Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11753, Richard Withington, S.C.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
S.C.
Withington, Richard
Mary
NUMBER
R. 11753
CONTENTS
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No. 37.347.
Richard Withington
Ga
act 7 June 1832
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State of Georgia
Cherokee County
On this the fourteenth day of May eighteen hundred and forty six personally appeared in open Court Mary Withington a resident of the County & State aforesaid aged eighty three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836.
That she is the widow of Richard Withington who was a private in the revolution and who according to the best of her knowledge & belief did various service and under various officers he was at the time of the service a citizen of South Carolina Abbeville District, at one time he enlisted for the term of three years & during the war at [illegible] corner in Abbeville District So. Ca. (his father who was also named Richard Withington and two of his brothers enlisted at the same time) and went into Fort Rutledge on Seneca River South Carolina in Captain Tutts or Captain Moores independent Company which was in the years 1779 & 1780 and served there until the Fort was abandoned except when absent at times in active service under Moore that he travelled to various points in South Carolina. She thinks to Savannah Augusta and to Fort at the head of Savannah River or junction of Tugulo & Seneca Rivers all of which is true as nearly as she can recollect. She was also [illegible] she has no documentary
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evidence in support of the claim. She further declares that she was married to the said Richard Withington in the year eighteen hundred and eight in Elbert County Georgia and that she has no Record of the time and cannot recollect the day and month that her husband the aforesaid Richard Withington died on the 22nd of November 1842 leaving her his widow but leaving no child and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed
Mary Withington her mark X
Sworn to & subscribed in Open Court before us this fourteenth day of May 1846
Elias E. Field J.I. C.
Geo. W. Cook J.I.C.
Jabez Galt J.I.C
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State of Georgia
Cherokee County
This the fourteenth day of May 1846-
Inferior Court
Present the Honorable Jabez Galt Elias E. Field and George W. Cook Justices of said Court
I, William A. Williams Clerk of the Inferior Court for said County do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been made to the Court this day of the following
facts to wit. That Richard Withington the Husband of Mary Withington the foregoing declarant did on the 22nd day of November 1842 leaving Mary Withington his widow who still survives and continues to be the widow of said Richard Withington and further that said Richard Withington died leaving neither Child nor children.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and private seal there being no seal of Office provided this the day & year first above written
William A Williams Clerk {SD}
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November 16, 1937
Mrs. W. V. Bell
Hawkinsville
Georgia
RICHARD WITHINGTON
R. 11753
BA-J/MLB
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Richard Witherington from either Georgia or South Carolina.
There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service in the Revolution of a Richard Witherington, but a record has been found of a soldier with similar spelling of the name, one Richard Withington, which is furnished herein as it may be of interest to you in your research. The data therein were obtained from pension claim, R. 11753, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War. 
Richard Withington was the son of Richard Withington. The date and place of his birth and name of mother are not shown. 
Richard Withington, Junior, married in the fall of 1808, Mary McCormack. They were married in Elbert County, Georgia, at the house of one John P. McCormack who was born February 6, 1783. One Rooda McCormack testified in 1846 in Cherokee County, Georgia, to the marriage of Richard Withington and Mary McCormack. The relationship of John P. and Rooda McCormack to soldier's wife, Mary, or to each other, was not stated. Richard Withington died November 22, 1842.
Mary Withington, soldier's widow, applied for pension May 14, 1846, at which time she was aged eighty-three years and a resident of Cherokee County, Georgia. She alleged that her husband, Richard Withington, was a resident of Abbeville District, South Carolina, at the time of the Revolutionary War, and that he enlisted in 1779 or 1780 for the term of three years, or for the war, that his father and two of his brothers enlisted at the same time, and that he served as a private in Captain Tutt's or Captain Moore's Independent Company, that they went to Fort Rutledge on Seneca River in South Carolina and that they served until the fort was abandoned, date not stated.
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Mary Withington's claim for pension was not allowed as she failed to furnish proof of soldier's service in accordance with the requirements of the pension law.
It is not stated whether Richard Withington and his wife, Mary, ever had children, but the soldier left no children at death.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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1937 Nov. 16 - Hist. to Mrs W. V. Bell. MLB

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11,753
Richard Withington
REJECTED
P.O.
Service:
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized. Contract
Cert. of Dis. Searched for
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No 37,367
Richard Withington
Ga
11753
Act 7 June '32
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Pension Office
August 21. 1846
Sir
The declaration of Mary Withington supposed to be intended as an application for a pension due her husband Richard Withington at his death has been examined and filed under the act of 7 June 1832.
It appears from the statement of Mrs Withington that her husband was living until 1842, without having made application for the benefit of the pension laws, some of which have been in force more than 28 years. This fact is calculated to make an impression unfavorable to the validity of this claim which can be removed only by the clearest and most satisfactory record evidence from the office of the Comptroller General of South Carolina.
If those records exhibit Indents issued to two Richard Withington, Jr. and Senr. and two others by the name of Withington service in the same company, and at the same period as
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alleged in Mrs Withingtons declaration it will go far to remove the objection to the admission of this Claim.
Mrs Withington has no claim in her own right. There is no law which grants a pension to widows for their husbands Revolutionary service who were married after the 31st Decem. 1793.

John J. McCullock Esq
Jefferson Ga.

register this claim act 7 June 32 Ga.

21 Aug 1846
J. J. McCullock
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Jefferson Ga
8 July
20

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

6786 July 13 1846.
O.M Mary Withington
July 4, 1836
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Jefferson
Georgia July 7th /46
Sir
I herewith inclose you a Declaration of Mary Withington at her request you will direct any communication you may have to make in relation to her case, to me at this place
Your most Respectfully
John J. McCullock

Com. of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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Georgia
Cherokee County
before Me Solomon P Wood an acting Justice of Peace in and for said County Personally came John P McCormack who being duly Sworn deposeth and saith and saith that a recording to the Record of his parence that he was married February the 6th 1783 and Ritchard Withington and Murray McCarmack was married at my house in Elbert County Georgia in the farol of the year 1808 also personally came Rooda McCormack who being duly sworn and deposeth and saith that the above named Richard Withington and Murrey McCormack was married as stated above in Elbert County in the farol of the year 1808 by Robert Conada an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 13th day of May 1846
John P McCormack
Solomon P Wood J.P. 
Rooda McCormack her mark X

Georgia
Cherokee County
Before me Solomon P Wood an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County Personally came Marrey Delay who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that Richard Withington did departe this life on the 22nd day of November 1842.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th day of May 1846
Solomon P Wood J.P.
Marrey Delay her mark X

I can hereby Certify that all the above Witness is all creditable witnesses so fare as my Knowling extends or have heard of
Solomon P Wood J.P.
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Georgia
Cherokee County
I William A. Williams Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County do hereby certify that Solomon P. Wood whose name appears to the within affidavits is an acting Justice of the peace in & for said County duly authorized and commissioned and that full faith & credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such given under my hand and private seal there being no seal of Office provided this the fourteenth day of May 1846
William A. Williams Clk {SS.}
Georgia
Cherokee County
I Jabez Galt one of the Justices of the Inferior Court of said County do hereby certify that William A Williams whose name appears to the above and foregoing certificate is the Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such. Given under my hand and seal this the fourteenth day of May 1846
Jabez Galt J.I.C.
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REGISTRAR HAWKINSVILLE CHAPTER
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
HAWKINSVILLE, GA.
Nov. 4, 1937
Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Please send me a copy of the Revolutionary service of Richard Witherington either from Georgia or Carolinas. Thanking you for this favor, I am,
Respectfully
Mrs. W. V. Bell
Hawkinsville Ga

[round stamp] RECEIVED NOV 5 1937 MAIL SUB DIV [illegible]