Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13,025, Jeremiah Files, S.C.
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S.C.
Jeremiah Files
S13025
carded
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Alabama 19 700 Duplicate certificate May 1841 and Sen Moone Esq Herunto
Jeremiah Files of Blount Co in the state of Ala who was a private in the Co commanded by captain McCall of the Regt commanded by Colo Pickens in the South Carolina line for two years 
Issued on the foll of Alabama at the rate of 80 dollars 00 cents per annum to commence the 4th day of March 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Sep 1833 and sent to PD Clark Blountsville B Co Alabama
Arrears to the 4th of Sep 1833 200.00
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Mar 34 40.00
$240.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Wm R Plamer Clerk
Book E Vol 8 Page 45
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19935
Jeremiah Files Blount County
Alabama

Adm 2 years
$80

P.D. Clark Blountsville Alabama
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WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Pension Office, 
30th April 1833
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, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, sharing the Service of Jeremiah Files Blount County Alabama

Period when the service rendered. | Duration of the claimant's service | Years. | Months. | Days. | Rank of the Claimant. | Names and rank of the Field of-ficers under whom he served. Gr. [(illegiable)] | Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. | Proof by which the declaration is supported.
Vol. 24 Oct 1780 | 2 | - | - | private | Col Pickens Captain McKall | 68 years Abbyville District South Carolina | Traditionary evidence [illegiable] [illegiable] [ILLEGIABLE] [ILLEGIABLE] unlike two living [illegiable] not [illegiable] credible papers not property attached. Battle of the Cowpens
Sub Apr 9 1782 | | 6 | - | " | Cap carlile, major Noble Gr. Pickens
Vol Sepr 1783 | | 1 | 10 | " | Cap Bash[illegiable] general Pickens
Vol Sepr 1786 | - | 6 | - | trooper | Cap nourd
Vol Sepr 1786 | - | 7 | - | " | Cap Hamilton

I am, repectfully, 
Your obedient servant, 
J. L. Edwards, 
Commissioner of Pensions.
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                                                      REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 

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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The State of Alabama SS-
Blount County an this 4th day of Feburary 
in the year 1833 personally appeared in open 
Court before marston mead the Judge of the court of Blount
County  now sitting Jerimiah
Files a resident of in the county of Blount
aid State of Alabama aged sixty eight years
who being first duly sworn according to Law
doth on his oath make the following Declaration 
in order to attain the benefit of the act of congress
passed June the 7th 1832. That he entered the 
Service of the United States under the following
named officers and served as herein
stated. That on Christmas eve in the year 1780 he enrolled himself as
a volunteer in the [(crossed out)] under Col Andrew
Pickens and of the time of his enrollment
worked in Abbyville District in the State
of South Carolina and marched from thence as a volunteer with Col Pickens. to granvile shoal on packlet rivers and there joined
Gen. Morgan about the first of January in the year 1781 and then [(crossed out)] then placed under the command of Capt. McKall in the Battallion of Major Noble in the Regiment of Col Andrew Pickens of 
the South Carolina milita. My father John Files - Lieutient & Hugh Baseins thier [illegible] in said company - and from Greenville shoal we marched inder Gen Morgan to the Cowpens and was in the Battle fought there against Tarltons Legion on the
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Wednesday morning on the 17th day of January 1781 & mallet a comlmestal appear - called Col. Howard & Col [illegible] Washington of the light horse this deponent was wounded by Tarlton Dragons on the Head - on the lift mm and an the right hand each wound was made with a sword & the wounds are now wisilh the wounds greatly disalled this Dyrinent - & stuned him for some time. 
& on Capt Alexander of Rowan couty north carolina came [(crossed out)] was the first man came to his wlmf & informed him of our victory - & frmo tence he was carried in a horse bier three days into Gen Mr gaw army and arrived at the town of Gilbert in north carolina and there left the army and was taken to gen Charles McDaniels at the quaker meadows on the calawla River and there with one Michael Cam an American and siscture wounded British solider were placed under a surgeon by the name of Radcilf  (a dutchman) & there remained sixteen days & from thence left the British soliders and moved six miles to martin Deadirley; on [illegible] River & remained there 18 days - & [illegible] returned home & remained unable to do duty with the rest of [illegible] in said year &
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June was attached to Capt Moses Liddells company who by order of Col Pickens continued on the Frontiers of South Carolina [crossed out with] Committing Depredations on the Tories & Indians and this deponent remained with said company and about the first of Junary was discharged by Capt Liddell and sometime in the spring of the year 1782 he again enrolled himself as a substitute in the place of John Files at the South Carolina militia in the company of capt Francis Carlile under & in the Battalion of major Noble in Gen Pickens Brigade & from abbville District marched through arrange being and joined Gen Gravs army some time in the spring of said year at Bacons Bridge about twenty miles from Charleston and remained in Gen Gravs army about one month [crossed out I was Taken sick] and this deponent with Major Nobles Troops returned to abbyville District & was attached to capt Robert Caruthers company the first of Autust in 1782 under the command of Gen Pickens and Continued in said company six months and whilst with the same marched under Gen Pickens into the Cherockee Indians nation and was in a schermish against the Indians at Tessanty town & [crossed out killed] Nackooche town & at those two towns our army killed thirty seven Indians & we had only two men wounded & none killed their names were Joseph Chapman and
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Britian Willis & from thence Destroyed their stock Corn & Beans in the faul of said year & then returned home and remained in capt Caruthers & Continued in active service until the last of January or first of February in the year 1783 and discharged and he again enrolled himself as a volunteer in the company of capt Wm Baskin under Gen Pickens in the Regt of Col Robert Anderson of the south Carolina militia man the last of september in the year 1783 and marched against the cherochee Indians and destroyed their towns at the Big Savanah on Hightower and one town called Vans Village on Long swamp creek & Pine Log town & thence returned home after being in service in said town forty days and the Indians said for peace and was discharged some time about the month of November in said year & he remained at home until the month of September in the year 1784 when he again enrolled him self as a volunteer in the company of capt John Norred or Norwood at the South Carolina militia as horsemen and continued under him Statoned at a Garrison near Waltons Ford an Tugular River until he served six months and was discharged
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Sometime in the month of March in the year 1785 the day not recolliced & he was out of the service until about the tenth or fifteenth of September in the year 1786 when he again enrolled himself as a volunteer in the company of Capt James [crossed out Hambleton] Hamilton of the South Carolina Indian spies and continued with as a spie on the frontiers of South Carolina until the Last of April in the year 1787 and whilst acting as a spie came in contact with a party of Indians on Hitower & had a skirmish with them Capt Hamilton & John Cleveland were wounded & we retreated & thy pursued us thru miles and whilst on said town was detached as a life guard to Gen Pickens who was on his way to the Cherochee nation to act as an agent or commissioner to expect an exchange of prisoners at the mouth of Swennenow River on French Broad and Daring all the campaighns aforesaid this deponents home was in abbyville district int he state of South Carolina and he has no documentary evidence of his services he received no written discharge But states that in consequence of his wounds received in the Revolution he was placed on the pension List under an act of the [crossed out Pension]  Legislature of South Carolina he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except
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the present and declares that his name is not on the pension rool of the agency of any state; But only recals a pension by vertue of an act of the state of South Carolina & not by the Congress of the United States
Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid Jeremiah Files
Personally appeared in open court on the day and year aforesaid John McAllum aged sixty six a citizen of Blount County Alabama who after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that Jeremiah Files now here present was of his own knowledge in the month of Sept in the year 1784 was a volunteer in the company of capt John Norred marched volanters of South Carolina militia and the said Files served under him six months in said company with this deponent they were in the same mys & stationed at a garrison on Tugular River near Waltons ford and the said Files of his own knowledge was an Indian spy under capt James Hamilton and he continued in actual service as a spy under said Hamilton an the frontiers of South Carolina & with Cherochee nation until towards the Last of April or first of May in the year [crossed out 188] 1787 and the said Files was with this Deponent in
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me in said actual and I well recollct that said Files pursued & caught him and give him to me whilst our parts was retreating and the Indians pursuing this deponent states that to the best of his knowlege said Files & himself voluntured as spys under said Hamilton about the fifteenth of September 1786 they were in service together under the Last named officers about thriteen and a half months
John McCollum
Sworn & subscribed to in open court this 4th day of February 1833
Mr John Fowler a clergyman residing in the county of Blount & state of Alabama and James Windsor residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jeremiah Files who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty eight years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to hav e been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion sworn subscribed the day & year aforesaid
John Fawler
James Windsor
The several answer of Jeremiah Files to the interrogatories propounded to them by the court in pursuance to the instruchans of the war department Answer first I was born in Virginia on Roanoak River in the year 1765 I know not the county I have no record of my age I was Living in
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abbyville District in the State of South when called into service I have lived since the Revolution in Pendleton District in South Carolina some over Thirty years on until 1819 and then removed to Blount county Alabama resided there ever since and now reside in Blount county alabama I was a voluntur every time but once and then I was a substitute in place of John Files I know Col Howard Gen Morgan Col Wm Washington and their respective regiments I received no written Discharge from the service I am known in my present neighborhood by John Fowler John McKollum Jame Sonnor James Rice James Moon & Martin West & James Windsor all of whom can Testify as to my character for verasity and their belief as to my services in the revolution Jeremiah Files
subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion oafter 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 [crossed out them that] them that [crossed out foregoing Files who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergy] John Fowler who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in the county of Blount & state of Alabama and that James Windsor who has also signed the same is a resident in the county of Blount & state of Alabama and
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is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
I Mace T Brindley clerk of the court of the county of Blount in the state of Alabama do hereby certify that the forgoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Jeremiah Files for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the private  (having no public or official) seal of said county court at office this fourth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thrity three & of American Independence the 57 
Mace T Brindley clerk 
The state of Alabama Blount county Be it remembered at the court hold in the town of Blountsville on the 6th day of July in the yar of our Lord 1833 before Marston Mead judge of said county court the original is a foregoing proceeding of Jeremiah Files on his application for a pension was presented to this court for a judgement
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and the said court Do hereby certify that John McCollum who appeared in open court before the Judge of this court on the 4th day of February 1833 and who signed and made oath to the forgoing affidavit & services of Jeremiah Files is a credible person residing in the county of Blount in the State of Alabama and that his statement is entitled to credit given under my hand this 6th day of July in the year of our Lord 1833
Marston Meade
Judge CCBCo
The state of Alabama Blount county ss} I Mace T P Brindley clerk of the court of said Blount county do hereby certify that the forgoing contains the original & subsequent amended proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Jeremiah Files for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this sixth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
Mace TP Brindely Clerk CC
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The state of Alabama Blount County SS} Before me Ira E McMillian a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared [crossed out Jeremiah] Thomas Clark who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that of his own knowledge Jeremiah Files Senior now here present was a soldier of the revolution & served with this deponent under the previous named officers that they were enrolled in the company of Capt Francis Carlisle under Major Noble under the command of Gen Andrew Pickens of the South Carolina militia they rendezvoused together in Abbyville District in the Spring of the year 1782 as well as he recollects & whilst the British were stationed in Charleston & this deponent recollects services with said Files thee months tour & marched from Abbyville to Gen Greens Army there encamped at Bacons Bridge about twenty miles from Charleston & there after his discharge he returned again & service with risn in the company of Capt Robert Caruthers & in the company of Capt John Norwich (or Norred) under the command of Genl Andrew Pickens of South Carolina militia this Deponent states that to the best of his recollection said Files served under Gen Pickens and or said officers with him about Twelve months & he was in the service when peace was 

made said Files was a mounted militia
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man nearly all the time he served with this deponent he was with me the first tour an Gen Greens Army while Staton near Charleston & prove thence to the North his time Fronteers of South Carolina against the Indians & Tories & further this deponent saith not Thos Clarke
subscribed & sworn to before me this 16th day of November 1832
E McMillion seal a justice of the peace of Blount county do hereby certify that the Ira E McMillion before whom the forgoing affidavit was made & who subscribed the same as a justice of the peace is a Justice of the Peace in & for said state & county & that the signature annexed is his genuine signature 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affix the private (having no public or official) seal of said county court at office this fourth day of February in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three & of American Independence the 57 
Mace T Brindley clkerk CC
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[ The State of Alabama Blount County ] SS  I Ira Mc Millan a Justice of the peace of Blount County in the State of  Alabama  do hereby certify  that Thomas Clark who subscribed and was by me sworn to the foregoing affidavit  on the 16th day of November 1832   in relation to the revolutionary services of Jeremiah Files a resident citizen of the County of Tuscaloosa  in the  State of Alabama and the said Thomas Clark is reputed to be a credible person and as such his statement  is entitled to credit.  Given under my hand and seal this 13th day of July 1833. Ira E. Mc Millan ( signed / sealed )  A Justice of the Peace for Blount County [ The State of Alabama Blount County ] SS  I Mace  T P Brindley  clerk of the  Court of the County of Blount  aforesaid do hereby certify  that Ira E. Mc Millan  who made & subscribed  & sealed the foregoing certificate as to the credibility of Thomas Clark  as a Justice of the Peace of this County  as well as also on the  16th - the date of said certificate  the time of the  said Thomas Clark making affidavit before the same Ira E. Mc Millan  an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the aforesaid County of Blount  duly commissioned a& qualified to act as such  & to administer oaths. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed the seal of said Court at office in the Town of Blountsville  County  & State aforesaid  this thirteenth day of July  in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and  thirty three  & of  American Independence the fifty eighth year . Mace T P Brindley ( signed / sealed ) Clerk C.C.
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13025
INVALID
Rev War
File No 
Jeremiah Files
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index Vol Page
[Arrangement of 1870]
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[crossed out
Acts of July 14 1862 and March 3, 1873]
3537 REJECTED
PO 
Jeremiah FIles
Service
Enlisted 18
Discharged 18
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No 24372
Jeremiah Files
Ala
Letter Hon David Hubbard 13th Apl 1850
3537
act 7 June 1832
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Blountsville A  Free
July 15th
JL Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City 
Ala act
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Blountsville, Alabama  July 14th 1833  J L Edwards  Esq. Dear Sir the papers of Mr. Jeremiah Files of this County are  herewith returned amended according to instructions in your Brief  enclosed . There is no doubt of  Mr. Files  rendering service in the  Revolution & receiving several wounds  which he exhibited in open Court . I shall expect to be informed of the final action on his case & oblige . Yours ,etc. Philip D Clack ( signed )
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[ State of Alabama Madison County ] On this twenty fourth day of April in the year  eighteen hundred and  forty one, before me the subscriber  , a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Madison , personally appeared Jeremiah Files , who on his oath declares that he is the same person  who formerly  belonged to the company commanded by  Captain __ in the Regiment commanded by  Colonel ___ Mc Call in the  service of the United States , that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Alabama , that he received a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War  , which certificate on or about  the  twentieth  day of September , eighteen hundred and  forty , at or near Huntsville, in the said State of Alabama  ; he lost.  Affiant states that on the said  twentieth day of September last  he was in the said Town of Huntsville and  there received his pension of the Pension Agent  and before he left  Town  he  missed his card  Pension Certificate - that he immediately  made diligent search and inquiry for it , and has done so  .. ( illegible )  but has not been enabled to find it or to hear  anything about it . Subscribed and sworn  before me this 24th day of April 1841 . Jeremiah Files ( his mark ) Jno. B Eldridge ( signed ) J.P. Witness B. T. Moore ( signed )  [ State of Alabama Madison County ] Before me , John B. Eldridge a  Justice of the Peace  in and for the County aforesaid , this day personally appeared   Charles McClellan  of the  Town of Huntsville, in the County and  State aforesaid and to me personally known  to be a gentleman  of veracity  and made oath in due form of law  that he well knows Jeremiah Files to be the same person  represented in the above affidavit - said affiant also knows of  his own personal knowledge  that said Jeremiah Files has received his pay as a pensioner on four different occasions  at the Agency at Huntsville. Subscribed  and sworn  before me this 24th day of April 1841.  Chs McClellan ( signed ) Jno. B Eldridge ( signed ) J. P.
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I Bentley  M Lowe Agent of the United States of America for paying Pensions at Huntsville in the State of Alabama  , do certify that  Jeremiah Files  who has this day  made the  affidavit  to which his name is inscribed on the first page of this sheet of paper is the same individual  to whom I have paid a pension at  from different times, in person and that he the said Jeremiah Files has heretofore had in his possession a pension  certificate  issued to him , said Jeremiah Files. 24th  April 1841. B.M. Lowe ( signed ) Pension Agent  [ The State of Alabama Madison County ] I, Richard B. Pindorn  clerk of the County Court  of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that John B. Eldridge before  whom the foregoing affidavit   by Jeremiah Files  and Charles McClellan was  subscribed and sworn  is a Magistrate in and for the  County aforesaid , duly commissioned and sworn  ant that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereto  subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County Court , at office , in Huntsville,  tis the twenty fourth day of April, A.D.  one thousand eight hundred and forty one. Rich'd. B. Pindorn ( signed ) Clerk of the County Court  of Madison County  in  the  State of Alabama
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May 8 1841
JW Evans

[post marked
H illegible VILLE AL 
APR 27]
J
Hon Joseph L Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington City 
DC
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Huntsville, Alabama  24th April 1841  Hon Joseph L. Edwards  Com. of Pensions Washington  City D.C.  Enclosed I send you the evidence of the loss of Jeremiah Files , a revolutionary Pensioner,  of  his Pension certificate - He requests that s Duplicate for  him be forwarded to me , at this place. I am , very respectfully your obt servt. B . T. Moore ( signed )   The blanks in the affidavit of Jeremiah Files is not filled up because he could not  recollect his Captain's name  nor the Christian name of his lieutenant. B. T. Moore ( signed )
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Nov. 28 1843 Alabama  arrears due Jeremiah Files ( vertical on page ) Jasper  A. Nov 13  Hon J. L. Edwards  Com of Pensions Washington  City D.C.
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Jasper , Ala. Nov. 11th 1843. Dr Sir, Mr. Jeremiah Files a Pensioner on account of  revolutionary  services s also a Pensioner of the  State of South Carolina  for services rendered as a horse & foot man from  May 1780 to July 1783 . the law  of  that  State requires the pensioner  to appear in person to draw  his pension . Mr. Jeremiah Files  has not made application since the year 1834  ( consequently  nine years arrearage of pension is due him )  without  knowing  that  on a failure to draw  annually he  had to make  application at the as he states Pension office  in Washington  City  to renew  or get again in  receipt of his  State Pension , which sort of application   he is to make - he is  not sufficiently  avoided, he has the  original  certificate  of  the Comptroller  General  of the  State of South Carolina  of which you have  enclosed a "duplicate "  which  I thought  will be his  duty to transmit to  the department , but request that you inform him  if it be actually necessary  , and also wishes to be advised  whether  in making application - at your office for a renewal of his pension be necessary  to
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have sent to you  his  home certificate , with the certificate of the Comptroller General of S.C. and what additional evidence is necessary  whether any evidence of identity  is necessary  etc. etc. , I am  compelled to resort  to this  method in this Section of the  State ( altho ' troublesome to yourself )  because we have no documents by which  we can be informed how  experts make application - and also in addition  to your difficulty in transacting this kind of business .  Mr. Jeremiah Files is so  very old that  his recollection has very nearly failed him and cannot give much  information about his Pension which caused me to have to address a letter to the Comptroller General of South Carolina  in relation to his Pension , and in answer  he gave the certificate  a copy of which I  send you  and also the following instructions how to proceed which  now  causes me to address you , he says Mr. Files drew his last annual pension  in 34  consequently  there would remain nine years arrearages due him provided he has complied with the requisitions of the act passed by the Legislature  in  36 - namely  That application  is made  & the Commissioner of Pensions  at Washington City
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and in the event of failing to establish his claim  at Washington  - I have to have the same certificate  to  retaining and producing  the  Commissioner whose in answer to his ( Files ) application - These two  - the home certificate and his commissioner's reply  when presented in person to the  Treasurer of the State of South Carolina  will establish his claim of the arrearages due  and to the continuation of his annual pay  ( he says  again  ) I have transcribed a copy  from the  Records in this office  of the services of  Mr. Files and which he will transmit  to the Commissioner of Pensions  at  Washington City  - provided he has not heretofore done so , neither  furnished that officer with a certificate from his office , etc. etc.  When I commenced writing  2 sheets only  to send you a copy  of the Comptroller's certificate  of S.C. , but  I see that  it is proper to send you  original certificates  & consequently   the  enclosure is the  certificate itself , which  you will return until we  get our instructions in proper form  etc. etc. I hope that under the circumstances  you will not  regard it as too much to ask  of you  & give  us your  advise accordingly .
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your address will be to myself at Jasper . Ala.  for case of Jeremiah Files. I am  dr Sir  Respectfully your obt servt . Jesse D. Beauchamp ( signed )    Hon J. L. Edwards Comm. of Pensions  Washington City D.C.  Nov 27 , 1843 Alabama Arrears due Jeremiah Files
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No 24.512
Jeremiah Files
Ala
Act 7 June 1832
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Compt Genl's Office Columbia S.C.  Mar. 1850  Hon . Dr. Stubbard Dear Sir, Your favor to  R. C. Griffin Esq. Treasurer was handed me , as this office is furnished  with the Records of the Revolution - I find the name of Jeremiah Files audited  with 445 days on horseback & 40 on foot in the militia alternately from 1780 to 1783  per Capt. Wm Baskin's  Pay  Bill and an order from said Files enclosed in favor of Mary Files before Jno Harris J. P. Abbeville County . The Treasury office will show that  he received an annuity as a wounded soldier - The only way by which Pensions are obtained from this  State is by petition to the Legislature & I could  not say what success might attend an application from persons not living in the  State. The act of Congress 7th June 1832 should have given him a pension and that of  4th July 1836 , his widow - It is therefore in my opinion  advisable to apply to the Pension Office  Washington  & when  required the evidence her can be obtained. Very respectfully yr obt servt. James A. Black  ( signed ) Dep.
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Comptrollers office
Columbia So Ca Octobr 2/43
Indent Book
O N 407 Issued 20 April 1785 to Mr Jeremiah Files for Sixty seven pounds seventeen shillings and one penny half penny sterling; duty done in the militia on Foot & horse in 1780 & 1783 pr acct audited
No 28 Principal L 67:17:1 1/2
Annual Ins L 4:13:11
Acct N 28
Jeremiah Files for duty pr Capt William Baskins pay bill com in May 1780 & noing in July 1783
Day on Horse 455 Day as private 20 / L455:
on Foot 40 day do c 10 / 20
Currenty L 475
Sterlg L 067:17:1 1/2
I certify the above to be a true copy from the records in this office
For Comptroller Genl
J Saval
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FREE
Hon David Hubbard
Member of Congress
Washington City
DC
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Treasury Office Columbia 
March the 27th 1850

Hon David Hubbard

Dear Sir

In reply to yours of the 22nd inst received this morning I would say that The name of Jeremiah Files of (Pendleton Co) appears in the records of this office as a Pensioner being placed then in the 27th of Feb 1796 and continued to April 1803 when his last annuity of 21.42.8 was drawn The record of services rendered will be found in the office of the Comptroller General of this state to whose Deputy I will give your letter when he comes here and who doubtless will answer [crossed out your letter] it more fully than I do and it is to his department the subject properly belongs
I have the honor to be 
your most obt servant
Thomas Frean
 For Treasurer
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Washington DC 10 April 1830
Honl JL Edwards
Commr on Pensions
Dear Sir
Jeremiah Files {crossed out of Walker] late of Walker county Ala it appears was entitled to a pension under the act of Congress of 1832 as appeared by the enclosed letter & his widow under the act of 1836 Will you be pleased to inform me if from the Rolls of the Revolutionary amy from South Carolina his name appears upon the same as entitled to a pension or will these letters from the officers of South Carolina be sufficient to place [crossed out them] his info upon the roll? or what must I do to obtain her pension I knew Mr Files well a months good man & a sterling patriot his widow now needs this pittance & I shall feel greatly obliged if you
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will give me the needful information in this matter  had been of opinion that the pension not due from So Carolina but suppose the soldier as well as myself to have been mistaken 
I know that M Files has died about 18 months since
Respectfully
David Hubbard 

If the enclosed letter an not of use as voucher please return them D H