Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16219, for Arthur Parr, South Carolina
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
S.C.

Parr, Arthur

NUMBER
S. 16219
carded

CONTENTS
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5720
Indiana
Arthur Parr
of Washington Co in the State of Indiana who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Hancock of the Regt commanded by Col. Beards in the South Carolina Militia for two years from 1776.

Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 30 Dollars --- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2d day of Feby 1833 and sent Hon John Carr H.R. Indiana

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832  120.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833  40.00
Dolls. 160.00

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Henry H. Sylvester Clerk
Book D  Vol. 9  Page 192
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Cft by W English Apl. 4 1850
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State of Indiana Washington County
Personally came John Parr Jun. before the under assigned one of the associate Judges in and for said county and after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he well recollects the death of Arthur Parr and that of his widow and from the best of his recollection and from other information Arthur Parr died on the 21st of March 1833 and his wife died on the 2d day of January 1837 and further this deponant saith not
John Parr

Sworn to and subscribed this 25th day of March 1850 before me one of the associate Judges in and for said county
Enoch Parr As. J. W C 

State of Indiana Washington County Sct
I Washington C Depauw Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for said County within the second judicial circuit of said State, certify that Enoch Parr Esqr. is and was at the date of taking the acknowledgement of the foregoing affidavit of John Parr one of the associate Judges of the Washington Circuit Court of said County duly commissioned and qualified, and that full faith and credit are due all his official acts as such and that the signature purporting to be his I believe is genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court at Salem in said County this 25th day of March 1850.
W. C. De Pauw Ck
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Arthur Parrs application for a pension
Address to himself
Salem Ind. 
17200
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State of Indiana Washington County ss Washington Circuit Court September Term 1832
On this 26th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of said court now sitting Arthur Parr a resident of said county of Washington and state aforesaid aged 74 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benifit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated - That he was drafted in a company commanded by Cap. Thomas Woodard in the District of Fairfield South Carolina some time in the fore part of March 1776 and was amediately marched to Charleston where he was stationed as a guard untill after the battle on Sullivans island before the city of charlestown which he was in full view of but not personally ingaged in. He then entered the service as a volentier under Cap Joseph Handcock who was attached to Col. Beards Regiment under the command of Gen Williamson and amediately marched against the Cherokee indians was in one small battle with the indians whom they beat and after which they cut down and destroyed their corn and was then continued on the indian frontiers untill the spring of 1777 when he was discharged at Lindleys fort or Elosons fort not recollected which. In the spring of 1777 he entered the service under Cap Joseph Kirkland a vollentier in a regiment commanded by Col. John Winn and Maj Goodwin who was under the command of Gen. Williamson and was marched in to East Florida in what was commonly called the Augustine campain and was gone three or four months and after his return was kept stationed in various places on the Savannah
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River untill late in the fall of 1777 or early in 1778 their headquarters being at Perrysburgh. Then he was marched to the city of Charleston and continued there and in the vicinity untill the fall of the year when he went again to Perrysburgh and then was discharged. In the spring of 1779 he entered the service under Cap Joseph Kirkland a vollentier and was imployed under Gen Huger in destroying the road between Savannah and Charleston untill some time about the first of June when he was attached to the command of Gen Lincoln near the mouth of Stono Creek opposit the Isle of St. Jons and was in the battle under Gen Lincoln commonly called the battle of Stonon between Charlestown and Savannah. he says he was then attached to the command of the Count Pulaski in the horse service under a captain whose name he has forgot and in that situation he was at the Siege of Savannah and untill some time after.
Early in the year 1780 he went a vollentier to Charleston under Cap Joseph Kirkland who was then made Collonel and Benjamen May was made captain and continued there untill a few days before Charleston was invested by the British when he was sent to Orengburgh under Collonel Kirkland and then continued untill after charleston was taken he with Col Kirklands command surrendered prisoners of war by capulutation and was paroled. After he was paroled the British aggression and violations of the cappitulation caused him and many others to take up arms and he was obliged to flee to North Carolina. He further says that when Gen Gateres army passed through North Carolina he followed after and joined the
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army under Col. Porterfield the day before Gates's defeat and was in the action which was his last assay in arms. This he says is as near as he can recollect at this time the particulars of the service he rendered in the revolution war. he says he may be mistaken in some of the dates but he says he is very shure that he was imployed upwards of three years in the service of the United States in their struggle for independance particularly the State of South Carolina most of which time he was a sergeant. He was born on the 5th day of July 1758 he has a record of his age in a large Bible entered there from a tradition handed down to him from his mother in his youth Lived in North Carolin from his birth till he was about ten or twelve years old when removed to S. Carolina then lived in N Carolina from the year 1780 untill the year 1809 when he mooved to the Indiana Teretory where he has resided ever since. that he has no documentary evidence of his servise his discharges and parole being burnt in his house but he can prove by Isaac Morgan and James Rodman who have known him a number of years and also Ebenezer Patrick a clergyman that in all their acquaintance that it has been understood that he has rendered servise in the revolution war as he has stated he is known to the Hon Samuel Huston the Hon Godlore, Camis Also Bebe Booth and Mark Oneal in his present neighbourhood who will testafy as t his character for verasity and their belief of his servise as a soldier in the revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pention or anuity except the present
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and declares that his name is not on the the pension roll of any State
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Arthurr Parr

We Ebenezer Patrick and Isaac Morgan residents of Washington County, Indiana hereby certify
that we are well acquainted with Arthur Parr of this county, who has subscribed and sworn to the
above declaration that we believe him to be Seventy years of age, that he is reputed and believed in his own neighborhood, where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
[signed] Ebenezer Patrick
Isaac Morgan

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 further certifies that it appears to them that Ebenezer Patrick who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County aforesaid and that Isaac Morgan who has also signed the same is a resident in said County and is a credible person and that their statement entitled to credit
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I, Wm H Carter Clerk of the Washington Circuit Court aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing hereto annexed contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of
Arthur Parr for a pension

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 26th day of September 1832
Wm J. Carter Clk
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January 26, 1932
BA-J/MCS

Mr. Perry Parr
51 Leroy Street
New York City

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter of December 14, 1931, requesting information in regard to Arthur Parr, a soldier of the Revolution.

The data which follow are obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S. 16219, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Arthur Parr.

He was born July 5, 1758, in North Carolina, and when about ten or twelve years of age he moved to South Carolina.

He enlisted in Fairfield District, South Carolina, in March, 1776, in Captain Thomas Woodward's South Carolina Company and served as guard at Charleston until after the battle of Sullivan's Island, though in was not in that battle. He then enlisted under Captain Joseph Handcock in Colonel Beard's South Carolina Regiment, was in a battle with the Cherokee Indians and served
until the spring of 1777. He enlisted in the spring of 1777 under Captain Joseph Kirkland in Colonel John Winn's South Carolina Regiment and was discharged in the fall of 1779. He  enlisted in the spring of 1779 in Captain Joseph Kirkland's Company, was in the battle of Stono, after which he was under Count Pulaski, name of captain not given, was also in the siege of Savannah and served until sometime afterward. He enlisted early in 1780 and served in
Captain Benjamin May's Company in Colonel Joseph Kirkland's South Carolina Regiment and a few days before Charleston was captured by the British he was sent to Orangeburg and when Charleston surrendered he was made prisoner on parole. Because of the British aggression
and violation of the capitulation he took up arms and fled to North Carolina . When General Gates passed through North Carolina he followed and joined the army under Colonel Porterfield the day before the battle of Camden and was in that battle which was his last service.. He stated that most of the time he served as sergeant.
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Arthur Parr stated that he lived in North Carolina from 1780 until 1809 when he moved to Indiana.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 26, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Washington County, Indiana.

He died March 21, 1833, and his wife, her name not given, died January 2, 1837.

In 1850, one John Parr testified as to the death of the soldier and widow and one Enoch Parr was then associate judge in the Washington County Circuit Court but their relation to
the soldier was not shown. There are no further data relative to the soldier's family,

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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16.219
INVALID
File No. 16219

Arthur Parr
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7" 32
Index: --Vol. 1, Page 290
Arrangement of 1870.

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1910 Aug. 9. Hist. to Miss Ruth R. Parr.
1924, Apr. 12 - Hist to Mrs Anna Sullivan UM
1927 Apr. 11. Hist to Helene Batt.
1932 Jan 26 Hist to Mr. Perry Parr MCO
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51 Leroy Street,
New York, N. Y.,
Dec. 14, 1931.

U. S. Veterans' Administration,
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:

Have you the pension record of Arthur Parr, a soldier in the Revolutionary War in South Carolina, who died in Washington County, Indiana, in 1833. I believe he filed application for a pension in Washington County, Indiana, in 1832.

If you find such a records, I should very much appreciate your sending me an abstract of it, especially with regard to any relatives named therein.

Very truly yours,
Perry Parr

[two stamps]
RECEIVED
DEC 19 1931
PENSION FILES SUB-DIVISION

RECEIVED
DEC 19 1931
READER FILE 
MAIL SUB-DIVISION
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3 - 049.
Ex. AW Div. Rev & 1812 Sect
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C., Apr. 2, 1927

The attached letter is respectfully returned with the information that the data furnished is not sufficient to enable this Bureau to make intelligent answer to the queries therein contained.

Please fill out such of the blank spaces below as the information in your possession will permit,
and return to this Bureau.
 
First name of widow Mary.
Name of soldier, Arthur Parr
P. O. address of soldier at enlistment & after service
Company- _____
Regiment. ______
State where enlisted South Carolina
Date of birth July 5th, 1758
Date of death March 1st, 1833
If unable to furnish company and regiment give names of commanding officers.
Capt. Thomas Woodard
Cal Moultrie
---
Return attached letter with reply.
Winfield Scott
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.

6 -- 2409
OVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
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Feb 14 1927
626 Dorian Road
Westfield N J.

Bureau of War Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sirs.

Will you please send me any information you have available concerning the war record of Arthur Parr. who served with the American forces in the American War for Independence or Revolutionary War. This information is wanted for the purpose of filling out an application for membership in the Organization "Daughters of the American Revolution".

Yours very truly
Mrs. Helene Batt

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US PENSION OFFICE
MAR 6 1927
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Salem Ind 3.9.24
Dept. of Pensions
Washington D.C
I am kindly asking that you give me the war record, Co. Reg. of Arthur Parr a Revolutionary Soldier - He entered in S.C. in 1776 was discharged, and entered again in 1779 under Joseph Kirkland, so family history tell me, but would like to get his record from Pension Dept.

Also, his father Arthur Parr was a Rev soldier and was killed at the Battle of Hillsboro N.C. Please give me his record also-

Respectfully
Mrs. Anna Sullivan
400 E. Mulberry St
Salem Ind

No other Arthur Parr

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US PENSION OFFICE
MAR 12 1924
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Theta Chapter

St. Charles, Mo.
July 30, 1910

Pension Department,
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:
I desire to know the number of Arthur Parr's pension. He was born July 5th, 1758 in what was then or Shortly afterwards Guilford County, North Carolina. He entered the service of the American Revolutionary War under Captain Thomas Woodard from South Carolina where he had previously taken up his residence. He was in active service under Gen. Williamson, then under Cap. Joseph Kirkland, and Major Goodwin and  finally under Col. John Winn, as Sergeant. He was employed under Gen. Huger in destroying the road from Savannah to Charleston in 1779. He was in the siege of
Savannah
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under Count Pulaski. He was paroled after Charleston was taken, he being under Col. Kirkland at that time. He finally joined Gen Gates army after the memorable Gates defeat under Col.
Porterfield. This was his last assay in arms

One the 26th day of September, 1832 Arthur Parr swore in the Washington Circuit Court, Washington County, State of Indiana, his service in the American Revolutionary War in order
that he might obtain the benefit of the act of June the 7th 1832.

Arthur Parr died in Washington County, Indiana, March the 21st 1833

Most of the service rendered by Arthur Parr has been set forth in Lee's "Southern Wars", Isaac Horry "Life of
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Marion" there is a passage mentioned concerning Sergeant Jasper and Sergeant Newton resuing certain American prisoners and conducting the British prisoners to Pl[illegible]burgh. Arthur Parr was in service there at the time when Jasper and Newton came in with the prisoners. 

Hoping these statistics are sufficient to secure use of Arthur Parr's pension number for which I shall be very grateful

I am Yours Sincerely
(Miss) Ruth Rooker Parr
919 Jefferson St.
St. Charles
Missouri
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Rev. & 1812 Wars
Section.

April 11, 1927.

Mrs. Helene Batt,
626 Dorian Road,
Westfield, N. J.

Madam:

I have to advise you, that from the papers in the pension claim, S.  16219, it appears that Arthur Parr was born in North Carolina, July 5, 1758.  He enlisted in March 1776 and served at various times, about three years in all, as private and Sergeant, under Captains Thomas Woodward, Joseph Hancock, Joseph Kirkland and Benjamin May and Colonels Beard, John Winn and Joseph Kirkland, in the South Carolina Troops.  He was in  a battle with the Cherokees and one at Stono and he was at the Siege of Savannah.  He was captured at Orangeburg and paroled, but joined Colonel Porterfield the day before the battle of Camden and was in that engagement.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 28, 1832, while living in Washington County, Indiana.  He died March 21, 1833 and his wife, whose name is not given, died January 2, 1837.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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& 1812 War Section.

April 12, 1924.


Mrs. Anna Sullivan,
400 E. Mulberry St.,
Salem, IND.

Madam:  

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.16219, it appears that Arthur Parr was born in North Carolina July 5, 1758.  He enlisted in March 1776 and served at various times, 3 years in all, as a private and Sergeant under Captains Thomas Woodard, Joseph Handcock, Joseph Kirkland and Benjamin May, Colonels Beard, John Winn and Joseph Kirkland in the South Carolina Troops.  He was in a battle with the Cherokee and at Stono and also at the siege of Savannah.  He was captured at Orangeburg and paroled and found Col. Porterfield the day before the battle of Camden & was in that engagement.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 26, 1832, while a resident of Washington County, Indiana.  He died March 21, 1833 ad his wife, name not stated, died January 2, 1837

The above noted is the only Arthur Parr found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.

Respectfully


Acting Commissioner.
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17.200.

Arthur Parr

return

admitted by Mr. Edwards as private
for 2 years Jun 1776
80$ per annum


Hon. J. Carr
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Arthur Parr which require further proof or explanation.

I.   Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?

II.   Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?

III.  If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV.  Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?

V.   Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?      No

VI.  Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?

VIII.  Has the Court given their opinion?

IX.   Has the Clerk given his certificate?

X.   Is the Clerk's seal affixed?  And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
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XI.   Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?

XII.   If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?

XIII.  If the applicant has not documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV.   ^If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?

XV.   Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?

XVI.   +Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?

XVII.   Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily?  And, if not, which of them is not so answered?

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EXPLANATORY NOTES.

*QUERE V.   In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below, and in the following grades;  For ______
year _____months, and ______days, I served as a ________________  For ______months and _______ days, I served as a ___________' and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.   The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.  Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service.  This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  It must in every case by clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.

^QUERE XIV.   Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 

+QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. 
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.