Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16,761, Richard Dean, N.C. S.C.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE N.C.  S.C.
Dean, Richard
NUMBER S. 16.761

Born in N.C.  carded
CONTENTS


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This envelope includes
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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4755
Alabama

Richard Dean who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Conyears of the Reg commanded by Col. Hager in the South Carolina line for two years from 1778 N.C.

Inscribed on the Roll of Alabama at the rate of 80 Dollars -- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of Jany 1833 and sent to Hon. CC Huger
H R

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 120.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833 40
$160.00 
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Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Henry Sylvester Clerk
Book D Vol 10 Page 199
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date of death not on AB
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HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA, July 15-`843
Received of Bartley M. Lowe, Agent for paying Pensions, Thirty two Dollars 56 Cents, in specie, being for 4 months & 17 days pension due to me, widow of Richard Dean, Deceased pensioner, from the fourth day of March 1842 to the 31th day of July 1842, the day of his death for which have signed duplicate receipts. Sally Dean by her
Attorney in fact D B Turner
$32.56 

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State of Alabama
Madison County
On the Eighth day of November 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable
William J Adair Judge of the Circuit Court now sitting in the Town of Huntsville in the County and State aforesaid Richard Dean a resident of the said County of Madison Seventy three years of age who 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 the 7, 1832

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That about the 1775 while he was a resident of Dobbs County in the State of North Carolina, he volunteered for a tour of six months under Jesse Cobb and Joined a regiment commanded by Col Caswell, his regiment marched for Wilmington but when the said regiment got as far as the Widow Mores Creek at there encountered a considerable number of Tories who made battle. Affiant was in this battle, Gen Mcland was killed, and Gen McDaniel taken prisoner,
several privates were killed. some time after this affiant was discharged having completed his tour of six months

On the 14th of June 1778 affiant being then a resident of Darlington district in the State of South Carolina enlisted in the Army of the United States in the 5 Regiment of the continental line commanded by Col Isaac M Huger his captain was by the name of James Conyears affiant was marched with this regiment towards Charlestown to James Island at fort [illegible]. From there affiant was sent out with a recruiting party unto the upper part of South Carolina and then removed
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until his regiment marched to Savanna in the State of Georgia the affiant and his said regiment just after it had been beaten back by the British from that city. There the said Regiment was commanded by Huger who had been promoted from Major to Col. From there affiant marched
with said Regiment up to Black Swamp and was then stationed for a five days and thence by a forced march to Charleston. Three some of our troops going out of said fort, to an engagement or skirmish with the British on their return in the dusk of the evening they were mistaken for the enemy and were fired on by their fellow soldiers and Col Huger and several others were killed,  after the death of Seal Hunger the command of the fifth regiment fell to Peter Horra affiant
remained with said Regiment in Charleston until about the first of Sept 1779, when he was marched with it to Savanah on the way joined Gen Lincoln who was Commander in Chief and having also joined the French after the said army had remain as there about three weeks an ineffectual attempt was made to take the fort by storm affiant was present with the [illegible] army which had to return with considerable loss after this the affiant was marched with the army to Governor Bulls Hill and 
were there stationed until 1780, there the remaining troops were consolidated and formed into two Regiments known as the 1st and 2nd regiments of the line affiant was then changed from the 5th to the 2d Regiment affiants Captain in his new arrangement was by the name of Dunbar and
the Col was Marion, From there affiant was march with said regiment to Charleston and were there stationed under Maj Hudson owing to [illegible] position of Col. Marion who had got home on parole Affiant remained in Charleston through the whole siege and had with others to surrender as prisoners of war to the British some time after this affiant and about thirty men met with
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an opportunity of escape and by wading and swimming a march for about three miles they got clear, affiant then made his way to his fathers travelling by night through the woods &c to avoid the British that were scattered through the county and the tories that were still more dangerous, after this affiants said regiment was so much reduced by sickness that it never formed again although affiant was still liable to duty at a moments warning, until the expiration of the the years for which which he enlisted

About the 1st of June 1781 affiant went into Johnson County in the State of North Carolina when he joined a horse company commanded by Capt John Bryant as rangers through the counties of Sampson Cumberland and Johnson in said State of North Carolina. we had two small skirmishes with the Tories affiant remained with this company until the close of the war, affiant has no written discharge now he had and but it is lost, her further states he knows of no one now living by whom he can prove his services. His age was set down in a family bible but that is not now in his possession but he remembers well that it recorded that he was born the 1st day of April 1759 he was born in Dobbs County now Lenoir in the State of North Carolina, After the war affiant moved from North Carolina to South Carolina from their to the State of Tennessee from there to Alabama from there to George and from them to Alabama in Madison County where he has remained ever
since, Affiant can show that he is known in his neighbourhood by Daniel Hunter and by Bryant Cobb, who will prove his veracity and their belief of his services,
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Affiant hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state,
Richard Dean [signature]

Sworn to in open court 8th November 1832 [illegible]

We Daniel R Hunter a clergyman residing in the County of Madison aforesaid and Bryant Cobb a resident of the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Richard Dean who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 73 years of age, that her
is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the
Revolution and we concur in that opinion
Daniel Hunter
Bryant Cobb [signatures]

Sworn to in open court 8th November 1832 [illegible]

And the said Court doth hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the mother and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the said Court further certifies, that it appears to it that the said Daniel Hunter who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in said County of Madison and that Bryant Cobb who has also signed the same is a resident in the said County of Madison and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
W. J. Adair
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No 6
Richard Dean deceased
Act of 7 June 1832

Huntsville Ala
3 gr 1843
Box 17
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State of Alabama  
Franklin County 
Be it known that before me, Wm Cobb Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid
personally appeared Sally Dean, and made oath in due form of law, that she is the widow of Richard Dean, deceased, the identical person, who was a pensioner, is now dead, and to whom a certificate of pension was issued of which the following is a true copy. 
"War Department
Revolutionary Claims.
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832, Richard Dean of the State of Alabama, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution is called to receive eighty dollars per annum during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1831, and pay able semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this 4th day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
Lew Cass
Secretary of War.
Examined and countersign
J. L. Edwards

That at his death he resided in Franklin County aforesaid, and previous thereto he resided in Madison County in said State and previous thereto he removed in the State of North Carolina
Sally X Dean her mark [signature]

subscribed and sworn before me this 13th day of May 1843
Wm Cobb JP

Alexander Avery

Know all men by these presents, that I, Sally Dean, of the County of Franklin, in the State of Alabama, widow of Richard Dean, deceased, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, do hereby constitute and appoint Daniel B. Turner, of the Town of Huntsville, in said State, my true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my name free from the Agent of the United States for paying pensions, in the Town of Huntsville and State of Alabama, the balance of said Pension from the fourth day of March eighteen hundred
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and forty two to the thirty-first day of July eighteen hundred and forty two being the day of his death - Witness my hand and seal this twenty third day of May eighteen hundred and forty three
Sally X Dean her mark seal [signature]
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
Richard Storch
Alexander Avery

State of Alabama 
Franklin County 

Be it known, that on the 23d day of May eighteen hundred and forty-three, before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared the aforesaid Sally Dean, widow to and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be her act and deed.  In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above mentioned
Wm Cobb JP
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State of Alabama 
Franklin County  
I, Michael Dickson Clerk of the County Court of said County, holden at Russellville in and for said County, do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said court that Richard Dean was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, was a resident of the said County of Franklin, in the State of Alabama, and died in the County of Franklin in the State of Alabama, on the thirty-first day of July one thousand eight hundred and forty two, and that he left a widow whose name is Sally Dean. And I further certify that Wm Cobb is a Magistrate as aforesaid and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County Court and at my hand, at office in the Town of Russellville, this 12th day of June eighteen hundred and forty three
Michael Dickson Clerk of
the County Court of Franklin
County, State of Alabama
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State of Alabama 
Madison County⎬ 
Be it known that before me Dandridge Pariss a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, this day personally appeared Daniel B. Turner the Attorney named in the foregoing power of Attorney and made oath that the same was not given him by reason of any rule, tram
for or mortgage of the pension or arrears of pension therein authorized to be received by him
D. B. Turner [signature]

subscribed and sworn before me this the 13th day of July, 1843
Dandridge Pariss JP

I, Richard B. Purdom, Clerk of the County Court of Madison County State of Alabama, certify that Dandridge Pariss before whom the foregoing affidavit by Daniel B. Turner was sworn is a Magistrate as above and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said County court at office
in Huntsville, this 15th day of July A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty three
Rich B. Purdon
Clerk of the County Court of Madison
County State of Alabama

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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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Rich Dean
Declaration
for Pension
20440
Madison Cty Ala

C.C. Clay
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I, Lemuel Mead Clerk of the Circuit Court of Madison County and the state of Alabama do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the mother of the application of Richard Dean for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 8th day of November 1832
L. Mead

I know the hand writing of the Judge & Clerk, in this case. Their signatures are genuine
Jany 19. 1833
C C Clay
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16.761
INVALID.
File No.16761
Richard Dean
Pri Rev War
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Act: June 7. 32
Index:--Vol.1  Page 95
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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1938 May 5 - Info to Hon. James Hartman for Mrs. Howard C. Jones (see ltr in clm of Robt Allen S37661) - M M H F B
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Payments to be made at Mobile Alabama by Pres U.S.A. Bank
Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of Alabama

Recorded by Henry H Sylvester
Clerk, in Book D Vol. 10 page 199
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Richard Dean of the State of Alabama who was a private in the Army of the revolution is entitled to receive Eighty dollars per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year

Given at the War Office of the United States, this 24th day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty three

Lew Cass
Secretary of War.

Examined and
Countersigned. 
J L Edwards