Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7780, Garrett Vandegrift, Va.
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Service
Va
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Vandegrift, Garrett 
or Garret

Number
S 7780
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carded
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Georgia 
31686 
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Garrett Vandegrift of Habersham in the State of Georgia 
who was a private in the Company command 
by Captain Cright of the regt command 
by Col Preston in the Virginia line for 12 months. 
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Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia at the rate of 10 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
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Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of Dec 1839, to R. M. Habersham House of Representatives
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1839                $140.00 
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar 40     20.00 
                                                                  $160.00 

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. 
Recorded by McCurdy, Book E Clerk Vol. 6. Page 105
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On this fourth day of May
on this fourth D D De 
Declaration Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act 
On this fourth day D. Dec 
Declar
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State of Georgia 
County of Habersham 

On this Nineteenth day of November 1832, personally 
appeared in open court before the Court of [Ordinary] of said County now sitting 
Garrett Vandegrift a resident of said County and State aged seventy five 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 Jun 7th, 1832. That he
entered the service of the United States under the following named office and served as 
herein stated.  he entered the service in Henry County Virginia under Captain Samuel 
Harston in the Militia service with Colonel Preston he was stationed at [Drasus] Meadow for 
Three months at the end of which time he was discharged he again entered the service
in the [same] County and State under Captain Cright the year he does not recollect 
it was in the Militia service under Colonel [Marr] he served a three months tour and 
was again discharged by Captain Cright. Again entered the service same county under
Jonathan Hausby Captain he was marched to Salisbury by his captain at which 
place he was placed under the command of Major Rose a Regular 
officer and marched by him to [ninety six] in South Carolina where he placed under 
the command of Colonel Washington under General Green he served for three 
months and was discharged again entered the service as a volunteer in Henry County 
Virginia under Capt. Cright served three months under Colonel Perrin and 
was again discharged. He has lost all his discharges has no record of his age in his possession
He was born in Wake County North Carolina since the Revolutionary be moved from
Virginia to South Carolina from there to Habersham County Georgia where he now
Resides.

He 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 any agency of 
and state Sworn to an subscribed this day and year aforesaid 

Garett (his mark) Vandergrift

Jonathan D. Chastain [ C illegible]
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the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll any agency of 
any state Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 

Garrett (his mark) Vandegrift
Jonathan D. Chastain [C Cov] 

In open Court personally appeared Thomas Pelgrim who being first duly sworn said on
oath thus he was acquainted with above named applicant in the Revolutionary War. That
the said applicant served two tours with this deponent in said War and that he knows 
to his own knowledge of his having served another tour and deponent further said 
he has been acquainted with said Garrett Vandegrift the applicant ever since the
said War.  Sworn & subscribed in open Court the date above 
Jonathan D. Chastain [C Cor]
Thomas Pielgrim

And the said Court do hereby declare the opinion of the the [interrogation] of the 
matter after putting the Interrogators prescribed by the War Department & after 
[owing] [marked thru – the [illegible] affidavit of Michael Pelgrim and] the above affidavit of Thomas
Pilgin [marked thru – both] a  credible person that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.

Absalom Holcomb J. C. O.
Elijay Stam J. C. O.
[John] Plarritt J. C. O.

I Jonathan D. Chastain clerk of the Court or Ordinary of said County do hereby
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Certify thus the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the 
Matter of the application of Garrett Vandegrift for a pension
In testimony where I have hereunto set my hand and seal of 
Office this nineteenth day of November 1833 

Jonathan D. Chastain C.Cor
Seal Attached

Declaration
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Garrett Vandegrift
Ga
[June] 7 1832
Allo. 12 ms pr
$40
Va Militia

R M Hakenham
H. R.

Jesse Sanford
Clarkes ille Ga
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Amendment to the Declaration
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace Garrett Vandegrift who being duly Sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent lofs of memory he Can not Swear positvely as to the period or periods that he entered the Service but according to the list that he entered the Service in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy nine and Served three months and was discharged and then Served from time ______ he served four tours of three months each and for such Service I claim a pension
William _______Garrett P Vandegrift
He answers to the interrogatories prescribed by the war department as follows _____ _____ ___ 1 He was born in North Carolina Wake County in the year 1759 according to the list information, 2 he has no record of his age in his possesion now. 3 He was living in the State of Virginia Henry County when called into Service, after the removed to South Carolina Abeville County and then to Pendleton County then to George Labersham Couonty where he now lives 4 He was drafted the two first tours Volunteered the third and was Drafted the fourth, 5th  The regular officers ware General Grun Col Washington and Col Lee & Mjr Rose he cannnot recollect the Number of the regiment 6th he was discharged four times by the Col Commanding his discharges are all lost 7 Charles Pain, Jesse Sanford and others  Sworn to and Subscribed this 2nd of October 1839
William Kinsey JP Garrett P Vandegift
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We Charley Pain a Clergiman resideing in the State of Georgia Habersham County and Jefse Sanford residing in the (Same) Hereby Certify that we are well acquinted with Garrett Vandegrift who has Subscibed to the above Decloration, that we believe him to Eighty years of age; That he is reputed and where he lived in the Neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year afforesaid
William Kinsey TP Charles Pain TP Jefse Sanford
And the Justice do hereby Declare his opinion after the investigation of the matter after puting the interogatoring prescribed by the War department that the above name applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and Served as the States, and the Justice further Certifies that it appears to him that Charles Pain who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the State and County afforesaid and Jefse Sanford who has also Signed the same is a resident in the State and County afforesaid and is a credible person and that their Statement their Statement is intitled to Credit 
William Kinsey TP
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Georgia
Habersham County
I Lewis Levy Clerk of the County of Ordinary of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that William Kinsey whose name appears to the above and foregoing Affidavit and certification is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State oforesaid and  that due faith and Credit Should be given him for all his acts and doing as Such, and that his Signatures to the said papers is Genuine
Given Under my Hand and Seal of office in  Clarksville this fifteenth day  of  October 1839
Lewis Levy C,C,O
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Georgia
Habersham County
I Gabrel Sisk one of the Justices of the courte of Ordinary fore said County do hereby certify that Lewis Levy whose name appeares to the above certificate is the clerk of said courte and that the Signiture is his genuine Signiture and that the seal affixed is the seal of Office for said courte
October 16th day 1839
G Sisk  GSC
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Garrett Vandegrift
Ga
No 19557

d.m.

Hon. R H Habersham,
Thomas S Rusk  H.R.
Clarksville (crossed out) Ga
Jefs Sanford
Clarksville Ga
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Sir,
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned,  The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form.  On comparing  these papers with the following rules and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will show what is necefsary to be done.  These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, ( thus: }).  You will, when you return your papers to this Department send this printed letter with them;  and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your  claim.

    1779  3   Pri    Capt Sam
or 1780                Houston Col 
                               Preston

               3   Pri     Capt. Cright      Col Man
                               Capt Tova 
                                Jon  Hawley   Maj Rose
               3   Pri                               Col  
                                                        Washington
               3   Pri                                 Gen Green
                                                          Col Penn
In the next column to the right:  Siege of Nine
                                                       ____ Six

2 columns to the right:   76 years , Henry Co. Va  
Next column to the right:  Witnefs
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J.L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

     The following regulations have been adopted:
   This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the term "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed witl. the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
     Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
          1. The Regular Troops.
          2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
          3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
          4. Indian Spies.
     As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides.  And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of }88.
County of
On this     day of     personally appeared (a) before     A.B. a resident of (b)      in the county of     and State, Territory or District of      aged (c)     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 provion (sic) made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832.  That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)     , with     and served in the      (e) regiment of the     line, under the following named officers:
          [Here set forth the names and rank of 
          the Field and Company Officers; the 
          time he left the service; (and if he served 
          under more than one term of 
          enlistment, he must specify the 
          particular period, and rank and names of 
          his officers;) the town or county and 
          State in which he resided when he 
          enered (sic) the service; the battles, if 
          any, in which he was engaged, and the 
          country through which he marched. 
          (Pointing hand symbol drawn here)This 
          form is to be varied so as to apply to the 
          cases of officers and persons who 
          belonged to the militia, volunteers, nay, 
          &c.]
     He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of
     Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.                                                  A.B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
     And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I     of the Court of      do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of      for a pension.
          In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this     day of     &c.
     If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
     Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
     (k)We, A.B., a Clergyman, residing in the      and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with      , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be      years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood 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 aforesaid, [And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
     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 A.B. and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the     and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit
     I,     Clerk of the Court of      do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of     for a pension.
     In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this     day of     &c.
     Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power.  This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
     If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department.  A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case.  The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted: and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected.  All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above  provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propo_nd the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1.  Where and in what year were you born?
2.  Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it?
3.  Where were living when called into service: where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4.  How were you called into service: were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?  And if a substitute, for whom?
5.  State the names of some Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6.  To a Soldier .  Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
      To an Officer.  Did you ever a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7.  State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The court will see that he answers to the questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant,
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court,  without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons-one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of  such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been
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Rev War
7780
INVALID.
File No. 7780
Garrett Vandegrift
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index: -- Vol [illegible] , Page 387
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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J L Edwards Esq
Commifsioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Washington City
23 Dec 1839

J L Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Sir,
I have the honor to submit
herewith for examination and decision the amended
documents in support of the claim of Garrett Vandegrift
a revolutionary soldier to a pension and to request
an early decision upon the same.

I have the honour to be
with great respect
your obt sert
Rich W Habersham