Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 2155, Charles Coleman, S.C
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(8-1776)
SERVICE                                   NUMBER
S. C       Coleman,  Charles     R 2155


CONTENTS
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State of South Carolina Fairfield district} SS Ordinarys office
On the Eleventh day of July Eighteen hundred and fifty five before George W Woodward Ordinary for Fairfield district and state aforesaid personally appeared James B Coleman aged 55 years and referads anatros born cit of said district and state who being duly sworn according to law declares that he is the oldest surviving child of Charles and Ruth Coleman deceased late of the District and state aforesaid that his said father Charles Coleman was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and therefore makes this declaration for the purpose of receiving the arrears of pension due for his fathers services in said war under the act of Congress of 7th June 1832 for the benefit of himself and his surviving Sisters and Brothers children of his said parents that from conversations and renarts made by his said father Charles Coleman he understood and believes he served in the army of the Revolution and was at the Battle of Gates defeat Camden South Carolina from which he made his escape with Waggon and horses belonging to Declarants Grandfather and Wm Stephens the Uncle of his said father Charles Coleman; that his Grandfather Cader Coleman, James Rutland and William Moon were also in said battle of defeat at Camden aforesiad; and that the declarants Grandfather Abraham Gibson with four of his Brothers also served in said war having after heard his said father Grandfathers Wm Rutland and Mr Moon refer to their services in the Revolution that the Declarant knows his said father Charles Coleman was by treto ablact Smith and well acquainted with refreury Genes could transfer steel and has seen him make Gunlocks that he believes his said parents Charles and Ruth Coleman were married about the year 1796 or 1797; that his said mother Ruth Coleman, whose name before marriage was Ruth Gibson departed this life in 1825 and his father Charles Coleman on the 6th day of April Eighteen hundred anf forty two / 1842 / as recorded
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recorded by this Declarant in his family Bible afew days after his death leaving the following named Surviving children (his Sister Harriett M Coleman who was about two years older than this Deponent having died 2 years sub sequent to his said father) namely this Declarent the said Harriett M Coleman wife of M A M Leggo deceased Malinde 2 W Keith Charles 3 S Coleman Joseph R 4 Coleman Judith B 5 Simpson Sarah Ann 6 Simpson June B 7 Smith and John A J 8 Coleman all of whom now survive except the said Harriett M Coleman wife of M A M Leggo as aforesaid; that the death of his said father was recorded by Declarant as aforesaid and also that of his oldest sister Harriett oldest child of his said parents the boy of said record being hereunto approded This deponent further declares that he is the only surviving Executor under the last will and testament of the said Charles Colemans Estate
Test Robt Walker 
James B Coleman
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first within written; and I certify that I have no interest in said pension claim or its prosecution
Signature X GW Woodward
OFD
Know all men by these presents that I James B Coleman Executor on the Estate of Charles Coleman deceased late of Fairfield district So Ca who was asoldier in the army of the Revolution do hereby constitute and appoint JJ Combs Esquire Counsellor at law Washington city District of Columbia my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to prosecute against the Government of the United States before any department thereof any and all claims I have to arrears of pay or pension money as Executer as aforesaid under my act or acts resolution or resolutions of the Congress of the United States and
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and expecially the act of 7 June 1832; said attorney is moreover authorized in my name to demand at any department of the said Government a reconsideration of any decision hetherto or hereafter to be given touching my interests and to obtain from any department or the archives thereof any and all information or evidence of whatever character relating to or in anyrise bearing upon the claim or claims we hereby seek the investigation of: Said attorney is moreover authorised to do any thing and all things necessary to carry out the foregoing purposes and to receive the Certificates of pension or other character of drafts or evidences of the amounts due me and to appoint one or more sub attorneys to confer upon him or things all the former therein conferred upon him here ratefying and confirming all that my said attorney may do by virture of these presents: Hereby declaring this my only power of attorney to be irrevocable
Witness my hand and Seal this 11th day of July Eighteen hundred and fifty five
Test Robt Wallace James B Coleman Seal
Executor of Charles Coleman
State of So Ca
Fairfield district} Be it known that on the 11th day of July 1855 before the Subscriber a magistrate in and for the district and state aforesaid personally appeared James B Coleman Executor on the Estate of Charles Coleman deceased subscribe to the foregoing power of attorney and acknowledged the signing sealing and delivery of the same to be his own voluntary act and deed for the use and purposes therein set forth: In testimony whereof I do hereunto subscribe my name
Elisha H Jones Magistrate
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4 State of So Carolina
Fairfield district} On the 11th day of July Eighteen hundred and fifty five before the subscribing Magistrate in and for the district and state afore said personally appeared Robert Walker aged 50 years, a resident of said district who being duly Sworn according to law upon his oath Swears that he is acquainted with the hand writing of James B Coleman having after seen him write and that his signatures to the foregoing declaration power of attorney and the leaf hereunto appreded containing the record of his father's Charles Colemans death on the 6th day of April Eighteen hundred and forty two are all in his genuine handwriting which record of Charles Colemans death is hereunto attached and cut out of his family Bible in the deponents presence and is signed with deponents name bearing date the 11th day of July 1855 This deponent further Swears that to the best of his knowledge and belief there are now surviving eight sons and daughters only of the said Charles and Ruth Coleman as enumerated in the foregoing Declaration of the said James B Coleman and moreover Swears he is anative of said district and state and always understood and believes that the said Charles Coleman was a Revolutionary Soldier and So reputed that he never knew or heard of any other person named Charles Coleman than the identical one referred to being in the war of the Revolutionary; that he has no interest direct or indirect to the pension claimed for the Services of the said Charles Coleman in said war nor in the prosecution of the same and that he believes the said Charles Coleman may have been upwards of Eighty years when he died in 1842
Robt Walker
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day month and year first above written and I do certify that the applicant Robert Walker is a respectable person and in every respect a credible witness and that I have no interest direct or indirectly in said pension or its prosecution
Elisha H Jones Magistrate
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State of So Carolina Fairfield district} On this 8 day of May 1856 Before the Subscribing magistrate in and for said district personally appeared John J Coleman aged 36 years aresident of said district who being duly 
sworn upon his oath declares that he has made diligent inquiry to find aperson or persons who could from his father Charles Colemans hand writing and signatures in order to identify the same with his signatures to account for services rendered in the Revolution on file in the Comptroller Generals office in Columbia So Ca and areceipt given by his said father to Benjamin Hart on 22 April 1812 which receipt is attached to the certificate of authenticated copy of his father services in the Revolutionary war but at this late day the deponent has been unable to find any person who had seen his father write or prove his signatures and knows of no source by which to accomplish it other than by the signature to his last will and Testament 
John AJ Coleman 
which is duly proved and recorded in the Ordinarys office at Winnsboro 
Fairfield district So Ca
Subscribed ads sworn to before me the day and year first above written and I certify that the afficant John AJ Coleman is arespectable man and acredible person
Elisha H Jones Magistrate
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Deaths 
Ruth Coleman June 28 182?
Berry M Coleman June 14 183?
Mary L Coleman June 18 183?
Elizabeth Coleman Jany 183?
Charles Coleman Sr Apr 6th 1842
Harriett M Leggo 24 June 1844
[illegible] go 24 J [illegible]
The the [illegible] to my affidavit 11 July 1855
Robt Walker
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Comptroller Genls Office
Columbia July 10th 1855
No 70
Book R} 
Issued the 7th May 1785 to Mr Charles Coleman for fifty seven pounds two shillings ten pence forthing sterling for a horse impressed for militia use and for 365 days duty as armorer in the militia in 1780 & 1781 as per account audited
Principal L 57-2 10/4 No 44 Annual Interest L4 

The state of South Carolina 
To Charles Coleman
Novr the 9th 1780. To one horse taken for the use of Genl Sumpter brigade  336-0-0
L400 currency or
Stg L 52=2:10 /4-
September the 1 1781 To 365 days duty as armorer to Col Richard Winn Regt by appointment of Lieut Col Hopkins at 28 per day L 456-5
L792=5= =
L113-3=6 3/4
South Carolina 
Camden Dist} Appeared Mr Charles Coalman & made oath that the above duty charged of three hundred & sixty five days as armorer was justly performed & that he Has never received any pay for the same sworn to before me this 2nd day May 1784 D Hopkins 
JP
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I do certify that the within indent account and affidavit are true copies from the originals in this office  Thos P Walker Deputy Comp Genl
(no seal of office)
No 1 Charleston March 22 1780
Gent Please deliver to Mr Thos Lehre such Indent or Indents as may appear to be due to me from the state of South Carolina or from the United States and this will be your sufficient receipt for the same (signed) Chas Coleman
Witness
D Hopkins JP
The Honl
the commissr of state 
Treasuty of So Carolina
No 2
Gent Please pay Mr Thos Lehre or order all my Indent or Indents that may appear to be due to me from the state of So Carolina or the United States value received March 25th 1786
The comr of Treasury (signed) Chas Coleman
Witness
James Stevens Cantez

Mr Benjamin Hart No 3
Sir pleasa to pay the Bearer William Gipson Sixteen Dolers twenty five cents and I will give your Not credit for the same
April the 22 1812
Charles Coleman
Examined by Thos P Walker Dep Compr Genl
order March 22
Comptroller Genls office
Columbia July 10th 1858
I do certify that I have compared the signatures to the orders marked Nos 1 & 2 on the opposite page with the signature to the order above marked No 3 and I have no hesitation in saying that they are all signed by the same person. The orders No 1 & 2 accompany the accounts for Service &c are enclosed in the same envelop in this office
Thos P Walker
Deputy Comp General 
(no seal of office)
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I do certify that the within indent account and affidavit are true copies from the originals in this office Thos P Walker Deputy Comp Genl
(no seal of office)
No 1 Charleston March 22 1780
Gent Please deliver to Mr Thos Lehre such Indent or Indents as may appear to be due to me from the state of South Carolina or from the United States and this will be your sufficient receipt for the same (signed) Chas Coleman
Witness
D Hopkins JP
The Honl
the commissr of state
Treasuty of So Carolina
No 2
Gent Please pay Mr Thos Lehre or order all my Indent or Indents that may appear to be due to me from the state of So Carolina or the United States value received March 25th 1786
The comr of Treasury (signed) Chas Coleman
Witness
James Stevens Cantez

Mr Benjamin Hart No 3
Sir pleasa to pay the Bearer William Gipson Sixteen Dolers twenty five cents and I will give your Not credit for the same
April the 22 1812
Charles Coleman
Examined by Thos P Walker Dep Compr Genl
order March 22
Comptroller Genls office
Columbia July 10th 1858
I do certify that I have compared the signatures to the orders marked Nos 1 & 2 on the opposite page with the signature to the order above marked No 3 and I have no hesitation in saying that they are all signed by the same person. The orders No 1 & 2 accompany the accounts for Service &c are enclosed in the same envelop in this office
Thos P Walker
Deputy Comp General
(no seal of office)
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2155

REJECTED

P.O.
Charles Coleman
Service:  of S.C.

Aleges:  The papers afterward found in rejected File No 2177

Re-enlisted
Attorney:
P.O. 
Recogized.  Contract.
Cert. of Dis.  Searched for     , 18
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No
Charles Coleman Dec
So. Carolina 
J J Coombs June 16 /56
Hon W W Boyce Jany 28/58

2155

June 7 1832
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Washington June 2d 1856
Sir
Enclosed I have the honor to present the claim of the Executor of Charles Coleman decd for the pension due his testator at his decease under act of 7th June 1832
The claim appears to me to be clearly made acc t for one years service no terinourer; I trust it will be allowed accordingly 
Very respectfully 
your obt servt
JJ Coombs
Hon J Minot 
Comr of Pensions
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South Carolina
Fairfield District} SS Before me the subscribing magistrate personally appeared James Walling a native of this district aged 70 years & well known as a man of truty & respectability who on oath states that he was well acquainted with the late Charles Coleman of this district the father of James B Coleman John AJ Coleman &c that the said Charles Coleman died in the year 1842 aged he supposes more than 80 years that during the life of Charles Coleman he frequently heard him speak of his service in the revolutionary army, which service deponent firmly believes was performed that deponents father Carhart Walling was a soldier in the revolution & frequently spoke of Coleman he had a s a soldier of the revolution. that where deponents father & Charles Coleman met they always spoke of the war as old comrades do That deponent is well acquainted with the old families of this district & never heard of any other Charles Coleman who can have been in the revolution except the one here referred to Further that deponent has no interest in this claim or its prosecution & makes this affidavit as a simpale
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act of justice
Test James Walling
JP Given Sworn to before me this 4th March 1856
EH Jones Magistrate  Magst
South Carolinia
Fairfield District} I OR Thompson clerk of the court of Com pls & Genl Sessions of said district & state do certify that EH Jones before whom the foregoing affidavit was made was at the date thereof a duly qualified magistrate & duly authorised to take such deposition & that his signature thereto is given
Witness my hand & the seal of said court this 22d day of March 1856
OR Thompson
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State of So Carolina
Fairfield district } SS On the 21st day of July 1855 before the subscribing Magistrate in and for said district personally appeared Sarah Jones aged Seventy years (70) and upwards aresident of said district who being duly sworn according to law upon her oath swears that she was acquainted with the late Charles Coleman and his wife Rugh since her infancy That said Ruths name was Gibson before marriage that she has no doubt whatever that the said Charles and Ruth Coleman were lawfully married never having heard it questioned and she knows they lived together as husband and wife and that they spoke about and treated their children as legitimate and were so reputed as being legally married This deponent further swears that she always understood and believed the said Charles Coleman was a revolutionary soldier and was so reputed that she never knew or heard of any other Charles Coleman being in the Revolutionary war than the one here referred to that they had thirteen children eight of whom were alive when the said Charles Coleman died about 12 or 15 years ago his said wife Ruth Coleman having departed this life many years before him and their oldest child Harriet M Coleman was about two years after his fathers death leaving now surviving so far, as the deponent knows and believes, eight children whos names are enumerated in the prefixed declaration of James B Coleman the eldest son of his said parents She moreover swears that she has no interest in the pension claim made for the services of said Charles Coleman in the war of Independence nor in its prosecution but makes the deposition as an act of justice to the parties interested
Sarah her X mark Jones
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day month and year first above written; and I certify the affiant Sarah Jones is a credible person and a credible witness
Elisha H Jones Magist
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Declation power of
Attorney for
James B Coleman for
pension in  [illegible]    of his
father  Charles Coleman
a Revolutionist -act 7 1832

June 2nd 1856

 J J Coombs
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State of South Carolina
Fairfield District} In Ordinarys office
It is hereby certified that satisfactory proof has been exhibited to Mr Geo W Woodward Ordinary for said district to prove and did prove to my satisfaction that Charles Coleman a reputed revolutionary soldier and Ruth Gibson had been married and lived together as husband and wife and were so reputed and that they had 13 children; that the said Ruth died in 1825 and the said Charles Coleman on the 6th day of April eighteen hundred and forty tow (1842) leaving nine children eight of whom now survive I do further certify that the said Charles Coleman last will and testament were duly proven and recorded in my office on the twelfth day of April Eighteen hundred and forty two (1842) in which M A M Leggo James B Coleman and Charles S Coleman were nominated and appointed his executors and MAM Leggo and James B Coleman were duly qualified and acted and that the said James B Coleman is now the only surviving Executor that on a careful comparison of the signature to the said last will and testament with the specimen of the said Charles Coleman hand writing marked No 3 by the Compt General & [crossed out in light writing -attached] accompanying to this certificate I unhesitatingly declair the signatures to be written by the same person. I moreover certify that James B Coleman the Declarant Robert Walker and  Sarah Jones the witnesses are persons of respectability and credibility and that I have no interest in said pension claim or to its prosecution. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Winnsboro Fairfield District this 10th Sept 1855
Geo W Woodward
OFD
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State of South Carolina
Fairfield District
I OR Thompson clerk of the court of common pleas and general sessions for Fairfield District hereby certify that George W Woodward is the ordinary for Fairfield District before whom the declaration of James B Coleman was made on the 11th July last was at the date thereof the duly commissioned ordinary for said district and that his signature thereto is genuine I further certify that the said Geo W Woodward whose order accompanies said declaration and bearing date 10th September was at the date thereof the duly appointed commissioned ordinary in and for said district and that his signature thereto & seal of office affixed are genuine I also certify that the signature of Elisha H Jones Esq to the power of attorney attached to the afore said papers is genuine & at the date thereof are acting magistrate duly qualified in and for said district I moreover certify that I have no interest in the pension claim of James B Coleman Executor of Charles Coleman a reputed soldier now deceased
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 15th September AD 
1855 at Winnsboro So Car
OR Thompson
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The State of South Carolina
Fairfield District
I OR Thompson clerk of the court of Common Pleas and general sessions for Fairfield district and within the state aforesaid hereby certify that Elisha H Jones Esq before wherein the annexed declaration and affidavits were made is and was at the date thereof an acting magistrate duly qualified and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine and are entitled to full faith and credit
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this the 10 th day of September Anno Domini 855
OR Thompson
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