Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 10390, for Samuel Tanner, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
★ Yanner, Samuel
R 10390
CONTENTS

Rejected Bl 235 Small Pox In letter to Martin Newman Frankfort, Ill. 11. March 1833 R.B. Land Oct 19 1853 J. H. Hill Aug 10th 1857 art (see over)
Did not serve (month)

110
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1878.
REJECTED
10390
P. O. Sam l Tamer
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

October 10 th 1853
Dalton county Illinois
Dear Sir you will much oblige me by conferring a favor in the line of your Bishop and in the Bishop of your office — I wish you to inform me what has become of the application of Samuel Lanner who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution who made an application in the Spring of the year 1834 and has been lying unattended ever since that time.. til Recently I have become agent for the Heirs at Law with full power to make all diligent and proper Inquiries I therefore wish you to confer the favor of giving me the correct Information as soon as practicable also I wish you to inform me the length of his service in arms the date of his entering the service.. also the Probable amount of Pension If Recovered By conferring this favor you will be Amply Remunerated for all of your charges in Reason &c
from the Best Information I can gather the application was made In April or May 1834
Direct your answer to Bay Postoffice Pope Co Illinois
Very Respectfully Yours Ob st Serv t N. B. Land
J. E. Heath Commissioner

House of Representatives Washington Feby 22 nd 1853
Sir
I wish my friend Mr Smith to explain for me, the papers on file in your office, in the claim of Samuel Turner of my district, who applied some years ago for a Pension for his services in the Revolutionary War Please furnish Mr Smith the papers in this case & oblige
Your Obedt Servt
Willis Allen
H R
Genl P. C. Johnson Chief Clerk Pension Office

July 6th 1837
State of Illinois } To the Pension Master
Saline County } Washington City Dec
Sir I am acting agent for the heirs of
Samuel Turner Deceased a soldier in the Resolution War with Great Britain from the State of North Carolina Applications having bin mad by Robing B Landt of the state and county aforesaid and hearing nothing for a pension and hearing nothing from it and the said Lands now being Dead We now Refer to your office for information Relative to said Samuel Turners Service in the Resolution War with Great Britain and whether his heirs is entitled to a pension for his service or not if they are please send us a blank form with instructions how to fill it up from your office and what we must prove
adresses Southamerica Po Illinois Saline county
addres James H Hill all business to the above named officer To James H Hill
Your Obedient Servant

31. 235
Sam Tanner
Jamaica
Ill
Rejected. did not serve six months.
10390
Lyons H.R.
ky. Act. June 22, 1871
Calyon H.R.

State of Illinois On this day of 1834 Franklin County ss Bensey O'Keen
Who of the budget of the County commissioners court In and for the County of Franklin and State of Illinois, proceeded to the house of John Gillis In order to take the deposition of  affidavit of  Samuel Tanner County who is a Resident of
Reason of his advanced age and bodily infir- mities, was unable to attend at the court house In order to receive his declaration and proof. Reference to an act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832, and the said Samuel Tanner being first duly sworn according to law, age of near 80 years, and that he entered the service of The United States under the following names & officers and served as here in stated
That on the year 1779 AD he substituted for one Benjamin Tanner who has been drafted for Five months in Ward's Place , company in Lepe Catherine's Regiment he then lived in the State of Virginia North Hampton County From there they marched to Winchester in the State of Virginia from there they marched to Halifax State of North Carolina From there they marched to a town called Elizabeth in the state of South Carolina from there they marched to a place called Brunswick in South Carolina from there they marched to Augusta in the state of South Carolina from there they started down the Savannah River with the provision boats to meet the army at Purysburg but when they got to Savannah they were there informed that General Ash was defeated at

or on other Creek he still proceeds on to Peoria where they joined Genl Lincoln army there he was legally discharged  at the expiration of six months at the year 1780 by Capt. Hasty. Since he then returned to the state of Virginia a distance of near five hun- dred miles he here states that his discharge was lost or destroyed about the time that Lord Cornwallis marched through the state of Virginia he here by relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present one he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state sworn to and subscribed before the day and year aforesaid
Sealed this 14th day of January in the presence of the County and I Henry Adams Justice of the County Commissioners Court of Franklin County and State of Illinois do hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier served as he states
State of Illinois Franklin County, ss. I, J. S. McWhorter Clerk of the County Commissioners Court, for said County do hereby certify that Henry Adams whose name appears to the foregoing certificate was on the day the same was made a Judge or Justice of the said Court, constitutionally a court of record, with a Clerk & Seal and that his name thereon is genuine, and that full faith and credit are of right, ought to be given to all his official acts as such
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Clerk's private seal. Then being in presence and provided for said Court, done at Frankfort, this 8th day of June A.D. 1804 J. S. McWhorter

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Frankfort 5 th October 1834 Illinois
Yrs at the Request of William Rodgers whose Declaration is her in enclosed who requests you may have the goodness to reexamine his claim his advanced age to gether with the distance from here to New Hampshire renders it out of his power to procure the proof required he is now something over 85 years of age and is very poor if you can consult with the Rules of your department prescribe some way by which he can be placed on the pension Roll other than the one required you would subserve the cause of humanity. If you cannot please return the declaration for my justification That I may shew the old man what has been done with his case
Also by Request return the declaration of John Farip he alleges to have been mistaken with respect to his first services in saying three months but that it was something like three years and wishes you if not contrary to the Rules of your department to reexamine his claim he says he was regularly inrolled and that he relinquishes all the balance of his service except for his enlistment should his name not be found please return the declaration
Also by Request of the heirs of Samuel Banner Deed I enclose you his former Declaration they think as his heirs they are intitled to something from government as the old gentleman died before I had any opportunity of amending his declaration I am at a loss to know what course to take with his claim if there is no chance for him please return the Declaration that I may shew the heirs your report sent Martin Newman