Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 21890, for Charles Miles, South Carolina
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[Black star above name]
(3 - 1776)

SERVICE
S. C.

Miles
Charles

NUMBER
R. 21890

CONTENTS
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(3-223.)

Revy
No. 21.890
REJECTED
_________, Ex'r

OLD WAR INVALID.
Charles Miles.  of Tenn
P.O. Pri Colo Williams, S.C. Troops
Service:

Enlisted:                 , 18
Discharged:            , 18
Application filed:    , 18

Alleges:     
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
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Charles Miles
B.
20, 1722.
1
Will Petition
C
Dec. 22. 1826
to one Rev. Claims
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Dec. 26, 1828
Ress to Con. Mil. Pensions
A
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Jan. 30 1828
Rept Col Mil. Pensions
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Report informable
May 12, 1828. Come to lie
20th
20
Disch, & to Pensions
Hon J.
Marable
H. R.
recd
5 March 1828
Marable 22. Rev. Claims
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State of Tennessee ⎬
Robertson  County     SS-  
On the the 5th day of Sept 1826 personally appeared
before the Subscribed a Justice of the peace in and for the
County of Robertson & State aforesaid by reason of dis-
ability & bodily infirmity Charles Miles Resident
in said County age 76 years who being first duly
Sworn, according to Law doth on his Oath make the
following declaration, in order to obtain the provisions
made by the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818
and the first of May 1820, that he the said Charles
Miles, was Lieutenant and entered the regular army in
the Independent [illegible] of South Carolina, in the Company
commanded by Capt John Moore in the Regiment
commanded by Col Andrew Williamson early in the
Summer of 1776 in South Carolina and resigned in
July 1777 at Stono and after the Battle in South 
Carolina, That he hereby relinquishes every claim to
a pension whatsoever except the present, that his
name is not on the Role of any State except South 
Carolina, and that the following are the reasons for
not making an earlier application for a pension

That I have always considered the Goverment in
[illegible] 30 or 40 Thousand Dollars which I have
always thought I should be able to get some days un
till of late I have [illegible], and for services rendered
during the revolution and during of the whole year
for which services I have never recd [illegible] dollars and
for money advanced while in the Regular service to
enlisted Soldiers and which name was returned and many
other expense an officer could be to which government was
bound for I furnish myself and have never been re
munerated for the same, I have made one or two at
-temps  to get my pay and have failed which if I
had succeeded in I should have been able to support
myself. That from age and Bodily infirmity. I have been
entirely unable for several years to use the [illegible] that
was necessary to ascertain that steps I should take to get
a pension, and that I have never known untill a very
Short time that I could obtain one, and the steps 
necessary to obtain it
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And in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May 1820
I do Solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of
the United States on the 18th of March 1818 and
that I have not since that time by gift sale or
in any manner disposed of my property or any part
thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to being
myself within the provisions of an act of Congress in
titled an act to provide for certain persons engaged
in the Land and naval service of the United States
in the Revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of
March 1818, and that I have not nor had any person
in trust for me, any property or securites contracts
or debts due to me and by me subscribed
the property except that the act allows me that is one Bed and
furniture and therefo any wearing apparel - and no family except myself
 Benjamin Tucker                    Charles Miles
John Miles

I have by occupation been a farmer but entirely unable
to pursue the same both for the want of man and bodily stren
-gth, no family except myself, and agreeable to the 3rd section
of the act of the 1st of May 1828 I am in such indigent cir -
-cumstances as to be unable to support myself except by
private or public charity

Sworn to and subscribed on the 5th day of Sept 1826 before
me
Joseph Mc Neils.  SEAL
Justice of the peace.                   Charles A Miles

filed his and I do Solmnly swear that I am not able to attend personally
in open Court by reason of disease and bodily infirmity

                                                       Charles Miles

I, Joseph McNeils Esq Justice of the peace in and for Robertson
County and State of Tennessee, and a member of the Court of
Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for sd. County and State
aforesaid, [illegible] in the County of Robertson be here the declar-
-ant resides, do hereby certify that the above named Charles
Miles is [illegible] a disease caled the Dropsey in the testacle &  wound 
[illegible] enough in the head by a sword in the revolution. 
which I am creditibly informed and believe he has been afflicted
with the word in his head & Ten years with the dropsey in the
for the space of 15 years unable to attend the Court of
which I am a member, and I do not think from
present importance that he will be able to attend
the Court above named at its next Session. I have there
- fore in pursuance of the act of Congress of the 1st off Mar
-ch 1823 attended at his place of abode and
administered the foregoing Oath-- Joseph Mc Neils SEAL 
                                                       Justice of the Peace
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[transcribed as written ...didn't correct misspelling of words]

I, William Seal Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Session for Robertson County and State of Tennessee, and
which are especially made Courts of Records by the same of the State
which create them, and which procede according to the
Common Law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point
of amount keeping a record of their proceding Certify
that Joseph McNeill Esq. Justice of the peace  
before [illegible] the affidavit of Charles
Miles who is now sick and confined to his house was
made is a Justice of the peace of sd. County, and a
member of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
of sd. County as aforesaid, I also certify that the said
Schedule and Oath have been admited to the record of
said Court, and that the same are truly copyed there
from and I do further certify that it is the opinion
of the said Court that the total amount in value of
the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is 000/000
dollars and 000/000 cents

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of the sd. Court on this 14th day of
Nov. 1826-

SEAL

William Seal             Clerk
of Robertson County Court