Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21275, Benjamin Hatcher, S.C.
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SERVICE
S.C.

Hatcher, Benjamin
               Lucy

NUMBER
W.21275

CONTENTS
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2059
South Carolina
widow of Lucy Hatcher decd,
Benjamin
who died on the --
of -- in the State of S. C.
who was a Captain of Cavalry in the -- commanded
by Captain __ of the -- commanded
by -- in the Revolution
line for two years

Inscribed on the Roll of Charleston,
at the rate of 100 Dollars 00 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1831 & Ends 5th February 1839

Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of
February 1854 and sent to
A. Perrin Esq
Edgefield
S.C.

Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi-annual allowance ending 
Inco from $360
Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3d

Recorded by H. R. Weightman Clerk,
Book D, Vol. 2, Page 383

A. Perrin 2d Nov. 1854
James A. Black Nov. 10/56
H.G. Wright Apr 23/59
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State of South Carolina
Edgefield District
Personally came before me WW Adams a Magistrate in & for the District and State aforesaid, duly authorized
to administer oaths for general purposes Benjamin Hatcher, and made oath in due form of law that he is the only surviving child of Lucy Hatcher who died in February 1839, and whose papers are on file in the pension office of the United States 
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 10th day of December 1857 Benjamin Hatcher
WW Adams
Ms. Esq.

State of South Carolina
Edgefield District
Personally came before me WW Adams a Magistrate in 7 for the District and State aforesaid, duly authorized to administer oaths for general purposes,
Robert Kenny and made oath in due form of law, that Benjamin Hatcher is the only surviving child of Lucy Hatcher, who died several years ago in this district.
[Sworn before me this]
10th December 1857
State of South Carolina
Edgefield District
Personally came be
fore me WW Adams a magistrate in and for
District and State aforesaid Robert Kenny and made
oath in due form of Court that Benjamin Hatcher is the only surviving child of Lucy Hatcher
who died in this District eleven or twelve years 
ago. Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 10th day of December 1857
Robert Kenney
WW Adams M. Esq
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State of South Carolina
Edgefield District
I Thomas G Bacon Clerk
of the court for Edgefield District do hereby certify
that WW Adams is a magistrate and that the forego
ing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
Given under my hand & seal of office
at Edgefield Court House the 11th day
of December A.D. 1857.
Tho G Bacon
C.C.P.
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South Carolina
Edgefield District
On the 27th day of March 1838, personally appeared before the Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas for the District and State aforesaid His Honor Josiah J. Evans presiding Lucy Hatcher 
a resident of Edgefield District in the State aforesaid, aged ninety three
years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make
the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made
by the Act of Congress passed July 4 1836. That she is the widow of Benjamin
Hatcher, who in the war of the Revolution was a Captain of a Volunteer Company
of South Carolina Militia, and that the said Company belonged to Col. Le Roy
Hammond's Regiment, which Regiment was attached to Brigadier General
Andrew Williamson's Brigade of South Carolina Militia. By reason of extreme
old age and a failing memory, this deponent is unable to give a distinct and 
connected narrative of the services of her said husband in the Revolutionary
War. She can not recall the period when the said Benjamin Hatcher first
entered the service as a soldier, but she remembers clearly that he served as
a Captain aforesaid, under Col. Hammond & Genl Williamson aforesaid
in the Campaign against the Cherokee Indians in 1776, and that he continued in service holding his said Commission, from that time until
death near the close of the year 1780. In the Spring of 177[?] Capt Hatcher and his
Company composed a portion of the detachment of volunteers, which
under the command of the said Col. Hammond marched to Spirit Creek,
a stream in Georgia eighteen miles below Augusta and broke down
bridges for the purpose of delaying the British force and Col. Campbell 
then advancing from Savannah to Augusta. In consequence of the services
of this detachment which succeeded in arresting the march of the British
for three days time was given for the concentration of the American forces
Col. Campbell after reaching Augusta was shortly afterwards compelled
to retreat. His force in its retreat was followed by the Detachment as 
mentioned under Col. Hammond, including Capt. Hatcher and his command; which said Detachment attacked and captured a body of British
and Tories, in a Stockade Fort at Paris's Mills on Brier Creek, between
forty and fifty miles below Augusta. Shortly after this a Detachment 
under Col. Hammond aforesaid was dispatched by Genl Williamson to
intercept a party of British and Tories, a few miles South of the Ogeechee in
Georgia. The hostile force were surprized, defeated, and dispersed, their horses
and baggage taken, twenty one or two Indians slain and scalped, a
few Whites killed, and several influential British agents taken prisoners
among the killed on our side was Major Ross of Col. Neil's Regiment.
Capt. Hatcher aforesaid, and his command were likewise in this engagement
and his conduct on the occasion was highly commended. A few
months after these events the force under Genl Williamson moved
towards the Coast for the purpose of revisiting Col. Provost who had
made an incursion into South Carolina and threatened Charleston.
They marched from their Encampment in that portion of the State now
included in Edgefield District to a Ferry on the Savannah River called 
Summerland's Ferry forty miles below Augusta. From thence they turned
to the left, and approaching the Edisto marched down that river some
considerable distance, then crossed, and at length arrived on the bank
of Ashley River. Capt. Hatcher aforesaid and his Company former part of
this body of troops, & accompanied Genl Williamson in his march and
the said Capt. Hatcher & command were engaged in the battle of Stone
Ferry, on the 20th June 1779. From the battle of Stone until the siege of
Augusta in 1780, Capt. Hatcher still continued in arms, but this deponent
is unable to cite what particular services were performed by him du-
ring this interval. In the Summer or Autumn of 1780 Capt. Hatcher
was with the forces collected by Col. Clark and remained with them
during the period they besieged the British Garrison in Augusta
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until they were compelled to retreat by the approach of Col Cruger
from the British post of Ninety Six. From that time until November 1780 Capt. Hatcher still continued in service. In that month or
the following month of December of that year Capt. Hatcher was slain.
Whilst engaged in a reconoutering expedition he was fired upon by a 
British party in ambuscade, and shot through the body. Ephraim Leadbetter,
since dead, who was one of the American party with Hatcher aforesaid
effected his escape and by him the intelligence of Capt Hatcher's death
was communicated. This Deponent further swears that Capt. Hatcher aforesaid was a resident of that portion of South Carolina now
included in Edgefield District, at the time of his entering the
service of the State aforesaid as a soldier, and that she is unable
to produce any documentary evidence of his rank, or services as
above set forth, his commission as Captain aforesaid having never
been in her possession. She further deposes that she was married
to the said Benjamin Hatcher in Henrico County Virginia where
they resided previous to their emigration to South Carolina, but 
she is unable through decay of memory to state the date of her
marriage; that her husband the said Benjamin Hatcher and
herself removed to South Carolina several years before the War of
the Revolution; and that since the death of the said Benjamin
Hatcher she has continued to reside in Edgefield District, and has
ever since remained a widow. As will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed - 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written
in Court before me
Josiah J Evans
S C Clerk
Lucy Hatcher her mark

South Carolina
Edgefield District
I Josiah J Evans Judge of the Court of General
Sessions and Common Pleas for the State aforesaid
certify that the above named applicant Lucy Hatcher is of good character
and of unquestionable credibility and [illegible] informed.
as I am informed by respectable persons
and as I believe
Josiah J Evans
Judge of C. S & Com Pleas
Edgefield C.H. 27 March 1838

State of South Carolina
Edgefield District
I George Pope Clerk of the Court of General Sessions 
and Common Pleas do hereby certify that the above named
Josiah J. Evans is a Judge of the Court aforesaid in the State aforesaid, and that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court the words signed with my hand this
27th March 1838 as also the interlined words "as I am informed" having been first erased
of His Honor the said Josiah J. Evans. I further certify that the below named M. Gray and Robert Kenney are Justices of the Quorum for the District and State
aforesaid, and that the signatures to be found on the fourth or outer page of this
Sheet, purporting to be theirs are genuine. In testimony whereof I have
hereunto affixed my hand and the seal of the Court aforesaid this tenth day
of April anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight
Geo. Pope
C.C.P & GS.
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April 19, 1934
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Mr. F. C. Symonds
First Presbyterian Church
Lynchburg, Virginia

BA-J/EEL
Benjamin Hatcher - W.21275

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the pension record of Lucy Hatcher, widow of Captain Benjamin Hatcher, who
was killed during the Revolutionary War in Ninety Six District, later
Edgefield County, South Carolina.

A very careful examination has been made of the papers on file
in Revolutionary War pension claim, W.21275, based upon the military
service of Benjamin Hatcher in that war, and the data contained
therein are given below.  Such reports have been accepted as authentic by the various patriotic and genealogical societies.

The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of
Benjamin Hatcher are not shown in the papers in the pension claim.
Before the Revolution, he resided in Henrico County, Virginia, and moved from there to South Carolina, and settled in that part of the 
state which was afterward Edgefield District.

While residing in said Edgefield District, Benjamin Hatcher
entered the service in 1776, and was appointed 1" lieutenant in Captain John Hammond's Company, Colonel LeRoy Hammond's  South Carolina Regiment of Rangers and in that year went on an expedition against the Cherokee Indians: in 1777, he was promoted captain: he was in the battled of Paris Mills on Brier Creek; Spirit Creek, Georgia; Ogeechee, Georgia; Stone Ferry and Tree Runs, South Carolina; and was at the siege of Augusta, after which he continued to serve as captain until in November or December, 1780, when he was killed, being fired upon by a British party in ambuscade near the Saluda River, while he was on a reconnoitering party  The shot passed through his body.  The exact  date of his death was not shown.  It was stated that he was also in may skirmishes with the Tories.

The solider married before the Revolution, in Henrico County,
Virginia, Lucy.  The date of their marriage and her maiden name are not shown.

[*Miss L M stated she used 1781 as date of death instead of 1780.  See note on form.  In McCready I found that at siege of Augusta in fall of 1780, Col. Conger was also at 96- & them were compelled by retreat because of his approach.  See McCready Vol. 1 pages 736 & 737.  I also found a state report that Capt Hatcher was reimbursed for a horse killed in 1781 but as all witnesses stated he was killed in 1780.  I thought this might be an error.*]

[*Sol. not in ???? but formed officers*]

[*There  was a Cherokee Ex in 1776 by Williamson & Hammond See [????] Vol2 page 441*]
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Soldier's widow, Lucy Hatcher, was allowed pension on her application executed March 27, 1838, at which time she was aged ninety-three years and resided in Edgefield District, South Carolina, where she died February 5, 1839.

Benjamin and Lucy Hatcher had the following children.

John Hatcher
Benjamin Hatcher in 1851, he was residing in Edgefiled District, South Carolina, and was the only surviving child.
Mary Hatcher
Elizabeth Hatcher
Lucy Hatcher.

The ages of the above named children are not shown.  Grandchildren are referred to, but no names are given and there are no further family data.

Very truly yours

A. D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator.
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WIDOW, &c.

File No. 21,275
Lucy Hatcher
Wid. of
Benjamin Hatcher
Capt. Rev. War

Act: July 4th 1836.
Index: Vol. A, Page 315

[Arrangement of 1872.]

1911 Feby 25 - Hist.
to Mrs. Susan B. Hill
V.L.M.
Aug. 10 Hist. to Flora
R. Tillman.
1912 Mar. 19. Hon J.F. Byrnes
rifd [?] to apply to Aud. for
Int. for payment of this
pension
1934 Apr 19 - Hist
to [?] C. Symonds - EEL
193[?] Apr. 29 Rev F.C. Symonds
was furn. full hist.
[????] 19, 1934 M.C.S.
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Judge Butler
P.S. Brooks
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Compt. Genl's Office
Columbia S. Carolina
15 November 1833
I hereby 
certify that I find an Indent o
Record issued 12 May 1785 for the
Estate of Capt Benjamin Hatcher
for fifteen pounds Sterling for a 
Horse disabled in the Militia
Service in 1781
Given under my hand
W.F. Arthur
For Comp Genl
No Seal
of officer

Siege of Augusta 5th June 1781.
Rhett
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Lucy Hatcher
SC - [?]36

G H Jones

[ensuing lines of text are stricken through]

March 2, 52
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State of South Carolina
Edgefield District
Know all men by these
presents that I Benjamin Hatcher of the District
and State aforesaid, only surviving child of Lucy
Hatcher, late of the district and State aforesaid, deceased, do hereby nominate constitute and appoit W W Adam atty at law my true and lawful attorney with power of substitution, and do hereby invest my said attorney
or his substitute with full power to examine the papers of the said Lucy Hatcher deceased now on file in the pension Office of the United States, and to furthermore invest my said attorney or his substitute with full power
and authority to prosecute before the Commissioner of Pensions any claim which I may have to an increase of pension
or other pay of any description whatsoever to which I may be entitled through my said mother the said Lucy
Hatcher deceased, hereby ratifying and confirming all the acts of my said attorney or his substitute. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand issue
this tenth day of December Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty one
Signed sealed and delivered
in presence of with the word
have interlined between the
13th and 14th lines
Benjamin Hatcher
Robert Kinney
South Carolina
Edgefield District
Personally came before me
a magistrate Benjamin Hatcher and acknowledge
the foregoing power of Attorney to be his act  [????]
Given under my hand this 11th day of December
1851
WW Adams
M.E.D.
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South Carolina
Edgefield District
Know all men by these presents that
I W W Adams, the attorney named in the foregoing power of
attorney executed by Benjamin Hatcher, by virtue of authority vested in me by the said power of attorney, do hereby nominate
& appoint George H Jones, my substitute as aforesaid, to do all
those matters & things which I am authorized to do my [?????] said
power of attorney, as effectually & fully as In person could do
Given under my hand & seal this 15th day of December AD 1857
Signed sealed & delivered
in presence of 
Jas T Bacon
WW Adams atty in fact

Lucy Hatcher
SC - [???]

G. H. Jones
[?????]
Match 2, 52
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OBITUARY

DIED, at the residence of his relative, Charles
Hammond, Esq., in this District, on the 20th March
last, Capt. Joshua Hammond, a soldier of the Revolution, aged 101 years, 2 months and 20 days.

Capt. Hammond was born in the State of Virginia,
on the 1st day of January A.D. 1752, and removed
to this State with his wife, who was his first cousin,
and a sister of the late Col. Samuel Hammond--
previous to the Revolutionary war. He entered
the army of the Revolution as a private in the Company of Capt. John Hammond, of the Regiment
commanded by Col. Leroy Hammond, commonly known as the "Snow Hill Regiment," and served in that capacity until he joined the expedition to
Florida under Gen. Lincoln, as a Lieutenant, which
office he continued afterwards to hold in the service
of his adopted State, until the close of the war.--
On the failure of this enterprise, led by the brave and
patriotic, but unfortunate General alluded to, and the
defeat of its objects, Capt. Hammond returned to his
adopted State, in whose service he remained and to
whose fortunes he clung to the close of the war;
contributing his full portion of the zeal, gallantry,
vigilance and activity, which characterized her true
sons in the bold and partizan warfare which they
waged at this memorable period, against her enemies, the British and Tories.

As a soldier and officer, Capt. Hammond was distinguished for vigilance, activity and adroitness--
qualities invaluable in the service in which he was
engaged--and which frequently procured him the
command of "Scouting Parties" against the Tories
and "Out Liers" of that period, from which expeditions he rarely ever returned without success.
And the writer of this feeble tribute to his memory, remembers to have heard, when a youth, frequent narations of the skill and address with which
he planned and executed the capture of a notorious
ruffian and outlaw of that day (whose name is not
now remembered) and his followers,--an enterprize
for which he had volunteered and was specially detailed. Indeed, the activity, vigilance, and success,
which characterized the military movements of Capt.
Hammond, though more circumscribed in their
sphere, were not less noted in the immediate theatre of his exploits, than were those of his more illustrious, but not more meritorious compeer and compatriot, Gen. Francis Marion.

As a private citizen Capt. Hammond was remarkable for honesty, sobriety and industry; and tho'
always above want, he never coveted, nor did he
ever acquire must of this "world's store." A
love of truth, was perhaps, his most prominent
trait of character. And though often importuned
by persons--as the writer of this has occasion to
know he frequently was--to furnish evidence of the
Revolutionary services of their ancestors, he uniformly refused, unless the facts were strictly within
his own knowledge. Modesty, manliness and can-
dor, were qualities which marked his intercourse
with his fellow-men; and to these were added a
remarkable degree of diffidence, a fault (if it may
be so termed) for which he was proverbial among
those who knew him, and which a long intercourse
with the world never enabled him to overcome.

It is a remarkable fact,--and one somewhat coincident with the character of this worthy and venerable personage,--and mentioned here only as being
due to historic truth--that he breathed his last within two miles (and almost within full view) of the 
spot (Snow Hill) which gave name to the Regiment
in which he so long and so gallantly acted. K.

Edgefield District, July 4th, 1853.
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Brief in the case of Lucy Hatcher decd widow of Benjamin
Edgefield District [County] and State of South Carolina
act 4th July 1836.

Claim, ("[original," or] "for increase."

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary,  or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.
Lucy Hatcher a pensioner at $360. per annum Act 4th July 1836 for eighteen months servies of Benjamin as captain up to 1780.
This now proved that Benjamin served till after the seige of Augusta in 1781 as Captain of a mounted corps by certificate Comptroller of S. Carolina and Saml. Hammond  & Judge Butler S. C. 
Lucy died 5th Febry 1839 proved by 3d auditor & Benj Hatcher.
Benjamin only surviving child proved by Hon. A. P. Butler
U. S. Senator from S. Carolina.

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Charles H. Rhett
Examining Clerk.

Name and residence of Agent
A. Perrin Esqr
Edgefield C. H.
So Carolina
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State of South Carolina
Edgefield District

On June 19th
day of November A. D. 1852, before me
A M Perrin, a Notary Public for the 
district and state aforesaid, personally
came, Joshua Hammond
aged one hundred (100) years, who
being duly sworn according to law,
declares upon oath that he is the
identical man who was a Lieutenant 
in the company commanded
by Captain John Carter, and in
the Regiment of South Carolina
Malitia commanded by Colonels
Leroy Hammond, in the war of the
American Revolution, and who
was also a captain in the same
Regiment, at the close of the
said war; that he was intimate
by acquaintance with captian Benjamin
Hatcher decl, and from
his personal knowledge [?????]
that Benjamin Hatcher Decl
aforesaid entered or volunteered
in Captain John Hammon's Company
and Col Leroy Hammond's
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Regiment of South Carolina
malitia, at the commencement
of the Revolution; that Benjamin 
Hatcher decl aforesaid. was immediately
upon his volunteering
in said company and regiment
selected First Lieutenant of Capt
John Hammonds Company, aforesaid; that Benjamin Hatcher aforesaid continued to serve as First Lieutenant, in the aforesaid company and regiment until some
time in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven(1777), during all which time he was
actively employed in the service of his county and served under Col. Williamson and Col Leroy Hammond in the expedition against the Cherokee Indians, & was in several battles and skirmishes with said Indians; that he was also up to the year 1771 actively employed in subduing the Tories, and was in frequent skirmishes with them; that some time in the year 1777, Lieutenant
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Benjamin Hatcher aforesaid was promoted to a Captainey
in Col Leroy Hammonds Regiment aforesaid, and fought the Indians, Creeks at the high shoals of NC. Ogechee in Georgia, under the command of Col. Leroy Hammond aforesaid; was at the seige of Augusta under Col Elijah Clark, and continued to serve as Captain and fought in many skirmishes with the British and Tories, until sometime in the year 1780 when Captain Benjamin Hatcher aforesaid was killed, in a battle wiht the Tories on Saluda River in South Carolina; that Benjamin Hatcher aforesaid served to the best of the recollection of this deponent, from some time in the year 1776, to the day of his death, first as First Lieutenant, and
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*I have been well acquainted with Capt Jhosa Hammond.  My acquaintance commenced with my boyhood - I [?????] his [??] [??] his
[??????] and Revolutionary claimants and state that all due facts and confidence be given to his signature-
A. P. Butler
Nov-26th-1859
U. S. Senator from So. Car.
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afterwards as captain, during all whien time he was activally in [??????] as aforesaid, was always when there was accastion for it actively enjoyed, was throughout the war , or until his [????] a zealous whig and entirely and unwavering devotee to the cause of liberty, That this deponent [????] [???] above declaration; from his personal knowledge, as he was during nearly all the time the companion in armes, of the aforesaid Captain Benjamin Hatcher seed; and deponent further states that he is disinterested 
Joshua Hammond
attest:
A M Perrin
Frances A. Hammond
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 19th day of November A D 1852
A M Perrin
Notary public A. D. [????]
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State of South Carolina
Edgefield District

I Thos G Bacon Clerk of the court of C. P. & G. R. for the district and state aforesaid, do hereby sertify, that A M Perrin Esqr, before whom the witness affidavit was executed, and whose genuine official signature is hereunto [????] was at the date hereof, a Notary Public for the district and state aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and I further certify that Joshua Hammond whose genuine signature appears to the within affidavit, is an old man of very high standing for credibility and veracity; that he is now and has always been a highly respectable and reputable person; that satisfactory evidence has been shown to me, that Joshua Hammond aforesaid, did served in Revolution as stated in his witness affidavit, and that he is about the age therein stated.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal as officer as clerk for said district 

This 20th day of November A. D. 1852
Tho. G. Bacon
Clk
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Januy 8t 1832

Washington
Hon. James E. Heath
Commr of Pensions

Sir

I herewith inclose the affidavit of T P Carroll, showing the evidence of Joshua Hammond (also herewith sent,) to be newly discovered & sufficient to take care of Lucy Hatcher of South Carolina, (widow of Capt. Benjamin Hatcher,) out of the five years rule and also sufficient to prove that said Hatcher served in the revolutionary war from its commencement untill some time in the year 1780 when he was killed in said war.  The evidence also proves that he served in the rank of Captain in said
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war from 1777 to 1780 when he was killed in battle thus exhibiting more than two years service as Capt.  It is also equally clear, in evidence, that he must have served some twelve months as lieut immediately preceding his promotion to a captain in 1777 having been promoted to the rank of lieut soon after his entrance in the war, [?????] soon after its commencement
Said Hatcher was placed on the pension roll at $32.6-. per annum, being for some 18 months [????] admitted service as Capt. overlooking entirely his services as lieut & privat the proof of service, in the two
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2

latter grades, being positive & conclusive, as well as the former.  Although, as before states, the evidence shows that said Hatcher served as Capt in the revolutionary war from 1777, to 1780, inclusive, yet it would appear a little less unaccoutable, if your predecessor had addre. six months services as lieut to the 18 months services as Capt thus makeing two years service in all, also placed him on the pension roll accordingly.  Had this been done, the rights of the claimant would have been more clearly conceded.  And why but 18 months service was admitted by your
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predecessor appears still more strange.  When by reference to evidence it is as clear & conclusive that said Hatcher served actively & continuously in the said war from its commencement in 1776 to 1780 inclusive.  When he was killed in battle making in all four or five year service, in the following grades, to wit: first as private; and soon afterwards as lieut. in which latter grade he continued until 1777.  When he became captain & continued in the latter grade until 1780 inclusive when he ws killed  I repeat, it will, upon examination of the especially in connection with
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that now furnished establishing as it will be admitted, the services & in the respective grades & [????] of each grade, as last above stated, appear strange, passing strange & unaccountable & unexplainable, mby saw Hatcher was not first placed on the pension roll for two years service as Capt & not having been placed on the roll for two years service as capt. but having been placed on the roll for 18 months service as capt.  Why, in addition to that, he was not admitted for 6 months services as lieut & thus make two years servce in all to say nothing
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of his services as private.
I have deemed it only necessary to present these points, & to solicit an adjudication of the claim to secure the increase of the pension warranted by the law and the evidence
I have the honor & [?]
M Thompson
Atty for Hatcher

P. S. You will see that the Hon. A. P. Butler, U. S. Senator from So. Car. bears testimony Joshua Hammond's [??????] for veracity & [????] swears of his owen personal knowledge that said Hatcher served as above maintained.
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for the Commr of Pensions
personally & at once

Columbia So. Ca.
5th Novr 1836

Hon: Geo C. Whiting
Commr Pensions

Dear Sir,
in the claim of the heirs of Capt. Benj. Hatcher coming before our next session of the Legislature on the 4th Monday of this months, for his pay proper as Captain of Cavalry in the militia of this state in the Revolutionary war, it will be necessary to show what the pay of a Lieutenant & Captain of Cavalry was during the war, and I therefore, as the attorney for the parties, request of you the favor of a certificate of the rate of pay of those grades per month.
I also desire a certified copy of a letter addressed to the Commr of Pensions by Hon A. P. Butler stating his recollection from authentic sources of the character of Captain Hatcher's service on file (as I was informed by the agent) in the increase pension claim of his widow Lucy Hatcher under Act 4 July 1836.
If you will send me this information as early in this months as convenient I will promptly remit any charges of your office therefore, and feel grateful to you for the same.
I am,
Very respectfully
Yr Obt. Sert.
James A. Black
P. S. Capt. Hatcher having been killed in service, his widow never applied for her indent from So. Ca. which [is] was a very rare case
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Pension Office
24th Jany 1854

South Carolina Rolls
Act 4th July 1836.
$360 per annum

Lucy Hatcher widow
of Benjamin.
To what time paid?
When did she die?
S. Cole
Ch Clerk

to 
Francis But Esqr
Third Auditor
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Lucy Hatcher, wid. of Benjamin, Act 4 July 1836
$360 per annum, died 5 Feb 1839 Paid
F Burt
Auditor
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Not authenticated!

Revy. Pension
claim of
Lucy Hatcher
widow of
Benj. Hatcher d'
of S. Car.
B' of atty
from their
son Benj
Hatcher to 
M Thompson 
Filed Nov 6' 5[?]
Papers cald for
W Cole
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Know all men by these Presents, 
That I, Benjamin Hatcher of the District of Edgefield and State of South Carolina do by these presents make, constitute, and appoint M Thompson of the City of Washington, my True and Lawful Attorney for me, and in my name, to demand and receive of the Government of the United States, all moneys due and payable to me, as the son of Capt Benjamin Hatcher, who was a Lieutenant in Capt John Hammonds Company, and Col Leroy Hammonds Regiment of South Carolina Malitia, and afterwards was a Captain in the same Regiment; and also as the son of Lucy Hatcher, widow of Capt Benjamin Hatcher afforesaid our account of arrearages of Pay, seven years Extra Pay Pension, or any other moneys that may be found due and payable to me, as afforesaid, hereby notifying and confirming the acts of said attorney, in the [illegible], in as full and ample manner, as I could do were I personally present, and acting for myself. 
In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affix my seal, this 12th day of September A.D. 1852 Benjamin Hatcher
In presence of AM Perrin Notary Public
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State of South Carolina
Edgefield District
On this 12th day of September A.D. 1852, personally appeared before me A M Perrin, a Notary Public, in and for the district and state afforesaid, Benjamin Hatcher, and acknowledged the written Power of Attorney, to be his act and deed.
A M Perrin
Notary Public E.D.S.C

Not Authenticated!
Revy. Pension Claim of Lucy Hatcher Widow of Benj. Hatcher of So. Car. B of atty from their son Benj. Hatcher A. M. Thompson
Filed Nov. 6 '52 
Paper [illegible]
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South Caroline
Edgefield District
On this the thirteenth day of January Anno Domini 1854, personally appears before me, a Magistrate in and for the District and State aforesaid Ambrose Ripley aged about Eighty Eight (88) years, a resident of the District and State aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law, declares upon oath, that he lived in Laurens District in this State, near the dividing line between Edgefield and Laurens Districts at the breaking out of the War of the Revolution. That this deponent, then being about nine or ten years of age, well remembers the prominent events of said War, and many men who were officers and Soldiers in the war. That he has at this time a distinct and unmistakable recollection of Captain Benjamin Hatcher, who was a captain of a company of Mounted Militia (then known as Rangers) in the Regiment of Mounted Militia commanded by Col Leroy Hammond. That it is the belief of this deponent, that the aforesaid Captain Hatcher was elected or appointed to the command of said company of Rangers at an early period of the aforesaid War. That he well remembers the promotion of Captain Hatcher to the command of the said company, and it is his firm belief, that he the said Captain Hatcher was promoted to the command of the said company about three years previous to his death. That he well remembers the circumstances of the death of Captain Hatcher in a battle with the Torries on Saluda River, from the fact that this deponent was within six miles of the place where the said Captain Hatcher was killed. This it is further the firm belief of this deponent, that Captain Hatcher served at least three
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Years as captain, and he is confident that the aforesaid Captain Hatcher was actively employed throughout almost the entire war, when not called off on more important duty, in keeping the Torries in subjection. That he has never heard him spoken of in any other way than as Captain Hatcher. That this deponent is enabled to make the above statement from the fact that he lives in the same section of county to which Captain Hatchers operations were confined for a great portion of the war, and deponent further States that he has no interest whatever in the result of the claim of Lucy Hatcher for an increase of Pension.
Ambrose Ripley his Mark [handwritten X]
Witness to Louisa Don
Sworn to, and subscribed before me this thirteenth day of January A.D. 1854, and I hereby certify that Ambrose Ripley the deponent in this case is a citizen of this District well known to me, that he is a man of good standing with the community among whom he resides, and I certify that due faith and credit may be given to the statement above sworn to by him, and that he is a man of sound mind and memory, and I further certify that from age and bodily infirmity he is not able to appear before a court of record, and I believe him to be of the age above stated.
Wm. H. Atkinson
Magistrate E.D.
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South Carolina
Edgefield District
I Tho G Bacon Cleark of the Court of [illegible] for the district and state aforesaid do hereby certify that Wm H Atkinson before whom the witness affidavit was subscribed, and whose genuine official signature is thereunto officially subscribed, [illegible] of the authority a Magistrate for the district and state aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn.
The testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office as Clerk for said district this 16th day of January 1854.
Tho. G. Bacon
Clerk. C. P
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South Carolina
Edgefield District
On this 3rd day January 1854 before me Henry T Wright Judge of the Court of Ordinary for the district and state aforesaid, personally came Charles Hammond, a resident of the district and state aforesaid, who being duly sworn, according to law, declares upon oath, that he is a distant relative of Joshua Hammond Dcd. who was a Lieutenant in Col Leroy Hammonds Regt of Mounted Militia in the war of the American Revolution; that he has known the said Joshua hammond the last forty - 40 - years. That he has kept up an almost constant intimate [illegible] with him ever since; that he has always regarded him, and he the said Joshua Hammond has always been regard as a gentleman of the highest and strictest integrity and credibility, and that he was a gentleman of uncommon pride of character; that this deponent well remembers that the said Joshua Hammond during his lifetime and more relevantly towards the latter part of his life was very frequently applied to to give evidence in Pension Cases and that in making affidavits in support of Pension Claims, he always acted with great [illegible] caution and circumspection; that this deponent well remembers the circumstances of the said Joshua Hammond having been applied to some time during the latter part of the year 1852, to give evidence in the case of Capt Benjamin Hatcher, who was a Captain in Col Leroy Hammonds Regiment of Mounted Militia in the war of the American Revolution, and who son Benjamin Hatcher Jr. was making application for an increase.
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his mothers Pension, for the service of Father Capt Benjamin Hatcher aforesaid, in the said war; that this deponent has no hesitation in declaring Joshua Hammond aforesaid, at the time he gave the affidavit in support of the claim of Benjamin Hatcher aforesaid was of perfectly sound mind and memory, and that his affidavit on that acersion would have has as much might, and [illegible] have [illegible] with as much faith and credit, from this deponent, as any that could have been expected by any person or for any purchase; that this deponent feels safe in stating the above affidavit, as he has known the said Joshua Hammond all his life, and for a great portion of the time lived in the house of this deponent, and that he has been living and was living with this deponent in the time said affidavit was subscribed and executed; and deponent further declares he has no interest whatever in the result of the claim of Benjamin Hatcher, and does not expect to derive the [illegible] benefit from it. 
Charles Hammond
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and date before written and I hereby certify that Charles Hammond the deponent in this case is a gentleman of undoubted veracity and in every respect entitled to credit given under my hand and seal of office.
Henry T. Wright
O.E.D.
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Samuel Hammond
Affidavit
Hon. F W Pickens
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The State of South Carolina
Edgefield District
Personally appears before me Matthew Gray, a Justice of the Quorum, in the District and State aforesaid, Samuel Hammond who being first duly sworn deposes as follows, that it comes within his own personal knowledge that Captain Benjamin Hatcher, for whose services as a soldier in the war of the Revolution, his widow Lucy Hatcher has recently applied for a pension, served as a Captain of a volunteer South Carolina Malitia company without interruption, from the first week in January seventeen hundred and seventy nine, down to the fall of Charleston and its capture by the British in May seventeen hundred and eighty, making a period of sixteen months uninterrupted service. This deponent further swears that the particular acts of service performed by the said Captain Hatcher during the period of service above mentioned between the 1st January 1779 and the capture of Charleston in May 1780 are correctly and accurately set forth in the declaration of the said Lucy Hatcher, recently submitted to the Pension Department. In addition to the particulars of service therein stated, this deponent further swears, that soon after the battle of Stono Ferry Capt Hatcher aforesaid joined the forces under the command of Major Hugh Middleton, of Col. LeRoy Hammond's Regiment, which were stationed at [illegible] Ferry, situated on the Savannah River, between the towns of Augusta and Savannah. This Deponent also swears that the said Capt. Benj. Hatcher was in service as Captain aforesaid from the first of October 1780, when he joined the forces under
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Col. Elijah Clark, who were about to [illegible] Augusta down to his death at the end of November 1780, making a period of two months more, at least, of continuous service. This deponent further swears that the said Benjamin Hatcher was married to the said Lucy at the time of his death, and before ^the expiration of his last period of service aforesaid. S Hammond
Sworn to before me this 8th May 1838
Matthew Gray
J. Quorum
South Carolina
Edgefield District
I George Pope Clerk of the Court of General Sessions, and Common Pleas, for the District aforesaid, do hereby certify that Samual Hammond the forementioned deponent, is a gentleman of unquestionable credibility, that the forementioned Matthew Gray is a Justice of the Quorum for the said District, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be theirs, are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the Court aforesaid this tenth day of May anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty eight.
Geo. Pope
C.C.P.
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State of South Carolina
Edgefield District
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace of the District and State aforesaid, Samuel Hammond, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with Benjamin Hatcher, the individual named in the prefixed declaration of his widow Lucy Hatcher, that the said Benjamin Hatcher bore the commission of Captain in the Militia of South Carolina, and that the company he commanded was attached to Col. LeRoy Hammond's Regiment, and to Genl. Andrew Williamson's Brigade of South Carolina Militia. It was not until the year of 1789 that this deponent knew certainly that the said Benjamin Hatcher was in the service of the United States, though he had before that time been often informed by others that the said Benj. Hatcher was a Captain in the service of the United States. In the first week in Janry. 1789, however, this deponent knows that the said Benj. Hatcher was a Captain of a volunteer Malitia Company of South Carolina and that he continued in the service of the United States as a Captain aforesaid, until his death which did not occur until the month of November in the year 1780, making a period of service of one year and ten months at least. This deponent further swears that the following brief history of his (Capt. Hatcher) services is faithful and true. The said Capt. Hatcher accompanied Col. Le Roy Hammond when he marched to Spirit Creek in Georgia in Janry. 1789, and broke down and distroyed  the bridges over that stream to avert the British force under Col. Campbell then advancing from Savannah upon Augusta. The detachment under the command of Col. Le Roy Hammond on that occasion was composed exclusively of volunteers, [illegible] there was Capt Hatcher aforesaid and his Company. The facts also related in the prefixed Declaration of the said Lucy, as to the services of the said Capt Hatcher, at the affair at Paris's Mills is also to his services in intercepting
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the Party of British and Indians South of Ogechee and likewise as to his services in the battle of Stono, and his other and subsequent services up to the period of his death above mentioned are true. This Deponent also swears that Capt. Hatcher above mentioned has been uniformly regarded and spoken of as a Revolutionary soldier, and that the traditionary evidence upon this subject is overwhelming. S Hammond Son
Sworn to before me this the 12th March 1838
M Gray
South Carolina
Edgefield District
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace for the District and State aforesaid, Jacob Wise, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that the said Benjamin Hatcher the deceased husband of the said Lucy Hatcher, was a Captain in the war of the Revolution as stated in the prefixed declaration of the said Lucy and that he has every reason to believe that the said Benjamin was engaged in the battle of Stono Ferry, this deponent having been within a few miles of the battle-ground at the time of the engagement, and knowing that the forces under the command of Col Le Roy Hammond, to whose Regiment, Capt. Hatcher's company belonged were engaged in the fight. It does not come within this deponent's knowledge that Capt. Hatcher aforesaid was engaged in the service as above stated for a longer period than seven months computing from the 1st January 1779 to the end of July in the same year; but this deponent had always been informed that the said Capt. Hatcher entered the service at any early period of the said war and continued therein until the time aforesaid of his death. This deponent further swears that Samual Hammond above mentioned was a Colonel in the troops raised by the State of South Carolina in the War of the Revolution, and that he the said Sammuel had opportunities of knowing the facts to which he has deposed. This deponent further swears that the said Lucy Hatcher is a person of unquestionable credibility, and that her prefixed declaration was written out and drawn though not signed or sworn to previous to the depositions accompanying it. Jacob Wise
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th March 1838
Robert Kenney QU
South Carolina
Edgefield District
We the above named Justices of the Quorum of the District and State aforesaid do certify that the above mentioned deponents Samual Hammond and Jacob Wise are persons of unblemished characters and worthy of implicit belief. Signed with our hands this 27th March 1838.
M Gray Qu
R Kenney Qu
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Pension Office
April 29 1853,
Sir,
The pension in the case of Lucy Hatcher, widow of Benjamin, of N.C. cannot be increased without the production of proof of additional service.
Very Respectfully,
L P Waldo
Commissioner
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M Thompson
letter
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Washington Nov. 22nd 1852
Hon. J. E. Heath
Commr. of Pensions
Sir
A reexamination of the Revolutionary pension claim of Lucy Hatcher dec'd of S.C. widow of Benjamin, is asked.
I have additional material evidence in support of the claim, which will be filed when the case comes up for reexamination.
I have the honor to be [illegible]
M. Thompson
atty for Hatcher
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Lucy Hatcher
Wid of Benj
Manner
Decd 1780
Allow 18 mo. Capt
$360 per ann no deduction
SC Militia
Pension Office
Hon. F. W. Pickens
FW Pickens' letter
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F W Pickens letter [upside down]
Hon. J. L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension office
Hon F. W. Pickens
[upside down handwritten notes appear to be previous page]
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Washington
20 May 1838
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Sir
I enclose [illegible] the within from Col. S. Hammond as additional evidence in the application of Lucy Hatcher widdow of the late Capt Hatcher. Your objection was that no specific time was clearly proved. Now it strikes me that the [illegible] have an uninterrupted and continuous service of Sixteen Months at one time and of two months at another, in all eighteen months. However I hope there will now be no difficulty. There is not the slightest doubt but that Capt Hatcher did serve as stated. He was a well known and respectable man, and [illegible] of his name [illegible] also. He left his family in comfortable circumstances and they have
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neglected the matter until now.
Be so kind as to let me hear as soon as is convenient.
Yours very respectfully
F.W. Pickens
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Ben Hatcher
A Perrin
Edgefield C H
So Carolina
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Edgefield C. S.C.
Oct 25 54
A Perrin
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Edgefield C.H.S.C.
Oct 23rd, 54
Sir,
[Illegible] pleased to send me copies of the affidavits of Col Samuel Hammond and Joshua Hammond, which will be found on file in the pension office in support of the claim of Lucy Hatcher, widow of Capt Benjamin Hatcher [illegible]. There was an increase of $1920 allowed Benjamin Hatcher son of Lucy aforesaid in January or February last. Mr. Rhett if I mistake not was the examiner who may really find the papers. My object in applying for copies of Capt Hatchers Revolutionary service in order to [illegible] a claim here before our state Legislature for the pay papers of Capt Hatcher aforesaid, as he never received a dollar for his service. Our Legislature
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will convene on the 4th Monday in November, and if you will oblige me so much as to have the papers prepared immediately, there will be time enough to propose the case by that time. Be pleased to accompany the said papers with your own certificate, showing that Lucy Hatcher and her son Benjamin Hatcher, did receive pensions for Capt H service for the length of service as proven by the affidavits and let it all be certified under the name and seal of the Commissioner of Pensions.
I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully 
Your Obt Servt
A Perrin
Hon L. P. Waldo
Com of Pensions
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Washington D.C. Sept. 19th 1853
Hon. L. P. Waldo
Coms. of Pensions
Sir
I herewith enclose the obituary notice of Capt. Charles Hammond, one of the witnesses in the Hatcher case.
Respectfully Your Obt. Servt. 
M. Thompson
per C. Clement [illegible]
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Additional Evidence in case of Lucy Hatcher of So. Car. Widow of Capt Benj Hatcher
Increase of her pension demanded
M. Thompson
[illegible]
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Washington Dec 17th 1852
Hon. Jas. E. Heath
Commis. of Pensions
Sir
I herewith ^inclose the affidavit of Joshua Hammond, a [illegible] pensioner, which, together with the evidence already on file in the case, proves conclusively, that Benjamin Hatcher, served more than two years as Capt. [Captain] in the Revolutionary War, and an increase of his pension is accordingly demanded.
I have the honor [illegible]
M. Thompson 
Atty. for Hatcher
P.S. Lucy Hatcher, his widow, is now
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on the pension roll of South Carolina at some $360 per annum.
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South Carolina
Edgefield District
On this 3rd day of January 1854 before me Henry T. Wright Judge of the court of ordinary for the district and state aforesaid, personally came, Andrew J. Hammond a resident of the district and state aforesaid, who being duly sworn declares upon oath that he is a distant relative of Joshua Hammond decd, who was a Lieutenant in Col Leroy Hammonds Regt of S.C. Mounted Malitia in the war of the Americas; that he had been intimately acquainted with said Joshua, Dcd. [deceased] for many years previous to his death; that he was a gentleman of the purest integrity and most undoubtable credibility; that this deponent had every opportunity to know and see the said Joshua Hammond about the time he made affidavit in support of the pension claim of Capt Benjamin Hatcher Dcd. in the latter part of the year 1852; that from the knowledge this deponent has of the character of said Joshua Dcd. he has no hesitation in declaring that he would not have declared upon oath [illegible] the truth of any fact or facts; that at the time of his making said affidavit he was of perfectly sound mind and memory; that his evidence would have had as much might with this deponent as it would at any period of his life and would, at the time, have relied as much upon his evidence as he would on any human testimony; and deponent
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deponent further declares that he has no interest whatever in the result of the claim of Benjamin Hatcher, and does not expect to derive the [illegible] benefit from it.
A.J. Hammond
Sworn to & subscribed before me the day and year within written and I hereby certify that A. J. Hammond the deponent in this case is a gentleman of high integrity and veracity and a member of the State Legislature.
Given under my hand and seal of office.
Henry T. Wright
Ordinary
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Know all men by these presents,
That I Benjamin Hatcher of the district of Edgefield and State of South Carolina do by these presents make, constitute and appoint A. Perrin Esq. true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive of the Department of the Interior of the United States, any Pension certificate or certificates for any money that may be found due and payable to me as the son and only legal representative of Capt Benjamin Hatcher Dcd who was a Captain in the Regt of SoCar Mounted Malitia  in the war of the American Revolution, an account of Pension, increase of Pension that may have been due and payable to my mother Lucy Hatcher Dcd under any act or acts of Congress heretofore passed; and to do every act or acts that I might do were I personally present and acting for myself; to withdraw all papers that are on file in any of the Departments in relation to said claim; to appoint one or more additional attorneys, hereby notifying all that my said attorney may lawfully do in the [illegible]; and I hereby revoke all other Powers of Attorney, heretofore given and executed
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And executed by me, and especially the Power of Attorney given and executed by me under my hand and seal in favor of M Thompson Esq of Washington City.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 10th day of January 1854. Benjamin Hatcher
A [illegible]
G. W. Landrum
South Carolina
Edgefield District
On this 10th day of January 1854 before me Henry T. Wright Judge of the Court of Ordinary for the district and state aforesaid personally came Benjamin Hatcher, and acknowledged the above Power to be his act and deed, as witness my hand and seal of office.
Henry T. Wright
Ordinary
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Increase
Lucy Hatcher dcd widow of Benjamin S. Carolina
Admitted
Act 4th July 1836
2 yrs Captain of a mounted corps at $600.00 per annum from 4th March 1837 to 5th Feby 1839 when she died, deducting former payments at payments at $360.00 per annum under above act.
Pay Benjamin Hatcher only surviving child.
Certificate to A. Perrin Esq. Edgefield CH. So. Carolina
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Senate Chamber
26th January 1854
I hereby certify that while a Judge in the State of South Carolina, I became acquainted by a individual investigation with many facts connected with the Hatcher family. Lucy Hatcher was the widow of Capt. Benj.  Hatcher, and as such, drew a pension from the government. I'm entirely satisfied that Benjamin Hatcher is ^her only surviving child who now resides in Edgefield District South Carolina, and I am further satisfied that his Father Capt. Benj. Hatcher was a Captain in the Revolutionary War and commanded a mounted corps.
A. P. Butler
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South Carolina 2059
Lucy Hatcher widow of Benjamin Hatcher who died on the year 1781 of Edgefield Dist. in the State of S. Carolina who was a Capt. in the [blank] commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt. commanded by Col. Hammond in the S. Carolina line for 18 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of S. Carolina at the rate of 360 Dollars Cents [crossed out], per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1837.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of May 1839 and test to Hon. F. W. Pickens, H.R.
Arrears to the 4th of March '38 2520.00
Semi-annual allowance ending [illegible] 180.00
$2700.00
Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book A Vol. 2 Page 172
M Thompson Ap 29/53
same May 5/53
Same Oct. 11/53
A. Perrin 26th Jany. 1854
James A. Black Nove. 10/56
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Lucy Hatcher
S.C. D 1836
Power of Attorney
Anderson
Esq July 26 - 52
Presented by John T Bryant
July 19/52
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Know all mean by these presents that I Benjamin Hatcher of Edgefield District South Carolina, executor of Lucy Hatcher, widow of Captain Benjamin Hatcher, do hereby [illegible] constitute & appoint John T Bryant of the City of Washington District of Columbia my true & lawful Attorney for me & in my name, place & stead, to claim recover & receive for me as executor aforesaid any sum or sums of money due and unpaid to me, as executor as aforesaid, on account of arrearages or increase of pension which may have been due to the said Lucy Hatcher widow as aforesaid, under military pension laws, to file such notice as maybe required, make such arguments as may be required to secure & collect such sums of money as may be found to be due as aforesaid & to receipt for the same as my said Attorney. Hereby notifying & confirming all that my said Attorney may legally do or cause to be done in the premises.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 15 day of July 1852. Benjamin Hatcher
Witness 
Lewis Jones
Lewis Holloway
State of South Carolina
Edgefield District
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State of South Carolina
Edgefield District
I Thomas G Bacon Clerk of Court for Edgefield District do hereby certify that WW Adams whose genuine signature appears above was at the time of signing the same a magistrate in & for the District & State aforesaid duly commissioned & sworn & that his acts as such are [illegible] to full [illegible] & credit. [Illegible] whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of my office at Edgefield Court House this 15th day of July A.D. 1852
Tho. G. Bacon
Clk. E.D. So. Ca.

Lucy Hatcher SC 1836
Power of Attorney
Anderson
Esq July 26-52
Presented by John T Bryant July 19/52
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Edgefield Court House
So Carolina April 18 1859
Dear Sir
Will you allow me to trouble you for some information.
In the spring of 1853, A. Perrin Esquire received from the pension ^office an amount of money for the revolutionary service of Capt [Captain] Benjamin Hatcher deceased. This money was received for Benjamin Hatcher the only surviving child of the said Capt Benjamin Hatcher deceased. What I wish to know is simply this did Benjamin Hatcher receive this pension as the executor of his said Father or did he receive it as the only child. Mr. Perrin is under the impression that he received it as the only surviving child, and not in his representative capacity. If so please tell me under what particular act of Congress does the surviving child take to the exclusion of grand children. 
I represent the surviving child and the grand children claim that they are entitled to the respective shares of their parents. Please inform me in this respect also and forward to me your bill.
Do examine and report fully and speedily.
Very Respectfully
H T Wright
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on the 27 March 1838. Lucy Hatcher widow of Benjamin of S.C. made a Declaration of which the following is an abstract. Husband was a capt. [captain] of a Volunteer Co [company] S.C. ma, Col [Colonel] LeRoy Hammond's Regt [regiment] Brigadier Gen [General] Andrew Williamson's Brigade. In consequence of old age and failing memory, she could not give a distinct & connected narrative of his services. Did not know the period when he entered service as a soldier, but did clearly recollect that he served as Capt. aforesaid in the campaign against the Cherokee Indians in 1776 and continued holding his commission until his death in 1780 - In the spring of 1779 he & his co. [company] composed portion of a detachment of volunteers under Col Hammond which marched to Spirit Creek, GA & broke down the bridges to delay the British under Col Campbell, then advancing from Savannah to Augusta, this detachment followed Col. Campbell in his retreat from Augusta, attacked and captured a body of British & tories in a stockade fort at Paris Mills. Shortly after this a detachment under Col. Hammond was sent to intercept a party of British & tories a few miles south of Ogechee River, the enemy was attacked, defeated, horses and baggage taken, 21or 22 Indians slain & scalped, several British agents taken. [illegible] are
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American officer slain. Capt Hatcher & co [company] in this detachment. Soon after this Gen Williamson moved toward the west to resist Col Prevost, who was threatening Charleston. They marched to Summerlands Ferry on Savannah River. Thence over the Edisto River, crossed, arrived on the banks of Ashley River, Capt Hatcher & co with Gen Williamson. Capt Hatcher & co engaged in the battle of Stone Creek, 20 June 1779. From that time until siege of Augusta 1780, Capt Hatcher continued in arms, but she could not state what particular service he performed during the interval (between 20 June 1779 & siege of Augusta 1780). In the summer or autumn of 1780, Capt Hatcher was with the forces collected by Col Clark & remained with him during the time they besieged the British garrison in Augusta, until forced to retract by the approaching Col Cruger. He continued in service until Nov 1780. In that, the following month, he was slain while in a reconnoitering expedition. He was a resident of Edgefield District when he entered the service. Had no documentary evidence of his service. Married before the war.
Proof
S. Hammond Sr. swore that he was well acquainted with Benj Hatcher, husband of the applicant, that said Hatcher bore the commission of Capt in the S.C. ma. (superior officer stated as above). That he did not know certainly that Hatcher was [a capt crossed out] ^in service until 1789 (1779)
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though he had heard it, that he was a capt [Captain], that in the first week of Jny [January] 1789 (1779) Hatcher was a capt of a volunteer ma [militia] co [company] and that he continued in service as capt until his death in 1780, Nov [November], making a service of 22 months. He describes his service at spirit creek & as set forth in widow's declaration.
Jacob Wise says he was within a few miles of the battle at Stono's Ferry, that Col Hammond's Regt [Regiment] was in [illegible] battle & he believes Hatcher was there, but he knew he served from 1 Jny [January] 1779 to that July following. Deponent had always been informed that Hatcher had entered the service at an early period of the war & served until his death. That S Hammond (above affiant) was a Col [Colonel] & Sammuel Hammond says he knew Hatcher served as Capt from first week in Jny 1779 until the fall of Charleston May 1870 -- 16 months, that his widow's Declaration accurately describes his service. That after the battle at Stono's Ferry Hatcher joined the forces under Maj [Major] Hugh Middleton of Col LeRoy Hammonds Regt stationed at [illegible] Ferry, Savannah River, that he was in service from 1st Oct [October] 1780, when he joined the forces under Col Clark about to besiege Augusta. Down to his death making 2 months more, in all 18 months.
Upon the above affidavit his widow was pensioned for 18 months as captain. Application is now made for an increase of six month, and the following affidavits are filed, Joshua Hammond, Sept. 1852, says he (deponent) was a soldier of the Revolution, a volunteer under Capt John Hammond.
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whose co [company] was raised in 1776 & commanded by Col [Colonel] LeRoy Hammond, Gen [General] Andrew Williamson, that Benj. [Benjamin] Hatcher was a Lieutenant in said co and continued in that grade 18 months, or 2 years. He was afterwards promoted to a captainey under the officers mentioned above, & was in the battles & services as set forth in widow's Declaration, that in a battle near "treerun" Capt [Captain] Hatcher took a 36 pound cannon from the British, that some time in the year 1780 he was killed as he was marching to join the army under Gen. A. Pickens. 
Nov. '52 Joshua Hammond (aged 100) says he (deponent) was a Lieut [Lieutenant] in a co [company] commanded by Capt Jno Carter S.C. Ma. [militia] under Col LeRoy Hammond, that he was also a Capt at the close of the war, that he was intimately acquainted with Capt Benj Hatcher who volunteered under Capt Jno Hammond, Col LeRoy Hammond Regt [regiment] at the commencement of the war, that he was made Lieut under Hammond immediately upon his entrance in the army and continued to serve as Lieut until sometime in the year '77 that sometime in '77 he was promoted to a Captainey & continued to serve as a capt until sometime in the year 1780, when he was killed, he thinks he served from 76 to the day of his death as Lieut & Capt
Upon an examination of Joshua Hammond's pension papers, I find that though he so recollects dates now, he could not 20 years ago tell the year he entered the service, though his witnesses saw him serving in 1779,
Additional obituary of Joshua Hammond
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South Carolina
Edgefield District
The undersigned James P. Carroll being first duly sworn deposes that he as the attorney of Lucy Hatcher prepared the papers connected with her application for a pension an account of the service of her deceased husband as a soldier in the war of the revolution. That the said Lucy Hatcher was at that time in extreme old age, and her recollection of former events so confused and uncertain that this deponent in drawing up the narrative of her husband's service deemed it advisable to state nothing that was not supported and sustained by the evidence of some other person, that the only witness with whom this deponent conferred & whose testimony was affixed to sustain her application, was Col [Colonel] Samuel Hammond, that Joshua Hammond whose evidence has been recently procured at that time resided without the limits of this state, that this
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deponent had no conference or communication upon this subject with the said Joshua Hammond and this deponent is satisfied & believes that the said Lucy Hatcher had no communication upon this subject with the said Joshua, and that she relied entirely upon this deponent to draw up the papers and prepare the evidence connected with her said application for a pension and that the husband of the said Lucy for whose services and pension was granted to him, was as this deponent remembers Benjamin Hatcher, who was said to have been a captain in the regiment of Col LeRoy Hammond. Subscribed & sworn to this the 25 Decm 1852 J. P. Carroll
[illegible signature]
[illegible signature]
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South Carolina
Edgefield District
I Thos G Bacon Clerk of the Court of [illegible] for the district and state aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Thos G Key Esq before whom the written affidavit was subscribed was at the dates thereof a Magistrate for the district and state aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn [illegible] my hand and seal this [covered] day of December A.D. 1852
Tho. G Bacon clk
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abstract of the case of Lucy Hatcher and evidence
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1838 Lucy Hatcher widow of Benjamin, says [illegible] ? was a capt [captain] of a volunteer Co. [company], S.C. Ma. in Col [colonel] LeRoy Hammonds Regt [regiment] Brigadier Gen [general] Andrew Williamson's Brigade 1776-1780.
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South Carolina
Edgefield District
Before me, Robert Anderson, a Magistrate in and for the District aforesaid, personally came and before me appeared Joshua Hammond, who being duly sworn according law say on oath that he was a soldier in the Revolution War, a volunteer in Captain John Hammonds Company; which company was raised immediately after the war was declared, in the year of 1776, and commanded by Col [Colonel] Leroy Hammond & General Andrew Williamson; and further deposes that Benjamin Hatcher was a Lieutenant in said Captain John Hammonds Company aforesaid and served in said Company as Lieutenant eighteen months to two years; Afterwards the said Lieutenant Benjamin Hatcher was promoted the rank of Captain in the Mailitia, and was also under the command of Col Leroy Hammond & General Andrew Williamson, during which time Captain Hatcher was in many battles, towit, at Parris's Mills on briar creek in the state of Georgia; at spirit creek, in the state of Georgia; at or near the high shoars of Ogeechee, in the state of Georgia with the Creek Indians, from thence came in to South Carolina and marched to & faught [fought] in the Battle at Stono, against the British; and
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Hammonds Company aforesaid and served [illegible] in said Company as Lieutenant eighteen months to two years; Afterwards the said Lieutenant Benjamin Hatcher was promoted the rank of Captain in the Mailitia, and was also under the command of Col Leroy Hammond & General Andrew Williamson, during which
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again fought the British and Indians at & near Augusta Geo. & to my knowledge said Captain B. Hatcher & his Company faught [fought] the British at or near the tree [illegible] in this district or Barnwell District S.C. in which [illegible] Capt Hatcher captured & took from the British a large cannon, 36 pounder, which deponent has seen [illegible]; afterwards Captain Hatcher marched to join the main army under Genl [general] A. Pickens, and on way was killed by the Tories some where in the upper part of South Carolina on the waters of Saluda River, sometime in the fall of the year 1780. This deponent further says that the aforesaid Captain Benjamin Hatcher dcd [deceased] left a widow Lucy Hatcher & survived five living children, towit, John Hatcher, Benjamin Hatcher, Mary Hatcher, Elizabeth & Lucy Hatcher, all of whom he knew well. This deponent further saith, that the said Captain Benjamin Hatcher served as captain in the Revolution War as aforesaid about two years & six months. Joshua Hammond
Sworn to before me at Hamburg S.C. this 18th day of Sept. 1852
Robt Anderson
Magistrate
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State of South Carolina
Edgefield District
I, Thos G Bacon, clerk of the court of C.P. & G.S. [Common Pleas and General Sessions] for the district and state afforesaid, do hereby certify that Robert Anderson, before whom the written affidavit was made, and whose official and genuine signature is hereunto subscribed, was at the date thereof, a Magistrate in and for the district and state afforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn. I in my official capacity, further certify that Joshua Hammond, the subscriber to the written affidavit is now more than eighty years of age, that he is at this time a Revolutionary Pensioner, and personally entitled to credit as a witness, and as a man of integrity and truth.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, as clerk for said district, this thirteenth day of September A.D. 1852
Tho. G. Bacon
Clk E.D. So. Ca.
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April 29, 1939
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/MCS [handwritten signature]
Benjamin Hatcher, W.21275
Rev. F. C. Symonds
Central Presbyterian Church
Hyden, Kentucky
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War record of Captain Benjamin Hatcher of Edgefield County, South Carolina, whose widow was Lucy. 
You were furnished on April 19, 1934, the record of Benjamin Hatcher as shown be the papers on file in pension claim, W.21275, and this office has no further data relative to this officer and his family than that contained in letter sent on said date.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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August 10, 1911
Hon. [Honorable] Benjamin R. Tillman,
United States Senate.
My dear Senator:
In reply to your letter dated the 7" and received the 9" instant, I have the honor to advise you that in the claim of Benjamin Hatcher Wid. File No. 31,375, Rev. War, it appears that soldier, while residing in that part of South Carolina which was afterwards included in the Edgefield District, was appointed in 1776, a Lieutenant on [crossed out] ^in Captain John Hammond's company, Colonel Le Roy Hammond's regiment South Carolina Militia, and in 1777, was promoted Captain in the same regiment.
He was in the battles of Paris Mills on Briar Creek, Spirit Creek, Georgia; Ogeechee, Georgia; Stono and Tree Run, South Carolina; and at the Siege of Augusta, and while engaged in a reconnoitering expedition in November or December, 1781, he was fired upon by a British party in ambuscade, shot through the body and killed.
He married before the War, in Henrico County, Virginia, Lucy --- who died February 5, 1839, in Edgefield District, South Carolina. She was allowed pension on an application executed March 27, 1838, while a resident of said District and State, aged ninety-three years.
Their children were, John, Benjamin, Mary, Elizabeth and Lucy. In 1851 Benjamin was the only surviving child.
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Wid. File No. 21,275, --2
The Revolutionary War pension records fail to afford any information in regard to Drury [illegible], Stephen Tillman, James Butler, and William Dozier as described by you.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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March 19, 1912.
Hon. [Honorable] James F. Byrnes
House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. Byrnes:
In response to your letter dated the 18" and received the 19" instant, and the enclosed letter of Mrs. B. J. Day of Trenton, South Carolina, I have the honor to advise you that for information relative to the payment of the Revolutionary War pension of Lucy Hatcher widow of Benjamin Hatcher, Wid. File No. 21,275, you should apply to the Auditor for the Interior Department, citing the following data: Ctf. No. 2,059, issued February 7, 1854, under 3d Section of the Act of July 4, 1836, at the South Carolina Agency.
There is no provision of law which would entitle the descendants of said soldier to pension on account of his services.
Very respectfully
J L Davenport
Commissioner.

Mrs Day said there was interest due of the pension and that a grandson James Hatcher collected some of the pension on 1858. [handwritten]
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Information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Benjamin Hatcher W. F. 21275
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.
CAPTAIN. COLONEL.
1776 Lieut. John Hammond LeRoy Hammond SC
1777 Capt LeRoy Hammond
and while ingaged in a reconnoitering expedition in Nov. or Dec. 1780[crossed out]^1 he was fired upon by a British party in ambuscade and shot through the body and killed
Battles engaged in, ^Paris Mills on Briar Creek, Spirit Creek, Ga. Ogeechee. Stono and Tree Run S.C. Siege of Augusta
Residence of soldier at enlistment, in that part of S.C. later included in Edgefield Dist.
Date of application for pension, Mch. 27, 1838. Her claim was [illegible]
Residence at date of application, Edgefield Dist. S.C.
Age at date of application, She was 93 years of age
Remarks: Soldier married in Henrico Co. Va. before the war, no date stated. Lucy who died Feby 5, 1839 in Edgefield Dist. S.C. Children John, Benjamin, Mary, Elizabeth and Lucy. Benjamin was the only surviving child in 1851.
Ogeechee was in 1782
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Lynchburg APR 12 1:30 PM 1934 [postal stamp]
Pension Bureau
Washington D.C.
RECEIVED APR 14 1934 [stamp]
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First Presbyterian Church
Lynchburg, Virginia
April 12, 1934
Dear Sir:
Will you be so gracious as to send me a full copy of the pension deposition of Lucy Hatcher the wife of Captain Benjamin Hatcher who was killed during the Revolutionary War in Ninety Sixth District or what became Edgefield South Carolina.
Yours most appreciatively,
F. C. Symonds
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HYDEN MAR 14 10 AM 1939 [postal stamp]
THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS
Veterans Administration
Washington D. C.
RECEIVED MAR 16 1939 [stamp]
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Central Presbyterian Church
Hyden, Kentucky
[illegible crossed out] 
3-17-39 [initials handwritten]
Dear Sir: 
Please send me ^the record of pension provided Lucy Hatcher for the service of her husband Captain Benjamin Hatcher of Edgefield Co. South Carolina, giving place of their marriage, as I understand it has, and naming children etc
The pension number I believe is W 21,275.
With sincere appreciations, 
(Rev) F. C. Symonds
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SIXTY-SECOND CONGRESS
ARSENE P. [illegible], LA., CHAIRMAN CARTER GLASS, VA. JAS. A. DAUGHERTY, N.C. J.F.C. TALBOTT, MD. JOHN J. KINDRED, N.Y. GEO. W. TAYLOR, ALA. JAMES F. BYRNES, S.C. JOHN M. MOORE, TEX. EDW. B. VRCELAND, N.Y. JAS. P LATTA, NEBR. HENRY MCMORRAN, MICH. CHAD A KORBLY, IND. GEO. D. MCCREARY, PA. WM. G. BROWN, W. VA. EVERIS A. HAYES, CAL. ROBT. J. BUCKLEY, OHIO. JAS. MCKINNEY, ILL. ROBT. L. DOUGHTON, N.C. FRANK E. GUERNSEY, ME. HUBERT D. STEPHENS, MISS. PHILIP P. CAMPBELL, KANS. RUFUS W. FONTENOT, CLERK. A. M. MCDERMOTT, ASST. CLERK.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY
WASHINGTON
March, 18, 1912.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
My dear Sir:-
The enclosed letter signed by a constituent of mine has been referred to me and I send it to you asking if you can give me the information asked for in the letter. If you can, I will appreciate it very much.
Yours very truly,
James F. Byrnes

CHEIF'S DESK
ARMY AND NAVY
MAR 19 1912
DIVISION 
U. S. BUREAU OF PENSIONS
[stamp]

LAW DIVISION RECEIVED
MAR 19 1912
[stamp]
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3-871
RECORD DIVISION
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Briefed by A [illegible] 21/2/11
Claim No.
Certificate No.
Claimant Elizabeth Betsy
Soldier Benjamin Hatcher
Service S.C. 
Additional Service Rev.
No [blank] claim, State records [blank], 191[blank]
No claim, combination records [blank], 191[blank]
REMARKS:
No Wid. as above
" Reg. [illegible]
[Illegible] W. File 21275 Lucy Widow
Capt. Benjamin Hatcher
No claim Benj Hatcher
6--1044 Chief Division
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United States Senate,
Washington, D. C.
Trenton S.C. August 7th 1911
Hon. J L. Davenport
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
My dear Sir, 
Please send me the military records of the following, 
Benjamin Hatcher w.21,275
Drury Mims 0 [appears to be notation by recipient]
Stephen Tillman 0 [appears to be notation by recipient]
James Butler Sr. None of SC Serv [appears to be notation by recipient]
James Butler Jr. " " [appears to be notation by recipient]
William Dozier, 0 [appears to be notation by recipient] of Edgefield District South Carolina who served in the Revolutionary War or such of there as applied for pensions. Thanking you for your kindness, I am
Yours very truly
B. R. Tillman

[stamp on the side]
AUG 9 -1911 U. S. BUREAU OF PENSIONS
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Bureau of Pensions
Washington D. C. 
Sirs
I have been advised to write to you to ask for what information you can give me [illegible] to the services of Capt [captain] Benjamin Hatcher a soldier of the Revolution who was killed about 1781 at Rutledges Ford [illegible] in Laurens Co.
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S.C. He entered the service as Lieut [lieutenant] and was promoted as Capt. [captain] and was killed leading his company in an engagement at that place against the British. His widow Elizabeth or Betsy --- I think her name had received a pension for many years after his death. As these are well known facts as family history to the sixth generation in at least a half-dozen branches I want an
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official record of the same and if they cannot be found in the Pension Dept. can you direct me where I should search for him in the files of [illegible] in the state and where are said files dept. I ought to be able to get the company number in official records at the State House but don't know where to begin the search. Any information will be appreciated by one of
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his descendants. 
Respt.
Mrs. Susan B Hill
Edgefield 
S C 
17 Feb. 1911

[stamp]
RECORD DIVISION FEB 20 1911

[stamp]
FEB 20 1911

[stamp]
PENSION D U. S. OFFICE FEB 20 1911