Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 153, John Allgood, Va.
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(B-1776)
SERVICE
VA.
CONTENTS
of
Allgood,
Algood
John
NUMBER
R. 153
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10.242
2
10.243
Gco FREE
Mail
To the Honourable Secretary of War
Washington City D. C.
RE
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State of Georgia ⎬ The Declaration of John Allgood [illegible] a
Walter County revolutionary soldier at dCalled Inferior
Court of Walton County September 1832
in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the
7th June 1832 - On this third day of September Eighteen
hundred & thirty two personally appeared before the honourable
Inferior Court of said County of Walton being a Court of
record John Allgood a resident in said County of Walton
& State of Georgia aged Eighty one years & three months
who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath
of
make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of
the provision made by the act of Congress passed the eleventh
June Eighteen hundred & thirty two That he was drafted
in the State troops or militia of Virginia in the year Seven
teen hundred & Seventy eight, under Captain William Lewes,
and stated from Mclenburgh County Virginia where
this deponent resided to head quarters near Portsmouth
but was remanded in about ten days so we did not reach the regular army but was remanded & discharged though not written discharge was given which term
was ten days. And the said John further declares
that in the same year but the time not precisely recollected
that this deponent was summoned by [illegible] Burrow to
go from McLenburgh County Virginia under
Captain William Pinter [illegible] to Petersburgh in
Virgined to carry prisoners and was gone for the
term of fourteen or fifteen days and was again
discharged, but more given us in writings
And the said John further declares that about the
first of January Seventeen hundred & eighty one
he was drafted in the virgin state troops under
Captain Asa Oliver and served under the following
named officers, General Mulenburgh Col.
Flemmon Major Beers Jones Sargent Mayor
Richard Easton Captain Asa Oliver. John Bebel ensign
the other inferior officers not recollected by this
deponent. And the said John Further declares that
he left the service about the fifth of April making
last and
his tour the term of three months and a few days. and the
said John further declares that when he was drafted
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as last aforesaid he resided in Mclenburg County
in the State of Virginia,
& that he was in no special
engagement but was at Portsmouth at a small skirmish
And the said John Further declares that during his last ┃
services as aforesaid he marched through the following
sections of the County. From Mclenburg County
Virginia through Brunswick Eassine and serve in
the Same & C to Cabbin point where we remained
about two months from thence to Portsmouth where
we remained a short time from thence up many man
serves where this deponent was
taken ill and left the regular army he was given no regular discharge as he was ill but the army were disbanded in a few days
after this deponent left the service.
And the said John Further declares that about the last of
August in the year last aforesaid to wit in 1781
he was again drafted & entered the service under Captain
Kelles Jeffries, in the Virginia state troops, under the following named officers Col. Leu Burrell 
one Barrell, Col Walker Gilles Jeffries the other officers are not at this late period
recollected by this deponent.  And the said John further declares that he resided in Mchenburgh County as aforesaid
when he was last drafted & entered the service.

And the said John further declares that he served during his
last tour about two months and a half that he left the
service sometime
in October in the same year. 

And this deponent further declares that he marched through
the following Countys from Mclenburgh County through Lunenburgh Amelia Nottaway Amelia Deneviddic to
Petersburg from there
before Petersburgh the countys [illegible] this deponent went through he dose not recollect
but was lawfully disbanded by Col. Walker 
from thence below its bough the County which this
lawfully dishonded by Col. Walker H
And this deponent further declares that he goes not in any Battles during his last term of service.
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And the said John further declares that in the several tours
the term of six months and a half or there abouts he served.
And the said John deposeth & declares that he hereby relinquishes
every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the
present. & he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of
any agency in any state.

John Allgood his mark

Sworn to subscribed in
open Court the day & year aforesaid.

[Best] G. M. Gunn

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the
above named applicant was a revolutionary question
W,,Whatley I.L.C. - Robt. M. Echols J.J.C. Timothy Pittman
Egbert Beale J.C.
[tear: Vincent?] Haralson Clerk of the Court of Walton County
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the origin[al]
proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the
Application of John Allgood for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
& seal of office this third day of September
Eighteen hundred & thirty two.
V. Haralson Clk
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The Declaration of John Algood [lens?] a Revolutionary Soldier at the
Inferior Court of Walton County. July (Called) term Eighteen
hundred and thirty three in Order to obtain the benefit of the Act of
Congress passed the 7th of June 1832. On this twelfth day of
July Eighteen hundred & thirty three personally appeared before
the honourable Inferior Court of said County of Walton the same
being a Court of Record. John Algood a Resident in said County
of Walton & state of Georgia aged Eighty one years & Eleven months
who being first duly 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
the seventh June Eighteen hundred & thirty two.
That this deponant was drafted in the State troops or militia
of Virginia for the term of three months, in the year Seventeen hundred & twenty eight. about the fifteenth of
Nov. under captain William Lewis and started from McLenburg County Virginia
where this deponant resided to head quarters near Portsmouth but was remanded
in, say, ten days on the twenty fifth of same month so that this deponant did not reach
the regular Army but remanded & discharged. Though more given us in
writing, which term was ten days. And it said John further declares
that in the merit year to wit 1779- about this first day of October as was
as recollected he was summoned by Jennings Burrace to go from McLenburgh County Virginia, where he still lived, under captain William Pinter
down to Petersburgh in Virginia to carry provisions and was gone
fifteen days. and was again discharged on the fifteenth day of October
in the same year 1779 but none given him in writing.
And the said John further declares that on the first or second day of January
1781 he was drafted in the state troops of Virginia under captain Asa Oliver
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And served under the following named Officers General Mulenburgh Col Flemmon Major Bens Jones Sargeant Major Richard Easter & Capt Asa Oliver. John Bell ensign. the other inferior officers not recollected to at this late period of time. And this deponant declares that he left the service the fifth or sixth day of April in the same year making his last tour three months and four days and the said John
further declares that when he was drafted as last aforesaid he resided in McLenburgh as aforesaid and that he was in no special Engagement but was at Pourtsmouth at a Small Skirmish. And he further declares
that while in the service as last aforesaid he marched from McLenburgh County Virginia through Brunswick Essex & Surrey Counties in
the same [illegible] on to Cabins Point where we remained two months or
thereabouts from thence to [illegible] where we remained a short time
from thence [illegible] Nancymun River where this defendant was taken oll and left the army by the advice of his Commandt as he was
afflicted with the Rheumatich pains but as he left the army he was given no regular discharge but the army were disbanded about
the middle of April in the same month this deponant left it. 
And he said John declares that on the tenth day of August in the same
year to wit in 1781 he was again drafted into the State troops of Virginia under Captain Killis Jeffries under the command
of Col Lew Bussell Col. Walter Killis Jeffries Capt. the other officers not recollected at this time, and this deponant continued
to reside in Mclenburg County, Virginia when he entered the service
last aforesaid. And that he left the service the twenty fourth day of October as near as he can recollect.  as he left the service
two or three days before Wallis was taken which was on the 27th October in the same year 1781- making from the tenth
day of August until the twenty fourth of October two months & fourteen days. And while in the service as last aforesaid he
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marched from McLenburg County Virg. through Lunenburgh Nottaway Amelia Dinwiddie to Petersburg from thence below 
Petersburg but the other Counties through which he marched he
does not now recollect, but was lawfully disbanded by Col Walker on the twenty fourth of October as aforesaid

And he further states that he went in the service for three months but as he was afflicted with the Rheumatic pains he left the service before his time had expired a few days. And he further
States that he was not in any special engagement during his last
services and that in all & his services including the fourteen he served the time of six months & thirteen days in all &
This deponent by way of further amendment declares that by reason
of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to
the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mention ea below as a private the first tour in 1778. was ten days in the year the second fifteen days the third to wit in the year 1781

Three months (1779) and four days  the 4th tour two months and
fourteen days making in all the term of six months
& thirteen days and for such service I claim a pension
And this applicant further states that so far as he knows he was
called into service by competent authority that he served in the
field and for the time during which the service was performed he was not employed in any civil pursuit. And this deponant 
Hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity 
except the present declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of any agency in any State.
To the first Interrogatory prescribed by the war department he answer
that he was born on the twelfth day of May in the year 1751 in Richmond County Virginia between Rappahannock & Potomac
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To the the Int. He has a record of his age in his Bible at Home

He lived in McLenburg County Virginia when called into service
each time from then in 1788 He moved to Elbert County Georgia then to Walton County Georgia in 1826 where he now resides
4. He answers he was drafted the Company district to which he belonged or in which he lived was taken down and numbers drawn and numbers from ten to one were drafted and
this deponent drew No one.
5. General Mulenburg Col Flemmon ..for further an? of his regiment
? to the body of his declaration as he recollects
two other regiments than the one he belonged to ?  and does not recollect the number of his regiments
He never received a regular discharge from the service as his consequence of his being frequently in bad health he had to quit
the Army before his full time for which he was called out ?
but he received two furloughs for his two last terms of service
7th He refers to Isaac Rosser Nathaniel Butler Charles Ferguson for
James Ferguson Esq. Absalom B. Grange Benjamin Harris John Carter, William Bently & John Scott
He forth States that he has no documentary evidence whereby to establish his claim, and that he knows of no ? testimony he can procure except Nathaniel Hull where
affidavit is hereto annexed.
from to subscribed in open Court
this the day & year aforesaid
John Algood His Mark
Test Gingan
Augustus H Palmer a clergyman residing in the County of Walton
said State and James Ferguson residing in the same
hereby certify that we are acquainted with John
good who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration
that we believe him to be Eighty one years of age, that he is
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                                 Department of War
                                  [illegible] Office
                                  Sept 14, 1838

Sir -
   The amended declaration of Jn Algood has been examined and compared with the original, by both of which it appears that the whole amount of his service did not amount to six months_ the 15 days employed in carrying provisions to Petersburgh, not been admitted by military service, _ and as [illegible] Cornwallis was  taken on the -17th day of Oct, instead of the 27, and as the applicant left the service on the 14th, his last [illegible] of duty could only have been 2 mo. 24 days, making it all 5 mo and 14 days - His claim is therefore rejected & his papers placed upon the files of this Office.

                                  I am very Respectfully
T.P Lucas Esq
M Walton [illegible]
Georgia                            Monroe C. House
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August 3, 1934

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Mrs. Royal W. Johnson         RA-J/EEL
437 E. Forsyth Street             John Allgood- R.153
Jacksonville, Florida

Dear Madam,

   The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, R.153, based upon the military service of John Allgood in that war.

   John Allgood or Algood was born May 12, 1751, in Richmond County, Virginia, between the Potomac and the Rappahannock Rivers.  The names of his parents are not shown in the papers in the pension claim.

     While residing in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, john Allgood enlisted and served as a private with the Virginia Troops, as follows: from November 15, 1778, ten days in Captain William Lewins' Company:  from October 1, 1779, fourteen or fifteen days under Captain William Pinter and carried provisions to Petersburg, Virginia from January 1, 1781, three months and four days in Captain Asa Oliver's Company, Colonel Flemings' [word crossed out] Regiment, and was in a small skirmish at Portsmouth, Virginia from August 10, 1781, two months and fourteen days in Captain Killies Jeffries' Company under Colonels Lew Burrell and Williams.

   In 1788, he moved to Elbert County, Georgia and in 1826 to Walton County, Georgia.

   John Allgood applied for pension September 3, 1838, while a resident of Walton County, Georgia.  His claim was not allowed as he did not render quite six months' service in a regular embodied military corps as required by the pension law.  The fifteen days engaged in carrying provisions to Petersgurg, Virginia, was not provided for in the law under which he applied.


   There are no data as to soldier's family.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator.
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_________Ex'r.                                 INVALID

John Algood

P.O

Service: 
Printed list of 1852 shows cause of "Did not serve six months".
Enlisted:

Discharged:

Application filed: _______________________,18

Alleges:

Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P.O.

1934 - Apr 17 - [Illegible] to AR. Yates - [illegible]
1934 - Aug - 3 -Hist to Mus Royal Dr. Johnson
Case James Adams_ S.16306-  EES
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                                                6.07
John Allgood
3.10
2.07
______
5.17

Rejected [illegible]

J.P. Lucas
Monroe
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Va.    Allgood, John     R.153
          or Algood
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Georgia
Walton County

Personally appeared before me Caleb Sappington Justice of the peace in and for said county Nathaniel Butler who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he knew of John Algood Senr. being in the service of his country in the fall of the year seventeen hundred [obscured]  where he entered the service he does not precisely recollect.  but he knew that John Algood was gone about ten days but the officers he knew nothing of.  And soon after Mr. Algood return he soon again sent with Captain William Pinter down to Petersburg in Virginia to carry provisions and was gone say fifteen days but the other officers he knew nothing of and the deponant further states that the said John returned from Petersburg late in the winter of 1778.  [obscured] to the precise time the said John [obscured] & left the service he dose not recollect.  And the deponant further states that the first or second day of January 1781 the said John was drafted in the state troops of Virginia under Captain Asa Oliver John Bibel ensign, Richard Easter Sargeant Major, the other officers he does not recollect.  And this deponant further states that the said John returned the fifth or sixth day of April 1781 and this deponant states that that there were some circumstances which caused him to recollect the times of the last services as he does.  And this deponant further states that he knew that the said John entered the war drafted in the state troops of Virginia again in the year 1781 say the seventh of August in that year under Captain Killis Jeffries Lew Burrell Colonel - Col Walker he knew none of the other officers.  And this deponant further declares that he dose not know the time that the said John Algood returned, but he thinks he was gone something like two months or more but
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when the said John returned home he had the rheumatick pains and that this deponant distinctly recollects that the said John was gone during fodder pulling time & that his neighbours had to save his fodder while he was gone as to any further particulars respecting his services he does not recollect.
Sworn to & subscribed this 29th day of June 1833
Nathaniel Butler  X his mark
Caleb Sappington J.P.

I Caleb Sappington do hereby certify that Nathaniel Butler who has sworn to & subscribed the foregoing affidavit is a respectable person of good standing and that his statement is entitled to credit.  
this the day & year aforesaid.
Caleb Sappington J.P.


Declaration of John Algood as amended
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered n the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of John Allgood which require further proof or explanation.

I.  Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?  yes
      id the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes
      the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reas
   ssigned for his not doing so?
IV.  Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled?  no
VI.  Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?  yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension th
VIII.  Has the Court given their opinion? yes
IX.  Has the Clerk given his certificate?  yes
X.  Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?  No
XII.  If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?  No
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least (?) living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?  No
XIV.  If the applicant name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a (?) or witnesses as to his service? If he as produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered (?) certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? 
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulation direct? Yes
(???) interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, (?) is not so answered (?)

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V.   In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades;  For_________year______months, and _____days, I served as a __________. For___________For _______months and ______days, I served as a ______; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service.  This form of a declarations is highly objectionable.  It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed, he was not em(?) in any civil pursuit.
XIV. Proof of Service.
(?) case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must (?) his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of (?)aimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the (?)nt, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths (?) credibility of the witnesses and the offi(?) character and signature of the magis(?)
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NATCHITOCHES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
416 SECOND STREET
NATCHITOCHES, LA
A. R. Yates
Secretary-Manager

April 2, 1934

Director of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
     Will you please give me the service record of John Allgood, as shown from Elbert County, Georgis, land lottery grant; Capt. Bell's district, Maj. Allen's batallion, in the War of the Revolution.  This is shown in "Georgia's Roster of the Revolution". This will be used for genealogical purposes.
     Also please give me the same record on Spencer Allgood, as shown from Elbert County, Georgia, land lottery grant; Capt. Butler's district, Maj. Allen's batallion, in the War of the Revolution. This is also shown in "Georgia's Roster of the Revolution".

Yours truly,
A.R. Yates
Secretary-Manager
Received Apr 4 1934
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August 3, 1934
John Allgood
R.153
Mrs. Royal W. Johnson
437 E. Forsyth Street
Jacksonville, Florida

Dear Madam:
     Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of James Adams, Senior, who was on lottery list of 1826 from Elbert County, Georgia, James Adams, born October 18, 1753, died 1835, William Adams, who received land draws, John, Peter, Spenser and William Allgood, each of who received land draws; Dosier, Jeremiah, John, Joseph, Presley, Pat and Mark Thornton, all of Virginia, also, any Tillers or almonds of Georgia.
     There are not claims for pension or bounty land on file which have been made to the United States based upon service in the Revolutionary War of William Adams, of Georgia, or of Peter or Spenser Algood (Allgood), Dosier, Jeremiah, Joseph, Pat or Mark Thornton. No claims could be identified of the particular soldiers with names John Thornton, Presley Thornton, William Allgood, ______Tiller and ______Almond. the records are furnished you herewith of a James Adams and of two soldiers with the name John Allgood. The data are obtained from the claims for pension based upon their service in the Revolutionary War.
Very truly yours

A. D. Miller
Assistant to Administrater.
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April 17, 1934

BA-J/EEL
John Allgood-R.153

Mr. A.R. Yates
416 Second Street
Natchitoches, Louisiana

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of John and Spencer Allgood, of Elbert County, Georgia, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon military service of soldiers of that war.

A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made in your behalf and no record found of such claims having been made on account of the services of a John Allgood, who served with the Georgia troops, or of a Spencer Allgood.  However the record has been found of a John Allgood, who served with the Virginia Troops and after the Revolution, moved to Elbert County, Georgia.  His history is furnished below, the data for which were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 153, based upon his service in that war.

John Allgood or Algood was born May 12, 1751, in Richmond County, Virginia, between the Potomac and the Rappahannock Rivers.  The names of his parents are not shown in the papers in the pension claim.

While residing in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, John Allgood enlisted and served as a private with the Virginia Troops, as follows:  from November 15, 1778, ten days in Captain William Lewins' Company:  from October 1, 1779, fourteen or fifteen days under Captain William Pinter and carried provisions to Petersburg, Virginia:  from January 1, 1781, three months and four days in Captain Asa Oliver's Company, Colonel Fleming's Regiment and was in a small skirmish at Portsmouth, Virginia:  from August 10, 1781, two months and fourteen days in Captain Killies Jeffreis' Company under Colonels Lew Burrell and Williams.

[handwritten in margin]  could not identify officers Col. Fleming given in [illegible]  was not of the mil.

In 1788, he moved to Elbert County, Georgia, and in 1826, to Walton County, Georgia.
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John Allgood applied for pension on September 3, 1832, while a resident of Walton County, Georgia.

His claim was not allowed as  he did not render quite six months' service in a regularly embodied military corps as required by the pension law.  The fifteen days engaged in carrying provisions to Petersburg, Virginia, was not provided for in the law under which he applied.

There are no data as to soldier's family.

Your reference does not pertain to land that was granted by the United States but was granted by the state of Georgia.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator