Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24709, Isham Bobbitt, N. C.
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NC         Bobbitt, Isham     W24709
              Bobbett

                    Elizabeth
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Illinois 13.230
     Isham Bobbitt of Morgan in the State of Illinois who was a 1st Sergeant in the Company commanded by Captain Harris in the Regt. commanded by Col. Allen in the North Carolina line, for 
3 mo. private Infantry
             3 a. cal
             5 as Sergeant

Inscribed on the Roll of Illinois at the rate of 47 dollars 50 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of May 1833 and sent to J.M. Fairfield, Jacksonville & Morgan Co., Illinois.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833     $95.00
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept.     23.75

                                                         $118.75
                                Revolutionary Claim Act 
                                June 7, 1832

Recorded by JM Claggett Clerk
Book 8 Vol. 8 Page 55
R
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4284 
Illinois
Elizabeth Bobbitt
Widow of Isham Bobbitt NC who was a Private & Sergeant in the North Carolina line.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
47 Dollars 50
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of January 1944 and sent to Wm. Thomas Jacksonville, Illinois

Act of March 3, 1843
Recorded in Book A, page 195
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State of Illinois, County of Morgan 
On this third day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before 
James Green, William Gillham, and William Woods, the Court of Commissioners of said 
County now sitting Isham Bobbet, a resident of the County of Morgan and State of 
Illinois aged 78 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 
7th 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer in the County of 
Warren, North Carolina about the first of February 1780.  He then being a resident of that 
county that he was mustered into service at that time under the command of Captain 
Christmus  and marched to Halifax where we were met 
by Colonel Allen who took the command of the Regiment to which our Company was 
attached and he marched us to Tarborough  and thence to Cross Creek and 
Camden thence to Nelson's Ferry near Moncks Corner thirty miles from Charleston.  In a 
few days, the British Troops took Charleston and then we were marched back to Camden 
in Company with Colonel Bluford  of 
the Regular Army at which place we parted from him and marched under the command 
of General Caswell to Fayetteville and continued stationed there until the last of June or 
first of July at which time we were discharged by order of General Caswell.  I was first 
Sergeant during the whole of this campaign. 
I then went and worked a three month tour with Colonel Long, a Quarter Master 
General as a Saddler making and repairing wagon gearing for the Army wagons.
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 Some 
time in January 1781 Cornwallis was pursuing General Green [sic, Nathanael Greene], he 
then turned out a volunteer under Captain George Nasworthy, Colonel Williams 
commanded our Regiment and General Eaton commanded the Brigade.  We joined the 
Army under the command of General Greene near Hillsborough  and marched 
to Guilford Courthouse where an engagement was had with Cornwallis Army; after a few 
days rest we pursued him to Ramsey's Mill on Deep River where some more fighting 
took place after which our Captain was taken sick and returned home.  General Greene 
then turned his course to South Carolina and called for volunteers and I turned out under 
Captain Harris and Colonel Reed about the first of April 1781 and served three months 
under those officers from the first day of April until the first of July when I was 
discharged and returned home. 
About the middle of September I volunteered as a Forage Master under Captain 
Twitty and served in the Light Horse Company and found my own horse.  I continued in 
that service three months having been discharged about the middle of December of the 
same year under Captain Twitty, I marched from Warrenton into the State of Virginia and 
pursued Cornwallis to Little York and after the surrender of his army we returned to 
North Carolina and marched down near to Wilmington as a life guard to 
 Governor Martin and then we returned to Harrisburg where we were discharged by order 
of Governor Martin and returned home to Warren County, North Carolina. 
My time of service in the first trip was 5 months.
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The second tour as saddler three 
months, the third under Nasworthy two months, the fourth under Harris and Colonel 
Reed was three months, and the last under Captain Twitty three months, working in all 
sixteen months that I was engaged in the service of the United States.  He hereby 
relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares 
that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency. 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
             Isham Bobbitt

We William McCord a clergyman residing in the County of Morgan and Dudley Brannon and William Bobbit all residents of the County of Morgan hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Isham Bobbet who has Subscribed and Sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy Eight years of age and 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 to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
William McCord
Dudley Brannon
Wm. Bobbitt

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigating of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that William McCord who has signed the preceeding certificate is
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a Clergyman resident in the County of M
organ and that Dudly Brannon and William Bobbitt who have signed the same are residents in the County of Morgan and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
     William Woods
     James Green
     William Gillham
          Judge of said Court

State of Illinois
Morgan County
I Dennis Rockwell Clerk of the Court of County Commissioners of Morgan County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Isham Bobbitt for a pension.
    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Clerks office this 3rd day of September 1832.
     Dennis Rockwell,
     Clerk

8990
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State of Illinois Pike County
Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid.  Stephen Bobbitt of said county (who I certify is a credible witness) who being sworn in deed found of said states that Elizabeth Bobbitt of Morgan County, Illinois, who has applied for a pension under the Acts and Protections of Congress allowing pensions to the widows of Revolutionary pensioners, is his mother, that she is the widow of Isham Bobbitt his father, that said Isham Bobbitt received a pension from the United States for service rendered in the War of the Revolution, that for the service Stephen Bobbitt was born on the 21st of November 1779 (one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine) and he has always understood and believed he has two brothers and one sister older than himself, who names were William, Winney and Allen;  William and Allen are dead.  Winney is supposed to be living in the State of Alabama.  The said Stephen Bobbitt further states that he has always understood and believed that at the time of his birth his father Isham Bobbitt was in the Army.-He further states that ever since his remembrances the said Ish Bobbitt & Elizabeth Bobbitt lived together as man and wife to the time of the death of said Isham
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They have always Recognized by their relations and acquaintances as having been lawfully married, and they always recognized this before named brothers and sisters as the children.  If the said Isham and Elizabeth were not lawfully married previous to birth of any of the children before married, as the said Stephen believes, that he would have heard something about it, but as before the birth of any children.  He believes that the names and ages of all the children of said Isham and Elizabeth were put down in a family Bible, the names of the children are as follows:  William, Allen, Winney, Stephen (the deponent), John, Amos, Fanny, Betsey, Isham, Salley, and Nancy.  He has not seen the Bible in which the names and ages were set down for several years, say two years, and he believes from the information of one of his brothers in law, that said Bible has been entirely destroyed, so that this cannot be found any Record or Register of the names and births of the children.-

Subscribed and sworn to the 27th
day of November 1840 before me 
     D.H. Gilmer
     Justice of the Peace
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State of Illinois Pike County S.S.
     I Wm. H. Boling Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of said County do hereby certify that D.H. Gilmer Esq. before whom this foregoing affidavit Stephen Bobbitt appears to have been taken and whose name and signature appears to said affidavit, was on the day of taking said affidavit a Justice of the Peace of said county of Pike regarding commissioners and sworn into office as required by law.

     Given under my hand and the Seal of said 
     court at Pittsfield this 27th day of November 
     1840.
                                   Wm. H. Boling, Clerk
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8990
Isham Bobbet
Morgan Co.
Illinois
Adm for 11 months,
3 months thereof Cavalry
5 as Sergeant

JM Fairfield
Jackson Morgan Co.
Illinois
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                    WAR DEPARTMENT,
                                              Pension Office, 
                                                                    183

Sir:
     The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned.  The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form.  On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done.  These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus:  ]).  You will, when you return your papers to this Department, sent this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

(The following is a chart that I cannot properly transcribe.  I will give you the headings, then give you the information in text form.)

A Statement, showing the Service of Isham Bobbet, Morgan Co., Illinois

(These are the headings which are in a displayed horizontal line.)

Period when the service was rendered. 

Duration of the claimant's service.  Years. Months. Days.

Rank of the claimant.

Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served.

Age at present and place of above when he entered the service.

Proof by which the declaration is supported.

(The following is the information for the first horizontal line to be placed under the headings.)

1 Feb. 1780, 5 months, Sergeant, 
Col. Allen, Cap Christmus, Gen. Caswill
78 years Warren Co.
Traditionary

(This is the second horizontal line.)
3 months, Sadler
Col. Long, (illegible)
N. Carolina

(This is the third horizontal line.)
Jan 1781  2 months, Private
Gen. Eaton
Col. Williams
Cap Nasworthy

(This is the fourth horizontal line.)
Apr 1781  3 months, Private
Col. Reese
Cap Harris

(This is the fifth horizontal line.)
Sep 1781  3 months, Forage master
Cap Twitty

              I am, respectfully,
                             Your obedient servant, 
                                              J.L. EDWARDS,
                                              Commissioner of Pensions
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         REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832
     The following regulations have been adopted:
     This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line,"  "State troops,". "militia", and "Volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c.  Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
     Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
       1.  The Regular Troops.
       2.  The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
       3.  Persons employed in the Naval Service.
       4.  Indian Spies.
     As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned offices, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides.  And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

                                       DECLARATION
                         In order to obtain the benefit of the
                     Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832
State, Territory, or District of 

     On this _____day of______personally appeared (a) before _____A.B. a resident (b) of _____in the county of_____and State, Territory or District of _____aged (c)_____years, who first being duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress, passed June 7th, 1832.  That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)_____, with_____and served in the _____(e) regiment of the _____line, under the following named officers:______

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers;  the time he left the service; (and if he served, under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers:} the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service;  the battles, if any, if which he was engaged and the country through which he marched.  This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
      
     He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll or any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of _____.                         A.B.
     Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
     [And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

     And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
     I_____ of the Court of _____ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of ________for a pension.
     In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this ____day of ____ &c.

     If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
     Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
     (k) We, A.B., a clergyman, residing in the _____ and C.D. residing in (the same) herby certify, that we are well acquainted with _____, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be _____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 days and year aforesaid.
     [And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
     And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the _____ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
     I, _____Clerk of the Court of _____do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of ____for a pension.
                     In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my 
                     hand and seal of office, this ____day of 
                      _____&c.

Every applicant will product the best proof in his power.  This is the original discharge or commission;  but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
     If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he product such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of history
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department.  A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case.  The facts stated will afford one of the principal means or corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted;  and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be ex-expected.  All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
     The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all  applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
     1.  Where and in what year were you born?
     2.  Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
     3.  Where were you living when called into service;  where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
     How were you called into service;  were you drafted, did you volution, or were you a substitute?  And if a substitute, for whom?
     5.  State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops, where you served;  such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your services.
     6.  To a Soldier {Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
          To an Officer {Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
    7.  State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
     The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
     The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.  If one of these persons is a clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
     The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party.  And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
     Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the court.
     Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of the Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
     No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the court upon the whole matter.

(The following are small type footnotes at the bottom of the page.)

[a]  The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b]  The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides.  If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c]  The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d]  The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e]  Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served;  otherwise a claim cannot be had.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
_____" Personally appeared before me, the undersigned a Just of the Peace, &c. A.B. who, being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that, by reason of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:  _____For_____year_____months, and_____days, I served as a _____, For _____months and _____days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension." 
     It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase "about three or four months" is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.  Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service.  This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served;  the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
     [f]  The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
     [g]  The opinion of the court is always required.
     [h]  The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
     [i]  The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

               Mode of authenticating papers.
          In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbons, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
 
                         Proof of Service.
     [j]  In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department , he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses , and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
     [j]  The notes from [a] to [i] are equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops.  The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
     [k]  This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
     [l]  If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
     [m]  The answers to the interrogatories must all be written and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
                         Joseph Rowen
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Elizabeth Bobbitt
M5132
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State of Illinois, Morgan County
     On this twelfth day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty personally appeared before the Court of Probate of the said county of Morgan, being a court of the said county of Morgan aged eighty four years who first being sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to attain the benefits of the pensions made by the Act of Congress passed July the 4th 1836 and the joint Resolutions of July 7th 1838 and is the Widow of Isham Bobbitt late of Morgan County Illinois who was a private of Infantry and private of Cavalry and Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution, (illegible) a pension was guaranteed as conformity with the Laws of the United States of the 7th of June 1832 in consideration of services rendered the Army of the Revolution -- She cannot specify the service performed, her report to the declaration of the said Isham Bobbett and the (illegible) foregoing the service (illegible).  The pension certificate of the said Isham Bobbett (illegible) the 9th May 1833 and he was allowed forty seven dollars and fifty cents (illegible) and further declares she married the said Isham Bobbett on or about the thirteenth of October in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy four about twenty five miles from Halifax in the State of North Carolina, that her husband the aforesaid Isham Bobbitt departed this life in Morgan County Illinois in March One thousand eight hundred and thirty six, his pension was paid to the 4th of March 1836, that she has (illegible) married (illegible) as ( illegible).
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(illegible)
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State of Illinois Morgan County
   On this twelfth day of July in the year One thousand eight hundred and forty personally appeared before the Court of Probate of the said county John Chrisman and George Chrisman, residents of said county who being personally sworn in accordance of Law, depose and state as follows by.  The said John Chrisman states that he is personally acquainted with Elizabeth Bobbett whose name is subscribed to the foregoing declaration and he knows that she is the widow of Isham Bobbett deceased -- He was acquainted with the said Isham and the said Elizabeth (illegible) of twenty years until the death of the said Isham.  They always lived together and recognized each other as husband and wife and were recognized by their (illegible) and (illegible).  They raised a family of children that the said Isham Bobbett departed this life in March 1836, the day of the month not recollected, but it was after the fourth of that month.  The said George Chrisman states that he is acquainted, (illegible) Chrisman is no relation to the said Elizabeth Bobbett being the widow of Isham Bobbett deceased and the death of said deceased, and the said (illegible) to the state that said Isham Bobbett received a pension from the United States in consideration of services rendered during the Revolutionary War, and that the said Elizabeth Bobbett who received the pensions as aforesaid and said she has (illegible) married since the death of said Isham Bobbett.
     Sworn to and subscribed before
     said this oath above witness.
                     John Chrisman
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...it was after the fourth of the Month. The said George Chrisman states he is acquainted with and knows the foresaid for (illegible).  John Chrisman is no relation to the said Elizabeth Bobbett, being the widow of Isham Bobbett deceased and the death of said children, and the said (illegible) to the state that said Isham Bobbett departed this life in March 1836 the day of the month not recollected, but it was after the fourth of that month.  The said George Chrisman states that he is acquainted with said Bobbett.  His sworn facts (illegible) by John Chrisman is not relation to the said Elizabeth Bobbett being the widow of Isham Bobbett deceased and the death of said husband (illegible) to the state said Isham Bobbett received a pension from the United States in consideration of services made during the Revolutionary War and that the said Elizabeth Bobbett is now the widow of the said Isham Bobbett who received the pension aforesaid that she is (illegible) the death of the said Isham Bobbett her husband.
     Sworn to and subscribed before me this 
     oath of above witness.
                           David Henderson
                           Justice of the Peace

State of Illinois, Morgan County S.S.
     I David Henderson Justice of the Court of Probate witness and for said county and hereby certify that this foregoing declaration of Elizabeth Bobbett was this day sworn to before me in open court.  The said Elizabeth Bobbett and that John Chrisman and George Chrisman signed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit to which their answers are attached.  I further certify that John & George Chrisman are credible and reputable witnesses and that their testimony is (illegible) credit and belief.
     (Illegible) witness whom I have to (illegible) 
      and office the seal of said county this 10th 
      day of July 1840.
                        David Henderson
                        Probate Justice of the Peace
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                                     December 22, 1925

Mrs. C.D. Williams
Marceline, Box 464
Missouri


Madam:
     I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 24709 it appears that Isham Bobbitt or Bobbett was born May 3, 1754 in Granville County (that part which was later Warren County), North Carolina.
     While a resident of Warren County, North Carolina he enlisted January 1, 1780 and served five months as First Sergeant in Captain Christmas' Company, Colonel Allen's North Carolina Regiment.
     Afterwards, he worked three months making saddles and repairing army wagons, in the Quartermaster Department under Colonel Long, until in January 1781 when he volunteered, served two months as a private in Captain George Nasworthy's Company, Colonel Williams' North Carolina Regiment and was at the battle of Guilford, and in an engagement at Ramsour's Mill, then about April 1, 1781 he joined Captain Harris' Company, Colonel Reed's North Carolina Regiment and serviced until July 1, 1781 when he was discharged.
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     He volunteered the middle of September 1781 and served three months as forage master under Captain Twitty in the North Carolina Troops and was at the surrender of Cornwallis.
     He was allowed pension on his application executed September 3, 1832 while a resident of Morgan County, Illinois.  He died March 25, 1836 in said Morgan County.
     Soldier married October 13, 1774 or 1775, about twenty-five miles from Halifax, North Carolina, Elizabeth whose maiden name is not given.  She was allowed pension on her application executed July 10, 1840 while a resident of Morgan County, Illinois aged eighty-four years.
     Their children were: Winny, William, Allen, (both of these sons dead in 1840), Stephen the fourth child born November 21, 1779 and living in Pike County, Illinois in 1840, Fanny, Anny (or Anna), John, Isham (or Isom) Salley, Elizabeth and Nancy.
     John Chrisman, a son-in-law, was living in Morgan County, Illinois in 184`;  it is not stated which daughter he married.
           Respectfully,

                  WINFIELD SCOTT
                  Commissioner
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1912 Feb. 16 Tombstone date
Mrs. (?) F. Buffle Letters in
S.F. 3/504 James Wright (illegible)
1925 Dec. 22 Hist. to Mrs. C.D. Williams
1929 - April 15, His. to Mrs. James C. Miller, 
     M.E.E.

WIDOW, &c.
File 24709
Elizabeth Bobbitt
Wid. of
Isham Bobbit
Priv. N.C. Line
Act:  March 3, 1843
Index: _____Vol. A, page 76
(Arrangement of 1870)

Elizabeth Bobbitt
Illinois
Suspended
Let. to Mrs. Thomas
August 10th, 1840
Let:  31 Dec. 40 to do

Act July 4th, 1836
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Elizabeth Bobbett
of Isham
Illinois
Suspended
Set let 29 July '41
W. Thomas Let 22
Oct 41, to do

Act of July 1838

Isham Bobbett Illinois, Act of June 1832
to what time paid!
     Pen. Office
Oct. 22, 1841
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(The following is on the left side of the paper.)
                               6550
                     Illinois
Elizabeth Bobbitt widow of Isham Bobbitt dec'd who was a pensioner under the act of 1832 and who died on the 25 Dec. 1836; of Morgan in the State of Illinois, who was a priv & sergt in the Comp, commanded by Captain Harris of the regt commanded by Col. Allen in the N.C. line for 3 months pr. Inf, 3 pr. cal, 5 Sergt.

Inscribed on the Roll of Illinois at the rate of 47 Dollars 50 Cents per annum, to commence on the 25 Dec. 1836 when he died.  Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of Febr. 1842 and to William Thomas, Jacksonville, Ill. 

Arrears to the 25th of Dec. '40    190.00
Allowance ending 4 March '41        9.25
                                                   $199.25
                                                    Act July 7,
                                                     1838

Recorded by Theo L. Moody Clark
Book A, Vol. 1 Page 223

(The following is on the right side of the paper.)

Agent notified Feb. 16,, '42
No. 256
May 7th 1845 Call in under Ill. Reso: of (illegible) 23, 1843 at $47.50 per annum
commencing 4th March 1836 & ending 25th Dec. 1836 and sent to Erastus Wright, 
Springfield, 
Illinois
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                      1919
            Elizabeth Bobbitt
                   of Isham
                     Illinois
                  Admitted
       Private & Sergeant    $47.50/100
            Cap. Harris   Col. Allen  NC.
              died 25 Dec. 1836
               Act of July, 1836

 William Thomas
              Jacksonville, Ill.
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Elizabeth Bobbitt
under the joint resolution
of the 23 Jan 1845
and Act of July 7, 1838.

Admd:  $47.50 per annum
from 4 March 1836
to 25 December, 1836

Erastus Wright, Esq.
Springfield,
Illinois
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                           Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the resolution of Congress of the 23rd January 1845.
     Whereas the Act of the 30th April 1844 prohibited me from drawing a pension for the same period during which my husband was a pensioner - I now make the following statement under oath to obtain the benefits of the resolution above mentioned - I am the widow of Isham Bobbitt who was a private in the War of the Revolution.  I have drawn a pension at the rate of forty seven & 50/100 dollars per annum from the 25th day of December 1836 and now ask for the amount due me from the fourth day of March 1836 to the 25th day of December when my former pension commenced.
     Sworn and subscribed before me on this 18th day of April in the year 1845--
     JW Gordon, Justice of the Peace
2 Witnesses who write} William Chrisman
                                       Presley Chrisman

Elizabeth Bobbitt 
(her mark) X

I certify that the declarant is personally known to me and that she is the same individual person she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit.  In testimony whereas, I have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of April 1845.
            JW Gordon    Justice of the Peace

State of Illinois
Morgan County
    I Joseph Heslep Clerk of the County Commissions Court do hereby certify that Jas. Gordon Esq. who has signed the foregoing is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Morgan and state of Illinois and that the above is his signature.
      In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of m said office this 18th day of April at Jacksonville in the state of Illinois.
                               J. Heslep
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                              Springfield Illinois 8 April 1844
J.L. Edwards Esq.  
    Enclosed is a Declaration for arrears due Elizabeth Bobbitt, She having been pensioner under Act 7 July 1838.  Please send certificate to your humble servant.                                                                            
              Erastus Wright

I sent a Declaration for widows pension in December 1843 for Mary Griswold & Winney Thompson.  I afterward sent evidence of their marriage and have not heard a word since pro or con -- It seems strange that some claims prepared recently are promptly adjusted while some may lay 406 months without notice.  I hear much complaint and recently have a communication in the Principal Organ of this State the State Register (illegible)  upon the course pursued at the Pension Office at Washington. How justly believable in course of complaint  I cannot say (illegible) the Press of business is the cause.
                      Yours truly,
                          Erastus Wright
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State of Illinois Morgan County S.S.
     Isham Bobbit a resident of said county being sworn before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace witness and for the county aforesaid, deposeth and saith, that on the third day of September 1832 he made a declaration before the County Commissioners Court of Morgan County for the purpose of obtaining a pension from the United States under the provisions of the act of Congress (illegible) 7th 1832, and he now states in addition to the statement then made that he was born the third day of May 1754 in what was then called Granville County North Carolina.  The county was subsequently moved to Christian County Kentucky arrived there in 1803 resided there until divided and a new county organized called Warren which included the residence of this deponent.  He has a record of his age in (illegible)  which was made by his father in the family Bible, and the same Bible is now (illegible) by the deponent.  The deponent resided in Warren County North Carolina until the year 1782 and served as a resident of that county on any expeditions in which he was engaged.  in 1782 he moved to Guilford County, North Carolina, resided there about seven years, then moved to Spartanburg County South Carolina, resided there fourteen years then moved to Christian County Kentucky arrived there in 1803 resided there until
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the spring of the year 1827 when he moved to Morgan County Illinois where he now resides.  He received written discharges for every tour of duty which he performed signed by the captains under which he served respectively, except for the service rendered under Captain Twitty, the discharges are lost, when he moved to Spartan burg, he left his discharges with a number of other papers in a Box at the house of William Jain in Guilford.  When he returned five years afterwards to obtain his box of papers, he found that these papers had been destroyed, and he not only lost his discharges but lost about Two Thousand Dollars of Continental money.  He states that he was appointed forage master and since has states in his declaration, the appointment was made by Mr. Thomas Eaton of the North Carolina militia, but the appointment was lost with the discharges.  He is now unable to prove that he was appointed or sworn as such--He is personally known to Joseph M. Fairfield, Dudly Brannon, John Crisman, Samuel B. Jones, and Moses Garlock and John P. Wilkinson, all of whom reside in the neighborhood of the deponent and can testify as to his character.  He is known to William McCord, a clergyman who has already testified upon this subject, and William Bobbett.  This deponent has stated the circumstances
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of his service according to the best of his recollections, and he believes truly.
     Subscribed and sworn to
     before me this 2nd day of
     February 1833.
                      Isham Bobbitt
George Rearick

State of Illinois
Morgan County
     I, Dennis Rockwell, clerk of the county of Commissioners court of said County do certify that George Rearick Esquire, before whom the foregoing instrument of writing and execution was, and is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly elected, commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are due to his acts as such -- and further certify that the signature purporting to be his, is credible.
          In witness whereof, I have hereunto set
          my hand, and affixed the seal of said 
          Court at Jacksonville, this
          2nd day of February 1833.
                      Dennis Rockwell, Clerk
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                          Declaration
     In order to obtain arrears of pension due from 4 March 1836 under the Act of 7 July 1838

     State of Illinois Morgan County S.S.
On the Eleventh day of March 1844 personally appeared before the undersigned a Just of the Peace in and for said County Elizabeth Bobbett, a resident of the county of Morgan aged eighty eight years who being duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to receive the amount of pension which she claimed from the 4th March 1836 to the twenty-fifth of December 1836 from which period she has been paid under the act of 7th July 1838 and the declarant further alleges, that she is still the widow of Isham Bobbett deceased, who was a private during the Revolutionary War -- that her pension was allowed at the rate of forty seven dollars fifty cents per annum, and was paid to her at the agency in Springfield in the state of Illinois, and further she saith not -
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above
                            Elizabeth Bobbitt
                             X  (her mark)
Written before me,
J.W. Gordon, Justice of the Peace

2 Witnesses
     John Chrisman
     Green B. Campbell

I certify that by (illegible) of her age and bodily infirmity it is difficult for Mrs. Elizabeth Bobbett
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who has signed the foregoing declaration to attend at the County seat, the place of holding court for said county, to give in her declaration before the court.  She is unable to travel (illegible) in a waggon or carriage, and I think it would endanger her health, if not her life, to go before a Court of Record, at this season of the year.  She would have to be conveyed either miles to the place of holding courts for Morgan County aforesaid.

Given under my hand this Eleventh day of March 1844.
     J.W. Gordon J.P.

State of Illinois Morgan County S.S.
     I Joseph Heslep Clerk of the county Commissioners Court of said county do certify that James Gordon Esq. before sworn the foregoing declaration of Elizabeth Bobbett appears to have made and sworn to, in and was at the date of said declaration, a magistrate duly commissioned and qualified to administer oats, and that full faith and credit in deed to his official acts as such - and that his signature to the foregoing affidavits are genuine.
     In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said court this 13th day of March 1844.
     J. Heslep
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April 29 1845
E. Bobbitt
     Rec Jan 23, 1845 

(written sideways)
J L Edwards Esq
Commissioners of Pensions
Washington  DC
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Springfield Ills  18 April 1825
J.L. Edwards, Esq.

     Enclosed is Declaration of Elizabeth Bobbitt for arrears of Pension.  The papers for this arrear were once made out and I know are on the file in your office.  You wrote me I think that the claim was (illegible) by Act of 30 April 1866.  Please forward to me at this place.
     Yours respectfully,
     Erastus Wright
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Oct 20
Jacksonville
Ills. [illegible]
Eliz. Bobbitt
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comsr. Of Pensions
Washington City
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Jacksonville,
9 October 1841
Enclosed is the affidavit of Dudley Brannan to be ceded in the case of Mrs. Bobbett, which was returned to Maine evidences of another [illegible] 
Wm. Thomas 
Hon. J.L. Edwards
Comsr. of Pensions
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167911 July 12
[Stamp] Jacksonville, June [end Stamp]
July 7, 1838
Eliz. Bobbett
Hon. J.L. Edwards
Comsr. of Pensions
Washington City
FREE
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Jacksonville 
28 June 1841
To J. L. Edwards Comsr. Of Pensions
I enclose the application of Elizabeth Bobbitt for Pension under the act of 7th July 1838. Her statement shows the marriage before the termination of her husband’s service, and the testimony heretofore to here shows, that I was pensions to 1794. I supposed that the pensions ceased to be granted [illegible] or the others of the Laws. It cases makes no difference to her which Law is made to apply to her case.
Very Respectfully
Wm. Thomas
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[Stamp] Jacksonville Dec 3 [end Stamp]
Mrs. 
Addproof
Eliz. Bobbitt
J. L. Edwards Esq. 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
FREE
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Jacksonville Ill
30 Nov. 1840
To J. L. Edwards
Comr. of Pensions
You will find enclosed additional proof in the application of Elizabeth Bobbitt, which it is hoped will be satisfactory.
Wm. Thomas
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[Stamp] Jacksonville Jul. 12 [end Stamp]
No. 5732 July 22
Ills
July 4. 1836
To J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
FREE
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Jacksonville
11 July 1840
The commissioner of pensions will find enclosed the declaration and proof of Elizabeth Bobbitt to obtain pension. The answer will be directed to directed to my card, at this place.
Wm. Thomas
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[Stamp] Jacksonville Feb. 3
Free
War Department
Pension Office
Washington City
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Jacksonville Feb 2nd 183
Gent
I herewith transmit to you an additional statement of Isham Bobbitt which was taken before a Justice of the Peace of this County as the Court was not in session and there being no particular Rule laid down for taking further proofs upon receiving notice thereof I will endeavor to procure them if possible honestly believing as I do from the readiness and manner of his answers to the Interrogatories that his service is set forward in his declaration.
Yours V. C.
Joseph M. Fairfield
J. L. Edwards Esq.
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Elizabeth Bobbitt
Of Isham
No 7919
Illinois
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State of Illinois Morgan County S. S.
In the Circuit Court of said County.
On this twenty eighth day of June in the year of our lord One thousand eighteen hundred and forty one personally appeared before the Circuit Court of Morgan County aforesaid being a Court of Record, Elizabeth Bobbitt a resident of said County aged Eighty Four years; who being first sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled “An act granting half pay pensions to certain widows.” That she is widow of Isham Bobbitt who was a soldier in the Army of the United States during the Revolutionary War, and who in considerations of his services as a soldier was allowed and paid a pension by the Government of the united states under the provisions of the act of congress passed June 7th 1832 “for the relief of the surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution.” She further declares that she was married to the said Isham Bobbitt in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five the precise date she cannot recollect, that her husband the aforesaid Isham Bobbitt died on the day of March 1836 in the County of Morgan and State of Illinois; she was married to him prior to the commencement of the Revolutionary War, and he was in the army after the marriage and the birth of one of the children Stephen Bobbitt, she cannot state whether he had served before the marriage or not. She further states that she lived with the said Isham Bobbitt as his wife from the time of the marriage to the time of his death; and had by him the following named Children [illegible], Winny, William, Allen, Stephen, Fanny, Anny, John, Isom, Sally, Elizabeth, and Nancy. She does not know, that there is any record of the marriage in existence
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[unreadable line of text as it is cut in half by the page end]
soldier in the Army of the United States during the Revolutionary War, and who in considerations of his services as a soldier was allowed and paid a pension by the Government of the United States under the provisions of the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832 “for the relief of the surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution” She further declares that she was married to the said Isham Bobbitt in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five [illegible] the precise date she cannot recollect, that her husband the aforesaid Isham Bobbitt died on the day of March 1836 in the County of Morgan and State of Illinois; she was married to him prior to the termination of the Revolutionary War, and he was in the Army after the marriage and at the birth of one of the children Stephen Bobbitt, she cannot state whether he had served before the marriage or not, she further states that she lived with the said Isham Bobbitt as his wife from the time of the marriage to the time of his death; and had by him the following named Children [illegible], Winny, William, Allen, Stephen, Fanny, Anny, John, Isom, Sally, Elizabeth, and Nancy. She does not know that there is any record of the marriage in existence, her husband the said Isham kept a family bible in which she believes the marriage was recorded with the date, and also the names and births of the children; but that bible has been worn out and discharged, she further states, that she has heretofore applied for a pension and forwarded to the commissioner of pensions evidence of her marriage to which she now refers to prove that fact. 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written in open court before me
S. A. Douglas Justice of the Supreme Court and residing Judge of said Court
Elizabeth Bobbitt
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In the Circuit Court of Morgan County Illinois
[illegible] 1841
John Chisman of the said County of Morgan being sworn states that he married a daughter of Isham and Elizabeth Bobbitt said Isham obtain a pension from the United States in consideration of services rendered as a Soldier in the War of the Revolution, Elizabeth Bobbitt who has signed the foregoing declaration is the widow of said Isham, said Isham died on the day of March 1836 in the County of Morgan and State of Illinois, and Isham and Elizabeth lived with the family of deponent for about thirty four years, before the death of said Isham, and since that time said Elizabeth has lived with him, he further states that said Isham had a bible in which was set down the names and ages of the children of said Isham and Elizabeth, said Bible has been worn out, the [illegible] became separated from the [illegible] or binding and lost, sown parts of the bible on in possession of the deponent at this time, but the pages on which was written the names and ages of the children aforesaid are gone, and deponent believes they have long since been destroyed, he further states he personally acquainted with all the children named by the said Elizabeth except Winny, and they have all been [illegible] as the children of said Isham and Elizabeth, Deponent believes he made an affidavit heretofore stating the on which said Isham Bobbitt died, the date has at present escaped his recollection but he refers to his former affidavit as to that fact. 
Subscribed and sworn to in open court this 28th day of June 1841
John Crisman
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death of said Isham, and since that time said Elizabeth has lived with him, he further states Isham had a bible in which was set down the names and ages of the children of said Isham and Elizabeth, said Bible has been worn out, the [illegible] became separated from the [illegible] or binding and lost, sown parts of the bible on in possession of the deponent at this time, but the pages on which was written the names and ages of the children aforesaid are gone, and deponent believes they have long since been destroyed, he further states he personally acquainted with all the children named by the said Elizabeth except Winny, and they have all been [illegible] as the children of said Isham and Elizabeth, Deponent believes he made an affidavit heretofore stating the on which said Isham Bobbitt died, the date has at present escaped his recollection but he refers to his former affidavit as to that fact.
John Chrisman
Subscribed and sworn to in open court this 28th day of June 1841 and the court hereby certifies that John Chrisman the deponent is a credible witness and that his statement is satisfied to credit and belief.
S. A. Douglas Justice of the Supreme Court. Presiding Judge of said Court.
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7919
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State of Illinois Scott County S. S.
Dudly Brannan being sworn states that he is personally acquainted with Elizabeth Bobbitt widow of Isham Bobbitt late of said County, he was also well acquainted with the said Isham Bobbitt in Spartanburg County South Carolina about fifty years since, he was born and raised in that County, he is now sixty three years old, they the said Isham and Elizabeth Bobbitt moved to the neighborhood when he was twelve or thirteen years of age, they were then recognized by all who know them as being man and wife and lived together as such, they had children who were recognized as legitimate. According to the best of deponent’s recollection when he first became acquainted with said Isham and Elizabeth they had living the following named children, [illegible] Winny, Allen, William, Stephen, John, Fanny, Anny, Elizabeth, Isham, and Sally. This deponent and said Isham and Elizabeth resided in the same neighborhood in South Carolina until he arrived at the age of twenty two years when he moved to the State of Tennessee during this time the said Elizabeth had one other child named Nancy, the spring after he moved to Tennessee the said Bobbitt and his family moved to the same
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neighborhood and settled, the acquaintance was then remade and continued until the said Isham Bobbitt moved to Illinois and ten years thereafter deponent moved to Illinois and settled near to where the said Isham and his family had settled, and his acquaintance was continued from that time until the death of said Isham, and with said Elizabeth to the present time, with said Isham and Elizabeth several of their children were grown, and found that time to this he has always remembered and believes that said Isham and Elizabeth had been lawfully married.
Dudly Brannan
The foregoing affidavit subscribed and sworn to before me by the deponent Dudly Brannan who I certify is a respectable witness, and that his statement are [illegible] to credit -Given under my hand this 23rd day of June 1841
S. L. Cram J P
State of Illinois Scott County S. S.
I N. M. Knapp Clerk of the County [illegible] Court of said County do certify that Samuel L. Cram whose signature appears to the foregoing affidavit of Dudly Brannan was at the day
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said affidavit purports to have been made and now is and acting Justice of the Pece within and for said County regularly commissioned and sworn into office, I further certify that I am acquainted with the hand writing and signature of said Cram, and I am satisfied that the signature aforesaid is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court this 17th day of October 1841
N. M. Knapp
Clerk of the County [illegible] Court for Scott County Illinois.
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Elizabeth Bobbitt
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State of Illinois Morgan County S. S.
Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for said County John Chrisman, Michael Chrisman and Samuel L. Cram who being severally sworn in due form of Law; depose as follows. That they were well acquainted with Isham Bobbitt for many years before his death and know that he was a pensioner of the United States and that his pension was allowed him on account of his services in the Revolutionary War. Said Isham Bobbitt departed this life on or about the twenty fifth day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty six, they each say that they cannot state precisely the day on which said Bobbitt died, the said John Chrisman and Michael Chrisman state they were at the burial of the said Isham Bobbitt and know that he died about the time above stated. The said Samuel L. Cram states that he resided about half a mile from the place where said Isham Bobbitt died and remembers well the time of his death, but he cannot state the day or the month, he is satisfied however that he died in the month above stated. The said John Chrisman further states that the day before the death of said Isham as aforesaid, he made a power of Attorney authorizing an agent to [illegible] his pensions due on the fourth of March 1836. And the said Deponents each state that Elizabeth Bobbitt the widow of said Isham is still living. They know that she is the widow of said Isham, she lived with him
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at the time, and for many years before his death as his wife, and they each believe that she was his lawful wife.
John Chrisman
Michael Chrisman
S. L. Cram
The foregoing affidavit, subscribed and sworn to before me by the said John Chrisman, Michael Chrisman, and Samuel L. Cram, each of whom I certify to be credible and reputable witnesses, and I further certify that their statements are reliable to credit and belief. Given under my hand this 25th day of January 1842
H. G. Rew Justice of the Peace
State of Illinois Morgan County S. S.
I Joseph Heslep Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of said County do certify that Horatio G. Rew whose name is subscribed to the above affidavit, is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Morgan aforesaid.
I further certify that the signature to said affidavit is the genuine signature of the said Horatio G. Rew
In witness whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court at Jacksonville this 25th day of January 1842
Joseph Heslep Clk.
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E. Bobbitt
Enclosed answer 
To
William Thomas
Jacksonville
Illinois
$47.50 per an
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State of Illinois Morgan County.
On this twenty ninth day of September one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for said County Elizabeth Bobbitt of said County aged eighty seven years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the third day of March 1843. Granting provisions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War, and to whom a pension was granted under the provisions of the Act of Congress passed the 7th June 1832 and who received a pension under said act of Congress until the time of his death. She further states that a pension was granted to her as the widow of said Isham Bobbitt for the time of five years under the provisions of the act of Congress allowing five years half pay to the widows of pensioners who died after obtaining their pension certificate. She has received the pension granted to her and the certificate upon which she was paid was surrendered to the agent for paying pensions in Illinois. The name of her said husband was [illegible] on the books of the pension
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agent for the state of Illinois, the account allows for as aforesaid was merely three dollars fifty cents per annum. She further declares that she is still a widow, and has never [illegible] married since the death of her said husband.
Elizabeth Bobbitt
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 29th day of September 1843
James Gordon Justice of the Peace
State of Illinois Morgan County S. S.
Michael Chrisman of Scott County Illinois and John Chrisman of Morgan County Illinois being severally sworn sate that they are personally acquainted with Elizabeth Bobbitt who has signed and sworn to the foregoing declaration and have been acquainted with her for upwards of twenty years. They were also personally acquainted with Isham Bobbitt before his death who has her husband, said Elizabeth and Isham lived together as man and wife to the knowledge of deponents more than twenty years, that said Elizabeth never had any other husband to their knowledge or belief. They also know the fact that said Isham was a Revolutionary Pensioner at the time of his death, and that said Elizabeth is his widow, and has never been married since his death.
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Michael Chrisman
John Chrisman
Subscribed and sworn to before me, by the subscribers do of [illegible] I certify to be credible witnesses this 29th day of September 1843
Jas. Gordon Justice of the Peace
State of Illinois Morgan County S. S.
I Joseph Heslep Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of said County do certify that James Gordon before whom the foregoing declarations and affidavits appear to have been taken was on the 29th day of September 1843 and now is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Morgan duly commissioned and sworn into office according to Law.
Given under my hand and the seal of said court this 7th day of October 1843
J. Heslep Clk
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Feb 5 1842
[Stamp] Jacksonville Ill. Jan 25 [end Stamp]
Eliz. Bobbitt
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Jacksonville Ill.
J. L. Edwards Comsr. of Pensions
Enclosed you will find additional evidence in the case of Elizabeth Bobbitt widow of Isham Bobbitt who has applied for pension.
Wm. Thomas
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Marceline, Mo.
Nov/3/1925
Pension Dept.
Washington D. C.
Sir:- Will you kindly tell me what record you have of a Revolutionary soldier Isham Bobbitt from Warren Co. North Carolina. He applied for pension March 4, 1831 I think from Morgan Co Ill. His wife applied for pension in 1842 (I think he was on pension roll in 1835) What I want to know is “what was his wife’s maiden name? They were married about the time of the Rev. War
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2/ 
in Warren Co. N. C. (Now called Franklin Co.)
If you can give me his wife’s maiden name I will appreciate it very myself.
Sincerely, 
Mrs. C. D. Williams
Box 464
Marceline 
Mo.
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Columbia, Mo
Jan. 17 1929
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
I am very anxious to learn if there is any record of a pension having been granted to James Thompson of Pa. for services in the continental army. Am also interested in establishing Isham Bobbitt as a soldier of the Revolutionary army. I am told that he was a “Revolutionary pensioner.” These two went to Ky in 1803 settling in Christian Co, where John the son of James married Anny the daughter of Isham Bobbitt. They were both I think from Lancaster Co. Pa, although I may be mistaken
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about their place of residence.
Any information you can find from pension records will be greatly appreciated.
Mrs. James C. Miller
115 South Garth
Columbia Mo.
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1812
tion.
April 15, 1929
Mrs. James C. Miller
115 South Garth
Columbia, Missouri
Madam: 
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W.24709 it appears that Isham Bobbitt or Bobbett was born May 3, 1754 in Granville County (that part which was later Warren County), North Carolina.
While a resident of Warren County, North Carolina he enlisted January 1, 1780 and served five months as First Sergeant in Captain Christmas’ Company, Colonel Allen’s North Carolina Regiment.
Afterwards, he worked three months making saddles and repairing army wagons, in the Quartermaster Department under Colonel Long, until January 1781 when he volunteered, served two months as a private in Captain George Nasworthy’s Company, Colonel William’s North Carolina Regiment and was at the battle of Guilford, and at the engagement at Ramsour’s Mill, then about April 1, 1781 he joined Captain Harris’ Company, Colonel Reed’s North
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Carolina Regiment and served until July 1, 1781 when he was discharged.
He volunteered in the middle of September 1781 and served three months as forage master under Captain Twitty in the North Carolina Troops and was at the surrender of Cornwallis.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 3, 1832 while a resident of Morgan County, Illinois. He died March 25, 1836 in said Morgan County. 
Soldier married October 13, 1774 or 1775, about twenty-five miles from Halifax, North Carolina, Elizabeth whose maiden name is not given. She was allowed pension on her application executed June 10, 1840 while a resident of Morgan County, Illinois, aged eighty-four years.
Their children were: Winny, William, Allen, (both of these sons died in 1840). Stephen the fourth child born November 21, 1779 and living in Pike County, Illinois In 1840, Fanny, Anny (or Anna), John, Isham (or Isom), Salley, Elizabeth, and Nancy.
John Chrisman, a son-in-law, was living in Morgan County Illinois, in 1841; it is not stated which daughter he married.
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The above noted Isham Bobbitt or Bobbett is the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau, and said records fail to afford any information in regard to James Thompson as described by you. 
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.