Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8098, for Charles Pennington, Pennsylvania
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(8 - 1776)
SERVICE Pennsylvania
NUMBER R. 8098
Pennington Charles
CONTENTS

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State of Illinois
Coles County 

Declaration of Charles Pennington on an application for a Pension as a Revolutionary Soldier under the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832.  After being duly sworn according to law deponent did saith that he was born in Bucks County State of Pennsylvania Newbrittain Township in the year 1758 the June 6th, that he volunteered in the Pennsylvania Militia In the month of June and July and went from Eastown to [ineligible] with [ineligible] and provision waggons under Capt Daniel Pennington, was gone three months and returned to Eastown where the whole company recd [received] a verbal discharge from the Capt.  He telling this men that they could receive written discharge on application to him but this affidavit never applied.  He again volunteered in Sept. 1779 under the same Capt. to take [ineliglble] in [waggoning? waggons?] from Trenton to Morristown where washington [Washington] was encamped with his main Army thence returned to Trenton was gone three months .  Recd [Received] a verbal discharge as before never having applied for a written one _  He further states that the Pensylvania [Pennsylvania] Militia were again called out in the last of June and that he was Drafted under Capt. [Hamilton? Jamison?] in that month in the year 1780 that he [ineligible] arrived in Bucks County
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Pensylvania [Pennsylvania] New Britain Township
Moved to Trenton New jersey where he was stationed until he was discharged in the month of September recd [received] as before a verbal discharge he states that he was in no Engagements with the Enemy He States that his memory is now so infirm as not to recollect the name of any of his officers Except this capt. whose names where named he has given above and one John Barton who was waggon [wagon] Master General the only record of his age is in his Fathers [Father's] family bible which shows that he is or will be if he lives untill [until] the 6th of June next Eighty two years of age  He States that he knows of no person of whom he can prove his servises [services] as above narrated except from General [illegible] that he is well acquainted with one Joel Conaly who has known him some forty or forty five years who can testify to his birth and veracity and also as to his having been [illegible] reported and believed to have been a Revolutionary soldier and also with Stanley B. Walker of [illegible] and also Josiah Conly both of whom has [illegible].  He [illegible] Walker for eight years and [illegible] Minister of the gospel and he [illegible] Josiah Conaly for about forty years all of whom can testify to his [illegible] as a Revolutionary Soldier that this affiant is himself a Minister of the gospel over a [illegible] truth and veracity
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That his name is not inscribed on the pension list Roll of the agency of any state and that here [with] relinquishes all other claims or claims that he may have except the present In testimony whereof he has hereunto set his [illegible] and affixed his seal this 23 [rd] day of March AD1840 Charles [illegible] Pennington Sworn to an [illegible] this 23 [rd.] day of March 1840.
N. Ellington Clerk

State of Illinois
Coles County
This Day personally appeared in open court Joel Conley & Josiah Conley and after being duly sworn deponent and saith that we are well acquainted with Charles Pennington the applicant above named and have been for forty or forty five years and that he had generally been reported and believed to have been a soldier of the revolution and that he is a man of truth and veracity in the neighbourhood [neighborhood] where he resides and that he believes to have been  a soldier and to have performed the services as he has in his declaration therein alledged [alleged] [and] further more these affiants saith [illegible] sworn to and inscribed this 23 [rd.] day of March 1840 - 
N. Ellington  Clerk
Joel Connely [illegible] 
Josiah Connely
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State of Illinois
Coles County

This day personally appears Stanley B Walker who is a Clergyman of the Baptist denomination and after being duly sworn in open Court deposeth and Saith that he has been acquainted with Charles Pennington for the sum of Eight years and that he is a man of truth and veracity [illegible] Minister of the gospel and has been [and] now is reported and believed to have been a soldier of the revolution and that this affiant believes that he the [illegible] Pennington has [illegible] all the services that he had in this declaration therein [illegible] and further more this affiant saith not 
Stanley B. Walker

Sworn to an [illegible] this 23 [rd.] day of March 1840
N. Ellington Clerk

State of Illinois 
Coles County
I Justin Harlan  of the Coles Circuit Court now sitting and constituting [illegible] Court do here [with] certify that Josiah Conely [Connely] and Joel Conley [Connely] and Stanley B. Walker are all men of respectability and men of truth and veracity and that the [illegible] Stanley B. Walker is a Baptist preacher [illegible] and I further certify that I believe Charles Pennington to have been a revolutionary soldier and that the matters and things in this declaration therein alledged [alleged]and sworn to are correct & here given under my law this 23 [rd.] day of March 1840
J. Harlan
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January 16, 1937

 BA-J/EEL
Charles Pennington-R.8098

Mrs. Earl N. Saucier     
2208 Mayo Street
Commerce, Texas       

Dear Madam:

    Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of Charles Pennington, born in England 1758, died September 5, 1845, in Westfield, Illinois, who served in the Revolutionary War, you think as a chaplain and was later a minister of the Baptist denomination.

    A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and no record found of a claim for pension having been made to the United States based upon the military service in that war of a Charles Pennington identical with the one described by you.  You are furnished herein the record of the only soldier named Charles Pennington that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this office,  It is hoped that this record will be of assistance to you in your research.

Charles Pennington
R.8098

    Charles Pennington was born in New Britain Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, June 6, 1758.  The names of his parents are not shown.

   After the Revolution, Charles Pennington moved to Rowan County, North Carolina, where he lived five years; then moved to Grayson County, Virginia, lived there seventeen years; then moved to Clinch Mountain, Virginia, and lived five years; thence to White County, Indiana, and lived four years; thence to Coles County, Illionois.

    March 25, 1840, while residing in said Coles County, Charles
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Pennington applied for the pension which might have been due on account of his service in the Revolutionary War and stated that he enlisted, place not shown, in June or July, year not given, and served three months under Captain Daniel Pennington (no relationship shown) and was with the ammunition and provision wagons; that from September, 1777 he served three months under same captain and carried flour from Trenton to Morristown, New Jersey, for the use of the army: the he enlisted the last of June, 1780, served in Captain Jamison's Pennsylvania Company and was discharged in September following.

    His claim was not allowed as he did not prove service of six months in a regularly organized military corps, his service as a wagoner not being provided for in the act under which he applied.

    There are no data as to soldier's family and the date of his death as shown.  He stated that he was a minister of the Gospel, denomination not shown.

                             Very truly yours

                              A. D. Hiller
                              Executive Assistant
                              to the Administrator
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Jan. 30 1843

Hon. J. L. Edwards           Free
Comm. of Pensions
Washington City
               D.C. 

JM.
CH Pennsylvania
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Marshall Ill 20 July '43

This Am Charles Pennington of Coles County Illinois has requested me to enquire [illegible]of his application for a pension under Act 7. June 1832.  It states that he served 9 months in the Revolution and made an application Several years ago.  I shall be very glad to be informed of the situation of his claim with a view if allowable to [illegible] additional proof
Very Respectfully
[illegible]
Uri Manly

Hon. T.L. Edwards
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That he moved from Bucks County Pennsylvania to Roan County State of North Carolina & lived there five years then moved to Grayson County Virginia where he lived seventeen years then moved to [illegible] Mountain in Virginia & lived there five years then moved to White County in Tennefee [Tennessee] & lived there seventeen years then he moved to Lawrence County Indiana and lived there four years then moved to Coles County State of Illinois and has resided there seven years past & that he now resides in Coles County State of Illinois
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N Ellington
June 25 '40
OC
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Pension Office
June 25 1840

Sir

The claim of Ch. Pennington has been presented at the Office for a pension under the act of June 7 1837, unaccompanied of any letter, a name of his agent.  The claim has been examined. and rejected on the ground that the service he claims for, (teaming for the militia) are not embraced by the law.  
As the papers were made before the Circuit Court of Coles County, for which you are the Clerk, [illegible] thought [illegible]to report his case to you.
[illegible]

N.Ellington [illegible]
[illegible]
County  
JW.

[illegible] 
[illegible]
35076
[illegible]
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Uri Manly
Mar 20 1863
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Pension Office
March 20 1843

Sir.
In answer to your letter of the 20thof January last I have to state that the claim has been rejected on the ground that his services in "teaming for the militia" [crossed out word] do not come within the providence of the Act of June 7th 1832, that act providing only for military services.  This result was made known to N. Ellington, Clerk C. C. Coles County Illinois as far back as June 25th 1840, in a letter addressed to that gentleman

Uri Manley, Esq
Marshall  
Illinois

"N0 [number] 35.076
Act of 7th June 1836"
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State of Illinois
Coles County

I Nathan Ellington Clerk of the Circuit Court of Coles County do hereby certify that the declaration of Charles Pennington and all the [illegible] affidavits and certificates there unto annexed were [illegible] authenticated in open court and that the certificate of the Presiding Judge of this court is made out and signed in due form of law and that the signature [illegible] to be his is true and service given  [illegible] my hand and the seal of said court this 23rd day of March AD 1840

N. Ellington Clerk
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Chs Pennington
Vol. (volunteered?) ________with am.________
under Cap. Pennington
Sep. 7 93 _______________
to carry flour to Newt0n
_______ 80
tile S______
N. Ellington 6th
LL ____________
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35076
Charles Pennington
___________
Act 1 June 1832
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1937 Jan 16-_____________
Mrs. Earl N. Saucier-EL
REJECTED
8098
Charles Pennington
Printed list of 1852 shows cause of rejection "Not military service"
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Chs Pennington
_______________ 1839
rejected
Lot to N. Ellingtion 25 (partly scratched out)
June ________ (scratched out)
Lot to ________ May 20,1845 (scratched out)
8098
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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
EAST TEXAS STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
COMMERCE, TEXAS
2208 Mayo Street
January 6, 1937
Bureau of Statistics
Pension Department
Washington, D. DC
Dear Sirs:
Do you have the name of Rev. Charles Pennington on the list of pensioners of the Revolutionary War?
He was born in England, near Stokes Poges in 1758.  His tomb stone in the Otterbein Cemetery at Westfield, Illinois says that he died September 5, 1845 at the age of 87 years, 5 months.  He married Casandra Swathlander about the close of the War, the exact date I do not have.
He was my great-great grandfather, and my aunt says that his grave was always decorated May 30th of each year as being the only Revolutionary soldier buried in that cemetery.  I didn't think he was given land, however he may have been instead of the pension.  I want to establish my right to the  D A R, and will have to have proof of his service.  I understand he served as a chaplain.  He was a Baptist minister.
Thank you very much.
Very truly yours,
Mrs. Earl N. Saucier