Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8635, Robert Gracey, N.C. S.C.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
N.C.
S.C.

Gracey, Robert

NUMBER
S. 8635

carded

CONTENTS
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12.986
North Carolina ,
________________________________________
Rober Gracey
of Iredel in the State of North Carolina 
who was a Pr : cav: & inf in the Company commanded
by Captain Purviance in the North Car:
line  for 19 months
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Inscribed on the Roll of North Car: 
at the rate of 76 Dollars 66 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of June '33 and sent to and Hon L. William
Panther creek N.C.
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Arrears to the 4th of March '33 -                       153. 32
Semi-an.l allowance ending 4 Sept '33 -          38.33
                                                                                      =====
                                                                                    $191.65
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Wm Miller Clerk,
Book E. Vol 6. Page 41
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State of North Carolina
Iredell County
On this 1st day of May 1833 personally appeared before
the Court of pleas and quarter Session  of Iredell County Robert
Gracey aged sixty nine years who being first duly sworn in due
form of law doth upon his oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain benefit the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832  that by reason of old age such consequent loss of memory he
cannot swear precisely to the length of his service but
according to the best of his recollection he served not less than
the periods mentioned below
That in the month of April 1780 he entered as a volunteer in the
militia in the foot service as a private in Capt Purviances
Company.  The company met in Mecklenburg County and were
joined to the division under Gen Rutherford, upon an express
reaching the General we were ordered to march into Lincoln
County to support the cause of the country against the Tories.
He arrived on the winning after the Battle at [illegible] mill
being the 20th June 1780 at the battle ground. He returned and
immediately proceed to the forks of the JadRiver  after the Tory
Colonel Bryant and returned home at Ramsoun Battle
he obtained a horse and his first tour ended about the
time
---
Before the defeat of Gen Gates he again entered the service as a
volunteer in the horse under Capt William Stewart and
was for three months or more stationed in Mecklenburg
County making occasional excursions into South Carolina.
Col Davis  and Gen Davidson were the commanding
officers. After the defeat of Gates the division in which
his was relocated before the victorious army of Cornwallis
[illegible] up though Mecklenburg and Rowan Counties
and so on to Guilford County from whence he
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[illegible] during this retreat near Salisbury he was a skirmish with
a detachment of the British Army at Second Creek
this whole service was not less than - 6 months
His next tour of duty was performed as a volunteer in 
a company of horses enlisting in the State troops
under Captain John Reid in the Regiment commanded by
Major Rutherford and Col Wade Hampton He joined his
Comp sometime in the summer of 1781, and marched from
what was then Rowan but is now Iredell County to the days
Ferry on the Congaree in South Carolina, where he joined
the comps under Gen Sumter. This rendezvous was about 4
miles from where the British had a fort at Granby which
the [illegible]  of the [illegible]
The Comps in which he served was engaged in
re[illegible] the enemies station at Motts house and
Orangeburg  Having been joined by Washington and
Lee of the house we proceeded on and joined Gen Greene
in the neighbourhood of Ninety Six from which Green
was then retreating after his unsuccessful attach thereon
with whom we retreated forming the rear guard of his
army until we came to broad River the British pursuing
as far as enoree River from thence marched in small parties
through the country to Congaree, and collected again at
Middletons [illegible] houses on the forks of Congaree and Wateree
from there to orangeburg and thence to Buck Island here
[illegible] in quest of tories, in that this last
[illegible], from thence crossing the Savannah into Georgia
proceeded through that state as for as the Altamaha this lase
Service was preformed partly  under Major Moon and
afterwards Major Habersham, under whom
[illegible] served
10 months
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making together______________19 months
and for such service I claim a pension
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension
or annuity except the present and declares that his
name is not on the pension Roll of any Agency of any 
State.
He was born in the year 1761 at or near the place where he
now lives in the County of Rowan now Iredell
He has a record of his age in a Bible in his possession
He was living in what was then Rowan and is now Iredell
County at her time he was called into the service and
lives there now

He was always a volunteer
He has seen Gen. Marion Wayne and Greene
He thinks he had a discharge but has lost it supposing it to
be useless
He refers to Revd Stephen Frontis Andrew Carron and
Abraham Hill

Robert Gracey [signature]

Sworn to in open Court
this 21th day of May 1833

We Stephen Frontis a clergyman residing in Iredell County and 
Andrew Carron and Abraham Hill and resident in the same County hereby certify that we
are well acquainted with Robert Gracey who has subscribed
and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe
him to be seventy nine years of age and that he
is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood
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where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution
and that we concur in that opinion, Andrew Carron
further saith that he saw Robert Gray in the service
of his country at Congaree in South Carolina and
Abraham Hill says that he entered the two month
Seven with Robert Gracey and served with
him the whole tour and they were discharged
together
Stephen Frontis [signature]
Andrew Carron [signature]
Abraham Hill [signature]


State of North Carolina
Iredell County
And the said Court hereby declare their opinion of the
investigation of the matter and after pulling the interrogations
prescribed by the War department that the above named
applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he
States and the Court further certify that it appears to them
that Stephen Frontis a Clergyman resident in said County
and that Andrew Carron and Abraham Hill who have also
[illegible] the same are resident in said County are credible
persons and their statements entitled to credit
J. Campbell Clk. [signature]


I Abraham Simonton clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter
Session of Indian County do hereby certify that the foregoing
contain original proceeding of the said court in the
[illegible]application of Robert Gracey for a pension
In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my
hand & seal  of office this 21 day of
May 1833
A Simonton Clk CCP. [signature]
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February 23, 1907.

Hon. John W. Gaines,
House of Representatives.

My dear Mr. Gaines:

In reply to your letter dated the 20th instant, and
received in this Bureau on the 21st, relative to the enclosed letter from Mrs. Mamie C. Robertson Neely, of 2112 West End Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee, I have the honor to advise you that Robert Gracey, Survivor's File 8635, was allowed pension on an application executed May 21, 1833, at which time he was a resident of Iredell county (formerly Rowan county), North
Carolina.

He stated that he was born in 1763, in Rowan county,
North Carolina, where he resided when he enlisted in April, 1780 and served as a Private in Captain Purviance's company
for three months: enlisted before General Gates' defeat, under Captain William Stewart and Colonel Davis, was in a skirmish at Second Creek near Salisbury, served six months; enlisted in the spring or summer of 1781 in Captain John Reid's company of Horse, Colonel Wade Hampton's regiment, served ten months.

The date of soldier's death is not shown: for date
of last payment of pension and name of person to whom said
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Hon. J. W. Gaines.

payment was made, apply to the Auditor for the Interior Department, Treasury Department; citing the following data: "Certificate # 12986, Issued June 21, 1833, under Act of June 7, 1832, at North Carolina Agency."

Very respectfully,

Commissioner.

[handwritten note:]

rate 76.66
per annum
from Mch 4,1831
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Panther Creek NC
11th June 1833

Lewis

James L Edwards
Commissioner 
Was.

Adm.
16 mo pri Cavy             66 66
   3 "      "  Infy.                 10 00
                                             _____
                                          $76 66
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Panther Creek NC
11th June 1833

[illegible]
______________
Lewis Williams

James L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of pension
Washington 

Adm.
16 mo pri Cavy             66 66
   3 "      "  Infy.                 10 00
                                             _____
                                          $76 66
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Surry County May 9th 1833

Sir
I inclose (enclose) to you the declaration
of Robert Gracey of Iredell County:
NC_ I wish your early attention to
the case, for he is [illegible] or
man [illegible] that ever applied

I am very respectfully
Your most obt Servt
Lewis Williams
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
AWF/[illegible]

November 7, 1929.

Mrs. L. L. Brockman
2110 Linden Street
Pine Bluff
Arkansas.

Dear Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension
claim, S. 8635, it appears that Robert Gracey was born in 1763 in
Rowan County, North Carolina.

While residing in said county, he enlisted in April, 1780 and
served three months as a private in Captain Purviance's North Carolina Company.

He enlisted before General Gates' defeat and served six months
in Captain William Stewart's Company, in Colonel Davis' North Carolina Regiment, and was in a skirmish at Second Creek near Salisbury.

He enlisted in the spring or summer of 1781 and served ten
months with Captain John Reid's Company of Horse in Colonel Wade
Hampton's Regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 21, 1833,
at which time he was a resident of Iredell (formerly Rowan) County,
North Carolina.

There are no data as to family.

The above noted is the only Robert Gracey or Gracy found on the
Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.

Very truly yours,

EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner.
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September 11, 1914.

Hon. Joseph. W. Byrns,
House of Representatives.

My dear Mr. Byrns:

In response to your letter of the
tenth instant, I have the honor to advise you that in the claim, SUR. File No. 8,635, Rev. War, it appears that Robert Gracey was allowed pension on his application executed May 21, 1833, at which time he was a resident of Iredell County (formerly Rowan County ), North
Carolina.

He stated that he was born in 1763, in Rowan County,
North Carolina, where he resided when he enlisted in April, 1780 and served as a Private in Captain Purviance's company for three months: enlisted before General Gates' defeat, under Captain Willam Stewart and Colonel Davis. was in a skirmish at Second Creek near Salisbury, served
six months; enlisted in the spring or summer of 1781, in Captain John Reid's company of Horse, Colonel Wade
Hampton's regiment served ten months.

[handwritten note:] No Fam data

Very truly yours.
G M Saltzgaber
Commissioner.
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For the date of last pament of pension and name of person to whom said payment was made, this paper should 
be forwarded to the Auditor for the Interior Department
U. S. Treasury Department, Washington, D. C.
"Robert Gracey, Certificate No. 12,986, issued 
June 21, 1833, for $76.66 per annum from March 
4, 1831, under the Act of June T. 1832, at the North Carolina Agency."
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Pine Bluff Ark
Sep. 7, 1929

Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C

Dear sir

I have found listed in the
North Carolina State Records in Vol
22 page 66- Robert Gray listed as a
private in the Calvery and infantry
under "North Carolina pensioners under
act of 1818 and 1832, as reported by the
Secretary of State to Congress 1833".

Could you send me a copy of
his pension application, as I
have reason to believe he is my
ancestor. Want this for D.A.R. Papers

Yours very truly,
Mrs L.L. Brockman
2110 Linden St.
Pine Bluff Ark.


Oval stamp:
REVOLUTIONARY & 1812 WARS
SECTION
SEP 10 1929
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
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SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

JOHN J. FITZGERALD, N. Y. CHAIRMAN.
SWAGAR SHERLEY, KY.
CHARLES L. BARTLETT, GA.
JOSEPH T. JOHNSON, S. C.
ROBERT N. PAGE, N. C.
GEORGE W. RAUCH, IND.
JOSEPH W. BYRNS, TENN. 
THOMAS UPTON BISSON, MISS.
EUGENE F. KINKEAD, N. J.
WILLIAM P. BORLAND, MO.
GEORGE WHITE, OHIO.
JAMES MC ANDREWS, ILL.
BRYAN F. MAHAN, CONN.
WOODA N. CARR, PA.
FREDERICK R. GILLETT, MASS.
JAMES W. GOOD, IOWA
FRANK W. MONDELL, WYO.
CHARLES R. DAVIS, MINN.
WILLIAM M. CALDER, N.Y.
WILLIAM C. VARY, PA.
WILLIAM H. HINEBAUGH, IL.

JAMES C. COURTS, CLERK

MANCELLUS C. SHEILD. }ASSISTANT CLERKS.
WILLIAM A. RYAN.}

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
WASHINGTON, D. C.

September 10, 1914.

Pension Commissioner,
Washington, D.C.

My dear sir:

Will you kindly advise me if there is of record in
your office, the military history of Robert Gracey, who is said to
have enlisted in the revolutionary war from North Carolina or
Pennsylvania, and oblige,

Yours very truly,

Joseph W Byrns
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M. A. FEIMSTER, PRES.
D. F. GOUGH, VICE PRES & GEN. Mgr.,
R. L. WASSON. SEC. & TREAS.
Gough- Feimster-Wasson Company
(INCORPORATED)
DRESS GOODS, DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, SHOES
SOLID LEATHER SHOES
THAT SATISFY

M. A. FEIMSTER, PNES.
D. F. COUGH, VICE PRES & GEN. Mos.
R. L. WASSON, SEC & TREAS
Baugh Frinster Massen Company
UNCORPORATED
DRESS GOODS, DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, SHOES

SOLID LEATHER SHOES
THAT SATISFY

Statesville, Iredell County, N. C.
May 24, 1911.

Hon. Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:--

Will you please furnish me whatever information the records in
your Department may contain in regard to the following persons who served
in the Revolutionary war viz:

William Feinster, W. 1745 (ilegible)
Hugh Andrews, and  S 6514
Robert Gracey.   S 8635

After the close of the war these were all citizens of Iredell County
which was cut off from Rowan in 1788.

Tradition says WM. Feimster held a Captain's Commission and served
under Gen. Sumpter, about Charleston, S.C.  Soon after the close of the
war he came to Iredell and settled here, where his descendants are now
wuite (quite) numerous.

Thanking you in advance for the favor, I am,
Yours truly,
M A Feimster

[very light stamp   - illegible]
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WASHINGTON
February 20, 1907

Hon. V. Warner,
Pension Commissioner,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Warner:

I am in receipt of the enclosed letter
from a very dear friend of mine, Mrs. Mamie C. Robertson
Neely, whose address is 2112 West End Avenue, Nashville,
Tennessee, in which she asks forthe (for the) military record of
her great-grand-father, Robert Gracey. The Military
Secretary of the War Department informs me that he is
unable to furnish the same, and states that it is probable
the information can be secured from your Department.

Please read over the letter carefully and
write me at once, returning the enclosure.

Yours very respectfully,

Jno W Gaines

Rectangular Stamp:
FIRST
DEPUTY COMMISSIONER
FEB 21 1907
U.S.
PENSION OFFICE.

Circular Stamp:
O.W.&N. DIV.
FEB
21
1907
FILES
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Rev War INVALID

File No. 8635
Robert Gracey
Priv Rev War

Act: June 7th 1832
Index: - Vol. 1, Page 151

[Arrangement of 1870]

[left side]

1907 Feby 23 Hist to Hon.
John W. Gaines for Mrs. - 
Mamie C. Robertson Neely - 
_______________________
1911 May 29. To M. A. Feimster
letter in W File 1745 Wm Feimster
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1914, Sept. 11. History to
Hon. Joseph W. Byrne. M.C.
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1929 Nov. 7. Hist. ?. Mrs.
L. L. Brockman