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Dist<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=p18 style='line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;tab-stops: .5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=p18 style='line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;tab-stops: .5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>John Wait/<span class=SpellE>s</span>/ And the said Court do hereby declare whereupon that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served he states, Richard Gant<span class=GramE>. </span>I, John <span class=SpellE>Garlington</span>, clerk of the Court of Laurens District, do hereby certify that the foregoing containing original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Wait for a pension<span class=GramE>. </span>In testimony where, I have here I set my hand and seal of office, this Seventeenth day of October 1832<span class=GramE>. </span>John <span class=SpellE>Garlington</span>, <span class=SpellE>Clk</span>. L. Dist.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=p18 style='line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;tab-stops: .5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=p18 style='line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;tab-stops: .5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=p18 align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:11.0pt; mso-line-height-rule:exactly;tab-stops:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>THE STATE OF </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>SOUTH CAROLINA</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=p18 align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:11.0pt; mso-line-height-rule:exactly;tab-stops:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=p18 align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:11.0pt; mso-line-height-rule:exactly;tab-stops:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=p18 style='line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;tab-stops: .5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>            </span>In the Common pleas LAURENS DISTRICT On this 17th day of October 1832 personally appeared before the Honorable Richard Gant, Adm. of the Judges of the Court of Commons, Judge in said Court now Sitting, John Wait, a Resident of Laurens District in the </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>State of South Carolina, aged Seventy Five years, who being duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832<span class=GramE>. </span>That he enlisted in the Army of the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>United States</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'> in the year 1776 with Capt. John Thornton and served in the 3rd Continental Regiment of the Virginia Line under the following named officers, <span class=SpellE>viz</span>: Col. Mercer, Lt. Col. <span class=SpellE>Whealan</span>(?) , Major Marshall, Capt. John Thornton, 1st Lt. Robert Powell, 2nd Lt. John ____<span class=GramE>? </span>who afterwards exchanged commands with Lt. </span><st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>James</span></st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'> <span class=SpellE>Mattison</span>(?) who became ___<span class=GramE>? </span>2nd Lt. He was discharged and left the service the 8th day of February 1778<span class=GramE>. </span>That he resided at the time he enlisted the service in </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>Culpeper</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>County</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'> in the State of </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>Virginia</span></st1:place></st1:State><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>. </span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>He enlisted for two years and was discharged by Gen. Geo. Washington at the Valley Forge in Pennsylvania and that he served the Battle near the White Plains in New York and at the taking of the <span class=SpellE>Hefpsidinz</span> (Hessians) at Trenton in New York<span class=GramE>. </span>He has served from </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>Virginia</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'> through </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>Maryland</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>, </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>Pennsylvania</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>, </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>New Jersey</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'> and </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>New York</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>, and thence back in to </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>Pennsylvania</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=p23 style='line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=p23 style='line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>In 1834, Elizabeth (Graves Sims) <span class=SpellE>Creecy</span> and Thomas Gaines made affidavits in </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>Laurens District</span></st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>, </span><st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>S.C.</span></st1:State></st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>, in behalf of the soldier's claim pension: they had been acquainted with him for more than sixty-two years<span class=GramE>. </span>No relationship between these persons and the family of John Wait was stated.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=p23 style='line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=p23 style='line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>Pension Claim S. 7812<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=p23 style='line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=p23 style='line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>John Wait Certificate #23860 Issued </span><st1:date Year="1834" Day="17" Month="4"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>April 17,1834</span></st1:date><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'> Rate $80 per annum Commenced </span><st1:date Year="183" Day="4" Month="3"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>March 4, 183</span></st1:date><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>? </span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>Act of </span><st1:date Month="6" Day="7" Year="1832"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt'>June 7, 1832</span></st1:date><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt'> South Carolina Agency<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=p23 style='line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=p23 style='line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>In Military Records of John Wait, acquired from Nat. Archives, </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>Wash</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>, D.C.,<i> </i>he was listed as dead on Muster Rolls for Oct thru </span><st1:date Year="1777" Day="22" Month="12"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>Dec. 22, 1777</span></st1:date><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'>,then</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'> listed on Sept Co Muster Roll for Sept 1777 that he was absent and was left sick at Christiana.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=p23 style='line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=p23 style='line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> </div> </body> </html>