Revolutionary War Pension Application 
Georgia / Tennessee 

Declaration of John Talley

(Montgomery County, Georgia — 1819)

State of Georgia }
Montgomery County }

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Personally appeared John Talley aged sixty years who being duly sworn saith that he is one of the persons of pensioners provided for under the act of Congress of the late session; and that he served in the continental line under Col. William Washington in the regiment of light dragoons in the command of Capt. Parson and that he enlisted to serve during the war and he continued to serve during the war, and he was discharged at Richmond in Virginia the spring campaign sometime in the year eighteen hundred and eighty three [1783?] as the deponent believes from the best of his recollection. He has no education and that he received a discharge from one Capt. Barnett which discharge has been lost since last war commenced so that he cannot now produce it or recollect its contents, and that he is in such reduced circumstances and is aged by 60 years & infirm that he needs the assistance of the general government for a support.

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John X Talley
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Sworn to before me
this 16th day
of Oct 1819

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Supporting Affidavit of James Alton

State of Georgia }
Montgomery County }

James Alton being duly sworn saith that he is well acquainted with the foregoing deponent John Talley and that he is in need of assistance as suggested and that the said Talley is a poor and indigent person and worthy of credit.

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James X Alton
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Sworn to and subscribed
before me
this 16th day of Oct 1819

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Court Certification

I certify that satisfactory evidence has been laid before me that the applicant served in the war of the Revolution and that his circumstances are such as to need the assistance of his country for support agreeable to the laws and under the acts.

16th Octr 1819

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Treasury Department Revolutionary Claims Abstract

(5 Jan. 1828)

Treasury Department
5 Jany 1828

John Talley late of the State of Tennessee and in the county of Perry who served in the continental line of the army of the Revolution, was placed on the pension list of the State of Georgia agreeable to the Act of the 18th of March 1818. He has been continued on the pension list since the 4th day of March 1818. He was in the service of the Continental line of the army of the Revolution and during the war, and continued until terminated.

[Signed]

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Pension Office Letter (1940 Summary)

April 4, 1940

The data which follow were taken from papers on file in the pension claim, S.38426, based on the military service of John Talley or Tally, the soldier of that name that a found in the Revolutionary War records of this office. The personal signature appeared in the surname is written both ways.

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John Talley enlisted sometime in 1781, place not given, served as private in the company of Captain Parsons, of Virginia in Colonel William Washington’s regiment of Light Dragoons, was in service at Yorktown and was discharged after peace was declared in 1783.

John Talley was allowed pension on his application executed October 16, 1819, at which time he was living in Montgomery County, Georgia, by the act of March 18, 1818. The pension was suspended and restored by the Secretary of War (stopped from the roll and because of his act), John Talley’s pension was discontinued while living in Perry County, Tennessee. John Talley applied for pension June 23, 1829, under the Act of May 15, 1828, and his claim was allowed.

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John Talley was living in Perry County, Tennessee, in 1830 and was then about 70 years of age.

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There are no data on file relative to the family of this soldier.

If you desire to obtain the date of last payment of pension of John Talley, the name and address of the person to whom it was paid and possibly the date of death of the pensioner, it is suggested that address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C., giving the following data:

John Talley, Certificate 1975, issued January 15, 1830, rate $100 per annum, Act of May 15, 1828, Tennessee Agency.

Very truly yours,
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

 

1924 Pension Office Reply

This file strongly supports:

• Service under Col. William Washington’s Light Dragoons.

• Participation at Yorktown.

• Residence in Montgomery County, Georgia in 1819.

• Residence in Perry County, Tennessee by 1829–1830.

• Approximate birth year about 1760.

• Continued pension activity into the Tennessee period.

It also confirms the Pension Office itself recognized the alternate surname spellings “Talley” and “Tally.”