Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2229-200, for William Tate, South Carolina
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Service
S.C.
Tate, William
Number
B.L.Wt. 2229-200-L
Issued to David Cay, assignee June 4, 1792
No papers
Contents
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September 7, 1911.

Hon. Luke Lea,
   United States Senate.
My dear Senator:
   In reply to your latter dated the 5th and received the 6th instant, requesting information for Mrs. T. R. Bales, of Morristown, Tennessee, I have the honor to advise you that a careful search of the Revolutionary War pension records fails to show that a claim was ever filed for General William Tate.
   There is no record of a pension claim for William Tate of South Carolina. The bounty land records show that warrant No. 2,229 of 200 acres issued June, 1792, ^to David Cay assinee, on account of the Rev. War Services of William Tate, Lieut. South Carolina line, but there are no papers on file ^in said claim the same having been destroyed in the burning of the War Office in ^Nov 1800.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Above letter corrected by
xxxxx Sept. 15, 1917.
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United States Senate,
Washington, D.C.

September 5th, 1911.

Commissioner of Pensions,
  C i t y.
Dear Sir: - 
   Mrs. T. E. Bales, of Morristown, Tennessee, who has recently joined a chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution at that place, states that she is a great-great-granddaughter of General William tate who served in the War of the Revolution, and she is most desirous that his title of General appear on her certificate of membership. If you have any record of such officer in your files, and can furnish me with definite information concerning him for the use of Mrs. Bales, I would greatly appreciate the same, and feel sure that so will Mrs. Bales.
   I have written the Adjutant General's office concerning this matter, but they state that their files are far from complete. They have this record, however: that one William Tate served in the Revolutionary War as Captain-Lieutenant in the Fourth Artillery Regiment of South Carolina, commanded by Colonel Bernard Beekman.
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Thanking you, I beg to remain
Very respectfully yours,
  Luke Lea.