Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,206, for John Sloan, South Carolina
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SERVICE
S.C. 
Sloan, John 

NUMBER
S18206 

CONTENTS
Carded
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Left Page: 
L.B. & N.W. June 6, 1838
Paid at the Treasury under the acts of 6th April 1838 from 4th Sept. 1835 to 4th Sep 1881, Agt. holified. 
Paid 16 Jan 1839
Paid as above from 4th Sep 1838 to 4th March 1839. Agt. holified 
19 Nov. 1839. 
W. W. Boyce May 26, 1843

Right Page: 
South Carolina 
23501
John Sloan 

Of Fairfield in the state of S. C. he was a private in the [blank space] commanded by Captain [blank space] of the Regt. commanded by Hampton in the S. Carolina [illegible] for 2 years. 
Inscribed on the Roll of S. Carolina at the rates of 80 Dollars--- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of September 1836 [illegible] and [illegible]
Arrears to the 4th of March 1834 $210
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept. $10
$280.—
Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832. 
Recorded by Nath Rice Clerk, 
Book [illegible] Vol.  6 Page 80
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Declaration of 
John Sloan 
7360
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South Caroliana 
Fairfield District

Personally appeared before me John Sloan a resident citizen of said district aged about seventy one or seventy two years of age who being duly sworn according to the law doth on his oath make the following supplemental declaration to his declaration dated 18th July 1832 in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832. Vizt. The said John Sloan is the native of the Kingdom of Ireland and was born about the year 1762 or 1763. He has no record of his age but believes there is such record in the hands of his brother in the State of Tennessee. At the time he was called into service as herein after mentioned he was residing on Jackson Creek then Craven County, but within the present limits of Fairfield District. He has resided in said District ever since the revolutionary war, and still resides therein not more than four miles from the shore where he resided when he first entered the service. The said John Sloan when a very young man entered the military service as well as he can now recollect in the Spring of the year 1779 as his father’s substitute who was their advancing in years; and never served afterwards. He does not on account of old age and consequent loss of memory recollect who was his Captain, but thinks Wade Hampton commanded the corps to which he was attached + recollects that the
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service was performed on the seaboard. In that year he performed two tours of duty, but cannot state for the cause above assigned the exact length of either. In the year 1780 he went into the service as a volunteer under the command of Capt. Edward Martin then of Col. David Hopkins’ Regiments. He was out nearly the whole of that year on various tours of duty to the almost total neglect of all civil pursuits, and served in that year all together more than six months. On one expedition in that year the regiment visited Tailsfinny and the port of Beaufort. The object of that expedition was to check the progress of the enemy and to prevent them from invading the state from Savannah. The said John Sloan further says that he was called into service in the year 1781 under the command of Captain Edward Martin, and whilst in service at Ancrum he volunteered under the commanded of Col. Wm. Washington to aid in an attack upon Congaree Fort. He was at the capture of the Fort. He recollects that besides Washington, Cols. Lee of the Legion and Col. Tho. Taylor of the militia men was in command. The said John Sloan after the fall of Congaree Fort continued in the service as a volunteer and was in the battle of the Juniper under the command of Col. Myddleton in a company commanded by Capt. John Gray. The said John Sloan further declares that he was afterwards called out under the command of Capt. Martin, Col. Richard Winn having succeeded to the command of the regiment to which Martin's Company was attached, and performed duty at
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Orangeburgh for several months -- There General Greene was Commander in Chief. From Orangeburgh, he marched with Marion’s Regt. to the neighborhood of Georgetown. Here the Regiment was detached from the main army in pursuit of the loyalists under Col. Cunningham, in which service he was actively employed for five or six weeks. He thinks from the time he left home to march for Orangeburgh until the termination of the expedition was five or six months. The said John Sloan further declares that he was afterward ordered to Charleston with a flag by Col. Winn to conduct a number of disaffected women to Charleston, that he joined Capt. Martin’s command at the Fourholes, where he continued in service about a month. Capt. Martin was relieved at the Fourholes and he returned home. He thinks he was in service at this time altogether about two months. At the latter place Sumter and Henderson were in command. The said John Sloan further declares that being out on an expedition for two months before the battle of the Eutaws under Capt. Martin Winn’s Regiment in the low country, the object of which was to cut off the supplies of the enemy from Charleston, he was in the pursuit of the enemy after the Battle and followed them to slowly corner. On his return home from this expedition he was nearly a year actively engaged as a volunteer under Capt. Martin on scouting parties in the upper country, where quiet and continued vigilance was necessary to suppress the tories and preserve order.The said John Sloan deposes and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot
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swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served two years and six months on the various tours of duty in which he was engaged, as above set forth; He always served as a private and a volunteer, and for the time above mentioned he claims a pension. He has no documentary evidence of his services, obtained no written discharge from his officers and considered the return of peace as his sufficient discharge. For all his services he has never received any compensation from this state nor the United States – And he does hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of the State of South Carolina or any other State, and left leave to refer to the testimony and certificate of William Robertson, Robert McCaughrin and Major Henry Moore.
Sworn to before me this Sixth Day of November in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred & Thirty Three —

John Sloan

A. White, C.C.P.
South Carolina Fairfield District

I James Elliott Clerk of the court of common pleas and General Sessions do hereby certify that I administered the above oath to the above named John Sloan, as such clerk and justice of the Governor of Offices. The testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix my seal of office.

J. Elliott
C.C.P.
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South Carolina
Fairfield District

On the fifteenth day of July 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Henry W. De Saussure one of the Chancellors of the said state in the court of equity now sitting at Fairfield Court House Major Henry Moore a resident citizen of said District, who being duly sworn saith that he is seventy eight years of age, was Captain Lieutenant in the Artillery Regiment called the fourth South Carolina Regiment on the Continental establishment, & that he receives a pension from the United States under the Act of Congress passed 1828. This Deponent further saith that he is well acquainted with John Sloan a citizen of said District about seventy years of age, that he knew him when he was about 12 years of age at school. That he is a man of good character + standing in the community + has always sustained the character of a good whig in the War of the Revolution. In the year 1779 when Genl. Prevost appeared before the lines of Charleston deponent saw the said John Sloan under arms in the defense of the city as a soldier in the militia under the command of Col. John Winn who has been dead for several years; Richard Winn who is also dead, became afterward Col. of the Regt then commanded by Col John Winn. Deponent thinks Richard Winn when Prevost appeared before Charleston was an officer in Col. John Winn's Regt. Deponent has understood that said John Sloan was in service at Orange
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burgh and also at the affair of the Sarifas.
Sworn to in open court
the said 15th July 1832

Henry Moore

Henry W. De Saussure
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I James Elliott Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and Sessions in and for said District resident in the town of Winnsborough do hereby certify that I have been acquainted with John Sloan about thirty years that he has always understood said Sloan was a soldier in the revolution + served for via in militia of this state, and has maintained a good character. He also certifies that there is not a clergyman in the immediate vicinity of said Sloan who knows any thing of his services or character, and it would be inconvenient for him being entirely blind to procure a certificate from a clergyman to authenticate the same.

Given under my hand and seal of Office this 18th July 1832.

J. Elliott
C.C.P.
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State of South Carolina
Fairfield District

On this 19th day of July 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Henry W. DeSaussure one of the Chancellors of the said state, William Robertson, aged made rath that he was seventy-two years of age last April, resides with seven miles of John Sloan in the District aforesaid, and has resided within a few miles of where he now lives since he was born. Deponent was acquainted with the said John Sloan from the beginning of the Revolutionary war, and knew him as a member of Captain Edward Martin’s Company of Militia, belonging to the Regiment commanded by Col. Richard Winn. Deponent cannot recollect the time, but believes it was long before the close of the war, and Deponent believes from all that he heard and understood during the war and from having sometimes been with him that he continued to serve as a soldier faithfully to the end of the war.
The character and standing of the said John Sloan are respectable and Deponent has no doubt of the truth of his declaration made of the particulars of his service.
Sworn to in open court
the day and year above.

Henry W. DeSaussure
19 July 1832

William Robertson (his mark)

South Carolina
Fairfield District

On this 19th day of July 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Henry W. DeSaussure one of the Chancellors of the said state, Robert McCreight who states, that he was seventy years old last Christmas and that he emigrated from Ireland, when he was very young, in the year 1773 and came to the District aforesaid and has lived since within eight miles from John Sloan, ever since. Deponent was acquainted with John Sloan during the whole of the Revolutionary war, and knew him some time as a soldier in Capt. Edward Martin’s Company in a Regiment Commanded by Col. Rich Winn, at another time as a soldier in Ellison’s Company in the same Regiment. Deponent was out in service with said Sloan on one tour in Capt. Martin’s Company for about two months. Col. Winn commanded. The Regt. was marched to Orangeburgh from there to Purrysburgh, and was discharged at a parish on the Savannah River below
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gutta. Deponent says said Sloan performed other tours of service down to the period of peace, but he was not with him other than is above stated. Said Sloan has always been considered a man of good character and an excellent soldier.

Robert McCreight

Sworn to in open Court July 19th 1832.
Henry W. DeSaussure
19 July 1832
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In the Court of Chancery

South Carolina
Fairfield District

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above-named applicant John Sloan was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that James Elliott Esquire who has signed the preceding certificate under the seal of the Court of Common Pleas and Sessions of said District is Clerk of that Court and resident in the Town of Winnsborough in said District - and that Major Henry Moore, William Robertson & Robert McCreight whose affidavits were taken in open Court as to the service and character of said applicant reside in said District, are credible persons, and that their statements are entitled to credit.

20th July 1832
Henry W. DeSaussure
20 July 1832
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South Carolina
Fairfield District

I John Buchanan Commissioner of the said Court of Chancery, do hereby certify that the foregoing (in this state of [illegible]) contain the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Sloan for a pension. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twentieth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, and in the fifty seventh year of American Independence.

Jno. Buchanan
C.E. & H.C.
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State of South Carolina
Fairfield District

In the Court of Chancery July 1832

On this 19th day of July Anno Domini 1832, personally appeared in open court before Henry W. DeSaussure, Judge of the Court of Equity now sitting, John Sloan, a resident citizen of the above mentioned State and district, aged about Seventy years, 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 7th 1832: Viz. The said John Sloan when a young man, entered the military service as well as he recollects in the spring of the year 1779 as a volunteer under the command of Captain Edward Martin of Col. Richard Winn's Regiment of South Carolina Militia, on the return of James Sloan, his father from the Stono expedition was on active duty at the taking of the Congaree Fort, recollect Capt. Taylor and in commanding on that occasion continued in service to an engagement at a place known by the name of the Juniper being exchanged from Capt. Martins command does not recollect the name of his Captain is inclined to believe that commanding office was either Middleton or Henderson: was on duty for some months at Orangeburgh in the state of South Carolina was  marched with a flag to Charleston, by Genl. Richard Winn, and on his return Col. Lee's horse at the Fourholes, at which place he joined the troops under the command of Genl. Sumter and Henderson—was on duty at the time of the battle at the Eutaw Spring, and was in pursuit under command of Col. Hampton from the Eutaw to Marks corner—was in various skirmishes, scouting and reconnoitering parties and continued in constant active service under the termination of the war: The said John Sloan at no time can received or applied for a discharge from the service, and has never received any Court compensation therefore and the said John Sloan does hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of the State of South Carolina or any other State, and begs to refer to the testimony and certificate of Maj. Henry Moore, William Robertson, & Robert A. McCreight support and in affirmation of the truth and veracity of the above statement. Deponent further adds that he has no documentary evidence in possession to show that he served as is above stated.

Sworn to in Open Court
the day & year aforesaid
Henry W. DeSaussure

John Sloan
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If this form is not correctly filled up, please note any alterations and send another blank form, when this is returned —
The facts herein stated can be clearly proven, and will be also corroborated by reference to his previous papers in Washington —
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Head of Proof

State of So. Carolina
County of Fairfield District

Be it Known, that on this 10 day of May A.D. 1854 before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Col. Wm. McCrieght, Jno. McMartin Geo. Buchanan and David Aiken, residents of Winnsboro S.C. in said County, and made oath according to law that John Sloan, Dec’d was the identical person whose name, under Act of 1836 (I believe) has been placed on the Revolutionary Pensions Roll at the rate of $80 Dollars per annum.

That the Administrator is credibly informed that the said Pension may and ought to be increased from its commencement and during its continuance; that he is directly interested as a claimant in said increase, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence as may be used in prosecuting said claim.

Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint W. W. Boyce, of Washington City, my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute the claim of Jno. Sloan, Dec’d for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or INCREASE OF PENSION that may be due; and for the purpose of establishing additional service by the soldier for whose military duty in the Revolution the aforesaid Pension was granted, I hereby authorize my said Attorney to apply for and obtain from State archives or other sources, certified proofs of such service. To examine all papers or documents in relation to said service, on file in the Department at Washington City or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for my benefit the Certificate for INCREASE which may be issued in satisfaction of said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Pension Agency of this State; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Agent and Attorney shall lawfully do in the premises.

Jno. Sloan Dec’d [BLANK]

Sworn to, Subscribed and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said Jno. Sloan, Dec’d to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged, in whose claim I am in no wise interested.

Daniel Elliott, Magistrate

State of So. Ca
County of Fairfield Dist

It is hereby Certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Court of Fairfield District, So. Carolina, that John Sloan, Dec’d was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, at the rate of $80 per annum, and that he died on the 30th day of July Eighteen Hundred and Forty Six, leaving surviving the following named (widows and) children and none other, to wit:

Wm Sloan, Thomas Sloan, Saml. Sloan, Robert Sloan, Mrs. Howard Robinson, Mrs. Phillips, all living.

It is further certified that Daniel Elliott, Esq., before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, was at the time of so doing a duly authorized Justice of the Peace in and for said county, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine; and further, that in the within claim for Increase of Pension I am in no wise interested.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office, this 10 day of May 1854.
O. R. Thompson, C.C.

1.Claimant’s name or names in full—2. Post Office address
3. “That he is the,” or “that she is the,” or “that she is the widow of,” or “that he, she, or they are the child of children of”
4. Pensioner’s full name—5. State the Act if known—6. Given the State where pensioned—7. Name the yearly amount received 8. “He is,” “she is,” or they are.”
9. Claimant’s signature—10. Magistrate’s signature—If the Pensioner be living, this part of the Clerk’s certificate should be omitted
11. Here name of each of the survivors—12. Magistrate’s name –13. Clerk’s signature.

N. B.—Should two or more heirs join in the forgoing, the plural should be substituted for the singular
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Lavinia Sloan wid. of John
Pennsylvania
July 7, 1838

Rejected
Service after Rev. War 

A Drum May 16 / 54
A Drum 23 [illegible] 1854
A Drum 14 Feb. 1855
Sloan 17. March 1855
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Left:
Jan. 29/90 Judge G. M. Orr — Clar. St. Paul
Minn. Mil. Hist. (Rec)
1925 — Dec. 3 — Hist to Mrs. Lewis G. Bennett Asst.


Right:
Rejected
(Crossed Out: Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873)

9664
P.O. Lavinia Sloan
Service: John
Enlisted: __________, 18
Discharged: __________, 18
Application filed: __________, 18
Application filed too late
 he is printed list of 1852
Alleges: ____________
Re-enlisted: ____________
Attorney: ____________
P.O.: ____________
Recognized: ____________
Contract: ____________
Cert. of Dis.: ____________
Searched for __________, 18
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18206
INVALID 

File No. 18206
John Sloan 
Pri Rev. War 

Act: June 7th 32 
Index: -- Vol. 1, Page 344 

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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June 13 

[illegible] Evans
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Treasury Department, 
Second Comptroller’s Office, 
June 13. 1838. 

Sir. 
Under the act of the 6th of April 1838, entitled “An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,” John Sloan a Pensioner on the Roll of the S. Carolina Agency at the rate of eighty dollars and ----- cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this Department from the 4th of Sept. 1835 to the 4th of September 1837

Respectfully yours.
Albion E. Parris 
Comptroller 

To the Commission of Pensions, 
Present.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT 

Second Comptroller’s Office, 
Nov. 11th, 1839,
Sir: 
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled “An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,” John Sloan a Pensioner on the Roll of the South Carolina Agency at the state of Eighty Dollars and ---- Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department from the 4th of Sept, 1838; to the 4th March, 1839 

Respectfully yours, 
Albion K. Parris 
Comptroller. 

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present.
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May 22 ‘[illegible] 

Dear Sir,

Will you do me the kindest of examining that me knows whether the within holder is connected in any good claim, and any other information on the subject you may deem important.

Ever yours truly,  
W.W. Boyce

L.P. Waldo Esq.
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[Illegible] 60  
John Sloan

Admisar Private
2 years / $80

John K. Griffin
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative in red ink, will apply to the claim of John Sloan which require further proof or explanation. 

I.Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? 
Yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
Yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of war when he served?
Yes

V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? 
NO

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with regulations?
Yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? 
Yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? 
Yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? 
Yes

Is the Clerk’s Seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? 
Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respect his age and general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? 
No 

XII. If the clergyman’s affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? 
Yes

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
 
XIV. If the applicant’s name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? 
Yes
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant’s service? 
Yes

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? 
No 

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 
1. 2. 3. 

EXPLANATORY NOTES.

QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades; For ---- year ---- months, and ----- days, I served as a ----- For ----- months and ----- days, I served as a ------; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the definite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of officers and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the application served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. 

QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 

QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.