Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1517, Jarret Burton, Va.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
V
CONTENTS

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Burton, Jarret
Jarrett or

NUMBER
R. 1517
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1517
Rejected

P.O. Jarett Burton
Service_______
Enlisted: ______, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: ______ 18,
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P.O. _____
______ Recognized. ______ Contract.
_____Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18
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Jarrett Burton
Kentucky
Rejected services
performed by him in
the army at Fredericksburg
not provided on
See letter 17 May 1833
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he makes on Oath.
Anderson Daniphan

We George Grant & James Wilkerson residing in the County of Mason and State of Kentucky hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jarrett Burton who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration; that we believe him to be seventy four years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
George Grant
Jarrett Benton 21669
State of Kentucky Charles Wilkerson x his mark
Mason County Sct. January Court 1833
Jarrett Burton produced his Declaration with the deposition of Anderson Daniphan & the certificate of George Grant and Charles Wilkerson attached thereto which were sworn to in open Court
And the Court after the investigation of the matter is of opinion that the said Jarrett Burton was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states, and that the said Anderson Daniphan, George Grant and Charles Wilkerson are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.
I Marshall Key Clerk of the Court of Mason County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jarrett Burton for a pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of Office of said Court this 14th day of January 1833.
Marshall Key.
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State of Kentucky
Mason County Sct.
On this fourteenth day of January in the
year 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the County Court for the County aforesaid now sitting Jarrett Burton a resident of the said County and State, aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832. towit. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated - He was enrolled in a Company of Virginia Militia commanded by Captain William Garrard of Stafford County, (in which he resided in the Month of August in the year 1775 or 1776 and he is not certain in which of those years, that Henry Fitzhugh was the Major of the batallion to which he belonged, but he cannot bring to his recollection the names of
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Lieut. or Ensign of his company, that he served in the said Company principally on the Potomac river watching the British shiping for the term of three months, at the end of which time he was discharged, and did not again enter the service until the fall of the year 1777 when he was called upon work at the Armory in the town of Fredericksburgh in Virginia, under the control of Colo Fielding Lewis & Mr. Charles Dick who were called Commissioners and William Grady was the superintendent of the work at that place and in that employment he the said Jarrett Burton remained four years from the time he entered the Armory aforesaid and was then discharged - He does not know whether the Armory was established by the State of Virginia or the United States, but he understood that the arms manufactured were for the United States service - Colo Fielding Lewis & Mr. Dick both died about the termination of this affiants service - Colo. Lewis before & Mr. Dick shortly afterwards. That he has