Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7418, for John Mc Carrol, Pennsylvania
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
McCarrol, John or McCarroll
NUMBER
W.7418.
B.L. Wt 2195-100
The soldier died in 1828.
Keziah
CONTENTS
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9282
Ohio to Pennsylvania West
John McCarroll
of Lemon Township in the state of Ohio
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Hubley
of the Pennsylvania
line, for the term of 6 years War
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio,
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the 5th of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 of April 1819
and sent to Henry Weaver, Esq.
Hamilton, Ohio -

Arrears to 4th of March 1819.  71.96
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819.
48.00
$119.96
Continued and transferred [illegible] from March, 1819
 [illegible]  [illegible]  [illegible] Gardener Dixon's former  [illegible] Tennessee

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}


Butler County.


Let 9 Aug't '37 A Ferguson

135 [+]
30 [+]
65 [=]
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1795
West Tenness
Keziah McCarrol
widow of John McCarroll
who died on the 15th August 1828
of Smith Co. in the State of Tennessee
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Grub
of the regt commanded
by Captain Hubley in the Pennsyl'a
line for the war

Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee
at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

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Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of February,
 1838, and sent to Hon:
W. B. Campbell, H.R.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1837 $520.
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mch 38 40.
$560.

Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,

Recorded by Wm Allison Clerk
Book A. Vol 2 Page 181

See let 14 March
1838 to Pen. Agent.
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State of New Jersey
Morris Cunty

I, Orland L. Kirtland, Minister of the Gospel, hereby certify that I am the stated pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Morris Town in said county; that among the records of said church there is an ancient book purporting to be a record of marriage, which was solemnized by Reverend Timothy Johnes, the first pastor of said church and who officiated in that character from 1742 to 1794 to time of his decease.  The entries made in the said marriage record I believe to be in the hand writing of said Mr. Johnes. 

In page 153 of said record there is an entry in words and figures as follows, viz:  "1780 May 14 John McCarral, a soldier of 10th Pen. Reg. and Kezia Clark."

The entry is faithfully and accurately copied above.
Morris Town, New Jersey, December 8, 1837
Signed:  Orland L. Kirtland

State of New Jersey
Morris County

Before the subscriber, a judge of the common pleas and a justice of the peace in said county, personally appeared Silas Condict of Morristown, personally known to be to be a man of truth; who having been duly sworn according to law, saith as follows viz:  

Orlando L. Kirtland whose name is affixed to the above certificate is well known to me; to be the present stated pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Moris Town.  And I also have compared the above copy of the marriage of "John McCarral, a soldier of 10th Reg to Kezia Clark" with the original record of marriage as kept by Rev. D. Johns and find it accurately copied.

Sworn and subscribed at Morris Town
9th December 1837.
Before me
Signed:  Silas Condict

State of New Jersey
Morris County

I, Joseph Dalrimple, clerk of Morris County, hereby certify that Silas Condict Esq. before whom the foregoing deposition of Silas Condict was taken and subscribed, is a judge of the common pleas court and a justice of the peace in said county duly authorized and commissioned.

Witness my hand and the seal of my office at Morris Town this 9th December A.D. 1837
Signed: J. Dalrimple. Clrk.
by V Dalrimple.
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John McCarrol
Private
10th Regt Con'l Hubley
Pennsylvania Line
1777 to
1783 Roll
5th June 1818
Admitted
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The State of Ohio
Butler County

On this fifth day of June 1818 before me, Henry Weaver, one of the associate judges of the court of common pleas within and for said County of Butler, personally appeared John McCarrol, aged seventy-three years, a resident in the township of Lemon in said County of Butler, who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on this oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War;"

that said John McCarrol enlisted in Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania in the company commanded by Captain Peter Grub of the tenth regiment of Pennsylvania State troops, commanded by Colonel Humphry; remained under Captain Grub seven or eight months when Captain Patton took command of the company;

was enlisted in the month of April or May 1777 and that he continued to serve in the said Pennsylvania Troops in the service of the United States until the fall of the near 1783, when he was discharged from service in Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania. having served during the war.  

The company was likewise commanded by Captain Finney and Captain Humphry and the regiment by Colonel Humpton and Colonel Harmor.  This deponent doth saith that he was in the battles of Germantown October seventy-seven, Monmouth Court House June 28th, 1778, battle of the Green Springs in Virginia, at the siege of Cornwallis in Yorktown, Virginia and a number of skirmishes with the enemy. 

and that prior to his enlistment this deponent was in the battle of Flatbush, Long Island the 27th of Aug. 76 and was taken a prisoner at Fort Washington, New York, December 1776.  The company I belonged to was captured and our colonel's name was John Shay of Philadelphia. 

This deponent further on his oath saith that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service, having lost his discharge.
Signed:  John (his X mark) McCarrol

Sworn and subscribed before me the fifth day of June eighteen hundred and eighteen
Signed:  Henry Weaver
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The State of Ohio
Butler County

I, Henry Weaver, one of the associate judges of the court of common pleas in and for the aforesaid county of Butler, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John McCarrol did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceeding declaration, against the common enemy; and from my own personal knowledge he is in reduced circumstances and absolutely needs the assistance of his country for support. 

And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.  Given under my hand this fifth day of June A.D. eighteen hundred and eighteen.
Signed:  Henry Weaver

The State of Ohio 
Butler County

I, John Reily, clerk of the court of common pleas of the County of Butler aforesaid do certify that Henry Weaver, Esquire before whom the foregoing and within deposition and the above certificate were taken and made, was at the time of the taking thereof an associate judge of the said court of common pleas of the said county of Butler and that to all his official acts as such full faith and credit due and ought to be given.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal at Hamilton the seventeenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Signed:  John Reily
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State of Tennessee
Smith County

On this 31st day of May 1827 personally appeared before me Milton Haynie, one of the acting justices of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid, Kezia McCarroll, a resident of Smith County and state of Tennessee, aged eighty-nine years, who being first sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July the 4th 1836:

That she is the widow of John McCarroll who was a pensioner of the United States.  He drew his pension at Nashville, State of Tennessee; he drew his first payment Chillicothe, Ohio.

She further declares that she was married to said John McCarroll on the 14th day of May 1778; that her husband the aforesaid John McCarroll died on the 15th day of August 1828; and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Signed:  Kezia (her X mark) McCarroll

Sworn and subscribed before me this day and date above written before me
Signed:  Milton Haynie
Justice of the Peace

I, Milton Haynie, one of the associate judges of the peace for the County Smith in the State of Tennessee, do hereby certify that Kezia McCarroll who appeared before me to make the above declaration is from old age and bodily infirmity as well as poverty unable to attend at the court house to make this declaration in open court.  Witness my hand and seal this 31st day of May 1837.
Signed:  Milton Haynie
 Justice of the Peace

**For more correct information as to the day of his death see the last proof furnished to draw the last of his pension supposed to be on file in your department.
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State of Tennessee
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Smith County ⎬ On this day personally appeared
John A Debow and John D Day both Citizens
of the County of Smith before me Charles McMurry one of the
acting Justices of the peace
in and for said County and made oath in due form
of law that they have been long acquainted with
John McCaroll in his lifetime and Kezia M Carroll
his wife they both went from this County in
1814 and live in the State of Ohio near Chilicothe
and about three years during which time he the
said John Mr Carroll was placed on the Pension list. They then returned to this County and lived there until his death which took place in the summer
of 1828 & John D Day believed he made oath to the day
of his death in order that the administrator John A Debow,
the present affiant could draw a ballance of her husband's
Pension.  They lived close neighbours Many years previous
to the death of Said John Carroll. The circumstances
of his service were these: he enlsited for during the
war of the Revolution. This was after they were married.
They were married in Pensylvania and had one child before he entered the army. they lived some time in this way
and finally she was permitted to live in the army in
company with her husband,
but not before the legality
of their marriage was fairly tested and proven to
the satisfaction of the officers under whom he served.
She continued to share the toils and hardships of a
Camp and braved the dangers as well as her husband
until the close of the Revolution when he was honorably
discharged. Their little boy was then able to [illegible]
on foot. These affiants have seen some of their children
and believe from their age they must have been born
at the close of the war. But these affiants never saw
the oldest as he was a son and twice separate from
his father and mother and finally enlisted in the late
war with Great Brittain. This information has
Come to the 
knowledge of these affiants from their long term 
acquaintance with  John McCarroll and his wife Kezia.
John A Dubow furnished them many years with articles
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articles to live upon these affiants believe from the
own knowledge that he the said Kezia
Caroll is the lawful wife of John McCaroll
and was married before her husband entered the service in the war of the revolution.  They lived in this neighborhood twenty five years and their General character and deportment confirm all of their reputation  
in the full belief of legality of their marriage at the time before stated. these affiants are comvinced that if any question  was about the legality of the
Marriage they would have known it. That she is the idntical Kezia McCarroll who makes application for a pension  and at this time lives upon the Charity of
the County of Smith aforesaid.
Sworn to and subscribed to
J A Dubow {LS}
John Day {LS}
Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this first
day of July 1837
Charles McMurry  {LS}
Justice of the Peace

I, Charles McMurry one of the acting Justices of the
in and for the County of Smith and State of Tennessee
hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John A
Dubow and John D. Day who made the above affidavit
before me. That they are men of good character and reputation.
That full faith and credit are due to
their statements
and I hereby certify the same
Given under my hand and seal this 1sr
day of July 1837
Charles McMurry {LS}
Justice of the Peace
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State of Tennessee  Smith ss
I John J Burnett, Clerk of Smith
County Court of hereby Certify that Milton
Haynie & Charles McMurry before whom the foregoing
proceeding was had were at the time the same
purports to bear date and now are both
acting Justices of the Peace for said County of
Smith, duly commissioned and qualified as the law directs.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office
In Carthage this 6 day of June 1837 & 62d year of American
Independence
John J Burnett, Clerk
 of Smith County Court
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John McCarroll
91282.
15. April, 1819
transferred from
Ohio to W’t Tenn’e

transfer
J. Pickett, Clk
Carthage, W. T.
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State of Tennessee
Smith County Court
August June 1820.
On this 15th day of August 1820
personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of record
for the County aforesaid, John McCarroll, and seventy
five years, a resident of said County, who being first duly
Sworn according to law, doth on his [oath] declare that he served
in the revolutionary war as follows: he entered the service
in 1776 in the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment, and served
five years and 8th March he made a declaration
On the 5th June 1818, and his name is inscribed on the
pension List, Roll of Ohio - And I do solemnly swear
that I was a resident Citizen of the United States, and
the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not sine
that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of any
property or any part thereof with intent thereby 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 States,
the revolutionary war, passed on the 18th
of
March 1818 and that I have not, nor has any person in
trust for me any property, or securities contracts or debts
due to me nor have I any income other than what is 
contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me
subscribed
To wit I have a Cow and Calf - has a
wife named Keziah, about 68 years of age

John McCarrall his mark
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Sworn to and declared in open Court the 15th day
August 1820 before
James Hibbits, Presiding
Justice of Smith
County Court

State of Tennessee  Smith County ss
I James Hibbits Presiding Justice
of the Court of Pleas and quarter session, do certify that it
appears to the satisfaction of said Court, that the said John
McCarrall did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in
the preceding declaration against the common enemy
for the term of nine months at a time on the continental establishment. The said Court is also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his country for support and they now
transmit his declaration made in said Court to the secretary
for the department of War, in conformity with an act Congress of this 1st May 1820.  Given under my hand at office in Carthage, this 15th day of August 1820.
James Hibbits
Presiding
Justice of Smith
County Court
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State of Tennessee Smith County ss
I Jonathan Pickett Clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter sessions for the County aforesaid, do hereby certify
that the foregoing oath and Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from an original on file in my office - and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is fifty dollars. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of said
Court of office in Carthage this 1st
day of September in the year of
our Lord 1820 and 45th year of
our Independence.
J Pickett Clk
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F307
John McCarroll
No. 2195.
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DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
Regulation for the heirs and Soldier of the Revolutionary Army, who were slain by the enemy, or who have died since the war, and have not received land from the United States.
By an act of Congress of the 16th September, 1776, it is provided that the Officers and Soldiers who engaged for, and continued to serve during the war, or until discharged by Congress, and the heirs of such Officers and Soldiers as shall be slain by the enemy, shall receive land in proportion to their rank:
N. B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, or who died of sickness, fatigue, or casualty, are not entitled to land from the United States.
The following declaration (and enclosed blank form of heirship) must be filled up and signed by the
proper authorities:

State of Tennessee County of Smith

I Kezia McCarroll heir at law of John McCarroll Dec’d
do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that John McCarroll did enter the service in 17 __, for the term of during the war and served as a private & Sergeant in the Regiment No. One under the command of Colonel [blank] of the Pennsylvania line; and that he continued
in the service aforesaid until the close of the war of the Revolution. I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to me for
has any of my children on the part of the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever: therefore,

Know all men by these presents, That I Kezis McCaroll aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Adam Fergusson
to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the
United States, a warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed. this 4th September 1837
Kezia McCarroll her mark
Attest,
Robt Hadley
Wiley Baker

Personally appeared the above named Kezia McCarroll subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and made oath to the same, and in my presence acknowledged the power of
attorney thereto subjoined to be her free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned. 4th Sept 1837 Attest,
Milton Haynie 
Justice of the Peace.

In testimony that the above written Milton Haynie
was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c. in the State of Tennessee
at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at this
fourth day of September 1837
John J Bennett Clerk Clerk, &c

[left margin vertical]
Pensioner Act of 1818. West Tennessee Roll. Identity satisfactory.
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Carthage Tennessee
4th October 1837

Dear Sir
Mr Gordon's letter of the 26th ultimo is now before me.
It informs me among other things that the certificate
of heirship submitted some time since in the matter
of the application by the heirs of John McCarroll
is informal and insuficient. I have waited until
now in order to make more particular enquiries with
regard to the number of heirs as well as the degrees of
consanquinity and their names. I have to inform
you that Jacob McCarroll the oldest has no heirs
living. Phebe Allen is dead leaving no heirs but
a grandson named John Gregory an infant or
at least a minor. Ann Yorkshire is yet living.
By this statement which I believe is correct you
will discover that in the distribution of the
land bounty that there will be three children,
a son and two daughters entitled to a distributive
 Share. Jacob and Ann in their own right
and Phebe Allen will be represented by John
Gregory her grand son and great grand son to
John McCaroll. Each one under the laws of
Tennessee will be entitled to a third part, there
being but three legal representatives of their
father John McCarroll in whose right the land
is claimed. As I am unacquainted with the particular
 manner the blanks of a certificate of heirship should
 be filled up I have sent the names and the degrees of relationship and I request that you do me the favor to
 cause the
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new certificate to be filled up at your department with
the names &c ready for the action of this court as there
will be no difficulty with regard to the witnesses, here
I have already consulted them and the proof will be
in accordance with the statement in this letter and
the former certificate, and lest there should be some
particulars not mentioned in this letter I enclose
back the former certificate which will give all the
particulars that I know of. When the blanks are
filled up with every formality necessary for the
proof, and the action of the court at this place you 
will enclose the whole to me and I will endeavour
to comply with any instructions that you may
favor me with and deem essential
With great respect I am
Yours truly
A Fergusson

Hon Joel R Poinsett
Secretary of War
Washington City
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section

March 10, 1924

Stella J. Moser
Dennison Hotel, Room 241
Indianapolis, Ind.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim W.3418 it appears
that John McCarrol or McCarroll enlisted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1776 and served as a private in
Captain Stout's Company, Colonel John Shay's Pennsylvania
Regiment; was in the battle of Flatbush, Long Island
and was taken prisoner at Fort Washington, New York
in December 1778.
He enlisted in April or May 1777 and served as a
private in Captains Grub, Patton, Finney and Humphrys'
Companies, Colonels Hubley, Humpton and Harmar's Pennsylvania Regiment and was discharged in the fall of 1783.
Was at the battles of Germantown, Monmouth, Green Springs
and at the Siege of Yorktown.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
April 5, 1818 while living in Lemon Township, Butler
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[continued] County, Ohio aged seventy-three years.
In 1820 he was a resident of Smith County, (Post
Office Dixon Spring) Tennessee. He died August 15, 1828.
Soldier married May 14, 1780 in Morristown, New Jersey, Kezia or Keziah Clark who was allowed pension on her application executed May 21, 1837 while living in Smith County, Tennessee aged eighty-nine years.
Their oldest child was a son whose name is not
stated. In December 1837 their son Jacob McCarroll, and their daughter Ann Yorkshire were the only living children, their daughter Phebe Allen having died and left only one heir, a grandson, John Gregory.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 7418
Keziah McCarroll
Wid
John McCarroll
Pri Pa. line

Act: July 4th /36, Sec. 3d

Index: -- Vol. M  Page 20
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1920 Feb 14 Photo copy of 
sol. decla. 1 a page mailed
to E W Starling White 
House Wash D C

see receipt for payment in 
John Mc Carroll S2782 - aw

1924 Mch 10 Hist. to Mrs. Stella J. Moser
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Keziah McCarroll
Tennessee
Suspended see letter 9 Aug
1837 A. Ferguson
let 5 Oct 1837
Hon W. B. Campbell
do 2d Dec 1837 to A. Fergusson
do. 20 Dec 37
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J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pension
Washington D C

Oct 5 
[illegible]
Tenn

Hon W B Campbell H R
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House of Representations
Washington Oct. 4th 1837
Sir
I am requested to know from you what
 are the objections to the claim
of Keziah McCarroll for a pension.
It has been submitted to your department
 some time ago. If the proof as to marriage is not
sufficient, the applicant will try and make it
satisfactory. I am acquainted the witnesses who have
testified for her, and it may be that I can
afford the information you desire. You
will oblige me by affording the
information immediately. 
With great respect I am
Your Obliged Obt. Svt
Wm B Campbell

The applicant lives in Smith County Tennessee
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Carthage, Tennessee
6th July 1837
Mr James L. Edwards

Dear Sir
Inclosed you will find the claim
of Kezia McCarroll for a Pension. I have
endeavored to make the proof as satisfactory as
possible and in order to do so two very Respectable
witness were qualified in open Court and there 
examined as to the time when their marriage
took place [&] the nature and Justice of her claim. I have 
also procured one of his Pension certificates
from the administration, an inventory receipt &c
all of which I hope will be satisfactory.
I have also received yours of the 30th May last, 
Informing me of the reception of the papers JAne Brent,Catharine Cobb, Lydia Hay, Sally Meador and Elizabeth Hay, notifying me that their claims could not be allowed on account that the proof was not Satisfactory. After some reflection upon the nature of these claims and having conversed with the applicants,  I am led to believe
that in drawing up these declarations as well as
proof I done them in too hasty a manner. It is true I had
the regulations of the 4th and regulations of the 9th July
1836 before me and I think it very possible I did not comply with them exactly
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such proof as was convenient at the time was
produced and without taking trouble to Search
out all that could be gathered. I understand that
other proof can be got in most of the cases that
more than likely will be satisfactory.
You will be so good as to return the papers
and make such remarks and suggestions of
what proof is wanting and we will endeavor
to procure it if we can.
I should be sorry is present any claim
for allowance that I thought was not strictly
within the measure of the law and beliving in
the Justice of these claims, I felt it my duty
to make further efforts on behalf of these
applicants, should it meet your approbation.
In the case of Elizabeth Sims abundant proof
can be had and I have forwarded two affidavits in
Support of her claim which was mailed and [illegible]
 some days before I received yours of the 30th May
informing me about her case. I am in hopes they also 
will be thought sufficient.
With great esteem
I am Sir your &c
A. Ferguson
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Union Bank of Tennessee
Nashville 27th Feby 1838.

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Dear Sir
Your esteemed favor of the
16th Instant requiring the name of Keziah McCarroll
widow of John M. Carroll who was a private at
$80 per annum to be placed on the rolls of this
Office is duly to hand. And in reply have to
inform you that there is only one name of
John McCarroll a private at $40 per ann
on the rolls and he appears to have been
paid to the 4th Sept 1835 hence some doubts
has arisen with me whether or not there
is some mistake, on account of the amt
per annum being $80 instead of $40 and her
pay commencing from the 4th March 1831
instead of the 4th Sep 1835, the time that 
John McCarroll appears to be last paid,
or perhaps it should be from the date of
of his death. I am very
Respectfully Sir
Your Ob’t Svt
John M Bassett Pres’t & PA
By S. Cantrell
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CARTHAGE TN DEC [illegible]

Dec 18
[illegible]

Free
James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Carthage Tennessee
5th December 1837
Sir
Your letter of 21st ultmo has been received and
I answer it without delay. I discover by it the place
or district where John Bird lived but I was in hopes
that it was in your power to discover whether he yet
draws a pension or is yet alive. The reason I wish
to find him out is on account of getting his testamony
in favour of Ann Cable his Sister whose papers I
Submitted to you last April. And I would still be
glad to know whether he is yet alive and the nearest
Post office so that I could adress a letter to him.
for I assure you it is more like going into eternity in
Search of proof to establish a Pension claim than any
thing else I can compare it to.  You mention that before
the information required in the case of William
McCarroll (it Should be John McCarroll) can be
given, the object for which it is wanted must be Stated.
I wish to find out some one by whom I can prove
more particulars about the marriage of Kezia McCarroll,
wife of Said John McCarroll, late a Pensioner Dec’d.
In her behalf and for her I sent you her Declaration
and proof in order to obtain her Pension. She is old
and infirm. She expects me to get her on the Pension
roll. I am convinced she is entitled to it by law and
that is beyond the possibility of a doubt. In your
letter of the 9th August you say that her claim has
been filed with suspended cases in your office. I had
thought that but few cases were better supported by proof
than her claim, the record of which stands upon the
record of our court. More positive proof of the Marriage
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is required. A copy of the marriage record or in default
of that, living witnesses having a personal knowledge of the
fact. I do not say this is impossible, but I think it doubtful
whether it ever can be done. A woman at the age of 80 or 85  years and upwards, her memory impaired by old age, far from the place of her birth and youthful acquaintances is called upon to get a copy of the Record of her marriage. Which if it exists at all must be somewhere in Pensylvania or New Jersey a distance of at least 800 to 1,000 miles. She has been married at least from 60 to 65 years and it is more than I can ever expect that any one living even in New Jersey has any
knowledge or recolects any thing about it. The validity
of Marriages are the subjects of repeated litigations in our
courts of Justice at common law and equity. And in
the Western states the same difficulties have frequently
occurred in proving marriages, by reason that the parties
having migrated from the old States were far from their
acquaintances and the records of the court. It has therefore
been decided by our Supreme Court and the decision has been
repeatedly recognised by all the courts of Justice in our State
that common reputation of Marriage [&] the general understanding of the neighbourhood where the parties live and have lived, their own declarations together with the last of living together as man and wife is sufficient in law to establish the legality of any marriage. The proof in the case of
Kezia McCarroll furnished you would be sufficient in
law or equity to entitle her to real estate of her husbands
in default of heirs or any other priviledge or right whatever that she would be entitled to by Marriage in as full
and ample a manner as if she had procured the record of her
Marriage properly certified. I need not aprise you that the
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people of these United States are migrating continually and
have been since the war of the Revolution. The rigid rules
therefore of the English courts of Justice will not answer
ours and however they may be recorded in the State of
Pensylvania or Maryland they would not do here nor would
it be policy to adopt them because the intention of the laws
would be defeated. My object therefore in asking about
John McCarroll, associates officers & is to endeavour to comply as near as I can in behalf of his widow with your request in getting proof to suport her claim. But I would
sugest another expedient. Congress is now in session
and our Representative Mr Campbell has an extensive
acquaintance. I would be glad that you refer to him in
all cases and a[s]certain what reliance is to be placed upon
each witness, their character and standing and any other
information you may want. Nor should the enquiry
stop with them but extend to other and former members,
particularly M. Peyton. I have sent a letter to Morristown.
New Jersey the place nearest where she says she was married but I have not yet discovered any thing in relation to
it. I can procure other responsible testamony from
Citlizens of this County stating their entire belief of
the period of her marriage if that will answer any
purpose. For it was proverbial in her neighbourhood
long before any pension laws were in existence that
she was lawfully married to John Carroll and that
her oldest boy was able to travel at the close of the
war in 1781.  But all further proof will be unnecessary
if upon a reconsideration you should feel authorized
to allow her Pension. I would refer you also to the proof
of heirship which is being retaken and will in a short time
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be forwarded to the Secretary of war for the purpose of
obtaining land bCounty in right of their father John McCarroll.
 I hope you will consider these suggestions favourably
in regard to her claim and I will receive with pleasure any Court
you may advise in the matter.
With great respect I am &c
A. Fergusson

Mr James L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
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CARTHAGE TN
NOV 20

Dec 2d
Tenn

Keziah McCarroll
Jn McCarroll

No 19203


FREE
James L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensoins
Washington City
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Carthage Tennessee
19th November 1837
Sir

I wish you to refer to the papers and original
proof upon which John McCarroll was Pensioned
and give me the names of those who proved his services-
as well the officers under whom he served and
whether he states any thing about Pensylvania
or New Jersey as the place of his first enlistment;
 Perhaps I may find some one in this
country that were personally known to the
Marriage with his widow Kezia McCarroll
whose papers in relation to her Pension were
sent to you some time ago. Any information 
about it will be thankfully received.
I have written to Morristown New Jersey
the place she says they were married and
I am in hopes I will yet get the claim
established as I am convinced no claim
is more just or lawful. I am certain from
circumstances which place the marriage beyond
the possibility of a doubt to have taken
place before the war of the Revolution.
Be so good as to send me an answer without
delay
Respectfully
A. Fergusson

James L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City
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Nov 20
get papers
19203 Tenn 
8 Jan 19

Free
J L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Penson
Washington City
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Carthage Tennessee
18th November 1837
Dear Sir
I wish you to refer to the Pension list
of South Carolina and also for North Carolina
and inform me where John Bird and William Bird
 draw their Pension and if possible the nearest post office
to their place of Residence. You will
perceive from this request that I am in
Search of proof to suport the claim of
Catharine Cobb whose papers were submitted
to you in March last. The Birds are
Brothers to Mrs Cobb and I take this
method to get their testamony.
I would like extremely well if you
could refer to the papers and proof of John
McCaroll when he was pensioned and inform
me who were his officers and the soldiers who
were in his company in the Pennsylvania or
New Jersey troops. Peradventure I could thereby
find out some of his old acquaintances.
I hope you will excuse the trouble this
may give you.
Respectfully
A. Fergusson

James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Carthage Tennessee
23d December 1837
Dear Sir
Inclosed you will find the marriage
record of John Carroll and Kezia his wife. In
my last I mentioned to you that I had written to
the Hon. Lewis Condict of Morris Town New Jersey.
I inclose also his original letter to me. I have to
acknowledge the promptness and energy with which
Mr Condict has aided me in so difficult as well as
hopeless business. And having got advice
from you to apply to Mr Condict I acknowledge
the great obligations I am under to you, Sir,
for directing me to such an experienced man.
I had no idea of ever obtaining the marriage
 record as the old Lady was lacking in memory
 in many things; but it seems she
was right as to the place and all the material
circumstances, except the date of her marriage
which was in 1780. Yet you will discover
that he was then a soldier and in actual
service which is within the meaning of the 
law I presume. I am much gratified to have
it in my power therefore to place her claim
before you in that attitude which will most 
probly meet your approbation. I had become
much enlisted in her claim and may have
urged the allowance of her pension with more
zeal than was necessary. If so I only say
that her peculiar situation demanded it and
I was convinced of the Justice of her claim
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She is and has been an inmate of
of our poor house more on account of her 
real poverty than any thing else as she is able
 to work a little and has her reason and other
faculties. Out of a numerous family you will see
 by refference to the probate of the heirs furnished the
Secretary of War in order to obtain the land
bounty due to John McCarroll that she has
but two children and a great grand son living.
Should you have no other or particular use for
Mr Condict’s letter herewith inclosed I would
take it as a great favor that you return it
to me after having read it. I may have to refer to
it hereafter
With sentiments of great esteem
I remain Dear Sir yours truly
A. Fergusson
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STATE OF Tennessee
At a court held for Smith county, 4th December 1837
satisfactory evidence was adduced in Court to prove that Jacob McCarroll a son, Ann Yorkshire a Daughter, John Gregory Great Grand Son of John McCarroll dec’d, late a
resident of Smith County, and a pensioner of the
United States on all
the Surviving being and only heirs at law in fee to the said 
John McCarroll, late a private in the Regiment of the Pennsylvania line, in the Army of the United States in the War of the Revolution.
I John J Burnett Clerk of the county court, do certify,
that the above evidence is taken from the records in my office.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my official
seal, this 14 day of December 1837

John J. Burnett Clerk
of Smith County Court

[The above form will]
answer for the States of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and other western States.
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STATE of Tennessee Smith County
At a court held for Smith county 4th Sept 1837
satisfactory evidence was adduced in Court to prove that Kezia McCarroll, wife of John McCarroll, Jacob McCarroll and
Phebe Allen and the heirs of the said Jacob McCarroll
and Phebe Allen are the only surviving heirs and
representatives of the said John McCarroll Deceased,
who was a soldier of the Revolution of the Pensylvania
line and was placed on the roll of Pensioner at Chillicothe
Ohio, on the [blank] day of [blank] and after two years moved to Smith County Tennessee where he died in 1829.
The said Keziah McCarroll and said heirs at law in fee to the
said John McCarroll late a Pensioner in the
Regiment of the Pensylvania line have been
duly identified by the oaths of Sam’l W McMurry
and Charles McMurry here in open Court, therefore it is ordered that the same be made part of the record of this Court.  I, John J Burnett Clerk of the county court, do certify
that the above evidence is taken from the records in my office
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my official
seal, this fourth day of September 1837
John J. Burnett Clerk
of Smith County Court
The above form will answer for the State of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, 
Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and other western States.
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2300
Keziah McCarroll
Tennessee
Act 4 July 1836
Admitted
Pr for the war $80
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State of Tennessee Smith County ss
At a County Court began and held for the Count of
Smith at the Court House in Carthage
On the 1st Monday being the day of 3rd day of July
AD. 1837 & 61st year of American independence - 
Present the Worshipfull Leroy H Cage, Patrick
Fergusson, Elvin Whitly, Silas C Cornwell, 
Wm P Hughes, R C Cartwright, Charles McMurry,
Milton Haynie, Nelson Thornton, Isaac Bradley,
Nathan Ward, Alfred A Bevant, Peter Herod,
David Stanton & A Davis Esqrs.
On Motion Satisfactory evidence was provided
in open Court by the Oaths of Charles  McMurry
And Samuel W McMurry two respectable Citizens
of the County of Smith, that Keziah McCarroll, the foregoing named applicant for a pension, under the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836, is the lawfull of wife of John McCarroll a
Pensioner deceased, and that she was legally married to him previous to the last term of his services expired, and that she is the identical Keziah McCarroll, Widow of John McCarroll deceased, and now lives upon the Charity of the County of Smith, whereupon it is the order of the Court that the same be certified
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to the Commissioner of Pensions at Washington City.

State of Tennessee Smith County ss
I John J Burnett Clerk
of Smith County Court hereby certify that
the foregoing Transcription is a true copy from
the Records of said Court in the case
of  Keziah McCarroll, Widow of John McCarroll, Pensioner  dec’d. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and of
the seal of said Court at Carthage this 6 day July & 62 year of
American Independence
John J Burnett Clerk
of Smith County Court
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all the articles
Mrs McCarroll
Bot at her husband sale are her
own property she having Recpt’d
me for them
J A Debow
17th December 1830
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Inventory of the property of John McCaroll
Dec’d and amt of Sale
1 horse  sold for $6.25
1 Bull sold for 1.00
3 chairs Ditto 1.50
1 pot & oven & Skillet 5.50
1 Barrel Churn & wash tub 2.12 ½
1 spining wheel 1.56 ¼
2 head of Cattle 10.50
1 hoe and ax 1.37 ½
2 Bridle bits and s[t]able [illegible] .68 ¾
1 Razor .50
his pension from the United States 43.75
$74. 75.
The amount of the Estate of John McCarroll Dec’d 
seventy four dollars 75 cents
J A Debow Admr
of John McCarroll Dec’d
18 February 1829

7475
4375
31100
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WAR DEPARTMENT No. 9.282
PENSION OFFICE.
November 10th 1820.
SIR
You are hereby informed that the schedule of your property has been examined; and the Secretary of war has directed your name to be continued on the Pension Roll,

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J.L. Edwards

To Mr. John M. Carroll - Dixon Springs. W. T.
 
Care of
J. Pickett, Esqr
Carthage, W. T. [West Tennessee]
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Ohio 159
Tennessee
Rec’d 30 Sep 1820
9.282
John McCaroll
15 April 1819
transferred from Ohio
to W Tennessee

[circle stamp]
SH  illegible]

J Pickett, Clk
Carthage, W Tenn.

The Hon’ble J C Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City
 Mail
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War Department
Revolutionary Claim
I certify that in conformity with the law of the
United States of the 18th March 1818
John McCarroll late a Private in the Army of the
Revolution is inscribed in the Pension List of
the Ohio Agency at the rate of eight dollars
pr month to commence on the 5th day of June
One thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Given at the War Office of the United States this 15th April
1819.
Sig. J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War

State of Tennessee Davidson County ss
Be it known on this 14th day of Sept. 1820 personally
appeared John McCarrol before me John McNairy,
District Judge for the State of Tennessee and after
being sworn saith that he is the Identical John McCarroll
named in an original certificate from the
War Department a true copy of which is above
written & that he has the original now in his possession
and that he was a resident of the State Ohio
when he was placed on the Pension list & has since
removed to the State of Tennessee and now wishes
his name transfered to the West Tennessee Agency
for future payments and that he has Rec’d pay
from the Pension Agent at Chilicothe up to the 4th Sept 1819.
John McCarrol
Sworn to before me the date above
John McNairy
District Judge
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John McCarroll’s app
for transfer from Ohio to
West Tennessee, from the 4th 
March 1820-
Transf 16 Nov. 1820
& notif sent to Pensioner
Dixon Springs
Smith Co. Ohio

[illegible] 19
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N.B Please direct your notification of my
being Transfered to the Post Office at Dixon
Springs Smith County Tennessee and advise
me of the [illegible] of the Schedule of Property
rendered herewith
John McCaroll
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Indianapolis Ind
Feb. 4, 1924,
To the Hon. Commissioner of Pensioner
Washington. D.C.
Dear Sir
Will you kindly send me copy of record
of David Carll (Carroll) (McCarle), First Reg. of
New Jersey State Revolutionary War, also given under
Captain Allens Co. State troops (also family data if you have any). Also War Record of John Carroll (or McCarroll) of
Pennsylvania, State line afterwards Smith Co., Tennessee.
Also James Carroll (Carlisle ) of Pennsylvania
line afterwards moved to Kentucky.
Will you kindly give any family data of each
ones as to next of kin of you have any on record,
Thanking you in advance
Mrs Stella J. Moser
Room 241 Denson Hotel
Indianapolis Ind

[notes added to each soldier named]
[David Carll] sent
[ John Carroll] sent
[James Carroll] not as described

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US PENSION OFFICE E 
FEB 6 1924
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aw
Rev. War Section.
February 14, 1820.

Mr. E. W. Sterling,
White House,
Washington, D. C.
Sir:
In reply to your personal request of the 11"" instant,
you are herewith furnished under the provision of the lot
of August 24, 1912, with photostat copies of the original
papers in the pension claims of
Eliza widow of John McCarroll, War of 1813, Widow 
Certificate No. 9383, seven pages.
John McCarroll, War of the Revolution, survivor File
No. 2782, six pages {Receipt for payment is in this claim

John McCarrol, War of the Revolution, Widow File No. 7418, one page.

Very respectfully,
G W Salzbarger
Commissioner.
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Date Feb. 14 1920
Name John McCarrol
No. W 7418
Penn. Troops War Rev

Photographic copies wanted of 1
pieces, consisting of 1 pages.

Remarks:

Exr W E Wilson Chief Rev War Section

T F Dennis Law Clerk,

Serial No. 614
soldier’s declaration of June 5 1818, 1 page