Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13726, for Isaac Lefever, North Carolina
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SERVICE N.C.   S.C.
Lefever, Isaac
NUMBER s13726
Bowin N.J.  
carded
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[left hand page]
Letter to 3d Auditor 17 March
1846.
Paid at Treasury, under act 6 April, 1838, from 
4 Sept. 1841 to 4 Sept 1843. Agent notified 24 April 1846

[right hand page]
31.899
Mobile Alabama
Isaac Lefever
of Mobile Co in the State of Alabama
who was a Private in the compy [company] commanded by Captain Fairs [Farr]
of the regt commanded by Capt. Wade 
in the No Ca [North Carolina] line for 6 months

N.C. and S.C. Records completed July 5/06
Inscribed of the Roll of Mobile at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of Nov [illegible] & sent to B.B. Breedin Mobile Alabama

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1841 $210.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar. 41 [1841] $10.00
$220.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by HCl. Addison C

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Declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress
passed June 7. 1832
The State of Alabama,
Mobile County SS
On the twenty sixth day of
April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and forty one, personally appeared in open
Court, that is to say the Circuit Court of said Robert
County, having a clerk & Seal. Isaac Lefever
a resident of Mobile County and State of Alabama
aforesaid aged seventy eight years or thereabouts
who being first sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed 7 June 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under
the following named officer and served as herein
stated: He was a volunteer in Capt James Harris
Company in Anson County in the State of North Carolina about the year 1778 - Said Company
belonged to Col. Wade command. Major Jones
was one one of the field officers, and deponent was
elected and served a short time as Lieutenant
in  Harris' Company. That Harris company was detailed for an expedition against a party
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of Tories who had committed depredations
at Widow Tompkins', house & plantation that
said company pursued and came upon with them
at Pee Dee - the Tories broke and ran when the
first [illegible] leaving the notorious Capt. Hickman and John Dinking dead on the field - the former
of whom was shot by this deponent - was a [illegible] in Captain Glenn's Company to go to Brattey Bridge on Downing Creek to drive away a party of British & Tories. - the detachment was under Col. Wade and amounted to about 400 men and  Col. Childs had a command - so had Major Jones -they marched from Haly ferry about 55 miles to the Bridge, in two days - they had a fight in which Wade was defeated with a loss of 84 Killed & prisoners
For the first two years the men of North & South Carolina were indiscriminately mixed in the in the different companies about the line and deponent altho a resident of Nouth Carolina had served hitherto in South Carolina Company.- He thinks it was under an order from Genl Green that about this time all men who belonged to South Carolina were ordered under Genl Marion and those of North Carolina were ordered under Pickens, Sumpter & [illegible] Morgan - At this time dept. fell into the company of Capt Elleby and was marched to Wamba [Wabam?] back of Georgetown on the Charleston road
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George Strother was Capt, Elleby Lieut and generally had command. At this place then were from 500 to 800 troops but Marion went to the assembly and one Barter then had command - [when]some time after he entered the service he was a resident of Cheraw South Carolina
at the plantation of Color des Perge for whom his father was overseer - deponent was also in service under Col Culp in Tompkins Company three miles above the line in Anson County,- was altogether in the service three years and six months. the last service he performed was
in said command of Culp - they fought with a party of Tories in Anson County and killed 18
The deponent is a very old man, yet until within a very short time he has been enabled to procured a living by hard work - that he never intended making application for a pension while he could
earn  a living-- but that his bodily strength has failed and he now makes his application with great reluctance -- that he has no documentary evidence and knows of no one living he can 
procure, who can testify to his service. He was very young
 S.C.
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when in the service as aforesaid + out lived his contemporaries - nor while any of them lived did he believe that he ever could be induced to ask his country for the many of substances.
He hereby relinquishes every claim what ever 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 and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court
William Ham

Isaac Lefever

We Jesse Scrivener a clergyman residing in (illegible) County and Willliam Ham and John Morgan residing in the same county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Lefever who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy eight years old and who  that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood when he (illegible) to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion - and the said when Maryann Rowan
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that he has known him upward of twenty years and that he has always been perfectly understood and believed by every body that said Isaac Lefever was a soldier of the revolution and that he did heard service for his country.
sworn + subscribed the day and year aforesaid
William John Rae clerk
Jesse Scrivner
John M Brown
William Hamilton
and the open court hereby declares its opinion after the after the why and now of the matter and after putting the interrogatives produced by the war department that the above named Isaac Lefever was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears that Jesse Scrivner who has witnessed the procedure certified is a clergyman president in Mobile County and that William Hamilton and John Morgan Brown who has also (illegible) the same an residents of said county pf Mobile and an credible persons, and that their statements is entitled to credit.
Es(illegible) 
I Malcome J McRae clerk of said circuit court of Mobile County do hereby
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certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Isaac Lefever for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 26th April 1841
Malcom McRae clerk
Answers to the Interrogatories
To the finish as to when and what year he was born
He answers that he was born in Sussex County New Jersey + came when 8 years old to North Carolina when the South Carolina line - his (illegible) after now in south Carolina. He was born in the year 1762.
Is there record where he has a record of his age
The answer that he has no record of his age it was in a Bible which he lost in the Ocones river when he was near 50 years old
To the third as to where living
The answer that when first called into service he was living in Anson County North Carolina that during the time he did serve his (illegible) removed to South Carolina the claim then to hail from that state - he then after the war he removed to Banks after as Jefferson County in Georgia afterward when deponent was about twenty four years old he removed to Edgefield District South Carolina - after and to Albemarle district
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afterward to Pendleton County - then went to Flonder when he was a little short of sixty years old say 23 years ago - and in a short time there after say 22 years ago he came to Albermarle and has resided in mobile + was he from Counties ( they (illegible) ever since - now lives in mobile county.
When fourth as to how he was called into service
He answered that at first he was drafted - secondly volunteered + was with the detachment that defeated the British + Tories- was a private with the appointment of sergeant always expected the volunteer company in which he was chosen Lieutenant and was a substitute any that time for one Harim Parsons in one Elevens company
The fifth
He answered that (illegible) was a Major in the Continental service who was sometimes with the Moors _ Gen Marion Col Ore's mountain Mayum but for the segment and general circumstances of his service he (illegible) refers to his declaration where every thing he can recollect at his now advanced age is on particularity set forth as the infirmity of from old age until perish
the sixth
He answers that he never got a discharge nor did he ever receive a conformation
The seventh
he answers _ that he is known to William Hamilton
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John Mayam Brown - Rev? William Sceverson to almost every now of note or long standing in Mobile County any and all of whom as he Rev Celeives would hereby to his character for veracity and him believes of his service as a Revolutionary soldier
Isaac Lefever

Whom all the circumstances attending the examination in this month, the court is at opinion that the statement of the .
applicant is true. - 26 April  1841
 ES Dayen Judge
I Malcom J McRae clerk of the circuit court of Mobile County do hereby certify that the honorable E J Dayen who signed the above and another certificate in the above acct of the (illegible) in this matter is the judge of the Cricut Court of Mobile Cty + that law provided had at the present time of law court to with (illegible) 1841
Given under my hand that of said court the 26 April 1841
Malcom J McRae clerk

Isaac Lefever Alabama
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Isaac Lefever
Alabama
Suspended
See let [letter], 7 May 1841
B.B. Breeding
let: 10 July 41 to do,
let: 14 Sept 1841 
Hon: Benj G. Shields


Act 7 June 1832
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Isaac Lafever [Lefever]
Alabama
Rejected
See let [letter] 26 May 1838
Hon T.J.  Lyons

did hot serve six months in a regularly 
organized corps as by order of 
compliant authority
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13726
INVALID. 
Rev War
File No. 13,726
Isaac Lefever
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:- Vol. 1, Page 221

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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REASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE
March 19th 1846
Sir:
Inder the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States", and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, Isaac Lefever a Pensioner on the Roll of the Mobile, Ala Agency at the rate of twenty Dollars - Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department from the 4th of Sept 1841 to the 4th Sept 1843 
Respectfully yours
Albion K Parris
COMPTROLLER
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V34
Isaac Lefever
Alabama
filed by F L Lyon
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[Declaration page 1]

The State of Alabama
Mobile County

Personally appeared before me Charles N Henry -Isaac Lefaber [Lefever] a citizen of Mobile County aged about 76 years Borne in Morris County State of New Jersey who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists States that his father moved to North Carolina  Anson County when he was about 8 years old 
thinks he was about 12 or 13 years old when he first saw the recruiting officers come among the people 

that he was about 15 years old he was drafted in the Militia of North Carolina  Randevoused [rendezvoused] at Salisbury [NC]  Capt Richard Pharr [Farr] was the commanding officer he was drafted under but he was transferred to another officer whose name he does not recollect He remained only three weeks when he was all discharged

after this discharge he joined a company under Capt James Pharr [Farr] & was elected a Lieutenant  He continued skirmishing with the Tories until Genl Green [General Nathanael Greene] came on & took the command of all; he [Greene] then made new arrangements & ordered all of us below to join Genl. [Francis] Marion below George Town [Georgetown, South Carolina] on the Santee [River, South Carolina] & Wambaugh [Wanbaw Creek, South Carolina] where he joined Genl [Francis] Marion & went into Capt. Elby's Company and was elected a Sergiant [sergeant] & remained there about three month.

We never made any marches except up the river to Lanew [Lenud's Ferry SC] & Nelson ferry [Nelson's Ferry, South Carolina] We were Encamped in the fork of Wamba [Wambaw, SC] & Santee on the way from Charleston heading up the Country. here we had a surprise from the British which Gen. [Francis] Marion was absent at Britts Plantation when the asembly [assembly] was then sitting, & then
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I commanded a guard & had charge of the prisoner commanded by Col McDanield an old man. I was then on a Bluff at [illegible] [illegible] plantation on Santee [River, South Carolina] & took a flat & crossed the river with the prisoners under my charge

I then proceeded on to Lanew's ferry [Lenud's Ferry, South Carolina] when 
I overtook Genl Marion [Francis Marion] when the main part of his army had collected. We then crossed the [Santee] river to the side we had left 

after I was discharged from Genl [Francis] Marion's army I never went into the service again, the principal battle i had was at my fathers plantation where Sneedsborough  was afterward built. 

We had a fight Col Culp commanded in & my Capt was Stephen Tompkins we had no Enrollment the company being made up for the occasion, for Culp was after ward shot in his own 
yard after he had surrendered to the Tories in this battle we killed 18 Tories & lost 2 of our men he was not  wounded in any of the engagements he was in 

Sworn to and subscribed before made this  26 April 18[??]
Isaac Lefever
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Mr J Lyon
An (illegible) with you to help with written pension application and (illegible) he has agent N J Humble (illegible) as  + you will have to make to thank or the subject  (illegible) the papers Im old Alexander (illegible) (illegible) help old Mr Teplin
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Mobile April 27 1838
I have known Mr Lefever the petitioner for more than twenty years he is a man of veracity and his statement maybe sealed (illegible) He is old + is under great circumstances + direct may be placed upon the (illegible)
J G Lyon
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The State of Alabama
Mobile County 
Cricut Court fall term 1841
Personally appeared in open court Bejamin Alexander who made solemn oath that he is largely upward of eighty years of age - that he is now in the 
next of a pension from the United States government for services performed in South Carolina during the war of the Revolution - that he knew Isaac Lafever )who has made application for a pension) during a great part of the said war and this department knows full well that the said Isaac Lafever did perform military services as a militia man in South Carolina and occasionally in North Carolina (his father being then a resident near the line that separated the two states during said war. this deponent knew him well - that is the said Isaac and from the cert of his recollection thinks he knows for more than twelve months under Major Thomas in Captain Faias Company for about four months and under Col Wade in the expedition to Bates Gorge for about two months then for about four months under Frair Clefton he joined Marion at Wamba on the (illegible) Santee This deponent is old and his memory is much impaired but he recollects
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the military services of Isaac Lafever well and that he was a (illegible) states at least twelve months in the service in South Carolina, and much longer in the service in North Caolina
That when saw Lafever made his application for a pension (as this dept believes) the said department was in the state of Mississippi so that his testimony could not be forwarded that said Isaac Lafever is an honest respectable man and until recently he always been good becoming circumstances much above an application for pension - but lately he has been overtaken by misinformation and now in his old age has nothing to sustain on
Benjamin Alexander
month to + subscribed in open court the 3 April 1841
Parks
clerk
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circuit court
Mobile County
fall term 1841
I Edward S Dayen presiding judge of said court and judge of the Tenth Judicial Circuit of the state do certify that the foregoing deportation of Bejamin Alexander a very aged man is as made this day in open court
Given under my hand the 3 Nov 1841
ES Dayen

The State of Alabama
Mobile County
I A Brooks clerk of the Circuit Court of Mobile County do hereby certify that the above certificate is from Judge Dayen the presiding judge of said court
given under my hand + the seal of said Court the 3d Nov 1841
J Brooks clerk
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July 10 1841
To The Comm of Pensions
Washington City
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Mobile July 2 1841
Sir
On the note of your letter I address a note to the Comptroller of South Carolina asking information from his office on the subject of Isaac Lefaver claim for a pension. His answer was not to day. He says the name Isaac Lafever does not appear on the rolls but that of John Lafever is found in his place.
The old man is now in my office he is eventually too far old in life to recollect whether the name of John might not have been erroneously used in some of the towns of service instead of his own. He insists to a contrary opinion however he says that in those days the troops were always gathered together for particular (illegible) and
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Comptroller of Pensions
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House of Reps Sep 13th 1841
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear sir
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Mobile Nov 3 1841
Dear sir
I trouble you again on the Lefaver matter with just (illegible). The old mans experiences and his information on my apology. The showing now made is all that he can do. This (illegible) have been sent earlier but the court day not until now in session He was good enough to let me know whether I can give him any hope of success
Very respectfully yours  
B. B. Breedin

JS Edwards Esq
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Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Mobile April 28 1841
Dear sir
At the request of Mr Lefever I take the liberty of transcribing his application for a pension. The old (illegible) fully such answers on the subject and wants to fully oblige to you for early information as to the success of his application 
 I have the honor to be yours humbly
B. B. Breedin
Com of Pensions
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34.470
Issac Lefever
Alabama
Admitted
Pr $20.-
CC Wade
Act 7 June 1832
B. B. Breedin
Mobile Ala.