John Tally - Military Service
County of St Clair: So on this 24th
Day of May AD one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared
before me,
a Justice of the Peace, within and for the county and state aforesaid John Tally
aged seventy four years, resident of St. Clair County in the
State of Missouri, who being duly sworn according to law declares that he is
the identical John Tally who was a private in the company
Commanded by Captain James Cowan. The regiment of the company was, Tennessee
Rangers, and not commanded by any particular
Colonel, in the War with the Creek Indians in the time of the War Declared by
the United States 1812 with Great Britain, for the term of
about four months and continued in actual service in said war for fourteen
days, that he heretofore makes application for Bounty Land
under the Act of September 28th 1850 and received a land warrant No
19,711 for eighty acres for said service which he has since
legally disposed of and cannot now return.
He makes this declaration for the purpose of
obtaining the additional bounty land to which he may be entitled under the Act
approved
the 3rd day of March 1855. He also declares that he has never
applied for nor received under this or any other Act of Congress any
bounty land warrant except the one above mentioned and one Land Warrant, not
collected, for 160 acres which he received as the
father of Thomas Tally, Dec’d, who was a private in Captain John Holloway’s
Company in the 2nd Regiment of Missouri Mounted
Volunteers in the War with Mexico.
John Tally
Submitted by John Corbin