Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46405, for Thomas Pinckney, South Carolina
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SC           Pickney Thomas        S46405
                                                  B.L.Wt. 1760 400 
                                                   Major. Issued 
                                                    Dec. 28, 1798.
                                                  No papers.
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No of Orig. pay 78                 418   19

REVOLUTIONARY  CLAIMS

(Allowed Oct.1828)
                                  TREASURY DEPARTMENT
                                   10 July 1828

Thomas Pickney _______ of Charleston. in the 
District of Charleston in the State of South Carolina has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution", approved  on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war,
at which period he was a Major in the first regiment of the South Carolina line: and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3rd of March, 1826, (nothing) dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of __________________________
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. 
                                       By order of the Secretary,  A. Dinkins(illeg.)
                                         Third Auditor's Office, 
                                          11 July 1828

It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to Thomas Pinckney in the South Carolina line, amounting to Three Thousand dollars. 
It further appears that Thomas Pinckney is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has been since the 3 March 1826.
                                  John Hagner Amos


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Revolutionary Claims.

(A)
Form of a Declaration to be made by the Officers.

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of a act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution, " approved on the 15th of May, 1828, I, Thomas Pinckney of Charleston, in the District of Charleton, in the State of South Carolina, do hereby declare that I was an officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, and served as such* until the end of the War

at which period I was a Major in the Fourth regiment of the So. Carolina Continental line. 

And I also declare, that I afterwards received certificates(commonly called commutation certificates) for a sum equal to the amount of five years full pay; which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress, of the 22d of March, 1782, instead of the half pay for life, to which I was entitled under the resolve of the 21st of October, 1780.

Witness my hand, this twenty eigth day of June, in the year on thousand eight hundred and twenty eight. Thomas Pinckney

Before me, James 
Ferguson Justice of the (illeg) in the Parish of St. John's Berkley and the District of Charleston South Caroling, personally appeared, this day, Daniel g Huger Senior and Edward Frost, of the  district who did severally make oath that Thomas Pinckney by whom the foregoing declaration as subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an  officer in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated. 
Witness my hand, the first? day of July in the year one thousand Eight hundred and twenty eight.
                             James Ferguson

I William Stevens Smith, Clerk of the Court of the District of Charleston, in the State of South Carolina, do hereby certify, that the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time, a (illeg) of the (illeg) and duly empowered to administer oaths. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this first day of ....on thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.

Here insert, To the end of the war, or, (as the case may be)to the time when the  arrangement of the Ary provided by the resolves of Congress of the 3d and 21st of October, 1780,  was carried into effect; and tat I was Illegible. The sum of                  dollars, paid to me by the agent for paying pensions in the State of                       . I the climant has not been a pensioner, this part of the declaration may be omitted. 
A Justice of the Peace,or other magistrate duly empowered to administer oaths, as the case my be.
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(3-230.) Cert                       No. 78

REVY

Name: Thomas Pinckney
Rank:   Major           Company........
Reg't  1st SC Line

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Rate per month, and Date of Commencement.

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Date of Certificate, and to whom sent:
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ACT 1828  ALLOWED

Act 14th July 1862.  Bk . G, Vol.,     Page  ......

Registering Clerk: ........................................................

Disability. .............................................