Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9586, James Carr Veale, S.C.
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
S.C.

Veale, James Carr
Levina

NUMBER
W.9586

CONTENTS
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3358

Indiana

James Carr Veale
of Davies in the State of Indiana who was a private in the company commanded by Captain ______ of the Regiment commanded by Col. Picken in the South Carolina line for 2 years from 1780.

Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 80 Dollars ______cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of December 1832 and sent John Van Trees Washington Indiana
Arrears to 4th Sept. 1832 
Semi-Annual Allowance ending 4 March 1833
120
40
$160
[Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk,
Book D Vol. 9 Page 198
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Dead (S.C.)
let 9 December 1839 L.
W-9 W. Davies
Settle to Hon. J. W. David and 3d
Audit for 19, January 1841.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838 from 4 Sept. 1838 to 15 January 1839. the day of his death agent notified 23 February 1841.
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7861
Indiana Madison
Levina Veale
widow of James Carr Veale SC who was a private in the Revolution husband died 16 day of January 1839
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 33 Dollars 41 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March , 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of July, 1846 and sent to 
William V. Breese 
Senate United States
[Act of March 3, 1843]
& 7th June, 1844]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 221

Reported
limit resolution
see envelope within

Date of Death not on AB
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of Indiana
County of Davies ] S.S.

On this 18th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before the  Honorable Amory Kinney present Judge of the circuit court of said county James Carr Veale, aged Sixty nine years and an old inhabitant of said county and state, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration: That agreeable to a family registration he was born in March seventeen hundred and sixty three in Louden County Virginia; that in his youth his father removed to what was called Chester District, South Carolina, and in the year seventeen hundred and eighty, he volunteered in a company of Militia, in said county under Captain H. Mingsworth, of col. Brandons regiment which was attached to Col Pickens command, and he marched with said troops, to obstruct & harass the English and Torries under Tarlton; then retreated , with General Morgan
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troops, towards the company; the regiment turned, and joined General Sumpter's command
at Granby, when the British surrendered; that he was detailed in a company sent to Buckhead to aid Col. Lec to reduce that fort, which often a small act engagement they effected; that he then marched under Sumpter to Orangeburg, which place after its defeat General Sumpter took possession of, and he with the regiment under Colonel Hampton were or denied to proceed to Dorchester where after some fighting the Americans retreated; that he then joined the army at Ninety Six under General Green, after retreating from Ninety six he became afflicted with small pox, and was unfit for duty for six weeks, when he again joined his company at Orangeburg from whence the regiment was or deemed by Col. Pickens to march towards Charleston to Bacons Bridge, and he there continued on duty some months; that he was afterward, kept in motion scouting the country against the Tories, when the said regiment company with Col Picken's troop and joined by others from Georgia
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proceeded to break up the Torries of the hostile Indians in the Cherokee country. which object they effectively accomplished and drove the Tories from their refuge what shortly after this exploit peace was declared and here accepted a written discharge from his Lt. Col. William Farr; that he was in actual service from the time he volunteered in 1780 up to the proclamation of peace except during a short sickness; that he believes his name may be found in the proper office of South Carolina in the certificate issued for his pay, on recurring which he thinks he determined up his discharge; that in the yar eighteen hundred & seven he removed from the Union district South Carolina to the Indian Territory, where he has been since resided in what is now Davies County. That he has no documentary testimony but he trusts the evidence hereunto annexed will be deemed sufficient to secure the renumeration he now seeks. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. 

James C. Veale
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Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid]
John Van Trees Clerk

On the day and year aforesaid personally appeared in open court Job Hammond of said county, aged ninety one years of reasonable soundness of mind & memory and a revolutionary pensioner, who being duly sworn saith that he belonged during the year 1780, to the company of Capt. Hallingsworth, mentioned in the foregoing declaration and that said James C. Veale the declarant, belonged to the same company and was in actual service during the greater part of the time mentioned in the aforesaid declaration to this affidavits knowledge as therein mentioned this affidavit particularly recollects that said declarant was as he has stated marched against the English & Torries under Tarlton and was at Buckhead there marched to Orangeburg was at Ninety six and at Bacons Bridge as more fully stated in the foregoing declaration and that it was generally understood at that time & this affidavit from his knowledge of this declarant fully believes, that the said declarant, James C. Veale, served this country as set forth in the said foregoing declarative and is entitled to the remunerative he now seeks and this deponent further saith not.
Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day & year aforesaid.
John Van trees Clerk
Job (X his mark) Hammond
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ON the day & year aforesaid personally appeared in open court Jarret Taning aged 70 years, of sound mind and memory, who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that he served during the years 1780, & 1781 in a regiment of Militia ( in the Revolutionary war) commanded by Col. Edward Lacey in South Carolina and during said service this regiment to which he belonged, was frequently united to & joined with the regiment commanded by Col. Brandon mentioned in the foregoing declarations, and that this deponent well recollects that the said declarant, belonged to Capt. Hollingsworth company in S. Carolina Col. Brandons regiment and that he frequently, and at divine times 4 places in said years 1780 & 1781 saw the said declarant Veale in service in said Company & Regiment & especially remembers being with said declarant at the following places mentioned in the aforesaid declaration, to wit.
At Granby, at Buckham & at Orangeburg and that this deponent & declarant were raised boys together and that although this deponent was not with declarants all the time in said service answering to the fact of this colonizing to different regiments yet from his knowledge of the said Veale, & the facts above stated in this deposition, he has no hesitation in stating his unqualified belief that the said declarant served his country as being and as fully as is set forth in the foregoing declaration and that every fact therein stated is true.
and further saith not sworn to & subscribed in open court the day & year aforesaid.
Jarret (X his mark) Taning
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to different regiments yet from his knowledge of the said Veale, & the facts above stated in this deposition, he has no hesitation in stating his unqualified belief that the said declarant served his country as being and as fully as is set forth in the foregoing declaration and that every fact therein stated is true and further saith not sworn to & subscribed in open court the day & year aforesaid.

Jarret (X his mark) Taning
John VanTree Clerk
The Horschel Humphrey and Ephram Thompson, Alain Hodges of the said court resident in said county, hereby certify that one and all will acquainted with Jeb Hammond who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have & subscribed to in open court the day & year aforesaid.
Michael Murphy Court Judge
John VanTrees Clerk
Ephraim Thompson
And the said court do hereby declare this opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and they can further certifies that they are well acquainted with Jeb Hammond & Jarret Taning, depositions are above set forth and that they please full evident in their statements.
A. Kinney P.A.P.
Ephraim Thomason
Michael Murphy
I John Vantrees clerk of this Circuit Court of Davies County, Indiana, do hereby certify that the foregoing contained the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of James Carr Veale for a pension.
The testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my office this eighteenth day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
John VanTrees Clerk
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State of Indiana
Davies County set]
ON this twentieth day of January Eighteen hundred forty personally appeared before the undersigned Judge of the Probate Court in and for said county, a court of record Levina Veale, a resident of Veale township in the county aforesaid aged seventy seven 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 papers July 7, 1838, entitled " An Act granting half pay and pension to certain widows", that she is the widow of James Carr Veale, who was a private in the army of the revolution; who was a pensioner of the United states at the rate of eighty dollars per annum from the fourth of March 1831 during his natural life; that the said James  Carr Veale resided in Union County in the state of South Carolina from the time he greeted the service in the army of the Revolution until the spring of the year eighteen hundred and eight when he removed to the state of Indiana; that he arrived at Vincennes Indiana, on the tenth day of June eighteen hundred and eight, that on the 13th day of the same month that he removed to the present residence of this deponent in Veale township in Davies County Indiana where he continued to reside during his natural life; that she is now so infirm in mind and body that her memory does not serve her sufficiently to state with accuracy the service the said James Carr Veale performed in the army of the revolution but that reference as to that, may be had to the document any evidence on file in the War Department she further declares that she was married to the said James Carr Veale, in the month of October the precise day she cannot certainly say, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty two,  (and that she knows of no record or documentary evidence by which to prove said marriage and that the fact is stated to entitle her to the benefit of pasol testimony that her husband the aforesaid James Carr Veale died on the fourteenth day of January in the year eighteen hundred and thirty nine at the county and state aforesaid that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place pri
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previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four size at the time above stated and that she has not married since the death of the said James Carr Veale but continues to be a widow.
attest from attorney forewith
Levina (X her mark) Veale
subscribed and sworn to before me the clerk above written
William G. Cole Judge of the probate Court of Davies County Indiana

I certify that the above declaration was made subscribed and sworn to at Veal Township Davies County Indiana, the said Lavina Veal being by reason of bodily infirmity unable to attend the probate court of said county.
William G. Cole Judge of the Probate Court of Davies County Indiana

State of Indiana
Davies County]
I Jon VanTrees, clerk of the Probate Court in and for said county do certify that William G. Cole is now and was in the 20 day of January, 1840, the Probate Judge in and for said Conty duly commissioned and qualifies, and that the above signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said court at Washington, this 18th day of February, A.D. 1840.
John VanTrees Clerk
Probate Court of Davies County Indiana
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Memorandums

James C. Veale was born in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty six 13 November

Elener Veal was born the 15th of October in 1791

William Sherman Veale was born 30th of August 1814

Miles L. Veal was born 27th of February 1816
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Memorandum

Jary Veale was born 8th of November 1817

James A. Veale was born 22nd of November 1819

Mary Ellen Veal was born the 11th of September 1823

Elizabeth Veale was born the 15th of February 1826
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11548
James Carr Veale
(alias Neale)
Indiana
from 1780-private
a year $80
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11,548

BRIEF in the case of James Carr Veale, alias Neale.
of Darries County in the State of Indiana
(Act 7th June, 1832)

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

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

3. How old is he? 69 years

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

Period

Volunteered in 1780

Duration of Service
Years, Months, Days.

I was in actual service up to the proclamation of peace.

Rank
As a

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

Militia
Gen.
Capt. Hollingsworth
col. Brandon's Regiment
Col. Pickens
General Sumpter
General Green

5. In what battles was he engaged?

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Chester District So. Carolina

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

Traditionary evidence & by living witnesses.

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?

* Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence n the case above mentioned.

Examining Clerk.
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State of Indiana
Davies County Open Court

On this the 23rd day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty six (1846) personally appeared before the subscriber an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county and state Sarah Hawkins a resident of said county aged sixty seven years past who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath say that she is a sister of James Carr Veale deceased who was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States that she can recollect that her brother was married to Lavina Towns when she was but a small girl but from her being so young when the marriage was and her old age now she can not state the year or date of the marriage precisely but is satisfied that it must have been as long as sixty years ago. that they were married in the state of South Carolina and has lived together as man and wife from that time until his death which was six or seven years ago. and that since her brothers death the said Lavina has lived a widow and is still a widow that the said James Carr Veale deceased and the said Levina Veal his widow have children which she thinks must be at least fifty nine years old for she has been acquainted with them ever since their marriage further she saith not subscribed and sworn to on this 23rd day of April A.D. 1846 before me.
Sarah (X her mark) Hawkins
W.C. Elliott J.P.
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I the subscriber the Justice of the Peace before whom the foregoing affidavit of Sarah Hawkins was this day taken sworn to and subscribed is a witness of truth and credibility which i certify from my own personal knowledge.
Given under my hand this 23rd day of April 1846
W.C. Elliott J.P.
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State of Indiana
Davies County] S.S.

Be it remembered that on this 23rd day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county and state James Carr Veale a resident of said county and state aged fifty nine years who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he is a son of James Carr Veale deceased and Levina Veal now living in this County that his father the said James Carr Veal deceased drew a pension at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum for several years before his death and that his mother the said Levina Veale made application for a pension some two or three years ago but has not been able to obtain it yet. He further states that his father died on the 14th day of January 1839 in the county of Davies and state of Indiana. He further states that the annexed family record is a correct statement of this deponents age and also contains the births of his children. He further states that he has often heard his father the said James Carr Veal deceased and his mother the said Levina Veale say that they were married in the state of South Carolina some time in the year 1782 or 1783. further states that he has one brother living that was born in the year 1784 further saith not subscribed and sworn to on the day and year above written before me.
James C. Veale
W.C. Elliott J.P.

1786
59
1845
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I the subscriber before whom the foregoing affidavit of James Carr Veale was this day taken sworn to and subscribed do hereby certify that is a man of truth and credibility which I certify from my own personal knowledge given under my hand this 23rd day of April 1846.
William C. Elliott J.P.

State of Indiana
Davies County} Act

I John VanTrees Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the county aforesaid do certify that William C. Elliott Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn to isa acting Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and qualified for said county, and that the foregoing signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office, at Washington, in the county aforesaid, this 23rd day of April A.D. 1846
James VanTrees Clerk

Hon. J. Semple
Senate U.S.
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April 10, 1935

xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

BA-J/EEL
George Lashley-S.3184
James Carr Veale-W.9586

Mrs. Jennie Hart
Corner 7th and South Streets
Washington, Indiana

Dear Madam:

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, s. 3184, based upon the military service of George Lashley in that war.

George Lashley was born in 1738, Prince Georges County, Maryland. The names of his parents are not shown.

While residing in said Prince Georges County, George Lashley enlisted in August, 1776. served as a private in Captain Jared Bristow's Company, Colonel Francis Deakins' Maryland Regiment and was in an engagement in the state of Pennsylvania, name of place where said engagement took place not shown. He was discharged in February, 1777, having served six months.

After the Revolution, he continued to reside in Prince Georges County, Maryland, for about six years; then moved to Frederick County, Maryland where he lived until 1790; then moved to Mason County, Kentucky, and resided there until 1812; thence to Davies County, Indiana.

He was allowed pension on his application executed March 20, 1834, while a resident of Washington Township, Davies County, Indiana.

Three are no data as to soldier's family.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, George Lashley (S.3184), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
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George Lashley-Certificate No. 26637, issued April 11, 1834, rate $20 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Indiana Agency.

..............................

James Carr Veale
W. 9586

James Carr Veal was born in March, 1763, in Loudon County, Virginia, and in his youth moved with his father to Chester District, South Carolina. The names of his parents are not shown. It is not stated that he ever resided in Maryland.

James Carr Veale volunteered in Chester District, South Carolina, sometime in 1780, served as a private in Captain Hollingsworth's Company, Colonel Brandon's South Carolina Regiment and was discharged when peace was declared, exact length of service not shown. He was in engagements at Granby, at "Buckhead", Orangeburg and Dorchester and went on an expedition into the Cherokee country and destroyed their towns.

After the Revolution, he lived in Union District, South Carolina; in 1808, he moved to Vincennes, Indiana, arriving there on June 10, of that year and on the 13th of that month, moved to Davies County, Indiana.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 18, 1832, while residing in said Davies County, in which county he died January 14, 1839, as stated by the widow and a son or January 15, 1839, as shown by an official paper in the claim.

The soldier married in October, 1782, Lavina or Levina Towns. They were married by a magistrate of Union County, South Carolina.

Soldier's widow, Lavina (pensioned Levina) was allowed pension on her application executed January 20, 1840, at which time she was aged seventy-seven years and resided in Veale Township, Davies County, Indiana.

Children are referred to, one child having been born in 1784.

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The only name of a child that is shown is James Carr Veale, Junior, who was born November 13, 1786, and in 1846, resided in Davies County, Indiana. It was stated that he was a soldier against the Indians on the Wabash for twelve months. No further details given.

The names and dates of birth of the following children of James Carr Veale, Junior, are shown.

Thomas Veale born August 30, 1814
Miles L. (?) Veale born February 27, 1816
Sary Veale born November 8, 1817
James A. Veale born November 22, 1819
Mary M. Veale born September 11, 1823
Elizabeth Veale born February 16, 1826

the following also appears:
Elenor Veal born October 15, 1791

In 1846, Sarah Hawkins, a sister of the soldier, James Carr Veale, was aged sixty-seven years and resided in Davies County, Indiana: the name of her husband was not shown.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Levina Veale, widow of James Carr Veale (W. 9586), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:

Levina Veale, widow of James Carr Veale, Certificate No. 7861, issued July 18, 1846, rate %55.41 per annum, commenced March 4, 1843, Act of March 3, 1843, Indiana (Madison) Agency.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

                         -3-
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House of Reps
February 28, 1840

Sir

I herewith submit the evidence required to establish the claim of Mrs. Veale of Davies Co., Indiana to a pension or matter to establish her marriage as required by your favor to me dated in December last. Please advise me of further action upon this claim when it shall be had.

Very respectfully,
your obedient servant

John Davis

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Washington June 6th 1843

Dear Sir,
I herewith enclose the declaration of Mrs. Levina Veale and respectfully request an early action.
I am, very respectfully your most obedient observant
D. D. Addison


J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office

January 21st, 1841.

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The widow of James Carr Veale, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Madison, Indiana: Agency, at the rate of Eighty Dollars and ____Cents (and cents has been crossed out in document) per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1838. to t the 15th January 1839, the day of his death.

Respectfully yours,

Albion K. Parris

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present
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6680
Lavina Veale
of James C. Veale
Indiana

Married before 1794
husband died 15 January 1839
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State of Indiana
Davies County Act}

I John Van Trees Clerk of the Court of Probate holden at Washington, in and for said County do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said court that James Carr Veale was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum; was a resident of the county of Davies in the state of Indiana and died in said county in the state aforesaid, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty nine on the fifteenth day of January; that he left a widow whose name is Lavina Veale.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Washington: this 18th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty

Jon Van Trees Clerk of the Probate Court of
Davies County Indiana
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Washington July 8

Dear Sir

I am requested to lay this factored paper before you and which some early attention & reply.

Respectfully
S. Breese

J.L. Edwards
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Hon. James L. Edwards
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Washington Sept. 24, 1832

Sir:

Enclosed you have three vouchers one in support of the claim of James C. Veale, one of Josiah Culbertson, and one of William Horrall. Will you have the goodness to inform us whether the papers on file in the case of the application of Marc Knight, alias Marc Sharper, alias marc McIntosh, forwarded in March or April 1831, will be acted on in the Department under the present pension Laws? I asked for the above information two or three months since but received no reply.

I am very respectfully
your obedient servant
John Van Trees

Hon. James L. Edwards
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House of Reps. December 6, 1839

Sir

James Carr Veale late of Davies County Indiana a pension died January 15th, 1839, at the time of his death he was entitled to and was in the habit of servicing a pension of 80$ per year. There was due him at this time of his death the amount accruing from the 4th of September to the 15 of January following I desire to know who can draw that sum and where shall it be drawn.
The widow of Mr. Veale deceased is still alive and believes herself entitled to a pension under the law. She was married to her late husband in 1782
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and that she is able to prove her marriage.

Until you have goodness to advise me whether there is not an exerting law under which Mrs. Veale can draw her pension if she complies with the law in making out her case. If you have any forms applicable to her case please send me one.

Very Respectfully your
obedient observant
L. W. Davis

J. L. Edwards Esq.
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Reported 
Joint Resolution
of 23 January 1843

11024
Indiana
Levina Veale
Widow of James Carr Veale
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 14th January 1839 of Davies County in the State of Indiana who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain ________ of the Regiment commanded by Col. Picken in the Revolution line for 16 mo. 19 days.
Inscribed on the Roll of Madison at the rate of 55 Dollars 41 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of July, 1846, and sent Hon. V. Breese
Senate United States

Total amount, 277.05
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by U. Rumpkin clerk,
Book D. Vol. 1 Page 431
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Revolutionary Widow, & c.
File No. 9586
Levina Veale
Wid. of James Carr Veale
Private Revolutionary War
Act. March 3, 1838 & June 17th 1844
Index:-Vol. M, Page 299
[Arrangement of 1870]

August 13, '98
Mrs. Mary E. Stillson
Los Angeles, Cal.

1906 Dec. 12 History to V.M. Evans
1907 January 10 History to J.C. Allen
1907 Oct. 8 History to Mary C. Shirley aw
1912 July 17 20 Miss K. K. Viele letter in R file 10947 Philip Viele c
1916 Nov. 3 20 Ensley W. Jonson c.
1935 April 10 History to Mrs. Jennie Hart Letter in case Leo Lashley S.31814 Elh.
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Los Angeles California
June 20th, 1898

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:

Will you kindly give me the record of my great-grandfather James C. Veale who was a soldier of the Revolution from South Carolina. He drew a pension. Hoping you will give it your attention at the earliest date possible.

I am respectfully yours

(Mrs.) Mary E. Stillson

812 Kensington Road
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[Official stamps on document as follows below:]

June 30 1898
Department War & Navy
Received

Pension
U.S.
Jun 27 1898
Office
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[Document is a Postcard]

Unted States
Commercial
Washinton D.C.
Dec 6
6pm
1906
Indianapolis
Dec 5
5pm
1906
Postage One cent

The space above is reserved for postmark
Postal Card
The space below is for the address only

Bureau of Pensions
Pension & Records
Washington D.C.

O.M. S.
C
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Kindly send me copy of record of service in the Revolutionary War of James C Veale of Carolina who is buried in Washington Davies County Indiana.
Respectfully
Vista M. Evans
620 E. 13th St.
Indianapolis
12-5-06

(stamped: War Division Dec. 7 1906 Files)
[ Pension U.S. Office Dec. 7 1906]
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Department of Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Held for 15 days, return to
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Not in Directory
Washington D.C.
Dec 13 4pm
1906

Dec. 15 1908
Indianapolis
Dec 31
1129am
IND

Mr. V.M. Evans
620 E. 13th St
Indianapolis
Indiana

No such number 04

[Note: all dates and times are stamps from Postal Service and Pension office. Document is an envelope]
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Hastings, Allen & Hastings
Attorneys at Law,
Rooms 14-16-18 Temple Court
Washington, Indiana

M.S. Hastings
J.C. Allen
E.E. Hastings

Washington, Indiana, January 2, 1907.

Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:

Will you kindly furnish me the military service of James C. Veale a soldier of the American Revolutionary War. His home was in South Carolina, but I am not sure he was enlisted from that colony. He was a pensioner either under the Act of 1818 or 1832.

Yours very truly,
J.C. Allen

(Stamp:)
Pension
U.S.
Office
Jan. 4 1907
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Office Audit or Interior Dept.
Aug 16 1907
12 2 4pm
O.W. & V DIV.
Sep. 11 1907 Files
[ Above dates, times, offices are official stamps on document]

Washington, Ind.
August 14, 1907.

(Mrs.) Mary C. Shirley.

Requests the service of certain pensioners of the War of the American Revolution.

Mk

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Office of the Auditor for the Interior Dep't.
September 10, 1907.

Respectfully referred to the Commissioner of Pensions.

J.C. Rett
Acting Auditor.
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Daughters of the American Revolution
[ letterhead]

Washington Indiana
August 14, 1907

Auditor of Interior Department
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:

Will you please hand the enclosed list of pensioners of the War of the American Revolution to the proper clerk that the blank showing their service may be filled and forwarded to the address below thus obliging.

Respectfully yours
(Mrs.) Mary c. Shirley,
807 McCormick Ave.
Washington, Indiana

Sectary D.A.R.

ack. Aug. 26/07 H.

{Stamped: with the following at bottom of document.}
 Office of Auditor for Interior Dept.
Aug. 16, 1907
Pension Division
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William Baldwin
John Camron
Josiah Culbertson
William Fuller
William Horrall
James Kever
Moses Knight
Charles Kilgore
George Lashley
Benjamin Peachy
Cudbard Tisdale
Jas C. Veale

Pensioners from Davies County Indiana in 1834.

{Stamped: Pension Office U.S. Sep 11}
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Johnson
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February 1 received sec

Emsley W. Johnson
Attorney-At-Law
Rooms 707-712 Law Building
Indianapolis
New phone 4467  Old-Main 5787

October 11-1918

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:

I wish to obtain all the data and information I can with reference to the enlistment and record of James Carr Veale, in the Revolutionary War.

His widow applied and obtained a pension Sept. 18-1832 from Veale Township, Davies County, Indiana and the widow's claim is numbered File number 59586 Revolutionary War in 1780 from Chester Dist. South Carolina.

Will you kindly advise me of the fee and give me such information as you may have.

Thanking you in advance for this favor, I am 

Yours truly,
Emsley W. Johnson

EWJ.

{Stamped: U.S. Pension Office Oct. 18, 1916}
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In reply to your request of __________, received_______ a statement of the military history of James Carr Veale soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

Date of Enlistment
1780

Length of Service.
Served until Proclamation of Peace

Rank
Private

Officers Under Whom Service was Rendered
Captain, Colonel

Capt. Hollingsworth
Colonel Brandon

State
S.C.

Battles engaged in, X

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Chester District, South Carolina

Date of application for pension, Sept. 18, 1832, His claim was allowed.

Residence at date of application, Veale Township Davies Co. Indiana

Age at date of application, born in March 1763 in Louden Co. Virginia

Remarks:
soldier married in Union co. S.C. in Oct. 1782 Lavina (or Levina) Towns. He died January 14, 15, 1839 in Davies Co. Indiana & she was allowed pension on her application executed January 20, 1840, while 77 years of age & a resident of Veale Township, Sometime 1784 name not sated son James Carr Veale, born Nov. 13, 1786 & Elenor born Oct. 15, 1791, child and Thomas Born Aug. 30, 1814, Miles L. born February 27, 1816, Sary born Nov. 8, 1817, James A. born Nov. 22, 1819, Mary M. born Sept. 11, 1823, and Elizabeth born Feb. 16, 1826.

Respectfully,
Commissioner.

d-2856
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April 10, 1935

XXXXXXXXXXX

BA-J/EEL

Mrs. Jennie Hart
Corner 7th and South Streets
Washington, Indiana

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of James Carr Veale and George Lashley, both of Maryland, soldiers of the Revolutionary War and pensioners; also, record of William Fuller, probably of Virginia or South Carolina.

A careful search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and no record found of a claim for pension or bounty land having been made to the United States based upon the military service in that war of a William Fuller, as described by you. The records of George Lashley and James Carr Veale are furnished herewith.

Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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State of Indiana
Davies County C.

Be it known that before me an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared Richard Palmar a resident of said county aged seventy years past who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he became acquainted with James Carr Veale in the state of South Carolina Union County about forty five years ago and has been personally acquainted with him ever since, and also was well acquainted with his father who is now dead and his mother who is now living in this county and that he also knew the said James Carr Veale, father drew a pension for several years before his death and have often heard him speaking about his services in the Revolution War. That this deponent has lived in this county and state since the year one thousand eight hundred and seven (1807) and that the said James Carr Veale settled in this county the next year or in the year 1808 and that this deponent thinks he must have been twenty one or twenty two years old when he first came to this county as he was a man grown or size when he came here, that this deponent is convinced from many circumstances that the said James Carr Veale must be fifty nine or sixty years old for when he first became acquainted with him in South Carolina about forty five years ago he was a boy about fourteen or fifteen years of age as near as he can judge that the said James Carr Veale was a soldier in the late war against the Indians on the Wabash for Twelve months, that he has children which must be thirty one or two years old from the best of his recollection that this deponent was well acquainted with said
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Veale's father James Carr Veale deceased and his mother Levina Veal in the state of South Carolina and has often heard him and this deponents father talking about their services in the Revolution War and that the said James Carr Veale deceased and his wife the said Levina Veale always lived together as man and wife from the time he first knew him until his death which was a few years ago further this deponent saith no subscribed and sworn to this 24th day of June 1846} Richard Palmer
William C. Elliott J.P.

I W. C. Elliott the Justice of the Peace before whom the foregoing affidavit of Richard Palmer was this day taken subscribed and sworn to do hereby certify that the deponent is a credible witness.
Given under my hand this 24th day of June 1846

William C. Elliott J.P.
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Comptroller Generals Office
Columbia S.C. June 12th 1846

Book X
Indent 3167
Issued 27th June 1786 to James Veale (in the alias James Neal) for twenty five pounds 17s 1 1/2 D Sterling for Duty in Brandon's Regiment for account audited Private L.25:17:1 1/2D Intr L 1:16:2D.

Book X
Account 3167 Issued Veale (in the alias signed James Veal) for Militia duty in Brandon's Regiment since the fall of Charleston private Anderson's return sterling L 25:17 1 1/2D

I certify the above to be a true copy from the records in this office
For Comptroller General
Jarry Black

Fea $3}
Paid}

$55.40
H. now 100 per

over
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M Manly Esq.

The enclosed is all that is credited to James Veale or James C Veale It is just written as on the other page. If that is not the man, I will keep to your credit $3 worth about $2.62 1/2 cents here which will suffice though the regular fee for indent, a page, & certificate is 43_and where but an indent & certificate $2_&c. All satisfactory I presume that James Veal is an omissible ________
Yours respectfully
Jarry Black
Deputy

L25 for private about 350 Days.
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State of Indiana
Davies County} SS

I John Van Trees Clerk of the Circuit Court written and for said county do certify that William C. Elliott Esquire before whom the written and foregoing affidavit was made and subscribed was at the time an acting Justice of the peace duly elected and qualified and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

IN testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Washington the 24th day of June A.D. 1846

John VanTrees Clerk
by E. VanTrees Deputy
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Savina Beal
of James C
Indiana
rejected
let: 2nd March 1840
Hon. J. W. Davis
D.D. Addison July 24 1843
died after papered at 7 July 1838
Hon. Josiah Semple
May 16th 1846
Act 7 July 1838
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James Carr Neal Ind. Act 7 June 1832
at what time paid?
per Officer
March 2 1840
part of 4 Sep. 1838
EH
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State of Indiana
Davies County act}

Personally appeared before the undersigned Judge of the Probate Court, a court of record, in and for the county aforesaid Catherine Wright who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath declare that she was present at the marriage of James Carr Veale and Lavina Towns (now Lavina Veale); that the same was publicly solemnized according to the laws of South Carolina; that the said James Carr Veale and the said Lavina were married by Col. David Hopkins a magistrate of Union County in said state in the month of October as she believes in the year seventeen hundred and eighty two and that they the said James and Lavina lived together as man and wife from the time of their marriage aforesaid till the death of the said James Carr Veale, on the fourteenth day of January Eighteen hundred and thirty nine; and that the said Lavina has not married since the death of the said James Carr Veale but continues to be a widow.

Catherine (X-her mark) Wright

Subscribed and sorn to before me this twentieth day of January eighteen hundred and forty.

William C. Cole 
Judge of the Probate Court of Davies County Indiana

I the above name judge of the Probate court of Davies County Indiana do certify that the above named deponent, Catharine Wright is a competent and credible witness and that her testimony is entitled to the highest respect.

William C. Cole Judge of the Probate
Court of Davies County Indiana
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State of Indiana
Davies County} S.S.

I Jon Van Trees Clerk of Probate Court in and for the county aforesaid do certify that William C. Cole before whom the within deposition was taken is now and was on the day of the taking thereof the Probate Judge in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified and that the within signature, purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court of Washington this 18th day of February A.D. 1840.

John Van Trees Clerk
Probate Court of Davies 
County Indiana
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[ Stamped: Washington Ind. May 24]

Paid
23 cents

D.D. Addison, Esq.
Washington City
D.C.
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1843
Declaration

In order to establish the agent of the acting generals of the 3rd March 1843 granting pensions for all years to certain widows who have received pension made in act of July 7 1838.

State of Indiana
County of Garret} S.S.

On the twenty second day of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & forty three personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and qualified for said county of Davies, Lavina Veale a resident of the county aforesaid aged eighty one years. Who first being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain her benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress papered on the 3rd of March 1843 presenting pensions to widows for husbands who: served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of James Carr Veale who was a private in the army of the Revolution, the regiment in which he served she is unable to state she further declares that she is still a widow, and that she made application for a pension under the act of Congress of the 7th of July 1838. Which said application was rejected in circumstances of her not being a widow at the time of the papered of said part named act but she never married that application under the pensioners of the resolution of congress of the 16th August 1842 and claimed the arrears of five years pension due her at the rate of eighty dollars per annum and for further particulars refers to her papers now on file at the pension office of the United States.
Levina (X-her mark) Veale

I certify that the foregoing declaration was subscribed and sworn to before me on the day and year aforesaid by Lavina Veale the widow of James Carr Veale deceased who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States and I am well acquainted with the said
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James Carr & Lavina Veale upwards of twenty years aged and have knew the said James Carr Veale since that period to the day of his death and the said Lavina Veale to the present date, and that they were always regarded as reputable and highly respectable citizens.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 22nd day of May A.D. 1843
James Calhoun J. Peace (seal)

State of Indiana
Davies County} S.S.
I John Van Trees Clerk of the Circuit Court for the said county of Davies do hereby certify that James Calhoun is a magistrate as within stated duly commissioned and qualified for said county and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this 23rd day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three 

Jon Van Tees Clerk
of the Court of Davies
County Indiana
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No. 11680 
Act 43 8952
act 44 438
H. Reps 470

Levina Veale
widow of James C.
Ind.
Act 7 July 1838 and Joint resolution of 23rd January 1845
Admit 11 month 19 days for
$55.41 per annum

Admit act 3 March 1843
and 17 June 1844
$53.41 per
Hon. S. Breese
House of Reps
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11,548.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of James Carr Veale (alias Neale) which require further proof or explanation.

1. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes

V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? No

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed?  And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes, it has device/
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Certified by two respectable Judges

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? No

XIII.  If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Certified by living witnesses.

XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she or they are persons of credibility? Certified by the Court.  Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?

XV Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?  Yes

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And if not, which of them is not so answered?

EXPLANATORY NOTES.

QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A.B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For ____year ____months and _____days. I served as a _____. For _____months and ____days, I served as a ______; and for such service I claim a pension."
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3.

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.

QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.

In case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.

In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
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State of Indiana
Davies County Court
One this 23rd day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty six (1846) personally appeared before the subscriber an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county Levina Veale a resident of said county and state aged eighty two (82) years past who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath depose and say, that she is the widow of James Carr Veale who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and drew a pension at the rate of $80 per annum for a number of years before his death. That the said James Carr Veale her deceased husband died on the 14th day of January in the year 1839. She further states that some time ago perhaps three years ago she made application for a pension at the war office of the United States but has never been able to get her claim allowed. And that she now makes application again and claims the benefits of the provisions made by the acts of Congress papered July 7th, 1838, the 3rd of March 1840 and the 17th June 1844. granting pensions to certain widows. That she has not ever married but continues a widow to this date and as for further particulars on relation to her claim she refers to her former declaration and evidence now on file in the pension office at Washington City further she saith not subscribed and sworn to on the day and year first above written before me. W.C. Elliott J.P.
Levina (X her mark) Veale