Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 288-300, Thomas Gadsden, S.C.
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(3-1776)
Service: S.C. Gadsden, Thomas
Number: B.L.Wt. 288-300.
Contents
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I do hereby certify, that Philip Gadsden and Thomas Morris, are the qualified executors of the last will and testament of Captain Thomas Gadsden deceased.
Primary's Office }
September 10, 1806
Chs. Lining

Please deliver this warrant for. the land to Caot, Thompson of the Marine Corps
John R Fenwick
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Charleston 18 August 1806

Sr
Please to deliver to Lt. John R Fenwick or order the Patent for a tract of lands for Capt. Thomas Gadsden of the South Carolina line of which. is now lying in. your Office to oblige your very
able servant
Philip Gadsden Esq.

To the Secretary at War
Washington
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
CITY OF CHARLESTON

By James Bentham, Esq. Justice of the Quorum and Notary Publick, by Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of the State, duly commissioned and sworn, residing and practicing in the said City and State.
This is to Certify whom it may concern, that on the Seventh day of March one thousand eight hundred and nine and in the thirty third year of the. Independence of the United States of America, Personally appeared before me, Captain John Roger Fenwicke, who being duly sworn, made both, that some time in January last, he lost or mislaid a land warrant number. Two hundred Eighty eight, dated the Second day of October, eighteen thousand and Six for Three hundred acres, and granted in the name of Capt. Thos. Gadsden, a receipt by Mr. James Thompson. And the Recipient further attests, that he never sold or transferred
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or conveyed, tho said land divided, to any person or persons whomsoever.
John Roger Fenwick

In testimony whereof, I have hereinto
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No. 288
Thomas Gadson
Witnessed 21 Oct. 1806
by D.G Jon Thmpson
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No. 470

The heirs or denizen of Capt. Thomas Gadsden of the South Carolina zone for receiving which the st Lt Williams showed acrimony for recovering it, this warrant was issued in consequence of the loss of the original as stated. by Capt. Thos R. Fenwicke in the enclosed deposition.
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I John Williams of the City of Washington and District of Columbia do promise to pay. tto the United States the sum of one thousand dollars as witness my house this 23rd day of September 1809.
The condition of the above obligation is such, tthat whereas, a warrant for tthree hundred acres lf land was issued at the loan office of the United Stated on the 2. d day of October 1806, numbered 288, in favor of the heir or denizen of the late Capt. Thomas Gadsden of the state of South Carolina, which by. the deposition of John Roger Fenwicke is stated to be lost, to replace which a new warrant has this day issued in favor of said heirs or denizens.  Now if the said warrant issued on the 2nd day of October. 1806 shall never be produced or a claim on the United States, then the above obligation shall be null & void, otherwise to remain & continue in force & into foreclosure.

John Williams

Witnesses
Richard Dinmore
Hez. Rogers
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Warrants remaining
to be issued on 
Report to Congress
South Carolina.
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Thom Gadsen
lien Mil. B. Land
Loged April 12 1802
by T. T. Tasker Esqr
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War Department
August 12. 1802
Sir,
You will please to change the registration 
for 110000 acres to the
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I certify that the late Thomas Gadsen was a Captain
in the First Regiment of South Carlina, and remained in
the service to the end of the Revolutionary War

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney-
late Col for the 1st Continental
regiment of South Carolina

Simeon Theus late Capt.
& Pay master of the 1st Reg S.C.
Charleston July 29th1802