Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2,922, Fielding W Curtis, S. C.
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( 3-1776 )  SERVICE S.C.  Curtis  or Curtiss, Fielding , Charity NUMBER W. 2922
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CURTIS FIELDING  W. ( S.C. ) W- 2922
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES

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William Curtis
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES

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19226 Kentucky Fielding W. Curtiss of  __ in the State of Kent.  who was a pr & Sgt. in the  co. commanded by Captain Little [Lieutenant John Little] of the regt commanded by Col. [Thomas] Brandon in the SC line for Priv 18 mos, Sgt. 3 mos. 
Inscribed on the  Roll of Kent at the rate of 75 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of Augt. 1833 and   Wm Butler Tompkinsville  
Arrears to the 4th of March 150.00 Semi-anl. allowance ending  4 Sept. 37.50 = $187. 50 
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7 1832  Recorded by  Danl. Boyd Clerk 
Book E. Vol. 7 Page 6
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7168 Kentucky 
Charity Curtis widow of Fielding W Curtis who served in the Revolutionary  war as a Pri & Sergt.  Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 75 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1848 . 
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of Sept. 1848  and sent to  Hon. C. T. Morehead Frankfort  Ken. Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848 , Page 228 Vol. 3
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4612 Charity  Curtis of Fielding  Kentucky  died 16 Sep 1835
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[ State of Kentucky County of Monroe ] ss. On this  21st day of May 1839  personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid  Charity Curtis  a resident of Monroe County and State of Kentucky  who from bodily infirmity is unable to attend  Court  aged eighty two years  who being first duly sworn  according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836. That she is the widow of  Fielding  W Curtis  who was a private in the Army of the Revolution on the pension list Roll  of the Kentucky agency agreeable to a declaration  made before the County Court of Monroe County  Kentucky   at their May term  in the year 1833 which is hereto made a part of this declaration on file in the Pension office  and received a Pension Certificate for seventy five dollars per annum agreeable to the provision of the Act passed June 7th  1832 and drew his pay  up to the 4th day of September 1835  . She further declares that she was married to Fielding  W Curtis on the  26th day of October seventeen hundred and eighty three  and before the expiration  of his last term of service for she well recollects that after she was married she went to the Block house in  Union District  South Carolina  where her husband was stationed and where she  saw him under arms  performing duty which was about  one mile from her place of residence and further she knows of no person now living who were present at their marriage. Therefore she must  resort to traditionary evidence in support of her claim. That her husband the aforesaid Fielding W Curtis   died on the 14th day of September eighteen hundred and thirty five and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear
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by reference to the proof hereto annexed.  * on the Pension interlined and  ( the )  & ( 1832 )  written over an erasure   Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first written  before me and a competent witness. Charity Curtis ( her mark X )  William G. Howard ( signed ) J.P. Sally Stean ( signed )  We William Howard and Jane Howard  residing in the County of Monroe and State of Kentucky do hereby certify that we were well acquainted with  Charity  Curtis as well as her husband Fielding W. Curtis  both in the  State of South Carolina as well as this State ( Kentucky ) and have no hesitation  in believing the aforesaid Charity Curtis's statement to the aforesaid declaration  is in every respect  true as she was considered respectable by the neighbors in general and Jane Howard further saith that she was present at the  affair of the above named Curtis's not have either  ever heard their marriage doubted by any individual  whatever  . * true interlined before signing .Sworn to and subscribed before me   William G Howard a Justice of the  above stated on the day and  year first written and a competent witness.  William Howard ( signed ) Jane Howard ( her mark X )   William G. Howard ( signed ) J.P. Sally Stean ( signed )  We John Mulkey  a clergyman residing in the  County of Monroe  Ky and Elizabeth  Mulkey  of the same County  and State do certify that we are well acquainted with  the  aforesaid Charity  Curtis above named and have no hesitation  in believing the statement made in her declaration  to be strictly true as
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both have been acquainted with  her for near fifty years and Elizabeth Mulkey  for more than sixty years. * aforesaid interlined before signing . Sworn  and subscribed  this 13th day of June  1839  and a competent witness. Jno Mulkey ( signed ) Elizabeth Mulkey ( her mark X ) William G Howard ( signed ) J.P. Harmon Howard ( signed )  I, William G. Howard a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Monroe  and State of Kentucky  do certify that  Charily  Curtis who appeared  before me on the  21at  day of May 1839  and made oath to a declaration  herewith was and is by reason of  bodily infirmity  unable to attend Court and further  that  Jane Howard  and William who signed the first certificate  on  the same date  and John Mulkey  who signed the next certificate above is a clergyman  and Elizabeth Mulkey   who signed the same certificate are all residents  of Monroe  County  and State of Kentucky and are credible persons whose several statements is entitled to credit . I do hereby declare my opinion  that Charity Curtis is the lawful widow of  Fielding  W. Curtis . Given under my hand  this 13th day of June  1839  * me interlined before signed . William G. Howard ( signed ) J.P. I, William Butler  clerk of the Court of Monroe County  certify that William G. Howard is a Magistrate and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his  is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name  this 13th day of June  one thousand eight hundred and  thirty nine.  Will . Butler ( signed / sealed )  Clerk of the  Court of Monroe County
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No [illegible]14
Fielding W Curtiss Kent

from 1776 private
& Sergt  2 months
18 mos Pr  -   $60 -
Sergt. 3 mos.    15 .-
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                            $75.-
Little
Brandon
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Tompkinsvill

William Butler Clerk
Monroe County Court
Kentucky
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension Office _
Sir:  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 with the following rules and 
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 complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A STATEMENT, showing the service of Fielding W Curtiss
Period when the service was rendered. Vol  1776
Duration of the claimant's service  
3 Months   
Rank of claimant.    Private
Names and rank of the  Company Officers under whom he served.  
Capt [Joseph] McJunkin
Names and rank of the General and Field officers. Maj [Thomas] Brandon
Battles in which the applicant was engaged. Skirmishes with the tories
Country through which he marched. 
S C.
Place of abode  when he entered the service, and age at present period
Aged 75 District 96. S. C.
Battles in which the applicant was engaged. Skirmishes with the tories
Country through which he marched. 
S C.
Place of abode  when he entered the service, and age at present period
Aged 75 District 96. S. C.
Vol 3 months
Vol  1778 3 months  Captain [Lt. John] Little, Col Brandon SC & Geo
Vol 1779 3 months Capt [Lt. Samuel] Jackson
Vol July  1779 3 months Capt [William] Young
Vol Apr 1780 Dischrgd July '80 Capt Comer [Daniel Comber]
Nov 1780 Dischgd Jany '80 Capt Young, Col Fair [Lieutenant Colonel William Farr] SC
Served in all 21 months
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions 

[note]
Sargent on the Orangeburg Campaign
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REGULATION 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:
1. 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 claim
ing the benefit of this law as officers, 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, Territory or District of} ss.
County of                                 }

On this______day of_____personally appeared (a) before
A. B. a resident (b) of______in the county of _______and State, Territory or District
of_____aged_______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)____, with  and
served in the_____ (e) regiment of the_____ 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.

I _____________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 in the _____________ and C. D. residing in (the same)
hereby certify, that we   _____________      are well acquainted with ___________ , who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be ___________
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.

If such 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
alleged service, as they are  know at the Department.  A very full account of  the service of each person
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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 imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected.
All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and
there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his
case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of
service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State
troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, 
and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?
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 Solder.     } 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 be come 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
enquiry 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.

[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the
claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so
definite 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 affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason
of old age, 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
recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:--For---year----months----, and ------------days  , I served as a --------- For -----------months and------- days, I served as a ------; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law
directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months,
is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years
in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is
highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement;
the particular place or place where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent 
authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.

[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i ] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public
seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
                                                                                     
                                                                                          Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains
the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must
pass 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.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses
who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well 
as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the 
witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
☞ The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j]  applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l]  If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m]The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

Dyer Castor 
                  [illegible] Clerk
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Fielding W. Curtis Declaration for Pension
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[ The State of Kentucky County of Monroe ] ss.  On this 6th day of May  1833 personally appeared in open  Court now in session Fielding Curtis  resident in Monroe  County  aforesaid aged seventy six years on the 1st day of March  1833  from the record in his possession taken from his father's records  , who being 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 7th June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States  under the following named officers and served as herein after stated.  In the spring of the year 1776  he thinks in the month of March   he entered the service of the United states in the  State of South Carolina in  District 96  where he then resided, under the command of Captain Joseph Mc Junkin , and Maj.  Thomas Brandon, but he does not recollect the number of the regiment. This tour was directed against the Cherokee Indians . The army   went to a fort called Frank Prince's  fort and guarded the fort against the  Cherokees, nothing remarkable  occurred during this campaign. He served until some time in  June 1776  and was verbally discharged by  Captain  Mc Junkin having serve in this campaign three months. He entered the service for this tour  and served as volunteer on his own account. He again entered the service in  District 96   as volunteer under Captain McJunkin in the  command of Maj. Brandon . This campaign was directed against the Tories and a number of them were taken  prisoners and a great many were killed
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the tory prisoners  were put  in a log jail  built for that purpose and amongst them there was a man who was known by the name of  mad William  ( the ring leader  amongst the tories )  . This  took place in what was afterwards  Union County  South Carolina. He entered  the service for this campaign in the  month of October  1777  and was discharged verbally  by  Capt. Mc Junkin in  January  1778, having served  three months. He next entered the service  as volunteer  in the same  District  96  in  Sept. 1778  under Capt.[Lt.] John Little  & Maj.  Ben Jolly  in  Col. [Thomas]Brandon's  regiment . the regiment  was in Genl [Andrew] Pickens's Brigade. This campaign was directed against the Indians and a number of their towns were burnt  some  Indians killed and some taken prisoners. He recollects that there was  one white man  painted like an  Indian and he was killed by the whites. He was verbally discharged by  Maj. Ben Jolly  in  December 1778 having served three months. The net  tour  he volunteered and entered the service under the command of Capt. [Lt.] Samuel Jackson  in the same State and District. Maj. [Zachariah] Bullock and Col. Thomas Brandon in  April  1779. The regiment   joined  Genl.Pervis's [Lieutenant Colonel John Purvis] Brigade in Georgia on  Cupboard  Creek . Ther was no engagement during this campaign  . He was discharged in writing by  Genl. Pervis which has long since been lost, he was discharged 1st  July 1779  having served
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three months . He next entered the service as  volunteer under Captain [William] Young  some time in July 1779 (having returned home after his discharge by Genl Pervis)  Ben Jolly was Major and Thomas Brandon Col. This and the most of the time spent in catching, hanging, and guarding Tories at the block house in Union District South Carolina  at  Fair forest shoals or Brandon's Mills . He was verbally discharged by Captain Young  in October 1779  having served three months during the times the troops were guarding at the block house, this declarant  was sent by Col. Brandon about sixteen miles to take a Tory  by the name of Bill Gary. He went on and executed his commission and was  joined by Capt. Isaac Tinsley & Lieutenant James Tinsley, and on the way from  Gary's to the block house with Gary a prisoner, the tories overtook  and attacked the Tinsley's  & this declarant  and killed Isaac Tinsley  & shot James Tinsley through the arm. This declarant was taken prisoner by the tories, but he in a short time made his escape & returned to the block house , on the next day  Col. Brandon sent back a detachment to hunt the Tinsley's  and  Isaac was found and buried , James had made his escape. When this declarant was taken  prisoner, the tories took from
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from him his wagon, swords and a rifle.  (This is a circumstance which was omitted in his former declaration).  He next entered the service of the United States  as volunteer in  April 1780   under Capt. David Comer [Comber] in Brandon's Regiment, Ben Jolly Maj.  during the campaign Col. William Fair [Lt. Col. Wm Farr] took command of the regiment . This campaign  was directed against the British at Charleston, This was called the Orangeburg campaign. At Orangeburg several of the British came into our camps & give up. On this route this declarant burnt his leather britches and got lousy- He was discharged by Col. Fair at Orangeburg in July 1780 in writing which has long since been lost, he served on this campaign three months. He  next joined the army of the United States  as volunteer in  Nov. 1780  under Capt. [William] Young and went to Brandon's Mills or the block house after the tories, during this tour  Capt. James Woodson  some times took command , Ben Jolly  was Maj. , William Fair  was Col. , a great many tories were brought into the block house and some of them hanged, one he recollects  was by the name of Glover . He served until some time in January
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1781 and got a verbal discharge from Capt. Young and then returned home  having served in all twenty one months. He was born in  Halifax County Virginia  & moved to 96 District . He has resided in  96  or Union District about ten years, and after the war closed and peace ratified he married in said District. He would remark  that during the Orangeburg campaign he acted as Sergeant. This declarant  moved from Union District South Carolina to Barren County Kentucky which has since been formed into a new County  by the name of Monroe, that is to say that part of Barren where he resided and  still resides. He has resided in this County about seventeen years. He knows of no witness by whom he can prove  actual service. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever 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. He states that after the close of the war he was commissioned by Gov. Pinckney of South Carolina , Lieutenant , which he herewith sends. Sworn to and subscribed in open Court  the day  & year first aforesaid  written. Fielding W. Curtis ( his mark X )
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We Richard Emberton  & William Howard citizens of Monroe County  Kentucky  in the neighborhood of Fielding W. Curtis are well acquainted with  the said Fielding W. Curtis  who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be  seventy six years old, and 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 to and subscribed the day  & year aforesaid. William Howard ( signed ) Richard Emberton ( signed )  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 Richard Emberton  & William Howard who have signed the preceding  certificate are residents in Monroe County  and are persons of good credit and that
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their statement is entitled to credit. Allen Gae ( signed / sealed ) Wm. G. Howard ( signed / sealed ) John P. Martin ( signed / sealed ) Will C. Trice (signed / sealed )  J G McPherson ( signed / sealed ) Lewis Ross ( signed / sealed )  [ State of Kentucky Monroe  County ] set. I William Butler clerk of the County Court for the County of Monroe , do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said  Court in the matter of the application of  Fielding E. Curtis for a pension . In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 6th day of May 1833. Will. Butler ( signed / sealed ) clk
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
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File No. 2922
Charity Curtis,
Widow of
Fielding W. Curtis
Priv / Sergt. Rev War
Act: 2 Feby 1848
Index:--Vol. A, Page 160
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[stamp]
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES 

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[illegible]
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Charity Curtis
Kentucky

Rejected
    ====
See let. 20th Sep '39
A. T. Marrs.

married after ter - 
=mination of the revolu
tionary war.

Act 4 July 1836
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Charity Curtis
of Fielding W.
Kentucky
___
Suspended
___
See let: 19 June 1840
to A. T. Marrs
let 23rd Nov 40 to
A Fergusson
let 10 Ap 41 to do and
to A.T. Marrs same date
let: 11 May 41 to A
Fergusson
Act 7 July 1838.
__________________
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Fielding Curtis
[illegible] Lieutenant
[illegible]

Curtis, Fielding W.
(S. C.)
W - 2922
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
By his Excellency CHARLES PINCKNEY, Esq, Goverer and Commander in Chief in and over the said State:
To fielding  Curtis gentelman

I Reposing special trust and confidence, in your courage and good conduct, and in your fidelity and attachment to the United States
of America, have commissioned and appointed and by these presents do commission and appoint you the said fielding 

[illegible]


which said   company     you are to lead, train, muster and exercise, according to military discipline. And you are

to allow and observe all such orders and instruction as you shall from time to time receive from me or the commander in chief for

the time being, or any of your superior officers according to the rules and discipline of war, pursuant to the laws of this State. And
are hereby

[illegible] inferior officers and others, belonging to the said   [illegible]       are hereby required and commanded to obey you as their
 [illegible].             This commission to continue during pleasure.

By his Excellency's Command,

GIVEN under my hand and seal this [illegible]
in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and eig   in the
year of the Independence of the United States of America
[illegible]
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6407
Kentucky
====================
Charity Curtis
Widow of Fielding W. Curtis
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who died on the 14th Sept. 1835
of Monroe Co  in the State of Kentucky
who was a Private & Sergt in the Compy
commanded by Captain Little of the 
Regt. commanded by Col. Brandon in
the S. C. line for 18 mos pri.
                                   3   "    sergt.,
================================
Inscribed on the Roll of Louisville
at the rate of 75  Dollars -
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1836
===============================
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of
Sept  1841, and sent to  Hon
C. S. Morehead
Frankfort,  Ken.
===============================
                                       ============
Total amount,               $
                                         ============
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Tho  Lumpkin.  Clerk,
Book D.     Vol. 1.     Page 365
Increased from $20 (Deduct)
all former payments

( right page ) Reported
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( left page )  1814 Kentucky Charity Curtis widow of  Fielding W. Curtis who was a  private & Sergt. in the  Revolution  Husband died 14 Sept. 1835  Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 75 Dollars __ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1843. Certificate of Pension issued the  21st day of Sept. ' 48  and sent to  Hon . C. S. Morehead Frankfort  Kentucky [ Acts  of March 3, 1843 and June 17, 1844 ] Recorded in Book A Vol. 2  Page 179 Increase from   $ 20 Deduct all former payments ( right page ) Reported
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( left page ) Pen. agt. notified Let.  to A. Fergusson  July 7, 1842 , let to same  7 Sep.  1842 ( right page )  6407 Kentucky  Charity Curtis  widow of Fielding W. Curtis  who was a pensioner under the  Act of June 1832, and who died on the  14 September 1835  of Monroe Col in the State of Kentucky  who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Little  of the regt. commanded by Col. Brandon in the  S.C.  line for 6 months. Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky  at the rate of 20 Dollars per annum , to commence on the  4th day of March 1836. Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of October  1841 and sent to A. Ferguson  Carthage . Ten. Arrears to the 4th of March 1841  $ 100 { Act July 7, 1838 } Recorded by D. Brown Clerk Book A. Vol. 2. Page 214
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Kentucky 1814
Charity Curtis
widow of Fielding W. Curtis
who was a Private
in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
20 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
6th day of Sept. 1843
sent to Wm. Butler
Tompkinsville, Ken

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A.
Vol. A Page 167
Red.
Let to Hon W Greda
Feb 21 1845
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Charity Curtis act
2 No Feby d 1 Reso
Curtis July 1 July 48
C  S Morehead
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State of Kentucky Monroe County Set
On this the 28th day of August 1848
Before me Christopher Hayson acting Justice of the Peace in & for the County and State aforesaid Personally appeared Charity Curtis
a resident of the County of
Monroe State of Kentucky who after being first duly Sworn according to law doth On her Oath make the
following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act 2nd February 1848 the Joint Resolution of Congress approved 1 July 1848 granting allowances as pensions
to certain widows of Officers and soldiers of the Revolution To wit that she is the widow of Fielding Curtis deceased late of Monroe County Ky who was a soldier in the Army
of the Revolution as she verily believes and in consequence of
his service therein was allowed a pension under the act of Congress passed 7 June 1832 at the rate of 75 per annum. That after his death she applied for and obtained pensions
under the acts of Congress passed 7 July 1838, 3d March 1843 & 17 June 1844 But which were allowed her only at the rate of $20 per annum. That she was married to her said husband previous to the first day of January Seventeen Hundred & ninety four, for the full proof of which the most respectfully asks leave to refer to the
evidence now on file in the office of the Hon Commissioner of Pensions upon which the aforesaid allowances to her were made. That since the death of her said husband she has now again married but still remains
his widow. she now believing herself entitled to a
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pension during her life at the rate of $75
per Annum
most respectfully asks the Hon
Commissioner of Pensions that an allowance may be accordingly made of the certificate evidencing
same which may isue may be enclosed to in
Attorney C.H. Trabue Esq of Frankfort Ky and
with him only and such others as he may authorise  does She wish correspondence holden in reference to her said claim by the Hon Commissioner
of Pensions
Sworn to and subscribed before me
On the day & year aforesaid
Christopher Hayes JP
Charity her X mark  Curtis

I the Just subscribed magistrate certify that the forgoing declarant is personally known to me and known to be the identical individual she represents
herself to be & to have drawn a pension at
the rate of $20 per annum as stated by her. She
is a Lady of the first respectability unto all
of whose statements the fullest faith and
Credit should be given
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name
Christopher Hayes J
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State of Kentucky Monroe County ⎬ Set
I Clerk of the County
and State aforesaid do certify that Christopher Hayes is a Justice of the peace in and
for the County duly commissioned and
Sworn to
that his commission was dated on the 31st
day of December 1848 and that his
signature above written is Genuine
Given under my hand and the
Seal of said County on this the
28th day of August 1848
Will Butter clk
[illegible] 2 in the 6th line from the top [illegible] or changed before
Signed
Will Butler Clk
State of Kentucky Monroe County Sct
I Will Buller Clerk of the County Court for
the County aforesaid do certify that Christopher Hays whose name appears to the above
certificate is an acting Justice of the peace
in and for the County aforesaid duly and
legally sworn into office, and that his
Commission bears date, 31st December 1842
and to continue during life or good
behaviour, and that his above written signature is Genuine.
Given under my hand
and seal office this 28th
day of Augt 1848
Will Butler Ck
before signed Will Butler Clk
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Charity Curtis Ded
Resolute
1 July 48 &
2 Fby 48
Adm
18 mo pri - $60
3. " Sergt 15
75.00 
frm 4 March 1836 to 4 March
1841 deducting what has been
paid at the rate of $20th pr an
for the same time
under  act 3 March  43 & 17 June
44
$75- deducting what
has been paid at the rate of
$20.00 per an
Adm
Act 2 Feby 48
$75.00  per an
Hon C S Morehead
Frankfort Ky
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State of Kentucky Monroe County Sct
On this 28th day of August 1848 Before Christopher Hays an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Personally appeared Charity Curtis a resident of the County of Monroe and State of Kentucky aged about Ninety Years who after being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to Obtain the benefit of the Joint Resolution of Congress approved 1st day of July 1848 Granting Pensions to the widows of Certain persons who served in the Revolution War Towit. that she is the widow of Fielding Curtis deceased late of the County of Monroe and State of Kentucky who was as she verily believes a Soldier in the army of the Revolution and in consequence of his service therein was allowed a Pension under the Act of Congress passed 7 June 1832 at the rate of $75 per annum.  That after his death she applied for and obtained pensions under the acts of Congress passed 7 July 1838, 3rd March 1843 & 17 June 1844 But which were allowed her only at the rate of $20 per annum.  That she always believed herself entitled to the same rate of Pension per annum under the Just mentioned acts That her husband received aforesaid.  That she was married to her Said husband previous to the first day of January Seventeen Hundred and Ninety four, for the full proof of which She Most respectfully asks leave to refer to the evidence now on file in the Office of the Hon. Commissioner of Pensions upon which the aforesaid allowances were made her.  That she has never married since the death
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of her said husband but still remains his widow. She still believing herself entitled under the acts  7 July 1838  , 3rd March 1843 & 17 June 1844  to the same rate of Pension per annum. That her husband received  as aforesaid , now most respectfully asks that Hon. Commissioner of Pensions that allow  any may be made her at the rate of $ 70 per annum, deducting therefore  the amounts received under the said acts at the rate of $ 20, per annum which may  issue May  be enclosed to her Attorney  C.H. Trabue Esq.  of Frankfort Ky, and with him alone does she wish  correspondence holden touching her said claims and such others as he may authorize. Sworn  to and subscribed  before me on the day  and year aforesaid Christopher Hayes ( signed ) J.P. Charity Curtis ( her mark X )  I the Just.  subscribed  Magistrate certify  that the foregoing declarant is personally known to me  and known to be the identical person she represents herself to be and to have drawn  a pension at the rate of $ 20  per annum. She is a lady of respectability unto all of whose statements the fullest faith and credit should be given. In testimony whereof I  hereunto subscribe my name. Christopher Hayes ( signed ) J.P.
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[ State of Kentucky Monroe County]  Set
I William Butler Clerk of the County Court of
the County aforesaid in the State aforesaid
Do certify that
Christopher Hays whose
name is subscribed to the foregoing
certificate is an acting Justice of the
peace in and to
for said County duly
and legally sworn into office;
his signature above written is
genuine, and that
his Commission 
bears date the 31st day of December 1842
Given under my hand
and seal of Office this
28th day of August 1848.
Will Butler ( signed ) Clerk
Interlined before signed
Will Butler ( signed ) Clk
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6815
Charity Curtis
of Fielding W
Kentucky
-
Admitted
P.r: 6 mo .-- $20-
Cap Little Col Brandon J.C
died 14 Sep 1835
Act 7 July 1838
A. Fergusson
Carthage
Ten
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Carthage Tennessee
16th June 1842
Sir
Inclosed you will find the certificate
and power of attorney of Mrs Charity
Curtis Widow of Fielding W Curtis
Her Pension having remained more than eight months unclaimed I am of opinion that payment must be made at Washington
You will please refer this letter and
the vouchers to P Hagner 3d Auditor or the proper officer in such cases and instruct him to forward a draft for
the whole five years pension to be
paid at Nashville as it will be more
convenient to the claimant as will as
attended with less expences to her. He will be pleased to inclose the same to me and I will attend to the attorney giving such receipts as may be required and as shall be directed
without delay
Respectfully
A. Fergusson
James L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
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Carthage Tennessee
6th September 1841
Sir
Inclosed you will find the power of attorney of Mrs Charity Curtis Widow of Fielding W Curtis authorizing me to receive her pension certificate
In your letter of the 13th May last you say that if she will empower you (me) to receive her pension certificate it would when allowed be sent to you
(me), In answer to which I wrote that so soon as I could see her I would comply with your requisition & not having an opportunity until lately I have now done so. I found her in Kentucky on a [Illegible] to one of her relations and concluded that I would have the power of attorney executed
there. She has no fixed residence sometimes in Tennessee sometimes in Kentucky among her children. It would therefore be most [Illegible]
on account of residence as well as convenience to make the certificate payable at Nashville as I expressed to you in a former letter I sent you
You will please send on the certificate as soon as convenient
Respectfully
A. Fergusson
James L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Carthage Tennessee
5th November 1840
Sir Inclosed you will find the amended Declaration of Mrs Charity Curtis Widow of Fielding W Curtis under act of July 7th 1840
Her first Declaration was sent to
you under act of 4th July 1836 and I
am not certain at what date but I have
of never heard any thing about them, you will be good enough to inform me whether they were even received or not. The Pension certificate of her husband as well as I recolect was sent with her declaration sometime ago however she sent a mesinger to know of me what I had ever done in
the business and requested me to go and see her. I hapened to pass on a Small Journey in the direction of her residence and on seeing her I 
learned that after she had made her first declaration under act of July 4th as above Stated she employed a man in Tomkinsville Monroe County Kentucky by the name of Abijah Mary
to establish her claim and that he having entirely failed. She wanted me still to act for her having learned from her what I conceived to be the real objection I advised her to make a Declaration under act of July
7th 1838 which I herewith inclose as
I believe you will find proof, satisfactory that the Marriage took place previous to
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the 1st day of January 1794 I indulge
the sincere hope that nothing will prevent you from allowing her claim. should however any thing else occur to prevent her obtaining her Pension. I am instructed by her to ask of you to make a written Statement of the objections. also as above State to inform me whether the original Declaration and Pension Certificate ever came to hand as sent by me from this place. If the papers and proof further from Monroe County Kentucky as well as those sent
by me heretofore and this amended Declaration should all prove Satisfactory you would be good enough to forward her Pension
certificate to me as soon as you can.
Respectfully
A. Fergusson
James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Carthage Tennessee
27th April 1841
Sir
Your letter of 10th instant is now before me and in reply to that part of it relating to the case of this Charity Curtis Widow of Fielding W Curtis
wherein you say that the claim will stand Suspended until some information can be obtained from Kentucky where she made her original Declaration I have to state that she made her original
Declaration more than a year previous to the one she sent by or through Abijah Mars of Tomkinsville and the same was handed to me by a friend
of hers to transmit to you. This was under act of July 4th 1836 and have further to state that I am not certain whether the same was related
to you or not I have search diligently for it but cannot find it and must believe enclosed it to you. if so Please inform me of it. Some
time last year she sent a friend of hers to me at this place requesting me that if I intended doing any thing for her to do so and accordingly
I took down her Declaration under act of 7th July believing she was not entitled under the former act. She lived then as she stated in this State
and intended to remain there. I accordingly proved the Documentary evidence from South Carolina, which you have received also she stated that Mr Mars had given up doing any more in the matter. She promised to pay me for my services and money that
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I should expend for her provided she ever got her Pension and I hope and trust you will not prevent her from so doing, For I have neither time nor money to wast and throw away not even on Pensioners and I see no reason why they should not pay or
return monies advanced to establish their claims as well as others-- the Goverment having so amply
provided for them the certificate of South Carolina including two or three postages I think cost me four or five dollars and Clerks certificates here
was something all of which I will loose if the claim goes into other hands for these people are very extravagant in their ideas. some of them tell me and they so believe that I as well as others ought to spend my money for them for nothing and that Goverment has so ordered it
Perhaps you will say by this time, that I might have saved myself the trouble of this too long business letter thus yet I thought it due to myself
knowing as I believe that I must be satisfied with whatever decision you come to
Please excuse the trouble this has given you and accept for yourself my highest Respect &c
A. Fergusson
James L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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War  Department Pension Office September 20, 1839 Sir, The papers in support of the claim of Mrs. Charity Curtis widow of Fielding W. Curtis  dec'd under the act of July 4, 1836  have been examined. She alleges to  have been  married in October 1783. The revolutionary war terminated before that period, and on referring to  the declaration of  the claimant's husband, it is stated by him that he married after peace was made. The 3rd section of the act of July 4, 1836   does not provide for any widow whose husband's services terminated before her marriage. This claim  has therefore been rejected  & the papers filed. The claimant may  however obtain a pension under the act of July 7,  1838  , from his making a declaration   under said act as required in the enclosed printed sheet. The witnesses should   amend their affidavits and state the period of the marriage and all the particulars connected with their knowledge of it.
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If there be a family record of her
marriage or of the births of her children, it
should be exhibited, if there be none, the
claimant should state the fact under oath.
I am respectfully
Your obt sevt
J L Edwards ( signed ) 

A. T. Marrs Esq
Tompkinsville
Kentucky
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Monroe County 
Sir
Enclosed I return to you my
declaration for a pension, and
as there was an objection to the
one previously forewarded which could  not be amended. I have made
out the one (intended for an amendment) entire, I have however thought best to send on the original, - which remains as it was for the reason before mentioned
Yours &c
Fielding W. Curtis
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DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress, of the 3d March
1843, granting Pensions for one year to certain Widows who have
received pensions under the Act of July 7, 1838.
STATE OF Kentucky}
Monroe County.        } SS.

On this 9th day of June 1813 personally appeared
before the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the State and county aforesaid,
Charity Curtis a resident of Kentucky
in the county of Monroe aged eighty six years, who being
first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to
obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3d March, 1843,
granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War--That she is the
widow of Fielding W Curtis who was a
Pensioner of the United States and that she
has been placed on the pension list at the rate of twenty
Dollars per annum under act of 7 July 1838
She further declares that she is still a widow.                         her
                                                                                                 Charity X Curtis
Sworn to and subscribed on the day}                                      mark
and year above written before me,    }


Jefferson Gee  Justice of the Peace

State of Kentucky Monroe County: Set.
I, Jefferson Gee  a Justice of the Peace
in and for the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that Charity Curtis
the above declarant is personally known to me.

Given under my hand this
9th day of June         1843
Jefferson Gee Justice of the Peace.

STATE OF Kentucky}
Monroe County.        }
I, William Butler Clerk of the County Court
of said Monroe county, hereby certify that Jefferson Gee
Esqr.   whose name appears signed to the foregoing affidavit and cer- 
tificate is and was at the time of signing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the
County aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified as such according to law, and that the forego-
ing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

SEAL

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my
hand, and affixed my seal of office, at office in
the Town of Tompkinsville
this 9th day of June         1813
Will  Butler
Clerk of Monroe County.
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2160
June 20 43

Ken
Mar 3rd 1843
Charity Curtis

$20 per ann

Wm Butler
Tompkinsville
Ken

Tompkinsville Ky         [illegible]ble
[illegible]

J. L. Edwards
Pension Agent
Washington City

mail
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Tompkinsville  June 9th 1843
J L Edward Esqr

Dear Sir
Inclosed you
will find a the Declaration of Charity
Curtis, which you will receive and
dispose of in the legal way.
Direct your answer to me at this place.

Yours
Respectfully
Will Butler
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Carthage Tennessee  22nd  August 1840 Sir, By this Morning's Globe I  see that the  joint resolution extending the  benefits of the act of July 7th 1838 , or in other words restoring the benefit of   said act as construed by  you and the Secretary of War, to the widows whose husbands  died previous to the portion of said act has passed the Senate  and as I have no doubt before this  has become a law and as the vouchers in the pension matter of Mrs. Charity Curtis  widow of  Fielding W. Curtis  were withheld  from payment on the sole amount of the last opinion of the  Attorney General. I hope you will  feel fully  authorized to refer to the said voucher to the  3rd Auditor  with a view of their payment as the   proctor heretofore . Respectfully  A. Fergusson  ( signed )  James L Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington
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Know all men by these presents that I Charity Curtis  widow of Fielding W. Curtis  late of Monroe County  Kentucky  do hereby nominate and appoint  Adam Fergusson  of  Carthage Smith County Tennessee my true and lawful attorney to ask, demand, and receive my pension certificate from the  Commissioner of Pension s at Washington  City , that may have  issued in my favor or that shall issue in my  favor a receipt or other acknowledgement to give in my name  for said certificate in as full and ample a manner as it I were present and further to do and perform an actor  acts  things, or things touching the   premises hereby ratifying  and confirming all that my  said  attorney shall do in and about obtaining a pension for me or receiving the certificate aforesaid. Witness my hand and seal  this 4th day of Sept. A.D. 1841 Charity Curtis ( her mark X ) sealed  Jefferson Gee ( signed ) Drewry Steen ( his mark X ) J Q Martin ( signed ) [ State of Kentucky Monroe County ] On this  day personally appeared  before me  Jefferson Gee one of the  acting Justices of the peace in and for the County of Monroe  and  State of Kentucky  aforesaid  Charity Curtis , widow of Fielding W. Curtis  and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney  to be her act and deed. In testimony whereof  I have hereunto set my hand and affixed  my seal  this 4th day of September 1841  Jefferson Gee ( signed  ) J.P. Justice of the peace
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State of Kentucky Monroe County Set
I William Butter Clerk of the Monroe
County Court in the State aforesaid 
Do certify that Jefferson Gee Esq whose
name is subscribed to the above and
foregoing Certificate is an acting Justice 
of the peace in and for the [illegible] of
Monroe County duly commissioned and 
qualified, and as such full faith
and credit are due to and ought to
be given all his official acts

SEAL

Given under my hand and
Seal of office at the County
Court Clerks office this 4th
day of Sept 1841, & [illegible]
Commonwealth the 30th year
Wm  Butler.  clk
____
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Comptroller Genls Office
Columbia 23 Decr 1840
Indent Book
X No 2763
No 1

Issued 12th May 1786  to Mr
Fielding Curtis, for £ 1..17..1 1/2
sterling duty in Brandons
Regiment Pr cf. audited
No 112
Annual interest £1.,2,.7

State of South Carolina
No. 2 To Fielding Curtis
For Militia duty in Brandons Regimt.
since the fall of Charlestown pr
Andersons return amounting to
Currency ---
£ 13.
Stg £ 1,, 17,,1 ½
Comptroller Genl Office
Columbia  23d Decmb  1840) I do hereby
certify that the above memorandum
No 1. is a true copy taken from the margin of Indent Book X No 2763 deposited in this Office: and that No 2
is a copy of the account audited
and for which the same indent
was issued
Wm E. Hanne
Comp Genl
Pr Wm F. Arthur
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[ State of Tennessee Smith County ] On this 24th day of October 1840 personally appeared Charity Curtis ,  a resident of the County  and State aforesaid  but formerly a resident of  Monroe County Kentucky  before me  Thomas Datson one of the acting Justices of the peace  for the County of Smith  and State of Tennessee she being aged eighty three years who being first sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the  provision made by the act of Congress  passed July the 7th 1838  entitled an act granting  half pay  and pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of Fielding W. Curtis  or as expressed in the pension  certificate  Fielding W. Curtis  the  M was inserted by mistake a the time he was Pensioner under that name but his name was Fielding Wood Curtis, he drew his pension in Lexington Kentucky  . She further  declares that she was married to the said Fielding W. Curtis  on the __ day of October  seventeen hundred and  eighty , that her husband the said Fielding W. Curtis  died on the  13th day of September  1836  , hat she  was not married to him prior to the service but the service  after the  marriage was against the tories which she is informed were not Revolutionary  but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January   seventeen hundred and ninety four ,  to wit at the time above specified. Sworn to and subscribed  before me this day and year last above mentioned.
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[ State of Tennessee Smith County ] I Thomas Datson one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that I am acquainted with  Charity Curtis who has this day   appeared before me  and made the foregoing declaration , that she is a woman of truth and veracity  and that full faith and credit are due to her statements. I further certify that  owing to old age and bodily infirmity  she cannot go to the  Court of her County  to make this declaration in open Court. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal tis 24th day of October  1840. Thomas Datson ( signed / sealed ) Justice of the Peace.  [ State of Tennessee Smith County ] I  John J Bennett clerk of the Smith County  Court hereby certify that Thomas Datson before whom the within declaration  of  Charity Curtis  was made was at the time the same  purports to bear date and now is one of the  acting Justices of the peace in and for said Smith County duly commissioned and qualified as  the law directs and sch  full faith and credit is due  & ought to be given to all his official acts  as such and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his are genuine.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed  my seal of office this 5th .. ( illegible ) 1840 . John J Bennett ( signed / sealed ) C of Smith County Court
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State of Kentucky
County of Monroe ⎬SS. On this 5th day of February 1840
personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the
County Court of Monroe County Kentucky Aged 82
years Charity Curtis a resident of the aforesaid County
and State who being first duly sworn according to law
Doth on her oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made
by the Act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled
An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain
Widows that she is the widow of Fielding W. Curtis a
Revolution soldier of the United State who was
placed on the Roll of the Kentucky Agency
by reason of a declaration made by him as to
his services in the Monroe County Court at
their December Term in the year 1832, on file
in the Pension office she further declares that
she was married to the said Fielding W. Curtis on
the Twenty sixth day of October seventeen hundred
and Eighty three and that she has no other documentary
Evidence to fix the date but her
own family Record which is sent on three leaves
taken out of a Hymn Book the first marked
A. in the hand writing of her husband registering
the date of the Marriage of ourselves which
was afterwards defaced by their second son
William Curtis when a small boy shortly after
he learned to write the second leaf marked B. where
my two only sons (by said Curtis) Ages is Recorded
in the hand writing of the same the eldest at the
lower end of the page and youngest at top and
third leaf marked C in the hand writing of
John Curtis Deceased Brother to my husband
John Fielding in Curtis made in better hand writing
at the request of my husband all of which
she knoweth to be a genuine Record of
6815
Charity Curtis 
of Fielding W. 
Kentucky

88.
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her family and that her husband the aforesaid Fielding
W. Curtis Died on the 14th day of September 1835 that
she was not married to him prior to his leaving the
service but the Marriage took place previous to the
first day January Seventeen hundred and ninety four viz
at the time above stated
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first
writen before me a Justice of the County Court
of Monroe Kentucky
Charity her X mark Curtis

William G. Howard J.P.
State of Kentucky
County of Monroe SS.
on this 5th day of February 1840
personally appeared before me William G. Howard a Justice
of Monroe County Court William Howard Aged 69 years
and Jane Howard Aged 67 years who being first duly
sworn according to law doth on their oath say
that they both were a living in the neighbourhood
When Fielding W. Curtis and Charity Curtis were reported
to be married and Jane Howard was at the
Inn fore the next day when the two above stated
came to Fielding W Curtis, Mothers where the recieve
a dinner in such cases and that neither of them
have ever heard it doubted that were not legally married and further they cohabited together
Settember 4 1835 as they who present
as husband and wife to the day of his death
they say they have no Record to refer to in
fixing the date except the family Record of
Fielding W. Curtis which William Howard is acquainted  with
his hand as well as John Curtis hand write 
and believe them to be genuine William Howard
Sworn to and subscribed the day
and date above written
William G. Howard J.P.
Jane her X mark Howard
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State of Kentucky
Monroe County
S.S.
On this 5th day of February 1840 personally appeared before me William G. Howard a Justice of Monroe County Court William Chism a Clergyman a resident of said County and state aforesaid and made oath in due form of Law that he has been well acquainted with Charity Curtis for about twenty five years the widow of Fielding W. Curtis a Soldier of the Revolution and Pensioner of the United States and the said Charity Curtis Cohabites with Fielding W. Curtis as husband and wife and have never heard any other opinion but they were the Legal husband wife of each other
Sworn and subscribed before me
the Day and year first above
written,
William G Howard J.P.
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William Chism

State of Kentucky  Monroe County S ct
I William G. Howard a Justice of Monroe County Court declare my opinion after an investigation of the matter that the foregoing proceedings were had before me and that Charity Curtis is unable to attend Court by reason of bodily infirmity and that William Howard and Jane Howard is Creditable persons and William Chism is a Clergyman of respectable standing in Society and that the leaves set forth in Charity Curtis Declaration was taken out of an old Hymn Book in my presence and marked A.B.C. which I certify that I believe the Record to be genuine as I have been well acquainted with the hand write of Fielding W. Curtis and John Curtis the latter were one of my teachers and am Clearly of the opinion that Charity Curtis is the widow of Fielding W Curtis Deceased late a pensioner of the united given under my hand this 5th day of February, 1840
Willm G. Howard J.P. M.C.C.
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I Will Butler Clerk of the Court of the Court of Monroe County Certify that William G. Howard is a Justice of the Court of Monroe County Kentucky and that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his is genuine and I farther Certify that William Howard and Jane Howard who has signed their names to one of the foregoing Certificates is persons of respectable standing and William Chism is a Clergyman of Creditable standing and their statements is to be depended on and entitled to Credit
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office and Subscribed my name this 8th day of February 1840
Will Butler
Clerk of Monroe County Court
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J L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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Tompkinsville Ky June 24th 1839
Sir enclosed you have a declaration of Mrs Charity Curtis for a Pension also a letter from The Honl. J. R. Underwood its contents will explain its object which is satisfactory to the Department you will please correspond with me on the subject of Mrs Curtis' claim 
I am yours &C
A. T. Marrs
of Tompkinsville Ky

You will also address me in reguard to Mrs. Nancy Simmons' claim of Monroe County Ky now on file in the Pension office  Yours &C
A. T. Marrs
Tompkinsville Ky
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Tompkinsville 24 June 1839
Sir
Mr. A. T. Marrs of this place informs me that he contemplates corresponding with you on the subject of pension laws in this quarter & desires me to say to you what kind of man he is. I have long known him say twenty years or more & during that time his character has stood fair as a man of correct deportment & in my opinion you may confide in whatever statements he makes
Respectfully
Your Obt Sevt
J. R. Underwood
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State of Kentucky
County of Monroe } S.s.
On this 4th day of December 1837 personally appeared in open Court now in session Fielding W Curtis aged seventy five years on the 1st day of March 1838 who being first 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 7th June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein after stated; - In the spring of the year 1776, he thinks, in the month of March he entered the service of the United States in the state of South Carolina in district 96 where he then resided, under the Command of Captain Joseph McJunkin and Major Thomas Brandon, but he does not recollect the number of the regiment: this tour was directed against the Cherokee indians, the army, went to a fort called Frank Princes Fort, and guarded the fort against the Cherokees - nothing remakable transpired during this Campaign, he served until about the last of August [crossed out] June 1776 and was then discharged verbally by Capt. McJunkin, haveing served, during this campaign three months, he entered the service for this tour and served as volunteer on his own account. He again entered the service in the District 96 as a volunteer under Capt. McJunkin in the Command of Maj Brandon in Oct 1777 [crossed out] This compain was directed against the Tories, we took a number of prisoners, & a great many were killed, the tory prisoners were put in a log jail built for that purpose, and
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among them was a man, who was known by the name of Mad Wilson, the acting leader among the Tories. This took place in what was afterward Union County South Carolina. 
He entered the service for this campaign in the month of October 1777 and was discharged verbally by Capt McJunkin in January 1778. haveing served three months. He next entered the service as a volunteer in the same district 96 in Sept 1778 under Capt John Little & Maj Ben Jolly on Col. Brandons regiment. The regiment was in Genl. Pickens Brigade. This Campaign was directed against the indians and during the Campaign, they burnt some towns, killed a number Indians and took some prisoners. He recollects particularly that there was one which man painted like an Indian & was killed by the whites; he was verbally discharged in December by Maj Ben Jolly haveing served three months.
The next Tour he entered the service under the command of Captain Samuel Jackson in the same state and district Maj Bullock and Thomas Brandon, Col. some time in Apl. 1779.  This campaign was directed against the British. The regiment joined Genl. Perris's [Purvis] Brigade in Georgia on Cubbord Creek.
There was no engagement during the time he was with the army, He was discharged in writing by General Perris which has long since been lost. he was discharged 1st day of July 1773 haveing served as a volunteer three months. He next entered the service as volunteer under Captain William Young
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some time in July 1779 having returned home after his discharge by Genl. Perris - Ben Jolly Maj. & Thomas, Brandon Col. This campaign was directed against the Tories, and the most of the time spent in catching, hanging and guarding  tories at the Block house in Union district South Carolina at Fair forrest shoals or Brandons Mill. He was discharged in October 1779 haveing served three months. this discharge was only verbal. - The  next he entered the service of the United States as volunteer in April 1780 under Capt Daniel Comer in Brandons Regiment. Ben Jolly Major during the campaign Col. William Fair took command of the regiment. This campaign was directed against the British at Charlestown. This was called the Orrangeburg Campaign. At Orrangeburg several of the British came into our camp & give up. On this rout he, burt his leather bretche, and got lousy - he was discharged at Orrangeburg by Col Fair in writing which was lost long ago - he was discharged in July 1780. He next joined the army under Capt Young in 1780 in Nov and went to Brandon Mills or the block house, after the Tories - during this Tour Capt James Woodson some times took commanded, Ben Jolly was Maj. William Fair was Col. a great many Tories were brought in to the block house and some of them hanged, one he recollects
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was by the name of Glover he served until some time in Jany 1781 and got a verbal discharge from Capt Young and then returned home to 96 District or Union County where he resided about ten years after the war ended and peace was ratified, he married in Union County or 96 Distrtict and moved to Monroe County, Kentucky (then Barrier) & has resided here ever since, on the Orangeburgh Campaign he served as sergent - This affiant states that he served in all twenty one months
He knows of no witness by whom he can prove actual service. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any State, sworn to and Subscribed the day & year aforesaid. He states after the close of the war he was commissed Lieutenant, which commission in here within sent.
Fielding W Curtis [hand-drawn seal]
We William Howard & Richard Emberton citizens of Monroe County in the neighborhood of Fielding W Curtis are well acquainted with him the said Fielding W. Curtis who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy five years old and 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 to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
William Howard
Richard Emberton
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And the said Court, do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after 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 William Howard and Richard Emberton who has signed the preceeding certificate are residents in Monroe County and are persons of good credit and that their statement is entitled to credit
Will C. Fried JPMC
Wm Hudspeth JP MC
Wm G. Howard JP M.C.

I William Butler clerk of the County Court of Monroe County Court from Monroe County [crossed out] do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Fielding W Curtis for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 4th day of Decr 1832
Will K. Butler clk
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Name Curtis, Francis  Grade Private  Line Pennsylvania
Warrant Number 9180  Acreage 100  Issued January 17, 1792 to George Moore, assignee
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*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.