Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3449, Thomas Farrar, S.C.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
S.C.
Farrar, Thomas
NUMBER
R. 3449
Born in Va.
CONTENTS
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Thomas Farrar
1793
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Copy Extracts from the Journal of the Senate for 1793.-
"Read the petition of John Bowie, Samuel Earle, Richard Fett and Thomas Farrar presented by General Pinckney praying That this Honorable House[illegible] be pleased to grant the petitioners their Commutation which they generally think themselves entitled to under a resolution of the Legislature of this State they being the only officers remaining of the three Independent Companies of Infantry raised in this State during the late war - Ordered that the petition be referred to a Committee-- And a Committee was appointed accordingly, viz. General Pinckney Capt Willson - Col Brandon. General Pinckney from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of John Bowie, Thomas Farrar and others late officers of the Independent Companies of this State praying provision to be made for their commutation presented. the following Report, That they have taken into consideration the case of the petitioners and find the following facts supported by the requisite vouchers to wit, that on the 25th day of Feby 1776 the said John Bowie was Commissioned as a Captain in the 5th Regiment of this State & that the said Thomas Farrar & others were appointed & commissioned as Lieutenants in the same Regiment and as such are entitled under the act of Congress to the Commutation of their pay. That on the 7th day of Feby 1777 the said officers with their men were detached from the Continental Establishment under a resolve of the Legislature of this State and other express condition that the said officers should be to all intents & purposes on the same footing as the Continental officers as to pay, rations, clothing &c. That they were made Independent companies subject nevertheless to all the rules & articles of war & expressly declared to be under the commander in Chief of this State, that in consequence of their being so detached they could not claim their Commutation for their halfpay during life from [illegible]
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your committee are therefore of opinion, that as the petitioners were detached from the Continental establishment by an express resolution of this State and on the express stipulation that they should be on the same footing in the abovementioned particulars as the officers on the Continental Establishment this state is bound both in Law & Equity to make immediate provision for the payment of that claim which your committee concieve they have on the justice of this State. Your Committee consider this as a liquidated claim & all intents & purposes and inasmuch as their pay is ascertained by law & a commutation for the same being equally certain does not require the intervention of an Auditor to settle the same and of course that it is not on the footing of open accounts which are barred by the act of limitation. That the State of health of the first named of your petitioners was the cause of this application being made so late as appears to your Committee by satisfactory evidence."
"The report was negative on acct of Stat. of Lieu"
(copy) I Thomas Farrar of the State of South Carolina formerly an officer in the first Independent Company Commanded by Capt. Benj. Tutt do hereby certify & am ready to be qualified to if requisite that Thomas Holmes the present applicant for his Bounty land or some remuneration for the same never applied to me for a certificate & that the said Holmes resided either in the Cherokee Nation or in the State of Georgia, I being the only officer then in existence authorized to give certificates to those who made applications and I gave to all that I knew had served faithfully but Holmes never made any application nor never asked for a pension till he got so old & infirm that he was past labor & very much afflicted with the palsy which is the cause of his coming forward now for the remuneration of his bounty land which I know to be his first aud as it is a small boon he ought to have it -
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he is now in the seventy eighth year of his age & of course is not very long for this world
Given under my hand this 12th Novr. 1825
(Signed) Thomas Farrar

Office of Clerk of Senate
Columbia So. Ca. 7 May 1837.
I do hereby certify that the foregoing are true copies from papers on file in this Office, the extracts being in a "Report of the Committee on Claims on the Petition of Col. Thomas Farrar" in the year 1818, and the latter being in the Report of same Committee "on the petition of Thomas Holmes" in the year 1825.
For Clerk of Senate
(No Seal of Office)
W.M.R. Huntt
State House Keeper & Legislative Librarian
Pro Tem
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Thomas Farrar
1818
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(Copy) To the Honorable the Speaker & members of the House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina The humble petition of Thomas Farrar respectfully showeth that your petitioner was shortly after the commencement of the war which resulted in the establishment of the independence of these United States appointed an officer in one of the Regiments raised by South Carolina on the Continental establishment and continued to discharge the duties of an officer in the said Regiment for some time when it was thought expedient by the Legislative authority of the State to detach two companies from the said Regiment and make them independent companies and employ them on the Northwestern frontier as a protection against the neighboring Indians and other enemies of the Country in that quarter. The companies then commanded by Captain John Bowie & Capt Tutt were accordingly detached & in the latter company your petitioner was a 2nd Lieutenant. On detaching these companies. the State of South Carolina pledged itself to the Officers of them that they should be entitled to & receive from this State all the pay, rations, emoluments & privileges of the officers of the Continental Establishment. One of these emoluments was that the said Officers should receive after the termination of the war & having served during the same half pay for life which was afterwards commuted to full pay for five years. Your petitioner further states that he served faithfully until the conclusion of the war and relying with confidence on the pledged faith of the State expected to receive his commutation; but in this expectation he has hitherto be disappointed, in consequence as he is instructed of the passage of an act or resolution of the Legislature limiting the time until which such claims should be received and the presentment of this claim after that period
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This circumstance unfortunate to your petitioner arose from the sickness of Capt Bowie to whom the presentment of the claim was confided & who in consequence this said indisposition was not able to arrive in Columbia until a few days after the time limited as before mentioned. Your petitioner further states that notwithstanding the limitation already mentioned the petition of this petitioner & the other officers was presented to both Houses of the Legislative and reports from the Committee of each House obtained declaring the Justice of the claim & recommending the payment thereof. Yet this Report was negatived for the reason already stated. Your petitioner further begs leave to state that this claim would not now again be presented, but for the circumstance that the door has since been generously opened to the admission of revolutionary Claims. In the decline of his life & pressed by straitened circumstances your petitioner fondly anticipates from this House a generous attention to a claim which he hopes will appear too just to be rejected. Your petitioner in conclusion would barely remark that by suffering himself to be detached from his regiment he gave up his opportunity of a rise thereby sacrificing at the shrine of patriotism the first best wish of a Soldier. Your petitioner submits the subjoined account as the amount which he is fairly entitled to receive. And he will ever pray
(Signed) Thomas Farrar

The State of South Carolina
To Thomas Farrar Dr.
1783 12 May To my commutation of full pay five years at 5 shillings per day $1952.75
Int on that sum until this date 683.20
$2635.95
(Endorsed) The petition of Col Thomas Farrar praying payment of a revolutionary claim. Prayer of the petitioner is granted
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State So. Ca.
Richland District
Personally appeared Thomas W Farrar agent and attorney in fact of Thomas Farrar who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he hath thus far diligently searched for the original papers on which the petition of the said Thomas Farrar is founded but can find nothing but the original report of the Committee appointed by the Senate for the purpose which there embraces & specially refers to the documents & vouchers on which the said report was founded and as having then been in the possession of the said Committee but believes them now either lost or so mislaid that they cannot be obtained by this deponent. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th day of Nov 1818 
(Signed) J. H. Mitchell T.h. Thos W Farrar

The Committee on claims to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Farrar praying payment of a Revolutionary Claim beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and recommend that the prayer thereof be granted and that the sum of two thousand six hundred & thirty five dollars and ninety five cents be appropriated for the payment of the same (Signed) Thomas Carr Chairman In the House of Representatives Decr. 11th 1818 Resolved that the House of Representatives do unanimously agree to the report ordd. that the same be sent to the Senate for their concurrence By order of the House
R Anderson C.H.R.

Office of Clerk of House Representatives
Columbia So. Ca. May 1857.
I do hereby certify that the foregoing are true Copies of papers on file in this Office in the matter of the application of Thomas Farrar for commutation pay.
For Clerk of House Reps
(No Seal of Office)
W. M. R. Huntt
State House Keeper
Legislative Librarian
Pro Tem
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Columbia S.C.
May 16th 1857.
Hon G.C. Whiting
Dear Sir,
I enclose record evidence to show that Thomas Farrar whose daughter Mrs. Laura H Bruce claims arrears under act 7th June 1832, did command as Lieutenant 5 years in an Independent Company detached from 5th S.C. Contl. Regt. on promise of same pay as in that Regt. & that consequently his rate of pension should be the full pay of Lieut. of Infantry. The Identity & sole heirship is shown by the the testimony & renunciation of her sister Mrs. Hawkinson, already on file, as also the date of her father's death, & the fact that no widow survived. The two payments of 256 & 69 L Sterling or L 325 Sterling thrown into "Old Currency" in this State by multiplying by 7 the rate of depreciation here would give 2275 L "old Currency" and the pay per diem of a Lt. of Infantry in S.C. being 35 Shillings "old Currency" would give 1300 days. He states as will be shown by the enclosed that to 12 May 1783 he had served 5 years, & the Report of Genl. Pinckney shows that in Feb 1777 he went into this service. Genl. Pinckney should have known as he had been Col. of one of the S.C. Conlt. Regts. himself. The fact, however, that in 1818 the Legislature of S.C. allowed his Commutation pay settles all questions as to length of service & Identity. I hope therefore to have an early adjustment of this claim.
Very respectfully
James A Black
for Mrs Bruce
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The State Mississippi
Claiborne County
Personally came & appeared before
the undersigned Clerk of the Circuit Court in & for
the County & State aforesaid Mrs Lucinda J
Hankinson who being sworn according
to Law deposes and says, that she is
a daughter of Major or Colonel Thomas
Farrar.  That her father Thomas Farrar
was born in Virginia on the 1st of October
AD 1754, One thousand Seven hundred
and fifty four. Married Miss Margaret
Prince in South Carolina on the
Seventh (7th) October AD 1777- One
Seven hundred & Seventy Seven.
That her father Mr Farrar aforesaid
died 24th of August 1833 at "Cold
Springs" the residence of David
McCaleb Esqr. in Claiborne County &
State aforesaid, That her mother
died at the same place in the fall
of 1831, some Eighteen or twenty months
prior to her fathers death. That this
affiants maiden name was Lucinda
J Farrar and this affiant does
hereby constitute her only surviving sister
her agent to collect and retain for her
own benefit any portion of said Major
Thomas Farrar's property this affiant
has fallen & may fall entitled to. To wit
her sister Mrs Laura H. Bruce wife
of John Bruce Esqr of Pendleton County
South Carolina.
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Sworn to and acknowledged
on this 23rd day of February AD 1857
witness Dan McDougall
Lucinda I Hankinson
The State of Mississippi
Claiborne County
I Dan McDongall
Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County
and State aforesaid, which said Court
is a Court of Record, do hereby certify
that the said Lucinda J Hankinson
whose name is affixed to the above &
foregoing instrument of writing which
include an affidavit and a transfer
of power of attorney, did appear before
me & made oath to the facts stated
in said Instrument of writing and
further acknowledged the transfer of her
claim in the Col or Major Thomas
Farrar Estate to her Sister Mrs Laura
H Bruce as stated in the above &
foregoing, as her voluntary act and
deed for the purposes therein set forth.
Given under my hand  & Seal
of Office this 23rd February
A D 1857
Dan McDougall
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Declaration of
Mrs Laura H Bruce
daughter of Maj. Thos
Farrar Act 7th June
1832
James A Black Atty
Columbia
S.C.
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The State of South Carolina
District of Anderson
On this seventeenth
day of March
in the year of Our
Lord one thousand Eight hundred and fifty seven
personally appeared in Open Court now sitting
before me Herbert Hammond Judge of the Court of
Ordinary in & for said District, and which is a Court
of Record, Mrs Laura H Bruce a resident of
said District & State who being first duly sworn according
to law doth on her oath make the following
Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That she is
the daughter and one of the heirs at law of her father
Major Thomas Farrar deceased who as this Deponent
has been informed & verily believes entered the
service of the United States in the Revolutionary war
and served as hereinafter stated: That in the
year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Seven or Eight the Governor of
this State Commissioned Captain Richard Benjamin Tutt, Captains
Samuel Earle, John Bowie & John Moore to raise and command 
Independent Companies under May Benj. Hager
to guard what was then called the "frontiers" of this State
embracing the present District of Anderson & Pickens & for
many years called Pendleton District in this State, and that her
said father said Thomas Farrar was commissioned a
Lieutenant in one of said Companies and immediately
entered the service and continued to serve in said capacity
until the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty One when he was
promoted to the rank of Brigade Major in the Militia
of this State under General Andrew Pickens in which
capacity he served about four months and that the whole
period of his service in said war was nearly four years.
That in the year 1878 this State paid her said father his Commutation
pay as an Officer in said Independent Company called into the
service by the Governor of this State as aforesaid.
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That her said father continued to live in said District of Pendleton now Anderson District in this State, until a few years before his death when he removed to Claiborne County in the State of Mississippi where this Declarant's Mother died in the fall of the year 1831, and where her said father said Major Thomas Farrar continued to reside until his death in the same on the Twenty fourth day of August Eighteen hundred and thirty three: That he left no widow his wife having died as aforesaid, and that his only now living children are this Deponent her sister Lucinda J Hankinson of said County of Claiborne & said State of Mississippi. The her father never received any pension from the United States, and this declarant hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension except this made hereby. Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year first above mentioned.
Laura H Bruce
And I, said Judge, do hereby certify that I know the said Laura H Bruce and believe her to be as above Stated and that she is of the age above stated and that I am not interested in this Claim as Attorney or otherwise
Witness my hand and Seal of said Court.
Herbert Hammond
Judge of C.C.
Anderson District
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
June 16, 1924
Thomas Farrar
R. 3441

Honorable W. W. Hastings,
House of Representatives.

My dear Mr. Hastings: 
In response to your letter of the fourteenth instant, asking for data for the Honorable R. L. Williams of Muskogee, Oklahoma, I have the honor to advise you, that this Bureau is unable to furnish the history of a soldier of the Revolution, unless a claim for pension, or bounty land has been made on account of his services and a careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the services in the South Carolina Troops of soldiers named Stallings, Paul, and Page and Paige. You are herewith furnished the histories of the only two soldiers named Farrar of the South Carolina Troops, War of Revolution, found on the records of this Bureau.
The records of this Bureau show that Field Farrar was a Captain in Colonel Isaac Huger's Fifth South Carolina Regiment and Colonel William Thompson's Third South Carolina Regiment, War of the Revolution, date of commission.

[Along the side in cursive]
Service of S. C. only referred to. no possible way of ascertaining res. nor was it asked for.
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not stated. He was captured at the surrender of Charleston and held until paroled in the summer of 1781.
After the Revolution he married Mrs. Holt, date of marriage and her maiden name not on record. He died about 1796, in Augusta Ga. leaving no issue.
Three hundred acres of bounty land were allowed on account of his services, on Warrant No. 70, which issued October 22, 1803, to his brother Thomas Farrar, a soldier of the Revolution.
From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 3449, it appears that Thomas Farrar was born in Virginia, October 1, 1754, and resided in Pendleton district, South Carolina during the Revolution.
On February 25, 1776, he was commissioned Lieutenant of the Fifth South Carolina Regiment, from which he was detached to serve as Second Lieutenant of Captain Benjamin Tutt's Independent South Carolina Company, raised to guard the frontiers against Indians. In 1781, he was made Brigade Major under General Andrew Pickens, in the South Carolina Militia and served until the close of the Revolution.
He married in South Carolina, October 7, 1777, Miss Margaret Prince, who died at Cold Springs, Claiborne Co., Mississippi, in 1831, and he died there on August 24, 1833.
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Laura H. the wife of John Bruce, of Anderson Co., South Carolina and Mrs. Lucinda J. Hankinson, of Claiborne Co., Mississippi, (name of her husband not stated) were his only surviving children in 1857, when they applied for pension on account of the above noted services but the claim was not allowed as the law did not then authorize the allowance of pension to children of soldiers of the Revolution.
I does not appear that Bounty land was allowed on account of his services.
Sincerely,
Hays Haymaker
Acting Commissioner.
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REJECTED
3449.
P.O.
Thomas Farrar
Service:
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application filed:
Claim filed too late to have cause of rejection entered on list of rejections printed in 1852.
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized. Contract.
Cert. of Dis. Search for

1919 June 3. Hist. to Floyd R. Farrar
1924 June 17. History to Hon. W.W. Hastings.
AW
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No 39,105,
Thomas Farrar, decd.
South Carolina
June 7, 1832

Jas. A. Black
Columbia, S.C.
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Maj. Tho. Farrar
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Comptroller General's Office
Columbia S.C.
March 25th 1857.
No 70
Book H
Issued 7th July 1780 to Mr. Thomas Farrar for Two hundred & fifty six pounds eighteen Shillings & Six pence three farthings Sterling for pay when Recruitg. men for one of the Independt. Companies in 1777 & 1778 & Lieut's Pay in 1779 & 1781 as per accounts audited 
Principal L 256:18:6 3/4
Interest 17:19:8
(Account No 70 Book H cannot be found)
No 1429
Lib X
Issued the 26th day of January 1786 to Mr. Thomas Farrar for Sixty one pounds five Shillings & Eight pence half penny ster: for recruiting service as per account passed by the Commissioners
Principal L 61:5:8 ½ Int L 4:5:9
(Account No 1429 Book X Cannot be found)
No 756
Lib X
Issued the 27 Sept 85 to Thomas Farrar for seventy five pound four & three pence for duty per account audited
Principal L 75:4:3 1/4
Annual Interest L 5.5.3. No 74.
74 X 756 27 Sept '85 Mr. Thomas Farrar his acct. of Militia Duty as Major in 1781 & 1782 and Charg'd
L 505.0.0
add more 21.10.0
L 526.10.0
Stg L 75.4.3 1/4
21.10.0
The State of So Carolina to Thomas Farrar Dr. acting as Brigade Major by Brigadier General Pickens appointment
1781 from the 19th June to the 20th July both days included at L 4.10 per day  32 days = L 144.00.0
from the 3d of Sept to the 20th both day included at L 4.10 per day 69.10.0
say 18 days add more L 11.10.0
1782 from the 25th of May to the 22nd of June both days in militia L [illegible] days add more 120.10.0 L 10
From the 10th of July to the 11th of August both days included L 4.15 per day 171.00038 days L 505.0.0
add more 21.1.0
[total] 526.10.0
Stg L 75.4.3 1.4
Major Thomas Farrar came before me this
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day and made oath according to law that the above accompts against the public to the amount of five hundred and five pounds as it stands stated is just & true
(Signed) Thomas Farrar
Sworn to before me this 26th of May 1753 Robert Anderson J. P.
I do certify that the above service was performed (signed) Andw. Pickens Bridr. Genl.
certified 23rd August 1783
Received 27th Sept. 1785 full satisfaction for the written account in an "Indent No 756 Book X (Signed) Thomas Farrar"
I do hereby certify that the foregoing are true copies taken from the Records on file this Office and that the remarks in Parentheses are mine and correct.
For Comptroller Genl.
W. M. R. Huntt
Deputy
(No Seal of Office)
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No 39,105.
Thomas Farrar, dc.
South Carolina
Let J A. Black Apr 30/57
Same Sept. 28, 1857
3449
June 7, 1832.
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James A Black Esq.
Sept 25
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Pension Office,
Sept. 28, 1857
Sir:
As the Secretary of the Interior has decided that the law does not authorise pension allowances to the children of Revolutionary soldiers, or of their widows, the claim of the children of Thomas Farrar, deceased, of So Carolina, for pension money, under the act of June 7, 1832, is rejected.

James A. Black, Esq
Columbia,
So. Carolina
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Columbia So. Ca.
26th March 1857.

Hon. Geo. C. Whiting
Commr. Pensions

Dear Sir
Herewith please find the Declaration of Mrs. Laura A Bruce daughter of Maj. Thomas Farrar Act 7 June 1832, for arrears one her father from 4 March 1831 to 24 Augt. 1833 at the rate to which 3 2/3 mos. service as Brigade Major & 20 1/3 mos. as Lieutenant would entitle him per annum if living.
I hope you will find this case one readily adjusted.
I am Very respectfully
Your obt. Sevt.
James A Black
for Mrs Bruce
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New Orleans, La
May 10, 1919.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly let me have, if possible, the Revolutionary War record of Lt. Col. Thomas Farrar, of Virginia and South Carolina, and who I think, served with the South Carolina forces of the Continental army.
Any information that you may have will be greatly appreciated.
Very respectfully
Floyd R. Farrar

8320 Sycamore St
New Orleans, La.

[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE K MAY 14 19
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V.L.M.
Rev. War Section.
June 3, 1919.

Mr. Floyd R. Farrar,
8320 Sycamore Street,
New Orleans, La.

Sir:
In response to your letter dated the 10" ultimo, you are advised that in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. File No. 3,449 it appears that Thomas Farrar was born in Va. Oct. 1, 1754 & resid's in Pendleton District S.C. during the Rev. On February 25, 1776, he was commissioned Lieutenant in the Fifth Regiment of the South Carolina Line from which Regiment he was detached as a 2" Lieutenant of Captain Benjamin Tutt's Independent Company of South Carolina Troops raised for the purpose of guarding the frontiers made against Indians, and in 1781, when he was made Brigade Major of South Carolina Militia and served under General Andrew Pickens until the close of the War. * (put mar here etc.
Mrs Laura H. Bruce wife of John Bruce, a resident of Anderson District South Carolina, and Mrs. Lucinda J. Hankinson of Claiborne County, Mississippi in 1857 were the only surviving children of one Thomas Farrar, and Mrs. Bruce applied for pension on account of the services stated above but the claim was not allowed as the law did not then authorize the allowance of pension to children of Revolutionary War soldiers,

letter changed June 16, 1924

This omitted in letter of June 17, 24 as the final letter of rejection did of Sept. 28, 1857
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The children stated that their father Thomas Farrar was born in Virginia October 1, 1754, and resided in Pendleton District South Carolina during the Revolution, he married October 7, 1777, in South Carolina Miss Margaret Prince who died at Cold Springs Claiborne County Mississippi in 1831, and that he died at the same place on August 24, 1833.
Very respectfully,
G M Saltzgaber
Commissioner.
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W. W. HASTINGS
SECOND DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA
ROOM 350
HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING

House of Representatives H.S.
Washington D. C.
June 14, 1924.

Hon. Washington Gardner,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:
I would appreciate your kindness if you would advise me whether the records of your office show that a pension was ever paid or asked for on account of military service performed by soldiers who served in the Revolutionary War from South Carolina, under the following names:
Stallings, especially James Stallings,
Paul, especially Moses Paul,
Page,
Paige, and
Farrar.
I recently made this same request, but stated the above named may have served from the State of Georgia. Hon. R. L. Williams, Judge of the U.S. District Court, Muskogee, Okla., advises me that these soldiers may have served from the State of South Carolina. If your records show anything as to the above, as having made a claim from South Carolina, I would be pleased to have you advise me.
Yours very truly
W W Hastings

[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE C JUN 16 1924

[illegible side notes are too faint to read completely]
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The State of Mississippi
Claiborne County
Personally came & appeared before the undersigned Clerk of the Circuit Court in & for the County & State aforesaid of Mr. David M Stiles of the County & State aforesaid who being duly sworn says he was personally acquainted with Major or Colonel Thomas Farrar who is spoken of in the foregoing affidavit & Power of atty or transfer of Mrs. Lucinda J Hankinson and that he has examined the family Record of said Thomas Farrar as well as his Tombstone of Cold Springs in this County and found the affidat of Mrs. Hankinson to contain the facts as they are fully stated and that the Tombstone alluded to is still perfect and plain to the eye are the lines to inscribed thereon.
D. M. Stiles
Sworn to Subscribed this 23rd February 1857 before me
Dan McDougall Clk
Given under my hand & seal of office this the 23rd of February AD 1857 with the seal of my Office hereto annexed
Dan M Dougall Clk
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The State of Mississippi
Claiborne County S.S.
I Jas A Gage Clerk of the Probate Court in and for said County hereby certify that Daniel McDougall Esqr whose genuine signature is signed to the foregoing certificate and before whom the foregoing affidavit was made is now and was at the time of signing the same Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County of Claiborne in said State, and that his Court is a Court of Record, and he was duly elected commissioned and qualified and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit-
Given under my hand and seal of Office at Port Gibson this 24th day of February A.D. 1857
Jas A. Gage
Clerk of Probate

State of Mississippi
Claiborne County SS
I Lemuel O. Bridewell Judge of the Probate Court, sole & presiding of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that James A. Gage whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing certificate and attestation, is, and was, at the date thereof, Clerk of said Court duly elected, qualified and commissioned that his said Certificate and attestation are in due form of law, and that all of his acts in the premises are and ought to be entitled to full faith and credit in pidiecture and thereout.
Given under my hand and seal the Twenty fourth day of February AD 1857
Lemuel O. Bridewell {seal}
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Pens. Office
April 30, 1857.

Sir,
I have examined and filed the application of Laura H. Bruce, one of the surviving children of Thomas Farrar claiming arrears as pension alleged to be due to said Thomas as his child under the Act of June 7, 1832, for service as a Lieut and Brigade Major in the troops of South Carolina, as set forth in the certificate of the Comptroller of South Carolina dated March 25, 1857, and for an [illegible] that there is no testimony whatever to show that the father of claimant [illegible] that office, as by [illegible], if not fact be satisfacting established to support the duration of service, and especially for that claimed as Lieut [illegible] after Indents No 70 and 1429, then however the identify
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is established, that question will be considered as also other facts connected with the merits of the claim.

James A. Black Esq
Columbia S.C.


Jas. A. Black
Apl 30