Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2766, Surry Davis, S.C.

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SERVICE
S.C.
Davis, Surry
NUMBER
R.2766
Born in N.C.
CONTENTS

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State of Georgia  )
County of Murray) Ss
   On this 30th day of August 1823 personally appeared in open court before the Inferior Court of Murray Now Sitting Surry Davis a Resident of the County of Murray and State of Georgia aged Seventy nine years.  Who, being first duly Sworn and according to Laws Doth on his Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated, that he entered the service as private volunteer under Captain John McGaw in Abbeville District S.C. late in the summer of the year 1780. Who joined Col Robt. Anderson who joined Genl Pickens being immediately processed to Genl Pickens plantation, and [illegible] block house on the site where Abbeville Court House now stands  Where we remained until the spring of 1781 making frequent excursions against the Cherokee Indians, to protect the frontier against the depredations of those were stationed there early in the fall of the same year 1780 we took two small Indian towns around Seneca River

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five Indians were killed during our stay at the Block House, three families were murdered and their Houses burnt, by the Indians, by the names of Smith, Johnson and the Widow Crockett, in Month of offence 1781.  The British & Tories having gained the Ascendancy in our neighborhood we were compelled either to join them or leave, the latter alternative about thirty of us chose, and under Genl Pickens proceeded to meet Genl Greene, who was approaching Ninety Six.  about the 1st May 1781 we joined Cptn Green on some water course in North Carolina the name of which I forget, and I am not positively sure whether it was in North or South Carolina  towards the last of May we arrived at Ninety Six and laid siege to it, Shortly after we laid the siege, the British rallied from the Fort, and drove us from our works.  We remained two or three weeks endeavoring to take the Fort without success.  When it was understood that the British were amassing with a large army from Charleston to its relief, we made an assault on the fort, without success  We retreated to the Saluda River and then the Enoree.  When Genl Green determined

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and proceeded to Bacons Bridge on the Dorchester below Orangeburg.  I will here mention that there were good many men killed at Ninety Six Somewhere about a hundred, I should think.  I will also mention other volunteer Officers to wit Luets Birkwood, John William.  I do not recollect any of the regular Officers except Gen Green.  I saw him often he was rather a large stern man, apparently sworn forty five years.  Col. Crieger commanded the British at Ninety Six, and Lord Randoph commanded the Army which came to its relief towards the middle or last of July.  Gen. Pickens received orders to proceed with his volunteers and join Jim Clark of Georgia for the purpose of making an inroad into the Cherokee Nation.  We proceeded by slow marches to Abbeville District where we remained between two and three weeks waiting, when we resumed our march and joined Gen Clark sometime in the early part of the month of September three days march from [illegible] an Indian Village situated where there was a valley now known by the name Nacoochee in Habersham County, Georgia

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We approached [illegible] Town secretly and arrived there three days after our junction with Gen Clark.  We attacked attacked the Town about daylight, and killed thirty seven Indians, and took between forty and fifty women & children prisoners  We remained there three days.  I don't recollect the names of any of the Georgia Officers except Genl.  We returned to Abbeville sometime in the month of October 1781. And received permission to go home previous to being disbanded.  I volunteered as a minute man and held myself in readiness with my arms and equipment until the close of the war tho I was not called upon again  From  August 1780 till October 1781. I was in active service with slight intermissions, that is I received personally short leaves of absence like other Soldiers, tho until October 1781. I was never indefinitely absent from my duty.  I have no documentary evidence of  my services or ever had and there is no living witness to my knowedge, of my service.  That there is no minister of the Gospel in his vicinity, that he was born in North Carolina Granville County in the year 1764. that he has no record of his age. that he lived in Abbesville

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District when called into Service about after the war I removed to Pendleton District where I lived about twenty years.  I then removed to Greenville District where I lived nine years.  I then removed to Brunswick Co. North Carolina, where I lived nine years, I then removed to Habershaw County, Georgia where I lived Eleven years, I then removed to Marion County Georgia, where I now live. that sometime in the month of February 1842, while on a visit to some relations in Roane Co. Tennessee, he made application thru a Lawyer by the name of Childers. Which by some informality proved unsuccessful, that during the following Summer he employed [illegible] of Murray County, Georgia, to forward his papers, to which an an answer was addressed to Franklin B. Morris Esquire, Clerk of the Court of Murray County, J L Edwards, dated June 27th 18[?] inclosing a copy of the Pensions Office regulations and directing this Declarant to apply to W. Laval Esqre. Comptroller Genl office for information that at the time of the receipt

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of the above communication [illegible] his Agent as aforesaid was sick and unable to attend to any business and that as soon as he the said witness was able to travel he left the County and did return until within a few days, which is the reason why this application was not received sooner.  The Declarant for the Deponent and 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 the best of his recollection, he served, not less than one year and two months as a private, that is to say that according to the best of his recollection he entered the service in August 1780, and therein until October 1781 - and for such service he claims a pension.  That he did not [illegible] to the suggestion of the Commissioner of Pensions make any application to Wm Laval Esqre, as he was aware that he had no information on the subject in his as the Declarant was a volunteer and did not belong to what were termed the State Armys

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He hereby relinquishes every claim what was 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
Sworn to & Subscribed [illegible] Laws the day and year aforesaid
Questions by the  Court
1. Where and in What Year were [illegible] born
Ans. In Granville Co North Carolina in the year 1764.
2. Have you any record of your age And if so where is it?
Ans.  I have none.
3. Where were you living when called into Services, Where have you lived since the revolutionary war. and Where do you now live.
Ans. When called into Service I lived in Abbeville District S. Carolina in the Revolutionary. I have lived in Pendleton & Greenville Districts S.C. and Brunswick N. Carolina then Habersham Co. Georgia and I have lived in Murray Co Georgia 
4.  How were you called into Service; Were you draughted, did you Volunteer or were you a  Substitute, and if a Substibute for whom?
Ans.  I volunterred.
5. State of Service of the Regular

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Officers who were with the troops where you Served.  Such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recall and the general circumstandes of your services
Ans.  Gen. Green is the only regular Officer whose name I recollect  I do no recollect any of State Continental or Militia Regiments by name. The general circumstances of my Services can be found in the foregoing Declaration
6.  Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so by whom. Was it given, and what has become of it?
Ans.  I never received a discharge
7.  State the names of of persons whom you are [illegible] in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your Character for veracity and the wholeness as to your Service as described of the revolution
Ans.  Wesley Maulden and S.C. Fain.  I could mention all who know me, but deemed it is unnecessary
We Wesley Maulden and S.C. Fain, residing in the County of Murray & State of Georgia

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hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Surry Davis Who has Subscribed and Sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be Seventy nine years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion

Sworn and Subscribed )    Wesley Maulden
the Day and Year aforesaid  )  Saml. C. Fain

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of this Matter, and after putting the interrogatories proscribed by the War Department that the above named applicant Was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states; And the court further certifies, that Wesley Maulden and S.C. Fain Who have signed the preceding Certificate, are residents of the County of Murray State aforesaid and are creditable persons and that their statement is entitled to credit
Harrison Davis J.G. (seal)
James Morris J.P. (seal)
K.W. Hargrove J.P. (seal)

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I, Thos. O Austin, Clerk of the Inferior Court of the Said County of Murray, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of Said Court in the Matter of the application of Surry Davis for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix my private seal there being no seal of Office this 30th day of August 1843.
Thomas O. Austin Clerk
(seal)
State of Georgia  )
Murray County    ) Ss
  I Franklin B. Morris Clerk of the Superior Court of the Said County of Murray do herewith certify that Thos. O. Austin who has subscribed the foregoing certificate of the proceedings of the Inferior Court of the said County of Murray, is the Clerk of the Said Inferior and that signature is genuine and that all the papers hereto attached, under my Official Seal [illegible] the proceedings of Said Court intended to be authenticated by Said Thos O. Austin's 
In Witness Whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & Official
Seal this 30th day of Aug 1843
Franklin B. Morris Clerk
By his Deputy Edward W. Edwards

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Surry Davis
Tenn
Act 1832

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State of Tennessee
County of Roane

  Be it known, that on this 4th day of August A.D. 1855 before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Margarette Stegall resident of (blank) in said County, and made oath according the law that She is one of the children of Surry Davis who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of the 7th June 1832.  That she is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
  Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint SAMUEL M. KNIGHT, of Washington City, my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute the claim of Surry Davis for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Department at Washington City or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City, D.C. Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present.  Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
Margerette (her mark) Stegall
  Sworn to, Subscribed, and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said Margerette Stegall to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged.
R.A. Duncan (seal)
J.P. for R County
State of Tennessee
County of County
  It is hereby Certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Court of Roane that Margarette Stegall the party who has sworn to, and acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney, is the daughter of the reputed soldier aforesaid.  I further certify, that Robert D. Duncan Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, was, at the time of doing, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine.
  In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office, this 4th day of August 1855
Austin L Greene Clk

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Shady Grove Union Co Geo Sept 4/5th
Mr. L P Waldo
Dear Sir
I write you a few lines to enquire of you in regard to my father in laws claim for pension for his Service in the Revolutionary Service  I Received a letter from you the 6 February last Stating That Surry Davis who is my father in law had made application for a pension but had failed to make proof of Service one of the heirs promist to attend to the matter and obtain proof of the Service found to the department  will you be so kind as to inform me if there has beeen any proof found yet or not  if not I will try to get proof from the Comptrollers office in South Carolina and fowd to the department as if there is anything due the heirs of Surry Davis from the department  I as one of the heirs want to obtain it  Your kind attention to this and answer back will much oblig  your friend
Isaac Foster

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State of Georgia
County of Union
On this the Sixth day of January A D, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Five personally appeared before me Martin L. Burch an acting Justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Absalum Hooper aged Fifty Six years and Ennis Hooper aged Fifty years bouth Residents of the County of Union and State of Georgia who being duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith on oath that they was personally accquainted with Surry Davis and his Family for many years in the County of Brunswick & State of North Carolina and that Lusinda Foster whoes name was Lusinda Davis before marrage was and is the Reputed Daughter and Lawful heir of him the Identicle Surrey Davis who made his delcaration for a pension he claimed to be due him from the United States for service don in the Revolutionary war
Absolum (his mark) Hooper
Enos Hooper
Sworn to and subscribed before me on this the Sixth day of January AD 1855
And I hereby certify that Absalum Hooper and Ennis Hooper whos makes this affidavit is men of trooth and strict veracity and that I am not Interested in this claim
Given under my hand and seal
  Martin L Burch J.P. (Seal)

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Georgia  
I Thad M Hughes Union County, clerk of the Superior Court in aforesaid county do hereby certify that Martin L Burch before whom the foregoing affidavit was made is an acting Justice of the Peace in aforesaid county and was at the time of assigning the same duly commissioned and sworn and that the name thereto subscribed appears to be genuine.
Given under my hand and seal of office this 8th January, 1855
Thadd M. Hughes C.S.C

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October 13,1932.

S. C. Roberts
217 S. Main Street
Nevada 
Missouri

M.J/ILL
Surry Davis
R.2766

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of Captain Surry Davis, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The record shown below is obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, R. 2766, based upon the service of Surry Davis in that war. 
Surry David was born December 22 or 23, 1764 in Grenville County, North Carolina, and moved when very young to Abbeville District, South Carolina, where he resided until the Revolution. 
He applied for pension March 7, 1862, at which time he was a resident of Murray County, Georgia. His application for pension was executed in Rome County, Tennessee, where he was visiting. 
He stated then that he volunteered in June or August, 1780 and served as a private in Captain John McGaw's Company, Colonel Robert Anderson's South Carolina Regiment, and that he was in the siege of Ninety-Six and in several engagements with the Indians, length of service about fourteen months. 
The claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service as required by the pension law. 
Following this service, the soldier resided in Pendleton and Greenville Districts, South Carolina, moved to Buncombe County,

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North Carolina, thence to Habersham County, Georgia and later to Murray County, Georgia. In 1874, he was in Roane County, Tennessee, and it was stated then that he had been visiting for several years in Georgia. 
Surry Davis died prior to October, 1853, the date and place of his death not shown. The names of the following children who survived their father are stated, the name of his wife, however, not shown: Greenville Davis, of Whitfield County, Georgia; Lusinda, wife of Issac Foster, whose address was Shady Grove, Union County, Georgia, in 1854; and Margaretta Stegall of Roane County, Tennesse. 
It was shown by the South Carolina records that in 1791, Surry Davis requested that any money due him from the state, be paid to Blake Mauldin. In 1842, the Richard A. Stegall was a resident of Roane County, Tennessee. In 1843, Wesley Mauldin was a resident of Murry County, Georgia. No relationship of those three persons to the soldier's family is stated. 
The above record is that of the only soldier named Surry Davis on the Revolutionary War records of this office. 
Very truly yours, 
A.D. HILLER, 
Assistant to Administrator.

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1912 Oct 18.
History to Mrs. John R. Hall [illegible character]
1932 Oct 13 Hist. to S. C. Roberts-ILL.
[The following line was marked out by hand:]
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 8, 1873.

2766
P.O. ____________
Surry Davis
Service: __________
Enlisted: ___________, 18__.
Discharged: ___________, 18__.

[Stamped over the previous two lines at an angle is "REJECTED"]

Application filed: __________, 18__.
List of Rejected & Suspended Pensions page 306.
For period, length & grade of service, names of company & field officers, indents of pay from Comptroller General of S. Carolina.
 [Within these previous lines the following printed captions have been marked out by hand:]
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:

Attorney: _________
P. O. _______
_____ Recognized.   ___________Contract.
_______Cert. of Dis.  Searched for ______, 18__.

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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.  2767  Surry Davis Service : Consolidated April 19, 1882 with rejd Soldier File  No 2766 Enlisted In Prior  REJECTED

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Surry Davis Georgia Suspended  Sec let  24th June E W Chastain  Feby 6/54  2766 Act 32

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Surry Davis Tennessee  Suspended Sec let 22 March 1842 Hon. T. J. Campbell Hon. Will Chumbarll May 26 1853  2767 Act 7 June 1832

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35343 Surry Davis Georgis  Let. to Hon W.H. Stiles Feb 19 1844  Wm K. Moore Sep 1, 1853

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35.363 Surry Davis Georgia

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To the Honorable Lt Lee at war and the The Commissioner of Pensions for the benefit of Revolutionary Soldiers & others -  Declarations of Surry Davis - she with that same petitioner is a citizen of the County of Murray and State of Georgia age of (79 ) seventy nine years on this 23rd day of December last past , and is a Blacksmith by trade. That he was a Soldier during the revolutionary war between the United Provinces and Great Britain  the following narrative will cause .. ( illegible ) to fully  to appear  viz. I was borne Granville District in the State of North Carolina and removed to  Abbeville District  South Carolina when very young Where I was raised or brought up that at the age of about sixteen  The English and Tories being in possession of the lower part of South Carolina . The Tory officers when they could not obtain the consent of others more potential to join their stand and would send them off to prison at  Ninety Six - Genl Ezekiel Pickens called several of his neighbors & acquaintances to assemble at his house for his for the purpose of opposing and the Tories and forming a company to join the friends of our county. I volunteered to go with Gen Pickens ... he not at the rendezvous ( his house ) . This was I think in the month of June and year  A.D. 1780.

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our party consisted of about thirty ( 30 )  & the officers were Gen E. Pickens , Col. Robt. Anderson & Capt. John Mc Glow General Pickens object was to join Gen Snow of whose approvals with another Army he was advised to obtain  ... ( illegible ) it was necessary for us to leave the settlements and march thro the Indian Country to prevent being intercepted by the Tories In deed the Tories were so anxious to prevent recruits from joining Gen Green that and .. ( illegible ) party was followed and overtaken and the second night at Rutledge's pond on Saluda over by a Tory Captain of them named of Wm Cunningham . The guard was fired on and one of the men by .. named of Mc Grier and a horse were killed we being too weak to revisit fled in the lines of and march . After a march of about two weeks or more we succeeded in forming junction with Gen Green and the Catawba River N. C. and proceeded thence directly for Ninety Six Gen Green commenced the siege of Ninety Six sometime I think in the month of July , there were many killed & wounded during the siege and at the assault which lasted between nine or eight weeks, when Gen Green was compelled to resent its consequences of

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the approach of Lord Ramsom with a superior force  Gen Green moved for a river some fifteen miles . The enemy evacuated and set fire to the fort  the the ninth day - Gen Green with his Army  slowly followed being not as sufficiently strong to attack their defenses crossed the Edisto he halted at Bacon's Bridge on Dorchester where we remained about six weeks where Gen Pickens and his command was sent to the frontier to protect the inhabitants from the invasions of the Indians who had commenced hostilities, there other Militia officers with us while serving with Gen Green viz - Capt Carruthers, Capt John Morris I saw frequently Gen Green he was apparently between forty and fifty years of age. I don't recollect the names of any  of the officers in consequence of my extreme youth and the lapse of time .tho little intertrained between the regulars and Militia and the nature of the discipline of the Army which created a wide gap between the officers (especially of the regulars services ) and the privates - I should have stated before that I was a private.

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To proceed with my narrative and .. ( illegible )Gen Greens Army we marched directly for Gen Picken's plantation which within four miles of the Indian lines and built a block house where Abbeville Court House now stands which was  called Fort Providence (?) where too made our head Quarters for about six months making frequent excursions against the Indians the first of which was as follows about four miles from Wills ( ? or Mills )  Fort the Indians attacked the house of the man by the name of Johnson killed him his wife and stripped his two daughters turned them loose and set fire to his house. We followed Indians easily and overtook their encampment in a cane break near the mouth of Deep Creek where was killed fired Indians all we saw This was I think was sometimes in October I think now back of it sometimes a little of it was in the month of November we marched to searched and destroyed an Indian village killing two Indians and one renegade while ... ( illegible ) about the last of July against Salty Indians (?)  the main hostiles in the State of Georgia - Gen Pickens being joined

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By Capt Bushala of the french settlement at the mouth of Cane Creek on Little River. we all joined the Georgia troops under Genl Clark  amassing in the whole to about eleven hundred marched directly from the Indian Towns and after a march of about fifteen days Having marched all the previous night we attacked the Towns about daylight , we killed  ( 37 ) thirty seven warriors , burned the town and took forty odd prisoners of Women and children whom we sent to Augusta . The above Indian settlement is now known by the name of Narcoochie Habersham County Georgia, We remained in Narcoochie three days when where then we returned  to South Carolina and were discharged, peace having been declared between Great Britain and the savages. I think it would be proper to give the names of my companies as I  recollect very .. ( illegible ) John Wilson wounded making cane died from the same after the war, Capt. named Moore, Robert Kirkwood, Jones Starks , Hugh Wilson , John Wilson, Thos. Morrow , Wm Steele etc.

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This from the foregoing it will appear that the actual services I have performed comprises six or nine months it will last service duty 1780 to December 1781 that I was in actual service and for a few previous I considered myself and was considered a minute man . Very respectfully Surry Davis ( signed )      [State of Georgia County of Murray  ] SS.  Personally appeared before me a  J K Mears, a Justice of the peace in and for said County Surry Davis the above named petitioner and claimant who being first duly sworn says , that his foregoing petition and claim is true to the best of his knowledge  and belief.  Sworn to and subscribed to the 8th day of June A. D. 1842  Surry Davis ( signed ) Sworn to before me this 8th day of June  A .D. 1842. John K. Mears ( signed ) JP

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[ Murray County State of Georgia ] SS         May 28 1842                                                                   
I Absalom Holcombe Sheriff of Murray County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Surry Davis the petitioner & claimant in the above petition and claim that he is and has been for five or more years a resident of the County of Murray & State of Georgia that he has ever sustained a fair and envied reputation as a man or strict morals and religion in integrity and further that I was acquainted the said Surry Davis in the County Habersham , and State of Georgia from the years 1828 to 1832 both inclusive ( and of which County I had the Honor to represent in the Legislature of the State an honor I have received from the County of Murray also ) and that he ever sustained the character of un impeachable Honesty  & integrity and that all as if .. ( illegible ) and received his narratives of the revolutionary strength as so much history, confident , forward many combined circumstances that he was, as he states a participation in the services . Absalom Holcombe ( signed ) Sheriff of Murray Co. Georgia

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( exerpt from previous page ) Davis to the County of Habersham and State of Georgia from the years 1828 to 1832 all inclusive (  and of which  County I had the honor to represent in the Legislature of the State an honor which I have received from the County of Murray also ) and that he even sustained the character on un impeachable honest & integrity and that all as if

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Murray County
 State of Georgia 
We the Undersigned Judges of the inferior court of the County of Murray and State of Georgia certify that we are acquainted with the above named petitioner and Claimant Surry Davis that he is and has been for several years a Citizen of this County he is of fair reputation and unblemished integrity worthy in our opinion of the fullest credit and belief.
 William N. Bishop J.9.6
K. W. Hangrove J.9.6
Jad Morris J.9.6

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State of Georgia ⎬ Clerks Office Superior Court Mary County ⎬ I Franklin B Morris Clerk of the Superior Court of said County do certify that William N. Bishop K W Hargrove and James Morris whos names apper to the above and foregoing Certificate are acting Justices of the Inferior Court in and for said County and that due faith and credit is entitled to their acts as such and that Absabone Halcombe is acting Sheriff of said County and that John B Wards whose name is also attached to the above instrument is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County. 
Given from under my hand and seal of Office this 13th day of June Eighteen hundred and forty two 
Franklin B Morris Clk

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[ State of Tennessee Roane County ]  On this 35th day of November  1847 appeared before me the undersigned  one of the Justices of the peace for Roane County , Surry Davis aged 86 years  23rd day of December next who made oath in due for of law  - that he is the identical Surry Davis who made his declaration for a Pension in 1840 or 1841 for a Pension under the Act of Congress of the 7th June 1832 entitled and act supplements to an act for the relief of the surviving officers & soldiers of the Revolution In which he set forth services for about two years under Capt John  Mc Caugh, Lieut. Robt Kirkwood, in the regiment commanded by Col. Anderson under the command of Gen Pickens went from South Carolina Pendleton County  was at Seneca  Tugalo - Sota and at Ninety Six from thence to Bacon's Bridge  and there remained until the British left Charleston , was then discharged that he filed his said declaration in the County of Roane Tempie about this time above stated and left the State of Tennessee and went to Murray County  Georgia and quit looking after a Pension , affiant further states that the reason he never applied  for a Pension under the  provisions of the above recited act of Congress  at an earlier day then he did was that he was in prosperous circumstances and could not entertain the idea of being dependent upon the Government as a Pensioner so long as he could

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otherwise support himself . that he served at the times placed and made the marches as stated in his original declaration  now on file in the War Department and he now prays the Department to take up and re investigate his case etc. Sworn to and subscribed before me the date above.  William Johnson ( signed ) Justice of the peace for Roane County   Surry Davis ( signed ) [ State of Tennessee County of  Roane  ] I William Johnson one of the Justices of the peace for Roane County certify that I am well acquainted with Surry Davis the foregoing declarant that I believe him to be 86 yeas of age and that his statements  are entitled to full faith and credit  and further more that he is the identical Surry Davis who filed his Declaration for a Pension a few years since in Roane. I furthermore certify that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and I concur in that opinion. Given under my hand  the date above.  William Johnson ( signed / sealed ) Justice of the peace for Roane County

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[ State of Tennessee Roane County ] I Austin L Greene Clerk of  the County Court of the County of Roane aforesaid do certify that William Johnson Esq. whose name appears to the foregoing certificate and affidavit of Surry Davis and before whom said affidavit was sworn to is now and was at the date of said certificate and affidavit an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County of Roane duly elected commissioned and sworn for that purpose and that full faith and credit is given and due to his official acts as such and that the signature of said Justice appears to be in his own proper hand writing . In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at office in Kingston this 29th day of November 1847. Austin L Greene  ( signed / sealed ) Clk

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Surry Davis Declaration for a Pension  Hon Tho J. Campbell HR ( vertical on right side of page )  35.312 Surry Davis Tennessee

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[ State of Tennessee Roane County  ] SS Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 on this 7th day of March 1842 personally appeared in open Court  it being the County  Court of Roane now sitting  Surry Davis a resident citizen of the County of Roane in the State of Tennessee  aged 81 years  & after being duly sworn according to law  doth on his oath make the following declaration  in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress  passed June 7th 1832, that he volunteered into the service of the United States in the year 1781 in Abbeville District South Carolina under Capt John  Morgan , Lieut. John Wilson in __ Regiment and was guarding the frontier at & about a fort called Fort Pickens until the siege of  -- when the detachment  to which the affiant belonged was march to the latter place & remained there until the Americans were repulsed from this place marched from there to Bacon's Bridge when his services of six months expired the he again volunteered under Capt Wm Morgan marched back to Abbeville  S C on the frontier thereof was in the Battle of Deep Creek with the Indians, march from there to the Indian Town called Seneca & took it & marched from there to an Indian Town on the Chattahoochee called Salta (?) & took it from the Indians he believes this latter service & expedition was under Col. afterwards Genl Anderson when he marched back to Abbeville

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South Carolina discharged some time in the year 1783 & as he believes about the time Charleston was evacuated by the British after having served over two years and four months in the defense of the frontier & the siege of __ he has no recollection of was leaving the services for home at any time from the time he entered the service in 81 until discharged in 83 that he never received a discharge nor does he know of any living witness by whom he can prove his services nor has he any documentary evidence of the same & states the following officers of the Revolution that he has seen  & knew at that day viz. Gen Sumpter, Gen Pickens, Gen Marion & Col. Harry. And he hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the Roll of the agency of any State. Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid . Surry Davis ( signed )  A. S. Greene ( signed ) Clk  We Lilley ( Littleberry )  Roberts  & Richard L. Stegall residing in the County of Roane State of Tennessee hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Surry Davis who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that he believes him to be 81 years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion & we further certify that there is no clergyman residing

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in the neighborhood to whom he is known Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid .  A. L. Greene ( signed ) clk Littleberry Roberts ( signed ) 
 R. A. Stegall ( signed )   And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories  as prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier & served as he states & the Court further certifies that it appears to them  that Littleberry Roberts  & Richard S. Stegall who has signed the preceeding certificate is credible persons  & that their  statements are entitled to credit & that there is no Clergyman in the neighborhood of the applicant. John Blair ( signed ) J P   Brother Roberts ( signed )             I Austin L. Greene Clerk of the County Court of Roane do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Surry Davis for a Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office at office in Kingston the 5th day of March 1842 . Austin  L. Greene ( signed / sealed ) Clerk of Roane County Court

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(top of left page )  Suspended for period, length  & grade of service & names of Company & field officers & also the indents of pay from Comptroller Genl  of S. Ca.  page 306   ( bottom of page - vertical placement ) Surry Davis Georgia  Suspended  See p 306 Doc. 37 to see papers  Auditor  L. B. True Agent his case

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[POWER OF ATTORNEY ] Know all men by these presents, That I  Granville Davis of the County of Whitfield, and State of Georgia , for and in consideration of  __ do hereby make, constitute, and appoint , L. BLANCHARD TRUE of Washington  City D. C. , my true and lawful attorney , for me and in my name , to examine all papers filed in any Department or Office of the Government, upon which a Revolutionary Pension was granted to Surry Davis  Deceased on account of the  __ services of__ and to obtain, by all lawful means, and and all additional amounts that may be due from the United States to Surry Davis's Estate , by virtue of said services , as  ___ in the Company of Capt. ___in the Regiment of __  and in the  __ line of the forces of ___And for good and sufficient reasons  I do hereby REVOKE AND CANCEL  any and all other Powers of Attorney and authority which I may at any former time have given to any person or persons for the above specified purposes ; I do hereby vest the same irrevocably in my  said Attorney herein appointed, said L. Blanchard True. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fourth day of  October in the year A. D. 1853 & this In the presence of  Wm K Moore  B W Earnest  ( his mark X ) Granville Davis  ( four seals )   [ State of Georgia County of Whitfield ]  SS On this the fourth day of October in the year  A.D. 1853, personally appeared before me  John Anderson  a Justice of the Peace duly authorized by law to administer oaths and take acknowledgements in and for the county aforesaid Granville Davis 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 son and heir of Surry Davis deceased in said claim. And I further certify that he is  personally known to me to be the identical individual represented.  John Anderson ( signed / sealed ) J. P.

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W. K. Moore  March 13/85

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      Pension Office 13th March 1855.  Sir, In compliance with your request  I send you the form and instructions for Bounty Land applications under the law first passed. It is contrary to the rules of this office to give you the in formation you ask, respecting the case of Surry Davis of Georgia. unless you first  file a Power of Attorney authorizing your agency  W. K. Moore Esq. Dalton , Georgia.

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Isaac Foster Jan. 26 / 55.

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Pension Office 26th Jany. 1855. Sir, The additional evidence in the case of Surry Davis dec'd of Georgia , has been received. The certificate of the Comptroller of South Carolina shows that one Surry Davis served eighty one days , thirty six of which he rendered as a horseman , and the rest on foot. He has not been identified as the individual whose application is on file in this office ; but supposing them to be the same man, the length of service rendered is insufficient  - six months being the least service for which act of Congress allows a pension , Should you be able to prove any additional service it will then be necessary for you to establish  the dates of the marriage and death of Surrey and his wife and the names and numbers of their surviving children. Isaac Foster Esq. Shady Grove , Union Co. Georgia

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Isaac Foster Sept. 14/53

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Pension Office Sept. 14. 1854 Sir In answer to your letter of the 4th inst. I have to inform you that no proof have been filed in support of the  claim of Surry Davis, of Ga. for a pension under the act  of June 7, 1832. within several years past. A certificate from the Comptroller of S.C. showing how much was paid Davis , and for what service , with a facsimile of his signature , will be the most effectual mode of supporting this claim. The Comptroller's office contains evidence of the service rendered under Col Anderson. Isaac Foster Esq Shady Grove, Union Co. Ga.

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Shady Grove Union County Geor.  Mr Waldo  Dear Sir, I send you proof of  Surry Davis service and proof my wife being the daughter of Surry Davis will you be so kind as to examine the papers and inform me what other proof is required I expect that there has been  proof of Davis is death made If so inform and inform if there is any other proof required and in so doing you  will much oblige Your honorable servant  Isaac Foster ( signed )

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Jno S. Phelps Jany 31 / 54

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Hon. Jno S. Phelps H of Reps

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560        Pension Office                                                                                   
              Jany 31, `1854               
                                                                            
Sir                                                                         
In answer to the inquiry of Mr. Roberts of Springfield,  Mo. , relative to the application of Surry Davis  for a pension under the act of June 7 1832. I have the honor to inform you  that the only application of the kind we have been able to find on the  files of this office is  that made from the State of Georgia, by a Surry Davis who had resided in North Carolina  , and who was claimed for a small amount of militia service, which he estimated at six months but, of which he produced no proof. Evidence has been demanded from the books of the Comptroller of S. Carolina, in which he alleges  that he served, but has never been produced. The probability is that, as the company in which he served was a voluntary organization for domestic defense, as as most of the service was of this character it was not recognized and paid for by the State as military service. Mr. Robert's letter is herewith returned to you.

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Hon J. H. Lumpkin  ( illegible notation under name )

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2/6 Pension Office April 24 1848 I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12 Mar and in reply to the state that Surry Davis asserted a claim for an alleged service of 16 months in the Militia of South Carolina, resided between June 1780 and  Dec 1881. He was required through his attorney  F. B. Morris in March 1842 and also in my letter to Hon W. H. White  of Feby 1844, to specify particularly the period of the commencement and the duration of each term of service with the names of the Company certified officers under when they were rendered and to show the amount of the indent received in payment thereof from the record (?) in the office of the Comptroller Genl  of that State which requisition has not been complied. Unless Davis can establish clearly that he rendered as much as given service he has no claim to a pension  John H. Lumpkin  ( signed )House of Reps

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168 Pension Office January 19, 1848 Sir The supplimental declaration of Surry Davis  does not furnish either the specification or proof of his service heretofore regard. He should set forth specifically the Commencement and the duration  of each tour of service rendered by him with the names of the Company and field officers  under whom they have performed and show by the transcript from the record in the Comptroller Genls Office of South Carolina that indents were issued to him in payment there of  No proof whatever sustaining his application has been produced. Saml. S. Childress Esq. ( signed ) Kingston , Ten.

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343 Pen. Office June 24, 1842  Sir, The papers in support of the claim of Surry Davis has been examined and filed with suspended cases. He alleges to haves served as a militia man of South Carolina between  June 1780  & December 1781 at least six months. He should specify each tour of actual service , and state the names of the officers under whom he served in each tour, as required by the regulations. His declaration should be made in open Court before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record who should certify to the claimant being unable to appear in Court and the official character and signature of the Magistrate that be certified by the proper officer under his seal of office. There is record evidence in the office of W. Laval Esq, Comptroller Genl of South Carolina , at Columbia,

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of those who belonged to the troops of that State to whom application should be made for  such proof of the claimant's service or said records may afford. Mr. Laval 's certificate should be exhibited. The claimant should state under oath his reasons for not making an earlier application for a pension. Enclosed is a copy of the regulations for his guidance in making a new declaration. Franklin B. Morris Esq. Clerk  Court Murray Co. Spring Place P. O. Ga.  ( notes on page ) 35.342  act 32 inst. ( vertical note ) 26 June 1842

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Dalton , Ga. March 9th 1855  Dear Sir  Please send one the late County Court law 1855 - with instructions forms etc. I would like to know in what condition the claim of Surry Davis for Revolutionary Pension stands - the papers were in the records ( underscored )  C. Blanchard True Esq - I cannot hear from him in  regard to it although I have written repeatedly. Yours truly W. K. Moore   ( signed ) Dalton, Georgia         The Commr of Pensons  W - certy Sec

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{ No. 361 Lib O }  Issued 18 April 1785 to Mr. Surry Davis  for eight pounds 7/ 2 2/3 Sterling, duty done in the Militia per Audt audited. Principal Lbs 8..7..1 1/2   No. 28 Interest Lb O. 11.8 O .361 No. 28. 18 April 85  Mr. Surry Davis his acct of Militia duty per Capt Jno K. Gaws Pay Bill of no date but says since the reduction of Ch'town say on horse 36 dys 20/ LB 36, on Foot 45 dys 10/ Lb 22.10  Curry Lb 58.10 Stg Lb 8.7. 1 1/2 State of So. Carolina  Dr to Surry Davis for Militia duty for Capt Jno K. Gaws  Pay Bill as Private on horse 36 days Lb 36 on Foot 45 days  Lb 22.10  Curry Lb 58.10 Stg Lb 8.7. 1 1/2

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South Carolina Gentlemen : Please to pay Mr. Blake Mauldin all l the Indents due to me from the  State as he has made me full satisfaction  for the same and this my order shall be your receipt for the same from Gentm . Your obt servt, Surry Davis  Jany 24 1791                                                                [ To Commis of the Treasury ] The day and year above written came before me  Surry Davis and  assigned his name  to the above order  John Wilson J.P.  Rec'd Columbia  Feby 1791 from Comm Treasury  on Indent No. 361 O. for the above act in full per Order Lb 8.7. 1 1/2 Blake Mauldin                                                        I do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy as taken from the Records of this Office. For Comptroller General  P.S. Jacobs Deputy  ( no seal of office )

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Dalton , Ga. June 25th 1853 To the Commissioner of Pensions  Dear Sir, Please inform me of the condition of the claim of Surry Davis for a revolutionary pension . I think it was presented in  Ga & SC . I desire to know what proof  has been made and in what the claim is deficient  , and what other proof will be required. Yours Respectfully Wm K. Moore( signed )

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Frces James L Edwared Eoeg commsions Washtion

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Kingston Tennessee Nov. 29th 1847 Sir, Inclosed is the additional statement of Surry Davis for a Pension , you will find his original Declaration on file from this County  and the reason it was not looked after forthwith after it was suspended was the old man left for Georgia  and has but recently returned, his original Declaration was sent from Roane County some four or five years since and I have made his additional statement  from my recollection of your letter on the subject to me  ( which letter I have lost ) please let me hear from the claim as soon as reexamined. Yurs Respectfully Saml L  Childress( signed )   James L Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions

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In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Surry Davis a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in the Bureau. R. F. 2766.

[column headings: Dates of Enlistment or Appointment. | Length of Service. | Rank. | Officers Under Home Service Was Rendered. | State.]

Aug, 1780 | 14 mos | Priv | CAPTAIN. John McGaw | COLONEL. Robert Anderson | S.C.

Battles engaged in, Siege of Ninety-Six, several engagements with Indians. 
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Abberville District, S.C.
Date of application for pension, March 7, 1842
Residence at date of application, Murray Co, Georgia. 
Age at date of application, B, 13 Dec. 22, 1764 in Granville Co, N.C.
Remarks: Soldier died prior to Oct. 4, 1853. Children alive in 1853: Margaretta Stegall, Lucinda Foster, Greenville. The claim was rejected on account of insufficient proof of service as required by the Act of June 7, 1832, under which he applied. 
Very respectfully, 
Commissioner

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John R. Hall. M.D.
Napton, MO., Feb 10 1912
Pension Department Washington-D.C.

Sir,
Will you please ascertain whether you have on your revolutionary records either John Roberts, probably from Virginia-or Surry Davis-from either Carolina or Virginia

Thanking you in advance I remain yours very truly Mrs. John R Hall
Napton
Sabine Co. Missouri

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Ectract form Genealogy tha I have  Capt. Surry Davis Was found bu R.A. and E.A. Steagall at Greenville Davis spings place Ga. and brought to Teen. and is buried at Mrs Susan Williams.
During the Civil war in 63 or 64 fedral Troops were capmed near his grave finding that he was a Revolutionary Soldier the troops fell i full force led by their band an playing a National Air marched around his grave. Cel. R.K. Brid commanding.

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J B. REYNOLDS PRESENT
KANSAS CITY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
S. C. Roberts Loan Inspector

217 S Main
Nevada, MO
September 30th 1932

Bureau of Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:
Would you please send me the Military Service record of Capt. Surry Davis who served in the Revolutionary cause. and is buried 4 miles south of Kingston Tenn. His grave is unmarked and I have no birth or death dates. Neither have date of enlistment or discharge. He was married to Sarah Mauldin in Henderson Co, N.C. but do not have this date.
Yours very truly, S.C. Roberts
217 S Main Street
Nevada, MO