Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8314, William Akin, S. C.
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S. C.
Akin, William
or
Aiken
Heannah
W. 8314

Born in Ireland - To Penn. to S.C.
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12750
South Carolina
William Aiken
Fairfield in the State of South Carolina
who was a private in the company command 
Captain Gray of the Get commanded
by Col Taylor in the South Carolina
line for 6 months

Inscribed on the Roll of South Carolina
the rate of 20 Dollars _____ Cents per annum.
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of May '33
and sent James Elliott
Winnsboro' C.H. SoCa (elk)

Arrears to the 4th of March '33 - 40
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. - 10
                                                           $50

Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by William Miller Clerk
Book E. Vol. 6. Page 62
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William Aiken
State of South=Carolina
District of Fairfield

On this 3rd day of November 1832
personally appeared in open Court, before MD Wat
Lin Judge of the Court of Coun; Pleas
for Fairfield District, in the State of South Carolina
no sitting at Fairfield Court=House, William Aiken
a resident of Juoicin Creek, about two miles from
the Town of Winnsborough in the District of Fairfield,
in the State aforesaid, aged seventy two years
since Feby last; who being first duly sworn according
to law, oath, cloth, on his oath, made the following
declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of
Congress pension June 7th1832

Defendent was born in the Kingdom of Ireland
County Antrim, about three miles from Ballernera
between the first and twelfth days of February A.D.
1700.
Defendents father and family (unknown words)
=land, and landed in Philadelphia in 1715, and
settled in Brandywine Creek about forty miles
above Philadelphia, where his house was burnt
by accident, and all news of the family ages
if any ever existed, as defendant supposes, but
defendant is ignorant whether they had been
recorded, living young, at the time. Defendents father
& mother always in sight of the aging farm at the time the French had possession of Canies. Defendant left his fathers in 1779 and came to South Carolina, Fairfield District, lived with
his Uncle David Thompson in Jackson Creek
unit Feb. 4 1781, when he was called in to do militia
duty under Captain John Gray. Defendant did not
know nor believe there was ordered draft, but believed
that Captain Gray ordered all men out he could
find that were fit for duty. Defendant was (unknown) to 
(last line unknown).
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on Broad River as a place of rendezvous. Andrew Grey was Lieutenant, and also James Kincaid. The Company was employed in dispersing and quietting the tories. The troops performed several excursions through Mibley settlement in Fairfield District in one of these they disbursed a body of tories thinks at the house of one Ines in Mobly settlement at which the tories lost one killed William Smith and then fled. Deponent was not under Captain [unclear] in this term two months; at the end of which time Captain Edward Martin arrived with some men and Deponent was transferred to his Company. William Gray was Captain Martin's first Lieutenant and William Avery second Lieutenant. Captain Martin sent his company under his first Lieutenant in to Anigrarn fort a little above the present site of Granby and returned home to collect more men. Lieutenant William Gray with his company and several other militia companies lay around the fort until it surrendered. Captain Jno. Turner & Company, Capt. John Winn & Company were there.
A company of artillery arrived in the morning before the fort surrendered. Thinks a Colonel Taylor commanded the whole of the Militia. Deponent on the morning of the surrender whilst a guard was fired on by a detachment from the fort. The guard were beat back until met and supported by a company from the main army. After the surrender the Army were marched down the Congaree to Ancrams, where they encamped and lay for some time. The deponent served
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two months from the time he was transferred to Captain Martin's Company  until discharged making this time in tour of service  four months in all. Stayed at home at his Uncle David Thompson's  when  not in scouting parties until July 1781  when deponent with Captain Edward Martin's company was again  ordered out. was marched on to the Congaree below  Columbia where the company  not with Captains .. ( illegible )  Winn , Jno. Turner with their companies . Other troops were there also .. ( illegible ) the men and marched toward  Orangeburg and near Orangeburg  fell in with  a detachment of Genl. Green's army . Encamped near them two or three days . was met  by Henry Hampton & his  State troops . The Militia  and Hampton's State troops joined and marched on  through the low country  and was at  Dorchester twenty miles above  Charleston . At the 45 mile house and back  and forward through the  rest of the lower country . The troops were all mounted . Major John Pearson was along and  Colonel Richard Winn  commanded the Regiment of Militia.  Saml. Smart was adjutant. The deponent was out about two months this time but was allowed indents for only two months/. Deponent was from sometime in February  1781  until the last of October 1781  consistently in Militia duty either in the time particularly mentioned or in scouting parties against the tories under Captain Martin, with the exception of a few days  one or two day at one time
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and the same at another. And believes that he was out in Militia duty fully eight months in all. All the time a private. David Hamilton , John Sloan, and  Robert Mc Creight were all out with deponent under Colonel Richard Winn in the time to declarant  the 45 Mile house , etc. they all lived on  Jackson's Creek  in this District. They can also testify as to scouting duty , but deponent  knows of no  person now living  who was with him at the taking of the Congaree fort. There may be some of them who were present alive but deponent does not now recollect  or know of any such. Received no discharge except a verbal one form his  Captain. It was not usual to obtain a written discharge, Deponent in November 1781  went in  to  Pennsylvania and returned in June 1783  with his father and family and settled in Fairfield District on Jackson's Creek and lived there until about the year 1800 when he removed and settled where he now lives as  first above mentioned where he has lived ever since that time. 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 the  Agency of any State.  Wm Akin ( signed ) Sworn to  & subscribed in open Court  the day & year first aforesaid. J. Elliott ( signed / sealed ) C.C.P. QU Exo
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20.859
William Aikin
Fairfield District
S.  Caro

Admit as a private
for 6 months
$20
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WAR DEPARTMENT Pension Office 183 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 necessary 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 , sent this printed letter with them : and you will, by complying  with this request , greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.  A Statement showing the Service of William Aiken . Period when the service was rendered. Feby 1781, .. ( illegible ) , July 1781 . Duration of the claimant's service  2 months, 2 months, 2 months. Rank of the claimant. Private . Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served. Capt. Gray, Capt. Martin. Names and Rank of the  General and Field officers .  Col. Taylor, Col. Winn. Battles in which he was engaged . Country through which he marched. Marching through South Carolina in all his tours.  Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period. 72 years, Jackson Creek South Carolina . Evidence by which the declaration is supported.  By living witnesses. The deponent thinks he served eight months . 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 constructed to extent, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State Troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, etc., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefit 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 the 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 applicants reside. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

                                                                   DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
                                            State Territory, or District of
                                             County of
On this             day of                                personally appeared (a) before  
          A B. a resident (b) of                              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 provision 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 offices:

(Here set forth the names and ranks of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service ; (and if he server under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particlar period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &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 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 name 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 the 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 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 days 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 Court of do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the orginal proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of for pension.

 In testimony whereof, I 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 orginal 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 hid personal knowledge of the service oh the applicant, and such circumstance connected therewith as may have a tendency to throw lightupon 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 material facts, which can be used in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person 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, it 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 ol his case.

 The Court will propound 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 you 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 of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Reginents 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 receive 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 to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.

The Court will see that the answers to these 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 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 a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certity to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.

The traditionary evidence of service is deened very important, in the absence of any direct proof except the declaration of the party.
And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general or whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.

Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.

Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the
Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of ofice, will be annexed, stating that such person is a
Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genine signature.

No payments can be made upon account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case
of death subsequent thereto,and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the
opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
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(a) The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
(b) The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so , he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
(c) The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
(d) The declarant must mention the period of the war when he served.
(e) Every continental officer or soldiers must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, 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. 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 depots and saith, that by reason of ld age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positive as to the precise length of his service; but according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the period mentioned below, and in the following grades: ---For____year_____month____days, I served as a ______ for _______ months and ______ days, I served as a ________; and for such service I claim a Pension"

It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant. served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. ome persons who apply for pensions mere state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must begin every case, be clearly shown under what officer the applicant severed; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corp 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 n any civil pursuit.
(f) The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
(g) The opinion of the Court is always required.
(h) The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
(i) The Clerk must fix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certified officer, should accompany the papers.

                                                      Mode of authenticating papers.

In every instance where the certifing officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certiicate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

                                                                   Proof of Service

(j) In 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 claimant's 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 verify 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.
The notes from (a) to (i) are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule is
note (j) applies to continental troops only.
(k)This traditionury evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
(l) If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
(m) The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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No 497
Hannah Aiken
Widow of William
SC Act June 17/44

Married befor 1794
Husband died 31st Oct 44
AONW
$20 per an from 31st
Oct 1844
Rule relaxed in this
case by [illegible] 
the Commission


Hon D Wallace
House of Rep
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[ State of South Carolina Chester District ] On this 26 day of June 1847 personally appeared before me  John Banks one of the acting Magistrates in and for the District aforesaid  Hannah Aiken , a resident of the State & District  aforesaid aged __ years , who being first duly sworn according to law , doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed March 3rd 1843  and June 17th 1844, granting pensions to certain widows of Revolutionary soldiers. That she is the widow of William Aiken  late  Revolutionary pensioner deceased of Chester District , State of South Carolina who was a  soldier in the  Army of the Revolution and drew a pension under the act of 7 June 1832, at the rate of twenty dollars per annum. She further  declares  that she was married to the said William Aiken in Fairfield district S.C. in  the month of  __ seventeen hundred and eighty  three  ( 1783 )  just at the close of the revolution, and that her husband and  the aforesaid  William Aiken died on the 31st day of October , eighteen hundred and forty four ( 1844 ) and that she has remained a widow ever since that period. She also declares that she has no family license showing the date of her marriage , nor the births of her children. Sworn to an subscribed on the day and year first above written  before me John Banks ( signed ) Magt. Hannah Aiken ( her mark )
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[ South Carolina Chester District ] I, Jno. Banks a Magistrate in and for the District & State aforesaid do hereby certify that  Hannah Aiken who has this day  sworn  and subscribed to the foregoing declaration  before me, is by reason of old age and bodily infirmity  unable to go to  Court to make her said declaration, that she is and has been for some twelve months  past confined to her bed, and not able to  leave it without help. I also certify  that she is to my own personal knowledge the widow of William Aiken who was a Revolutionary pensioner, and that her statements in the present case she is entitled to full credit. Given under my hand  this 26 day of June 1847 . John Banks ( signed ) Magt.   [ South Carolina ] I, John Rosborough clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for  Chester District , certify that John Banks  is a Magistrate as above and the the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine . In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office  and  subscribed my name this 27th day of June 1847 . J Rosborough ( signed / sealed ) Clerk   CCP
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[ left page ] Letter to S. A. Bettis  April 12 : 1850  with  H. Aiken certificate Let. to  O.R. Thompson .. ( illegible ) 1852 same 16 Sept 1852 . Died Oct 31, 1851 (NBC)( right page ) 4882 South Carolina Hannah Aiken  widow of William Aiken SC who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private. Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars __ Cents per annum , to commence on the 4th  day of March 1848 . Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of June 1849  and sent to  S. A. Bettis  Present. recorded on roll of Pensioners under act  February 2, 1848  Page 302 Vol. __
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[ South Carolina Fairfield District ] Personally appeared before me John Wylie and made oath that his wife Nancy Wylie is the daughter of the late William  Aiken  late pensioner deceased of Chester District, and Hannah  Aiken his wife, that she the said Nancy Wylie was born in  March 1784  that he has a record of her age which he copied some years since from an old original Family record of the aforesaid William and Hannah Aiken and that he verily believes it  to be correct  and true and that the same is hereunto appended . This deponent further states on his oath that he was married to the said Nancy Aiken ,  who  was the daughter and oldest child of the aforesaid William and Hannah Aiken. On the first day of January  AD 1805  and that his first child was born in November of  the same year, and that a record of the ages of his oldest child is hereunto appended. This deponent also states on oath that he came to the United States  from Ireland in the year one thousand seven hundred  and eighty seven and settled in Fairfield District in the  State aforesaid and in the immediate neighborhood of the aforesaid William and Hannah Aiken , at which time  and place they were living together as husband and wife to deponent's certain knowledge and were recognized as lawful man and wife by their neighbors. Sworn to and subscribed before me  October 10th  A.D. 1848 . R. M. McDowell ( signed ) MFD John Wiley ( signed ) I, R. M. McDowell  Magistrate do hereby certify that John Wiley who made the above affidavit is a person entitled to  the very highest credit for his veracity , integrity , etc. October 10th AD 1848  R.M. McDowell ( signed ) MFD
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[The State of South Carolina ] I, A. M. Yongue  clerk of the Court of  Common  Pleas  for Fairfield District  and State aforesaid do hereby certify that  R. M. McDowell before whom the foregoing affidavit was proven is an acting  Magistrate and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. I further certify that the records of my office afford no evidence of Marriages. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office  at Winnsborough this 10th day of October  A.D. 1848. A. M. Yongue ( signed / sealed )  C.C.P.
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The children of Wm & Hannah Aikens for new Pension Certificate.

Direct all letters to
O R Thompson
Winnsboro
So Ca
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[ The State of South Carolina Fairfield District ] SS  On this twenty ninth day of January A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty two  personally appeared before me a Magistrate within and for the District of Chester and State  aforesaid , Miss Martha Aiken  a resident of  Chester District in the  State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law  declares that she is the daughter of  Hannah Aiken late deceased, that her mother Hannah Aiken  was inscribed on the  Revolutionary pension  Roll after her father's decease  which was on the 30th day of  October 1844. That her father drew a pension  up to the time of his death , and after his decease her mother  Hannah Aiken  employed a pension agent by the name __Bettis . & procured her pension on account of her husband  William Aiken's services in the  Revolutionary war. and to get her pension certificate which he did and paid over to her a payment or two , the amount not recollected. That the pension Certificate has been lost or mislaid and the said __ Bettis the agent, has removed to parts unknown. That this deponent  is informed that there is nearly seven years pension due to  this  deponent and the other surviving children of William Aiken and Hannah Aiken ( less the amount paid to her   mother . )That her father  William Aiken died on the 30th October 1844  and her mother the 29th day of October A.D. 1851. That this deponent makes this declaration
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for the purpose of receiving a certificate of the pension due to this deponent  and the other surviving children  of their father  William Aiken  & Hannah Aiken  deceased up to the time of their Mother's death. Reference is hereby made for further proof  to the pension Rolls and the applications of  Wm Aiken  & Hannah Aiken his wife for Pension  heretofore made. Sworn to and subscribed before me 29th Jany 1852. The erasure and interlinations made before signing . Martha Akin ( signed ) David Jamison ( signed ) Magistrate [ The State of South Carolina Chester District ] I, John Rosborough  clerk of the Court of  General Sessions & Common Pleas  for Chester District  certify that David Jamison is a Magistrate as above , and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine . In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this ninth day of February  in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two & in the seventy sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America. J Rosborough ( signed / sealed ) Clerk Court of  GS & C Pls
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Nancy Aikin
was born March
18th 1784

[page is old and dark ... a record of  births and difficult to transcribe]

Joseph M Wiley
was born November
the ? 1805

Sarah Ann Wiley
was born February
the
16 1807

Green Wiley  was 
born January the
10, 1809


[illegible]   Wiley was
December 13 1810
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[This page is torn out of a book and  is difficult to transcribe...
Ink smuggies
hole in page 
small print
very detailed
Title:
Table of Weights and Measures mentioned in Scripture
Sub Titles
Measure of application
Measure of capacity of things
A Table of Money

etc]
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Wid. File No. 8314. Willian Akin (Aiken or Aikin) was born in February 1760, in County Antrim, Ireland, emigrated
to Pennsylvania in 1775. and removed to Fairfield District
South Carolina. in 1779, where he was drafted and served in the South Carolina troops.

He married in 1783. Hannah —-; he died October 31,
1844, and she survived him in Chester District. South Carolina . and died Detober 29. 1851.

If either of the above named soldiers is the one whose
history your constituent desires please notify this Bureau 
and the military record as set forth in the papers on file will be furnished you.


Very truly yours.
G M Saltzgaber [signature]
Commissioner.

To  Hon Lemuel P Padgett,
House of Represent.
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 8314
Hannah Aiken
Wid
William Aiken
Prvt Rev War

Act: Feby 2nd 1848.
Index: - Vol. A , Page 6

[Arrangement of 1870]

[left side ]

1914 Feb 27 Hon 
Lemuel P Padgett
brief data
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letter 3 July 1837 Pension Agent
Letter to 3rd Auditor July
11th 1842

Paid at the Treasury under
the Act of April 6th 1838 from
4th March 1837 to the 4th Sept
1841. Agt notified July 21nd 1842

[illegible] to pay. 7. April 1843.


V   No. 497
Hannah [illegible]

[Bottom of the page is too dark to Transcribe]
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573

South Carolina 
Hannah Aiken
widow of William
who was a private
in the

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars  per annum, to commence on the 21st day of October, 1844.

Certificate of Pension issued the 
3 day of March [illegible]
and sent to 
Hon D Wallace
[Act of June 17, 1844.]
H of R

Reccded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 164.
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William Aikin. S C. Act 7 July 1832  $20
To what time was last paid GCA
Paid to 4th March 1844. BLB


Pension  Office 
Feby 28 1849
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J L Edwards Esq
Commission of Pensions
[illegible word]
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Washington City D.C.  June the 13th 1849  Sir, In the claim of Mrs. Hannah Aiken of Chester District  South Carolina  pensioned under the act of the 17 June 1844, there is still a pension certificate due her that the papers called for, under the act of 2nd February  1848.Your  Department will please to look at her papers, and on  finding the matter as I have stated, you will please to send her a pension certificate directed to  Samuel Mc Keown  at Chester Court House South Carolina  and oblige. I am very respectfully  S.A. Bettis ( signed )  Jas. L. Edwards Esq. Com. of Pensions Present
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South Carolina  Roll Act 17 June  1844
Hannah Aiken widow of Wm for proper annum
To what time last paid.   Pension Office  Col

Pd 4th march 1848  BLB


Mag Bogan
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AOW Act
'48

S A Bettis.
Present.
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[ State of South Carolina Chester District ] Personally appeared before me  Moses Mc Keown one of the acting  Magistrates in and for the said District Sarah Wylie  a resident of the State  & District aforesaid  and made oath in due form of law that she is the third child of  William and Hannah Aiken  , the latter an applicant for a Pension, and that from  the best of her knowledge  & belief she was born on the 24th June 1786  and that she is now sixty two  years of age. Sworn to  and subscribed this 3rd day of Oct. 1848 before me Moses Mc Keown ( signed ) Magt.  Sarah Wylie ( signed )   Personally appeared Samuel Wylie  husband of the aforesaid Sarah before me , the above named Magistrate, and made oath in due form of law that he was well and intimately acquainted with  William Aiken  late pensioner dec'd  also with his wife Hannah for many years prior to this marriage into the said Family., that he was married to the above deponent  Sarah who is a daughter of the aforesaid William  & Hannah  Aiken, and the third child , that he was married to the said Sarah Aiken on the  30th January  eighteen hundred and  seven and that the date of his marriage is a matter of record . Furthermore that at the time of his said marriage with the aforesaid Sarah Aiken she the said Sarah was reputed and believed to be
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some twenty or twenty one years old. This deponent  further states on his said oath that when a boy he attended school with James Aiken a son and the second child of the aforesaid William & Hannah Aiken  , that they were  boys together, and  nearly of the same age, that the said deponent was thought to be some one or two years  the oldest and that he deponent was born in the year seventeen hundred and eighty three or four. Sworn to and subscribed  this 3rd day of Oct.  1848  before me Moses Mc Keown ( signed ) Magt. Samuel Wylie ( signed ) And I the said Magistrate do hereby certify that  Mrs. Sarah Wylie & Samuel Wylie who have  this day sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavits before me are all persons of intelligence and respectability  worthy members  of  neighborhood and State. I also certify  that they have exhibited before me  their Family Record containing a record of the births of  sundry children together with  the date of the marriage of the said Samuel & Sarah  Wylie all of which corresponds with the above statements. I also certify that Mrs. Sarah Wylie 's age as set forth  corresponds with her present appearance. Moses Mc Keown ( signed ) Magt.
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[ State of South Carolina ] I , John Rosborough  clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Chester District do hereby certify that Moses Mc Keown  before whom the foregoing and subjoined  affidavits were taken is  and was at the time of  certifying the same a lawful  acting Magistrate in and for   this  District and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed  the seal of the said Court and subscribed my name this 9th day of October 1848 . J Rosborough ( signed / sealed ) CCCPls
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Declaration  In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 2nd February  1848 Entitled "an act making further pension for surviving widows and soldiers of the Revolution. Also the benefit of the joint Resolution of the first of July 1848."  [ State of South Carolina Chester District ] On this 3rd day of Oct.  1848 personally appeared before me  Moses McKeown one of the acting Magistrates in and for the said District, Hannah Aiken  a resident of the said District & State , aged 87 years who being first duly sworn according to law , doth, on her oath make the following  declaration in order to obtain the benefit of  the provision made by the act of Congress passed  on the 2nd February  1848 , granting pensions to  widows of soldiers who served during the  Revolutionary  War. also the benefit of the joint  Resolution  of the 17 July 1848 . That she is the widow of William Aiken late Pensioner  dec'd  of the  District of Chester, State aforesaid, at the rate of $ 20. per annum , that she was married to the said  William Aiken  in the year 1782 or 1783 , and that her husband the aforesaid William Aiken died on the 31st day of October  1844 , and that she has  remained a widow ever snice his death .
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She further declares that she has no family record showing either the date of her marriage or the births of her children . But that she had five children  that were born before  the year 1794 viz : Nancy, James, Sarah, Jane  & Martha  that within the last twenty years  she has had a record  showing the ages of her oldest children which record is now lost. She also declares that she has made a declaration under the act of 17 June 1844  which is now presumed to be on file in the Pension Office in support of her claim.  Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written before me Moses McKeown ( signed ) Magistrate for Chester District  Hannah Aiken ( her mark )  And I the said Magistrate do hereby certify  that Hannah Aiken the above declarant is a person to whose statements in the above case are entitled to full credit. I also certify  that she is by reason of old age and infirmity of body unable to go to  the Court  house to make a declaration  that she is now confined to her bed and I am credibly informed has been for  last eighteen months and that there is no Judge other than that of the  Court of Ordinary , residing nearer the old lady's residence that thirty  or forty miles and the attempt to get one of them to wait on her would be hopeless. Moses Mc Keown ( signed ) Magt
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Wm Aiken
20.859
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( William Aiken 2nd sheet )  I Robert  Mc Creight  residing in the District pf Fairfield  and State aforesaid do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with William Aiken , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration  that I believe him to be seventy two years o f age. That deponent  and said William  served  together as soldiers in the tour whereof in said William 's declaration to the  45 mile house  and Dorchester and through the low country  tour two months. Heard of  him being out on different tours. , lived in the same neighborhood  at the time and now lives about three or four miles distant. He is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides  to have been a soldier of the Revolution ,and deponent knows that he was. And has full confidence in the declaration  he has made being correct. That he is a man of veracity  and truth  and his statements entitled to   full credit. Sworn to  & subscribed before me  the day and year first above written  in open Court. J. Elliott ( signed / sealed ) CCP Qu Eso   Robert  Mc Creight ( signed )  And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion , after investigation of the matter , and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department  , that the above name applicant   William Aiken was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  And the  Court  further certifies that it appears to them that  David Hamilton  and Robert Mc Creight who have
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signed the proceeding certificates are residents of Fairfield District  and are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit. Nov. 3rd, 1832  W. D. Martin ( signed ) presiding Judge ( vertical note ) ( Wm. Aiken  20.859 )  [ South Carolina ] I James Elliott  , clerk of the Curt of Common Pleas  and General Sessions for Fairfield District in the  State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said  Court ( in two sheets )  in the matter of the application of  William Aiken for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of this office this third day of November  A.D. 1832. J. Elliott ( signed ) C.C. Ps
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( William Aikens sheet  2 )  I David Hamilton  residing in the  District of Fairfield in the  State aforesaid do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with  William Aiken  who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration , that I believe him to be  seventy years of age,  that deponent and him served together in  several tours of duty in the Revolutionary War and at the time mentioned in said  Aikens  declaration  to the 45 mile house  and Dorchester and through the low country , heard of his being  our in different tours, lived in the neighborhood at the time  and now lives about four miles distant, he was reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the War, and  has full confidence in the declaration  he has made being correct , that he is a man of veracity and truth and his statements entitled to  full credit. Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above written in open Court. J. Elliott ( signed / sealed ) C.C.P. QU Exo
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[Stamp]
JAN 
16
S.C.
[illegible]

Hon Daniel Wallace
House of Representatives 
Washington City 
DC
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Chester C, House So. Ca . Jany the 14th 1849  Dear Sir , I have just rec'd from A. S. Wallace  Esq. of York the Com. of Pensions letter to you of the  9th Dec. containing the decision of that Department in the claim of Hannah Aiken  of Chester District. In this claim it appears  from the Comm's letter after admitting both service and  marriage , which includes all matters of fact in the claim,  have made a requisition  that the circumstance of the  case will not admit  of a compliance . Consequently , it they cannot be  induced to retract  from that position . Mrs. Aiken's claims is lost to her power. This claimant,  Hannah Aiken  lives some 10  miles  S. east from the Court House in the  Wylie & Hemphill neighborhood . She is the Mother  in Law of old Mr. James Wylie  who is the father of a large family of Wylies living in Chester , and it has been  always the most earnest solicitation of her friends  & companions  ( and not the commission ) that I have been induced to get up this claim. This old lady Mrs. Aiken is  now and has been for  the last four years confined  to her bed, constantly  and  cannot leave it without help , and in executing her declaration  she was qualified  to it while  held up in her bed  although her mental facilities  seen to be good. The insurmountable  requisition  made by the Department is that the old lady  is required to make a declaration before a Court of Record or before a Judge  of such a  Court and in the mean time they have decided that our Court of Ordinary  is not  Court of  record. Now you  will most readily see the almost impossibility  of compliance in the present claim. To take the old lady to the Court house is  entirely out of the question.
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and the attempt to get one of our Circuit Judges to wait on the old lady  would  be quite  as questionable  as you very well know  that there is no Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, living  nearer that some 50 miles of the  residence of claimant, and that in the time of our Court the Judge pass from one C. House to the other on the  Sabbath  not having  an opportunity  to attend to individual matters. I will call on your attention  to another matter that affords just cause of complaint in this claim which is this Mrs. Mary Johnston  a near neighbor , the first draw  of which amounted to $ 3196 , in a declaration made before a Magistrate & that too within the last two years - Mrs. Aiken 's claim in all does not amount to  $100  , and I ask why make such a distinction between neighbors, and should this  fact  be denied  the papers on file will prove the  truth of my  assertion.  In the present claim the facts in regard to the  disability of the claimant  are full set forth in the Certificate of the  officiating  Magistrate before whom  the declaration was proven as may be seen by  reference to the papers. And in conclusion I have in the behalf of Mrs. Aiken  and her friends to request to you to do us the favor to go up to the Pension Office and have this claim called up before the Commissioner while you  are present , and to state to him the facts I have communicated and try to  prevail on him to extend to Mrs. Aiken  the same courtesy  that they have  to her neighbor  Mrs. Johnston , and in case you shall not be able to succeed  before the  Com. of Pensions , I do as the  Agent of Mrs. Aiken   pray an appeal from the decision made by the said  Commissioner in regard to making and filing of the Declaration.
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to the Hon . Secretary of War on the grounds that the Com. 's decision is not in accordance with the letter and meaning of the act of 7 July 1838 , and  the instructions accompanying said act, in regard to the manner of making application etc. Your early attention is respectfully solicited and you  will please report the same to your friend  A. S. Wallace at Yorkville and oblige. Believe me to be Respectfully your obedient servant. S. A. Bettis ( signed )  Hon Daniel  Wallace House of Representatives Washington City DC
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FREE
James L Edwards. Esq
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington city 
D.C 

[Vertical]
Case 497  July 7 / 47
Hannah Aken
Act June / 44
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Chester C. House S.C. June 1847  To the Commissioner of Pensions  Washington  City  Sir, I enclose to you the Declaration of my  Mother applicant for a pension which you will  please to examine and report to me at the above place and oblige . I am yours respectfully . Jno H. Aikin  ( signed )
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT 
Second Comptroller's Office,
July 11th, 1842.

Sir: 

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,"  William Akin
a pensioner on the Roll of South Carolina Agency, at
the rate of Twenty  Dollars per annum under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1837. to the 4th Sept. 1841.


Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris (signature)
Comptroller. 
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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House of Reps US Washington  Jany 30 1849  Sir, I have carefully examined the enclosed letter of Mr. S. A. Bettis  & being of the opinion that it is  respectful in its tone and not intended to be otherwise. I have concluded to lay it before you for your consideration  that Mr. Bettis my have the full benefit of his own argument - when you make a report on the case , will you have the kindness to send Mr. Bettis' letter back to me , with the report. I find this pension business is multiplying on my hands to  most laborious extent - this being  so , it requires rather an extraordinary  effort of memory to keep up a proper chain of connection with the particular  points
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made in each case - and delay  increases this difficulty  - I shall therefore esteem it a special personal favor if my cases can be reported on at an early day . I am the more induced to make this request from the fact that I am informed that the   Rub of taking up papers  in their order only is not  adhered to  by the Departments in all cases. I have the Honor to be with much respect your obt servt. D. Wallace ( signed )  Hon J. L. Edwards War Department
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Pension Office April 12, 1850 Sir, I enclose the pension  Certificate of Hannah Aiken , widow of William Aiken  which was issued on the 15th June last and addressed to you in this City - it has just been returned through the Dead Letter Office. I am very respectfully your obt servt. J L Edwards ( signed ) Commissioner of Pensions  S. A. Bettis Esq. Chester C.H. S.C.
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James E Heath Esq
Com Pensions
Washington City
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Winnsboro  So. Carolina Feby 19th  1852  James L. Edwards Com. of Pensions Washington  D.C.  Sir , Enclosed is the  application of the children of William  and Hannah Aiken ( now both deceased ) for a new pension  certificate  the former being lost or mislaid . These parties  claim only the amount of Pension unpaid which was due at the date of their Mother's death on account of their Father's service as a Revolutionary soldier. The facts are  William Aiken  the father of the applicant drew a pension  to the time of his death  which was on or about the 30th October 1844. after which  his widow Hannah Aiken  drew by her agent  Mr. Bettis one payment the amount not  recollected. Now Hannah Aiken is dead. If it is necessary to employ an agent or atty  I will  procure at your suggestion the services of our  immediate  Representative in Congress , Hon Jos. A  Woodward M.C. or Mr. H. C. Spalding  in Washington but as the parties are poor, if the proof can be furnished  without their aid the parties would  prefer. Will you be so kind as to answer. Yours very respectfully  & Truly I . R. Thompson ( signed )
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South Western  R R Bank
Charleston 31st March 1843

Sir
I herewith forward for Authority to pay the Vouchers of John Bishop & William Aiken under Act 7th June 1832.
I am Respectfully
Your Obserent,
Jno C Cochran
Pension Agent


J L Edwards
Commissioner of pensions 
Washington 
D.C.
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SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS
____________________
Lemuel P Padgett, Chairman.
J Frederick C Talbott, MD.
Richmond E Hodson, ALA.
Albert Estopinal, LA.
Daniel J Riordan, N. Y. 
Samuel J Tribble, GA.
Samuel A Witherspoon, MISS.
Walter L Hensley, MO.
Frank Buchanan, ILL.
E R Bathrick, OHIO.
Robert E Lee, PA.

William E Williams, ILL.
John J Mitchell, MASS.
Peter G Gerry R.I.
Thomas S Butler, PA.
Ernest W Roberts, MASS.
William J Browning, N.J. 
John R Farr, PA.
Fred A Britten, ILL.
Patrick H Kelley, MICH.
William D Stephens, CAL.
Elisha S Theall, Clerk

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U.S..
COMMITTEE ON NAVAL AFFAIRS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Feby. the 23rd, 1914.

Hon. Commissioner of Pensions,
Pension Office,
City.

Dear Sir :

One of my constituents desires to know if there
were any persons by the name of Akin from South Carolina, who served in the Revolutionary War.  I would be glad if you
would have your records investigated and advise me, and, if 
so, give me their names and, if you can do so, a short statement relative to them.

With Kind regards, I am,
Very truly,
S. P. Padgett, [signature]

[note handwritten list in right margin]
Akin 
Akins
Eaken
Eakins
Aiken
Aikin
Aikins