Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,777, Levi Casey, S.C.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
S. C. 

Casey, Levi

NUMBER
R. 1777

CONTENTS
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[The 2 stamps ppear to be on the other side of the paper  - print is reversed]

Oct 26
Ill
Pension Bureau

33100
Levi Casey 
[illegible]


Hon Lewis Cass Secretary of War
Washington City of

Levi Casey
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State of Illinois Franklin county Ser On this 28 day of September 1835 personally appeared in open court before the county commissioners court of the county and state aforesaid now sitting Levi Casey a resident in the county and state aforesaid aged sixty eight years and 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 passed June 7 1832 that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated He was born in Spartanburgh county in the state of South Carolina in the year 1767 as he was informed and believes by his parents The record of his age is contained as he believes in a family Bible of his father which is now in possession of his brother Zadock Casey in the county of Jefferson in this state He entered the service of the United states as a volunteer in the month of March or April 1782 for six months under one Captain Major Parsons [Parson] who as he this declarant now informed and believes was ordered by Col John Thomas [Jr.] to raise a small company of men to guard the frontier He joined the co immediately in the same county at a little village called Dallad town since included in Greenville co SC The company was under the command of said Parsons being the highest officer in command near the place and was stationed at the said village of Dalladtown for the protection of the frontier settlements where they built a small fork They were employed in scouring the country round about spying out for the enemy for the space of six months during which time this declarant was in actual service But there was no action, skirmish or any occurence of historic note during his continuance in service that took place between this co to which he belonged and the Indians or enemy They were marched to no other places and served with no continental regiment or regular troops and consequently he is not acquainted with any or the officers in the names of the officers of any He was discharged from the service by Captain Parsons but he thinks it was only a verbal discharge if he had a written discharge he does not now recollect it nor does he
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now know what has become of it He has no documentary evidence of his service he knows of no living witness by whom he can prove his service nor of any person by whom he can establish any facts above related He moved from the place of his birth to Warren county Kentucky there to Smith Co Tennessee there to Dixon co Tenn thence to Pope county Illinois thence to Johnson co Ills and thence to Franklin county Illinois where he now resides He is well acquainted with Dempsey Odum a clergyman and Willis Allen John T Davis and a great may others who can testify as their belief of and the reputation of his services as a soldier of the Revolution He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to an annuity or pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state Levi Casey
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
SM Hubbard clk CCCFC

We John Browning a clergyman residing in the county of Franklin and state of Illinois and Willis Allen residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Levi Casey who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty eight years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion 
John Brawning
Willis Allen
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
SM Hubbard clk cccfc
and the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories
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prescribed by thw 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 John Browning who has signed the proceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the county of Franklin and state of Illinois that Willis Allen who has also signed the same is a resident in the same county and state and are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit
I Simon M Hubbard clerk of the county commissioners court in and for the county of Franklin and State of Illinois Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original procedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Levi Casey for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand (and private seal seal of office as there having public seal) this 28th day of September AD 1835
S M Hubbard clk cccFc

State of Illinois Set I certify that Simon M Hubbard who signed the foregoing attestation is and was at the time of certifying the same clerk of said court
12 Act 1835  John Reynolds
MC Illinois
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H. R. Washington June 9th 54

Dear Sir

Some years since Levi Casey
of Illinois a Revolutionary soldier
filed his claim for a pension for services rendered in Revolutionary war
will you inform me the situation of said claim, he has since died and his children are anxious to learn the true situation of said claim in order that they may know whether they can perfect the proof and receive
the pay -

Yours &c
Willis Allen
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May 19, 1938
Levi Casey, R.1777
BA-J/ MCS

Honorable Wall Doxey
House of Representatives
Washington D. C.
My dear Mr. Doxey:
Reference is made to your request for information regarding Levi Casey who served as Brigadier General in 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 on the military service of soldiers int hat war. A careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the service of Brigadier General Levi Casey or any soldier of that name who served as an officer.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, R.1777,  based on the military service of the only Levi Casey that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Levi Casey was born in November, 1767, in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. The names of his parents were not given.
While living in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, he volunteered April 1, 1783, and served until October, 1783, as private and Indian spy in Captain Major Parsons' company under Colonel John Thomas and he was stationed on the frontier to watch the motions of the Cherokee Indians.
Levi Casey stated that he was acquainted with General Levi Casey who was his cousin and was "in the army of the Revolution". No further reference was made to General Levi Casey.
After the Revolution, Levi Casey lived in Greenville County, South Carolina, in Logan and Warren Counties, Kentucky, in Smith and Dickson Counties, Tennessee, and in Pope, Johnson and Franklin Counties, Illinois.
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Levi Casey applied for pension September 28, 1835, while living in Franklin County, Illinois. The claim was not allowed as the service he rendered was after termination of the Revolution; the pension law covered only service rendered prior to April, 1738.

Levi Casey stated that his father (name not given) was a volunteer in the same company with him. Zadock Casey, a brother of Levi Casey, was living in Jefferson County, Illinois, in 1835. In 1838 Levi Casey's brothers, Isaac, aged sixty-eight years, and Abraham P., aged sixty-six years, were living in Jefferson County, Illinois.

In 1854 it was stated that Levi Casey was dead and made reference was made to his children but no names were given and there are no further data relative to the family of this soldier.

Your letter from the War Department dated May 17, 1939, is returned herewith.

Very truly yours

A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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1908 Mar. 7  Hist to Florence Casey
1938 May 19. Hist to Hon. Wall
Doxey

REJECTED
1777
Levi Casey
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4

Levi Casey
Illinois
________
Rejected

See let. 27 Dec
1838 Hon Z.
Casey 

1777

service as a volunteer
after April 1783

Hon W. Allen June 12, 1854

Act 7 June 1832
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Levi Casey
Illinois

Rejected, See
let Walter B. Scates Oct
27.   35 Frankfort Ill


Act 7 June  33
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4
34.667
his alt.
Levi Casey
Illinois

Hon
Z. Casey
HR
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832
State of Illinois
Franklin County} Set On this 5th day of December 1838 personally appeared in open court before John Crawford & Cyrus Campbell two of the Judges of the county commissioners court in and for the county of Franklin the same being a court of record Levi Casey aged 71 years and at present a resident of Franklin county aforesd who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of congress passed June the 7th 1832 that he the said Levi Casey volunteered for the term of six months and to the best of his knowledge on first April in the year 1783 in the state of South Carolina in the company of Captain Major Parsons who raised a volunteer company by the command of Colonel John Thomas Colonel of Militia in the county of Spartanburg in said state which company was stationed on the frontier to watch the motions of the Indians that on the first day of april 1783 he was stationed at a fort in said county on the frontier and on the 10th of April or after he had been in fort about 10 days he together with three others of his company were ordered by captain Parsons to go in search of Indians as spies that the accordingly on the said day started on horse back and having the fort which stood on the Tiger river they crossed the river to the waters of the north fork of the Saluda river South Carolina a distance of about 20 miles where the remained about 4 days and returned to the fort again about the 16th of the same month during their tour he saw an Indian near the dividing ridge between the Tiger and Saluda river and gave him those but he effected his escape that after their return to the fort they remained in fort two months without leaving the fort where again he was ordered to take a similar rout with the same number of men again performed a similar tour of service without however seeing any Indians and returned again to the fort where he remained until he was discharged which was on the 1st day
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of October the same year was verbally discharged by his captain Major Parsons he was acquainted with General Levi Casey this deponents cousin Colonel Roebuck & Colonel Miller of North Carolina Rutherford county who were in the army of the revolution but whether in the regulars or militia he cannot now state That this deponent was born in the November of the year 1767 in Spartanburg county where he resided until he volunteered that at the time he volunteered his brothers Isaac Casey and Abraham P Casey were too young to perform military duty but accompanied this deponent and his father who was a volunteer in same company to the fort and remained there the said six months they are now residing in Jefferson County in this state and can testify to the truth of what this deponent has stated the following are his reasons for not making earlier application for a pension some time elapsed before this deponent was aware of his being entitled to a pension under the act of congress that as soon as he was informed of his right he employed one Walter B Scales an attorney then residing in Frankfort in said county of Franklin as his agent to procure his said pension that the said Scales made a mistake in drawing the declaration in stating that the deponent was in the militia service this deponent made no such statement where as he was a volunteer was about sixteen years of age when he volunteered and was sufficiently able to perform duty as a volunteer that it was not until the 22nd January 1838 that the said Scales who has since left Frankfort communicated to him the result of his application to this department that this deponent has a record of his age
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his brother Zadoc Casey has possession of it After the deponent left his captain on his discharge aforesd he moved over the line into Greenville County in his 28th year he moved out of Greenville into Logan county Kentucky he lived 4 years in Logan Co Ky and then moved into Smith County Tennessee where he lived about 3 years he afterward lived in Johnson County in this state into which county he removed when he left Tennessee he resided in Johnson about 19 years and then moved into this county where he has continued to reside until the present time that his brothers Isaac and Abraham are generally acquainted with the circumstances of his life that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
Levi Casey
and the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states
Cyrus Campbell
John Crawford
I Simon M Hubbard clerk of the county commissioners court of Franklin county state of Illinois do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application Levi Casey for a pension
In testimony where of I have hereunto
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- to set my hand and seal of office this
5th day of December 1838

S.M Hubbard. CLK

SEAL
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State of Illinois
Jefferson County } ss On this the 10th day of December 1838 personally before the undersigned an acting justice of the peace in & for sd county appeared Isaac Casey of lawful age who being first duly sworn deposes and says tha he is sixty eight years of age that he is personally acquainted with Levi Casey who is about to apply for a pension under the act of the 7th June 1832 that he has been acquainted with said Levi from his infancy that said Levi Casey volunteered in the war of the revolution against the Cherokee Indians for the time of six months in South Carolina Spartenburg county under the command of Capt Major Parsons and entered the service as a private on or about the 1st day of April 1783 and remained in said service as such private for the term of six months and was honorably discharged as this deponent then understood having fully served the tour of six months ending on the 1st day of Oct of the same year That during said tour of service said Levi was stationed in a fort built on the Tiger River where he remained the whole term of service except occasionally when he was ordered to scour the county in search of Indians as
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a spy which tours generally lasted only about six or 8 days at a time when he would return to the fort and guard the river Isaac Casey
Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 10th day of Decr 1838
Elihu Maxay JP 
State of Illinois
Jefferson County } Set on the 19th day of December 1838 the undersigned an acting justice of the peace in & for sd court personally appeared before me Abraham P Casey of lawful age who being first duly sworn deposes and says that he is sixty six years of age that he is personally acquainted with Levi Casey who is about to apply for a pension under the act of 7th June 1832 that he has been acquainted with said Levi from his infancy that said Levi Casey volunteered in the war of the revolution against the Cherokee Indians for six months in the county of Spartanburg South Carolina under the command of captain major Parsons and entered the service as a private on or about the first day of April 1783 and remained in said service as such private volunteer for the space of six months and was honorably discharged as this deponent
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then understood having fully served the term of six months ending on the first day of october of the same year that durring said term of service said Levi was stationed in a fort built on the Tiger River where he remained the whole term of service except when he was ordered to scour the country in search of Indians as spy about 6 or 8 days at a time when he would return to the fort and guard the same Abraham P Casey
Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 10th day of December 1838
Elihu Maxey JP 
State of Illinois
Jefferson County} Set I Edward H Ridgeway clerk of the county commissioners court in and for the county and state aforesaid do hereby certify that Elihu Maxey whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit is and was at the time of signing and certifying the foregoing affidavit an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid and that full faith and credit are right of due and ought to be given to all of his official acts
seal In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and no official provided and affixed my privet seal of the said court at Mount Vernon this 10th day of December 1838
EH Ridgway Clk CCC
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I am personally acquainted with E H
Ridge Clerk of the County Commissioners
Court of Jefferson Co. Illinois whose certificate
is within - he is known to me to be Clerk
as afforesaid and his certificate and attes
tation is in due form according to the
Laws of Illinois
John M Robinson
Dec 26th 1838
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176
Pension Office
June 12. 1854

Sir

In answer to your letter of inquiry of
the 9th instant, I have the honor to inform
you that the claim of Levi Casey, of Illinois,
to a pension under the act of June 7, 1832, was
rejected in December 1838, on the ground that 
the only service claimed to have been performed
by him was rendered after the first of April
1783, and that no militia service performed
after the cessation of hostilities with Great Britain
which was early in April 1783, is embraced by
the provisions of the act of 1832. The service
alleged was frontier defence against the hostile
Indians in So. Carolina; and under the
circumstances could not entitle the claimant
to a pension.

Hon. Willis Allen
Ho. of Rep's
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27 Dec 1838

OC
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War Dept. Pen Office
Dec 27. 1838

Sir

The declaration of Levi
Carey has been examined. He
alleges to have volunteered in April
1783 in South Carolina for six
months and that he was engaged in
guarding the frontier of for the hostile
incursions of the Indians. Hostilities
with Great Britton ceased in April
1783, and service performed by militia
men after that period is not provided
for by the act of 7 June 1832, The claim
has therefore been rejected  and the
papers filed in this office
Hon J. Casey
H. R
/entered/
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27 Oct. 1835
O.C.

Record Vol 28.  P. 190
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[the handwriting was very difficult to read and transcribe]

Dept of War
Pension Office
Oct 27th 1833

Sir

I have recd [illegible] examined the declarations of
A D that, [illegible], have place them on
file. Mr Shoto allege that he performed in the militia
[illegible] several tours of military duty, amount in all to nearly three years. If [illegible] was the fact, evidence of
that service may be found in the office of the comptroller
Genl at Columbia So Ca   to whom  he is [illegible]for
that pension - [illegible] that the
Militia -tours in So Ca were not of so long a period as
6 mo each

 Levi Casey claim for one tour  only  of 6 mo; in
addition - with - [illegible] further  claim  containth with preceeding
paragraph,  claim  another. It appears that the 
applicant at the time of her alleged service was only between  14 or
15 years of age, not on rolls or be able to be called upon for service in
Militia.  His claim is rejected 
                                                               [illegible]

Esq  Walter B. Scates

  [illegible] Frankfort
Ill.                                Ills.
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Stamp
BELLEVILLE
OCT 15
ILINOIS.

FREE
J. L. Edwards
Comm Pensions
Washington
           City

[left side]

[illegible]
Claim [illegible]
Revolutionary
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Frankfort Illinois
Oct 10th 1835
Dear Sir 
Herewith I transmit to you the declaration of Levi Casey and Anthony Shoto
Be good enough to advise me the earliest opportunity of your deseision on the matter Direct to me at Frankfort Illinois
Accept Dr Sir the high consideration and esteem of your mo
obt servt
Walter B Scates

JL Edwards Comr Pensions
PS Mr Shoto's papers have heretofor been made out and sent on but so mperfacts that I thought it best to draw them anew WBS
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sion file in this Bureau Levi Casey Rey 1777

DATES OF ENLISTEMENT OR APPOINTMENT Apr 1 1783 
LENGTH OF SERVICE to Oct 1783
RANK Pvt and Indian spy 

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
CAPTAIN Major Parsons
COLONEL John Thomas
STATE SC
Battles engaged in  - 
Residence of soldier at enlistment Spartanburg Co S C
Date of application for pension Sept 28 1835
Residence at date of application Franklin Co Ill
Age at date of application Born Nov 1767 in Spartanburg Co SC
Remarks Soldier brothers Isaac, Abraham P and Zadoc He revers to Genl Levi Casey as his cousin The above noted is the only soldier of that name &c His claim was rejected as his service was after the war of Revolution
Very respectfully
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[stamped
PENSION
A 
U MAR S
2
1908
OFFICE]

Auburn Ala
February 28 1908
Secretary of Pension Department
Dear Sir
Will you please look in your pension roll and let me know if you find the name of Elizabeth Casey wife  General Levi Casey a revolutionary soldier The said Levi Casey
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was a Congressman from South Carolina after the war and died while Congress was in session Any information and dates concerning the above named will be greatly appreciated Or if you will refer me to the right department for said information I will consider it quite a favor Arn me you can help me in the pension dates Thanking
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yours in advance
I [illegible] respectfully 
(Miss) Florence Casey

Stamp:
PENSION
A
MAR
2
1906
OFFICE
U.S.
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SEVENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS
                ___________
MARVIN JONES,  TEX., Chairman
HAMPTON P. FULMER, S. C.
WALL DOXEY, MISS.
J. R. MITCHELL, TENN.
JOHN W. FLANNAGAN, JR., VA.
HARRY P. BEAM, ILL.
JAMES G. POLK, OHIO
RICHARD M. KLEBERG, TEX.
FRED COMMINGS, COLO.
WALTER M. PIERCE, OREG.
FRED BIERMANN, IOWA
E. M. OWEN, GA.
HAROLD D. COOLEY, N.C.
WILLIAM L NELSON, MO.
FRANK E. HOOK, MICH.
HARRY B. COFFEE. NEBR.
SCOTT W. LUCAS. ILL.

GERALD J. BOILEAU, WIS.

CLIFFORD R. HOPE KANS.
J. ROLAND KINZER, PA.
FRED C. GILCHRIST, IOWA
CHARLES W. TOBEY, N. H.
AUGUST H. ANDRESEN, MINN.
CLARE E. HOFFMAN, MICH.
BERT LORD, N.Y.

SANTIAGO IGLESIAS, PUERTO RICO
ANTHONY J. DIMOND, ALASKA
SAMUEL W. KING, HAWAII

WALL DOXEY
SECOND DISTRICT MISSISSIPPI 

ADDRESS:
1725 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON, D. C.

MEMBER
NATIONAL FOREST
RESERVATION COMMISSION


[illegible]

House of Representatives U.S.
Committee on Agriculture
Washington, D.C.

May 17, 1938

Hon. Geo. E. Brown, Director-
Veterans' claim Service,
Veterans' Administration,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

The attached letter speaks for itself.
If you can give me any information regarding
LEVI CASEY, thought to have served as a Brigadier General
in the Revolutionary War, I shall greatly appreciate the
courtesy of your doing so.

Yours very truly,

Wall Doxey
M.C.

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