Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4766, for William Read, South Carolina
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(3-1776)
SERVICE |  | NUMBER
Continental. (S.C.) | Read, William | S. 4766.
 | | B.L. Wt. 1872-Phyn & Surgn- 450.  
Issued Feb. 25, 1800.  
No papers.
 |  | Carded.
CONTENTS
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[missing word] Carolina 32,101
[missing] William Read
[missing] Charleston in the State of S. Carolina
was a Physician & Surgeon in the [blank space] command
[missing] y Captain [blank space] of the [blank space] comman [missing]
[missing] y [blank space] in the [blank space]
[missing] line for Contl Service Records O.K.
Apr 7 '04
Inscribed on the Roll of South Carolina 
at the rate of 600 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.  Increased from $480 under the act of 15 May 1828
Pension issued the 15th day of January 1844 and sent to Mr [missing] aury, Treasury Dept.
[missing] Allowance ending
{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by D. Brown, -- Clerk, 
Book E. Vol. 6 Page 79
Deducting what has been paid under [missing] Act of May 15. 1828 after 4th March 18
$480 per annum.

[first column]
Reported to Agent, 
[missing] a to Pension Agt. 14 [missing]
Dead
Letter to 3d Auditor [missing]
P. Cantwell, 25 Sep
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Act 1828
Settled OK
Company
Condn with 
Invalid file
# 4,766
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No of orig Pay 112
124:
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
7 July 1828.
William Read of Charleston in the County of [blank space] in the State of South Carolina 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 Continental line. and served as such to the end of the war, 
at which period he was officer - in the Medical Department of the Continental 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.
dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of [the preceding beginning with "dollars" was lined out]
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
the rank Dr Read held at the close of the war is not stated by him - on the 15 May 1781 he was appointed by Congress Hospital physician in the Hospital Dept of the Southern army.
By order of the Secretary
D Dickins.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
July 9 - 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 Wm Read Phy: & Surgeon in the South Carolina line, amounting to Two thousand four hundred dollars.  It further appears that William Read is now on the pension list of the South Carolina agency. and has been since the 3d March 1826
Peter Hagner Aud
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Claim of William Read Physicn & Surgeon of the Genl Hospital of the revolutionary army for full pay for life.  He having the rank of Lieutt Colonl with ration & forage as such & promise who pay off is commission being on is loyal he certifies agreeable to instructions of the Territory & for proof of his identity & service refers to the certificates which accompany this application, & to the Hospital arrangements of 1779. so
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act entitled "an act for the relief of certain surviving officers & soldiers of the army of the Revolution approved on 15th May 1828" I, William Read of the City of Charleston in the State of South Carolina do hereby declare that I was an officer in the continental line of the army medical department of the revolution & served as such to the end of the war and I, also declare that I afterwards received a certificate, commonly called a commutation can to sicute for a sum equal to five years full pay which sum was offered by Congress [lined out] the resolve of Congress of 22d March 1783 instead of the half pay for Life to which I was entitled under the resolve of 22d October 1780. --
And I do further declare that I have received of the United States as Pensioner since 3d day of March 1826, [phrase after the word "Pensioner" is lined out] no money
William Read
Witness to the signature of William Read --
H. A. DeSaussure
Not. Pub. & Exoffo Q.M.
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I do hereby certify that Doctor William Read was attached to the Hospital Department in the War of the Revolution at the burth, and at the close of the War has charge of the Genl Hospital in his State.
James Hamilton
Major in the War of 
the Revolution
Charleston So Car.
June 10th 1828
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Charleston June 11th 1828
I Alexr Garden of Charleston at the conclusion of the Revolutionary War a Lieutenant in Lee's Legion do here by certify, that I was well acquainted with Dr Read and attended by him during a severe fit of Sickness while the Army were encamped on Ashley River at which period he had the sole charge of the General Hospital
Alexr Garden

Before me, H. A. DeSaussure notary Public & ex offo Q. U. duly empowered to administer oaths, in Charleston in the State aforesaid, personally appeared this day, the above named Alexander Garden an aid decamp to Genl Greene during the Revolutionary War, who made oath that Dr William Read by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed & believed to have been an officer in the Medical line with army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand this 11 June 1828
H. A. DeSaussure
Notary Public & ex offo Q. m. -
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VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON 
January 14, 1932
BA-J/EEL
Honorable Ellison D. Smith
United States Senate
Washington, D.C.

My dear Senator:

Reference is made to your letter of January 9, 1932, in behalf of Mrs. M.C. Sanders, of Greenville, South Carolina, with enclosures from the War Department and from Mrs. Senders, relative to certain soldiers of the Revolution.
Mrs. Sanders states that James Pettigrew, whose record was furnished you on October 25, 1931, is not the one in whom she is interested. This office has no record of any other James Pettigrew, of South Carolina.
The list of twenty-two names, which she submitted through you, has been carefully searched again.
The statement of October 26, 1931, in regard to William Baskin is not that this office has no record of that soldier, that that it has no record of a claim for pension based upon his military service in the Revolutionary Year.  Such claims are the source of information furnished by this office and are filed according to the full names of the soldiers.
There are no Revolutionary War claims for pension on file based upon the services of James Thompson, Matthew Thompson, Robert Thompson, George Read, William McClain or Thomas Cochran, who served in the South Carolina Troops, or of an Andrew McClain, Peter or Pierre Gibert or Gilbert, William Baskin and Ebenezer Pettigrew. No claim was found which had been made by a Phebe Cochran based upon service of her husband by that surname. All spellings of those surnames were searched.
The records of John McClain, William Read, William Pettigrew and Samuel Reed furnished herein are those of the only soldiers with those surnames who served in the South Carolina Troops, that are found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.

William Read
S.4766
The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.4766, based upon the military service of William Read in that war.
William Read was hospital physician and surgeon, Southern Department, War of the Revolution, and served to its close.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 7. 1828, while a resident of Charleston South Carolina [remainder of line and page cut off]
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4766
INVALID.
Rev War
File No. 4766
William Read
Surgeon South Carolina
Act: June 7 1832
Index:--Vol. M, Page 311
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Apr 7 '04
Contl Line.  Records corrected 9

[second column]
[handwritten on the right side of page]
1927. Aug - 3 - Hist. to Mrs P. J. Gantt - WWNF -
1931 - Aug. 17 - Mrs P. J. Gantt
advised age not given -- to  MLB.
apply to C.G. Rec. Div. for d. of date
1932 - Jan 14 - Hist. to Hon. E D. Smith - MMHF
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The Washington Headquarters Association
MRS. PLEASANT JORDAN GANTT. PRESIDENT
557 WEST 124TH STREET
NEW YORK CITY
PHONE MORNINGSIDE 5780
Rev
August 2-1931
Bureau of Pensions. Washington D.C.
Will you kindly give me the
pension claim William Read. 
He was allowed pension July 7-1828  
What did he give as age. at that
time?  Revolutionary War, and when

Daughters of the American Revolution
KNICKERBOCKER CHAPTER
MRS. PLEASANT JORDAN GANTT. REGENT
557 WEST 124TH STREET
NEW YORK CITY
PHONE MORNINGSIDE 5780
Pension Department   July 20-1927
Washington. D.C
Please give me the Pension Record
of William Read S.C Hospital Physician
& Surgeon- Southern Dept- 22nd March
1780_ to close of War ["Heilmaus"]
Sincerely.  Mrs P.J. Gantt
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did his pension cease?  I want his birth and death.  I will appreciate - most highly your giving this attention.
Sincerely.
Mrs P. J. Gantt

[circular ink date stamp as follows:]
RECEIVED
AUG 5 1931
RECEIPT SECTION
PENSION FILES SUB-DIVISION



Daughters of the American Revolution
KNICKERBOCKER CHAPTER
MRS. PLEASANT JORDAN GANTT. REGENT
557 WEST 124TH STREET
NEW YORK CITY
PHONE MORNINGSIDE 5780
Pension Department July 20-1927
Washington. D.C
Please give me the Pension Record
of William Read S.C Hospital Physician
& Surgeon- Southern Dept- 22nd March
1780_ to close of War ["Heilmaus"]
Sincerely. Mrs P. J. Gantt
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Revolutionary Claims.
No 119
Under the Act entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved 13 Mar. 1838
I certify that William Read of Charleston in the County of - - - in the State of South Carolina is entitled to receive pay under the above mentioned. Ct as a surviving Physician & Surgeon -- in the Hospital of the Army of the Revolution at the rate of Forty -- dollars and ---- cents a month payable during his life on the third day of March, and that day of September, in each year.
It is provided by law that the said pay shall not in  any way be transferable or liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by any legal process whatever."
Given under my hand and the Seal of the Treasury of the United States this third day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine and of Independence the fifty fourth.
S. D. Ingham
Secretary of the Treasury 

[handwritten sideways on the left as follows:]
William Read
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This must be taken care of as being all important --
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Washington August 17, 1931
Mrs. P. J. Gantt
557 West 124th Street
New York City
Rev.& 1812 Wars Section
MLB

WILLIAM READ
S. 4766
Dear Madam:
You are advised, as in letter of August 3, 1927, that in the soldier's claim for pension on file in this office his age is not given.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of the person to whom paid, and possibly the date of soldier's death, it is suggested that you address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., citing the following data:
William Read, Certificate # 32101, issued January 15, 1844, rate $600 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, South Carolina Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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MMAJ
  1812 Wars Section
August 3, 1927
Mrs. P. J. Gantt
537 West 124 th St.,
New York City.

Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the RevoIutionary War pension claim S. 4766 it appears that William Read was Hospital Physician and Surgeon, Southern Department, War of the Revolution and served to its close.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 7, 1828 while a resident of Charleston, South Carolina.  In 1844 he was still living in that city. His age is not given.
There is no data on file as to his family.
Respectfully.
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.

It appears that  [too faint to read] I gave 1780, & omitted orig. date
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[letterhead United States Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry]

CHARLES L. MC NARY, OREG., CHAIRMAN
GEORGE W. NORRIS, NEBR.
ELLISON D. SMITH, S.C.
ARTHUR CAPPER, KANS.
JOSEPH E. RANSDELL, LA.
PETER NORBECK, S. DAK.
JOHN B. KENDRICK, WYO.
LYNN J. FRAZIER, N. DAK.
J. THOMAS HEFLIN, ALA.
ARTHUR R. GOULD, ME.
THADDEUS H. CARAWAY, ARK.
JOHN THOMAS, IDAHO
BURTON K. WHEELER, MONT.
HENRY D. HATFIELD, W.VA.
ELMER THOMAS, OKLA.
JOHN G. TOWNSEND, JR., DEL.
FREDERIC C. WALCOTT, CONN.
HENRIK SHIPSTEAD, MINN.
HELEN K. KIEFER, CLERK

United States Senate
COMMITTEE ON
AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Washington, D. C.
January 9, 1932.

Hon. E. W. Morgan,
Bureau of Pensions,
Veterans Administration,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Morgan:
The enclosed correspondence from Mrs. M. C. Sanders of January 7th, Major General C. H. Bridges, the Adjutant General, of December 16th, and letter and list from Mrs. M. C. Sanders of December 3rd, explains itself.
I shall appreciate it very much if you will have a search of your records made to ascertain as much information as possible concerning each of the men listed in this communication.
Your attention to this matter will be appreciated.
Yours very truly,
E. D. Smith
EDS:G
P. S. Kindly return the enclosed  correspondence when it has served its purpose with you.
E.D.S.

[circular ink date stamp as follows:]
[illegible] WARS
JAN 11 1932
[illegible] OF PENSIONS
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[right portion of the page is missing.]
John Taylor.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
John Taylor.
Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the State afor
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME
KNOW YE, That  H A DeSau
Esquire, whose seal and signature appears to the 
strument of Writing, hereunto annexed, is one
Justices of the Quorum, assigned to keep the Pe
the said State, and Notary Public, Commission
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Sta
Therefore, all due Faith, Credit, and A
ity is and ought to be had and given to his proc
and certificates as such.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and 
be affixed the Seal of the State, in the Ciry of Char
the Eleventh day
of June in the year of our Lord one 
eight hundred and Twenty Eight 
Fifty second year of the Independence of 
States of America.
By the Governor:
R Steth
Secretary of

[handwritten in the lower left corner of document as follows:]
found mutilated
Aug. 12. 1910
JMH & AW
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South Western Rail Road Bank
Charleston 4 March 1844
Sir 
Be pleased to inform me whether I am to pay Dr William Read his pension under Act 7th June 1832 or under the Act 15 May 1828 as formerly.
I am Sir Respy
Your Obd svt
Jno Cochran
Pension Agent

J L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington 
D.C.
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35,609
Wm Read
Sth Ca
Increase
Act 7 June '32
Admd
2 years Physican and Surgeon
$600
deducting what has been paid under act of 15 May 28 as accruing since 4 March'31

Mr Harvey
Treasury Dept.
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The United States of America
District of South Carolina 
On this fifth day of January A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty four personally came and appeared before me -- Dr William Read is made known to me of the City of Charleston in the State of South Carolina who being first duly sworn deposeth that he is the person named in the certificate granted by the Secretary of the Treasury on the third day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and Twenty-Nine under the act entitled An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution" approved 15 May 1828, to William Read of Charleston a certain as a surviving Physician and Surgeon in the Hospital of the Army of the Revolution
William Read
Sworn to and Subscribed before me at the City of Charleston in the State aforesaid on the day and year first above written.
R B Gilchrist
Judge of the United States 
for the District of So Ca.