Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,167, for Robert Stewart, Georgia
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(3-1776) 
Service Ga. 
Stewart, Robert
Number R. 10.167
Contents
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Robert Stewart dec'd S.C. 
Declarations dated March 11th & Dec'r Aug 6. 1833
Aged 84 yrs
Drafted - living in Wilkes Co Ga
1777 - 3 mos Lieut - under Capt Burk - at Ft on Broad River Ga
1778 - 2 " Private - " " Walker - Siege of Augusta
1779-3 - or more "
1780 - 3 " " " "
1781 -  3 " "
3 mos Lieut 11 mos Private
Had a cour [ ?] as Lieut - lost - some times drafted at others volunteered - Tours generally 3 mos. 
From loss of memory can't tell officer in every instance 
Was generally in Cavalry & always at his port
Recites his residence
Married before the war [underlined]

Wm Holliday - 
Wm H. is applieaur for pension
Understood Stewart first entered service
from Wilkes Co. for 6 mos - after returned.
Volunteered with dept under Capt Walker,
John Rhines major. thinks...Clark
Went in company to Augusta, were at Clark's defeat. Marched much...Ga, So Car (la), at
Wrightsboro, Ft Charlotte, Cherokee Ford - (crossed?) the
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[part of the document is covered by a slip that says "Same."]

... mountains & reinforced by Col Shelby of Ky ... & after this Ga. and, among other places ... were at Beach Island.
R.S. continued with dept under the same officers for the term of 2 years and six mos & discharged at the same time. 
Credibility no certified. 
Was at marriage of Robert Stewart and Nancy Holloway in Columbia Co Ga. they lived on Kioke's creek - married by Abraham Marchell a baptist preacher - some two or 3 years before the Rev war. He lived with her until [start underline] his death Dec'r 8. 1835. [end underline] credibility no certified
Was Certif for land Warrant - dated May 6. 1784 (250 ac) Also certif'e that his name is on the Record of Rev soldier Also letter from Secy of G. that the records show nothing as to length of service.

Certif of (?) of Pickens dist 10th (?) 1853 - of satisfactory proof exhibited to him - of death of R.S. Dea'd 8. 35 - widow (.?) Dec'd 5.43/ and names of only surviving children
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Robert Stewart. Son of Robt - Power of Attorney 
Children 
Wm Stewart- Mary Harbin- Robert Stewart- Abraham Stewart - Sarah Stewart & Nancy Hudson
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23757
Robert Stewart
Pickens District
South Carolina
[illegible]
...18 Sept 1833, agent below - 
d.e.i.
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WAR DEPARTMENT, Pension Office, 183
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, showing the Service of Robert Stewart, sen.

Period when the service was rendered.
Drafts
Volunteer generally
Duration of the claimant's service.
Years. Months. Days.
3
Rank of the claimant.
Private
Names and rank of the field officers under whom he served.
Colonel Dooly
Col. Clark
Col. Lee
Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.
84
Wilkes County, Georgia.
Proof by which the declaration is supported.
tradition

much service is alledged, but the declaration gives no data on which to calculate the amount.

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted: This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army,
and to include under the terms "Continental Lane." "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service. 
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of County of }ss.
On this [blank] day of [blank] personally appeared (a) before [blank] A.B. a resident (b) of [blank] in the county of [blank] and State, Territory or District of [blank] aged (c)[blank] years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) [blank] , with [blank] and served in the [blank] (e) regiment of the [blank] line under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service ; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period and rank and names of his officers ;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. [printed hand pointing right] This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.  A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinions (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I [blank] of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this [blank] day of [blank] &c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman. residing in the [blank] and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [blank] , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [blank] years of age, that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the [blank] and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the [blank] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, [blank] Clerk of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
[blank] of the office, this [blank] day of [blank] &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
It such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence of not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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3.
will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be ex-expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case. 
The Court will propound the following [italicized] (m) [print] interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. [Top bracket, Italicized] To a Soldier. [Print, Top Sub Bracket] Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? [Bottom Bracket, italicized] To an Officer.[Bottom Sub Bracket, print] Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be one, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons-- one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.
If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates. 
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, atttend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in the case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[Footnotes]
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will  [Illegible]-low the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigued, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, desposeth 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 [Blank] year, [Blank] months, and [Blank] days, I served as a [Blank]. For [Blank] months and [Blank] days, I served as a [Blank]; and for such services I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase [Italicized] about three or four months, [Print] is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. [Underlined, # symbol to the left of the paragraph] Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &e. without specifying the tours, the names of officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is [Illegible] objectionable. I must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or place where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or garrison; and for the time during which was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. [End of Underline]
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable. 
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required. 
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case. 
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
[Centered, italics] Mode of authenticating papers.
[Print] In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
[Centered, italics] Proof of Service.
[Print] [j] 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 claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must [Illegible] in the readibility of the witnesses, and the unofficial character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seat of office.
[Hand pointing] The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers, and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only. 
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
[Written] The applicant must specify for [Illegible]
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State of South Carolina
Pickens District ss
March Term 1833
On this eleventh day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Jonah H. Evans in the Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas of said state and District now sitting Robert Stewart senior a resident of the District of Pickens and State aforesaid, aged Eighty four years of age, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. He was classed a draftee in the commencement of the war he was living in Walker County in Georgia & served under Col. Dooley Capt Burke, Capt Ware, and Capt Walker he was under Capt Walker at the Siege of Augusta where he was commanded by Col Clark & Col Lee He was in the attack on Graysons Fort which they stormed & took where a number of the enemy were killed 13 were lying between the Fort & the spring He was whenever able out on duty part of the time he was sick he was out on scouting parties against the British Tories and Indians - At one time he was out three months that he never went home The whole time he was out he cannot relate, He is illiterate, old and has a memory which is much impaired - He was at the attack on Browne Fort at Augusta He was a part of the greater part of his time he was a volunteer generally was in the Cavalry, always at his post he got Discharges but they are all misplaced or lost
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lost. This declarant has no documentary evidence of his services. and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure to testify to his services. 
This declarant was born in the State of North Carolina near Newbern as he has been informed When quite a child his father moved into Cumberland County as he was informed - His father moved to Wilkes County Georgia before the Revolutionary war and before he this declarant was grown & He lived there until he married he then moved to Ogeechee about the time the War commenced. He moved to Uptons Creek Richmond County G. after the war he moved Ogeechee again, He there remained but a short time before he moved to Lecona in Pickens District S.C. He has lived in Pickens District for about Forty years.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of  the agency of any state. Sworn to and Subscribed in Open Court the day and year aforesaid William L. Keith C.C. 
[signed] Robert Stewart

We John Cobb a clergyman residing in the District of Pickens, and Joseph Grisham residing in the same district hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Robert Stewart Senior who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be upward of Eighty four years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn to & subscribed in open court the year and day aforesaid
William L. Keith C.C. 
John Cobb his mark
Joseph Grisham
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State of South Carolina 
Pickens District
Before me E M Keith a magistrate in and for the District of Pickens in the State aforesaid personally appeared William Holladay who being duly sworn upon his solemn oath declares, that he was well acquainted with one Robert Stewart who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war that he went from Wilkes County in the State of Georgia first as he was informed having been draughted for a term of six months, that he afterwards returned to Wilkes County Georgia where he volunteered with this informant under Captain Walker in said County of Georgia in the war of the Revolution John Rhiner was the major he does not recollect certainly the names of the other officers but thinks they were under Genl Clark that this deponent in company with the said Robert Stewart marched to the city of Augusta and was there at Clark's defeat that this deponent with the said Robert Stewart marched [?] through to Georgia and South Carolina and were in two battles at Augusta and one at [?]gthyborough which town was burned that they also were at Fort Charlotte, and at the attack at Cherokee Ford that this deponent with the said Robert Stewart crossed the mountains and were reinforced by Col Shelby of Kentucky and that after this through Georgia among other places he recollects that they were at Beach Island [?]
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then he thinks that they marched to the City of Augusta that the said Robert Stewart continued with this deponent under the same officers for the term of two years and six months and was discharged at the same time and that the said Robert Stewart is dead 
Sworn to before me this 28 day of April 1832 William Holladay his mark
E M Keith M.P.D.
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Robert Stewart Sen.
23737
Send an answer to Post Office Falls Pickens Dist S.C. care Col. Joseph Grisham
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories, prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that John Cobb who signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the District of Pickens that Joseph Grisham who has also signed the same is a resident of the same District and is a Credible person and their statement is entitled to credit. 
Josiah J. Evans
[?] Judge
11 March 1833
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Affidavit
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South Carolina
Greenville District
Personally came Hiram Cooley, Ezekiel Vinson and John Cockran
Before me A Williams a magestret in and for the District aforesaid and deposed an oath that they were acquainted with William Holoday and that they knew him for the last forty and fifty years last past that they have resided in the neighbourhood of the said William Holaday all that time and that Ever since wee have knew the said Holaday he has had the reputation of having been a revolutionary soldier and has been so respected and Esteemed by us
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th Day of January 1854
A. Williams M.G.D. 
Hiram Cooley
Ezekiel Vinson his mark
John Cockran his mark
I A. Williams a magistret for said District do further certify that the above name affidavits are respectable of this community and that they said William Holoday is from the best Information I have that he is upward of Ninety years old 
Given under my hand and seal this 6th Day of January 1854
A. Williams
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South Carolina Greenville District }

I [illegible] the Court of Commissioners [illegible] and General Sessions for said District  Do hereby certify that Austin Williams Esquire before whose the foregoing affidavit was [illegible] a regular appointed and qualified magistrate for said District and the signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In [illegible] whereof I have hereunto sat my hand and seal of office for Greenville [illegible] this 8 day of January 1854

[illegible]
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Washington Mar. 18, 1853.

Hon. Loren P. [illegible]
Commd. Of Pensions

Sir

Please let the foregoing be filed and considered in the adjudication of the claim of Rob’t Stewart of South Carolina, act of 7th June 1832.

I have the honor
[illegible]

M. Thompson
Atty. for Stewart
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Claim of
Act of

State of South Carolina District of Pickney} Be it known, That on this tenth day of January A.D., eighteen hundred and fifty three, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Robert Stewart a resident of Pickney in said County, and made oath according to law that he is the identical Robert Stewart who executed the foregoing power of attorney, and that he is directly interested in said claim, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as said Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.

Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before J. Peace. 
E M Keith Magistrate P.C. } Robert Stewart

I, E M Keith Justice of the Peace, in and for said County do hereby certify that Robert Stewart who executed the foregoing paper, is a respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth. J. Peace. E M Keith Magistrate Pickney District

I, W L Keith Clerk of the Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that E M Keith before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscriber, is his signature. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this tenth day of January, A.D. 1853. W. L. Keith, Clerk.
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POWER OF ATTORNEY - Revolutionary Pension Claims.

Know all Men by these Presents, That I, * Robert Stewart Jr. son of Robert Stewart Sr. a Revolutionary Soldier hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint M. THOMPSON, esq. of Washington City, D.C., my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of Robert Stewart Sr for any amount of Revolutionary Penson, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises, and revoking all former powers.

WITNESS my hand and Seal this 10 day of January A.D., 1853. Robert Stewart. [stamped seal]

Signed and sealed in the presence of } 
W. G. [illegible]
R. [Illegible]

State of South Carolina
District of Pickens } ss.
On this tenth day of January A.D., 1853 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Robert Stewart and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned. 

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, the day and year aforesaid. }

E M Keith [Seal]
J. Peace.
Magistrate Pickney District

*In this blank, if the Claimaint be alive, he will insert his name, and execute the power. If he be dead, the widow, if alive, will insert her name (stating the fact that she is his widow,) and execute the power. If both be dead, then any one of the children may insert his, or her, name, (stating the fact that he or she is the son or daughter) and execute the power. If there be neither father, mother, child, or children, then there is no person entitled under the existing rules of the Department, and the power of Attorney need not be executed.
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Washn. City, July 13. 1853.

To the Com. Of Pensions
Sir, -
We enclose you a letter from the Sen. Of State of Georgia in reference to the Rev. cases of Robt. Stewart and Wm. Holliday, and respectfully ask for a revisions in Stewart’s case especially.

The affirmative, absolute fact, is established that he was in Service, and that he recd land because of that service, thus refuting the presumption raised in your letter of the 31st of May last - “The fact that he receives land from the State of Georgia is no evidence that he served a day.” It is a reasonable conclusion that the Secretary of a State, whose functions are to interpret and report upon its archives, better understands its history and facts, than the Examiner in the Pension Office, who can know only imperfectly the past legislations of the States in reference to revolutionary matters.
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We invite the attention of, The Commissioner of Pensions to the adjudications of this case with the confident hope and belief that it will be allowed.

Very Respectfully,
Thompson V Wood
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Washington D.C. Feb. 7th, 1854.
Hon. L.P. Balde
Comr. Of Pensions

Sir
We herewith inclose additional evidence in the case of Robt. Stewart deceased of S.C. Act of June 7th, 1832.

Respectfully [illegible]
Thompson G [illegible]
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Executive Department Ga
Millidgeville Juni 24th, 1853.

Dear Sir:
Yours of the 19th Inst., came to hand by this day’s mail, and you may depend it would afford me pleasure to amend the Certificate sent you, as to the Revolutionary service of Robert Stewart, if in my power so to do. The copy certificates which you have, prove conclusively the fact of his having served as a Soldier in the Revolutionary War; but unfortunately there is no evidence to be obtained among the archives of the state as to the length of time he served. We have in this office a Record of the names of those who served in the Revolutionary War in the Georgia Line, which list [illegible] to the No. of the certificate, as sent you; but no other particulars of their service. Other particulars of their service were doubtless filed at Washington City previous to the burning of the Capital in 1814, when I understand they were destroyed. All Revolutionary Soldiers who served in Georgia were entitled to a Bounty of Land from the State
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On presentation to the then Council of the State, of a Certificate of their faithful service from any Commanding Officer. And it is unfortunate that these certificates which are of imperfect file in this office do not specify the length of service, where, and under what officers they served. I cannot ascertain any further evidence of the service of Wm. Holiday, than such as I sent in the Stewart case.

I am very Respectfully your obt. Servt
Wm. Steele
Secy Esr. Dept.

E. M  Keeth, Esq.
Pickens C.H.
S.C.
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Falls S.C.
7th August 1833.

L. Edward, Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions.

Dear Sir,
Enclosed you will receive the application of Robert Stewart Senior, the old man is too old to travel and it was difficult for him to attend to get his papers corrected - there was no Magistrate nearer to him than 8 or 10 miles, and the nearest a Nullifier, the old man being a Union man and Union officers scarce [illegible] way long before he could amend - I have known him upwards of thirty three years - he is an honest man - I am informed that much excitement has been attempted on account of you passing so many applications to the North and so few to the South!! But from the manner you have always attended to such [illegible] as I had the honor [illegible] to you. I have been enabled to give any
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testimony in your favour. Accept my for the promptness you have returned those papers on the Certificate confided to you my good old friend.

Wishing you success + hap [words cut off]
Your humble Servant
Joseph [illegible]
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Revolutionary Pension Claim of Robt. Stuart of So. Car. act of 7th June 1822.

R: W
M - Thompson
Til ; Jauy. 22- ‘53
Report cac’d for
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PAGE 3.
STATE OF South Carolina }
COUNTY OF Pickney District }

It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me that Robert Stewart [x] was a Revolutionary [x] of the United States at the rate of $ per annum, and that [crossed out] died on the Eighth day of December eighteen hundred and thirty five leaving surviving his widow Nancy Stewart who died the Fifth day of December Eighteen Hundred and forty three and that [illegible] [crossed out] William Stewart, Elizabeth Thompson wife of Richard Thompson [crossed out] Mary Hubries wife of Nathe. Haubien Robert Stewart, Abraham Stewart, Sarah Stewart and Nancy Heedsock - wife of John Heedsock 

the only surviving children of the aforesaid.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this tenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and fifty three

W. L. Keith
Clerk of the Court of Pickens District S.C.

NOTE. - If the original Claimant or person in whose right the claim was made, be dead, then there is no use for the above certificate, but simply the power of attorney. But if he or she (as the case may be) be dead, then the exact period of his or her death must appear. If the widow execute the power of attorney it must also appear when the marriage took place, and that she is still a widow. If there be neither father nor mother, the period of the marriage, and of the death of each, must appear; and also, the name, or names, of the surviving child or children. If, he, or she, (as the case may be) was a pensioner, state that fact, and also the amount received per annum; but if a claimant merely, state that fact.

The above certificate must be executed by the Clerk of the Court under his seal of office.
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Washington Jauy. 25th 1833
Hon Jas. E. Heath
Comm’r. Of Pensions

Sir

I herewith inclose material additional evidence in support of the claim of Robert Stewart of South Carolina, unter act of 7th June 1822. [Illegible] a readjudication of the claim

I have the honor to be [illegible]
M. Thompson
Atty for Stewart
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Robert Stewart
So Ca
Suspended _
[illegible] 18 September 1833 (h)
[illegible]: Grisham Falls P. A. So. Car.
M Thompson May 31/53 
6 one June 1. 1853
Thompson Wood Sept 12. 1853
Thompson [illegible] Feb 10. 1854
Hon. J.S. Orr Apr 29/56
10167
Acl June 7 1882
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State of Georgia.
This is to certify, That Robert Stewart hath steadfastly done his duty from the time of making an Act at Augusta, to wit: on the 20th of August, 1781, until the total expulsion of the British from this State; and the said Robert Stewart cannot, to my knowledge or belief, be convected of plundering or distressing the country; and is therefore, under the said Act, entitled to a Bounty of Two Hundred and Fifty Acres of good land, free from tasces for ten years. Given under my hand at Savannah the second day of February 1784.

Elijah Clark Col.

By his orders
H. Freeman.

Georgia
These are to certify, That Robert Stewart a Citizen is entitled to Two Hundred and fifty Acres of Land, as a Bounty, agreeable to an Act and Resolve of the General Assembly, [illegilbe] at Augusta the 20th August, 1781 - As for Certificate E. Clark Colo.

Given under my hand, at Savannah
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The 25th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four. J. Houstoun 

Attest D. Reese, Secr’y

Executive Department Georgia
Milledgeville, March 1st. 1853.

I do hereby certify that the foregoing are true copies of Certificates, relative to Robert Stewart, the originals of which are on file in this Department, and that the name of the said Robert Stewart appears upon the Record of Revolutionary Soldiers, which is also of file in this Department. 

Given under my hand and the Seal of the Executive Department this the 1st day of March A.D. 1853.
Wm. Steele
Secr’y Ex. Dept.
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I William L Keith Clerk of the Court of Pickney District do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Robert Stuart for a Pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this the twelfth day of March 1833. 

William L. Keith
Clerk of the Court 

[seal stamped to the left side of the page]
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By the Court of Justices of the County of Wilkes.
Georgia.
TO SAMUEL CRISWELL, Esquire, County Surveyor for said County.

Stephen Heard [cursive writing to left of text]

YOU are hereby authorized and required to admeasure and lay out, or cause to be admeasured and laid out, unto Robert Stewart a Tract of Land, which shall contain two Hundred Acres, in the said County of Wilkes, on Little River in lieu of an old warrant and survey agreeable to the old Lines.

Taking especial Care that the fame has not heretofore been laid out to any Person or Persons : And you are hereby also directed and required to record the Plat of the fame in your Office, and transmit a Copy thereof, together with this Warrant, to the Surveyor General, within three Months from this Date. Given under my Hand, as Senior Justice of the said Court, this 6th Day of May, 1784

Sanders Walter C. Will
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Robert Stewart
200 Acres
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Acts of July 13, 1862, and March 8, 1878. [crossed out]

10, 167
P.O. Rob’t. Stewart
Service:
Enlisted: REJECTED [stamped], 18
Discharged: [blank line], 18
Application filed: [blank line], 18

Alleges: [blank lines]
Re-enlisted: [blank lines] 
Attorney: [blank line]
P.O. [blank lines]
[blank line] Recognized. 
Contract. [blank line] 
[blank line] Cert. of Dis.
Searched for [blank line], 18
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The State of South Carolina Pickens District } To.

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace for the District aforesaid - Robert Stewart Senior a person to me well known and of great respectability for Truth and Honesty - who being duly sworn deponeth and saith, that by reason of old age and 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 the year 1777 as well as he recollect, he served as first Lieutenant under Capt. Burke at a Fort on Bruce at River in Georgia three months - For the year 1778 he served not less than two months was at the seize of Augusta under Captain Walker this service was done as a private. For the year 1779 he served as a private not less than three months, he thinks much more - For the year 1780 He served as a private at least three months- For the year 1781 he served not less than three months as a private - he was some times a volunteer sometimes drafted - He has a commission as Lieutenant which he has [illegible] or worn and or discharged - His memory now does not serve him to tell whose company he was [illegible] Town - But they
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Deponent is of opinion that most of his [illegible], were for three months , he was much and he thinks much over the time stated above _ He is positive he served three months as Lieutenant and Eleven months as a private [illegible] did [illegible] else during the war, but cannot now state with precision or clearness the particular places he was engaged at, and would prefer to state less than to make out an account which he is at a loss about the time; or amounts.
Robt Stewart

Sworn to before me the 6th August 1833
F.N. Gavin D.O.

The State of South Carolina
Pickens District }

I William L. Keith Clerk of the Court for the District aforesaid do hereby Certify, that Frederick N. Gavin [illegible] where [illegible] appears above is an acting Justice of the Peace for the said District duly apponited and qualified - that all due faith and credit is and right to be given to his [illegible] as such.

Georgia under my hand [illegible] of the Court this Seventh day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.

William L. Keith
Clerk of Court
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State of South carolina Pickens District
Before me Robert Stewart Magistrate for Pickens
District Personally appeard Martha Rae
Who Being Duly Sworn upon oath Declars
That She was personally acquainted with
Robert Stewart till the Day of his Deth
Who Enlisted in Wilks County Georgia under
Capt Walker attached to the Command of
General Clarke that She Knew him before
he Entered and Saw him in the March
for the city of Augusta under the command
as aforsaid and also saw him on the Returns
Marching from Augusta and that She Knew
the Said Robert Stewart Served at one
time ten month in the Revolution war
and How mush more she cant not
Exacley State though was out several
times. This Depanant further State
that she has Knows the Said Robert
Stewart Personally Ever Sense and
Swears that the Robert Stewart now apply-
ing for a pension is the identical Robert
Stewart She Saw in sirvice under
General Clarke and who Entered in
Georgia Wilks County
Sworn to and Subscribd before me
this the 21 Day of January 1854
RA Stewart
Magistrate for
Pickens District South Carolina
Martha Rae
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The State of South Carolina Pickens District
Before me personally Appeard William 
Holloway and made oath in due form of Law 
And upon oath saith that he was at the 
Marrage of Robert Stewart to Nancy 
Holloway in the State of Georgia Columbia County. Thay lived on the Kiok's creek. 
Thay was mared by Abraham Manchle, 
A Babtis Preacher.  They was Mared 
Some two or three years before the
Revolutionery war and he lived with 
her untell his deth the 8 day of Decem 1835. 
Sworn to and subscribed
Before me this the first 
day of May 1852
RT Stewart, M.P.D
William his mark Halloway