Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 125-200, John Wickham, S.C.
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(S - 1776)
Service
S.C.

Wickham, John
or Wickam
Couzens, Elizabeth

Number
B.L. Wt. 125-200

Contents
(Former widow)
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We the Subscribers - do certify that the bearer Mrs. Elizabeth Couzens, was family
Wife to Lieut. John Wickham of the 2.d
Continental So. Carolina Regiment
Who was killed before the Lines of Savanna
16
January 9, 1804 --
WB. We further Certify that there is
no lawfull Heir but [illegible] ---

I do hearby Certify that Henry
Gray was Paymaster, Peter
Gray Captain in No. 2d So Carolina Contl Regiment
J [illegible]
Charleston So. Carolina
2 Feb. 1804

Henry Gray [illegible] by Paymaster Peter Gray Captain
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Charleston. Sept. 15. 1802. --

Dearest.

I take the opportunity of my young Friend McGadsden coming to Washington to acknowledge the rest of your last two favors; one containing an order for the Quarter [illegible] due my Sister Collett, the other ensuring my two patents for my land in the north western Territory. for which except it you please my very sincere thanks, & acknowledgements for the trouble you have been kind enough to take in effecting the same. --

Enclosed is a petition which has [illegible] by [illegible] for a very considerable time in the hands of a Brother officer & who offered and, when too late, requested me to forward it for the purpose of obtaining Wickam's pay : but I think the widow may get his land under the petition which is certainly satisfactory enough as to his having been in the service & of his having been killed a Savannah whilst in that Service. She is indeed very poor & very deserving of this bounty. --

I observe what you say about Captain Markin & have seen Genl - Pinckney on the subject, who says that the State of South Carolina never did reduce
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or consolidate any of the 6 So Caro : Reg.t which were first on Contl Establishment, [illegible] Genl. Lincoln when that which were about investing the town, [illegible] all the Soldiers of Martins Reg.t in his & sent the officers out of town, except Genl Henderson ; so that if this measure was [illegible] to present a greater number of officers than were proportioned to the men in the garrison from being taken, get that should ask & could not deprive the officers of the advantages which Congrels held out to them : for they probably would have remained in Service to the end of the war. -- I shall endeavor however to fortify his claim by some future Certificate. --

I take the liberty of enclosing a five dollar bill to Col Worthington operable to your recommendation, would he much object to you if you will request Mr [illegible] to enclose it in a  letter of his to him. --

I am [illegible] with [illegible] your Offhumfor & [illegible]

The writing in black in on wickam's petition si the [illegible] in sent [illegible] of my little boys, who found it on my table in my office. --

Mr Tarken.
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the honorable Judge F Grim
te
Charleston
[illegible signature]
[illegible scribble like writing that is upsidedown]
{upsidedown and on the page behind this one} Officer 27
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March 27
[illegible date]

State of South Carolina ---

To the Honorable the Jonah and Hour of Aforementioned of the United States of America in Congrels Assembled.

The Humble Petition of Elizabeth Wickam Widow of John Wickam late a Leiutenant in the -- Second South Carolina Continental Regiment-
 - Sheweth, that her Husband John Wickam was appointed on the 6th day of November 1778 - and served therein untill the ninth day of October when he was killed in the attack on the lines of Savannah in the State of Georgia [illegible] [illegible] That your petitioner is, have full Aforementioned a of the areforesaid John Wickam and that no person or persons since his Death hath received pay or Compensation as stipulated by a Resolve of Congress of the twenty fourth day of August one thousand seven hundred and Eighty -----

Your Petitioner therefore humbly pray, that you will take her care in consideration and grant such Relief as in your Wisdom shall sum mut, and your Petitioner as in Duty Bound will ever pray ----

Certify the above [illegible, illegible, illegible] Killed in the Lines of Savannah [illegible] my Command
[several words have been crossed off]
Fran Marion
2' Crt. C. 2nd Reg' [illegible]
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N 125. O.K.
Covering a claim for John Wickam L. 2. S. C. Regt lodged by Thomas F. Tucker Esq.

[Sideways down middle of page] Mr Gadsden will pay you five dollars, as I could not get an U. S. Bill.

[illegible words]
T. F. Tucker Esq.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form YAM-51
12-5-41

Bounty Land Warrant Record Card*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Wickham, Stephen
GRADE Private
LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 7947
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED January 5, 1791 to --- not shown--------

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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.