Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File O.W.Rej. 11954, Charles Young, Not Rev. War Va. Indian Wars 1790-1794
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(3 - 1776 )
SERVICE
Not Rev. War
Va.
Indian Wars 1790-1794
CONTENTS
Young, Charles
NUMBER
O. W. Rej. 11954
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Virginia, Kanawha County to wit:
On this 9th day of September 1833, personally appeared in Court before the county court of Kanawha County now sitting Char. Young aged 59, 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 of the 7th June 1832-
That he was born in the month of March 1774, in the County of Augusta, Virginia in which he continued to live until 1784 when moved with his fathers family to Muddy Creek Greenbrier after continue at that place about two years he moved to Kanawha County and erecting a cabin for his father, immediately below the mouth of Cole River, where a town had been laid off and into which his father moved in the course of six months afterwards
In 1789 this declarant reentered under a promise of pay, as a soldier in Capt. William Clendenin's company and was stationed at the Fort and for the defence thereof, against Indian depredations-- in which service he continued until towards the close
of the summer 1790 when the Indians took and burnt that garrison  At the destruction of the Fort, many of the settlers in the vicinity were killed. Those who escaped moved, with their families to the Fort at the mouth of Elk twelve miles above
On the burning of the Fort at Core this declarant still under the command of Capt Wm Clendenin Geo Clendenin was Col of the county was placed at Elk Fort where he continued in the performance of the military duties of the period until the Fall of the ensuing year, 1791 (winter excepted) At this time several families moved from Elk Fort to Peters Creek a branch of Gauly River, then in Kanawha County but now in Nicholas and this declarant with others was ordered there to guard the settlement from Indian depredations. At the close of the summer following 1792 until which period he remained in military service at this place. The Indians murdered two daughters of Henry Morris, one of the settlers at Peters creek and broke up the settlement - the families composing which moving to John Jones' port on Kanawha River 18 miles above the garrison at Elk. At this fort Young continued serving the remainder of 1792.
During 1793 the declarant was at stationed at Elk, Jones, Levi and Benjamin Morris forts for the defense thereof according to the apparent necessity of his services on an apprehended Indian
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invasion of either fort. The three last forts lying within a few miles of each other an alarm  brought together the force of each. He continued thus in the defence [sic] of these forts until the summer of 1794, when Waynes Treaty concluded Indian hostilities on the Kanawha
the period of his service, commencing in (say ) 1790 until the summer of 1794, varied each year from 6 to 8 months, to suit the exigencies of the country. He received pay but for the last two years of his service as until the first of these he knew not the method of obtaining [illegible] the amount of these payments he has forgotten. He recollects that one year he drew $12 and some odd schillings. He never drew rations
This declarant never received a written discharge. The record of his age was destroyed in the Cole Fort 1790 
He hereby relinquishes 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 any State
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open
Charles Young
Court teste A.W. Quarrier Clk

We  Daniel Ruffner, and David Ruffner residing in the County of Kanawha hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Charles Young who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 59 years of age that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Indian  Frontier on and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
in open Court teste A.W. Quarrier Clk
David Ruffner
Danl Ruffner
---
And the said Court hereby declarent's [sic] opinion after investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department, that the above named applicant was a soldier in the Indian war on the frontier of Western Virginia
and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to it that David Ruffner and Daniel Ruffner are reliable persons.
James Sisson  John Starke
John Hansford [?]  Van B Reynolds


Young, Charles
Va.  DWRej. 11954
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Kanawha County, towit:
On this 9th day of September, 1832, personally appeared in open court, before the county court of said county, John Jones and Thomas Casdorph who being duly sworn doth on their oaths say that they have known Charles Young whose declaration is hereto annexed, since the year 1791 when he was in military service at the Garrison at the mouth of Elk as  stated in Young's declaration, he was under the command of [illegible] Clendenin - Geo. Clendenin being the colonel of Kanawha County. In 1792 they know that he returned from the settlement which had been made on Peter's Creek in the Autumn of the preceding year - That he was in military service at that place, and that on returning he was continued in said service at the fort of John Jones, one of the undersigned. They farther [sic] say that he served as he stated in the two years following - at the old fort at Elk, at Jones' and at Levi and Benjamin Morris's Forts - and that during these years he served from 6 to 8 months per year. They can safely say that during three years, at least, he was in military service - except during the winter.
Sworn and subscribed in court the day and year aforesaid. 
Thomas Casdorph 
John Jones
Teste. A. W. Quarrier} 

Virginia SS Kanawha County to wit
I Alexander W. Quarrier Clerk of the County Court of said County of Kanawha Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Charles Young for a pension
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 10th day of September 1833 and in the 58th year of the Commonwealth
A. W. Quarrier Clk
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or
an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his
name is not on the pension role of any agency in any State
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion
after investigation of the matter, and after putting the
interrogations preserved by the War Department
[illegible] the above named applicant was a 
[illegible] in
the Indian Frontier was and served as he states.
[all the above is X'd out]

Kanawha County to wit
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November 12, 1934
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Mrs. W. S. Johnson
1521 Lee Street
Charleston, West Virginia

CHARLES YOUNG
O. W. Rej. 11954
BA-J/MMHF:MLB

Dear Madam:

The following data have been found in pension claim,
O.W. Rej. File No. 11954, based upon service of Charles Young.
Charles Young was born in March, 1774, in Augusta County,
Virginia. He resided there until 1784, when he moved with his
father's family to Muddy Creek, Greenbrier County, Virginia, he
resided there about two years, then went to Kanawha County,
Virginia, and assisted in erecting a cabin for his father
immediately below the mouth of the Coal River, into which his
father moved about six months later. The names of his parents
are not given.
In 1789, Charles Young volunteered, served in Captain William
Clendenin's company, under Colonel George Clendenin, Colonel of
Kanawha County, and was stationed at Coal's Fort defending it from
Indians; he continued in this Indian warfare on the western border
of Virginia from six to eight months each year to and including
1794; the settlers moved from fort to fort as they were harassed
by Indians and their forts burned and many settlers murdered.
Charles Young applied for pension September 9, 1833, at which
time he was a resident of Kanawha County, Virginia. He applied
on account of the service noted above, under the Act of June 7,
1832. His claim was not allowed, as that act of Congress provided
only for Revolutionary War service, and this soldier's service
was not rendered during that period, 1775-1783.
There are no family data except the reference to his father.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Charles Young

Rejected, See let Nov
6 1833 1/[?]
A. W. Quarrier
Kanawha
Va


Young, Charles
OWRej. 11954
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Nov. 12. Hist. to Mrs. W. S. Johnson
[initials]

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
1789 1790 1791 1793.
11954
P. O.
Charles Young
Service:
Enlisted:  REJECTED  , 18__
Discharged: _____, 18__
Application filed: _____, 18__
Alleges: _____
-
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18__
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A. W. Quarrier
Nov: 6 1833
O.C.

Re vol, 10
Pa 385
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Department of War
Pension Office
Nov 5 1833

Sir
The application of C. S. Young has been examined and his claim rejected.
The Act of June 7 1832 does not extend its provisions to any but those who performed military service during the War of the Revolution, what [illegible] in Sept 1775
J

A W Quarrier
Clk Kanawha Co
Va.
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Charles Young-
Va
Rejected., See let 6 Nv" 33
to A. W. Quarrier
Kanawha
Va
1195
Act 7 June 1832
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November 12, 1934
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Mrs. W. S. Johnson
1521 Lee Street
Charleston, West Virginia

CHARLES YOUNG
O. W. Rej. 11954
BA-MMHF:MLB

Dear Madam:

In August, 1931, you requested the Revolutionary War record
of a Charles Young, of Kanawha County, Virginia, whose claim for
pension, you stated, was rejected.
When you made your request that claim for pension was not
located. In a recent search of other records, the claim of
Charles Young, of Kanawha County, was found; his service was not
in the Revolutionary War, but subsequent 
thereto. His record is
furnished you herewith, as you may be searching his record even
now.
Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Washington September 9, 1931

Mrs. W. S. Johnson   BA-J/ALB
1521 Lee Street
Charleston, West Virginia

Dear Madam:
   Reference is made to your letter relative to one Charles Young, Revolutionary War soldier of Kanawha County, Virginia.
   You are advised that a careful search of the Revolutionary War records of this office fails to show a claim for pension on file by a Charles Young.
   On a list printed in 1852, of applicants for pension whose claims were rejected, appears the name Charles Young of Kanawha County, Virginia, and the cause stated of the rejection of his claim under the Act of June 7, 1832, is that his service was previous to 1775.
   The Act of June 7, 1832, required that the soldier should have rendered six months military service in an embodied military corps in the Revolutionary War.
   This office now has no knowledge of the missing papers in his application for pension. It is known that in some instances when applications for Revolutionary War pensions were made from that section of Virginia, that special investigations were later made by the United States district attorney in adjusting certain ones, in which the attorney withdrew the application papers from the office for use in the investigations and did not always return them when the claims were rejected, which may possibly account for the absence of papers in this particular claim.
Very truly yours
 A. D. HILLER
 Assistant to Administrator
 
I found this Old War claim in Nov. 1934, & sent the hist
then to this writer
[illegible initials]
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The printed list of rejected
and suspended claims
printed in
1852, gives reason for rejection of
Claim: Service previous to 1775."
Found on Va List - Kenawha [Kanawha] County.

No papers were found in
his claim for pension, when his
record was requested & the search
made Sept. 9, 1931.
Office letter cut from
old letter book; reference to it found on old
pension book, and file No. P. 11954.

[illegible] signature
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State of West Virginia
Office of Treasurer
Charleston

W. S. Johnson
Treasurer

U. S. Pension Bureau
Revolutionary Division
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir,
Will you please send me a copy of the application for Revolutionary pension that was filed by Charles Young of Kanawha County, Virginia?  The application will be found in rejected files.  I am especially anxious to know when and where he was born and the people mentioned in said application, and in what connection they are mentioned.  Does he mention one Conrad Young?
Sincerely
(Mrs. H. S. Johnson
1521 Lee St.
Charleston 
Kanawha Co.
W.V.

[ink stamp: REVOLUTIONARY & 1812 WARS
SECTION
AUG 25 1931
BUREAU OF PENSIONS]