Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13205, William Griffin, S.C.
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S.C. Griffin, William S. 13205 carded
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Virginia
[illegible]
William Griffin
held in the State of So. Ca.
was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Person of the Rgt. commanded by Maj. Gillam in the So. Ca. 8 mos & 27 days Cav. & Inf.
List on the Roll of So. Carolina
rate of 31 Dollars 07 Cents per annum, on the 4th day of March, 1831
Cert of Pension issued the 9 day of Feby. 1838 and sent FW Pickens House of Reps.
Arrears to the 4th day of Sept. 1837 $192.85
[illegible] allowance ending 4 Mar '38 - 14.83
$207.68
Revolutionary Claim,
[illegible] 1832
[illegible] Clerk
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[illegible] pension Feb 28 1838 [illegible] to same Oct. 4 1839   
[illegible] to agt Dec 7, 1839
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March 1838 to 4 March 1839.
Agt notified 10 Jany 1840

To Virginia from 4 Sept 1839 10th Jany 1840 --Notification to Pens Present

Letter to Pens 22 Feb 1840

Date of death not on A.B.
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Ex parte --
Wm Griffin

Hn. F W Pickens
H.R.
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Declaration in order to obtain the act of
Congress passed June 7th 1832.
State of South Carolina}
Edgefield District}
On this 9th day of
June 1837 personally appeared in open Court
before the Court of Equity for Edgefield Dis. So. Ca. 
William Griffin who being duly sworn
make the following declaration to obtain
the a benefit of the act of Congress passed
June 7th 1832. That he is of eighty three years
of age & is a resident of Edgefield Dist & State
aforesaid.
That he entered the service of
of the United States under the following
named officers & served as herein stated.
That he resided in Newberry Dist. South Carolina
at the time he entered the service That he
was drafted as a private sometime in the year 1778 and
was attached to a Battalion commanded by
Maj Robert Gillam, his captain was Henry
Person & the only other officer that he now recollects was Lockey Leonard who was adjutant.
He joined his Company in Newberry & marched
to the Chalk Hills in Edgefield Dist opposite
to Augusta Ga; & was encamped there for two
or three weeks -- from thence he was marched
under the command of Maj. Gillam to Cubbord
Creek in Georgia below Augusta from this
place his company Capt Person, was sent forward
towards Savannah as a picket guard where
he remained until the time for which he was
drafted expired which was three months.The
first tour then that he served was three months
How long he then remained at home before
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he again entered the service, he does not presently recollect, but immediately after the siege of Ninety Six was raised by
Gen. Green he was appointed a recruiting
Sergeant by Col. Jos. Hays & Col. Jas. William
for twelve month during which time he served
in that capacity in the Dist of Newberry.
After the expiration of the twelve months
which he served as recruiting Sergeant, he
immediately volunteered to join Gen Greens
army at Bacon bridge on the Ashley river.
From his great old age & the length of time
that has elapsed he does not now recollect
who his Captain was but he remembers that
Maj. Jarard Smith commanded the Battalion
to which he was attached & Col. Benjamin Roebuck the regiment. He was marched after
he volunteered from Newberry to Orangeburg
where he joined Col Roebuck Regt. from thence
he marched to Gen Greens army as above stated.  
In this town he volunteered as a private & served
three months March, April & May 1782 or in 1783.
in which of those years he does not now recollect.
While with Gen Green who was stationed as above
stated he was engaged in no battle but performed the ordinary duties of a soldier such as going
upon foraging parties. After the expiration
of the three months he left Gen Greens army still
at Bacon bridge & returned home. He has
no documentary evidence, but has processed
the affidavit hereunto answered of two  Revolutionary soldiers
whose evidence he was obliged to take in this
from those two are the only person now alive, so
for as he knows who served with him.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to any pension or annuity except the present
and declares that his name is not on the
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[illegible] roll of the agency of any state
Sworn to & subscribed the day and
year aforesaid in open court before
William Griffin
David Johnson
pending chancellor

And the said Court do hereby declare
its opinion after the investigation of the 
matter & after putting the interogatories
prescribed by the war Department that the
above named applicant was a revolutionary
soldier & served as he states.
David Johnson
Presiding Chancellor

I James Terry Commissioner of the court
of Equity for Edgefield Dist STate of So. Ca.
do hereby certify thta the foregoing contains
the original proceedings of the said court
in the matter of the application of Wm. Griffin
for a pension  In testimony whereof I hvae
hereunto set my hand & seal of office
[??] June 1837
J Terry
C.E.E.D.

South Carolina}
Edgefield Dist}
Personally came before me
Wm. Griffin makes oath that for some years 
past he has led a wandering life, residing among
his different relation in this state of Georgia, in 
[illegible] of being very poor & unable to work. & having recently come into this Dist. he does not know of any clergyman here who could sware as to the general belief of his having been a revolutionary soldier.
Sworn to before me
J. Terry C.E.E.D.
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Application for a transfer
Dist of Columbia
County of Washington
On this seventh day of December 1934
Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Washington personally appeared William Griffin who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commaded by Captain Henry Pearson in the Regiment commanded by Colonel     Robuck in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of South Carolina from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the State (Dstrict, or Territory,) of Virginia where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future.  The following are his reasons for removing from South Ca is as follows.  The peopel in South Carolina County was a robing murdering murding wives. One man  
hired a black man to rape his wife for which he was      he also cut her throat much [illegible] but  neither justice nor equity so no man stood much chance to get their [illegible]
Also there was five or six murdered besides that one who was raped and killed and not one of them executed but that negro and altho I was born and raised [illegible] for the 15 years of my age in Culpepper County Va  This is the principal causes of my removing into Virginia    William Griffin

Sworn and subscribed to before me, the day and year aforesaid  Rob Getty J.P.

The oath to be taken before a duly qualified Magistrate, whose official character and signature must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.  The County Clerk, Secretary of State, or some other office, must certify, under his seal of office, that the officer who administered the oath of a Justice of the Peace, Judge, Mayor Alderman, or Notary Public, as the case may be, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
The oath must be supported by the testimony of some respectable person, as to the pensioner's identity.  He must swear that the person who has taken the above oath is the person described in the affidavit.  The Magistrate must certify that the witness is a person of veracity; and the affidavit must also be authenticated in the manner above directed.  

I know the bearer William Griffin and that he is the identical person referred to certification from the war department dated 9th Feb 1838
6 Dec 1839    F. W. Pickens
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April 5, 1939

BA~/AWF
William Griffin
S.13205

Mrs. J.B Sanford
Talladega
Alabama

Dear Madam:

The data which follow concerning William Griffin were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, S. 13205, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

William Griffin was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, and lived there until he was fifteen years old. The date of his birth is not given, nor were the names of his parents stated.

While residing in Newberry District, South Carolina , William Griffin served three months in 1778, as private in Captain Henry Pearson's company, under Major Robert Gillam, in the South Carolina troops. He was appointed, immediately after the stage of Ninety-Six was raised recruiting sergeant , served under Colonels Joseph Hays and James Williams, twelve months after which he served three months as private under Colonel Benjamin Roebuck

 He was allowed pension on his application executed June 9, 1837, at which time he was aged eighty-three years, and a resident of Edgefield District, South Carolina. 
In 1839 he was living in Caroline County, Virginia. 

There are no data in regard to family other than a reference to relatives living in Georgia,
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with whom he had lived after the close of the Revolution. 

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and furnish the following data 

William Griffin
Certificate #131343
Issued February 9, 1838 
Rate $31.07 per annum 
Commenced March 4, 1831 
Act of June 7, 1832 
Virginia Agency. 
Very truly yours 
A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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G 635 Feb. 27. 38 Pension office S.C. ( upside down on page ) J. R. Poinsett Sec of War  Washington D.C. ( post mark ) [ HAMB  .. incomplete FEB 21 ... incomplete ]
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Hamburgh ( State S.C.)} 
Feb 20 Day 1838- }
From Hamburgh  S.C.} 

To the honorable gentlemen of the War Department  City of Washington   Gentlemen  I received your certification yesterday  morning signed 9th and when I saw the pitiful sum your Honors assigned in order for to compensate you address it really struck me with horror for to think for the suffering hardships I had for to endure of the first start of the Revolution in South Carolina and Georgia & thirty one dollars and seven cents is all your consciences have allowed me and the trouble and expense of my attaining it From Charleston will in about sink it gentlemen  I am a Man uncommon for these times  I was bred and born in Culpepper County State of Virginia most strictly brought up  to truth, honor & honesty and in sobriety have conducted myself by the same rule ever since and all who is acquainted with me gives me the name of an industrious worthy member of society witness Judge Richard .. ( illegible ) with twenty seven other gentlemen as any to be found in Edgefield D.. gentlemen I was out on a mission from 1814 to this day and never heard of the provisions made in favor of the Old Revolutionaries until 3 or 4 years ago being out as far far as the Mississippi River from above Memphis down or near Ponchetrain and from the sea coast over East & West Tennessee  the Western District  Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Creek Nations of Indians being only returned into Georgia and South Carolina and in that route five times robbed purse and money took out of my pocket by the Murdletes  (?) had for to quit my pursuit and have returned to South Carolina have had eighteen months in order to hunt up vouchers for to prove my revolutionary services and all dead and gone but Captain Ambrose Hudgcings and Mr. Ambrose Rippley they were sworn to all the powers of duty that they know of and myself also confirmed  it 2 or three times and signed by this Judge Johnston at Edgefield Court House on 9 Day of June 1837 forward it on to your Honors by Esqr. Winbush and gentlemen I feel inclined for to detail as near or possible in brief of my present situation at the present time after I render up to your Honors the services I have aimed at for to advance & dignify the ( U. S. ) for no man could ever be possessed with a warmer zeal for to elevate the welfare and prosperity of the ( U.S. ) than I have been possessed of evidence we gained our independency and none more  I acted with our form of government of the ( U.S. ) than I have been until here of late I have been very doubtful our Constitution was likely to be dead instead of being graced by Amendment but I still hope for the best I could have been possessed of many letters such as Honor & .. ( illegible ) as Justices Member to States legislator Also a Member of Congress  but I did not conceive myself possessed of
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talents for either office as so I would not consent for to set up for any post whatever and I been incline so to continue as I have got stricken in years etc., etc. But may it pleas your Honors gentlemen my zeal ran so high for the welfare of our Country and having accidentally on 20th April 1815 brought in a book on the first principles of Chemistry set out in bond on by Doctor John T. Sankey drawed from forty odd books on Chemistry in  London but I never saw a letter in it until the ninth day  I got to a house of rest and saw I opened the book and by contents and index saw immediately what the book contained and found how every one of every kind of metals as so plainly set forth and depicted so that on coming on a vein of any of these metals of a clear sunny day  I could see the blossoms of those metals and I have followed those veins of metals cropping up them in many different places  clear from the Mississippi River and so continues all around this globe of earth stretching due West and east course and also nine miles distance from North to South Carolina running as straight as straight can be so that  I could determine any course any place was and is in I have been possessed of compass and magnet I can prove how them veins of metals have all the cause of the power of attraction in magnetism, and by them alone the surveyors and mariners compass is possessed for to turn to the North and South and further may it please your Honors having set as time Resolution for to make of all those metals a public good for to earth and to dignify the ( U.S. ) although I have had many thousand in my 23 years travail for to cross legs get it out and forge it into money any constant supply  although reduced down to nakedness and starvation almost I would not do anything about it unless I was authorized by an act of Congress for to do it etc. etc. there is not a thing about the purifying of all metals the alloys of gold or silver how to manage platinum how to turn iron into steel plating  through guilting making all kinds of acids camphor brimstone arsenic with all composed of all mixtures of metals All this may it please your Honors I have under gone for the welfare of our land and our Nation with a single eye for the good of all our citizens and if the pension act do not allow me no more as a pensioner I do think how they gentlemen in Congress assembled of course out to appropriate a handsome sum as a premium for the new and me for my voluntary service  I have and do thereby offer to our government for I have read some.. have heard of great sums of being offered for a less discovery than I am  show if I was endowed with the means  I can in a short time show many of the precious metals melted and hammered out some of which I have already in bars  but without a home from 1806 no horse lost 6 or 7 head for my tours and no man need ever think for to out go me in chemistry for have outstripped all whoever studied it pray gentlemen  be so obliging as to get with  Mr. Francis Pickens from Edgefield for to present and to speak to the House now in Session and  oblige yours respectively  yours , etc., etc.  William Griffin  ( signed ) Mineralogist
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P.S. Not half the services I performed in the Revolution have been presented  to your Honors as vouchers was dead & gone I did serve as a recruiting sergeant for to force out the disaffected into the army twelve months had to go  late and early also (illegible) Coll. Joseph Hayes Cavalry of his until Tory Wm Cuningham took him and killed him and the most of this men and then again written to be drafted for to go down to General Nathan Green around at Bacon's Bridge had for to hire a substitute give a bit of black smith tools and a horse beast the first tour I served out voluntary and all we had for to live on was a pint of rice boiled in water without salt or meat  by which we were that weak so I had liked as never to have got home there which I have never got quite clear of to this day all this was requested  as I could not prove them  etc., etc. (underscored ) Gentlemen I submit my case to your hand or selves by the same got any rule hoping your Honors will make what influences your Honors can to favor such an one is my deplorable condition and oblige etc.,etc.                                                               
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Day as it give a start to the inflammation of the bowels & kidneys and at this time afflicted in my right foot left knee and kidneys etc., etc.
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State of South Carolina} 
Edgefield District} 
Personally came before me  Ambrose Ripley of said District and after being sworn saith he was acquainted with  William Griffin  in the year 1782 or 3 them belonging to General Green's Army in South Carolina at Bacon's Bridge on Ashey River near Charleston  South Carolina he further saith the tour was three months  Feb & March & April May the year 1781 or 1783 Sworn to this 15th June 1836 before me  Ambrose Ripley 
Robert Kinney ( ?) 

South Carolina}
Edgefield District} I  H. Boulware Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas & General Sessions for the District and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Robert Kinney is a Magistrate as above  and that the forgoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony hereof I  have hereunto affixed my seal of office & subscribed my name  this 19th June  A.D. 1836. H. Boulware C.C.P.
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South Carolina}
Laurens District} 
Personally appeared before me Capt . Ambrose Hudgins and being sworn saith he was acquainted with  William Griffin in the army commanded by Major Robert Gilliam at  Court Hill South Carolina and at Cubbard Creek in Georgia in the year 1778 and that they served together a three months tour in said Army and that the above named Ambrose Hudgins doth believe the above named  W. Griffin a man of truth as far as he is acquainted with him July 6th 1836. A: Hudgins ( signed )  Sworn to and subscribed before me  Wiley  Yeargin  ( signed ) J.P.   

South Carolina}
Laurens District} I John Garlington  Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas  & General Sessions for the District and State aforesaid  do hereby certify that Wiley Yeargin is a Magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature  purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof  I have hereunto affixed my seal of office  & subscribed my name this 7th July 1836. John Garlington  ( signed / sealed )  C.C.P.
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It appears that the semi- annual pension of William Griffin of the South Carolina Agency roll Act 7th  June - from the 4th Sept. 1838  to 4th March 1839 has been twice paid once at the Treasury & again at the Agency. This information is given the Pension Office that the stipend paid Wm Griffin at Charleston to September last may be withheld to cover the over payment . It is understood that Mr. G. has applied for transferal to Virginia 3rd Auditor's Office . Dec. 27 '39.
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April 5, 1939

BA-J/AWF
Joseph Griffin-S.21247
William Griffin-S/32055
Mrs. JB Sanford
Talladega 
Alabama

Dear Madam
Reference is made to your letters in which you requested the Revolutionary War records of the following soldiers
Francis Garner, from Carteret County North Carolina
Samuel Garner, from Edgecombe County North Carolina
William Griffin from South Carolina
Joseph Griffin from South Carolina
John Griffin from Georgia
Thomas Griffin from Virginia
Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data and the limited trained clerical force available for the furnishing such information, it is not possible to comply in full with each request which requires so much time and research.  
You are furnished herewith the Revolutionary War records of Joseph and William Griffin of South Carolina
very truly yours
AD Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

See her letter on Joseph Griffin S 21247
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Rev and 1812
Wars Section


May 27, 1930

Mr. G. L. Summer
1711 E. Main Street
Newberry, South Carolina

Dear Sir:

I advise you that in order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, William Griffin, S. 12205, you should apply to the Comptrolle General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington D.C., citing all the following data:

William Griffin, Certificate No 31343, issued February 9, 1838, rate $31.07 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Virginia Agency.

Very truly yours

E. W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner.
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
AWP/
copied in absence of AWF
March 12, 1930.
Mr. G Leland Summer
1711 E Main Street 
Newberry 
South Carolina.
Dear Sir:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 13205, it appears that William Griffin was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, date not given, and lived there until he was fifteen years of age.
Wile residing in Newberry District, South Carolina, he served with the South Carolina Troops as follows:
In 1778 three months as a private in Captain Henry Pearson's Company under Major Robert Gillam:  immediately after the siege of Ninety Six was raised, he was appointed recruiting sergeant by Colonels Joseph Hays and James Williams and served as such twelve months, after which he served three months as a private under Colonel Benjamin Roebuck.
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 9, 1837,  while a resident of Edgefield District, South Carolina, aged eighty-three years.
In 1839 he had moved back to Virginia, Caroline Co
There are no family data other than in 1837 he referred to relatives as living in Georgia, no names given.
Very truly yours,
EARL D CHURCH
Commissioner
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December 4, 1929
Mrs James G. McGowen
906 Morningside Avenue
Jackson, Mississippi

Dear Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim. S.13205, it appears that William Griffin was born in Culpeper County, Virginia [crossed out age not] date not given, and lived there until he was fifteen years of age. 

While residing in Newberry District, South Carolina, he served with the South Carolina Troops as follows:
In 1778 three months as a private in Captain Henry Pearson's Company under Major Robert Gillam:  immediately after the siege of Ninety Six was raised, he was appointed recruiting sergeant by Colonels Joseph Hays and James Williams and served as such twelve months, after which he served three months as a private under Colonel Benjamin Roebuck.
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 9, 1837.  while a resident of Edgefield District, South Carolina, aged eighty-three years.
In 1839 he had moved back to Virginia, Caroline Co
There are no family data other than in 1837 he referred to relatives as living in Georgia, no names given.
Very truly yours,
EARL D CHURCH
Commissioner
1837
83
1754
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Submit in Duplicate  1-681  {hone Branch 476
All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No. 44084

Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work.
Department of the Interior
Washington
Chief, Division of Publications,
Room G 139.  June 10, 1930. 192
Please furnish work specified below.

Bureau ordering Pension  Deliver to Room No. 5033

(All copy for duplicating work should be plain and written in elite type,
exactly line for line as it is to appear on finished job.)

Title and description of job photostatic copies of 12 pages from Revolutionary War pension claim of William Griffin, S. C. Troops, S.13205.

No. of copies 1 of each  Shall form be kept standing?....days

For further information see Mrs. Finch      5033            541
                                                               Room No.    Phone No.
Approved
A D Wilkinson               Margaret M. H. Finch
Chief Clerk of Bureau     Chief of Division

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IN REPLY REFER TO
Rev. & 1812
Wars Section
MMHF/ILL

3-1865
UNITED STATES 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON  May 27, 1930.
M.O. #436628 - 80 cents
[stamped FINANCE DIVISION
BOOK-KEEPER'S DESK
JUNE 5 1930
BUREAU OF PENSIONS]

Mrs J G McGowen
906 Morningside
Jackson, Mississippi

Dear Madam:

I advise you that in Revolutionary War pension claim of William Griffin, S. 13205, from which claim you request photostatic copies, there are twelve pages to be copied.

The cost is fifteen cents a paga and should you desire to have them certified, the cost is twenty-five cents additional for the set. 

Your remittance is $1.00.  Upon receipt of the additional amount to cover the entire cost, the copies will be made and mailed to you.

The proper amount should be forwarded to this bureau by money order drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior.
Very truly yours,
E W Morgan [signature]
E W MORGAN
Acting Commissioner. 

[stamped
REVOLUTIONARY & 1812 WARS
SECTION
JUN 4 1930
BUREAU OF PENSIONS]

12
15
60
12
1.80
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Jackson Miss.  June 2nd 30
US Dept of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Mr. E. W. Morgan
Act Com
Dear Sir
Find enclosed .80
balance on photo static work, copy of William Griffin claim S-13203
Regret not sending sufficient money in first letter, but did not know how much would be required
Thank you
Respect
Mrs. J. G. McGowen
906 Morningside
Jackson Miss

[stamped
REVOLUTIONARY & 1812 WARS
SECTION
JUNE 4 1930
BUREAU OF PENSIONS]
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May 27, 1930

Mrs J. G. McGowen
906 Morningside
Jackson, Mississippi

Dear Madam:
I advise you that in Revolutionary War pension claim of William Griffin S.13205, from which claim you request photostatic copies, there are twelve pages to be copied.

The cost is fifteen cents a page and should you desire to have them certified, the cost is twenty-five cents additional for the set.

Your remittance is $1.00.  Upon receipt of the additional amount to cover the entire cost, the copies will be made and mailed to you.

The proper amount should be forwarded to this bureau by money order drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior.

Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
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Rev. & 1812
s Section
ILL

Smith
Chief Justice

H Cook
G. McGowen
Associates

Supreme Court
Consulation Room
Jackson, Miss.

Division 8
Geo. H. Ethridge 
Presiding Judge
W. D. Anderson
V. A. Griffith
Associates

U. S. Dept. of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D. C.

[square stamp]
Finance Division
Book Keepers Desk
May 23 1930
Bureau of Pensions

Dear Sirs:-
I am enclosing money order
for $1.00 with a request for a photo
static copy of the Pension application
of my great great grandfather William Griffin
which was allowed June 9- 1837 War of
the Rev. Pension claim - s-13205-

Thanking you I am Respect

Mrs. J. G. McGovern
906 Morningside
Jackson, Miss

[oval stamp]
Revolutionary & 1812 Wars
Section
May 22 1930
Bureau of Pensions

Rev & 1812
Wars Section
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Pages furnished Mrs. J. G. McGowen:

Solder's ded. June 9- 1937 with affids.
of Ambrose Ripley & A. Hudgens - 5 p
Soldier's letter dated Feb. 20, 1838 - 3 p
"                 "        "     Sep 24, 1839 - 1 p
"  appl. for transdfer - Dec. 7 - 1839 - 1 p
"  letter dated Jan. 31 - 1840 - 1 p
" ctf - jacket - 1 p
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Newberry, S. C. 3/24/1930
1711 E. Main St.

Pension Bureau,
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:
I think you for your letter of few
days ago giving information about Rev. War soldiers,
Wm Griffin and Joshual Gillam.  I note that Wm 
Giffing moved from this county to Edgefield Co., S.C-
and later to Culpepper co., Va. where he died.
I have been unable to find names of his people-
brothers and sisters, his children or the names of his parents.
What would be the best procedure in getting 
these names?
There is one other I would like to have
data on, James Griffin in war of 1812.
I found an old record few days ago showing that
James Griffin was in U. S. Army when he died
in 1814.
Thanking for the above information, I am,
Yours very truly,
G. L. Summer

[round stamp]
Pension
?
War
26
1930
U. S.
Office
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Newberry, S. C. 3/31/1930
1711 E. Main St.

Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. c.

Dear Sir:
I would like to get information about
William Griffin, a Rev. war soldier from Ninety Six 
District, South Carolina.  I have been very anxious
to get the names of his children and who they married.
Can you give me this data?
also, will you please send informatin
on the Rev. war soldier, James Griffin (not as des.), of Ninety Six District, South Carolina.

Thanking you,
Very truly
G. Leland Summer
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Division A
Sydney Smith
Chief Justice
W. H. Cook
Jas. G. McGowen
Associates

Division B
Geo. H. Ethridge
Presiding Judge
W. D. Anderson
V. A. Griffith
Associate

Supreme Court
Consultation Room
Jackson, Miss.

Nov. 25, 1929.

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir:-
Dr. Dunbar Rowland, Director of
Archives and History of this State, has suggested 
that you might be able to assist me in establishing proof of the war servcies of our of the two Griffen brother, John and William who were enlisted in the Revolutionary War from Newberry and Laurens Counties South Carolina.  John Griffin was killed, and William Griffin, (my ancestor) received a pension but later relinquished it - according to old family records in my possession.
I shall greatly appreciate any aid that you may be able to give me.
Thanking you, I am
respectfully
Mrs. Jas. G. McGowen
906 Morningside Ave.,
Jackson, Miss.
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13205
Rev War
Invalid.
No. 13.205
William Griffin
Pri No S Cav & Inft

Act June 7th 32
Index: - Vol. 1, Page 153

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1929- Dec. 4 - Hist to
Mrs. James G. McGower
19??- Mch. 12 Hist to G. L.
Summer -MMN&F
19??- May 27- Mr. G. L. Summer
[???] [illegible] to get date of each payee etc. [illegible]
1930 June 19. Photo mailed
to Mrs. J. G. McGower &
Fin. Div. ntfd. A. D. Y.
1939 Apr. 5 - hist to Mrs.
J. B. Sanford - See her letters
in Joseph Griffin S.20247 AMF
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Feb 9
[illegible]
So Ca
Issue Cert.
J L Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington

F W Pickens
HR
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H. R. 
7 Feby: 1838

Hon J. L. Edwards

Sir
I am to you
enclosing [illegible] Mr. Winchester's leter, and also state that Mr. Wm Griffin could draw
a pension for 8 months & 27 days, & wish
him to inform you if I will [illegible]
a certificate that [illegible] to.  I hope
you will enclose me such a certificate
that I may hand it to him
immediately, as he is in great
want.
Respectfully
Yours &c
F. W. Pickens
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11034372
William Griffin acct
for Revolutionary services
Allow pri 8 mo 27
car & jn
days $32.07
per ann
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The State of South Carolina

By His Excellency.

Pierce M. Butler Esquire
P. M. Butler  Governor and Command-inChief, in and over the State aforesaid.

To all to Whom these Presents Shall Come.
Know ye. That William Saval is Comptroller
General fo the State of South Carolina. That John T.
Seibels whose name is signed to the certificate on the annexed sheet of paper is the lawful Deputy of the said William Saval, that his said certificate is in due form by the proper officer and his signature genuine.

Theefor, All due Faith, Credit and authority is and ought to be had and given to this Proceedings and Certificates as such.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and caused to be affoxed tje Seal of the State, in the Town of Columbia the ninth day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven and in the sixty second year of the independence of the United States of America.
By The Governor  

B. H. Saxon
Secretary of State.
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State of S. Carolina  Lr to Wm Griffin  For Militia duty for pay bills of Capt Wm Freeman  & Capt Jno Calhoun Compos in 1780 and end of 1783 pay as Private                                              
                   on Foot 6 dys                            
                                 30                                                                    
                                 91  dys a 10/Lbs 45.10                                        
                  on Horse 16 dys                                                                     
                                  70                                      
                                  86 dys 20/86 -              
                               Curry Lbs 131.10                
                               Stg. Lbs 18.15                    State of South Carolina T. William Griffin Sr.  Duty for Col. Anderson's return                             Curry  Lbs 149.10    
Stg Lbs 21.71                                 
                                                      
           Comptroller's Office                            
           Columbia  9 Dec 1837                                        I certify the foregoing to be true copying the original accounts of William Griffin for services performed in the War of the Revolution as settled and filed in this office and that indents were issued for the same.  John T. Seibels ( signed ) Dep. Compt. Genl
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11034372
William Griffins acct for Revolutionary services
Allow pn 8mo 27
car&jn
days $32.07
per ann

Fees recd from F. H. Wardlaw $3.00.
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Dec 18                                                                    ( vertical  on paper )  G .M. Crump Esq. Actg Commissioner of Pensions  Washington  D.C.  ( post mark ) [ CHARLESTON DEC 3 ]
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Charleston 13 December 1839
Sir
William Griffin a private pensioner under act 7 June 1832 at the rate of $31.07 per annum, has been paid to 4 March 1839
Very respectfully
Your Ob Serv
A Spear
pension agent
GW Crump Esq
Actg Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
DC
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To [illegible] at
Washington City War
[illegilble]
Racoon Fan
Febry 2
Opened by mistake
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Jan 31 Day 1840 To the Hon . Ptr Hagner of the Treasury Department  I was told by a gentleman that wrote to gentleman M.A. Robertson who keeps the Virginia Bank in Richmond Va. for to enroll me on the form South Carolina and fix it to be enroll in into the  State of Virginia also l to increase my pension  I made Mr. Edmond Brodur  to get the money and I have a letter directed to Mr. Martin wrote and there is no account of my pension certificate being turned over from South Carolina to Virginia Culpepper and Orange Counties please to see it is done and oblige yours respectfully yours etc. William Griffin  ( signed ) Mineralogist  etc.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office,
Dec: 7th, 1839
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," William Griffin, a Pensioner on the Roll of the South Carolina Agency, at the rate of thirty one Dollars and seven Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1838, to the 4th March, 1839.
Respectfully, yours, 
Albion K Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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To the Honorable J. D. Edwards Washington City who issues pensions etc., etc.  ( vertical notes )  Oct 1  Com  Wm Griffin  SC roll 31343
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Caroline County                       }
State of Virginia  Sept. 24 1839} 
To the Honorable  T D Edwards  Washington City  sir may it please your Honor for several reasons I have removed from South Carolina to the State of my nativity in order for to spend the rest of my life  and being on the rode as corn and all provisionary articles was very high I spent all the money I possessed I was advised to call on Mr. Roberts who supervised the Virginia Bank  for paying pension  claims I did so and he told me I must write to your honors for to turn my claim in South Carolina over into Virginia and make application and he would advance me my money I have received payment to the fourth of March late passed and with regard to my obtaining  the Certificate I have it from under your Honors hand How the Honorable atty Frances Pickens obtained it for me  I spoke to Mr. Picking about it and he affirmed he had the document for me and I have a letter from Esq William Brunson how it was lawyer Mosely at Washing drew it and he kept back forty dollars pray to correct that error and make those who are guilty of the fraud refund me that forty dollars for I am suffering for the whole amounts to not only about a tenth part of my just pension but I cannot prove it as my witnesses are dead and I wrote a probate and made oath to it and sealed it in a letter to your Honor but have it notarized  place to answer  it and let me know of it  will answer any purpose I am placed the Honorable Pickens in it with your honor I swore to it before Esqr Wilson at Aberville Village  S.C. or whether it ever come to hand for I am becoming quite an invalid my eyesight fails me every day with the inflammation of my stomach bowels kidneys and bladder my kidneys have festered and broke three times for 19 years past so I am so weak in my loins I can barely rise up sit nor stand lying down gives me the most ease  so I become dependent for sustenances now I need for support upon now will a public government suffer an old Revolutioner live at this poor dying rote no I  trust they will extend to my  relief  I submit the above to your Honors clemency  so with all fraility I remain yours respectfully yours  etc., etc.  William Griffin ( signed )  To Hon  J. D. Edwards  Dr. Sir excuse me for troubling your  Honor for necessity compels me to it also please to send me an answer as speedily as possible to Butter Glen post office Caroline County Va.  etc., etc.
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My certificate was I found  9 days Feb 1898 recorded in pension office in Book C. and A.A.
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House of Rep
6th Decm 1839
I do hereby certify that
the bearer of this William 
Griffin Esqr is the identical 
person referenced to in the pension
papers in his possession and that
I knew him in So Carolina
F. W. Pickens
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3- 3.1 d Mil $20 2 26 Cav. 12.50 $196 5431.07 8 27  11.96  14 726 480  ( illegible initials )
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178.02 7483 69285 Serg x (?)[ faint and illegible ]
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Wm Griffin S.C. Let Hon F.W. Pickens  Feby 6, 1838  suspended
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The Pensioner has applied for
a transfer & a tr. cu has 
been sent to the P agt.
He is here, and wants to be
paid at the Treasury. He
will not be [crossed out]
transfer from the time of
pay indicated on the P agt.
letter but from the time to
which he was pvt(?) by [?] Hagner
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Wm Griffin [illegible] act 7 June when lasted
[illegible, initials?]

p F. 4 March 1838
[illegible, initials?]

31.07