Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38602, John Chenault, Va.
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SERVICE
Va.

Chenault, John
or Chenult

NUMBER
S.38602

CONTENTS
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[torn document, pieces missing]

16637
Georgia R

Jany 19. A C Quisenberry -- history Prior
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John Chenault
of [illegible] in the State of Georgia.
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Davis of the Virginia.
ine, for the term of Two Years. --
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inscribed on the Roll of Georgia.
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13th of January 1819.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 3d of Apl 1820. and sent to Hon J. Crawford
House of Reps___
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Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1820 * $ [crossed out; illegible]
13 23/[illegible] months
Semi-anl. all'ce ending [illegible 1820          48
[crossed out; illegible]
* $109.93
___________
$157.93
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
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District of Georgia Six
On this 15th day of March 1820 before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Superior Court for the said district personally appeared John Chenault aged sixty five years resident in the County of  Columbia 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 the said John Chinault [Chenault] enlisted for the term of two years on the first Monday in March in the year 1776 in the State of Virginia in the company command by Captain Samuel Cabbel of the Regiment command by Col He ["He" is crossed out] being the sixth of the line of the State of Virginia on the continental establishment, that he continued to serve in the said company or in the service of the United States untill the about the twenty fifth of December in 1777 when he was discharged from the service of the United States and at the same time reenlisted in the company commanded by Capt. John Marks of the Regiment commanded by Col Davis in the Virginia line, (being the fourteenth) that he continued to serve in the last mentioned Corps
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in the service of the united States untill the twenty fifth of December 1779 that he was in the two Battle at Stillwater near Saratoga, against General Borgouins [Burgoyne's] troops with Captain Samuel Cabbell, then under the command of Col Daniel Morgan that he fought in several scurmages whilt under the command of Col Morgan, that whilst in the fourteenth Virginia Regiment he fought in the Battle of Monmouth in New Jersey -- and that his 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 part of his said service 
Jno Chenalt [John Chenault]
Sworn to before me this 15th March 1820 
Jno H Montgomery Judge 
sup Crt mid Dt Geo [Superior Court Mid District Georgia ?]


Thomas Carr of the County of Columbia and State of Georgia, deposeth and saith, that whilst he was in the service of the united States in the ninth Regiment of the Virginia line he was detached with Captain William Henderson who commanded a rifle company beloving to said Regiment, and past into a Rifle Corps commanded by Col Daniel Morgan in which Corps he knew the said John Chenault, then serving in a company commanded by Capt. Samuel Cabell of the Virginia Line, which was also attached to the said Corps commanded by Col Daniel Morgan, that he [illegible] that the said John Chenault was in the two engagement at Stillwater near Saratoga - fought against the
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British army. and he further saith that the said John Chenault is in great need of the assistance intended by the said act [illegible]
Tho {[Thomas] Carr
Sworn to before me
this 15th March 1820

I Jno [John] Montgomery Judge of the Superior
Court Middle District Georgia do certify
that it appears to my satisfaction that John Chenault did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the presiding Declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months at one time on the Continental establishment. I am also satisfied he needs the assistance of his Country for support & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & laid before me to the secretary of the Department of war
pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress
March 15th, 1820 Jno [John] H Montgomery Judge C 
C Mid Dt Geo [Court Middle District Georgia ?]
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Georgia
Columbia County

I certify that John H Montgomery is judge of the Superior Court for the middle circuit of Georgia and that due faith and credit is and ought to be given to his attestation as such Given under my hand and seal of office as clerk of the Superior Court for said County
This 18th March 1820
A. Crawford
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Georgia
Columbia County
On this 19th day of June 1820 Personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record for said County, John Chenault aged Sixty five years. Resident in said County, who being duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows -- first in Captain Cabbels Company of Riffle [Rifle]Men in Col. Buckners Regiment, which Comp. was afterwards detached to Col Morgans Regiment -- that he afterwards enlisted with Capt. John Marks, 12th Regiment, commanded by Col Davis. the declarant has not yet received any Pension, but has received a Certificate dated 3d April 1820 No 16.637. That he is entitled to a Pension of Eight Dollars per Month to commence on the 13 January 1819 -- And I do Solemnly Swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18thday of March 1818 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 to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an 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" passed on the 18 March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities. Con-
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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.

Schedule of all the property belonging to me, necessary clothing and
bedding excepted --

One Sorrel Mare 16 or 17 years old worth twenty dollars
Two sons with their pigs worth twenty dollars
Signed, John Chenault

The Declarant is a farmer but is now able to do very little Work being old and lame in one of his Shoulders -- he makes a little Corn and Cotton on a piece of Ground which he is allowed to plant and a has House to live in free of Rent --

His family residing with him consists of his Wife Nancy aged 45
his son John Aged 13
Daughter Louisa " 10
 " Mary Ann " 7 [Daughter Mary Ann Aged 7]

Sworn to and declared on the 19 day of June 1820 in Open Court.

John Chenult [Chenault]
J. S Smith
D. Clk.
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September 19, 1934
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John Chenault, S. 38602    This Correspondence belongs in [Handwritten note with arrow
                                           pointing to John Chenault]
James Chenault, S. 39296
BA. J/ MCS Ou [Handwritten note under typed address]

Mrs. Elmer E. Gay
East Lexington Street
Richmond
Missouri

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information in regard to Benjamin, James and John Chenault, 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 the military service of soldiers in that war. A careful search of the records fails to show such claim on file on account of the service of a Benjamin Chenault.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S. 38602, based upon the military service of John Chenault.

He enlisted in March, 1776, place not stated, and served as private in Captain Samuel Cabell's company in Colonels Buckner's and Daniel Morgan's Virginia regiments and was in both battles of Stillwater; he was discharged December 25, 1777, but immediately enlisted in Captain John Marks' company in Colonel Davies' Virginia regiment, was in the battle of Monmouth and was discharged December 25, 1779.

He was allowed pension on his application executed March 15, 1820, at which time he was sixty-five years of age and was living in Columbia County, Georgia.

In 1820 he referred to his wife, Nancy, aged forty-five years, his son, John, aged thirteen years, and his daughters, Louisa, aged ten, and Mary Ann, aged seven years. There are no further data relative to this soldier's family,
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The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 39296, based upon the military service of James Chenault, the only soldier of that name that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.

He enlisted in 1776 or 1777, place not stated, served as private in Captain Henry Terrell's company in Colonel Josiah Parker's Virginia regiment, was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown and at the capture of Burgoyne at Saratoga and was discharged after  serving two years.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 22, 1819, at which time he was living in Buckingham County, Virginia, aged about sixty-one years.

The papers in this claim contain no data relative to the soldier's family.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3--525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C.,  Nov. 21, 1921

[Form with incomplete sections:]
In reply to your request of ____________________________, received _____________________________________ for a statement of the military history of Jno [John] Chenault a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) [crossed out: "or his widow's"] application for pension on file in this Bureau.  #S. 38602.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. [column heading]
Mar 1776
Dec 25, 1777

LENGTH OF SERVICE. [column heading]
Decr 25, 77     
2 yrs.

RANK. [column heading]
Pvt
[Blank]

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  [column heading]
CAPTAIN.  Saml Cabell    COLONEL. Buckner, Daniel Morgan
CAPTAIN. Jno. Marks       COLONEL. Davies

STATE.
Va.

Battles engaged in, 2 of Stillwater; Monmouth.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Not stated.
Date of application for pension, Mar. 15, 1820 -- all.
Residence at date of application, Columbia Co. Ga.
Age at date of application, 65 yrs
Remarks: In 1820 he refers to his wife Nancy ae 45, son John Ae 13, daus. Louisa ae 10 and Mary Ann ae 7 years. No fur. fam. data.

Respectfully,
Commissioner.

5-2856
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Return to
Mrs. Elmer E. Gay
East Lex. st.
Richmond-Missouri___

[some text obscured] Washington__D.C.

[Circular stamp:] RECEIVED AUG 03 1934

Gentlemen:-- Will you please give me information, on one John Chenault who was placed on the pension roll from Columbia Co. Georgia in 1820 for service as a private in Virginia Continental Line.

Was Benjamin Chenault or James Chenault on the pension roll? if so will you please write me their records too = I am asking this information to establish a line to become a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution __
Thanking you in advance, I am
Sincerely, Mrs. Elmer E. Gay --
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Washington, D. C.
November 3rd, 1921

Record [handwritten note]

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir: -

Will you please give me the pension record of John Chenault who served in the Virginia Continental line, and was placed on the pension roll of Columbia Co., Ga., and oblige,
Very sincerely yours
Eugenia W. M. Brown
2109-. F. St. N.W

[Oval stamp:] Record Division  Nov 5 1921
[Round stamp:] Pension Office D   4 Nov 1921
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38602
Revy INVALID.
File No. S8,602
John Chenault
Pri            Rev War
Act: 18th March 18
Index: - Vol. S, Page 83
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[handwritten notes on side of page]
1921, Nov. 21. hist. to Eugenia W. M. Brown E[illegible]
1934. Sept. 19. hist. to Mrs. Elmer E. Gay MS
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Ctf. 16637
Georgia
Issued April 3, 1820
State $8 per month
Com. Jan. 13, 1819
Act of Mch. 18, 1818
Ctf jacket
very brittle and torn --
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[Written by one hand:]
James L Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington

[Written perpendicularly by another hand:]
Adm
Comm. of Pension
13 Jan. 1819. (see No. 3070.)
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H R April 1, 1820

Sir,
John Chenaults application for a pension was filed some time last year in your office but for some irregularity was returned to Columbia Courthouse Georgia.  As the enclosed documents have been  drawn up after a form with which you furnished me a few weeks past, I presume there can be no further impediment to Chenault's being placed on the list
As this is an old  application; I must solicit your early attention to it
Respectfully
y[illegible]
J. Crawford
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John Chenault --
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con

Peter Crawford
Columbia C.H. [Court House]
Geo.

[additional writing is illegible]
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I Walter A. Appling Clerk of the Inferior Court of the County of Columbia do hereby Certify that the foregoing Oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truely Copied from the Record 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 Forty Dollars -- In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Said Court on this 19th day of June 1820 --
Walter A. Appling
Clerk of the Inf. Court, Columbia County