Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17819, Charles Allen, S.C.

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(3-1776)
SERVICE					NUMBER
S.C.		Allen, Charles			S. 17819
_________	____________		B.L.Wt.15187-160-55
				
Born in Va
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State of South Carolina	§
	Laurens District	§	In the common pleas

	on this Seventeenth day of October -- personally in open court 
before Richard Gant one of the Judges of the court of common 
pleas now sitting Charles Allen a resident of Laurens District 
South Carolina aged 68 years, who being 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 Ju [page folded]
the 7th 1832 viz That he entered the entered the [sic] service of 
the united State [sic] under the following named officers & 
served as herein stated -- He entered the service as a volunteer 
in April 1781 under Capt. Lewis Duval, Col Casey, Col Hays 
& Genl. Pickens, Marched through Newbiry, Laurens, Greenville 
the Craven County in the upper part of South Carolina a 
was at the siege of Ninety Six^ No 1 -- This term lasted two months -- after this was engaged in 
active service off & on and  scouting parties under Cap Saml. 
Earle^ No 2 & Leut. & Capt. Duval & other officers untill the 
Spring of 1783. Was then disbanded after serving^ No 3 ["about" crossed out] 
two years . . but received no discharge
He lived in Craven County now Laurens District SoC. 
when he entered the service -- I have lived here ever since 
He has no documentary evidence: and knows of no 
person whose testimony he can procure who can testify 
as to his services --

I hereby relinquish every claim to a pension or annuity 
except the present and declare that my name is not 
on the pension roll of the agency of any State

I was born in Charlotte Virginia in 1764

I have no record of my age

I was living in Craven County now Laurens District when 
I entered the service. where I have lived ever since the revolu
tion [revolution] & still live there -- 

I went into service & served as a volunteer

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I recollect the names of Genl. Washington the regular 
officers -- no more

I have never recieved [sic] a discharge

Robert McNeese & Joseph Babb will testify as to my 
character for veracity & good behaviour but know of 
no person to prove services
	Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
	[signature] John Garlington		[signature] Chas. Allen
		clk Laurens Dist.


we Joseph Babb a Clergyman residing in Laurens District 
and Robert McNeese^ in the same hereby certify that we are well acquan
-ted [acquanted] [acquainted] Charles Allen who has subscribed & sworn to the 
above declaration: that we believe him to be about 
68 years: that he is respected & believed in the neighbourhood 
where he resides to have been a Revolutionary soldier 
and that we concur in that opinion
	Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
	[signature] John Garlinton		[signature] Joseph Babb
	clk Laurens Dist.			[signature] Robert McNees

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33666
Charles Allen
Applicant Pensions



Hon. J K. Griffin.
H. Rep

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and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion 
after the investigation of the matter and after putting 
the questions prescbied [prescribed] by the war department that 
the above named applicant was a revolutionary 
Soldier and Served as he states, & per this certifies that 
it appears to them that Joseph Babb who has signed 
the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in 
Laurens District So C. and that Robert McNeese who 
signed the same is a resident of Laurens District 
So C. and is a credible person and that their statement 
is entitled to credit
		[signature] Richard Gantt

I John Garlington clerk of the court of Laurens District 
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original pro-
=ceedings [proceedings] of the said court in the matter of the application 
of Charles Allen for a pension.
	In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set
	my hand and Seal this Seventeenth 
	day of October 1832
		[signature] John Garlington
		clk. L.D.

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South Carolina
Charles Allen	30,926
[page torn] Lauren in the State of So Co.
[page torn] ho was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Duval of the Ret. command [page torn]
by Col. Casey in the So. Ca.
line for 14 mos & 14 day
30.926

Inscribed on the Roll of So Carolina
at the rate of 48 Dollars 22 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Decr.
1836 and sent Hecro Jr.
R Griffin Ho of Reps

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836	$265.2
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 31	   24.11
					$289.32

		{ Revolutionary Claim, }
		{ Act June 7, 1832. }

Recorded by D D Addison Clerk
Book E Vol. 6 Page 62

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122.846 /	Mch. 3/55
		May 7/55

Charles Allen
private

Capt. Lewis Duvall
Cols. Pinckney O. Hays
S.C. Mil.

[begin overwriting across text above] 151817 iss Feb 4/56 [end overwriting]

Eul
Dis
Revolutionary War
Private	S Carolina Troops
S.C. June 32 - 30926

CW. 160 ac's Jany 31/56
Dodge

Claimant
Laurens C. H
S.C

[bottom right side of page]
Vol. A.54. --

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122,846
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South Carolina §
Laurens Dist	§ in this twenty seventh day of 
April AD one thousand eight hundred and fifty-
five personally appeared before me W D Watts Judge 
of the Court of Ordinary for Laurens District 
Charles Allen aged seventy one years a resident 
of Laurens District in the state of South Car=
olina [Carolina] who being duly sworn according to law 
declares that he is the identical Charles Allen 
who served as a private in the Company 
commanded by Capt Lewis Duvall in the 
Regiment of Infantry commanded by Cols 
Pickny and Hays in the Revolutionary War 
that he volunteered in Laurens Dist in the
     dy of     AD	for the term of     
(the exact time he cannot now remember) 
for the term of     and continued in 
actual service in said war for the term of 
fourteen Days and was honorably discharged 
at     on the     day     AD     for 
which service he has been receiving a pension 
since the year AD one thousand eight hundred 
and thirty six as will more fully appear 
from a copy of his pension certificate here-
with [herewith] annexed No 30,926
	He makes this declaration for the purpose 
of obtaining the Bounty Land to which he 
may be entitled under the act approved March 
3d 1855. He also declares that he has not re=
ceived [received] a warrant for bounty land under 
this or any other act of Congress, nor made 
any other application.
		his mark [hand drawn X] Charles Allen
attest [signature] WD Watts

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We Daniel Dendy and John R Crisp 
residents of Laurens District in the state of 
South Carolina upon our oaths declare 
that the foregoing declaration was signed 
and acknowledged by Charles Allen in our 
presence and that we believe from the 
appearance and statements of the applicant 
that he is the identical person he represents him
self [himself] to be.
		[signature] Daniel Dendy
		[signature] John R Crisp

	The foregoing declaration and affidavit 
were sworn to and subscribed before me on the 
day and year above written and I certify that 
the Claimant is the person he represents himself 
to be, that the following is a copy of the 
Pension Certificate in the possession of the 
said Charles Allen to with
	War Department
	Revolutionary Claim
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the 
United States of the 7th June 1832 Charles Allen 
of the state of South Carolina who was a Private 
in the War of the Revolution is entitled to receive 
Forty Eight dollars and twenty two cents per an=
num [annum] during his natural life, commencing on 
the 4th of March 1831 and payable semiannually 
on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every 
year Given at the war office of the United States 
this 28th dy of December on thousand eight hun
dred [hundred] and thirty-six		B F Butler
					Secretary of war ad interim
Examined and
Countersigned. J L Edwards Commissioner
	of Pensions

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and that I have no interest in this Claim
		[signature] W. D. Watts
		M L D
		Ex officio

State of South Carolina	§
	Laurens District	§  I John Garlington
	clerk of the Court of 
Common Pleas and General Sessions for the District 
and State aforesaid do hereby certify W. D. Watts 
Esquire whose genuine Signature appears as above stated 
is and was at the time of signing the same a Magistrate 
Ex officio by virtue of his office as Judge on ordinary 
of the Dist & State aforesaid duly commissioned and Sworn 
that all his official^ acts as such are entitled to full faith 
and credit and that the aforesaid Court is a Court 
of Record having General Jurisdiction
	Given under my hand and 
	Seal of office at Laurens 
	Court House this 30th of April 
	A. D. 1855.
		[signature] John Garlington
		Clk C Com PS
		& Genl Sessions
[illegible circular embossed seal at left]

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					July 14, 1936.

Mrs. Nellie P. Long				BA-J/ILL [initialed by hand "OM"]
757 Corinthian Avenue			Charles Allen
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.			S. 17819
						Charles Allen
						S. O. 19509

Dear Madam:
	You are furnished herein, as requested, the Revolutionary 
War record of Charles Allen, pension claim, S. 17819, also the record 
of Charles Allen, pension claim, S.O. 19509, who served in the War of 
1812. This Charles Allen served also against the Creek Indians in 
1835-1836. The data which follow were obtained from the claims for 
pension and bounty land based upon service in those three wars.

	CHARLES ALLEN-S. 17819, Revolutionary War.

	Charles Allen was born in the year 1764, in Charlotte, Vir-
ginia [Virginia]; the exact date of his birth, and the names of the parents were 
not given.

	While a resident of Craven County (afterwards Laurens District) 
South Carolina, Charles Allen enlisted in April 1781 and served two 
months as private in Captain Lewis Duval's company, Colonels Casey's and 
Hays' South Carolina regiments, during which he was in the Siege of 
Ninety-Six. Afterwards, he enlisted and served on tours under Captains 
Lewis Duval, Samuel Earle and others, names not given, engaged against 
the enemy in South Carolina, and was discharged in the spring of 1783, his 
service in all about two years.

	He was allowed pension on his application executed October 17, 
1832, at which time he resided in Laurens District, South Carolina; he 
had resided there ever since the Revolutionary War.

	April 27, 1855, Charles Allen applied for bounty land which was 
due on account of his service in the Revolutionary War; he was then a 
resident of Laurens District South Carolina. On this application, he was

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allowed 160 acres of bounty land on warrant #15187, under the Act of 
1855.

	Charles Allen made no reference to wife or children.

	In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of 
person paid, and, possibly, the date of death of this pensioner, you 
should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, 
Records Division, this city, and cite the following:

	Charles Allen
	Certificate #30926
	Issued December 28, 1836.
	Rate $48.22 per annum
	Commenced March 4, 1831
	Act of June 7, 1832.
	South Carolina Agency.

	If you desire information in regard to the location of the land 
granted Charles Allen on account of his service in the Revolutionary 
War, you should apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, 
this city, and furnish that official the number of warrant, acreage and 
Act, as given in this letter.

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	CHARLES ALLEN-S. O. 19509.	War of 1812 and Campaign against Creek
						Indians.

	Charles Allen was born in Watkinsville, Clarke County, Georgia; the 
date of his birth was not stated. At the time of the War of 1812, he 
lived in Watkinsville, Georgia, with his mother and his step-father; the 
names of his own father, of his mother and of his step-father were not 
given.

	June 16, 1871, Charles Allen, aged seventy-one years, of Watkins-
ville [Watkinsville], Clarke County, Georgia, applied for pension which might have been 
due on account of his service in the War of 1812. It was stated then that 
when about fourteen years of age, he ran away from his step-father, that


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he enlisted in Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia, served first as 
drummer boy, afterwards as private in Captain Bailey's company, that 
he served also in Captain Mason's company of Infantry, that he was 
transferred in the fall of 1814, at Fort George, Canada, to General 
Coffrr's Light Dragoons, was out to Florida where he served against 
the Indians, and was discharged in April 1815 at Mobile, Alabama; also, 
that during said service, he was in the battle of Horseshoe with the 
Creek Indians, was in the battle of Erie in Canada, that he was in the 
battle of Fort Jackson in Florida, and was stationed at Mobile at the 
time of the battle of New Orleans. His claim for pension was not 
allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service in the War of 1812 as 
required by the pension law.

	This Charles Allen volunteered in Watkinsville, Clarke County, 
Georgia, served from June 4 to July 12, 1836 against the Creek Indians 
and was discharged at Columbus, Georgia.

	April 7, 1857, he applied for bounty land which was due on account 
of his service against the Creek Indians; he was then a resident of 
Clarke County, Georgia. On this application, he was allowed 160 acres 
of bounty land on warrant #72445, under the Act of 1855.

	The soldier married December 26, 1826, in Clarke County, Georgia, 
Elizabeth Lee; the names of her parents, her age, and the date and 
place of her birth were note shown.

	No reference was made to children of this Charles Allen.

	If you desire information regarding the location of the land 
granted this Charles Allen on account of his service against the Creek 
Indians, you should apply to the official named on page 2, and cite 
this warrant number, acreage and Act.

		Very truly yours,

		A. D. HILLER
		Executive Assistant
		to the Administrator.


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[left third]
R.
V.L.M.

[center third]
17819
INVALID.
File No. 17,819
Charles Allen
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 32
Index:—Vol. 1, Page 425
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[right third]
Oct. 18, 1902
Gen. Chas. E. Hooker
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1908 Apr. 11 Hist. to Mrs. Amos
	Y. Draper V.L.M.
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1909 Apr. 30 Hist. to Jos. N. Brown
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1909 Oct. 8 Hist. to Mrs. C. A. Foster.
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1936 - July 14 Hist. to Mrs. Nellie F. Long
		JLL

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NCo Ans

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File with
OW. In 17819
Allen

[stamped upside down]
FILE WITH CASE.

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			Bureau of Pensions,
				Oct. 17, 1902.
Mr. Marsh:
	Will you cause to be looked up the record of Charles Allen, 
a revolutionary soldier of Lawrence [corrected by hand to "Lawrens"] District, S. C.
	Please draw off in good form, with typewriter,all available 
evidence which you can find among the files and write a letter 
of transmittal of the same to Gen. Chas. E. Hooker of Mississippi, 
H. R.

			[signature] NATE
			Commissioner.

[rectangular stamp over second paragraph]
Office of the Commissioner
ANSWERED,
________ 189__

[rectangular stamp to left of signature block]
To Chf. _______ Div.
Action ___________
OCT 17 1902
COMMISSIONER.

[stamped upside down below final paragraph]
FILE WITH CASE.

[by hand perpendicular at right]
Mr. Warren: Please send to Mr Marsh Bryant

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Amendment No. 2--  This applicant Volunteered 
under Capt Samuel Earle of So. Ca Militia 
in the Spring of 1782 and served a tour of 
four months, which expired in the month 
of September 1782.
The State of S Carolina
	Laurens district
	Personally Came before me Charles Allen 
and made oath that the amendments 
No. 1. 2 & 3 to his declaration for a pension 
to which this is attached are just and 
true and that he served as a soldier 
of the Revolution as therein stated 
	[signature[ Chas. Allen
Sworn to & subscribed
before me this
13th of March 1833.
	Thos. B. Lockhart
		J.P.
South-Carolina	§
Laurens District	§	I John Garlington Clerk of the Co 
				of Common Pleas for said District 
do hereby certify, that Thomas B. Lockhart Esqr. -- (before 
whom the above deposition was taken is an acting Justic [page torn]
of the Peace for the same district aforesaid an [page torn] 
that all due faith & credit is & aught [sic] to be given 
his Official acts as such ~~
	Given under my Hand a [page torn] 
	the Seal of my office
	Laurens Court House t [page torn]
	fifteenth day of Nove [page torn]
	ber Anno Domini [page torn]
	1833 ~~
[signature] John Garlington
C: C: Ps.
Laurens District Ct

[circular embossed seal affixed to lower left, partially obscured]
LAURENS DISTRICT

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Chs Allen
So Car

Ad 14 mo 14 days pri
JC Mahling $48.22


Hon. JR. Griffins
H Rep.

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			Office of Comptroller Genl
			Columbia South Carolina
				Decr. 17th 1835

Sir
	On examining the Records of this office, the 
following is the evidence of service in the case of Chas.
Allen
	Indent Book S	§
	No 342 —	§	Issued the 14th June 1785 to Mr 
				Charles Allen for thirty six pounds 
eight shillings and six pence three farthings Sterling, for 
duty done in the Militia as pr Account audited —
		Principal		£36.8.6¾
		Annual Interest 	2.10.11

		Respectfully your Obt St.
			[signature] W Lanal
			Comp Genl
			[flourish]

J L Edwards Esq
Comr of Pensions
	Washington City

	36. 8. 6 Sterlg
	  20.
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	628
	    7-
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is.	/ 43 96 /	43 q ds
			365
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			74
			60
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		14 mo. 14 days

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ACB

JOSEPH N. BROWN
ATTORNEY AT LAW

			Anderson, S. C. April 20 1909

To the Hon the Comr of Pensions
	Washington D.C.
		Dear Sir.
			Will you kindly 
inform me if there is any record in the 
Beureau [Bureau] of Pensions, if the services of 
Charles Allen of Laurens District South 
Carolina a Revolutionary Soldier.
	His descendants think that he applied 
for a pension and perhaps received one.
	Thank you in advance -- I am --
		Very Respectfully
		[signature] Joseph N Brown

[circular stamp at lower right]
U.S. PENSION OFFICE.
A APR 21 1909

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[by hand at upper left]
Rec
Ehc

[letterhead circular seal]
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

MRS. AMOS G. DRAPER, REGISTRAR GENERAL
902 F STREET
WASHINGTON, D. C.
		April 3, 1908.

Commissioner of Pensions,
	Washington, D. C.
My dear Sir:
	Will you kindly give us a copy 
of the pension record of Charles Allen of 
Virginia, Inv. file, 17819?  P
	Very truly yours,
	[signature] Bill[illegible] Draper
	(Mrs. Amos G. Draper)
	Registrar General, N.S.D.A.R.

[circular stamp at lower right]
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
H APR 4 1908

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[initials at upper left "Pec"]
17819		Timmonsville, S.C.
			Sep. 29th, 1909

Pension Dpt.
	Wasington [sic], D.C.
		Dear Sir,
			Please see 
if Charles-Allens name is on 
your pension list. I have 
records saying that he drew 
pension through Charleston 
Agency until 1855 His cer-
tificate [certificate] was no. 30,926.
	I want this proof to en-

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title me to join the D.A.R.
	Thanking you for the 
favor I am
	Most respectfully,
		[signature] Mrs. C. A. foster.

[circular stamp lower right]
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
A OCT 1 1909

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	Please furnish me the Revolution-
ary [Revolutionary] War record of Charles Allen, 
S-17810- and War of 1812 record - Charles Allen - S.O. 19509.
	[signature] (Mrs) Nellie P. Long
	757 Corinthian Ave
	Philadelphia, P.a
June 30, 1936.

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[top of page cut off]
sion on file in this Bureau.  Charles Allen SF. 17819
[column headings: Dates of enlistment or appointment. Length of service. Rank. Officers under whom service was rendered. Captain. Colonel. State.]
Apr. 1781. 2 mos. Prt. Lewis Duval. Casey  Hays. S.C.
P. 2 years. Saml. Earle  Duval.
served until Spring of 1783.
Battles engaged in, Ninety-Six
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Craven Co. (afterwards Laurens Dist.) S.C.
Date of application for pension, Oct. 17, 183["3" crossed out]2. This cl. was at
Residence at date of application, Laurins Dist. SC.
Age at date of application, Born in Charlotte Va. in 1764.
	Remarks: No data as to family