Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32421, for James Oliver, South Carolina
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SERVICE
S.C.

Oliver, James

NUMBER
S. 32421

Born in S.C.
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[left side]
Duplicate certificate issued and forwd to Pensioner, Jacksonville [ink blot covering text] July 1st 1835
[ink blot covering text] John Coffee, Sept. 26th '35
[illegible] Mar. 10th '36


[right side]
Georgia  23.594
James Oliver
of Pulaski in the state of [illegible]
who was a [illegible] in the [illegible] commanded
by Captain Maron of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Moultrie in the So. Car. 
line for 2 years

[left side partially covered]
...scribed on the Roll of Georgia
... the rate of 81 Dollars 32 Cents per annum,
... commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of Mar. [illegible]
and [illegible] J. Jones

Arrears to the 4th of March 1824
Semi-anl. allowance ending [illegible]
[illegible numbers]

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Nath. Rice - Clerk
Book E Vol. 6 Page 99
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Jas Oliver's application for a pension.

Hon [initial] Jones
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State of Georgia
County of Pulaski

On this the eighteenth day of October in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open Court before Lott Warren Judge of the Superior Court of the county aforesaid now sitting James Oliver a resident of the 349th Company district in the said county of Pulaski and State of Georgia aged eighty one years who being duly sworn according to the law doth on his oath make the following further and amended declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1830:
That he was born in Darlington district in the State of South Carolina in the year seventeen hundred and fifty two and has no record of his age except a memorandum in a family Bible;
That he served in the second of Col Moultrie's Regiment with the following continental Regiments; the first of Col Pinkney's Regiment, the third of Col Thompson's Regiment, the fourth of Col Johnson's Regiment and the fifth of Col Henderson's Regiment and that he does not remember any of the malitia regiments with which he served;
That by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swer as to the precise time he enlisted in the continental line of the army of the revolution for the first turn of his enlistment, but to the best of his recollection it was at the time of the first commencement of the war and must have been in the year 1775 or 1776 and that immediately after the expiration of the three years the term of his first enlistment as set forth in his declarations heretofore made and hereunto attached he enlisted for and during the war of the Revolution;
That also by reason of old and and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and for the following grades --
for twelve months he served as a private soldier under the Captains Mason and Blake -- for three as sergeant under Capt Dunbar to the time he was taken prisoner at the taking of Charlston and for twelve months as a private soldier with Captain Turner and for his service as a private soldier claims a pension.
That his declarations heretofore made thereto attached are in substance true to the best of his recollection; that he has no documentary evidence to prove the truth of those declarations; that he is very poor old and infirm afar separated from the place of his enlistment and early home living in a sparse and thinly settled country and not in a situation to make the inquiry whether there be yet living any of the surviving soldiers of the Revolution who recollect his serves; that all his Captains and other officers, his brother Thomas Oliver who enlisted about a year after his first
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enlistment, John Hines, Anthony Hines, James Clarke, Josiah Culp, Robert Coleman, and all those of whom he has any recollection of serving with are now and have been (as has heard and believes) long since deceased except William Jenkins and that he knows no one except the said William Jenkins by whom he can prove his first term of enlistment and service and none whatsoever by whom he can prove his last enlistment and service for during the War of the Revolution;
That since the war of the Revolution in Darlington District South Carolina near Camden in South Carolina, and in Washington and Pulaski counties in the state of Georgia and that there is no clergyman living in his district or immediate neighborhood.

James Oliver
His mark
[handwritten X]

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Lott Warren Judge Supreme Court
Southern Circuit Georgia

State of Georgia
County of Pulaski
We Levi Harrell residing in the said county of Pulaski and state of Georgia and William Barfoot residing in the same county and state hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Oliver who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty one 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
Levi Harrell
William Barfoot

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Lott Warren Judge Supreme Court
Southern Circuit Georgia

And the said Court doth hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to it that Levi Harrel and William Barfoot who have signed the preceding certificate are citizens resident in the said county of Pulaski and state of Georgia and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit and that there is no clergyman resident in the neighborhood of said James Oliver.
Lott Warren Judge [illegible]

I Joseph Carruthers Clerk of the Superior Court of the said county of Pulaski in the state of Georgia do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of James Oliver for a penson. And I do hereby further certify that the declaration heretofore made by said James Oliver and hereunto attached were duly and in due and legal form certified to by me
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who was then and now am also clerk of the Inferior Court for the said county of Pulaski in the state of Georgia and the reason why a seal of office was not annexed was because there is and was not any seal of office; 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this the eighteenth day of October Anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty three

Joseph Carruthers Clk

I do hereby certify that I am acquainted with the hand writing of Lott Warren who has attested the within affidavits as Judge of the Superior Court of the Southern Circuit and the name is his signature according to my belief

Sanborn Jones
28 July 1834
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D.C.,........192

In reply to your request of S.32421, of the history of Jas. Oliver, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, the following is taking from the sol's claim for pension.

[Column Headings: |Dates of Enlistment or appointment|, |Length of Service|, |Rank|, |Officers Under Whom Service was Rendered|, |Captain.|, |Colonel.|, |State| 

|1775|, |3 yrs.|, |Pvt.|, |Mason|, |Moultrie|, |S.C.|

|blank|, |blank|, |Sgt.|, |Blake|, |Pinkney; Mott|, |blank|

|blank|, |blank|, |blank|, |Dunbar|, |Thompson, Johnson|, |blank|

|Immediately after [illegible] during the war he was taken prisoner at Siege of Charleston, held in [illegible] until siege of Yorktown when he as retaken and [illegible] under [illegible] to close of war.|, |Pvt.|, |Dunbar|, |blank|, |blank|.

Battles engaged in Mt. Moultrie, Siege of Savannah, [illegible], see above-

Date of application for pension, Mar. 1 1830, al.

Residence at date of application, Pulaski Co., Ga.

Age at date of application, b. in 1752 in Darlington Dist., S.C.

Remarks: It is not state whether he was married. 

Respectfully,

Commissioner.
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32421
Revy
INVALID.
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File No. 32,421
James Oliver
Corpl. Rev. War
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Act:  June 7th 32
Index: - Vol. 2, [G?] Page 306

[Arrangement of 1870.]


[notes on right side of page]
1923 Apl. 25  hist. to Mrs. W. J. Wilson also letter how 
to obtain date of death etc. EW
1923 - June 21 - -Hist. to Julia
Ernest Speight - (Mrs. Frauk) MMHS
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Ex. Ref.                     F.A. Dickens
Act Inv. File
No. 32.421

TREASURY DEPARTMENTE
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE

14th April 1830

It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to [no text] in the [no text].

It further appears that James Oliver is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been so since the 3rd March 1826.

The name of James Oliver cannot be found among those of the South Carolina line, to whom Certificates for the gratuity of Eight Dollars, were issued. 

Peter Hagman [Hagner] Ano

/correct/
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REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 
12 April 1930.

James Oliver of _______ in the county of Pulaski, in the State of Georgia has applied to the Secretary of Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828.  He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain ________'s company, in the __________- regiment of the South Carolina line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of may, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. 

By Order of the Secretary.
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War Dept. Bounty Land Office

April 20 1830

The name of James Oliver cannot be found on the Records of the South Carolina, on file in this office, among those, entitled to Bounty Land from the W. States, or, to whom Land Warrants have found. 

Wm. Gordon
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1861
Georgia In the Inferior Court of Pulaski County.

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of "an Act for the relief of certain 
surviving officers & soldiers of the Army of the Revolution", approved 
on the 15th of May 1828 I James Oliver of the county of Pulaski in 
the State of Georgia doth hereby declare that I enlisted in the 
continentals one of the Army of the Revolution sometime in the 
year seventeen hundred & seventy five for the term of three years
under Capt Mason a recruiting officer; that a part of the 
said term of three years I served under Capt Mason said officer
in the second regiment of foot soldiers raised & enlisted in South
Carolina; That Capt Mason resigning I served a part of said
term of three years in said army under Capt Blake;
That the balance of said term of three years I served under 
Capt Dunbar as a sergeant in said company & regiment aforesaid
being transferred from Capt Blake's to Capt Dunbar's
company in said Regiment; That at the expiration 
of said Term of service I enlisted for & during the war in 
said Army of the Revolution & continued in the service
under said Capt Dunbar till taken prisoner at the fall 
of Charleston; that I was carried a prisoner into Virginia
& in said State last mentioned retaken; That Hearing & 
being informed that the officers of said Capt Dunbar &
company who were also taken prisoner were in Philadelphia
I was ordered to Philadelphia & finding my 
company was not there I joined Capt Turner who was 
raising a troop of Horse but he being appointed commissary
General of prisoners I served under & with him till the 
expiration of the war.  And that being separated from 
the Company I served in when taken a prisoner & in 
which I had till then continued since enlisting for the 
war & in consequence of the death of my officers received
no regular discharge not a certificate for the reward of 
eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve
of Congress passed 15th May 1778.  And I further declare
that I was not on the 15th day of March 1828 on the pension 
[edge torn - I assume roll or list] of the United States.  

James Oliver [his mark] X

Sworn to in open court March 1st 1830
and subscribed before me

Joseph Carruthers Clk I. C.
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Georgia
Pulaski County

I Joseph Carruthers Clerk of the Inferior
Court of the county aforesaid do hereby
certify that the within has been duly entered of record
in my office.  Given under my hand & private seal
having no seal of office this March 1st 1830

Joseph Carruthers Clk I. C.
[seal]
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Georgia.  In the Inferior Court of the County of Pulaski.

The Honorable the Inferior Court of the County of Pulaski met this day (the first
day of March eighteen hundred & thirty,) in Chambers, present their Honors
John Bozeman, John Joseph Taylor & Jordan D Bradshaw Justices of said Court.

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of "an Act for the relief of certain 
surviving officers & soldiers of the army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th
May 1828 I, James Oliver, of the County of Pulaski in the State of Georgia
doth hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the army of 
the Revolution sometime in the year seventeen hundred & seventy five
for the term of three years under Capt. Mason a recruiting officer; that
a part of the said Term I served under apt Mason in the
second Regiment of foot soldiers raised & enlisted in South Carolina; that
Capt. Mason resigning I served a part of said Term of three years under
Capt Blake; that the balance of said Term of three years I served under
Capt Dunbar as a sergeant in his Company & the Regiment aforesaid
being transferred from Capt Blake's to Capt Dunbar's Company in said 
Regiment; that at the expiration of said Term of service I enlisted for 
& during the war in said Army of the Revolution & continued in the 
service under said Capt Dunbar till taken prisoner at the fall of
Charleston; that I was carried a prisoner to Virginia & in said
State last mentioned was retaken; that hearing & being informed
that my officer Capt Dunbar & his Company (who were also taken 
prisoners) were in Philadelphia & finding my Company were not 
there I joined Capt Turner who was raising a Troup of Horse but
he being appointed Commissary General of prisoners I served under
& with him till the expiration of the war & that being separated
from the Company I served in when taken a prisoner & in which 
I had till then continued since enlisting for the war & in consequence
of the death of my officer received no regular discharge
nor certificate for the reward of eighty dollars to which I was 
entitled under resolve of Congress passed 15th May 1778 & I 
further declare that I was not on the 15th day of March
1828 on the pension list of the United States

James Oliver [his mark]  X

Sworn to in open Court &
subscribed 1st March 1830 before
me

Joseph Carruthers Clk
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Georgia
Pulaski County

I, Joseph Carruthers, Clerk of the Inferior Court of said
County do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true
full & correct copy from the Records of my office & the 
minutes of said Court.  Given under my hand & private seal
having no seal of Office this the third day of September eighteen
hundred & thirty two A. D.

Joseph Carruthers Clk
[seal]


Georgia
Pulaski County

In the Inferior Court of said County
The Honorable the Inferior Court of the County of Pulaski met this day
(the third day of September 1832) in chambers present that Honor
Burwell W. Bracewell, John Bozeman, John W. Barkwell & John 
Joseph Taylor Justices of said Court.

On this the third day of September 1832 personally appeared before
the Justices of the Inferior Court of said County in open Court James
Oliver a resident of Pulaski County & State of Georgia aged eighty
years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath
make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the 
provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832 that he 
has previously made the application (a certified copy of which is hereto 
attached) under the act passed the 15th May 1828; that at the 
time of said application he then & now resides at the same place
in the said County of Pulaski & state aforesaid; that the facts
contained in the said application are true; that when he enlisted
& entered the service in the army of the Revolution as set forth in 
said application he resided in Darlington District South 
Carolina;  that he served the whole term of said enlistment
under the Captains as therein mentioned; that at the time of his 
enlistment for three years Col Moultrie & Col Mott commanded
the Regiment & Maj. Alexander McIntosh the Battalion to which 
his Company was attached; that at the time of his enlistment
for the war Genl Lincoln was Commander in Chief Francis 
Marion Colonel & Huger Major; that under Capt Blake he
was in the Battle at Fort Moultrie; that under Capt Dunbar
has was at the siege of Savannah & in the general battle which
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there took place, also in the battle of John's Island upon Stono - & also at the 
fall of Charleston where he was taken prisoner & separated from said
Capt Dunbar's Company; that he was retaken from the enemy
at York Town at the defeat & surrender of Lord Cornwallis &
that said Turner mentioned in said application was a Captain 
in the first regiment of the Troups raised & enlisted in South 
Carolina; and that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or an annuity except the present & he declares
that his name is not on the pension Roll of any 
agency in any state or if any; only on that of the agency
in the State of Georgia.

James Oliver [his mark]  X

Sworn to & subscribed the day 
& year aforesaid in Open Court

Joseph Carruthers Clk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above
mentioned Applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as 
he states.

B W Bracewell J.I.C.
John Bozeman J.I.C.
John W Barkwell J.I.C.
John Jos Taylor J.I.C.
Test
Joseph Carruthers Clk


Georgia
Pulaski County

I Joseph Carruthers Clerk of the said Inferior Court
of the county & state aforesaid do hereby certify
that the foregoing contains the original proceedings
of the said Court in the matter of the application of James
Oliver for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand &
affixed my private seal there being no seal of office
this the Seventh day of September 1832 A.D.

Joseph Carruthers Clk
[seal]
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James Oliver

Geo

Lost Cer
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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
James Oliver of the State of Georgia who was a private & corporal in the War
of the Revolution is entitled to receive eighty one dollars and thirty two cents
per annum during his natural life commencing on the 4th March 1831
and payable semi-annually on the 4th March and 4th September in every 
year
Given at the War Office of the 
United States this 6th day of 
March one thousand eight
hundred and thirty four.

Lew Cass
Secretary of War

Examined & 
Countersigned
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
[seal]

Payments to be made at Savannah by the Cashr. Planters Bank of Geo Agt for 
paying Pensions in the Agency of Geo.

Recorded in the Pension Office in Book E Vol. C page 99 by
N Rice Clerk
No. 23594


State of Georgia
Pulaski County

Be it known that before me the Subscriber a Justice of the 
Inferior Court in and for the county aforesaid personally
appeared James Oliver and made oath in due form
of Law that he is the identical person named in the original Certificate
of which the above is in substance a true copy; that he confided to the 
care of Daniel D Sturges of the said county of Pulaski the said original
certificate which he is informed by the said Daniel D Sturges was 
in November last accidentally destroyed by fire and that he the said
James Oliver resided at the time of his original application for a pension 
& still resides in the said county of Pulaski.

James Oliver [his mark]  X

Sworn and Subscribed this 
twentieth day of March 
1835 before me

D B. Halsted J.I.C.


State of Georgia
Pulaski County Ss.

Be it know that before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared Daniel D Sturges of 
the said County of Pulaski and made oath in due form of Law
that the original certificate of which the above is in substance a true
copy was confided to his care and possession by the above names James

James Oliver [his mark]  X
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Oliver who hath deposed to the foregoing; and this deponent further 
maketh oath that the said original Certificate continued in his (deponents)
possession in the Town of Hawkinsville in said county of Pulaski
untill the morning of the sixteenth day of November last when the 
said original certificate with his books furniture & all his papers
were accidentally destroyed by fire; and this deponent further
maketh oath that he is personally acquainted with the said James
Oliver who hath deposed to the foregoing affidavit; that he said
James Oliver has always within his recollection been accounted &
reputed to have been a revolutionary soldier in the War of the revolution; 
that he drew up the James Oliver's original declaration 
& other papers for the obtaining the said pension certificate and 
that the said James Oliver is the identical person for whom
the said original Pension certificate issued.

Daniel D Sturges

Sworn and subscribed this 
twentieth day of March
1835 before me

D B. Halsted J.I.C.


State of Georgia
Pulaski County Ss.

Be it known that before me the Subscriber a Justice
of the Inferior Court in and for the county 
aforesaid personally appeared John Rawls
of the said county of Pulaski and made oath in due form of
Law that he has known the said James Oliver & Daniel D 
Sturges who have subscribed the foregoing affidavits for 
the last eight years or more, that the said James Oliver
has always since his acquaintance with him been accounted
& reputed to have been a soldier int he War of the Revolution;
that he has seen the said original Pension Certificate in the 
possession of the said James Oliver and knows of his own personal
knowledge that he has received two payments by virtue thereof;
And this deponent further maketh oath that he is personally knowing
to the destruction of the Books furniture & papers of the said Daniel
D Sturges, knows that that the said original Pension certificate
was in the possession of the said Daniel D Sturges & verily believes 
that the said original certificate was destroyed as stated in said Sturges' 
affidavit

John C [maybe] Rawls

Sworn & subscribed this 
twentieth day of March 
1835 before me

D. B. Halsted J.I.C.
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State of Georgia
Pulaski County

This twentieth day of March one thousand
eight hundred and thirty five I David B. 
Halsted a Magistrate in the county above
named do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with 
the said James Oliver Daniel D Sturges and John Rawls who 
have made and subscribed the foregoing affidavits before me,
and that the said James Oliver Daniel D Sturges and John Rawls
are residents and respectable persons & certizens of the said county
of Pulaski and their affidavits entitled to full faith and credit.
Given under my hand at Hawkinsville in the said county of 
Pulaski the day & year above written.

D. B. Halsted J.I.C.


State of Georgia
Pulaski County  Ss.

I, Joseph Carruthers Clerk of the Superior 
Court of the said County of Pulaski do 
hereby certify that David B Halsted is a 
Justice of the Inferior Court in and for the county aforesaid
and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is 
genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal 
of office and subscribed my name this Twenty Sixth
day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and thirty five.

Joseph Carruthers Clk
[seal]


Georgia
Telfair County

I do certify that Joseph 
Carruthers is Clk of the Superior Court of 
Pulaski County and that the above is 
his signature.

Jno. [John] Coffee M.C.

June 4th [?] 1835.
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CWJ
#32421
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Georgia
Wilkinson County

Before me Aaron Rees one of the Justices
of the Peace in & for the county aforesaid personally
came William Jenkins of the State & County aforesaid
& being duly sworn deposeth & on oath saith that 
he served in said Companies mentioned in the foregoing
declaration of James Oliver with the said Oliver untill
the expiration of the said Term of three years; that
the said Oliver did enlist for & during the war of the 
Revolution after the expiration of said term of 
service & continued in the service under the command 
of Genl. Moultry [Moultrie] of the second Regiment of foot companies
in the State of South Carolina in said company of 
Capt Dunbar; & that said Oliver is generally reputed
& believed to have been a soldier & sergeant as mentioned
in the said foregoing declaration & to have 
served in manner as therein stated.

William Jenkins

Sworn to & subscribed before me
the 16th day of March 1830

Aaron Rece JP

Georgia
Wilkinson County

I Jeremiah Beale Clerk of the Superior
Court of the said county of Wilkinson
do certify that Aaron Rece before whom the foregoing
affidavits were sworn was at the time a Justice of 
the Peace in & for the said county of Wilkinson &
duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & 
private seal there being no seal of office this 16th ay 
of March in year of eighteen hundred & thirty.

Jeremiah Beale Clk
Sup. Ct. W. County
[seal]


Georgia
Pulaski County

Before me Hezekiah Wade
one of the Justices of the county aforesaid
personally appeared Jane Polk this day of the said 
county & on oath said she saw James Oliver while a prisoner
as stated in his foregoing declaration & that he is generally
reputed & believed to have served in the army of the Revolution.
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-tion in manner as therein stated.  Witness my hand
this 24 day of March 1830.

Jane Polk [her mark]  X

Sworn to & subscribed before me 
the 24 day of March 1830.

Hezekiah Wade JP



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#32421
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On the So. Ca. roll
Admit
Corporal 4 mo   1466
Private 20 mo    6666
                          -------
                         $ 81.32
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H. of R.   28 Jany 1834

Sir

Enclosed you will receive
some papers which have been 
forwarded to me by Danl. D Sturges
[illegible] of Hawkinsville Ga
Will you do me the favor to 
examine them & write to him in 
relation to them --

Vr. resly. [very respectfully?]
Seaborn Jones




J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Comm. of Pensions
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J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Pension Office





ansd. Mar. 10 '36



[written sideways]
Mar. 9
Hon. Jno. [John] Coffee
HR
Page 27

House Representatives
March 8th -1836.

Dr Sir:

I had the honor of submitting to you during
the last spring testimony going to establish the loss by fire
of the certificate of James Oliver of Georgia a revolutionary
soldier  Some time during the summer, or fall 
you wrote me that the certificate had been removed
& forwarded.  I have just received a letter from Mr. John
Rawls the friend of Mr. Oliver saying that the 
certificate had not been received  will you be so kind
as to give me the facts of the case?

respectfully your
obt. Servt. [obedient servant]

Jno. [John] Coffee

P. S.  The above statement is made from memory alone
& may not be correct as to time.

Coffee.

[note in top left margin]
23594
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Paid 10


Hon. John Coffee
Jacksonville Ga.

[post mark]
HAWKINSVILLE
GA
SEP
[illegible]
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Hawkinsville 
Sept. 2nd 1835.

Dear Sir,

I forwarded you from Decatur Superior Court in May last by 
your son Maj. Coffee a copy of the original Pension Certificate of Mr. 
James Oliver a Revolutionary Soldier resident in this county 
accompanied with the affidavits of Mr. Oliver, Mr. John Rawls and myself
as to the existence and destruction of the original Pension
Certificate with my office when consumed by fire in November
last.  To which affidavits I desired you to annex your Certificate
as a member of Congress of the Characters of the affiants for truth
and veracity and of the official Character of the Justice (Mr.
David B. Halsted) before whom the affidavits were made,
and that you would send the whole to the War Department
that through your kindness Mr. Oliver might obtain a new
certificate in lieu of the one destroyed as above mentioned.
As I have not heard from you in relation to this matter
Permit me to request you to inform me what has been 
done and what success you have met with.  The time for 
the second semi-annual payment has arrived since he has 
received anything.

Respectfully
Yours &c.
Danl. D. Sturges


To
The Hon. John Coffee
Telfair County, Ga.
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J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Pension Office
Washington City
D.C.


[upside down on page]
James Oliver
Pen Cer


[written sideways]
Sept. 26
the attention of 
W. Burdsul [?]
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Jacksonville Georgia
Sep. 9th 1835.

J. L. Edwards Esqr.

Sir

I received from Daniel D. Sturges
Esqr. early in June last, a copy of an original
pension certificate in favour of James Oliver a 
revolutionary soldier residing in Pulaski county
Georgia, requesting me to certify to the respectability
of the persons testifying, to the loss of the original by
fire.  I have certificates now made agreeable to this
request of Mr. Sturges & the whole forwarded to 
your address & have not been heard of since.  If the 
certificates are not in form you will please return 
them to me with the necessary directions & the alteration [?]
shall be made.  If the certificates are in form,  you 
will please commence to the results to Daniel D. 
Sturges Esqr. Hawkinsvillle Georgia.  I enclose
Mr. Sturges's letter to aid you in finding the papers.

I have the honor to be respectfully
your obt. Servt. [obedient servant]

Jno. [John] Coffee
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To the Sect. of the 
Treasury
Washington



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10 April 1830
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Washington   Jany 18th 1831

Hon Sect of the Treasury

Will you 
do me favor to examine the enclosed
papers and inform me whether they contain 
the necessary shewing to entitle the applicant
to the benefit of the Pension law

I am respectfully
your obedient Sevt. [servant]

Henry G Lamar
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10 April 1830.              1686

Washington  April 9th 1830

Sir

I am requested to lay before 
you the enclosed application for 
a pension.  Will you have the goodness
to inform me the determination 
of the department on the subjects.

your obedient
Servt [servant]
Henry G Lamar


To the Sect of the 
Treasury
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Transferred to the 
Pension office as
requested.

Treasury Department
11th [?] April 1833.
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Rec 20 Jany 1830 [6?]

Georgia  In the Inferior Court of Pulaski County
"For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an Act of the 
for the relief of certain surviving officers & soldiers of the 
Army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th of May 1828
I James Oliver of the County of Pulaski in the Sate of 
Georgia doth hereby declare that I inlisted in the Continental
line of the army of the Revolution sometime in the
year Seventeen hundred & seventy five for the term of three
years under Capt. Mason a recruiting officer that a part 
of the said time of three years I served under apt. Mason 
said officer in the second Regiment of foot soldiers raised
and inlisted in South Carolina that Capt. Mason
resigning I served a part of said term of three years
under Captain Blake that the ballance of said time
of three years I served under c apt. Dunbar as a Sergent in
said company and regiment aforesaid being transferred
from Capt. Blake's to Capt. Dunbar's Company in 
in said regiment that at the expiration of said term
of service I enlisted for and during the war in said
Armey of the revolution and continued in the service
under said Capt.  Dunbar till taken prisoner at the 
fall of Charleston that I was carried a prisoner into
Virginia and in said State last mentioned retaken
that hearing and being informed that the office of said
Captain Dunbar and company who ware also taken
prisoners were in Philadelphia I was ordered to Philadelphia
and finding my company was not there I joined 
Captain Turner who was raising a troup of horse but 
in being appointed commissary general of prisoners I served
under and with him till the expiration of the War and 
that being seperated from the company I served in 
when taken a prisoner and in which I had till then
continued since inlisting for the War and in 


in being
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consequence of the death of my officers receiving no 
regular discharge nor a certificate for the reward of Eighty
dollars to which I was entitled under resolve of Congress
passed 15th May 1778 and I further declare that I was
not on the 15 day of March 1828 on the pension list of 
the United States

James Oliver [his mark]  X

Sworn to in open court & subscribed
1st March 1830 before me

Joseph Caruthers Clk I. C.
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Georgia
Wilkinson County

Before me James Neal one of the Justices of the 
Inferior Court for the county aforesaid personally came
William Jenkins who being duly sworn deposeth & on oath saith that
he served for & during the three years enlistment with the said James
Oliver as the said Oliver has represented in the annexed certified 
representation of the said Oliver; that at the expiration of the said
three years enlistment I took my discharge & returned but the said
James Oliver did not take his discharge & return but as this deponent 
has good reasons to believe & does verily believe did enlist
for & during the war of the revolution;  that this deponent was a 
messmate with the said James Oliver during the above mentioned
enlistment for three years & that when this deponent returned
it was the general belief & talk that the said Oliver had
enlisted for & during the war of the revolution; And this 
deponent further states that this deponent & the said James 
Oliver were raised (children) in the same neighborhood
& lived till some time after the war of the Revolution
with the exception of the time said Oliver was absent
during the war of the revolution in the same neighborhood
that said Oliver did not return home untill some
time after the close of said War; that after the 
close of said War said Oliver did return home
to the same neighborhood where we had as above
mentioned lived so long near each other & there 
lived for sometime & has always been reputed
& accounted to have served as the said Oliver
has sworn to in his said annexed representation of 
the said Oliver;  And this deponent further states
that he has heard several persons who are now 
deceased & who were reputed accounted to have 
served in the army of the Revolution say that the
said Oliver did enlist for & during the war of 
the revolution & serve in the army of the revolution
& especially one John Keith of the County of Wilkinson
& State of Georgia formerly of Darlington County
in South Carolina.  And this deponent further
states that the said Oliver tho' very poor is of fair and
irreproachable character.

William Jenkins

Sworn to & subscribed
before me this 30th day
of September - 1830

James Neal J.I.C. W.C.
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Thomasville, Georgia
April 30, 1923

U. S. Bureau of Pensions,

Dear Sirs:

I am writing 
to ask if you have the
name of James Oliver on 
your records of Revolutionary
pensioners?

His name is mentioned 
in several of the late Georgia
Histories and in L. L. Knight's
Roster of Georgia Revolutionary
Soldiers, on page 444, he is 
mentioned as a Revolutionary
pensioner from Pulaski
County Georgia.

[notes on upper left margin]
check mark act
stamped envelope enclosed

Rev. W
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-2-

I am trying to secure all 
necessary data concerning
James Oliver so that I may
join the D.A.R.  He was 
my great, great grand father.
I will appreciate any
information you will 
give me.

Yours truly,

Julia Ernest Speight
Mrs. Frank Speight,
Thomasville, Ga.

[date stamp]
U. S. PENSION OFFICE
A
MAY 3 1923
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Dear Sir.

Please send me copy of 
James B. Oliver or James Oliver's 
Pension Certificate - he was listed
as "Corporal James Oliver" and drew [inserted] 1834
a Pension [inserted] S.C. Contl. line
himself wife and four
children was then living in Pulaski
Co. Georgia.  He moved to Augusta a few
years before his death - he and his 
wife who was Sarah MacKay, are buried
in St. Pauls Church yard in Augusta Ga.
His daughter Eliza Sophia McIntosh Oliver
married Isaac La Roche - after his death she 
married Dr Augustus Baudry - on his tomb is
inscribed she was the daughter of 
Major James B. Oliver and his great grand
daughters tell me his name was James
Brush Oliver.  I have four sets of papers
ready to forward to Washington except
the date of his death is lacking - the 
Tax Books show he was a man of business
here after 1802 - of course the last
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Pension payment would help
to determine the time of his demise.
His record is very good and he 
is written up in "Hardins" History
Knights Roster and in Smith's 
Story of Georgia.

Any assistance will be 
gratefully appreciated by 
Yours Respectfully

Mahala Elizabeth Gooding Wilson
Organizing Regent D.A.R.
Augusta Ga.

#96516

Mrs. W. I. Wilson
Augusta Ga.
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Rev. War Section.

April 35, [a typo] 1935.

Mrs. W. I. Wilson,
Augusta, Georgia.

Madam: - 

In addition to the military history of James
Oliver, S. File No. 32421, Rev. War, you are furnished the 
following information: - For the date of last payment of 
pension, name of person paid, and date of soldier's death, you 
should apply to the Pension Section, Interior Department Division, 
General Accounting Office, 1800 E. Street, N.W. Washington,
D.C. citing all of the following data: - 

James Oliver
Certificate 23594
Issued March 6 (?) 1834
Rate #81.32 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act, June 7, 1832
Georgia Agency.


Very respectfully yours,


Commissioner.