Suffering from wounds inflicted during the American Revolution, free black John Chavis seeks a soldier's pension. Chavis asserts that he enlisted in 1780 and served until "near the close of the war when he was discharged on account of the many wounds he received." Confiding that he "is now old and by reason of the said wounds is unable to support himself by his Labour," the petitioner prays that he be placed "on the pension list."
Result: Denied.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
