Carroll-Wilkes-Oglethorpe County GaArchives Military Records.....PETERS, JESSE April 19, 1819 Revwar - Pension GEORGIA CONTINENTAL LINE ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Elizabeth Robertson http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00013.html#0003232 April 12, 2007, 10:13 am PENSION RECORD JESSE PETERS CARROLL COUNTY PRIVATE GEORGIA CONT'L LINE $96.00 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE $92.79 AMOUNT RECEIVED APRIL 14, 1819 PENSION STARTED SUSPENDED MAY 1, 1820 $60.00 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE $150.00 AMOUNT RECEIVED OCTOBER 5, 1833 PENSION STARTED AGE 82 PETERS, JESSE GEORGIA NUMBER S16506 Page 2 Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838 from 4th Sept. 1837 to 4 Sept. 1838. Agt notified June 1839. Georgia, 16821 Jesse Peters Carroll in the State of Georgia Who was a pvt. In the __________ commanded by Captain ____________of the Regiment commanded by Col. Sevien of the North Carolina Line for 18 months. Georgia Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia at the rate of $60.00 Dollars – cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831 Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of Oct 33, And ___? The Chandler Carrolton, Ga. Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 $150.00 Semi-amt allowance ending 4 mar. 1834 $30.00/ Total 180.00 Revolutionary Claim Act June 7 1832, Recorded by Math. Rice, Clerk, Book E, Vol. 6, Page 100 WAR DEPT,. PENSION OFFICE, JUNE 4, 1833 Sir: The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The noties and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed you will find marked in the margin with a braces (thus }). You will when you return your papers to this department send this printed letter with them; and you will , by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. Page 3 A STATEMENT SHOWING THE SERVICE OF JESSE PETERS, CARROLLTON, GEORGIA Rank – Private Period (of service) not stated; time of service definite but states about 2 years 10 mo. In the Continental lines. Names and Rank of Field officers under which he served. Col. Screvin(?) ; Col. Malmashy(?) Proof by which the declaration is supported: No proof given but sworn to in court and the clerks certificate given. I am respectfully, Your obedient servant, J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions Page 4 State of Georgia County of Carroll On this second day of September Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Three personally appeared before the Court of Ordinary for said County, Jesse Peters a resident of said county and state aged eighty one years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration on statement in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy-six with John Dooly, recruiting officer, in the Third Regiment of the Georgia line under the following named officers: Colonel Screven, Colonel White and Colonel Malmady; Captain Bernel Smith, Captain Addison and Capt. Nash, and continued to serve for two years and eleven months as a private and was discharged by General Lacklin McIntosh at Augusta in seventeen hundred and seventy nine. He resides in Wilks County in Georgia Page 5 When he enlisted, he marched through the country from Wilks County to Savannah then to Tyby Island thence an expedition on board the Congress Royally – under Captain Unogate to the mouth of Stellary’s River thence back to Savannah thence to Lewisburg thence to Midway meeting house thence to Greensburg, South Carolina thence to Augusta Ga. And joined General Ash and was at Ashes defeat at the mouth of Brier Creek. He made his escape and joined General Linkham at Black Swamp, thence to Augusta. He was then marched through South Carolina in pursuit of the British Army to Stones Ferry and was in a battle at that place after which he marched back to Augusta & was discharged as above stated. That he has been previously on the pension roll under the Act of 1818 and has been struck from the same. That he Oglethorpe County in this State when his first application was made and resides in this county now. The he sent his discharge to the department at the time he first applied and supposes it is on file there. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State. He answers to the interrogatory as follows. 1. In Cravin County North Carolina in the year 1753. 2. He has no record of age but lost it in Revolution 3. In Wilks County (or the territory now forming it) in this state, has lived since in Wilks, Oglethorpe & Walton and now in Carroll County all in Georgia. 4.  He enlisted in the service voluntarily 5. General Linkham, Colonel Malbely and Captain Perry recollects no more but what is stated in the body of Declaration. 6. He received a discharge from General McIntosh which he sent to the War Department by Mr. Cobb of the House of Representatives from this State on his former application and has never seen it since. 7. William S. Parr and Joseph Little – No ________? In his power to proceed. Sworn to and subscribed in Open Court the day and year aforesaid. C T. Kingsbury, Clerk His mark Jesse Peters, Jas. H. Rodgers, I C We, William S. Parr & Joseph Little residing in said county hereby certify that we are well acquainted and swore to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty one years of age and that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Swore to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid: C. T. Kingsberry, Clerk Ss: Joseph Little, Wm S. 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