Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7035, Samuel Houze, S.C.
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(8-1776)

SERVICE

S. C.
Houze, Samuel

CONTENT
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Mississippi 19.931
Samuel Houze
of Gollatea in the State of Mississippi
who was a Private in the Co commanded by Captain Clarke of the Reqt commanded by Col. Richardson in the South Carolina line for 48 months.
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Saml Houze 
application 
for a 
pension
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The State of Mississippi
Copiah County
on this third day of December AD 1832
personally appeared in open court before the 
Associate justices of the County Court of said county the office of chief justice being at this time vacant and the said Associates constituting at legal court of record and now sitting Samuel Houze a resident of said county aged sixty seven in April last 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 dated June 7th 1832 that I entered the service of the United States in June 1781 as a volunteer private from Camden District on Black River in the State of South Carolina under Capt James Clark who died shortly afterwards and was succeeded by Capt. Richard Singleton, and also under Leut. Jacob Chambers.  The ensigns name was Membrance Williams, under which last named officers I served most of the time for about eighteen months from the time of my enlistment and I recollect well that in my discharge at the end of my term of service I arrived at home on the evening of Christmas day the next year after my enlistment in June. I served all the time in the regiment of Col. Richard Richardson and under Genl Francis Marion and was in Cavalry with the army of Genl Green for some two or three months from the time he left the high hills of Santee until he arrived at Bacons Bridge on the Edisto as a drafted man out of my requirement to accompany Genl Green's Army, at the expiration of which time I returned to my requirement under my former Col. and Genl and other officers.  Immediately when my enlistment I joined the regiment aforesaid at a place call Covex Place on the Santee where we lay about four or five weeks and were continually marching from place to place in the vicinity of the Santee for the protection of the country from the enemy until the Battle of the Eutaw Springs three or four months after my enlistment at which battle my company and regiment were but was unable to be there myself by reason of sickness and detention at what was called
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the back camps about 20 or 25 miles from the Eutaw . I was in no very important engagement during my time of service, but after the battle of Eutaw was marching from place to place and had several skermishes (sp) with the enemy and one a Parkers Ferry on Ashley river and one at Wadboo Bridge at the head of Cooper River where I afterwards recd my discharge from aforesaid Col Richardson, which I lost twenty years ago when moving from Tennessee to this state.  I was born at the place of my enlistment mentioned aforesaid and there and in that vicinity resided except while in the army until the year 1802 or 3 when I removed to Tennessee and resided there in Rutherford County for about 7 or 8 years when I removed to this state in 1810 and have resided here ever since where I am intimately acquainted with and known to many persons among whom in my immediate neighborhood are Thomas Lawrence, Isaac Lion, Wm. Walker, Robt Woods, Jas. Powers and Hardy Mullins. I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court
his mark
Samuel Houze
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interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Hardy Mullins who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the County aforesaid, and that the Lawrence who has also signed the same is a resident in said County and is a credible person and that their statement is intitled to credit 
Seth Granberry A J.C.C 
S. H. Johnson    A J.C C

I William Barnes Clerk of the County Court 
aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contain (illegible) proceedings of the said Court in the matter application of Samuel Houze for a pension 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my seal of office this 4th day of December 1832

Wm Barnes Clk CCCC

State of Mississippi ⎬
Eapiah County         ⎬ Personally appeared before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace in and for the County afore said the above named Samuel Houze who being duly sworn deposeth and says that he has no documentary evidence by which he can prove his revolutionary services aforsaid, nor does he know of any living witness by whose testimony he can prove the same. And further that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he can not swear positively as to the precise length of said services, but 
according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grade to wit, for eighteen months as a volunteer private; and for such service he claims pension 

Sworn to and subscribed before me this ⎬
29th day of July - 1833. Wm Barnes J.P. ⎬
         his 
Saml. X  Houze
        mark
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State of Mississippi
Copiah County
I John J Davis clerk of the Board of office in and for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that Sm Barnes whose name is subscribed to the written affidavit was at the time of signing the same and is now an acting and legal justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid and that full faith and credit is due to all his official acts.
Given under my hand and seal of office this twenty ninth day of July 1833
JJ Davis clk
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1907 Feb 9 History to Miss Nellie House
7035
Reohan
Invalid.
File No. 7035
Samuel Houze
XX Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index: - Vol. ???, Page 177
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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139
19.932
Samuel Houze
Adm 1 year  ?????
$60.00
??? added by way of affidavit.
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(3)
BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Samuel Houze which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration int he county where he resides? yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period of 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 (sp) 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 than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes
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?    Yes 

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?  ---

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? No

XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? ----
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office. --- 

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 regulations direct?   Yes 

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?  Yes

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                                                                             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 recolelection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For------y ear ---- months and ----- days, I served as a --------.  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 the 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. 

QUERE XIV. Proof of Service. 
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which be belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 

+QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers. 
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being I'm properly attached to the certificate.
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CALLATIN, MI. 
July 31 
  
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Mississippi
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Free 

To the Pension Office Washington City 

D.C.
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                                            Gallatin July 29th 1833


Inclosed is the declaration of Saml Houze for a pension with the deficiencies added by way of Affidavit 
Please inform us as early as possibly if said declamation is sufficient and if so the amt to which he will be entitled and when and where he can draw it 

Yours Respectfully 

Harris  Learned
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(Illegible)                                                 C 

                                                   Tyler, Texas
                                                      Jan. 22 1907

 Commissioner of Pensions  
                        Washington D.C. 

Dear Sir: 

Do the record in your office show that Jesse Chandler of Virginia, John De La Hunt for John Dillahunty of Maryland or North Carolina, Sam Houze of South Carolina received pension for services rendered during the Revolutionary war 

Will appreciate very much indeed, any information you can give me 

Very respectfully Miss Nellie House 
823 Vine H. Tyler, Texas
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES                                        Division of Veterans' Administration Archives.   
Form VAM-51
12-5-41                            BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*



Name , Hover Anthony  Grade ?Proctor's Artillery.   Line Pennsylvania 

WARRANT 
NUMBER       9621             ACREAGE 100   ISSUED July 16, 1789 
                                                                                    to  M. McConnell assignee




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*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. 
Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. 
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
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The National Archives
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Hover, John GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania

WARRANT NUMBER 9577 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED January 12, 179? (torn) to Barnard Slanch, assignee

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16th, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9th, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.