Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3407, Alexander Grant, S.C.
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(3 - 1776)

Service:
S.L.

Grant, Alexander

Number: 
S-3407

Born in Md.

carded
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Let 18 for  1839 now
Non. H.L. Turney.

19486
West Tennessee
Alexander Grant 
of Warrenko in the State of Tenn
who was a private in the CO commanded by Captain Dagged of the reg 2 commanded by Bob Moultrie in the 26 line for 9 years

Inscribed on the Roll of W Tenn. at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834

Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of Sep. 1833 and B. L. Ridley [illegible]

Arrears to the 4th of Sep 200.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 40.00
$240.00

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Dan Boyd Clerk,
Book 6 Vol. 7 Page 79
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State of Tennessee      }  October 2nd 1832
Warren County             }

On this 2nd October A D 1832 pension
was approved in the open Court  of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for said County - present Wm. McGregor from Higgenbotham & [illegible] Alexander Grant a Resident of the South Western part of Warren County in the Barren[?] Fork up Duck River (Tennessee) aged 73 years the 16th day of last July 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 7th June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following
named Officers & served as herein stated
To Wit.. Listed[?] under Capt John Daggard 2nd South Carolina Regiment Commanded by Col. Moultrie
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[illegible] The month of February 76, in what was then called Camden District in South Carolina. Marched from there to Charleston S.C.  [illegible]  the command of Col Moutrie.  We were [illegible] thence to Sullivan Island to fight the  British at[?] hand battle was fought there in which the British was defeated.  Our regiment marched back to Charleston 9 miles thence we marched to Purrysburg[?]. Thence to Augusta where we met the British hands[?] on engagement & defeated them.   Thence we marched backto Charleston. The British followed us - attacked the city of [illegible] & we flagged them again. From Charleston we marched to Stono[?] in pursuit of the British, whom met them & flagged them again. In this engagement my Captain Dagged was killed. I was then put
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under Capt. James Duff.  Thence my Regiment [illegible] the British to a place called Ninety Six in South Carolina where we had a siege
of 3 or 4 days.  The British [illegible] themselves & put in on the retreat  Thence we retreated  to the Cowpens in South Carolina & joined General Morgan & Col. Washingtons
Corps of Horse.  We then had a [illegible]  engagement in which Col Tarlton the British Commander was defeated.  We marched thence to the Island Ford on the Catawba River in N. Carolina The whole British army 
followed us from Ninety Six & overtook us at the
Ford where some engagements ended in which they were victorious Thence we marched to [erasures] Guilford in N Carolina & joined Genl. Greene.  Then we had an engagement in which the Americans were victorious We marched thence to Little [illegible]
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when we captured[?] Lord Cornwallis Thence we marched with prisoners taken at Little York to Winchester Barracks whence I was discharged This occurred in November 1781-2[?] I lived in South Carolina when I first entered the service & continued  in it five years The following are the names of all the officers whom he knew  Viz  Col. Livingston Genl Kinson Genl Miron General Green Genl Nash & others
above mentioned
I have no documenting evidence for the [illegible]  I think my house was burnt 40 years since in South Carolina [illegible]  & my discharge & other valuable papers at [illegible]  nor does he Know of any persons whose testimony he can [illegible]  who can testify to his service.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or indemnity or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll
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of the [illegible] of any state

The Court then propounded the following
interrogatories to [illegible words] for a Pension Viz

1. When & in what year were you
born? Answer In Fredrick County
in the State of Maryland & in the
year ???9-1760 or -61.

2 Have you any Record of your age
& if so where is it? Answer I had
a Record in my fathers Bible which
was burnt when my house was burnt
in S Carolina

3 Where were you living when called
into service.  Where have you lived
since the revolutionary war & where
do you now live? Answer I lived
in S Carolina when I entered the service
I lived there since the revolutionary
war until 18 years since I moved
to [illegible] County Tennessee

4 How were you called in the service
Drafted, volunteer or Substitute?
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Answer. As before stated I enlisted
under Capt. Dagged

5 State the names of some of the [illegible]
officers who  were with the troops where you served such continental & militia Regiments as you can recollect & the general [illegible] of your service Answer I have stated a
full answer to that question above

6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service & if so, by whom was it given & what has become of it Answer I was discharged by Capt Billy Berrett The ballance of the
question is answered above.

7 State the names of persons to whom you
are known in your neighborhood who can testify as to your character for veracity & their belief of your Services as a soldier of the revolution?
Answer John Nelson Hugh ONeil Samuel Denby & Samuel Denby & Elias Duboy[?]  & others.  
                his
Alexander X Grant 
               mark

Sworn & subscribed the Day & year aforesaid
Jos Colville Clk
By L Colville D C
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Mr. Hugh Oneil a clergyman residing in the County of Warren and John Pelham residing in the same do hereby certify that we are well
acquainted with Alex Grant who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration & that we believe him to be 60 or 61 years of age That he 
is [illegible] & believed in his neighborhood
where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolutionarywar & that we concur in that opinion
Hugh ONeal LD
John Nelson
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
Jas Colville Clk
By L Colville DC

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the interrogatories & after putting[?] the interrogatories presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he states And the Court further certifies that
it appears to them that Hugh Oneil is a clergyman resident in the county of Warren & that John Nelson who has also signed the same is a credible person
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that their statement is entitled to [illegible]
Wm McGregor
James Barkley
A Higgenbotham

I Joseph Colville Clerk of the
Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for Warren
County do hereby certify that the
foregoing contains the original of all
the proceedings of said Court in the matter
of the applicaton of Alexander Grant
for a Pension

In testimony I have hereto
set my hand & set my private seal,
there being no public seal
Jos Colville Clk
by L Colville DC

Alexander Grant
14285

B. L. Ridley
McMannville Co
Tenna
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Alexr Grant
S,. C. Roll
5314316
not Roll
from 1776 private
2 yr $80

B. L. Ridley
McMinnville
Tenn
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14,285

Brief in the case of Alexander Grant
of Warner Cy in the State of Tenn
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

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

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

3. How old is he? 73

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period
Feby 76-Nov 81
In 17 [struck through]

Duration of Service.
Years, 5
Months 9
Days

Rank
As a private

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served
Gen [struck through]
Capt. Jno Dagged - Col. Moultrie
Capt. Duff

5. In what battles was he engaged?  
Sullivan's Island - Augusta - Stono- Cowpens 
Guilford- Little York Va

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Camden Dist S. C.

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

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
no seal to Declaration

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

Wm. C. Easton
Examining Clerk.
19 Feb. 1833
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State of Tennessee }  July 1 1833
Warren County  }  On this 1st day
of July in the year 1833, personally appeared
in open court, in the court of pleas &
quarter sessions for said county of Warren
it being a court of Record - Stephen Duboise
who being duly sworn according to law
upon his oath doth say that he was in the
battle of Stono in South Carolina fought
betwen the American and Brittish the
former army commanded as he believes by
Genl Lincoln, and the British army by
Genl Provide, he thinks this was in the 
year 1777, and he will recollects that
Alexander Grant now of Warren county
Tennessee, and the same Alexander Grant
who [illegible] as he understand, appliced for a
pension under the Act of Congress of the 7th
June 1832.  Was in that engagement on
the side of the United States, and he saw said
Grant during the Battle binding up a 
wound received by Col Lawrence
in the engagement, and at this same time
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Col. Lawrence was urging his men to fight on
telling them that the enemy was shooting at him
and the feathers in his hat, and not at them.
This deponent has been acquainted with
Mr. Grant at times eversince that engagement
and knows well that he is the same man above spoken of.  He cannot say how long Mr. Grant was in the service but has always understood Mr. Grant served five years in the Regular Service and has been [illegible] called a man of truth by his neighbors and believes to be such.
Stephen Dubois

Subscribed and sworn to in open court July 1st 1833 Jos Colville Clk
By L Colville D C
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State of Tennessee }  July 1st 1833
Warren County  }  This 1st July in the
year 1833 in open court in
the court of Pleas & quarter sessions
for Warren County aforesaid Alexander
Grant, who heretofore applied for a pension
under the Act of Congress of the 7th June 1832
who being duly sworn according to law, says
that at the time he made out his Declaration
in order to obtain the benefirt of said Act of Congress
he did not know that Said Stephen Duboise was
living, [illegible] then living, as he now understands
a resident of the state of Alabama, but that
fact was unknown to this Declarant until
recently Said Duboise returned to Warren
County.  This declarant does not know of any
other person by whom he can [illegible] any
service
Alexander Grant x his mark

Subscribed and sworn to in
open Court 1st July 1833
Jos Colville Clk 
By L. Colville DC
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State of Tennessee }
Warren County }  This day appeared William
Young in open court of pleas & quarter
sessions for said county now in session and
made oath in due form that he is acquainted with Stephen Duboise whose affidavit is on this sheet, and that the said Duboise is a man of truth and entitled to full credit on his oath in a
court of Justice so far as he knows or has understood
Wm Young
Subscribed and sworn to in open
court the 1st July 1833
Jos Colville Clk
By L Colville DC

State of Tennessee}
Warrent County      }  I Joseph Colville Clerk of [illegible] said court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the matters of amendment which
have this day been made to the Declaration 
of Alexr Grant made heretofore & hereto attached & I do further certify that the same was at a previous day of the Term[?] Sworn to in open Court
In Testimony whereof  I have hereto set my hand & affixed my private seal there being no publick seal of office
Seal
This 2nd July 1833
Jos Colville Clk
B L Colville DC
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Alexander Grant W. Ten: Act of June 1832
to what time paid?
Pen. Office
Dec. 18, 1839
$80 died 20 March 1837
[illegible]  4 March 1838
JH
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Washington City Dec. the 17th 1839
Sir
enclosed I send you the application Jane Garret for a pension which you will please examine and advise me of the result
Yours [illegible]
H L Turney
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Revolution
3407
Invalid.
File No. 3407
Alexander Grant
Pvt S.C. Line
Act: June 7 732
Index:--Vol. A, Page 149
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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I know that Joseph Colville is the Clerk of
the Court of Pleas and quarter sessions  for
Warren County Tennessee and that
Lusk Colville is his deputy and from
my acquaintance with his nad writes
believe the signatures in his name to the
foregoing certificate were made
by him and also that there is no
official seal of said court 2 July 1833
J. C. Isacks
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FREE

Mr. J. L. Edwards, Comm of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.

July 15

Tenn
[illegible]
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My Dr Sir

I return the Inclosed Declaration
for a Pension under the Act of Congress with
the Amendment suggest.  I hope it is now right

Please make your return to me
at McMannville Tennessee

Resply
B. L. Ridley