Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 17,123, for Samuel Steele, North Carolina
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
N.C
CONTENTS
Steele, Samuel
NUMBER
S 17.123
carded
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Missouri - 1348
,
Samuel Steele
Mary in the State of Tennessee
to was a private in the Company commanded
Captain Holmes of the Reg commanded
in the N Carolina
Militia of bone from
on the Roll of Tennessee
the rate of 22 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of July
and seal
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1832
3375
Semi anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833 
-
$4000
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832 ⎬
Recorded by Henry H. Sylvester Clerk
Book D. V ol 4 page 160
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Co. to
Age 23d July 1841
To Missouri, from 4th: Sept
1836. notification sent to D.
D. Berry Spingfield Green
County, Missouri on 28. Aug 1841
Letter to D. D. Berry 29. March 1842.
Paid at the Treasury under the
to 6th April 1838 from Sept 4th 1836
Mar 4th 1841. Agent
1842
Pen Age 19 Oct 1846
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State of Tennessee on this 12th day of September in the year of our Lord 1832 personaly apeared 
In open Court before the Court of pleas and quarter Sessions now setting Samuel Steele Resident of the State of Tennessee and County Maury aged about seventy years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration
the order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832
that he entered the service of the and
States under the following named officer and served as herein Stable
He states that he lived in North Carolina Burk County When the Revolutionary war commenced and sometime
In the early part of the war the dates not recollected that he went into the service of the United States as a volunteer in the militia to
for the term of three months under Captain Robert Holmes names of the
Subaltern officers not recollected marched on to or near Candon there mustered into service marched from Candon to Charlestown with the army the Commanding officers name not recollected served at the time at Charlestown was discharged and returned home to Burk County
Sometime after he returned home from Charlestown
He states that he volunteered as a lighthorseman for three months under Capt John Vickerstaff Joined
no longer but was employed in scouting after
the served out the three months was discharged and returned
home to Burk County again afterward
volunteered several times to go after the tongs but was not out very long at a time perhaps not more then five or six weeks at a time some times make not so long as that
but cannot say how often or how long at a time He state that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows
of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service, he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pention or anuity except the present and declares that
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his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Thos G Porter clerk
Samuel Steele

We Isaiah Reed, Elisha Headlin, Caleb Headlin
residing in the County of Maury and State of Tennesse
certify that we are well aquainted with Samuel Steele who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration.  that we believe him to be about seventy years of age
and that he is reputed in the above
a believed where he resides to have been a soldier of
the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed the day and year
The Thos G Porter Clerk
 Isaiah Reed
Elisha Headler
Caleb Headler
Question by the Court
Where and in what year was you born
Ans
I was born in the State of pensylvania
the County I cannot recollect as I was
mall boy when my father left Pensylvania
and the best account that I have of
my birth says that I was born the first
day of January 1762
Q have you any record of your age if so
where is it-
Ans.  I have no record of my age
Q where were you living when called into service
where have you lived since the revolutionary
war where are you living now
Ans I was living in the State of North Carolina
Burk County when called into service
and continued to live there until the
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1810 then moved to the State of tennessee
Giles County lived there nearly six years then
mooved to Maury County Tennessee where I
now live--
Q 4th How were you called into service were you drafted did you volunteer or was you
a substitute and if a Substitute for whome
Ans-I volunteered every time I went out
I was not drafted neither did I substitute
Q 5th State the names of some of the regular
officers who were with the troops where
served such Continental and Milita
Regiments as you can recolect and the
General Circumstances of your service
Ans I have forgotten nearly all the officers
names except the Captains names
that I served under they were Robert
Holmes and John Vickerstaff the
first tour was principally to help
guard Charlestown the others after tongs
Q 6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whome and what has
Become of it
Ans I did receive some discharges but they are
all lost or destroyed and I cannot all
from whome I did receive them whether it
was from my Captain or some other officer
Q 7th state the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood and
who can testify as to your character for verafity
and their belief of your services as a soldier of
the revolution
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Ans there is Capt Nathaniel Smith John
Carr Colonel Williamson Smith Breadon
Higgins and Matthew Moore Esq.
Isaiah Reed, Elisha Headler & Caleb Headler


and the said 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, and the Court forth Certifies that it appears to them that seat Isaiah Reed, Elisha Headler & Caleb Headler who have signed the
certificate are resident citizens
in the State of Tennessee
and County of Maury and that they are
Credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
Robert Wortham
John Vincent
Jos Henry
Thomas J Porter Clerk of of the Court of pleas
and quarter sessions do hereby certify that the
foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel State for a pention
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 12 day of September
1832
The Porter Clerk
1164
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Application for a transfer County of Greene SS

On this third day of July 1841 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Greene personally appeared Samuel Steele, who, on his oath, declared that he is the
same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Robert Holmes
(that he has forgotten the name of the Colonel 
who commanded the regiment) in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on 
the pension roll of the State of Tennessee from where he has lately removed;  that he now resides in the State of Missouri where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable in future.  The following are his reasons for removing from Tennessee to the State of Missouri.  That the most of his children have removed from Tennessee to Missouri and he wished to be with them the remainder of his life. 

Sworn and subscribed before me this day and year aforesaid -   James Steele
(illegible) Shannan (designations illegible)

State of Missouri, Greene County

On this 3 day of July 1841 before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Greene, personally appeared David Headlee who on his oath declares that Samuel Steele who has subscribed to the foregoing affidavit is the identical person described therein and I the subscribing Justice of the Peace do further certify that David Headlee is a person of veracity.   

Sworn and subscribed to before me this day and year aforesaid.  (illegible) Shannan
David Headlee
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Signature of the Magistrate Thos Shannon

State of Missouri
Green County
L.S.T.
I Joshua Davis Clerk of the Green County Court, of the county and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that Thomas Shannon is a justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of the said County this third day of July 1844
Joshua Davis Clerk
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Rev. and 1812 Ware Section

Mrs. John D. Reid
107 East Second Street
Pana, Ill.

September 22, 1924

Madam;


I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 17123 it appears that Samuel Steele was born January 1, 1762 in Pennsylvania, the place not stated, and was a small boy when his father left that state. (This inquiry wanted a Pa. sol. also ?)
      While living in Burke County, North Carolina during the early part of the Revolution he enlisted and served three months as a private in Captain Robert Holmes' North Carolina Company, when he returned home
and some time after, he enlisted and served three months as lighthorseman in Captain John Vickerstaff's North Carolina Company.
He also volunteered at various times for short
periods against the Tories, dates and officers not stated.
He was allowed pension on his application execut-
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ed September 13, 1832 while a resident of Maury
County, Tennessee.
In 1841 he moved to Greene County, Missouri
to be with most of his children, their names not
stated.
Date of death
not on aB
Respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.
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Treasury Department.
Second Comptroller's Office 
Apri 1st 1842

Sir:

    Under the date of the 6th 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, Samuel Steele Pensioner on the Roll of the Missouri Agency, at the rate of Twenty two Dollars and fifty Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1836 to the 4th March 1841.
Respectfully, yours

Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Present.
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Springfield Greene County M.
Hon J C Edwards
July 5. 1841

Sir 
Enclosed please find Samuel Steele's 
application for transfer of pension
The application as you will perceive is not
filled and agreeable to form transmitted by
he not being able to remember the same
of his Colonel in other respects I believe
it is correct.  You will be pleased to address
either Samuel Steele dont or through
Very Respectfully
DD Berry
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Pension Office
Nashville Tems:
August 2nd 1841

Sir
     Yours of the 23rd Ult, requesting me to inform
you to what time James Steele, a Pensioner on the of this Agency under the act of 7th June 1832 at the rate of 20 Dollars, was last paid is at hand.
     On examination I am unable to find the name of James Steele on the Roll of this Agency. But the name of Samuel Steele, under the above act at 22.50 per annum, was returned to me by the former agent
as having been paid up to 4 September 1836
Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servent
J. Smith
Pen Agent
L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Springfield, Mo. Mch 17th 1911

J. L. Davenport, Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir,
I wish you would please send me the record of Samuel Steele who received a pension for services in the Revolutionary War. He probably
enlisted in North Carolina, and was said to have been with the army at the
surrender of Cornwallis. He lived in Greene Co. Mo. when he died and has been paid his pension in this County, presumably at the post office in Springfield.
Thanking you in advance, I am,
Yours truly
Springfield, Mo.
Ethel Russell
#222 1/2 College St.
S17123
March 20 1911
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Fair Grove Mo. R.F.D. #3
June 24th 1914

Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.,
Gentlemen,
Please send me the pension record of
David Bedell, V. L.M., S. F. 17839 Rev. War.
Samuel Steele, S. C. Sur. File 17123 Rev. War.
Yours sincerely
(Miss) Ettie Bedell
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Pension 
D
Jun 29
1914
US
Office
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Fair Grove Mo. R.F.D.3
June 24th 1914

Bureau of Pensions,
Washington D.C.
Gentlemen,
Please send me the record of David
Bedell, V. L.M., S. F. 17839 Rev. War, & Samuel
Steele, T.S.C. Sur. File 17123 Rev. War.
Yours sincerely
(Miss) Maggie Headlee
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Pension
D
Jun
26
1914
US 
Office
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407 East Second St., Pana, Ill., Aug. 22, 1924
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington D.C.
Gentlemen:--
Will you kindly tell me if Samuel Steele of Chester Co. Penn, received a pension for services during the Rev. War.
Can you tell me if Samuel Steele of North Carolina received a pension for services in Rev. War.

Very truly,
Mrs. John D. Reid

ASSISTANT AND CHIEF CLERK
AUG 28 1924
WAR DEPT.Pension
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O. W. and N. Division.
3 -525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

In reply to your request of
received for a statement of the military history of Samuel Steele a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau. S File 17123
DATES OF LENGTH OF ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
1, Length of Service 3 mos, RANK. Priv,
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED., CAPTAIN. Robert Holmes
DATES OF LENGTH OF ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
1, Length of Service 3 mos, RANK. Lighthorseman, OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED., CAPTAIN. John Vickerstaff [Bickerstaff]

Battles engaged in, [check mark]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Burk Co. NC until 1810.
Date of application for pension, Sept 12, 1882. Allowed
Residence at date of application, Maury Co. Tenn
Age at date of application, Jan 1 1762

Remarks: In 1841 he moved to Missouri to be with his children, no names stated.

Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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17/23
INVALID

File No.  17.12.3
Samuel Steele 
Pri Rev War
Act:  (illegible) 7 32
Index: - Vol 1, Page 36 2
(Arrangement of 1870)

1911 Mrch 24. History to Mrs. Ethel Russell
1911 Sept 3 to Mr. (illegible U.S.A. for. 

1914 Lance Fish - (illegible) to  Headlee (designations illegible)
1924 Sept 22 - (illegible) to Mr. J.D. Reid