Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 11088, John Faucheraud Grimke, S.C.
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Service
S. C.

Grimke, John Faucheraud
Mary

W. 11088
{B. L. [??] 888-450-Lt. Col.
{No date of issue
{No papers.
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4.400
South Carolina
Mary Grimke decd late
widow of John F. Grimke decd
[who was a pensioner under the Act of]
and who died on the 9th August 1879
of Charleston in the State of So. Ca.
who was a Maj. & Lt Col. in the [blank] commanded
by Captain Conn of the [Regt] commanded
by Col -- in the So Carolina
line for 2 years.
Amt. due payable to the children

Inscribed on the Roll of So Carolnia
at the rate of 600 Dollars - cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. [???]
21st July 1839 One day after death

Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of Octo
1839 and sent Henry
Grimke Charleston So. Ca.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1839 $1.800.00
[Semi-annual] allowance ending 21st
July 1839 the day after [????] 228.33
$2028.33

{Act July 7,}
(1838.        }

Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk
Book A Vol. 2d Page 193
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payments to be made
to John Grimke Frederick
Grimke Henry Grimke
Charles Grimke, Mary Grimke
Sarah M. Grimke Ann R. Frost, Eliza G.
Grimke and Angelina
Wild children
of said decd.
[??] thee to Pen agt 215 [????] 18/[??]

Paid at the Treasury to 2d
of the 9 children under the
Act of the 6th April 1838
from4th March 1836 to 21.
July 1839. Agent notified
15 April 1841
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No. 11
Certificate of
Marriage by
Rev. Dr. Gadsden
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The State  [State Seal] South Carolina.

By His Excellency, Patrick Noble 
Governor and Commander-in-chief in and over the State aforesaid.
To all to whom these Presents shall come.

Know Ye, That Fisher Gadsen Esquire, whose Seal and Signature appear to the instrument of 
Writing, hereunto annexed, is one of the Justices of the Quorum, assigned to keep the Peace for the said State, and Notary Public, Commissioned by Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of the State.

Therefore, all due Faith, Credit and Authority is, and ought to be had and given to his Proceedings and Certificates as such.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and caused to be affixed the Seal of the State, in the City of Charleston & State aforesaid the Nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Thirty Nine and in the Sixty fourth year of the Independence of the United State of America.

Patrick Noble
By the Governor.
M Laborde
Secretary of State.
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"1784" (one thousand seven hundred & eighty four)
"Octr 12"(twelve) "John Fauchercan Gremkie
& Polly Smith"

I depose and say that I [???] the Office of
Rector in St. Philips Church, Charleston So Carolina,
and that the above is a true extract from the
parish register of said church, with the exception
that the date of excepted in letters, whereas
in the record it is expressed in figures.

Witness my hand this 14th day of March 
in the year of our lord 1839.
C E Gadsden
Rector of St Philips Church
in Charleston So Carolina

Sworn to before me}
this 10 April 1839}
Fisher Gadsden 
N. P. Q. U.
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State of South Carolina
City of Charleston

On this 19th day of September
one thousand eight Hundred and thirty
nine personally appeared before me Thos.
Lee Judge of the District court of the
United States for the District of South
Carolina Henry Grimke a [???]
sole qualified  Executor of the late  Mrs.
Mary Grimke, in [???] life time [????]
at the time of her death, a resident
of the city aforesaid and aged about
Seventy six years, who being  first duly
Sworn according to law doth on his
oath make the following declaration 
in order to obtain for the children of
the said Mary Grimke the benefit of
the provision made by the act of Congress 
passed the 7th of July 1838 entitled our
act granting half pay and [?????] to certain
widows - that his mother the said 
Mrs Mary Grimke who departed this life 
on the twenty  first day of July Eighteen
hundred and thirty nine was at the
tie of her death the widow of the 
late Honble John F. Grimke or colonel
in the fourth Regiment of the South
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Carolina line who entered the service
at the beginning of the of the war as a
Lieutenant of Artillery and ran successively
through all the stages to the grade
of Colonel as aforesaid, all of which will
now appear by the Documents [????]
with submitted. That the said Col. [????]
was present at the battle of Stono at the
storming of Savannah and the siege of
Charleston and, of course, fell into the 
enemies ranks when that city capitulated.  
That the service prior to that time
in which he was engaged was performed
first under General Howe &
then under General Lincoln.  That while
a prisoner the British having properly infringed
the terms of the capitulation he 
the said John H. Grimke considering
his parole as at our end escaped [???] joined
the array of General Green, who
approved his conduct & granted since a
detachment with which he returned to
[?????] point and in sight of the British
in Charleston captured the guard
and liberated every American officer
there in the hands of the enemy at that
port, with a number of whom he returned
to General Green and continued
in the service until the close of the war.  
That the said John F Grimke,
as appears by the Moultris Hist. of the Revo
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lution in South Carolina joined the
army of General Green as above stated
on or about March 1781, and, in the
language of Wm Read a surgeon in the 
Army of the Revolution "did serve through
"out the war and terminated as Colonel
"of a Regiment" That the said John
F. Grimke was a native of the city of
Charleston and resided there until his
death in August Eighteen hundred
and nineteen -
This Deponent further declares that his
mother the said Mary Grimke as appears
by the certificate of the Rev.  [??] Gadsden 
herewith[?????] was married
to the said John F. Grimke on the
twelfth day of October Seventeen hundred
& Eighty four /1784/ that her husband the
aforesaid John F. Grimke did on the ninth
day of August and year above stated-
That she was not married to him prior 
to his leaving the service but that the
marriage took place previous to the first 
day of January 1794 - Seventeen hundred
and ninety four viz at the time above
stated and that he was married
 a second time but died the widower of
the aforesaid John F Grimke on the 
21st day of July 1839 as above mentioned
leaving surviving her four sons viz
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John, Frederick, Henry, and Charles,
and give daughters viz Mary, Sarah,
Ann, Eliza, and Agnelina, all of
whom are still living-
Hy Grimke

On the 1st page 4th line from }
the bottom Eight altered to nine }
On the 3d page 12th line from }
the bottom died underlined }
Tho. Lee Dist Judge
of the U States
for So. Carolina

No. 1 6129
Declaration &
Certificate of the
Court
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6129

Mary Grimke
S. C.

Act 7. July 38

m 84. d 19--

[???] died 21 July 39-

[???]
2 yrs. Major & Lt. Col
of Artillery

v 600 $ from 4
March '36 to 21 July
39 - John - Frederick-
Henry- Charles-Mary
& Eliza C. Grimke &
Ann R. Frost. & Angelina
E. Welch children
of Mary Grimke decd
widow of Jno. F. Grimke
Major & Lt. Col &c
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So Carolina District
City of Charleston

I do hereby certify that the above are the
names of the only living children of the late Mrs. Mary 
Grimke and it is within my knowledge that 
she died the widow of the late Col Grimke
on the 21 July 1839-
Tho. Lee Dist
Judge of the U States
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Grimke, John F.
SC W 11088

Col Grimke
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St Stephens 10th Ap 1782

Sir
Yours of the 6th came to hand, I am
sorry to inform you that the negroes of those 
[illegible] and took from, are all gone to Ch
town  Sarah Colletons are also gone in
the woods, or town but believe the [illegible]
I could wish to have thirty or forty
[illegible] more, Just now, to send up [illegible]
Camden & past in Comp. - when
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No. 3
Gen. Gadsden
17 Augt 1778

Major Grimke

John F. Grimke
S. C.
W. 11088
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Major Grimke
of the Continental Artillory
Two Sisters

[illegible] Roberts

[illegible] Roberts
64
No. 5
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John F. Grimke
S. C.
W. 11088
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Copy of Capt. Sims White
Recruit & Orders for Lieut.
John Faucheraud Grimke
No. 2
21. Nov. 1775
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Recruiting Orders for Capt. Sims White of
the South Carolina Artillery Regiment

These are to authorise you by Beat of Drum or
otherwise to raise in any part of this Colony or in the
Colonies of North Carolina Georgia or Virginia as great a 
number of able Men as your can, not exceeding one hundred
toward compleating a Regiment of Three Hundred to serve
in the pay of the Colony of South Carolina
You are not to inlist any men under five feet 
five inches high or above Forty years of age You are to
take great care the Recruits have not ulcered legs that
they be sober & active men, You may give or cause to be 
given to every man at the time of his inlistment Twenty
five pounds Current money of this Colny by way of
Levy money
You are to inlist no man for a less time
than Six months certain, nor for a longer than two years nor
are you to discharge any man after having been
duly inlisted upon any pretense whatsoever
You are to use your best endavors to discover
such persons as shall at any time desert and  cause
them to be apprehended and lodge informations before
the Council of Safety against all persons as shall
be concerned in harbouring concealing or assisting
deserters knowing them to be such or buying or
receiving
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Receiving their [illegible] Clothes or accoutrements
You are frequently to Report to the Commanding
Officer of the Regiment the [illegible] you meet with in recruiting and every matter relative to yourself & parties
You are to be careful not to promise the making any man a Sergeant but in consequence
of his good behavior
You will inform the men that the Congress
will make provision for the Support of all persons
who may be maimed or disabled in the Public Service
and also of the Families of such as may be killed in
the like Service
You are to give a Copy of these Orders to
every Officer under your Command, and he is
hereby enjoined Strictly to comply with them
Charleston
21 Nov 1775
Ow Roberts [illegible] 
of the So Carolina Artillery Reg
NB: The Officers will be allowed three pounds five shillings for every
Approved Recruit towards defraying their Recruiting Expences [Expenses, sp]
Every Recruit who brings a good blanket with him to headQuarters
will be allowed One Dollar for the same
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N3 to endeavour to get the Recuits layout part of their
Levy Money in Cloaths [??]
As soon as your have procured ten or twelve recruits
you are to make a Lance Serjant of the one
most fit to take care of the rest, and send them
down to head Quarters
Sims White, Jr
3d Capt in the So. Carolina Regim
of Artillery
copy
for Lieut John Faucherad Grimke
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No. 4
Gnl Gadsden
18 Augt 1778
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[???]
I shall be obliged to you to deliver this
enclosed as directed - I have sent a Book
as a pretense of sending to you -
I have not [????] the Book
I am
[illegible sentence]
Chris Gadsden
Tuesday morng 18 Augs. 1778

Major Grimke's Compliments to
General Gadsden, is [many] much concerned that
his being compelled to leave town immediately
upon some business of importance [illegible]
him of an opportunity of [illegible] the general:
the major has therefor returned
the letter & requests the general excuse for
20 [illegible], & that he will not consider him as partial since
the Letter he [illegible] for: Gadsden yesterday was an official
act.  Tuesday morning
Augt 18: 1778
[illegible signature]
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Purysburgh 11th March 1779. -
Sir
                       I have General Lincoln's express request to inform you
He does not recollect whither he, or one of his aides Directed the
Letter for you at Mathews' Bluff; but let it be which way it may,
it was an intire Mistake.  I have his Order also to Assure you in the
most express terms There is no part of your Conduct comes to his
Knowledge since you left this, to the present Moment, he does not
fully approve of - your Historical Facts were the last that came to
hand of your Letters.  I will only observe, they are Curious, but by
no means [illegible].  What will be done in the Matter, I know not; but
I believe, not much - Fate and I have been been imployed in a similar
Manner.  My works are at Tubly's for three peices of Cannon in two
Batteries; which will be most useful, I will not pretend to say, but
in some, the [illegible] me greatly _ This Moment Genl. Lincoln
introduced a Colo: Laumoy to my acquaintance.  He is an Engineer
on the Continental Establishment; by him I've received a Line from
[illegible], who I find to be in Charlestown.  You will also receive One
from him  forwarded by this Gentleman.  Rutherfords People I
apprehend are not [illegible] of the service 'till the 10 of next Month &
I am Mistaken if they are suffered to Depart before that time, [illegible]
to our inlisting them, I think there is but little probability.  Your-
Letters for Charlestown shall be forwarded in the Morning, an
Opportunity for that purpose opportunely offers.  I remain with
regard -
                     Sir
                            Your most Obedt: servt
                                                              O W Roberts
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Genl Gadsden's Comptr. to Major Grimke  He
is sorry this note was delivered to him open
but if he has any Thing to deliver to him
in private, he takes his usual [????] this 
afternoon between five & six round Hampstead
quite along where he may have an[y] opportunity
to deliver any messages he plans, which He
may depend he shall not take [illegible], & w[??]
if private will be as unsuspected a way as any he can devise
Monday afternoon
17th Augt 1778
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Gen Marions
Letters 7 July 1782

No. 9.

Colo. J. L. Grimkin

7 July 1782

Sir
Mr John Brockington h[??]
[????] me your letter to him 
When I cam from Jacksonbourg
at the [illegible] of the Gen Assemble
I found Mr. Brockington during Duty 
in my Brigade under Col. John
H[illegible], who informed me that he had
joined him two or three days after
I left the Brigade, to meet the 
General Assemble, since that he
has done constant duty, & is nearly
finished the six months Duty required 
by law - I am very clear that his
name [illegible] not been in the [illegible]
Act if it was known he was
out & doing duty with us, as some
other had been Left and of that [????]
who was in the same [illegible]
I mean to represent Mr. Brockington
cuse in the next [illegible] of the assembly
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Grimke no Doubt, but he will
be considered & the force of the present
Law will be made void-
I am Yr [???]
Fran Marion

Col. Grimke
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6129
Suspended
See let to Henry
Grimke Octo 10. '39
South Carolina
At 7. July '38
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William Read
Surgeon Gen.
No. 10

H. Grimke Esquire
273
East [illegible]
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H. Grimke Esquire
273
East [illegible]

William Read
Surgeon Gen.
No. 10
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[illegible illegible  illegible] veto 6" 4th
1839

H. Grimke Esqr

Dr. Sir
I received your letter of inquiry
respecting the services of your Father in the army of the United
States - That he did serve throughout the war & terminated
Col. of a Regiment I am certain, & I think that he was made
Prisoner of War at the full of Charleston - I believe likewise that
he was one of those [illegible] at [illegible] Point - so prominent
& conspicuous in Man as John Faucheraud Grimke must be
spoken of in [illegible], & other History, to which I would refer you 
at the south in 1776, or to the north until 1780, & knew nothing of
this country except by rapid visits on army business until Gen
Greene marched in to the conquest in 1752 - Coll. Grimke was
a member of the [illegible] of v, & is probably further identified 
by accepting among a number of others, the compromise with congress, called commutution - I am sorry that I cannot be
more personally particular expecting your respectable v[illegible]
Coll. Samuel Warren may probably be able to give you
something in army detail - I reply speedily that you may
have time, & opportunity to refer to Col Warren, if necessary
I am
Dr. [illegible]
with high regard [illegible] William Read

N. M. Judge [illegible] may
give you some useful information
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So. Carolina Dist.
City of Charleston
Septr 19 1839

Doctr Wm Read who wrote the written
letter appeared before me the day &
swore to the Truth of the Facts therein
contained
William Read
Surgeon & Physician
Genl. Hospital U. S.

Tho Lee Distr.
Judge of the 
U States for
So. Carolina
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Moultries Revolution
in Carolina & Georgia
Vol 1. at pg 232
" -         "    -323
" -         "    - 495
Vol 2 - to - 15
" -        to - 17 
" -        to - 175 to 193
" -        to - 200-201
" -        to - 372
" -        to - 373
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Charleston 19 Sept 1839

George Wm Crump Esqr
Yours of the 7th [illegible] came to [illegible]
in due course & I have since [illegible]
[illegible] the collection of the evidence in
relation to the claim about which
I wrote on the 4th.  I have now the
honor of submitting to you, on behalf
of the surviving children of the late
Mrs Mary Grimke, [illegible] documents
in support of her claim under the
act of congress of 7. July 1838.  They are
numbered from 1 to 11 and to theirs I
would respectfully ask your attention.
The letters from Lieut. Col Roberts
who fell at the Battle of Stono on
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20 June 79, from General Gadsden and
from General Marion an originall which
I found among my fathers papers, and
I presume it is wholly unnecessary for
me to say that the author of Moultrie's
History of the Revolution referred to, was
William Moultrie or Major General
in the army of the United States & 
one of the most distinguished officers in
the Southern division during that eventful
period.  There officers [illegible] certainly
have been perfectly cognizant of the rank
of Col. Grimke & would hardly have given
since the title unless he held the 
Commission
You say "the [illegible] accruing from [illegible]
1836 to the  day of the death is payable by
have to the living children above." Does
this mean that there children are
entitled in their own [illegible] heirs, or
does the amount due pass under the
[illegible] clause of the widows will?
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If a reference as to myself or any of
the family is necessary I would [illegible]
the Hon. Joel R Poinsett
Very Respectfully
H Grimke
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Mar 24 1840
Mr Greene

J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC
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Charleston 21 March 1840

Sir
In the case of Mary Grimke decd
(Act 7 July 1838), please inform me if I am 
authorized to pay her children separately
their respective proportions of the sum due, or
whether they are required to unite in receiving or
authorizing the receipt of the entire sum due.
I make the inquiry as some of the parties have
applied for their proportions - If divisable
I presume the sum must be equally divided
among them.
I am very respectfully
Your Ob Serv
A Spears
Pen Agent

J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pension
Washington 
DC
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Charleston 5 Oct 39

George Wm Crump Eqr
Actg Comr Pens.

Sir
In reply to your favor of 7th
Sept. I, on the 19th transmitted to you
Sundry documents No. [?] fr. 1 to 11. in  relation to the claim under the act
of July 1838.  As I have not had the
honor of hearing from you twice,
I write now weekly to request that
you would let me know whether
you received my communication [illegible]
closing the papers aforesaid
Very Respectfully
H. Grimke
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Conn,

Rev Widow, &c.
File No. 11088
Mary Grimke decd
late wid. of
John F. Grimke decd
Maj. & Lt. Col. So Carolina
Act: July 7" 1838
Index: - Vol. A, Page 288
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office
March 16th 1821

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain 
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Two of Nine chidn of Mary Grimke,
decd, a Pensioner on the Roll of the S. Carolina Agency, at
the rate of Six hundred Dollars and Cents
per annum, under the law of 7 July 1838, has
been paid at the Department, from the 4th of March 1836,
to the 21st July 1839.
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Oct. 17, 1839

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Com Pens.
Washington
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Charleston 14 Oct 39

J L Edwards Esqr

Sir
The following are the 
names in full of the late
Mrs Mary S Grimke's surviving
children viz
1. John Grimke
2. Frederick Grimke
3. Henry Grimke
4. Charles Grime 
5. Mary Grimke
6. Sarah M. Grimke
7. Ann R. Frost
8. Eliza C. Grimke
9. Angelina E Welch
Yr. obt. Servt.
H. Grimke
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City of Charleston
So. Carolina
Oct. 11 1839

I am not personally acquainted with
the christian names of all the Family of
the late Judge Grimke but I have no
more doubt of the Fact that I have
of my own name

Tho Lee
Distr. Judge
of the US