Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9,447, for Solomon Osteen, North Carolina
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Territory of Florida
County of Alachua

On this first day of January A.D. One Thousand
and Eight Hundred and Thirty three personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Superior Court for the Eastern District of Florida, now sitting, Solomon Osteen, a resident of the County of Columbia in the Territory aforesaid, aged ninety 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 Congress, passed June 7th 1833.
That he entered the service of the United States
under the following named officers and served as herein stated, to wit:
That he entered it under the command of Captain
Thomas Caswell (he thinks was the name,) which command was attached to the army of General Sumpter with whom he continued to serve for a period of about nine months, during all which time he was in more or less active service in North and South Carolina, and that on his leaving the service at that time he received a regular discharge from General Sumpter. That in four or five weeks after such his discharge he was drafted to serve in the militia of North Carolina, in a company company commanded by Captain John Lovett, Ely West being the Major of the Regiment; that during this service he was stationed at Brunswick in North Carolina, and in its
vicinity, and continued to serve about three months, when he received a regular discharge from Major West & Captain Lovett. That two years afterwards he again joined the service in North Carolina, serving five months under
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Captain Samuel Jones Colonel Mitchell being in command
the division. - That after leaving this service, he was compelled to pay the sum of One hundred and forty five Dollar to a substitute to go with the North Carolina troops to the defense of Charleston in his stead, in order to be relieved going himself. - That owing to the advanced state of his age, and the natural decay of his faculties, he is unable to say with any precision in what year it was that he first entered the service, but thinks it must have been about the year 1776. That when he entered the service he resided in Cartwright County, North Carolina. That in the first service of nine months, he was enlisted as a regular, but that he received a small portion only of his wages; that in the second service of three months, he was drafted; and that in the last service of five months, her acted as a volunteer. That during his service he was engaged in a battle at Crab Point in North Carolina, and was at the capture of the Scotch Highlanders at Moore's Creek in the same state. That he has lived since the Revolutionary war in Beaufort District in the State of South Carolina and that he now resides Columbia County in the Territory of Florida aforesaid- That in the lapse of time he has lost all the papers connected with the services before stated to have been performed by him, and that therefore he has no documentary to be adduced in behalf of his application; and that Theophilus Weeks of the County of Columbia aforesaid, knows of the fact of his having served as above stated, but that he knows not of any other person whose testimony it is in his power to procure, who can to his service
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Solomon Osteen
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