Habersham County GaArchives Military Records.....Daniel McCollum April 16 1833
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Revwar - Pension Captail David Caldwell's company of Colonel Francis Locke's Regiment, NC Militia


     							War Department
							Pension Office
							April 16, 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 
notes and regulations will shew 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 brace (thus,    ).  You will, when your 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.

A statement shewing the service of Daniel McCollum

Period when service was rendered:  1777 Volunteer
Duration of the claimant’s service:  3 months/about two years and 6 months
Rank of the claimant:  private
Names and rank of the company officers under whom he served:  Captain Caldwell,
     Major Rowan, Colonel Francis Lock/Captain Caldwell, Colonel Lock
Names and rank of the general and field officers:  none/none
Battles in which the applicant was engaged:  none/none
Country through which he marched:  no entry/Through North Carolina to Camden, 
     South Carolina
Place of abode when he entered the service and age at the present period:  
Rowan
     County, North Carolina; 70 years
Evidence by which the declaration is supported:  traditionary


							I am, respectfully,
							Your obedient servant,
							J.L. Edwards
							Commissioner of 
Pensions

Document Three:

    Letter dated Deptember 30, 1837 from Daniel's new agent submitting amended 
documents to the Pension Office.

Cover envelope to:

J.L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions


Clarksville 30th Sept 1837

Dear Sir,
     I herewith return you the declaration and accompanying letter from you of 
the 16th Apr 1833.  The reason that Mr. McCollum has not sooner attended to 
your suggestions was that Thos I. Rusk to whom he had entrusted this business 
had not informed him when he left this county for Texas what disposition he 
had made of the papers.  As soon as he could get them into his possession 
again Mr. McCollum hastened to prosecute his claim. You will find upon the 
declaration the affidavit of the applicant as required in notes d and e to 
your letter.  You will also find the answers to the interrogatories proposed 
to the applicant by the court embodied in the declaration.
					Very respectfully 
					yours 
					Turner H. Trippe

J.L. Edwards, Esq

NOTE:  Turner Hunt Trippe was a Habersham County judge in the Western Judicial 
Circuit from 1828-1834.



Georgia                      |  Personally appeared before me Brazilla Addison 
a Justice of 
Habersham County   |  the Peace in aforesaid county Daniel McCollum who being 
duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent 
loss of memory he can not 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 three months I 
served as a private soldier in the months of January, February and March in 
the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven under the officers named in my 
declaration above.  I also served as a private soldier under the same officers 
from the month of April (1777) seventeen hundred and seventy seven for two 
years and six months and for such service I claim a pension.
     Subscribed to and sworn before me this 26th day of September 1837
B. Addison, JP                            Daniel McCollum


Georgia                     |  I Lewis Levy Clerk of the Inferior Court of 
said county do
Habersham County  |  hereby certify that Brazilla Addison who attested the 
foregoing affidavit is an acting Justice of the Peace in said county, that the 
same attestation is in due form of Law and that full faith and crdit ought to 
be given to his attestation as such.
     Given under my hand and private seal, there being no seal of office, this 
29th day of September 1837.
Lewis Levy, CIC

Georgia                      |  I Absolom Holcombe one of the Judges of the 
Inferior Court
Habersham County   |  of the aforesaid county do hereby certify that Lewis 
Levy who name appears to the foregoing certificate is the clerk of said court, 
that the same is in due form of law and that full faith and credit should be 
given to his attestation as such.
     Given under my hand this 29th day of September 1837.

Absolom Holcombe JIC

Affidavit of Daniel McCollum
Habersham County, Georgia



Additional Comments:
Documents two and three of nine relating to the pension application of daniel 
McCollum

Letter dated April 16, 1833 from the War Department Pension Office advising 
Daniel of the need for additional evidence.

Letter dated December 30, 1837 from Daniel's new agent in which he renews the 
claim.


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