Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45839, Henry Edwards, N.C.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
N.C.
Edwards, Henry
NUMBER
S.45839
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CONTENTS
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[Page Ripped] To Florida From 4 Sepeoua 1833. 3 April 1838]_Notification sent to Hon. C. Downiy H.R.
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Letter to S.L. Burmilt of 3d Auditor 22 April 1839.
Letter to 3d Auditor DS Feb 1840 
Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6 April 
1838 from 4th Sept 1833 to 15 Nov 1837. The day of his death. Agt notified 12th March 1840

Florida 6370-
South Carolina [Crossed out]
Henry Edwards- of Hachuea in the State of[crossed out] Ter.y of Florida who was a pri --- in the  compy commanded by Captain Grimes- of the Regt commanded by Col: Marteuss- in the S. Carolina line for 15 months from 1777- 

45839[faded]
Inscribed on the Roll of South Carolina at the rate of 50-Dollars__ Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the  28 day of Feby 1833- and sent Gen, R. K. 
Call. Present
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Arrears to the 4th of  Sept 1832  
Sem-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar: 33.

75-
25-
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&100-
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{Revolutionary Claim,
 Act June 7 1832}
Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk,
Book D Vol. 8 Page 84-
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Territory of Florida} SS
County of Hachua}

On this first day of January, A.D. One thousand Eight Hundred and thirty, three personally appeared in open court [underlined], before the Honorable the Judge of the Superior Court for the Eastern District of Florida, now sitting, Henry Edwards a resident of the County of  Colombia, in the Territory aforesaid aged seventy one years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.

That he entered this service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated, to wit:

That he entered the service first, in or about, as nearly as at this distant day he can recollect, the year 1777[underlined], and was attached to a company of infantry commanded by Captain Gaines[underlined]; Col Mathews[underlined] using the Colonel of the Regiment to which it belonged, and General Lincoln, the commanding General that during this period of his service he was stationed principally in South Carolina, and was engaged in the defence of Charleston during its besiegement by the British, a pair of which time he was employed in the duties of a marine; and he continued thus to serve during a period of about eight months or more when he was regularly discharged by General Lincoln or his order; but by whom the certificate of his discharge was signed he cannot now recollect: That two or three months after such his discharge, inspired by his feelings of patriotism and impelled by the necessities of his country he again entered into its service by joining a company of Infantry commanded by Captain Isham Sheffield; which company was
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attached to the Regiment commanded by Colonel Kenyon  and that he continued with this company for a period of about three months, stationed principally, during the time, near Wilmington in North Carolina, when he again retired from the service, taking a regular discharge from Col. Kenyon: That her afterwards again returned to the field by joining a troop of cavalry under command of Captain Golaspia; in which service he continued five or six months, bring also stationed during that period near Wilmington. That he resided when he entered the service in the Duplin County, North Carolina. That he was in each instance of his engagement, and during this whole period of his service, a volunteer. That besides his having chared[charred] in the defence[defense] of Charleston, his was also present, during the latter period of his service, and a short time after the capture of Cornwallis at York Town, in an engagement with the British near a place called Sugar Leaf[underlined] where he killed two of the enemy with his own hands: That he has lived since the Revolutionary War in Effingham County State of Georgia, and in Telfair County in the same State, and  that he now resided in the County of Colombia aforesaid. And her further says that in consequence of Indian disturbances which occured in the part of Gorgia in which he then resided, sometime, he thinks about the year 1817 or 1818, all the documentary ardence by which this his declaration might be substantiated, was lost to him, and that Abel G. Lopar, at present residing in the Country of Colombia aforesaid, and presiding Justice of the County Court for said County, who then lived in the same neighborhood in Georgia with himself, is cognisant of the fact of the reputed destruction of his papers at that time, some of which in relation to his services in the Revolutionary struggle had, he believed, been previously seen by the said Lapar: And that William Edwards of Effingham County in the state of Georgia is a witness
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to the fact of his having served in the armies of the United States, at the times above stated, but that he knows of no other person, whose testimony he is in a situation to procure who can testify to his service. And further he says that he hereby relinquished every claims whatever to a pension or annuity accept the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State whatever. Sworn to and subscribed, the day and years aforesaid

Henry his H Mark Edwards

We, Abel G Lopar residing in the Country of Colombia, and Bennet M Dell residing in the same, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Henry Edwards who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration;
that we believe him to be seventy one years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Bennet M Dell
Abel G. Loper
A.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Abel G Loper, who has signed the
preceding certificate, is a Presiding Justice (there being no
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Clergyman stationed here resident in the County of Columbia and that Bennet M Dell who has also signed the same is a resident in the same, and are both of them credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

[signed] Robert Raymond Reid
Judge S.C. Dub: E. Floyd

I James Dell, Clerk of the Superior Court for the County of Alachua, do hereby certify that the foregoing, contains the original proceedings of the
said Court in the matter of the application of Henry Edwards for a pension
In testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand and seal
of Office this first day of
January in the year 1833.

[signed] James Dell  clk
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Rev. & 1812  [An]
Wars Section
AWF/eel

January 9, 1929

J. A. Jones 
Scottsboro Alabama

Sir:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 45839, it appears that Henry Edwards, while residing in Duplin County, North Carolina, enlisted and served as a private with the North Carolina Troops, as follows-

Eight months under Captain Grimes and Colonel Mathews at the defence of Charleston; a few months later, three months under Captain Isham Sheffield and Colonel Kenyon; in 1781, five or six months in a troop of cavalry under Captain James Golspie (?) and was in a skirmish at Sugar
Loaf.

He was allowed pension on his application executed January 1, 1833, at which time he was living in Columbia County, Florida, aged seventy-one years.

After the Revolution he lived in Effingham and Telfair Counties, Georgia. It is not shown that he ever
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lived in Tennessee or Alabama.

He died November 15, 1837, leaving children, their
names are not stated, nor is the name of his wife shown.

In order to obtain the name of person to whom the last payment of his pension was sent, you should apply to the Records Division, General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C., citing all of the following data -

Henry Edwards, Certificate No. 6370, issued February 28, 1833, rate $50.00 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Florida Agency.

Respectfully,


WINFIELD ACOTT
Commissioner.
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State of Georgia
Effingham County}

Personnaly appeared before me William Edwards after being duly sworn, said upon oath, That Henry Edwards a soldier of the revolutional war of seventy six did to his knowledge was in the service as a foot soulder, & likewise under the command of James Galaspi in the cavelary or Horse, two or three times & he always understood he faithfully acted, a soulder obedient to his officers & executing every measure to the high interest
& welfare to the United States of America -

Sworn & Subscribed ⎬ 
before me this 21 of November
1829 Wm Garbett  G.P.
Wm. [his X mark] Edwards   [seal L. S]

Witness A.G. Loper
I do hereby certify that A.G. Louper
was a subscribing witness to the foregoing

[signed] Wm Garbett G.P.
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to be paid at
Charleston, S Carolina
$50 per ann

Gen. R. K. Call
Present

En
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Henry Edwards

II  The declarant did not make his declaration in the County where he resides, because there is no Court of said established in that County.

IX  The declarant states that he served during the Seige of Charleston, which is a period known for history he shows that he served for Sixteen
month, and we think him entitled to a pension in proportion to that time

XI  The general belief in the neighbourhood where the declarant resides, so far as we are advised is that he served faithfully during the Revolution, and that he is entitled to a pension 

XII,  It appears in evidence that there is no clergyman residing in the neighbourhood of the declarant and we believe such to be the truth

Thos Douglas
R K Call
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Washington April 3d 1838-
I hereby certify that Henry Edwards the Pensioner named in these papers is now Continued a citizen of Florida
S. S. Britt


I know Mr. Burritt well and he is a gentleman [cut off]

To what time was Henry Edwards, S. Carolina, act June 7, 1832, last paid?
J.L. Edwards
April 3, 1838

p % the 4 Sep 1833
JH

Transfer H. Edwards to Florida, from Sept 4, 1833, and sent notn. to Hon. C. Duning H.R.
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Washington April 3d 1838

I hereby certify that Henry Edwards the Pensioner named in these papers is now Continued a citizen of Florida
S. S. Burtt


I know Mr Burritt will and intimately & he is a gentlemen of the first character & [illegible] was entitled to credit
CC Browning


JH
Transfer for H. Edwards to Florida, from Sept 4, 1833, and sent notn to Hon. C. Duning H.R.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office
March 3d 1840

Sir:

Under 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," the children of Henry Edwards, decd a Pensioner on the Roll of the Tallahassee, Florida Agency, at the rate of fifty Dollars and ____Cents
per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1833, to the 15th Nov. 1837. the day of his death.
Respectfully, yours
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Present.
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On this day the thirty first of January in the year one thousand Eight Hundred and thirty three, personally appeared Abel G Loper Esquire of the County of Colombia, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith,  that about fifteen or sixteen years since, say about the year 1816 he saw in the possession of Henry Edwards an original paper purporting to be a discharge of the said Edwards from military service, which said discharge was signed by three or four officers of different grades, but the names of whom this deponent cannot now recollect, with the exception of one, towit Kenyon and that in said discharge honorable notice was taken of the service of said Edwards during the period of his attachment to their division of the Army, and of the mighty faith and active character of his deportment during such his service.

And this deponent further says, that some time about the year 1817 or 1818 he resided in Telfair County in Georgia in the close neighbourhood of the above mentioned Edwards, when disturbances broke out with the Indians in Georgia, and the house of the said Edwards was pillaged by them the said Indians and that it was the current and general understanding in the neighbourhood at that time that the papers of the said Edwards had been among other things taken away or destroyed by the said Indians.
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court
Abel G. Loper
James Dell Clk
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Rev. and 1812 War Section.

December 5, 1924.

J. A. Jones,
Scottsboro, Ala.

Sir;

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 45839, it appears that Henry Edwards, while residing in Duplin County,
North Carolina, enlisted and served as a private in the North Carolina Troops as follows --

In 1777, eight months under Captain Grimes and Colonel Mathews, a few months later, he served three months under Captain Isham Sheffield and Colonel Kenyon.

In 1781, five or six months under Captain James Golaspia (?) in a troop of cavalry and was in a skirmish at Sugar Loaf.

He was allowed pension on his application executed January 1, 1833, while a resident of Columbia County,
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Florida, aged seventy-one years. [handwritten]  after Rev. lived

He died November 15, 1837, leaving children, no names stated, nor is the name of his wife on record.

The above noted Henry Edwards is the only soldier by that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.

Respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.
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Harrison McCutchen, Clerk        Mrs. Leon Perry, Assistant Clerk

PROBATE OFFICE
Jackson County, Alabama
W. R. BOGART, JUDGE
SCOTTSBORO, ALABAMA
Dec. 19th, 1928.

Department of the Interior
Washington, D. C.
Bureau Pensions,
Dear Sirs: -     Re Revolutionary War Pension Claim S. 45839.

About 1 year ago I had some information from you a relative to pension of Henry Edwards of the above caption, but am now asking for further information.

Did this Henry Edwards ever reside in Tenn. or Ala and if so where? Is his wife's name give or other members of family in application? May I have copy of application another with other information.

Yours,
by
J. A. Jones
J. A. Jones,
Scottsboro, Ala.

Stamped:

PENSION
U.  DEC.  S.
21
1928
Office
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Mrs. J. Fred Gerth
Wyaconda
Mo.
Personal request. June 7, 1927
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N.C
Edwards Henry
S. 45839
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J. A. Jones, Chief Clerk         Miss Louise Bogart, Clerk.

W. R. BOGART
JUDGE OF JACKSON COUNTY PROBATE COURT
SCOTTSBORO, ALABAMA
Nov. 6th, 1924.

War Dept.         [over to right side stamped]  PENSION
The Adjutant General's Office,               U.   NOV    S.
Washington, D. C.                              19
                                                       1924
                                        OFFICE
My Dear Sir: --

I am just in receipt of your letter to Judge E. B. Elmon, giving information relative to Revolutionary  war record of Henry Edwards of Virginia.

The information desired is realrive to a Henry Edwards, Jesse Edwards & Jonathan Edwards of North Carolina.  This Mr. Edwards was residing in N.C. in 1775, and I have understood that he entered the Revolutionary war there.  Any information will be greatly appreciated - Henry Edwards, Jonathan Edwards of Jesse Edwards.  Not so sure as to given name.

Thanking you in advance, I am, 
Yours
Signed JA Jones

[Stamped] Received A.G.O. NOV 8 1924

P.S. This an ancester of mine.  J.A. Jones, Clerk.
Scottsboro, Ala.

[handwritten] Can you supply informations? 
J.a. Jones

[Stamped] Received A.G.O. NOV 8 1924
OLD BEARDS DIV.
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Address: "The Adjutant General,
ORD    War Department, Washington, D. C."

WAR DEPARTMENT.
THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE.
WASHINGTON.
Nov. 10, 1924.

Respectfully returned to

J. A. Jones, clerk, 
Scottsboro,
Alabama.

No one of the names given within has been found on the records in this office of soldiers of the Revolutionary War from the State referred to within The collection of Revolutionary War records in this office is
far from complete, and it is suggested as a possibility that the
desired information may be obtained from the Commissioner of Pensions , Washington, D.C., or from the authorities of the State referred to within.

[stamped]
PENSION
U.  NOV  S.
19
1924
OFFICE

Robert C. Davis
Major General.
The Adjutant General.
By JM
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1924 - Dec 5 Hist. to JA Jones aag
1927 - June 23 Hist to Mrs. J. Fred Garth aag
1929 Jan 9 Hist. to JA Jones aag

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INVALID.
Revy

File No. 458.39
Henry Edwards
Flo or So C

Act 7 June 1832
Index: Vol. 3 Page 148
[Arrangement of 1870.]