Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 9,900, for Christian Snider, Georgia
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SERVICE
Ga

Snider, Christian

NUMBER

R. 9,900

CONTENTS
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Chnstian Snider
Georgia
Sus tel J. Johnson
Maul 18 1837

9900

Ady June 1832
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J John P C Pettit clerk of the Jugerio Court of
Neis County do hereby certify that the foregoing
... the original proceeding of the said court in
the matter of the application of Christian Snider
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Act of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873. [Stricken]
REJECTED
9900.
P. O.
Christian Snider
Service:
Enlisted:------------- 18--.
Discharged:--------- 18--.
Application filed:---- 18--.
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
-----Recognized. -----Contract.
-----Cert. of Dis. Searched for-----. 18--.
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State of Georgia }
Henry County     }SS
On this the twenty fifth day of July eighteen hundred and thirty six personally appeared before the Inferior Court of the County and State aforesaid Christian Snider a resident of the said State and County 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 the 7th 1832. That he is now in his seventy third year having been born in the year seventeen hundred and sixty four. That Effingham County in said State is the place of his birth and that a record of his age is in the church book of Ebenezer Society in the County last aforesaid. That he was left without parents at an early period and no  family record of his age was preserved. That he volunteered as a common soldier in the month of October after the soldiers returned from the siege of Savannah under Genl Lincoln. That the
Americans in attempting to storm Savannah were repulsed by the British [soldiers] with considerable loss. Among those who received at that siege mortal wounds was the Count De Estaing as the applicant was informed at the time he volunteered. That the company which he joined as volunteer was commanded by Capt Weekly (the applicant has forgotten is his given name) and that Col. Jenkins Davis (he believes his given name was Jenkins) was the
Commander of the militia with whom he served. That he volunteered in the County of Effingham in said State and proceeded immediately there then under the command 
of Col Davis into the State of South Carolina crossing the Savannah river at Sisters ferry making a raft of rails and grape vines
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After crossing Sisters ferry the applicant was stationed at Black Swamp South Carolina two miles or thereas distant from the ferry. There was at black Swamp no fort but Col Davis stopped at the said place to make accessions to his force. At Black Swamp your applicant under the command of Col Davis had a 
skermish with a portion of the British dragoons about sixty in number. The commander of the
dragoons was killed together with his horse
and one horse taken. A few days after the
skermish with the dragoons, your applicant and his associates under the command of the same officers made an attack on some British soldiers marching by Black swamp on their way to Charlston no injury was done the Americans and none the British in this engagement as far as could be ascertained. Your applicant left Black Swamp in the month of May after he volunteered under the officers aforesaid and marched directly as scouts up in the mountains of North Carolina to a place called Earls, and there remained about two weeks. About  twenty miles from Earls in the mountains the force under the command of the aforesaid officers had an engagement with a gang of Tories. Several of the Americans were taken prisoners. After this engagement the forces under the command of Col Davis were scattered. Your applicant after the above engagement with the Tories returned to South Carolina Spartan Burg District where he met with some men from Georgia and there united together without any regular commander and marched into Laurens District SC and in said Dis took Capt Dunlap
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at Hogskins Mill with said British and Tories in number about thirty. This happened about five months after your applicant left Earls. From Laurens your applicant with his associates went back towards Spartanburgh in the latter Dis they heard that Morgan was on the eve of an engagement with Tarleton and hastened forward to join Morgan but before they reached the Cowpens by fifteen miles distant news reached your applicant that the battle had been decided in favor of the Americans. After this your applicant and his associates marched in different directions in the State of Carolina for some time in search of the Tories until he heard of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis after that your applicant returned to Georgia Effingham County where he met with Col Davis from whom he received a certificate
of his service and discharge. The said
certificate was kept by your applicant for
number of years and handed it to D G Campbell of this State in the year eighteen hundred and twenty five or six. The said Campbell died and your applicant has never since seen it. All the persons as far as your applicant knows and believes with whom he served in the army are dead and this applicant
hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to
a pension or an annuity except the present
and declares that his name is not on the
pension roll of any agency in any State
Christian Snider
Sworn to and
subscribed the day and
year aforesaid
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2579
Mr. Henry Starr residing in the County of Henry and State aforesaid in the same neighborhood and William Griffin clergyman residing five or six miles from the abode of the applicant hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Christian Snider who has subscribed and sworn
to the above declaration that we believe
him to be seventy three years of age or there about. 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
Wm. Griffin M.G.
Henry Starr
Sworn to and
subscribed the day 
and year aforesaid
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 William Griffin who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in County of Henry and State aforesaid and that Henry Starr who has also signed the same is a resident of the County of Henry and State aforesaid
and is a credible person and their statement
is entitled to credit
John Williams J.I.C.
John A Ellis Justice of Inferior Court
Hendley Warner Justice of Infer. Court
John Tredwill Justice of Infer. Court
John T. Bentley Justice of Inferior Court
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[Left Side]
34005
Christian Snider
Ga.

[Right Side]
[J]379
March 16. 1837.
Pension Office
Ga
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Postmarked MAR 6 McDONOUGH Ga.
Postmarked MAR 11 COLUMBIA S.C.
[Illegible]
[and]
Forwarded
FREE
Secretary at War
Washington District of Columbia
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McDonough March 3rd 1837.
Sir
Any communication touching
the enclosed application you will please
direct to the undersigned McDonough
Henry County Georgia
yours &c
J Johnson
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Georgia

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