Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 10996, Henry Collins Flagg, Continental S.C.

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Continental 
SC
Flagg, Henry Collins
Rachel

W 10996

B.L.Wa 775 Hoo-Burgeon
___ Feb.25.1800
No Papers

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150
SOUTH CAROLINA
Rachel Flagg, decd. 
widow of Henry C Flagg
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1838
and who died on the 1 April 1801
of Charleston S.C. in the State of S. C
who was a Sargeant in the Compy,
commanded by Captain ___ [blank line] of the 
Reg. commanded by ____ [blank line] in 
the So Ca line for 2 years
increased from $480: per ann.
Inscribed on the Roll of South Carolina 
at the rate of 600 Dollars ---
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836 & Ending 27 Dec. 1839 the day of her death 
Certificate of Pension issued the 12" day of 
Apl 1844 and Sent to H.C.
Flagg, "Present"
Total Amount,  $8000 [this number is lined through]
[Act July 7, 1838.]
REcorded by F.L Swann Clerk, 
Book D. Vol. 1 Page 307
payd to H.C. Flagg, and Eliza M. Wigfer
only surviving children 
[deduct what has been paid]

[on the right side of the page, the following is written:]
repo. 12" Apl 44
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of C. April 1838 from 4 Sep 1838 to 27 Decm 1839.  Agt Notified, 6 Dec 1844

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State of South Carolina
Charleston district   }  ss.

On this twenty second day of August anno domini one thousand Eight hundred and thirty Eight, personally appeared before the Honble Thos. Lee Judge of the district Court of the United States, Rachael Flagg now aged Eighty Years and Six months, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7th 1838. entitled "An act granting half pay and provisions to certain Widows:"  That she is the Widow of decd Henry Collins Flagg, who was a deputy Apothecary General in the Revolutionary War, thro' the whole of which he faithfully served:  coming home from the West Indies, for that purpose, and she believes his duties now faithfully performed -- that a part of the time he served in Georgia, and was at the siege of Savannah, and as she has always understood, was the Surgeon who attended Count Pulaski, who

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was wounded in one leg at that seige.  That Dr Henry Collins Flagg was also all the time at Charleston, while it was beseiged by the British in the same capacity, constant at the Lines and was nearly Killed more than once; he was an acquaintance of the Venerable Dr William Read of this place, who it is made known to the War department served during the War in the Medical Staff, & who kindly contributes his name in aid of this application.  No further and minute particulars as to the Services of Dr Henry Collins Flagg rendered his Country.  This deponent would refer the officers of the War department to its own records -- as some Land had been given to the Docr.
She further declares, she was married to the said Docr Henry Collins Flagg on the fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and Eighty four, that her Husband, the aforesaid Dr. Henry Collins Flagg died on the first day of April, one thousand Eight-hundred and one; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the Service, but the Marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen Hundred and ninety-four, viz. at the time above stated.

City of Charleston
August 22d 1838  I Thomas Lee Distr Judge of the United States for So Carolina do hereby

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testify that Mrs Rachel Flagg widow of the late Dr Collins Flagg being unable from age and Infirmities at attend in open Court did in my presence this day swear to the foregoing declaration and subscribe her name thereto
Sworn to before me this 22d August A.D. 1838
   Rachel Flagg
Seal [This word was written within a circle.]  Tho. Lee Distr [district] Judge of the U. State for So. Carolina

I certify that it was about the time of the Battle of Kings Mountain and Genl Greens advance to the South -- that I first saw Dr Henry Collins Flagg -- he was introduced to me, as having been a Surgeon of a New England Regiment, he subsequently was promoted to the rank of Deputy Apothecary Genl and served under Genl Wayne in Georgia; Dr Flagg served to the end of the War; he was a Member of the Cincinnati Society:  whereby his Rank and Service were duly acknowledged.
     William Reach
Physi'n [physician] & Surgeon to the late army of the revolution
The above sworn to before me this 24 Augt [August] 1838

The above sworn to before me this 24 Augt 1838
Tho. Lee Distr Judge
of the U States for So Carolina

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The following is a true copy of the Register of St Michael's Church Charleston
   "Henry Collins Flagg and Rachael Allston, were married by the Rev Dr Purcell in St Michael's Church on the Fifth Day of December, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Fours, to wit -- the 5th December 1784 -
   I William W. Spears depose & say; that I hold the office of Assistant Minister in St. Michael's Church Charleston So Ca. & that the above is a true extract from the Record of said Church, with the exception above named, as certified by me 
    William W. Spears
    Assistant Minister of 
       St. Michael's Church
Sworn to before me 
this 22d Augt 1838
    Tho Lee Distr Judge
     So Carolina

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
April 15th, 1844

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," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, One of two children of Rachel Fagg, decd, a Pensioner on the Roll of the South Carolina Agency, at the rate of four hundred & eighty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th July 1838, hgas been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1839, to the 27th Dec. 1839,
Respectully, yours, 
Albion K. Parris,
Comptroller,

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
     Present.

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State of South Carolina
Charleston District
   Personally appeared before me, Frances Moore, who deposes that she is the Cousin of Henry C. Flagg, that she was acquainted with Mrs Rachel Flagg decd (the mother of said Henry) who died in Charleston So Ca. on the 27 Decr 1839 being then the widow of Dr. Henry C. Flagg a surgeon in the Army of the Revolution -- This Deponent further swears, that only two of the children of the said Rachel by the said Doctor Flagg, viz. Henry C. Flagg of New Haven Connecticut, and Eliza M. Wigfall of Charleston So Ca. survived the said Rachel -- that at the time of the death of the said Rachel Flagg, she was a Pensioner of the United States as the widow of Surgeon Henry C. Flagg -- 
   The Deponent further swears that she was well acquainted with all the parties to whom this affidavit has relation.
     Frances Moore
Sworn to before me this 2nd April 1844 the word "only" being first underlined.
Danl Horlbeck
Cl.CG.S.&C.P.

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By the Honorable D. L. Wardlaw
   one of the Judges of the State aforesaid and a presiding judge of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace and Common Pleas for Charleston District
    To All to whom these Presents shall come of be made known--
Know Ye, that Daniel Horlbeck Esq, who has subscribed the annexed Affidavit, is Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the District aforesaid, that all due faith and credit are, and ought to be given to his attestation as such, and that the same is in due form of law. --
   Given under my hand at Charleston this second day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-four and in the sixty eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
    D. L. Wardlaw

I am acquainted with Miss Moore - Mrs Wigfall & Henry Flagg -- and know them worthy of credit.-- I know the hand of Judge Wardlaw. -- 
    J. E. Holmes

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B.C.
Rev  WIDOW, &c.
File No. 10996
Rachel Flagg
Wid of 
Henery Flagg.
Sug" Rev War
Act: July 7" 1838
Index:-- Vol. A, Page 246

[Arrangement of 1870.}

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[Handwritten on the left side of the page is the following:]
Let to Henry C Flagg
April 2, 1844

[On the right side of the page is the following:]
150
South Carolina
Rachel Flagg
widow of Henry C. Flagg decd
and who died on the 1st April 1801
of Charleston in the State of So Ca
who was a Depty Apothy Genl in the ----- commanded
by Captain ----- of the ----- commanded 
by ----- in the So Ca
line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of So Carolina
at the rate of 480 Dollars ----- Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of Sept.
1838 and sent Mr J. Cogdell Charleston Sa Ca
Arrears to the 4th of March 1838 $960.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept " 240.00
$1,200.00
{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by D.D. Addison Clerk
Book A.  Vol. 2d  Page 193

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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7 July 1838, Rachel Flagg Deceased widow of H C Flagg who was a surgeon in the Rev war was entitled to receive a pension at the rate of $600 pr an: comss. on 4 Mar 1836 & ending 27" Dec 1839 the day of her death which will be had upon the production of the proper Vouchers to to Henry C. Flagg and Eliza M. Wigfall only surviving children after deducting what has already been paid ---
   This pension has been increased from $480 pr ann
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 12th day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty-four

Secretary of War.
Examined and }
Countersigned.}
Commissioner of Pensions.

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[the document appears to be a folded piece of paper.  The following is written in very faint writting:]

The evidence within appearing perfectly [following line is too faint to read]
Gen revolutionary [last word of the line and next line is too faint to read]
in the war of the [unreadable word] of the pensioner.
Wm Wilkins

[The following is written in darker ink:]
I approve the payt of the arrears of pension in this case. Ap 12. 1844.j
Wm Wilkins

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Pension Official
April 2nd 1844.

Sir,
   In the case of Mrs Rachel Flagg, deceased there is an award of Pension due her, equal to the difference between four hundred and eighty and Six hundred dollars per annum, from the 4" March 1836 to the day of her death, which becomes payable by law to her children -
   The Court should certify the day of her death and the names of the children who survived her.

I am, Sir,
Very respectfully,
Your Obedient Servant.
J L Edwards

Henry C. Flagg Esqr
Gallabrun's Hotel.

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Rachel Flagg decd
S.C.
Act 7 July 38-
increase
2 yrs Surgeon
$600 from 4 March 36 to 27 Dec '39 -
To Henry C Flagg & Eliza M. Wigfall only surviving children - deducting what was paid to her.

Henry C. Flagg Esqr
    Present

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[Written along left side of image, which appears to be an envelope as follows:]
Comr.  Sept 20
Mrs. R Flagg
Act 1838

[The following is a round ink-stamp, similar to a postmark:]
CHARLESTON
SEP 14 
S.C.

[The following is written in the center of image:]
Free
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Comr of Pensions
War Office
Washington
Dis. Ca.

[To the left of the above the following is written:]
mailed
14 Sepr. 1838.}

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Charleston  14. Sepr 1838.

To J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissr of Pensions.
Washington.

Dear Sir:
I have the honor to acknowledge recept of your official document -- which grants five years pension to my worthy old friend Mrs R Flagg -- to commence for 4 Mar: 1836. first payt to be made on 31 Decr next. --
   When I read this document to the old Lady in her Chamber she sighed & said she did not expect to live to get the first payt -- but one timed it wd benefit her children -- I then reread as was my duty -- the last paragraph -- wh made her understand - that at her death -- or marriage the pension wd cease at this there was a melancholy smile and she then said it was all report:  be not suspected should you receive another declaration under the

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act of 1836: -- I recd a day before your document arrived -- a letter from a son of Mrs Flagg where she was the wife of Capt William Allston -- who commanded the Waccamaw company - alls units -- under Genl Marion.  I get his death in the Camp tho' he was [unknown words] the decd with his wife -- the present Mrs Flagg.
Saffirm to make my thanks to you for your prompt attention to my communications -- Respectfully
Yr Obt Sert
John S. Cogdell

There is to be meeting here this Evening to nominate -- a Candidate for Congress.  Who may be a Sub Treasury man.

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To J. L. Edwards Esqr
Pension Office
War department
Washington.

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6ys
Rachael Flagg,
widow of 
Henry Collins Flagg,
}ex a 
Act of 7 July 1838
Allan 2ys
Depy Apothy Genl
Abor pension
480 $ only by order of Comr
See evidence in Bounty
Land Office

Jno S. Cogdell Esq
Charleston
SoCa

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Charleston 27 Augt 1838
To J. L. Edwards Esqr
Pension Office
War department
Washington.

My dear Sir,
    I now transmit to you the prepared declaration of Mrs Flagg, in conformity to your printed Instructions in this particular how ever we have not adhered precisely to form:  but to the substance most especially viz we have been favored by your new Judge Lee to do the needful for us, as you will see, presuming his Character as a United States Judge & have writing - want want no majistrate's [magistrate] certificate to satisfy you, he is a Judge & that the signature of the Judge to the several certificates attached by him, was genuine.
   If the pension shall be granted, I begin to appreciate its enjoyment will be of very very short duration as my old friend is too feeble to continue long with us -- her case she at 80 & six months in this hot & debilitating climate expect it.
   Present me respectfully if you please,

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a worthy friend of mine. the Honble J. R. Poinsett;
With great Respect
Dr Sir I have the honor 
to remain Yr Obt Sert
John S. Cogdell