Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 25,168, for Samuel Hunt, Virginia

SERVICE
Va.
Hunt, Samuel
NUMBER
S. 25.168.
CONTENTS

Virginia
Samuel Hunt, Private in U. S. Army.
Inscribed on the roll of the Virginia Agency, at $5, and increased to $8, per month, by act 24 Apr. 1816 —
Original pension certifi- cate issued 7 th April 1824, and sent to Hon. Mr. Smith, H. R. —
See letter to P. Agt & H. A. W. C. River Apr. 22. 1833.

State of Virginia } Monroe County } S.S.
This day Samuel Hunt an invalid pensioner of the United States, personally appeared before me and made oath according to law, that he is the identical Samuel Hunt, to whom a pension certificate was issued and which is now in his possession; that he did apply by Attorney, at the agency for paying pensions in the City of Richmond Va a several times for his annual stipends for several years past, but in consequence of some defect in the papers they were not paid to his attorneys in fact.
In September 1829 he made a power of attorney to Benjamin Skitcher of Manchester Va a to draw his stipend from the 4 th of September 1828 to the 4 th of September 1829 which power of attorney proved to be properly authenticated but when it was presented to the agent, he only paid to the attorney his annual semi annual stipend from the 4 th of March 1829 to the 4 th of September 1829 leaving his semi annual stipend from the 4 th of September 1828 to the 4 th of March 1829 unpaid; that in March 1831 he made a power of attorney to Bernard Peyton of the City of Richmond to draw his annual and semi annual stipends from the 4 th day of September 1829 to the 4 th day of March 1831 which proved to be defective in several particulars & was sent back to him for correction; it was not presented to the agent within sixty days from its date, consequently they would not be paid upon it. And in October 1832 in order to have his annual stipends paid which are in arrear as aforesaid, he made a power of attorney to H. A. Crenshaw of the City of Richmond, which he believes to be properly authenticated, but the money in arrear as aforesaid will not be paid by the agent, unless the Department of War, will direct it to be paid; that he resides

Some distance from the Court House of Monroe County where the Post Office is kept, and when his powers of attorney are returned it is very difficult to have corrected, and sent to Richmond in proper time. these are the reasons of his failure to draw his annual stipends for several years past.
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 15 th day of December 1832,
William H. Daniel
I John Hutchison Jr. Clerk of the Court of Monroe, certify that William H. Daniel is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Union this 22 nd day of December 1832. in the 57 th year of the Common wealth
J. Hutchison Jr. Clerk

25168
Rev
INVALID.
File No. 25168
Samuel Hunt
His 2 d Va Regt
Act: Rev Invalid
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 196
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Union Monroe March 21 st 1824 3
Free
William Smith Esq r Washington City D.C.

Union Monroe by March 17. 1824 -
Dr Sir,
Annexed you will please receive Sam l Hunt's application for a United States certificate, also enclosed his certificate from the state of Va as we thought that it might be necessary to lay it before the Secty War in order to obtain a U.S. certificate. From advice rec d by Mr Hunt from your Brother and other attorneys he is under the impression that he can draw a pension from the state & U.S. at the same time, please ascertain this can be done. It perhaps may be necessary to state that Mr Hunt drew 60 $ p annum from the time that he rec d his state certificate until 1817 or 1818, since which time until Sept 1822. he drew 96 $ from his state certificate and since that time he has drawn nothing. so that on the fourth March last (this present month) there was three semi-annual payments due. Your attention to this affair will much oblige Yours Very Resp t
Wm Smith Esq r }
Aud r & Gen. Perrin & Co
M rs . please preserve his state certificate.

Surgey Street Apr 10 85
Free W. C. Rivis.
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commission of Pensions
City of Washington.

Castle-Hill April 7 th '33.
Dear Sir,
a few weeks before the close of the late Session of Congress, I addressed you a letter on the subject of a pension due to — Hunt, stating the fact communicated to me by Col. B. Peyton, (a merchant of the highest respectability in Richmond) that, after your letter to Mr. Crenshaw specifying the additional documents required of Hunt to perfect his claim, he had transmitted to you in the name of Mr. Crenshaw, his clerk, (who having commenced the correspondence with you by his direction, it was thought best to continue it in his name), the documents required, prepared & executed in exact pursuance of your instructions. Shortly afterwards, I received a note from you stating that, on a careful search made in your office, these papers could not be found. That they were executed & sent, the positive statement of Col. Peyton leaves no doubt. — I received before the close of the session of Congress a letter from Col. Brien, (a gentleman of the first order of respectability & a member of the Senate of Virginia), relating to the

Some subject, which the pressure of numerous & weighty duties, day & night, prevented me from then communicating to you. I now transmit it to you, hoping that, under the peculiar circumstances of the case & upon the joint statements of Col. Peyton & Col. Bierce, the equity of Hunt's claim to a renewal of his pension will be no longer disputed, & that orders will be given for its payment. I beg the favour of you to let me hear from you, as soon as possible, on the subject, & in the mean time, I remain with great respect
your most ob. serv. J. L. Edwards Esq. W. O. Davis. Commissioner of Pensions.

FREE
1. aug. 1893
To The Secretary of War
for the Pension Bureau
Forward
Washington City
D. C.
Any letter

J. L. Edwards Esq Sir,
On your return in due course, duly executed, by poor old Hunt, the Form you sent me, & which you stated would complete all the mere necessities to his receiving the allowance from the Government, for which he has been suffering for a long time past — pray I ask you, in the nature of dis- cernment, that you will act upon the mat- ter without loss of time, to relieve his sufferings? —
In haste
Yours Respectfully
H. A. Crenshaw by B. Payton
Richm? V o 27 Dec 1832

To The Honorable
FREE
Lewis Nash Secretary of War Washington City
DEC 11

Richmond October 11. 1832
Sir,
I have taken the liberty, at the instance of the Pension agent here (Mr. W. B. Bradish), to enclose sundry papers to you, necessary, in conformity to the Regulations of your Department, to enable me to draw the pension, and arrears of pension due a poor old disabled Soldier of the Revolution; Samuel Hunt, who not having been able to draw the same annual payments, as they became due, and the agent here having no authority to pay his pension, applies to you, for the purpose of obtaining an order, for the payment of his dues. As the poor old scoundrel shed his blood in the noble cause of liberty, and is now waiting, on expenses to hear from you, I hope will excuse the liberty I take in requesting you will immediately write me, sending an order, for Mr. Bradish to pay the amount claimed by Mr. Hunt, that he may return home. You will find enclosed herewith, a letter from Mr. Bradish, to Col. Bernard Peyton, which shews, that the amount claimed by Mr. Hunt has not been paid. You have, also, a letter enclosed from Mr. Hunt. —
Very respectfully Sir Yours In obedt servt H. A. Crenshaw
To the Honble Lewis Cass Secretary of War Washington City

Loan Pension Office
Richmond 10 October. 1832
Upon examination of the Pension Roll in this Office for the Semiannual pensions to Invalids from the 4th March to the 4th September 1828. The name of Samuel Hunt Thompson for a pension of Forty Eight dollars still stands open, that is to say is not receipted - for, from which it would appear that that Semiannual Stipend has not been paid.
Also, in examining the various abstracts of payments to Invalid Pensioners no record appears of his pension for the above period having been paid - also that his two subsequent semiannual claims viz. from the 4th of September 1828 to 4 September 1829 have been duly paid - but no payment it appears since the 4 Sept. 1829 (or down to that period) has been made him.
To Colonel B. Peyton.
C. C. L. & P. O.

Don Lane Certificate

I do, with the advice of the Council, hereby certify, that Samuel Hunt, aged 33 years, late a soldier in the Second Virginia Regiment in the service of the United States, appears to have been disabled in such a manner while in the service as to entitle him to the sum of eighteen pounds yearly; which allowance is accordingly made him, to commence from the first day of January, 1786.
Given under my hand as Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, at Richmond, this eleventh day of January, 1787.
The above Samuel Hunt is an inhabitant of Cumberland County.
Edm. Randolph
The above is a true copy of the original certificate granted to Samuel Hunt as a pensioner.
Given under my hand as Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, at Richmond, this 8 th day of September 1798.
James Wood
The above are true copies of the originals granted to Samuel Hunt as a pensioner.
Given under my hand as Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, at Richmond, this 10 th day of May, 1817.
James P. Preston

SURGEON'S AFFIDAVIT.
State of Virginia Monroe County, B. S. (Date.) December 22 nd 1839
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED, That Samuel Hunt a private soldier in the company of Capt. Everette Leeds, Virginia in the 2 nd V a Regiment of the United States is rendered incapable of performing the duty of a soldier, by reason of wounds or other injuries inflicted while he was actually in the service aforesaid, and in the line of his duty, viz. Fighting against the enemies of his country in the battle called Buford's defeat
By satisfactory evidence and accurate examination, it appears that on the 29 th day of May in the year 1780 being engaged in a battle with the enemy commanded by Gen. Tarleton at or near a place called Wauhaws in the district, or territory, of South Carolina he received about ten wounds in his head, shoulder and hands , the scars of which are yet plainly seen; he has lost three of his fingers off the right hand, and the other finger and thumb of that hand, are disabled; his right wrist is disabled; he has lost two fingers off his left hand and an other finger of that hand is disabled,
and he is thereby, not only incapacitated for military duty, but, in the opinion of the undersigned, is totally disabled from obtaining his subsistence from manual labor.
Charles Baldwin Surgeon.
Thos. V. Wayne Surgeon.
* Here give a particular description of the wound, injury, or disease, and specify in what manner it has affected the applicant so as to produce disability in the degree stated.
† N B.—The blank in the last line but one is to be filled up with the proportional "degree" of disability; for example: "three-fourths"—"one-half"—"one-third," &c. &c or, "totally," as the case may be.
□ The magistrate who may administer the oaths to the Surgeons, must certify that they are reputable in their profession, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
□ Mode of authenticating papers.—In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or small ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

State of Virginia Monroe County, ss.
On this 22 nd day of December 1832 Charles Baldwin & Thomas A. Haynes, the surgeons who have signed the within Certificate, personally appeared before me James Hanly a Justice of the peace in & for said County and were sworn according to law to the same. Given under my hand the date above
James Hanly J.P. D
I Certify that I am acquainted with the surgeons who have signed the within Certificate, and that they are reputable in their profession.
James Hanly J.P. D
I John Hutchison Jr clerk of the Court of Monroe County Certify that James Hanly is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature, purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of Office at Union the 22 nd day of December 1832 & in the 57 th year of the Commonwealth John Hutchison Jr. C.M.

I am inclined to think that Col o Burne had better procure from Col o Peyton a copy of the letter which he transmitted to Washington accompanying Hunt's paper, or if a copy of this letter is not to be had then a mem o of the date &c. when it was forwarded. then as Col o Burne knows well all the circumstances of the Pensioner's case & that in the forms executed by the Pensioner which were sent on to the department a medical certificate in the usual form was hereto annexed I have say that if he mentions, on his own authority & personal knowledge of the Pensioner, being alive at least within the period of a few weeks ago & that he knew him to labour under those disabilities which entitle him to the pension claimed & these facts stated to the proper officer Mr. Edwards at the pension office through the medium of Colo. Prine, H o

the Member of Congress for the district or to Mr Rives & in which undoubted authority the Secretary of War may be induced to direct that the further forms of additional Medical proof & examination in this pensioner's case will be dispensed with — in which case all that will be necessary is to procure the order from the War department to the agency here to pay the claim upon those vouchers sent on by Col. Peyton — of course these Vouchers will have to be procured from the War office & presented to the agency here.
It will be as well also to represent the fact of the pensioner having now removed to Indiana & the great difficulty & trouble of getting his claim made out anew.

Monroe County State of Virginia to Wit;
On the seventh day
of March 1824 - before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for said county of Monroe, personally appeared Samuel Hunt, who on his oath declared that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain William Taylor in the regiment, commanded by Colonel Christopher Chebecker in the service of the United States, that his name was placed on the pension Roll of the State of Virginia, that he received a certificate of that fact under the signature of Edm. Randolph, then Governor of said State, dated the Eleventh day of January 1787, but has never received a formal certificate from the Secretary of War, and now wishes to obtain one. Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid }
Sam l Hunt marks
Sam l Clark J.P.
Monroe County Clerk's Office 17 th March 1824
I Isaac Hutchinson Clerk of the County Court of aforesaid do hereby certify that Samuel Clark whose name appears to the foregoing Certificate is now and was at the time of signing the same an acting magistrate in the County aforesaid and to all whose official acts due faith and credit is to be given as well in court as thereout. Given under my hand the date aforesaid -
Isaac Hutchinson C.M.C.