Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6,578, for Eliezer Mc A, South Carolina

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(3-1776)

SERVICE
S. C. 

McA, Eliezer
or McKee
or McCay

NUMBER
R. 6,578

CONTENTS

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State of Missouri
Cooper County SS. ⎬ Be it Remembered that
on the Twenty sixth day of June, in the year one
thousand eight hundred and forty six, before me
one of the County Judge in and for said County
Personally appeared Eliezer Mc A. A resident of
said County, aged Eighty years, who being first
duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath
make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress of 7th June 1832, granting Pensions to certain Officers and Soldiers of the War of the Revolution, 
That he is Eighty years of age, that he was born in the State of South Carolina in the City of Charlestown,
that at the age of about , or in my thirteenth year I entered the Army of the United States, at Charlestown
South Carolina. I think in the month of January
of February, in the year seventeen hundred and
Seventy nine (1779) - that he entered as Bugler,
in a company of Rangers commanded by Captain William McA. who was ordered to Ninety
six District on the Frontier, and was attached
to the Regiment commanded by Col Andrew Pickens, and served in said Company and Regiment till
in the summer of 1780, when at the Battle of
Camden, his Captain and most of his Company
was Killed - He was then transferred to the Company of Capt. Robert Maxwell, (same Regiment)
and served under him as a Drummer for one
year or upwards, and was then transferred to the
company of Capt Wilson, also as a Drummer, That
shortly after he was transferred to Capt. Wilson's Company the Battle of Eutaw Springs took place, when this

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affiant was disabled and taken to the Hospital, that he remained at the Hospital till he had recovered of his wound and was afterwards retained by the Surgeon of the Hospital Doctor William Russell to be a nurse till the close of the War, and from whom he received a regular discharge -that he served as a Musician as aforesaid from the early part of 1779 to the battle of the Eutaw Springs, and from his recovery at the Hospital to the end of the war he was a nurse in the Hospital. 
The most of his first term of service under
Capt. William McA. was spent against the Indians
and Tories in the upper part of Ninety six District, that when not in active service Capt. Mc A.'s Company was stationed at Seneca, occasionally at Chowee [Keowee?]Station was thence marched to the Battle at Camden where as before said my Capt. and the greater part of his company was killed, was then marched back to Seneca Station, from thence I was sent as Drummer with Capts. Hannah and Nicholson of North Carolina to raise troops to meet Col. Furguson [sic] at Kings Mountain, but did not
arrive there until after the Battle, thence returned
to Pickens Fort in Ninety six District, thence to the best my recollection our Regiment marched to Join Genl. at Morgan and fought the Battle of the Cow Pens thence returned to our former station in Ninety six District, thence I think to the second Battle at Camden thence to our old station, shortly after our return, I was sent with Col Clark to recruit, when we accidently fell in with a British Major I think Dunlap who commanded a small party of English and a large party of Tories, surprised and defeated them. Killing their Commander and many of his men, I think we then crossed the Savannah River and fought the Battle of Kettle Creek, thence returned to the siege of Ninety six, thence

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Genl Green retired across the Saluda River to Rudy [Reedy?] River and after recruiting a short time took up the line of March for Eutaw Springs, - there being a supernumary number of Musicians this affiant then
fell into the Ranks and fought the Battle in the
Company commanded by Capt Wilson, Col. Anderson
formerly Col. Picken's Regiment. Col. Pickens having been promoted, - Anderson took the command, was injured and sent to the Hospital as before said,-shortly after the close of the War I met with Col Anderson in Charlestown South Carolina and received from him a regular discharge for upwards of four years services. having entered the Army five different times for one year each time. Affiant further Declares that he was in several skirmishing fights or Battles with the Indians - That the following incident took place during his services which he thinks worthy to relating -  A scouting party came in contact with a large party of Indians and were beaten by the Indians and forced to fly - That on the Retreat this affiant came up with Patrick Calhoun father of Hon. John C. Calhoun, the said Calhoun was unable to keep up with the main body of the party, that said Patrick Calhoun requested this affiant to remain
with him - Calhoun and myself were soon separated a
short distance and overtaken by the pursuing Indians,
the pursuers taking advantage of our separation, one of them attacked Mr Calhoun and prostrated him
on the ground, and while in the act of dispatching
him Calhoun, this affiant fired on the Indians and
saved the life of Mr Calhoun - the other Indian in the mean time, for there were two who seemed to have devoted themselves to the destruction of this affiant and Mr. Calhoun, had advanced on affiant, his gun being empty, and in turn Mr Calhoun came to his rescue and

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saved him, He thinks this incident still fresh in the memory of the Calhoun family; That his discharge was left with General Thomas Pinckney for safe keeping, that after the War affiant on account of bad health made a visit to the settlements then making in Kentucky, and on his return to Charlestown after an absence of over two years he called at Gen. Pinckneys  residence with a view of recovering his papers, but by reason of his being abroad on a foreign mission affiant was unable to get them, affiant left Charlestown before the return of Genl Pickney consequently has lost his discharge; That this affiant did not apply sooner for a Pension because he was in better circumstances and better health and felt disposed to support himself, that he had in fighting the Battles of his Country got all that he fought for Liberty - But now he is reduced in health, in wealth and in bodily vigor and desires a Pension, That he knows of no living person by whom he can prove his services and he further declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State, and he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension except the present.
Eliezer Mc A
Subscribed and Sworn to
Before me the day and year first above written,
John H Hutchison, Judge
And I the said John H Hutchison Judge as aforesaid do hereby Certify that it appears to me that the applicant Eliezer McA is a man of truth and Veracity and it is my opinion that he served in the manner stated by him in the foregoing Declaration
John H Hutchison

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37321
Elieza McA
Mifsouri [Missouri]
Let to Wm O 
R Fecklin Judge
27th 1846
Let to B Emound Farley 
Jany 31' 48
6578
Act 7th June 1832

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6578 own
P.O. Eliezer McA
Service: ___
Enlisted: ___, 18__.
Discharged: ___, 18__.
REJECTED
Application filed: ___, 18__.
Alleges: ___
Re-enlisted: ___
Attorney: ___
P. O. ___
___ Recognized. ___ Contract.
___ Cert. of Dis. Searched for ___, 18__.

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[Left side]
Boonville Mo. Jany 1 / 48

B Emmons Ferry 

Enq. about Eleazer McKay
pension papers

P. 12. See Jany 15 / 58
Pension office

[Upside down on right side]
FREE
L Marcy [W L Marcy]
Secretary of War
Washington City
D. C.

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Boonville Mo Jan 1 1847
The Hon Secretary of War
Sir - There is an old Revolutionary soldier residing in Cooper County Mo by the name of Eleazer McKee, or McCay as he Sometimes writes his name - He enlisted in South Carolina - was under Green, Gates, Morgan + Pickens, at Camden Eutaw, Hog Skin Mills &c - embracing a period of Service of about 3 years - Owing to the loss or distruction of certain papers after the war he has been unable to procure his pension - 
In the summer of 1846 his application was made out in form by a travelling speculator in Pensions to whom he gave a Power of Attorney to draw +c - The name of that individual he cannot now recollect - He requests that you will be pleased to inform the undersigned whether such an application and Power or Attorney has been Recorded or acted on by the War Department - Refer to Hon S R Atchison + James S Green of Md
I have the honor Sir to be, very Respect +c
B Emmons Ferry

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House of Reps
July 17th 46

D Sir
Enclosed I have the pleasure to send you the enclosed application for a pension
Very respect
Orlando B [illegible]

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37324
Eliazer McA
Missouri
Act 7 June 32

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State of Missouri}
Cooper County SS} I Certify that Eliezer McA who has before subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration is unable from bodily infirmity and old age to attend said Court
John H Hutchison Judge

State of Missouri}
Cooper County SS} I Benjamin Emmons Ferry Clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby Certify that the foregoing is the Original proceedings had before John H Hutchison one of the Judges of the County Court in and for the County aforesaid on the 26th day of June 1846 as Certified by him to me, in the matter of the application of Eliezer McA for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Boonville in said County the 27th day of June 1846
Benjamin Emmons Ferry Clerk

State of Missouri}
county of Cooper}ss
I Benjamin Emmons Ferry Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cooper County in the State of Missouri aforesaid, do hereby certify that John H Hutchison, whose name is signed to the several foregoing certificates is now and was at the date of the same an acting Judge of the County Court of Cooper afore

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said regularly commissioned and qualified as such, and that his official acts in the premises are entitled to full faith and credit - and I further certify that his signatures as above and before signed are genuine
In testimony whereof I the Clerk aforesaid have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Boonville this the 27th day of June in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Forty-Six
Benjamin Emmons Ferry clerk