Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31,631, Daniel Connel, Ga.
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SERVICE 
Ga.
SERVICE
CONTENTS
Connell, Daniel
NUMBER
S. 31,631
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Georgia No30516
Daniel Connel 
Jefferson in the State of Georgia
who was a Private in the Company commanded
Captain Hamilton of the Regt. commanded
Col Jackson in the Georgia
for 12 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia
the rate of 26 Dollars 00 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of March 1836
Lamble 1836 and sent
esville
George
Arrears to the 4th of March 1836 $20
Semant. allowance ending Sept "
20th
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24.
⎨ Revolutionary Claim,
Recorded by June 7, 1832.
the Clerk,
Page 87
Book C
Vol.
Date of death
not on A. B.
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Declaration of Daniel Connell in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832
State of Georgia
Jefferson County
In the Inferior Court of said County
in Chambers On this eleventh day of March
in the year 1836 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the said Court Daniel Connell a resident of the County
of Jefferson and said State in the Eighty seventh year of his age who being first duly sworn according 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 June 7th 1832 that he enlisted in the Georgia State Legion early in the month of June in the year 1781 for the term of twelve months and served in the said Georgia State Troops in the Army of
the United States in the Regiment commanded by Col James Jackson for the full term of his enlistment of twelve months aforesaid that he resided at the time of his enlistment in the County of Richmond State of Georgia that he enlisted at Augusta in the said County in
Captain John Morrisons Company, and was attached to the Regiment commanded by Col Jackson the deponent served this Tour in the State of Georgia a portion of the time in Augusta a part of the time above Savannah at Ebenezer Creek when the army was commanded by Genl Anthony Wayne this deponent was also a portion of this time on board of a Boat upon the Savannah River which was engaged in furnishing the army
with provisions and provide for the [illegible] that he was not engaged in any battles during this service that by reason of old age and loss
of memory he cannot state the names of the other officers with whom he served with any degree of precision that he knows of no one whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service that he was discharged at
Augusta in the State of Georgia on the 13th day of June in the year 1782.  that he has now his original discharge and which
he annexes to this declaration, signed by Thos Hamilton Lieut of Infantry in said Legion and certified by Col James Jackson this deponent further saith that before the time of his
enlistment he had frequently been engaged in the service of the United States be short times, always as a volunteer that he was in the
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Battle at Burke Jail Burke County in Georgia and received there a severe wound in the left wrist which in fact has rendered him an invalid ever since he cannot state the precise length of time that he served previously to his enlistment but he is certain that in all that it was not less than three months that during all this time left aforesaid he served as a private and a volunteer He hereby 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 my state sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Asa Holt J.J.C.
Barry Bostick J.J.C.
Daniel Connel
John Watkins J J C C
the following and the answers to the following questions propounded by the Court to the said Daniel Connell Quest 1st Where and in what year were you born
Answer I was born on the 22nd day of December in the year 1749 in the County of Frederick and State of Virginia
Quest 2nd Have you any record of your age if so where is it
Answer I have no record of my age and know it only from the information of my ancestors
Quest 3d Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live
Answer I lived in Richmond County Georgia when called into service, I have lived ever since the war in Georgia and now live in Jefferson County in Georgia
Quest 4 How were you called into service; were you drafted. did you volunteer, or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom
Answer to the 4 I several times volunteered & once enlisted for twelve months never was  drafted to my recollection nor did I can serve as a substitute 
Quest 5 State the names of the regular officers who were with the [illegible] where you served such continental and Militia Regiments as
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as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service
Answer For the answer to this I must refer to the statement in my declaration a considerable portion of the time of my enlistment I was engaged as a hand upon a boat going up and down the Savannah River in procuring supplies for the army. I was stationed a part of the time at August & the fort at Ebenezer above Savannah in this state at the time I volunteered a service I was always with the militia Col Benjamin Few, Col John Twigg Capt Charles Crawford & other were some of the officers I am under
Quest 6 Did you can receive a discharge for the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it
Answer to the 6 I never received a discharge but one and I have it an now annex it to this application
Quest 7 State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present any neighbourhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and then belief of your service as a
soldier of the Revolution
Answer the 7th Abraham Beasley a minister of the Gospel & Mathew Jordan
to whom I am known in my present neighbourhood can testify as to my veracity and their belief of my being a soldier of the Revolution the foregoing answers were sworn to and subscribed before an open Court this day & year aforesaid Daniel Connell
Asa Holt J.J.C.
Barry Bostick J.J.C.
John Watkins J.J.Ct
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We Abraham Beasley a Clergyman residing in the County of Jefferson and Mathew Jorden residing in the same County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Connell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be either Eighty seventh year of his age as he states that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a solder of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid, Abraham Beasley
Matt Jordan
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrgatons prescribed by the war Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the court for then certifies that it appears to them that
Abram Beasley who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman residing in the County of Jefferson and that Mathew
Jordan is a resident in the said County
and that their statement is entitled to credit
Barry Bostick J.J.CO
Asa Holt J.J.C.
John Watkins JJC
I Henry B Todd Clerk of the Inferior Court of the County of Jefferson do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter
of the application of Daniel Connell for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed my seal of office this 11th day of March 1836
Henry B. Todd Clk
I Roger L Gamble formerly a member of Congress from Georgia do certify that I am personally aquanted the Justices  of the Inferior Court of the County of Jefferson & said state and also Henry B Todd Clerk of
said Inferior Court I know them to be in office as they represent & that that these signatures are genuine or I witnessed them signing witness
my hand this 12th March 1836
Roger L Gamble
Louisville Geo.
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June 18, 1938
BA-J/MLB
DANIEL CONNEL
S. 51631

Mrs. Henry Reid
595 South Milledge Avenue
Athens, Georgia

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter relative to Daniel Connell, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The date which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 31631, based upon the military service of the only soldier named Daniel Connel (er Connell) found in the Revolutionary War records of this. The name of Daniel Connell has not been found.

Daniel Connel was born December 22, 1749, in Frederick County, Virginia.

While living in Richmond County, Georgia, he volunteered, dates not given, served on frequent tours, amounting to about three months in all, under Captain Charles Crawford and Colonels Benjamin Few and John Twiggs in the Georgia troops, was in the battle at Burke Jail in Burke County, Georgia, where he received a severe wound in his left wrist.  He enlisted early in June, 1781, in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, served as a private in Captain John Morrison's company, Colonel James Jackson's Georgia regiment known as the "Georgia State Legion"; a part of this service was spent on a boat on the Savannah River procuring supplies for the army; he was discharged June 13, 1782.

He was allowed pension on his application executed March 11, 1836, while a resident of Jefferson County, Georgia, in which state he had resided since the Revolutionary War.

The papers on file in soldier's claim for pension do not contain any data relative to his family.

The land to which you referred in your letter may have been granted by the stae from which the soldier served.

Very truly yours

A D HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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CONNEL, DANIEL
(GA) S- 31631
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These are to Certify that Danl Connell has duly and faithfully served the term of his Enlistment in the Georgia State Legion Commanded by both:  James Jackson and that the said Connell have on all Occasions behaved himself as a Soldier & Citizen of the United States, and the said Connell is by order of the Coll: discharged from the said Legion and he is hereby Discharged Accordingly
[STAMPED THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
Tho Hamilton
Lieut of Infantry in said Legion
Jas Jackson 

Augusta
13 June 1782

To all Concerned  Certified
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33397
Daniel Connell

Admt as private
12 mos $40
Col Jas Jackson Geo
State Legion  
[below upside down
J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Was [illegible]  to [illegible]
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Louisville Gro 12th March 1836
J L Edwards Esq
Sir
You will [illegible] with receive an application for a Pension by Daniel Connell a Revolutionary soldier I think thus one for no doubt in his case as being discharged in a [illegible]  to his application under [illegible] is [illegible] is certified by James Jackson who was filled all the highest [illegible]  the gift of this state and was for many years a [illegible]  in Cap is [illegible]  deed [illegible] 
if you have doubts as to its genuinely [illegible]  Jabez Jackson is now in Congress and although young when their Father died I believe knows him yet I perceive knows him and will
[illegible] I have [illegible]  will if deemed by you necessary from 
&, &  bran Cower internal marks of on the genuine [illegible] and 
I hope [illegible] no difficulty in granting Mr Gamble & once once a Pension & [illegible] co as duly [illegible] 
in the subject at this [illegible] 
I have [illegible]  [illegible]  to 
very respectfully
your obdt ser
Roger L Gamble

N.B.  I have know Mr. Gamble from my infany and know him to be one of our best citizens his [illegible]  charge [illegible]  for wn for many years
[illegible]  card & [illegible] & [illegible]  to apply for a Pension without 
A [illegible]  states it [illegible]  why application was not made sooner
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5955 Milledge Ave
Athens, GA 

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C. 

[stamped below]
RECEIVED 
JUN 8 1932
RECPT SECTION
PENSION COMISSIONS

Dear Sir,

Am returning these letters to you as requested, and also sending you what further information I have been able to secure.

James Moore lived and was buried in Green Go Ga near White Plains, Ga in old family burial ground his wife was Jane Jackson.  Date on his toomstone is died 1815 or 1818, can't make out which the last number is (5 or 8).
Daniel Connell's will is in court House at Greensboro, Ga Greene Co dated March 2, 1857 (1857) but he did not die until
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after 1860.  His wife was Mary Smith
Thanking you again [illegible] f you are able to locate these.
Yours truly,
Mrs Henry Reid
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VETERANS ADMINISTRATION 
WASHINGTON

[STAMPED RECEIVED JUN 8 1932 RECPT  PENSION FILES DIVISION]

February 1, 1932
IN REPLY REFER TO
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Mrs. Henry Reid
595 S Millege Avenue
Athens, Georgia

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter of recent date requesting inforamtion relative to James Moore and Daniel Connel, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.

The data given by you are not sufficient to enable this office to make a proper search of the records.

As a means of identifying the particular records in which you are interested, should they be on file, as much as possible of the following data in regard to each should be furnished:  approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and given name of widow.  Please return these letters with your reply.

Very truly yours

A D HILLER [SIGNATURE]
A D HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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Commissioner of Pension
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,

Will you please end me the pension record of the Revolutionary soldier James Moore who received land in Franklin Co, Ga also a second lottery in Washington County, Georgia

And too, the record of Daniel Connel who received land in Washington Co, Georgia in April 7, 1784.  He was a Revolutionary soldier.  Thanking you in advance,
Yours truly,
Mrs Henry Reid
595 S Milledge Ave
Athens, Ga

[STAMPED BELOW]
RECEIVED
JAN 16 1932
RECPT 
PENSION FILES  DIVISION
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31631
Revy INVALID

File No 31,631
Daniel Connel
Prt Rev War

Act:  June 7 JD

Index: Vol 2, Page 83

[Arrangement of 1870]

1932, June 18 Hist  to 
Henry Reid MLB