Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 73, Seth P Alday, Va.
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Va.
Alday, Seth P.
R73
Sarah
This Envelope Includes
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
H.J.
Received from GAO
32
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31,812
South Carolin
Seth Alday
Union district in the State of S. Carolina 
as a priv of Cav in the company commande
Captain Ried of the reg comma
Col in the Virg. State
two years
ribed on the Roll of S. Carolina
rate of 100 Dollars per annum
ommence on the 4th day of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of Dec

1840 and sent to Hon WK
McCowney, Unionville, SC

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1841 $1000.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept'41 50.00
$1050.00
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7 1832
Recorded by D McCurdy, Cle
ook E Vol 6 Page 62
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34745
Seth Alday
Sarah Alday 
(?)
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State of South Carolina
Union District
 On this twenty ninth day July one thousand eight hundred and forty personally appeared in open court before John (?) Pratt Judge of Ordinary for Union District in the state of South Caroling the declarant Seth Alday a resident of Fannon's Creek in the District of Union & State of South Carolina, aged Seventy eight years, who being first duely 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 7, 1832: That he enlisted the army of the United States in the year 1779 under Capt. Edmund Ried & served two years, the time for which he enlisted, in a troop or regiment of Cavalry of the Virgina line commanded by Major John Nelson, that born in Charlotte County in Virgina where he resided when he enlisted and entered the service. That he received a written discharge after the term of enlistment expired from Capt Edmund Ried, which has since been mislaid or lost. He hereby relinquishes every claim, whatsoever to a pension or an annuity except the present & he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state. This declarant further states that the reason why he has failed to apply for the benefit of the act passed 7th June 1832 until now was because of his ignorance of the proof necessary & his inability to produce evidence
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that he was advised by his counsil to be necessary.
Seth Alday
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written
J.J. Pratt Judge of the court of ordinary
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served a station.
I, J.J. Pratt Judge of the court of ordinary from (?) District State of South Carolina do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said court in the matter of the application of Seth Alday for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal of office this 29th day of July A.D.1840
J.J. Pratt, Judge of the court of ordinary
I J.J. Pratt Judge of ordinary as aforesaid as hereby certify that Seth Alday the applicant in this case did apply in open court on the 26th day of Nov. 1832 for the benefit of the act passed by Congress of the 7th June 1832 under the form prescribed by the War department in case where the names were not to be found on the Roll and that he was unable to furnish the proof required by the said form
J.J. Pratt Judge of the court of ord.
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South Carolina
Union District
I William Ray clerk of the court of Virginia Common pleas in & for the District of Union in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that J.J Pratt whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing certificate is Judge of the Court of Ordinary for Union district. that due faith and credit is and aught to be given to all his official acts as such given under my hand and seal of office at Union Court House this 29th day of July AD 1840
Wm Ray C C C(?)
for Union District
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Mr. J. L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Seth Alday (upside down)
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Unionville July 29th 1840

Dear Sir
I drew the declaration of Wm Seth Alday & hope that the proof will be sufficient to establish his claim. When he made an effort to establish his claim in 1832, he was (?) that it was necessary to prove by witnesses his actual service. To make the proof, at a distance so far from the scene of services, he found to be impracticable,- Hence he has failed to prosecute his claim further until today when I informed him that his name being on the roll of the Virginia State Troops in the War Department would be sufficeint. I know personally but little of the applicant although from his own account he has been a resident of this District more than forty years, by trade a tailor. He is from appearance fully 78 the age he represent himself, being born as he says on the 25th March 1762. If the proof in the Department corresponds with these state of things I hope his claim will be allowed.
Yours
W.K. Clowney
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34745
Seth Alday
SC
June 7 1832
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Charlotte County Oct 12th AD 1840
Seth Alday a citizen of South Carolina & formerly a resident of this county has apply to me to prove that he was the reputed son of Perren Alday dec, also of this county, to which I answer in the affirmative
John Armistead
1840 October 12th This day appeared before me a justice of the peace, John Armstead and made oath to the above certificate. Mr. Armstead is a man of reputability and entitled to full credit given under my hand this day and date above written
Wyatt Cardwell J.P.
Charlotte County Va 12th Oct 1840
I certify that Seth Alday who I understood to be the son of Perren Alday inlisted in the service of this State during the Revolutionary War under Capt (E?) Read of this County, I beleave the person now applying to me for this testimoney to be the same man given
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and in my hand this day & date above written
Martha X Epperson, her mark

1840 October 12 This day the above named Martha Epperson appears before me a justice of the peace for the County of Charlotte and made oath to the foregoing certificate, she is a person of credibility and entitled to the fulast confidence given under my hand the day and date above written.
Wyatt Cardwell J.P.
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Charlotte County to wit
I William A Smith deputy clerk of the Court of Charlotte County certify that Wyatt Cardwell is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his and genuine. In Testimony whereof I have here unto affix of my seal of office & subscribed my name this 14th day of October 1840
William A Smith D.C.
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Aug 73
Proof of Sarah Allday being the widow of Seth P. Allday decd A late pensioner of the United States
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State of Kentucky
Meade County Towit
October Term 1868 -(2nd Oct)
On this day it was satisfactorily proven to this court by the oath of Marth Board & William H Board that Seth P Allday departed this life on the 26th day of November 1867 at which time he was residing in the County of Union in the state of South Carolina and that he was a soldier in the American Revolution and a pensioner on the United States Government, and duly placed as such on the pension roll of that state, and was receiving his pay there at the rate of $96 per annum as they now believe but as to the amount the entrys of his claim in the proper department will show the fact of the case. that there were some balance or arrearages due him from the general government at the time of his death, as witnesses are informed and that he left an aged widow named Sarah Allday. she is in very dependant circumstances, having but little estate left if any on which to be supported and that she moved from the State of South Carolina since her husbands death and is now residing in the County of Meade and State of Kentucky, and the above proof has been made in open court in view of enableing the said Sarah Allday as widow to draw from the General Government any back pay that may still be due and owing to her late husband, and to receive any other pay or annuity to which she may be entitled under the existing acts of Congress regulating pensions and pay to widows
Att Wm Fairleigh
by CC Fairleigh DC
(Seal) In Testimony that the foregoing order of proof therein contained is hereby copied from the Record of said Court. I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my officieal Seal at my office in Brandonburg Ky on this 22nd day of Nov. 1848  Wm Fairleigh (?)
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State of Kentucky
Meade County (?)
I Madison Frans Esquire presiding Justice of the Peace in and for the County Court for this County (?) do hereby certify that William Fairleigh whose signature appears to the foregoing certificate was clerk of said County at the time of signing the same and still is Clerk of said court and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such and the Certificate is in due view of Server Giving under my name this day of November 1848
Madison Frans JP (?)
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Please examine this and write to (?) SC . Jno. C. Walker Esq. at Brandenburg, KY. He is the friend and atty of the old lady farmer - The proof does not I believe show the time of the marriage, on  that point Wm.  W. Well want (?)
HW Tompkins

NO 73
Proof of Sarah Allday being the Widow of Seth P Allday dec'd A late Pensioner of the United States
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Payment to be made
at Charleston
by Archd. Spears,
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of - 
South Carolina
on the 4 March next.

[stamp: FINAL PAYMENT [illegible]]

Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book E Vol. 6.
Page 62, by DM. Curdy,
Clerk.

{6} That he now resides on Farrier's Creek in the District & State of S. Car. & has resided there for the space of sixteen years past & that previous thereto he resided in Charlotte County in the State of Virginia
March 22d 1841
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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 Seth Alday, a resident of South Carolina who was a private of Cavalry in the revolution is entitled to receive one hundred dollars 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 States, this seventeenth day of December one thousand eight hundred and forty.
J. R. Poinsett
Secretary of War
Examined and Countersigned
JL Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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That he now resides on Fannon Creek in the District of Union & State of S. Car. & has resided there for the space of sixteen years past & that previous hereto he resided in Charlotte County in the State of Virginia 
March 22 1841


Payment to be made at Charleston by Archd Spears agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of South Carolina on this March next.

Final (?) (?)
(?)  (?)

Recorded in the Pension Office in Book E Vol. 6 Page 62 by D McCurdy, Clerk
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June 1832
Seth Alday deceased
$55.48
Original certificate enclosed

Final Payment Voucher
Received from GAO
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The State of South Carolina  SS
Union District
Be it known that before me JJ Pratt ordinary and a magistrate exofficio in and for said District personally appeared Sarah Alday and made oath in due form of Law that she is the widow of Seth Alday who was the identical person named in an original certificate which was in the possession of the said Seth Alday & which is herewith enclosed of which the following is a true copy.

War Department Revolutionary Claim
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United Staes of the 7th June 1832 Seth Alday a resident of South Carolina who was a private of Cavalry in the Revolution is entitled to receive one hundred dollars per annum during his natural life commencing on the 4th of March 1831 and payable semiannually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year.
Given at the war office of the United States this seventeenth day of December one thousand eight hundred and forty
Seal Examined and countersigned J L Edward
J.R. Poinsett
Secretary of War
Commissioner of Pensions
That the said Seth Alday resided in Union which in the state of South Carolina until on or about the 24th of September last on which day the said Seth Alday departed this life that he has resided in the said district of Union and state aforesaid for about twenty two years and that previous thereto he resided in Charlotte County Virginia.
Sarah X her mark Alday
To the truth of the above statement I am perfectly satisfied
Sworn to & subscribed before me the 22 Mar 1847
JJ Pratt Atty & Magt. Ex. Off.
Wm J Kennan
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The State of South Carolina
union District
Personally appeared Nathaneil Page (a very respectable citizen of Union District before me and made oath in due form of Law that he was well acquainted with Seth Alday of the District above named that the said Seth Alday did draw a pension from the government of the United States and that the said Seth Alday did on or about the 24th day of September last past depart this life leaving a widow Sarah Alday who is the identical person refered to in the affidavit
Nathaniel X his mark Page
Sworn to before me the 22nd day of Nov 1847
J.J. Pratts
atty & Magt. Ex. Off.
Wm J. Keenan
I Willaim J. Keenan clerk of the County of Union District in the state of South Carolina do certify that J.J. Pratt whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit is judge of the Court of Ordinary  Exofficio of magistrate for said district & that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office the 26th day of November in the year 1847
Wm G Keenan
Clerk of the Court of Union Dist.
Final Payment Voucher 
Received from GAO
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(?)
The State of South Carolina
Union District
Know all men by these presents that I Sarah Alday the widow of Seth Alday who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States do hereby constitute and appoint Wm L. Banks my true and lawful attorney for me and my name to receive from the agent of the United States for paying pensions in Charleston South Carolina the pension of the said Seth Alday from the fourth day of March 1847 to the fourth day of September 1847 And also from the 4th day of September 1847 to the 24th day of the same month being the day of the death of the said Seth Alday
Witness my hand and seal the 22 day of November 1847
Sarah X her mark Alday    Seal
In the presence of J. J. Pratt atty & Magt. Ex. Off.
Wm J Keenan
The State of South Carolina
Union District
Be it known that on the 22 day of November AD 1847 personally appeared Sarah Alday above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed
In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand the day and year above written
J.J. Pratt Att & Magt. Ex. Off
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Final Payment Voucher
Received (?) (?)
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State of South Carolina,
Charleston District SS
Be it know, That on the 3rd day of December 1847, before me, a Notary Public, in and for said district, duly authorised by the laws of the State to administer oath, personally appeared Wm L Banks the attorney named (?) (?) power of attorney, and made oath that he has no interest whatever in the money he is authorized to receive, by virtue of the foregoing power of attorney, either by any pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer and that he does not know or believe that the same has been so disposed of to any person whatever.
W. L Banks
Sworn and subscribed, the day and year last above mentioned, before me
Jno C Cochran JP
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO

FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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SOUTH-WESTERN RAIL-ROAD BANK,
Charleston, 3 December 1847
Received of John C. Cochran, agent for paying Pensions, Thirty five Dollars 48 Cents being for (?) Months 20 days Pension, due to Seth Alday deceased from the 4 day of March 1847 to the 24 day of September 1847 for which I have signed duplicate receipts.
W. L. Banks
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___________Ex'r. 
INVALID
REDACTED
REDACTED
REJECTED
Sarah Allday
P>O> widow of Seth Allday
Priv of Cavy  Capt Reid  VA
Service: Certif 31812 Rev War
File no 46669
Enlisted:____________, 18
Discharged:__________, 18
Application filed:_____________, 18
Alleges:____________________________________________
Re-enlisted:__________________________
Attorney:__________________
P.O.________________
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South Carolina Act '32
Seth Alday, Pri of Cavy $100 per an
Died 24th Sept 1867. Paid to his death (?)
To what time last paid?
Previous Office
22 March 4(?)
C.
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Ben Edwards Grey
(?)

Hon M Waldo
Pension office
DC

Sarah Alday
Ky  (?) 78
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Set to J.C. Walker (?) 20
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Nov 11 1840
Nov 5
SC
FREE
J. L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Washington DC
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Unionville Nov 3 1840
Dear Sir
Enclosed you will find the evidence of Set Alday who has applied for a pension as a regular soldier of the Virginia line is the identical person whose name is to be found upon the role. The applicant visited Virginia & procured in person the affidavitt herewith inclosed.
Yours
M. K Clowney
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Seth Alday
SC
Act June 7 1832
Allens Inf (?) Cavalry
Va line. $100 per ann
Capt Reid
On Role State line
Sol Cav (?)(?) 15-14