Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 70-300, Field Farrar, S.C.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
S.C.

Farrar, Field
or
Farar

NUMBER
B.L.Wt. 70-300

CONTENTS
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Columbia Nov 29th 1802 Sir, Judge Grimke  having wrote you on my account  respecting my Brother's Bounty  land in the northwestern territory  and that enclosing a certificate from Genl. Pinkney [Brigadier General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney] . I beg leave to mention to you that I have also sent a duplicate by Mr. Rutledge for fear of accidents- I shall be extremely  obliged by you if you  will honor me with a letter on the subject, what chance I have to  come at the land, and what vouchers will be necessary  for me to send on as  heir at law of my Brother as he left no children , nor is there any other person in the State but myself and my children. If you will do me this favor you  please to sent the letter to Pendleton Court house, as I suppose there will not be time for a letter to reach me here before
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the Legislature rises - I take the liberty to ask these favors of you  on account of the honor of a small acquaintance with you at 96 Court when I was Sheriff of that District . I have the honor Sir to be your most obt. servt. Thomas Farrar ( signed ) Thomas T. Tucker Esq.
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These papers W De Kress ask please to take it to Wingate. the object of these is to draw - Land Warrants. W. Tucker the  Treasurer  will sign any receipt which may be required after the Warrant may be obtained be pleased to examine for a good location. Yours,
s/  W De Kress
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Interest for the year 1802
1 Quarter on 28 199.84972 B & C Stock
Indent                     14,208.
                               _________
1 Quarter        13.675.962. 40 [illegible]
                                         203.
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25 194850
                  14
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197398950
 28199854
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 479397450


28199?
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28197926
         17367
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        197385482
      169187556
     84593778
197385482
 28197926
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4897.133.80.842

[Calculation X'd out]

100
   17. 110
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82.890


   28, 199.850
              17. 110
   281998500
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     28199850
   28199850
 197398950
 28199850
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  4,82,499.433.500
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        28195805 35
                      173 67
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        197367137 45
       1681718221  0
       8458591605     
   19736713745
      2819530535
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( left page ) 1922  Aug 23  hist to Miss Juliet Hite Gallaher - En. ( right page ) Col. Thomas Farrar to Thomas T Tucker Esq.  recorded in the Records of Pendleton District  in Book G page 280 Certificate for the 14th day of May 1803 By B Earle Jus of Ct. Clk
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issued Oct 22, 1803
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Know all men by these presents  that whereas Capt. Field Farrar  of the State of South Carolina was entitled for certain services to Military Bounty  lands from the Government of the United States and whereas the said Capt. Field Farrar died intestate and I Thomas Farrar of the Pendleton District and State of South Carolina being his heir at law now know ye that I the said Thomas Farrar have made , constituted and appointed and by these presents do make, constitute  appoint Thomas T Tucker  Treasurer of the United States my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to take out and receive the warrant or warrants and to sign, seal and deliver such  deeds or  instruments of writing  as shall be supposed to convey and dispose of my right and title to  said warrants or bounty lands giving and by these presents granting  unto the said Thomas T Tucker , my full Power and authority to door cause to be done  all and every act and acts thing and things  as shall be requisite and needful to be done in the Premises in as full and ample  manner as if I myself  was personally  at  his doing the same. In witness whereof I  the said  Thos. Farrar have hereunto put my hand and seal the 14th day of May in the year of our Lord 1803. Thomas Farrar ( signed ) Joseph Taylor ( signed ) Saml. Cherry ( signed )  [ State of South Carolina Pendleton District ] Personally came  Saml. Cherry  who being  sworn saith on oath that he  saw Thomas Farrar sign & seal the above Power of Attorney  & that he subscribed the same as a witness  together with Joseph Taylor. Sworn to &  subscribed before me this 14th day of May 1803.Saml. Cherry  ( signed ) John Taylor ( signed ) Q.U.
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Certificate
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Whereas Col. Thomas Farrar  has made the  necessary application  to secure the Bounty lands in the  Northern territory  which his deceased Brother Field Farrar a Captain in the Continental Army  in the late Revolutionary War was entitled to and whereas  Col. Farrar has  rec'd letters informing him that his Brother's claim is Registered upon that application and the it is necessary that he should send in voucher sufficient to make him the heir or Representative for said land , he has therefore called  upon us the subscribers to Certify  as fat as we know the legality of his claim to his Brother's  Bounty land. we therefore  say that we have known Col. Farrar  ever since the year 1776 and that he served in one of the Independent Companies in this State which were enlisted for three years or during the War and in the Militia alternately to the close of the War and that we also knew his Brother  Field Farrar certainly who served inthe Continental Army . We further say that from the year 1776  to this time we no of no other  Representatives or Heir but the present applicant and his children and we believe from common report that Captain Field Farrar died without issue. 2nd Augt. 1803.  Andr. Pickens ( signed ) Samuel Earle ( signed ) John Henderson ( signed ) John Harle ( signed ) Geoll Earle ( signed ) James Jordan ( signed ) Jno . Smith ( signed ) Obadiah Trimmier ( signed ) Robert Anderson ( signed )
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R Looneys
Qualifications
To the  heir of Capt

Field Farrar
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[ South Carolina Pendleton District ] Before me the subscribing Justice personally .. Robert Looney  a citizen of the District aforesaid and being sworn on the Holy Bible  saith that he has been acquainted a few years with Capt. Field Farrar from the year  1774 until his death , and that he served with him  in the Campaign of 1775  under General [Richard] Richardson, the said Campaign  being well known  by the name of Snow Camps in South Carolina, that he knew him after that in the Continental Army  until the general peace , and from that time till his marriage with Mrs. Holt , and  from that time occasionally  till near the time of his death ( as above mentioned )  which took place in Augusta in the State of Georgia about the year 1796 and that he is very certain Capt. Farrar died without lawful issue, and from common report died intestate, and further saith he has been acquainted with the present applicant Col. Thomas Farrar ever since the year 1775  at which  time , he , this deponent enlisted in the State service in the first Independent Company as an  armorer for three years , or  during the war, in which company  the aforesaid Thomas Farrar  was then Lieutenant  and from the  year 1780  at which time the Company was captured by the British  Army at  Fort Rutledge, and from that time to this has lived near to and known the present Col. Thomas Farrar and that from the first acquaintance with him he was always the respected Brother of the aforesaid Capt. Field Farrar, that they  passed as such and were generally considered so  and from their  great personal resemblance there could be no doubt of the fact and this deponent further saith that he in all the time above mentioned , never  knew of any other relation  or heir but the present Col. Farrar and his children and has no doubt on his mind but that he is the lawful heir of his Brother Capt. Field Farrar, deceased. Sworn and subscribed to before me this 5th September1803 . Robert Looney ( signed ) Obadiah Trimmier ( signed ) Q.U.
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J Looneys
Qualification
to the heir of Capt
Field Farrar
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South Carolina Pendleton District
John Looney a Citizen of the State and District aforesaid Personally came before me the Subscribing Justice and being duly sworn as the law directs, Saith, that he has been acquainted with Captain Field Farrar from the Campaign of 1775 known by the name of the Snow Camps in
the back parts of the State aforesaid, and after that, he knew him in the Continental Army, and from that time Occasionally till within a few years of his Death, and that he is certain he died without Lawful Issue, and from Common Report Intestate. This deponent further saith that he
known Colonel Thomas Farrar ever since the year 1777 at which Time this deponent Enlisted in the Regular Service for 3 years, or during the war, that the said Thomas Farrar was a Lieutenant in the Company which this deponent Enlisted in, that he Served under the aforesaid Thomas
Farrar till the 9th day of October 1779 at which time he got wounded at the battle of Savannah and became a cripple, that he has known and lived near the said Thomas Farrar for a number of years that he was always the Reputed Brother of the aforesaid Captain Field Farrar and that this
deponent has no doubt of him the aforesaid Thomas Farrar being the Brother and Lawful heir of
the aforesaid Captain Field Farrar and in all the time this deponent has known them, he never
knew or heard of any other Relation, or, heir, but the aforesaid Colonel Thomas Farrar and his Children.
  S/ Jno. Looney
Sworn and Subscribed to before me this 8th day of August 1803
S/ Obadiah Trimmier, QU
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Wars Section.
June 16, 1924.
Honorable W. W. Hastings,
House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. Hastings:
In response to your letter of the
fourteenth instant, asking for data for the Honorable R. L. Williams of Muskogee, Oklahoma, I have the honor to advise you, that this Bureau is unable to furnish the history of a soldier of the Revolution, unless a claim
for pension, or bounty land has been made on account of his services and a careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the services in the South Carolina Troops of soldiers named Stallings, Paul,
Page and Paige. You are herewith furnished the histories of the only two soldiers named Farrar of the South Carolina Troops, War of Revolution, found on the records of this
Bureau.
The records of this Bureau show that Field Farrar was a Captain in Colonel Isaac Huger's Fifth South Carolina Regiment and Colonel William Thompson's Third South Carolina
Regiment, War of the Revolution, date of commission
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Rev. & 1812

not stated. He was captured at the surrender of Charleston and held until paroled in the summer of 1781.
After the Revolution he married Mrs. Holt, date of marriage and her maiden name not on record. He died about 1796, in Augusta Ga. leaving no issue.
Three hundred acres of bounty land was allowed on account of his services, on Warrant No. 70, which issued October ___, 1805, to his brother Thomas also a soldier of the Revolution.
From the service in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 3449, it appears that Thomas Farrar was born in [illegible], October 1, 1754, and resided in Pendleton District, South Carolina during the Revolution.
On February 15, 1776, he was commissioned Lieutenant of the Eighth South Carolina regiment, from which he was attached to serve as Second Lieutenant of Captain Benjamin Tuttle's Independent South Carolina Company, raised to [illegible] the frontier of resident Indians. In 1781, he was made Brigade Major under General Andrew Pickens, in the South Carolina Militia and served until the end of the Revolution.
He married in South Carolina, October 7, 1777, Miss Margaret Prince, who died at Cold Springs, Claiborne Co., Mississippi, in 1831, and he died there on August 24, 1833.
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Laura H. the wife of John Bruce, of Anderson Co., 
South Carolina and Mrs. Lucinda J. Hankinson, of Claiborne Co., Mississippi, (name of her husband not stated) were his only surviving children in 1857, when they applied for pension on account of the above noted services but the claim was not allowed as the law did not then
authorize the allowance of pension to children of soldiers of the Revolution.
It does not appear that bounty land was allowed on account of his services.
R. Sincerely,
Hays Haymaker
Acting Commissioner.
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Columbia Nov 28 1802 Dr Sir, I beg leave to recommend to your friendly attentions the enclosed Certificate of Col/ Farrar's Brother who was in the late army  & who would have been entitled to his land had he lived. The Colonel will forward you hereafter proof of his being the heir of his Brother, but as the time is short  to make his claim he can only do this in the first instance. I am Dear Sir with esteem your very hum. servt. JF Grimke ( signed )   T.T. Tucker Esq.
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Evidence in support of a 
claim & land by the heirs

Capt Field Farrar

South Carolina
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Captain Field Farrar was an officer in the  Fifth Continental  Regiment of the South Carolina Line, & was afterwards removed to the Third., he was  made prisoner by the British  at the surrender of Charleston in the year 1780 & confined with other Continental officers then captured at  Hadrilles point & with them permitted to go to Virginia on parole in the  summer of 1781. He continued a prisoner on parole till the  peace. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney ( signed )  late Major General  Nov 26th 1802
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Free
T.T. Tucker Esq
Treasurer of the U.S.
Washington -
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free

COLUMBIA
S. C. Nov. 30

Thomas T. Tucker Esq
Treasurer. U.S.
Washington

Mail
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Col Earle.
Certificate
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I have known Col. Thomas Farrar  and his Brother  Capt. Field Farrar since the year 1778  until the decease of Capt. Farrar a few years back.  I am very confident he died intestate and with our lawful issue, and I have no doubt from my knowledge of the family  of Col. Thomas Farrar  being his legal representative of his deceased Brother. 2nd Augt. 1803. J B Earle ( signed )
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Waynesboro Virginia July 20, 1922 Commissioner of Pensions Dear Sir, One Field Farrar  ( also Farrer & Farrors ) served in Rev. War as Capt- in Capt Field Farrars  Co - 3rd Regt South Carolina Continental Troop commanded by  Col. Wm Thompson - He was commissioned  Dec 18- 1776  & his name  last appears in the Co. pay roll of Nov. 1 - 1779  Also  Field Farrar S.C. 1st Lieut. 3rd S.C.  1777 . capt 18 Dec 1778  .. ( illegible ) at Savannah 9 Oct 1779 then prisoner at Charleston 12 May 1780 , retired 1st Jan 1781  Will you kindly  send me copy of the application for pension of above Field Farrar of S.C. also of Peter Fields Farrar of S.C. if he had record of such &  .. ( illegible ) have at your earliest convenience. Thanking you in advance for an early reply . Very truly yours- ( Miss ) Juliet Hite Gallaher ( signed ) Box 255 Waynesboro , Virginia
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Rev. War Section.
August 22, 1922
Miss Juliet Hite Gallaher,
Waynesboro', Va. Box 355.
Madam:-
In response to your letter dated July 20, 1922,
you are advised that the records of this Bureau show that (crossed out - Captain) Field Farrar served during the Rev. as a Captain in Colo Isaac Huger's (Crossed out - was an officer in the) Fifth SC Regiment, (crossed out - under Colonel Isaac Huger, and in the Third Regiment, under) and Colonel William Thompson's, 3 South Carolina, (crossed out - Troops) Regt. (crossed out - dates and length of services not stated.)
(Crossed out - In 1870) He was taken prisoner by the surrender of Charleston, and held (crossed out - at Hartwell's Point) until the Summer of 1781 when he was paroled. (crossed out - to the close of the war.)
After the war, date not stated, he married Mrs.
Holt (?) maiden name not stated; he died about 1796  in Augusta Ga leaving
no children. (crossed out - issue)
300 acres of bounty land were allowed on account of his services on Warrant No. 70, which issued Oct 22, 1803 in favor of his brother, Colonel Thomas Farrar, also a soldier of the Revolution.
The Revolutionary War records of this bureau
fail to afford any information in regard to Peter Field Farrar, under any spelling of the name.
Very respectfully,
[illegible] Hand written
Commissioner.