Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30706, for John Sibley, South Carolina
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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
SC Sibley, John S 30706
CONTENTS
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to Hon W M Garrison & [illegible] 3d March 1862 at the treasury under the act of April 1838 from Sept 4th 1839 to March 1841 Agent notifd April 6th 1842

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Inscribed on the Roll of Mississippi at the rate of 120 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of May and Sept to 
1834 [illegible]  HR
Arrears to the 4th of [illegible]  '34 360.00
Semi-anl allowance ending [illegible]  110.00
$420.00
{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by JT Sprague Clerk
Book 6 Vol 8 Page 75
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State of Mississippi Amite County
On this the 10 day of December 1832 personally appeared in open court before the judges of the county and probate court now sitting John Sibley a resident of the settlement of Jieksaw in the county of Amite and state of Mississippi, aged 74 years who being first duly sworn acording 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 United States in the last of the year 1778 or the first of the year 1779 the presise time not recollected That he enlisted for this time of eighteen months at Granly South Carolina under Capt Uriah Gooding from whom he received a furlough to go home and arrange his business That he returned and joined the army at Purshing South Carolina and was attached to the third regiment under the following named officers Gen Linkhorn Col William Thomason Leiut Col Mason Major Wise
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Capt Joseph Warley Lieut John Gooding Adjutent Maguire From Perisburg we marched the Black Swamp remained there a few days with Gen Moatreys and moved on up Savannah River taumia about and went in persuit of the British Army that we lerned was in chase of Gen Moatrey who had left us at Black swamp for Charlestown We pursed the British army to Steno where we had an engagement After which we went to Head Quorters at a place called Sheldon Bull South Carolina remained there untill some time in the fall Here Luit col Mason left to Augt and was succeded by Lieut Col Henderson when we marched to Savannah in the state of Georgia Here we had another engagement after a siege of several weeks I was in the engagement under Capt Worley and a French General whose name I cannot recollect After which we returned to head Quarters at Sheldon Bull remained there until the close of the winter and then moved to Charlestown at the surrender of Charleston which I think was [illegible]
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in May 1780 I was taken a prisoner by the British kept there 4 or 5 months and then put on bord the prison ship Esk from thence on bord the Lucretia and after some months was put on bord the King George I remained a prisoner to the best of my recollection about 14 months from the time I was surrendered at Charlestown the surrender was made sometime in May 1780 and the time for which I enlisted would have expired in June or July there after the first of my re ollentin from the King George I was put on bord a brig carried round to Jamestown in Virginia and there exchanged the precis time I cannot state though it was in the latter part of the summer 1781 capt Mark Gooding the men who enlisted me was present when I was set at liberty he give me a certificate stating the length of time that I had been in service the term of 18 months having served while a prisoner From Jamestown I proceeded on to Williamsburg from thence New Castle and on to Richmond where Capt Worley give me an order to draw provisions
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and I proceded on to my home in Fairfield district South Carolina which I reached few days before the Battle of the Eutaw Springs 
I hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
In 1 Where and in what year were you born
Born in Virginia in the year 1758
2 Have you any record of your age
I have my age wrote in a Book at home and it was transcribed from a book where it was wrote by my father
3 Where were you living when called in to service
I was living in South Carolina Fairfield District I remained there until 1811 when I removed to my present place of residence Amite County State of Mississippi
4 How were you called into service
I enlisted as a substitute in the 18 months service for a man of the name of Willaha Harris
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5 State the name of some of the regular officers - Capt Buckhannan Capt Tores Capt Felix Worley & Capt Talis all of the 3 Regiment
6 did ever you receive a discharge from the service
At the time I was exchanged in Jamestown Capt Jacob Gooding the officer who enlisted me gave me a certificate and after I got home the capt under whom I served give me another and the later which was given me by Capt Worley enabled me to draw pay for the whole time I was a prisoner as well as the time that I was service with the army and some years ofterwards Col Sampson give me an order for a land warrant in Consideration of my services as a soldier which was laid on land in Fairfield district South Carolina for which I received a patent I dont know what become of my certificates for I thought them worth nothing after I drew my pay
7 State the names of persons to whom you are
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and who can testify as to your character for veracity and good he [illegible] your [illegible] as a soldier of the revolution
I do not know of any that I can [illegible] So knows of my services in the Revolution I will name the following who can testify to my character for truth and veracity Thomas Batchelor and Mark Boatne Thomas Gunther Lee Hawel Wall and John Wall one of the members of the cort The said John Sibley further states that after the battle at Stono Capt Joseph Worley appointed him first sergeant in in the Company to which he belonged and that he continued to act as such up to the time he was made a prisoner 
Sworn to in open cort this the 10 day of December 1832 
W Baker clerk
C&PCAL} John Sibley
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ate of Mississippi
Amite County} County & probate crt Decmbr Term 1832
An the said court do hereby deduce their opinion after investigating the matter and after putting the foreg [illegible] interogatories that the above named John Sibly was a revolutionary soldier and servd as he states and that Charles Felder who as sign the preceding certificate is a clergyman in said county and that John Wall and Howell Wall who have also signed the same are credible persons and this state ment is entitled to credit
sign & sealed Taan fund
Presiding justice 
Noble Johnson 
AJA
John Wall

State of Mississippi
Amite county I W Baker clerk of the county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Sibley for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said county this 11th day of December 1852
W Baker Clerk
C&PCAC
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State of Mississippi
Amite County} Personally came Lawrence Miller before the undersigned one of the associate Justice of Amite County and often being sworn saith that he knew John Sibly the man present during the revolutionary war that he served in the capacity of a sergeant in the 3d regiment south Carolina troops in the 18 months  service Deponant states that he said he saw the sd John Sibly and was with him at the Siege of Savannah in the State of Georgia that he then & then wore a sargeants uniform and belonged to the 3d Regiment He was in the 3d regiment from the time of the battle of Stono in South Carolina until the Siege of Savannah after the Siege I saw him no more until I saw him in the state of Mississippi some 5 or 6 years ago I recognised him on first sight & know him to be the same man
Deponent further states that it was rumered through the army & generally believed after the Surrender of Charleston that he the sd Sibly was taken prisoner at the time of the Surrender but he cannot state this fact of his own knowledge Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15th Day of December 1832
John Wall associate
Sumter CSPCAC} Lawrence Miller
his G mark
State of Mississippi
Amite County} do hereby certify that John Wall was at the date of the above an acting associate Justice of the county & probt court in and for the county of Amite as the records in my office will show 
Given under my hand & seal this the 28 April 1834
RM Neilson clk
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State of Mississippi
Amite County} Personally came Samuel M Cotten before the undersigned associate Justice of the county & probate cort of Amite County and after being sworn saith that he knew John Sibly the man now present in the Revolutionary war That he was with him at the Battle of Stono in the state of South Carolina from that time the sd John Sibly served as a sargeant in the 3d regiment South Carolina troops 18 months service in the company of Capt Worley until the surrender of Charlestown where we wore both taken prisoners I was also with him at the siege of Savannah in the state of Georgia How long he remained a prisoner I cannot tell as I knew nothing more of him until I saw him in the state of Mississippi Amrite county where he now resides sworn to and subscribed before me this 15th day of December 1832
John Wall Associate Justice County & Probate cort Amrite County }  S M Cotten

State of Miss
Amite County } I John Wall one of the associate Justices of the county & Probate cort of Amite County do hereby certify that I have been long acquainted with the within named S M Cotton & Lawrence Miller & do believe them both to be men of truth & veracity & think their testimony entitled to full faith & credit given under my hand and seal this 15th day of December 1832
John Wall seal
ajac
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30.931
John Sibley
Mississippi 
f 1779
Sergt 2 yrs 
$120

Hon H Cage HR
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We John Wall and Howell Wall residing in the neighborhood of John Sibly do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said John Sibly who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy four years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion John Wall
Howel Wall
Sworn to & subscribed in open court
Decr 11th 1832
W Baker Clerk
C&PC AC

State of Mississippi
Amit County} I Charles Felder a clergyman residing in the county aforsaid from the foregoing certificate concur in the same Charles Felder
Sworn to & subscribed in open court Decr 10th 1832 W Baker clerk
C&PC AC
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30706
Revy INVALID
File No 30706
John Sibley
Sergt Rev War
Act June 7 32
Index Vol 2 Page 368
[Arrangement of 1870]
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office
March 5th 1842
Sir
Under the date 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," John Sibley a Pensioner on the Roll of the Mississippi Agency, at the rate of one hundred & twenty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department from the 4th of Sept 1839 to the 4th March 1841
Respectfully yours
Albion K Parris
Comptroller
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Present.
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JL Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
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House of Representatives US 
Jan 12 1844
JL Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Enclosed you will please find a letter requesting some information in relation to a pension for Mr Sibley and for the information whether the names of Charles Loughrea a now commissioned officer in the Brigade of Genl Colesworth Pickering of South Carolina is to be found and wether he is not entitled to a pension
As for have more means of information I take the liberty of requesting your early attention to this subject by which you will confer a favor on him  [illegible] objects & oblige your very sincerely
Isaac E Morse