Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3,314, Edward Dycus, N.C. S.C.
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Service Number
N C  Dycus, Edward S 3 314
S C
carded
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19093

Edward Dycus
of Jackson in the State of Tennessee
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain McKenney of the Reg't commanded by Col. Boyd in the North Carolina line for Calvary Mounted

N.C. and S.C. Line, Records Correct Pension

 Inscribed on the Roll of N Carolina
at the rate of 26 Dollars and 60 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 48th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of February 1833 and South Carolina
North Carolina

Arrears to the 4th of March, $55.30
Semi-An. allowances ending 4th Spet.  $13.33
                 $66.63

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Dan'l Boyd Clerk,
Book E., Vol.    Page 76
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No. 13472
Edward Dycus
Jackson County
Tennessee
From 1779 Private
8 months $26.66
Tom Smith
Gainesboro Tennessee
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BRIEF in the case of Edward H Dycus
County of Jackson in the state of Tennessee
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 80 years.
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

Drafted in 1779 
1780

Years, Months, Days,
3 Months

As a 
Private

Gen. Green
Capt McKenny
Capt. Neville , Col. Bayless
Capt. James & Mgr Ford

{employed on horse back
in scouting the country
time not stated.
time not stated.

5. In what battles was he engaged? None
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Rutherford County N Carolina
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?   traditionary
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  clks seal not affixed 

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Jos Clagett
Examining Clerk,
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15472
Edward Dycus
Pension Declaration
Jackson County
Tennessee
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the Four Holes & by Orangeburg when the soldiers [illegible] their guns & joined Genl  Greens army near Charleston whle he was stationed in Greens army and this place the British army had possession of Charleston, he thinks he did not serve his three months and before he was discharged by Capt James who commanded his company, but served two months in this tour, & if he got a written discharge he has long since lost it believing that no papers he got during the war would ever be of any service to him, applicant received a written discharge from Capt. McKing in his first tour but it has been lost for many years - He is certain that in all his service during the revolution he was eight months in actual service.

Knows of no living witness nor has he any documentary evidence by which he can prove his service Jones Griffith a clergyman & Raulston Ray a respectable man of his neighbourhood will certify to his character for veracity & the belief of this services which is the best proof he can make.

Applicant was born in Rowan County North Carolina he thinks the 27th of January 1753 - the record of his age was in his father's bible which was carried to Kentucky a number of years ago by a man by the name of Lee, as before stated applicant lives in Rutherford County North Carolina when he first entered the service , from there he moved into South Carolina, then moved back to North Carolina, from there to Stone River in Rutherford City Township & then to Jackson County Tennessee where he now lives & has lived for the last twenty years.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity  except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state except the present.
  Edward (his X mark) Dycus

Subscribed & sworn to the 
[illegible]
William Gailbraith Clerk
of Jackson County Court
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State of Tennessee
Jackson County

   On this 14th day of May 1833 personally appeared in open court before the court of pleas & Quarter Sessions for Laird County now sitting Edward Dycus a resident in the County of Jackson & State of Tennessee aged eighty 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 Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.

   That he entered the service of the U. States under the following named officers & served as herein stated.

   Applicant was drafted in the service of the United States in Rutherford County North Carolina under one Capt. McKinney at a place called Kings Fort the 1st of June 1778.  He remained at this place during the summer occasionally scouting the country after the Indians, this was a tour of three months, after his tour expired he was discharged by Capt. McKinney but his discharge has been lost for many years.

  The next year to wit 1779, months not recollects he was drafted under Capt. Neville he thinks William Neville commanded by Col. Bayless Earl in Rutherford County North Carolina was principally stationed at Col. Earls Block House Co guard it from the Indians & was chiefly employed in scouting the county on horse back he then resided in Rutherford Bounty N.  Carolina applicant knows of but one man living in this county who he is informed was then to wit [illegible] but they were not this acquainted with him or knew that he was there until they moved to the [illegible] County this was a tour of three months.  From Rutherford County North Carolina applicant moved over into North Carolina & was drafted in the year 1780, he thinks month not recollected, under the following officers Lieutenant [illegible], Capt. James & Mgr Ford & marched in company with about one hundred men across the county he thinks about three hundred miles passing a place called.
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the Four Holes & by Orangeburg when the soldiers [illegible] their guns & joined Genl Greens army near Charleston while he was stationed in Greens army and this place the British army had possession of Charleston, he thinks he did not serve his three months and before he was discharged by Capt James who commanded his company, but served two months in this tour, & if he got a written discharge he has long since lost it believing that no papers he got during the war would ever be of any service to him, applicant received a written discharge from Capt. McKinney in his first tour but it has been lost for many years - He is certain that in all his service during the revolution he was eight months in actual service.

Knows of no living witness nor has he any documentary evidence by which he can prove his service Jonas Griffith a clergyman & Raulston Ray a respectable man of his neighbourhood will certify to his character for veracity & the belief of this services which is the best proof he can make.

Applicant was born in Rowan County North Carolina he thinks the 27th of January 1753 - the record of his age was in his father's bible which was carried to Kentucky a number of years ago by a man by the name of Lee, as before stated applicant lives in Rutherford County North Carolina when he first entered the service , from there he moved into South Carolina, then moved back to North Carolina, from there to Stone River in Rutherford City Township & then to Jackson County Tennessee where he now lives & has lived for the last twenty years.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state except the present.
Edward (his X mark) Dycus

Subscribed & sworn to the
[illegible]
William Gailbraith Clerk
of Jackson County Court
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The Jonas Griffith residing in the county of Jackson and State of Tennessee & Raulston Ray residing in the same county & State hereby certify that they are well acquainted with Edna Dycus who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty years old, that he is respected & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Jonas Griffith
Roulston Ray


Sworn to & subscribed the
day & year aforesaid
William Gailbreath Clerk
of Jackson County Court

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after this investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.  And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Jonas Griffith who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the county of Jackson and that Raulston Ray who has also signed the same is a resident in this same county & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit.
John McCarver
John Graham
Tandy K Witcher

I William Gailbreath clerk of the court of pleas & Quarter Session for Jackson county Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Edward Dycus for a pension.  The testimony hereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 14th day of May 1830.
William Gailbreath
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February 27, 1933

BA-J/ALB
Edward Dycus, S. 3314
Bry Gregory, S. 2249

Mrs. Vina Ray Cassetty
Red Boiling Springs
Tennessee

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letters of recent date, in which request was made for the records of Edward Dycus, Bry (Bray or Bryan) Gregory, and of his father, Thomas Gregory, all soldiers of the Revolutionary War.

It is not possible to identify the record of the Thomas Gregory in whom you are interested. You are furnished, however, the records of Edward Dycus and Bry Gregory, the only soldiers of those names found in the Revolutionary War records of this office, the date of which were obtained from the papers on file in their claims for pension, based upon service in the Revolutionary War.

EDWARD DYCUS, S. 3314

He was born January 27, 1753, in Rowan County, North Carolina; the names of his parents are not stated.

While a resident of Rutherford County, North Carolina, he enlisted June 1, 1778, served three months as a private in Captain McKinney's North Carolina troops, and was engaged during the summer in scouting the country after Indians. He enlisted in 1779 and served three months as a private in Captain William
Neville's company, Colonel Bayless Earl's North Carolina regiment.  The soldier moved from Rutherford County, North Carolina into South Carolina and there enlisted in 1780 and served two months as a private in Captain James' South Carolina troops.

Edward Dycus then moved back to North Carolina, from thence to Stone River in Rutherford County, Tennessee, and then into
Jackson County, Tennessee.
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Edward Dycus was allowed pension on his application executed May 14, 1853, while a resident of Jackson County, Tennessee.

There are no family data in the claim.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person paid, and possibly the date of soldier's death, you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following data: Edward Dycus, Certificate 19095, issued July 31, 1833, rate $26.66 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act June 7, 1852, West Tennessee Agency.

BRY GREGORY, S. 2249

The papers on file in pension claim, S. 2285, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Bry Gregory do not show the date and place of soldier's birth nor the names of his parents.

While a resident of Chatham County, North Carolina, he volunteered in 1780 and served three months as a private in Captains Patterson's and Dudly Reynolds' North Carolina troops. He volunteered in 1781 and served three months as a private in Captain Benjamin Herrin's North Carolina troops. He volunteered in 1782 and served three months as private in Captain Alex Clark's North Carolina troops. He was in a battle on Cane Creek under Colonel Literal and General Butler.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 3, 1832, at which time he was aged seventy-one years and residing in Smith County, Tennessee.  

In 1843, the soldier's address was of Major H. Wilkerson, Pleasant Shade, Tennessee. He died in January,1846, place of death not shown.

No reference was made in the claim to wife or children.  In 1832, soldier's brother, William Gregory, aged sixty-eight years, was living in Smith County, Tennessee.

Very truly yours
A.G. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator

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1933-Feb. 27-Hist to Alberta
Cassetty (See ltr in clm. of Bry Gegory
A.2249) MLB

1933, Feb. 27 - Hist to - Mrs. Vina
Ray Cassetty (See ltrs in clm of 
Bry Gregory (S2249) MLB

Revolution
3314
INVALID.

File No. 3314
Edward Dycus
Prvt. *N. Carolina
Act: June 7, 1732
Index: - Vol. A, Page 106

[Arrangement of 1870.]

N.C. and S.C. Line.  Records corrected
Feb. 23 '04
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Edward Dycus which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes
V. *Has he mentioned 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? No
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?  No
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary
service? Yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining
it? Yes
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one
living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Yes
XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
  If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
  Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age,
as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?  Mobile Insp
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? Answered

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EXPLANATORY NOTES.
*QUERE V. 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 __; and for such service I claim a pension.
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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 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 objection able. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places 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.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
   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 claimants 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.
QUERE XVI. 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 paper 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.

    In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, 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.
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Redboiling Springs, Tennessee
March 1, 1937

Administration Bureau
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen,

I am very anxious to secure the military record of Edward Dycus who served
in the North Carolina Continental line in the Revolutionary War. He was pensioned as a resident of Jackson County, Tennessee. Can you tell me with his father was or the names of wife and children?

I would also like to have any information you can furnish me concerning Cyrus Graham Clark a confederate soldier from Tennessee. The Tennessee State Library has only a limited number of Civil War soldiers military records.

   Any information relative to either of these soldiers would be appreciated.

Very truly yours,
Willard Cassetty
Willard Cassetty
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April 24, 1933.

BA-J/ADY
Edward Dycus, Rev. War.
S.3314.

Willard Cassetty,
Redboiling Springs,
Tennessee.

Dear Sir:

   Reference is made to your letter of March 1, in which you request the record of Edward Dycus and the record of Cyrus Graham Clark, a Confederate soldier.

   The records show that on February 27, 1933, the record of Edward Dycus was sent to your address; it is presumed the letters crossed en route. This office has no record of soldiers who served in the Confederate army, Civil War. It is suggested that his military record might be obtained from the state from which he served, or from the Adjutant General, War Department, this city.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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February 27, 1933

BA-J/MLB
Edward Dycus, S. 3314
Bry Gregory, S.2249

Alberta Cassetty
Belle Meade Drive
C/o George B. Groves
Nashville, Tennessee

Dear Madam:

   Reference is made to your letters of recent date, in which you request the records of Edward Dycus, Bry (Bray or Bryan) Gregory, and of his father, Thomas Gregory, all soldiers of the Revolutionary War.

   It is not possible to identify the record of the Thomas Gregory in whom you are interested. You are furnished, however, the records of Edward Dycus and Bry Gregory, the only soldiers of those names found in the Revolutionary War records of this office, the date of which were obtained from the papers on file in their claims for pension, based upon service in the Revolutionary War.

EDWARD LYCUS, S. 3314

He was born January 27, 1753, in Rowan County, North Carolina; the names of his parents are not stated.

While a resident of Rutherford County, North Carolina, he enlisted June 1, 1778, served three months as a private in Captain McKinney's North Carolina troops, and was engaged during the
summer in scouting the country after Indians. He enlisted in 1779 and served three months as a private in Captain William Neville's company, Colonel Bayless Earl's North Carolina regiment. The soldier moved from Rutherford County, North Carolina into South Carolina and there enlisted in 1780 and served two months as a private in Captain James' South Carolina troops.

Edward Dycus then moved back to North Carolina, from thence to Stone River in Rutherford County, Tennessee, and then into Jackson County, Tennessee.
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   Edward Dycus was allowed pension on his application executed May 14, 1833, while a resident of Jackson County, Tennessee.
   
   There are no family data in the claim.

   In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person paid, and possibly the date of soldier's death, you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following data: Edward Lycus, Certificate 19095, issued
July 31, 1833, rate 26.66 per annum, commenced March 8, 1831, Act June 7, 1832, West Tennessee Agency.

 BRY GREGORY, S.2249

   The papers on file in pension claim, S.2249, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Bry Gregory do not show the date and place of soldier's birth nor the names of his parents.

   While a resident of Chatham County, North Carolina, he volunteered in 1780 and served three months as a private in Captain Patterson's and Dudly Reynolds' North Carolina troops.  He volunteered in 1781 and served three months as a private in Captain Benjamin Herrin's North Carolina troops. He volunteered in 1782 and served three months as private in Captain Alex Clerk's North Carolina troops. He was in a battle on Cane Creek under Colonel Literal and General Butler,

   He was allowed pension on his application executed September 5, 1832, at which time he was aged seventy-one years and residing in Smith County, Tennessee.   

   In 1843, the soldier's address was a Major W. H. Wilkerson, Pleasant shade, Tennessee, and died in January, 1846, place of death not shown.

   No reference was made in the claim to wife or children.
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   In 1832, soldier's brother, William Gregory, aged sixty-eight years, was living in Smith County, Tennessee.

   Very truly yours
   A.D. Hiller
   Assistant to Administrator

[handwritten note]

Didn't notice until letter was 
written that requests were by 
two different people (Mrs. Vina Cassetty 
& Alberta Cassetty)
were one & same person, so sent
both histories herein to both written