Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 1684, Saul Cary, Md.
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Service
MD

Name
Cary, Saul

Number
R.1684
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832

State of Indiana
Hamilton County

On this twelfth day of October eighteen hundred and thirty-nine personally appeared before the Hamilton Circuit Court now in session Saul Cary a resident of Hamilton County State of Indiana aged eighty-three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832.

That he entered the service under the following named officers: and served as herein stated. That he entered the service of the United States as a sea fencible or minute men in summer season of the year seventeen hundred and seventy-eight and served forty days for Alexander Warrenton under captain Josiah Deal and was stationed at South Point while there the British fired cannon at Colonel Zadock Burnell's house and damaged it considerably. He next served a forty days tour for Johnson Grey in the same season and was stationed part of the time at Princess Anne and part at Snow Hill - that is all the service he rendered in that year except that he was called out a few days together several times he was at the fourth of July festival during his services the last tour of forty days, that year in seventeen hundred and seventy-nine he served one forty days tour for Campbell Beal after that he volunteered as a constant guard and served under several captains from that time until the fall of the year seventeen hundred and eighty-one to wit: Littleton R Robins, James Laws, George Bell and James Faucett;
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he is old and his memory does not serve him to state the dates when he entered the service at the several times, but he recollects that it was a little more than two years from the time he volunteered to be ready at all times in case of danger until the taking of Cornwallis at which time his services ended, William White was Ensign in Captain Beal's company, Noble Cropper was Ensign in Captain Law's company, General Smallwood, Colonel John Dennis, Colonel Solomon Long, Colonel Joseph DeSheal, Major John Marshall, were field officers also Colonel Mitchell Cushaw he was stationed at Lewistown in the state of Delaware, when the British cannonaded the town and a cannon ball struck Colonel Peter Waples horse while he was sitting on him, the British were commanded by Dunmore as he understood but it being a ship of  war he does not know how the Americans knew the commander he was stationed several tours at the Salt Works at Sinney Bexton, while there he had some trouble to prevent the British from destroying the works - in one skirmish Huel Powders was wounded through the hips with a ball at another time William Tuttle was killed which took place at Indian River inlet, the Tories and British were so troublesome that the guards were kept constantly ready and the calls were very numerous, we considered ourselves as in the service all the times but the time that he was from home on service all together as near as he can recollect was about fifteen months, he resided in Worcester County in the state of Maryland when he entered the service, he has no documentary evidence he has no record of his age, there was a record of his age in the state of Ohio but the last he saw of it, it could not be read illegibly, it was not in a bible therefore it is probably not in existence, he claims a pension for the services he rendered; he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except
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the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Given from under my hand the day and year last aforesaid.

Sworn and subscribed to before me the above day.

Saul Cary
His X Mark

Question by the Court
Where and in what country were you born?
Answer - I was born in the county of Worcester in the state of Maryland on the seventeenth day of May in the year Seventeen hundred and fifty-six

Question _ have you a record of your age & where is it?
Answer - I had a record of my age, but it was not a bible and the last time I saw it was in the State of Ohio, it was so much torn and worn that it could not be ready clearly, I expected is destroyed.

Question - Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live?
Answer - I was living in the county of Worcester in the state of Maryland, and I remained there after the war until twenty-five or six years since I came to Piqua County in the state of Ohio and about twelve years since I came to Hamilton County State of Indiana where I now reside.

Question - How were you called into service, were you draghted (drafted), did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute, for whom?
Answer - I was called into the service as a guard on the seashore we were called Sea Fencibles or minute men. I served three tours of forty days each as a substitute, the first was for Alexander Warrenton, the second for Johnson Grey the third for Campbell Deal, I was draghted (drafted) two tours after which I volunteered the balance of the time
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5th Question - State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served, such continental and malitia (militia) regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your services.
Answer - Captain Nathaniel Mitchell I think was a regular officer, there were no large armies on the Eastern Shore nor do I recollect that a regiment was stationed at any one place, I have forgotten the number of the regiment to which the several companies were attached to which I belonged, our services were generally required in small detached parties so that we were not called to notice, the regiments as much as we should under other circumstances, General Smallwood, General Wadkins, Colonel Burnell and Major Marshall were field officers, Ensigns White, Croper, and Hazzard were officers of some of the companies to which I belonged. I am old and have lost my memory so that I cannot remember the particulars, we were kept in great dread while the British vessels lay in the bay and there were [illegible] together that a large portion of the citizens were held in service and I served all my own tours as well as substituted, the British vessels some seasons were sailing about in the bay and entering the inlet for the most part of the warm season.

Question - Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and is so, by whom was it given and what has become of it.
Answer - I received a discharge from Colonel Armel Long, but I lost it many years ago. The discharge which I received as a substitute were given to the men for whom I served.

7th Question - State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as s solder of the revolution.
Answer - Levi Holloway and Nacy Justice know most of my service in the revolution, Ebenezer Holloway and Ann Holloway are
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acquainted with my character for veracity.

The reason for my not making an earlier application for a pension is that I was unable to find any person by whom I could know my service until I met with Levi Holoway last year, not being able to read or write, I found no person to make a declaration for me until the time Levi Holloway's declaration was made out but being able to appear in court was compelled to wait until now for the opportunity.

Sworn and subscribed the day and date last aforesaid.

Saul Cary
his X Mark

and the Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above-named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.

I John G Burns Clerk of the Circuit Court of Hamilton County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Saul Cary for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twelfth day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.



Jno G Burns - Clerk

SEAL

I Levi Holloway aged one hundred and four years do certify that I was well acquainted with Saul Cary before the commencement of the Revolutionary War. He resided in Worcester County in the state of Maryland when he entered the services of the United States as guard or sea fencible in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-eight as a substitute. I know that he was hired to serve for several persons, but I do not recollect their names only as related by Saul Cary in his declaration which I believe to be true as know these men were his neighbors and know also that he served. I was with him at Princess Ann and Lewis
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Town and other places we were in the same company a few times, but I do not recollect now certainly but I believe we served together under Captain Laws and Capt. Faucett. I know that he is about eighty-three or eighty-four years of age, he served in the state of Maryland as a sea fencible from seventeen hundred and seventy-eight until after the surrender of Cornwallis, but I do not know how much of that time he was under arms or actual service. He served under Colonel Laws, Colonel Purnell, General Smallwood and Major Marshall and I well know that the said Saul Cary is a man of truth, and I fully believe the foregoing declaration to which he has sworn and subscribed to be true, and I do most fully concur in the belief of the truth of the statements therein made. Given under my hand this twelfth day of October eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.

Levi Holloway
His X Mark

Sworn and subscribed before me.

John Calip - JP

I Nancy Justice do certify that I have been acquainted with Saul Cary who made the foregoing declaration for nearly fifty years and have always understood and believe that he was a revolutionary soldier in the state of Maryland, I have often heard him tell of the services he has rendered and what he endured in the service and I know him to be a man of truth and I do most fully concur in the belief of the truth of the statements therein made. We Ebenezer Holloway and Nancy Halloway are well acquainted with Saul Cary who made the foregoing declaration and know him to be a man of truth and we do most fully concur in the belief of the truth of the statements therein made.

Given from under our hand this twelfth day of October eighteen hundred and thirty-nine

Levin Holloway
His X Mark

Ebenezer Holloway
His X Mark

Nancy Holloway
Her X Mark

Nancy Justice
Her X Mark

Sworn and subscribed before me

John Calip - JP

State of Indiana Hamilton County

On this twelfth day of October eighteen hundred and thirty-nine personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid Levi Holoway, Nancy Justice, Nancy Holoway and Ebenezer Holoway residents of Hamilton County Indiana who are well known to me to be persons of respectability and truth and made oath to the truth of the foregoing statements by them severally made and
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I do further certify that I do most fully concur in the belief of the truth of the statements therein made.

Given from under my hand the day and date last aforesaid.

John Calip - JP

State of Indiana Hamilton County

I John G Burns clerk of the court of said county do certify that John Calip is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twelfth day of October eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.

Jno G Burns - Clerk

SEAL

I William Ridley do certify that I was well acquainted with Saul Cary previous to the war of the revolution. He resided in Worcester County Maryland, I was witness to the bargain when Alexander Warrenton employed him as a substitute, and he served out the tour in Captain Josiah Beals company. I was then about twelve years old, and I was born 11 December Seventeen hundred and sixty-six, he also served much of the time of the war as a guard, he was in Captain James Laws company and in Littleton R Robbins & James Fancett companies was at the Salt works and may other places stationed on the shore. I well knew the said Saul Cary to be a man of truth and I do most fully concur in the belief of the truth of the statements by him made in the foregoing declaration. I James ridley do certify that I have been acquainted with Saul Cary for sixty years or more, but was young at my
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first acquaintance and it has always been said that he served in the war of the revolution which I fully believe. I well know him to be a man of truth and I do most fully concur in the belief of the truth of the statements made by him in the foregoing declaration.

Given under our hands this twelfth day of October eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.

William Ridley
James Ridley

State of Indiana
Hamilton County

On this twelfth day of October eighteen hundred and thirty-nine personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace in and for said county William Ridley and James Ridley residents of Hamilton County Indiana who are men of truth and made oath to the truth of the foregoing statements y them severally made and I do futher certify that I do most fully concur in the belief of the truth of the statements by them made. Given from under my hand the day and date first aforesaid.

John Calip - JP

State of Indiana
Hamilton County

I John G Burns clerk of the Court of said county do certify that John Calip is a magistrate as shown and the signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twelfth day of October eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.

Jno G Burns - Clerk

SEAL

34873
Saul Cary
Indiana
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1682

Saul Carey

REJECTED

List of rejected claims printed in 1852 shows cause of rejection as follows "not under military organization or authority"
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Saul Carey

Indiana
Saul Carey

Rejected

Let 29 Nov 1839
H. Bradley

Did not perform six months actual service in a regularly organized corps & by order of competent authority.

1684

Act 7 June 1832
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H. Bradley
Nov 29, '39
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323
War Dept Pen Office
Nov 29, 1839

Sir

The declaration of Saul Cary has been examined He alleges to have served three tours of forty days each as a militia man of Maryland after which he was required to hold himself in readiness to serve when called out and no remains until the surrender of Cornwallis. The act of 7 June 1832 provides for some who did not perform six months actual service in a regularly organized corps, subject to military discipline and called out by another competent authority. The actual service performed by the applicant was not such as to entitle him to the benefit of said act. The claim has consequently been rejected and the declaration filed.

H Bradley Esq
Indianapolis Ind.
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Mail Stamp - Indianapolis Ind Oct 16

Ind'a
Saul Carey
Add'l proof 
Levin Holloway
filed with his papers

FREE

J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Hon. J.L. Edwards

Sir

Enclosed the declaration of Saul Cary and further evidence in Levi Holloway's case.

Yours truly

H Bradley