Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3155, Jeremiah Dupree, Va.

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(8 - 1776)

SERVICE
Va.

Dupree, Jeremiah

NUMBER
R. 3155.

CONTENTS

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Jeremiah Dupree
Georgia
Susp Act 7 June 1832

Addl [Additional] evidence

Evans & Faut

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Georgia} 
Washington County} I, Gency Riddle of the County of Washington and State aforesaid do depose and say on oath that I do not precisely recollect my age: from the best testimony I have, I believe I am between eighty and eighty five years of age. I was born in the County of Greenville State of Virginia and resided in that County during the Revolutionary War, and I will [sic] remember the events of that war, especially its close. I knew Jeremiah Dupree of Greenville County Virginia and well and distinctly know when he was in the army. I remember seeing the father of Jeremiah Dupree, when he heard Jeremiah Dupree was wounded at the battle of Guilford, walk the floor in distress on account of his son’s situation and absence in the service. I lived in two miles of Jeremiah Dupree’s residence while he was from home in the Revolutionary service. I knew when he came home wounded in the thigh at the battle of Guilford. I saw him after while confined at home and saw the wound. I do not now remember whether he was drafted, inlisted [enlisted], or volunteered. I do not remember any of the officers under whom he went. General Greene commanded at the Battle of Guilford. I do not know where he went in the army, or how long he staid [stayed]. I know after he recovered of his wound, he went in the army again, but how long he staid I cannot tell. I be

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[be]lieve he did not return home until after the surrender of Cornwallace [Cornwallis] at York. He came back sick with Camp fever.
I know that Jeremiah Dupree married Eleanor Huff of Brunswick County, Virginia and that he was married before he went into the army. I was at his house often while he was in the army and when he was at home wounded, and know he had then two children. Jeremiah Dupree held some office in the army, but, do not know what office. I remember it was said he bore the colors at the battle of Guilford. Jeremiah Dupree with his wife Eleanor moved from Virginia to the State of Georgia about 1790. 
In two or three years afterwards I moved to Georgia and lived close neighbor to them in this County near twenty years. They then moved to Twigg County Georgia. I was at their house in Twigg County once. They moved to Houston County Georgia, and there they both died. I further depose and say the Jeremiah Dupree who lived in Greenville Co. Virginia, and served in the Revolutionary War as aforesaid is the same individual who lived and died as aforesaid in Georgia.
Gincy [his X mark] Riddle 

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 23rd of Nov. 1832 
John Sheppeard J.P.

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State of Georgia} I L. Augustus Jernigan Clerk of the Superior Court in and for the County of Washington do certify that John Sheppard whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit as a subscribing witness is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and that full faith and credit ought to be had and given to his attestation as such and that the Same is in due form 
Given under my hand and seal of said court at office in Sandersville this 25th day of November 1852 
L. Augustus Jernigan 
CLK,, [Clerk] 
Super,, Cot,, W.C. [Superior Court Washington County]

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State of Georgia} 
County of Houston} On this twenty second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three [1833], personally appeared, in open Court before the Honorable Christopher B. Strong Judge of the Superior Courts in and for the County aforesaid, now sitting, Jeremiah Dupree a resident & citizen of the said state and County, aged Seventy eight years, five months and six days who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 1832. That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated, towit, In Greenville County Virginia [sic: Greensville County], in the latter part of the Summer or first of the fall of the year Seventeen hundred and seventy seven, the deponent entered the service as a Volunteer & was Ensign of the Company commanded by Captain William Peterson, and proceeded with said Company to the Town of Portsmouth in said state of Virginia, and there joined the Regiment commanded by Colo. Charles Harrison. The deponent served six weeks, in this expedition as well as he remembers. – In the year Seventeen hundred and eighty (the day and month not recollected) the deponent again volunteered from the same County as before (being the place of his then residence) in the company commanded by Captain Turner Bynum, was ensign of the said last mentioned company & was thence marched to Stoner’s Mills and Chucatuck and there joined a Regiment Commanded by Colo. Edmund Wilkins – This service was for six months but the deponent did not remain the whole time, not more than five months he thinks, but he cannot now remember the precise lenghth [length] of time he served in this expedition; he was furloughed home, & his brother Cordell Dupree was received in his place & served during the remainder of the Tour. About three days after

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the deponent returned to Greenville County the place of his residence aforesaid, a company to which his brother Cordell Dupree before named, had been attached, was ordered to march for Guilford Court House North Carolina, and the deponent volunteered in said company in place of his said brother Cordell, and was appointed Ensign of the said last mentioned Company. William Watson was the Captain, and Peter Butts Lieutenant. This company was made out of the Militia Regiment of Greenville County Va. of which, the deponent thinks one Colo. Montford or Mumford [possibly William Green Munford] was the commanding Colonel. The said last mentioned company with the deponent proceeded to Guilford Court House, in the State of North Carolina and joined the Army commanded by General [Nathanael] Greene & was afterwards engaged in the Battle at Guilford Court House [15 Mar 1781], in which said Battle the deponent was wounded. The deponent does not remember how long he was engaged in the said last mentioned service – though he does not think it was exceeding two months – He was disabled from his wound for about three months afterward. – In the year seventeen hundred and eighty one the Deponent again volunteered as an Ensign in a company commanded by Captain Turner Bynum & was marched to York Town Virginia and joined the American Army stationed at that place. Genls. [Generals] Washington, [Anthony] Wayne, [Benjamin] Lincoln &c were there. The deponent does not remember how long he was engaged or served in the last Tour, but he was discharged from the Army about the 10th or 11th of October 1781 on account of sickness as well he now remembers. The deponent states that he served as an Ensign from first to last, in the before mentioned Tour at least Twelve months – The deponent was born in Brunswick County in the State of Virginia on the sixteenth day of November Seventeen hundred and fifty four [Nov. 16, 1754], according to the statements of his family, & the Record of his age kept by them. Where that Record is now is unknown

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to the deponent. When called into service, the deponent lived in Greensville County Virginia, and remained a Citizen of that state from that time ‘till the 29th day of November Seventeen hundred and ninety, when he set out for the State of Georgia, where he arrived and settled sometime in January 1791, & has resided in Georgia ever since. The deponent did serve as herein before stated, but he has no documentary evidence at this time of his services, and he knows of but one person now living in Georgia towit Sugars Bynum who was acquainted with him or with any of his services in the Revolutionary War. Said Sugars Bynum was with the deponent at York Town & knows of his having performed that service. –
The Deponent recollects General Greene, General Wayne – Genl. Greene was a portly well looking man of pleasant Countenance, and Genl. Wayne was a large man of very stern Countenance – The deponent cannot find any of his commissions – he was under the impression that he had taken care of them, but upon examination he cannot find them. One of the deponent’s commissions, if not more of them, was signed by Colo. Daniel Fisher – The deponent has an extensive acquaintance in the neighbourhood & county of Houston in which he now lives, among whom are Howell Cobb, Arthur A. Morgan, Edward Engram and Osburn Wiggins member of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia from the said County of Houston, – and Jacob W. Pearce, Carlton Wellborn, Abner Wimberly, and James Dean & John Rushing & Elijah E. Crocker 
all of whom can testify as to the deponent’s character for veracity & their belief of his services as before stated – The deponent 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, or (if any) only on that of the agency of the State of Georgia.

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Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year first aforesaid
[signed] Jeremiah Dupree
C.B. Strong Sp [Superior] Judge 

We John McKenzie a Clergyman residing in the said County of Houston & Ezekiel Bryan also a clergyman residing in the same County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Jeremiah Dupree who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy eight years five months and six days of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been an officer and soldier of the Revolution, as he states, and that we concur in that opinion—
John McKenzie Cg
Ez. Bryan Cg
Sworn to & subscribed the said 22nd day of April 1833 
C.B. Strong Sp Judge

And the said Court does hereby declare its opinion after the investigations of the matter, and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War department that the above named applicant was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to the Court that John McKenzie who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the said County of Houston, and that said Ezekiel Bryan also a Clergyman who has also signed the same is a resident in the said County, Houston, and is a creditable person and that this statement is entitled to credit--- 
Christopher B. Strong 
Judge Supr Court Dist. George

Georgia} 
Houston County} I Johnson Wellborn Clerk of the Superior Court in & for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of the said Jeremiah Dupree for a Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and private seal having no seal of office this twenty second day of April Eighteen hundred and thirty three 
Johnson Wellborn Clerk Superior Court Houston County {Seal}

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Jeremiah Dupree Ga. 
Suspended "for further proof & explanations" 
Act 1832

L. B. True Agent in this case

[written sideways] Va. Militia

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Va. Militia

[written sideways] Jeremiah Dupree Ga. 
Suspended "for further proof & explanations" 
Act 1832

L. B. True Agent in this case

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Jeremiah Dupree
Georgia
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Rev. claim
suspended
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L. B. True
agent
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[POWER OF ATTORNEY.] 
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I Ira E Dupree, son and executor of Jeremiah Dupree deceased, of the County of Twiggs, and State of Georgia, for and in consideration of do [blank] do hereby make, constitute, and appoint, L. BLANCHARD TRUE, of Washington City, D. C., [blank] true and lawful Attorney, for [blank] and in [blank] name, to examine all papers filed in any Department or Office of Government, upon which a [blank] Pension was granted to [blank] on account of the [blank] services of [blank] and to obtain, by all lawful means, any and all additional amounts that may be due from the United Sates to said [blank], by virtue of said services, as [blank] in the Company of Capt. [blank] in the Regiment of [blank] and in the [blank] line of the forces of [blank]. And for good and sufficient reasons [blank] do hereby REVOKE AND CANCEL any and all other Powers of Attorney and authority which [blank] may at any former time have given to any person or persons for the above specified purposes; and [blank] do hereby vest the same irrevocably in [blank] said Attorney herein appointed, said L. Blanchard True.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set [blank] hand and seal this 12th day of October, in the year A. D. 1853 
Ira E. Dupree {SEAL.}
In presence of {SEAL.}
E. L. Ball {SEAL.}
M R Murphey JP {SEAL.}

STATE OF Georgia}
COUNTY OF Twiggs} SS. 
On this the 12th day of October in the year A. D. 1853, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace duly authorized by law to administer oaths and take acknowledgements in and for the county aforesaid Ira E Dupree son and executor of Jeremiah Dupree of Houston Co. Ga. deceased subscriber to the above, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned; and made oath, in due form of law, that he is personally interested as a son of Jeremiah Dupree deceased in said claim. 
And I further certify that I personally known to me to be the identical individual represented. 
M R Murphey J. P. {SEAL.}

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October 19, 1934
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Mrs. William Van Bell
Hawkinsville, Georgia

JEREMIAH DUPREE
R. 3155
BA-J/MLB Own

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Jeremiah Dupree, of Greensville County, Virginia, who later moved to Houston County, Georgia.
His record follows as found in the papers on file in pension claims, R. 3155, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
Jeremiah Dupree was born November 16, 1754, in Brunswick County, Virginia; the name of his parents are not given.
The solider resided in Greensville County, Virginia, until November 29, 1790, when he moved to the state of Georgia, arriving there in January, 1791, where he lived in Burke County for one year, then moved to Washington County where he was living in 1801; from there he moved to that part of Wilkinson County which was later Twiggs County, where he was living in 1818 or 1819, and from Twiggs County to Houston County, Georgia. 
Jeremiah Dupree applied April 22, 1833, for pension while a resident of Houston County, Georgia, and alleged that while residing in Greensville County, Virginia, he volunteered the latter part of the summer or early fall of 1777 and served six weeks as ensign in Captain William Peterson's company, Colonel Charles Harrison's Virginia regiment; that he volunteered sometime in 1780 for six months and after serving five months as ensign in Captain Turner Bryan's company, Colonel Edmund Wilkins' Virginia regiment, was furloughed and his brother, Cordell Dupree, took his place and served the remainder of the term for which he enlisted; that the company to which his brother Cordell was attached was ordered to march to Guilford Court House and that he (Jeremiah) volunteered in his brother's place, was appointed ensign and served two months in Captain William Watson's company, Colonel Mumford's or Montford's Virginia regiment, that he was in the battle of Guilford where he was wounded in his thigh and thereby

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disabled for about three months; that he volunteered in 1781, served two months in Captain Turner Bynum's Virginia company on the expedition to Yorktown, was in the siege there and was discharged October 11, 1781.
His claim was not allowed as proof of service was not furnished in accordance with the requirements of the pension law. 
Jeremiah Dupree married, prior to entering the service, Eleanor Huff, of Brunswick County, Virginia. At the time solider was home sick on account of his wound, there were two children, their names not stated.
Jeremiah Dupree and his wife, Eleanor, both died in Houston County, Georgia, dates not given.
In 1855, soldier's son, Ira E. Dupree, was a resident of Twiggs County, Georgia. 
The following names and dates are shown in the claim:

Jesse (?) born December __, 1782 (illegible)
Salley Dupree " August __ ____ "
David Daniel Dupree " October __, 1802
Eli---------       " _____ __ ____
Patsey "  " April 4, 1815, died Oct. 18, 1815.
Elizah or Elijah Dupree died October 19, 1815
Henry Johnson  born June 6, 1779
Golly or Polly Johnson " March 20, 1783
Wesley " " July 10, 1805
Berry  "  " March 25, 1808
No relationship was shown to the soldier's family or any of the above-named.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[stamped] REJECTED 
3155

P.O. 
Jeremiah Dupree
Service:

Enlisted: __________, 18  .
Discharged: __________, 18  .

Application filed: __________, 18  .

Alleges: Printed list of 1852 gives =
"For further proof and explanation."
Re-enlisted: __________ MMHF

Attorney:  __________,
P.O.  __________,

 _______ Recognized.  _______Contract.  
________ Cert. of Dis.   Searched for _____, 18  .

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Jan. 31 - 1923 - Hist. to Mrs. W. M. Elliott. MMHF
1934, Oct. 19 - Hist. to Mrs. Wm. Van Bell - MLB

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Jeremiah Dupree
Suspended case
Act 1832
GA
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3155

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[written upside down] [crossed out - Evans & Faut Apr 7 1853 same May 25/53] 

Let. of Jan. 8 1836 to J. M. Kelly not found MMHF

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[crossed out - Evans & Faut Apr 7 1853 same May 25/53]

Let. of Jan. 8 1836 to J. M. Kelly not found

MMHF

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Jeremiah Dupree
Geo.

Let Hon J. Coffer May 24 '30
paper returned

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7 June 1832
Jeremiah Dupree
Georgia -.
Suspended -
[begin crossed out text] Letter 12 - July 1834.
Hon. William Schley -
Set Jas M Kelley Oct 22 1835 [end crossed out text]
" " " sent 8.t [begin crossed out text] 1836 [illegible] 
" " " " Apr. 13.  "
[illegible] [end crossed out text]
(over)

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10 m [months] 12 days & did serve as an ensign in Greensville Co. Va. [Illegible] in the year 1777 
The five different tours, one of a [Illegible] 5 mo. having been called for 6 - Recommissioned as a man of the Signed by Col Tiggs All lost. 
A [let – letter?] under Capt. Peterson -
“ - - - Turner Byrun [Bryan]
“ - - - Cap. Watson
“ - - - Byrun
Ob. 1. Militia not regt. he served [1 or two?] or 3 mo [months] – 
[illegible sentence crossed out]
That if he served at all, it was in the capacity of – private, or simply an acting Ensign: or it seems his commissary what was then were not - Regard Gr

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Gen. of [Illegible] [sentence crossed out] 
What [Illegible several words] Apl 1776 
[sentence crossed out]

Mr. Kelly Oct 35 Jan. & Apl ‘36

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Macon May 17th 1855
Mr. R. W. Bates

Dear sir
I send to you a Power of Atty from Ira E Dupree for the purpose claiming his father's declaration and proof on file please attend to it and report to me at Dahlonega Georgia 

Very Respectfully
W. M. Varnum

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[Berry or Bervie or Jesse] Depree was Born December [?] Day 1782
Sally Depree [?] August the 4th day of [17??] 
David [Darrel or Daniel] Dupree was born October [?] Day [18[02]
Elizabeth [rest illegible]

The testament from which this leaf was removed, is on file in this Bureau; but contains no other than the "Johnson" data recorded below.
¢ Oct. 12 1912.
A. Wilson
[arrow pointing to below paragraph]
Henry Johnson was born June 6, 1779.
Polly Johnson was born March 20, 1783.
Wesley Johnson was born July 10, 1806.
Berry Johnson was born March 23, 1808.

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[Patsey] born April the 4th 1813
Patsey died the 18th of October 1815
Elijah died the 19th of October 1815

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Additional evidence 
in the case of 
Jeremiah Dupree

Oct. 20/52
GA  {2

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Washington, Oct 16th 1852

Dear Sir,

we herewith enclosed additional evidence in the case of Jeremiah Dupree, Georgia, Susp.d [Suspended] Act 7th June 1832.
The claim is in the charge of A S. Gage, Esq, who is now absent from the city, and has committed his business to our care.
We expect soon to furnish some further evidence.

Very respectfully
Evans & Faut.

James E. Heath, Esq
Comm. of Pensions

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Washington, Jany [January] 8th 1853

Dear Sir,
We herewith enclose additional evidence, in the case of Jeremiah Dupree, dec.d [deceased] Georgia, suspended, Act 7th June 1832.
We also filed additional evidence on the 10th Oct last, from which we have received no report.

Very respectfully
Evans & Faut

James E. Heath, Esq
Comm of Pensions.

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Hon. William Schley.
12 - July, 1834 - 
OC

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Depart. of War 
Pension Office 
12th July 1834 

Sir 
The claim of Jeremiah Dupree, still remaining unsupported by any evidence so far as relates to his service as an Ensign, has been suspended and his papers placed on file where the applicant shall present the [actual?] proof, his claim shall receive by attention. 
The certificate of pension for Lewis Powell you will find enclosed herewith.
I Have the honor 

W Schley 
Augusta, Geo.

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State of Georgia} 
Twiggs County} Know all men by these presents that I Ira E. Dupree of said county do have by constitute and appoint R. W. Bates, of Washington City my true and lawful Atty for me & in my name to examine any papers that may be on file in the Pension Office in relation to a claim for a Pension of my father Jeremiah Dupree late of Houston County Georgia for his services in the War of the Revolution and repeat to me why a Pension was not allowed him for said services hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney may lawfully do by virtue of these presents. Given under my hand and seal this the 12th day of May 1855 
Test. W. M. Varnum Ira E. Dupree {Seal}

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Mr. Cole C.C.
will please let Mr. Baker have these papers for examination &c

R. W. Bates

R.W. Bates – agt [Agent]

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ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
(CIRCULAR D.)
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PENSION OFFICE,
185.

SIR:
Before the application of 
widow of  No.
for Bounty Land under the Act of 3d March, 1855, can be allowed, SATISFACTORY EVIDENCE must be produced that she was the lawful wife of said
that he is dead, and that she was a widow at the time of making her said application, and is now a widow.

Very respectfully,
L. P. WALDO
Commissioner of Pensions.

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Jas. M Kelley Oct 22 1835 OC Geo.

Recd [Received] Vol 40. Pa. 348

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Depart of War 
Pen Off 
Oct 22 1835 

Sir 

The evidence in the case of the application of Jeremiah Dupree, is not such as will justify his being placed upon the pension roll. 
Let him apply to the Clerk of Greensville Co Va. for proof of his having been commissioned. The records in most military show the names of persons holding militia commissions. 
I will remark also that there were no tours of 6 months--in Va. during the revolutionary war; --three months was the usual length of a tour. 
The paper remains "on file". 
I am

Jas M Kelly Esq 
Perry Houston Co Ga

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Evans & Faut
May 25/33

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391 

Pension Office
May 25/53

Gentlemen 
In Sept. 1852 an effort was made to revive the claim of Jeremiah Dupree of Georgia under Act of 7 June 1832 by the deposition of Hardy Gregory which upon his examination was ruled out in consideration of his extreme youth. 
The additional evidence now filed is the deposition of Gincy Riddle who was two years younger than Gregory –
Messrs Evans & Faut 
Present

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Department of War Pension Office May 10, 1836 Sir I have rec.d your letter containing the affidavit of Sugars Bynum, intended in support the claim of Jeremiah Dupree to a pension. I have filed it with his papers-- Mr. Dupree alleges that from the year 1777 to the fall of 1781 he rendered volunteer [illegible] service in the militia of Greenville Co Va  in the capacity of an ensign, one of which later he states was for 6 months. The [illegible] in the [illegible] of this claim are numerous.  Mr. Dupree states that he had served commission, having served in five different companies & in each case rec.d a commission, one of which he says was signed by Col. Fiskal. It is believed that all military commissions were signed by the Gov after the adoption of the Constitution of Va. and not by the Regimental officers. It is also well known that the militia did not serve the terms of 6 months, Mr. Dupree may have performed some service, as a volunteer, and may have acted as an ensign for the time being but that does not entitle him to the pay of one under the pension laws. His own statement shares conclusively that

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[written sideways] Hon. Gilbert Towns May 19 1836

he could not have been commissioned in due form, for we find him one time serving under Capt. Peterson, another under Cape Bynam and another under Capt. Watkins, and then again under Byran. Officers in H. Va. Militia. Militia in all cases previous to being commission, were recommended by the Court of the County, and it can be said that a man serving during all this time in the County should have been then recommended & commissioned at every time he reenlisted or was drafted. His service must have been very singular, whatever it [Illegible] may have been, and there is no grounds for his claim as an ensign.
These objections have been frequently & fully [Illegible] M Kelly 
I have the hon.

Hon. 
G W B Towns
Ho Rep

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J. M. Kelley
Apr. 13, 1836
O.L

E

Rec.d [Received] Vol. 40 pa. 469

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War Dept 
Pension Off
Apl 36 

Sir, 

The deposition in support in the claim of Jeremiah Dupreee enclosed in yours of 21 ult. is herewith returned that the clerk may attach his seal of office thereto. If there be no seal, the certificate of the member of Congress as to the official character & signature of the clerk will be sufficient. 
This deposition however does not establish that he held the grade of St. or Ensign by legal tenure or meet the other objections indicated in memo of 9 Jany [January] last. 

James M. Kelley Esq 
Perry Houston Co Ga

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Pension Office 
April 7 1853 

Gentlemen 
The affidavit of Hardy Gregory does not give any additional strength to the case of Jeremiah Dupree of Ga. It is evident that he knows nothing of the service of Dupree. He was too young to know more than that he was in service. I hope the additional evidence you intend to file shortly will include the necessity for prolonging a correspondence which has already extended through many years.

Messres [Monsieur] Evans & Faut 
Present

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J. L. Edwards Esq.

Sir;
The enclosed papers are sent to your office for [approval?]

Yours respectfully,
Jno Coffee

2 July 1836.

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Washington June 1 1852
Hon Com of Pensions 

Sir:
I have the honor to enlist herewith a power of atty from Ira E Dupree as Ex.r [Executor] of Jeremiah, dec.d [deceased] who was a Revolutionary Soldier & in 1832 or 33 made an application for a pension. He then resided in the County of Houston in Georgia. 
I desire to examine his papers in file. 
I am Respectfully
Yo obt svt [Your Obedient Servant]
A. L. Gage

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Jas M. Kelley Geo.
[illegible] IM
Ol


[illegible] 40 ha 388

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Department of War 
Pension Office 
Jany 8, 1836 

Sir, 

I have admitted the claim of Thomas Duffield, and will forward you his certificate of pension next week. 
The papers of Jeremiah Dupree, remain still on file, the evidence in his case is not sufficient to justify the allowance of his claim. The drafts from the militia, are not for 6 months as Mr. Dupree alleges, but generally for three. 
As an evidence that Mr. Dupree was not commissioned as an Ensign, I refer you to his statement. He first states that he was Ensign in Capt Petersons Company, Col Harrisons Regt. - Second, that he was an Ensign in Capt Bynums Company, Col. Wilkins Regt - that in as now, he was relieved by to brother, and he returned to the place of his residence. 
A company then to which his brother belonged was ordered out, and he volunteered the place of his brother, and was appointed Ensign, only three days after he return home as above. This was about March 1781 - was in the Battle of Guilford. Again he States that he volunteered under Capt Bynum his old Captain in the Summer of 1781 and marched to Yorktown, and was still an Ensign. 
When it is known that the appointment of commissioning militia officers in Va. was upon the recommendation of the Court of the County. I will have no doubt upon the mind that Mr. Dupree could not have been commissioned as he

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has stated two or three different times; and twice in one year and once in a company to which he did not belong, unless he was commissioned at the same time.
It may be possible that upon application to the Clerk of Greenville Co. Va. some evidence may be find. At present, the claim will remain suspended and the papers be placed on file.

I am

Jas M. Kelley Esq.
Perry Houston Co Ga.

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Sugars Bynum's 
affidavit

Hon. G. W. B. Towns
HR

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Georgia Houston County} SS Be it known that on this fourteenth day of March Eighteen hundred and thirty six before me Alexander Smith a Justice of the peace in and for said County now in Commission personally appeared Sugar Bynum a Citizen and resident of the County of Henry and State of Alabama aged seventy four years, and the said Sugar Bynum being sworn in due form of Law deposes and says upon his oath, that he this deponent, was well acquanted [acquainted] with Jeremiah Dupree (now of said County of Houston and state aforesaid) during the revolutionary war; that the said Jeremiah Dupree and this deponent lived in the same neighborhood in Brunswick County in the State of Virginia during said war and that the said Jeremiah Dupree was in the service of the United States as a Commissioned officer for several Tours in said war but for that Length of time he served; this deponent does not know--And this deponent further states upon his oath that he this deponent and the said Jeremiah Dupree served together in Captain Turner Bynums Company in the expedition to York Town when Lord Cornwallis surrendered; that the said Jeremiah Dupree served as a Lieutenant  in Captain Turner Bynums Company during said expedition to York Town, according to the best of the deponents recollection at present and that it was the Common report that the said Jeremiah Dupree was wounded at the battle  at Guilford Court house North Carolina.  And that the said Jeremiah Dupree was known and accepted as an officer of the Revolution in the Neighborhood in which the said Jeremiah Dupree and this deponent lived in Brunswick County State of Virginia aforesaid and to have served in the Army of the United States as an officer ---Sworn to and subscribed before me this fourteenth day of March eighteen hundred and thirty six Alex. Smith J.P. } Sugar Bynum

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Georgia Houston County} I Alexander Smith a Justice of the peace in and for said Couty now in Commission do hereby Certify that Sugars Bynum the person who this day made and subscribed the Foregoing affidavit before me his appearance shows that he is of the age he states himself to be, is known an [and] respected as a Revolutionary Soldier.  And that the said Sugars Bynum is a respectable person and that said affidavit is entitled to full Credit this fourteenth day of March Eighteen hundred & thirty six.  Alexr Smith J.P.  Georgia Houston County} I Lewis J. Jordan Clerk of the Superior Court of said county Houston do hereby certify that Alexander Smith before whom the foregoing affidavit of Sugars Bynum was made and sworn to is a Justice of the Peace as he is there represented, that full faith & credit ought to be had & given to his attestation as such and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine--In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my private seal having no seal of office & subscribed my name this 21st day of March 1836--Lewis J. Jordan, clk S.C. Ho. C. Georgia

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State of Georgia Houston County} I Edwin Mounger one of the Justices of the Inferior Court in & for said county do hereby certify that Joshua Pattishall whose attestation appears to the foregoing certificate was as the date thereof & is now the clerk of the Inferior Court in & for the County of Houston, as he is represented in said certification--that full faith & credit ought to be had & given to his attestation as such, and that said certificate is in due form, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & private seal, having no seal of said Court, this 9th day of April 1834. --
Edwin Mounger, I.C. {L.S.}

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Deposition of
Hardy Gregory, as 
additional evidence 
in the case of
Jeremiah Dupree, dec.d [deceased]
of Georgia, Susp.d [Suspended]
Act 7th June 1832.


Evans & Faut
Washington City
for A. L. Gage,
---
1832

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[written sideways] Howell Received two 50/100 dollars W. H. Mitchell Cobb Entire E S Candler Cony Gen

State of Georgia. 
By His Excellency HOWELL COBB, 
[symbol CONSTITUTION] Governor of said State. 
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME. 
Know ye that Isham B. Wright whose official signature appears to the within Instrument, was, at the time of affixing the same thereto, an acting Justice of the Peace in the County of Putnam and State of Georgia-------which appears from the records of file in this Office, and that the same is in due form of law: Therefore, all due faith, credit and authority are and ought to be had and given to his attestation as such. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Great Seal of the State to be put and affixed. 
Done at the Capitol in Milledgeville, this Nineth day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the seventy-seventh 
BY THE GOVERNOR: N. C. Barnett 
SECRETARY OF STATE 

Executive Department, Georgia, 
MILLEDGEVILLE, Sept. 9th 1852 
Registered: And Recd [Received] 25/100 
W.W. Paine 
SECRETARY EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

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Jeremiah Dupree
Declaration for a 
pension
26./32

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Georgia} 
Houston County} The undersigned do hereby certify that they are acquainted with the said Jeremiah Dupree and that his character for veracity is unimpeached and unimpeachable and we sincerely and truly believe that the said Jeremiah Dupree did serve as an Ensign in the Revolutionary War as he has stated in the amended Declaration - This 22nd day of April 1833.
Arthur A Morgan James Dean Rep Houston Co. States Legislation 
John [his X mark] Rushing
Howell Doble Senator. James E Duncan 
Elijah E Crocker 
James Holderness 
Osburn Wiggens [Illegible] 

I Christopher B. Strong Judge of the said Superior Court do herby certify that the persons who have subscribed the above certificate are creditable persons and that their said certificate is entitled to credit. April 22, 1833 – 

Georgia} 
Houston County} I Christopher B. Strong Judge of the Superior Courts of the Flint District & state aforesaid do hereby certify that Johnson Wellborn is Clerk of the Superior Court in & for the said county of Houston and that full faith & credit ought to be had & given to his attestation as such & that his foregoing certificate is in due form. 
Given under my hand and seal this 23rd day of April 1833. 
{LS}

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Ent. T B Howard Comp Genl

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 

STATE OF GEORGIA. 
By his Excellency Wilson Lumpkin Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of this State, and of the Militia thereof: 
To all to whom these Presents shall come. 
KNOW YE, That Johnson Wellborn whose attestation appear to the annexed application for a Pension is and was at the date of the same Clerk of the Superior Court for the County of Houston in said State and that Christopher B. Strong whose attestation appears to the same is and was at the date of the same Judge of the Superior Courts of the Flint district in the said State and that Houston County is included in said district, and also that said attestations are in due form and by the proper officers 
Recd [Received] two 50/100 dollars 
Jno Williams

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in the said State and that Houston County is included in said district, and also that said attestation are in due form and by the proper office. 
Recd [Received] two 50/100 dollars 
J M Williams 
[written sideways] Wilson

Therefore, in due faith, credit and authority are, and ought to be had and given to their attestations as such. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of this State to be put and affixed. 
Done at the State-House in Milledgeville, this sixth day of November in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty three and of the Independence of the United States of America, the fifty eighth. 
By the Governor: E Hamilton Secretary of State 

Received 25 cents 
Mr. J W Wellborn
Secy. E. D.

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Jeremiah Dupree
Georg

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State of Georgia Houston County} SS Before me Robert L. Duncan a Justice of the Superior Court in and for said county personally appeared Augustus M. Russell who being a person entitled to full faith & credit upon his oath & a reputable witness, and being duly sworn say [illegible] oath that he this deponent went to the residence of Sugars Bynum a very old man, (who represented himself as being over eighty years of age & who then resided in the county and state aforesaid, but since removed to parts unknown to this deponent) for the purpose in behalf of Jeremiah Dupree of said county of getting said Bynum to appear before a Justice of the Peace to be sworn touching the service of said Dupree in Revolutionary War, that said Sugars Bynum was so indisposed at that time that he was unable to attend, that in conversation with him relative to said Dupree's service, he said he would swear that he was in the same army with Dupree & knew him to be an officer & believed he was a Lieutenant, and the said Bynum further said he would swear that he knew said Jeremiah Dupree applying for a Pension to be the same Jeremiah Dupree as he was a neighbour to him before & after the war & went into the army with him--He said Dupree served one or more tours, he could not recollect the number of tours nor the time they went into the army.  And this deponent further states that this conversation took place ten or twelve months ago or thereabouts.  Sworn to & subscribed A M Russell before me this 9th October 1835 Robt L Duncan JSC

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Georgia} 
Putnam Co} Personally appeared before me Isham B. Wright an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County, Hardy Gregory of said County and State who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that, he knew Jeremiah Dupree of Greenville County Virginia in seventeen hundred and eighty – he resided in said county and state, married Eleanor Huff of Brunswick County Virginia, and moved to Washington County Georgia, in seventeen hundred and ninety. He was at his residence in the County of Washington Georgia in eighteen hundred and one – also was at his residence in 1818 or 1819 in Twiggs County Georgia where he had moved from the County of Washington; never saw him, nor was at his residence after he moved to the County of Houston Georgia. He says he knew Jeremiah Dupree from his earliest recollection to his death. Jeremiah Dupree was his God-father. Jeremiah Dupree served in the Militia in the Revolutionary War. He was not in service with him – does not know whether he was drafted or whether he volunteered or enlisted, but knows he left home on the service of two towers of three months each or more. Jeremiah Dupree resided in the County of Greenville Virginia when he entered the army. He entered the army in 1780 and continued in the service untill [until] after the battle of Guilford in 1781. Soon after the battle of Guilford he was brought home wounded in the front of the thigh. He says he saw the wound many times. His thigh was a black as flesh could be. He saw him at Gregory’s father’s house on crutches when his wound was healing.

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He served as Ensign. He was called Ensign and he well remembers of hearing those who served with him say that, after the colors which he bore, had been shot from the staff and he fallen wounded on the field of battle, he could not be prevailed upon to give up the staff.
He joined the army after his wound had healed in a second tower and came home from York after the Surrender of Cornwallis [19 Oct 1781] sick with camp fever. 
Gregory says he was born the thirteenth day of August 1771. He says when Jeremiah went unto the service on his first tower he does not now recollect any of the officers under whom he served, and the reason why he remembers more of Jeremiah Dupree than of others, was the circumstance of his wound and seeing him brough home. 
He remembers in his second tower 1781 that Turner Bynum was Captain – he has forgotten the other officers. 
[signed] Hardy Gregory
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 8th of Sept. 1852. 
Isham B Wright J. P.

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State of Georgia} 
Houston County} Ss. 
Personally appeared before me Alexander Smith a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Jeremiah Dupree the applicant named in the accompanying Declaration for a Pension, and by way of Amendment to his said Declaration, 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 lenghth [length] of his services mentioned and described in his said Declaration; but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; – For six weeks this deponent served in Captain William Petersons Company as an Ensign: – For five months this deponent served in Captain Turner Bynum’s Company as an Ensign, For two months this deponent served in Captain William Watson’s Company as an Ensign, up to the time of the Battle at Guilford Court House North Carolina in which this deponent was wounded and thereby disabled and confined for three months, which he conceives equivalent to three months additional service; For two months this Deponent served in Captain Turner Bynum’s Company (In the expedition to York Town mentioned in said Declaration) as an Ensign – making in all together, including the three months confinement from the wound aforesaid, thirteen months and twelve days that this deponent served, (and was confined) And for such service this Deponent claims a Pension – this deponent further states that the second Tour which he served was for six months and that he served five months as aforesaid of that tour when his place was taken by his brother Cordel Dupree who served out the balance of said second tour – This deponent distinctly remembers that the colo. [Colonel] issuing orders for drafts subsequent to the said second Tour encouraged volunteering by the promise, that volunteers should be discharged at the end of three months service. And this deponent thinks that the third and fourth tours served by him, were three months Tours, though as stated

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he was wounded and disabled after having actually served two months of the third Tour, and was parolled [paroled] on account of sickness after having served two months of the fourth and last Tour -- 
This Deponent having lost his Commissions, and not being able to find them, is unable to present the highest & best evidence to the War Department of the fact of his having served as Ensign in the Revolutionary War as before named but he did serve as Ensign as aforesaid – This Deponent when he removed from the State of Virginia to the State of Georgia he stopped in Burk [sic: Burke] County one year, and the next year he removed to and settled in Washington County in the said State of Georgia. From Washington County he removed to Wilkinson & settled in that part of Wilkinson afterwards Twiggs, and from Twiggs County in said State of Georgia this deponent removed to the County of Houston first aforesaid where he now resides.
[signed] Jeremiah Dupree
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 9th day of April 1834} 
Alexr Smith J. P. Houston County Geo. 

State of Georgia} 
Houston County} I Joshua Pattishall clerk of the Inferior Court in and for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that Alexander Smith Esquire before whom the above & foregoing affidavit of Jeremiah Dupree was made and sworn to by the said Jeremiah Dupree, was at the date thereof & still is a Justice of the Peace as he is there represented, that his said certificate is in due form, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine -- In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and private seal having no seal of Court and subscribed my name this nineth day of April Eighteen hundred &thirty four 
Joshua Pattishall Clk. H.C. {Seal}

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[written sideways] Rev. Sec.

[typed] 417 GEORGIA AVENUE 
CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE 

417 Georgia Avenue. 
January Second, 1923 

Bureau of Pension 
Department of Interior 
Washington, D.C. 

[Stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE JAN 4 1923 

Sir,
I wish to know if there is a record of the service of Jeremiah Dupree in the Continental Army. 
He was from Virginia and wounded in the service. 

Very Truly, 
Mr. W. M. Elliott

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Hawkinsville, Ga. 
Oct. 4, 1934 

Veterans Administration 
Washington, D.C. 
Pension Dept Revolutionary Records., 

Have you on file a claim for pension of Jeremiah Dupree from Greensville County Virginia, later moved to Houston County Georgia. If so, I would like copy of same. 
Thanking you for this favor, 
Respectfully 
Mrs. William Van Bell 
Hawkinsville, Ga.

[circular stamp with Numbers 1 -12 around the outside] RECEIVED OCT 6 1934 MAIL SUB-DIV, VETS. ADM. READER #61

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Rev. War Section MMHF

January 31, 1933

Mrs. W. M. Elliott
417 Georgia Avenue
Chattanooga, Tennessee

Madam:
In response to your letter of the 2" inst., you are advised that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim R. 3155 it appears that Jeremiah Dupree was born November 16, 1754 in Brunswick County, Virginia. 

He applied for pension April 22, 1833 while a resident of Houston County, Georgia and alleged that while living in Greenville County, Virginia he enlisted in the militia and served as an Ensign as follows: for six weeks in Captain William Peterson's Company, Colonel Charles Harrison's Regiments, for five months in Captain Turner Bynum's Company, Colonel Edmund Wilkins' Regiment; for two months in Captain William Watson's Company, Colonel Mumford of Montford's Regiment, was engaged in the battle of Guilford where he was wounded in the thigh and was disabled thereby for three months; and for two

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months in Captain Turner Bynum's Company, was at the Siege of York and was discharged October 11, 1781.

Soldier married before he entered the service, Eleanor Huff of Brunswick County, Virginia, and when at home sick from his wound there were then two children, their names not stated.

Soldier and wife both died in Houston County, Georgia prior to 1852, dates not stated.

One son Ira. E. Dupree was living in Twiggs County Georgia in 1855. 

His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of his alleged service as required by the pension law. 

Very respectfully,

Commissioner. 

Soldier had a brother, Cordell Dupree, in the service.