Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,177, John Chaney, Continental N.C. S.C.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Continental Chaney, John S. 32177
NC
SC
CONTENTS
Born in NC
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34842
Indiana
John Chaney
of Greene in the state of Indi who was a private in the Com commanded by Captain Lapham of the regt commanded  Col in the S. Carolina line for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Mudyon, Ind at the rate of 20 Dollars Cents per annum o commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of Aug 1839 & sent and to J B Lowe Bloomington, Indiana
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1839 $160.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep 30 10.00
$170.00
{Revolutionary Claim 
Act June 7 1832
Recorded by DM Curdy Clerk
Book E2 Vol 7 Page 117

Sept 3 let to 3d adr
& Isaac C Lea
Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6th April 1838 from 4th March to 4th Sep 1840. Agt notified 24th Sept 1841

[crossed out Letter to JC Sea & 3 audited 11 Nov 1842]
Paid as above from 4th Mar to the 4th Sept 1841 Agent notified Nov 25th 1841
Died 12 Sep 1845
[crossed out Letter to JP Cooper 15 Dec 1847]
Letter to 3d auditor 18 April 1848
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State of Indiana
Green County} On this 28 th day of March in the year of our Lord onethousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared before me the undersigned I Samuel R Cavins one of the associate judges of the Circuit Court of said county of Green said state being a county of record & composed of a president and two associate judges John Chaney aged seventy six years resident in said county and state who being first 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 herinafter stated to wit
He was born in the then county of Orange in the state of North Caroina afterwards and now Randolph county in the year seventeen hundred and fifty seven the day & month he cannot state He continued to live there untill about Seventeen years old or perhaps eighteen He has not the record of his age it was in his Fathers Bible which was burnt at the buring of his sister Margarett Allreds house many years ago His wife who is present tells him that she knows her age perfectly well or near it & that she is just ten years the youngest and if she is correct which he thinks probably (although he has had the impression that he is seventy six) she is sixty three years of age and he is seventy three instead of seventy six He will not upon refelction undertake to state his age saith precision About the age of seventeen or eighteen he went to South Carolina on the District of Ninety Six to live with his cousin John Chaney having been there about a year he met with Captain James Sephan and enlisted with him in the presence of John Hargrove John Toles W Tapley & this not recollected who had previously enlisted under said Captain This applicant then and there volunteered or enlisted under said officer to serve in the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution in the state Troops of said state of South Carolina for one year probably by a call of Congress he cannot  say himself He was promised one hundred pounds sterling and lands the quantity of which  he has forgotten as bounty no part of which he has ever received The same day of his enlistment which he thinks was in the year seventeen hundred and eighty or eighty one he is not positive he thinks in the early part of one of said years the latter part of spring or first of summer He was living at or near Cooks mills in said district of Ninety Six when he [illegible] He marched off with said captain & other recruits towards Augusta in Georgia and went to where said Lepham kept a public store perhaps five or six miles from Augusta He was some time at said store and was put under the charge and command of said John Hargrove who was then Ensign and was by said Ensign marched back to Ninety Six or near it Said Captain Sepham remaining at said public
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Store Near Ninety Six with and under said ensign he served and was put in the regiment commanded by Colonel Middleton whose first name he was under the impression was William The Major & name in said Regiment was Moore whose first name he has also forgotten He cannot state the length of time which he stayed at said public store he thinks it was several months Under the charge of said ensign & in joining said regiment of Colonel Middleton he was put in the company commanded by Captain Isaac Ross the Lieutenants name of said Company was Dinken first name forgotten the Brigade commanded by General Rutherford He thinks the oldest Colonel in said Brigade was Henderson another of the Colonels in said Brigade was Pogue another Wade Hampton General Rutherford about this time being absent the command of said Brigade devolved on Colonel Henderson who marched said Brigade including this applicant down near to Monks Corner They were there met by Lord Rawdon who had been sometime lying at said place & had moved from it as was said several thousand footmen and one thousand draggons going to relive Colonel Cruger who was in Ninety Six besieged by General Greene Upon meeting Lord Rawdon they retreated and was pursued by the enemy From Monks Corner to Ninety Six he thinks it was about 160 or 150 miles The British pursued them to Little Saluda or near it to the Juniper Springs at Wests old Fields where they had a fight with the enemys draggons All said Rutherfords men with this declarant being mounted men This declarant maented near Ninety Six (where was our Guard Pasture) Knowing they had foot to support them we were compeled to retreat with the loss of about twenty eight killed & a number wounded In this action this declarant was wounded in three places with the Broad Sword by a russian draggoon whom he met in full charge His antagonal being well skilled in the sword exercise & uncommonly strong was greatly his superior The first wound was a slight cut across the fingers of the sword hand the next a severe cut across the wrist of the same hand at which turning his horse round a pine sapling to escape he received a severe cut & wound a little back of his left temple which bought him to the ground he prenfed to his feet & whilst running round a pine one of his com-
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companions rode up and with his pistol shot the russean draggoon dead in his saddle A fever rising in his wounded wrist & no doctor being to be had he suffered much He lost his horse saddle holsters pistols & sword & saved himself by mounting behind his companion The Americans continued to retard as much as possible the British army untill they arrived at Saluda Old Town when they encamped about 100 yard from the British picket Colonel William Washington had (with his command) been with said Brigade and was so the at this time one of his Draggoons Billy Lunsford requested of his Captain leave to steal upon & shoot a British Sentinel The Captain told him it could not do the company good and as the sentinel was doing his duty it was a pity to shoot him Billy swore his time was out and as he was going home to Virginia he would have it to tell that he had killed one damned British son of a bitch Accordingly Billy commenced passing backwards & forwards with a pistol Creeping on his all fours and grunting like a hog The sentinel was heard to slap his cartouche box & fired & Billy changed his grunting to groaning being shot through the body entering his right & coming out of his left side It was as pretty a shot as could have been made in daylight The British Sentinel being reinforced carried Billy a prisoner into their camp where by the kind attention of a British surgeon who nursed him & had him nursed all night to prevent his bleeding inwardly & to make him bleed outwardly he recovered This declarant afterwards travelled with him (Billy) down to Congaree. The next day was kept up & continued from that day for several days in succession skirmishing for the purpose of checking the enemy until General Greene could raise the siege of Ninety Six and escape with his baggage We always encamping at night & making fires with the appearance of intending to remain until morning of fighting but soon after making our fires marched on all night halting to sleep in day time just after crossing a river or suitable place to gain advantage of ground Between Ninety Six & Broad River this declarant & army joined General Green the British having turned from the pursuit at the old Saluda Town to go to Ninety Six and finding that General Greene had gone immediately remained the pursuit the Americans revealing with great speed & having halting to rest on the Banks of Streams after crossing & planting his cannon against the ( illegible )  whilst fleeing from the neighborhood of Monks Corner before Lord Rawdon he this declarant crossed Davenport creek Tiger River Broad River
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the British at length turned back to Ninety Six  & the American  Army with  this declarant marched don the Congaree and there remained  stationed a long time.  Then this declarant got a furlough  & travelled up to  Saluda   Old Towns in company with Clark Spraggins was gone about twenty days. Billy Lunsford  living then with his wounds, &  better , returned with him down to the  Army. Said Spraggins was a brother to  Captain Thomas Spraggins in  Rutherford's Brigade. In a few days after his return to the  Army from Saluda  Old Towns on said furlough his period  of service expired  & having  served said twelve months  faithfully and to the acceptance of his officer , he received   a written discharge from his said Captain which discharge  he afterwards kept   in a little trunk  at his sister's , Margaret Allred's whose   home was destroyed by fire with his  discharge with it. He was  dismissed on the  Congaree at  a Ferry  by the name of which he has forgotten. He never left the camp but enlisted to serve another year said company was Cavalry  or mounted men .  Eithin a few days  after the expiration of his said   year's service he enlisted in a corps of troops  raised by   the  State of South Carolina by a call from Congress   with  Colonel William Washington  in the company  the name of the  Captain of which he cannot recollect, to serve  for the period of one year  at least & this  encampment  of the Army  which was on the  Nort side of the  at said Ferry   the name of any  Town or  County or place  near or  these he does not  know, he was opposite  & not far  from the  British Army  lying on the  South side of the said River. The British  moved down to Orangeburgh  & thence to the  Eutaw Springs & the battle then ensued as well as the fight at the Potatoe Patch  two or three miles from the Springs. This applicant was in the rear of  Washington 's troops  in the heat of said Battle. The British  after  giving way   rallied  at the Brick house  &  planted  some  field pieces. Washington  attacked these pieces supported by some of Lee's   Foot men . Washington  jumped his  horse into the midst of the enemy  & was suddenly taken prisoner. A British soldier appearing to be in the   posture of attempting to  stab Colonel Washington , one of his men rushed forward and cut him down  at one blow. Washington being a prisoner and his men mingled in confusion  with the enemy   & not knowing  what else to do this applicant with about twenty five  retreated and left the field . Afterwards they were joined by  five of  Washington's other soldiers  stating that they only escaped out of a great many who attempted to charge ( Department of  Archives stamp )
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through the enemies lines  they having succeeded  by flight  after  penetrating through.  said twenty five   having no officers and being joined  .. ( illegible ) they marched  from the High Hills of Santee up to the  State Troops and joined them  at Brown's Old Fields. Said Washington  's Troops were entirely broken up. After the Battle of the Eutaw Springs he was taken sick and  was at Colonel Middleton's house about three  weeks. John Toles was sick with him. Speaking  of his   wish to go to the State Troops   Colonel Middleton 's overseer  advised him on account of  Tories to go a near route  & further up in  which he was  owing to sickness and  fatigue  very near perishing  before he reached the camp. When Adjutant  Weathers took him in his arms  & carrying him to a shade  gave him  brandy  & cheese &   he was there sick about a month. The State Troops  crossed the Congaree  about this time. John Toles who was sick with him at  Colonel Middleton's house was about this time  being on his way to Ninety Six hung by the Tories . After being sick about   said month he  seemed better and when the  State  Troops marched , m marched with them  but soon relapsed and continued sick probably something near a month , not positive. Washington's Troops were never collected and reorganized within his knowledge after the  Battle of Eutaw Springs. , there being no officers and the negroes or  Tories having stolen his house whilst he was sick he considered himself at liberty to return home and done so to  North Carolina having served in said last period of served above four  months  ,  from the time of his enlistment to the time  of quitting the service as above stated. He states that he quit the service as above  with the advice of his friends who were officers in the  State troops and one reason for his doing so  & their advice was his   feeble state of health , having suffered  greatly  from sickness & fatigue & being  completely  worn out.  The time of his quitting the service as above he  thinks was in the latter part of summer or in the fall of the year 1781 or 1782. , he cannot  be positive. During all his said service he served in the service of the United States in the  War of the Revolution at least one year and four months  fully and faithfully  & to the  satisfaction  and acceptance of his officers  & those with  whom he served. He was mounted in said service the company being  mounted horse men. ( Archive stamp on page )
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in the year 1821 or thereabout he made his declaration in the Circuit Court of Overton County  Tennessee before the Hon. Nathaniel Williams  Judge of said Court . After a long anxiety  he despaired of the success of said application  or  sometimes suspected that he had been placed on the pension roll  & that some person  had by means of forgery  drawn his money. Having  been most of his time residing  in our settlements & being so advised by is sons he neglected to make a new application. His  extreme want has  now induced him again to apply for his country's help. He cannot recollect the names of any other officers either of the  State Troops , continental army or Militia, not the first names of some others whose last names are used in the declaration .  He lived in  Randolph County North Carolina on Deep River five years after the  War when he married  & continued to live in the same neighborhood about fifteen years more. He then removed to Tennessee ( East )   Granger County  near  Holstein River . Hen then removed to  ( West ) Tennessee  Overton County. He lived in  Granger eleven years, and in Overton about  twelve years. He then removed to  Harrison County Indiana  where he lived about one year. He then removed to  Monroe County and lived one  winter and  then to Green County  in said State where he no resides and has resided about one and a half.  He never received  one cent of pay  for any of said services not any part of the bounty promised him.  He has no documentary evidence that he knows of except the former application mentioned or the records thereof and he knows of no person  whose evidence he  can procure of the personal knowledge of his services.  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 as he knows of. He cannot state the names of any other  Continental or other Regiments. HIs said  discharge he thinks was given  by his said  Captain  under whom he was serving at the expiration of his said first engagement. He is known to  Obediah Leonard with  whom he was acquainted
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in his youth. , with  William Lowe a companion of his  .. ( illegible )  after the  War, with  Abram May  & many others  . He states that he is very infirm , his memory  having .. ( missing word )    keeps him in bed a great part of the time. He is seldom able to go about  & if he should  at   any  time be able to ride to Court  it would be on  accident  and would probable endanger his health still more.  & would therefore  be greatly inconvenient  as well as impossible that he could do so at all.   John Chaney ( signed ) Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Samuel Cavins ( signed ) A.J.  I James Chaney  son of John Chaney  of the County of Green Indiana hereby certify  that I  have heard my father say  ever since  my remembrance the same in  substance which is stated in the foregoing declaration   before he apprised  and when he had  no hope of getting a pension  and that he has  invariably and .. ( illegible )    since his first  remembrance been reputed to have been .. (illegible )  any doubt  to his knowledge and belief in all the neighborhoods in which  he resided , and in the neighborhood where he now resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that he concurs in that opinion.  James Chaney ( signed )  Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid  Saml. R. Cavin  ( signed ) A.J.   We Abram Mays Sr. a clergyman   and Abram May   Jr.  residing in the same neighborhood with John Chaney  hereby  certify that we are well acquainted with the said John Chaney  who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be  about seventy  three or  upwards years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution , and that we concur in that opinion .Abram May  ( signed ) Abram May  Sr. ( signed ) clergyman .  Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Saml. R. Cavins ( signed ) A.J.  I, the said Samuel R. Cavins  Judge of the said Green Circuit Court in our said  State of Indiana  declare my opinion  after the investigation of the matter   after putting the interrogatories  prescribed by the  War  Department  that John Chaney ,  the foregoing and above named ap-
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plicant was a  Revolutionary soldier and served as  he states, And I do further certify that it appears to me that James Chaney  and   Abram May Jr who  have signed the preceding  certificate are residents in the same neighborhood  with the said John Chaney  and  are credible persons and that the said Abram May Sr. is a highly respectable  clergyman  of the same neighborhood  & that their statements is entitled to the fullest credit.  I do also further certify that it appears to my  satisfaction  that said applicant is ow able to attend  Court and that I have in pursuance  of the Act of Congress  attend at his place of abode and sworn him to his foregoing declaration  and  put said interrogatories to him and sworn  said  testimony    to their foregoing certificate. I also further  certify that the said   witnesses  could no be  procured in  Court without  too much inconvenience  to said applicant and that the foregoing   eight pages contains my   true proceedings. Saml. R. Cavin  ( signed ) A.J.   [ State of Indiana Green County ] I Thomas Warnick clerk of the Court of said County  a  Court of Record do hereby certify that the Honorable Samuel R Cavin is one of the Judges of said Court as he has above certified himself  and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office  and subscribed my name this  fourth day of April in the year of our Lord  1833.  Thomsas Warnick ( signed / sealed ) Clerk  ( vertical notes over text ) ( 31162 John Chaney   Indiana admitted pr.  Capt.  Stephens  S. Carolina )
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Nov 24  47
Arrears  Case

John Chaney decd
1837

Mr Evan


free

Official Business
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.

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Marshall Clarke County Illinois  Nov. 15th 1847  Hon J.L. Edwards Com. of Pensions , Sir, John Chaney  of  Green County  Indiana was a Revolutionary Pensioner at the rate of  $80 per annum  and died Sept. 12th 1845 . leaving  2 1/2 years pay  due him at his death  & has left no widow, but some children who wishes to draw the money   & employed an Atty.  near them to attend who neglected  & have no applied tome ;  The old man's pension certificate is lost or destroyed since his death and I am at a loss to know how the papers are to me made out , as the  forms in my possession require in the vouchers a copy of the pension certificate  and the heirs cannot give its contents, date , etc. Will you please inform me , at this place on the receipt of this ,  how I am to act in the case & pleas send me such forma or notes of the facts or copy of his pension certificate, that I may prepare the vouchers  correctly  to receive it for the children.  Will you also  please refer this communication to P.  Hagner Esq.  3rd Auditor of the Treasury  department for such advise & forma, from him  as may be necessary  & to  be informed of the dates of the last payment  made to  Mr. Chaney prior tohis death  & whether his  administrator may have drawn the money  & returned the certificate with the voucher, unbeknown to the heirs.  I have the honor to be very respectfully  your most obt. servt. J P Cooper ( signed )  P.S. In case of the death of a pension  in Indiana can the proof of identity  death  & children be made before a  Court of Record in Illinois ? Please answer this interrogatory .
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August 4, 1939
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JOHN CHANEY
S. 32177
BA-J/MUR

Miss Hildred McDonald
1170 N.E. "A" Street
Linton, Indiana

Dear Madam:

The data which follow in regard to John Chaney were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 32177, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

John Chaney was born in 1757 (exact date not shown), in that part of Orange County which later became Randolph County, North Carolina, and continued to live there until he was seventeen or
eighteen years of age, when he moved to South Carolina to live with his cousin, John Cheney, in Ninety Six District, that state. The names of his parents are not shown.

John Chaney stated that, while living near Cook's Mills in Ninety Six District, South Carolina, he volunteered and served a tour of three months as private in Captain John Ryan's company, under
Colonel Hammond or Pickens in the South Carolina troops, that he volunteered in 1780 or 1781 and served as private under Captains James Lapham and Ross in Colonel William Middleston's regiment of dragoons, and was in an engagement at Juniper Springs at West Old Fields, in which he received three sword wounds, and that he was discharged after having served a tour of one year; that without leaving camp, he immediately volunteered and served four months under Colonel William Washington and that he was in the battle of Eutaw Springs and in an engagement at the Potato patch near there. The soldier then returned to his home in Randolph County, North Carolina,
where he volunteered and served three months as private in Captain John Rains' company of rangers, Colonel Dougan's regiment.

After the Revolution the soldier resided in Randolph County, was still living in 1833. He moved from Randolph County, North Carolina, North Carolina, on Deep River, for five years, then married and
continued to live there fifteen years more. His wife, name not stated, was still living in 1833. He moved from Randolph County, North Carolina,
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to a place on Holston River in Grainger County, Tennessee (Eastern part of state ) where he lived eleven years, then moved to Overton County, West Tennessee, remained there about twelve years, then moved to Harrison County, Indiana, where he lived one year, then to Monroe County, for one winter, thence to Greene County, Indiana.

While a resident of Greene County, Indiana, John Chaney applied March 29, 1833, for pension which was due on account of his service in the Revolutionary War. His claim was allowed.

This soldier died September 12, 1845, leaving no widow, but he was survived by children. The only child whose name was designated was James Chaney who, in 1835, was living in Greene County, Indiana, his age not stated.

In 1836, one Francis Chaney was referred to as dead, his relationship to the soldier, John Chaney, not stated.

The soldier made reference in his claim to his sister, Margarett Alred or Allred, but gave no information in regard to her.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension and name and address of the person paid, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data: John Chaney, certificate #34642, issued August 13, 1830, rate, $80 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Indiana Agency.

Very truly yours
G. H. SWEET
Acting Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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11 Nov 1842
I. C. Lea
G. C
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Sir
Pension Office
11th Nov 1842
I have referred the papers in
the case
of John Chaney to the Third Auditor
of the Treasury that the pension may be
paid in conformity to the act of the 6 April
1838 and 23 Aug 1842
I am H
Isaac C. Lea Esq
Madison
Indiana
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War Dept.  Pen. Office March 29  1836 Sir, The amended  and original declaration of John Chaney has been  ex'd  & filed with  suspended cases in this office. He alleges in his original declaration to have enlisted in  South Carolina either in  1780 or 1781  for one year under  Col. Middleton. and that after serving out the time for which he enlisted , he again entered the service under Col. Washington  and served for one month under that officer and under that officer was a the battle of the Eutaw Springs after which he left the service. In his amened declaration  he alleges a tour of three months under Col. Pickens previous to this service under  Col. Middleton and also a tour of three months after his service under Col. Washington . The first actual service performed by the applicant under Col. Middleton  was at Ninety Six , at the time of the battle at  that place.  That battle was in June 1781 .  and the battle of Eutaw Springs took place in Sept.. 1781 . The applicant 's service must therefore have been as a militia man  and for short tour under one  engagement.
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It is a role of this office that  when a claim is made for services in   an amended declaration  which was not set forth in the original  , to require the  testimony of witnesses who has a personal knowledge of said services. The claim for two tours of three months  each set forth by the applicant is his amended declaration cannot therefore  be allowed unless the  necessary proof be exhibited. The whole of the service set forth in the original declaration in 1781  form about May  until the time of the battle of Eutaw Springs  . A pension therefore cannot be allowed for more than six months unless the proof above required   should be exhibited.  Hon , W. Hendrick S.U.S.  ( vertical notes ) (  Record Vol. 28 Page 406 ) (  Hon. W. Hendricks March 29, 1836 )
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Bloomington I          F [illegible]
Aug. 7 
Hon J R Poinsett, Secretary at War
City of Washington 
D.C.

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Pension Office
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Bloomington Indiana Augt. 16th 1838  Sir, Permit me to trouble the Department to write to the  State of Tennessee for proof in behalf of John Chaney  , an  applicant for a pension. The  Department has heretofore proposed to allow  $ 2o  per annum, which he thinks too small . We enable you to make at the proper place of the proper persons the right  ( illegible )  the following statement is given. In the year 1821 he made his declaration  in the  Overton County Court  Tennessee at the Town of Monroe. He then proved the existence and burning up of his discharge and the  Court was satisfied  & before Judge Williams - Joseph Harris was the clerk.- Nathan Haggart the  Attorney. Margarett Alred  & Francis Chaney  the witnesses. Menan  Martin living near Monroe was present.  The Department will confer a great favor not other wise attainable by a compliance herewith. Very respectfully  J B Lowe ( signed )
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15 Dec 1847

J P. Cooper
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Pension Office
December 15 1847
Sir
I herewith enclose the necessary forms and instructions for your guidance as requested in the case of John Chaney dec

Mr. Chaney, was a pensioner at the rate of $20 and not $80 per annum

The papers can be prepared and authenticated in Illinois but you will have to apply to the third Auditor Treasury for the information as to when he was last paid to

J. P. Cooper Esq
Marshall
Illinois
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TREASURY DEPARTMENTS 
Second Comptroller's Office,
September 9. 1841.

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury
of the United States,  John Chainey------
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Madison Ind: Agency, at
the rate of Twenty - Dollars and "________"
per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has
been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March
to the 4th Sept. 1840.

Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENTS 
Second Comptroller's Office,
Nov- 16th, 1842.

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act 
directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United 
States, " and the 3rd section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending 
the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pen-
sion agents, John Chauncey.  ------
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Madison Ind
Agency, at the rate of Twenty - Dollars and "________"
per annum, under the law of the 7th June 
1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 
4th of March - to the 4th Sept. 1841.

Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Bloomington Indiana March 4, 1836

Pension Office
Papers of Mr Chaney have been delayed the hope of procuring additional testimony of a personal knowledge of his services; but it is found to be truly improbable. He may possible yet find, should his amendment & traditionary evidence therewith & the circumstantial evidence not be satisfactory. It is confidently hoped that they are sufficient.

One reason why I feel bound to try as I long as has . I neglected to attend at the house of Obadiah Leonard as early as I might, and he having died, his testimony is lost. See my statement under Oath
Mr Chancy Could I presume prove that he did make his declaration in Overton Court Tennessee and that he proved the existence and burning of his discharge for a part of his services by two witnesses, and then proved a personal knowledge of a part or all of his services.

Respectfully
J B Lowe
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Suspended

John Cheney
Ind
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J. L. Lowe
28 Aug '38
OC
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War Dept. Pen Office
Aug 28 1838

Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 16th in the case of John Chaney I have to inform you that this office cannot comply with your request to write to Tennessee for proof of his service If there is any proof in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Overton Co. it shall be obtained by those who may have
charge of Mr. Chaney's claim. It is probable that some proof may be obtained on application being sent to W. E. Hayne Esq Comptroller Genl of S. Carolina, at Columbia

J. L. Lowe Esq
Bloomington
Indiana
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Bloomington              Free
August 5  Ill               ====
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
D. C

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Bloomington Indiana July 22 1839

Sir,
many years ago I forwarded to the Department the application of John Chaney for a pension under the law of June 7th 1832

In your Letter of 29th March 1836 you decided that he could only be allowed for six months
without further proof

He was dissatisfied. He had been applying for many perhaps twenty years from different states, in which he resided - from Tennessee under the old law of Congress he made a declaration & proof of the existence and loss of his discharge & was confident of success

To be put off with a six months allowance is distressing but he is indeed from necessity to take it & if he can in future come at further testimony he may increase his pension if he chooses.

You will please forward his Pension Certificate to me

Respectfully
J. S. Lowe

Hon J L Edwards
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August 4, 1939
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John Chancy
S. 32177
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John Chaney
B. L. Wt. 51719-80-55
BA-J/MLB

Miss Hildred McDonald
1170 N. E. A. Street
Linton, Indiana

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letters of recent date, in which you request the record of a John Chaney who served in the War of 1812 from Ohio or Pennsylvania and who spent his last days in Greene County, Indiana, and who, you state, had a brother Johnson, and a daughter, Nancy, who married Allen Crow, a soldier of the Civil War. You state, also, that you desire to know, especially, the name of John Chaney's father, possibly a soldier of the Revolutionary War, and that you think his name may have been John.

A record has been found of a soldier named John Chaney who served in the Revolution and settled in Greene County, Indiana, also the record of a soldier of that name who served in the War of
1812 and later lived in Greene County, Indiana. Both records are furnished you herewith.

Very truly yours
G. H. SWEET
Acting Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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32 177
Revy INVALID.
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File No. 32,177
John Chaney
Pri  Rev War
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Act: June 7 32
Index:--Vol. 2,  Page  71
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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1939 Aug. 4 - Hist to Miss Hildred
Mc Donald (let in claim of Jno Chaney, B L 
eob. 31719-80-55, War 1812) - [illegible]
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[ State of Indiana Monroe County ] on this 25th day of August  in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and  thirty four personally appeared  before me the undersigned John W Lee  one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County and  State John Chaney  who being by me first duly sworn  according to law upon his oath states that he is the same  John Chaney  who made and swore to the foregoing  declaration dated the 28th  day of March 1833  aforesaid. He states that he feels much more healthy  and strong both in body  and mind that at the time when he made his said foregoing declaration so much is his health restored that he is enabled to walk to this  County  adjoining to that of Greene where he resides not being safe on horseback on account of a " swimming  of the head ". He states  that he can now remember some additional circumstances, and additional  sources which he forgot to state in his forgoing  declaration. Many circumstances especially   those occurring  the earliest he retains in his memory  with considerable freshness. The events preceding  and in the early part of the Revolution he recollects  with more certainty  and distinctness that subsequent events, not only because in his boyhood  impressions were stronger but because subsequently  the number of objects increased whilst their novelty vanished with his memory as  failed on account of old age and sickness formerly.  HIs memory he finds to have failed most in regard to dates.  He states that he supposes that the Department of War  requires proof by two witnesses of his services on account of having construed his declaration to state
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that he was Continental or regular  soldier of the  .. ( incomplete )   Army. He states that so far as his statement goes to make that  impression he must have been mis understood by the person  ( JB Lowe )  who drew up  his declaration . He may have used indecent language himself being mis understood  when it was read over to  him being hard of hearing, he might not have  sufficiently heard or  he might   distinctly heard or understood the description. He however  no expressly  and positively states that s=although  he may be mistaken in some of the circumstances stated he recollects perfectly well  that he served during the first said term described in his said declaration as a private soldier in the State Troops of South Carolina and not in the regular or  Continental troops of the United Colonies or  States. He says that he states in his foregoing declaration  that his  Brigade  was commanded by  General Rutherford, upon reflection he may have been mistaken , it may have been as it sometime  seems it was General Sumter . At  any rate  the General lived up in  Roane County North Carolina  he thinks., but  in this he is not positive. On account of disability  of some kind the  General was not long  up at all at the camp & he was not acquainted with him. And he  absented himself entirely during  all  of said engagements and Colonel Henderson being the first or oldest Colonel of  Dragoons or mounted men in said service in said State  Troops  . His  Colonel's name was William Middleton
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The mistake which he now thinks he made in his declaration  as tohis  General  he supposes he fell into in  consequence of there being in the same detachment  with him a Colonel or Major who was a son of General Rutherford & who belonged to one of the Regiments with him. He states that he served under  Colonel Washington  of four months as stated in his  declaration were  Continental or regular services. He states that he was confused in his memory as to dates and character of different services at the time of  making his declaration  owing in part to the weather and a room crowded  with company. He finds that when at home  of things  as they occurred to his memory  and in this way he is enabled  with the more certainty  to correct said errors and make such additional statements as he now makes. Besides the services claimed  for in his foregoing declaration  he served three months as a volunteer private in a company of mounted men  in the militia of the  State of South Carolina  under the command and in the company of  John Ryan Captain. The company  were called he best thinks Rangers. They were probably raised under the orders of Colonel Hammond or Colonel Pickens. Both  then  Colonel with Colonel Clark ranged with their commands through this Country. He entered this service whilst living in  the  District of Ninety Six. in said State of South Carolina.  Said services were performed ( as near as he can states as to the time  ) immediately preceding his services of one  year in the  State Troops under Colonel Middleton as aforesaid in his declaration mentioned. This service was the most dangerous in which this applicant was engaged. The Tories and British
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were constantly scouting  and to the number of  them engaged in the warfare  the loss was great. He entered the service in Ninety Six  and was there dismissed without a written discharge. He served said  three months at least fully and faithfully to the satisfaction of his officers. After returning to North Carolina as stated in his declaration as aforesaid  and after quitting the service under Colonel Washington  he entered the service again  in the Militia of North Carolina as a volunteer private soldier in a company of Mounted Rangers under Captain John Rains. Colonel Dugan or Doogan  commanded the Regiment of Militia our of which they were raised, said Regiment being  and he the applicant  living  in the  County of Randolph North Carolina. He entered this service  ( how long precisely he cannot  state ) not long after his return from his said Continental service under Colonel Washington. He this applicant   & corps ranged principally in  Chatham  and Randolph  Counties, said company was about fifty  files. Said  Colonel  Dugan or Doogan  was not in the service present in person with said company  nor did said company join  any other troops. We were designed  to act against the  tories principally  those under Colonel Fannon and his Lieut. Colonel Walker  who had about that time  small parties detached from each other, being at this  period of the War reduced  in his numbers it being toward the close of the War or strife between   Whigs and Tories in North Carolina . We waylaid Colonel Walker  and his party of  a few men  who were on a scout & took them, him  & his men. We put  Colonel  Walker to death  by shooting him. We could not get hold of Fannon - he was an
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active , cunning and watchful fellow. Col. Walker  was a more cruel murderer than Colonel Fannon . I think  I was more but at least three months in this service. From old age and perhaps owing  in part to  sickness formerly  I find my memory  defective as to dates, but some circumstances I  relive with  considerable  strength of memory . I recollect well many circumstances of the regulators and their battles with  Governor Tryon . , this  may be said to have been the first  Battle fought  for liberty  in the  Country  . I recollect  a part of the song made on account of the Battle of which the following  are a couple of lines. " See how they tremble and their poor hearts do ache  all will make them remember the year   sixty eight. " The regulators  ( this declarant  resided amongst them ) seemed to have the same spirit  which lead to the  revolution and not being supported by  a sufficient number of their  countrymen  they  in the  Battle ( above named )   which  Governor Tryon at  Guilford in   Rye harvest time were defeated and dispersed . After this  Battle the Governor issued orders to capture all of  the regulators who could be found to be punished  at the same time promising pardon to those who should come in and take the oath of allegiance. Many brave and patriotic  spirits who ought  to have had the credit of giving the first impulse to anything like  revolution were in their despair reduced by these promises of  pardon connected in  their minds with the fear of death and took the oath of allegiance. I was not at that time  only about ten or twelve years old, but the impressions in regard to  war  & revolution
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were the most deeply imprinted upon my memory of all the circumstances of which I had knowledge  in connection with those times. Governor Tryon  ( as was the account of the time )   commenced the Battle before mentioned by the shooting down of a regulator  by one of his men. The two  parties being posted in parallel lines near each other . A severe fight ensued. Samuel Lowe the father of William Lowe Esq. of  Monroe  County Indiana  was one of the regulators. The Governor's sight troops  mad a sow of gaining  the flanks of the regulators, and they retreated in confusion. Among the regulators who  distinguished themselves he recollects that a  Captain Merrill who lived near Salisbury  in Rowan  County  was spoken of as having fought  very bravely. On account of the oath of allegiance taken by  many of the regulators  they wee in a critical situation during the  shift between  Whig and tory  having to hide continually  from both. The said William Lowe above mentioned is the same  mentioned  in his  foregoing declaration  with whom he stated therein  he was familiarly acquainted with in his youth . At the time of making the application  mentioned in the  Circuit Court of Overton  Tennessee he proved his services by  two witnesses to wit Margarett Alred and Francis Chaney  who are dead, he also  at the same time proved that he had  and that there was seen by them a good discharge for a part of said services. A Mr. Menan Martin he recollects was present. He has written to the person who was clerk of the Overton Cour at the time of making  said proof for the purpose of  proving  said facts, also  he has written to said Martin , but has received no answer. This declarant  states that by reason of his old age and consequent  loss of  memory he cannot  swear positively as to some circumstances and  events but  that he is clear and positive as to the time
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which is by him claimed for. He has no hesitancy  in saying that in one of his Militia tours he served longer than the  time claimed for, and in no  instance less that the periods stated. He swears positively that he did in his said application in Overton Circuit Court  Tennessee  prove by two witness his services as no claimed for and the existence of his discharge for a part of them . John Chaney ( signed )  I, William Lowe  aged about sixty seven years certify that whilst  keeping store at a place called the Cross roads in Randolph County   North Carolina  being then the  County seat of  Justice for said County , I was very familiarly acquainted with  John Chaney  the above signed applicant for a pension. I being then  an unmarried man and the said John Chaney  being unmarried  was my impression. I have a very distinct  recollection  that we slept for some time in the  same room and that often of night  as well as  other times said Chaney   conversed of his services in the  Revolutionary  War. I well recollect his stating  that he served in the  South. HIs account of the regulator  Battle  agrees very well with that  always given to me by my father who was a regulator, as well as other circumstances with which I am by    tradition  acquainted. My father as he states of the regulators was obliged to keep concealed  from  both Whigs and   Tories except those  Whigs  of his intimate acquaintance until  from the  circumstance of several of my brothers  entering the service of the colonies and from ascertaining  his attachment to the  Whig cause, he was recognized by then ( the  Whigs )  as their  friend, and was taken a prisoner by  Colonel Fannon , from whom he escaped in an engagement  or by whom he would no doubt  otherwise have been shot. The above named engagement  was a fight  across  Deep River between  the commands of Fannon and a  Whig officer whose name if I mistake not was  Coulson . The said Chaney  describes very well the taking of Col. Walker  ( it occurred not far from my father's ) as I then understood it
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I being then twelve or fourteen years of age. I was well  acquainted with Captain Merrill's character of whom said Chaney speaks as having been a Regulator , he was distinguished for bravery  and was afterwards as I was informed hung by  Fannon's orders. I was well acquainted with Captain  John Rains under whom said Chaney    states he served as a Ranger and although I did not see said Chaney  in said service from circumstances related by him in  conversation  repeatedly , I have no  doubt of his serving under him as he states, as well as from my knowledge of Mr. Chaney' love for truth. He is one of the most correct and  harmless men I ever knew. Neither in his youth nor during many years of my acquaintance  in after life   have I heard others  express or myself  had  doubt of his sincerity in his religious profession, or his honesty in any respect , not have I heard doubt expressed of  his having been a soldier of the revolution. On the contrary  his reputation of having been such  soldier of  the revolution  was well confirmed  and universal to the extent of his knowledge among said Chaney's  acquaintances. I recollect well too Col. Doogan . I lived  at his house after the  War and done business for him. I recollect very well said Chaney's having a fist fight  on my  account  ( then being fashionable )  and speaking  in high terms to my old friend Col. Doogan of said  Chaney's spirit in  .. ( illegible ) an injury to a friend, he remarked that he was  a brave soldier in the  War, meaning the Revolution . I was present a part of the time whilst  Mr. Chaney was   making his amendment but he having returned home  &  being now without the advantage of having any conversation wit him. I have no doubt  that I am unable to state many things of which he might if present  refresh my memory .  William Lowe ( signed ) I, Jacob B Lowe  certify that as a friend of said John Chaney  I undertook several years ago to assist him in
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procuring a pension. Said Chaney  happening on a  visit to my father. My father  enquired of him if he had  ever received a pension ( I being present )   he answered the enquiry  ( my father knowing hies reputation  of having been a soldier )  by stating his effort in Tennessee to procure one, and that his impression was that some person by means of forgery had drawn his pay. He then made the same statement  which he now has made. I endeavored to dissuade him from the belief that his pension had been drawn by forgery  and I wrote to several persons  in Tennessee and applied by letter through the Hon. George L Kinnard the  Representative of this  District in  Congress for information to the  War Department  . The reply to which is dated "Pension Office March 12th  1824 " & which   I have now before me. What said Chaney says  of the   crowded room  and  ... ( illegible ) of his situation at the time of making his said declaration is true. There being a heavy snow and two families crowded together with myself and the other company in a cabin not more that  10 or 12 feet square. I state that  said Chaney very probably misunderstood me in reading his declaration and that I believe he did as he states. He appears and has for some years to be hard of hearing, and I believe it. Said Chaney stated to me at one time  after making said declaration  that Obediah Leonard had come to reside in the neighborhood of Jesse Tarkington in  Monroe County  and that he could procure his testimony of a personal knowledge of his service and requested me to attend to it. I ascertained that said Leonard  did reside having just settled there in said neighborhood, and that he had personal knowledge of said  Chaney's services, but before I  had the opportunity   consequently of  visiting his house  ( he living in a remote  part of the County  ) he  being very old , he died. Said Chaney appeared very ignorant of the Acts of Congress and appeared to have despaired of procuring  a pension, until my  father advised him of the probability of his getting one under the Act of 7th June 1832 and urged him to apply.  J B Lowe ( signed ) I, the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Monroe  in said State of Indiana do
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hereby certify that the foregoing amendment to the declaration of
John Chaney, and the Certificates of the said William Lowe
and Jacob B Lowe were this day by them respectively subscribed
and sworn to, before me.  I declare my opinion that the
said Chaney Served as he states. I also certify that Said witnesses are
credible persons, and their statements entitled to full credit. And that the foregoing are the true and full proceedings amendatory to said
declaration as the same is now attached in my presence
Done before me the day and year aforesaid
John W Lee ( signed ) Justice of the Peace  SEAL

I Jacob B Lowe Clerk of the Circuit Court of Monroe County
in the State of Indiana (being a Court of Record) do hereby certify
that John W Lee Esqr who has subscribed the above last
Certificate is a Justice of the Peace and was at the time of
signing the same in and for said County duly elected commissioned and qualified according to law, that full faith
and credit are due to all his official acts especially
the foregoing as such Justice of the Peace that his said
above signature is genuine. I also certify that the foregoing
contains the full and true proceedings amendatory of the
Declaration of John Chaney for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have 
hereunto affixed the Seal of said
Court and office and subscribed
my name on the date thereof this
day of March AD 1836.

J B Lowe ( signed / sealed ) Clerk of Circuit Court of Monroe County
Indiana