Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6646, Micajah Calloway, Va.
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(3 - 1776) SERVICE Va. CONTENTS or Calloway Callaway Micajah Franky NUMBER W. 46 B.L. Wt 26.660-160-55
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5093 Indiana Micajah Callow of Washington C. in the State of Indi say who was a private in the company by and Captain Paulding commanded --- of the reg commanded ┃ by Col Born-- in the Virgi for two years from 17 a mile 7. Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana the rate of 80. Dollars - Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Certificate of Pension issued the 4 day of Fe Any 1833 be and sent to Hon. Carr. H. R. I Arrears to 4th of Sept. 32 - $120 Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 33 40 - $160 --- - Recorded by Book D Revolutionary Claim, ┃ Act June 7,18 Wm Allison 1832. ⎬ - Vol. 9 Page 10 Clerk, Order to pay 24. Sep 1840 Let to T.P. Baldwin & New Albany Agent Sept 22. 1841. do. to same persons Oct. 8. 1841- do to M.C. Fitch, New Albany P. Agt 4th Nov. 1841-
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Micajah Calloway Application for Pension 17211
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us of State of Indiana Washington County Washington Circuit Court September Term 1832- On this 29th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of said Court now sitting, it being a Court of record, Micajah Calloway, a resident of said County and State aforesaid aged about 74 years, who being duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. that he entered the service as a Volunteer in Bottetourt County Virginia, by joining a company under Captain Henry Paulding of the Virginia militia, this was in the month of April 1777 the company consisted of about one hundred men-- Immediately after joining said company, he marched with said company under said Paulding to Boonsborough, Kentucky and served in said company under the said Paulding about 9 months he then volunteered under Col Boon and in February 1778 he was stationed at the Blue Lick with others making salt and whilst there he was taken with twenty six others, Col Boone among the number by a company of Shawnee Indians of upwards of one hundred, and conveyed as a prisoner with the others to the little Miami, James Calloway, Jesse Cooper Not. Bullock, John Holly, William Brooks and Saml B Brooks were among the number of prisoners.-- he remained a prisoner with the said tribe of Indians from that time for five years and five months; during which time he moved with said tribe to different places in this, after the tribe were driven from little Miami by a party from Kentucky, it took to station on Mad River, and remained there about one year then moved up the Big Miami about 20 miles remained some time then moved to a small stream emptying into Miami, and from that place the tribe was
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driven, by a party under Genl George Rogers Clark    seven of the Indians being there taken prisoners, the Queen of the nation being among the number (her name Lamatumgue) the tribe then took their station on St Mary's remained there about three months he was then employed as an Interpreter on behalf of said tribe, to go to the falls of the Ohio to treat on the subject of exchange of prisoners-- Seven Indians went with him to that place, for that purpose, the exchange took place after he had been there about 7 days Genl Clark being there it that time by whose assistance this declarant was released at that time-- he was in some other places with said tribe during the time he was a prisoner which is not now particularly recollected but he is positive that he was a prisoner as he has stated for about 5 years and 5 months - during which time his suffering from stresses hunger cold and the privations incident to a prisoners life --- among savage are indescribable. After his release he was variously employed in the service of his country in defending the frontiers against the Indians, he was a spy for Genl Wayne 4 months, and was employed as interpreter in making a treaty at Limestone for the exchange of prisoners, and also at the mouth of Big Miami he acted a Interpreted for Genl Sinclair and Genl Butler - that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State He is acquainted in his present neighborhood with John Kingsbury, Joseph Green Buber Booth Eli W. Malott Genl John Depaun Col. Jonathan Lyon, John Curry and Ebenezer Patrick, who can testify as to his character for veracity, and their belief of his services as a Soldier of the Revolution 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
Micajah Calloway his mark
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We, Ebenezer Patrick, a Clergyman and John Kingsbury residing in the said County of Washington and State of Indiana hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
Micajah Calloway, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 74 years of age; that he is a man of truth and veracity, and 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. Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid [signatures] Ebenezer Patrick John Kingsbury

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the intergatories 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 Ebenezer Patrick who has signed
the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in the said County of Washington and State of Indiana, and that John Kingsbury who has also signed the same is a resident
in the same County & State, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.-
I William A. Carter Clerk of the Circuit Court
the said County of Washington do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Micajah Calloway for a pension

The Testimony whereof I have hereunto
to set my hand & seal of office this 29th
day of September 1832
Wm H Carter Clk

[seal]
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Micajah Callaway
from 1777 private
2 years
$80,
P-226
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BRIEF is the case of Micajah Calloway of Washington County in the State of Indiana
(Act 7th June, 1832

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
A Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
-------

3. How old is he? 74 years.

State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.     Duration of Service.       Rank.          Names of General and Field Officers
                Year,   Months,  Days.    As a            under whom he served.

In 1777       About 9          -          Private         Captn. Henry Spaulding

1778 -        (was taken by the          do             Col. Boone
                   Indians prisoner, &
                   remained a prisoner
                   about 5 years & 5 months

5. In what battles was he engaged?  -------

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Bottetort {Botetourt} County Virginia

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
Traditionary Evidence

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?   No ___

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

B. F. Pleasants    Examining Clerk.
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Stotsenburg & Brown June 11/59
Same June 21/59


{Illegible}
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3271
Indiana  New Albany
Franky Callaway
Widow of  Micajah Callaway
Va
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853

Certificate of Pension issued the 
20th day of Decr {December}  1853 and sent to
Jno. H. Butler
Salem, Washington Co.  Inda  {Indiana}

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 188 vol. a

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Franky Callaway
Claim for pension
affd
Filed July 6th
AD 1853

M D Pann
ck
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State of Indiana
Washington County 
Ss  Be it known that on this sixth day of July 1853 at a Court of Common Pleas held  at Salem in and for said County personally appeared Frankey Calloway a resident of said County and after being duly sworn according to law declares that she is widow of this identical Micajah Calloway whose name was placed on the pension list under the act of Congress of June 7th 1832 at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum and of the identical Micajah Calloway to whom the pension certificate hereto attached numbered 5.093 was issued Signed by Lewis Cass and dated the fourth day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty three and that Said Micajah Calloway died at Said County on the 11th day of April 1849 and that she is still a widow and that She was married to Said Micajah Calloway in Garrard County in the State of Kentucky some time in the year 1804 and that she is not aware that there is any public or private record of her marriage.

Attest John H. Butler                                Frankey Calloway  her mark 

Subscribed & Sworn to in open Court July 6th AD 1853

W C DePaurd
Clerk
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Marriage Bond

Know all men by these presents that we
Micajah Calloway and James Davis. do promise to pay Christopher Greenup Esq Governor of Kentucky the sum of Fifty pounds. Current money the payment of which well and truly to be made we bind ourselves & each of our heirs &c, Jointly and severally firmly by these presents
sealed and dated the 3rd day of April 1805.

The condition of the above obligation
is such, that whereas there has a License issued from the Garrard Office for a marriage intended between the above bound Calloway and Francis Hawkins. Now should there be no lawful cause to obstruct said marriage. That then the above obligation to be void-. else to remain in full force.
Micajah Calloway
James Davis

License } No "License returned

Minister Return } Mr Letcher will please to record the following Marriage.
Micajah Calloway and Francis Hawkins
April 4th 1805
Joel Neal

State of Kentucky
Garrard County Sct

I William B Mason Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the bond
executed to the Commonwealth by Micajah Calloway and the Minister return from the Original
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on file in my Office, and I further certify that the
license which in pursuance thereof has never
been returned to this office
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Garrard County Court at office in
Lancaster this 17th day of November 1853

William B Mason Clk
By James A Anderson DC.
.
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Act March 3, 1835
38.964 April 4/05 
Frankey Calloway wife of
Micajah Calloway

No 266660 iss. May, 21/56

Pri:

Revolutionary War

Rev Pensioner
Act -Feb. 3, 1853 - 3271

ad: 160 acr Nov 16/56
Boynton

[illegible]: Aug 20
M

John H. Butler
Salem Indiana



Cert[?] to John H. Butler Aug 20/55
Inda
Feby 53- no 3271
Vol. C. - 14. -
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Mrs Franky Calloway
Widow of Micajah Calloway
Application for Bounty Land


Address
John H. Butler
Salem Indiana

38964
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State of Indiana
County of Washington

On this 30th day of March 1855 before me
a Justice of the peace in and for the County and State above named personally appeared Franky Calloway aged Eighty years a resident of said County who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Micajah Calloway deceased who was the identical Micajah Calloway who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and that she can not state with certainty the particulars of his said service the names of his officers or the length of his said service and for said particulars thereof and proof of the same she refers to his application for a pension under the act of June 7th 1832 upon which application he obtained pension certificate No 5093 for Eighty dollars per annum. She further states that she was married to the said Micajah Calloway at
Gerrand County in the State of Kentucky on or about the day of April 1804 by one Joel Noweld Preacher and that her name before her said marriage was Franky Hawkins that her said husband died at Washington County in the State of Indiana on the 11th day of April 1849 and that she is now a widow and for proof of said marriage she refers to her application for a pension under the act of February 1853 upon which application she obtained a pension certificate as the widow of said Micajah Calloway at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum which certificate is dated December 20th 1853. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the act passed March 3rd 1855 never having received any Bounty land under any other act of Congress or made any other application therefor and that she believes that no Bounty land was ever received by her said husband.

Franky  Calloway
Her mark [signed with an X]
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above written and on the same day personally came before me
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John Chambers and John L Menaugh to me well known as credible and respectable witnesses and residents of said County who being duly sworn according to law declare that they are personally acquainted with Frankey Calloway widow of Micajah Calloway who had made and subscribed the foregoing declaration that they were present and saw her make her mark to said declaration and that they were personally and well acquainted with said Micajah Calloway and his wife during the lifetime of the former and know that they lived together as man and wife and to be so reputed and they believe the husband of said Frankey Calloway was the identical person who performed the Military Service as Stated in said declaration and who received a pension therefore as thence stated that the above named Micajah Calloway is now dead and the Said Frankey Calloway is now a widow And they further swear that they are disinterested witnesses
John Chambers {his signature}
John L Menaugh {his signature}

Sworn to and Subscribed before me and I certify that from my personal acquaintance with said Frankey Calloway and with said Micajah Calloway in his lifetime I believe the facts set forth in the foregoing declaration is true and that said Frankey Calloway is now a widow and that I am not interested in said claim or [illegible} in its prosecution
James P. Banta jp {encircled seal}

State of Indiana
Washington County
I Washington C. De Pauw Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County and State above named do hereby certify that James P Banta Esq before whom the foregoing affidavits were made and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid and duly commissioned and  qualified and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as Such and that his signature
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thereto is genuine

In the testimony whereof I have herto signed my name and affixed my official seal at Salem at my office this 30th day of March 1855

W. C. DePauw  CK
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September 17, 1936.
xxxxxx
Jessie Cochran BA-J/ady
404 Morgan Micajah Callaway
Boonville, Missouri W.6646
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to Micajah Callaway, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in t he Revolutionary War claim for pension, W.6646, based upon his military service in that war.
Micajah Callaway or Calloway enlisted in April 1777 in Botetourt County, Virginia, and served about nine months in Captain Henry Paulding's Virginia Company. He then enlisted in Colonel Boone's Virginia Regiment, in February 1778 ant the Blue Licks he was taken prisoner by the Shawnee Indians and after five years and five months he was released by the assistance of General George Rogers Clark. After his release he defended the frontiers against the Indians. He served as interpreter in making a treaty at Limestone for the exchange of prisoners. He acted as interpreter at the mouth of the Big Miami for General Butler and General St. Clair. He also served four months as a spy for General Wayne.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 29, 1832, while a resident of Washington County, Indiana, aged seventy-four years.
He died April 11, 1849, in Washington County, Indiana.
Soldier married April 4, 1805 in Garrard County, Kentucky, Franky or Francis Hawkins. She was allowed pension on her application executed July 6, 1853, while a resident of Washington County, Indiana, aged about eighty-one years. She was still living there in 1859.
Soldier's son, John H. Callaway, was living in Washington County, Indiana, in 1859.
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One Noble Callaway was a resident of Washington County, Indiana, in 1859, no relationship to soldier stated.
This is the history of the only Micajah Callaway that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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1933 June 12, Hist. to Eunice C. Record. A.D.Y.
1936 Sept. 17. Hist. to Jessie Cochran. A.D.Y.

Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 6646.
Frankey Callaway
Wid"
Micajah Callaway
Privt Rev War
Act: Feb. 3d. 1853
Index:-Vol. 1st, Page 114
Arrangement of 1870.
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26,666
160 acres
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Recd Dec 15/53
Franky Callaway
wid
Micajah
Geddes

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
DC
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Pension Office
Dec. 1. 1833
4-49
Sir,
Please certify date of Micajah Callway's death, or last payment to him, as pensinoer, $80 pr. annum, act 7 June 1832, Indiana roll.
Respy
S. Cole
F. Burt Esq. for Commr.
3 Audr.
Micajah Calloway, Act 1832
$80, paid to 4 Mar 1849.
No date of death.
F Burt
Auditor
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No. 3,509
Indiana
Franky Callway
widow. of Micajah
1853 Nov. 2. Let to Franky Calloway
Admitted $80 pr, ann,
Commg. 3. february 1853
Act 3. feb. 1853
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Application of
Franky Calloway
for increase of Pension
& arrearages
PENSION OFFICE 
JUN 8 1859.
Stotsenburg & Brown
New Albany
Indiana
Attys: for Applicant.
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State of Indiana
Washington County SS.
On this 20th day of May AD 1859 before me James P Banta, an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and residing in said County personally came Franky Calloway aged Eighty seven years who being duly sworn according to law on oath declares that she is the identical Franky Calloway who is now at this time residing in Washington County and State of Indiana and in Washington Township of said County - that she is the living widow of Micajah Calloway deceased who was a Pensioner of the United States under the Act of June 7th 1832, and that she is at this time a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $80 per annum under the 2d. Section of the Act of February 3rd 1853, that she received a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of the Interior, a copy of which is hereto annexed and made part hereof, as follows, viz, 
Department of the Interior, Widow's pension, I certify that in conformity with the 2d.
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section of the Act of February 3rd 1853, Franky Calloway, widow of Micajah Calloway, who was a private in the revolutionary war is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum, commencing on the 3rd day of February 1853 and continuing for life unless she should again Marry in which case the pension is not payable after the time of such marriage. 
SS Given at the department of the Interior this twentieth day of December 
Examined & countersigned one thousand eight
L P Waldo hundred and fifty three R W Clelland
Commissioner of Pensions - Secretary of the Interior
said certificate is recorded in the Pension Office Vol "A" page 188.
She, the said Franky Calloway states that she is now unmarried and has always remained the widow of the said Micajah Calloway, and that she is the owner and holder of said Certificate. She prays the Department to grant her an increase of pension from $80 to $96 as by law allowed, and everything that may be now due her by reason of said increased arrearages of pension, and she refers the department to all the proofs under her
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former applications already on file - She hereby appoints Moses Stotsenburg & Brown of New Albany, Indiana her Attorneys to prosecute her said Claim as aforesaid and procure her the proper certificate hereby revoking all former powers of attorneys heretofore granted for said purpose and giving them all lawful authority in the said premises - 
Signed in presence of Franky Calloway x her mark
John H Callaway
Noble Callaway
We Noble Calloway and John H Calloway on our oaths declare that we are residents of Washington County, Indiana and that the foregoing declaration of Franky Calloway the above named declarant was signed acknowledged and sworn to by her in our presence with whom we are personally acquainted, and we know that she is at the time living in Washington County, Indiana, and that she is the identical Franky Calloway who was and is now the widow of Micajah Calloway deceased, and who is a pensioner of the United States as above recited, that she is at this time unmarried, and we believe from her
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appearance, statements and our acquaintance with her, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and we have no interest in this claim whatever - John H Callaway
Noble D Callaway
State of Indiana
Washington County SS
The foregoing declaration and accompanying affidavits were subscribed and sworn to by the above named declarant and the said affiants before me on this 20th day of May AD 1859, and I further certify that I know all of said affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim.
James P. Banta Seal
Justice of the Peace.

State of Indiana
Washington County sct.
I James B. Wilson Clerk of the Washington Circuit Court in and for said County hereby certify that James P. Banta Esqr. whose official signature appears to the foregoing attestation is now and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned
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and qualified and as such full faith and credit are due to all his official acts and that his commission is dated the 10th day of May 1856 and will expire on the 10th day of May 1860 and that his signature to the foregoing attestation is genuine In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court at Salem in said County this 21st day of May 1859
James B. Wilson Clk.
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NEW ALBANY Ind.
SEP 29
Oct 2
Can

25
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington 
D.C.
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New Albany Sept. 28th 1841
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comr. of Pensions-
Sir - I received this day your communication of 22d inst. in relation to the complaint of J. P. Baldwin. The statement that Bank Bills were paid to Mr. Calloway when [illegible] was demanded I unequivocally and unhesitatingly, pronounce to be false - Such an instance has not occurred at this agency, and I defy the world to produce credible and respectable testimony to prove the reverse of this statement. But in no count can Mr. Baldwin bring himself within this defiance. He can lay no reasonable claim to respectability. It is treating him with perfect mildness, to say, that he is a drunk and noisy partizan.
In his communications, he must necessarily have made a statement of which he had no personal knowledge, for he was not the attorney who drew the pension, nor was he present at the time of such payment. I feel confident, that the Attorney of Calloway would not on oath confirm Baldwin's statement But if he would, I fortunately have most respectable testimony, (The Gentleman who paid the money for me, for I was not present when the payment was made) to prove the
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reverse,
Be informed sir that the statements I have heretofore made to your Department in relation to the manner in which, the business of this Agency is conducted, are strictly true, to the letter, and I am prepared to substantiate the truth of them if necessary, whatever drunken politicians, for political purposes, may say, to the contrary, notwithstanding.
With much respect
Your Obt. Servt
M. C. Fitch
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New Albany Ind June 4th 1859
Hon. George C. Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions &c
Enclosed please find application of Franky Calloway for an increase of pension & arrearages to which we invite the attention of your bureau.
Resply, yr. Obt Servts
Stotsenburg & Brown
Attys. for Applicant,
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F. Calloway
Act 3 feb 53
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Brief in the case of Franky Callaway wid. of Micajah
Washington County and State of Indiana
act 3 february 1853
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband pensioned at $80, Act 1832.
Marriage proved by Court record -
Identity & death of husband Established by Certificate of Court & also by possession of deceased pensioners pension Certificate
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
M. Rae Examining Clerk.
Name and residence of Agent
Jno. H Butler
Salem
Washington Co.
Ia.
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No. 17,211.
Micajah Calloway
return
Hon. John Carr
Indiana
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Micajah Calloway which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? 
Yes.
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
Yes. 
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? 

IV. Has the declarant the period or periods of war whom he served?
Yes.
V.  Has he mentioned the precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to amount of pension he is entitled? 

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? 
Yes.
VII. Has he made relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under Act of June 7, 1832?
Yes.
VIII. Has the Court given their Opinion?
Yes.
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
Yes.
X. Is the Clerk's Seal Affixed? And if so, has it have a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?  
Yes.
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XI. Has the  applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
Yes.
XII. If the Clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason for not obtaining it? 

XIII. If the Applicant has not documentary 
evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witnesses, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? 
Yes.
XIV. If the Applicant produced a witness or witnesses as his service, has the magistrate Who administered the oath certified that he, she, or the person of credibility? Has the official character and signature of the Magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?


XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such as a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant service?

XVI.  Are the papers authenticated as the regulations Direct?
Yes. 
XVII. Are the seven interrogators prescribed by the war department answered satisfactorily? and if not which of them is not so answered?  
1,2,7

Explanatory Notes.
* QUERE V. In case where the applicant cannot, by reason of loss of memory, State precisely how long he served, he should amend his Declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: 
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of Peace, and &c. a. b. who being duly sworn, disposeth and saith, that by reason of old age, and consequence of loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below, and in following grades:  For________ year____ month and____ days. I served as a __________. For _______ months and __ days, I Served as _______ _______; and for such service I claim pension.”
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3
 It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase  about three or four months is too indefinite,  and such qualifying expressions are objectionable. 
 
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service. 
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well the regiment, company, and line to which be belonged. The magistrate who  may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 

OUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
 In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from improperly attached to the certificate.
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Branch Bank
New Albany Sept. 16. 1840.

JL Edwards Esq
Comms of Pensions

Dear Sir
I enclosed for your  information &c: Pension Voucher of Micajah Calloway a pensioner under the Act of the 7 June 1832.  There being 12 months pay due him @ 4 inst?
Yours Respectfully
M.C. Fitch P.A.
by J.R. Shields
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B416  Sept 21/41.

Pension Office
Micajah Calloway
Inda roll,


Hon. John Bell
Secy of War
Washington D.C

[STAMP}
Salem Inda
Sept 15

[STAMP]
FREE
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Salem. Inda.  Sept 10 1841

Sir
I am requested by Micajah Calloway to inquire of you if it is admissible by the War Department of the U.S. that its agents should pay revolutionary pensions in one dollar bank notes exclusively.  The agent of your Dept. to wit, the Prest. of the Branch Bank of Indiana at New Albany, Ia. paid this old worthy pensioner in that manner for his last semi annual pension ($40) altho. he asked to be paid in specie or larger bills, but was refused.  It is a matter of notoriety that this Branch Bank has refused to redeem its notes in specie for more than a year & a half last past.  Mr. Calloway will thank you for an answer to this question at your convenience, directed to to him or myself at Salem Inda
Very respectfully Yr obdt serv
Th: P. Baldwin

Hon. John Bell
Sey. at War
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New Albany Octr. 21st 1841

I do hereby certify that as the Attorney of Micajah Calloway, I have received from M.C. Fitch Pension Agent at New Albany the pension due him, said Calloway, on the 4th of March and the 4th of September last.  At both of which payments, I received from him the kind of funds I asked for, to wit part in bank notes and part in specie.  I was perfectly satisfied with the kind of funds I received from him.
John H Calloway
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Oct 29 1841

case of
Micajah Calloway 
Inda roll
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New Albany  Octr. 22d 1841

J.L. Edwards Esq Comr. of Pensions

Sir
In answer to your circular of 13th Octr I inclose the abstract as desired
I have received yours of Octr 8th saying that you had informed Mr. Baldwin that his statement was contradicted by me.  This I was well satisfied would be the end of that affair being confident that if he attempted to go into proof he would find himself minus.  However Mr. John H Calloway to whom as the attorney as his father, the two last payments due Micajah Calloway, were paid, happening to be in tow yesterday, without intimating to him what had transpired, I asked him if I had ever refused to pay the pension of his father in such funds as he desired.  He promptly replied, No. and when informed of Baldwin's proceedings, he said that B. had acted without his knowledge or consent, and not upon his representations.  He wished to make a statement of the facts, and I took from him a certificate upon the point material in the case.
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This certificate I now inclose, not because it is necessary or required, nor should I have gone a step out of my way to obtain it, but it being, as it were, cast upon me, I have thought proper to forward it.  It closes the door upon Mr. T.P. Baldwin in this matter, and proves that to his many aberrations from the straitt path, he has added, the crime of having made a false representation to you.
With much respect
Your obt. svt.
M.C. Fitch
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Address Franky Calloway
Salem
Washington County 
Indiana
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State of Indiana
Washington County SS
In the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County Indiana July 8th AD 1853 to wit July Term AD 1853 of said Court in and for said County
"Satisfactory evidence was produced in Court that Franky Calloway is the widow of Micajah Calloway late of said County deceased who is the identical Micajah Calloway to whom pension certificate numbered 5093, under the act of June 7th 1832 signed by Lewis Cass Secretary of War, and dated February 4th 1833 was issued, and that said Micajah Calloway died at said County and that said Franky Calloway was married to said Micajah Calloway on the   day of    1804 at Garrard County in the State of Kentucky and that his widow still survives him "
I Washington C DePauw Clerk of said Court in & for said County within said State certify the foregoing to be a full true and complete Transcript of the Records of said Court in the above matter
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court at Salem in said County this 25th day of October AD 1853
WC DePauw Clk

[SEAL]
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Payments to be made 
at Corydon
By Thos Posey Esq
Agent for paying Pensioners,
in the Agency of
Indiana


Recorded by Wm S Allison
Clerk, in Book D, Vol. 7
page 180.
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War Department.
Revolutionary Claim.

I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Micajah Calloway of the State of Indiana who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Eighty Dollars and - cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this
fourth day of February
one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
Lew Cass
Secretary of War

Examined and countersigned
JL Edwards

[SEAL]
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Salem Washington County IA  Nov 10th 1853

I send for Mrs. Franky Calloway widow of Micajah Calloway late of this County deceased the certificate of the Clerk of Garrard County Kentucky.  Mrs Calloway was mistaken in the date of her marriage as it appears to have been in the year 1805 instead of 1804 as she thought.  She had been informed that there was no record, but has been enabled to get the enclosed.\
Yours Respectfully
John H Butler

Mrs Calloway forwarded her application for a pension about the last of October.
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additional Evidence
in application of
Franky Calloway
for increase of pension

[STAMP]
Pension Office
Jun 13 1859
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New Albany Inda.  June 9th 1859

Hon Geo C. Whiting
Comr of Pensions &c
Enclosed please find the certificate of Franky Calloway in the matter of her application for increase and arrearages of pension, which we wish to surrender.  We would have forwarded it with the application but the Pension Agent here (Mr. Kent) had mislaid it, and was not able to find it until this morning.
Yrs. resptly.
Stotsenburg & Brown
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3116 South 10th East St.,
Salt Lake City, Utah.
April 22, 1933

Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:
Will you kindly send me all data on file on:

James Stuart, age 78 on 1 June, 1840. when pension was granted, resided in Wayne County, Illinois.

Micajah Callaway, age 83, in 1840, of Washington, Washington County, Indiana.

Yours truly
Eunice C. Record.

[STAMP]
Received
April 27 1933
Mail Sub-Div.
Vets Adm.
Reader #3

[STAMP]
April 28 1933
Pension Index Section
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Booneville , Mo
Aug 22-1936

Veterans Administration,
Washington, DC.

Gentlemen:-
Will you give me any information you have regarding Micajah Callaway a Revolutionary soldier.  I would like to have the names of his children, if they are available thru your records.  Micajah first enlisted under Capt. Henry Paulding.  I understand he received a pension (file 17211).  Where did he live when the pension was granted?
Any information regarding this man and his family I will be glad to have.
Yours truly,
Jessie Cochran
404 Morgan
Boonville Mo.

[STAMP]
Received
Aug 26 1936
Mail Sub-Div.
Vets Adm
Reader #12
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June 12, 1933.

Micajah Callaway
W.6646
James Stuart
W.8762

Miss Eunice C. Record,
3116 South 10" East Street,
Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to Micajah Callaway and James Stuart, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claims for pension, based upon their military service in that war.

Micajah Callaway
W.6646
Micajah Callaway or Calloway enlisted in April 1777 in Botetourt County, Virginia, and served about nine months in Captain Henry Paulding's Virginia Company.  He then enlisted in Colonel Boone's Virginia Regiment, in February 1778 at the Blue Licks he was taken prisoner by the Shawnee Indians and after five years and five months he was released by the assistance of General George Rogers Clark.  After his release he defended the frontiers against the Indians.  He served as interpreter in making a treaty at :Limestone for the exchange of prisoners.  He acted as interpreter at the mouth of the Big Miami for General Butler and General St. Clair.  He also served four months as a spy for General Wayne.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 29, 1832 while a resident of Washington County, Indiana, aged seventy-four years.
He died April 11, 1849 in Washington County, Indiana.
Soldier married April 4, 1805 in Garrard County, Kentucky Franky or Francis Hawkins.  She was allowed pension on her application executed July 6, 1853 while a resident of
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Washington County, Indiana, aged about eighty-one years.
She was still living there in 1859.
Soldier's son, John H. Callaway, was living in Washington County, Indiana, in 1859.
One Noble Callaway was a resident of Washington County, Indiana, in 1859, no relationship to soldier stated.
Date of widow's death not on A.B.

James Stuart
W.8762
James Stuart was born December 1, 1762, in Bucktown, Maryland.
While a resident of Chester County, Camden District, South Carolina, he enlisted in 1779, served two months as a private in Captain H. McClure's South Carolina Company and was in the battle of Rocky Creek;  the day after the battle he was taken prisoner and carried to Camden and later exchanged.  He enlisted in June 1780, served three months as private in Captain John McClure's Company, Colonel E. Lacey's South Carolina Regiment and was in the battles of Rocky Mountain, Hanging Rock and Fishing Creek.  He enlisted, date not stated, served as private in Captains Steele's and Philip Walker's South Carolina Companies, was in the battles of Kings Mountain, Fort Granby, Siege of Ninety-Six, Haddrell's Point and Eutaw Springs;  length of service sixteen or seventeen months.  He enlisted, date not given, and served three months as private in Captain Walker's Company, Colonel E. Lacey's South Carolina Regiment.  He also served three  months and was out against the Tories, dates not stated.
About 1803 he moved from Chester County, South Carolina, to Christian County, Kentucky.  For a time he lived in Todd it having been formed out of Christian, and he later moved again into Christian County, Kentucky.  About the last of 1835 he moved to Shelby County, Illinois.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 16, 1832 while a resident of Christian County, Kentucky.
He died October 6, 1845 in Fairfield, Wayne County, Illinois.
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Soldier married November 13, 1830 in Christian County, Kentucky, Susan Calvin.  She was allowed pension on her application executed June 21, 1854 in Christian County, Kentucky, at which time she was one hundred years old.
Date of widow's death not on A.B.
In 1833 one William Stuart, born June 26, 1788, was living in Christian County, relationship to soldier not stated.
One Lucinda Stuart was residing in Wayne County, Illinois, in 1854, no relationship to soldier stated.
Very truly yours,
A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator.