Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21123, Edward Conner, N.C. S.C.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE N.C. S. C.
Conner, Edward
NUMBER S. 21123

CONTENTS
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30144
South Carolina
Edward Conners of Conway in the State of South Carolina   who was a corporal in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the reg commanded by Col. Ash in the N.C. & S.C. line for -----
Edwards Conner

Inscribed on the Roll of South Carolina at the rate of 118 Dollars 44 Cent per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of Sep 1835 and Sent to Munroe Marion [illegible]

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $432.00
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept 54.00
$486.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Danl Boyd Clerk
Book E Vol.6 Page 66

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Pd Monroe 22 Sept

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Certificate issued as Corporal, instead of Capt
1855 & sent to R. Munroe Marion C.S.C.
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No.1
The State of South Carolina
Horry District
On this eighth day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared in  open Court, before me William D [illegible] one of the Circuit Judges of the said State and presiding Judge in the Court of Common pleas for Horry District, at Horry Court house this day, Edward Conner, who being duly sworn according to Law maketh oath to the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed on the seventh day of June 1832 viz. That he was born on the 31 day of December 1757 in Duplin County & State of North Carolina that when 10 years of age he removed with his Father & family to Kingston County, (now Horry District) South Carolina, where he has resided and where he now resides. That in the Autumn of the year 1776 and as he believes in the month of September, he enlisted into the continental service in New Hanover County & State of N.C. as a private under the command of Capt Wm Davis the regiment was he thinks the first Regiment, was commanded by Col. Ash that he enlisted and served for six months that soon after his enlistment, his Regiment was ordered to Rendezvous, at Rockfish Cumberland County NC to watch the motion of the Tories, they (the Tories) retreated down the river Cape Fear - They descended the River in boats and under the command of Genl Moore - the regiment passed below the Tories, Landed on the North of the river marched up and joined a detachment, and the whole party were under the command of Gen Caswell and attacked the Tories at Moore's Creek just about daylight and defeated the Tories. In this action Genl Campbell and McLeod who commanded the Tories were killed - his term of enlistment soon after this expired he was
discharged and returned to his father in South Carolina.

He remained at home but a short time when Sir Peter Parker's fleet having arrived on the coast, a draft was ordered to march to Charleston - he volunteered as private under the command of Lieut John Sessions (his Capt. Hankins), having been already in  service -Joseph Sessions was ensign, his company in marched to Hadrell's point where they arrived just at the time the British commenced firing on Fort Moultrie, at Hadrell's point he joined the main body and under
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the command of Col. Daniel Horry who marched on the bridge from the said land to Sullivans Island where they arrived about the conclusion of the engagement. he remained in the service at this time one month when he was discharged and returned home - he remained at home but in time and finding the militia serve disagreeable, he enlisted into the Regular service by Capt Hawkins who was recruiting in agent for Capt. Weekly of the fourth Artillery Regiment, as a private. the Battalions of that Regiment were commanded by [illegible] (late Judge )of Grimkie & Lieut. Col. Bateman and the Regiment was commanded by Col. Owen Robert -He enlisted for three years - he joined the Regiment at Cat Island near George Town So. Ca. - from thence he
was marched to Fort Johnson where he was stationed for some time in Charleston working in the Laboratory- from Charleston he was marched to Perrysburg - that while the American forces consisting of about 200 men were Stationed at Perrysburg, the British army advanced & the American forced retreated up the river to Black Swamp - the British Army at that time encamped
opposite to them in the State of Georgia, the army remained at Black Swamp about two weeks - the British army marched then up the river with a view of crossing the River into Carolina-- the American forces advanced up of the river having been greatly increased by the Militia who joined them on the march the American Army crossed the Savannah River at Augusta whom which the enemy retreated down the army to Briar Creek where they crossed to the Carolina side of the river - the American army Crossed at the same place & continued in pursuit in the direction for Charleston-- near Dorchester
they were joined by Genl Lincoln at which time the American forces who still greatly increased, at Bacon's bridge they were attacked by a party of 500 Tories under the McGirt during the fight Count Pulaski arrived with his Cavalry and charged and routed the Tories the morning after the engagement at Bacons bridge, they continued in pursuit of the enemy, we pursued them as far as the lines, but Gen Moultrie being then in poss of the City of Charleston, the British recrossed the Ashley River and encamped at Stono and while there our army under the commanded of Lincoln Marched to attack them that in this engagement which lasted about 2 hours the Americans were defeated & retreated, Col. Robert
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who commanded this Regimt was here killed. That shortly after this battle and having enlisted in his stead Nicholas Prince and Mark Marlow he was returned home having served two years in the regular service. He remained home for nearly six months when he was elected Captain having
before been elected Lieut in the militia of the State of South Carolina and in Kingston County. That soon after he was appointed Captain he marched with a detachment of his company to Warden's camp on Waccamaw River and stayed there three months engaged in collecting and sending to St. Augustine such of the Tories as wished to quit the British - the Tories were delivered to George Town to be shipped to 5th Augustine. From Warden's camp he marched under the command of Mjr. Warden & Col Livingston to Pee Dee River and Marched to Chinner Swamp and continued in that Section for six months keeping the Tories from committing depredations. We then march with a detachment under his command into the State of No Ca. and was under the command of Col. Leonard where he continued for twelve months he returned home and was with the only occasional respites and for a short period continually in service until the end of the war - that he was in no regular engagement while he was captain but only in engagement in small detachments with the Tories he was compelled to be continually in service for his own personal security & Safely - that he does verily believe that adding the different tours of duty together while he commanded and was in actual service as a captain he served at least two years that he had only one regular discharge from and that together with his commission having since been destroyed or worn out. That from old age, infirmities and consequent loss of memory he is unable to State with more certainty and particulars Than he has done the dates and period of his service before Stated. The declarant further states that
Nicholas Prince whose affidavit is hereunto annexed, is the person to whom he has before herein
referred. 

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present
and declares that his name is not on the pension
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roll of the agency of any state whatsoever
[signed] E Conner

The foregoing declaration Sworn to & subscribed before me in open Court the day & year above written. sworn in open Court
W.D. Martin Presiding Judge

Nicholas Prince a clergyman appeared before me Wm Martin one of the Circuit Judges as aforesaid and being duly sworn according to law deposes & says that he has been acquainted with Capt Conner who hath subscribed the foregoing certificate from his boyhood, that from his
boyhood to the present time they have lived neighbors. That during the revolutionary war he was informed & has always believed that he enlisted in the continental service as he has stated in the foregoing declaration. That he did not see Captain Conner actually enlist in the Regular service
but he lived with the Father of Capt Conner at the time he was said to have enlisted and he knows that shortly after he was absent & said to have gone into the army of which he has never doubted. He states his belief to be that Capt Conner enlisted as a private soldier in the Spring
of the year 1777. That some time afterward the said Conner returned home on a furlough when on the third day of August 1777 this deponent was enlisted by the said Conner as a private soldier in the fourth Artillery Regiment under the command of Col. Robert and at the same time he so enlisted Mark Marlow into the same Regiment and under the immediate command of Capt Weekley- that they shortly after and went to Capt & joined the Regiment of Cat Island. - That
after that Capt Comer remained in the service with this deponent in the service until after the battle of Stono when he returned home- deponent was captured at the fall of Charleston and afterward made his escape & returned to his former residence when he arrived Mr Conner was in command as Captain until the end of the war and was at the whole of the time afterwards in actual service as Captain. Deponent further states that the said Conner was a faithful brave useful soldier, that he believes him to be of the age he has declared that he has never heard his [illegible] doubted, questioned or denied
"a clergyman" in first line interlined before subscribed
[signed] Nicholas Prince

Sworn to & subscribed before me in open Court this 8 Nov. 1833
W D Martin
Presiding Judge
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No. 3
The State of South Carolina
Horry District  
On this the ninth day of July A D 1835 personally appeared before me John Griffin Justice of the Peace for the Parish of Kingston in the District and State aforesaid - Edward Conner, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following supplemental or explanatory declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 17th 1832 - That from the great lapse of time and the frailty of memory consequent up on old age, he is unable to recollect the precise time he enlisted in the 4th Regiment of Artillery, but upon more reflection, he thinks he must have enlisted either in the month of June or July 1777, and not in the year 1776 as is stated in his former declaration. That he enlisted with one Hankins who acted as recruiting officer for Col Roberts, and also thinks that Jonathan Gow and John Sessions enlisted as privates at the same time with the deponent, that he enlisted as a private, but upon joining the regiment, he was promoted to the rank of Corporal, in which capacity he acted during the time he remained in the regiment, but does not know, whether he was entered upon the rolls of the regiment, as a Corporal, or as a private that there was two others in the regiment of the name of Conner of whom was named Benjamin, and the other he thinks was named John, both of them however were privates - then is also another circumstance which he omitted to state in his former declaration, namely that in the action at Stono he was slightly wounded in the right thigh. This applicant further, states that in relation to his services while commanding
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a company in North Carolina, if he has conveyed the idea in his former declaration, that "he continued one time with his detachment under his command in the State of North Carolina 12 months", as a tour of duty prescribed by authority of the State, nothing certainly would have been more remote from his intentions. That after the battle at Stono, he thinks about the month
of June 1779, he returned to his home in Kingston Parish with the view of remaining some time, but finding that section of the State almost entirely in the possession of the Tories, who were burning the houses, vandalizing the property and threatening the lives of the Whigs, and
especially those who had taken an active part in in Revolutionary struggle, be found it impossible to remain at home with any thing like security, and hearing that a detachment of they were rendezvoused in Brunswick County, North Carolina under the command of Col Leonard of that State he determined upon joining them that he served in a company commanded by one Capt Mooney for the space of two months, when he received a Captain's Commission from Col Laurens, which be held during the balance of the time he remained under his command-That altho there were several in Col. Laurens detachment who had originally joined under the prescribed tour of militia service, [illegible] the principal part often were counted of those Whigs, who like this applicant, had volunteered their services to escape the vengeance of the Tories, the camp being at
that time the only place of security -That whenever they succeeded in driving the Tories from
that part of Country, as they voluntarily abandoned it to seek for  [illegible] elsewhere, and there was any thing like a
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prospect of the Whigs returning to their homes with safety to themselves the detachment would disperse & return to this respective homes, still this always held themselves in readiness to [illegible] at their place of rendezvous upon the slightest alarm of an incursion of the Tories, that during the time this applicant served with this detachment these intervals of repose occurred but seldom, and he is very confident that he was not at home more than two months out of the twelve that he served - that in the month of June 1780 shortly after the fall of Charleston he left  Col. Leonard's detachment & returned again into this State, and was immediately elected
Captain of a company called the "Simpson's Creek Company" to supply the place of the former commander Livingston, he having been promoted to the rank of Major, and received his  commission from Major Warden of this state, which he continued to hold until the final termination of hostilities - that during the whole of that time he acted alternately under the command of Majors Warden & Livingston & was constant and actively engaged in skirmishing 
with the enemy as is with detailed in his former declaration - That with respect to the two commissions  which he held as Captain, not expecting that they would ever be of any service
to him, no custodial care care was taken of them, and the last time he recollects seeing them, which was about thirty years ago, they were then so mutilated as scarcely to be legible and have since been lost or destroyed.
[signed] E Conner
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid
John Grippin JP

Saml M Stevenson
C C P C
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The State of South Carolina
Horry District
On this the ninth day of July AD 1835, personally appeared before me John Griffin Justice of the Peace in and for the Parish of Kingston in the District & State aforesaid Nicholas Pence, who being first duly sworn according to law made oath that he was enlisted by the present applicant Edward Conner on the 3rd day of August AD 1777 in the fourth regiment of Artillery that when the said deponent joined the regiment, the said Conner was acting as a Corporal, and that he continued in that capacity during the time he remained in the regiment that he recollects one other person in the regiment of the name of Conner, that he was a private, this name was Benjamin - That towards the close of the war he frequently heard said Conner,  as Capt. of the "Simpson's Creek Company"; that he was acquainted with several who served in that corps under the command of said Conner that he always heard him called Captain and in fact has never heard his title to that rank called in question - and this deponent further says that in addition to the declaration of the companions in arms of the said Conner, that he holds the rank of Captain, during the later part of the war - that it has been the general belief of all persons residing in this section of the country [illegible] -, and that he has heard it called into question by any one - that he is reputed and believed among his neighbors to have been an active & efficient officer - this deponent further states that he is now a pensioner on he rolls of the government & was placed there in Nov. 1833-
[signed] Nicholas X Prince his mark

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid
John Griffin JP
Saml M Stevenson C C P C
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Payments to be made at Charleston by Cashier Planter Mechanics Bank

Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of South Carolina

Recorded in the Pension Office in Book E Vol. 6 Page 66 by Dan Boyd Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Edward Conner of the State of South Carolina who was a Captain of Artillery in the Army of the
Revolution. is entitled to receive One hundred & Eight dollars per per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semiannually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in every year

Given at the War Office of the United States , the first day of September one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-five

Lew Cass
Secretary of War.

Examined and
Countersigned. }
J L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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21123
Revolution  INVALID
File No. 21123
Edward Conner
Capt Rev War

Act: June 7" 32.

Index: -- Vol. 2 Page 17
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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Edward Conner
So Ca
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Jus: See let Robt Munroe
Aug 13. 35

Admit as Copl Artillery $108 per annum

Act 7 June
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Marion C House 8th Aug 1835
Sir,
I herewith return the papers of Edw Conner with his explanation for not applying for a pension
under the act of March 18th 1818. together with the certificate of the Clerk all of which have been attached together by the Clerk agreeably to the instructions contained in your letter of the 24th ult - accompanying the papers, is also a letter of Mr Stevenson the Clerk of the Court of Horry Dist  - so soon as a decision is made upon this you will please let me know the result

I am respectfully
Your obt Servt
Robt Munroe

J L Edwards Esq.
Court of Pensions

Edwd Conner enl 23 June 78 Corpl 18 aug 78 May 80
Aug 3d says he entered by one Hankins no such name on roll
John [illegible] 24 Jun 7th
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House Repts Feby 3d 1853
James E Heath
Commr of Pensions
Sir
I have rec a letter from a child Edward Conner of Horry Dist So Ca who was on the pension Roll of U.S. & who left a widow

Please permit Mr George H Jones to examine said Edwd Conner's papers for me

Your Obt Sert
[illegible]
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Marion C.H. 28th Feb. 1835

Sir,
Agreeably to your request I herewith enclose you the pension certificate of Edward Conner

I am respectfully
Your obt srvt
Robt Munroe

J L Edwards Esq.
Commr of Pensions
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Marion C. Ho. 18 Augt 1835
Sir,
I have in your letter of the 13th inst in which you state that "W. Conner can receive a pension
certificate for $180 per annum should he choose to accept it "In fully thereto, I am fully authorized to say, that he will accept such certificate,  [illegible] especially, as you further state that his claim for services as a Capt of militia is not presented in such a form, as to enable the department to be able to rule favorably upon it. Should you deem this is sufficient authority for such acceptance on his part, you can forward the certificate to me & I will present it to him, or should you deem his own signature [illegible] you can send it in to the Clerk of the Horry court with instructions to retain it until his signature is made at the Department. I shall visit that Dist in the 1st Monday in Sept. when, if his signature is required  I will procure it & send and it on to you
I am Respectfully
Your obt srvt
Robt Munro

J.L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
$108. Capt Artillery HHL
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the State of South Carolina
Horry District 
Personally appeared before me John Griffin one of the Justices of the Peace for the Parish of Kingston in the District & State aforesaid Stephen Blackman, who being first duly sworn
according to law, made oath, that he is about seventy two years of age, that he resided in Brunswick County in the State of North Carolina during the revolution, that he served in the militia in several tours of duty under the command of Col Leonard, that the present applicant Edward Conner served as a Captain under Col Leonard, that when one occasion the deponent acted as a private under the command of said Conner, who commanded an expedition against the Tories under the Major Benj'm Lewis, who had come down from Drowning Clerk & plundered the surrounding country - that they succeeded in recapturing several horses from this town - that on other occasions, he was sent on an expedition under the command of said Conner to a place called "Red Bluff" on the Waccamaw River against a party of the Tories under the command of one Cox, and succeeded in capturing - them that after the said Conner had left Col Leonard's detachment, he frequently heard of him, that he always understood & believes that he continued in the capacity of Captain until the close of the war that was knowing that period to the present time, and
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No 4
State of South Carolina
Horry District
Personally appeared before me John Griffin, one of the Justices of the peace for the Parish of Kingston in the District & State aforesaid Henry Durant, who being first duly sworn according to
law, made oath that he was born in the Parish of Kingston in the District & State aforesaid, that he is now upwards of sixty years of age that he has represented the said Parish in the House of Representatives in the State Legislature two years, and in the Senate five years, and is at present
a member of that body. That he has known the present applicant Edward Conner from his boyhood to the present time, that he has always understood, and believes that the said applicant acted as a Captain during the Revolutionary struggle, that this has been the general belief throughout this section of the State - that he has always borne the title of captain, and in fact retains it to the present time, and has never heard his claims to that title called in Question - and that the said Conner has always enjoyed the expectation of having been a brave & efficient soldier during our struggle for Independence
[signed] Henry Durant

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day of July A D 1835
John Grippen JP
Sam'l M Stevenson C C P S
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Edw Conner 32.236
SC
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No. 2
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 the Reverend Nicholas Prince who hath Subscribed the foregoing certificate is a Clergyman resident in Horry Direct is a respectable & credible person and his statement  is entitled to full faith and credit - 8 Nov. 1833

Given under my hand the 8th Nov. 1833
Wm D. Martin Presiding Judge

I Samuel M. Stephenson Clerk of the Court of Session and Common pleas in for the District of Horry & State of South Carolina, do hereby certify that the sheet to which this is attached & sealed
this sheet contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Edward Conner

In witness whereof I have here set my hand & Seal of Office at Conway SC, this the Eighth day of November Anno Domini 1833. 
SM Stevenson
C. C. P. H. D.
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Sir
Marion C. H. 14 Sept 1835

I have received the pension certificate of
Edward Conner, there appears have in a
considerable mistake in the discretion of the
[illegible] be held in the army - he is described
as a captain of Artillery in the army of the
Revolution, and is entitled to receive one hundred
& eight dollars per ann &c" Whether or no this
in is discretion of his [illegible] in the certificate will
constitute a material difference, [illegible] as
the annual amount of the Penion is [illegible]
I have it for you to determine_

I am respectfully
Yout obt. Sevt
Robt. Munroe
 J L Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
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Horry C.H. S.C.
4th Augt 1835

Sir,
I perceive by your letter to R. Munro Esq. of the 25th ult, accompanying the Original, & 
Amended Application of E Conner of this District, for a pension, that a doubt is raised as
to the genuineness of my signature to one of them and upon a comparison of the Two, I confess that the apparent difference is calculated to Justify the suspicion that one of them is spurious,
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The only satisfactory way however in which I can account for it, is that I have never adopted,
either in my official acts, or other wise any uniform mode of signing my name -

M Stevenson
C C P P L  HD SC
J L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
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No. 5
State of South Carolina
Horry District

I, Samuel M Stevenson Clerk of the Court of Common pleas and general sessions in and for the District and State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that John Griffin, before whom the depositions of Edward Conner, Stephen Blackman & Nicholas Prince, Hon Henry Durant & John W. Pickett Esqr
in the matter of Edward Conner's application for a pension, were sworn to and subscribed, is a Lawful Justice of the Peace for the Parish of Kingston, in the District, and State aforesaid and that his official acts are entitled to full faith & credit and that the signatures annexed to the depositions are his genuine signatures, and I do also certify that the said depositions, were sworn to and subscribed
in my presence, as well as in the presence of the said Jno Griffin, and I do further certify that I have been personally acquainted with Edward Conner the present applicant, from my earliest Recollection to the present time, that he has always maintained a respectable standing in society.
and I have always understood, and believe that he was
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a brave and efficient Soldier in the Revolution, and Partook largely in the Conflicts of that Eventful period. that he has borne the Title of "Captain" ever since I have known him, and which I believe must have originated in the fact of his having held that rank during some portion of the  Revolutionary war and that so far from my ever having heard his Title to that Rank Contradicted, or in any way called in question, it has on the contrary  been the confirmed belief of all the Inhabitants of this District and so far as Traditionary evidence is proof of a fact, his claim to that
Office during the Revolutionary war is placed beyond the shadow of a doubt

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 17th day July A.D. 1835-
Sam'l M Stevenson
C C C Pls
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State of South Carolina
Horry District
I, Saml M Stevenson Clerk of the Court of General Sessions & Common pleas for the District & State aforesaid do hereby certify that the signature to the sheet marked No 2 Containing the Original proceedings of the said - [illegible] in the matter of the application of Edward Conner
for a pension taken before Judge Martin on the 8th Nov. 1833 is my genuine signature

And I do further certify that the whole of my certificate to the amended application marked No.5 
is in my own hand writing, and that the signature thereunto attached, as also my signature
to the affidavit of James Beatz in sheet marked No. 4, all my genuine signatures--

And as I have in my certificate referred to certified that the depositions of E Conner, Nicholas
Prince Honble H Durant Stephen Blackman & Jno W Pickett Esqr were sworn to & subscribed in my presence, as well as in the presence of the said Jno. Griffin I have accordingly affixed my signature to the said depositions under the Signature of the said Jno Griffin -

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this the fourth day of August A.D. 1835-
Sam. M. Stevenson
C.C.P.H.D.
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The State of South Carolina
Horry District
On this the fourth day of August A D 1835 personally appeared before me Samuel M Stevenson Clerk of the Court of General Sessions and Common pleas in and for the District & State aforesaid
Edward Conner, who being first duly sworn according to law made oath that the reason why he did not apply for a pension under the act of the 18 March 18 was because he was informed by several persons who he believed were acquainted with the provisions of that act, that it was intended to embrace those persons only who were in indigent circumstance and the circumstances of this deponent at that time being such  could not justify his making application he therefore abandoned the idea of doing so - and this deponent further saith that he has never seen the act of 1818
himself, but relied entirely upon the opinions of others with whom he consulted in the subject, and that among them were several members of the bar-
[signed] E Conner

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid
Saml M Stevenson
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South Carolina
Horry District
On this the eleventh day of July AD 1835, personally appeared before me Samuel M Stevenson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the District aforesaid, James Beaty, Sheriff of the said District, who being first duly sworn according to law, made oath that he has been personally
acquainted with the present applicant Edward Conner from his infancy to present time, that
he has always bore the title of Captain ever since he has known him, and he has always understood & believes that he acquired the titles during the Revolutionary war, as he has never heard that he ever held a commission since that time. And this deponent further says that this has been the general belief of the inhabitants of this District

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid
[signed] James Beaty

Sam'l Stevenson
Clerk Court Common pleas, H. D.
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has always enjoyed the reputation of having been a good soldier & an efficient officer during the revolutionary war that this was born the general belief throughout this section of the County and that he has never heard any thing to the contrary
Sworn to subscribed before me
[signed] Stephen X  Blackman his mark

Sworn to and subscribed on this 9th day of July AD 1835
John Griffin JP
Saml Stevenson CCHC

The State of South Carolina
Horry District
On this seventh day of July A D 1835 personally appeared before me John Griffin Justice of the peace in and for the parish of Kingston in the District of Horry John W Pickett who being first duly sworn according to law made oath, that he is at present and has been for these three years past the representative of the said Parish in the State Legislature that he has know the present applicant Edward Cannon for several years, that he is reputed and believed to have held a captains commission during a portion of the Revolutionary War, and that this has always been the prevalent opinion in the neighborhood in which he resides and the deponent further says, that he has known Stephen Blackman whose name is above subscribed, for several years, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that he is in every respect entitled to credit for veracity

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid
John Griffin JP
Jno W Pickett
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the State of South Carolina
Horry District
Personally appeared before me John Griffin one of the Justices of the Peace for the Parish of Kingston in the District & State aforesaid Stephen Blackman, who being first duly sworn
according to law, made oath, that he is about seventy two years of age, that he resided in Brunswick County in the State of North Carolina during the revolution, that he served in the militia in several tours of duty under the command of Col Leonard, that the present applicant Edward Conner served as a Captain under Col Leonard, that when one occasion the deponent acted as a private under the command of said Conner, who commanded an expedition against the Tories under the Major Benj'm Lewis, who had come down from Drowning Clerk & plundered the surrounding country - that they succeeded in recapturing several horses from this town - that on other occasions, he was sent on an expedition under the command of said Conner to a place called "Red Bluff" on the Waccamaw River against a party of the Tories under the command of one Cox, and succeeded in capturing - them that after the said Conner had left Col Leonard's detachment, he frequently heard of him, that he always understood & believes that he continued in the capacity of Captain until the close of the war that was knowing that period to the present time, and
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has always enjoyed the reputation of having been a good soldier & an efficient officer during the revolutionary war that this was born the general belief throughout this section of the County and that he has never heard any thing to the contrary
Sworn to subscribed before me
[signed] Stephen X  Blackman his mark

Sworn to and subscribed on this 9th day of July AD 1835
John Griffin JP
Saml Stevenson CCHC

The State of South Carolina
Horry District
On this seventh day of July A D 1835 personally appeared before me John Griffin Justice of the peace in and for the parish of Kingston in the District of Horry John W Pickett who being first duly sworn according to law made oath, that he is at present and has been for these three years past the representative of the said Parish in the State Legislature that he has know the present applicant Edward Cannon for several years, that he is reputed and believed to have held a captains commission during a portion of the Revolutionary War, and that this has always been the prevalent opinion in the neighborhood in which he resides and the deponent further says, that he has known Stephen Blackman whose name is above subscribed, for several years, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that he is in every respect entitled to credit for veracity

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid
John Griffin JP
Jno W Pickett