Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,388, Davis Whelchel, S.C.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
S.C.

Whelchel, Davis
Nancy

NUMBER
R. 11388

CONTENTS
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6181
Nancy Whelchel
M
Act July 4 '36

See Letters inside
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State of Missouri
County of Bates SS
On this eighth day of March
One thousand eight hundred &
forty four Personally appeared Nancy Whelchel a resident of Beard County before the undersigned Justice of 
said County and State of Missouri aged eighty two years Born on the 21st day of January 1762, who 
being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the
Act of Congress passed [illegible] that she is the widow of Davis Whelchel who was a Lieutenant in Captain [Wm] McMullins company, volunteering to go against the Overhill Indians on Big Broad River in South Carolina about six miles from the ninety nine Islands  Served in the fall aforesaid untill Christmas
thinks he served at least six weeks, 
Tours entered the service on Board River near Old Henry Smiths in South Carolina, in the spring of 1776, volunteered a private in Captain Nathaniel Jeffries company against
Captain Joseph Robinson that had then joined the Tories and it was reported was coming against the
Whigs on Big Broad River, he march from Cheraw Co to the line on Saluda River where the Indians had 
killed fourteen persons at Fords, and Burt Parrises mills. Served at least Two weeks then was drafted a private in the company of Reserved Farrell 
in the fall of the year 1776 to go against the Indians on the head waters of the Saluda in
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in South Carolina, marched to Colonel [John Sr.] Thomas'. was there stationed served she thinks two
weeks.  Deponent states that when she had two children some three years after his marriage with
her said husband Davis Whelchell that her said husband went a tour under [Lieutenant] Colonel William [Farr]Fair to march to the Savannah. they were not needed and disbanded and went home, a private volunteer
cannot recollect this length of time he served. 
He served a Tour in the Company of [Capt.] William Whiteside, volunteered to go against the Indians, Served as a 
Ranger - Served in the Company of Captain John Thompson. drafted as private near broad River in South Carolina to go against the tories
and Guard the fort at Orangeburgh. Served [illegible] months under the Command of [Lt] Colonel James Steen.  Served Tour in the Company
of Colonel Thomas. was stationed On Pacholat [Pacolet] in South Carolina.  Her husband moved up to or was  driven by the Brittish and tories to Captain Whitesides on the little broad River in South Carolina.  Served as a Ranger under Captain Whitesides as a Ranger six months. She further declares that she was married to
her said husband, Davis Whelchel on the 28th day of March 1776, and that her husband aforesaid Davis Whelchel, died on 4th day of September 1833, and that she has remained a widdow ever since 
that period and that she has no documentary evidence of her claim
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Nancy Whelchell  --  her mark

Sworn and subscribed on the day and year
above written
before me 

Jno. W. Payne

I John W Payne a Justice of the peace of the County 
of Bates and State of Missouri, do hereby certify that 
Nancy Whelchell who has this day appeared before
me and have been sworn to the to the foregoing 
declaration states that she is unable to attend the
County or the Circuit Court of said County and I
do verily believe from her appearance that she 
is to aged and infirm to attend said Court.

Jno. W. Payne JP


State of Missouri
Bates County  Sct.

I F. Barnes Clerk
of the County Court within for the County
of Bates State aforesaid do Certify that John
W Payne the above named individual whose
signature appears as a Justice of the Peace
is and was at the time said certificate
was given an acting Justice of the Peace
within & for the County of Bates duly commissioned 
& qualified as such & that all of his 
official acts are entitled to full faith & credit
In Testimony whereof I as Clerk
of the Court aforesaid have hereunto set my
hand & affixed my Private Seal (There being 
no public Seal yet Provided) at Office
at Batesville (Old Harmony Mission) this the 2nd
day of April AD 1844

Freeman Barnes, Clerk
[seal]
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State of Missouri
County of McDonald  
This day personally appeared before the undersigned presiding Justice of the County Court within & for the Said Court, William Whelchell, a nephew of Davis Whelchell and Nancy Whelchell, and married his cousin Kesiah Whelchell.  The only Surviving heir of the said Davis and Nancy Whelchell, the same being the said Davis Whelchell who served in the Army of the Revolution for whose services Nancy Whelchell, the widdow of 
the said Davis Whelchell, claimed in right of a Pension who says he is now in his sixty fifth year, that  he has been acquainted with his said Uncle and Aunt Davis & Nancy Whelchell, ever since his earliest recollection up to the time of their deaths.  The said Nancy resided with David Torrence within a short distance of this declarants place of residence in Bates County Missouri who was taken sick at the house of the said Torrance about the first of October 1846 at the place aforesaid. this declarant says he hauld to his home in the said County his said Aunt and Mother in law Nancy Whelchel who died at declarants said house in Bates County Missouri about the 26th day of October 1846 in the said County.  The said declarant moved with his family from Bates County aforesaid to a place near Fayette Arkansas in the winter of 182_ where he resided until about the 29 of January 1854 when declarant moved to McDonald County MO where himself his wife Kesiah Whelchel and 
a part of his family resides at this present time and that John B. King, of McDonald County Missouri were the first agent for my Aunt Nancy Whelchel and drew up her original declaration and there has been no
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ever appointed or employed to attend to the revolutionary
claim of my wife in right of her deceased Father
and Mother Davis & Nancy Whelchell
to my knowledge but the said John B. King

William Whelchell  X  his mark

Sworn to & subscribed to this 8th day of February
AD 1854 before me 

J K Mosier president of
County Court

Also personally appeared before me at the 
same time William Whelchell Jr. who 
says that he believe he is the son of the 
above declarant William Whelchell and Grand
son of Nancy Whelchell deceased who died 
in Bates County Missouri at the House of 
his father in October 1846 who says he 
attended the burial of his said Grand mother
Nancy Whelchell at the time aforesaid.

William Whelchell  X  his mark

Sworn & subscribed this 8th day of 
February 1854 before me 

J K Mosier  County Judge


Before [illegible] Jeremiah Mosier presiding Justice
of the County Court of the said County of McDonald
County in the State of Missouri do hereby certify 
that I believe from my acquaintance with
the two persons who has subscribed the above affidavits
that these statement in regard to 
the death of Nancy Whelchell together with
there other statements related thereto are entitled 
to credit & I believe them to be credible wintesses

J K Mosier  president 
of County Court
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we James Tipton and Jeremiah K. Mosier
do hereby certify that we heard the conversation
at the House of James Tipton in McDonald County
MO with John B King and Kesiah Whelchell
who entered into a conversation about the claim 
that she Kesiah had made for her Mothers right to 
Pension in right of her Father Davis Whelchell who 
appeared to have been a Revolutionary officer  She 
Kesiah said she was the only heir that survived.  
and that she had employed John B. King and other
persons to attend to the claim on the same contract
that her mother had made with King in her life
of her Mother Nancy Whelchell, who
is now decd, this conversation took place at 
the house of one of the subscribers on Sugar Creek
in McDonald County Missouri on the 8th day of 
February 1854

James Tipton
J K Mosier


State of Missouri  County of McDonald SS

I John B. King Clerk of the County 
Court within and for said County
do hereby certify that Jeremiah
King Mosier before whom the 
within & foregoing affidavits were 
made was at the time thereof &
is still the presiding Justice of the 
County Court within & for the said 
County duly commissioned and qualified
as such    In testimony whereof I John
B King the Clerk of the County Court within 
& for said County have hereunto subscribed my
name and affixed my private seal there being
no seal yet provided at the Court office 
the said County this 9th day February 1854

John B. King Clk
[seal]

(over)
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The signature of John B. King
on the within is genuine at the 
date of his certificate he was 
acting as Clerk of the County Court
of McDonald Co Missouri
23d Feby 54

John S. Phelps
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October 31, 1939.
BA-J/ILL
Davis Whelchel
R. 11388
W. C. Randall
3602 Myrtle Avenue
Long Beach, California.
Dear Sir:
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, R. 11388, based upon service of Davis Whelchel in the Revolutionary War.
Davis Whelchel lived on the Broad River in Ninety-Six District, South Carolina, for some years before the beginning of the Revolutionary War.  The date and place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given, nor his age.  He had several
brothers, one of whom was William, who lived on the Broad River
in South Carolina in 1787.
Davis Whelchel married in Ninety-Six District, South Carolina, Nancy Barns, who was born January 21, 1762; the name of her parents were not given.  The date of their marriage was given as March 28, 1771, also as March 28, 1776.
Davis Whelchel died in September 1833, in Hamilton or in  Madison County, Indiana.
Nancy Whelchel, the widow of Davis Whelchel, resided in Bates County, Missouri, in 1844.  She applied March 8, 1844, for the pension which might have been due on account of his service in the Revolutionary War.  It as stated then that Davis Whelchel enlisted in 1775, and  served at various times until the close of the Revolutionary War as  private, ranger, spy, also as lieutenant and major, under Captains William McMullens Nathaniel Jeffers, Nimrod Terrell, and John Thompson, Colonels John Neel, Thomas, William Fair, James Steen and Brandon in the South Carolina troops, and in Captain William Whitesides' North Carolina company against the Tories.  Her claim for pension was not allowed as proof of six month' military service was not established as required by the pension laws.
Nancy Whelchel moved to Cedar County, MIssouri, where she 

[note]
Miss Wilson's notes of this 
history are on file in the claim 
of John Whelchel W. 6498
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resided in May 1845.  About October 1, 1846, she was taken sick
at the home of her son-in-law, David Torrence, in Bates County,
Missouri, after which she was taken to the home of her daughter, 
Kesiah Whelchel, in that same county, where she died October 26, 
1846.  (Said Kesiah's husband was both nephew and son-in-law of Nancy Whelchel.)

Davis Whelchel and is wife, Nancy, had eleven children'
Eda Torrence, their "next youngest child", stated May 29, 1845
in Cedar County, Missouri, that she was then in her forty-first 
year.  David Torrence stated then that he had been acquainted
with Nancy Whelchel for twenty-two years, and that she had lived 
with him "a considerable time" since her husband's death.  The 
daughter, Keziah Whelchel, referred to above, married her first
cousin, William Whelchel; after her mother's death, they lived
near Fayette, Arkansas, and in January 1854, moved to McDonald
County, MIssouri.  These two children, Eda and Keziah, are 
the only names of the children designated.

William Whelchel, the nephew of Davis and Nancy Whelchel,
was born on the Broad River in Ninety-Six District, South Carolina,
and lived there with his father, William Whelchel.  In March 1844,
this nephew stated that he was in his fifty-seventh years, and that 
he resided near his uncle, Davis Whelchel, on White River in Indiana
at the time of his death.  This nephew stated further that his 
own father, William Whelchel, told him that three of his brothers
married in the family of one Davis, and that his brother, Davis
had married a Barns.  This nephew did not state the name of his 
own mother.  This nephew's own son, William Whelchel, Jr., stated
in 1854 that he was at the burial of his grandmother, Nancy Whelchel.

It was stated further that William Whitesides, of North Carolina, was a cousin of Davis Whelchel, and that Davis served in this 
cousin's company during the Revolutionary War.

Nancy Whelchel, the above noted widow, referred to her uncle, 
Charles Barns, who lived in South Carolina and was attacked by the 
Indians during the Revolutionary War.

Very truly yours,


A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator.


2.
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6181
Nancy Whelchel
Davis       MO
Suspended
Let to Chs English 
to Hon. J. W. Relf
let to J. B. King. 
to same 29 Oct
Let Hon. J. S. Phelps 
P R Smith Jany 11 1853
Hon. J. S. Phelps March 
Act July 4 36
Hon. A. B. Greenwood 12 Dec 1856
(over)

11388
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April 18 55
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Pension Office,
April 18, 1855.

Sir,

I reply to your communication of the 2d instant
I have the honor to state that by a "slip of the pen"
in my letter of the 12th December last in relation
to the application of Nancy Welchel for pension, she 
was stated to have been the widow of William
Whelchel - It should have been "Davis Whelchel" 
the letter referred to however probably stated the objections
to the allowance of the claim.

Very respectfully
SFC


Hon. A. B. Greenwood
Bentonville, 
Arkansas
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81
Pension Office
July 10, 1853
Sir
The papers submitted by you to this 
office with your letter of the 21st of March last, relative to the claim of Nancy Whelchel the widow of Davis, with the exception of the certificate of the Court showing  the period of 
said Nancy's death, had not previously refer this office and not carefully considered.
The objections to the admission of the claim now stated in my letter addressed to J. B. King Esqr. Loomesville,  Mo. on the 29th of October 1850 of which a copy is 
returned; since which date no additional testimony has been received.  It is an extremely
doubtful claim and need not be admitted unless upon the most conclusive evidence of service and proof of marriage prior to the expiration of any service which may be established.  If
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with an established, the arrears of pension
would be paid to the child, or children, of 
Mrs Whelchel living at the period of her death.
Mr King's letter is herewith returned.

I have &c
[no signature]



Hon John S. Phelps
House of Rep

[written sideways on the right]
July 10/52
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H. of R.
21st March '52
Sir
I have the honor to submit
certain papers relative to the 
application of Nancy Whelchel for 
a pension for the services of her
husband in the Revolutionary
War.  It appears a part of 
the papers now by me submitted
have once been before the court.
The case as I understand it 
is that Davis Whelchel or Welchel
served in the Rev. War.  He 
died in 1833.  His widow Nancy
made application for a Pension. 
she is dead leaving one child.
To that child upon proof of 
service of her father - marriage
of her parents before the close of the 
war, death of both entitled to the
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which her mother could have 
paid on the day of her death
if her name had been inscribed 
on the Pension Roll?
Yours respectfully
Jn S. Phelps

J S. Heath Esqr
Comr of Pensions
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J. B. King
29 Oct 1850
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570
Pension Office
29th Oct. 1850
Sir
In reply to your suggestion I have to 
state that so far as may be judged from the attitude in which the case of Nancy Whelchel dcd now stands, the expense of procuring record testimony would be useless.  If the date of the marriage was admitted - and there is no proof on this subject - still from the tenor of the reply of the Comptroller of D.C. to you it is evident that her husband did not serve 6 months.  The amount indicated
by him would not cover then perceived as private, but Mrs Whelchel answered that part of the time her husband was a Lieutenant, which fact would greatly reduce the 
apparent length of his service - 
J. B. King Esq
Louisville
S. W. Missouri
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Compt Genl Office
Columbia S.C. Jan. 8 '50
Dr Sir
the Records of this Office State 
L12.15.8 1/2 Sterling for duty in [Col. Thomas] Brandon's Regt by Davis Welchel before & fina the fall of Charleston. In what capacity he served is not stated but I would remark that that amt would scarcely cover 6 mos duty as
private I suppose. There is in the a/c an order signed by David Welchel before Charles Saxon J.P. in favor of Edmd Craddock-
If you conclude to have an Official
copy please enclose $3 S.C. Money
and I will forward it
Yr Obt Svt
James A. Black
Dep:
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House of Reps, Washington DC
Decr 7th 1854

Sir

I desire to call your attention to 
a rather ancient application for 
Pension by Nancy Whelchel widow of 
Davis Whelchel a revolutionary soldier
He acted a portion of his time as Quarter
Master, one John B King made out 
and forwarded the papers about eleven 
years ago.  Your attention has more 
recently been called to the application by Presley
R Smith of Fayetteville Arks.
Col Smith I think
addressed the Pension Dept i Decr and 
February last.  The widow died some eight
years ago, and the daughter Keziah Whelchel
is now presenting the claim.  I should 
be pleased to receive your answer soon

Very respectfully
your obdt Servt
A B Greenwood



Hon L P Waldo
Comr of Pensions
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Bentonville Ark
April 2nd 1855

Sir

Yours of the 12th Decr last in answer to 
my communication of the 7th in which you 
review the conditions of the claim of William 
Whelchel of Mo. Upon examination of my notes I 
find that you or myself was mistaken as to the named
Davis Whelchel in the claim I described information
in regard to John B King of Mo had been corresponding with the Dept in regard to the application 
Davis Whelchel was a revolutionary soldier and 
acted as Quarter Master a portion of the time he was 
in service  Application was made for a pension by 
John B King of Mo eleven years ago in favor of Nancy his 
widow.  She also died about eight years ago.  The 
claim is now being prosecuted by Keziah Whelchel
the daughter of Davis & Nancy.  Will you be so good
as to report the condition of this case.  I am advised
that all the proofs as required by the Dept has been furnished

Yours very Respectfully
A B Greenwood



Hon L P Waldo
Comr of Pension
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H of R.
6th Jany 54

Sir

I have the honor to 
submit additional evidence
in the case of the heirs of Nancy
Whelchel decsd. widow of Davis Whelchell
decsd - a soldier in the Rev. War
in S. Carolina Militia
for a Pension - who the 
letter of John B. King related thereto
The application was presented
several years since.

Yours respectfully
John S. Phelps



Hon L. P. Waldo
Comr. of Pensions
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H. of R.
23d Feby '54

Sir

I have the honor to submit
the enclosed affidavit a letter from John
B. King relating to a Rev. Pension claim 
of Kesiah Whelchel daughter of Nancy 
Whelchel decsd who was the widow of
Davis Whelchel decsd - The said Nancy
being in her life time applied for a 
Rev. Pension on a/c of the services of her
husband Davis Whelchel.
I trust the papers submitted
will remove the objection to considering
King the agent of the party.  And I 
hope this case will now be examined
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upon the additional testimony I had 
the honor to present at the early 
part of the session.

Yours respectfully
John S. Phelps



Hon L. P. Waldo
Comr. of Pensions
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Pension Office
March 19. 1854.
Sir
The affidavit of William Whelchel
submitted in your letter of the 14th inst. is deemed satisfactory to show that John B. King, Esq is still the authorized agent of the parties interested in the  claim of Mary [Nancy] Whelchel, decd who was 
the widow of Davis, under the act of 
July 4, 1836, and to remain the 
[illegible]by the letter of Mr P. R.
Smith of the 15th of Dec. 1853.  But the objections to its admission remains a full [illegible] for the date of the marriage is not established as required by the regulations and even if you admitted Her identity of 
Mrs Whelchel's husband not the party
who as the 23d of Sept. 1781 received this  for agent Edward Craddock it would show one short two months service in the 


[written on left margin]
£12 15 and 8 for militia duty in Brandon's Regt.
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grade of Lieutenant in which it is alleged he 
served

In King's letters is herewith returned.




Hon J. S. Phelps
House of Reps


[written sideways on the left]
John S. Phelps
March 14,/54
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129
Pension Office.
12th Decr. 1854.
Sir,
Yours of 7th instant in relation to the 
claim of Nancy Whelchel widow of William [Davis] of Missouri, has been received. the objections to the admission of this claim are that William's service as a Lieutenant, and Major of the South Carolina Militia have not been proved.
The Comptroller of that state certifies that a man of his name was paid £12.15.8 1/2 for military services, but says his rank is not given.  This amount would not indicate as 
much as two months service as Lieutenant. so that if he was admitted to be the man who received it, it is too small a service to be pensionable.  The other objections are that the dates of his marriage and death are not established.  

Hon. A. B. Greenwood.
House of Reps.
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J. B. King   Nov. 6/49
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96

Pension Office
Nov. 6th 1849.

Sir,

In reply to your letter of the 
19th ult. in the case of Nancy Welchell
decd widow of Davis Welchell, under act
4th July 1836 I have to state that the 
service is alleged to have been as a 
militia man of South Carolina.  No evidence of the service has been exhibited.
Application should be made to the
Comptroller General of South Carolina
at Columbia for such evidence as the 
records in his office may afford.
Proof of the period of Marriage
should also be exhibited.  The widow
being now deceased evidence should 
be produced in open court showing 
the time of her death and the names 
of the children now surviving her; and 
the opinion of the court in the whole 
matter should be certified under seal 
of office.  Enclosed herewith is a 
copy of the regulations for the guidance
of the party.

John B. King Esqr
Loomesville
McDonald Co. Mo.
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Hon J. H. Relf 
Feb 14. '45
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290

Pension Office
Feby 14 45.

Sir

I have the honor to enclose copy
of a letter addressed to Mr. Charles
English in the case of Nancy Whelchel
claiming a pension under the Act of 
July 4th 36 on the 24th of Sept 44 since
which time no additional
information has been sent to 
this office.  Mr John B King's letter
is herewith returned.  The contents
of the above letter furnish the most 
appropriate answer to your inquiry -


Honbld J. H. Relf
H of R

6181
Act 4th July '36
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Charles English
Sept 24 '44
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433
Pension Office
Sept 24. '44
Sir,
The papers in the case of Nancy
Whelchel widow of Davis Whelchel
claiming a pension under the Act of 
4th '36 have been examined and filed
Enclosed is the form of proceeding under the above case found which the claimant will learn what is to be done to bring her claim quickly before the Dept for consideration.  The regulations must be complied with strictly in all respects.
Charles English Esq
Pleasant Lake Mo
6181
act 4 July '36
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1920 Feb. 6  Hist. to Hon Thomas 
M. Bell  AW  where is the letter?
1928 July 6.  Hist to Hon W. F.
Stevenson - see correspondence
in cl. of John Whelchel W. 6498  MCS
1939 Oct. 31  Hist. to W. C. Randall - ILL
where is his letter?

11.388
Nancy Whelchel
Service:  widow
Davis Whelchel
REJECTED
Act Oct 3, 1906
The printed list of 1852 gives cause of suspension as: "He did not serve six months"
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October 31, 1939.

BA-J/ILL
Davis Whelchel
R. 11388
John Whelchel 
W. 6498   See letter in this claim - 
also old history of Davis Whelchel

W. C. Randall
3602 Myrtle Avenue
Long Beach, California.

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request
the Revolutionary War records of soldiers names Whelchel, pension 
claims R 11388 and W. 6498.

The record of Davis Whelchel, claim R. 11388, and the 
record of John Whelchel, claim W. 6498, are furnished you
herewith.

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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Fayetteville Arkansas
December 15th 1853

Dear Sir

By request of a very aged lady and 
one that seems to have some claims upon 
the Government, I write these few lines by way
of getting information for her, her name is 
Nancy Whelchel.
Some ten years ago she had the papers
for her Husbands (Davis Whelchel)
pension for services in the Revolutionary 
War prepared, and sent on as she 
supposed, by a man by the name of John B. King
who lives in Missouri, and she has never
been able to learn what he did whether
he ever drew any money or not, therefore 
she asks the information.
Please let us know whether any thing
has ever been done with the claim of 
the said Davis Whelchel or not, and 
you will confer more than a favor
on one that truly kneeds the money 
if any be due her 

address Fayetteville Arkansas
P R Smith

[various numbers or calculations on the left side written sideways]
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Looniesville, McDonald County Southwet
Missouri  October 19th 1849

Sir

The children of Nancy Whelchell, widow of 
Davis Whelchell, who made application to 
the War Department in May A.D. 1845 for a 
Pension, said Nancy was a resident of Bates County
Missouri has since died.  The children and heirs
of the said Nancy hereby makes application 
for the amount of Pension that may be due the 
the said Nancy.
They suppose the evidence to be sufficient
to establish her claim, to satisfy the commissioner 
of Pensions.  that her husband was a Revolutionary officer
and served as she has stated.  I suppose her declaration 
is on file in the archives of the department.  they
can do nothing more than require a re- examination
of the papers, in the case relating to her deceased 
husband, and the evidence of his tittle to a 
pension.  The relation of Mrs. Whelchell to 
her husband, in point of marriage satisfactory
to the commissioner They hope will be considered
in the spirit of liberality to them, and the 
evidence will considered satisfactory

Very Respectfully

Jno B King of 
Looniesville McDonald
County Southwest
Missouri
Agent for the heirs
of Nancy Whelchell 
deceased


J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, DC
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State of Missouri
Bates County  Sct

I Freeman Barnes
Clerk of the Court within & for 
the County of Bates State of Missouri do certify
that John W. Payne the Individual whose name 
is subscribed to the within and foregoing certificate
(as a Justice of the Peace) is and was 
at the time of said certificate was given, an 
acting Justice of the Peace within and for 
the County of Bates duly commissioned
and qualified as such & that all of his 
official acts as said Justice are 
entitled to full faith & credit in all 
Courts of Law and elsewhere
In Testimony whereof I Freeman
Barrons Clerk of the Court aforesaid
have hereunto set my hand 
and affixed my Private Seal (There 
being no Public Seal yet Provided)
at Office in Batesville (Old Harmony Mission) 
this the 2nd day
of April AD 1844

Freeman Barrons Clerk
[seal]
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Book X
No. 3178
Issued 29 June 1786 to Davis
Welchel for twelve pounds
15/8 1/2 for duty done in 
Brandons Regt. per account audited
Principal                    £12.15.8 1/2
Interest                             17.10
No. 112
Pay $55

State of South Carolina
To Davis Welchel 
For militia duty in Brandons
Regt. before & since the fall of 
Charleston for Andersons
Return amt to currency    £89.10.0
                                    Stg. 12.15.8

Messrs. Boquet & Mitchel Treasurers 
Charleston

Gents

Please to deliver to Mr. Edmund
Craddoch the public accounts belonging to 
me in your office & you will oblige

Gents Your Humble Servt
Davis Whelchel
23 Sept. 1787
Test. Chas. Saxon J. P.

Recd. 29 June 86 full satisfaction for
this act in Ident 3178. X per order
Edmd. Craddoch
£12.15.8  Stg. Exd.
J. Rice [?]

Get a facsimile of his name & some of his writing -
Triplett
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Compt G
Compt. Genls. Office
Columbia So. Ca.

8 November 1854

I hereby certify
the foregoing to be a true copy from 
Indent Book X page 3178. & also of 
the account upon which said Indent
was issued - Given under my hand 

Wm. F. Arthur
For Compt Genl.

no Seal of office [inside a drawn circle]
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Looniesville  McDonald County
South West Missouri   Febr 19th/50

Sir

In relation to case of Nancy Welchell, deceased,
you inform me that proof should be exhibited
of the period of her marriage with Davis Welchell 
her husband, on whose account her right to a pension is 
claimed.  There is no means accessible to the
heirs unless her declaration on the files of 
the Department together with the affidavit
of her daughter Should be received.  The heirs
are able to prove the general reputation and 
cohabitation of their deceased parents as 
husband and wife.  They have used every 
means in their power to obtain a records of 
the marriage but have fail as yet.  They have 
written to the district of Ninety Six that was 
in the time of Revolutionary War for a copy 
of the marriage record, but facts for the cause
that the district has been divided and 
subdivided into several districts.
They have written to Compt General at 
Columbia, South Carolina and the following
is the answer sent.

Compt Genls. Office
Columbia, S.C.   Jan 8th/50

Dr Sir

The Records of the Office, State that £12.
15.8 1/2 Sterling for duty in Brandons Regt.
by Davis Welchell, before & since the fall 
of Charleston.  In what capacity he served is
not stated.  But would remark that that 
amount would scarcely cover 6 mos. duty as 
a private I suppose.  There is in the 
Apc. an order signed by Davis Welchell 
(over)
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before Charles Saxon, J.P. in favor of Edmd. Craddock.
If you conclude to have an Official Copy 
please enclose $3 S.C. money, and I will 
forward it 

Yr Obt Sert [your obedient servant]
James A. Black
Dep.

From what I can ascertain the claim seems 
doubtfull in it character.  I therefore ask
some information from the Department before
I subject the heirs to the expense of obtaining 
copies of the Records from the Comptr in North 
and South Carolina and then have to 
fail for the want of the proof to identify
the period of the marriage &c.  If there 
should be proof in the War Office in relation 
to the service of Davis Welchell, in the War
of the Revolution, please impart it with such 
other information as may be necessary to 
enable the heirs to substantiate their claim

J. B. King, of Looniesville,
McDonald County, S.W.
Missouri



To the Commissioner of 
Pensions, Washington
City, D.C.
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Free

James L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of 
Pensions  City of 
Washington DC


Batesville Mo
Apl 9th 



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4181 May 2 1844
Nancy Whelchell 
4 July 1836
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To the Honorable the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United States in Congress Assembled
Your petitioner, Nancy Whelchel
(Wilkey) of Bates County Missouri would humbly represent to your honorable body that she is the Widdow of a Revolutionary Soldier, Davis Whelchell, (Wilkey) who served
during the War of the Revolution for
whose meritorious services she claims a pension, for the reasons, that she suffers intolerable privations, in common with her said husband, being, at one time driven from South Carolina, to North Carolina, by the inhuman, Brittish and tories, their property, all distroyed and burned, herself and children often suffered, for the want of clothing and vituals, and her husband being the principal portion of his time, employed in the service of his country. And now at this
time; Old fesble and infirm, poor
and unable to sustain herself, and
having no means of help whereon
to rely, at this advanced age, she
humbly asks of her country the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 4th 1836, and your petitioner will ever pray &c Nancy Whelchell X her Mark
Hon John Gameson
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Pleasant Gap Bates County
Missouri March 15th 1844
D. Sir I herewith transmit to your care, the application of Nancy Whelchell (Wilkey) the Widdow of Davis Whelchell of the Revolutionary Army, under the 3rd Section of the Act of Congress, passed July 4th 1836.
she will testament a petition for the benifit of the said Act herewith
transmitted to be used if the application to the Secretary should fail, she is a very Old infirm woman who lives with her children. She has ever since the death of her husband lived remote on the frontier Settlements is probably the cause
why an application for her benefit has
not been made long since, she has not been in possession of the information that she were entitle to the benefit of any act of Congress as a widdow of a Revolutionary Soldier
Will you present the papers committed to your charge to the Secretary of War, for a decission
of the Department, if he should decide against the application, Present her petition and have it referred to the appropiate Committee &c Your friend truly
Charles English
of Pleasant Gap
Bales Co Missouri

Hon John Gameson
House of Representibus
City of Washington
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6510 Rv June 23 1845
State of Missouri, County of Cedar
On this 29th day of May in the year of our Lord 1845 personally appeared before the undersigned, One of the Justices of the County Court in and for the said County of Cedar, and
the State of Missouri, Nancy Whelchel, a resident of the said County of Cedar, an Old infirm
woman unable to attend the Court of which I am one of the Judges, the same being a Court of record, aged 88 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her Oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4th, 1836. That she is the widow of Davis Whelchel, who was a Lieutenant in the Militia, the Army of the Revolution and of the State of South Carolina, in the Company of Captain William McMullin, under the Command of Colonel John [sic, Thomas?] Neel, and his son, Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Neel, we lived on Broad River in Ninety Six district in South Carolina, and my husband the said Davis Whelchel first entered the Service of the United States in the Army of the
Revolution in the fall of the year 1775. He the said Davis Whelchel was third man above the Congaree [River] at signed the Association paper thereby binding himself with his Associates to defend his Country against the British and the Tories & Indians and generally against the enemies of their Country when called by the Constituted authority of the Country. He was called to go against the Indians, rendezvoused at old Henry Smith's on Broad River marched from
thence against the Tories & Indians, to a place called Kee, wa, to another Indian Town called Toxaway, on the line between the South Carolina, and Indian Country my husband
Davis Whelchel returned in the winter of '76 from the above named expedition was gone six or
seven weeks – information came that
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one Robinson and 300 Indians was on their march to destroy and kill the settlers on Broad River. The neighborhood left and went to Colonel Rosses about 7 miles to station themselves for protection. The Indians came to Enoree [River] near the Saluda and killed this said declarant's uncle Charles Barnes and the family of one Ford, my said
husband was called and marched from Col. Rosses under the command of Colonel John [sic] Neel in
the Summer of 1776 against said Indians and Tories (that was then called the Overhill Indians),
Burned their towns, destroyed their corn; killed and took some Indian prisoners, served some two
months returned in the fall of 1776, still remained in the aforesaid associated service, under the
command of [Lt.] Colonel Steen, was often called to go and did go against the British, Tories on scouts as a Ranger was ordered to march against the British Tories in the [year] as she verily believes 1777 under the command of Colonel Steen, marched to a place Stono There stationed
three months under the said Colonel James Steen, returned home still remained in the associated
Service was frequently called out – scouts and spying against Indians British & Tories under Colonel Steen's orders as she verily believes in the year 1778, were all his time engaged either on the scout or at the station. We were at that same year as this declarant verily believes driven by
the British & Tories and as she believes after Ferguson's [Patrick Ferguson’s] defeat at Kings Mountain, up to Captain William Whitesides in North Carolina he being a
cousin to my husband the said Davis Whelchel, The British and Tories having overrun the Country and the liberty boys having to fly for protection my said husband then joined the Company of Captain William Whitesides as she believes in the year 1779 as a Ranger under the
Command of Colonel John Miller Served not less than nine months in the service as a Ranger or a
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year not recollected precisely served a part of the said service in North Carolina under Major Richard Singleton – We moved back again to our place on Broad River in South Carolina, after the Battle of the Cowpens and my said husband there took his command as Lieutenant in the aforesaid associated service in the Company of Captain John Thompson, was called out to go to
Orangeburg against the British and Tories under the command of Colonel William [Farr] Fair and Major Jolly, Major [Benjamin] Jolly not going – my said husband Davis Whelchel was elected Major to fill his vacancy served three months on the said tour, returned to his home took his Command in the same service and was called on scouts and spying until the British troops left South Carolina
after Cornwallis was taken at York Town and the end of the war.
And she further declares that she is the widow of Davis Whelchel and that she was married to the aforesaid Davis Whelchel on the 28th day of March 1771. The said marriage was
solemnized by John Nuckolls in Ninety Six district in South Carolina and that her husband the
aforesaid Davis Whelchel, died on the 4th day of September in the year of our Lord 1833, in Madison County in the State of Indiana. And that she has remained a widow ever since that
period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. Nancy Whelchel, X her mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before.
S/ James S. King, Justice of the County Court of Cedar County 
I certify that Nancy Whelchel the above declarant is a credible person 
S/ James S. King, Justice of the County Court of Cedar County
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6510 June 23d 1845
Nancy Whelchel
July 4th 1836
JL Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington
City DC
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And this said declarant Nancy Whelchel further declares that she has no documentary evidence
of her marriage with said Davis Whelchel, that the family Bible that contained the record of her children
and record of the marriage of herself and her said husband Davis Whelchel; has been lost or destroyed and that she has learned the fact by diligent
search and inquiry for the same.
Nancy Whelchel x her mark
Sworn to and Subscribed on the
AD 1845 before me
s/ James L Henry County Justice

I certify that Nancy Whelchel the above declarant is a credible person
do hereby certify that Nancy
Whelchel the above named declarant is unable to appear in Court by reason of Bodily infirmity and Old age -
s/ James L Henry Justice of the
County Court

The State of Missouri County of Cedar I Joseph Allen Clerk of County Court in and for the said County
of Cedar do hereby certify that James Henry before whom the above and foregoing proceedings appears to have been had in the matter of the application of Nancy Whelchel for a pension was at the time thereof and is still an acting Justice
(or Judge) of the County Court in and for the said County of Cedar duly commissioned and qualified
as such and the signatures purporting to be his hereto and are his genuine signatures
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my private seal there being no official of said Court provided this 9th day of June A.D. 1875
s/Joseph Allen clk
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State of Missoun Bates County 
Personally appeared before me the undersigned Justice of the peace in and for said County William Whelchell who states that he was born in South Carolina on Broad River, and that he is a nephew to Davis Whelchell  whose widdow Nancy Whelchell  has this day sworn to a declaration before the undersigned Justice in order to obtain a pension, says that he believes he is in his fifty seventh year of his age, says he became acquainted with
his uncle Davis Whelchell  afforesaid at the age of nine or ten years, states that he has often been told by his uncle Davis Whelchell about all the tours that has been stated by his Aunt Nancy Whelchell in her said declaration on this day and further states that this deponent has
heard his father William Whelchell  talk of the said service in the Revolution and that he was living near his uncle Davis Whelchell  when he died on White River in the State of Indiana, in Hamilton County about ten years ago, and this deponant
further says that he has heard his said uncle the said, Davis Whelchell  say that he had served near
the whole of the Revolutionary war
as a spy or Ranger volunteered or drafted into the service.
sworn and Subscribed to this
8th day of March 1844 before
me. s/ William Whelchel
J peace
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State of Missouri
County of Bates SS

This day personally appeared
before the undersigned Justice of the peace David
Torrence, who being duly sworn deposeth
and saith that he has been acquainted
with Davis Whelchell the husband of 
Nancy Whelchell who has this day made 
out the necessary papers to obtain a pension
for services of her said husband in 
the War of the Revolution about ten or twelve
years prior to his death that he died in 
Hamilton County Indiana ten years
ago last fall. that he well recollects
of hearing the said Davis Whelchell whose
widdow has this day applied for pension
state that he had served the principal 
part of the Revolutionary War against 
Indians tories and Brittish in South 
Carolina

David Torrons

Sworn and subscribed to this 8th 
day of March 1844

Jno. W. Payne
J peace
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The State of  Missouri
County Cedar  SS

On this 29th day of May AD 1845
before me the undersigned Justice
of the County Court in and for the said County - 
Personally appeared Eda Varrence  [Torrence] who being by
me duly sworn according to law deposeth and 
says that she verily believes she is the daughter
of Davis and Nancy Whelchel and that she
is now in her forty first year of her age  She being
the next youngest child of the said Davis & 
Nancy Whelchel  the family when all living consisted
of Eleven children and that she can 
read and write some, and very well recollect
that she has often heard her said father and 
mother Davis and Nancy talking about 
her fathers services in the War of the Revolution
and their marriage in South Carolina and 
that it took place before the last service of 
said Father in the War of the Revolution and 
that further recollects of seeing recorded
in her fathers family bible the names of the 
children and date of the marriage of her
father & mother recorded which said bible 
has been lost and that it is her impression
from the knowledge she gained from the said
record that the said marriage took place before
the last period of the service of her said
Father in the War of the Revolution. and further 
testifies that her said mother Nancy Whelchel
who has this day made application for a pension
has remained a widdow ever since the death
of her husband Davis Whelchel which to place
on the 4th September AD 1833 in Madison County
Indiana

Eda Torrence

Sworn to and subscribed the date above mentioned
before 

James S. Henry  County Justice

I certify that Eda Torrence is a credible person.

James S. Henry County Justice
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The State of Missouri
County Cedar  SS

Be it known that on this 29th 
day of May AD 1845 -
Personally appeared David Torrence
who being by me duly sworn deposeth & saith
that he has been acquainted with Davis Whelchel
now deceased and Nancy Whelchel the person
now her making an application for a pension
for the space of Twenty two years first became
acquainted with them in the State of Indiana
and has had a knowledge of the family ever 
since  And he perfectly recollects of hearing 
the said Davis Whelchel in his lifetime at
divers times relate that he had been a soldier
of the Revolution and that he the said 
Davis Whelchel stated that he was almost 
continually in the said service either scouting
or spying against the Brittish Tories & Indians
in South Carolina during the War of the revolution
and that he and Nancy Whelch [Whelchel] his widdow
who is now present was married in South
Carolina about the commencement of the War
of the Revolution, and his widdow the said
Nancy has lived with me a considerable part 
of the time since her husband the said Davis
Whelchel has died and remained a widdow ever 
since that period

David Torrence

Sworn to & subscribed the day and year above
mentioned before me.

James S. Henry  Justice of the County Court

I certify that David Torrence who has sworn to 
and subscribed the above affidavit is a 
credible person

James S. Henry  County Justice
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The State of Missouri
County of Cedar  SS

Be it known that on this 29th
day of May A.D. 1845
Personally appeared before me the undersigned
Justice of the County Court in and for the
said County of Cedar William Whelchel who
after being duly sworn according to law deposeth
and says that he now is about forty five years of 
age and that he has been acquainted with
Davis Whelchel and Nancy Whelchel his uncle 
and aunt ever since he can remember any thing
and well recollects of hearing the said Davis
Whelchel now deceased relate at divers times 
that he had been a soldier of the Revolutionary
Army  that he the said Whelchel had served in 
the said War as a spy and scouting from 
the beginning to the end of the Revolution and 
particularly that he the said Whelchel was 
taken a prisoner by Fargusson [Ferguson] a short
time before the Brittish was defeated at Kings
Mountain and other circumstance on Kings
Creek where they attacked a fort in the neighborhood
of Colonel Floyd who was a tory and 
the Indians the Whigs of which the said 
Whelchel was one took the fort and further
deponent says he has heard his father William
Whelchel reate that that three of his brothers
had married in the family of one Davis and 
his brother Davis had married a Barns
the present Nancy Whelchel widdow of the 
Davis Whelchel and that the said Davis
Whelchel died on the 4th of September AD 1833 in 
Madison County Indiana and that she has ever
since remained a widdow 

William Whelchel

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above
written

James S. Henry  Justice of the County Court

I certify that William Whelchel is a credible person

James S. Henry Justice of the County Court
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The State of Missouri
County of Cedar  SS

I Joseph Allen
Clerk of [blank] Court in and for the County
of Cedar do hereby certify that James S Henry
before whom the above and foregoing proceedings
has been had was at the time thereof and is still 
an acting Justice (or Judge) of the County Court
in and for the said County of Cedar and State
aforesaid duly commission and qualified
as such and the signatures hereto annexed
purporting to be his are his genuine signatures

In testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and affixed 
my private seal there being no official
seal of said Court yet provided this 
5th day of October A.D. 1845

Joseph Allen Clerk

[seal]
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State of Missouri
County of McDonald SS

At a County Court which was
commenced at the Court House in the Town of Maryville
in the County of McDonald on the first Monday in February
A.D. 1852 within and for the said County in the 
State of Missouri  Satisfactory evidence was then 
and there addressed in the said court that Nancy
Whelchell widdow of Davis Whelchell deceased
who was an officer in the Army of the Revolution
in the Militia of South Carolina and in the militia
of North Carolina and who has heretofore
made an application for the benifit of the act 
of Congress passed on the 4th day of July 1836.
died on the twenty sixth (26) day of October A.D. 1846 in 
the County of Bates in State of Missouri and 
further it was then and there satisfactory evidence 
aduced to the said court that Kesiah Whelchell 
was the only surviving heir of the said Davis and 
Nancy Whelchell  

Isaac Cader [?]
Presiding Justice of the County 

I Jno B. King Clerk of the County within & for the 
above named County in the State of Missouri do 
certify that the above evidence is taken from 
the records in my office

In testimony whereof I Jno B King
Clerk as aforesaid have hereunto 
set my hand and affixed my private
seal there being no seal yet provided 
at Clerks office in Maryville this 
19th day of February AD 1852

Jno B King Clerk
[seal]