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From: "hutch" <>
Subject: Re: [BOZEMAN-L] Re: Ralph-Cherokee Land Lottery-RW Pension
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 21:42:47 -0700
WHAT COUNTY DID RALPH DRAW LAND IN GEORGIA AND WHAT YEAR WAS THIS ?
CALVIN
-----Original Message-----
From: Pam Wayer <>
To: <>
Date: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 7:20 PM
Subject: [BOZEMAN-L] Re: Ralph-Cherokee Land Lottery-RW Pension
>Is this application for the Cherokee Land Lottery or an application for the
>RW Pension? or are they one and the same? Is this the same Ralph as
>mentioned in the Cherokee Land Lottery drawings, because he lived in GA
when
>he received the Lot? Forgive me for so many questions, but I am still new
>to all of this and much I don't understand.
>Pam
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Steve Frizzell <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 7:36 PM
>Subject: Re: [BOZEMAN-L] Re: Ralph-Cherokee Land Lottery-RW Pension
>
>
>> I haven't seen the application, but here is a transcription of a sworn
>> letter which was used to document his service when he applied. Maybe
this
>> is the application.
>> ======================================================
>> Bozeman, Ralph
>> Service
>> Number
>> South Carolina R.
>1,
>> 116
>>
>> Territory of Florida
>> County of Gadsden
>>
>> On this the Twelfth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand
>eight
>> hundred and thirty-eight, personally appeared before me, Thomas Randall
>> Judge of the Superior Court of the Middle District of Florida, Ralph
>> Bozeman, a resident of the county of Gadsden aforesaid and Territory
>> aforesaid, aged seventy-nine years, who being sworn according to Law,
doth
>> on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit
>of
>> an Act of Congress passed June the seventh 1832.
>>
>> That he Ralfe Bozeman, entered the service of the United States, and
>> enlisted during the War under the command of the following named officers
>> (to wit) under the command of Gen. Francis Marion, Colonel John Lanfred
>> Dart, Major Benjamin Snipes and Capt. McCall. That he Ralfe Bozeman
>> enlisted in May 1777, under General Marion during the War and served
until
>> peace and was discharged in Charleston, South Carolina (the month not
>> recollected) in 1781. That he resided in Williamsburg County South
>Carolina
>> at the time he entered the service of the United States and joined
General
>> Marion's Army at Nelson's ferry on Santee River, South Carolina where he
>> volunteered and enlisted as herefore mentioned. The battles or
skirmishes
>> he was in are as follows--the first at Dorchester, the second at Monk's
>> Corner, the third at Black Minge, the next in Genl. Pinkney's lane, the
>next
>> at the taking of a body of tories on Pedee River above Mars Bluff, the
>next
>> at Camden, the next at Eutaw Springs, commanded by General Nathaniel
reen.
>> He Ralfe Bozeman was within the State of South Carolina and that he has
no
>> documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he
can
>> procure, who can testify to his services.
>>
>> Signed
>> Ralph Bozeman
>>
>> Sworn to & subscribed before me the day & year afore said
>> Isaac R. Harris, Clerk
>>
>> Ralph Bozeman, Florida, Suspended.
>>
>> See letter D. S. Walker, Sept. 14th, 39, Act 7 June, 1832.
>> ======================================================
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: DIANA M WILLIAMS <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 3:59 PM
>> Subject: [BOZEMAN-L] Re: Ralph-Cherokee Land Lottery
>>
>>
>> > Pam,
>> > It is my understanding that this Ralph is the son of Mordicai
Bozeman
>> of
>> > Darlington Co., SC. Mordicai is on pgs. 129-130 of Sketches. Rev.
>> > Bozeman does not include this Ralph, but other records place him with
>this
>> > family along with a brother Paul. This is a branch that needs a lot
>more
>> > work because if Mordicai were a brother of James and Samuel, then it
>would
>> > indicate a link to the Ralph of I O W VA.
>> >
>> > I think I have heard that he make a Rev. War pension application
but
>I
>> > have not seen it. This would be of interest. Has anyone seen it?
>> >
>> > Diana Williams
>> >
>> >
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