Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,557, Uz Fenly, S.C.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE S.C.
Fenly, Uz
NUMBER R.3.557

CONTENTS
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United States of America
Territory of Arkansas
County of Izard
On this 25th day of November Eighteen hundred and thirty four personally appeared before the Judge of the circuit Court in and for said County of of Izard in open court Uz Fenly a resident of the
County of Izard aforesaid and Territory of Arkansas aged seventy two years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath make the follow declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered in the army of the United States in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six as a volunteer with Col James Williams and served under the following named officers

That he entered the service of of the United States as a volunteer under Col. James Williams in ninety six district in the State of South Carolina and was marched by Col Williams from that district to Orangeburg district in the same state who had charge of a band of tories who had been confined in the Jail of ninety six district and who conducted then to said Orangeburg jail and delivered them to the continental troops who were there stationed that he was twenty days on duty in this service and was discharged and returned home that he did not receive a regular discharge from Col Williams but received pay for his service and was discharged, that some time after he cannot say how long he joined General Greens army as a volunteer Capt John Wallis just at the time that General Green besieged ninety six which was at the time in the possession of the British commanded by Allen and [illegible] that he lay with Greens army several days and nights before ninety six when he with green's army compelled to raise the siege and returned to the fish dam ford on Broad River on account of Lord Rayden's approach to the relief of the besieged with about 
three thousand troops he stayed a few days at fish dam ford and was there reinforced by eighteen hundred troops as well as he recollects Lord Rayden followed within three miles of fish dam and returned he marched with Colo. Washington and Col Lee who there left Green's army  from fish dam ford to duck forks of Saluda
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and Broad Rivers remained there fifteen or twenty days and was sent from that place by Washington and Lee with fifteen others to ninety six to watch the movements of Allen and Cruger and see where they left ninety six for Charleston that we might let General Green know who
was & attack them on their route whilst we were watching we were attacked by the Tories who fired on us we returned and took one of Dunlap's dragoons prisoners whose name was David Long he gave us information that Allen and Cruger would start the next day where we received
this intelligence he this applicant and John Foraker Started where Col Lee and Washington had joined him he bore the intelligence which got from David Long to General Green at the last named place green immediately mustered his troops and stated to meet the British at Orangeburg leaving his sick and baggage behind at the  high hills of Santee and when green started to Orangeburg myself and Foraker were dismissed and returned home to ninety six he served in this second tour sixty four days that he remained at home twelve days and the volunteered under Capt Wallace and served in the district of ninety six for a few days and under the conduct of Capt Wallace joined General Green at the high hills of Santee (where this applicant was informed Green had returned and having been successful in meeting the British at Orangeburg he was marched with Green's army immediately from that place to the Eutaw Springs where Greens army had and engagement with the British the division to which this applicant belonged was commanded on that by General Andrew Pickins who in the engagement received a shot on the breast with a ball which inflicted a wound he with the troops returned before the British about three miles and camped he was shortly after discharged he served in this last tour  three months that he returned home and shortly after he volunteered under Capt Wallace who was commanded by Col Williams and left in their service for six months that during that time, the principal duty which described upon was to cover the county in the vicinity of ninety six and suppress the Tories, whilst in this service he
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received a wound in the ankle which he showed to the court in which the sinews that connect with the heel were cut in two with the ball and after he received the wound he remained in the army six months longer being unable to return home on account of his wound that he was called into service by competent authority he received a discharge from Col Williams for months but he states he never received a written discharge, that there is no living witness now within the knowledge o this applicant by whom he can prove his services.that it was

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state, sworn to and subscribed 
Uz Fenly [signature]

I, John P. Huston Clerk of the circuit court for said county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the case of the application of Uz Fenly for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 25th day of November 1834

We John B Graham clergyman residing in the residing in the county and territory John Adams & David Stennet residing in the same do certify that are well acquainted with Uz Fenly who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy two years of age that he is reputed and believed to be a soldier of the revolution in the neighborhood where he resides and that we concur in that opinion sworn to and subscribed the day and year John B. Graham
John Adams
David Stennet [signatures]

And the said Court do hereby certify and declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutonary solder and served as he states and the court further certifies that
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that it appears to them that John B. Graham who has Signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman
resident in the county aforesaid and that the said John Adams & David Stinnett who have also signed the same are residents in the aforesaid County and are credible persons and that their statements
are entitled to credit
Tho. P. Eskridge

I John Houston Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said circuit Court in the Matter of application of Uz Fenly for a pension

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office This 25th day of November, AD. 1834
John P. Huston Clerk
By his Deputy Clerk Thomas P Dickinson

I, Thomas P. Eskridge Judge of the Circuit Court for the County of Izard in the Territory aforesaid
do hereby certify that John P. Houston who has signed the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of signing the same Clerk of the circuit Court for said County and that his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit as such Given under my hand this 25 day of November 1834

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32.731
Uz Fenly Arkansas

Rejected did not serve six month see letter J.P. Thornton 7 Feb 1835
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Rejected

See letter to John P. Houston
Clk. Izard Co.
Fayetteville Ark.
7 Feb. 1835

3557
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3557
REJECTED
C.O. Uz Fenly 
Service: _____
Enlisted:  _____, 18 __
Discharged:_____, 18 __
Application filed: _____, 18 __
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____

Attorney: ______
P. O. _____
______ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ 

Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18
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[envelope]
Free
To The Hon Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington City
DC

[upside down]
[illegible]
February 4, 1835
Pension Office
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W. D. Rec'd 4 Feby
Fayetteville December 25th 1834
Sir,
you will please to write to me when the petition of Uz Fenly for a pension shall have been examined. You will please to direct you communication to James Pope Attorney for Uz Fenly Batesville Independence Co Arkansas

I am sir very Respectfully yours &c
James Pope
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