Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9421, for James Moseley, South Carolina
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S.C.

Moseley, James
or Mosely

S. 9421
B.L.M. 40688-160-55
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South Carolina 16415
James Mosely Gen.
of union in the State of So Car
who was a Pri in the [blank] commanded by Captain [blank] of the reg. commanded by Col. Thomas in the So Car 
fine for 8 mo: 7 days

Inscribed on the Roll of So. Carolina
at the rate of 27 dollars 44 cents per annum. 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of August
and [illegible] John Rogers
Union C.H. So Car

Appears to the 4th of March 1833 
Semi-ann. allowance ending [illegible]

$54.88
  13.72
$68.60

{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Nath Rice Clerk, 
Book E Vol. 6 Page 74

See letter to P. Sgt. Dec. 11. 1833
See letter to Do. aft 16
1836 [illegible] J.P. Dawkins, June 15
1837 [illegible] P. aft Aug 2 1837
Order to [illegible] 3 Haley 1838
Letter to D. Wallace of 3 and
215 Haley 1840
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the [illegible] 1838 from 4 Sept 1837 to 4 March 1839 Aft notified 12 March 1840
Order to pay 4th [illegible] 1840
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44-5-69

Act near 3/53-
May 5/56

Jane McWhirter

Jane McWhirter
[illegible] child of James Moseley
James Moseley, Sew. 

M40688
Pension Rev: [illegible]
Boynton

S.C. June 32-16415

Ad: 160.Ac, Aug: 29/56
Boynton

Claimant
Unionville
S.C.

Vol. Mc2-104.
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State of South Carolina
Union District

On this the 10th day of October 1832 personally appeared in [illegible] Court before the Judge of the Court of common Pleas and Session, now finally for this District aforesaid, James Mosely Sews. a resident in Union District aged seventy five years who being first duly sworn in form of Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress dated June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. I entered the service in the Ninety-Six District in that part of it now called Union, in the month of June 1776 in Capt. Bullock's Company in Col. John Thomas' Regt. under command of Genrl. Williams' on, as a volunteer to fight the Cherokee Indians, and was in service during the whole campaign say from June to the last of October following. In March 1781 I entered the service in Capt. Gill's company, Col. Lacy's Regt. commanded by Genrl. Sumpter, and continued therein November following the May 1782 I served a months tour at Oldenburg in Capt. Thomson's company and Col. Farr's Regt. Capt. Thomson commanding. In the September following, I marched in Capt. Thomson's commanded by Lieutenant Latimore, in Col. Farr's Regt. commanded by Genrl. Pickens against the Cherokee Indians for about seven weeks. I was in several light skirmishes and one regular battle in my first campaign against the Cherokees. I served at the taking of [illegible]. And was at the Siege of [illegible], and was at the cutting up an English Regt. and destroying a fort on the East Side of Cooper River nearly of [illegible], are of
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several other light engagements during the tour of 1781 under Genrl. Sumpter the whole time I was a soldier. I have no documentary evidence of my service, except those enclosed and herewith transmitted and can only defer to Capt. Joshua Palmer for my services in the Indian Campaigns, and there is no more serving that I know of in my reach who can testify to my other services. I never have drawn any pension from any State, nor have I ever before petitioned for any, and I do hereby relinquish all claim whatsoever to a pension from any State, upon the condition that I attain a pension from the United States. 

For answer to the interrogations just by the Court [illegible]. 

I was born on the 24th of December 1756 in Brunswick County in the State of Virginia but has no records of my age, it was been [illegible]. 

3rd, I lived in Union District and Chester at the time of my services and have lived in Union District ever since. 

4th in the written declaration I was chiefly a volunteer. 

5th Col. Sumpter, afterwards Genrl. Sumpter was with us in part of the Indian Campaign. In the campaigns under Genrl. Sumpter I was frequently with Col. Washington and Lee before Washington was taken prisoner at the Battle of Eutaw. 

6th I never had any discharge nor any written testimony of my services more than the papers above referred to. 

7th I refer to the Reverend Thos Greer and Genrl. Elijah Dawkins and Maj. J.S. Sims and John Gage Sews. to favor my character for truth and moral department. 

Sworn to and subscribed this the 10th October 1832.

[signatures]
Jno B O Neall
Pleas Judge

James Moseley
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James Moseley's Declaration

Annul as pervale
8 mo and 7 days
$27.44

John Rogers
numer C.H.
S.C.
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Thom. S. Greer a clergyman residing in Union District and John Gage as a Genrl. Elijah Dawkins and J.S. Sims residing in the same do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Moseley Seur. who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration; that we believe him to be seventy five years of age. That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he lives to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion. And we also know him to be a man of the strictest moral integrity and truth. 

Sworn to and subscribed this the 10th Oct. 1832. 
[signatures] Jno B O'Neall
John Gage
Thom. S. Greer
Elijah Dawkins
J.S. Sims

Once the said Court do hereby declare to opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations transcribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. The Court does further certify that it appears to it that Thomas S Greer who has signed the foregoing certificate is a clergyman residing in the District of Union and that John Gage, Elijah Dawkins, and J.S. Sims who have also signed the same are credible persons and their statements entitled to credit. 

[signature] Jno B O Neall
Pleas Judge
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State of South Carolina
Marion District 

I John Rogers Clerk of the Court of Sessions and Common Pleas in and for the said District of Marion, do hereby certify that the foregoing contain the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Mosley for a pension. 

In testimony whereof have hereunto see my hand and seal of office this 15th day of October 1832. 

John Rogers Clrk.
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State of South Carolina
Union District 

On this twenty ninth day of April and one thousand eight hundred and fifty six personally appeared before me a notary public of the District and state aforesaid Jane McWhirter aged seventy years a resident of the same District and state aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the daughter [crossed out of the] and only pension child of the included James Mosley [crossed out who] sir who was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States under Act of Congress [illegible] this [blank] day of [blank] 18- That she was born at her fathers residence in Union District in the thirty first day of December as eighteen hundred and thirty five and was married to her husband Shelton McWhirter on the sixteenth day of July as 1850 who joins her in this declaration as appears from his signature and certificate underwritten and that his name afore his said marriage was Jane Mosley; that her father the said James Mosley died at his residence in the District and State aforesaid on or about the nineteenth day of May as one thousand eight hundred and forty and left no widow himserving her mother having died about the second day of October 1839; she sign here to after to the annexed certificate and affidavit and also to the pension rolls for proof of the service of her father and her right to bounty land. She further states the original certificate of pension to her father, she believes was  benefit with the dwelling house and everything else belonging hereto in the fall of the same year her father died. She further states that there is now no record of the marriage of her parents, either public or private, that is away [illegible]. She is not aware of the fact, and they most believe here with the other things of her father. 
The under this declaration for the purpose of allowing the County and to which she may be entitled under "Act approved March 3rd 1855."
[signature] Jane McWhirter

I, Shelton McWhirter, herehand of the above named Jane McWhirter do solemnly swear that I was married to the said Jane on the sixteenth day of July as eighteen hundred and fifty, and that the name of his said wife before the said marriage with Jane Mosely, the daughter of James Mosely deceased. That the hereby signed of his willingness and consent. That the Commissioner of Pensions of the
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United States shall issue such certificate of bounty land as may be found due, either to his said wife Jane McWhirter, or to her and himself, South Ca the law may require. 
[signature] Shelton McWhirter

Mr. John M Foster and Jane Foster residents of Union District in the State of South Carolina upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration and affidavits were signed and acknowledged by Jane McWhirter and Shelton McWhirter in our presence. That we are well acquainted with applicants. That we were also well acquainted with the father of the said Jane McWhirter in his lifetime. The said James Mosley was a revolutionary pensioner. That the said James Mosley was married to his second wife in the house of, and in the presence of each of his source prior to the year eighteen hundred and thirty. That his said second wife was and is the mother of the declarant Jane McWhirter. That the said Jane McWhirter was born in Widolaeh, about the thirty first day of December as one thousand eight hundred and thirty five, and is now under the age of twenty one years. That the said Jane McWhirter is the only child of the said James Mosley deceased under twenty one years, and the only child by the second and last marriage. That the said James Mosley has other children by a former marriage, but that they are all above the age of twenty one years and were above that age on the 3rd of March 1853. The youngest of that marriage being now above the age of forty five years. That the name of the said last wife of the said James Mosley was Martha Pickins who had also been previously married and was a full sister of applicant Jane Foster. That the said Martha Mosley departed this life some five or sixth months previous of the death of the said James Mosley. And that the said James Mosley died at his residence in Union District and State of South Carolina. And about one half mile from our residence where he lived
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resided ever since we came on the nineteenth day of May eighteen hundred and forty no member and we have heard he resided there during the "Revolution" and that he has no widow now living. That the said Jane and Shelton McWhirter were married in our presence about the sixteenth day of July eighteen hundred and fifty. 

[signatures] James Foster
Jane Foster

I, John Pickens, a resident of Union District in the State of South Carolina upon my oath declare that the foregoing declaration and affidavit of Jane McWhirter and Shelton McWhirter were signed and acknowledged in my presence. That the mother of the said Jane McWhirter was also my mother and was married to James Mosley when I was too young to remember the circumstance. That I was with the said James Mosley until the death of my mother but had left a few months before the death of my step-father the said James Mosley. That he died about the time above stated leaving no widow or other minor child. That the said Jane McWhirter is the only child of of his second marriage of James Mosley and my mother was born in Widloeh and is now under twenty one years of age. That I was regularly [illegible] of the said James Mosley deceased and he was a revolutionary pensioner. Formerly collected pension from the agent of the said James Mosley (D Wallace) since the death of the said James Mosley. That the said was [illegible] of the certificate of pensions to the said James Mosley and supposed as with his other papers and some after his death. That I am also the regularly contacted guardian of the said Jane McWhirter, as was so until her marriage with the said Shelton McWhirter at which time he was advised that my [illegible] and he settled with the said
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Jane McWhirter. But that is my authority is in any way necessary to the granting of bounty said to which she may be entitled. I hereby give it and ask that a amount may be issue to her in such means as the law may recognize. 
[signature] John Pickens

The foregoing declaration and affidavits was sworn and subscribed before me on the day and year above written and I certify that I know the applicants to be considerable persons. That the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I am not interested in said claim. 
[signature] J M Gadberry
Notary Public

The State of South Carolina
Union District

I, J G McKissick Clerk of the Court of Common Please and General Sessions for the District and State aforesaid do hereby certify that J M Gadberry Esquire before whom this foregoing declaration and affidavits were made and who has herewith subscribed his name (which I certify is genuine) is and was at the time of and doing a Notary Public of said District duly commissioner and sworn. 
In whereof I have hereunto set my hand offered the seal of the said Court of my office this 30th day of April as 1850. 
[signature] J G McKissick
Clerk
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Revolutionary War Records Section 
3-525

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

S.F. 9421

In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of James Moseley a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application of pension on file in this Bureau. 

[Table]
Dates of Enlistment or Appointment
Length of Service
Rank
Officers Under Whom Service Was Rendered 
Captain 
Colonel
State

June 1776, Oct 1776 Prt., Bullock, John Thomas, S.C.
March 1781, Nov 1781, '', Gill, Edward Lacy
May 1782, 1 mos., '', Thomson, Farr
Sept 1782, 7 mos., '', Thomson, Farr

Battles engaged in, With Cherokee Indians, Siege of Lanby Fork

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Union District in Chester S.C.

Date of application for enlistment, Oct. 10, 1832 [illegible]

Residence at date of application, Union District, S.C. 

Age at date of application, From Dec. 24, 1756 in Brunswick Co. Va. died May 19, 1840 in Union District S.C.

Remarks: Soldier married his second wife Martha Pickens prior to 1830 in Union District S.C. died Oct. 2, 1839. Jane only child by this marriage was born Dec. 31, 1835. Married July 16, 1850 Shelton McWhirter. Soldier had other children by a former marriage, all over 21 yrs old in 1835 no names are stated. Martha Pickens had also been previously resided and left a son John Pickens. There is no other family data on file. 

Respectfully, 
Commissioner
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1916 Oct. 26 [illegible] to Mrs. L.J. Hames see hist. send her Aug. 4 195 - W.F. 23-721 Jas Mosley or Moseley

9421
INVALID

File No. 9421

James Moseley
Rev. War

Act: June 7th '/32
Index:-Vol. 1, Page 264
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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S. File 9421
James Moseley
S.C.
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By orders of Genl. Sumter I am directed to same I am [illegible] to travel in to [illegible] and to therefore desire that no person may interpret the Mosly on his [illegible] going or returning back as he has believed. [illegible] as becometh a citizen somewhere has been in Camdon [illegible]. 

[signature] Edmd Lacey
24th May 17[illegible]5
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James Moseley
S. 9421
S.C.
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This is to certify that the Barreer James Mosely hath behaved himself true for his country and hath done a tower of liberty at the Congree Fort giving under my hand May 25th day 1781. 

[signature] Thos Gill Capt
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S
40.688

[illegible]
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S.C. Moseley James S9421
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Instead of allowing from March to Nov all acc only for the month of April and the 25 day of May as the date of the [illegible]. 

[signature illegible]
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Free
244369

[signature] Hon J Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
Washignton City
DC
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James Moseley Sevr. S.C. 7. June 1832
$27.44

To what tried last paid

Pension Office
3 Feb. 1838
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Aug 2

Jas Mosely
S.C. War Act 32

J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Planters & Mechanics Bank of So Ca
Charleston 27 July 1837

J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

Sir
I will thank you for instructions respecting the pension of James Moseley Sir, acr 7 June 1832, W Lanneau the late agent marked him as suspended, in consequence of your letter dated 16 April 1836 in which payment in refused, you having suspicions as regards his identity. 
I am very respectfully your of serv: 
[signature] A Spears
Pension Agent
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Planters & Mechanics Bank of So Ca
Charleston 1st December 1835

J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir, 
I forward for examination voucher of James Mosely Sr a pensioner, under "Act of 7th June 1832" claiming payment for two years. 
I am respectfully 
[illegible]
[signature] F Lanneau
Pension Agt.
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Planters and Mechanics Bank of So Ca
Charleston 27 January 1838

J.L. Edwards Esq. 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

Sir, 

I forward herewith for your authority to say, voucher of James Mosely Ser.

I am respectfully your of serv. 
A. Spears
Pension Agent
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office
March 3rd, 1840

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," James Mosely, Sen. a Pensioner on the Roll of the South Carolina Agency, at the rate of twenty seven dollars and forty four cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1837 to the 4th March 1839.

Respectfully yours, 
[signature] Albion K. Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present.
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FREE
J P Dawkins, Clrk

[illegible]
7 June 1837

Mr J L Edwards
Washington City

15 June
J P Dawkins
[illegible]
James Moseley - S.C. 
7 Jan 32
James
16415
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FREE
J P Dawkins, Clrk

[illegible]
7 June 1837

Mr J L Edwards
Washington City

15 June
J P Dawkins
[illegible]
James Moseley - S.C. 
7 Jan 32
James
16415
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Hancockville 7th June 1837

Mr. J L Edwards

Mr. James Mosley Srv has been entered in the War Department as a pensioner and has review several times. Hook to Charleston to the agent office there in November 1836 his pension. It had to be sent to the War Department for inspection I left in charge with a friend in Charleston. It was returned to make some alteration it was accordingly done and returned. There was something was omitted and was returned the second time it was arranged and sent to the War Department again during the [illegible] of the matter. The old gentleman was very needy and I thought there was no doubt that money would be paid and I advanced him the money so I called on the agent this Spring in Charleston and he informed me that he had been suspended. If that is the case I should like to hear from you on the subject, informing me the case of his suspension by letter so I may proceed against him to get my money back. The agent told me he could not tell me what was the reason of his being suspended, only that it was so. I should like to hear from you as soon as convenient as the old man is infirm and I want to make myself sure. State the case in a letter so I can reach to him the reason. 
Yours respectfully, 
[signature] Joshua P Dawkins
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244569
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State of South Carolina
Union District

I, B Johnson, ordinary of the District and State, aforesaid so hereby certify that John Pickins whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit was duly appointed [illegible] with the well annexed of all and singular the goods and chattels rights and creveds which were of James Moseley deceased, as appears from the records in this office on the seventeenth day of June as 1840 by my predecessor J J Prett. That his bond conditioned for the father and discharge of his duty as sworn administrator is now on file in this office. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto sit my hand and offered the seal of the probate on this 30th day of June as 1836. 
[signature] B Johnson
O.U.D.

State of South Carolina
Union District

I Davis Gandeback Commissioner in Equity for the District and State aforesaid do hereby certify that John Pickens was the guardian of Jane Moseley an infant daughter of James Moseley deceased and that his leave remains in file in this office. We seal my hand and seal of office at Union Court here on the nineteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty six and in the eighteenth year of the [illegible] of the United States of America. 
[signature] Davis Gandeback
C.E.U.D.
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Union
July 26, 1915

Mr. G M Saltzgaber
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir, 
Please give me a copy of the pension, or bounty land record, of the following Revolutionary soldiers. 
Colonel William Graham, Col. of Lynn Co. and served in Provincial Congress.
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of 1775, and the Snow Campaign. Col. William Graham married Mrs. Susan Bellar Twitty. 

Captain Ellis Fowler, Lieut. under Capt. Charles Lius, and mustered into service under Patrick Henry. Capt. Ellis Fowler married Catherine Puckett. 

Sherwood James, Private. Married Sherry F. 

James Moseley, Private. Married Nancy Jasper. (1st wife). 2nd wife Patty Pickens. James Moseley was one of Morgan's Leouts. 

Sammy Hodge, Private. Married Elizabeth (Betey) Wright. 

Maj. Gen. John Henderson married Isabella Bowles. 

I am trying to get the Revolu-
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tionary record of these men through the Pension Bureau. 

Thanking you for your aid and interrogation.  

Yours truly, 
[signature] Mrs. L.J. Hames
Regent Fair Forest Chateau H.G.R.
Bay 387
[illegible], S.C. 

[Pension Office Stamp]
July 28 1915