Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3123, John Casey, Va.
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SERVICE NUMBER
Va. Casey, John S.3123
Carded
CONTENTS
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26537
West Tennessee
John Casey
of Davidson Co in the State of Tennessee
who was a private in the com commanded
by Captain - of the regt. commanded
by Col Churchhill in the Virginia
line for 6 months

Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee
at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of March
1834 and Henry B.
Yerger Nashville

Arrears to 4th of March 60.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 10.00
$70.00
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Danl Boyd Clerk,
Book E Vol. 7 Page 75

1872 May 22 - Hon E C Ingersoll - two John Casey - one in West Va - this not the one described & no bounty Land found - probably not entitled - the other may be the one who recd bounty Land
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John Casey
Pension Claim
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the Seventh of the Seventh of July 1832.
State of Tennessee
County of Davidson.
On this 20th day of April 1833 personally appeared before the worshipful the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Davidson County, consisting of the worshipful William Williams, Gilbert G. Washington, and Enoch P. Connell Esquires, John Casey a resident of the said County of Davidson and State of Tennessee aged 70 years on the 26th day of September next 1833 - who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the State of Virginia to serve in the war of the revolution in the year 1781, the month he does not now recollect, and served in the battalion of Militia or State troops of Virginia, Comprised on the troops of Prince William, Fairfax, Loudon, and Faquahier Counties in said State, under the following named officers - He enlisted under Captain Valentine Peyton in the County of Prince William aforesaid and after the company was formed the said Company commanded by said Peyton joined with two other companies of the Militia of Prince William County at Fredericksburg in said state, to wit the Company commanded by Captain William Bruit, and the Company commanded by Captain Robert Warren, and after the junction of said company they were marched by their respective Captains to Williamsburg to join the other Companies from the other Counties, and then joined them, and were all under the Command of Major Dennis Ramsey from Fairfax County, in Major Cox from Loudon County, and Colonel Churchill from Fauquaheir County) that he entered the service for a six month tour, and during its continuance we marched from Williamsburgh in a part, (under the stipulation that the Town of Williamsburgh militia attacked by the British who had landed at Burell's Ferry,) towards Richmond, and after marching all day we stopped at an old field and drew provisions, but before the provisions could be Cooked the troops were ordered into line again - And then Major Armstrong or Armstead (the applicant can not now remember which) a Continental officer came up and ordered all the troops that had bayonets, to march out, and afterwards desired all those who had no bayonets to volunteer in the service he was then about to engage in, upon which the applicant volunteered his services and entered the troops who were then under the command of the said Col Armstrong or Armstead and Major Ramsey and they were marched back to Williamsburgh on the same route they had retreated over in the morning and upon their arrival at Williamsburgh an engagement took place between the Troops under Col Armstrong or Armstead and Major Ramsey, and the British Army which continued about an hour and a half or two
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hours when a retreat was ordered; they retreated to Ruffin's Ferry, and upon their arrival at the Ferry Col. Armstrong or Armstead on the next night called out another detachment of Troops, which was the last time he saw the Col. - And from said Ferry said Troops were marched on to Richmond in said State of Virginia, when they arrived without any engagement, and after the troops had arrived at Richmond, the British of their days after wards took the Town of Manchester on the opposite side of the River, and burned the Tobacco ware houses, and the retreated - The applicant continued at Richmond in the service (tho' his time of service had expired before his arrival there) until the arrival of GEnl La Fayette, with a form of about fifteen hundred regular troops - and were placed as guard of Genl. La Fayette who was at that time as well as he remembers in appearance about 23 or 24 years of age and quite a fine looking man. On that day the troops were ordered to march to Fredericksburgh to be discharged - but the applicant never received any discharge in writing, as he did not call for any, not expecting at that time he would ever need his, or the discharge he did not then expect he would want to from services so cheerfully rendered to his beautiful Country - The applicant then returned home to Prince William County, where he remained only a short time when he was draughted again, and ordered to render his at Dumfries - when the applicant with the troops and whilst they lay at Dumfries orders came requiring their presence with the main Army - after said orders were received the troops at Dumfries were assigned to cut, clean up, and make good the road from the Wolf River Shoals to Dumfries, being the road over which Genl. Washington was expected to march on his way from the north - and owing the troops assigned to this duty was the applicant and there continued until the road was levelled & prepared - and he was then discharged and permitted to return home subject to be called out again at a moments warning, and Cornwallis' Army being taken at York shortly after, the applicant was never again Called out) The applicant served twelve months as a private soldier - He has no proof of his services except by his own statement - as he has no documentary evidence of the fact & knows of no person by whom he can prove his service - He does not know any minister of the gospel living in his neighborhood and [illegible] to proof of his services by the opinion of his neighbors
He refers to show by Reuben Chuk & Taliaferro Garner that he is a man of trut & their belief of the neighbors of his services -
This applicant has no other [illegible] other than one left in his
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father's Prayer book which is now in his possession and makes him 70 years old, on the 26th of September next. After being discharged the first time from the service he received a Certificate from the proper authority for the amount of his services for the first time he served, and of so little value was it esteemed by the Applicant at that time that he sold it to a man by he name of George Searsall fora a pair of silver Rim buckles - after being discharged the last time the applicant returned home to Prince William County and lived there until 1795 - 
when he removed to Loudon and lived there two years and from thence to Fauquier County and lived there until 1829 and then removed to DAvis County in the State of Tennessee where he now lives and has lived since said removal. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state to the best of his knowledge or belief
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year
aforesaid. John Casey
Henry Ewing Clerk

We Reuben Cheek and Taliaferro Garner residing in the County of Davis and State aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Casey who has subscribed and Sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be upwards of Sixty nine years of age - That he is a man of veracity and truth, and that he has been and is reputed and believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution, in the neighborhood where he lives, and we concur in that opinion - and that he was always reputed & believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution in the State of Virginia & we concu in that opinion.
Sworn to & subscribed in open court Reuben Chick
this 20th day of April 1833.
Henry Ewing clerk Taliaferro Garner

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier, and Served as he states - and the said court further certify that it appears to them that Reuben Chick and Taliaferro Garner who has signed the preceding Certificate are residents of the County of Davidson & are credible persons & that their statements are entitled to credit. this 20th day of April 1833.
Will Williams
G.G. Washington
E,P, Conwell
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State of Tennessee Ss
Davidson County ⎬ 
I, Henry Ewing Clerk of the court of pleas and quarter Sessions
for said County of Davidson do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of John Carry for a pension.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of said court
to be also affixed at office in Nashville on this
20" day of April A. D. 1833
Henry Ewing
(SEAL)

John Cary
Pension claim
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January 23d 1834


State of Tennessee SS
Davidson County ⎬ 
I Henry Ewing Clerk of the County Court of said County do
hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court
in the matter of the application of John Carry for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal
of office this twenty third day of January A.D. 1834
Henry Ewing
(SEAL)
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John Casey
Son
(e)
From 1781 Pvt
$20.

22

Harry B Yerger
Nashville
Tenn
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WAR DEPARTMENT.

Pension Office,

Sir:
The evidence in support of your [illegible] under the act of June 7, 1832, has
been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of
your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and
the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed,
before a pension can be allowed. the notes and the regulations will shew what is
necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed,
you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: } ). You will, when
you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and
you will, by compling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.

A Statement, shewing the service of John Casey

Period when the service was rendered.
1781
1781

Duration of the claimant's service.
6  Months
6 Months

Rank of the claimant.
Pr
Pr
Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served.
Col Churchwell

Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.
70
Va

Proof by which the declaration is supported.
Traditionary.

The old declaration should accompay the awarded
one. The applicants statement shows that he could not
have served twelve months. He was dismissed after the claims he
served [illegible] Washigton [illegible] which passed on to York Town, early
in October 1780 [crossed out, illegible]
[illegible] are made it renders the case a very doubtful one. Six
or eight months is full as much as he is entitled to. His statement
must be awarded.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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[See document 11 for the original]
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal
means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted
; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected . All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his CASC.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State
troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
. Have you any record of your age, and if so, is
when called, where have you lived since Revolutionary
And if a substitute, for whom?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?
State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such
Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumistances of your services.
Soldier: Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given
, and what has become of it?
To an Ofcer. Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify
as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are
requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court,
without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be
the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.
If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character
and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the
inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before
required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper
county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, when the Court is herein requested to
and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record,
or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper
Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such
Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature and
his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before
the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the
declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure
, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period
of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the
opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
low the rule laid down for his guidance.
dent must appear open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily imity; in which case the declarant will of
conforming to the rule.
The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sneer of The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
liery come at once or other men in the man or the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the
be had in common he wrote a supreme moment he went to of memory, state previously how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an anna in the following words:
at the rest of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly worn, deposeth and saith, that an
of age, and the loss of memory, he cannot swear positively to the prize ring or source of
days, I served as aclean
, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For months
, and mond
and for such service a pension
reason where the men which each woolen served, and the particular rank he held the law
the person by water the room to room
in the milita, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other
at an error commissions who apply for pensions merely state there was
none more charwoman where he
parran place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corporation fee
pursuit.
that he was either in the organ, and for the time arms which the service was performed, he was on my near
The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
The opinion of the Court is always required.
The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
The Clerk man in his church or in or
papers.
of one were no men more
Mode of authenticating papers.
where the crime of her new man or women
the alone or such other
pass under the seal of one of the certifying one, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the ceruncate.
Proof of Service.
In case where the sum of one or more
who earned two or three women mem
and me to which he belonged. The mostrate who may administer to the mercy thereby the
on the oil character and signature of the magistrate must be copied by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
applies to continental troops only.
The notes for at once or
This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.

March 1, 1929

Miss Margaret Dickinson
1564 Olympian Way, S. W.
Atlanta, Ga.

Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary 
War pension claim, S. 3123, it appears that John Casey
was born September 28, 1763, place not stated.

While residing in Prince William County, Virginia,
he enlisted early in 1781 and served six months as a
private in Captain Valentine Payton's Company, Colonel
Churchill's Virginia Regiment, and was in an engagement
at Williamsburg under Colonel Armstrong or Armstead. Later
in 1781 he enlisted and served in making a road from Wolf
Run Shoals to Dumfries, length of service and officers are
not shown.

He was allowed pension on his application executed
April 29, 1833, at which time he was living in Davidson
County, Tennessee.

There are no data as to family.

Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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Rev War
3123
INVALID
File No. 3123
John Casey
Pvt. Va. Line
Act:  June 7th/32
Index: - Vol. A, Page 57
(Arrangement of 1870)

1929 March 1 - Histr to Margaret Dickinson
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Tennessee Set
20 Feby 1834

Enclose the return to
Harry B Verger
Nashville
Tenn

Pension claim

The Secretary of War
Washington City
D. Columbia

(stamp) 
NASHVILLE T
FEB 7
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832.

State of Tennessee
Davidson County} SS.
On this 23 day of January 1834 personally appeared before the worshipful the County Court of Davidson County, the worshipful Wm William, Gilbert G Washington and Elisha S. Hall, presiding justices thereof - John Casey, a resident of said County of Davidson and State aforesaid, aged Seventy years 26th September last, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he enlisted in the army of the United States early in the year 1781, with Captain Valentine Peyton, in the County of Prince William, in the State of Virginia, the month in which he enlisted he does not now recollect, he enlisted for the term of six months, and served in the - Regiment of the line under the following named officers, to wit: Captain Valentine Peyton the commander of the Company, Major Dennis Ramsey, and Major Cox, the first of Fairfax, the last of Loudon County (Virginia) the regiment in which he served was commanded by Colo. Churchwell, from Fauquier County. The battalion in which he served was composed of the troops of Prince William, Fairfax, Loudon, & Fauquier Counties in State of Virginia.
After he enlisted, (which as before stated was in Prince William, where he resided at the time of his enlistment) the said Company Commanded by Captain Peyton joined with two other Companies of the militia of Prince William County at Fredericksburgh in said State, to wit, the Company Commanded by Capt. Wm. Brent, and the Company commanded by Captain Robert Warren. And after the Junction of said companies they were marched to Williamsburgh to join the other companies, from the other Counties, and then joined them, all of whom were under the Command of the before named officers.
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He further states that he entered the service for six months, and during its continuance was marched from Williamsbugh (in a retreat under the expectation that the town of Williamsburgh, would be attacked by the British, who had landed at Barrells Ferry,) towards Richmond, and after marching all day we stopped at an old field, and drew provisions, but before the provisions could be corked, the troops were ordered into line again, and think Major Armstrong or Armstead (the applicant cannot remember which) came up and ordered all the troops that had bayonets to march out, and afterwards desired all those who had no bayonets to volunteer in the service he was then about to engage in, upon which the applicant joined the troops under his command, and they were marched back to Williamsburgh on the same route, they had retreated over in the morning, and upon their arrival at Williamsburgh, an engagement took place, between the troops under Col Armstrong or Armstead, & Major Ramsey, and the British Army which continued about an hour & a half or two hours, when a retreat was ordered, they retreated to Ruffins ferry, and upon their arrival at the ferry, Col Armstrong or Armstead, on the next night called out another detachment of troops, which was the last time he saw the Colo. and from said ferry said troops were marched on to Richmond in said State of Virginia, where they arrived without any engagement, and after the troops had arrived at Richmond, the British two or three days afterwards, took the troops out of Manchester on the opposite side of the river, and burned the Tobacco Warehouses and then retreated. Before the arrival of the applicant at Richmond, as well as he remembers, his term of service had expired - but how long before he cannot remember. However he still continued in the service, until the arrival of Genl. La Fayette, with a form of about 1500 regular troops. And upon the night of Lafayettes arrival said applicant was called out, and placed as a guard of Genl. Lafayette's Marquise and on the succeeding evening he remembers to have seen Lafayette who was at that time as well as he remembers in
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appearance about 23 or 24 years of age, and quite a fair looking man. On that day the troops were ordered to march to Fredericksburgh to be discharged, but the applicant never received any discharge in writing, as he did not call for any, not expecting at that time he would ever need his said discharge so he did not then expect that he would want pay for services he so cheerfully rendered to his distressed country. The applicant then returned home to Prince William County, where he remained only a short time, when he was draughted again and ordered to rendezvous at Dumfries where the applicant met the troops, and while they lay at Dumfries, orders came requiring their presence with the main army - After said orders were received, the troops at Dumfries were assigned to cut, clean up, and make good the road from the Wolf river Shoals to Dumfries, being the road over which Genl Washington was expected to march, his way from the north - and among the troops assigned to this duty was the applicant, and there continued until the road was levelled and prepared, and he was then discharged and permitted to return home, subject to be called out again at a moment's warning; and Cornwallis' army being taken at York, shortly after, the applicant was never again called out. The applicant states that he served, according to the best of his recollection at least six months, as a private soldier; He therefore says that he did not serve six months. He has no proof of his services, except by his own statement, as there are none of his companions in arms, now surviving in Davidson County, the County he now resides in. He does not Know any minister of the Gospel living in the neighbourhood, and must resort to prooff of his services, (in and of his own oath) by the opinion of his neighbours, as to whether he was a revolutionary Soldier. He expects to show by Reuben Chick, and Talliferio Garner, that he is a man of truth, and
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the belief of the neighbor as to his services. This applicant has no other record of his age, then the statement made in his father prayer book, which is now in his possession, and it makes him to 76 old on the 26th September last,  After being discharged the first time from service, he revived a certificate of his services stating the time but who gave it he does not recollect, and of a little value was it entered
that he sold it to a man, by the name of George Pearsal for a pair of silver Kne buckles. After he was discharged in last time the applicant returned to Prince William County
and lived there until 1795, when he removed to Lendon, and lived the two years, and from there be removed to Fauquar County, and lived there until 1829, when he removed to
Davidson County  Tennessee, where he now lives and has lived since 1829. He hereby relinquishes every claim what to a pension or annuity except the present, and he declares his
name is not on the pension roll of agency of any state to the best of his belief and knowledge
John Casey
Sworn to and subscribed 
the day and year aforesaid in open court

Test Henry Ewing Clerk of Davidson County
 We Reuben Chick and Talliferro Garner both residing in the County of Davidson, State of Tennessee hereby certify that we are well as
acquainted with John Casey, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that he believe him to be upwards of 70 years of age - that he is a man of veracity and truth, and that he has been, and is reputed and believed to have been in the neighborhood when he lives,  a soldier of the Revolution, that this belief is very general, and we concur in that opinion, and further
that, were acquainted with him in Virginia and he always was reputed and believed to be a soldier of the revolution in the State of Virginia, where he resided, and we concur 
in that opinion
Reuben Chick
Talliferro Garner
Sworn to and subscribed in open court day and year aforesaid
And the said court hereby declare its opinion to be that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and the court further certify that it appears to it that Reuben Chick & Talliferro Garner who have signed the
preceding certificate an residents of Davidson County, and are credible persons, and that their statements are entitled to credit
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for J. L. Edwards Esq. Dear sir it appears in your letter that
you object to nothing except the length of my services, the
First tour is plain and indisputable, the second I cannot tell
The exact time I was in actual servis it being upward of half a
Century since that time but we were assigned to work the road from
The woolf [sic] [illegible] shoales to Dumfries which is 5 or 7 miles I cannot
Tell which at this time, as it was supposed that General Washington
would march his troops that rout [sic] to the seige of York you state
that I would not have served 12 months I never did state that I was
12 months in actual servis [sic] but after the road was done agreeable to
Orders, we were at liberty to go to our homes and hold ourselves in reading
Whenever we ware [sic] cald [sic] on theirfore [sic] I conclude that I was in the sirvis [sic] of
my country 12 months_  I have also done my best to give you a sirvis
las [sic] statement in both my aplications which you have had before
you, I expect the road was finish'd, by or before the time you state
That general Washington passt [sic] on to York town but he and his
Troops did not pass the road work at all theirfore I suppose
that I was not in actual servis more than 9 months this Dears sir
I freely leave to your honour to decide on as you may think proper
the first tower[sic] I served was a hard one we suffered almost every
Hardship Ranger hunger cold nakedness not a shoe to our feet which
was worn to the quick and bleeding, in the utmost dainger [sic] on all
sides duly hard have to go or pickett guard twice in one night
full of filth and Vermin _ all these circumstances I mention
To let you know that my claim is a Just one and that I have
served as I have stated on oath. Besides 2 disinterested witnesses
one of which he has known me for upwards of 20 years and the
other upwards of 20 - both of them having heard me talk often about being
In the servis and what took place while their having
Complyed to the best of my knoledge [sic] with the benevolent act
of congress in both my applications to you its needless to say
any thing more on the subject. therefore I send you all the
Papers with your printed letter _
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to do with and deside [sic] on as your honour may see
Cause to determine - as I know my claim is just and also
Believe that you will do the utmost Justic [sic] in your power in
every application thast laid before you, therefore I conclude
After subscribing myself yr obd rs. st &c &c
John Casey

NB I take the libety to request your
Honour to send a return as soon as you can
with [illegible] _ favourable or unfavorable_ and if you think I
 amnot entitled to 12 months I leave that to your own judgment
With pleasure _ but I was so engaged that year as to earn nothing for
myself but my friends had to find me clothing &c but in the
year of 83 I recd a certificate for my first tower [sic] the amount of which
I cannot tell, but I thought so little of it that I gave for a pair of silver
[illegible] buckles worth 2 dollars and that is all I got for my services [sic] - I
Expect you know of how little value certificates was at that
time you with [illegible]
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Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs: - Will you please
send me, at your earliest convenience,
the record of service 
of the revolutionary pensioner
John Casey, who was living in 
Davidson Co. Tenn in 1834 aged
71, according to the published
pension list.  Thanking you
in advance for the courtesy.
I am
(Miss) Margaret Dickinson
1564 Olympian Way, S.W.
Atlanta,
Ga
June 18-1928

(stamp)
Pension Office USA
Jun 20 1928