Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10663, Samuel Townsend, S.C.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
SC Townsend, Samuel R 10663
Born in Va
CONTENTS
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Declaration of Samuel Townsend in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 1832
The State of Alabama
County of Coosa } SS
On this the twenty fifth day Octr 1842 personally appeared before me Ebenezer Pond Judge of the county court of said county the subscribing a court of record Samuel Townsend resident of the county and state aforesaid aged eighty nine years and six [illegible]
[illegible entire line is faded]
[illegible] on his oath make the following oath and declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he [illegible]
United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated At the time he entered the service he resided in Camden District of the state of South Carolina that he has [illegible] swears by which he det [illegible]
the precise period of time when he first entered that service but believes to the best of his recollection that it was in the month of May Seventeen hundred and seventy eight This was as a horseman and
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2. private under Col Edward Lacy of Camden District in command of a militia regiment This tour continued about three weeks and the object of it was to put down the Tories who were plumering and devastating the country Our direction lay down Sandy River towards the Congaree and we returned back to our own [illegible] by the way of Waynesboro During this short campaign nothing of interest occurred farther than the killing of one Tory who refusted to be taken and the wounding of another and the capture of several who were suspected but were discharged upon the edge of remaining at home and having no intercourse with the enemy In this tour he was a volunteer After this as a drafted soldier he was under Col William Bratton at the seige of the Congaree Fort which was taken with about two hundred prisoners of Tories principally & some [illegible] British William Hanna was his immediate commanding officer his captain This regiment was also from Camden District and the Fort was on Congaree River near Fridays ferry
3 He was drafted for three months but the infirmity of his memory prevents him from saying whether he served it all out or not
After this he was engaged as a volunteer scouring the country for Tories for about
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21 three weeks under Maj James Moore of the militia of Camden District He went in the direction and region of country on Wateree River He again afterwards (but at what precise time he cannot properly say) volunteered under Col Lacy to keep down the Tories and prevent their inroads They were out at 
21 least three weeks On another occasion went as a volunteer under Captain Hanna to the relief of Captain Delap who was then engaged in fighting against the Tories in the Waxsan settlement on the East end
5-03 of Catawba river some fifty miles from his residence Before they reached there however an engagement had taken place in which the Patriots were defeated It was on that occasion that General Andrew Jackson together with his brother were taken prisoners the former then a mere boy When we reached the place we saw nothing of but the smoking river of the church which the Tories had set fire to we immediately turned as we were too late to be of service He was engaged in many scouting parties which it is customary to mention in addition to the foregoing
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4503
Again in May 1781 (to the best of his recollection he went as drafted soldier down upon the Edisto River He served as a sergeant in this tour William Hanna was his Captain and Genl Samuel Henderson was chief in command The region of country to which they march was about a hundred fifty miles from the residence of applicant Headquarters were at Tyler's plantation on Edisto River The services performed during this campaign were of no particular interest The principal object was to prevent the enemy and Tories from penetrating further to the interior of the state and to give security to the defenseless settlements the women and children of which was brought into camp and which being simply the families of Tories were waggoned off to Charleston by command of Genl Henderson In this campaign he served out his full 
3 three months and remained till relief came at which time he got his discharge
8 03 where the discharge is now or what became of it the applicant is utterly unable to say and it "cannot now be obtained." By whom this discharge was given the applicant cannot now say but is well assured it was by one who had competent authority to give it
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From this period till the evacuation of Charleston by the British in 1782 and the final close of the war he was occasionally engaged in scouting parties and though the service was not arduous was always ready to answer to the call of his country and kept his hen for that express purpose That during the periods of time above mentioned he was engaged in no civil pursuit except what attention he could give his domestic matters during the enteral of service The applicant further stats under oath that for the last four years in consequence of his extreme old age and bodily infirmity he has not gone from his own home in four years That he now lives in a newly settled country accuote from the scenes of his services and he is not able to say whether a solitary witness to his services ever surries excepting his own brother who was an actor with him in some of the foregoing occasions He hopes that no man who knows him will doubt his veracity or high standing as a man of truth and does not believe any man can be found who will doubt Among them who knows and [illegible] I doubt not vouch per my truthfulness and their belief
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my services as a soldier of the Revolution
I maded mention the names of the Hon
Sampson W. Harris, Hon Wm L Tracey, Hon. 
James E. Belser,  Hon E. Pond, James
Loftin, Jeremiah Loftin and Joseph Parker.
all living not far from me and some
of whom have known me nearly thirty years.
Application further states on oath, that he was
born in Augusta County in the State of Virginia
on the 20 day of February 1755- This is the
information received from his parents; but
there is no record of his age existing: the
family bible which contain it - having 
been, taken by the Tories, during the
Revolution [illegible] when they
plundered his tfathers house,- as before
stated he lived in Camden, S.Ca.  when he
got into the service of the United States
He afterward- the[illegible]  time not recollected
moved to Wilkes County Georgia thence he
moved to Green County at the end four
year-- Went from there to Clark,  and
afterwards to Jasper Co.  His memory is so
fail  particularly as to dates, that he does
not know how long he lived  in Green and
Clark but lived in Jasper eight years
In 1818, he moved to Montgomery County Alabama, where he resided til 1835 when  he removed
to his present place of [illegible] County.
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7.
The Declarant further [illegible] states that 'by
reason of old age, the consequent loss of memory
he cannot [illegible] swear as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection
he served not less than the periods before
mentioned in this declaration _; for which
service he claims a pension"_. And in conclusion 
hereby relinquishes every claim, whatever
to a pension or annuity, except the present and
declares that his name is not on the Pension
Roll of the agency of any State.

              his
Samuel  X Townsend
            mark

Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid_
before me 
Ebenezer Pond  Jcccc}

Daniel Rowe a Clergyman residing in the
County of  [illegible] and Peter Park residing in the same,
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Townsend
who has now subscribed to the above declaration that we believe
him to be  of the age of ninty years of age; that he purported  and ┃
believed, in the neighborhood , where he resides then in
[illegible] concur in that opinion Oct 25 1844
Sworn to and subscribed to  the day & year aforesaid
before me                                                       Daniel Rowe
Ebenezer Pond Jcccc}                                      Peter  Parker                          
Daniel Howe

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and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War
Department, that the above named applicant was a 
Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And he further certifies that it appears to him, that Daniel Rowe
who has signed the preceeding certificate, is a Clergyman
resident - in the County of [illegible], and that Peter Parker
who has signed the same, is a resident in same County
and is a credible person, and that their statement,
is entitled to full credit and that the applicant, from
bodily infirmity cannot attend the court. 

Given under my hand this 25th day of October 1846
Ebenezer Pond  J.c.c.c.c
-
Joseph B. Cleveland Clerk of the County Court
of [illegible] County, do hereby certify that Ebenezer
Pond, whose name appear to the last foregoing
certificate [illegible] is of the County Court of 
or County that said Court, is a court of 
Record and that the signature thereunto 
is his own and genuine.

In testimony whereof I have  hereunto set my
hand and seal of office this 26th day of
October Eighteen hundred and forty four
J B Cleveland Clerk

SEAL
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No 25792
Samuel Townsend
Ala
10663
Set to Hon D H Seagrs Apl 20 '44
Set to Hon S W Harris Feb 18 '48
See this letter in John Townsend R 10661
Act 7 June 1802
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No 25192
Samuel Townsend
Ala
Act 7 June 1832
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[crossed out
Acts of July 14, 1869, and March 3, 1873]

10663
PO
Saml Townsend
Service
Enlisted 18
REJECTED
Discharged 18
Application filed 18
Alleges
Re-enlisted
Attorney
PO
Recognized Contract
Cert of Dis Searched for 18
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Washington City
17 Jany. 1848

Sir,

Enclosed, you will please find the
declaration of Samuel & John Townsend
two old Revolutionary Soldiers, citizens of
the County of my residence, who seek to
obtain the benefit of the act of June 7. /32.
I trust the papers are presented in
due form, and that their applications
may receive a favorable consideration-
Should any difficulty exists, I should
be pleased to have notice of it.
I have the honor to be

Your Obt Servt

Sampson W. Harris

To Col. J. L. Edwards
Commr &  [illegible]
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Hon JE Belser
June 4 1844
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423
Pension office
June 21 1844
Sir
I herewith return the letter of th Eli Townsend and have tn hereeto state that there are no papers in Samuel Townsend's case on our file He presented papers in the year 1833 but being defective they were returned to you on the 4th of June of that year and have not since been in this office In order to renew his application he should proceed as directed by the enclosed printed sheet
Hn JE Belser
Montgomery Ala

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