Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38,945, for Andrew Melloy, South Carolina
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S. C. Melloy, Andrew S.38.945
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7287
South Carolina
Andrew Melloy
Abbeville in the state of So. Carolina
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Thompson of the S. Carolina
line for the term of [blank]

In[?]scribed on the Roll of South Carolina
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month to commence on
the 13 November 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 5 of March 1819[?]
and sent to Maddy Thompson
Esquire Laurens C.H. S.C.

Arrears to 4th of March 1819  $29.83
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819  48.
[Total] $77.83

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act 18th March, 1818}

Duplicate certificate issued on
the 19th[?] March 1821 and sent to [?]
Washington, Wilkes Co. Georgia.

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Dead. See letter to P. Lamar
June 19 1835 - same
August 10 1837
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[This looks like a mailing envelope on which additional notations were subsequently made. Some markings are not clearly legible.]

2816
W. Thompson
Judge
Abbeville So. Ca.

Decd. Nov 30 1818

Admitted

Free

The Hon. John C Calhoun
Secretary at War
Washington City
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[ State of South Carolina Greenville District ] To wit  I Waddy Thompson one of the Judges of the Court of Equity in the  State aforesaid do hereby certify that the within named Andrew Melloy did serve in the Constitutional establishment for a term  according nine months, and that from his reduced circumstances in life he needs the aid of his Country for support. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Court of Equity to be affixed the day and year before written.. W. Thompson ( signed / sealed )  John Mc Comb  ( signed ) Commissioner
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[ South Carolina Abbeville District ] Personally came& appeared  Robt . Crawford  Sen of the State & District aforesaid and being sworn as the Law directs, saith that to his certain knowledge  Andrew Melloy , enlisted in the Regular service in the spring of 1776  under Capt. John Bowey and continued in said service several years , but cannot precisely  recollect how long. Sworn to Nov. the 9th 1818 Before me.  Robert Crawford Sr. ( signed )  Jas. Foster ( signed ) J.P.   [ State South Carolina ]  I James  Wardlaw Clerk of the Court of the District of Abbeville in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that James Foster Esquire who signed the above is  probate in an acting Justice of the Peace within this  District and as such all due faith and credit and ought to be given to his attestations. Given under my hand and the seal of the Court this tenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and  eighteen & 43rd of American Independence.   Jas Wardlaw ( signed / sealed ) C.C.J.D.
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Lincolnton Ga
June 3 [?]

Sept 19
Sept 21
S.C
Honble J. L. Edwards
Pension Office
of the United States
Washington City
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                               State of Georgia        
                               Lincoln County                   
                               1 June 1835                         J. L. Edwards Esq                                                    Dear Sir  In this vicinity lives a Miss Catherine Melloy who is the daughter of Andrew Melloy a revolutionary soldier. He is herself extremely poor and much dependent  upon the charity of her friends who have solicited me to ascertain in her behalf , What was allowed her father under the Act of 1818 of Congress and whether or not any part has ever been drawn. The circumstances as Miss Melloy states them & it is lamentable yet  the bulk as she has heard it must be told to enable her to arrive at her rights, her father was a very dissipated man, and after securing a certificate started to go and draw his  money but became intoxicated and lost his certificate, he applied again, and obtained a duplicate. which he in like manner lost, and does not recollect of ever obtaining any portions of his allowance her father has been dead  7 or 8 years, left 5 children one an Idiot. Will you be so good as to communicate the State of the record. What was allowed him ,  & how much if any drawn, &  by whom as she has brother of  age who lives in a distant section of the State and don't know but the money may have been drawn, he left no wife, how she will arrive at her rights if an administrator will be required, in fact  what will be necessary to enable her to arrive at her rights. She does not know whether her father was attached to the Georgia or
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South Carolina Agency as her father lived at the time in Georgia , but made his  proofs entirely in South Carolina, and  in  fact directly in the neighborhood of his the then Secretary of War  Honbl. J C Calhoun who was acquainted with her father as will as  witnesses who testified  in his behalf. Please answer the inquiry and give such directions as may  serve proper and you will ..  ( illegible ) a favor on an object of charity.  I am respectfully yr obt servt Peter Lamar. ( signed )    Hon. J. L. Edwards  Pension Officer of U.S.
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In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank]
for a statement of the military history of Andrew Melloy
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau.
S. F. 38,945.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
Spring 1776

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
Served until taken prisoner of war date not stated

RANK.
Pri

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
John Bowie
COLONEL.
Thompson
STATE.
S.C.

Afterwards served in the militia under General Greene

Battles engaged in, [blank]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated
Date of application for pension, Nov 13, 1818. His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Abbeville District, S.C.
Age at date of application, not stated
Remarks: Soldier died about 1827 or 1828, leaving
no widow, but five children, the only name
stated being that of Catharine
3 -- 285C
Respectfully,
Commissioner
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38945
INVALID
Revy
File No. 38945
Andrew Melloy
Pri Rev War

Act: [?] March [?]
Index: Vol. 3, Page 331

Arrangement of 1870

1918, Jan 30 History to
Mand C. Penn [?]
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Lincolnton Ga
July 28th
Andrew Melloy

Paid 50[?]

The Honble J. L. Edwards
Auditor in the War
Department of the United States
Pension Office
Washington City

Aug 7 
Catharine Meloy
[?]
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                                     Lincolnton July 27 1837  Honble J. L. Edwards  Dear Sir  In conformity with your Instructions relative to claims of  Andrew Melloy dec'd as a revolutionary soldier at the  Instance of ( Catherine )( underscored ) one of his ( children ) ( underscored )  the  ( others ) ( underscored ) I  ( know ) ( underscored )  nothing of I made the application at July Court  - 1836 having an eye to a further application in behalf of the  children. I directed the Clerk to send the proceedings  which was omitted , and I have been myself about much of the time, the  matter was overlooked until reminded by the applicant lately . The proceedings are now enclosed , you further directed that additional would be made to the U.S. Branch Bank in  So. Carolina, which is now no more. I  enclose the same - directly to you for your direction and on ready and refreshing my memory  . I fear that I made a mistake  when  in stating that A. Melloy was a pensioner of the Georgia agency also you will readily discover how made, Melloy lived in Wilkes County  Ga , and  Jno. C. Calhoun didn't (?) . I understand know & the neighborhood around him that Melloy was what he professed to be a Revolutionary soldier  & that the application made in  So. Carolina , I intend as he lived in Georgia he would be on that agency. I stated I had an eye  to additional pay or a continuation until the death of  said pensioner for he was such an object as the Law was intended to benefit and the witnesses with a
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Host of others would testify to the same fact  Please give such instructions as will enable the children to draw the money  due them, and give this subject your consideration , a ore fit  subject is not to be found than Catherine Melloy the other children I know not where they are, one was an Idiot , the witnesses  are more of  the first respectability  please write to  me or to  Miss Melloy  through  me she is ( illiterate ) ( underscored ) . Your compliance will oblige the distressed  while I am sincerely yr obt servt  Petr Lamar ( signed )        Honbl . J. L. Edwards War Department
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APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE.
So Carolina
County of Abbeville
SS.
On this Thirty ith day of January 1821, before
me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of
Abbeville
personally appeared Andrew Meloy
who, on his oath, declares that he is the 
same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded
by Captain John Bowie in the regiment
commanded by Colonel Thompson third Regiment in
the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the
pension roll of the state of South Carolina that
he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal
of the Secretary of War; which certificate, on or about the twelfth
day of September 1819, at or
near Lincolnton court house Georgia was
lost so that he the said Andrew
Miley has never heard of it since
Andrew his x mark Meloy
Sworn and subscribed to, before
me, the day and year aforesaid
A Houston 

NOTES. The last four blanks are left for the applicant to set forth the time, place,
and manner of the loss or destruction of the original certificate.
The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character
and signature must be properly authenticated.
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[ South Carolina Abbeville District  ] SS  I James Wardlaw Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas  & General Sessions for the District  & State aforesaid do hereby certify that  Andr. Houston Esquire who signed the written affidavit  is an acting Justice of the Peace for the District aforesaid duly appointed  & qualified that all due faith & credit should be given to his attestations as such  that his signature to the  within is in his own handwriting. Given under my hand  & seal of office at Abbeville Courthouse this 1 February A. D. 1824. Jas.  Wardlaw ( signed ) Clk.
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( notes ) ( Rev sec  JMD )  MONTICELLO, GA. JAN. 22, 1918.  COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS WASHINGTON, D.C.  SIR ;  WILL YOU SEND ME THE RECORD OF SERVICE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONER, WILLIAM SMITH, OF CLARKE COUNTY , GEORGIA, IN 1833 ?  ALSO THE RECORD OF SERVICE OF ANDREW MELLOY, OF ABBEVILLE COUNTY , SOUTH CAROLINA,  ( THINK IT IS MISSPELLED MELLOG IN PRINTED RECORD )  REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONER IN 1818 ?  RESPECTFULLY   ( Miss ) Maud C. Penn      P.O. BOX 7 ( stamp ) [ U.S. PENSION OFFICE D JAN 24 1918 ]
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12 - 5 - 41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Mellus, Daniel
GRADE Private
LINE Crane's Continental Artillery
Massachusetts

WARRANT NUMBER 4723
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED Nov. 4, 1794 to Samuel Emery

The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.