Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32539, for Reuben Stone, South Carolina
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(8-1770)
Service - S.C.
Stone, Reuben or Rubin
Number - S.32539
Contents

This Envelope Includes FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER Received from GAO
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25.780
Alabama
Reuben Stone
of Madison Co. in the State of Alabama
Who was a Lt in the Company commanded by Captain Raney of the Company commanded by Col Sumpter in the S. Carolina line for I Y F $80.00
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Inscribed on the Roll of Alabama
at the rate of 80 Dollars ___ Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 3d day of Jan'y and sent to 1834 Hon Col Clay Ho of Rep.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833   -  200.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending
4 March 1834                                      40.00
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                                                       $240.00
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Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J.T. Sprague Clerk
Book E, Vol 8, Page 51 

Date of death not on A/3
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State of South Carolina
To all to whom these Presents Shall come, Greetings,
KNOW YE. that in issuance of an Act of the General Assembly the State passed the Twenty-eighth Day of March, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-eight, and in an ordinance of the State aforesaid, passed the twenty [missing] day of March one Thousand Seven Hundred and eighty-four, for the purpose of secure granting Land within this State to the Officers and Soldiers as therein set forth. We have [missing] by these Presents do grant unto Reuben Stone his [missing] and assigns, a Plantation or Tract of Land containing Two hundred [missing] Acres, Situates in the District of Ninety-Six on a [Missing] Creek bounding the Lines running N.E. by Way George [Missing portion] having such Shape [missing] Marks as represented by a Plat here [missing] together with all Woods, Trees Waters, Water-courses, Profits, Commodities, A [missing] and Hereditaments whatever thereunto belonging, To Have and to Hold the said [Missing] Hundred acres of Land, and all and singular other the [missing] thereby granted unto the said Reuben Stone his  Heirs and assigns, for ever, in free and common soccage. 
Given under the Great Seal of the State. WITNESS his Excellency Thomas Pinckney, [Missing] Commander in Chief at and over the said State, at [illegible], this Seventh Day of May  [missing] one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Seven and in the Eleventh Year of The Independence of [missing] America.
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(Bounty)
Reuben Stone's Grant for 200 acres.
Secretarys office}
Recorded on Grant Book BBBB
page 446 and examined by
Peter Freneau
Secretary
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1828 paper
 to be filed 
with Ad
O W Inv
File #32.539
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Reuben Stone
200 Acres
(Bounty)
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South Carolina
I have caused to be ??? and laid out unto Reuben Stone a tract of Land, containing Two Hundred Acres, situate in the District of Ninety Six on a Branch of Ferguson's Creek bounding on acres running .... by Wofford Due ... on George Reeves c/o E on old Lure, the other side vacant land - - - - - - - And hath such Form and Marks, Buttings and Boundings, as the above Plat represents.
Certified for the 19th Day of Jan 1787
Rob. L Hamner
Dep. Lauve
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State of Alabama -
In the county Court of Madison County held
at Huntsville on the 20th day of August
1833 - the hon Samuel Chapman, Judge
thereof presiding-
Reuben Stone, of said County, personally appeared in open court, and being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed the 7th day of June 1832:....
My mother had a record of my age in prayer book, which is lost or destroyed - not in my power to produce. From it & the traditions in my family, I was born in Fauquier County, Virginia in the year 1755, & am now in my 78th year.
At about my 18th year I removed with my father's family into Lawrence County or District of South Carolina. Between the years 1773 & 1777, I volunteered from the county & joined Captain Benjamin Raney's company of the men raised to defend the county against the hostile Cherokee Indians. I joined for six months; five of which I certainly served & was engaged either on the frontier or in marches into the Indian Country. For this I claim allowance in my pension only if entitled. It was a service before the resolution; & my toils & sufferings at least were sufficient; but I am not informed whether Congress has allowed for such service.
On the 5th of August 1777 Col Sumpter was raising a regiment of horsemen in Lawrence County aforenamed & Thomas Childres, yeilding to the zeal inspired by that patriot & for the moment forgetful of the calls of a sick family, his wife having a permanent & distressing disease, enlisted under Sumpter for three years. I pilied his family proposed myself as his subordinate & was accepted & joined Sumpter in the same County on the day or day afterward. The Legislature of S. Carolina however, as I understood, refused to sanction Sumpter's regiment as one of horse, at which he resigned; the regiment was reduced to one of infantry & U was post under Captain Ridgebow in Col Wm Henderson's regiment. Under his enlistment I served two years & 9 months at least - was met always under Ridgebow - sometimes under other captains - part of the period under Capt Baker; but mostly under Col Henderson. I was at the attack made upon the British whilst they occupied Savannah; at which Genl Moultrie commanded us & was assisted by Count De Estang & the French. I was also in the attack of the Bristish at Stono, where I think
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Moultrie commanded us. After being marched to Charleston & stationed there for a time Genl Howe, of the american army, as was understood, proposed the capture of St. Augustine in Florida. I was detailed for that expedition & put under him & was marched by the way Fort Barnton on the Altemahaw & thence across the St. Mary's to Fort Onion in Florida; but the troops became disaffected to Howe, on account of his name & real or supposed kindred to Lord Howe of the British army; & in consequence my regiment returned to Charleston, believing, as they all did, that it was intended to deliver them to the enemy. I remained at Charleston until it was invested by the enemy & compelled after the siege of the place to surrender. Genl Lincoln commanded at the siege. I was among the prisoners taken by the British & included in the surrender - but not long after found opportunity of escape & succeeded. I returned to Lawrence Country & my term having expired I did not rejoin the army. My sufferings in the march thro a wilderness country to Florida & back to Charleston were very severe; & that was not the only expedition on which I met privations beyond the actual peril of life in battle.
I am advised however that a minute detail of the countless incidents I experienced, (many of which now yearly pop from recollection,) need not here be given. I have stated my officers & the chief affairs & expeditions on which I was engaged. My regiment was at first counted as No. 6 and after-ward was divided at Sullivan's Island & I fell into what was called the first regiment of the line. My whole service was three years two months - five months, as before stated, anterior to & two years nine months, during the revolution.
It was indeed more I think, but I state it at that. I got no discharge in writing. I have no documentary evidence of my enlistment & service. Whether rolls were reborne by the Captains who commanded me I know not. There is no one living & known to me by whom I can prove my enlistment & service except by James Childress, (or as he calls is Childers,) who is the son of the above named Thomas Childers, whole affidavit will follow. I lived in Lawrence cy S.C. wake 1808, when I removed to Madison County of Alabama aforesaid, where AI have since dwelt & now reside. I herby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity wage the present & declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of Alabama or any state.
Sworn & subscribed to before me Reuben Stone Sew
20th August 1833 Ricd B Rendon Clerk cc
his Mark
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Rev; James Childers, of Lincoln county, Tennessee, but who resides within 16 miles of the residence of Reuben Stone the applicant, personally appeared in court & on oath declares:
I am the son of the Thomas Childers named in the declara-tion of Reuben Stone above - was born in 1772 & am now in my 61st year. I was in my sixth year when my father joined Col Sumper & I remember that he said Stone be-came his subordinate. I say on my sixth year of the tradition of my own age & Stone's account of the date of his substitution be correct & I believe they are. I remember the circum-stances of my father enlisting & of Stone taking his place because, tho young, the excitement they produced on my father's family, the recurrences to the circumstances after-ward during the campaigns in which Stone was said to be engaged & of what occurred to him - which were sub-jects of frequent conversation in the family of that & subsequent periods all landed to empress the same on my memory. I remember that the continued indispostion of my mother was the cause of my father remaining at home. She never recovered of the disease. I recollect to have heard often of Stone & of his perils & sufferings during the hours for which he was substituted. I saw him after his return. He continued in my father's neighborhood until 1792 to my own knowledge; & after his return whether often, very often, I hear him & my father talking about the incidents of the enlistment & campaigns - & not only them but other whom it was understood served with Stone. The declaration made by Stone, which precedes, is I think a correct outline of what from my boy hood I have heard asserted & never doubted or contradicted. It is indeed only an outline of minute details I have often heard. In 1792 I removed into Georgia & in 1809 came to Madison Cy Ala where I found Mr. Stone had settled the year before, & where I continued to reside & in him Colin Temp. Ever since 1809 I have been in a ??? Mr. Stone's neighbor & ahve persistently know him. He has been & is I hope not only a professed but sincere Christian. His character & veracity are without rebuke or doubt; and I am confid-ent if any one deserves a pension he does.
Sworn & Subscribed to before me, 20th, August 1833 - James Childers
Rich B. Pendon Clerk cc
in said County of Madison Ala and in the neighborhood of Reuben Stone's the applicant & John Lawler of county
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are well acquainted with Reuben Stone who has subscribed & sworn to the preceding declaration. We believe him to be 78 years old. He is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & we concur in that opinion
Jon Wright
John Lawler
Sworn & subscribed to before me 20th August 1833 Richd B Pardon
And the said county court doth hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that Reuben Stone the applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. The court is satisfied that James Childers whose certificate signed & verified by him in court appears above is a clergyman residing tho not in the county of Madison yet near the applicants neighborhood and that he & John Wright & John Lawler whose certificate also appears above signed & verified by them are credible persons and their statements entitled to credit
Saml Chapman Judge
County court
27364
I Richard B Pardon clerk of the county court of Madison aforesaid, certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Reuben Stone for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 20th day of August 1833
Richd B Pardon Clk
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Reuben Stone

FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
[illegible] GAO

amt gr 50
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State of Alabama
Madison County SS} Be it known that before me Wm H Moore Agent for paying pensions at Huntsville in the state of Alabama, duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared Thomas McCrary, Administrator of Reuben Stone deceased and made oath in due form of Law that he is the administrator of the Reuben Stone, deceased, the identical person who was a pensioner and is now dead, and to whom a certificate of Pension was filed, which is herewith surrendered That the deceased pensioner resided in Madison County, Alabama at the time of his death and had resided in said county and state for the space of thirty five years before his death and that provisions thereto he resided in the state of South Carolina
Sworn to & subscribed before me this day of April 1850} W H Moore Pen agt Tho McCrary 

FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
RECEIVED FROM GAO
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State of Alabama
County of Madison} SS I John W Oley Judge of the probate court of said county and as such clerk of said court holden at Huntsville in and for said county do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said court that Reuben Stone was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of Eight dollars per annum was a resident of the county of Madison in the state of Alabama, and died in the county of Madison in the state of Alabama in the year Eighteen hundred and forty nine on the ninth day of February that he left no widow
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at office in Huntsville this the thirteenth day of May Eighteen hundred and fifty
Jno W Oley Judge PC
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Information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau Ruben Stone SF 32339
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT / LENGTH OF SERVICE / RANK / OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED CAPTAIN / COLONEL / STATE

Prior to Revolution / 5 mos / pvt / Benjamin Raney 
Aug 5 1777 / 2 yrs 9 mos / / Henry Humphrey illegible Ga illegible} William Henderson / SC
Mch 1780 / / / Gadsden / Charles E Pinckney
was prisoner at Charleston but [illegible] of [illegible]
Battles engaged in Stono Savannah
Residence of soldier at enlistment Laurens Co SC
Date of application for pension Oct 15 1838 [illegible]
Residence at date of application Madison Co Ala
Age at date of application born in [illegible] Va in 1755
Remarks
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3-871
RECORD DIVISION
Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Briefed by LDL
Claim No
Certificate No
Claimant
Soldier Reuben Stone
Service SC
Additional Service Reve War
No claim State records, 190
No claim, combination records, 190
REMARKS
No claim except
J #32539
0-8 Chief Division
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32539   1908 Dec 28
INVALID.  Mary H Rodge
File No 32539
Reuben Stone
Pri Rev War
Act June 7 32
Index Vol 2, Page 397
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Dec 12, 1908
Pension Office
War Department
Washington DC
Mail
[stamped
RECEIVED
DEC 
15
1908
DIVISION]
Have you sir record the name of Reuben Stone of South Carolina, a United States pensioner of the Revolutionary War? If so please give me what information you can about him
address
(Miss) Mary H Rodgers
504 W Clinton St
Huntsville, Alabama
[stamped
PENSION
U  DEC  S
14
1908
OFFICE
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PENSION AGENCY, HUNTSVILLE, ALA
April 3rd 1850
Received of  H MOORE, Agent for paying pensions thirty-four dollars and forty four cents being for five months & five days pension due to Reuben Stone deceased from the fourth day of September eighteen hundred and forty eight to the ninth day of February eighteen hundred and forty nine for which I have signed duplicate receipts. Thos McCrary
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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Reuben Stone
Payments to be made at Mobile, Ala by Thomas B Slater Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of Ala
Recorded in the Pension Office in Book C Vol 2
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WAR DEPARTMENT 
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Reuben Stone of the State of Alabama who was a private during the revolutionary war is entitled to receive eighty dollars and - cents per annum during his natural life commencing on the 4th of March 1831 and payable semi annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year
Given at the War office of the United States, this 4 day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty four
Lew Cass
Secretary of War

Examined and Countersigned}
JL Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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1423
Revolutionary Claims
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
21 Jany 1829
The annexed paper relating to the claim of Reuben Stone under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether it appears, by any records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive, the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution. 
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR
War Dept
County land office
The records of this office do not show that Reuben Stone of the South Carolina line ever received or is entitled to bounty land of the United States
Robert Taylor
22 Jany 1829
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1423
Revolutionary Claims
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
17 Jany 1829
Reuben Stone of - in the county of Madison in the state of Alabama has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a private in captain Gaddon 's company in the - regiment of the S Carolina line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May 1828 on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March 1826, nothing
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. By order of the Secretary F A Dickens

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
20th January 1829
[crossed out]
It further appears that Reuben Stone is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been so since the 3d March 1826
The name of Reuben Stone cannot be found among those of the South Carolina line to whom certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars were issued
Peter Hagner
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Reubin Stone
To} P atty
Gabrieal Moore
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1423
The state of Alabama
Madison County} To the Honorable Richard Rush Secretary of the treasury of the United States
The claims of Reuben Stone formerl ya citizen of the state of South Carolina, but now a citizen of Madison county Alabama Herewith that about some time in the month of March 1780 I inlisted as a soldier in the Revolutionary War during the war and served during the said revolutionary war I inlisted in the first regiment in Carolina under the command of Colonel Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and served to the end of the war (Sometime before I inlisted for three years sometime in August 1777 In the said revolutionary war) I was intitled to the pay of a [crossed out soldier] private about the year as well as I now can recollect 1790 I gave the certificate from Col Pinckney and Captain Gadson to James Gaston and he drew from the Treasury of the United States about two hundred dollars as my back rations then due me from the United States of America In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 15th of October 1828. Reuben his X mark Stone
Signed and acknowledged in the presence of Joseph Eastland
Thos McCrary
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State of Alabama
Madison County} For the purpose of obtaining the amount of pay owing to me for the pay and half year ending and the 2nd day of September 1828 under the act intitled "an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution' approved 15th of May 1828 I Reuben Stone of the county of Madison in the state of Alabama (But formerly of South Carolina) do hereby declare that I was a soldier in the first regiment of the army of the Revolution in the Continental line (as was more fully put forth on my application for the benefits of the said act) and that I think I am intitled to the pay of a private in the said line
Witness my hand this 18th of October 1828
Signed and acknowledged in the presence of 
Thos McCrary
Thos Johnson
America Fowler} Reuben his x mark Stone
Before me Joseph Rice a justice of the peace for the county of Madison in the state of Alabama Personally appeared this day Thomas McCrary and Thomas Johnson of the said county who did severally made oath that Reuben Stone by whom the foregoing declaration was made and subscribed is well known to them to be the person therein described and that his generally reputed and believed to have been a private in the army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated and that the said declaration was made and subscribed by the said Reuben Stone in their presence on the day of the date thereof
Witness my hand this 18th day of October 1828 sworn to and subscribed before me the day and date above written Joseph Rice JP
Thos McCrary
Thos Johnson
America Fowler
I Thomas Brandon Clerk of the county of Madison
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In the state of Alabama do hereby certify that Joseph Rice a justice of the peace in Madison state of Alabama before whom before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time a justice of the peace for the said county and duly empowered to administer oath
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this 20th day of October in The year One thousand Eight Eight Hundred and twenty Eight and of American Independence the 53rd year
Thomas Brandon Cl
[SEAL 
MADISON COUNTY COURT ALABAMA]
State of Alabama
Madison County} I Samuel Chapman presiding judge of the county court of said county do hereby certify that Thomas Brandon whose name is subscribed to the foregoing and annexed certificate is now and was at the time of making the same clerk of the county court of said county this 20th day of October 1828 Given under my hand at office in Huntsville
Saml Chapman
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JL Edwards Esq
Pension Office
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House of Reps
Jany 1st 1829
Sir
I send you herewith enclosed papers in support of a claim of Mr Reuben Stone, a soldier of the Revolution
You will be pleased to observe that reference is made to the last page of this document to payment of money upon a certificate of the commanding officer of his Regmt I presume from this circumstance you will be able to assertain whether Mr Stone is entitled to the benefit of the act of last session in
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favour of the officers & soldiers of the Revolution
You will much oblige me by causing the information to be obtained and transmitted to me as soon as may be convenient
I am sir most respectfully 
Your obt st
Gabriel Moore
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Jon SD Ingham
Sec of Try
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Recd 19 Jany 1830   1276
Washington - Jany 18th 1830
Hon SD Ingham
Sir
Enclosed i send you the papers connected with the claim of Mr Reuben Stone for Revolutionary services also his affidavit in relation to the claim of Mr Ezekiel Craft which I hope will be found sufficient to entitle them to them compensation intended for such services
I have the honor to be
very respectfully 
your obt svt
C C Clay
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Cashville SC} 10$100
Augt 3rd
Mr Rueben Stone Snr
Huntsville
Alabama
Madison County
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Apply to Thomas Locating office for the filed the Land certificate a [illegible]
Apply to John Burton Esqr to examine his fathers old papers for my Land warrant or person who I left it with to John Burton and Moses Fowler
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Cashville SC Spartanbourgh District
August 3rd 1829
Mr. Reuben Stone Nenr
Is agreeable to your request I called on Esqr John Burton and has allowed of S [illegible]
your Land Pattent
my family is well and also the countion as far as I know hoping that you and your family is well and doing well also give my conptes to cousin America Fowler and his family
I am your friend &c
Moses Fowler
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Revolutionary Claims
Under the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
22 Jany 1829
SIR
IT appears on the examination of your claim under the abovementioned act, that nothing is found in the public records at Washington, to corroborate or support it. This however is not considered a sufficient cause for rejecting it: inasmuch as the records relating to the Army of the Revolution are known to be incomplete : yet, as the testimony furnished by you, in addition to your own declaration, does not assert the fact of your having served in the Continental Army in the manner stated by you, but only that you are generally reputed and believed to have done so, it is deemed a sufficient cause for calling upon you for further evidence.
I am nevertheless aware of the difficulty that exits in obtaining after so long a time any positive or direct proof that you services were such as to entitle you to the benefits of the act. And you may be assured that in weighing such as you may find yourself able to bring all proper consideration will be given to this difficulty.
It is believed however that the archives of some of the States certain evidence of the rank and service of their regiments or corps on the Continental Line.  This evidence may be found either in muster rolls, settlements, accounts, grants of land or other rewards for revolutionary services. It may therefore be well for you to apply to the proper authorities of the State in whose quota you served, to see whether in your case such evidence exists. Where this cannot be obtained it will be desirable for you to obtain from one or more persons who know you to have served in the Continental Army, an affidavit to that effect authenticated in the manner heretofore prescribed stating (where it can be shown) the term of your enlistment and length of service
To aid you in this undertaking I will if you request it cause to be prepared and transmitted to you a list taken from the papers which have been received at this department under the abovementioned act of the names and residence of such officers of the line and regiment to which you represent yourself to have belonged as are known to be now living; and on application to them they may be able to supply the testimony which you need.
I am sir, very respectfully
Your obedient servant
Mr Ruben Stone Richard Rush
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State of Alabama
Madison County} Personally appeared Ezekiel Croft Senr this day before me John C Grayson an acting Justice of the peace in and for said county and after being duly sworn deposeth and sayeth that on the twenty fourth day of December Seventeen Hundred and Seventy eight he enlisted in the Continental line of services for the term of three years under the command of General Lincoln in the sixth regiment commanded by Colonel Henderson in a company commanded by Captain George Varley & Lieutenant Lankford in the city of Charlestown South Carolina and from all circumstances which he has the best evidence to believe that Reuben Stone was in the continental service at the same time he was and in the regiment which he himself belonged to but that the time has been so long that he has not at present any recollection of a particular and personal acquaintance while in service but that he is as well convinced from not only one circumstance but many that Reuben Stone was in the said service above mentioned at the same time and in the same regiment he himself was ; this 8th day of October 1829 Ezekiel Croft
Sworn to me and subscribed before me on the day and date above written
John CGrayson JP
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The State of Alabama
Madison County} I Samuel Chapman Judge of the county court of said county do certify that Thomas Brandon whose name is subscribed to the annexed certificate is clerk of said county court and was at the time of making his said certificate and that the same is in due form of law Given at office in said county this 24th day of October 1829
Saml Chapman

Affidavit of Ezekiel Craft
I John C Grayson the Justice of the peace whose name is subscribed to the within do certify that I was present on the 8th of October 1829 and heard Ezekiel Craft and Reuben Stone converce one with the other on the subject of their servitude in the continental line and have no hesitancy in saying that I believe they were both in said service at the same time and enlisted in the said regiment under the command of general Lincoln as is within describ
Given under my hand this 8th day of October 1829 John C Grayson Justice of the peace
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State of Alabama
Madison County} Personally appeared appeared before me John C Grayson an acting Justice of the peace in and for said county Reuben Stone and after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he enlisted in the time of the old revolutionary war in the continental line of service during the continuance of the war under the command of General Lincoln in the Sixth regiment commanded by Colinel William Henderson in a company commanded by Henry Hampton Capt and that he enlisted in the state of South Carolina and served two years and nine months and that he has from many circumstance the best reason to believe and does believe that Ezekiel Craft was in the continental line of service at the same time he was him self and in the same regiment but that he is not able to say that he had a personal acquaintance with Ezekiel Craft while in service and that after his service for some time in the sixth regiment the said sixth regiment and first regiment became so depreciated that he was with the resuming balance of the said sixt regiment attached to the first regiment under the command
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of Colenil Charles C Pinckney
This the 8th day of October 1829 Rubin his X mark Stone
Sworn to and subscribed by me on the day and date above written
John C Grayson JP

I John C Grayson the Justice of the peace whose name is subscribed to the within do certify that I was present on the 8th day of October 1829 and heard Ruben Stone and Ezekiel Craft converse one with the other on the subject of their servitude in the continental service and have no hesitency in saying that I believe they were both in said service at the same time and enlisted in the sixth regiment under the command of General Lincoln as is within described Given under my hand this 8th day of October 1829
John C Grayson
A Justice of the Peace 

Affidafit of 
Reuben Stone
The State of Alabama
Madison County} I Thomas Brandon clerk of the county court of said county do hereby certify that John C Grayson whose name is subscribed to the foregoing and annexed certificate is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said county and was at the date thereof to wit on the 8th day of October instant duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said court at office in Huntsville this 24th day of October in the year of our Lord 1829 and of our Independence the 54th year
Thos Brandon clk
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Reuben Stone

2nd qr 50

Huntsville, Alabama 2nd Ir 1850
Box 18
Chalk 18
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The State of Alabama
At a time of the [illegible]ans court of Madison county in said state begin and held at the court house in the town of Huntsville on the second Monday being the thirteenth day of August Eighteen hundred and forty four Present the Hon Edward C Betts Judge of said court
And afterwards to wit on the twenty seventh day of August Eighteen hundred and forty nine, the following order and entry was made
It appearing to the satisfaction of the court that Reuben Stone Senr late of said county hath departed this life inst all and Thomas McCrary here appearing for a Letters of Administration on the Estate of said decedent It is ordered by the court that he give bond and securities in the pen at sum of one hundred dollars conditioned as the tan directs and said Thomas McCrary together with Jesiah D Battle and John F Wyche his secestes who are approved by the court having interest into bond in the penalty aforesaid conditioned as aforesaid and taken the oath prescribed by law It is ordered that Letters of Administration on the estate of said decedent be granted him accordingly &c
The State of Alabama
Madison County SS } I John W Oley Judge of the Probate court of said county and as such clerk of said court do certify that the foregoing contains a true copy and complete transcript of the order of said court granting Letter of Administration on the estate of Reuben Stone Senr decd to Thomas McCrary
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at office in Huntsville this the thirteenth day of September Eighteen hundred and fifty
Jno W Oley Judge PC
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Reuben Stone
Copy Grant
[illegible] Acres

Adm 2 years
$80 
Hon C C Clay
Ho of Rep

Fee $167
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The original papers of which [illegible] a copy [illegible] from [illegible] 
[illegible] 23, 1908
(No 5)
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
To all to whm these presents shall come GREETING:
KNOW YE That in pursuance of an Act of the General Assembly of the said state, passed the Twenty-eighth day of March, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-eight; and an Ordinance of the state aforesaid, passed the Twenty sixth day of March, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-four, for the purpose of securing and granting Land within this state to the officers and soldiers as therein set forth, We have Granted and by these presents do Grant unto Reuben Stone his heirs and assigns a plantation or tract of land containing Two Hundred Acres situate in the District of Notary Six on a Branch of Fergusons Creek bounding on lines running NE by Wofford, due S and SW on George Reeves SE on the old Line the other side vacant Land
Having such shape form and marks as are represented by a plat hereunto annexed together with all woods, trees, waters, water courses, profits, commodities, appartenances and hereditaments whatsoever thereunto belonging, To have and to hold, the said tract of Two Hundred acres of Land and all singular other the premises hereby Granted unto the said Reuben Stone his heirs and assigns forever in free and common soccage.
GIVEN UNDER THE GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE
WITNESS His Excellency Thomas Pinckney Esquire, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, in and over the said State, at  [ crossed out Columbia] this seventh day Charleton of May Anno Domini, one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven and in the eleventh year of the Independence of the United States of America.
Thomas LMS Pinckney
And hath thereunto a plat thereof annexed, representing the same, certified by F Brennan Surveyor General
19 January 1787
Taken from Grand Back Vol 2nd Cls 2d page 446 
amsed and certified by Benj F Rowly