Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6805, for Thomas Mc Camish, Virginia
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(8-1776)
SERVICE
Va.
McCamish, Thomas
McAmis
McCarmish
McCarnish 
Jinny or Jenny
Number 
W.6805
BL. Wt. 12574-160-55. 
CONTENTS
[Note: The Spouse’s Name is spelled differently multiple times throughout this Pension File.]
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4099
Tennessee, East
Thomas McCamish of Green Co. in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the bend any commanded by Captain of the Regt commanded by Col. Falkner in the Virginia Militia for 17 months from 1779.
Inscribed on the Roll of Tennessee at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of January 1833 and Hon John Blair, H.R.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $84.99 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833 $28.33
$110.32
See over for increase to $166.66/100
{Revolutionary Claim,  Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Henry H. Sylvester, Clerk,  Book D, Vol. 9, Page 106.
Pension increased to $66.66 per annum on 12th Dec. 33 and sent to Hon. John Blair, H.R.
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Restoration No 1733
Tennessee, Knoxville.
Jinny McCamish, widow of Thomas McCarnish who served in the Revolutionary War, as a Private.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 66 dollars 66 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th March 1861.
Certificate of Pension issued the  25th day of April 1866 and sent to 
R. M. McKee
Greenville, Tenn.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 255 Vol. H
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99.076 [Illegible]
Jinney McCamish, widow of Thomas McCamish, who was a Private.
Col. Falker
Va. Milita
Revolutionary War 
[Illegible]
B. McDaniel 
Greenville, Tenn.
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Jinny McCarnish
Claim for Revolutionary Pension
Act. 3rd Feb. 1853.
B. McDaniel
Agent 
Greenville, Tennessee
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State of Tennessee
Greene County
I, Elijah W. Headrick, Clerk of the County Court of said County, do certify, that the Declaration of Jinney McCamish hereto attached, widow of Thomas McCamish decd in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of 3d February 1853 relative to revolutionary pensions are the original proceedings had and approved by said Court at its May term, Monday 2d 1853, and that John Davis Esq. whose genuine official signature appears to said Declaration, was at the date thereof, the presiding Justice and Chairman of said Court, duly commissioned and qualified according to law.
I further certify, that satisfactory to said evidence was exhibited in said Court, at its term aforesaid, that the said Thomas McCamish decd was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the agency in Jonesboro Tennessee, at the rate of sixty-six dollars sixty six cents per annum, was resident of Greene County Tennessee, and died therein on the fourth day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty, and that he left a widow named Jinney McCamish a resident of Greene County Tennessee, whose name before her marriage was Jenney Wilson, and that she is still a widow. And I further certify that the foregoing annexed transcript of the Marriage Bond of the said Thomas McCamish and Jinney Wilson, is a true copy of the original now on file in my office. that due search has been made for the marriage license of the parties named, but without success
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and that the marriage License files appear to be defective, owing to the failure of the officiating Ministers and Justices to return such  papers to this office, there being no law at the date of said Bond requiring them to do so.
Given under my hand and Seal of Office, at office in Greenville this fourth day of May A.D. One thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
E. W. Headrick, Clerk
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Declaration of Jinney McCarnish in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions of the Act of Congress passed February 3d. 1853, granting pensions to widows of officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army, who were married after the year Eighteen hundred:
State of Tennessee
Greene County
County Court, Monday May 24. 1853 Term
On this second day of May A. D. One thousand eight hundred and fifty three, before the County Court of said County, now sitting, personally appeared, Jinney McCarnish, aged near Seventy two years, a resident of the County aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions of the 2d Sec. of the Act above mentioned to wit:
This affiant declares that she is the widow of Thomas McCarnish or McAmis, who was a Private and Sergeant of the Virginia militia in the war of the revolution; and who was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress of 7th June 1832, at the agency of the United States in Jonesboro, Tennessee, at the rate of Sixty six dollars and sixty six cents, or thereabouts, per annum; that he was a resident of Greene County in the State of Tennessee for the space of about forty five years before his death, to her own knowledge, and that the last payment made to him at the Agency aforesaid was for the six months ending on the 4th September 1839 as she fully believed.
That she was married to the said Thomas McCamish in the County of Greene and State of Tennessee on or about the Eighteenth or nineteenth day of September A.D. one thousand eight hundred and ten, by one Benjamin McNutt, a Justice of the peace in and for said County, and that her name before her said marriage
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was Jinney Wilson.
That her husband the said Thomas McCamish died in Greene County in the State of Tennessee on the fourth day of January A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-- that she was not married to him prior to the year Eighteen hundred, but the marriage took place at the time stated. She further swears that she was a widow at the passage of the Act of Congress of 3d February 1853, granting pensions to widows of Revolutionary officers and soldiers, and is still a widow, and that she has never before made application for a pension: but that she received the arrearage of pension due at the death of her said husband
In proof of the revolutionary services of her said husband, and his identity as a pensioner. she refers the Department to his original Declaration and papers made under the Act of Congress of 7th June 1832, now on file, and to the papers showing the semi-annual payments made to him at the agency in Jonesboro, sent up by the Agent at that place; and in proof of her marriage and identity, and her said husbands death, she refers the Department to the papers upon which said services were known at the agency aforesaid, and to such other proof as she may be able to obtain and she knows nothing of his Certificate of Pension, unless it was surrendered at the drawing of said arrearages..
Jinney McCamish
Attest
E. W. Headrick
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court before me, John Davis, Chairman said Court, the day and year first within
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Written. And I certify that the said Linney McCarnish is well known to me, as was also her said husband, and that she is the identical person she represents herself to be in the foregoing Declaration. And that I am not interested or concerned in the prosecution or result of this claim. The Clerk of the Court will certify to the facts presented in this case, and endorse the approval of the Court on the papers.
John Davis, Justice of the Peace for Greene City
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Know all men by these presents, that we, Thomas McCamish Sr., Thomas McCamish Williamsson, and Benjamin Farnsworth of Greene County Tennessee our heirs, executors and administrators are held and firmly bound unto Willie Blount, Governor of of the said state for the time being, and to his successors in the sum of Twelve hundred and fifty dollars, current money of the United States: To be void on condition, that there is no lawful cause to obstruct the marriage of the said Thomas McCamish sent to Tinney Wilson of this County, other wise to pay all such damages and costs as may be awarded in consequence of such marriage being illegal.
Given under our hands and seals this 18th day of September 1810
Thomas McCamish 
Benjamin Farnsworth 
Attest
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State of Tennessee
Greene County 
On this twenty-ninth day of March A.D. One thousand eight hundred and fifty five, before me David M. Dobson a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Finney McCamish aged about seventy four or five years, a resident of Greene County in the State of Tennessee, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Thomas McCarnish who was a Private and Sergeant of the Virginia militia in the War of the Revolution, and that he received a pension from the United States for his services in said war at the agency of the United States in Jonesboro Tennessee, at the rate of sixty-six dollars and sixty cents per annum. For the particulars of his service in said war she refer the Department to his Declaration and proof filed in 1832 or 1833 as she believes, under the Act of Congress of 7th June 1832, and that he was placed on the Pension roll on or about the 10th of January 1833.
She further states that she was married to the said Thomas McCamish in Greene County in the State of Tennessee on or about the Eighteenth or Nineteenth day of September A.D. one thousand eight hundred and ten by one Benjamin McNutt a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and that her name before her said marriage was Jinney Wilson. That her said husband died in Greene County in the State of Tennessee on or about the fourth day of January A.D. One thousand eight hundred and forty, and that she is now a widow. 
In proof of her said marriage and her said husband's death, she refers the Department to
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the papers now on file with her Declaration for a pension (Revolutionary Pension) under the 2d section of the act of February 3, 1853, made in Greene County, Tennessee on or about the 22d day of May 1853, and which was filed soon thereafter.
She further declares that she was allowed a Revolutionary pension under said act of February 3, 1853, at the rate of sixty-six dollars and sixty six cents and that she receives said pension at Jonesboro in the State of Tennessee, and that she now holds her certificate payable at that place by William Blair, dated the third day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty three" signed by R. McClelland, Secretary of the Interior" and "T. Cole, acting Commissioner of Pensions.
She makes this Declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3, 1855. she also declares that she has not received a warrant for Bounty Land under this or any other act of Congress, nor made any other application therefore.
Jinney McCamish
Witnesses
Joseph B. Dobson
Edmund B. Miller
We, Joseph B. Dobson and Edmund B. Miller, residents of Greene County in the State of Tennessee upon our oaths declare that the foregoing Declaration was signed by Finney McCamish in our presence and acknowledged by her, and that we know from the appearance and statements of the applicant well as from our acquaintance with her, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and that we have no interest in this claim.
Joseph B. Dobson Edmund B. Miller
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State of Tennessee
Green County
September Term 1832
On this 6th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Samuel Powell, Judge of the first Judicial Circuit of said State, Thomas McCanish, aged seventy three years, and resident of Green County & State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to said doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers & served as herein after stated. Being before and at the time of his first service in the Revolutionary War as a citizen of Bedford County State of Virginia, in the spring of 1777 he was drafted as a militia man, under Capt. Thomas Leftwick of the Virginia militia in the said County of Bedford to serve
was [about] three months. Soon after joining the [Continental(?) Army] [f]or three months tour of duty in the expedition to the South against Cornwallis, and after his enrollment as aforesaid under John Leftwick was met by the Company at New London in said County, and marched in conjunction with another Company raised in the same County (as will now recollected) under Capt. Clemens, to Hillsborough, North Carolina, where they met the regular Army consisting of the Maryland regulars but the No. of the Regiment, he does not recollect but remembers if Smith commanded
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before the arrival of Genl Gates, that the Tories remained at Hillsborough until the first of August, when the army was moved to Brown Perry on Presee river, where the sick & those unable to march were left to build a Fort this declarant being of the numbers but the port was not built on account of the defeat of the American troops at Camden & the consequent danger of that part of the County being [captured] by the British at the 24th of September 1780 after declarant had [languished] with the fever which had been the cause of his being left at [Illegible] he procured the certificate of one James Rice of Caswell County in order to send on to the commanding officer of his regiment in order to obtain his discharge, which is hereto annexed, and upon which Col. Ralph Falkner the Col. Commandant gave him a discharge on the 26th of September 1780, which is upon the back of the aforesaid certificate and is a[dd]ed after the receipt of Bedford which he returned home, having been in service from the preceding spring early in the spring until the aforesaid period being in the whole not less than seven months actual service, the reason of the service being directed by, and the engagement was, that it was, decided that the four should only commence from the time of joining the main army. 
That after he returned home, immediately, it was understood that Cornwallis contemplated marching to Hallifax County, into Virginia an immediate call was made for all the militia, [both] old [and] young, to turn out & resist his march
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which was done & this declarant turned out with the militia in great numbers and repaired, to Taylor’s Ferry on Don river, there expecting to be affected & disciplined for the engagement but Cornwallis learning that such force had then assembled, changed its direction & went to Wilmington, North Carolina, and the great body of the militia returned home. Captain Dixon however, [Illegible] volunteers to go and in the Army under Washington. This
declarant, instead of returning home, volunteered under said Dixon & marched with him to a point near Hillsborough & joined Col. Washington of the Horse and marched to the Rudy Fork of Haw River where they had battled with the British army under Carlton
and at which place the American troops were overpowered, defeated & were compelled to
retreat with precipitation, and joined Green up the country, where Capt. Dixon obtained
leave for his piece to return home on orders to [Illegible], and was discharged by Capt. Dixon in Bedford County which discharge be here annexed, and which service connected with that which preceded it in going to Taylor’s Ferry before he volunteered were continuous from the 1st of October and the 12th of March ensuring being year six months.
Again in the evening [of April 1, 1781] he was drafted as a militia man to go to South Carolina to attack the British under Col. Kruger, who had fortified at Ninety Six. He called in under Capt. Pate in the County of Bedford & marched to Greene’s army in the vicinity of Ninety Six and was there under his command, but the British, getting a reinforcement from Charleston,
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Greene’s Army retreated to Charlotteville, North Carolina, and the term of his time (being four months) having expired the company to which he belonged was marched to the shallow ford of the parties & discharged on the 7th day of July 1781 which discharge given him by [Lieutenant] Edward Sale is here annexed, also service being protracted to four months’ time.
Again in the month of September about the 1st of the month 1781 he was called upon to perform Tour of duty to go to Little York to resist Cornwallis, for which expedition five company were ordered out from Bedford County Joseph Bullock being the Captain under which this declarant was enrolled, and was marched to Little York when & where was the Army under Washington in the act of throwing up entrenchments, & cannonading (the British under Cornwallis being forted in Yorktown), this declarant continued until the surrender of Cornwallis & was called upon to remain in the Hospital to attend on his sick brother until after New Years 1782 and returned home with him, sometime in January, not having received a discharge, there being no officers at the Hospital, but which tour was for five months or thereabouts which said four terms of service were rated at the time stated his actually embraced twenty-two months in addition to the time which in some instances was consumed in marching to headquarters of the main army, and is very confident that he served more than two years. He cannot state the precise time with certainty. That he annexes all the
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Documentary evidence in his possession, knows of no person by whom he can [corroborate] his said service, or whose testimony he can care who can testify to the same. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever a pension except the present & declares that his name is not on the roll of the pension agency of any state. Nor does he know of a minister of the Gospel by whom he can establish the facts requested [as] established by the instructions of the War Department.
Thomas McCamish
Sworn to & subscribed in Open Court this date first written. 
Mark Sevier, Clerk
We, Joseph Brown and David Farnsworth, residing the County of Greene in the State of Tennessee, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas M. Camish who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be seventy three years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, that we are earnest in that opinion.
Joseph Brown
David Farnsworth
Sworn to & subscribed in Open Court.
Mark Sevier, Clerk
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And the said Court do certify & declare his opinion after the investigation of the matter and after halting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states & the Court further certifies that it appears to him that Joseph Brown & David Farnsworth are resident in the County of Green, and are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit.
G. Perry, Judge of the Circuit Court of the State of Tennessee 
I, Valentine Sevier, Clerk of the Law of Equity for the County of Green, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas McCamish a pension.
In testimony whereof I have here unto set seal of my hand & affixed the seal of office this 6 day September 1832.
V. Sevier, Clerk
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February 17, 1938.
BA-J/ILL
Thomas McCamish
W.6805
Mr. Francklyn Hogeboom
Sons of the American Revolution
Hotel Plaza
New York, New York.	
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Thomas McCamish who served from Bedford County, Virginia, as private and sergeant.
The data given herein are found in the papers on file in pension claim, W. 1806, based upon service of Thomas McCamish in the Revolutionary War. The name is shown also as Massis, McCamish, McCarnish, and McKamish.
Thomas McCamish resided in Bedford County, Virginia, at the time of the Revolutionary War. He enlisted in Bedford County, Virginia, in the spring of [that] year, served as private in Captain Thomas Leftwich's, went south on the expedition against Lord Cornwallis, joined the main army at Hillsborough, North Carolina, where he remained ill with severe fever, and was discharged September 26, 1780 by Colonel Ralph Virginia, having served seven months. He reenlisted on October 1, 1780, served as private in Captain James Dixon's Virginia March 12, 1781, during which he was in the enlisted early in April 1781, and marched to South Carolina and was discharged July 7, 1781. After his return to Bedford County, Virginia, he enlisted September 1, 1781, served as a private in Captain Joseph Ball Colonel Tucker's Virginia regiment, marched to Yorktown, at the surrender of Cornwallis. After this, he remained at hospital to care for his sick brother, whose name is not shown, and returned with him to Bedford County, in January 1782.
Thomas McCamish was allowed pension on his application executed
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September 6, 1832, at which time he resided in Greene County, Tennessee. He died in that county January 4, 1840.
Thomas McCamish married September 18 or 19, 1810, in Greene County, Tennessee, Vinney Wilson, of said County. The marriage bond was dated September 18, 1810, and was signed by Thomas McCamish (William's son) and Benjamin Farnsworth. The names of her parents are not shown. No relationship between the soldier and this Thomas McCamish was stated. The soldier was designated Thomas McCamish, Sr. 
Jinney McCamish (called also Jenny and Jinny) widow was allowed pension on her application executed May 8, 1853, at which time she was aged nearly seventy-two years; the date and place of her birth are not shown. She resided about four miles from Greenville, Greene County, Tennessee. She was granted also 100 acres of bounty land on Warrant #12574 under the Act of March 3, 1855, on account of her husband's service in the Revolutionary War. She was living in Greene County, Tennessee, in April 1866.
The soldier and his wife, Jinney, reared a family of children; however, no names are designated as children, in the papers in this claim.
In 1853, Thomas McAmis (Camish), the soldier's nephew, was a resident of Greene County, Tennessee, aged sixty-seven years. He was present at the soldier's funeral.
In order to obtain the date of the last payment of pension, name of person paid, and, possibly, the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, this city, and furnish the following:
Jinny McCarmich (as her name was borne on pension roll widow of Thomas
Certificate #1733
Issued April 25, 1866
Rate $66.66 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1861
Act of February 3, 1853
Tennessee (Knoxville) Agency.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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Revolutionary Widow, &c.
File No. 6805
Jinny McCarmish
Widow
Thomas McCarmish
Private, Revolutionary War
Act: February 3, 1853
Index:--M, Page 19
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Tennessee Jonesboro 
Jinny McCamish, widow of Thomas McCamish, who served in the Revolutionary War, as a Private. 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3rd February 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd day of September 1853 and sent to B. McDaniel, Greenville, Green Co., Tennessee 
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 29, 1848, Page 183, Vol. A 
E.2.
1832
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12574
[Illegible]
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No. 1555
Jinny McCarnish 
Widow of Thomas, Tenn.
Let. To B. McDaniel
July 27, 1853
Act February 3, 1853
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McCamish, Thomas
W. 6895
Va.
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12 Dollars [01 Cents] Thomas McAmi a volunteer in my Company is here by discharged from his Duty in 2nd Company.
James Dison, Capt.
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This is to Certify that Thomas McCarmish one of the sick, his time being out he is hereby Discharged from his Tour of Duty. 
Given under my hand this 7th July 1781. 
Edmund Tate
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[Illegible]
McCarmish, Thomas 
W. 6805
Va.
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This is to certify that the within mentioned
Thomas McCarmish in consideration of his ill State of Health is discharged from the remainder
of this tour of Duty.
Ralph Falkner, Col. 
26th September 1780
McCamish, Thomas
W. 6805
Va.
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About the 22 or 23 of August Thomas McCamish came to my House in County of Caswell about 25 Miles from the Town of Hillsborough at which time he appeared to be unwell and very unfit for Military duty within a few days after he was taken with a high fever and other Complaints which was succeeded by the and ever, he has had it every day since until a few his age and is remitted but his fever continues.
This 24 Day of Sept 1780
James Rice
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Appl of Jinney
McCarnish widow of Thomas.
Greene Co., Tennessee. 32
4099
Act. 3rd February 1853
Rev
Adm $666/100 per annum
Commencing 3 February 1853
B. McDaniel
Greenville, Green Co., Tenn.
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Mrs. George Leonard Gold
4519 Westminster Place
St. Louis, MO
MAY 15 1912
Send record of Thomas McCamish W.6805
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Pension Office,
Sept. 1, 1853.
Sir,
Please certify the time to which the within named pensioner was paid; and (if in your power) the date of his death. 
Very respectfully, Your Obedient Servant,
S. Cole 
Acting Commissioner

F. Burt, Esq.
3rd Auditor 
Present
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Thomas McCarnish, Act 7th June 1832. $56.66 per annum – increased to $66.66 per annum. Died 4th January 1840, paid to his death on Jonesboro Roll. 
F. Burt
Auditor
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Additional evidence, Jimmy McCamish, of Green Co., Tenn, widow of Thomas who was a Revolutionary Pensioner. 
Jonesboro, Tenn. Agency 
3rd February 1853
Agent 
Greenville, Tennessee
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State of Tennessee
Greene County 
On this twenty third day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty three, before me John Kidwell, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared Thomas McAmis aged near sixty seven years, a resident of said County and a credible witness and made oath in due form of law to the following affidavit relative to the marriage and identity of Jenney McComish or McAmis, widow of Thomas McCamish, Sr., late a revolutionary pensioner of the United states to wit:
This affiant states that the said Thomas McCarnish or McAmis, Sr., was his uncle, that he resided in said County of Greene, and was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, that the said Thomas McCamish, Sr., and the abovenamed Jinney, whose maiden name was Tinney Wilson, were united in wedlock in said County of Greene, in the year eighteen hundred and ten as well as he can remember, and lived together as husband and wife in said County and was so reputed, raising a family of children, until he died, which death he states took place in said County of Greene about twelve or thirteen years ago—was present, saw him die and followed him to the grave.
Affiant states that the said Thomas and Tinney were wedded in wedlock by one Benjamin McNutt, a Justice of the Peace for said County, and that he died as aforesaid leaving the said Jinney as
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his widow, and that she is a resident of said County of Greene, and is still the widow of the said Thomas McCamish or McAmis. He further states that he is not concerned or interested in the prosecution or result of this case.
Thomas James
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first within written– I further certify that I am disinterested in this case.
John Kidwell, Justice of the Peace
State of Tennessee  
Greene County 
I, Elijah W. Headrick, Clerk of the county court of said county, do certify that John Kidwell Esq. whose genuine official signature appears to the foregoing proceedings, was at the date thereof, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly qualified as such according to law, and that the same is entitled to full faith and credit as his official act.
Given under my hand and seal of Office, at Office in Greenville, the twenty fourth day of August A.D. One thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
G. W. Hedrick, Clerk
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APPLICATION
FOR RESTORATION TO THE PENSION ROLLS
Under Act of February 1, 1865.
APPLICANT' S ADDRESS.
Jenny McAmis, Applicant.
Greenville, Tennessee
Attorney's Address
Robert M. McKee
Greenville, Tennessee.
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INSTRUCTIONS.
FIGURE (1) Judge, Justice of the Peace, or Clerk having seal. [NOTE -- If a Judge or Justice of the Peace, authenticate the papers, the signature must be verified in usual form by the Clerk of the Court.
( 2 ) He or She -- Name of Applicant -- His or Her - Him or Her -- Himself or Herself, as the fact may be.
( 3 ) Name the place or places at which claimant has resided since last paid, and during the time for which original pension has not been drawn.
( 4 ) Here name the employment or other means by which a livelihood has been gained. (4) Means of subsistence.
( 3 ) Signature of Applicant. If X is made, two witnesses must sign their names opposite the same, and who can write.
(6) Names of Witnesses in full.
(7) State name of residences, City, Village, County, and State.
( 8 ) Signatures of Witnesses.
signing
NOTES TO BE PARTICULARLY OBSERVED.
If the declarant, or any witness, sign by mark, the officer must certify, that the contents of the paper were made known to the affiant and witnesses before
In every case, the declaration or affidavit must be either signed by the affiant's own hand or else by mark (X). Signing by another hand, when the party to able to write, or without a mark when the party is unable to write, is wholly inadmissible.
The allegations made in the applicant's declaration, must be sustained by the testimony of two credible and disinterested witnesses, to be certified as such by the officer before whom the testimony is taken. If the applicant be an Invalid Pensioner, he must be examined by an Army Surgeon, or by a Surgeon duly appointed by the Pension Office, as to the continuance of the disability.
If a widow, she must prove by two credible witnesses, (certified to in the usual manner, and under seal.) her continued widowhood.
If remarried, the minor children, (under 16,) through their guardian can apply for the Suspended Pension, and if the guardian of a minor child be newly
appointed, he or she must file the proper evidence of his or her appointment as such.
I all cases, the ORIGINAL Pension Certificate must be surrendered.
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State of Tennessee
County of Greene 
This day personally appeared before me, E. W. Headrick, Clerk of the County Court of said County and State, Robert M. Dobson and John W. Brown, citizens of the same, to me well known to be respectable and creditable witnesses, who made oath in due form of law, that they have been personally acquainted with Jenny McAmis or McCamish, who is an applicant to have her names restored on the Pension Rolls of the Government of the United States, for fifteen years; that the said Jenny McAmis, or McCamish, has not in any manner encouraged the rebels, during the late rebellion, nor manifested a sympathy with their cause, that she has at all times since the affiants acquaintance with her demeaned herself in letter and in spirit as a loyal supported and a friend of the Government of the United States, that all her means of support during the recent rebellion were derived from the charities of her friend and relatives; that she is without any income or means of support other than these charities, and that they (the Affiants) have no interest whatever the claim or application of the said Jenny McAmis or McCarish for a restoration of her name upon the Pension Rolls of the government of the United States.
Robert M Dobson
John W Brown
Sworn to and subscribed in my presence by Robert M. Dobson and John W. Brown; and I hereby certify that I have no interest whatever in the claim or application of the said Jenny McAmis or
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McCamish for a restoration of her name upon the Pension Rolls of the Government of the United States.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office in Greenville, Tennessee. This 3d day of April A.D. 1866.
E. W. Headrick, Clerk of the County Court of Greene County Tenn.
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Thomas McCamish for increase of his Pension.
Can an increase be made without asking [for] additional services before open court and requiring the traditionary evidence and the opinion of the Court.
4099
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State of Tennessee
Green County
On this 20th day of July 1833 personally appeared before me Robert Maloney, one of the acting Justices of the Peace for said County, Thomas McCamish who is on the pension roll of the agency of Jonesborough Tennessee at the rate of fifty six dollars sixty six cents per annum and in order to correct an omission when he made out his original declaration and obtain a correspondent increase of pension made & subscribed the following statement on oath tour that in September of the year 1781 he was drafted as a militia man in Bedford County Virginia, to go on the expedition as Cornwallis at Little York was that under the command of Capt. Bullock, Col Tucker’s command, was marched to Little York & in the siege and surrender, and after the surrender was put into the Hospital to take care of his sick brother & continued in said Hospital until Christmas following & obtained his discharge verbally and returned have for which he has had no allowance in his first claim, & to which
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He is entitled & prays that an [Illegible] of pension be allowed him from September until [Illegible] being for three months’ time.
Sworn to & subscribed before me this date first before written.
Robert Maloney, Justice of the Peace
Robert Maloney is known to me to be a Justice of the Peace for Green County & the above signature genuine.
J. Blair, Clerk
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99.076
Jinny McCamish
Claim for Bounty land
Act March 3, 1855

B. McDaniel
Agent
Greenville Tennessee
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The foregoing Declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year first within written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, of lawful age and residents of Greene County in the State of Tennessee. I further certify that the claimant exhibited to me her Certificate of Pension within mentioned, and am satisfied that it is genuine: that the claimant is personally known to me, and that I know her to be the identical person she represents herself to be. And that I have no interest in this claim [on] this twenty ninth day of March one thousand eight hundred and fifty five.
David M. Dobson, Justice of the Peace

State of Tennessee
Justice of the Peace
Greene County 
I, Elijah W Headrick, Clerk of the County Court of said County, do certify that David M Dobson Esq. whose genuine official Signature appears to the foregoing proceedings relative to Jinney McCamish is now and was at the date thereof an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified according to law, and that full faith and credit should be given to the same as his official act.
Given under my hand and seal of office at office in Greenville the thirty first day of March AD One thousand eight hundred and fifty five
E. W. Headrick C.
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Greenville Tennessee
Aug. 24, 1853
Enclosed you will find additional evidence in the case of Jinney McCamish in compliance with your letter of 27th July last. Her Declaration was mailed here May 6 1853, and was filed about the 12th. I trust that this evidence will be deemed sufficient and that you will soon forward me her certificate payable at Jonesboro, Tennessee. She has no record of her marriage. She was married within four miles of this place, and has lived within that distance of Greenville ever since.
In the case of Elizabeth Sharp, widow of William Sharp decd., an applicant from Greene Co. Ten. for Rev. Pension under 2 sec. of the Act of 3d Feb. 1853, whose declaration was filed about the 6th of May last in your office I received yours of the 24 June 1833, requiring proof of marriage and that she was the reputed wife of the said William and in compliance therewith mailed to you the evidence of Esq. Anthony Rankin July 6, 1853 which I hope has been received. Mrs. Sharp is a very poor woman, and lives principally upon charity, and it would be gratifying to have her certificate soon so as to enable her to draw at Jonesboro agency [in] Tennessee. 
Respectfully, Your Obedient Servant,
B. McDannel

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
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Greenville, Tenn. 
Free
May 6
L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington City D.C.
McCamish
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Greenville, Tenn.
May 6th, 1833
Sir
Enclosed is the Declaration of Finney McCamish for revolutionary pension under the act of 3d February 1853. Please acknowledge the receipt of the same. 
Sometime ago, I mailed to you the Declaration of Betsey Gass, Polly Evans, Rachel Sharp and Sally Earnest under the above law and also Rachel Salts, all of this (Greene) County, and requested you to acknowledge the receipt of the same, but I have not received such acknowledgements. My only object in making this request, was to satisfy myself that the papers had reached your office.
The claim of Thomas Jonest, arrearage for administrator of the estate of Joana Jones, late, widow of Joseph Jones, late, a revolutionary pensioner, of Greene Co. Ten, was filed about the 27th Dec. 1852. Please examine the same and report the result to me. The papers were mailed here.
Respectfully, Your Obedient Servant,
B. McDaniels
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Hon. L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
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State of Tennessee,
County of Washington,
Personally appeared before the Honorable A. C. Collins, an acting Justice of the Peace for the County and State aforesaid, Archibold Mason to me well known to be the person he represents himself to be, and made oath in due form of law, that he is the personally appointed Administrator of Albert G. Graham deceased, that he has diligently examined the papers and effects the said deceased which have come into his hands as Administrator; that the Pension Certificate of Jenny McAmis is not to be found among them; that he has no knowledge of the disappearance and whereabouts of said Pension Certificate, and that he has no interest whatever in the claim of the said Jenny McAmes for Pension.
Archibald G. Mason
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 8th day of February 1866.
A.C. Collins

State of Tennessee
County of Washington 
I, John Fishamby, Clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby certify to the Collins Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit was made was at the time of taking the same and still is an on acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, and that all his acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit, and that his signature there to is genuine. And I do further certify that it fully appears of record in my said office that
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Archibald G. Mason, the foregoing Affiant is the legally authorized Administrator of Albert G. Graham deceased, appointed by said Court which is about of Probate; And I also certify that I have no interest whatever, in the claim of Jenny McAmis for Pension.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court at office in Jonesborough this 8th day of February 1866.
John F. Graham
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Printed and sold by Wm. H. Moore, 484 Eleventh Street, Washington, D. C.
Application for Restoration to the Pension Rolls
WHOSE
Names have been dropped under the Art of February 4, 1862.
State of Tennessee,
County of Greene,
On this thirtieth day of January, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty six, personally appeared before me, E. W. Hendrick, Clerk of the County Court in said State and County, the same being a Court of Record, [Jinny McCamish], aged eighty six in the State of Tennessee years, a resident of Civil District No. 18 of Greene County declares that (2) she who, being duly sworn according to law, is the identical (2) Jinny McCamish who was a pensioner on the roll of the agency at Jonesborough, Washington County State of Tennessee and the pension certificate is herewith returned that she has resided since the first day of January, A. D. 1861, as follows: in Civil District 10 of Greene County, State of Tennessee that her Pension Certificate is to at and is not in her pension or knowledge---that during this period other means of subsistence have been an entire dependence upon her relations, being totally
unfit for any labor or employment and that she has not borne arms against the Government of the United States, or she has not in any manner encouraged the rebels, or manifested a sympathy with their cause; and that she was last paid her pension on the fourth day of March 1861. And that she is the widow of Thomas McCamish.
This application is made for the purpose of securing a restoration of her name to the pension rolls, and of obtaining a new pension certificate, such as she may be entitled to under existing laws, reference being made to the evidence heretofore filed in the Pension Office to substantiate her original claim. And I hereby appoint Robert M. McKee of Greenville, Tennessee my Attorney to present this my application, and perform all that is necessary therein, without revocation, as well as to receive my Certificate when issued.
Robert M. Dobson
John W. Brown
[Jinny McCamish]
Also personally appeared Robert Dobson, a resident of Greene County, Tennessee and John W. Brown-a resident of Greene County Tenn., persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who, being by me duly sworn, say that they were present and saw [Jinny McCamish] make her mark to the foregoing declaration; and they further swear that they have every reason to believe, from the appearance of the applicant and their acquaintance with her that she is the identical
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Identical person she represents herself to be; and they further swear that they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim; and that the said Jenny McAmis to still the widow of Thomas McAmis.
Robert Dobson
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this with day of January A.D. 1866; and I hereby certify that I have no interest, direct or indirect, in the prosecution of this claim.
E. W. Headrick, Clerk of the County Court of Green County
OATH OF ALLEGIANCE.
I, Jenney McAmis, do solemnly swear, (or affirm), in the presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder; that I will, in like manner, abide by and faith fully support all laws and proclamations which have been made during the existing rebellion with reference to the emancipation of Slaves: So help me God.
Jenny McAmis
Signed in presence of
Robert M. Dolson
John W. Brown
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this thirtieth day of January A. D. 1866.
W. D. Culver, Justice of the Peace for Greene County

The State of Tennessee 
County of Greene, 
I, E.W. Headrick, Clerk of the County Court within and for said County, do certify that T. Culver Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits were made, was, at the time of taking the same, and still is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that the several signatures, purporting to be his, which are appended to said affidavit are his genuine signatures. And that the Affidavit of [Illegible] is hereunto attached
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of our said Court, at Office in Greenville this thirtieth day of January A. D. 1866.
E. W. Headrick, Clerk of the County Court of Green County
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State of Tennessee
Greene County
On this 15th day of October 1865 before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared B. McDannel of lawful age and a resident of said County, whose oath is entitled to credit, and made oath in due form of law to the following statement relative to Jenny McAnis or Amish to wit:
I prosecuted and obtained a pension from the United States for Jering McAmis, widow of Thomas McAmis, who was a revolutionary soldier—Mr. McAmis was placed upon the pension roll at the rate of Sixty six dollars and sixty cents per annum and was last paid at the Agency of the United States at Jonesborough Tennessee, and from some papers now in my possession, and partly from recollection, I am satisfied that she drew said pension up to 4th of March 1861, and I believe John L. W. Daniel acted in the drawing as her attorney, and I believe her Pension Certificate was left at Jonesborough with A. G. Graham who is now dead. I had charge of her certificate up to March 4, 1861 and believe that I sent them to Jonesborough with the attorney above named and that he left them with said Graham - I cannot find them among my papers,
Mrs. McCamish, now a resident of Greene Co. Tennessee is the identical person who drew the pension above named, and from reliable information I am well satisfied she is now and has continued to be loyal to the United States throughout the late
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Rebellion.
B. McDaniels
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year first written.
W. D. Culver, Justice of the Peace for Green County
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State of Tennessee
County of Greene 
I, E. W. Hendrick Clerk of the County Court in and for said County and State do hereby certify, that in the case of the Application by Jenny McCamish for restoration of her name upon the Pension Rolls of the United States and in which Application said Jenny McAmis (or McCamish was by me sworn to the Declaration therein contained that said Declaration was read over and its contents made known to her in my presence before she was sworn to the same, And I have no interest in her said Application whatever.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office in Greenville, Tennessee this 3d day of April AD. 1866,
W. Hadrick, Clerk of the County Court of Greene County
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Treasury Department,
Third Auditor's Office,
April 18, 1866.
Sir,
In reply to your inquiry, I have to inform you that the pension of Mrs. [Jinny McCamish], (on Jonesboro, Tenn. roll, under 2nd Section [Act] 3rd Feby 1833), appears by the books of this Office to have been last paid to 4 March 1861.
Very Respectfully,
John Wilson
Auditor

Hon. Joseph H. Barrett
Commissioner of Pensions
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Brief in the case of any McCamish wife of Thomas for Restoration,
Green County and State of Tennessee
CLAIM FOR NEW PENSION CERTIFICATE,
Act 3 Feb 1853, the 2, Section
PROOF EXHIBITED,
Claimant was pensioner under the 2d Section of said act at the rate of $66.66 per annum: before the Rebellion. Three credible witnesses testify to [Illegible] Claimant. Her loyalty is established by two credible Witnesses. This Auditor reports that her pension was paid on 4 March 1861.
Claim allowed at the rate of $66.66 per annum, commencing March 4th, 1861 and to continue during her widowhood. 
Apr. 23, 1866,

R. M. McKee, Esq.,
Greenville, Tenn.
Name and residence of Agent.

[Illegible]
Examining Clerk.
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Brief in the case of Jenny McCarnish, widow of Thomas,
Green County and State of Tennessee
Act 3d February 1853
Claim ("original," "Free")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was pensioned under the Act of June 7, 1832.
Marriage proved by certified Copy of marriage bond, and [personal] evidence certified to be credible.
(If for increase.) Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

B. McDaniel, Esq.
Greenville, Tenn.
Name and residence of Agent
R. Geddes
Examining Clerk.
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Jenny McCamish
Widow of Thomas
Rev Claim for Res
2 Sec. Act Feb. 3, 1853
I have Certificate at the rate of 66.66 per annum. Com. March 14th,1861 & to Continue during widowhood under the 17 Sec of the Act of Feb. 3rd, 1853.
[Illegible]
Cert to
R. M. McKee, Esq
Greenville, Tenn
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Brief in the Case of Jenny McCamish, will of Thomas McCamish for Restoration 
Greene County and State of Tennessee.
Act 3 Feby 1853, the 2nd Section
CLAIM FOR NEW PENSION CERTIFICATE,
PROOF EXHIBITED,
Claimant was pensioned before the rebellion under the Act aforesaid at the rate of $66.66 per annum. Her Widowhood & identity is Established by three credible witnesses. [Her] Loyalty is shown by the Credible affiants.
Name and residence of Agent.
Examining Clerk.
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Thomas A. McCamish
Green County
$56.66 per annum.
Payments to be made at Knoxville Tenn by Robert King, Esq., Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of East Tennessee.
Recorded by Henry Hayling, Clerk, in Book D., Vol. 9, Page 186.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Thomas McCamish of the State of Tennessee East, Tenn. Agency who was a Private in the Virginia Militia during the Revolutionary War is entitled to receive fifty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United Sates, this tenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Lew Cass
Secretary of War

Examined and Countersigned. 
J. L. Edwards
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Thomas McCarmish
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Thomas McCarmish which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? It does.
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? He did.
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? He has.
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? No.
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? He has.
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? He has.
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? [Yes].
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? He has.
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? It is & is so distinguishable.
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? [Illegible]
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? There is.
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?  Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No.
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? [Illegible]
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: “Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For year months and - days, I served as a . For months days, I served as a and for such service I claim a pension."
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about the forms indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which be belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
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SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
EMPIRE STATE SOCIETY
HEADQUARTERS: HOTEL PLAZA
FIFTH AVENUE AT SON STREET
NEW YORK, N. Y.
January 27, 1938.

The Veteran's Bureau
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs:
We are trying to authenticate the service of Thomas McCamish, who was reported to have enlisted from Bedford County, Virginia, September 26, 1780, in Capt. Thomas Leftwick's Company of Col. Ralph Faulkner's Regiment. Later he is reported to have served under Captains John Dickson, Haight and Joseph Bullock. He was at the Surrender of Yorktown.
He enlisted as a Private and was discharged as a Sergeant. Can you tell us from your records if the above is the correct account of his service?
Yours very truly,
Francklyn Hogeboom
Registerer
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Tusculum, Tenn.
May 11, 1921
Bureau of Pensions:-
Please send me a statement of the military history of Thomas McAmish. Enlisted in Va. Filed claim for pension from Green Co., Tenn.
He was a soldier in the War of the Revolution.
Mrs. W. C. Clemens
Tusculum, Tenn.
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In reply to your request of  , received 
for a statement of the military history of Thomas McCamish
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau.  W. File 6805
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
RANK.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
COLONEL.
STATE.
Early Spring to Sept 26, 1780 = 7 mos
Thomas Leftwick
Ralph Falkner
Va.
Oct 1 1780 to Mch. 12 1781
James Dixon
Apl. 1781 to July 7, 1781
Tate
Sept. 2 1781 to Jany. 1782
Joseph Bullock
Tucker
at sur. of Yorktown
Battles engaged in, Hawkins
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Bedford Co. Va.
Date of application for pension, Sept. 6, 1832. Alld.
Residence at date of application, Greene Co., Tenn.
Age at date of application, 73 seventy-three years.
"Thos. McCamish, (William's son)"
Remarks: Mar. Greene Co. Tenn, Sept. 18 or 19, 1810 Jinney Wilson
he died  Jany. 4, 1840 in Green Co. Tenn., & she was alld. pens. on her
appln. exec. May 2, 1853 while  a res. of Greene Co. Tenn, & nearly 72
yrs. of age:
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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