Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11187, John Weatherall, Continental Va.
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE
Continental Va.

Weatherall, John
Elizabeth

NUMBER
R 11187

CONTENTS
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South Carolina
Abbeville District
I David Lesly, Judge of the Court of Ordinary for the District aforesaid, do certify, that I have examined the Office of Ordinary, & find on Record, that Elizabeth Weatherall the widow of Col John Weatherall [illegible] dec’d departed this life on the 21st of April 1843. __ That J. S. D Weatherall her son administered on her Estate: -- and that the said Elizabeth Weatherall dec’d left Ten children by her dec’d. husband Col. Jno. Weatherall, viz. George, Marshall, James L., A. C. S. Weatherall, Betsy J., Mary, John, Sarah, Frances C. & J.S.D. Weatherall as her only heirs & distributees at Law. Given under my hand & seal of Office This 17th day of August 1846.
David Lesly
O A.D.
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The State of South Carolina} 
Abbeville District} Ss 
I Elizabeth Long wife of William Long who has also deposed do solemnly swear on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God that I was personally [^ present] at the marriage of John Weatherall the Revolutionary Solder for whose services the accompanying application is made, that I was one of the attendants, and did see him married to Elizabeth Jones by the Revd. Robt. Hale a Presbyterian Clergyman on the twelfth day of June One thousand seven hundred and eighty seven in the District and State aforesaid. I further depose that I am a half sister of the aforesaid John Weatherall, and recollect distinctly when he enlisted in Culpepper County State of Virginia, and how his enlistment grieved our mother, and I recollect well, when the said John Weatherall returned home, after an absence of three years and upwards, he enlisted in the service of the United States in the fall of the year Seventeen hundred and seventy eight, and did not return until near Christmas of the year Seventeen hundred and eighty one, and I have repeatedly heard my half brother, the aforesaid John Weatherall speak of being in the several battles of the Cowpens [Jan. 17, 1781], Guilford Courthouse [March 15, 1781], Eutaw [Eutaw Springs Sept. 8, 1781], and of Savannah [Probably October 1779], that he returned home on foot to Culpepper County State of Virginia, having left his horse which belonged to the United States, with the proper Officers of the Army, he the said John Weatherall having served out his term of enlistment as a private, in the Lighthorse [Light Horse] or Cavalry.
Elizabeth [her X mark] Long
The word “present: interlined before signing}
Sworn to this seventeenth day of} 
October In the year of our Lord one}
thousand eight hundred and forty five} 
Before 
Wm. P. Martin Magst. [Magistrate]}

I do hereby certify that Elizabeth Long who made the above affidavit is a near neighbor to me, and is an Old Lady of credibility and undoubted veracity 
W. P. Martin Magts {Magistrate]
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State of South Carolina} 
Abbeville District} Ss 
I William Long do solemnly swear on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God that I was personally present at the marriage of John Weatherall the Revolutionary Soldier for whose services the accompanying application is made, and did see the said John Weatherall married to Elizabeth Jones by the Revd. Robt Hall a Presbyterian Clergyman on the twelfth day of June one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven in the District and State aforesaid. I further depose, that I was one of the attendants at the Marriage of the said John Weatherall, that I attended with his half sister whom I married on the twenty second day of August following, in the same year viz. in the year seventeen hundred and eighty seven, and is now Elizabeth Long my wife, who has also deposed as within stated in this matter. I further depose that I have often heard the said John Weatherall speak of being in the several battles of the Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse, Eutaw and Siege of Savannah, and that he was an enlisted private in the Cavalry for three years, which term of enlistment he faithfully served in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary [^ War]. I further depose that I had two older brothers in the same service, whom I have often heard speak of John Weatherall as a brave and faithful soldier. I further depose that the said John Weatherall enlisted for three years in Culpepper County State of Virginia and served in the Cavalry under Col William Washington, and mostly in the Campaigns of the South. – 
Wm Long Sr.

The word “War” interlined before signing Sworn to this seventh day of October one thousand eight hundred and forty five 
Before 
Wm. P. Martin Magst. [Magistrate]
I do hereby certify that William Long who made the above affidavit is a citizen of credibility and undoubted veracity. 
W. P. Martin Magt. [Magistrate]
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The State of South Carolina} 
Abbeville District} Ss.
On this sixteenth day of February One thousand eight hundred and forty six personally appeared before me David Lesly Ordinary for the District of Abbeville in the State aforesaid Joseph D Weatherall administrator of all and singular the goods and chattels rights and credits which were of his Mother Elizabeth Weatherall decd. to be administered, who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God doth on his Oath make the following Declaration in Order to obtain the benefits of the several Acts of Congress passed for the widows of Revolutionary Soldiers. The declarant in this case, represents to the Commissioner of Pensions, that his father John Weatherall enlisted as a private and trooper at the age of sixteen or seventeen in Culpepper County State of Virginia for a term of three years, that he was first attached to the Command of Col Temple and subsequently transferred to the Command of Col. William Washington under whom his father served in the storming of Savannah, at the siege of Cambridge, Hobkirks Hill skirmish [April 25, 1781] and in the several battles of the Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse and finally at the battle of Eutaw where Col Wm. Washington was made prisoner, his father was also attached to the Command of Col Otho Williams some part of the Revolutionary War, having served in other sanguinary conflicts in South Carolina, in addition to those stated he returned to Culpepper County Virginia having fully served his three years service of enlistment as a Private in the Cavalry, That is father the aforesaid John Weatherall, died on the fourth day of November One thousand eight hundred and twenty four leaving a widow Elizabeth Weatherall who survived until the twenty first day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty three when she died entitled or so it is thought to a Vested Right for her husbands revolutionary services, altho [although] she did not in her lifetime apply for it, but which Vested Right the declarant, and her legal representative now seeks, for equal distribution amongst the surviving issue or children, and distributors of the said John Weatherall and his wife Elizabeth Weatherall neither of whom were but once married, and both decd. and
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and having ten children, amongst whom is the declarant and Applicant, Joseph S. D. Weatherall the legal representative of his mother as is herewith established by Letters of Administration together with such other evidence as is conceived necessary for the support of this claim under the several Acts of Congress passed in 1832 1836 1838 & 1843 etc. The Declarant in this case further states that his father was born on the twenty eighth day of July Seventeen hundred and sixty two and that he must have enlisted in the Cavalry of the United States in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy eight 
Jos. S. D. Weatherall 

Sworn to & subscribed}
Before me on the day & year}
aforesaid, In Testimony whereof}
I have hereunto affixed my}
name & seal of Office.}
David Lesly
Judge of the Court of Ordinary
for Abb. Dist. So. Ca.
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[Genealogical Information] 

{John Weatherall was Born the 28th of July 1762 [d. Nov. 4, 1824]
{Joind [Joined] in marriage to Betsey [Elizabeth] Jones the 12th of June 1787 
{Betsey Jones now w of John Weatherall was born 7th of August 1771 [d. April 21, 1843]

{Names & ages of their children 
George Weatherall was born the 6th of August 1788

John Weatherall Junr [Jr.] was born the 25th of October 1790 
John Weatherall Junr [Jr.] died the 3rd of August 1798

Marshal Weatherall was born the 24th of November 1792

Polley Weatherall was born the 13th of March 1795

James Weatherall was born the 18th of September 1797

Adam, Crain, Jones, Weatherall was born the [20th or 28th] of March 180[?]

Sarah Marshal. Weatherall was born the 3d of November 180[?]

John Weatherall second son John Weatherall to John & Betsey Weatherall was born the 30th of September 1805[?]

Betsey Jones Weatherall was born the 7th April 1808 

Peggie, Long, Weatherall was born the 6th May 1810 [d. July 9, 1832]
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Joseph Sanders, Dickson Weatherall was born the third day of March 1813 ---
Frances Evelina Weatherall was born The 22d of April 1816 - Baptized in Greenville Meeting House the 14 of July 1816 by the Rev Hugh Dickson 

Abbeville District}
S. Carolina - I do hereby certify that I believe the above record of marriage [ink blots] in the handwriting of John Weatherall decd [deceased]
August 22 1846 
Hugh Dickson
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State of South Carolina}
Abbeville District} Ss 
I Joseph S. D. Weatherall (son of John Weatherall decd [deceased] who was a Revolutionary private in the Cavalry under Col Wm Washington, and who has applied as the administrator of the Goods & chattels rights & credits which were of his mother Betsey or Elizabeth Weatherall for Pension due his said mother for the Revolutionary services of his [his] father John Weatherall decd [deceased] do hereby solemnly swear that the leaf of paper attached to this affidavit was taken out of the family Bible by me that it is entirely in the handwriting of my father John Weatherall decd [deceased] and represents [^ his marriage &] the ages and deaths as known and registered by my father. - The dates of the respective death of my father John Weatherall decd [decased] and Betsey or Elizabeth Weatherall decd were registered by myself my father died on the 4th Novr [November] 1824 and my mother died on the 21 April 1843 and my sister Peggy Long Weatherall died on the 9th July 1832. - ten children of the said John Weatherall & his wife Betsey or Elizabeth Weatherall decd are alive at this date and entitled to a distributive share of their mothers estate rights & the names of the surviving children are as follows to wit George Weatherall, Marshal Weatherall, Polly Weatherall, James Weatherall, Adam Crain Jones Weatherall, Sarah Marshal Weatherall, John Weatherall, Betsey Jones Weatherall, Joseph Sanders Dickson Weatherall, Francis Evelina Weatherall
Joseph S. D. Weatherall
Sworn to before me 
3 August 1846 
David Lesly
[Illegible] Magt [Magistrate]
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12.843. 
Elizabeth Weatherall
decd [deceased]
S. C. 
Act 7 July ‘38 
Married 1787 husband died 1824 Widow died 21 April ‘43

11187
Thomas P. Spierin 
Abbeville C. H. S. C
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[note was scanned upside down]

[typed form, with handwritten responses]

South Carolina} ORDINARY’S OFFICE 
Abbeville District.}
Letters of Administration, 
ALLEN & KERR, Printers – Abbeville
By David Lesly Esquire, Ordinary. 
To Joseph S. D. Weatherall 
Whereas Elizabeth Weatherall late of Abbeville District deceased, lately died intestate, having whilst she lived, and at the time of her death, divers goods, rights and credits within the State aforesaid, by means whereof the full disposition and power of granting the Administration of all and singular the Goods, Rights and Credits of the said Deceased, and also auditing the accounts, calculations, and reckonings of the said Administration, and a final dismission of the same, to me is manifestly known to belong. I, desiring that the Goods, Rights, and Credits of the said Deceased, may be well and truly administered, converted and disposed of, do hereby grant unto the said Joseph S D. Weatherall
in whose fidelity, in this behalf, I very much confide, full power by the tenor of these presents, to administer the Goods, Rights and Credits of the said deceased, which to her in her life time, and at the time of her death, did belong; and to ask, levy, recover and receive the same, and to pay the debts in which the Deceased stood obliged, so far forth as her Goods, Rights and Credits will extend, according to their rate and order of Law, being first sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, to make a true and perfect inventory thereof, and to exhibit the same into the Ordinary's Office, in Abbeville, in order to be Recorded on or before the Ninth day of August 
now next ensuing; and to render a just and true account, calculation and reckoning of the said Administration, when thereunto required: And I ordain, depute and constitute you the said Joseph S D Weatherall 
Administrator --- of all and singular the Goods, Rights and Credits of the said deceased.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and Seal, this ninth day of May in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and forty three and in the sixty seventh Year of American Independence. 
David Lesly [symbol] L. S.
O. A. D. 

Ordinary's Office} 
Abbeville District} I hereby certify, that the foregoing is a full, true and perfect copy of the Letters of Administration "of the Estate of Elizabeth Weatherall decd [deceased], from the Original, which is on file and Record in my office, and that J. S. D. Weatherall, is now admr [administrator] of s.d [said] Estate. 
Given under my hand and seal of Office, this 16th day of February 1846 
David Lesly O. A. D.
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[duplicate]

[typed form, with handwritten responses]

South Carolina} ORDINARY’S OFFICE
Abbeville District.}
Letters of Administration,
ALLEN & KERR, Printers – Abbeville
By David Lesly Esquire, Ordinary.
To Joseph S. D. Weatherall
Whereas Elizabeth Weatherall late of Abbeville District deceased, lately died intestate, having whilst she lived, and at the time of her death, divers goods, rights and credits within the State aforesaid, by means whereof the full disposition and power of granting the Administration of all and singular the Goods, Rights and Credits of the said Deceased, and also auditing the accounts, calculations, and reckonings of the said Administration, and a final dismission of the same, to me is manifestly known to belong. I, desiring that the Goods, Rights, and Credits of the said Deceased, may be well and truly administered, converted and disposed of, do hereby grant unto the said Joseph S D. Weatherall
in whose fidelity, in this behalf, I very much confide, full power by the tenor of these presents, to administer the Goods, Rights and Credits of the said deceased, which to her in her life time, and at the time of her death, did belong; and to ask, levy, recover and receive the same, and to pay the debts in which the Deceased stood obliged, so far forth as her Goods, Rights and Credits will extend, according to their rate and order of Law, being first sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, to make a true and perfect inventory thereof, and to exhibit the same into the Ordinary's Office, in Abbeville, in order to be Recorded on or before the Ninth day of August
now next ensuing; and to render a just and true account, calculation and reckoning of the said Administration, when thereunto required: And I ordain, depute and constitute you the said Joseph S D Weatherall
Administrator --- of all and singular the Goods, Rights and Credits of the said deceased.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and Seal, this ninth day of May in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and forty three and in the sixty seventh Year of American Independence.
David Lesly [symbol] L. S.
O. A. D.

Ordinary's Office}
Abbeville District} I hereby certify, that the foregoing is a full, true and perfect copy of the Letters of Administration "of the Estate of Elizabeth Weatherall decd [deceased], from the Original, which is on file and Record in my office, and that J. S. D. Weatherall, is now admr [administrator] of s.d [said] Estate.
Given under my hand and seal of Office, this 16th day of February 1846
David Lesly O. A. D.
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12.843. 
Elizabeth Weatherall, de [deceased]
S. C. 

Let to T. P. Spierin June 11 ‘46 
to same Sept 15th ‘46 

July 7.38
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[circular stamp] ABBEVILLE S.C.
March 5, 1846
No papers [Illegible] be found
bl
Elizabeth Wetherall  [Weatherall]

[written sideways] 30
Hon’ble James L. Edwards
Washington City
District of Columbia
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So Co 
Abbeville Ct House 
23 Feby 1846
Hon J L Edwards 
Dr. Sir / 
Enclosed is a claim presented by the son, and Admonr [Administrator] of Elizabeth Weatherall decd [deceased] for services of John Weatherall a revolutionary soldier in the cavalry of the United States, be pleased to inform me of the result of its reception, at as early a period as you can. 
Yours very Respectfully 
Thos P Spierin
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South Carolina} 
Abbeville District} I John F Livingston Clerk of the Court of Sessions and Common Pleas in and for the District aforesaid do hereby certify that William P. Martin who hath signed the foregoing affidavit is now and was then an acting Magistrate in said District duly commissioned and qualified, that all due faith and credit are and ought to be given to his attestations as such, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine. 
Given under my hand and the Seal of the Court at Abbeville Court House this twentieth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty six and in the Seventeeth [seventeenth] year of the Independence of the United States of America 
Jno F Livingston CCS&GL
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Dec 29 ‘46

Own
Recd [received]
Jno Weatherall

[circular stamp] COKESBURY DEC 23 S. C.
[written sideways] [Illegible] 10
J. L. Edwards Esqr 
Pension Office
Washington City D. C.
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Aug 29, 1846
[circular stamp ABBEVILLE AUG S. CO.
Adal [Illegible] 
Elizabeth Weatherall

[written sideways] 30
Hon. J. L. Edwards Esqr [Esquire]
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City District of Columbia
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Abbeville District 
24th August 1846
Hon J L Edwards 
Sir 
The enclosed papers are in relation to the case of Mrs. Elizabeth Weatherall decd [deceased] - The evidence on file in your office furnished by the Oaths of Mr. Long and his lady who are disinterested persons, prove that John Weatherall decd was a Revolutionary soldier, that he enlisted as a private in the cavalry for three years, and that he returned home after the period of his enlistment was ended - one of the enclosed papers, sworn to by the Revd [Reverend] Hugh Dickson a highly respectable Presbyterian Clergyman, and the declarations of John Weatherall decd made in his life time, which corroborate the evidence of Mr. Long & his wife, who are near relatives, but wholly disinterested, and knew well the important facts connected with this claim. Moreover these declarations were made by John Weatherall decd when there was not the remotest possibility that either he or his children would ever become the beneficiaries of his Revolutionary services - These facts are respectfully brought to your consideration, as you allege in your letter to me that “the Rolls in your Office do not afford the evidence requisite to establish the claim for it was from the Rolls in Washington City, that the applicant in this case expected to profit his fathers service beyond the possibility of doubt. It appears by the Declaration of John Weatherall decd that he was under the command of a Col Temple and subsequently under Col Washington and Col Otto Williams perhaps these names may furnish a due to the discovery of the justness and merit of this claim. The family Record another paper is also enclosed, it is in the handwriting of John Weatherall decd proved by the oath of his son the Admor [Administrator], and the Certificate of the Revd [Reverend] Hugh Dickson - The certificate also of David Lesly Judge of the Court of Ordy [Ordinary] is also enclosed showing the date of the death of Mr. Weatherall, and the names of her surviving children, which facts are also proved by the admor [Administrator] Joseph S. D. Weatherall and one of the surviving children – 
Yours very Respectfully 
Tho. P. Spierin
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[crossed out - Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.]

[Stamped] - REJECTED

11,187

P. O. Elizabeth Weatherall

Service: wid. of John

Enlisted: ____ ,18
Discharged: _____ ,18

Application filed: _____ ,18

Alleges: ______

Re-enlisted: ______

Attorney: ____
P. O. ____
___Recognized.  _____ Contract.
___Cert. of Dis.  Searched for ____, 18.
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Abbeville District} 
South Carolina} To all whom it may concern 
Greeting 
I do hereby certify that I became acquainted with Col John Weatherall decd [deceased] in the year one thousand eight hundred 1800 at that time a member of Greenville Congregation to the pastoral care of which I was called in the course of the year following not long afterwards he was elected and ordained a ruling Elder in said Congregation in which office he officiated to the satisfaction of the people till the time of his death which was in the year 1824 - He was my particular friend. As an honest man, a man of truth and a Christian. I esteemed him. Such was my respect for his Christian character that officiating as a clergyman of the Presbyterian order I baptized several of his children -- When I came to reside in Abbeville District as Colonel he commanded what was called the Saluda Regiment and was a representative from the District to the legislature. 
As to what transpired in his course during the revolutionary war I have no knowledge only as I derived it from his own statements which I consider entitled to the fullest credit - He stated to me that he enlisted in the continental service as a trooper at the age of 16 [or] 17 years attached to the command of a Colonel Temple, they had their rendezvous at Winchester Virginia. The command of Col Temple owing to some circumstance I do not recollect was dissolved he was then transfered [transferred] to the command of Col William Washington under which officer he continued until he (Washington) was taken prisoner at the battle of the Eutaw Spring -- During his continuance with Col Washington he was engaged in some sanguinary conflicts He was at the storming of Savannah where the Americans and French were repulsed with great loss, he was with Washington in the successful encounter he had with Tarlton
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at the Rice fields during the siege of Charleston He was at Monks corner when the Americans were surprized [surprised] by Tarlton. When the battle of the Cowpens so honourable [honorable] to the Americans took place he was engaged in escorting Gov. Rutledge to Genl Greens [General Greene] camp at Hicks creek-- After the junction was formed by the two Divisions of Greens army at Guilford C House No Carolina he was attached to the corps of Col Otho Williams formed by Genl Green for retarding the pursuit of Lord Cornwallis until the former could effect a safe retreat into Virginia. We next find him combating under Genl Green in the celebrated battle of Guildford C House he then came on to South Carolina took part in the battle of Hobkirks Hill was at the Siege of Cambridge S. Ca. and lastly was in the sanguinary battle of Eutaw Spring where he narrowly escaped with his life having served in the Army for the term of three years he returned to Richmon'd [Richmond] in Virginia where he was discharged. After the revolutionary war was over he moved from Culpepper County Virginia the place of his natively to Abbeville District So Carolina where he lived when I first became acquainted with him and where he closed the career of life. 

Hugh Dickson
Sworn to before me} 
this 22d August 1846} 
Judge of the Court of Ordinary} 
Ex. off. Magt [Magistrate]}
David Lesly
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Abbeville District So. Ca. 
December 21st 1846 

Sir 
I take the liberty to answer a letter of yours, which was received by my friend Mr. Thomas P. Spierin at Abbeville Ct. House, dated 15th September 1846, which had reference entirely to my venerable Father John Weatherall services in the revolutionary war between Great Briton [Britain] & the United States of America, and it appears from your letter that we have not established sufficient testamony [testimony] to the services of my Father to obtain a pension claim, will now my dear Sir it would be a hard thing for me to raise the dead, to get that testamony that you require, for all of my Father's comrades of the war are dead, there was several of them alive a few years ago but they are no more; if Messrs [Messieurs] James Collier & John Butler were living, I could send such testamony, that could not be doubted for a moment, I will now sir state some of the circumstances that I heard my Father speak of that took place in time of the war. I have when quite a Boy sit up and saw the midnight Taper snuffed listinging [listening] to my Father and four others of the revolution, telling their was tales, well Sir I have heard my Father say, that he was at the Battles of the Cow Penns [Cowpens], Eutaw Springs, Guilford Court House, Siege of Savanah and ninety Six, and further my Father helped to mout [mount] the trunk of that old pine log, upon a pair of old wagon whelles [wheels], when Col Wm Washington took Col Rugely at Clermont near Camden, Sir these things are all facts, they are not tales hatched up in falsehood nor have I made a declaration to obtain a pention [pension] without deserving one, and as to the veracity of my Father, I could get hundreds of living witnesses to testify to, and as to my own standing in life I could get testamony sufficent [sufficient] to establish without a doubt, my Father belonged to the Regular Army, he was attached to Col Wm Washington Redgement [Regiment] Dragoons, and it is a strange circumstance to me that, not only the Rolls of that Redgement [Regiment] can be found recorded at Washington, I have heard my father say that, his name was recorded at Washington, and if they really are lost they must have been burnt in time the war of 1812 with England
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My dear Sir, I desire you to call upon Mr. John C. Calhoun, and ask him who my Father John Weatherall was and if he did not believe him to have been a Revolutionary Soldier, I think he would tell you he did, without a moments hesitation, (or perhaps I should have said who Col John Weatherall was) Mr. Calhoun and my Father were personly [personally] acquainted with each other, My Father has voted for Mr. Calhoun for represenation [representation] to Congress and I havent [haven’t] a doubt but Mr. Calhoun has Voted for my Father for representative to the legislature of South Carolina, which place my Father filled some 8 or 9 years, now Sir I can’t for my life conceive how a Pension can be withheld from our Family and our venerable old Fathers name kept from being recorded upon the Pension Books of these United States, for I think if there is any family in this glorious Republic that deserves that Honor ours does, I desire you to write me an answer to as soon as this as it is convenient, or to T. P. Spierin Esqr A. Ct. Ho. 
I am Very Respectfully 
Your Obedient Servant 
Joseph S. D. Weatherall 

To J. L. Edward P. Cmr [Commissioner]
Pension Office 
Washington City 

P. S. Hon.oble [Honorable] A. Burk can give you satisfactory information of myself
J. L. E. P. O.
Yours Obts [Obedient Servant]
J.S.D.W