Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3878, Peter Galloway, S.C.
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SERVICE  SC
Galloway, Peter
NUMBER  R.3878
CONTENTS born in Ireland
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32.621
3878
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832
State of Indiana Carroll County On this fourteenth day of October 1834
personally appeared in open Court
before the Circuit Court of said County of Carroll & State of Indiana
now sitting (being a court of record with united common law & chancery Jurisdiction) Peter Galloway a resident of Adams Township in the County & State aforesaid aged seventy seven years (as near
as deponent can recollect tho' on account of old age & consequent
loss of memory he cannot name his age certainly within 3 or 4 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 7, 1832.
that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated enlisted by being drafted in the militia of South Carolina about the time the descent of the British was expected upon the coast of South Carolina, in the company commanded by Captain [George] Dunlap (Christian name not recollected) was mustered
into service in Lancaster County South Carolina near the east
bank of the Catawba river & about 200 miles from the City of Charleston - several other companies were organized at the same time, but the names of the field officers deponent does not recollect
Deponent marched with the regiment from the said place of his enlistment to Charleston we lay several days at Charleston & the British army not being able to get in by sea, we marched them down the coast toward the Savannah river where we joined the forces under Genl [Thomas Sumter] Sumpter on or near Stony Creek - we remained then a week or two & our regiment was then marched back to the place of enlistment (having Charleston on the right) when we were discharged. the
British army at this time was lying as deponent understood near Stony Creek, the head quarters of the American army being somewhat
near the Savannah river. Deponent thinks this tour lasted
about two months- sometime after this & not long before Genl Gates was defeated at Camden,  another regiment of militia was raised in Lancaster County & Deponent was again drafted under the same Captain, though he thinks that the company was not commanded by the captain in person that tour but by the subaltern officers whose names he does not recollect as they were frequently changed. we were then sent down under Genl Sumpter on the
west side of the Catawba river & marched to a point somewhere
opposite Camden when in a short time we heard of the defeat of
Genl Gates near Camden. Several messages (by individuals) of this defeat reached Sumpter before he commenced a retreat. When satisfied of the fact we commenced a rapid retreat up the country, & had made about a day's march when the British overtook us at the mouth of Fishing Creek on the west side of the Catawba where an engagement ensued in which the Americans were routed &
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were obliged to flee in broken parties. In this battle deponent lost his horse, saddle & bridle & made his escape past the neighborhood of his dwelling until we crossed the Yadkin river in North Carolina when we found a detachment of about 1000 Americans  in Camp with whom we remained until news came of the
British having retired, when deponent returned to his home. this tour embraced a period of two or three months.
At another time Colonel Wade Hampton embodied one Regiment
in Lancaster County & we marched down the Congaree river to
reconnoider a fort where some British were supposed to be. Finding it in possession of a superior force & probably mounted with Cannon we commenced our March toward Genl [Thomas Sumter] Sumpters quarters
closely pursued by the British - we joined Genl Sumpter at his quarters a fort on Congaree. The next day Genl Sumpter ordered a March to storm the house of a Colonel Thompson where the British had made a lodgement & where there was also a fort. Sumpter with the main army took a position to watch the garrison
in the Fort, while Hampton with his regiment made an attack upon the men at the house, we made the first fire & that was exchanged by the British. Genl Sumpter however would not allow us to burn the house as the family of Col. Thompson (a friend of
Americans) were inside of it-- we were then obliged to march down the
river & for several succeeding days there was skirmishing between the
flanking parties of the two armies until we reached the neighborhood of Camden where our regiment was marched back to the neighborhood of my fathers when we were discharged. Deponent cannot state the precise length of this tour but sets it down at
three weeks or more. Deponent made one or two other short tours the periods of which he cannot recollect, but is confident and so states that the aggregate time of his bearing arms as aforesaid amounted to eight months. deponent in one of the above expeditions was in the hanging rock battle.  In addition to which he was employed about eleven weeks as a waggoner for the continental army for
which he received from the U. States an indent upon which he received
annual interest until he sold it. He cannot state the precise date or terms of his service as a soldier as aforesaid on account of infirm
age & consequent loss of memory, with any more accuracy than above. He has no documentary evidence & knows of no persons whose
testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. In answer to
the questions prescribed by the War department & put to him by the Court
Deponent says he was born in Ireland Kingdom of Great Britain about the year 17__ has no record of his age, was living in Lancaster County South Carolina when called into service. Lived after the Revolution in South Carolina until about thirteen years ago when he removed to Missouri & thence four years ago to Indiana where he now lives, he was drafted into the service at the several times as aforesaid. The names of officers and circumstances of his service are as above set forth. I never received a
written discharge. gives the names of John Love & Alexander Barns to whom he is known in his present neighborhood & who can testify to his
character for veracity and their belief of his revolutionary services-- there is
no convenient Clergyman who can give traditionary evidence-- He hereby
relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State. s/ Peter Galloway
sworn to & subscribed the day &
year aforesaid
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We Alexander Barns & John Love residing in Adams Township, Carroll County & State of Indiana
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Peter Galloway who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be
seventy seven years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion - and further that he is a credible man & worthy of belief
sworn to & subscribed the
day & year aforesaid
s/Alexr Barns
John Love
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed in the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Alexander Barns & John Love who have signed the preceding certificate are credible persons resident in said County of Carroll & in the neighborhood of said applicant and that their statement is entitled to credit & that it is not practicable for
him to procure the certificate of a Clergyman. s/ C McCombs
J Griffith
I Daniel F. Vandeventer Clerk of the Circuit Court of Carroll County in the State of Indiana do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the
matter of the application of
Peter Galloway for a pension (Hon
John R. Porter President and being absent) In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 14th day of October 1834
DF Vandeventer Clk
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Peter Gallaway  R
Rejected
Ind
Apr 1832

SM Knight present
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State of Indiana County of Carroll
Be it Known, That on this 18 day of May A. D. 1853 before me, the under
signed a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Jonathan N.
Galloway resident of Lockport
in said County and made oath according to law that he is one of the legal heirs of Peter Galloway who was a Soldier of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of _
That he is directly interested as a claimant in said pension, and makes this Affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney and authority heretofore given I hereby constitute and appoint SAMUEL M KNIGHT of Washington City, my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute the claim of Peter Galloway for any  amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim on file in the Department at Washington City or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued, for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City, D. C. Agency;
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 Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises. s/ Jonathan N Galloway

Sworn to, Subscribed, and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said
Jonathan N. Galloway to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party
therein alleged.
s/ Thomas Irelan J. P.

State of Indiana County of Carroll
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Court of Carroll County in said State that Jonathan N. Galloway the party who has sworn to, and acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney, is the Grandchild of the reputed soldier aforesaid. I Further certify that 
Thomas Irelan Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and
acknowledged was, at time of so doing a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office this Sixth day of June 1853
s/ James H. Stewart Clk
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
AWF/eel
January 16, 1929
Mrs. Charles G. Van Ginkel
3410 School Street
Des Moines, Iowa
Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 3878, it appears that Peter Galloway
was born in Ireland in 17 -- ( blurred)
He applied for pension October 14, 1834, at which time he was living in Adams Township, Carroll County,
Indiana, aged about seventy-seven years and alleged that while residing in Lancaster County, South Carolina, he enlisted in the South Carolina Militia about the time the descent of the British was expected upon the coast of South Carolina, and served about two months in Captain [George]
Dunlap's Company, and a short while before General Gates' defeat at Camden, he enlisted and served two or three months in the same company and was in the battle of Fishing Creek, he was out on several short tours, at one time in the battle of Hanging Rock, and also that he served about eleven weeks as wagoner.
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The claim was not allowed as it was not proven that
he served six months as required by the pension laws.
In 1853, Jonathan N. Galloway, a grandchild, residing 
in Lockport, Carroll County, Indiana, stated that the soldier was dead (no date given) and that he was one of the heirs.
There are no further family data.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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32,621
Peter Galloway Indiana 
Rejected
act 7th June 1832
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[letterhead] AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 1634 STREET, WASHINGTON, D. C.
IOWA STATE DIVISION
3410 School Street,
Des Moines, Iowa.

Department of the Interior,
Washington, D. C.
(Revolutionary Section ).
Dear Sir,
Would you be so kind as to send me the complete Revolutionary services of Peter Galloway, who served
from South Carolina. Also kindly send all records you have of him or his family.
Sincerely
Marguerite Galloway Van Ginkel
Mrs. Charles G. Van Ginkel,
3410 School St.,
Des Moines, Iowa.
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3878 REJECTED
Peter Galloway
The printed list of 1852 shows reasons for rejection "He did not served six months"

1929 Jan 16 Hist to Mrs Chas Van Ginkel awg
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Lafayette Oct. 17th 1834
Edwards E
JL Edwards Esq Comr of Pensions
Sir- You will find enclosed, the
declaration of Peter Galloway for a pension - I hope he has been sufficiently specific to entitle him to a favourable decision with the Department. I might have filled
a quire of paper with the garrulous tale of the old soldier, & yet he cannot name the exact terms of his several enlistments. His memory in this respect is not singular, as your experience must have perceived. No
man bears a fairer character in his neighborhood than old revolutionary soldiers who have pushed their
fortunes so far in the woods of the west as we are, following their children through the difficulties of the forest many of them chilled with penury deserve peculiarly the paternal regard of the Government, and among them Peter Galloway not the least.
you will please address on the subject of this application John Love, Tiptonsport, Carroll Co. Inda to whom you will forward the certificate if allowed
I am very Resply
Yr Obt svt
AWV White
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AWV White 12 Feby 1835 
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Department of War Pension Office
February 12 1835
Sir I have examined the claim of Peter Galloway and have rejected it and placed the papers on file
He alleges to have served one time of duty of "about two months. One of "Two or three months; and one of
One week or more: that he made one or two other short tours, the periods of which he cannot recalled, but is
confident and so states the aggregate time of his bearing arms as aforesaid amounted to 8 mo.
Much of the service here described is very indefinitely expressed, it falls short of 6 Mos even by allowing
the longest term named in the applicant's  specification.
I am _

Alfr V. White Esq
Lafayette
Ind.
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Dec 22/54
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Pension Office
22d Dec. 1854.
Sir
On 14th Oct. 1834, Peter Galloway
made his declaration for a pension
alleging that he served between four
and six months in the South Carolina
Militia, and eleven weeks as a Wagoner.
He adduced neither record no parol
proof of his service, and his claim
was rejected. Since that time no additional evidence has been filed
Such is the condition of the claim.
Evidence of Peter's services may be obtained by application to the Comptroller of South Carolina at Columbia
I return Mr Galloway's letter
Hon. Daniel Mace
House of Reps
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March 12/56
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Pension Office
March 12, 1856
Sir I herewith return the letter of Jonathan N Galloway Esq addressed to you on the 14 ult, and leave the [illegible] that it appears
according to a letter from the Comptroller of South Carolina filed with Peter Galloway's papers, that the 118 days sum paid which the said Peter received on indent the rendered as follows: 40 days in the Cavalry in 1780 under Capt. Dunlap;
21 days in do in 1781, and 57 days with Waggon and team in 1782. The service was in the militia.
We have no end of the [illegible] service of South Carolina & of his officers; and from the mode in which the description of the same was settled in that sale, it is not probable that Galloway served any other service
Hon Daniel Mace House of Reps
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 hon D Mace
Jany 7. '56
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Pension Office
Jany 7 1856
Sir
I have the honor to return the letter of Mr Galloway and to inform you that Peter Galloway of Indiana who claimed a pension for services
rendered in So Ca did not serve six months in the war of the Revolution and consequently was never entitled to a pension. Your correspondent seems to apprehend that because he claimed to have served longer than
the Record shows, that the Record is not to be believed, I think it much more likely that he should have over stated his services, than that a
contemporaneous record should not be true. But it is almost impossible that the records in So Ca should under state a soldiers service, because it is made upon the oath of
the soldier himself when he claimed
his pay from the State, and Galloway declares in his declaration that he had done and received an Indent. You will perceive that there is no law in existence under which a pension can be granted for his services.
Hon D Mace
H of Reps 

1821
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Comptroller Generals Office
Columbia So Ca January 10th 1855
Dear Sir Upon examination of the Revolutionary Records of this Office the name of Peter Galloway appears No 12 Book N in an Indent for L41.5.8 4/7 Sterling, and in the Account for 40 days service in the Cavalry under Capt Geo Dunlap in 1780; 21 days in the Cavalry under Lt Col Henery Hamton [Henry Hampton], with Lieut James Craig under Genl [Thomas] Sumter in 1781 & 17 days with waggon & team at the Continental Station at Waxhaw in 1782
under John Galbraith D.D.M. for which
services the said Indent was issued. Order enclosed in the account in favor of Henery Coffey acknowledged before Robt Montgomery JP
For a certificate copy of the above Indent & accounts fee $2 which please enclose
Very Respectfully
yours &c
P.S. Jacobs Dep Comp Genl

Hon Danl Mace
House of Reps Washington D.C.
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Hon D. Mace Jany 22/35
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Pension Office
Jany 22 1835
Sir I have the honor to inform you that the books in the office of the Comptroller of So Ca show that Peter Galloway of Indiana only served 119 days, in the War of the Revolution. This service does not entitle him to a pension, as persons are not allowed for a less service than six months,
Hon D Mace
H of R