Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 898, David Blackman, S.C.
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( 3-1776 ) SERVICE S.C. Blackman, David NUMBER R. 898
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INVALID No. 898 REJECTED David Blackman  SC Service
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34.012 David Blackman  S.C. No 34 .012 Suspended for proof  Col. C.W Dudley  Apl 6  1837 Hon. J. Mc Queen  Sept. 28/57   898 Act 7 June  1832
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34012 B 656 David Blackman April 5, 1837 So. Ca. Pension Office S.C. Act 7 June  32  Mr. Sylvester  Direct to C.W. Dudley  at Marlborough  Ct. House So. Ca.
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Declaration of David Blackman  in order to obtain a Pension under the Act of Congress  passed June 7th 1832.  [ South Carolina Marion District ] On this the 27th ay of March  in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and  thirty seven before  Hon. Josiah J. Evans  one of the Judges of the  Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions in and for the  said State, personally appeared  David Blackman in open Court  aged about ninety three years who upon oath  made the following declaration in order to obtain a Pension  under the  Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.  That he was born  in the month of June as he thinks in 1744. His age recorded in a testament which his sister had which is now lost - was born  in  Greenville County , Virginia : When he was a boy  his father moved into Marion District near Mar's Bluff on  Big Pee Dee . At the commencement of the War he was drafted to go to  Charleston at the second draft which  was made in his company  deponent  told the officers he would to go , they threatened to make him go  & upon this he took up the line of march  under Capt. Luke Whitfield of the militia . I went down to  Charleston where he remained during one month . this was before the battle at Fourt Moultrie at the time of this battle he was  serving his second draft for one month under an officer whose name is not recollected. In like manner he served two months of service as a militia man . He an neither read or write, had learning  once but the  war times make him lose it all. He now lives down on little Pee Dee  & never heard he could get a Pension without proving  his service by a witness  until  Squire Shooter told him he could along in the last winter.  He has given the best statement he can of his service in
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the militia as his body   & mind are both weak  & he can state  nothing more  particularly . About the year  1780  he listed in the  Regular service  for eighteen months under Capt. Rue - don't know what his name was besides Lieut. McDowell & Sergeant Feast - marched everywhere  Charles, Santee, Georgetown, &  Cantwell all the places , but  is  swore he served the time out & thinks it was the 2nd Regiment  & that General  Marion commanded it. During this time he never was  in a battle whilst he was in the militia they generally  used him as a cook; but sometimes one cook & then another. But during  the eighteen months he was in the regular service they made a cook of him altogether perceiving that his talents  was in that way . He never got a discharge as he  recollects, they were  all discharged together  & went home. He has no documentary evidence or other evidence of his service & does  not recollect the names of any other officers besides those  which he has mentioned. He has been  living where he now lives ever since the Revolutionary war  & is now unable to work for himself. He has lately been placed under the protection of the Commissioners of the Poor who give him  ten dollars a year for his   support with this his only   weapon, he has  to contend  with the ills which flesh is heir to. He herby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity  except the present and declares that his name is not on the  Pension Roll of the Agency of any State. Sworn to  in open Court  before me  March 27, 1837. Ed. B. Wheeler ( signed ) C.C.P. Dabid Blackman ( his mark X )
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[ South Carolina Marion District ] We Tapley Moody  a clergyman  and Benjamin Shuter a citizen , both residing  in the  District  and  State aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Blackman  who has subscribed & sworn to the  foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be ninety three years of age, that he is a man of veracity  , that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the  Revolution  & that we concur in that opinion. Sworn to & subscribed in open Court  before me  March 27 1837. Ed. B. Wheeler ( signed ) C.C.P. Tapley Moody ( signed ) Benjamin Shooter ( signed )  And the said Court  after having  investigated the matter and after having put the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department  hereby declare its opinion that he said David Blackman was a  Revolutionary soldier and served as he  has stated. Also that it appears to the said Court that Tapley Moody  who has signed the above certificate is a clergyman residing in the  District  and  State aforesaid  & that Benjamin Shooter is a citizen  residing in the same  State & District, that they  are both respectable persons  & that their certificate is entitle to credit . March 27 1837 . Josiah J. Evans ( signed ) PJ   South Carolina Marion District ] I , Edward B. Wheeler clerk of the Court for Marion  District do hereby certify that  the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of David Blackman for a Pension.  Given under my hand  & seal of office this the 27 day of March  A.D. 1837 . Ed. B. Wheeler ( singed / sealed )  C.C>P.