Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8261, for Andrew Pinkstaff, Virginia
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE
Va

Pinkstaff, Andrew

NUMBER
R.8261

CONTENTS
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State of Illinois 
Lawrence County: SS Be it remembered that on this Seventh day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty Six [1846] personally appeared before the County Commissioners Court in and for the said County began and holden in and for said County as aforesaid John Pinkstaff a resident of said County who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain for himself and the other heirs hereinafter mentioned the benefits of the Act of Congress passed 7th of June 1832 granting pensions to certain officers and soldiers of the War of the Revolution. That Andrew Pinkstaff was a soldier of the Revolution and died on the 24th day of September one thousand Eight hundred and forty one [1841] aged ninety-eight or ninety-nine years of age at the time of his death. That four children of the said Andrew Pinkstaff still survives him named Catherine, Mary, Redman and John Pinkstaff. That said Andrew left no widow. That this declarant makes this Declaration for the benefit of himself
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and the three other children of the said Andrew Pinkstaff named. That this declarant is not able to name the particulars in relation to the Revolutionary services of his father. He is confident that he enlisted in Frederick [County] in the State of Virginia and that he served under Colonel or General Morgan [Daniel Morgan]. He is confident that he served by enlistment from the fact that his said father was stationed one winter in or near the City of New York. This affiant is also of the belief that his said father served at first six months under Captain Berry [probably Francis Berry] of Frederick County aforesaid and that he afterwards served by enlistment two tours of eighteen months each under Col [Colonel] or General Morgan. That he is unable to state whether his services were in the State line of Virginia or in the Continental establishment of that State. That his father served much more and longer than the tours above named, but this affiant is unable to give any specific account of them. He has often heard his father say that he was under Morgan at the Battle of Cowpens [January 17, 1781] and was also at the Battle of Guilford Court House [March 15, 1781]. He is of opinion that the six months tour under Captain Berry
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was performed in the very early part of the War. He has understood from his father that he served about five years altogether. 
His father was born and married in Frederick in the State of Virginia. He claims for himself and the three other children above named the Pension due to the said Andrew Pinkstaff under the Act aforesaid from the 4th day of March 1831 to the 24th day of September 1841. He declares that his father's name was not at the time of his death on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State. 
Subscribed and Sworn} 
to in open Court this}
Seventh day of December 1846} John [his x mark] Pinkstaff

E Z Ryan Clerk

And said Court do certify that in the opinion of said Court that said Andrew Pinkstaff was a soldier and served as stated above and it is hereby certified that satisfactory proof was exhibited to said court at the Term afforesaid [aforesaid] that said Andrew Pinkstaff died on the 24th day of September in the year 1841 and that the following children still survive him, to wit
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John Pinkstaff Redmon Pinkstaff
Catherine Graham and Mary Parker And that said Pinkstaff left no widow and that the foregoing are the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of the named children for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have 
hereunto subscribed my name 
and affixed the official seal 
of said Court this 
Seventh day of December 1846 

E. Z. Ryan Clerk
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

Rev. War Section. 

August 30, 1916.

Hon. William A. Cullop, 
House of Representatives. 

My dear Mr. Cullop: -- 

In response to your letter dated the twenty-eighth instant, I have the honor to advise you that in the papers in pension claim R. File No. 8,261 Rev. War, it is alleged that Andrew Pinkstaff was born in Frederick County, Virginia, and that early in the Revolution he enlisted in said County, under Captain Berry and served six months; he afterwards served two tours of eighteen months each under Colonel or General Morgan; and that he was in the battles of Cowpens and Guilford. 

He married in Frederick County, Virginia, name of wife [^ written on the side – Statement heir of Jeremiah Redmon, is thought too vague to use A.W.D.] and date of marriage not stated. He died September 24, 1841 aged ninety-eight or ninety-nine years, leaving no widow but the following children: Catherine Graham, Mary Parker, Redman or Redmon Pinkstaff and John Pinkstaff a resident of Lawrence County, Illinois in 1846 who applied for the pension which might have been due their father, but the claim was rejected on the ground of no proof of the alleged service. 

Very truly yours, 

GM Saltzgaber
State of Commissioner.
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No 37442
Andrew Pinkstaff decd [deceased]
Ill [Illinois]
Let. [Letter] to Hon Sidney Breese
Jany [January] 2 47
Let [Letter[ to Uri Manly Sept. 23 ‘47

8261

Act 7 June 1832
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Pinkstaff
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[circular stamp PENSION O NOV 3 1916 U. S. OFFICE]
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W W 1 Rev Sect

Vincennes Indiana 
R.F. D. 5

Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington 

Dear Sir, 

Please inform me what records you have bearing on a pension, for which application was made 70 years ago by the heirs of Andrew Pinkstaff, a Revolutionary Soldier. 

Sincerely (Miss) Berenice Pinkstaff,
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[left side of page] 1915, Nov. 20. History to Mr. Nelson Bennett. M. B. H. 
1916 Aug. 30. Hist. to Hon. William A. Cullop. [cent sign] 
1916 Nov. 20 Hist. to Miss Berenice Pinkstaff [cent sign] 
1917 Dec. 15. Hist. to Lieut. Nelson Bennett. [cent sign]

[right side of page] [Stamped REJECTED]
8261

P. O. 
Andrew Pinkstaff

Service: _________

Enlisted: ____ ,18
Discharged: _____ ,18

Application filed: _____ ,18

Alleges: ______

Re-enlisted: ______

Attorney: ____
P. O. ____
___Recognized.  _____ Contract.
___Cert. of Dis.  Searched for ____, 18.
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[Typed form with handwritten responses]

M.13.H.

Rev. War Section. 

November 20, 1915.

Mr. Nelson Bennett, 
R. F. D. 5, 
Vincennes, Ind. 

Sir:

In response to your letter dated the 11" instant, you are advised that in the pension claim Rejected File No. 8, 261, it is alleged that Andrew Pinkstaff was born in Frederick County, Virginia, and that early in the Revolution he enlisted in said County under Captain Berry and served six months; then served two tours of eighteen months each under Colonel or General Morgan; and that he was in the battles of Cowpens and Guilford. 

He married in Frederick County, Virginia, name of wife not stated. He died September 24, 1841, age 98 or 99 years leaving no widow but the following children: Catherine Graham, Mary Parker, Redman or Redmon Pinkstaff and John Pinkstaff a resident of Lawrence County, Illinois in 1846, who applied for the pension that might have been due his father, but the claim was not allowed on the ground of no proof of the alleged service. 

The Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard to John Buchanan (under any spelling of the name) of Fort Buchanan, Pennsylvania.
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

In order to identify the record of any other soldier of that name, his full name is essential. 

Very respectfully, 

G M Saltzgaber

Commissioner. 



Pinkstaff -- 2 -
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

Rev Sec H

Camp Grant Ills. Dec. 8, 1917. 
341st. Inf. 

Pension Bureau: 
Revolutionary Dept. 

Sirs Will you please send me a certified copy of a claim for pension put in by Andrew Pinkstaff for service in Virginia and South Carolina. The claim was put in by John Pinkstaff in 1841 in behalf of his father Andrew, the Revolutionary soldier. 
respectfully 

[Illegible] Nelson Bennett
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[Letterhead left side] SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. WILLIAM C. ADAMSON, GA., CHAIRMAN. THETUS W. SIMS, TENN. WILLIAM A. CULLOP, IND. FRANK E. DOREMUS, MICH. GEORGE F. O'SHAUNESSY, R.I. DAN V. STEPHENS, NEBR. ALBEN W. BARKLEY, KY. SAM RAYBURN, TEX. ANDREW J. MONTAGUE, VA. PERL D. DECKER, MO. CHARLES P. COADY, MD. JOHN F. CAREW, N. Y. ARTHUR G. DEWALT, PA JOHN J. ESCH, WIS. EDWARD L. HAMILTON, MICH. RICHARD WAYNE PARKER, N. J. JOHN A. STERLING, ILL. SAMUEL R. WINSLOW, MASS. JAMES S. PARKER, N.Y. HOWARD SUTHERLAND, W.VA. CHARLES H. DILLON, S. DAK. WILLIS J. DAVIS, CLERK. 

[center of Letterhead] HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE WASHINGTON, D. C. 

8/28/16.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C. 

My Dear Sir: 

I would like to be informed as to whether or not your records disclose the service of Andrew Pinkstaff in one of the Virginia Regiments during the Revolutionary Regiments during the Revolutionary War. 

With kind regards, I am, 
Very Truly, 
W. A. Cullop
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Rev Sec 

Vincennes, Ind. Nov. 11. 1915 
R.F.D. 5 

Pension Bureau

Sirs: Will you please inform me if names of the following appear on the rolls of Revolutionary armies, as entitled to Pensions: 
I. Andrew Pinkstaff of Virginia, later of Fleming Co. Ky I believe, a soldier of Washington's body guard. 

II- Buchanan (John, I think} FA. Buchanan, Penna. 

very respectfully 

Nelson Bennett
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No 37442 
Andrew Pinkstaff dcd [deceased]
Ill [Illinois]


act 7 June 1832
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Washington Dec. 21. 1846 

Dr Si [Dear Sir]

The enclosed claim of John Pinkstaff has been out to be with a request that I could endeavor to [Illegible] you early askin [asking] open it.

Very rspy yr ob [respectfully your obedient servant] 

S. Breese

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Comm. of Pensions
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Pension Office
[crossed out - Decr 1846] 
Jny [January] 2 1867 

Sir,

I have the honor to inform you that the informal and sustained declaration in the case of Andrew Pinkstoff [Pinkstaff] decd [deceased] has been examined and filed under the act of 7 June 1832. 

The service for which this claim is asserted is not set forth as required by the regulations and this name cannnot be formed with those who [Illegible] depredation certificates either in the Continental Line or State Troops [Illegible] it appear upon any of the Muster or pay rolls of Col Morgans Regiment in this Office, and the first of Pinkstoff [Pinkstaff] having [Illegible] the passage of the act of 7 June 1832 nearly ten years without having applied for the benefit of the provisions shows [^ with some degree of certainty] that he did not believe himself that he was entitled to a pension under that law. 

If this claim be further prosecuted a declaration in conformity with the endured printed instructions should be filed, and any service under the Continental Line or State Troops should be established by the arrears in the Auditors Office at Richmond the Militia service then be proven by two or more
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respectable witnesses who were themselves in service


[written sideways on right side of page] Hon. S. Breese Jany 2.67 [January 2, 1867]


Hon S. Breese 
Senate U. States
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Sep 7 47 
Andrew Pinkstaff 

Recover from W. Manley of Marshall Ill. 
until date of 
the 30th Augt Last 
Respy [Respectfully] referred 
to the Comr [Commissioner] of 
Pensions 
3rd Auditors Office 
Sept 6th 1847. 

Adam Lackey Ill 

Wm. Manly Marshall, Ill.
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November 4 AD 1846

 your letter Sir I receive on the 14 Ins. it was mis caried [miscarried?] and to Lawrenceville Andrew Pinkstaff enlisted in Virginia Fredric [Frederick] County. He inlisted [enlisted] under Capt. on Berry 6 monts [months] or longer and Genral [General] Morgan 18 Monts [months] Both towers [tours] in viginey [Virginia]. He was station [stationed] at New York One winter Seion [season] or longer.
Jeremiah Redmon He inlisted [enlisted] under the Sam. [same] Oficrs [officers] under Caption [Captain] Bearry [Berry] 6 monts [months] or longer 18 under genal [general] Morgan or longer. inlisted [Enlisted] in same place the other and was at the surrender of Lord Conwolis [Cornwallis]. He then was under genral Washigton [General Washington] Cant sa [can’t say] how long he was inlisted [enlisted] and was in most of the whole war the [there?] was but I [Illegible] she was the wife of Andrew Pinkstaff. 
Jeramiah Redmon Dece [deceased?] 1811 
Andrew Pinkstaff he was in the war 5 years of or on thill [till] the war was over I can not [cannot remember] what Oficers [officers] he was under or how long he was tower [his tour was]. 
Thir [There] is 1 mor [one more] [?eubuthonar] we no [know] of by the name Heath he having grand children thir [there] is 1 child having that child is living in India [Indiana] State. 
I will inform you when you send the word, [ink smear] I was in the [Illegible] Batel [battle?] 1811 was Badley [badly] wonde [wounded] by the James Gibson Lawrence Co [County] Illinois

John Pinkstaff
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Wm. Manley 
Clark County
Illinois Marchel [Marshall] 

Paid 5
Russellville Ills [Illinois]} 
18th Novr [November]}
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Andrew Penkstoff [Pinkstaff]
Ill [Illinois]

P. A. to see papers –

Suspd [Suspended] 422 
L B. True 
Present
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

(POWER OF ATTORNEY.) 

Know all men by these presents, That I, John Pinkstaff Sen [Senior], of the County of Lawrence, and State of Illinois, for and in consideration of          do hereby make, constitute, and appoint, L. BLANCHARD TRUE, of Washington City, D. C.,       true and lawful Attorney, for       and in       name, to examine all papers filed in any Department or Office of Government, upon which a    Pension was granted to Andrew Pinkstaff on account of the     services of     and to obtain, by all lawful means, any and all additional amounts that may be due from the United States to said       , by virtue of said services, as      in the Company of Capt.      in the Regiment of     and in the      line of the forces of    . And for good and sufficient reasons I do hereby REVOKE and CANCEL any and all other Powers of Attorney and authority which I may at any former time have given to any person or persons for the above specified purposes; and I do hereby vest the same irrevocably in my said Attorney herein appointed, said L. Blanchard True. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Second day of June in the year A.D. 1854 
In presence of John Pinkstaff Sen {SEAL}
Thos. F. Watts {SEAL}
John Reiley {SEAL} 
{SEAL}

STATE OF Illinois} 
County of Lawrence} ss. 
On this Second day of June in the year A.D. 1854 personally appeared before me A. S. Badollet a Justice of the Peace duly authorized by law to administer oaths and take acknowledgments in and for the county aforesaid, John Pinkstaff Sen ---- the subscriber to the above, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned; and made oath in due form of law, that he is personally interested as the sole heir of the said Andrew Pinkstaff in said claim. And I further certify that he is personally known to me to be the identical individual represented therein. 
A. T. Badollet J. P. {SEAL}
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State of Illinois}
Lawrence County} SS 
I Thomas F. Watts Clerk of the County Court of said County hereby certify 1 that A. S. Badollet Esq. before whom the within acknowledgement was made, and whose genuine signature appears thereto, was at the date of the same an acting Justice of the Peace for said County, duly qualified and commissioned according to law and that as such full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to all his offcial acts. -
Witness, my hand and the seal of said 
Court at Lawrenceville this second 
day of June AD 1854 – 
Thos. F. Watts Clk [Clerk]

[written sideways in middle of page] Andrew Penkstoff [Pinkstaff] Ill [Illinois] P. A. to see papers – Suspd [Suspended] 422 L B. True Present


[bottom of page] 422- for further Proof from the Va. Records
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P-ct - 4 
Isaac Pinkstaff
Suspd [Suspended] Act June 7th 1882 

Fee
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

State of Illinois} S.S.
County of Lawrence County}

Be it Known that on this Twentieth day of November A. D. 1852 before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared John Pinkstaff senior    resident of said County, and made oath according to law that[^3] that he is the legal heir of the identical man who was soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of 4 -------
That he is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence in arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.

Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint SAMUEL M. KNIGHT, of Washington City, my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute the claim of 6 Andrew Pinkstaff for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Department at Washington City or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City, D. C. Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. 
Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises. 
John Pinkstaff senior 

Sworn to, Subscribed, and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said John Pinkstaff senior to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged.
Benjamin Rogers J.P.

State of Illinois} 
County of Lawrence} 

It is hereby certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Court of Lawrence County that John Pinkstaff Senr [Senior] the party who has sworn to, and acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney, is the identical child of the reputed soldier aforesaid. I further certify that Benjamin Rogers Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, was, at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine. 

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office, this twenty fourth day of November 1852. 
William S. Hennessy Clk [Clerk] 

1. Claimant’s name or names in full. – 2. Post Office address.
3. [That he is the identical man, " or, "that she is the widow of the identical man, " or, "that he or she is the legal heir of the identical man," &c., &c. 
4. Leave this line blank. -- 5, "He is," "she is," or "they are." – 6. Revolutionary soldier's full name. -- 7. Claimant's signature -- 8. Claimant's name – 9. Magistrate's signature. 
10. "Identical," "widow of," or, "child of." -- 11. Magistrate's name." -- 12. Clerk's signature. 

N. B. -- Should two or more heirs join in the foregoing, the plural should be substituted for the singular number.