Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,921, Austin Yancey, N. C. S. C.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
NC Yancey, Austin R 11921
SC
CONTENTS
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State of Illinois
Franklin County} set In the circuit court of said Franklin County On this 8th day of October AD 1833 personally appeared Austin Yancy a resident of Franklin county in the state of Illinois aged eighty one years one month and ten days who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain a pension the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 That he entered the service of the state of North Carolina as a volunteer from Rutherford County in said state in the year 1775 that he repaired to McKinneys station on Broad river in said county of Rutherford At McKinneys stateion he attached himself to the command of Colonel William Graham who at the period mentioned commanded the militia of said Rutherford County Col Graham directed him to detach twenty five men and proceed to Chimney Mountain on Broad river and guard the passes in the mountains between that point and Green river cove a distance of about twenty miles so as to prevent the Cherokee Indians (then hostiles) from making incursions between those points through the mountains upon the defenseless frontier settles on their Eastern side In
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obedience to the directions given by Solo Graham he repaired to the post assigned and then continued in discharge of the service required four months and a half In the mean time Colo Graham with the other volunteers marched to McGavits fort on Catawba river to join the forces under the command of Genl Charles McDowel who at that time commanded the North Carolina troops engaged in the campaign against the hostile Cherokee Indians Genl McDowel marched up Catawba river from fort McGavit to Swanns gap and from that point crossed over to French Broad thence up that river to near its sources thence across the mountains to the over hill Cherokee towns which were taken and destroyed by Genl McDowels troops General Williamson of South Carolina in command of a considerable force of regular troops marched from Charleston against the said Cherokees He encountered and defeated them on the heads of Tegalo river not far from what were called the old towns (of the Cherokees)
Generals Williamson and McDowel moved upon the middle towns of the Cherokees which they captured and destroyed The Indians then petitioned for peace which was concluded and the North Carolina troops disbanded and sent home The said Yancey thinks he was disbanded in September of said year 1775 but
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29133
Austin Yancey
Illinois
Hon Jno Reynolds
HR
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Joel Yancy
application for a pension

Address Charles Dunn of Solond & Payre
County Illinois in relation of this application

Hon JM Robinson
Senate US
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received no written discharge
The said Yancey further declares that in the year 1781 he was on a visit to his relations in South Carolina and at the time he was there troops were called to aid in besieging Ninety Six He volunteered and attached himself to Capt Obid Holloway's company in what was then called the District of Ninety Six as well as he now recollects Capt Holloway marched his company to the siege of Ninety six where his sd company was attached to the command of Colonel Henderson the besieging army being under the command of General Green of the United States Army He the said Yancey was engaged served in the siege of Ninety Six forty days that is from the 22d May to 19th June 1781 for the period of six weeks when the pace was relieved by a British army under the command of a British officer called Lord Rawden as well as he now recollects report said that Lord Rawden from Charleston (which was then in possession of the British) about eight thousand troops at all events the force was sufficient to induce Genl Greene to on sd 19th June and crossing the Saluda encamped on Little River raise the seige of Ninety six which he did and the company of Capt Holloway to which he the said Yancey belonged was discharged but he received no written in the afsaid by Gen Green's troops on Ninety Six in which Genl Greene lost fifty to two hundred men from our hundred and 
discharge that he now recollects - on the 18th June he was engaged
The said Yancey further declares that from the circumstance of his having been absent from the Carolinas for more than
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twenty years and the lapse of many more years since the date of his said services he does not know of nor does he believe there is any living witness by whom he can prove his services as in their declarations set forth and detailed
He the said Yancey hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state
Austin Yancey
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
We Elijah Spillars and James Oglesby clergymen residing in the said Spillers in Jackson county and the said Oglesby in Franklin County state of Illinois and James Duncan residing in said Franklin County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Austin Yancey who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty one years one month and ten days 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
ElDr Elijah Spiller
Mers James Ogelsby
James Duncan
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
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And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented 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 Elijah Spillers and James Oglesby who has signed the preceeding certificate are clergymen residing the said Spillers in the county of Jackson & the said Oglesby in the county of Franklin and that James Duncan who has also signed the same is a resident in the county of Franklin and are credible persons and that their statements is entitled to credit
I Simon M Hubbard clerk of the circuit court of Franklin county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Austin Yancey for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & pervab and seal of office this day and year above mentioned &c
S M Hubbard clk
The above named Simon M Hubbard is personally known to me and I hereby certify that he is clerk as set fourth in the above certificate & that the same and his attestation thereto are in due form according to the laws of Illinois JDec 27 1833
John M Robinson
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aus
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Rev and 1812
War Section

October 8, 1925

Mrs BM Anderson
5020 California St
Omaha Nebr

Madam:

I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim R 11921 it appears that Austin Yancey while residing in Rutherford County, North Carolina, enlisted in 1775 under Colonel William Graham in the North Carolina Militia, and was ordered by him to take twenty men and go to Chimney Mountain to guard the mountain passes against the Cherokee Indians, and returned hom in September 1775, having served four and one half months. 

While on a visit to relatives (no names stated) in South Carolina, he served from May 22, 1781 to June 19, 1781 at the Siege of Ninety-Six in Captain Obid Holloway's Company, Colonel Henderson's South
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Carolina Regiment.
He applied for pension October 8, 1833 while a resident of Franklin County, Illinois aged eighty one years one month and ten days but the claim was not allowed as he did not serve six months as required by the pension law.

There is no data on file as to his family.

Respectfully

WINFIELD SCOTT 
Commissioner.
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1925 Oct 8 Hist to Mrs B M Anderson awf
11901
PO
[crossed out] Yancey
Service: Austin 
Enlisted REJECTED
Discharged
Application filed
The printed list of 1852 shows reasons for rejection
Alleges Arthur Yancey Lewistown Fulton Co Ill
Re-enlisted
Not six months service

Attorney
PO
Recognized
Cert of Dis Searched for
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DAUTHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
NEBRASKA CONFERENCE

MRS ELIZABETH O'LINN SMITH
REGENT
359 CHADRON AVE CHADRON

VICE REGENT MRS CLARENCE S APINE
STATION A LINCOLN

REC SEC'Y MRS WILLIAM MADGETT
748 ST JOSEPH AVE HASTINGS

COR SEC'Y MRS BM ANDERSON
5020 CALIFORNIA ST OMAHA

TREASURER MRS YORK A HINMAN
NORTH PLATTE

REGISTRAR MRS FP LARMON
4912 CALIFORNIA ST OMAHA

HISTORIAN MRS HE POTTER FAIRBURY

AUDITOR MRS A L EVANS
LEXINGTON

LIBRARIAN MRS ADAM McMULLEN
1122 NO 11TH ST BEATRICE

CHAPLAIN MISS HARRIETT BALLARD
BLAIR

Omaha Ne
Aug 17 182

Revolutionary War Section 
Department of the Interior
Washington, D.C.

Kind Sirs:

A family "tradition" says that Colonel Austin Yancey gave service in the Revolutionary Army, and that he was "from North Carolina".

Have you any record of such service, and any information about his family?

I shall appreciate very much whatever data you may give me about this man.

Very sincerely,

Audentia Anderson
(Mrs BM)

RETURN TO AUDENTIA ANDERSON
5020 California St Omaha, Nebr
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Rejected
[crossed out
lit apl 56
Hn J Reynolds]
dog spe
did not serve six mo
11921
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Apl 2

James L Edwards
Commr of Pensions
Wasington City
DC

Hn Jno Reynolds
HR
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Washington City 1st April 1836
Dear Sir
Your kind attention to pension business gives me on all occoing great pleasure to present cases of good men to you 
pleze let me know the result of your labrs in this matter your kind
John Reynolds

JL Edwards Esq
Com Pensions}
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James L Edwards 
Pension office
Washington 
City

Hn Jno Reynolds
son
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JL Edwards Esqr

Dear sir
In the case of Austin Yancy I do not know to whom or to what place to labon your letter of the 5th inst please write me the recd the names of the person before whom the proof was taken so I can send your letter to the [illegible] county and person your friend
6 April 1130
John Reynolds
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Hon J Reynolds
April 5 1836

Record Vol 28 P 417
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War Dept Pens office
April 5 1836

Sir
The declarations of Austin Yancey has been exd He alleges to have volunteered to guard the passes through the mountains on the Indian frontier to prevent Indians depredtn in which service he was engaged for and one half months He also alleges forty days service in S Carolina in 1780 The whole service does not amount to six months which is necessary in order to obtain the beneift of the act of 7 June 1832. The claim has therefore been rejected on the papers filed in this office 
[crossed out The first service not of 11 agant the Indians in 1775 was not of that chater proid for 6th  illegible]

Hon John Reynolds
HR