Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 2503, Azariah David, S.C.

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SERVICE
S.C.

David, Azariah

NUMBER
S2503

Born in S.C.
Carded

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19169
East Tennessee
Azariah David
of Rhea Co. in the State of Tennessee
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Cobb of the regt. commanded
by Col Lide in the S Carolina
line for Two years

Inscribed in the Roll of East Tennessee
at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued 13 day of Augt
1833 and sent to G. W. Churchwell Washington

Arrears to the 4th of March 160.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 40.00
$200.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Danl Boyd Clerk,
Book E Vol. 7 page 41

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Date of death not on A.B.

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State of Tennessee
Rhea County } Circuit Court September Term 1832
Personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Seventh District of Tennessee now sitting Azariah David a resident of the County of Rhea aforesaid & state aforesaid aged 71 years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following the declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 He entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & herein states he was drafted & entered into service in February 1779 for 2 months & ten days - Capt Abel Kolb under Lt Colonel Lide in South Carolina Cheraw district  - marched to James Island & then to Charleston, went to Hazards point & Recd. the British prisoners & started to Halifax took sick at Cheraw served [crossed out] months, & was discharged & entered the service again volunteer on 1 April 1779 under Capt Lamberton marched to Cheraw Hill the Regiment was commanded by Col Robert Lide then under commanded of Maj Genl Lincoln at the Black Swamp marched through Campden & to Orangeburg & [illegible] march to Charleston. Genl Moultrie retreated to Johns Island. The Battle of Stono was fought by [illegible] he served 70 days in that Campaign & was discharged but has lost it. He entered the service again in February 1780 under Capt [illegible] & Evans Lt Col George Hicks, & marched to Charleston & there quartered

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was in the siege of Charleston. Maj Genl Lincoln commanded Scot, Woodford Hogan of North Carolina, Brigade all Generals & Genl McIntosh of the Militia Charleston surrendered on the 12th may & returned home to Cheraw, served 103 days in that Campaign afterwards in 1780, in august or sept he volunteered to fight the torys under Capt [illegible] - servd one month- entered the service in [illegible] 1780 under Col Kolb Capt Lentz & Lamberton Lt Col Morris Murphy Major dislodged a party of British torys near Cheraw Hill - Murphy defeated at Bass Mill marched to Peedee & marched to North Carolina & through the Country back to Peedee, 8 months service at that time Guarded prisoners at Long bluff Jail - Entered again service in 1781 under Genl. Marion a volunteer, Maj Thomas - Capt Claudis Pegues, marched to [illegible] Corner & Santee Swamps - marched to [illegible] - had a skirmish near Edisto - & then joined Genl Green & marched to Eutaw Springs & was in the Battle at Eutaw, Col Lea was there Thomas Regiment was discharged & [illegible] 40 days service this campaign - Entered again under Col Lamberton Col Kolb was killed by Tories & under Col Murphy, scouting parties [illegible] Entered under Genl. Marion under Capt Alexander McIntosh stationed 20 miles from Charleston served 2 months - & continued scouting parties untill the [illegible] has made [illegible] in all 5 months - his discharges he has lost - discharged at Cheraw

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He knows one person that he can prove his service at present, he has no documentary evidence in his possession, he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
A David
Sworn to & subscribed this 24 day of September 1832
Jn Locke clerk
by his deputy Franklin Locke

We John Condly clergyman residing in the County of Rhea & Allen Kenedy & John [illegible] residing in Rhea hereby certify that we are well acquainted ^with Azariah David who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration 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
John Condly
John Locke
Allen Kennedy
Sworn to & subscribed 24th September 1832 in open Court 
John Locke clk
by his Deputy F Locke

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the Interrogatories 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 John Condly who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Rhea, & that Allen Kenedy & John Locke

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who has also signed the same are residents in the County of Rhea & are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit
Charles T. Keith
Presiding Judge of the Seventh Circuit 

I John Locke Clerk of the Circuit Court of Rhea County Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of A David for a pension.
In testimony thereof I have hereunto set my hand & private seal (not having an official seal of office) this 24th September 1832
John Locke clerk

A. David
Claim 
Rhea County, East Tennessee

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23844
Azariah David
Rhea Co Te
from 1779 private
2 yr $80.

Cobb
Lide
S.C.

G. W. Churchwell
Washington
Rhea Co
Te

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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
May 10 1833

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, showing the Service of Azariah David Rhea Co Te

[column headings: Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimant's service Years. Months. Days. Rank of the claimant. Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. Proof by which the declaration is supported.]

drafted Feby '79. -. 2. -. pr. Lt Col. Lide. 71. Trady.
vol. Apr. '79. -. -. 70. ". " ". -. -.
Fby '80. -. -. 103. ". Gen Lincoln. -. -.
vol. Aug or Sp '80. -. 1. -. ". Col Colb. -. -.
Octr ". -. 8. -. ". ". -. -.
vol '81. -. -. 40. ". Genl Marion. -. -.
Enterd. aga. -. 6. -. ". Co Lamberton. -. -.
"-. -. 2. -. ". Genl. Marion. -. -.
-. -. perhaps 5. -. ". -. -. -.

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.

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[text of the Regulations Under the Act of June 7, 1832]

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[text of the Regulations Under the Act of June 7, 1832 continued]

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State of Tennessee
Rhea County }
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Rhea and state of Tennessee Azariah David who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith by way of amendment to his first declaration made in order to obtain a pension under the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 -
1st That he was drafted and entered the service of the United States as a private soldier in February 1779 in the Cheraw district South Carolina his officers were Capt Able Kolb Lt Col Lide served 2 months and was discharged by his officer which discharge is lost
2nd On the first of April 1779 volunteered in the Cheraw district South Carolina his officers were Capt Lem Benton and Col Lide and the other officers he mentioned in his former declaration served 70 days was discharged by his officers which is also lost
3d In February 1780 volunteered as a private soldier in Cheraw district South Carolina his officers were Capt Irby Leut Evans and Col George Hicks and in Charleston was under the command of General Lincoln served 103 days was taken prisoner at Charleston and returned home on parole which parole he afterwards burnt
4th In August or September 1780 he volunteered as a private soldier in the Cheraw district South Carolina his officer was Capt Deloney the company was raised for the purpose of protecting the settlement ^of the Cheraws against the British and Tories served one month and was dismissed by his officer but got no discharge
5th About the first of October 1780 volunteered in Cheraw district South Carolina his officers were Capt Jones Leut Hason Col Able Kolb Lut Col Lem Benton and Major Moris Murphy served 8 months and was discharged by his officer got no discharge
6th About the first of August 1781 volunteered as a private soldier in Cheraw district South Carolina his officers

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were Ensign Jenkins Lt. Edwards Capt Claudius Pegues Joined General Marion at the Santee Swamps River served 40 ^days and was discharged by his officer which has been lost -
7th Some time in the faul or winter of the year 1781 volunteered as a private soldier in Cheraw district South Carolina his officers were Col Lem Benton Capt Huson Leut Edwards and Leut Col Murphy this tour he thinks he served more but knows that he served not less than three months ^and was in active service marching the different parts of S. Carolina to suppress the Tories was dismissed by his officer but got no discharge 
8th Some time in September 1782 volunteered as a private soldier in Cheraw district South Carolina his officers were Lieut Terryll Capt Alexander McIntoush and under the command of General Marion served 2 months and was dismissed by his officer got no discharge
Declarant states that in his seventh tour as mentioned above he thinks he served about six months but is not certain but knows that he served three months as he has stated above The five months tour mentioned in his first declaration which he has left out in the amendment the length of time he cannot recollect and is willing to loose it - Declarant refers for the ^further particulars and general circumstances of his service and the battles that he was in to his first declaration and also states that he performed the greater part of his services in the state of South Carolina and in every tour which he served ^was a private soldier
Declarant states that he was acquainted with Generals Lincoln Scott Woodford Hogan Moultrie McIntoush and Greene and Marion Col Campbell Laurance and Count Pulaski and Col Washington besides the other officers mentioned in his declaration
He has a copy of a record of his age in his possession taken from his fathers bible He was born on the 14th day of March 1761 in the Cheraw district South Carolina where he resided untill after the revolutionary war then moved to Roan County Tennessee from there to Rhea County Tennessee where he now resides and has resided for the last twenty four years - all the discharges he ever received has been lost or mislayed

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He never received a commission having never served in any other capacity than a private soldier - He has no documentary evidence nor does he know of any person by whom he can prove his services in the revolution - Declarant states that he is acquainted in his present neighborhood with John Conley a clergyman and John Locke the clerk of the Circuit Court and Allen Kenedey who can certify as to his character for veracity and this belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution whose certificate is annexed to his past declaration and for all further particulars he refers to his first declaration
Declarant also states that he was in active service in each of the eight tours that he has mentioned sometimes against the British and sometimes against the tories having been in each tour called into service by competant authority and was in an embodied corps in South Carolina as above stated
A David
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 13th day of June 1833
John McClure 
Justice of the peace for sd county

I John McClure a Justice of the peace in and for this County and state of Tennessee do certify that the foregoing is the original amendment made by Azariah David to a declaration he made in order to obtain a pension under act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 13th day of June 1833
John McClure 
Justice of the peace for Rhea county

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State of Tennessee
I James Berry clerk of Rhea county court do certify that John McClure esquire whose name appears to the forgoing amendment and certificate is now and was at the time he signed his name to the same an acting Justice of the peace in and for said Rhea county duly commissioned and qualified as such and that his signature annexed is his genuine signature
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set m hand and affixed my private seal not having an official seal at office in Washington the 13th day of June 1833
James Berry clerk

I Hue L. White certify that John Locke whose name is signed to the certificate of the first declaration is now & was the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Rhea County at the date of said certificate and that James Berry, who signed the above certificate to the amended declaration is & was Clerk of the County Court of Rhea County East Tennessee, on the 13 June 1833. The signatures of both certificates are genuine as I verily believe
June 19th 1833
Hu. L. White

Azariah David
Declaration

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May 22, 1934

Mr. George D. Barnes
P. O. Box 7
Dayton, Tennessee

AZARIAH DAVID
S. 2503
BA-J/MLB

Dear Sir:
The data which follows were obtained from the papers in file in pension claim, S. 2503, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Azariah David.

Azariah David was born March 14, 1761, in the Cheraw District, South Carolina; the names of his parents are not given.

While residing in Cheraw District, South Carolina, he enlisted in February, 1779, and served two months as private in Captain Abel Kolb's company, under Lieutenant Colonel Lide in the South Carolina troops. He volunteered April 1, 1779, and served seventy days as private in Captain Lem Benton's company, Colonel Robert Lide's South Carolina regiment. He volunteered in February, 1780, served as private in Captain Irby's company, Colonel George Hicks' South Carolina regiment, was in the siege of Charleston in which he was taken prisoner and after being paroled returned to his home in Cheraw District, South Carolina, length of this tour one hundred three days. He volunteered in August or September, 1780, and served one month as private in Captain Deloney's South Carolina company, which was raised for the protection of settlements of the Cheraws against the British and Tories. He volunteered about October 1, 1780, served as private in Captain Jones' company, Colonel Kolb's South Carolina regiment, was in engagements at Cheraw Hills and Bass Mill and guarded prisoners at Long Bluff jail, length of this tour eight months. He volunteered about August 1, 1781, served as private in Captain Claudius Pegues' South Carolina company, was in a skirmish near Edisto and in the battle of Eutaw Springs, length of tour forty days. He volunteered sometime in the fall or winter of 1781 and served not less than three months as private in Captain Huson's company, Colonel Lem Benton's South Carolina regiment, engaged in scouting. He volunteered sometime in September, 1782, and served as private in Captain Alexander McIntosh's company,

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Colonel Lem Benton's South Carolina regiment, length of this tour two months.

The soldier resided in Cheraw District, South Carolina, until after the Revolutionary War he moved to Roane County, Tennessee, and from there moved to Rhea County, Tennessee, about 1809.

Azariah David was allowed pension on this application executed September 24, 1832, while a resident of Rhea County, Tennessee.

There are no family data in the claim.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

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1934 May 22 - Hist to Geo. Barnes (See ltr. in claim of Thomas Moore, S.1858) MLB

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Rev War
2503
INVALID.
File No. 2503
Azariah David
Privt Rev War
Act: June 7 1832
Index:-Vol. A, Page 88.
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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June 28
Tenn
[illegible]
Free
Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary at War
Washington City
[circular stamp]KNOXVILLE JUN 2[illegible]

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Knoxville
June 19th 1833

Hon Lewis Cass-Sir I have enclose the original & amended declaration of Azariah David for a pension as also the statement sent me from the Pension Office. The objections are all named. You will observe that the Hon Hu. L. White has certified for the Clerks official character signature -
Please to send me the certificate of David to this place -
Yours with high respect
G. W. Churchwell

Hon. L. Cass
Secretary at War
Washington

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May 22, 1934

Azariah David, S. 2503
Thomas Moore S. 1858
BA-J/MLB

Mr. George D. Barnes
P. O. Box 7
Dayton, Tennessee

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Azariah David and Thomas Moore, of Rhea County, Tennessee, who received pensions under the Act of 1832.

Both records requested by you are furnished herewith as shown in claims for pension based upon their service in the Revolutionary War.

Very truly yours

A. D. MILLER
Assistant to Administrator