Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 31198, for Charles Lander, Virginia
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(3-1776)
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Va | Lander, Charles | S 31198
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CONTENTS
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7347
Kentucky
Charles Lander
Bourbon Co in the State of Kentucky
who was a Sergeant in the company commanded
by Captain West of the Regt commanded
by [blank] in the Va
line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 120 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of April
1833 and sent to Jas. M
Arnold Bourbon Kent

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $240.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending [?] Sept 60.00
$300.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk
Book 6 Vol. 7 Page 1

See letter to agent 1 May 33
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State of Kentucky
County of Bourbon } SS

On this fourteenth day of
August in the year of our Lord one
Thousand eight hundred and thirty two
personally appeared in open Court before the Honbl.
Richard French Judge of the Bourbon
Circuit Court Charles Lander a resident
of Bourbon County and State of
Kentucky aged Seventy Seven
years the 29th December last past
who being first duly sworn according 
to Law, doth on his oath, make the
following declaration, in order to obtain 
the benefit of the provision
made by the act of Congress passed
June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in
the army of the United States in
the year one Thousand seven hundred
and seventy five (in the month of
October) with Charles West and served
in the [blank] Regiment of the
Virginia line under the following
named officers Capt. Charles West,
Lieut. John Tyler, and Ensign William
Owsley;
This Enlistment was for six months - I
then
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then being a resident of Loudon County
Virginia after enlisting I was marched
from that place to Williams Burgh
thence to Hampton at this place found
Govr. Dunmore spikeing our cannon
and committing as much depredation 
as possible here we remained
during the winter and my enlistment
expired in the spring of 1776 - when
I enlisted under Capt. Charles West
Lieut. John Tyler and Apollos Cooper
Ensign; and was marched from thence
to Williams burgh Virginia at which
place and its environs we were encamped 
untill our Regiment commanded 
by Col. Weiden consisting
of near Eight Hundred men was
completed; and in the month of
August of this year (1776) pursuant
to our express was marched to
New York and passed through the
following places Towit Alexandria
Lancaster, crossed the Delaware River
at Trenton New Jersey, & Princeton thence to New York at this
place remained only one night and
the next day marched to Fort Wash
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ington and remained some weeks
during which time we fought a
battle with the British Two miles below 
the fort in which Majr. Leach
of Alexandria was killed. Thence
we were marched to the white plains
where another Battle was fought I
think in the month of October, thence
we crossed the North River and previous
to the Battle of Princeton Owing
to Ill health was permitted to leave the
Army and I remained during the winter
with a relation in New Jersey and
in the spring of 1777 month of
April went to Philadelphia to be
Inoculated for the Small Pox here
I remained untill the 24th of August
during which time I had acted as
a Sargeant appointed by Capt West
to protect some baggage belonging
to the Officers of the Army there stored
in Philadelphi; on the 25th August
I rejoined my company at the Cross
roads not far from German Town
where the main army was encamped
commanded by Genl. Washington, Genl.
Scott, and Genl. Stephens, also by Col
Thomas Marshall Col Buford and
Col Woodford the former Col Marshall
commanding the Regiment to which I
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belonged, from here we marched to
Philadelphia, thence crossed the Schuylkill
River on a floating cedar bridge
and marched direct to Brandy Wine
and arrived at the Middle Ford on the
10th day of September; on the 11th Sept.
Col. Thomas Marshalls Regiment was directed 
to march to the Upper Ford
of Brandy wine with Genls. Scott and
Stephens in his rear here we fought
a hard battle in which Capt. Cooper
was killed (I having acted as a Sargeant
during this year) after the Battle of
Brandy wine we returned by the Warren
Tavern and at this place had another 
battle which must have been severe
but for a very hard rain which
compelled the enemy to cease and
recrossed the Schuylkill to the Tan
yard Camp where we remained untill
the 3d October on the wining of
this day we decamped and marched
all night and on the morning of the
4th October attacked the British Army
then encamped near German Town
and defeated them; they retreated toward
Philadelphia and meeting a reinforcement 
made a attack and defeated
the American Army who were compelled
to retreat to the Tan-yard camp, and
thence to the Valley-forge where we
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encamped for the winter: here I acted
as Sergeant had a corporlal and
sixteen privates under my command
amongst whom were the following
persons now recollected,
Peter Bennen
Andrews Race, (Two coulered men Towit
John and Joseph Sidebottom) at this
place Capt Blair was issueing commisary - 
At the Valley Forge in
the month of February 1778 I was discharged - 

I hereby relinquish every claim whatever 
to a pension or an annuity except
the present, and he declares that his
name is not on the pension Roll of
any agency in any state

Sworn to and subscribed the
day and year aforesaid
[illegible] Lander

And the said Court do hereby declare 
their opinion that the above named
applicant was a revolutionary soldier
and served as he states

I James M Arnold Clerk of the
Bourbon Circuit Court, do hereby certify
that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the said Court in the
mat
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matter of the application of Charles
Lander for a Pension
In Testimony whereof, I have here
unto set my
hand and seal of
Office this fourteenth day of
August in the year of our
Lord one thousand Eight hundred 
and thirty two and of
the Commonwealth of Kentucky
the forty first
JM : Arnold

Charles Lander
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No 1974
Charles Lander

proof of service
required 19 Oct 1832
letter to
From 1776 Sargent
2 years $120

Jas. M Arnold
Bourbon
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No. 1974

BRIEF in the case of Charles Lander
of Bourbon Cty in the State of Kentucky
(Act 7 June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? A Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 77 years

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
[column headings: Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.]
In 7775 Oct. 6 months. Private. Capt Charles West, Lt John Tyler, En Wm. Owsley - regt of Va Line
1776 reenlisted in the Spring. 2 years. Sergeant. Capt C. West, Lt J. Tyler, Ens. Apollos Cooper

5. In what battles was he engaged? at the white plains & Brandy wine
and at the Warren Tavern

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Loudon County Virginia

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence,
by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? by neither

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No Certificate
of a Clergyman or two resident County-men

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case
above mentioned.
T. Waugh Examining Clerk
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Rev. & 1812 War Section

August 7, 1929

Miss Allene Reed
S. Jefferson St.
Mexico, Mo.

Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension
claim, S. 31198, it appears that Charles Lander was born December 29,
1754, place not stated.

While a resident of Loudoun County, Virginia, he enlisted in
October, 1775, served as sergeant in Captain Charles West's Company
in Colonels Weedon's and Thomas Marshall's Virginia Regiments; he was
in a battle two miles below Fort Washington, and in the battles of
White Plains, Brandywine, Warren Tavern and Germantown, and was discharged
in February, 1778.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 14,
1832, at which time he was a resident of Bourbon County, Kentucky.

There are no data relative to his family.

Due to the large number of inquiries similar to yours and the
lack of a clerical force available for the purpose, only two histories
are furnished each inquirer.

Very truly yours,

EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

February 4, 1926

Miss Lelah Forman
Mays Lick
Ky.

Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War
pension claim, S. 31198, it appears that CHARLES LANDER was born
December 29, 1754, place not stated.

While a resident of Loudoun County, Virginia, he enlisted in
October, 1775, served as sergeant in Captain Charles West's Company,
Colonels Weedon's and Thomas Marshall's Virginia Regiment, was in a
battle two miles below Fort Washington, and the battles of White
Plains, Brandywine, Warren Tavern and Germantown, and was discharged
in February, 1778.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 14,
1832, at which time he was a resident of Bourbon County, Kentucky.

There is no data on file relative to his family.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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March 15, 1928.

Virginia M. Hanna,
272 East Maxwell Street,
Lexington, Kentucky.

Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War
pension claim, S. 31198, it appears that Charles Lander was
born December 29, 1754, place not stated.

While a resident of Loudoun County, Virginia, he enlisted
in October, 1775, served as sergeant in Captain Charles
West's Company, Colonels Weedon's and Thomas Marshall's Virginia
Regiment, was in a battle two miles below Fort Washington, 
and the battles of White Plains, Brandywine, Warren
Tavern and Germantown, and was discharged in February, 1778.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August
14, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Bourbon County,
Kentucky.

There are no data on file relative to his family.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT,
Commissioner.
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[stamp]
Revolutionary & 1812 Wars
Section
May 11 1929
Bureau of Pensions

Mexico, Mo.
May 8, 1929.

Bureau of Pensions
Revolutionary War Dept.,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

In Ky. Register, 1929, p. 171, I find J
Joseph and Andrew Kincaid were made captains, Lincoln Co.
Ky. April 17, 178

9th Report State Librarian, Richmond, Va. p. 314,
Thomas Waller (6 V.R.) W.R. 1261.

Same book p. 190 Robert Lucky (Luckie) S of W
1835, pension 3 Ky. 74.

Ky. Register Jan. 1928, Charles Landers and Robert
Lucky, Revo. soldiers, Both d. in Bourbon county, Ky.

Will you please send me the Revo. war service of the new war service of
Andrew Kincaid, Thomas Waller, Robert Lucky and
Charles Landers.

Very respectfully,
Miss Allene Reed
S. Jefferson St,.
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Lexington Ky.
July 25 1927

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir: - 
Will you please send me the
war records,  also whatever vital records
you have, of the following Revolutionary
soldiers-
Charles Lander born 1754, enlisted
from Loudon Co. Va. died in Ky. 1833.

James Gay - born in Augusta Co. Va.
in 1758, died in Clark Co. Ky. 1840.

Nicholas Grimes, died on his way
to Kentucky from Va. in 1798.

Jeremiah Hays of Montgomery Co. Md.
He died in Montgomery Co. Md. in 1783.
Sons - Richard, William, Jeremiah Levin, George
daughters, Mary Rawlings, wife of John Rawlings
Sarah Strakes, Elizabeth Clagett & Margaret Hoskinson

John Rawlings Montgomery Co Md.
He died in 1784. His wife was Mary Hays.
Children - Thomas, John, Ann Priscilla, Elizabeth
Sarch, Eloner and Mary.

Respectfully
Virginia M. Hanna
Registrar. Capt. John McKinley Chapt. D.A.R.
272 E. Maxwell S.
Lexington Ky.
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Marys Lick, Kentucky
Dec. 31-1925

Dept of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Sir:-
Please may I have the
record of Chas Lander - wife
Catherine Forman Lander - who
fought in the Revolutionary 
War. His birth was Dec. 29- 1754 - 
died Aug. 14-1833.
dater
Am trying to get my
data together for the D.A.R.
Thanking you, I am
Respectfully,
(Miss) Lelah Forman
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Johnson City, Tenn
Oct. 15. 1897.

Agent of Pension Bureau
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir: Will you kindly furnish me
with whatever information you may be able to
obtain from your office concerning Charles Lander
a soldier of the Revolutionary War. He died in
Bourbon County Ky, Aug. 10. 1833 and I think that
he received a pension for two years before his death.
I would like very much to have a copy of his application 
for a pension, also the amount he received.
Am trying to collect data for a History of the Lander
Family of Kentucky, Charles Lander's war record will be
invaluable to his descendants who may desire to join
the Sons or Daughters of the American Revolution.
Thanking you in advance for whatever kind me you
may render I am Sir

Sincerely yours
(Rev) D. L. Lander

[stamp]
US PENSION OFFICE
Oct 16 1897
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Paris Ky, May 30, 96

Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Please give
me the military service of
Charles Lander sergeant, a
soldier in the Va. line. He
was a pensioner under the
act of June 7, 1832. April 1st
1833, he wold $120. Age 79.
He was living in Bourbon Co.,
Ky. when he received this pension.
In what Co. in Va was
he born.

Does his application for a
Pension give the name of
his wife?
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[stamp]
US PENSION OFFICE
D
JUN 4 1896

[stamp]
OLD WAR & NAVY
JUN 6 1896
FILES

Please give me all the information 
the records of your office contain

Mrs Mollie Grimes
Paris,
Bourbon Co.
Kentucky
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31198
INVALID.
Revy

File No. 31,198
Charles Lander
Serg Rev War

Act: June 7" 1832
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 236
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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June 9 '96 [?]
[?] to
Mrs Mollie Grimes
Paris Ky LMB
Oct. 22/97 Rev. David L
Lander, Johnson City, Tenn
1926 Feb 4 hist to
Miss Lelah Forman
MCS
1928 Mch. 15. Hist to Virginia
M. Hanna M.C.S.
---
1929 Aug 7 hist to Miss
Allene Reed   M.C.S.
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[stamp]
PARIS KY
APL 14

[stamp] 
FREE

J S Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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J S Edwards Esq
Dear Sir I received by mail a [?] [?]
the enclosed certificate granting me a pension
You will discover by examining my statement
and signature thereto that the name is Lander
instead of Sanders us You will be so good as
to make the alteration and forward it on
immediately and oblige
Yrs with much respect
Charles Lander
Paris April 13th 1833

J L Edwards Esq.
Dr Sir at the request of Lander I will state
that no person by the name of Charles Sanders
filed any petition for a pension in the Bourbon
Circuit Court of which I am clerk and [?]
satisfied he is the person meant
Very respectfully
JM: Arnold
Paris Apl 13 1833
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State of Kentucky
Clarke County } Sct

On this 27th day of November 1832 came
before the subscriber a Justice of the peace
for the County and state afsd and authorised
by law to administer oaths and take
and certify testimony, John Skinner
a citizen of the County afsd and being first
duly sworn agreeably to law, states that 
he is now in his sixty ninth year of age
that he is well acquainted with Charles
Lander of Bourbon County and State of
Kentucky, that they were school boys together
in Loudon County state of Virginia
and that they have resided within eleven
miles of each other for the last thirty
years the said Lander in Bourbon
and the said Skinner in Clarke County
afsd - that he the said John Skinner has
a perfect and distinct recollection of
the time when Capt Charles West of the
virginia line made up his company
in the Army of the revolution and thinks
it was in the year 1775 - That the brother
of this affiant Cornelaus Skinner
enlisted as a soldier in said company
and that the afsd Charles Lander
enlisted in said company at the same
time, as he always understood and believed
that he was not present when he
did enlist but that the said Lander
and this affiants afore named brother
was absent from their residences, the said
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Lander about two years and six months and
his brother not so long he being sooner discharged
in consequence of bad health. This affiants
father and the father of the said Lander lived
about one and a half miles distant
from each other that he has often heard
his father, and the father of the said Lander
speak of the said Charles Landers
service in the army - this his first
enlistment as he understood was for
six months and the second for two
years. That this affiants father went
to the army, while at the White Plains
near New York for his afore named
brother and brought him home, and
on their return they stated that they had
of the said Charles Lander in the
army at that place. Indeed no personal
fact was more generally known
of a man in the neighbourhood
where they resided, than the fact of the
said Charles Landers service in the
army for the term afsd- He further
perfectly recollects of the said Landers
return from the army after his term
of service had expired for he then saw
him and conversed with him 
John Skinner

Sworn to and subscribed the day and
year afsd- before me
William F. Hockaday
Justice of the peace for [?]

At the same time and place and before
me, appeared the Honble James
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Clark, and being first sworn states, that he is
well acquainted with the said Charles Lander
that the said Lander is a man of undoubted
truth and veracity, and he is a farmer
of high respectability, and has been a
member of the Legislature of the State of
Kentucky from the County of Bourbon.
That in the year 1818 or 1819
the said Lander detailed to this affiant
his services in the army of the revolution
and appeared before him then a circuit
Judge for the state of Kentucky, and
deposed as a witness for John Sidebotham
on his Sidebothams declaration
for a pension - His testimony was
reduced to writing, and is now on
file in the Pension office at
Washington, with said Sidebothams
declaration - He has often heard
the said Sidebotham who is now decd
say that said Lander was in the
army, and that they messed together
He is also well acquainted with
the witness John Skinner and
knows him to be a man of truth
and respectabiity
Jas. Clark

Sworn to and subscribed before me
[?] this day and year first named 
and I further certify that the said John
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Skinner and James Clark whose testimony
I have here taken and certified are
[men] deserving full faith a credit
William F. Hockaday Justice 
of the peace for Clark County

State of Kentucky
Clarke County } [Sct]
I James P [Bullock] Clerk of
the County Court in and for the County afsd do hereby 
certify that W F Hockaday where name is subscribed
to the above and foregoing certificate is and was at
the time of doing the same and acting Justice
of the peace in and for the afsd County of Clarke
& that full faith and credit is and ought
to be given to all his acts as such
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the
seal of said Office at Winchester
this 27th Nov 1832
Attest [James] P [Bullock]