Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6283, George Turner, S.C.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
S.C.

Turner, George

NUMBER
S. 6283
B.L Wt. 2228 - 300 - Capt.
Issued Oct. 15, 1789
No papers
Carded

CONTENTS
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32428
Pennsylvania
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George Turner, deceased,
of Philadelphia in the State of Penna.
who was a Capt + aid in the ___ commanded
by Captain ___ of the ___ commanded
by ___ in the *Revolutionary war
line for 2 years
*S. C. Line. May 19 / [illegible]
Records Completed. 
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Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia
at the rate of 600 Dollars -- per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. + endg: on
the 11 March, 1843, when he died -
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Certificate of Pension ifsued the 16. day of
March, 1846 and sent to A Ray
Present.
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Arrears to the 4th of [line going to total amount.]
Semi-annual allowance ending
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$7,220.00
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{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by U S S Steward Clerk,
Book E.2l. Vol 5 Page 62.

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Repd: to Agt: March 18.
1846.
Let Hon L Stevens 9th Augt 1850
1888 July 19 S F Cary - history Prior
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owg
# 46475
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Declaration
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution', approved on the 15th of May, 1828; I George Turner, of the city of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton, and State of Ohio, do hereby declare that I was an Officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, and served as such to the time when the arrangement of the Army, provided by the Resolve of Congress of the 3d. and 21st of October, 1780, was carried into effect: and that I was reduced under that arrangement. At which period, I was a Captain in the First Regiment of Infantry in the South Carolina line. AND I also declare, that I afterwards received Certificates (commonly called Commutation Certificates) for a sum [nominally] equal to the amount of Five Years full pay: which sum was offered by the Resolve of Congrefs of the 22d of March, 1783, instead of the Half Pay for Life, to which I was entitled under the Resolve of the 21st of October, 1780. -
Witness my hand this ninth day of June, in the year 1828.
G Turner

Before me,
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Before me Isaac G Burnet, Mayor of the City of Cincinnati, in the County of Hamilton, and State of Ohio, personally appeared Morgan Neville, and Peyton S Lymmes, of the said County; who did severally make oath, that George Turner, by whom the foregoing Declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an Officer in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.
Morgan Neville
Peyton S Lymmes
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Seal of the said City of Cincinnati, this ninth day of June, eighteen hundred, and twenty-eight.
Isaac Burnet, Mayor
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Cincinnati, June 9th 1828

Sir,

In compliance with your Circular, dated the 28th ult. I have the honour to transmit herewith a Declaration (supported by the Deposition of Mefsr. Neville and Symmes) relative to my claim, as an Officer of the Army of the Revolution, under the Act of the 15th of May, 1828.

I am, very respectfully,
Sir,
Your most Obedient Servant
G Turner

Hon. Richard Rush,
Secretary of the Treasury
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No 37193
Geo Turner accd
[Ohio has been crossed off] Pa
Act 7 June 1832

to be paid at the Philadelphia
Agency

Captain and Aid de
Camp more than 2 years

rect $480 under the act
13 May 1828

Hon. Alex Ramsey
Clerk's fee 50 paid
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State of Ohio}
Clark County}
On this the 20th day of January 1846 personally appeared before me Samuel Parsons a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Mifs Mary S R Turner a resident of Philadelphia but now in Springfield, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath state. That she is the daughter and only surviving child of the late George Turner deceased, who was pensioned under act of the 15 May 1828. as a captain at the rate of $480 per annum and died on or about the 16th March 1843 and left no widow. And she further states, that the balance of pension due to her Father up to the day of his death. was paid to her at the Philadelphia agency upon the book exhibited on the time of George Turners death. that he left no widow and that she was the only surviving child, and left a reference to the papers to shew the facts.
Now, the subject of this declaration, being made is, in order to relinquish, in right of my deceased Father. the act 15 May 1828, under which he was pensioned up to the day of his death a captain at the rate of $480 and to afsert [assert] a claim in his right; for the act of the 7 June 1832. at the rate of 7000 per annum. on account of his services. in the Staff as an aid-de-camp. and as Deputy Commifsary of   Prisoners, and for the payment of said increase from the 4 March 1830. to or about the 16 March 1843. When he died. Mary S R Turner
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Sworn to, and subscribed on the day and year within written before me
Samuel Parsons J.P.
J Thomas Witnefs

The State of Ohio}
Clark County} fs
I hereby certify that Samuel Parsons Esqr, before whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been taken, was at the time of taking the same, and now is an acting justice of the peace, within and for the County of Clark. And that the signature above purporting to be his is genuine and that to all his official acts as said Justice, full faith and credit are due, both in Courts of Law and elsewhere.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas, at Springfield, this 20th day of January A.D. 1846
James S Halsey Clerk of Clark Comm. Pleas
Saul S Henkle Deputy Clerk
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(Copy)

State of Pennsylvania}
County of Philadelphia} ss.
I Richard Palmer Jr. Prothy of the Court of Common Pleas, County aforesaid holden at Philadelphia in and for said County do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that George Turner decd. was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of four hundred and eighty dollars per annum; was a resident of the County of Hamilton in the State of Ohio and in Kentucky and died in the City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three on the sixteenth day of March, that he left no widow, but an only child whose name is Mary Sophia R Turner and that George W Ash is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Philadelphia this twenty third day of May in the year of our Lord 1843.
R Palmer Jr.
Prothy of the Court of Common Pleas
of Philadelphia County

Treasury Department
Third Auditor's Office
March 4th 1846.
I certify the foregoing to be a true copy from the original voucher on file in this office
Peter Hagner Aud
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July 15, 1932,

BA-J/ILL
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George Turner
S. 6283

Mrs. Elvert H Davis
1512 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to George Turner, Captain and Brevet-Major of the 1st South Carolina Regiment.

The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 6283, based upon the service of George Turner in that war.

George Turner served as Captain of the 1st Regiment, South Carolina Infantry, as Aid-de-Camp and as Deputy Commissary of Prisoners, War of the Revolution, the length of his service not given.

He was allowed pension on his application executed July 3, 1826, at which time he resided in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. At some time he lived in Kentucky, dates not given. His age and the place of his birth are not given.

The soldier died March 16, 1843 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In 1846, Mary Sophia R Turner, a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the only surviving child of Captain George Turner. The name of her mother is not given.

Very truly yours,

A D HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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96 109 4

No of orig Pay 96
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
Allowed Act 1828

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
3 July 1828.

George Turner of Cincinnati in the County of Hamilton in the State of Ohio has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was as an officer on the Continenial line, and served as such to the time when the Resolves of Congrefs of the 3d and 21st of Oct 1780 was carried into effect, and that he was reduced under that arrangement at which period he was a Captain in the first regiment of the South Carolina line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary
A Dinkins

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
5 July 1828

It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to George Turner Captain in the South Carolina line, amounting to Twenty four Hundred dollars.
It further appears that George Turner is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been since the 3d March 1826
Peter Hagner Aud
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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, Geo Turner, decd: who was a Capt: + aid de-Camp, was entitled to a pension at the rate of $600 per ann: commg: on the 4 March, 1831 and endg: on the 16 March, 1843, the day of his death; which will be pd: upon the production of the proper voucher to Mary Sophia R Turner, only survig: child, after having deducted the amt: paid under the act of May, 15, 1828, at $480 per ann: from the 4 March, 1831, to the day of his death.

Payout: to be made at Phila: Penna:

Given at the War Office of the United States, this 16th day of March one thousand eight hundred and forty-six

Secretary of War.

Examined and Countersigned.

Commissioner of Pensions.
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Washington
March 6. 1846.

Sir
I herewith enclose you. the evidence you require in your letter of the 2" ult: to the Hon. Alx Ramsey. which he enclosed to me. in the care of George Turner Decd.
I am very
respectfully
Your Ob Srv
Alex Ray
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Pension Office
March 2 1846

sir,

I have the honor to inform you that the papers in the case of George Turner, deceased, have been examined and filed, under the Act of 7th June, 1832. The service as Captain and Aid-de-Camp, for more than two years, is Satisfactory. But before a Certificate can be issued, the Certificate of the Court of record showing the day of George Turner's death, and the names of all his surviving children, and stating also that he left no widow, must be procured and filed in this Office.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully
Your Obt. Sevt.
J L Edwards
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House of Reprs.
Jany. 28. 1846.

Sir
I enclose herewith an application made by Mifs. Mary S R Turner of Philadelphia, daughter of Major George Turner decd: who was during his natural life a pensioner under act 1828 as Captain at the rate of $480. the heir now afsert a claim at a higher rate under act 1832 on account of her Fathers Services as an aid-de-camp and as Deputy Commifsary of Prisoners.
If the papers on file in this case, do not show his services in the grade claimed I must request the favor of you to make application to the Department of State, for services in the grades in the Staff.
I am very
Resp. Your Obt st
Alex Ramsey
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No 37193 
Geo Turner decd
Pa
act 7 June 1832

admd. 2 years Captain
and aid-de-camp
$600.00 per ann
from 4 March 1831 to 16 March
1843 the day of his death
payable to his only child
Mary Sophia R Turner of
Ohio - deducting
what has been paid at the
rate $4800 per ann under the
act of 15 May 1828 for the same
time.

Alexander Ray
Present
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6283
Rev war INVALID

No. 6283
George Turner
Capt + Aid Rev War

Act: June 7th 32
Index: vol. M, Page 380
[Arrangement of 1870]

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1932 - July 15 - Hist to Mrs
Elvert M Davis ILL
1832 - Aug. 15. Hist. to Hon L D Fess ILL
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1512 SPRUCE STREET
PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA
June 17, 1932.

Director of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir;
Can you give me any information as to whether a pension for Revolutionary services was ever granted to George Turner, Capt. and Brevet-Major, of the 1st South Carolina Regiment?
He was afterwards a resident of Philadelphia, and I am collecting materials for a biographical sketch of his life.
Your very truly,
Marion Morse Davis

Mrs. Elvert M. Davis,
1512 Spruce St. Phila.

[Round stamp mark]
RECEIVED
JUN 18 1932
RECEIPT SECTION
PENSION FILES SUB-DIVISION
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United States Senate,

Washington, August 10, 1932

Pension Bureau,
Washington, D. C.

Sir:
I have the honor to submit the following communication for your consideration, and to ask that the request made therein be complied with if possible.
When the matter is disposed of, will you kindly have the letter returned to my office, and oblige.
Yours truly,
S D Fess

[Round stamp 
RECEIVED
AUG 13 1932
RECEIVPT SECTION
PENSION FILES SUB-DIVISION
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August 15, 1932.

BA-J/ILL ow
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George Turner
S. 6283
file No should have been on

Honorable Sime D Fees
United States Senate
Washington, D.C.

My dear Senator:

Reference is made to your request of August 10, in behalf of Mr. C B Galbreath, Secretary, Editor and Librarian, Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio, who desires the record of George Turner, Revolutionary War soldier and pensioner.

The history of that soldier is given below as found in the papers on file in his claim for pension, S. 6283.

George Turner served as Captain of the 1st Regiment South Carolina Infantry, as Aid-de-Camp and as Deputy Commissary of Prisoners, War of the Revolution, the length of his service not given.

He was allowed pension on his application executed July 3, 1828, at which time he resided in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. At some time he lived in Kentucky, dates not given. His age and the place of his birth are not given.

The soldier died March 16, 1843 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In 1846, Mary Sophia R Turner, a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the only surviving child of Captain George Turner. The name of her mother is not given.

The letter of Mr. Galbreath is retuned herewith.

Very truly yours,

A D HILLER,
Assistant to Administrator.