Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 9060, Richard M Head, Continental S.C. Residence
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(3 - 1776) SERVICE Continental CONTENTS Head, Richard M. Charlotte S. C. residence --- 1881 NUMBER W9060 - 1 B.L. Wt. 119-200 Lieut. Issued June 10, 1794 No papers --- 1449
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2655 South Carolina Charlotte Head deceased widow of Richard M Head Senr who was a Cornet in the Revolution for 2 years. Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 320 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence of the 4th day of March, 1843, and ending on the 24th of May when she dies. Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of Nov. 1843 and sent to P. Cantwell Charleston, S.C.  Recorded in Vol. 1. L. C. (Act of March 3, 1843. Book A Page 208.
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Payable to Sam O. B. Head Catharine Wilcox and Evelinea Tavell children of said deceased.
See letter to D.E. Hager to April 22 1844 - at North T. L. & A. J. Smith July 20. 1846.
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Payable to Sam O. B. Head Catharine Wilcox and Evelinea Tavell children of said deceased. See letter to D.E. Hager to April 22 1844 - at North T. L. & A. J. Smith July 20. 1846.
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237 
South Carolina. Richard M. Head Cornet Armands Corps In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War. Inscribed on the Roll of South Carolina. at the rate of 20. Dollars per month, to commence on the 24th of April, 1818. Certificate of Pension issued the 24th of April, 1818. and delivered to the Pensioner in person- Arrearages to 4th Sept 1818. 4 12/31 mo. $87.74 $87.74 Revolutionary claims, Act 18th March, 1818, 82 One year war (illegible) South Carolina.
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Notifn Sent to John S. Moore Esqr Clerk
25 Nov 1830. York. S. C.
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State of South Carolina
York District
On this twenty fifth day of October one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in 
open Court being a Court of record exercising limited Jurisdiction in both civil and criminal cases at law for the District of York Richard Head aged Sixty five years resident in the District aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary was as follows in the company commanded by Captain Henry Bedkin in the Regiment commanded
Colonel Armong of the Cavalry in the line of the State of Pennsylvania and has received a certificate from the War office Number (23) and made his original declaration on the 24 of April one thousand eight hundred

and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress entitled an act to provide for certain person
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engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the eighteenth day of March One thousand eight thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
that is to say
2 Beds and furniture $60.00
6. Chairs 6.00
3. Tables  12.00
2. Bunks 2.00
1 Oven 1,00
1 pot 1.00
2. Skillets 1.50
½ dozen knives and forks 1.00
1 Set cups and Saucers .50
1 dozen of plates--.50
2 Dishes .75
1 Looking Glass .75
$87.00

That his family consists of himself, his wife aged about fifty thou and our daughter named Catharine, aged sixteen years his wife so infirm as to be unable to contribute but little to their support his Daughter able to support herself. That he by trade is a hatter but is unable to pursue his occupation by reason of affliction
[signed] Richard M. Head

Sworn & Subscribed the 25th Oct 1820
David Johnson associate Judge
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DISTRICT OF Columbia, ss.
On this 24th day of April 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the
Judges of the circuit Court of the United States for the
said district, personally appeared Richard M. Head, aged 62
years, resident in South Carolina ([illegible]) in the said district, who being by me first duly
sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain
the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled ""An act to provide for certain persons
engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war:"" That he,
the said Richard M Head entered into the revolutionary army
in the year 1782, he was commission as a [illegible] in the company commanded by Captain Henry
Bedkin of the Partizan Legion commanded by
Col. Armand, that he was at the seige of York and
Virginia;  that he continued to
serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the end of the
War, when he was discharged from service in little york
state of Pennsylvania 
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and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for
support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services, except the accom=
panying paper, sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.

Buckner Thruston  Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears
to my satisfaction, that the said Richard M. Head, did serve in the
revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the
term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and
testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to
the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. Given under my hand
this 24th of April 1818                                 B Thruston

SEAL OF
THE COURT


To the Honble
the Secretary at War

[[numerous calculations are found on the bottom left side of the page that could not be transcribed]
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South Carolina
I John Starr Moore Clerk of York District State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed and duly copied from the records of the said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is eighty seven dollars

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said on this twenty fifth day of October One thousand eight hundred and twenty
J S Moore
Clerk
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11July 1839
affid Wm C Head
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State of South Carolina
District of Charleston
on this 11 day of July 1839 personally appeared before the undersigned Mrs Charlotte Head aged 76 years a resident of the City of Charleston who being duly sworn according to Law, doth on
he oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 1838, entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"" That she is the widow of Richard Mare Head who was a [illegible] during the war of the Revolution, and entered the army in 1782 and was commissioned a Cornet, in Captain Henry Brookins' Company of the Partisan legion commanded by Col Armand, was at the siege of York in Va and continued in service till the end of the war, and was discharged in Little York Pa for the services here set forth deponent refers to the roll in the war department, which also sets forth that said Head" in 1821 when his pension was received under the new law his whole property was estimated at $87 his wife informs & Deponent further states that his said husband Richard M Head, obtained and received a pension of Twenty Dollars per month, as long as he lived.

She further declares that she was married to the said Cornet Richard Mare Head dcd in the year 1784 or 1785, at Berks County in the State of Pennsylvania by a Magistrate that her brother Mr.
James Bird Ironmaster of Reading in sd State, was present at my marriage, and that he was subsequently killed by General Faust in a Duel in Georgia, that from Reading, Dept & her husband the sd Richard moved to North Carolina Georgia and lastly South Carolina, and that her husband the aforesaid Richard M Head died in the City of Charleston in the 15 May 1827. That She was not married to him prior his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January one thousand seven Hundred & ninety four viz at the time above stated, and that she has remained a widow and unmarried ever since said year of 1827
[signed] Charlotte X Head her mark
Witness Tho Lee

Sworn to and Subscribed before me the day & year above written
Tho Lee Dist Judge of the U States for So Car
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19 March 1839
Wm Char Head
affid Francis Curtis
Johns Island So Ca
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State of South Carolina, 
District of Charleston
on this 19" day of March 1839 Personally appeared before the undersigned Mr Francis Curtis aged 79 a resident of John's Island Colleton District who being duly sworn deposeth that Mrs Charlotte
Head is now in his presence that she was formerly Miss Charlotte Bird of Reading in Berks Co. Pennsylvania and that he knew her first husband Captain Charles Craig, who commanded a corps of Light Horse Pennsylvania Line, that Dept served in said corps as a cornet for four years. Dept Saith, that, this was during the war of the Revolution, dept saith he also knew the father of said Charlotte Bird, now Head, that he has reason to believe said Charlotte was married to said Charles Craig in the year 1778. that said Craig Shortly after quitted the army and in about a year thereafter said Craig died. Dept saith that from his knowledge of the family of said Charlotte which was very respectable in Pennsylvania he has reason to believe the statement of said Charlotte, that she was married to Richard Head of sd State of Pennsylvania about the year 1782 or 1783, and that in his opinion said Charlotte statements are entitled to credit
[signed] Francis Curtis

Sworn to & subscribed before me the day and year above written & I also certify the Credibility of Francis Curtis the affiant 
P Cantrell
Notary Public & Sec for Chester District
[illegible]
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Court Common pleas Charleston District
State of South Carolina
District of Charleston
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I Daniel Holbeck Esquire Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas at Charleston, in and for said district and State of South Carolina. Do, certify that satisfactory evidence has been adduced to me to prove, that Charlotte Head was a pensioner of the United States, at the rate of three hundred and twenty dollars per annum, that she was a resident of Charleston So. Ca. that she died in said City of Charleston on the twenty seventh day of May A.D. 1843. that she left three children all of full age
whose names are Samuel B. Head, Catharine Wilcox, and Evelina Tavill, and that these are the only children known or believed to be existence of said Charlotte.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 10 - day of July in the year of our Lord 1843
Dan Holbeck
C.C.P.
Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas Charleston District
South Carolina
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Rev. & 1812
Wars Section
ILL
May 6, 1930.

Mrs. Hugh Dobbins
12 Twenty-eighth Street, N.W.
Atlanta, Georgia.

Dear Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 9060, it appears that Richard Mare Head was commissioned Cornet in Captain Henry Bodkin's Company, Colonel Armand's Partisan Legion, was at the siege of Yorktown and served to the close of the Revolution.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 24, 1818, at which time he was sixty-two years of age. In 1820 he resided in York District, South Carolina.

He died May 15, 1827, in Charleston, South Carolina.

Soldier married in 1784 or 1785 in Berks County, Pennsylvania, Charlotte, the widow of Captain Charles Craig whom she had married in 1778. She was the daughter of Colonel Mark Bird of Berks County,

Soldier and his wife moved from Reading, Pennsylvania, to North Carolina and Georgia, date not stated, thence to South Carolina
.
Soldier's widow, Charlotte, was allowed pension on her application executed July 11, 1839, while a resident of Charleston, South Carolina, aged seventy-six years. She died May 27, 1843.
in Charleston, South Carolina.

[handwritten re Richard Head middle name}
mostly illegible
SC & his name was Mare (or Mall)
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She was survived by three children, namely:
Samuel B. Head.
Catharine Willcox, aged thirty-six years  in 1843 and residing in Charleston, South Carolina
Evelina or Elvins Tavell (?).

Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH,
Commissioner

[handwritten
Widows brother, James Bird was killed in a duel with Gen. Faust in Ga. subsequent to date of their marriage 
Col. Edward Bird is mentioned - Charleston, S.C. July 2, 1839
Mark John Biddle, 74, of Reading Pa. July 1839 said his uncle, Edward Biddle, and C. Bird married sisters,
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[left side]

1925, Feb 11. Hist. to
Bessie P. Lamb
_____________________
1930 - May 5. History
to Mrs. Hugh Dobbins  ILL

[right side]

Revy
WIDOW, &c.
___________
File No. 9060
Charlotte Head
Wid
Richard Head
Cornet Rev. War
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Act: March 3", 1843
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 324
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Let to  P Cantwell Sep 4 1845

4108
South Carolina
====================
Charlotte Head 
widow of Richard M. Head
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818-
and who died on the 15 May 1827 -
of Charleston in the State of S. Carolina
who was a Cornet in the com.  commanded
by Captain Bodkins of the regt commanded
by Col Armand in the [illegible]
line for  2  years
=====================
Inscribed on the Roll of S. Carolina
at the rate of 320 Dollars -- Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
======================
Certificate of Pension issued the 3d day of Sept
1839 & sent and P. Cantwell
Charleston, S.C.
=======================
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1839                 $960.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep 39 160.00
                                                                              =======
                                                                            $1120.00
                                                                               =======
{Act July 7,   }
{1838.            }

Recorded by. D. McCurdy Clerk,
Book  A.      Vol. 2. Page 194.
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Payable on the 4th of
March and 4th of Sept in 
each year by the Agent &
B B U.S. of Charleston,
South Carolina

Recorded
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Revy Claim.
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I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the law of the UNITED STATES,
of the 18th of March, 1848
Richard M:  Head, late a Cornet      in the
army of the revolutionary War,

is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the South Carolina Agency
at the rate of twenty dollars per month,
to commence on the 24 day of April one thousand eight
hundred and eighteen.

Given at the War Office of the United States,
this 24 day of April,
one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
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Richard M. Head S Ca  Act 1818
when paid   .  d . 1827

H [illegible]

Died 15th May 1827 [illegible] that paid

H [illegible]
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Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C

Dear Sir: Will you please
send we the record of ser- vice of Richard M. Head
a revolutionary pensioner
of York Co. S.C. in 1818, who
died in 1827, with any fam - 
ily record that may be in
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his paper. Thanking you
for an early reply.  I am
Yours Very Truly
Mrs Hugh Dobbins,
12 - 28th St. N.W.
Actanta, Ga.
Feby 27-1930
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South Carolina 
York District
on this 2 day of July 1839 personally appeared John Edward Bird before me the subscribing Justice who being duly sworn according to Law Deposeth that he is the Brother of a Mrs. Charlotte Head of South Carolina formerly of Reading of Pennsylvania and that he has just reason to believe and does believe that she is the Widow of Richard M. Head who he is satisfied was an officer in a corps of Horse doing the war of the Revolution from papers that that he saw in said Head's possession with certificate of his service and honorable discharge and that said Richard M Head was pensioner of the United States of America for a few of the Last years of his lifetime So deponent saith that he did not see Richard M. Head and his sister Charlotte Craig married (for she was then the widow of a Mr Craig), but remembers very well the time altho a small boy, when they come to his fathers house
at Birds Burrough and it was announced that Capt Richard M Head and his sister Charlotte, once Bird afterwards Craig, now Head was Married, and that they lived together as man and wife from that time viz 1784 or 1785 until the death of said Richard M. Head, that they was universally
believed and acknowledged as man and wife as he knew them at Reading of Pennsylvania, and in North Carolina, afterward in Washington of Georgia again in South Carolina, that he never heard it questioned in his life that he has not the smallest doubt of their Marriage, altho it may be difficult to prove the fact of their Marriage, from the distance it is of the lapse of time and the circumstance of so many of the friend having died
John Edward Bird

sworn to and subscribed this day and year above written
Abraham Hardin Qu

South Carolina
York District 
I Abraham Hardin the subscribing Justice do hereby certify that Edward Bird the deponent is a man
of veracity and high credibility and that I am satisfied from my own personal knowledge of R. M. Head and Charlotte  Head his wife living together as man and wife and my acquaintance with the deponent that the above is correct Abram Hardin Q U
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5781  2 July 1839
Case of Charlott Head
affid Col Edwd Bird
York Dist of So Ca
and of Richard M.
Married   1785
died 1837
Harmony [illegible] }
July 5 th                     }   1834

P. Cantwell Esqr attorney for
Mrs Charlotte Head
Charleston
Cornet. -  Capt Bedkin
Armand Caps 2nd
$320 per an
P Cantwell Esq
Charleston
S C
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State of South Carolina
District of Charleston
Office Court Common pleas Charleston

I, Charles C Strohecker Clerk of the Court of Common pleas for Charleston District, Do hereby
certify that Abraham Hardin of York District is magistrate, and that Patrick Cantwell of Charleston is also a magistrate as respectively set forth in the annexed papers, and that the signatures thereto are genuine, I further certify That Mr Francis Curtis of John's Island is known to me, and that he is a respectable witness

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of my office and subscribed my name
this 12th day of July 1839
Charles Strohecker
Clerk of the Court of Common pleas for Charleston Dist So Car
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Charleston So Car
12 July 1839

Sir
I herewith send the proof in the case Charlotte Head, as the widow of Cornet, Richard M. Head of Captain Bodkins Company, of Col Armand Partisan Legion Pennsylvania line, for a pension. She was married by a Magistrate in Berks County Pa and had a record in her family, but that is lost - we have the evidence of her brother who knows of the part - the only witness present was another brother, who was killed we have the testimony of Mr. F. Curtis a reputable planter of this State, who served with Head in that line and knows the family of the Birds and trust that this will prove Satisfactory

The service of the husband is established, by the part that he had been the recipient of a pension of $20 per month for several years before his death. upon the South Carolina agency

I am sir respectfully
your obedient & humble servant
P Cantwell

James L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
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State of Pennsylvania
Berks County
Mark John Biddle of the Borough of [illegible] Berks County & State of Pennsylvania Attorney at law  being duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say to the best of his knowledge and belief he was Seventy four years of age the twenty fourth day of last May. That he has resided in the Borough of Reading aforesaid in the first day of January in the year one thousand seven hundred & Seventy Seven except for about four years when he was in Phila at school and in a [illegible] country house -  that When he first knew Mrs. Charlotte Bird she was the widow of Mr. Richard M. Head. she was Mrs Charlotte Bird the Daughter Col. Mark Bird of Berks County - this was  about the year 1778.  That he has known her from sd time as the wife of Captain Charles Craig - as his widow and as the wife of Richard M. Head. That he was acquainted with Mr. Richard M. Head who he understood had been an office in the Continental Army but this was an [illegible] between the deponent Fathers Family and Colonel Mark Bird & his Family is also a connection by marriage Col Bird and W. Edward Bird, the uncle of the deponent married sisters - . The deponent was not present at the marriage of Mr. & Mrs. Head but he heard of it immediately afterwards and knows that they  lived together as man and wife were visited as such and regarded and considered by all who knew them as such - some considerable time after Mr & Mrs Head had removed from the County they returned on a visit and were invited by the deponent to visit his former home which in Reading whilst they did as man & wife -and the deponent says that from his knowledge of the manner. Mr & Mrs Head lived together - the Character, the respectability of their connections & visitors and general reputation he firmly believes they were legally married and he never heard it denied. and further not 
[signed] Mark John Biddle

Sworn Subscribed before me Matthias S. Richards one of the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
Berks County in the State of Penn the eighteenth day of July AD 1839
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P Cantwell Esq
Reading Pa July 18 1839

Sir
On the other side you have my affidavit respecting Mrs. Head's marriage. I hope it may [illegible line]
with great respect to Mrs. Head

With much respect
I am Sir
Mark John Biddle
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Charleston So Ca
24 July 1839
Sir,
I have great satisfaction in forwarding to you the annexed affidavit, as to the point of the Marriage between Cornet Head, and Charlotte Head formerly of Reading Berks Co. from Mark Jno Biddle Esq attorney at Law, who swears he has resided in the place since said 1777, except for about 4years absent in Philadelphia

Mr Biddle has omitted to name the year in which the ceremony took place, although the inference is clear from his statement. I have written to him however to be pleased to supply this ommission. The Commissioner will be pleased to remember that the Widow Charlotte Head; and her Brother Col Edwd Bird of
South Carolina have testified to 1784 or 1785
I remain
with much respect your obedient & Humble servant
P Cantwell

James L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
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State of Pens
Berks County
Mark John Biddle of the Borough of Reading in the County of Berks and State of Penna being duly sworn according to law do depose and say in addition to his former affidavit as to the Marriage of Richard M. Head with Charles being that he cannot after so great lapse of time undertake to state  with certainly the exact time when he understood & believed the Marriage between the said Richard & the said Charlotte but from the time alluded to in his former declaration when they lived together as man & wife & were visited & reputed as such  was subsequent to the year 1783 and prior to the year 1783 that during part of that time the deponent knew they lived together as man & wife and been reputed as such . That he was well acquainted both of the times they were legally married & is still of that belief & has never heard it doubted or denied& further saith not
[signed] Marks John Biddle


Sworn & subscribed before me  Matthias V. Richard one of the Judges of the Court of Berks Co
July 30. 1839
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Charleston So Ca
5 August 1839
Sir,
I herewith enclose the additional affidavit
of Mark John Biddle Esq of Reading Burk Co. Pa
in regard to the death of Mrs Charlott Head to Cornet
Head of the Revolutionary army: and trust
it will be satisfactory
I Remain
most Respectfully
Your obedient servant 
P Cantwell
James L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner Pensions
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Charleston So Co
8 July 1843
The annexed proof is submitted
on behalf of the heirs of Mrs Charlott Head
in order to establish their claim to the
[illegible] and arrears of pension due
to their mother and farther
I Remain Sir
with great respect
your mt ob servant 
P Cantwell
James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of pensions
Washington City
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State of South Carolina
District of Charleston
On this 8 day of July 1843 personally appeared before me Catharine Wilcox widow aged 36 years a resident of Charleston South Carolina, and daughter of Richard M. Head and Charlotte Head both deceased and formerly revolutionary pensioner of the United States on the South Carolina Role, who being duly sworn according to Law Doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain an increase, and the arrears thereby accrued to be due, of pension granted her mother the said Charlotte, under the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, Entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"" That she is the daughter of said Richard M and Charlotte Head, that, said Charlotte set forth in her declaration of July 1839, that she was the widow of said Richard, that said Richard who was a Cornet during the law of the Revolution entered the army in 1782, and was Commissioned in Captain Bodkins Company, partisan Legion, (Armand) that
he was at the siege of York in Virginia, and continued in service till the and of the war and was discharged in Little York, in Pennsylvania, now Deponent says, that, there is a manifest mistake plainly to be seen on the face of the above statement. It should read he entered the army in 1781, for the siege of York in Va took place in October 1781" this is so plain, Deponent, refers to the  record of the fact to proved. Deponent further says, that her father served as a Lieutenant of
Cavalry, and that her mother was allowed only the pay of a Lieutenant of Infantry, for the truth of this Dept. also refers to the record in the Department. Deponent says that her father the said Richard M. Head Died in the City of Charleston S.C. on the 15 May 1827, and that her mother the said Charlotte Head his widow, died on the 27th May 1843, leaving three children only, to wit, Samuel B. Head Catherine Willox the Deponent, and Sabina Tavel all of whom are of age, as will more fully appear by the proof annexed
[signed] Catharine Wilcox

Sworn to before me this - day of July 1843. I also certify the Credibility of the affiant
M King
Recorder and Judge of the City Court of Charleston So Ca.
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Court of Common pleas
Charleston District
State of South Carolina
District of Charleston

I, Daniel Holbeck Esquire Clerk of the Court of Common pleas at Charleston in and for said District and State of South Carolina, Do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to me to prove, that Charlotte Head, was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Three Hundred and Twenty dollars per annum, that she was a resident of Charleston So Ca, That she died in sd City of Charleston on the twenty seventh day of May in the year of our Lord 1843, That, she left three children, whose names are Samuel B Head, Catharine Wilcox and Elvina Towell, and that these are the only children known or believed to be in existence, and that they are of age

In testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Charleston South Carolina this 8th day of July in the year of our Lord, 1843.
Dan Holbeck
Clerk of the court of Common pleas
Charleston Dist
South Carolina
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highly
eigh
company
istering
To
Charlotte Head, decd
$320 per an

Payable to 27 May
1843, when she died, to
her children Saml B.
Head, Catharine
Wilcox and Evelina
Tavell - 

Send certificate to
P. Cantwell
Charleston
S. Carolina

[left side ]

James L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner  of Pensions
Department of War
Washington
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Charleston So Ca
13. July 1843
Sir
respectfully lay before you
the annexed declaration and certificate,
for the purpose of establishing the claim of the children of the late
Charlott Head, a revolutionary pensioner, to the amount
of pension due her from the 4 Mar 1843, to the 27 May 1843 the day of her death
I Remain Sir
most respectfully
you obedient servant
P Cantwell
James L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of pensions
Pension office
Washington City
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3344
Case of the heirs of Mrs
Char. Head,
affid Cath: Wilcox
             
                  mo -   Days
arrears -    2    :     23
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State of South Carolina
District of Charleston 
On this 10 day of July 1843 personally appeared before me, Catharine Wilcox aged 36 years a resident of Charleston, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3d March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons, who served during the revolutionary war, that deponent is the daughter of Charlotte Head, who was the widow of Richard M. Head deceased, who was a cornet in the revolution line, that said Charlotte Head, received a pension for five years at the rate of Three hundred and Twenty dollars per annum, Dept says, that said Charlotte Head dec'd left three children, all of whom are of age, to wit, Samuel B. Head, Evelina Towell, and deponent. -Deponent says, that Charlotte Head died in sd Charleston on the 27th of May 1843, being at the time, the widow of Richard who died 15 May 1827. and Deponent further declares that she makes this declaration in order to obtain the arrears of pension so decreed to be due under the aforesaid act, to wit, from the 4th of March 1843, to the 27 May 1843. the day of the death of said Charlotte Head as aforesaid, and in support of same. She submits the annexed proof
[signed] Catherine Wilcox

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written, I also certify the Credibility of the affiant
Dan Holbeck
C C P & G S & Magistrate Ex officio
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Payment to be made
at Charleston
by John C. Cockran, Esq
Agent for paying Pen=
sioners, in the Agency of
South Carolina

Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book A. Vol. 1
Page 208. by
Tho Lampkin.
Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM,
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 3rd March 1843, Charlotte Head deceased
late widow of Richard M. Head who was a Cornet
in the Revolution was entitled to receive at the rate of Three hundred and
Twenty dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th March 1843 and terminating on the 27th May, 1843, the day
of her death. The amount due is payable to Samuel B. Head,  Catharine Wilcox, and Evelina Lavell Children of said Charlotte Head deceased
-
Given at the War
Office of the United States, this 7th
day of November
one thousand eight
hundred and forty three

Examined and
Countersigned.}
Secretary of War.
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Enoree  S. C.
Jan. 17, 1925
Com. of Pensions
Rev. War Records
Please furnish me with 
copy of Pension application
of Richard Head who drew
a pension from 1818 to 1827
also one of his widow- if
he left one---
with all family data on both.
Very truly
Bessie P Lamb
Enoree S. C.
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
February 11, 1925.

Bessie P. Lamb,
Enoree,
S. C.
Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 9060, it appears that Richard
Mare Head was commissioned Cornet in Captain Henry Bedkin's
Company, Colonel Armand's Partisan Legion, was at the siege
of Yorktown and served to the close of the Revolution.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
April 24, 1818, at which time he was sixty-two years of age. In 1820 he resided in York District, South Carolina.
He died in Charleston, South Carolina, May 15, 1827.
Soldier married in 1784 or 1785 in Berks County,
Pennsylvania, Charlotte, the widow of Captain Charles
Craig whom she had married in 1778. She was the daughter
of Colonel Mark Bird of Berks County. She was allowed
pension on her application executed July 11, 1839, while
resident of Charleston, South Carolina, aged seventy-six years. She died there May 27, 1843, in Charleston  S.C. leaving only
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three children:
Samuel B. Head
Catharine Willcox, aged thirty-six years,  in 1843 residing in
Charleston, South Carolina.
Evelina or Elvina Tavell (?)
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Respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.
widow's bro
James Bird
was killed in
a duel with General Faust
in Ga. subsequent 
to date of her mar.
July 2-1839. Col Edw Bird-- brother of Charlotte, Head
at Charleston S Car
Birds Borrough-