Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23089, Joseph Gaston, S.C.

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(8-1776)
Service 
S.C.
Born in S.C.
Gaston, Joseph
               Jane
Number 
W.23.089
B.L.H.18015-160-55

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23.757
South Carolina
Joseph Gaston
of Chester, in the State of So Ca
who was a pr:  in the compy commanded 
by Captain McClure of the ------- commanded
by __________ in the So Ca:
line for 11 mo: 27 days

Inscribed on the Roll of So Carolina 
at the rate of 39-- Dollars 66 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of Apl 34
and Such Applicant
Ceder Shoals, So Ca:

Arrears to the 4th of March 1834    118.98
Semi-anl, allowance ending 4 Sepr "  19.83

                                                          138.81

                                    {Revolutionary Claim, }
                                    {Act June 7, 1832.       }
Recorded by Nath. Rice Clerk,
Book E   Vol. 6    Page 65.

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C. D. Melton Jany 19/56


118.582 / petitner 5/55
            May 5/55

Jane Gaston, 
Joseph Gaston,
                 Priv

           Capt. Jno Blue

Private

    NC Milia

           Rev. War
S.C.  Feby 48 - 2957

Ao  160 ac's Mar 7/56
                      Dodge

            R
C D Melton
             Chester

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State of South Carolina  }
Chester District               }

On the 22 day of June 1833 personally appeared in open Court before me Peter Wylie, Judge of the Court of Ordinary in Said District, Joseph Gaston, Esq. of the district and State aforesaid aged Seventy years last Feby, who being first duly Sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed the 7th June 1832 that he first entered the Service of his country in the Revolutionary War at about the age of Sixteen Years, and as a volunteer Joined Captain John McClure some time shortly after Buforts defeat (he thinks 5 or 6 days) above Camden in the Waxhaw Settlement, Which appears by Records to have been on the 19th of May 1780 -- and was shortly afterward detached with his aged Father to North Carolina to have him a place of safety as he was become an object of such unbounded resentment having a family of nine Sons all of whom having taken arms in defense of Liberty and Seven of them in engagement on the 28 June when Adml Parker attacked fort Moultrie to come up to Charleston he then Returned and continued under Captain J McClure who was the first time made any resistance to the Enemy in this part of the Country with a few Volunteers, which routed the tories at Beckhamville -- then at Mobley's hunting house these volunteers maruaded dayly and soon joined General Sumpter and was the nucleus of his army when he came to take the commands he was at the fight at Rocky Mount, when they attacked the Enemy in their Strong holds on the 31st July 1780 he was [unknown word] at the Battle of Hanging Rocks, that marks the 7th August where his Capt John McClure, himself and two brothers fell in the front of the action, and one killed dead on the ___ grounds, the other mortally wounded and died of his wounds in Charlotte as did his Captain.  That he himself carried a ball on the bridge of his nose, and went under the left eye and out by the ear which fractured the cheek bone and much injuries the sight of this eye and the mussels of the under jaw which confined him a considerable length of time in the Hospitale in Charlotte - where his brother died.  That as soon as he was thought fit for duty, he joined Genl Sumpter again and was at the battle of Blackstock on the 17th of

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of November, where the General was wounded, and saw his wound dressed the next day at a Mr Goudelocks, when he the Genl had to [illegible] from the army for some time, How long he was out on this separation he cannot well recollect but remembers that he came Home with his [illegible] Captain John Steel and that the army he thinks then dispersed for some time as they were volunteers until the General got able to take the field again.
and in the meantime he was engaged in said Steel company in Scouting against and supprising of the Tories where he caught the Small Pox which he had most violently had and which confined him a considerable length of time.  In the Spring when he was again able to turn out he joined Col Henry Hampton under Captain, or perhaps only Lieutenant William Gaston to collect and Carry provision to General Greens army, he went with a number of waggons and was in camp about three or four days after the Battle at Camden on the 25th April 1781 and was Such from there on a Guard under said Gaston with Major Heran one of Genl Greens aids, to the seige of Fort Motte commonly called Thompsons, which seige is said to have commensed the 8th May 1781.  He remembers the trenches was in considerable forward up as he was in them staid there some days and was disarmised with his officer and the rest of his men divided among them Tories and returned home the latter part of May, which bringed it to at least a year from the time he first turned out.  Previous to this tour it had been generals or all volunteers works as none turned out but the Whigs, but when the Enemy was drawn and retreated down the country, and the people in some measure got settled at home, then come people draftering, but that he does not remmembered that he was drafted or called on afterwards,
That he hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pention or amnesty except the present and the invalid pention granted by the last congress and secured to Invalids by said Congress in the act No 7 Feby 19th 1833 -- and declares that his name is not on pension Roll of the agency of any State or of the United States, except as above excepted.
Sworn to and Subscribed in open court date as above written
                                 Joseph Gaston

Peter Wylie JCOCD

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To the first Interogatory he answers
I was born on the plantation where I now live in said Chester District on the 22nd Feby 1765 as recorded
Ans 2  I find my age recorded by my Father in his family Bible which as my mother informed me she carried off in her lap when she fled from the Enemy and was the only article almost that was preserved from destruction and plunder
Ans 3 _ I have resided all my life time at the Same place where I now live except when I was driven from home by the Enemy and in the Service of my Country
Ans 4th  I always volunteered as before stated
Ans 5th  I had not the opportunity of being much acquainted with the regular officers, not being much with the Regular Army -- but I well remember seeing General Smallwood at Charlotte after Gates defeat & perhaps others.  I knew Genl Sumpter very [unreadable word] Cols Hill and Winn who was both wounded with me at the Hanging Rock, Col Williams who fell at Kings Mountain Col Lacy, Hawthorn, Veratton and Major John Adair, late Governor of Kentucky, and for the circumstances of my services I refer to my previous declarations
Ans 6th   It was not the practice to discharge the militia and Volunteers in writing only to dismiss them
Ans 7  I am so well known in my neighbourhood that I can git any number of men that might be necessary, to testify to my veracity, But I will mention a few of the old revolutionist the Revd Samuel McCreary, who stood by me when I fell in Battle John Bishop, James Harbinson, Esq, Col George Gill & the Honorbe John McCreary who has been a member of Congress.
                                    John Gaston
Sworn to & Signed in open court date shown
               Peter Wylie JCOCD

South Carolina }
Chester District }    Col George Gill came into open court who upon being duly sworn saith upon oath that he is well acquainted with Joseph Gaston above named and has been well acquainted with him from his youth & knew him said Gaston to be a Whig in the Revolutionary War with all his family four of his Brothers lost their lives in the Revolution defending their liberties this deponant furthur saith he was [unreadable word] Gaston at the Battle of Rock Mount, & knows he was wounded at Hanging Rock and he also firmly all said Gastons statements above stated are just & true.
                                    Geo Gill
Sworn to & subscribed this 
1st day of July 1833
in ipen court.
          Peter Wylie J.C.O.C.D.

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South Carolina }
Chester District }
Personally appeared in open Court before me Peter Wylie Judge of the Court of Ordinary of said District Joseph Morrow a soldier of the revolution who being duly sworn saith upon oath that he was well acquainted with Joseph Gaston within named during the Revolutionary War and Saw Said Gaston at Battle of the Hanging Rock when this deponant & said Gaston was both wounded & further saith that the Statement set forth in the within declaration by said Joseph Gaston he believes to be Just & true 
Sworn to & Signed this 3rd }
day of July 1833 in open      }
Court -                }  Joseph Morrow [his mark]

 Peter Wylie J.C.O.C.D.
 South Carolina }
Chester District }  And the court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he Stated & further that the Witnesses are all men of respectability.
                           Peter Wylie J.C.O.C.D.
I Peter Wylie Clerk & Judge of the Court of Ordinary of Chester District So Carolina do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Said court in the matter of the application of Joseph Gaston for a pension
            by testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of office this 22nd day July 1833
                         Peter Wylie J.C.O.C.D.

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V   3271

Jane Gaston
widow of Joseph Gaston
     S.C.
act of July 1838

Marrid Apl 1790
died Oct 10  1836

Allow $ 39.11 per
anm


Roseborough
Chester Village
SoCa

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State of South Carolina}
Chester District             }    SS

On this 7th day of November 1838 personally appeared before me Peter Wylie Judge of the court of Ordinary for Chester District Jane or Jene Gaston a resident of State and District aforesaid aged 70 years who being duly sworn in open Court 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 7th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to Certain Widows:  that She is the Widow of Joseph Gaston who was a private in the Militia of the State aforesaid in the war of the Revolution as the annexed certificates declares that She was married to the said Joseph Gaston on the 20th day of April one thousand Seven hundred and ninty and that her husband the aforesaid Joseph Gaston died on the 10th day of October 1836 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and nintyfour viz at the time above stated
-- Sworn to and Subscribed   }
on the day and year above    }
Written before me in open    }   Jane Gaston
court                                      }
   Peter Wylie JCOCD

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State of South Carolina  }
Chester District               }  On the 8th day of November 1838 personally appeared before me Peter Wylie Judge of the Court of Ordinary of said District, James A Gaston (a Son and Administrator of Joseph Gastons Estate, and produced the record of the Marriage of Joseph Gaston and his Wife Jane or Jeney Gaston which are in the following words Joseph Gaston and Jeney Brown ware Married on Tuseday April 20th 1790:  And the Said James A Gaston Also produced the Record which are in the words following, viz Joseph Gaston died October 10th 1836.  The Said James A Gaston being duly sworn saith upon oath that the above records are Just & true & further saith that the above and within married Jane or Jerrey Gaston still remains the widow of the above and within named Joseph Gaston dec'd whose original pension claims are hereunto attached.
Sworn to & signed date }  James A. Gaston
above in open Court      }
   Peter Wylie  JCOCD

State of South Carolina }
Chester District              }  I Peter Wylie Judge and clerk of the court certify that I was well acquainted with Joseph Gaston decd whose Pen{word incomplete} certificate are hereunto attached and with Jane or Jerrey his Widow Know that She not intermarried Since the death of husband Joseph Gaston and also with James A Gaston above named & know him [unreadable words] pectable Witness & Administrators of Joseph Gastons Estate
[unreadable words] Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & [unreadable words] office this 12 day of Nov 1838  
   Peter Wylie J&CCOCD

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South Carolina Chester District
    I John Rosborough clerk of the Court of General Sessions & Common Pleas for said District do hereby certify that Peter Wylie Esquire who hath signed the foregoing certifficates in this Case [illegible] acting Judge of the court of Ordinary in and for this District and that are due faith and credit are and ought to be given to his attestations as such
       In customary whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office as Chester Court [unreadable word] the twelfth day of November 1838- and in the Fifty third year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America.
                           J Rosborough
                              [unknown word]

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Revolutionary
118.582

Mrs Jane Gaston

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State of South Carolina  }
District of Chester          }
 
      On this ninth ___ day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, before the undersigned, a Notary Public within and for the District and State aforesaid, personally appeared Jane Gaston, aged 87 years, a resident of Chester District, who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of the identical Joseph Gaston, deceased, who was a private in the Company commanded by Capt John McClure in the Regiment of   [blank space]              
commanded by Col.    [blank space]     in the War of the Revolution, that her said husband volunteered at     [blank space]
on or about the    [blank space]   day of     [blank space]    A.D. 17 [blank space[  for the term  [blank space]      and was on actual service in said war for the period of fourteen days, and was honorably discharged at    [blank space]    on the  [blank space]   day of [blank space]    A.D. 17  [blank space]
     She further states that she was married to the said Joseph Gaston, in Chester District on the 20th day of April     A.D. 1790 by one William Gaston  a Magistrate.  That her name before her said marriage was Jane Brown; that her husband died in Chester District on the 20th day of October, A.D. 1836; and that she yet remains a widow.  She further states that her marriage with the said Joseph Gaston are on Record in her private family Record.
       This Declaration she makes to obtain the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3, 1855; and she futher states that she has received no Bounty Land Warrant under the many other act of Congress but states that a pension certificate has issued in her favour having date of 11th day of January forty nine and No. 2951.  Sworn to and subscribed before me.
                      Jane Gaston
D G Stinson  NP.

[Written sideways along the left margin is the following]   See Pension Certificate No 2951 in favor of Mrs Jane Gaston.

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We Jane G Crawford and AJ MCreary, residents of Chester District, South Carolina, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mrs Jane Gaston in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she expressed herself to be.
     We further declare that we were personally acquainted with the late Joseph Gaston, who was  [unknown word] to have served in the War of the Revolution; that the said Joseph Gaston and the claimant lived together as husband and wife to the period of his death, which occurred at or about the time stated in the foregoing declaration -- so recognizing each other and so publicly  [unknown word].  We farther state that the claimant is yet a widow and that we have no interest in this claim. 
      Sworn to and Subscribed this 9th April 1855.
Before me
                                             Jane G Crawford
D G Stinson N.P.                   A J MCreary

   The foregoing declaration and affidavit was sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiant to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she expressed herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.  I further certify that the claimant has shown me a private family record of her marriage with the said Joseph Gaston, and of his death that the same appear to be genuine and are in the following words, viz
"Joseph Gaston and Jeney Brown were married on Tuesday Apprile 20th 1790."
"Joseph Gaston died on Monday the 10th Oct 1836 aged 73 years 8 months & 18 days."
   Given under my hand the day and year first above writen             D J Stinson N.P.

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State of South Carolina  }
District of Chester          }

     I, Wm H. Anderson, Clerk of the Court of Com Pleas and Genl Sessions for said District, do hereby certify that D.G. Stinson, Esquire, before whom the foregoing Declaration was made and who certifies the same, was at the date thereof an acting Notary Public for said District, duly commissioned and enrolled, and that the signatures thereof, purporting to be his are genuine.
     In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of my said office at Chester CH this 27 April 1855.
    Wm. H. Anderson
     CCofCG

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Family Record


Joseph Gaston and          Joseph Gaston Died
Janney Brown married     10th Oct 1836
  Apl 20th A.D. 1790

John Brown Gaston
was born Jany 22d cD. 1791
Narcisa Gaston 
born Novr 17th  cD.1792

Eliza Gaston 
born Sept 20th cD. 1794

Esther Gaston 
born Decr 9th cD. 1796
Margret Gaston 
born Apl 29th cD. 1797

Jane Gaston 
born Aust 17th cD. 1800
James Hall.at Gaston
born Octr 17th cD 1801
Robert Gaston
born Jany 1st CD. 1808

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Subscribers for the New Testament.

Mrs. Adams
Enoch Anderson, jun.
Catherine Adair
Thomas Adams, Esq.
Robert Barr
Rev. John Burton
Jacob Burton
Clotworthy Billingham
Rev. Joel Bradley
Isaac Baldwin
Wm. Brackinridge
Daniel Brewer
Jane Boyd
James Blaine, jun.
James Brown
Rev. Benjamin Boone
Rev. Thos. Cleland
Thomas Carson
Rev. Thomas Cathcart
Latitia Clark
Rev. Joseph Copes
David Copeland
Mr. James Clayton
Samuel Connover
Joseph Combs
Ralph Crabb
Hugh Cunningham
Walter Clark
Rev. John Croes
Thomas Carson
Mitchell Derickson
Robert Dobson
Rev. Robert P. Dobbins
Rev. Hugh Dickson
Rev. Daniel Dana
Garrad Darland
John Demance
Samuel Demance
Thomas Danforth
James Ewing
John Everly
Wm. P. Farrand
Henry Foster
Zechariah Fortune
Margaret Finley
John Forsythe, Esq.
Dr. J. E. B. Finley
Miss I Fraser
Rev. Daniel Gray
Joseph Gaston
John Griffith
John Galliway
William Gallagher
Rev. James Galbraith
John Gardner
James Gray 
James Giles, Esq.
Branch Green
Mrs. F. Harrison
Rev. Wm. Hollinshead
William Houston
Cornelius Hopkins
Edward Hall
Robert Houston
Peter Hall
Humphrey Hughes
John Henderson
Benjamin Holland
Robert Harris
Samuel Harman
Moses Hanes
William Harris
George Hammill
George Harlin
Mrs. Haskins
Patrick Hayes
Patrick Hayes, jun.
William Howie
George Irvine
John Janvier
William Janvier
Rev. I. S. Keith
Samuel Kelso
John Kelso
Thomas Kilpatrick
Rev. John Linn
Nathan Lewis
Rev. Abm. Luckenback
William Lockwood
Mrs. McLean
David Mustard
Thomas Marsh
Benjamin McNutt
Samuel Mason
James Miller
John McDowell
Hugh McBride
George McKartar
Jane McCalmon
Joseph Morrison
John McLane
Edward McDonald
Maj. E. McClanahan
Rev. John Matthews
Manning & Loring
Samuel McDowell
John McGinnes
James McGee
Ann Miles
John McAfee
Robert Moorehead
Jospeh McClintock
Samuel McCord
Robert McCall
James Maxwell
Allen Nisbit
Henry Oneal
Robert Orr
John H. Overstreet
Pelatiah Perit
William Peery
John Parham
Charles Porter, Esq.
Lewis Rose
Charles Rose
Rev. James Robinson
Rev. John M. Roberts
William Robotham
Robert Rhea
John Robinson
Thomas Robertson
John Robeson
Matthew Ray
John Richey
Samuel Ross
Ann Smith
John Stephenson
Wm. Snodgrass, Esq.
Rev. David Snodgrass
Valentine Sevier, Esq.
James Shields
Jacob Streets
James Storey
Henry Storey
Col. Joseph Shelton
Rev. James R Sharon
Dr. David Shute
Charles Spilman
James Stagg
Margaret Sawyers
Samuel Sharon
Mrs. Smiley
James Sterling, Esq.
Amos Sharpe
Purnell F. Smith
William Simple
Anthony Torbert
Miller Thorogood
Isaac Tunnell
John Tingle
Francis Thomas
George Thomson
Archibald Thompson
Anthony S. Vickars
Asa Vaughn
John Wark
Rev. J. P. Willson
Peter White
Stuart Williamson
William Waples
James Wright
William Wright
Benjamin Wright
Dr. Hugh Whiteford
Rev. James Wallace
William Wallis
William Walker
Andrew Walker
Moses Willson
James Willson
Sarah Willson
James Wallace
Capt. R. West
Ambrose White

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in reply to your request of ....., [illegible].....
for a statement of the military history of Joseph Gaston
a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the [desired] W. File 23.089 information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension in this Bureau.

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment
May 28 or 29 1780

Length of Service.
4 mo 7 da
5 mo. 7 da
2 mo 13 da

Rank.

Officers under whom service was rendered.
Captain.
John McClure
John Steel
William Gaston

Colonel.
Lacey
Henry Hampton

State.
S. C.

He was disch the last of may 1781 and returned from about which time his aged
father died and he assumed care of his mother (name not stated), he was the youngest of nine sons (names not stated) who served in the Revolution four of whom gave their lives for their country; two fell beside him at the battle of Hanging Rock, where he sustained severe g s w of face.

Battles engaged in, Rocky Mount, Hanging Rock, Blackstocks, siege Fort Motte
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Chester District, S. C.
Date of application for penson, Jany 12, 1833 Allowed.
Residence at date of application Chester dist., S. C. Plantation on wh he was born.
Age at date of application, born Feb 22, 1763, Chester District S. C.
Remarks: Sol. m. Apl. 20 1790  Jane, Janet Janney Brown
he d. Oct. 10, 1836
& she was alld pension on her applic. exec Nov. 7 1838 while 70 years of age & a res. of Chester Dist S. C.
Children given from record on file.

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Cedar Shoal
So Car Octr 4

Free

Oct 9, 1844
[??] Jane Gaston
Act 45

James A. H. Gaston
Cedar Shoal
S. C.

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pension
Washington City

6554

Jane Gaston
$39:66 per an
Acts: 43 & 44 - 164

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State of South Carolina  }
Chester District               } ss
On this 23rd day of September 1844 personally appeared before the Subscriber one of the Magistrate of the District aforesaid.  Jane Gaston (wid) a resident on Fishing Creek in the District of Chester aged about 76 years.  Who being 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 on the 3rd March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.  That she is the widow of Joseph Gaston who was a private in the militia of South Carolina (as set forth in his own declaration)  the annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of July 7th 1838 was thirty nine dollars and Sixty six cents.  She further declares that she is still a widow.
    Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written.
         Jane Gaston
Before me
D G Stinson, Magistrate
I D. G. Stinson a Magt do hereby certify that the declarant Jane Gaston is well known to me as the widow of Joseph Gaston (decd) a late pensioner 
Sept. 23rd 1844        DG Stinson, Magt.

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I John Rosborough Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Chester District, certify that D. G. Stinson is a Magistrate, as above, and that the foregoing Signature, purporting to be his is genuine.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office, and subscribed my name, this twentysixth day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty four.
   J Rosborough Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Chester District

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Cedar Shoal
Chester Dist. So Car
Octr 3rd, 1844

Dear Sir:
    Anexed you have Mrs Jane Gastons application for a Pension any consideration on the subject you will be so good as to direct to this office (as above)
Yours Respectfully,
Jas A.H. Gaston

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[Left side of image]

let to Hon J. Rogers
     June 24th 1841

[Right side of image]

3925
South Carolina
Jane Gaston widow of Joseph Gaston, decd, who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832 and who died on the 10 Octr 1836 of Chester Distr the State of S.C. who was a private in the com commanded by Captain McClure of the regt commanded by Col _____ in the S.C. line for 11 m 27 dy
Inscribed on the Roll of S.C. at the rate of 39 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 11th day of Oct 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of August 1839 & sent to J Roseborough, Chester Village, S.C.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1839 $95.29
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Sep '39  19.83

$115.12
Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by D.McCurdy, Clerk
Book A. Vol. 2. Page 193

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3-2233         113
Bureau of Pensions
Finance Division
Jan 2, 1926
Chief Rev. Sect. 
I have this day received from Mrs. C. Morgan Smith two M.O.  Nos. 586 079 and 589 703 total $4.00 requesting photostat copy as per letter herewith.
1926 Jan 14  copies mailed & Finance Div notf
AW
O.J. Randall
Chief Finance Div.
H. C. L.

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Request for Photostating    3-2006   Ex. AW
(To be prepared in duplicate.)

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF CLERK

Job No.  2883         Date Jan 9. 26
Subject    Joseph Gaston -- Rev. W23089
1 copies of 14 pieces consisting of 25 pages to be forwarded when completed to the Rev & 1812 Wars Section advision.
Remarks:  [blank]
Approved:
WE Wilson
Chief [Word "Division" is crossed out] Tech

Chief Clerk [no name written above this line]

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[The following is stamped onto page]
Finance Division
JAN 2 1926
BUREAU OF PENSIONS

[The following is stamped onto page]
OFFICE OF 
THE COMMISSIONER
JAN 2  1926
U.S. BUREAU OF PENSIONS

[The following is typed onto page]

1225 Niazuma Avenue,
Birmingham, Alabama, December 31st. 1925.

Mr. Winfield Scott,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Mr dear Mr. Scott,-
     Thank you very much for your letter of seventeenth, and in reply (refering to Rev. & 1812 War Section) will say I am anxious to take even the barest chance to prove the Revolutionary service of William Gaston -- brother of Jospeh,War pensioner ,W 33069-- and thinking there may be some-thing in the pension of Joseph indicating he had a brother William I am enclosing P.O. orders for $4.00 for photostat copy of the pension of Joseph Gaston.  It is proven he had four brothers killed in the Revolution and we know their names.
    Pardon me if I am taxing your office more than I should, but William Gaston-- brother of Joseph-- has descendents who are so anxious and insistent in proving his service this must be my excuse for further troubling you.
Very Truly,
 Kate D. Smith

Address
Mrs. J. Morgan Smith
1223 Niazuma Avenue,
Birmingham, Alabama.

[The following is handwritten onto the page]
one M.O. 2.00
     &
 "       "      1.95


       20
       1 5

      12  5
       2 5
      37 5
        2

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113
3-2233

Bureau of Pensions
Finance Division

Dec 17 1925
Chief Rev Sec [Division.]

I have this day received
from Mrs. J. Morgan Smith 
M. O No. 586079
for $2.05 requesting
photostat copy}
[post office address}
as per
letter herewith.

1925 Dec 26
money order
returned &
Finance Div [????]
AW

O. J. Randall
Chief Finance Div.
H. C. L.

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Dec. 17, 1925

Mrs J. Morgun Smith
1223 Niazuma Ave.
Birmingham, Ala.

Madam:
    In response to your letter of the fourteenth instant, I have to advise you, that the Revolutionary War Pensioner William Gaston, S. 32265, the only William Gaston in the files of this Bureau, is not the brother of the Revolutionary War pensioner Joseph Gaston, W. 33089.
    Said Joseph Gaston stated under oath on January 12, 1833, that all of his brothers were dead.  He did not give their names.
    Said William Gaston never stated whether he had any brothers, and he died in Marion County, Illinois, on January 12, 1838.
    Herewith is returned your money order drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior, dated December 15, 1925, for two dollars and five cents, on the post office at Birmingham, Ala. serial no. 586079, office no. 38100.
    Respectfully, 
                [signature] Winfield Scott
       Winfield Scott,
            Commissioner.

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[Following is a date stamp]
DEPUTY
DEC 17 1925
COMMISSIONER

[Following is a date stamp]
FINANCE DIVISION
DEC 16  1925
BUREAU OF PENSIONS

[Following is the typed letter]

H.W.Morgan,
Acting Commissioner Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr.Morgan,-
    Your letter October 1st.duly received.  I find there were two William Gastons who served in the Revolution.  One was the brother of Joseph who drew a pension and the other was a cousin of Joseph .  It is the pension of William the brother and not William the cousin of Joseph that I wish.  The wife of William the cousin was Jane Harbison (this will identify him) but I do not know the name of the sife of William the brother of Joseph Gaston.
    If William Gaston S.32265 proves to be a brother of Joseph Gaston W. 33089  I wish a photostat copy of the pension of this William, but if he is not the brother but the cousin the copy will be of no service to me.
    Pardon me if I have given unnecessary detail, but it may save your office unnecessary work.
    I trust the William S.32265 is the William I am searching for.  I enclose Money order for $2.05 as directed.
    Very truly yours,
     [in handwriting] Mrs. J. Morgan/ Kate D. Smith

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October 1, 1925

Mrs. J. Morgan Smith,
1223 Niazuma Ave.
Birmingham, Ala.

Madam:

I have to advise you, that if you wish to photostat
copies of the papers in the following Revolutionary War
pension claims, the same will be furnished you, at the
rate of fifteen cents a page, with twenty-five cents
extra for certification, if that is desired, in each
claim.
In the claim of William Gaston, S. 32265, the number
of pages to be copied is twelve, and in the claim of
Joseph Gaston and his widow, Jane, W. 23089, the number of pages is twenty-five.
The proper amount should be forwarded to this Bureau by money order drawn to the order of the Secretary
of the Interior.
Respectfully,

E. W. Morgan,
Acting Commissioner.

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1223 Niazuma Avenue,
Birmingham, Alabama, August 4th. I925.

Commissioner of Pensions,-
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir,-

Kindly send me a copy of the Pension statement of Joseph Gaston of Chester county, South Carolina and of William Gaston of Marion county, Illinois.  If permissible please send the full text of the pensions as I think it likely these contain some matters of family history I would like very much to have.  If I am making too much please excuse.

Very truly yours,
Kate D. Smith

Mrs. J. Morgan Smith,
Honorary Vice-President General N.S.D.A.R.
I223 Niazuma Avenue,
Birmingham, Alabama.

Wm Gaston S 32265= 12 pages
Joseph & Jane Gaston W23089 = 25 pages

Pension
A
Aug
U. 7 S.
1925
Office

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Office of
J. C. Elliott.
City Solicitor,
No. 521 Broadway.

Greenville, Ohio,
February 28th I911

Hon. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:  I wish to get a copy of application for a pension of one Jane Gaston who resided in I840 in Chester District or county S. C. and was a pensioner of Rev. War, I think in right of Husband one of Chief Justice John Gastons sons of same county or district.  her name will be found in list of pensioners of 6th census of I840 in S. C. p. I44 a copy of which no doubt is in your office.  I am looking up family history of the Gaston's the husband of abve gaston and two other sons were killed I think ta Battle or surprise of Hanging Rock, S. C. during ReV. War.

Am willing to send charges for such a transcript upon receipt of what it will be.

Yours respectfully,
J. C. Elliott

Pension
O
Mar
U. 1 S.
1911
Office

Mar 4- 1911
Mar 2- 1911

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[handwritten] Rev.
[typed] Widow, &c.
[handwritten] [illegible] Jane Gaston Wid. of Joseph Gaston Priv. [illegible] Feb. 24, 184[illegible]
[typed] Vol. [handwritten] A [typed] page [illegible]
1911 Mch. 7 History to Mr. J. C. Elliott
[illegible] Oct. 1. [illegible]
J. M.

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So Carolina       }
Chester District }   I do hereby Certify on oath with all whome A May concern that I was well aquanted with Joseph Gaston Esqr in the begining of the Revelunsionary War and I was in the servis with him under general Sumpter and was at the Battle of the Hingin Rock where he was wounded and two of his Brothers kild Dead and the other Died of his wound.  I Lik wise know that after he Recovred from his Wounde he joined the army again and Belive that his statements are true and to be credited as he is a judicious and Respectabl Man ---
                      James Harbison
                      Captain
Sworn to and subscribed Before }
Me this 17 Day of July 1833   }
JRosborough
    clerk Court

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[appears to be written on an envelope]

Cedar Shoal                  Free
    Septr 20

Geor Wm Crump Esqr
Acting Comr of Pesions
Washington City

[the following is written in a different handwriting]
Invalid Roll of S. Carolina
act 2d March 1833
$8 per month commencing
1 January 1833

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ch. 129
                Chester District S.C
                Septr 20th 1833
Sir
   Your reply to mine of the 23d Inst directs me to make a declaration of my service and report my clame to the beneft of the act before a Court of record
    This Sir has been don with a clear Statement of my sufferings as a wounded Solger.  all presented to congress and an act made on my Special case (Semy W.L. [unknown word] May 28) approved Mr 2d 1833 and No 70 Directing the Secretory of war to inscribe my name on the pension role of Invalids for S. Carolina Chester District   I am not clameing under a genral act and only wish a certificate that my name is there inscribed according to the direction of that act which I see is required by the instructions given to the pension agent at each agency, and the applicant to establish his identety before he can receive the pension   I hope you will find it consistant with this reputation to send me to the needful certificate and oblige yours with all respect.
                Joseph Gaston

Mr. Geo Wm Crump

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[Copy not readable]

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Admit as private
11 mo & 27 days
$39.66


Applicant
Ceder Shoals
S.C.

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2
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2
3
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2     13

 War Department
Pension Office
February 10 - 1834
Sir:
    The Department requires that each applicant for a pension should specify his service by Stating clearly the number of tours he served, the duration of each; the nature and periods of Service; the officers under whom, and the places where it was performed. --
   This Kind of specification must be had before any favorable decisions can be had on the claim of Wm Gaston.  The papers are again returned.
       I am Respectfully
          Your Able Servant
              J L Edwards

Peter Wylie Esqr
Chester C.H.
So Car:

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South Carolina   }
Chester District  }    I John McCreary (a former Member of Congress) do hereby Certify that I have been acquainted with Joseph Gaston, (the present Petitioner to Congress) from his Infancy, but more particularly from some time before the close of the Revolutionary War until the present day.  And can attest that I believe all the facts Stated in his Petition to be correctly true.  Altho I did not see him until after his wounds wear healed, yet the marks is largly visible in his face.  His nose appears to have been nearly half cut in two.  The hole in his cheek, & under his Ear where the Ball came out, all plain to be seen.  And I have often heard him relate the circumstances of himself & Brothers being all shot down nearly at the same time in the front of the action.  And have likewise often heard him complain of this injury done to his Eye & Jaw.  And have often seen him wearing double specks to try to enlarge the sight.
    That he is a man of unblemished good morial character, & deserves well of his country.  Given under my hand this 12th day of January 1833.
         J. McCreary

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Joseph Gaston

House of 
Representatives

Petition of Mr.
Joseph Gaston.
To Committee on 
Revolutionary Pensions.

Jan. 21 1833
Refd to Commee - Invalid pensions

Feb 15 1833
Bill --- No. 738
Pension granted 8 Novmbr
Commence Jan 1, 1831

on the Bill

Blair SC 35. Inv. Pens

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I do certify         I have been personally acquainted with your petitioner Joseph Gaston Esqr ever since he was a youth and was one of the Revolutionary with him having perfect knowledge of the facts stated and set out in his petition.  I have every reason to believe them to be true and would recommend and request the attention of our two Honourable Senators John C. Calhoun and Stephen D. Miller his peculiar but just case who are both descendants of old Revolutionaries with the care and attention of our Old Friend and suffering in the struggle Genl John Adair, also Generl Blair, and our Honourable Representative W. T. Nuckels of the House of representatives in Congress.
This 13th January 1833
     Geo Gill Col.

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The underwriter, on application made by Joseph Gaston who appears before the Congress of the United States of America in the above paper as a petitioner for relief from that body certifies that he has been intimately acquainted with the said Joseph Gaston for more than thirty years -- that he, the said Gaston has ever sustained a fair, honest & upright character -- that while he supported himself and family in a decent and creditable manner, he has been able to secure to himself but a moderate portion of this world's goods - and that every confidence may be placed in the truth of the representations made in his petition to which this is annexed.  I would also recommend him as a person who deservedly claims the favorable consideration of that body before whom he appears as a petitioner  Given under my hand this 12th day of January 1833.
               John B. Davies  V.D.M.

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N.B/  I see removing the names of Your Honl Body that of John Adair which is hoped to be the Honl John Adare of Kentucky who was a fellow Sufferer in them lines in the Same part of the County and to whom I would refer for my Character and that of my Family,  There is also the Hoble Stephen D Miller, and Genl Blair who though to Young to know any thing of Revolutionary Sufferings Yet can attest to my Character and that of my Family, and  my more Immediate Representative the Honls H T Nuchels although our acqaintance is very limited we living at a Distance But the other two Gentlemen was raised in the Same part of the County And Genl Adare was engaged in the Same cause then a youth like Myself --
            J. Gaston

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South Carolina   }
Chester District  }  Personally appeared before me D G Stenson one of the Justice of the Quorum of the District aforesaid -- The Revd Samuel McCreary and being duly Sworn on his oath sayeth that he was well acquainted with Joseph Gaston the present applicant to Congress for a Petition, both in the time and ever since the Revolutionary War, that he was with him at the Battle of Hanging Rock  that they two formed the Second [illegible] in Captain John McCleary Company, when they entered the action that he stood by him when himself and two Brothers were shot down and the Captain as he describes and that he was wounded in the manner set forth in his Petition and that all the other Circumstances mentioned respecting his oth Services and the situation and privations of the family he believes to be strictly true as he was well acquainted with the whole Services of that time respecting of this and does know that the Enemy did Carry off and destroy allmost every thing that was portable belonging to them.  That the Said Joseph Gaston is a man of truth and Integrity was a good friend to his Country and ought to be believed in all his Statements --
   Sworn to and Subscribed the 12th day of Jany 1833
       Saml McCreary

South Carolina  }
Chester District }  I do hereby certify that I am acquainted with the Revd Samuel McCreary from my first Recollections that he has been a minister of the Gospel for more than thirty years and that his [cannot see word] is without Blemish and that all due Credit [cannot see word] to be given to his attestations
               DG Stenson
January 12th 1833

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to the Honourable the Congress of the United States
Gentlemen
Your Petitioner Joseph Gaston of the State of South Carolina & Chester District would take the liberty in hopes of calling your friendly attention to his case to State to You a Short stretch of his privations and painfull Sufferings through the Revolutionary Struggle for Liberty and Independence in this his native State.
Being the youngest of nine Brothers who encouraged by the council of a Patriotick Father, were and all times engaged in that Bloody Conflict untill five of them fell in the Goods cause and your Petitioner is the only one that Survived.
After the fall of our Capitol and the Capture of our Army in it the Enemy Extended their depradations to the back of the State in now Lancaster District where they Massecread Col Buforts Regiment on their Retreat, on the 29th of May 1780 in a manner too well known to require a discreption at this time this being the last Outrage of opposing force in South Carolina that Bandilla of Traitors & Robers which English Policy decorated by the names of Loyalists began their works and depredations on the defenceless Whigs,  When a Patriotick young man Capt John McClure of now Chester District collected thirty two Volunteers whose Motto was Liberty or Death, and not more than Twenty miles from the Scene of Col Buforts defeat attacked and Scattered the camp of Loyalists under the Command of Col Houseman being more than five to one at the place now known by the name of Beckhamiville.  This Spartan Band soon Increased and formed the nucleus of Genl Sumpters army when he came to take Command with the Patriotick Band a few days after their embodying al volunteered perhaps the 13th June 1780 being about Sixteen years of age, and under the Command of Genl Sumter, was fired at the attack on the British Garrison at Rocky Mount and next Fought at the Hanging Rock on that day weeks the 7th of August when our noble Capt McClure and officers were Killed or received their death Wounds in the front of the center line and where two Brothers fell with me and I only recovered from a dangerous wound by a Ball striking the bridge of the nose and passing in under the left Eye, shattering the Cheek bond and going out at the ear by which the Sight of the Eye and muscles of the under Jaw were much distroyed and the Sight of the Eye much impaired and now more especially in old Age, after Recovering from this Wound Joined Genl Sumter again and was at the Battle of Blackstock the 17the of Nov 1780 Where the General was wounded and had to retire from the Field for Some time.  at this time his volunteers defused in small companies to their different settlements to protect them from the Tories, there unhappy enemies bought the Small Pox, from the British camps and in excursions after, them I was smitten with that disease and so violent kind that my life

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Was almost beyond hope for many weeks, after being restored to health and fit for duty volunteered again with Col Henry Hampton who was collecting Provisions for Genl Greens Army and helped to guard it to the camp a few days after the Battle at Camden on the 20th of April 1781.  Then went from that place on a gaurd with Major Heron one of Genl Greens aids to the Seige at Fort Motte near Col Thompsons and after being their Some time was dismissed and returned Home about the last of May 1781 in all amounting to one year; the Enemy having now been beaten retreated to the lower parts of the State, I was not called on afterwards.  Our Aged Father was also about this time removed from this Inhospitable world after living to See four of his Sons give thier lives for the cause of thier Bleeding Country and himself reduced to absolute Poverty Leaving the case of a Widowed Mother to your Petitioner, after the Enemy had Striped us of every Article of Property that it was possible for the hands of Rapine and Plunder to remove amounting to about 1500 or 2000 / this was not a large Estate but what made it more Sincerely felt was that it was all These Losses and these embarrassments produced by them were long and Sorely Experienced as nothing was to be had for Revolutionary Services now losses and while your Treasury was far from being able to meet the most essencial demands of our Government and while every State could put its dets on your collections which may Heaven prevent from every being the case again -- 
   But now a well regulated Finance and the Prosperity of our Government has enabled you to do ample Justice to the few remaining Patriots of the Revolution by your act of the 7th June 1830  Yet as their is no Discretionary Power left to the Functionaries of Government in the Execution of that Act to make any distinction with respect to wounded men as peculiar Sufferings and as I never before applied to either General or State Government which I might have done long Since, I now cast myself on your Honble Body Praying to allow me a reasonable pention as a wounded man in addition to my Services in commence from the time of the afore mentioned Act opperates being now about to close my three score and tenth year like others of my fellow Sufferers we Cannot long be expensive to Government and would enable your Petitioner, in the evening of Life to live more Comfortable and to Liquidate all full demands against him before his final remove Trusting to the Justness of his Claims another Generosity of Honble Body he feels Strongly encouraged to Submit his case.  And as in duty know the will for ever pray.  Drawn up myself and Signed by mine own Hand.
      Joseph Gaston 

Jany 19th 1833

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[Appears to be an envelop.  Circular postmark reads as follows:]

Ches. C.H.S.C. 
JUL 10

[Written over and near the postmark as follows:]

Jul 16
S.C.
Addl proof
Janet Gaston

[Written as if it were in the address area of an envelope as follows:]

free

T. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
District of Columbia

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SoCa Chester Village  July 3rd 1839

Sir
    Enclosed I send you the original Entry of the Marriage of Janet Gaston the widow Joseph Gaston decd, a Revolutionary soldier, as also a transcript thereof, which are both in the hand writing of the decd, so that she may receive the pension to which she is entitled
   I am Sir
     yours Respectfully
       JRosborough

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18015

[illegible]

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Jos Gaston S C June 7 when paid d. 1836 $39.66
3925 p 7 4 Set 1836 JH

HHS

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Aug 20 49
Cedar Shoal
S. Ca. Aug [?] 14

Jane Gaston
S. C. [??] 38
3925

Free
Jas A H Gaston [??]

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of
Pensions
Washington City

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Cedar Shoal, Chester Dis't
So Ca Augt 24th [possibly "14th"] 1844

Dear Sir,
    I see in the "Madisonian" an act passed, by the last Congress, granting pensions to certain widows of Revolutionary Soldiers.
    My mother, Jane Gaston, drew a pension for five years, which ceased some two or three years since, but I am unable to ascertain under what act she drew; not having a copy and her certificate having been sent on to the pension office at the close of the time for which she drew.
   As her certificate is probably on file, I would beg the favour, to be informed, whether or not, she is embraced in the provisions of any of the late acts of Congress.
    Yours Very Respectfully,
       Jas A H. Gaston

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House Reps
Jany 2d 1849

Sir
    I have this moment received a letter from Capt James A H Gaston of Cedar Shoals Chester District South Carolina, in which he informs me that his mother Mrs Jane Gaston has been drawing a pension &c as the widow of a Revolutionary Soldier, -- That supposing she was entitled to a pension under the act of the 29 July 1848  She made out a declaration to that effect & he forwarded it to you about three months ago & that he has heard nothing from you in reply
    Will you have the Kindness to inform me, at your earliest convenience, what the decision is upon the application refered to 
    I have the honor to be 
      Your Obt Servt
          D Wallace
Hon J L Edwards   }
   Washington       }

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[Appears to be an envelope]

Free
U.S. [unreadable]

Honb J. Minot
Commissioner Pensions
Washington
D.C.

[written sideways in a different handwriting, as follows:]

118582
Jane Gaston
wid
Joseph



Boynton

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Joseph Gaston
SC adm
Mr Cole
Feb 27. 1851


Ex B  March 51
(M. Thompson)

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Washington  Feby 25th 1851

M. Thompson is authorized & requested all the papers on file in the case of Joseph Gaston, a revolutionary pensioner of South Carolina.
   He was also a Invalid pensioner.  The papers are also requested in this case.

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Hon L. P. Waldo,
    Comr Pensions

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Chester, S.C. Aprl 30 -- 1855

Dr Sir:
    Enclosed I send claims for Bounty Land in favor of
   Milton A McCombs
   John Haddock
   Margaret Barnes
   Middleton Gladden
   George McHenry
   W H. Hardwich
   William Brown
   Robert Whyte
   Moses Grisham
   Mrs Jane Gaston
   Mrs Anna Pratt

    Yours Very Truly
    L.D. Melton

Hon L. P. Waldo
   Comr Pensions
    Washington, D.C.

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Pension Agency
Charleston 27 [or "29"] March 1854

Sir
   I herewith forward the records of Jane Gaston a pensioner under Act 2 February 1848 for authority to pay the same
    I am Sir Respectfully
        Your Obsert
    Jno C Cochran
        Agent
  L. P. Waldo Esqr
   Commissioner of Pensions
      Washington
         D.C.

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Record Evidence

Jane Gaston

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Payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September at Charleston South Carolina by Prest. U. States Branch Bank
No payment can be made on an original certificate, until the arrival of one or the other of the above dates after issuing the certificate.

Registered in Book D - Vol 8- Page 61 by Wm M. Steuart, Clerk.

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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Invalid Pension.

I certify, That in conformity with the Law of the United States, passed on the Second day of March 1833 - Joseph Gaston -- late a Soldier -- of the Revolutionary War -- is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the South Carolina -- Agency, at the rate of Eight -- dollars per month, to commence on the first -- day of January -- one thousand eight hundred and thirty three

Given at the War Office of the United Sates, this first -- day of October -- one thousand eight hundred and thirty three

John Bobb
Acting Secretary of War.

Examined and countersigned, 
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

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Joseph Gaston

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No. 272
Book I
Issued 22d September 1784 to Mr. Joseph Gaston for Seven pounds, Eleven shillings and five pence Sterling, for 53 days Militia Duty for account audited.
   Principal  L  7..11..5
    Interest      -..10..7

Comptroller Generals Office
Columbia, February 23d 1856
 I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy from Indent Book I, No. 272 ----
Given Under my hand
M.N.R.Huntly
Deputy C.G.
No Seal of Office

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Act of March 3, 1855
Revolutionary Claims.

Pension Office,
Jany 19th 1856

Sir:

The claim of Jane Gaston for bounty
land under the act of the 3d March, 1855, No. 118.582 has been
examined and suspended.
The revolutionary service of Joseph Gaston the
husband of the applicant, does not appear of record in this office.
The 3d section of said act requires a service of "Fourteen Days" to
be established by "Record Evidence."
Upon the production of such evidence of service, the claim will
be favorable considered.
It should be observed, that the recorded action of this office, admitting a revolutionary soldier to the list of pensioners upon parole proof, is not considered "record evidence of service" within the meaning of the act aforesaid.  In all applications for bounty land under this act, the papers of the soldiers, or their widow, who have applied for or received pensions, as well as the rolls in this office, are carefully examined for record evidence of service, before this ciruclar is issued.
Respectfully,
J. Minot
Commissioner

C. D. Melton Esq
Chester
So. Carolina

[*apply to comptroller of S. C. for record evidence*]

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Payments to be made
at Charleston
by the [??] U. S. Br. Bank
Agent for paying Pensioners
in the Agency of So. Ca:

Recorded in the Pension Office, 
in Book E  Vol G
Page 68 by Nath. Rice
Clerk.

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War Department.
Revolutionary Claim.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the united
STates of the 7th June 1832, Joseph Gaston
of the STate of South Carolina
who was a private in the war of the Revolution
is entitled to receive Thirty nine dollars and
Sixty Six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing
on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semiannually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United 
States, this 4t day of
April one thousand eight 
hundred and thirty-four
Lew Coss
Secretary of War.

Examined and
Countersigned
J E Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

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South Carolina  }
Chester District }  Personally appeared Joseph Gaston before me Peter Wylie Judge of the Court of Ordinary of said District and in order to make an amendment to his anexed declaration to obtain a pension being duly sworn saith upon oath that he is fully satisfied from [?]ucts in his own recoliction that he joined Captain John McClures volunteers (which volunteers in a few day joined Genl Sumpters Army) on the Twenty eighth or ninth day of May 178[unreadable] and continued with Capt McClure in Sumpters Army till said M Clure was Killed, then went under Capt John Steels, Col Lacy Regiment till next Spring where he this declarant Joined Col Henry Hampton he was continually in Service either in Sumpters camps or on Scouting parties under Capt John Steel to drive the Tories from the parts except the time he lay with his wound and with the Small pox and when permitted to go home for clothes or other necessarys.  And after joining Col Henry Hampton and marching to fort Motte (Thompsons) and returnd home he could not be less term man one year for which he claims a pension
   Joseph Gaston
Sworn to & signed in open Court this 13th day of December 1833 before me
   Peter Wylie JCOCD

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South Carolina  }
Chester District }  I Peter Wylie Judge and Clerk of the Court of Ordinary of said District hereby certifys that Joseph Gaston within named came into the court of ordinary before me and on oath to the within amendment to his declaration and I further certify that he is a man of first rate cha [remainder of word missing] this I know of my own Personal Knowledge and I am and reputed in his District to be An [unknown word] Soldier of the Revolution
   In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & affixed my Seal of office this 20th day of December 183[last number missing]
    Peter Wylie JCCOCD

State of South Carolina }
Chester District    }  Personally appeared before me Peter Wylie Judge of the Court of ordinary of Said District Joseph Gaston who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his Service but according to th of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below that is to say from he joined Captain [unknown] McClures company untill said MClure was killed at the Battle of Hanging Rock where declarant was wounded was at least Two months and Seven days, then this deponant was confined with his wound at least two months, then Joined Capt John Steels company being McClures old company   was at the Battle of Blackstocks was under Genl Sumter at this time continued in service at this time at least three months and seven days, was then confined by small pox at least two months then Joined Col Laceys Regiments and was put under Col Henry Hampton was in Capt William Gastons Company - marched to Genl Greens Army was sent as a guard under his said captain William Gaston to fort Mot (Col Thompsons) remained some time at siege of said Fort and was dismissed with his officer this last tour was at least Two month & thirteen days making in all whilst in actual served & sick with wound & small pox at least Eleven months & twenty seven days and for such service he claims a pension.
     Joseph Gaston
Sworn to & Subscribed in open court this 22nd day of March 1834.
   Peter Wylie JCOCD

South Carolina  }
Chester District }  I Peter Wylie Judge & Clerk of the court of ordinary of Chester District Do hereby certify that Joseph Gaston came into open Court before me & made oath to the above amendment of his declaration & further that said Joseph Gaston is a man of the first respectabily & carrys the scar in his face from his wound.
  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affix my seal of office this 22nd day of March 1834
    Peter Wylie, JCCOCD

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State of South Carolina
Chester District
   Personaly appeard before me Peter Wiley Judge of the court of ordinary for sd District Samuel McCreary & being duly sworn oath that he is personaly acquainted with Joseph Gaston Esqr who applied for a pention under the act of Congress June 1832 as states in the accompanying dochuments the deponant being his nephew & raisd with him from his childhood & that according to the record of his father's family bibel he was born in Febuary 22d 1763 & is now 70 years of age --
   This deponant further sayeth that when Charlestown fell in 12th of May 1700 the British flag was raised in every part of the State within three or four weeks after that went he joyned the corps command by Capt McClure who was opposed & twice rejected the British partisians ear he joynd him & that on being overpowerd they retierd int No. Carolina --
This deponant further sayeth that Capt McClures comperous being attachd to Gen Sumpters brigaid in which company himself & this applicant served they  disempt

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on the 30th of July to make an attact on the British station at Rocky Mount the attacht were made on the morning of the 31st & that on the 7th of Agust the same brigade made an attact on the British station at Hanging rock in which action the applycant bring his his file man fell being sevarley wouned with their heroic Capt with his four brothers whose wounds proved mortal with several others who folwed their leader int the action & that he remand for weeks in the hospital until Cornwales advanced on Charlot & then took their flight to the mountainer & were their until the defete of Col. Farguson at Kings mountain on the 12th of act & then returnd home & served in several scouts in his own stat & neighbourhood until he marchd in Gen Sumpters bragade to the batel at Blakstocks near the last of Dec 1780  When he returnd home was seized with the smallpox & layd weeks under that complaint in the rainge of the marauding enemy & when recoverd joynd with scouts & served with them as before until march 1781 when a recursion was made for a two months tour he served again und Gen Sumpter in Col Lacys raigement & Capt Steels company &

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were at the seige of Fort Mot but left the place before it surenderd & returnd home the last of May --
   This deponant further sayeth that the family of the applicant sustain'd sustaind the last of all their movable property with # of their lives in suporting the revolutionary cause
Sworn to & Signed this 
3rd day of July 1833
in open Court          Saml McCreary
Peter Wylie JCOCD

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South Carolina   6251
Jane Gaston
widow of Joseph Gaston
who was a Private 
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
39 Dollars 66
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
16 day of October 1844
and sent to James A. H. Gaston
Cedar Shoal, 
    S. Carolina

Act of March 3, 1843
& June 17, 1844
Vol 2,  Page 166

Page 76

1702
South Carolina
Joseph Gaston
private
Captain    [blank space] company of the [blank space]

Ratio of disability,
Date of Discharge, 
Time of closing the testimony

Inscribed on the Roll of South Carolina
at Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the first of January 1833

Certificate of Pension issued the first of October 1833 and Sent to himself Cedar Shoal, Chester Distr, So Ca:
Arrears to 4th of March 1833 $16.75

Act of the 2d March 1833 --

[on the left side of the page, the following is written:]
October 4th 1833 sent certif: to himself at Cedar Shoal Chester Distr: SoCa
Sen letter to Hon L. Cass Dec. 13. 1833

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4
Revolutionary
Mr. Ames
25 Octr 1848

Cedars Shore
S. C. Octr 18

Free
Jas. A H Gaston PM

Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington City
DC

Oct 25 '48
Jane Gaston
July 29, 1848

J. A. H. Gaston
S.C.

Page 78

United States of America
State of South Carolina
Chester District
Be it known:  That before me D G Stinson NP in and for the district aforesaid, personally appeared Jane Gaston; and made oath in due form of law that she is the identical person who drew a pension under Act of the 3rd of March 1843 and 17th of June 1844, on account of the revolutionary service of her husband the late Joseph Gaston, at the rate of Thirty nine dollars and sixty six cts per annum - that she now makes this affidavit for the purpose of drawing a pension under the Act of Congress passed July 29th 1848 entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving widows of officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army" - that she has not intermarried but continues to be a widow; - that she now resides on Fishing Creek in the District of Chester and State of South Carolina, and has residid there for the space of seventy eight years past; and that previous thereto she resided in Mecklinburg Co. North Carolina.
Sworn to and subscribed 
This September 10th, 1848.
         Jane Gaston
In presince of 
Danl G Anderson
J. C. McMullan
    Before me
        D G Stinson N.P
I certify that the above named affiant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing affidavit   September 10th 1848
    D G Stinson, N.P.

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South Carolina
   I John Rosborough Clerk of the Court of common Pleas for Chester District, certify that Daniel G Stenson is a Notary Public as above, and that the foregoing Signature, purporting to be his, is genuine.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my Seal of Office, and Subscribed my name this Eleventh day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty Eight and in the Seventy Second year of the sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America
    JRosborough
    Clerk C C pleas for 
     Chester District

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Cedar Shoal, Chester Dist SoCa
Octr 18th, 1848

Dear Sir
    Annex you have the Declaration &C of my mother Jane Gaston made for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act of July 29th 1848
    Any communication you may make, be so good as to direct to this office.
   Very Respectfully 
    Jas A.H. Gaston

Commr of Pensions
Washington City DC

[On a separate small piece of paper copied with the above letter is a list as follows:]

Joseph Gaston and     Married
Janet Brown               Apl 20th 1790
__________________
John B. Gaston        born
   Jany 22d     1791
Narcisa Gaston    Novr 17th 1792
Eliza Gaston      Sepr 20th 1794
Esther Gaston    Decr 4th 1796
Margret Gaston    Apl 29th 1797
Jane Gaston      Augt 17th [page torn where year should be]
James Hall A. Gaston    Ocr 1 [page torn where rest of date should be]
Robert Gaston      Jany 1st  180 [page torn where rest of date should be]
R. Gaston died June 27th  1810
Margaret Gaston died Octr  1802

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Chester
Creditor

Jany 31 1805 Walter
[illegible] [illegible]
[illegible] 6th [illegible] to [illegible] lent
to Jos Gaston twenty dollers
3 the not was for $28.50 and [illegible] [illegible]
[illegible] two S. Car at 75 - total {1.20} $2.80 [illegible] away
{1.30}

1825 Walter Brown by four
to me to pay H. Gaston for [illegible]
1806 Walter Brown by ten dollars
pay to [illegible].10
.38
Borrowd of Walter Brown thirtey
eight dollars to pay for wagon
Walter Brown by twenty one