Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18342, Thomas M Caul, Va.
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Payments to be made 
at Richmond
by the Pz(?):  W. S. McBank
Agent for paying Pension=
ers  in the Agency of Virginia
H L M Call
Recorded in the Pension Of=
fice, in Book E  Vol 6 ½ 
Page 6. by M Rice    Clerk
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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, Thomas M Call, of the State of Virginia- --- who was a private in the war of the revolutionis entitled to receive Seventy-- dollars and cents per annum, during his natural life, com mencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year. ⎬ Given at the War Office of the United States this - 12 day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty-Three Lee Cap Examined and Countersigned. Geo Wm Crump Acting Commissioner of Pensions Secretary of War.
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Weston V (illegible)
July 7.
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pinsions 
City of Washington
Tho McCall
Sylvester
13 July 1835
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Weston Lewis County Virginia
J. L. Edwards Esqr		July 4t 1835
Dear Sir		The following is in answer
to your letter of 21st of April 1835.  who states
that he was drafted in Augusta County Virginia
as he thinks in Augst. 1780.  for a three months tour
and was marched immediately to North Carolina
and joined the army at Hillsborough.  he served
out that tour and returned home.  and soon after
he went an other tour of three months as a substitute
for Andred Allison marched again to North Carolina
was at the Battle of Guilford Ct. house, & this is what 
he supposes Mr Singleton has cal’d, the 6. months draft
in 1780.  he states he can’t tell how it has happened
that Mr Singleton has understood him.  that the dreat
was for six months, he might of got the Impression
from my not being more explicit or distinct, but
endeavored to detail the services(?) as correctly as he
could; in Relation to the services at York town
as reported by Mr Singleton, need explanation
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he was cal’d upon by a Lieut McCane to assist
in taking a drove of beef cattle from Augusta County 
Va to York Town. for the use of the army.  he states he
reached Yorktown about 17th Oct 1781 with the beef cattles
he states he was engaged at least 15 days in collecting and
taking the cattle to Yorktown an in two or three days
after the arived there with the cattle.  the British army
was surrendered, he then substituted for one Cornelius
McFall (his brother in-law) to guard the prisioners 
to Winchester, which time of service was fifteen
days, so that the time he was taking the cattle
down from Augusta to Yorktown, and the time
of guarding the prisioners to Winchester as aforesaid,
was only about 30 days.  he states he was discharged
on getting to Winchester with the prisioners; he has
given this as explanatory to the enquires in your Letter
first referred to.  It has subscribed to the same (in my
presence,) with his own proper hand & name
				Thomas M Caul
WB. you will perceive he}
spells his name (Caul)}
he is the identical man that obtained a pension in the name
of Thomase M. Call
	Warden Huffman
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TREA SURE DEPARTMENT. Second Comptroller's Office January 15, 1839. 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, Thomas M. Call --- a Pensioner on the Roll of the Wheeling, Virginia, Agency, at the rate of Fifty four Dollars and forty three cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June the balance due him 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 the of Sept. 1836 to the 4th March, 1838. ( Albion K Harris Comptroller. To the Commissioner of Pensions Present.
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July 22 {Stamp}   Free
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
Thom Call
Va
21 July 35
168.93
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		Richmond Virginia
		July 20th 1837
Sir,  The enclosed pension paper of
Thomas M. Call come to this city
by mail about one month ago, 
and in consequence of my absence
until after the expiration of ninety
days from the date of the power,
I must beg the kindness of you
to order payment.  The paper has
been examined and found otherwise
in due form
	Very respectfully
		C. S. Morgan
J. L. Edwards Esqr_
Com. of Pensions
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(right side of folded paper):
Admit as 
Sergeant 12 mo 	60
Private  3 mo  	10
			70
6 September Hon: Lewis Mexwell
		Weston_VA.
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Sir WAR DEPARTMENT. Pension Office, The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. the notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: ⎬) You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by compling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. Period when the DUS him to 1780 A Statement, Duration of the claimant's service. ┃ 4 3 ┃ 15 ┃ 15 Rank of shewing the Service of by ┃ 3 the claimant. Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. 13. 21 - 1806 Compey . Age at present, ┃ and place of abode when he entered the service. Proof by which the declaration is supported. I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant J. L. EDWARDS. Commissioner of Pensions.
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2 REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832. The following regulations have been adopted: This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c, Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service. Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law: The Regular Troops. 2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers. 3. Persons employed in the Naval Service. 4. Indian Spies. As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officer non commissioned officers, mucicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record. DECLARATION. In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832. State, Terriory or District of On this day of County of A B. a resident (b) of personally appeared (a) before of aged (c) in the county of and State, Territory or District years, 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 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) served in the (e) regiment of the with and line, under the following named officers: Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.] He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A. B. And then will follow the certificate of the Court And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. of the Court of do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of & c. If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out. Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz: (k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with and C. D. residing in (the same) subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be who has years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid. And then will follow the certificate of the Court. And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. I, Clerk of the Court of do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this day of &c. Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission ; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction. ich surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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8 alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the tempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be excating the imposition, if one be atpected . All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and case. there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of troops of Virginia. service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State 1. Where and in what year were you born? 2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it? where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary How were you called intercasinor were you drafted, did you volunted And if a substitute, for whom? 5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services. 6. ┃ {To a Soldier Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given , and what has become of it? To an Officer Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it? 7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant. The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates. The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject. Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court. Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature. No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure , taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter. low the rule laid down for his under The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily harmity; in which case the declarant will of conforming to the rule. The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a suficient reason for not The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned. The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served. continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the cannot be under an estate whereon rear her no ing as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an andavit in the wallowing words: appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and with that, by reason and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his he served not lose them the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For- For months and - days, I served and for such service I claim a pension the pension to be paid according to the rate of the cause months, andimportant , in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law it, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some person who for to the officers and the as it must in every case, be clearly shown under what offers in honor the duration of such term of engagement places where the service was performed into a remote pursuit. her; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was at one lived in an evil The law makes the relinquishment indispensable. The opinion of the Court is always required. the crime save one There is his seat, and if the device or inscription by which it can be distinguished than any other seal, or if he has won the papers. he set of one, there were once more Mode of authenticating papers. In every instance where the certicate of the commiss oner who authenticates the person with one or more this andavit or other papers authenticated, the certincate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of wheat under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. Proof of Service. In a case where the name of the plicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witness who are persons for use in the morn came to see me on my own the house. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credits of the applies to continental troops only. under his seal of office. each year he was reported by rate in tionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases. witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact. The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration