Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21152, John Culp, S.C.

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SERVICE
S.C.

Culp, John

NUMBER
S.21 152

Carded

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30,184
South Carolina
John Culp
of Chester Dist in the State of South Carolina
who was a private in the comy. commanded
by Captain Adams of the regt commanded
by Col Winn in the [crossed out]N. Carolina 
line for 16 months and 21 days
S.C.

Inscribed on the Roll of South Carolina
at the rate of 55 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Sept
1835 and Sent to 
Peter Wylie Eqr Chester [illegible]

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $222.64
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 17.84
$240.48
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Danl. Boyd Clerk,
Book C Vol. [illegible] Page 66

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order to pay 19 Oct. 1836 -
Order to pay 16 Novr 1837
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838. from 4th Sept 1837 to 4th March 1838. Agt notified 15h March 1839.
Order to pay 5 April 1839.
do do - 18 March 1840

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33074
C. 39. W.D.
Jno. Culp S. Caro
21 Sept. 1835
Pension office
Admt
16 mo 21 days private
55.66

South Carolina
Chester Dist
John Culp
Adams
Winn
[illegible]

Peter Wilie Esq

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South Carolina
Chester District} SS
On this 1st day of April 1835 Personally appeared in open court before me Peter Wylie Judge of the court of ordinary now sitting John Culp a resident of State and District aforesaid aged 74 years past the 22nd december 1834 who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. I was Drafted & marched the first of may 1777 from Chester District or then Craven County under Capt Alexander Adams Col Winn Regiment in what was called the Flounder Expedition Joined Genl. Williamson & Genl. How ^at Augusta Geo. was dismissed beyond the River St Marys after having served three months Tour 2nd Drafted in the year 1778 in Capt John Nixons Company Col. John Winn regiment marched from Chester District to a place called Lindleys fort fought the Indians & killed & took some prisoners then dismissed after having served three weeks. Tour 3rd was Drafted in November 1778 in Capt John Nixons Company Col. John Winns Regiment marched from Chester District to purrusburgh Joined Genl. Lincoln was sent under Capt Patton to hadrels Point & then back to purrusburgh where dismissed having served three months: Tour 4 was drafted in year 1779 think in February in Capt Turner's Company Major Pearson Col Winns Regiment marched to orangeburgh marched to Charleston had some fighting with the British at the Walls of Charleston Discharged on the fourth June 1779 having served three months Tour 5 was drafted in Capt Turner's Company Col Tasey's Regiment in october 1779 march to a place called the fourholes Joined Col. Richardson lay there Two month when discharged Tour 6th Drafted in May 1780 in Capt Samuel Adams Company Col. Lacey's Regiment Genl. Sumpters Brigade marched to congaree or fridays fort & took the fort lay some time below the fort when dismissed having served Two months. Tour 7 was drafted in Capt Davis of Fairfield District's Company Col Winn & Genl. Sumpter's Brigade in the winter of 1781 marched to orangeburgh then to a place called Two Sisters thence back to orangeburgh when dismissed having served three months having served in all sixteen months and three weeks

Ans to Int. 1st I was born on the 22nd of December 1759 in Chester District South Carolina then called Craven County So. Car

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Ans. to 2nd Int. I have a record of my age at home in my Bible

Ans to 3rd Int. I was living in Chester District South Carolina then called Craven County when I was called into service I have lived in the same place ever since the revolution where I now live

Ans. to 4th Int I was always Drafted

Ans. to 5 Int. I will name Genl Lincoln, Genl How of continental officer Genl. Williamson Genl Sumpter Col Winn Col Lacey Col. Richardson, Major Pearson & have stated the the circumstances of my service in the former part of my Declaration as well as I can recollect

Ans to 6th Int. I never received a Discharge but was always dismissed

Ans to 7 Int. I will name James Graham James Harbison Rev John McDill John Brown Robert Kilpatrick of Fairfield District Soldiers of the revolution, David McCalla Dr Douglass Revd John Leroy Davis Thos Pexan William Hemphill Esq John Harbison (Col. George Gill ^Revolutionary soldier) John Rossborough Esq

He further says He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
John Culp his mark
Sworn to & subscribed in open court the day & year aforesaid
Peter Wylie J.C.O.C.D.

South Carolina
Chester District} Personally appeared James Graham (a soldier of the revolution) in open court before me Peter Wylie Justice of the court of ordinary of said District who being duly sworn saith upon oath that he was well acquainted with John Culp the above named declarant during the revolutionary war & saith said John Culp a friend of his country the United States saith he was in the service with said Culp in his Tour to purrisburgh & his first Tour to orangeburgh & further saith said Culp is a man of truth & veracity & saith he fully believes the that said Culp done all the service set forth in his declaration set forth above 
James Graham
Sworn to signed in open Court this 1st April 1835
Peter Wylie JCOCD

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State of South Carolina
Chester District} Personally came James Harbison Esqr (a soldier of the revolution) into open Court who upon being duly sworn saith ^on his oath that he is well acquainted with the written declarant John Culp and well acquainted with him during the revolutionary War and before & knew him said Declarant to be a friend of his Countrie the United States & further that he served with him three Tours in Tour 3rd 6th & 7th and firmly believes he the declarant served the full of all the Tours set forth in his declaration and further saith said declarant is a man of good oral character
James Harbison
Sworn to & signed this 24th day of April 1835
Peter Wylie JCOCD

And the Court do hereby declare its opinion that the above named [illegible] John Culp is present was a revolutionary war soldier as he states
Peter Wylie J.C.O.C.D.

I Peter Wylie Clerk & Judge of the court of ordinary for Chester District do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of this application of John Culp for a pension and further certify that I am personally acquainted with James Graham, James Harbison & John McDill who were all soldiers of the Revolution are all men of truth & Respectable [illegible] & further that David Jamieson who McDill was sworn before is an acting magistrate in Chester District [illegible]
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 24 day of August 1835
Peter Wylie C & JCOCD
[seal of office]

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[handwritten]Also - June 6-1938-
See Frederick Culp
1812 War - M.18476-160-50

February 8, 1938.

Mrs. F. B. Harrington
412 South Occidental Boulevard
Los Angeles, California.

Isaac Barr-S.41419
John Culp-S. 21152 [arrow pointing to name added by hand in pencil]

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request,for Mrs. R. L. Chuning and daughter, the Revolutionary War record of Isaac Barr, also, the record of John Frederick Kolb or Culp, who served in the Revolutionary War and in the War of 1812.

The records of Isaac Barr, pension claim-S.41419, and John Culp, pension claim S. 21152, are furnished you herein as shown in the papers on file in said claims, based upon their service in the Revolutionary War.

ISAAC BARR-S. 41419
The date and place of birth,and the names of the parents of Isaac Barr are not shown.

Isaac Barr enlisted in the spring of 1776, in Fauquier County, Virginia, served as a private in Captain John Ashby's company, Colonel Thomas Marshall's Virginia regiment nearly two years, then re-enlisted and served as trumpeter and private in Captain Pike's company, Colonels White's  and Washington's Regiment of Cavalry and was discharged from service in the spring og 1781; during his service, he was in the battles of York Island, Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth, and, while a trumpeter, was wounded in his breast when he fell from his horse, which consequence of which wound, he was reduced to the rank of a private. 
[handwritten left margin]See other case for service paragraph]
[handwritten right margin]Copied - this sheet as Mrs. Finch preferred old hist for [illegible]

Isaac Barr was allowed pension on his application executed September 14, 1820, at which time he resided in Stokes County, North Carolina. He was aged then sixty-nine years.

The names of the wife of Isaac Barr, and the date and place of

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of their marriage are not shown. In 1820, Isaac Barr stated that his family living with him consisted of two daughters and one son, his eldest daughter, Patsy Barr, aged about twenty years, Elizabeth Barr, about fifteen years of age, and Joshua Barr, aged about thirteen years.

Isaac Barr died in December 1832.

In order to obtain the name of the person to whim the last payment of pension was paid, and the day of this pensioner's death, you should apply to the Comptrller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following:
Isaac Barr
Certificate #18020
Issued January 12, 1821
Rate $8 per month
Commenced September 14, 1818
Act of March 18, 1818.
North Carolina Agency.

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JOHN CULP-S. S. 21152.
John Culp was born December 22, 1759, in Craven County (called later Chester District), South Carolina; the names of his parents are not shown.

While a resident of Craven County, South Carolina, John Culp enlisted and served as a private on different tours in the South Carolina troops, shown as follow: from May 1, 1777, three months in Captain Alexander Adams' company Colonel Winn's regiment; in 1778, three weeks in Captain John Nixon's company, Colonel John Winn's regiment, during which he marched to Lyndley's Fort and assisted in killing some Indians and taking others prisoners, and from November of that year, three months in Captains John Nixon's and Patton's companies, Colonel John Winn's regiment; from February 1779, three months in Captain Colonel John Winn's regiment, and was in an encounter with the enemy near Charleston, and from October 1779, in Captain Turner's company, Colonel Lacey's regiment, marched to Four Holes and was discharged after service of two months; from May 1780, in Captain Samuel Adams' company, Colonel Lacey's regiment, two months during which he

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was in an engagement at Friday's Fort. He enlisted in the winter of 1781, and served three months in Captain Davie's company, Colonel Winn's regiment. John Culp made no reference to service in the War of 1812.

John Culp was allowed pension on his application executed April 1, 1835. He stated then that he was aged seventy-four years on the 22d of December 1834. He resided then in Chester District, South Carolina; he had resided there always.

The soldier made no reference to wife or children.

In oder to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid, and, possible, the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, this city, and furnish the following:
John Culp
Certificate #30184
Issued September 26, 1835
Rate $55.66 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
South Carolina Agency.

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

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Revolution
21 152
INVALID.
File No. 21,152
John Culp
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32"
Index:-Vol. D, Page 93
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1938- Feb. 8 - Hist to Mrs. F. B. Harrington Letter in Isaac Barr -S.41419 - [illegible]

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The State of South Carolina
Chester District } Personally appeared John McDill before me the Subscribing Justice and being Duly Sworn according to Law & Examined on oath saith that he was Acquainted with John Culp in the Time of the Revolutionary War and Saith that he was With him in the Camps and Tower of [illegible] at the Surrender of the Congaree fort in South Carolina & that he has been Acquainted with the Said John Culp Since the War was over and the peace made and always knew him to be peaceable Citizen and friendly to the Government of the United States far as he knows
John McDill
Sworn to and Subscribed this 25th Day of April 1835 before me 
David Jamieson JP

I David Jamieson a Justice of the peace for Chester District So. Carolina Do hereby Certify that I have been Acquainted with John Culp for the Space of Thirty Years & more and always knew him to ^be a peaceable Good Citizen & friendly to the Government of the United States and is now become old and unable to work much and ought to be entitled

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to the patronage of the Government of the United States as a pensioner from under my hand the 25th Day of April 1835
David Jamieson J.P.

South Carolina
Chester District} I David Jamieson do hereby certify that John McDill who has made the within Deposition is a man of veracity & truth & entitled to full credit
Given under my hand the 25th Day of April 1835
David Jamieson J.P.

John McDill
Affidavit

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
February 22d, 1839.

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," John Culp, a Pensioner on the Roll of the South Carolina Agency, at the rate of fifty five Dollars and sixty six Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept., 1837, to the 4th March, 1838.
Respectfully yours,
[signed]Albion K. Parris
Comptroller. 

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

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Planters & Mechs. Bank of SC
Charleston - 11 Oct 1836.

J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

Sir 
In compliance with Instructions from Second Comptroller dates 29 [illegible] received 5th Instant. I forward the enclosed Vouchers of John Bishop & John Culp upon which there is One year due. Please inform me when returned to this office if the evidence contained in form B will warrant the payment claimed thereon.

I am respectfully
Your Obedt Svt
F Lanneau
Pension Agent

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Planters & Mechanics Bank 
Charleston 30 March 1839

Sir
I forward herewith for your authority pay, Vouchers of John Culp, Samuel McElhenny John Brown, Stephen McElhenny, John McDill Samuel Roberts, William Crane and Henry Cannon.

I am very respectfully
Your Ob Sev.
A Spears
Pen Agent

J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC

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Nov. 19- 1935
[stamp]RECEIVED NOV 22 1935 [illegible]

Veteran's Administration
Washington, D.C.

Kindly send me the Revolutionary record of John Frederick Culp (Kolb) married Mary Flanagan He also served in War of 1812. He drew a pension and lived in Alabama at the time of his death - 

Thanking you, I am
Sincerely yours
Mrs. F. B. Harrington
412 So. Occidental Blvd
Los Angles - California.

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