Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,736, John Carsey, Ga. S.C.
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3-1776

Service 
GA [handwritten]
S.C. 2 [handwritten] |
Carsey, John [handwritten] |
Number
B.1,746 [handwritten]
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1736 [handwritten]
ejected [partially stamped]
P.O. 
John Carsey [handwritten]
Enlisted: ,18
Discharged: ,18
Application filed: ,18

Alleges: [crossed out] 
Claims under Act 1818
not found in list of 1852.
Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized:
Contra
Cert. of Dis.
Searched for ,18
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18888
John Carsey
Warren Co. Mississippi


B. Wrenn
Warrenton, Mississ

Rec 29 July 1823.
1736
Rejected Dec [illegible]
Letter 11 July 1823

Warreton, Mi [handwritten upside down]
June 15th [handwritten upside down]
To the Pension Office [handwritten upside down]
Washington city [handwritten upside down]
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State of Mississippi
Warren County
Circuit Court
September 1822
on the thirteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two personally appeared in the Circuit Court begun and held in and for the County of Warren aforesaid being a Court of record having power to fine and imprison having common law jurisdiction to any amount over fifty dollars keeping a record of its proceedings. John Carsey a resident in said County of Warren aged seventy two years and eight months and thirteen days who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the first of May 1820 that he the said John Carsey enlisted with Captain John Brink in South Carolina about one year after the revolutionary war commenced went into the [illegible] Battalion in Georgia commanded by Col. John Stewart
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Georgia
whereof Elijah Clarke was Lieut of the whole
of the troops over to take Augusta under the
command of General Lonivess Governer Houston
of Georgia accompanied the expedition But the
troops did not go further than St Mary
his
return at
midway meeting house was discharged
Afterwards date not recollected
the used
Capt Conn's Company as volunteer in Col
Dunn's Regiment that he was at the storming
of Augusta under the command of General
Clarke of the Georgia Militia and that he was
honorably discharged when peace was declared at
Augusta. That this discharge with other paper
was burnt with the conflagration of his harden
the Mississippi River and that he has no other
evidence now in his power of his services except
the above statement made out from his recollect
in and in pursuance of the act of Congress
of the first of May 1820. I do Solemnly swear
that I was a resident of the United States on
the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not
since that time by gift sale or in any way
manner disposed of my property or any part
thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to
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bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress
entitled an act to provide for certain persons
engaged in the revolutionary War passed in the
18th day of March 1818 and that I have with
nor has any person in trust for me any property
or securities contracts or debts due
to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule here unto (illegible)and by me
subscribed by a mark duly man not being able to write (illegible)
P A Vandom

Leste
his
John  (mark) Carsey

A Schedule
of the estate of John Carsey, Viz,
One suit of  homespun clothes
$8.00
One Bed and Bedding,
20.00
of the value of twenty eight dollars $28.00
Richard Stockton (illegible)
his
John (mark) Carsey

The said John Carsey further says that he is a
farmer or planter and has no trade that
he has no other way of making a support
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but by what industry his hands can afford that he is infirm and nearly seventy three years old has not a wife has six children and lives with and on the charity of one of his sons in Warren County in the said State of Mississippi
Subscribed Sworn to and declared on the this tenth day of September 1822 in open Court before the undersigned presiding Judge the present term
Rich.d Stockton I s one of the Judges of the Supreme Court and presiding Judge in the first Judicial District

State of Mississippi
Warren County      ⎬
I Belfield Wrenn Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County do hereby Certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records of said Court and I do further Certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the party exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is twenty eight Dollars
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my office this 19th day April 1823 and in the 47th year of American Independence [handwritten]
B. Wrenn Clk [handwritten]
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Copy [handwritten]
B. Wrenn
Warrenton,
Mississippi |
War Dept. Pens. Office 
July 11, 1823. 
[handwritten]

Sir:
The declaration of John Carsey, transmitted to
this Department, in support of his claim to a pension has been examined. The service set forth by the claimant, was not on the continental establishment. There was no Colonel of the name of Stewart, belonging to the Georgia line, of continental troops; and as the law of the 18th of Mch. 1818, under which Mr. Carey claims
provides for those only who served on the continental establishment, his claim is rejected. The papers in the case, will remain on the files of this office, agreeably to our regulations. [handwritten]

Same &c [illegible]
J. L. E. [handwritten]
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORDS CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
NAME Carshaw, Abraham GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 9140 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED January, 17, 1797
To -- not shown--
* 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 fires 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.