Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9372, for John Lee, South Carolina
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]
(3-1776)
SERVICE					NUMBER
S.C.		Lee, John			S. 9372
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Born in S.C. son of William			carded
CONTENTS
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[typed form with handwritten responses] 
12.298
South Carolina
John Lee of Fairfield in the State of S. Car,  who was a pri in the County commanded by Captain Warly of the Regt commanded by Col. Thompson in the S. Car line for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of  80 Dollars --- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of  April 1833 and  South Inc, Buchanan Com; in Equity. For Fairfield Dis, Winnesboro
 Arrears to the 4th of March 1833
 Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept
                       160
                         40
                      $200
                             {Revolutionary  Claim,}
                             {Act June 7, 1832        }
Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk, Book 6  Vol. 6  Page 73
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[all handwritten information] 
12.664

On the S Carolina Admin as provide for 2 years pension
Walter Warly
Col. Thompson So Co
    $80

John Buchanan
Commission Equity for Fairfield District
Winnoboro S. Car.
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BRIEF in the case of John Lee
District of Fairfield in the state of South Carolina
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? --
3. How old is he? 73
4. State his service as directed in the form annexed
Period | Duration of Service |Years Months Days | Rank | Names of General and Field Officers Under whom he served.
Sub in 1778 | about 18.” [months] | private | Capt. S Warley, 3rd Regmt. S.C.  [illegible] Col. W. Thompson, Genl Lincoln, Major Hern, Genl. [illegible]
5. In what battles was he engaged? Stono, Siege of Charlston, Guilford, Camden, Eutaw Springs.
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Grangeburgh District, S.C.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence or by the rolls? Two witnesses
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication, and if so, in what respect? They are not attached to the Clerk’s seal as required.
*Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Examining Clerk. 
F. Hargh,
Feb 25. 1833.
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The State of South Carolina, 
District of Fairfield
On this twentieth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared John Lee, now a resident of the District of Fairfield, in the State aforesaid, aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn, according to the law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress’s passed June 4, 1832. That he was received as a substitute for his father William Lee in the company then commanded by Captain [illegible] Warley’s 3rd regiment of South Carolina.  [illegible] then commanded by Colonel William Thompson in the year/ as well as [illegible] can recollect/ 1778.
That deponent has no record of his age and judges of his age from memory and information received at an early age.
Deponent was born in Richland District in the State of South Carolina, The deponent was living in Georgia where his father had removed and left him after his mothers death returning into South Carolina [illegible] in Captain’s Worleys company. Deponents father got leave of absence and went to Georgia and brought deponent to Col. Thompson’s [illegible] in Grangeburgh District where deponent was received by Colonel Thompson in his father’s place.  Deponent first joined Captain Worley’s company at Grangeburgh Courthouse [illegible].  Deponent had lived part of his time in South Carolina, part in Georgia and part in the state of Mississippi since the Revolutionary war, and has lived in South Carolina for the [illegible] of three years [illegible]. The deponent first was marched to Grangeburgh thence to Savannah where the British were coming against Savannah.  The British
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drove the American Army out of Savannah after somehow fighting and a number of men were lost by the American Army.  General Lincoln was with the American Army and the deponent is unsure but thinks he commanded. The deponent with the whole company retreated to [illegible]. Well at the battle of Stono, and at the siege of Savannah.  The deponent went with the troops that defended [illegible] and in the beginning of the siege. Major Hern was shot in his [crossed out} received the ball in his cheek near the mouth and passed through at the back of his neck. The deponent was detailed to wait on Major Hern.  The deponent with [crossed out] accompanied Major Hern through Georgetown on to North Carolina to a relative of Major Hern named Harry Waters.  After Major Hern recovered, he and deponent went in and joined Genl. Green before he got to Guilford Court house and was in Greens’ army at the Battle of Guilford. Kept with  Green until he went to Camden So Car was in the battle above Camden   , went in thence to a little Eutaw below Granby [illegible] marched to ninety six, took care redoubt and there followed [illegible] into Grangeburgh then marched to the [illegible] ferry, laid siege to [illegible] and took it, marched to the Leigh Hills [illegible] took [illegible] quarters there, then marched [illegible] to Eutaw Springs had a severe battle at Eutaw, [illegible]  but Lee Genl [illegible, Genl. Sumpter were all officers in Eutaw Battle.  Deponent was attached Genl Greens [illegible] and carried [illegible] to Dacery Bridge, staid (stayed) there and in the neighborhood, and carried [crossed out] until the Brittish left Charleston where then Green then marched into the [illegible].  The deponent in a few days after the war received his discharge from Major Hern who wrote the discharge.  [illegible] not know who signed it.  Thinks Herns [illegible] to the discharge.  The deponent [illegible]after discharged but left the discharge at his brother’s William Lee, where it was lost or destroyed.  The deponent shortly after this went to Georgia to live and [illegible] return after his brothers death the discharge could not be found. The deponent knows of no [illegible]
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[illegible] Dixsey Ward and John Smith who have been acquainted with deponent [illegible]. The deponent served in [illegible] Thompson’s regiment about eighteen months [illegible] the time he served under general Green, all the time as a private soldier.  He herby relinquishes every claim, whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not at the pension roll of the agency of any state.
John Lee 
X 
his mark
Sworn to [illegible] the day and year aforesaid
Ino. Buchanan C.E.F.D.

I Dixsey Ward residing in Fairfield District and state aforesaid aged seventy two years hereby certify that I first became acquainted with John Lee who has [illegible] and sworn to the above declaration in the year of 1779 in the early part of that year.  That said John Lee was then serving as a soldier in Ineple Wursleys (Warley’s) company 3rd regiment [illegible] under Col Wm Thompson.  That deponent said Lee to serve in said company until the beginning of the siege of [illegible] in the year 1780 where [illegible] was taken by the British with (crossed out) under his [illegible] Genl Lincoln marched the 
Americans.  The deponent knew said Lee to serve more than nine months. During this service, Lee was said to have been detailed [illegible] to wait on Major Hern who was wounded at the beginning of the Siege of [illegible].  The deponent was a soldier and belonged to the service company all the time he [illegible] from the spring of 1779 to the time of the [illegible] siege already mentioned. [illegible] 
 Dixsey Ward 
Ino. Buchanan C.E.F.D.
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Ino. Lee Sheet 2nd
The State of South Carolina
Fairfield District
Before me appeared Captain John Smith aged seventy years since the 10th day of August last, and being duly sworn under oath that he is acquainted with John Lee who is about to apply for a pension from the United States under the Act of Congress passed the 7th day of June 1832.  That deponent first became acquainted with said John Lee in the (crossed out)  [illegible] early in the year 1779.  He was then a regular soldier in the 3rd regiment of South Carolina Continentals, Captain Warley’s company, commanded by Col. Wm. Thompson.  That said Lee remained in said company from the time deponent first became acquainted as above stated until the evening the siege of Charlson began about the 26th March 1780.  The deponent has understood and believes that Lee was detailed about this time to attend Lieutenant Herne (Hern) who had been wounded about this time.  The deponent has understood and believes that Lee with Lieutenant Green [crossed out] Hern joined Green and there [crossed out] served with Hern to the end of the war.  
The deponent never received a pension from the United States for services rendered in the same company to which Lee was attached.  
John Smith
Sworn to the [illegible] before me this [crossed out] Janrrey Elliott, Clerk of the Court afforementioned Fairfield District this 18th July 1832
J Elliott 
C.E.F.D.
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Fairfield District
I certify that the witness was [illegible) before me as Clerk of the Court for the District aforesaid +  that John Smith is a credible witness which given under my hand + the seal of the said court the day + year above written.
J. Elliott
C.E.F.D
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Ino. Lee
We the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories [illegible] by the War Department, that the above applicant John Lee was a revolutionary solder and served as he states.  And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Captain John Smith and Dixsey Ward who hence signed the preceding certificates and are resident in Fairfield District, and that they are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
And the court further certifies that Captain John Smith whose certificate annexed was taken before Maj [illegible] Elliott clerk of the court of [illegible] was examined on oath in open court, confirming his certificate and to the satisfaction of the court.
Henry McDesaupure, Chancellor
Winnesborough
20 July 1832

State of South Carolina
I John Buchanan – Commissioner in Deputy for Fairfield District in the state aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the informal proceeding of the said court, in the matter of the application of John Lee for a pension.
The testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal of office tis 20th day of July Ino 1832
Ino. Buchanan C.E.F.D.
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12.664
John Lee
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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 John Lee which require further proof or explanation

I.	Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes    
II.	Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes    
III.	Did 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? yes    
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 regulations? yes     
VII.	Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension that the one under the Act of June 7 1832? yes            
VIII.	Has the Court given their opinion? yes
IX.	Has the Court given his certificate? yes
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? Yes
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XI.	Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman or another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief of his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?  No                          
XII.	If the clergyman’s affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? No        
XIII.	 If the applicant has no 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? {no answer)  
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, as the magistrate who administered the oath certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? yes 
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes
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 personal knowledge of the applicant’s service? yes
XVI.	Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?  No            
XVII.	Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily?  And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes             

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 services but according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades; .  For __  year ____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _______ .      For __  year ____ 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 the applicant served, and the particular rank be 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 be 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 authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape narrow ribbon, the end 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 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.
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(form with handwritten answers)
9372
INVALID
Rev War (written in top left corner vertically bottom to top)
Hern
File No. 9372
John Lee
 Priv. Rev. War
Act June 7, 1832
Index :- Vol. 1, Page 220
{Arrangement of 1870.}