Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,956, Leonard Clayborne, S.C.
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S.C.
Clayborne, Leonard
R.1.956
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Leonard Claiborne
Declaration 
The regiment in which the claimant served must be mentioned
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I do hereby certify that about three
Year before the eleventh day of June
Seventeen hundred and eighty
I enlisted Leonard Clayborne
A private Soldier in Capt. John
Bowie's Independent Company
of So Carolina Infantry on the 
Continental establishment that
on the said eleventh day of June
1780 he was regularly discharged
having faithfully served from
the time of his Inlistment un
till that day given under my
hand this 3rd day of November
1818
[Captain] Samuel Earle
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[Sout]h Carolina
I Richard Gant one of the associate Justices of the State aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Leonard Claiborn did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding Declaration in the continental line against the common enemy; and also that he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support And I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken that before me to me secretary for the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress -
Richard Gantt
Nov. 5th 1818

State of South Carolina
Greenville District
I George W. Earle
Clerk of the Court of Sessions & Common Pleas for the said district, do Certify that Richard Gantt Esquire who has given and signed the above Certificate is one of the associate Judges of the Court of Sessions & Common Pleas for the said State : & that full faith & Credit is due & ought to be given to his said Certificate and Official acts _
In testimony thereof I have signed my name and affixed the Public Seal of Office of the said Court here unto, at Greeneville this 5th day of November AD. 1818.
G.W. Earle C C
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[…]on: Elias Earle
2 old cases
Entered
Agent for Brownlow or M.C
16 Dec

Leonard Claiborne's papers &c to Hon. W Earle, Feb. 12. 1820
1358
Rejected see letter
Feb. 1820
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(3-223.)
REJECTED
No. 1956
OLD WAR INVALID
Leonard Claiborne
Revy
Paper returned to Hon Elias Earle M C Feby 12 1820
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South Carolina
Greenville District 
On this fourth day of November 1818 before me the Subscriber one of the associate Justices of the court of common pleas & general sessions of the said state personally appeared Leonard Claiborn aged fifty six years resident in Greenville district in the State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to Law did on his oath declare (in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war”), that he the said Leonard Claiborne enlisted in Rutherford County in the State of North Carolina in the summer (he thinks) of the year 1777, in the company commanded by Captain John Bowie, of South Carolina Infanty (an independent company on the continental establishment); that he continued to serve in the said corps untill the eleventh day of June 1780 when he was regularly & honourably discharged at Whitehall in South Carolina; that he was in no principal engagement, except the Siege of Savannah, being generally stationed at Fort independence on the frontier of
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this State, and that he served frequently in the Indian nation & was in several skirmishes with the Indians; and that he is infirm, in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support—
Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid before me
Richard Gault 
South Carolina 
Greenville District 
Leonard Claybor…
Personally appeared the following persons towit Thomas Barr Low, Charles Bruck Wm Jackson & James[?] who being sworn do on their oath say that they are well acquainted with the within named Leonard Claiborne, that he is in their opinion and upright man and that they have every reason to believe the foregoing declaration to be correct, that he is infirm, & in reduced circumstances; and they think stands in need of the assistance of his country, and that he is clearly entitled to the benefit of the late act of Congress
Thomas Barton
Chas. Bruce
Wm. Jackson
James Cot
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 5th November 1818 GW. Earle   CC & JQ