Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 20,355, Torrence Curry, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Curry, Torrence
92 20.355
CONTENTS

Rejected Ex'r. OLD WAR.
File No. 20.355
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
Forrence Curry Pris.
Capt. Taylor 7th Line
Rev. War
Died at _____
REJECTED
other claim.
_____, 187____
Clerk.
Application filed: _____, 18____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
Evidence insufficient Act 1828

aw Reg # 20.355

Say Date of the wrong of the kind.
The witnesses certify for each other.
FAD

Evidence insufficient Nov 1828
1402
Cincinnati Dec 22 1828.
Sir
I have the honor to transmit to you, the application of Laurence Barry, an applicant for pension for Revolutionary services, under the act of the 18th of May, 1828, and have to ask the favor of you to correspond directly with me on the subject
Very respectfully, Sir your most obedt Servant Samuel Hunt
No Record Nov 4/28
Honble B Rush Sec of the Navy.

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
6 January 1829.
Torrence Curry, — of Sparta in the County of Dearborn in the State of Indiana has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private — in captain Taylor's company, in the regiment of the Virginia line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing .
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary, J. H. Dickinson.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
9. January 1829
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Torrence Curry in the
It further appears that Torrence Curry is now on the pension list of any agency, and has been so since the 3 d March 1826 at the rate of dollars per month.
The name of Torrence Curry cannot be found among those of the Virginia line to whom certificates for the gratuity of eighty Dollars, were issued —
Wm Hagner Audr
(errand)

General Land Office
February 6 th 1829.
The name of Torrence Curry does not appear on the list of Warrants issued by the Register of the Land Office at Richmond, Virginia, so far as they have been received
G. B. Grahame Commissioner
War Dept: Bounty land Office 6 May 1829
The records of this Office do not show that Torrence Curry of the Virg a line ever received or is entitled to, bounty land of the United States. Robert Taylor

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act entitled "an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution" passed on the 15th day of May 1828. I, Jerome Curry of the township of Sparta in the County of Dearborn, in the State of Indiana do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the army of the Revolution for and during the war and continued in its service until its termination; at which period I was a private in Capt. Taylor's Company of the 4th Regiment of the Virginia Line on the Continental Establishment. had the name of the Colonel who commanded the Regiment. I do not now recollect but I also declare that I afterwards received certificates for the reward of fifty dollars which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed the 15th day of May 1778.
And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of May 1828 on the Pension List of the United States.
Witness my hand. This 19th day of December 1828.
Agreed in presence of J. P. Samuel Hunt
his Jerome Curry mark
State of Ohio City of Cincinnati ss. Before me Isaac G. Burnet Mayor of the City aforesaid personally appeared Miss Sarah Elick Choffin and John R. Arnold the first who resides in Dearborn County in the

State of Indiana and John R. Arnold who, resides in the City of Cincinnati who did severally make oath that Francis Curry by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reported to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution in manner as there in stated.
Abel Chapman
In Witness whereof John R. Arnold hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Corporate Seal of the said City. This 19 th day of Decem- ber 1827.
Isaac Burnet, Mayor