Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21126, Nicholas Corry, N.C. S.C.
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SERVICE N.C.  S.C.
CORRY, NICHOLAS
NUMBER S 21126 
CONTENTS
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[Text missing]der to pay 6t Sept 1837. -
South Carolina 29728
Nicholas Corry
[illegible] in the State of So Car
[illegible] a Priv in the Compy: Commanded by Captain McClure of the     commanded 
in the So Ca Mil
[illegible] for 17 months
Inscribed on the Roll of South Carolina at the rate of 56 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of Feby : 35 and sent Hon: Wm K Clowney H.R.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 34   $198.31
Semi-an. allowance ending 4 Mar 85  28.33
$226.64
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Nath Rice Clerk
Book E Vol 6 Page 66
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State South Carolina
Union District
On this the twenty third day of January 1835 personally appeared in the court of ordinary for the district and state aforesaid before John J. Pratt judge of the said court Nicholas Corry a resident of Union District and State of South Carolina aged eighty two years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed 7 June 1832 that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated: He entered the service as a volunteer in the company of Captain William McMillan which was attached to Col Richardsons command some time in December in the year 1775: the company of Capt McMillan was raised in the neighborhood of Broad River Union District South Carolina where he then resided; immediately after the company ^ was organized ^ we went through the country in the tory neighborhoods to prevent them from appearing in large bodies and to take the [illegible] of the disaffected: during this service we were mostly under the direction of the council of safety, & were in actual service for twenty days; during this service we were placed by the directions of the committee of safety under
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the command of Col Richardson & provided immediately to perform the tour of duty called the Snowe [Snow] Camps, from the severity of the weather: during this time we were engaged in following the Tories & at last surprised them, in their Ninety six district S. Carolina at a place called the cane brake and we made them prisoners the length of distance was a least forty days which added to the service first detailed makes six they were connected & considered our tour of duty as there was no option he left the service sometime in February 1776
That he again entered the service as a volunteer in the company of Capt. McCree attached to Col Adam Alexander, regiment commanded by General Rutherford on the first of July 1776. He then resided in Mclenburgh [Mecklenburg] county North Carolina the object of our volunteering was to fight Indians and we had been something link two weeks in service when we heard of the declaration of independence, we continued in service for four months during which time we had which skirmishes with the Indians killing & taking more or less nearly every day & during this tour we were joined by General Williamson at the place where the forks of the [Hammonasset] met and we were discharged late in November on the first of December 1776 - Immediately after this expedition we went to the state of Virginia & married, he remained there until 1778 when he moved with
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his family to where he now resides in Union dist S. Carolina - that he again entered the service as a drafted soldier in Captain Jeffries company & Col Brandons regiment in January 1779 (was the last as he thinks) we marched from Union District to Beach Island where we remained until discharge in April 1779 Was drafted for three months & served out his time ( Beach island is on the seven mile river near Augusta, Georgia) That he again entered the service as a drafted soldier in Capt. Sterns company then commanded by Lieut. Davidson and Col Brandons Regiment about the first or middle of November in the year 1779, we were marched from Union district where we then marched, to the vicinity of Charleston and were stationed at the place called & known by the name of the ten mile springs, so soon as we marched the ten mile springs he was appointed quarter master of the regiment & acted in that capacity the balance of the tour, he supports they were ten or twelve days in marching to  ten mile springs. he was drafted for three months, & served out the time for which he was drafted having been discharged sometime in February (1780) seventeen hundred & eighty - After the fall of Charleston and the enemy had got
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possession of the country he took refuge in North Carolina and Virginia & after he heard of the battle at Kings Mountain in York but South Carolina he left his family in Virginia and returned to this state - That he again volunteered and entered the service under the command of General Sumpter & joined him at Clems Branch a tributary of Sugar Beach in Mecklenburgh [Mecklenburg] county North Carolina, he entered the service sometime in the month of June 1780 & continued in service for two months or upwards until Sumpters defeat at Fishing Creek he went as above stated to Virginia & North Carolina That he again returned from Virginia & entered the service as volunteer under the command of General Sumpter in Col Hills regiment and Captain Howes company the last of November 1780 we done garrison duty at the mouth of Crowders Creek, ^ in York but S. Co ^ and had [illegible] skirmishes with the Tories & on one occasion took thirty of them prisoners; we continued in constant service until he was discharged & leave given him to go to his family on the 5th March 1781 as appears from a pass signed by Col William Preston hereunto annexed  - such was the condition of the country at that time that every man had to be in active service in the camp or there was no safety the length of the last detailed service after his return from Virginia was upwards of
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Three months - I know of no persons living who can prove my service except John Jefferies and William Moorhead and that only as to on tour of duty of the three months near Charlston at the ten mile springs the applicant in answer to the interrogatories provided by the war department says as follows
Answer to 1: Interrogatory: He was born in the year of our Lord 1758 in the County Down in the Kingdom of Ireland
Answer to 2nd: I have no word of my age
Answer to 3: I have already answered that as fully as I can, Now living in Union District S. Carolina
Answer to 4: I have answered that; continuous I was drafted & sometimes volunteered
Answer to 5: I have answered in my declaration
Answer to 6: I never received any discharge except the pass already referred to from Wm Preston which is hereto attached
Answer to 7: I refer to the Rev Thomas Mitchell and the Hon David Johnson
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He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present an declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
Nicholas Corry
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
J J Pratt Judge
of the Court of ordy.

I John Gage Junior residing in the village of Union South Carolina do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Nicholas Gage who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that I believe him to be eighty two years of age as he states: That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, of which I have no doubt having heard it from his contemporaries in the service all of whom I believe not to be dead or removed from this county: 
John Gage Jus
Sworn to & subscribed 
Jany 24 1835
J.J. Pratt QU
Ex Off

Union District So. Carolina October 25th, 1834
I whose name is hereunto subscribed am a minister of the gospel, and I do hereby certify that I reside in the vicinity of Mr. Nocholas Corry, I have been acquainted with him from my youth and do know him to be a man of undoubted veracity, supporting and unblemished character  Certified before me one of the Justices of the peace of Union District
Thomas Mitchell [illegible]
John Carothers QU
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Rev & 1812 Wars Section
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M.E.E. 
October 10, 1928.
Geraldine Corry Waddell
314 East Twohig Street 
San Angelo, Texas
Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension Claim, S. 21126, it appears that Nicholas Corry was born in 1752 in county down, Ireland. While a resident of Union District, South Carolina he enlisted in December, 1775, served as a private in Captain William McMillan's Company, Colonel Richardson's South Carolina Regiment, was in a skirmish at Ninety Six District, and was discharged in February, 1776.
While a resident of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, he enlisted, July 1, 1776, served as a private in Captain McCree's Company, Colonel Adam Alexander's North Carolina Regiment; was in many skirmishes with the Indians, and was discharged late in November, or early in December, 1776.  Immediately after this he went to the state of Virginia and married (name of wife not stated) remained in Virginia
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until 1778, when he returned to Union District, South Carolina. He enlisted on January 1779, in Captain Jefferies' Company, Colonel Brandon's South Carolina Regiment, and was discharged in April, 1779. He enlisted about the 1st or 15th of November, 1779, served as quartermaster in Captain Stern's Company, under Colonels Brandon and James Stein, South Carolina Troops, and was discharged in August, 1780. He enlisted in November, 1780, served in Colonel William Preston's South Carolina Regiment, was in several skirmishes, and was discharged March 5, 1781. He was allowed pension on his application executed January 23, 1835, while a resident of Union District, South Carolina. There are no further data on file relative to his family. The Revolutionary War records fail to afford any information in regard to any James Corry.
Respectfully, 
E.W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner
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CORRY, NICHOLAS
(N.C., S.C.)
S-21126
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Camp in Guilford No. Carolina March 5th 1781
The Biner Nicholas Corry being on his Journey from No. Carolina to Glade Bush on Augusta having applied to me for a pass. These are there for to desire & request all persons whatsoever to whom this shall come to suffer the N Corry his pass uninterrupted & unmolested to his home he behaving himself as a good citizen ought to do. And as he has be engaged in public business he is intitled [entitled] to rations & forage on his journey
Given under my hand
Wm Preston

Black round stamp:  The National Archives of the United States
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House of Reps Febr'y 4th 1835
Sir
In your's of the 3d Inst. you stated that "The claim of Nicholas Corry may be admitted from the present evidence in the case for 17 months as a private, but no allowance for his rank of Quarter Master unless fully shown that he was commissioned as such". I consider myself fully authorized to act as the agent of Mr. Corry in this matter & do accept of the certificate for seventeen months service as a privet, upon condition that he be allowed hereafter to establish his claim as quarter master.
Your's respectfully
Wm K Clowney
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Planters & Mechanics Bank of S.C.
Charleston, 31 August 1837
J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
Sir
I forward herewith for your authority to pay, voucher of Nicolas Corry, upon which 12 months pay is due. 
I am very Respectfully
Your ob Serv
A Spears
Pension Agent
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The Naylor [Image of Hotel]
San Angelo, Texas
Hotel Brady [Image of Hotel]
Brady Texas
Hotel Best 
Best, Texas
Hotel St. Angelus [Image of Hotel]
San Angelo, Texas
Hotel Martin [Image of Hotel]
Temple, Texas
Hotel Burleson
McCamey, Texas
Operated by the
McBurnett Hotel Co.
San Angelo, Texas
December 13th, 1927.
Secretary of War, Att. Pension Dept., Washington D.C.
Gentlemen:-
Kindly give me all information possible pertaining to Nicholas Corry, enrolled among the South Carolina Partisans, or James Corry of South Carolina. Is a complete roll of all the soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War kept in your office? Nicholas Corry was a Quartermaster, and served as a private under Sumter. He was placed on the pension roll in 1835. He was born in Ireland and died in Union County, S.C. If your office is not the correct one from which to get this information,  I shall greatly appreciate your replying to this with the advice as to whom I shall write for same, for which purpose I am enclosing postage.
Very truly yours,
Geraldine Corry Waddell [signature]
Geraldine Corry Waddell
314 East Twohig St.,
San Angelo, Texas.
Black Stamp: PENSION OFFICE U.S. DEC 17 1927
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1725 S. Newport St. Tulsa Okla
Nov 21 - 1922
Pension Department: I would greatly appreciate all the information you can give me concerning Nicholas Corry a revolutionary war soldier. I am anxious to know where he was born and who his children were, if it is possible to find out. He served under Sumter in 1780 -
Black round stamp: PENSION OFFICE U.S. NOV 22 1922
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any sources of information, other than your office, which you might suggest will be appreciated. Thanking you in advance for early attention to this matter, I am, 
Very truly yours, 
Mrs. L.L. Hutchinson
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Black round stamp O.W. & N. DIV. FILES JUL 19 1907
Spartanburg, S.C.
July 16, 1907
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir
Please send me a certified copy of on Nicholas Corry who made an application for pension on Jan 23rd 1835 at which time he was 82 years and residing in Union District, South Carolina. his pension was allowed for seventeen months. actual service as a private in the South Carolina troops, Revolutionary War. He enlisted in Union district, South Carolina, and served under Capt Mc Millian & Col Richardson
Respectfully,
Mrs. Charles Christman,
S. Church St. Spartanburg, S.C.
O.W. & N. DIV
Revolutionary
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Campobello, SC
April 24th 1899
Hon Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Sir:-
I am anxious to find out whether the records of your office show that either Davis Goudelock or Nicholas Corry, both from Union District Co S.C. even drew pensions from the government as soldiers of the Revolution, & I mite [might] to ask the proper official to address to gain this information as I appreciate the fact that you cannot spare any of your valuable time to give the matter your personal attention. I desire to state further that it is very important to get this information & for which, I will pay a reasonable price if necessary, Hoping to hear from you soon -
I am- 
Very Respectfully
JBO Landrum
PO Campobello SC
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21126
Revolution
INVALID
File No. 21126
Nicholas Corry
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32"
Index: Vol. 2, Page 77
[Arrangement of 1870]
April 14 '99
AE Lipscomb
Spartanburg
Apr 29 '99
F Stobo Farrow
Give delivery, Cir - P.O.
Aug 11 '99
JBO Landrum
Campobello S.C.
1907 July 24 Hist to Mrs. Chas. Christman c
1908 July 15.  "    "   Q.M. Gen. for tombstone c
1922 Dec 19 Hist to Mrs. L.L. Hutchison aw.
1928 - Oct 10, Hist to Geraldine C. Waddell M.E.E.
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Nicholas Corry
South Carolina
Suspended
Let 2 Feby: 1835
Hon: Wm K Clowney
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papers 
Nicholas Corry Esqr.
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State of South Carolina
Union District
Personally came Joh Jefferies Esqr before me the subscribing Justice and maid [made] oath as the law dyrects [directs] to the best of his knowledge and beleaf [belief] and sayet [saith] that Nicholas Corry Esquir [Esquire] served a touer [tour] of duty in the american army under the command of coranel [Colonel] Jame [James] Steen and was stationed at the ten mile house near Charlestown [Charleston] in the winter of seventeen hundred and seventy nine and eighty it being the winter before the fall of Charlestown [Charleston] and said Corry acted in the army as quarter master sworn and subscribed before ^ me^ this 31st day of October 1834
John Jefferies Esqr
Isaac Peeler JP
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South Carolina
Union District
David Johnson one of the Judges of the Court of Appeals of the said state [illegible] appeared before me and on being duly sworn deposed that he has known Nicholas Cory Esquire who has made his declarations to obtain a pension from the United States for voluntary services about thirty years and for the min paid [illegible] and believes him to be as he represents eighty two years of age. That according to common report which deponent believes the said Nicholas Corry was a soldier of the Revolution and is as far as this deponent has heard & believes a man of unexceptionable character & entitled to implicit credit
David Johnson
Sworn to & subscribed 23rd Jany 1835
J.J. Prat
Q. A. Ex Off.
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and the said court does hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant Nicholas Corry was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Thomas Mitchell who has signed the certificate hereunto attached dated Oct 25 1834 is a clergyman of the applicant, and that John Gage Jr.
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& John Jeffries Esqr who have signed separate certificates are residents of Union District; and the Hon David Johnson now resides in Columbia but until a few years part in Union District and the court further certifies that Thomas Mitchell, John Gage
John Jeffries and the Hon David Johnson are
credible persons & their statements entitled to credit
Jany 24th 1835
J. J. Pratt Judge
of the Court of ordy.
I John Rogers Clerk of the court of Sessions & common pleas for Union district do hereby certify that the two Sheets of paper attached contain the original proceedings of the said court of Ordinary in the matter of the application of Nicholas Corry for a pension: and I further certify that John J. Pratt is the Judge of the court of Ordinary & that the
signatures in the foregoing application purporting to his are his genuine signatures; and I further certify that John Carothers who has signed the certificate of Thomas Mitchell dated Oct. 25 1834 is a justice of the Quorum
duly authorized to administer oaths & that the signature is his genuine signation, that Isaac Peeler who has Signed the certificate of John Jeffries dated 31 Oct. 1834 hereto attached is a justice of the peace duly authorized by law to administer oaths & that the signature is his genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of my office this 24th day of January 1835
J Rogers Clk
[Paper seal attached - illegible]
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House of Rep. Febry 2d 1835
Sir
I return herewith the amended
declaration of Mr Nicholas Corry
I have exhibited to the Hon Wm C
Preston the original paper signed
by Wm Preston, who will certify its
genuiness if required. I hope you
will find no further difficulty in
granting the claim of the applicant
Your's repectfully
W Clowney