Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31887, for Nathaniel Offutt, South Carolina
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Service SC
Offutt, Nathaniel
Number S. 31887
Contents
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27906
Georgia
Nathaniel Offutt of Washington in the State of Geo who was a pr in the company commanded by Captain Levarsh of the commanded by in the So Ca line for 13 mo
Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia at the rate of 43 dollars 33 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of Aug 34 and Sert Sherrod
Sessions Sandersville Geo

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 34 130.
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept " 26.66
$156.66
{Revolutionary claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by N Rice clerk
Book E Vol 6 Page 99
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to York Town in Virginia to the Seige of Corwallis. And I remained until the surrender of the british and until they were removed and then returned to Annapolis in Mary land and was discharged. Levarsh was my Captain and William Moredock my Lieutenant. until some time after we got to York. and then Moredock was Captain ant Bettis the Lieutinant 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
Wm W. Holt Judge [unclear]  Nathaniel Offutt
Question 1. When and what year were you born
Answer. I was born in the State of South Carolina on the Savanah River at a place called the three sisters in the year 1762
Question 2. have you any record of your age and if so when is it
Ansr. My age is recorded in my fathers family bible. and it was in Augusta the last that I knew of it
Quest. 3. Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do live now
Ansr I lived in Edgefield South Carolina when called into service. I have lived in the State of Maryland. Mississipi Territory and South Carolina and now live in the State of Georgia where I have lived for twenty five years
Quest 4. How were you called into service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom
Ans. I was drafted first tour the second tour I voluntered and the third I was drafted
Ques State the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the troops when you served. Such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the General circumstances of your service
Ans. Lavarsh. Capt and Moredock. Lieutenant. who commanded the company that I belonged to in the 4th Regiment of the Mary land Regulars is all that I know and as for the General circumstances of my services I an say no more that I have
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said in my declaration
Qustion 6. DId you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it
Ans I received a written discharge at Annapolis but I do not recollect who gave it nor what has become of it. this is all the ^written discharge I received
Quest. 7. State the names of person to whom you are known in your present neighbor hood and who can testify to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution
Ans. Silas. Floyd. Benjamin  [unclear]. and James Jones are persons who have known me for many years in my present neighborhood 
Sworn to and Subscribed in open court 
Wm W. Holt
Judge [unclear]     Nathaniel Offutt

We James Payne a Clergyman and Jabez Joines a citizen residing in the State of Georgia and County of Washington hereby certify that we are well acquainted that we believe him to be seventy two years of age that he is reputable and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in the opinion
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid                        James Payne [unclear]
Wm W. Holt                   Jabez Joines
[unclear]

And the said court do hereby declare his opinoin after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrigation prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court for ther
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certifies that it appears to [illegible] that James Payne who has signed the preceeding certificate as a clergyman and Jabez Joines who has signed the same as a citizen is resident in the county and state aforesaid and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
Wm W Holt
Judge SC ND

I L Augustus Jernigan clerk of the Superior court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Nathaniel Offutt for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 25th day of March 1834
L Augustus Jernigan clk
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State of Georgia Washington County} On this twenty fifth day of March 1834 Personally appeared in open court before Judge of the superior court Nathaniel Offutt a resident of the county and state aforesaid aged seventy two 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 provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.  
I lived in the state of South Carolina and Edgefield District when I entered the service of the United States. I Joined the army of the United States in February or March in the year 1779 under the command of Col L Hammond and Capt J Hammon near Augusta in the South Carolina side of the river the Army marched to Augusta Georgia and down the Savannah road to Mackleen Creek from there to a trated before the British into South Carolina and was stationed on the high land near Augusta after the British left Augusta I went in a scouting party into Georgia Commanded by Col Hammen we followed the British towards Savannah and near brier creek took fort near there returned to South Carolina We then marched to Stono and was commanded there by General Lincoln about two weeks after the battle at Stone which was the 20 June 1779 I left the army and went home by order of my captain in this tour I served four months And in the year 1780 Colonel Twigs Georgia with a band of men crossed the Savannah river at Augusta. I joined them and fled from british protection I went to Maryland and returned to South Carolina in the fall of the same year  [illegible faded] army about the middle of October In this campaign I was a volunteer I joined the Army near Kings Mountain South Carolina I was in the battle on Tiger River at Blackstalks Commanded by General Sumpter I was in another battle under the command of Col Washington when he defeated Col Moore who com [illegible] a company of Tories at a place called Hammon [illegible] there we elected Samuel Hammon our Captain and there was four Cols from Georgia Twigs Clark [illegible] Candler I remained in the army in the middle of January 1781 making this tour three months 
I returned to Montgomery county Maryland in 1781 and was drafted for six months and served that tour in the fourth regiment of the Maryland regulars we rendezvoused at Annapolis and remained there some time leaving the military exercise we marched from there to
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to York Town in Virginia to the seige of Cornwallis And I remained there untill the surrender of the brtish and untill they were removed and then returned to Annapolis in Maryland and was discharged. Levarsh was my Captain and William Mordock my Lieutenant untill some time after we got to York and there Mordock was Captain and Bettis the Lieutenant 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Nathaniel Offutt
Wm W Holt 
judge Sep 6th Middle Dis
Question 1st where and in what year were you born
Answer I was born in the state of South Carolina on the Savannah River at a place called the three sisters in the year 1762
Question 2nd have you any record of your age and if so where is it
Ans my age was recorded in my fathers family bible and it was in Augusta the last that I knew of it 
Quest 3 Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where as you now live
Ans I lived in Edgefield South Carolina when called into service I have lived in the state of Maryland Mississippi Territory of South Carolina and now live in the state of Georgia where I have lived for twenty five years 
Quest 4 How were you called into service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom
Ans I was drafted the first tour the second tour I volunteered and the third I was drafted
Quest 5 State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served Such continental and militiary units as you can recollect and the General circumstances of your service 
Ans Lavarsh Capt and Moredock Lieutenant who commanded the company that I belonged to in the 4th regiment of the Maryland regular is all that I know and as far the general circumstances of my services I can say no more that I have
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Said in my declaration
Question 6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it 
Ans I received a written discharge at Annapolois but I do not recollect who gave it nor what has become of it this is all the written discharge I received
Quest 7 State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood and who can testify to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution
Ans Silas Floyd Benjamin Sessions and James Jones are persons who have known me for many years in my present neighbourhood
sworn and subscribed Nathaniel Offutt
in open court
Wm W Holt
Judge SC D
We James Payne a clergyman Jamez Joines a citizen residing in the state of Georgia and county of Washington hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nathaniel Offutt who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy two 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 James Payne clg
sworn and subscribed the day and Jabez Joines 
year aforesaid 
Wm W Holt 
judge SC MD 
and the said court do hereby declare his 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
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certifies that it appears to [illegible] that James Payne who has signed the preceeding certificate as a clergyman and Jabez Joines who has signed the same a citizen is resident in the county and state aforesaid and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Wm W Holt
Judge SC MD
I D Augustus Jernigan clerk of the superior court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Nathaniel Offutt for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have herunto set my hand and seal of the office this 25th day of March 1834
D Augustus Jernigan clk
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S H
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31887
Revy INVALID
File No 31887
Nathaniel Offutt
Priv Rev War
Act June 7 32
Index Vol 2 Page 306
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Sandersville July 24th 1834
Sir I have obtained the certificate of the officiating justices of the peace to the credibility of the witnesses proving the services of Nathanial Offutt in the Revolution which you will find attached to their affidavits
To the secretary of war} Yours Respectfully
Sherrod Sessions
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30739
Nathaniel Offutt
Ga
Amt an pr
1 mo 43.33
Sherrod Superior
Sandersville Ga
Forenend
Coledge
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Ent Wm W Carnes
Compr Genl
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
STATE OF GEORGIA
By His Excellency Wilson Lumpkin Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of this state, and of the Militia thereof:
TO ALL WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME
Know Ye that James Hatcher whose attestation appears to the within affidavit is and was at the date of the same a justice of the peace for the county of Wilkinson in said state and that said attestation is in due form and by the proper officer

Recd Two dollars & fifty cents
T Haynes
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Wilson
THEREFORE, all due faith credit and authority are, and ought to be had and given to his attestation as such.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of this state to be put and affixed
DONE at the State House in Milledgeville, this eighth day of March in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty four and of the Independence of the United States of America the fifty eighth
BY THE GOVERNOR W A Tennille
Secretary of State
Recd 25/100 dollars 
R A Greene
SEC
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Georgia Columbia County} Personally came before me William Barden a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesiad William Young who being duly sworn saith that he was well acquainted with Nathaniel Offutt previous to the close of the Revolutionary war and served a six month tour of duty in the same company and same mess with the said Nathaniel Offutt he being a drafted militia man and serving in the fourth regiment of the Maryland regulars Major Rocksburg commanding the captain was named Lavash & the Lieutenants name was Bettig We were rindevoued at Annapolis in the summer of 1781 and marched from thence to Yorktown and was their in service during the siege and surrender of Cornwallis & until after the evacuation of that post by the British This deponent further saith that he has received a pension on account of his service [illegible]
State of Georgia Columbia County} I William Barden an acting Justice of teh peace of the county aforesaid do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with William Young who has proven the service of Nathaniel Offutt in the revolution and know him to be a man of truth and that his oath is entitled to credit
Given under my hand and official signature this Twenty sixth day of June 1834
Wm Barden JP
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Georgia Columbia County} Personally came before me William Barden a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesiad William Young who being duly sworn saith that he was well acquainted with Nathaniel Offutt previous to the close of the Revolutionary war and served a six month tour of duty in the same company and same mess with the said Nathaniel Offutt he being a drafted militia man and serving in the fourth regiment of the Maryland regulars Major Rocksburg commanding the captain was named Lavash & the Lieutenants name was Bettig We were rindevoued at Annapolis in the summer of 1781 and marched from thence to Yorktown and was their in service during the siege and surrender of Cornwallis & until after the evacuation of that post by the British This deponent further saith that he has received a pension on account of his service in the campaign above referred to and would gladly have availed himself of the testimony of the said Nathaniel Offutt at the tim eof filing his Declaration he he then have known the residence of the said Nathanitl Offutt

Sworn to and subscribed William Young
before me this 14 day of February 1834
Wm Barden JP
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Georgia Columbia County} I Gabriel Jones clerk of the superior court in and for the county aforesaid do certify that William Barden Esquire who has attached the within and forgoing affidavit is and was at the time of attesting the same an acting Justice of the peace in and for said county and that due faith and credit should be given to his official attestation as such
Given under my hand and the seal of said court this 14th day of February 1834
Gabriel Jones
Clerk
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State of Georgia Wilkinson County} Before me James Hatcher a justice of the peace of said county personally came John Hatcher who being duly sworn on oath saith that he was well acquainted with Nathaniel Offutt and that he served in a campaign under captain John Hamen and under the command of colonel Leroy Hammond and major Middleton either in February or March in the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine we marched from South Carolina to Georgia on the road about twenty miles from Augusta leading to Savannah we were met by the British marching to Augusta we was compelled to retreat to South Carolina and was stationed opposite Augusta at a place called Liberty Hill.  I believe it was in same the same year the British crossed Savannah opposite Purisburg in South Carolina then the army under the command of Colonel Leroy Hammond and major Middleton march after the British to Stono and sometime in the last of July or first August had battle with the British at Stone and in a few weeks afterwards said Nathaniel Offutt was discharged and sometime in the year seventeen hundred and eighty joined colonel Elijah Clark 
State of Georgia 
Wilkison County} I James Hatcher an acting justice of the peace of the county aforesaid do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Hatcher Senr who has proven the service of nathaniel Offutt in the revolution and know him to be a man of truth and that his oath is entitled to credit
Given under my hand and official signature this 14 day of July 1834
James Hatcher JP
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State of Georgia Wilkinson County 
Before me James Hatcher a Justic of the Peace of said County personally came John Hatcher who being duly sworn on oath saith that he was well acquainted with Nathaniel Offutt and that he served in a compaign under Captain John Hammond and Major Middleton either in February or March in the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine we marched from South Carolina into Georgia on the Road about twenty miles from Augusta  leading to Savannah we were met by the British marching to Augusta we were compelled to retreat to South Carolina and were stationed opposite Augusta at a place called Liberty Hill. I believe it was in June the same year The British crossed Savannah opposite Purrysburg in South Carolina then the army under the command of Colonel Leroy Hammond and Major Middleton march after the British to Stono and sometime in the last of July or first of August had Battle with the British at Stono and in a few weeks afterwards said Nathaniel Offutt was discharged. and sometime in the year seventeen hundred and eighty joined Colonel Elijah Clark and in a few weeks we had a Battle with the British on Tiger River with Colonel Tarlton. in South Carolina we were under the command of General Sumpter and the said Nathaniel Offutt always manifested the greatest anxiety for the cause of freedom. 
Sworn to and Subcribed before me this sixth day of February Eighteen hundred and thirty four
James Hatcher JP           John Hatcher
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Georgia Williamson County} I do hereby certify that James Hatcher is an acting justice of the peace in and for said county of Williamson February 6 1834
Jeremiah Beall clk
SC
Geor
Williamson County} I do certify that Jeremiah Beall is the acting clerk of the superior court for said county
February 6th 1834 Charles G Beall JP
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Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office
Octo 30 1838
Sir
Under the act of the 6th of April 1833, 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, " Nathaniel Offutt a Pensioner on the Roll of the Savannah Ga Agency, at the rate of Forty three Dollars and thirty three cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this Department from the 4 of Sept 1836 to the 4 Sept 1837
Respectfully yours,
Albion K Parris
Comptroller
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Present
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Form VAM-51 12-5-41  BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD Division of Veterans Administration Archives 
Name O"Flaherty, John GRADE Private LINE New Jersey
WARRANT NUMBER 8618 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED April 20, 1792 
to not shown
"The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applicatoins for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.