Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9389, Noah Cloud, Ga. S.C.
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Form Columns (Service.Name.Number)
1. Ga.Cloud, Noah.W.9389
2. S.C.Unity
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South Carolina 31.109
Noah Cloud Jr.
of Edgefield in the state of NC who was a private in the company commanded by Captain [blank field] of the Regt commanded by Col Baker in the So Ca line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of So. Ca. at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of May 1837 and Leut  A. B. Addison Edgefield C.H. Co.Ca. 

Arrears to the 4th of March 1837 $480.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 40.00
$520.00

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by [illegible] Addison Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 6 page 66.

Read

Paid at the Treasury [illegible] the act of the 6th April 1831 from 4 Mach 1838 to 15 Aug 1838 this day of his death.  Agent notified 13 March 1840.
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3650
South Carolina
Unity Cloud
widow of Noah Cloud who was a Pensioner under act June 1832 who died on 15 August 1838 of SC Edgefield Dist. in the State of S. Carolina who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain [blank space] of the regt. commanded by Col. Baker in the S.C. line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of S. Carolina at the rate of 80 dollars [blank space] Cents per annum, to commence on the 16th August [4th day of March hand struck] 1838.

Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of January 1842 and sent to A. B. Addison, Esq. Edgefield C. [illegible] S.C.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1841 243.33
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Mar. '42  40.00
$283.33

Revolutionary Claim, 
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3-

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book C. Vol. 1 Page 186
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State of South Carolina Edgefield District Personally appeared before me, R Kinney one of the Justices of the [illegible] for said district Noah Cloud [illegible] on his oath of faith as near as he can recolect that he was born in the year of our Lord 1752 in the State of Virginia North America and he further saith that he enlisted in the Regular Service in the year 1774 or 1775 not exactly Recolected, in Colenel Thompsons Regiment for Eight-months under Capt John Cauldwell which time he saith he served and got a discharge, he further saith that his discharge was burned in his Fathers House.  He further saith he entered as a substitute in Colenel Bakers Regiment for nine months in the State of Georgia for which he also got a discharge which was destroyed at the same time the former discharge was.  He further then saith saith that he served in the malitia from the time of his last discharge until the end of the war in Colenel Clark Regiment he further saith that he never has received any pension or bounty from Government for the above services.  He further saith that his bodily infirmities is so great that he is unable to walk or ride one mile without great pain therefore he is unable to attend to any business sworn to before me this 4th November 1832.  Robert Kenny [illegible] Noah his X mark Cloud [illegible]
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WC Benjamin Gallman & AB Addison do certify that we [illegible][illegible]that all the material facts set forth in the foregoing declaration are true - that the above named Noah Cloud is [illegible] in his [illegible] to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we believe the whole time of his service was at least ten years - and we do concur in this opinion sworn  to and [illegible] [illegible] before me 6th November 1831.this day and year before mentioned. John R Carter [illegible]
Benjamin[illegible] 
AB Addison

And the said court do hereby declare their [illegible][illegible] after the investigation of the matter herinto by the [illegible][illegible][illegible] that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as [illegible] and the court further certifies that the [illegible] who have signed the [illegible] certify [illegible] are residents of said [illegible] and lieutenant and said [illegible][illegible] and [illegible] this statement is certified to full and it is of further certify to the war department that appears satisfactorily to me that the applicant from age and inability was incapacitated from attending court.  
Richard Guatt P. Judge
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South Carolina Edgefield District 

Noah Cloud declaration amended in answer to the second interrogatory the applicant does reside in the state of South Carolina - in Edgefield District where he has resided for the last thirty three years before that time he resided in Virginia - So Carolina and Georgia 
- Answer to third - answered in the above
- Answer to fifth - the applicant said that he served in Cols Thompson  and Bakers Regiments seventeen months as a private as stated in his original declaration  which was just before and after the Declaration of Independence on the 4th of July 1776 that he was in Charleston South Carolina in Col. Thompsons regt at the time the new of Independence reached there and that he served in the Militia from the time he was discharged from Col Bakers regiment until the end of the war in 1783 under Cols. Clark, Pickens, Twigs and many other officers but most of the time under Col Elijah Clarke and that he served at least six years if not seven years as a private in the war of the revolution and he was in many [illegible] which are stated in Ezekiel clouds affidavit more particularly.  

Sworn to before me A. Adkinson one of Justices of the [illegible]for said district that the above statemen is true to the best of his recollection this 11th day of April 1837.

A B Addison
Noah his N mark Cloud
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State of South Carolina Edgefield District

I, William Johnson a clergyman residing in the district aforesaid and state of South Carolina herby certify that I am well acquainted with Noah Cloud son who has subscribed and sworn to the attached deceleration that I have behave him to be upwards of eighty years of age, that he is reputed and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution sworn to and subscribed this 24th day of April 1837 before me.

William Johnson, M. G.
AB Addisson
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State of South Carolina Edgefield District

Personally appeared Col Samuel Hammond before me and after being duly sworn says he knew Noah Cloud to be in the service of the United States as a private in the army of the revolution from the month of [blank space] or fall of the year Seventeen Hundred Eighty to the end of the war in 1783 and that he [illegible] said cloud served at least upwards of two years and [illegible] further says that he understood the house of said Noah Cloud was burned by the enemy and a circumstance that  brings it to his recollection is that he frequently saw the wife of said Noah Cloud in the camps and understood that she had to be there from necessity as the enemy had burnt them out.

S Hammond

Sworn to before me 
31st March 1837
AB Addison 
[illegible]
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I Jefferson Richardson, a clerk of the court of the Edgefield District do herby certify that the [illegible] contains the [illegible][illegible] of the said court in the matter of the application of Noah Cloud for a pension.  In locating whereof I have [illegible] set my hand and seal of office.
J. Richardson, CCC
5 November 1832.

The said Noah Cloud relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity [illegible] the present and [illegible] that his name is not on the   [illegible] [illegible]of the [illegible] of [illegible] [illegible].

Noah his n mark Cloud
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Georgia Henry County 

Before us in open court personally came Ezekiel Cloud who being duly sworn saith that he [illegible] served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War and the Noah Cloud now of the State of South Carolina and Edgefield District also served as a soldier in said war. Noah [illegible] enlisted in Capt John Stewarts light horse company between 1776 and 1780 served one tour in said company but I do not recollect how long and the said Noach Cloud was as at the first siege of Augusta under the command of Col Elijah Clark in the year 1780 with myself, and he was also in a skirmish at the [illegible] ferry on the Broad River and at the Battle of Backstocks on Tiger River South Carolina under Col Elijah Clark and Genl Sumpton the whole time which was in December 1780 and he was under Col Elijah Clark when he took Major Dunlap on little River South Carolina some time in April 1781 and he was in Capt Nailes light horse company at the last siege of Augusta in Georgia some time in the year of 1781. He was in an engagement in Wilks County Georgia with the Creek Indians some time in April or May 1782 under the command of Lieut George Barber during all which time I was with him the said Noah Cloud always manifested the greatest [illegible] for the cause of freedom.

Sworn to in open court before us this 1st day of July 1833.
James Sellers, IIC
John Williams IIC
John Treadwell IIC
Ezekiel Cloud
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State of Georgia 
Henry County
I Alexander G. Murray, Clerk of the Inferior Court for said County do (ertify?)
that James Sellers, John Williams, and John Treadwell whose names appear to the within affidavit are Judges of the Inferior Court at this time and that (Jule?) faith and credit are due their official (audits?) as (sue--?) And the affidavit was made in open court. 
Given (ano--l?) my hand and private (seat or seal) there having no county (seat or seal) this 1st day of July 1833.
Alexander G. Murray (C.I. C.?)
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The State of South Carolina
Edgefield District

On this 19th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the court of general sessions and [illegible][illegible] for the district and state aforesaid, His Honor John B O'Neall presiding.   Unity Cloud, a resident of Edgefield District in the state aforesaid, aged eighty three years, who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress passed July 4th 1832 [illegible]an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of Noah Cloud who was a private soldier in the war of the Revolution that she has no knowledge of the particular services rendered by the said Noah, nor has she [illegible] it necessary to make inquiry into those services since the said Noah was a pensioner of the United States and in the act of Congress of the 1832 as this [illegible] [illegible], and to the evidence accompanying his application this [illegible] [illegible] have to [illegible] for proof to further declare that she possesses no documentary evidence or other evidence to establish by proof the services of the said Noah as a solider aforesaid and that her [illegible] is [illegible] the [illegible] in the possession of the war department accompanying the application of this said Noah.  She further declares that she was married to the said Noah several years before the close of the war and the [illegible] of his [illegible] of his service but through decay of memory she is unable to fix the precise date that he served in Georgia when he first entered service as the [illegible] believes that he departed this life on the fifteenth day of August 1838 that since his death this [illegible] has resided as before in Edgefield District aforesaid and has since remained unmarried and a widow.

Sworn to I subscribed this day & year above written the "1837" having been first erased in the fourth line the [illegible] commentary with "sworn to" the letters "1838" substituted by [illegible] - I before me John B O'Neall who do herby certify that the said [illegible] Unity is a person of credibility and worthy of belief.  Unity her mark Cloud

John Belton O'Neall
Pres. Judge
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South Carolina
Edgefield District

Personally appeared before me Matthew Gray a Justice of the Peace in the District and the State afore3said the undersigned Samuel Hammond, who being first duly sworn according to law deposed as follows:  The he was acquainted in his life time with Noah Cloud the deceased husband of the aforementioned Unity Cloud - that the said Noah was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and that he was regarded as the husband to the said Unity before the expiration of his last tour of service that the said Noah departed this life about the period stated in the previous declaration, and that since his death the said Unity has resided in the District and State aforesaid and has ever since remained unmarried and a widow.

Sworn to before me this 19th day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and thirty nine.  

Matthew Gray

S. Hammond

The word "married" stricken out and the words, "regarded as the husband" inserted before the qualification of the applicant.

Matthe Gray

South Carolina
Edgefield District
I George Pope Clerk of the Court of General Session & Common [illegible] in the District and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the subscription upon the opposite page contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of the aforesaid Unity Cloud for a Pension that aforesaid John B. O'Neall is a judge of the Court aforesaid, that the aforementioned Mathew Gray is a Justice of the [illegible] in the District and State aforesaid and that the above signatures purporting to be them are genuine in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand [illegible - obstructed by fold in paper] office this twenty eight day of January eighteen hundred and thirty nine.

Geo. Pope [illegible]
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January 9, 1933

BA-J/MCS
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Noah Cloud
W. 9389

Mr. R. E. Cloud
519-20-21 North Texas Bldg.
Dallas 
Texas

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your request for the record of Noah Cloud, a soldier of the Revolution.

The data furnished below were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W. 9389, based upon the military service of Noah Cloud.

He was born in 1752 in Virginia.

He enlisted in 1775 or 1776 and served eight months as private in Captain John Caldwell's Company in Colonel Thompson's South Carolina Regiment.  He next enlisted and served nine months as private in Colonel Baker's Georgia Regiment.  He then served at various times from about 1780 until the close of the Revolution in 1783 as private in the Georgia Militia under Lieutenant George Barber, Captain Nail and Colonel Elijah Clarke; he was in the first siege of Augusta, in a skirmish on the Broad River, in the battle of Blackstocks, in the last siege of Augusta and in an engagement with the Creek Indians in Wilkes County, Georgia, in April or May, 1782.

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 4, 1832, at which time he was living in Edgefield District, South Carolina.

In 1837 he was referred to as Noah Cloud, Senior, and stated that he had lived in Edgefield District, South Carolina, for the last thirty-three years and before that time he had lived in Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia.
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Noah Cloud Died August 15, 1838.

He married several years before the close of the Revolution, Unity, her maiden name not given.

She was allowed pension on her application executed October 19, 1838, at which time she was eight-three years of age and was living in Edgefield District, South Carolina.

In 1833 one Ezekiel Cloud stated that he served during the Revolution with Noah Cloud, relationship not given.

In 1841 reference was made to the large family of Noah and Unity Cloud and it was stated that the eldest, if then living would be between sixty and seventy years of age.   There are no further data relative to the soldier's family.

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLNER
Assistant to Administrator
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Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office,
March 3, 1840

Sir:

Under the act of the 67th 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," The widow of Noah Cloud, [illegible]. a Pensioner on the Roll of South Carolina Agency, at the rate of Eighty Dollars and cents per annum, under the law of the 7 June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from 4th of March 1838 to the 15th August 1838, the day of his death.

Respectfully, yours,

Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
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V Unity Cloud
wid. of Noah
S.C.
Act 4 July 183?
[illegible] [illegible] to Hon
F.W. Pickens 18th
July 1839
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Law Offices of Coombes, Coombes & Cloud
W.N. Coombes
Z.E. Coombes
R.E. Cloud
519-20-21 Noth Texas Building
Dallas, Texas

December 21, 1932

Director of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

I am advised by the Adjutant General's Office that Noah Cloud, rank and company not shown, served in the Revolutionary War in the 3rd South Carolina Regiment, commanded by Colonel William Thompson.  That he enlisted July 24, 1776 but no later record of him could be found and suggesting that your office might be able to give the information I am seeking.

Provided the records of your office reflect it, the writer is especially interested in the following information relative the aforesaid Noah Cloud:  his service and record during the Revolutionary War, his ancestors, descendants, his or their place of residence, when and where he died and near relatives, etc.

Thanking you very kindly for any information requisite the above, may I remain
Yours very truly,
R.E. Cloud 

Received Stamp
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1933 Jan. 9. list to [illegible][illegible]
P.E. Cloud

Revy Widow, &c.
File No. 9389
Unity Cloud
Wid. of 
Noah Cloud
Pvt. S.C. line
Act: July 4th of 36, Sec. S
Index: - Vol A, Page 135
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Edgefield C. H. South Carolina
October 23rd 1841

To the Hon Secretary of War

Enclosed you will find the office affidavits of several gentlemen and my own certificate which is all the proof that we know of that can be made in the case of Mrs. Unity Cloud as to her marriage from her extreme old age and the age of her oldest children (if they had have lived to this time) she must have been married before the commencement of the revolutionary war, by Col Hammonds certificate you will see she was met by and recognized as the wife of Noah Cloud died during the war of the revolution.  You will find the Declaration and other proper relative to Mrs. Cloud's claim on file at the War department, if you have you deem the enclosed sufficient to allow her a pension which I think she is justly entitled to it would also be an act of charity as she is great need of assistance at this time.

Respectfully your [illegible] servant
A. B. Addison

N.B. I shall direct this to I. L. Edwardson
Pension agent in case Mrs. Cloud is allowed a pension forward to myself as the Hon F. W. Pickins.
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Revolutionary
Claims

I.L. Edawards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Cloud
15 Aug 1838
[illegible][illegible][illegible]
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Revolutionary Claims
May 2
S.C. Act 1832

10ozs

To I.L. Edwards Esqr
Pension agent at 
The War Office U.S.
Washington City

Noah Cloud
SC
[illegible]
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Edgefield  C. H. April 21st 1837

To I.L. Edwards Esqr.
Pension Agent

Sir I am requested by Noach Cloud [illegible] forward his amended declaration with the certificate of Col Samuel Hammond who was a Col in the revolution and is on the Pension list roll also the certificate of Edgefield Cloud and William Johnson a minister of the Gospel.  The reason that this has not been attended to before, one of the gentlemen that acted for him died and the old man begin unable to get about it has remained so until now your attention to this will very much oblige and releave an old soldier.

Respectfully your obt servant
A.B. Addison

N.B. Please direct the papers to this pace directed to myself of the applicant.
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Noah Cloud
So Car

Adm C $80 per anum
for 2 years
[illegible][illegible][illegible]
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Unity Cloud
Wid of Noah
S.C.
Act July 7 1836
Married 1780
Died Aug 15, 1831
Allow $80 per anum
from Aug 15, 1838
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Unity Cloud
S.C.
Wid of Noah dec
Act July 4 1836

4254

Hon H. Pickens HR
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State of South Carolina Edgefield District
Personally appeared Francis Bettis and Moses Swarengen before me A. B. Addison one of the magistrates for said district and after being duly sworn sayeth that they lived in the neighborhood of Noah Cloud decd a late revolutionary pension and his wife Unity Cloud for the last thirty five or fort years and they never heard it disputed but that said Noah Cloud and Unity Cloud were man and wife that they lived together as such and had a large family of children and that we believe their oldest children if living would have been sixty years old or upwards sworn to before me this 18th day of October in year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one
Francis Bettis
Moses Swearangan

A.B. Addison 
Magistrate

State of South Carolina
Edgefiled District 
Personally appeared Capt James Miller before me A.B. Addison one of the magistrates for said district and after reading the above affidavit says upon oath that he concurs with Francis Bettis & Moses Swarengen
J. A. Miller
18th October 1841
A.B. Addison
Magst
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State of South Carolina
Edgefield District

Personally appeared Col. Samuel Hammond a revolutionary pensioner and after being duly sworn sayeth that during the war of the revolution this deponent was about to cross the Savannah River above Augusta Georgia and while he was at the river he saw Mrs. Unity Cloud set over the Savannah River in company with Several officers wives and [illegible] learning the British army was near on the Georgia side in [illegible] force this diplomat with his command declined crossing the Savannah and at that time Mrs Unity Cloud was announced by the officers present to be the wife of Noah Cloud dcd late a revolutionary pensioner and that Mrs. Unity Cloud had a that time two children in her arms and was received by said Noah Cloud as his wife in presence of this [illegible] and that Mrs. Unity Cloud remained with army for several days with the troops marched over the mountains and was left there with a member of the officers wives and this deponent further says after the close of the Revolutionary war he was frequently at the house of said Noah Cloud dcd and saw him and said Unity Cloud living together as man and wife and never heard it disputed that they were man and wife and that it is in the knowledge of this deponent that said Unity Cloud is still living.

S. Hammond

Sworn to before me
18th October 1841
A.B. Addionson
Magst.
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State of South Carolina
Edgefield District

I George Pope Clerk of the Court of Edgefield District Certify that A. B. Addison is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be him is genuine.  In testimony where of I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office and subscribed my name this 22nd day of October in the year of 1841

Geo. Pope
Clerk of the Court of Edgefield District

State of South Carolina Edgefield District

I A.B. Addison one of the magistrates for the State and District aforesaid do certify that I have been acquainted with the family of the late Noah Cloud a revolutionary pensioner and his widow Unity Cloud between thirty and forty years and that they had a large family of children that oldest is living I believe would have been between sixty and seventy years of age and that I have never heard it disputed that the said Noah and Unity Cloud were lawful man and wife and they lived together as such with the death of said Noaah and that Unity Cloud continues the widow of said Noah Cloud given under my hand the 22nd October 1841.

A.B. Addison
Magistrate for E. D.
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The written paper has been sent to me and I take pleasure in stating that I know Col S. Hammand, A. B. Addison, Francis Bettis, Moses Swearengen
and J. H. Miller will and that they are gentlemen of the highest standing as to veracity and have doubt that Mrs. U. Cloud was married as they state they are indeed to believe.

22nd Oct 1841

H. W. Pickens