Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21451, for Peter Roberts, South Carolina
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(3-1776)
Service Number
N. 6. Roberts, Peter S 21451
S 6
Born in Va
Contents
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South Carolina 30,432
Peter Roberts
Abbeville Dis. in the State of S. Carolina
[w]ho was a Private in the company commanded [by] Captain Bryant of the Regt. commanded by Col. Collier in the N. C. militia line for 17 months
[illegible] on the [illegible] of S. Carolina
the rate of 56 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of Feb, 1836 and sent to D. Lesly
Abbeville C. N. S. C.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '35. 255.00
[illegible] allowance ending 4 Mar. '36. 28.33
$283.33
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}
[r]ecorded by D. Brown Clerk,
[b]ook E. Vol. 6 Page 79
Let [illegible] 1836
Order to pay 31 Oct 1837.
Letter to [illegible] and [illegible]
25 Feb 1839.
[illegible] Treasury [illegible] 
April 1838, from 4th Sept. 1837 to 4 March 1838. [illegible]
Agt notified on 15 March 1839.
Paid as above from 4 march to 4 Sept. 1838. Agt notified 5 [illegible] '39
[illegible] Oct 18 1845 - [illegible] 25th Oct. 1845
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No. 32990
Peter Roberts} Act on for Pension
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State of South Carolina}
Abbeville District} fs.

On this thirty first day of March personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Richard Gautt presiding Judge of the Courts of General  Sapiens and Common Pleas now sitting Peter Roberts a resident of the District and State aforesaid aged seventy six 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 Congrefs pafsed 7th June 1832. ~

The applicant Peter Roberts states that he was born in Hallifax County State of Virginia in the year Seventeen hundred and fifty nine, and removed to the State of North Carolina where in the fifteenth year of his age he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer under a Major Crump who commanded a squadron of Lighthorse and that he was the full period of six months as a private under the command of the said Major Crump, and under Captain Hill - 6+

The applicant further states that he subsequently served another term of duty as a volunteer and private in a squadron of Lighthorse commanded by a Major Gobson or Gopon the full period of three months and under Captain Jones. 3.

The applicant further states that he next served the full period of nine months as a private volunteer in a squadron of Lighthorse commanded by a Colonel Collier a portion of this service, was devoted to guarding the town of Hillborough, to keep the tories another enemy of the country from burning it and committing depredations in that section of North Carolina and done duty in this service under two Captains viz Capt. Williams and Capt. John Johnson. 9+

The applicant again entered the service of his country as a volunteer and private and served the full period of three months under the command of a Capt. Cole, and under whom I was in an engagement or battle with the Scotch, who were commanded by one McCloud who was killed, together with many of his men + completely departed. 3

The applicant again states, that he entered the service as a private volunteer in the Lighthorse, under the command of General Morgan under whom he fought at the battle of the Cowpens, + that after the battle he was sent as an orderly sergeant
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sergeant under Capt. Williams to afsist [assist] in guarding the prisoners that were taken and captured in this battle and that in this term of duty he fully served the period of five months. 5.

The applicant further states that he again entered the service as a private volunteer, and continue to perform active military duty until within three weeks of the capture of Cornwallis that he was wounded in this latter service in what was called Roneys fight in Sumpter District South Carolina, that he was under different officers, and towards the last of his service under Genl. Pickens in Abbeville District South Carolina, that he cannot from lapse of time + defect of memory detail more minutely than he has done his different periods of service during the Revolutionary War, and is confident that he served the full period of [illegible] months in this latter service, when he was honorably discharged from the service of his country Making in the aggregate four years and four months service, and the applicant further states that he cannot from defect of memory ascertain dates, and recollect names, unlefs [unless] the names of the more distinguished officers under whom he served, such as Morgan, Pickens, others he has already mentioned in his declaration he further states, that he was born in Hallifax County State of Virginia in the year Seventeen hundred + fifty nine that he was living in North Carolina when he was called into the service of the United States, that he has lived since the Revolutionary War in Abbeville District where he now resides or lives That he was always a Volunteer, never drafted + never substituted. That he has already mentioned the names of Officers whom he served and recollects of being in the 4th and 6th Regts. That he has had several discharges which were all burned in his fathers house, that he never received a commifsion, That he is known in his present neighborhood by the Revd. Moses Waddle, and the Revd. Isaac Smith, Honb'le [Honorable] George McDuffie and Revd. Washington Belcher. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, That by a recent act of the Legislature of South Carolina all pensioners have been deprived of pay as a pensioner and are required to apply to the General Government, for relief and payment, for Revolutionary services, that he is not therefore on the Roll of pensioners receiving pay in this State, and hereby relinquishes all claims thereto.
Peter Roberts

Sworn to + subscribed in open Court 
31 March 1835
Test Robt. H. Wardlaw
Deputy Clerk
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We Isaac Waddle a clergyman residing in the District of Abbeville in the State of South Carolina, and David Lesly  Esqr residing in the same place do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Peter Roberts who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy six 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
Isaac W. Waddel
David Lesly
Sworn to + subscribed in open Court before
R Gautt P. Judge
31 March 1835.

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 Isaac Waddle who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman resident in Abbeville District South Carolina and that David Lesly Esqr who has also signed the same is a resident in the same District + State and are gentlemen highly credible and that their statement is entitled to full credit and belief
Richard Gautt

The State of South Carolina}
Abbeville District} I Robert H. Wardlaw, Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Abbeville District aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Peter Roberts for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, at Abbeville Court House this thirty first day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty five.
Robt. H. Wardlaw
Deputy Clerk
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Rev. War Section.
January 26, 1914.
Hon. Wyatt Aiken,
House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. Aiken:-
In response to your inquiry of the 21st instant, I have the honor to advise you that the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard to a Peter Roberts of Virginia troops, and you are herewith furnished the history of the only Peter Roberts of North Carolina or South Carolina, found on said records.
From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, Sur, File 21,451, it appears that Peter Roberts was born in 1759, in Halifax County, Virginia, and removed to North Carolina, where he volunteered, date not stated, and served under Captains Hill, Jones, Williams, John Johnson, Brittain Fuller, Bryant, Cole, and Douglass, Majors Crump, Golson, Dugan and Fuller, and Colonel John Collier, in the Light Horse. He was in the battles of Betty's Bridge, Guilford, Cowpens, and was wounded at Roney's Fight in Sumter District, S. C., and served until the capture of Cornwallis.
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 31, 1835, at which time he resided in Abbeville Dis[trict]
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[dis]trict, South Carolina.
There is no data as to family on file.
Very truly yours,
[illegible]
Commissioner.
office note
(Soldier could not have been in [illegible] 10 yr where he entered the service as that would have put the date at 1774 before the Rev. It was not possible to arrange the actual tours + lengths therefore because the two declarations were so contradictory, and the events he participated in show that he could not have served in the order he arranged them in or the periods. The "Roney fight" 1781 May was at the time of seige of [illegible] see [illegible] and probably the state of S. C pensioner [illegible] for the wound there incurred.
Bettys Bridge is also called Moore Creek Bridge + is 1776)
Roberts (2)
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3-871
Record Division
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Briefed by AW Jan 23, 1914
Claim No.
Certificate No.
Claimant
Soldier Peter Roberts
Service N. C. S. C. or Va
Additional Service Rev
No claim, State records, 191
No claim, combination records, 191
Remarks:
No claim as above except 821407
6-1944 Chief Division.
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1914 Jan 26. [illegible] to Wyatt Aiken M. C. 
Revolution 21 451
Invalid.
File No. 21, 451
Peter Roberts
Prv Rev War
Act: June 7th 39
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 34
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Revolu
Washington
21 Jany. '14
Respectfully referred to the [illegible] Commissioner of Pensions with request that the information asked for in this letter be furnished if available.
Wyatt Aiken, Z. S. C.
Bureau of Pensions
Jan 23 1914
Commissioner
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2118039

WAR DEPARTMENT,
THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
WASHINGTON,
January 20, 1914.

[Round stamp mark]
COMMISSIONER
RECEIVED
JAN 22 1914
OF PATENTS

Hon. Wyatt Aiken,
House of Representatives.
Dear Sir:
Referring to you letter of yesterday, in which you request to be furnished with the Revolutionary War record of one Peter Roberts, who is thought to have served in North Carolina, South Carolina or Virginia troops, I have the honor to inform you that the name mentioned has not been found on the rolls, on file in this office, of any organization of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia or Continental troops in service in the War of the Revolution.
In this connection it is deemed proper to remark that the collection of Revolutionary War records in this Department is far from complete, and that the absence therefrom of any name should not be accepted as conclusive proof that the person who bore that name did not serve in the Revolutionary War.
It is suggested as a possibility that the desired information can be obtained from the State Auditor of North Carolina, Raleigh; from the State Historical Commission, Columbia, South Carolina; from the librarian, Virginia State Library, Richmond, or from the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Very respectfully,
Geo. Audrent
The Adjutant General.

3-2698
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Oct 17 45

Com

[Round stamp mark]
[illegible - possible CHARLESTON
OCT
14
S.C.]

10

J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Commifsioner of Pensions
Washington
DC

Peter Roberts
E. Clements
S Cna
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Pension Agency So. Ca.
Charleston 14 October 1845

Sir
I have this moment received a letter from the parties to whom application had been made for a duplicate voucher of Peter Roberts a pensioner under Act 7 June 1832, whose voucher had been mislaid, and they write that the Pensioner died a few days before the communication reached them. The amount of his pension from the 4 Sept 1844 to the 4th of March 1845 was paid by me on the 14 April last to his Attorney E. P. Milliken whose duplicate receipt I have on file, and who would be willing to make any affidavit which would satisfy the Department - Be pleased therefore to point out what course must be pursued to render the voucher acceptable and correct my accounts - 
I have also received a communication stating that Edmond Clements whose voucher was informal is also dead; the name was written by mistake Edward instead of Edmond, which was likely to occur as the pensioner made his mark being unable to write; but the Clerk of the Court, who was a witnefs was the identical person who executed the papers and that he is now dead - and that - the name of Edward was written by mistake - I have accordingly requested that such a Certificate should drawn up and hope it will prove satisfactory. if not please say what will be required - 
Your answer will greatly oblige
Your Ob servt
Ma. C. Forhran
Pension Agent

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commifsioner of Pensions
Washington
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[Left side sideways]
30430 Apl 1.
[304]31
[303]32
SC
lorhants

[Round stamp mark]
CHARLESTON
MAR
26
S.C.

FREE

J L Edwards Esqr.
Commifsioner of Pensions
Washington
DC
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Planters + Mechs Bank of So Ca
Charleston 26 March 1836

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commifsioner of Pensions.

Sir

Application for payment had been made for the following named persons as Pensioners of the U States Viz
30432 Peter Roberts
30430 David Kerr
30431 Thos. Milford

There is no corresponding names upon the Books of this agency.

I am respectfully
Your Obed Servant
F Lannean
Pension agent
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Peter Roberts
So. C
Abbeville District

Admt 17 mo $56.66
pi Capt. Bryaal
Col. Collier
H Mablea

D Lesly Esqr
Abbeville C H
So C
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War Department
Pension Office
May 7. 1835

Sir:

The declaration of Peter Roberts has been received and placed on file. His statement that he performed four years and four months service in the North Carolina Militia clearly shows that mere [illegible] to [illegible] is set forth instead of actual service in embodied corps called into service by proper authority which alone is provided for by the act of 1832. Mr. Roberts will therefore make a new declaration stating such actual service. If he belonged to the Militia of South Carolina as seems to be inferred from his statement he must shew from the Office of the Comptroller General at Columbia the amount of pay he received for actual service during the revolutionary war. A decision will then be made upon his claim. If he has been heretofore borne on the Pension list of the States, he should set forth the fact.
I am Respectfully
Tom H. Lenanh
J L Edwards

James Wardlaw Esq
Abbeville C.H.
So. Ca:
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Planters + Mechanics Bank of So Ca
Charleston 24 October 1837

J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of pensions
Washington

Sir
I forward herewith for your authority to pay voucher of Peter Roberts and George Mitshell having 12 and 18 months pay dues
I am very Respectfully
Your Ob Servt.
A Piay
Pension Agent
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
May 14th, 1839.

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Peter Roberts a Pensioner on the Roll of the South Carolina Agency, at the rate of Fifty Six Dollars and Sixty Six Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March, 1838, to the 4th Sept. 1838.

Respectfully, your,
J. Seaner
acting Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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[Round stamp mark]
ABBEVILLE
APR
27
S.C.

FREE

To
Honb'le Secretary of War
Washington City
Dist Columbia
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So. Car Rec 5 May
Abbeville Ct House
27 April 1835.

Dr. Sir

Enclosed is the application of Peter Roberts an old and worthy Revolutionary character, when acted on please communicate the result to James Wardlaw Esqr Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Abbeville District Yours V. D. Lesly

[Right side written sideways]
S. C.
5 May 1835
Pension office
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
February 26th, 1839.

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Peter Roberts, a Pensioner on the Roll of the South Carolina Agency, at the rate of fifty six Dollars and sixty six Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1837, to the 4th March, 1838.

Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Exporte
Peter Roberts

[illegible] Int
[illegible]
from
Pension

[Written sideways on the left]
[1st part of sentence illegible] I James Wardlaw Clerk of the Court of Com-
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South Carolina }
Abbeville District } On the fifth day of January in the year A.D. One thousand eight hundred and thirty six, personally appeared before this Moses Taggart Esq, Judge of the Court of Ordinary in open court Peter Roberts a resident of Abbesville District & State aforesaid & being first duly sworn according to Law on his oath doth make the following aditional Declaration (having now on file at the War Department under consideration) in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress 1832 is
That he entered the service of the United States as a Volunteer Militia Man in the South Carolina Militia in the state of South Carolina and was called into service as a volunteer in the light horse Militia by Captain Brittain Fuller who was under the command of Maj. J. Cramp a field officer, and performed actual service in this form for three months in suppressing the Tories: This service was performed in different Counties in North Carolina which was about nine months before the battle of Guilford in North Carolina, and this is as near the period or time or date as can now be given or remembered. He, this Declarant, was next called into actual service by Capt. Bryant who was in the command of Col. M. Collin, his superior Officer in the
[obscured] Carolina in suppressing the Tories
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This is as near the period of time [obscured]
given or remembered. He, this Declarant, was next called to actual service by Capt. Bryant who was under the command of Col. M. collin his superior officer in the light horse service, North Carolina, in suppressing the Tories and was in actual service this time five months. He was next called into service as a light horseman, by & under Captain Cole, who was commanded by Maj Golison as superior officer, & performed one months actual service in this town- during which
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This Declarant was always under different officers in active service as before stated in the State of North Carolina and in South Carolina as appears by his Declaration now under file - up to the battle of little York, making in the whole four years and four months as herebefore stated, and sends herewith attached his certificate from the Treasury Office S.C. of, so as evidence of his service + pay for the State of So Carolina.
Sworn to and subscribed 
Before me this 6th [or 26th] day of 
January 1836.
Norm Taggart J[illegible] D. + J. G.
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[Rotated text]
Exporte
Peter Roberts } 
[illegible] from
pensions

The State of South Carolina &
Abbesville District
I James Wardlaw, Clerk of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas in and for the District of Abbeville aforesaid do hereby certify that Moses Saggart before whom the above declaration was made and who had attested the same is Judge of this Court of Ordinary and also an acting Justice of the Quorum in and for the District of Abbeville, that all due Faith and credit are to be given to his attestations as such and that the above is the genuine signature of the said Moses Saggart.
Given under my hand and seal of Office at Abbe-
ville Court House this eleventh day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six
Ja. Wardlaw
Clk.
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(Postmark) [...]VILLE JAN 11 S.C.
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington City,
D.C.
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Juny 12th 1836 [illegible]
Sir:
Mr. Roberts has endeavoured to comply with your instructions by [illegible] of May 7, 1835 as to his actual service in the South Carolina Militia & the Authority by which he was called into service: [illegible] the certificate from Columbia as evidence of his pay heretofore [illegible].
We hope it will now answer and should [illegible] if in anything it is deficient as Roberts is a worthy Man, & beyond all doubt performed as he has [illegible] and, without the fact as making it properly appear.
[Illegible]
Abb. [illegible]
[illegible]
Very respectfully yours sir
B. [illegible]
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Peter Roberts
Fee $2
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[The Seal of the State of South Carolina]
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
--
BY HIS EXCELLENCY&lt;
George McDuffie
George MDuffie
Governor and Commander-in-Chief, in and over the state aforesaid.
To all to Whom these Presents Shall Come.
Know Ye John J Seifeld, whose signature and page appears to the [illegible], is the lawful [illegible] of Sandy Walker, Esq. Treasurer of the Upper [illegible[, in the State aforesaid
THEREFORE, All due Faith, Credit and authority is and ought to be had and given to his Proceedings and Certificates as such.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and caused to be affix-
ed the Seal of the State, in the Towne of Columbia the fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty five-- and in the Fifty ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
BY THE GOVERNOR.  B.H. Saxon
                                  Secretary of State.
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Treasury Office
Columbia S.C. 16 June 1835
I do hereby certify that Peter Roberts, of [illegible] was placed upon the Pension Roll of South Carolina in December 1827, and that he has been regularly in the receipt of his Pension ([illegible] per annum) up to the present period.
John J. [Illegible]
for
Sandy Walker
&
Treas. Upper [illegible]