Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,599, Joseph Calhoon, N. C.

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Service: N.C.
Calhoon, Joseph
Number: R. 1,599

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State of Georgia
County of Dooly

On this the 3rd day of May A.D. 1851 personally appeared before me John H. Taylor one of the judges of the Superior Court of the County of Dooly, it being a Court of Records, Joseph Calhoon a resident of the 535th district Georgia Militia in said County of Dooly, and State of Georgia, aged eighty seven (87), the tenth day of January last past, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June the 7th day A.D. 1832.

He states that he was sixteen years of age on the tenth day of January A.D. 1780 he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer under the following named officers to wit: Captain Lee, Major McCall and Col. Hunter (the names of the other Company officers he says he has forgotten) and served as herein stated from, on or about the fifteenth day of January A.D. 1780 all the time up to the Battle of Little York which he is informed was on the nineteenth day of October 1781 (which is nineteen months and four days) when he left the service and returned home. He was a Citizen of Edgecombe County North Carolina when he entered the service as a volunteer.
The first Battle he was in, was at Camden South Carolina, then at the Battle of Guilford Court House North Carolina, at the Battle of the Eutaw Springs S.C. and at two other small fights in S.C., one at Ramsey's Mills the other at  Haw River. While in all these Battles he was under the Command of General Green. He marched principally in the States of North and South Carolina, on and up and down the Rivers

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Pedee, Cape Fair, and Neuce [Neuse], untill after the Battle of the Eutaw Springs, when he was marched from the Carolinas, on, in the more northern States and in the direction of Little York where the Battle was fought at the surrender of Cornwallis. He states that now, as he has no documentary evidence to refer to, to refresh is recollections upon these points (and that if he had he could tell nothing about them, as he has no education, nor ever had,) and that he now knows of no one living by whom he could prove his service by. He states that he was in the Battle Yorktown at the surrender of Cornwallis, where he received a wound in his right knee by a bullet, which was cut out, and the scar of which he has now, at which place he received his Certificate of discharge which he lost many years ago (say some forty or upwards), by its getting wet with some other papers. He states that the foregoing is about all nown [/}, that he can recollect, that would give identity to his services.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not in the Pension Roll of the agency of any state in the Union.

Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid.

John H. Taylor
Joseph his X mark Calhoon
Georgia
Dooly County

And I the said John H. Taylor judge of the Superior Court as aforesaid do hereby declare my opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldiers and served as he states, and that he is of the age

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as above stated. And I do further hereby certify that I was requested to attend the house, of the said applicant, to give him a chance to make out his application for his Revolutionary Pension, and found him as I conceive from bodily infirmity  intireley [entirely] unable to attend Court. And I do further certify that I have been intimately acquainted with the said applicant for many years, and known him in the settlement where he lives, and that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, this I can say in that opinion and belief.

John H. Taylor J.J.C.  D.C.

We James Gamble and John K. Morse clergymen residing in the County of Dooly, and in the neighborhood of the said Joseph Calhoon applicant, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Joseph Calhoon applicant for Revolutionary Pension, who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration: that we believe him to be eight seven (87) years of age, and that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and we concur in that opinion and beliefs. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
John K. Morse , Clergyman
John H. Taylor J.J.C.  D.C.
James Gamble, Clergyman

And I the said James Gamble do further certify that I have conversed with the said Joseph Calhoon applicant some years ago upon the subject of his applying for his Revolutionary Pension, and that his reason given to me for not doing so at that time was that his health was then good and he tolerable was able to labor, and thusly secure and obtain a tolerable competency, and that he was then getting along tolerable well without it, and

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that as long as he could continue to do so, that his ability to labor and the Liberties he assisted to achieve was Pension enough for him. But then now the said applicant is not only very olde but is becoming quite infirm and ill able to labor, and  has quite an expensive family, and wishes and desires the assistance which the Government is due him. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

John H. Taylor J.J.C.  D.C.
James Gamble

I John H. Taylor, judge of the Superior Court of Dooly County, do hereby certify that James Gamble and John K. Morse, who have signed the preceding Certificate, are both clergymen, residing in the County of Dooly and in the neighborhood of the said applicant. And that Alexander Meriwether who has signed the Certificate hereto attached bearing his signature is Clerk of the Court of Ordinary of Dooly County, and that said Court is a Court of Records. And that Enos Young is a clergyman who has signed the Certificate hereto attached, residing in the County of Dooly and in the neighborhood of the said applicant. And that Benjamin Culpepper who has signed the Certificate hereto attached bearing his signature is a Citizen of Dooly County and in the 535th dist. Georgia in the state thereof, and in the neighborhood of the said applicant, and that all five of said men as it appeared to me, are orderly and worthy members of the church and are of respectable and good standing in the community in which they reside, and that their statements are entitled to due credit and confidence.
John H. Taylor J.J.C.  D.C.

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State of Georgia
County of Dooly

On this the 3rd day of May in A.D. 1851 personally appeared before me John H. Taylor one of the judges of the Superior Court of the County of Dooly, it being a court of records. Joseph Calhoon a resident of the 535th district Georgia Militia in said County of Dooly, and State of Georgia, aged eighty seven years (87) the tenth day of January last past, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June the 7th A.D. 1832.

He states that he was sixteen year of age on the tenth day of January A.D. 1780, and that a few days thereafter, which was on or about the fifteenth day of January A.D. 1780, he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer [underlined] under the following named officers to wit: Captain Lee, Major McCall and Col. Hunter (the names of the other Company officers he says he has forgotten) and served as herein stated from on or about the fifteenth day of January A.D. 1780 all the time up to the Battle of Little York which he is informed was on the nineteenth day of October 1781 (which is nineteen months and four days) when he left the service and returned home.
He was a citizen of Edgecumb County, North Carolina, where he entered the service as a volunteer.
The first Battle he was in was at Camden South Carolina, then at the Battle of Gilford Court House North Carolina, at the Battle of the Eutaw Springs S.C. and at two other small fights in S.C., one at Ramsey's Mils the other at Haw River. While in all these Battles he was under the Command of General Green. He marched principally in the States of North and South Carolina, on and up and down the Rivers

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In answer to the entering of stories proofs needed by the War department, Joseph Calhoon the applicant answers as follows, to wit: To the 1st Interrogatory. He says that he was born in Edgecumb County North Carolina Jan. 10th, 1764. To the 2nd: He says that he has a record of his age at his son's, Vincent Calhoun's, who resides in Dooly County, and in the 7th Dist. Georgia Militia thereof. To the 3rd: He says that he was living in Edgecumb County North Carolina when he entered the service; returned to the same County after the war, and lived there untill he moved to Montgomery County Georgia. From Montgomery County he moved to Laurens County Georgia, and from Laurens County to Dooly County, Georgia where he now lives.
To the 4th: He says that he volunteered.
To the 5th: He says that in consequence of his age and infirmity - the length of time that it has been since he was in the service - his having no education and a very indistinct recollection of names, that he has forgotten the regiments, that he served in and the names of the officers, with whom he served in that regiment of Country when he did, to wit: Gens. Morgan and Green, who he served under nearly all the time, Gates and Lee. These

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were among some other papers sorting over forty years ago and got destroyed.
To the 7th He answers and gives the following names to wit: Robert B. Davies the Clerk of the Superior and Inquiries Courts, Alexander Meriwether the Clerk of the Court of Ordinary of Dooly Co. John K. Morse, Enos Young and James Gamble. Also Benjamin F. Adams and John Humphries Clergimen, Jesse Gilbert, and Jeptha Gibbert Brothers, Count P. Fleming Samuel P. Jones D.B. Jones William McDaniel Benjamin Culpepper William Brown, Peter Adams and many others. 

Georgia, Dooly County. I John H. Taylor one of the judges of the Inquiries Court of said County do hereby certify, that the forgoing contains the true answers as given by Joseph Calhoon the applicant for a Revolutionary Pension, to a sett of Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, and which were propounded to him by me. And I do further certify that I believe that his answers thereto are given in good faith, and according to the best of his recollection at the present time, and that they are true.
John H. Taylor J.J.C.  D.C.

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P.O. Joseph Calhoun [sic]

REJECTED [stamped on page]

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No. 38.199

Joseph Calhoon
Ga.
Act 7th June 1832

To Peter Adams Augt. 4th 1857
Hon. Jas. Johnson Feby 15 1853

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[Scribblings on front or back of envelope?]
May 20/57

Appl of Joseph Calhoon

original
Mail: Peter Adams
Vienna
Georgia
Act 7 June 32
Let Peter Adams Aug 4/57


Official business

James E. Heath
Washington City
D.C.  U.S.

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Dooly County Ga.
Hon. James E. Heath
Vienna May 10th day 1851
Cmr. of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

Dear Sir,
Enclosed I herewith transmit to you the application of Joseph Calhoon for Revolutionary Pension. His reasons given for his delay in applying to the Government -- in this time, for his Pension. I refer you to the Certificates of Meriwether and Gamble. 
Herewith given the Certificates of sworn and respectable men as there is in this country in any other of their belief of the Revolutionary character and respectability of his service in that war and with a little more trouble I could of obtained the Certificates of like purport of a great many more. In fact there is not a man in all this section of County, who has made the acquaintances of any length of the applicant, but what would give a like Certificate of his Revolutionary services mo [page torn] stability.
If there be any palpable error discovered, you will please let me be informed of the same, and  it shall be corrected, if the same can de done.
It is the request of the applicant that this Warrant of Certificate be directed to me at Vienna, Dooly Co. Ga.
I would respectfully request that you give me the directions and facilities to draw the amount of Pension which you may find due the applicant, from one of the Macon Banks, if the same can be done. Macon is only sixty miles from us and the place where we do all our Commercial business.

Very Respectfully
your obt. Srvt.
Peter Adams

To:
James B. Heath
Cmr. Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

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No. 38.199

Application of Joseph Calhoon of Dooly County Georgia for Revolutionary Pension.




Peter Adams of Vienna Dooly Co. Ga. acting for Applicant.

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Georgia, Dooly County
Clerk's Office Superior Court

I Robert B. Davies Clerk of the Superior Court in and for said County, do hereby certify that John H. Taylor whose genuine signature appears to foregoing declaration of Joseph Calhoon, and the five certificates attached, is and was at at the time of making said signatures, a regularly acting and duly qualified and commissioned Justice of the Superior Court in and for said County, and that due faith and credit should be had and given to his attestation as such. And I do further certify that said Superior Court is a court of record having genuine jurisdiction. I do also further certify that I have been acquainted with Joseph Calhoon the applicant, for the last Eighteen years and believe him to be of the age he represents himself, and that he was a soldier of the Revolutionary War. I am also acquainted with the persons whose names appear to the foregoing certificates and know them to be men of respectability and standing and their assertions entitled to all credit.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office at Vienna this 9th day of May 1857.
Robt. B. Davies Clk.

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I Alexander Meriwether Clerk of the Court of Ordinary of Dooly County, it being a Court of Records in said County, do hereby certify, that I have been well acquainted with Joseph Calhoon applicant for Revolutionary Pension, whose name appears to the forgoing declaration, for many years, and that I have had several conversations with him upon the subject of his services as a soldier in the war of the Revolution of the United States, and believe his statements, which are set forth in said declaration to be made by him in good faith, and that they are true to the best of his recollection at this time, and that he served as therein stated, and that he is of the age therein mentioned, and that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, and throughout this section of Country as far as he is intimately known, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that I fully concur in that opinion and beliefs. I do further certify that in my conversations with the said applicant, some years ago, I have asked him the reasons why he did not apply to the Government for his Revolutionary Pension, and that the reasons he assigned to me for not doing was, that the Liberties which he assisted in achieving for the Government was Pension enough for him, together with the fact that he was at that time in the enjoyment of good health and tolerable well able to labor, and thusly acquired a tolerable competency for a living and supposed

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I Benjamin Culpepper Citizen of this the 535th District Georgia Militia of Doohttps://catalog.archives.gov/images/misc/drag.pngly County, do hereby certify that I have been well acquainted with Joseph Calhoon applicant for Revolutionary Pension, who has sworn to and subscribed the forgoing declaration, for a great many years, and that I was acquainted with him in Laurens County, where he formerly resided, as well as this County, and that he is the age he represents himself to be, and that he has been respected and believed in the neighborhoods where he has resided, and is respected and believe in the neighborhood where he now resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution war and that I concur in that opinion and belief. And I have always known him to be a man highly creditable for honesty, truth and veracity in the communities where he has lived.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforsaid.
Benjamin Culpepper
John H. Taylor

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I Enos Young a clergyman residing in the County of Dooly and in the neighborhood of Joseph Calhoon applicant for Revolutionary Pension, who has subscribed and sworn to the forgoing declaration, do hereby certify that I have been well acquainted with him for several years, and that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary war and that I concur in that opinion and belief, and that the said applicant of the age in said application stated, which is eighty seven years.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforsaid.
Enos Young
John H. Taylor

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[Back and side of another paper]
Hon. Jas Johnson
Feb'y 15, 1853.

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Pension Office
Feby 1st 1853

Sir
I herewith enclose the letter of Mr. Z. T. Timmons and have the honor to inform you that Joseph Calhoon of Ga. asserts that he served nineteen months in N.C. but does not furnish any proof of service save several affidavits showing that he has the reputation of having been a soldier of the Revolution. Mere neighborhood reputation, unsupported by recent evidence, is not sufficient to establish a claim for a pension. Application should be made to the Controller of NC for such evidence as he may possess of his service.


Hon Jas. Johnson

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Joseph Calhoon
fm Atty
act 7th June '32
Georgia

File Oct. 29
1857

I wish to see the papers in this case.

No. 24 '51
M. Thompson
Exng Atty
W. Cole

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Power of Attorney - Revolutionary Pension Claims.

Known all Men by these Presents, That I, Joseph Calhoun, hereby constitute and appoint M. Thompson my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of Joseph Calhoun for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to Peter Adams of Vienna, Dooly County Georgia. 
to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
Witness my hand and Seal this 5th day of October A.D. 185/.

Joseph (his mark) Calhoon

Signed and Sealed in the presence of
William Brawn
Elisha Wade J.P.


State of Georgia
County of Dooly
On this Fifth day of October A.D. 185/ before me, the subscribed, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Joseph Calhoun and acknowledged the foregoing Power, of Attorney to be his act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand, the day and year aforesaid.
Elisha Wade
J. Peace.

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I, Robt B Davies, Clerk of the Superior Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Elisha Wade before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed, is his signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this fourteenth day of October A.D. 185/.

Robt. B. Davies Clerk

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[Big X through entire page, a blank Revolutionary Pensioner-related form]

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[Markings on pension envelope]

Augt. 20 185/
Rel: to case of Joseph Calhoon

[from] Peter Adams
Vienna
Dooly Co.
Georgia

Vienna, Ga.
Aug. 10
Official business

[To] James E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

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[Notations on envelope of Aug. 10 pension letter received from Peter Adams in Vienna, Ga.]

Rel: to case of Joseph Calhoon

No answer necessary has been informed

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Dooly County
Vienna Aug. 9th 1851

To:
Hon. Jas. E. Heath
Cmr. of Pensions

Dear Sir,
Some time in April last, I received a document from you, informing me how to make out and present the Claim of a Revolutionary soldier, for a Revolutionary Pension. Some time about the first of May thereafter, I made out, and had executed the application of Joseph Calhoon of this County, in compliance with the instructions therein given. I mailed the same soon after its execution, neatly enveloped to the Pension office at the City of Washington. I have never heard from it since, and do not know whether you ever received it. Will you please inform me forthwith, whether it has reached the office, and if so what has been done in the matter.

Very Respectfully,
Peter Adams
atty. for Joseph Calhoon