Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39319, Robert Clanahan, Md.
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Service
MD

Name
Clanahan, Robert

Number 
S.39319
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Left Side Page

Notification Sent January 21, 1821 to Joseph Grisham, Pendleton, South Carolina

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8058
South Carolina
Robert Clanahan
of Pendleton District in the state of South Carolina who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Williams of the Maryland line for the term of 6 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of South Carolina at the rate of 8 dollars per month to commence on the 17th of May 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd of March 1819 and sent to Judge Tompson Pendleton District, S. Carolina

Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 9 mo 19/31 $76.90
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 11 Sept 1819 $48.00
$124.90

{Revolutionary Claim Act 18th March 1818}

Died Dec 2 1829
A.B.

Continued
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The State of South Carolina
Pendleton District

By the Honorable Waddy Thompson Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Equity or the state aforesaid.

To all to whom there presents shall come be seen or made known greeting.

Know us that Robert Clanahan a resident citizen of Pendleton District in the said state did this day appear personally before me and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God. And saith that about the first of the year AD 1777 at Hagerstown in the state of Maryland he did enlist as a private soldier for three years or during the war under Lieut. Colonel Williams in the sixth company in the sixth regiment of the Maryland Line. This deponent further saith that for a long time he had no captain in the sixth company, that after Gates defeat, he was transferred into Captain Dobson's company in which he served until the Battle at the Eutaw Springs S.C. at which time Capt. Dobson was killed after which he was transferred to Capt. Francis Reveley's company of Light Infantry in which he continued and served until peace was made, after which to wit, on or about the 3rd day of August in the year 1783 at Annapolis in the State of Maryland he was discharged. This deponent further saith that he placed his discharge in the hands of one James Smith at Annapolis for the purpose of getting the Bounty and afterwards the said James Smith moved to Alexandria VA and before the deponent could obtain his discharge from him, he moved again to what place this deponent could never learn, and has never heard of him more nor has he ever obtained any information of his discharge. And further that he has constantly resided within the United States since the war of the Revolution and for many years now last part in Pendleton District in this state and that by occupation he is a labourer (laborer) and that from these reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his county for support.

Robert Clanahan
His X Mark

SEAL

The above sworn to and signed before me this seventeenth day
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day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, And in the forty-second year of the Soverinty and Independence of the United States of America.

W. Thompson
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Robert Clanahan
8058

issd 3 Mar 1819

Sept '19
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Schedule
The State of South Carolina
Pendleton District

On this twenty fifth day of October 1820 personally appeared in open court in the court of General Sessions of the Peace Oyer and Terminer Assize and General Gaol delivery being a court of record for the said district in the said state Robert Clanahan aged sixty-five years resident in the district and state aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: That he enlisted under Lieutenant Colonel L. Williams and served in the sixth company under Lieutenant N Williams commandant of sixth company of the sixth Regiment of Maryland Line in January 1776 for during the war was in the battles at Germantown, Brandywine, Monmouth and in various other skirmishes - was discharged at Annapolis on the Ninth day of November 1783. Made an original declaration on the 17th of May 1818. And received Pension Certificate No 8058 dated 5th March 1819. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United Staes on the 18th day of march 1818 and that I have no since that time by gift, sale or in any manner  disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United Staes in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debs due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the scheduled hereto annexed and by me subscribed.

One Cow and calf, one heifer, three pots, one oven, one skillet, two pairs pot hooks one iron pot rack, four gimlets, two augers, two hammer, six chairs, one table, two plows, gofer and shovel, two hoes, two reap hook of little value - By occupation a farmer and was wounded in his right arm in the battle at Camden S.C. and is much addicted to the rheumatic pains by which he is not able to cut firewood; Wife Anna aged fifty four years, has fits very often and generally three every week, daughter Mary aged Thirty years well enough, daughter Elizabeth aged fourteen years cripple in one foot so that she is unable to do much towards making a support.

Robert Clanahan
His X Mark

Sworn to and declared on the 25th day of October 1820

Before Abm Nott, Presiding Judge
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The State of South Carolina
Pendleton District

I John T Lewis Clerk of the Court of General Sessions for Pendleton District do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is thirty-four dollars.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this twenty-fifth day of October 1820. 

John T Lewis C.C. G.S.P.D.
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Revolutionary War Section

3-525
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington DC

S.39319

In reply to your request of blank received blank for a statement of the military history of Robert Clanahan a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this bureau.

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment - 1776 or 1777
Length of Service - 1783
Rank - Private
Officers under whom service was rendered
Captains: Lt. N. Williams, Capt. Dobson and Francis Revelly
Colonel - Williams
State - MD

Battles engaged in - Germantown, Brandywine, Monmouth, Camden where wounded in right arm
Residence of soldier at enlistment - enlisted in Hagerstown, MD
Date of Application for Pension - May 17, 1818. His claim was allowed
Residence at date of application - Pendelton District S.C.
Age at date of application - 63
Remarks - IN 1820 he referred to his wife Anna aged 54, and daughter Mary aged 30 and Elizabeth aged 14. No further data as to family.

Respectfully

Commissioner

Md 194, 348, 358, 445, 528- page 528 shows service to Nov 1783
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Rev War Section

March 8, 1920

Elsie M Clanahan
506-7 Metropolitan Building
East St. Louis, Ills.

Madam:

In reply to your letters of the 10th ultimo, you are advised that for the date of the last payment of pension to Robert Clanahan name of person paid and address at that date you should apply to the Auditor for the Interior Department, Washington, D.C. citing all of the following data; Robert Clanahan, Certificate No 8058, issued Mar 5, 1818, rate $8 per month, to commence May 17, 1818, Act of Mar 1818, South Carolina Agency.

Very respectfully, 
Commissioner.
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Letterhead
Souther Illinois General Agency
National Life Insurance Company
of Montpelier Vermont
Milo R. Clanahan, Manager
506-7 Metropolitan Building
East St. Louis, Ill

Dec 5, 1919

STAMP - Dept of the Interior
Dec 8 1919

Bureau of Information
Department of the Interior
Washington D.C.

Gentlemen:

Will you please give me the revolutionary war service record of Robert Clanahan.

Robert Clanahan was my great, great grandfather and I desire this information in order that I may become a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

It is our understanding that he went with a company from Maryland tho it may have been South Carolina.

Thanking you for what information you can give me, I am,
Yours truly,

Elsie M. Clanahan
506-7 Metropolitan Bldg.

STAMP - US PENSION OFFICE Dec 9, 1919
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Letterhead
Souther Illinois General Agency
National Life Insurance Company
of Montpelier Vermont
Milo R. Clanahan, Manager
506-7 Metropolitan Building
East St. Louis, Ill

Feb 19, 1920

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Gentleman

On Dec 22nd you send me a statement of the military history of Robert Clanahan a soldier of the Revolutionary War and in this statement, it is mentioned that at age 63 in 1818 (May 17th) he applied for a pension.

The information I desire now is was this pension paid until he died and if so, how long was it paid.

Thanking you for this information, I am
Very truly yours,

Elsie M Clanahan

PS
Do your records show where he was living when he ceased drawing the pension?

EMC

STAMP - US PENSION OFFICE Feb 21, 1920
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Left Side Page

39319
Revy
INVALID

File No 39319
Robert Clanahan
Pri Rev War

Act 18 March '18

Index Vol G Page 89

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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1919 Dec 20 - Hist to Elsie M Clanahan
102- May 6 - E M Clanahan told how to apply to Auditor.
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I hereby certify that in the year 1777 when I first joined the continental troops, I found Robert Clanahan an enlisted soldier in the 6th Company of the 6th Maryland Regiment of which I served in the same company as he (as orderly sergeant) and had to act as commander of company for the lack of commissioned officers. I returned him enlisted for during the war till 1780 - at which time I was ordered home in the recruiting service then promoted to a Lieutenant and did not join the troops again the army being ordered to the south. I left the said Clanahan in the camp at Morristown New Jersey of which time he had served as a faithful [illegible possibly soldier] & have no doubt he served in the army to the end of the war.  And appearing at this time not to be able to make a support for himself from his bodily infirmities - we are both at the time 
residents of the state of South Carolina Pendleton District.

Given under my hand this 11th day of April 1818
H. McCray

Pendleton District So Carolina Personally Henry McCray, Esq appeared before me the subscribing Justice and made oath that to the best of his knowledge the above statement respecting Robert Clanahan is correct.

Sworn to and subscribed the 11th day of April AD 1818
H. McCray

The State of South Carolina
Pendleton District
John Verner J.P.

Before me personally came and appeared Jacob Jones & Levi Phillips old Revolutionary soldiers but now respectable citizens of the district and made oath that from their knowledge of and service in the revolutionary war they do believe the above statement of Henry McCray Esquire a respectable citizen of this district to be true and correct.

Jacob Jones
His X Mark

Levi Phillips
His X Mark

Sworn to & signed the 15th day of May AD 1818 before Joseph Grisham
N.P.
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Robert Clanahan
Revolutionary Soldier

Maryland Line

Sent to W. Loockerman for proof of service

Adm

Robert Clanahan Private
William Mary'd Reg't
1777 to 1783. 17 May 1818
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To the Honorable John C Calhoun
Secretary of the War Department
of the United States of America

Sir

Herewith I transmitted the testimony, and the proceedings had thereon of Robert Clanahan an applicant for a pension for his services in the Revolutionary war. He has produced satisfactory evidence to me of his having served as a private soldier from the 1777 until the end of the said war and that he is in need of the assistance of this country from his reduced circumstances.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the seal of the court of Equity for Ninety-Six District this twenty sixth day of May in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and in the forty-second year of the sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America.

W. Thompson
one of the Judges of the Court of Equity for the State of South Carolina

I certify that there is no official seal of my office & in consequence thereof I have affixed my private seal

John McComb
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The National Archives
Form VAM-51

Bounty Land Warrant Record Card

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Name: Clancey, John
Grade: Private
Line: Maryland

Warrant Number: 1128
Acreage: 100
Issued: February 1, 1790
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