents per annum, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year. 
Given at the War Office of the Unites States, this 14th day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
LewCas(?)
Secretary of War
Examined and
Countersign.
JD Edwards
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Ent
No/ 2,126
by
Caleb Farris
(children of)
and W Tennessee
[illegible] of June, 1832
$6.23
30 [illegible] 182.1-
T May
revenue 7920 dated 3 May 1841
sent to Treasury 4th May 1841
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On the U. States
To the children of
Caleb Farris
[illegible] Nashville, all
Act 7 June 1832,
For his pension from 4 March to
11 June, 1838, the day of his
death, 100 days at $22.75
per annum [illegible]
[illegible] herewith $6.23
Treasury Dept
Second Comp Office & [illegible] = office
As by J.L. Catheart 30 April 1841
30th April 1841 Stated by Oesellynne