Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9376, for Samuel Love, North Carolina

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
N. 6.
Love, Samuel
S. 9376
d. b.
Born in So. Cal.
CONTENTS
carded

Let. Agt. June 16. 35 payst: Las o - do. C. Same Dec. 17. 1835 - (Decd.) do. to Hon. R. G. Manning, 30 th March 1836 -
Died Apr 16. 1835 see A. B.
4962 South Carolina
Samuel Love Lancaster Dist. in the State of South Carolina who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Greighton of the Reg t commanded by himself in the South Carolina Militia for two years from 1777
★ No. 4962 S.C. Dec. 19. 1844 Records completed
Inscribed on the Roll of South Carolina at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of Jan y 1833 and sent Hon. J. P. Blair
  Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832  120 00    Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 March 1833  40 00    Subt  160 00  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Not June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Henry H. Syngles Clerk Book 20 Vol. 8 Page 90

Lincoln Dist Pa
Hand Love

State of So Carolina Lancaster District S
On the fourteenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before the Court of Common Pleas and general sessions now sitting at Lancaster Court House Samuel Love, a resident of the State and District aforesaid, aged as he believes about three or four years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth make oath to the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832: — That he entered the service in the fall or winter of the year 1777, at Camden So Carolina, where he then resided, as a substitute for James Purcell, in Capt Thomas Croughton company, Col. Hershaw's regiment, and was marched from there to a place called Purysburg on the Savannah, or what he then thinks was then called Purrysburg River, in the lower part of So Carolina and fifty or sixty miles below Augusta in Georgia, where he was stationed and served for the period of three months — That he then served three months longer at the same place and under the same officers as a substitute for Richard Rodgers — That when he left the service he received a discharge signed by Col. Hershaw, but the same was lost and some five or six years passed when his house and all his papers were burned — That he re-entered the service again as he believes in the year A D 1779, in Chester District So Carolina where he then resided as a volunteer in Capt John McCool's company under Col. Joseph Brown and was marched from thence to Camden

to guard and defend that place and remained there about two months, when the British having reached Swift Creek, six miles from Camden on their way to that place, he with the rest of the Americans were informed by Col. Brown that as they were destitute of arms and unable to defend themselves, they might disperse and every man shift for himself. This terminated his service at this time and from the manner in which they were dispersed he received no discharge.
He resumed the service again in the summer of the same year, on Swift Creek, in York District of South Carolina, as a volunteer in Captain James Read's company, under General Thomas Sumpter and was immediately marched to Hanging Rock, in Lancaster District and was engaged in the memorable battle which was fought at that place. He was thence marched to Rocky Mount on the Catawba River, in he believes Chester District of South Carolina, where they had another engagement with a detachment of British and Tories under the command he thinks of an officer by the name of Turnbull in which the Americans attacked  were defeated . He was next sent with a small party of thirty or forty men towards Camden as spies, and near what is called the Camden Ferry encountered a band of about seventy British who were taking conducting thirty seven wagons loaded with clothing, rum, sugar and coffee, which had been sent from Waverlyburg for the use of the enemy in Camden, all of whom they captured together with the baggage of and conveyed to Sistrup's Head Quarters on Rocky or Herring Creek in Chester District. He remained there for a few days, when he was again sent out with about one hundred men to reconnoitre under the command of Col. D'Arnaud and after having

His covered the situation and member of the enemy, they returned to head quarters from where the whole army were marched to McDonald Ferry on the Catawba River in Chester District, at which place they were surprised and liberally cut to pieces. He served during this period about seven or eight months. He for this time received no discharge. He reentered the service as a substitute for Richard Green, in Rowan County North Carolina, in the beginning of the next year  in the  same year , perhaps in February or March At the 1864 year in in Capt Lowells Company under Major Rowan and was thence marched to Waxhaw Creek, Lancaster District S. Carolina from whence he was sent to Profess Mills in No. Car. for flour where he was taken and and confined for two or three weeks or perhaps longer, during which time the regiment to which he was attached had marched to and fought a battle at Eutaw Springs So. Car. that he rejoined his regiment on their return from that engagement, in Lancaster District So. Car. and was marched to Charleston South Carolina where he received another discharge for three months service which was also destroyed in like manner as the one already above referred to in this declaration. He again entered the service come in the ensuing winter as a substitute for Robert Wilson and was marched to Head Quarters at Bacon's or Beatties Bridge on Ashley River where he joined the army under the command of Genl. Green in Capt Jones Company and Col. Little's Regiment and thence moved down the river five or six miles where they remained until Charleston was vacated by the enemy, when they were marched under Major McGuire's Command to Wilmington N. Carolina

where they were all permitted to go home although their term of service had not yet expired. In this campaign he served eight or nine months. This closed his service and he further declares that he knows no person of whom he could prove the whole or any part of his said services. And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or allowance, except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any date.
Answers to Interrogatories
Answer to 1st. I was born at Lancaster District of South Carolina, but do not recollect the year of my birth.
Ans 2. I have no record of my age.
Ans 3. I was living on Beaver Creek, Newbern District when I first entered the service. And have lived since the revolutionary war and now live in Lancaster District, South Carolina.
4 I entered the service as already stated as a substitute.
Ans 5. I have already stated them as fully as I am able.
Ans 6. This is already answered above.
Ans 7. Lackey Perry Esq. & Francis Bryan Esq. Sworn to and subscribed SAMUEL SOWE in Open Court
On Oath We Jacob Jones a Clerkman residing in the District of Lancaster South Carolina hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Sowe who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to

he is 74 years of age. That he is respected and believed to be the very honest Lord where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and concurs in that opinion.
on O Adams
Jacob Dunn
Clerk
Francis Ingram deposes in open Court that he lives in the neighbourhood of Samuel Love with whom he has been acquainted for many years. That he is a man who bears a good character and is generally respected and believed to have served in the revolutionary war and this deponent has no hesitation in concurring in that opinion.
Sworn to in open Court
Francis Ingram
on O Adams
Clerk
Jackey Perry also deposes in open Court that he lives in the neighbourhood of Samuel Love, in Lancaster Street, Norfolkline, that he and has been acquainted with him for a number of years. That he bears a good character and is generally believed to have been a revolutionary soldier and that fully concurs in that opinion.
Sworn to as described
Jackey Perry
on O Adams
Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Jacob Larnes is a clergyman in Lancaster Bell and that Buckley Perry and Frances Ingram who have signed the above certificates are residents of Lancaster District and credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. November 14 th 1832
Wm. B. McClain
Presiding Judge
I John Adams Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Lancaster District do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Love for a pension.
In testimony whereof Love has hereunto set my hand and seal of my office this 14 th day of November 1832
And Adkins
Clerk

Samuel Love
Samuel

BRIEF in the case of Samuel Love of Lancaster District in the State of South Carolina (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? In Open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 73 or 74 years.
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1777 Winter Three Months As a Private Gen. Capt. Thos. Creighton   1778 Three Months Private Capt. Thos. Creighton   1779 Two Months Private Capt. John McCool   1779 Summer Seven or Eight Months Private Capt. James Read   1780 Summer Three Months Private Capt. Dowell   1780 Winter Eight or nine Months Private Capt. Jones  
5. In what battles was he engaged? Hanging Rock. Camden Ferry. McDonalds Ferry.
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? On Beaver Creek, Fairfield District in South Carolina.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? They are not attached together as required by the Regulations. Correct in other respects.
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Sam Potts Examining Clerk.

J. J. Edwards Esq.
Commf. Pensions. Washington DC

Planters & Mechanics Bank N o 6 Charleston 11. Dec r 1835
J. P. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions
Sir.
Application for payment, having been made upon the enclosed Vouchers of Samuel Love, a pension under act of 7 th June 1832, who died for certificate 10 April 1835, and whose name stands suspended for your letter of 10 June 1835. I forward for your inspection at the request of the Atty. the above Vouchers
I am respectfully
Your Obed t Serv t
A. Sammons Pension Agt.

Samuel Love
Admit for 2 yrs
Blair, F.S.C.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Samuel Love which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes, but they are not attached together as the regulations require. Correct in other respects.
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes. 
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.”

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
‡QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated 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 narrow ribbon, the end 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.

Rev. War
9376
INVALID.
File No. 9376
Samuel Gove
Rev. War
Act: June 1 st 1832.
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 227
[Arrangement of 1870.]