Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2241-450, for John Ternant
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(8-1776) 
SERVICE { Foreign  Armand's Legion. Ternant, John
NUMBER B.L.Wt 2241-450. Lt.-Colo. Issued Nov. 26, 1796. No papers.
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Rev. War Section.

This letter corrected by A Wilson Sept. 15, 1917 [handwritten note]  June 16, 1914.

Mr. Paul H. Tierman. c/o Charleston Herald. Charleston, West Virginia.

Sir: 
In response to your letter dated the 13" instant. you are advised that a careful search of the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fails to afford any information in regard to any person named Tiernan, and that the only person of similar name found on said records. omit (who served in the Inspecter General's Department.) [ ( ) line crossed out] [handwritten note in left margin: nothing on our records as to any service in I.G Dept}] is John [underlined] Tennant, who was allowed [crossed out] we do not know to whom allowed a grant of 450 acres of bounty land on Warrant No. 2241. issued November 26, 1796 on account of [inserted] for [crossed out] his services as Lieutenant-Colonel of Armand's Legion in the War of the Revolution.

This Bureau has no further information concerning him. as there are no papers on file. the same having been destroyed when the British burned [crossed out] the war office in 1824 [crossed out] was burned in 1800. [inserted] 

It is proper to add the following from "Hoitman's Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army, 1775-1783". an unofficial publication entitled to credit: 
"Ternant, Jean Baptiste (France). Deputy Quartermaster General. 26 March, 1778: Lieutenant-Colonel and Inspector. Continental [the above lines crossed through with 2 vertical backslash lines] 

[handwritten note added to bottom of page] do not quote Hoeitman if again written up. You can refer to that publication if necessary, but data therein in uncertain.
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Army. 25 September 1778 with pay from 28 March 1778, and served with the Pulaski Legion; taken prisoner of Charleston 12 May 1780: Brevet Colonel 13 October 1783; subsequently was by act of 22 April 1784, appointed Colonel of Armand's Partisan Corps or Legion to date from March 26, 1783:  the date of Armand's promotion to Brigadier General:  served to close of war. (Died April, 1816.)  [above lines crossed through with 2 vertical backslash lines] 

Very respectfully,
GM Saltzgaber [signature] 
Commissioner. 
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THE CHARLESTON HERALD
Charleston, W. Va., June 13 th, 1914. 191

Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Will you please inform me if Co. Tiernan, ranked as Chief Engineer, under Washington in the Revolutionary War. What was his commission if not in the Engineering Corps. 
I was advised by the Adjutant General, Mr. Andrews, to write you for this information. Thanking you for this favor.
Yours respectfully, 
Paul H. Tiernan. [signature] 
% Charleston Herald, Charleston, W. Va.