Sanford Berry Revolutionary War Pension Papers

Pension Papers-Sanford (Sandford) Berry
Revolutionary War No. 1638
State of Tennessee, Franklin County, on the day of 27 Nov 1832.

Personally came before me in open court before the Justice of the Court, 
SANFORD BERRY as a resident of the State and County aforesaid, aged about
seventy years old, who being duly sworn in according to the law doth on 
his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of
the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832.  That he entered the service of
the Unitied States as a private soldier under the following named officers
and served as herein stated.  He entered the service as well as he 
remembers in the Spring of 1781, being then a resident of Laurens County 
and the State of South Carolina;  went as a volunteer, the regiment not 
recollected under Col. McCoy and Gen. Turges Clark, and Capt. Keer of 
Augusta Georgia where we beseiged a Fort commanded by Grayson and Brown.
There we marched to Spirit Creek Bridge where we encamped.  While there 
where the army was stationed, detachment was commanded by Gen. Twiggs who
crossed the Ogeschy River at a place called the Indian Old Fields, where 
we attacked and defeated a body of Indians.  He had near perfect 
recollection of the Seige of Augusta before spoken of.  The British or 
Torries under Col. Grayson who commanded one of the forts was taken 
prisoner and was shortly put to death by someone belong to the American 
Army.  The Fort was commanded by him when it was first taken.  The Army 
then attacked the Fort commanded by Gen. Brown, commonly called "Club 
Foot Brown".  In the attack commanded by Grayson on the Fort we used 
mounted battery drawn by mules.  After the capture of Augusta as before 
stated, we marched to Spirit Creek Bridge where there was a Grist Mill 
about twelve miles below Augusta where we remained as well as he 
recollects nearly _______ months except when absent on Detachments.  
Gen. Twiggs commanded at that place.  The troops under his being Militia.
He was personally aquainted with General Twiggs during the war and 
afterwards.  Gen. Turges Clark commanded  the Regular troops at siege of
Augusta and Twiggs the Militia.  He did not ______ to serve for any 
specific time, but he is confident that he served all together more than
one year.  He did not ______ a written discharge from the army.   He has
no documentary evidence in his possession or way to prove his services 
nor does he know of any person now living or in his power to procure, by
whom he can prove his said services or any part thereof.    He was born 
in Ablemarle County, Virginia in the year 1762, according to his best 
recollection of the account given, his parents having no record of his 
age, his father removed from Virginia for Laurens County, South Carolina
when he was an infant.  He continued his residence there until about the
year 1801 when he removed to Jackson County, Georgia where he resided 
temporarily then removed to Wilson County Tennessee where he remained 
one year and then removed to Franklin County, Tennessee where he has 
continued to remain ever since.  He hereby relinquishes every claim 
whatever to a pension or annuity except and declares that his name is not
on any pension roll of the agency of any State or Tennessee.  
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court 27 Nov 1832.

Teste:  (not legible)				SANFORD BERRY (his X mark)

Petition received and granted 1833( Franklin Co. Tenn. 
Minute Book 1832-1837; Sanford Berry Petition, p. 105, 
p. 230 received and granted.


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