Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 725, John Dale, Va
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Va.

Dale, John
or
Deel
____ Lucy

NUMBER
W.725

CONTENTS
[blank]
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State of Tennessee
White County

On this thirty-first day of August A. D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. the Circuit Court for White County, John Dale,(or as he thinks he was called while in the war of the revolution John Deel,) resident in the County of White aforesaid and STate of Tennessee, aged sixty-nine years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his corporal oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.  That he entered in the service of the United States on the 27th day of February in the year 1777 and served in the Sixth Regiment of Virginia State Troops ^as he now recollects^ under the following named officers: He entered the service as an 18 months man, and one Captain Wayles took command of the Company in which he was, in Farquher[sic/Fauquier] County Virginia, where he then resided. From thence was marched by said Capt. Wayles to Alexandria Va. and from thence was marched to the southward, and at Petersburg Va. the Company of Capt. Wayles was joined to the Brigade of General Scott. Col. Abraham Blueford commanded the Regiment of Va. State Troops, to which said Company of Capt. Wayles was attached. While at Petersburg, Capt. Wayles left the Company or was promoted, and Capt. Howard was placed at the command of it [;] he thinks Wilson was the first lieutenant in the Company.
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A part of Genl. Scott's Brigade marched to Charleston South Carolina: Col. Blueford's Regiment remained at Petersburg until some time afterwards, and then the said Regt. was marched to the South, thence Lanews [Sanews?] Ferry on the Santee river. Charleston was taken by the enemy while the said Regiment lay at Lanews Ferry on Santee river. Col. Blueford, with his regiment retreated from the last named place & were pursued by the Enemy, and at the Waxaw Settlements on the Hanging Rock Creek, in Carolina the said Regiment was overtaken and entirely defeated and dispersed by the enemy: (this was on the 29th of May 1780.) After this defeat, Dale the present Applicant returned to Farquher County, Va. and then went to Fredericksburg Va. and joined Col. Christian Febeck (as he thinks) and served out the time of eighteen months, for which he entered the service, and from the said Col. Febeck received his discharge in August 1780, which he has lost many years ago. He also states that he was appointed by Col Febeck a recruiting sergeant & continued recruiting until discharged aforesaid: He has no knowledge that there is a person living by whom he can prove the above named service.

John Dale also entered the service as a malitia[sic] man under the following named officers & served as hereinafter stated. After being discharged as aforesaid, he joined the army as a volunteer under Captain Valentine Peyton, of Prince William County, Virginia. He served the full term of three months, the date of his entering this term of service
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and the date of leaving or ending it, he does not recollect. He was marched by Capt. Payton to Williamsburg Va. and thence to the Molin Hills on James River, retreated from thence to Orange County Va., the enemy then in pursuit. He cannot recollect distinctly who was the commander, but thinks that General Wayne commanded. In Orange County Col. Elias Edmonds, a Continental officer, joined our forces as I now recollect & we returned unpono the enemy who, in their turn retreated & were pursued by us to old Jamestown, where we had a skirmish with them as they took their boats. Major Armstead, a Continental officer, he thinks, was along, can't recollect any other of the field or company officers further than above stated.

He further states that he served a tour of three months, in the malitia[sic] under Captain Coleman, an officer in the Artillery & who had the command of two brass field pieces. He Dale entered this service as a volunteer. Capt. Coleman's company was in the army in Virginia commanded by General Lafayette, whom he has seen & knew. General Wayne he thinks was also in command in the same army. He cannot recollect any other officers or their names, nor can he recollect the the[sic] time of his entering this service or the time when he was discharged. He was discharged at Richmond Va. The enemy advanced to Manchester on the oposite[sic] side of the river & were fired on by ^one of^ Capt. Coleman's brass field pieces & some men killed. The enemy then marched down
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on the Manchester side of the river & set fire to some warehouses & destroyed a large quantity of tobacco.

He also states that he served another tour in the malitia[sic], of three months, in the same army commanded by General Lafayette. He entered the service as a substitute for one Michael Myars of Farquher[sic] County Va. He cannot recollect the time of his entering this service, or of his leaving it, nor can he recollect any other of the company or field officers. He states that the last mentioned tours of service in the malitia[sic] were performed in the army while it was in the lower part of Virginia & under (as he thinks) the command of General Lafayette.

Said Dale also states that he again entered the service of the United States as a malitia[sic] man, was drafted on this occasion, and resided in Prince William County, Va. when drafted; was marched to near Fredreicksburg and returned into Fairfax & Prince WIlliam Counties, and was engaged as a "pioneer", in opening roads for the bagage[sic] waggons[sic] of General Washington then on the march to Yorkton, to the besieging of Lord Cornwallis. Col. Henry Lee of Prince William County had the command of the Pioneers or men with whom he was acting on this occasion; cannot recollect the exact time when he went out, or where he was dismissed from this service; thinks he was in service on this tour about one month.
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The services before stated to have been done in the Malitia[sic]. was performed in the years of 1780 and 1781. Said Dale cannot now recollect which one of the three tours in the malitia[sic], before stated, (the one he served under Capt. Payton, or the one under Capt. Coleman, or one under Capt. Frost) he first served, but ^from the best of his recollection at present^ he is confident that he performed under the above named Captains the service and for the time herein before stated. He thinks he received a written discharge from Capt. Coleman, if he did it was lost many years ago with the discharge he received from Colonel Febeck, which was by having his pocket book stolen. He received no written discharge for either of the other services before stated, he was mustered into service & mustered out, without a written discharge. He further states that he has no documentary evidence of his service, nor has he knowledge of any person now living, who can testify to any of the before named services. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any State.

John Dale [signature]

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

Anthony Dibrell Clerk
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the following interrogatories, prescribed by the War department, were propounded by the said Court
1sst When and in what country were you born?
Answer. I was born in the year 1763
2nd. Have you any record of your age; and if so, where is it?
Ans. I have a family register, now at my own house
3rd. Where were you living when called into service? Where have you lived since the revolutionary war?
And where do you now live?
Ans. I lived in the Counties of Fauquier and Prince William, Virginia at the time I entered the service of the United States, in the war of the revolution, and where I continued to reside until 1784, being then a simple young man I then removed to Wilks County in the State of Georgia, and lived in said county about three years, and then returned to Bedford County Virginia, where I lived until the year 1788, and from thence I removed to Clark County State of Kentucky where I lived nineteen years; and from thence I came to Jackson County State of Tennessee where I lived nearly five years; and from thence I came to White County Tennessee, where I have lived ever since, and where I now reside.
4th. How were you called into the service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a Substitute? And if a Substitute for whom?
Ans. I first entered the service as an 18 months man in the Virginia State troops - In the Malitia, I volunteered my services in two different tours, of three months each as my recollection now serves me - as before Stated,
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I was once drafted & served but about one 7
Month as before stated; - and I substituted once for one Michael Myars and Served three months as I think as herein before Stated.
5th State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served, and such continental and malitia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.
Ans. While I was in the Virginia State Troops, Genl. Scott commanded the Brigade, - Col. Abraham Bluford commanded the regiment in which I served - I was under Capt Wayles & then under Capt Howard, - Wilson was a Lieutenant in the company, (as I think.) - While I was in the Malitia, I think General Lafayette commanded 
- I recollect distinctly of seeing him once & now recollect his appearance, - General Wayne, Col. Edmonds, Major Armstead, and Capt Coleman, were along and as I think were continental officers. I cannot recollect anything about the continental Malitia Regiments while I served in the Malitia My service in the State troops and the malitia was as herein before Stated. While in the Malitia I served six months in the infantry - and three months in the artillery, to the best of my recollection.
6th. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so by whom was it given and
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what has become of it?
Ans. I received a discharge from Col. Febecker, for My service in the Virginia State troops, it was stolen from me with my pocket book, shortly after the Revolutionary war. I think I received a discharge from Capt Coleman at Richmond Va for my service in the artillery which was also stolen with my pocket book as above stated. I received no other written discharge
I was mustered into service & mustered out or disbanded, for my other services in the Militia. 
7th. State the names of persons to whom  you are known in your present neighbourhood, and who can testify to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. Capt. John White, Turner Lane Esqr. John Bryant Esqr. Anthony Duberell Esqr.
Col. David A. Mitchell, and Hon. Jacob C Isaacks

We Henry Benton a Clergyman residing
in the County of White & state of Tennessee, and Turner Lane, John Bryant
residing in the same county and state aforesaid
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Dale, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Sixty nine years of age, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he
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resides, to have been a Soldier of the revolution; and that we concur in that opinion Henry Burton
sworn to and subscribed} Turner Lane
the day & year aforesaid} John Bryan
Anthony Dibrell Clerk

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 Henry Burton who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in the County of White aforesaid and that Turner Lane & John Bryant who have also signed the same are a resident in Said County, and are Credible person, and that their statement are entitled to Credit. Nath W Williams judge
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I Anthony Diberell, Clerk of the Circuit Court
for White County aforesaid & state of Tennessee do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the Said Court, in the Matter of the application of John Dale for
a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my private seal of office this 31st day of August, 1832.
{seal} Anthony Dibrell Clerk

I Anthony Dibrell Clerk of the Circuit Court for
White County aforesaid and state of Tennessee do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court at August Term A.D. 1832 in the matter of the application of John Dale for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed thereto the seal of my office (having procured one since the last term of said Court) at office
the 28th. day of May 1833.
Anthony Dibrell Clerk
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11.391
White County
Tennessee

Jno. Dale

Va Roll
on Roll

5.10.[scratched out].16

from 1779 private
& sergeant 2 years
Private 1 yr   --  40.--
Sergt.  1 yr         60.--
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$100.--

Anthony Diberell
Sparta
Ten
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Vol
bol
drafted
BRIEF in the case of
John Dale
of White County in the State of Tennessee
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 69
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.
In 1779
1780
Duration of Service.
Months
18|
Rank.
As a
private
Months
1
As a segt
Months 3
As a
[illegible]
Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Scot Colo Bluford
Captn Walyls
Captn Howard
Col Febecker
Captn Peyton
5. In what battles was he engaged?
a skirmish at James Town
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Virginia Fauquier County
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? not authenticated
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Hon. Jno. H. Savage, July 16/58

1.643
Tennessee, Nashville
Lucy Dale
widow of John Dale
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private & Sergeant
Va. Line
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of $100 Dollars .00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February 1853
Certificate of Pension issued the
31st day of August 1853
and sent to
W. W. Moore
Sparta
Tennessee
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Recorded on Roll of pensioners under act Feby 3d/53, Page 181   Vol. A

1832
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State of Tennessee
White County
on this the 7th day of March
Eighteen Hundred and fifty three personally
[illegible] before the Worshipful County Court for White
County Tennessee Lucy Dale a resident of White
County Tennessee aged 76 years who being duly
Sworn according to Law doth on her Oath make
the following declaration in order to obtain the
Benefit of the pension made by the act of Congress
passed on the 3rd day of February 1853 that she is the
Widow of John Dale who was a
private and
Sergnt of the Virginia Line of the Revolutionary War
that her said Husband was placed on the
Pension Role on the 26th of July 1833 at the rate
of One Hundred Dollars per annum payable at
the Tennessee Agency that he [illegible]
the 4th of March 1831
that 
her said Husband resided in White County Tennessee on the 28th day of
August 1833 that her said Husband resided in
White County
Tennessee for several years [illegible]
to
his death and that difference is here made
to
the
proof filed in the papers
of the said
John Dale in her
Support of her claim for a Pension
She further
declares that she was married to the
Said John Dale in 
Jackson County Tennessee on
the 25 day of February in the year
Eighteen Hundred [illegible]
that her name before she
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Married The Said John Dale was Lucy Britt
and that her Husband the aforesaid John Dale Died on the 28th day of August 1833 that she was Married to him at the time above Stated She further Swears, that She was a Widow at the passage of the act and has remained a Widow ever Since the death of her Said husband and is Still a widow and that She has never before made Application for a pension
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and 
year above written in Open Court,
Sworn to and Subscribed in Lucy Dale x her mark
open Court 7th March 1853
G. G. Dibrell

State of Tennessee
White County} March Term of White County Court AD 1853
Be it remembered that the following proceedings was made in said Court in the Matter of the application of Lucy Dale for a Pension to wit
This day Lucy Dale to the Court Known personally appeared in open Court And made Oath in due form of law that the matters and things set forth in her Declaration for a Pension under the Act of Congress passed 3rd February 1853 are true, Which Declaration She signed in open Court, And thereupon came also here into open Court Edmd Cunningham and John W Simpson of good names, fames and reputation and to the Court personally known, And likewise made Oaths in due form of law that they had been acquainted with the said Lucy Dale and her deceased husband the late John Dale for about Forty years and they lived together as Husband and wife up to his Death, and the said John Dale is dead and the said Lucy is Still a Widow having never married since the death of her said husband all of which was ordered to be spaoad upon the Records
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This Court, And Certified under the Seal of the same

State of Tennessee
White County} I George G Dibrell Clerk of White County Court hereby Certify that the foregoing is a true and perfect Copy from the Minutes of said Court of the order made in the foregoing case of Lucy Dale and a True Copy of the proof all of which now appears upon the Minutes of said Court, and upon file in my office In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto 
Set my hand and affixed the Seal of said
Court at office in Sparta this 18th day of
April AD 1853
G. G. Dibrell Clerk
of White County Court
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
AWF:MLB

November 21, 1930

Mrs. Sarah F. Walls
403 West Walnut Street
Greencastle, Indiana

Dear Madam:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 725, that John Dale was born in 1763, place not stated.

While residing in Fauquier County, Virginia, he served as sergeant with the Virginia troops, as follows:

From February 27, 1779 in Captain Wayles and Howard's company, Colonel Abraham Buford's regiment, was in the battle of Waxhaws, after which, he served in Colonel Christian Febiger's regiment as a recruiting sergeant, length of service, eighteen months; three months in Captain Valentine Peyton's company and was in a skirmish at Jamestown; three months in Captain Coleman's company of artillery; and three months in Captain William Foster's company.

While residing in Prince William County, Virginia, he served one month under Colonel Henry Lee, and was engaged in opening roads for the baggage wagons of the army, then on the march to Yorktown to besiege Lord Cornwallis.

In 1784, "then a single young man", he moved to Wilkes County, Georgia, where he lived three years; thence to Bedford County, Virginia, until 1788; thence to Clark County, Kentucky, where he lived nineteen years; thence to Jackson County, Tennessee for five years, thence to White County, Tennessee.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 31, 1832, at which time he was living in White County, Tennessee.
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He died August 28, 1833 in White County, Tennessee.

The soldier married February 25, 1813 in Jackson County, Tennessee, Lucy Britt, his second wife. The name of his first wife was not stated.

The widow, Lucy, was allowed pension on her application executed March 7, 1853, at which time she was living in White County, Tennessee, aged seventy-six years.

The children by his first wife were referred to but their names were not designated.

Very truly yours

E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner

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Revy WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 725
Lucy Dale
Widow
John Dale
Pri. & Sgt. Rev. War

Act: Feb. 3, 1853
Index:-Vol. A, Page 166
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1919. Nov. 18 - Telegram to J. D.
Falstead relative to residence
of parents, names - MMHF
1930 - Nov. 20 - Hist to Sarah
Walls AWF.
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No 1372
Lucy Dale
widow of John
Tenn

Let to W.W. Moore
July 13 1853
To same Aug 6/53
1829

Act February 3d. 1853
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Free
SPARTA
21
L. P. Waldo Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington 
D. C.
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John Dale
For } Declaration
A pension
11,391
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State of Tennessee
White County} Sc.
On this twenty seventh day of May 1833 personally appeared in open Court, before the Circuit Court for said County now sitting, John Dale, a resident in the County and State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on oath make the following decl
declaration. In addition to what has been stated in the Original declaration, to which this is intended as an amendment, applicant states that while in the Virginia State Troops he was appointed a sergeant while under Col Blueford, and acted as such until he was taken sick and taken to the hospital, after his recovery he does not recollect of acting as a Sergeant, until after the defeat of Col Blueford (as stated in the original declaration,) when he joined Col. Febicker at Fredericksburg, and was appointed by him a sergeant with the privilege of recruiting, and continued to act as a recruiting sergeant under said Col. Febucker until discharged by him as before stated. Applicant states that while in the line of Virginia State Troops, he is satisfied in his own mind that he served as a Sergeant, not less than six months.
Applicant further states that while under Capt. VAlentine Peyton in the Malitia, as stated in the declaration, he served during the whole of that tour of service, which was three months as Sergeant. 
And whilst under the Command of Captain
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Coleman, in the Artilery as before stated, he served during the whole of that tour of service, which was three months as a Sergeant. I making the first declaration, applicant did not deem it of importance in any way to state with precision, when he acted or the length of time he served as a Sergeant.
Applicant again States as he has before Stated in his original declaration, that he served the full term of eighteen months while in the line of Virginia State Troops, under the officers before stated. He also states that he served four separate tours in the Virginia Malitia, three of those tours, of three months each, and one of one month, - making in the whole while in the Malitia thirteen Months,-
He knows of no person living by whom he can prove his service as a Sergeant as above stated or as a Soldier of the Revolution, nor has he any documentary evidence of these facts
Sworn to and subscribed} John Dale
in open Court the day
and year aforesaid.
Anthony Dibrell Clk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the examination of Testimony, that John Dale, who has subscribed the foregoing amended declaration, was a soldier of the Revolution and served as he has therein stated. Charles F. Keith
Judge Presiding.
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I Anthony Dibrell, Clerk of the Circuit Court
for White County aforesaid, do hereby Certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the Application of John Dale by an amended declaration, for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office,
(having procured one since the last term
of this Court) this twenty eighth day
of May 1833.
Anthony Dibrell Clerk
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State of Tennessee Jackson County 

I Sampson W. Cassetty Clerk of the County Court of Jackson County hereby certify that I have made due such in my office of said County for the marriage bond and license of John Dale to Lucy Britt and cannot find them on file in said office and that there is no record of marriages in said office from the beginning of the County of Jackson up to the year 1840. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of office at office in Gainsboro on this 9th day of April 1853.
P.W. Cassetty Clerk
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Brief in the case of Lucy Dale, widow of John Dale White County and State of Tennessee act 3d February 1853.

Claim, (original)
Proof exhibited (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under the act of June 7, 1832. Marriage proved by Pawl
Evidence - witnesses duly certified to be credible.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

W. W. Moore
Sparta, Tennessee
Name and residence of Agent

R Geddes
Examining Clerk.
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Washington July 1st 58

Sir
I enclose the letter of Valentino Dodson one of my constituents, and request that you enclose to me the proper answer to the question he asks.
Respectfully
J H Savage

Geo C Whiting Clerk
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Danil Dail itd
vs{ Transcript of Dept &c
Lucy Dale itd
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Lucy Dale
Widow of John Dale Deceased
For a Pension
under Act of
February 3. 1853
[illegible] of
Pensions will
make this claim
Payable at [illegible]
W. W. Moore
Sparta,
[illegible]
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State of Tennessee Jackson County
Pursuant to the enclosed commission to me an acting Justice of the peace for said County directed from the Honorable Circuit Court for White County in the state aforesaid I have caused to come before this 28th day of February in the year 1835 at the dwelling house of Joseph Hawkins Esqr, in said County of Jackson and state aforesaid the said Joseph Hawkins a witness in behalf of the plaintiff in a certain matter of controversy now pending in said circuit court of White County Tennessee where in Daniel Dale Pleasant White Jane White his wife are plaintiffs and Lucy Brit alias Lucy Rue alias Lucy Dale and John H. Dale are defendants and the said Joseph Hawkins being by me first sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth to speak in said cause deposeth and saith as follows;

question 1st by plaintiffs
What is your age 
answer - about seventy

question 2nd by plaintiffs
Was you or not acquainted with John Dale State of White County in his lifetime and the defendant Lucy if so when did you first become acquainted them
answer about the year 1809.

question 3rd by said plaintiffs
Did you or not solemnnise the rights of matrimony between said John Dale and said Lucy if so state when you done so and where said John & Lucy resided at that time
answer I did in Jackson County Tennessee on the top of what is called the stephill in the woods on February in the year 1813 their residence as I was informed at that time was in White County.
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Question 4th y plaintiffs
Did you have a licence to marry said John Dale and Lucy if so what became of them and if they are in your possession 
answer I had license and have them in my possession

Question 5th by plaintiffs
When your deposition was taken before what did said Lucy say if anything as to the time when you actually solemnnised the rights of matrimony between her and said John Dale
answer the said Lucy stated the same day the license were issued they ware married

Question by plaintiffs
Who was present at the time of your Solemnnising the rights of matrimony between John Dale and Lucy - 
answer Jesse Parker of White County
Joseph Hawkins 

State of Tennessee Jackson County 
To any regular minister of the Gospel having the care of soles or to any Justice of the peace for said County granting by full power and authority is now vested I do hereby authorise you or any of you to celebrate & perform the rits of between John Dale and Lucy Brit and join them together as husband & wife witness John Brown Clerk of said county at office this 25th of February 1813
John Brown Clk

I hereby certify the above to be a true copy of the original license I have in my possession
Joseph Hawkin seal(circled)
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State of Tennessee Jackson County 
John Smith one of the acting Justices of the Peace for said county do hereby certify that the foregoing deposition was taken sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and at the place stated in the county and that the same is writen in my own handwrite and by me sealed up not having been out of my possession since taken given under my hand and seal this 28th day of February 1835
cost $1
John Smith J.P. seal(circled)

State of Tennessee White County 
I Joseph Brown Clerk of the Circuit Court of White County in the state aforesaid do certify that the within is a true copy of the original deposition which is now on file in my office in the within stated case and a part of the record or evidence in the same as now appears of record and on file in my office In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at office in Sparta on this 12h day of April A.D. 185
Joseph Brown Clerk
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11391
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STANDARD FORM NO. 14A
APPROVED BY THE PRESIDENT
MARCH 10, 1926
W. 725

TELEGRAM
OFFICIAL BUSINESS -- GOVERNMENT RATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 6 - 7134
FROM INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
EARL D. CHURCH, Commissioner
BUREAU of Pensions
CHG, APPROPRIATION Collect, Govt
Washington, D. C., November 18, 1929
J. D. Halstead
Norfolk Fire Boat
Norfolk, Virginia

No record revolutionary pensioner, John Dale, or Deel, Fauquier and Prince William Counties, Virginia, during Revolution. Pensioner White County, Tennessee. Correspondence to Sparta, Tennessee. Died 1833 White County, Tennessee. Parents names not recorded. Widow Lucy.

Earl D Church [signature]
Earl D Church
Commissioner

Collect, Government
An answer, date.
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THE SENDER
OF THIS
MESSAGE
authorizes us
to say that a
TELEGRAPHIC reply
is desired
Via
WESTERN UNION
REQUESTED TO FAVOR THE COMPANY BY CRITICISM AND SUGGESTION CONCERNING ITS SERVICE 
WESTERN UNION 
NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENT
J.C. WILLEVER, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT

SIGNS
DL=Day Letter
NM=Night Message
NL=Night Letter
WLT=Week-End Letter

Received at Interior Dept., N.W. National 7100 Branch 47 1929 NOV 18 AM 9 14

WA16 17 XU=NORFOLK VIR 18 901A 
COMM OF PENSIONS
PENSION BUREAU

INFORMATION DESIRED JOHN DEAL VIRGINIA REVOLUTIONARY SOLDER HIS PARENTS AND LAST ADDRESS URGENT WIRE COLLECT NORFOLK FIREBOAT

J D HALSTEAD

THE QUICKEST, SUREST AND SAFEST WAY TO SEND MONEY IS BY TELEGRAPH OR CABLE
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War-Rev- 1812.
From --
403 W. Walnut St.
Greencastle, Indiana
November, 7 - 1930.
Mrs Sarah F. Walls 

Department of the Interior
The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir, can you give me the Pension Record of John Dale, who served in the Revolutionary War, under Captain Nathaniel Fox Company 6th Virginia Regiment, commanded by Colonel James Hendricks. The pay roll of August 1777, shows him detached into the Light Infantry. He was on the pay roll for the month of April 1777.

Any family data you can give me, will be greatly appreciated.

Very respectfully, Sarah F Walls [signature]
Sarah F. Walls

US PENSION OFFICE NOV 8 1930
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SPARTA 
Lucy Dale
Wid
John
HB3
Geddis

18 Free
Hon J. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pens
Washington
D.C.
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State of Tennessee
White County
I Joseph Brown Clerk
of the Circuit Court
in and for the State and County aforesaid
do hereby certify that in the case of Daniel
Dale, Pleasant White, and Jane White his wife
plaintiff and Lucy Bail alias Lucy Reed, alias
Lucy Dale & John H. Dale, are Defendants in which I gave a Copy of Joseph Hawkins Deposition in said case above named some time ago, and from an examination of the record in my office in said case the suit finally resulted in favor of the said Lucy Dale afore named as the record of the White County Circuit Court [illegible] show just testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at office in Sparta White County State of Tennessee on this the 17th day of August 1853

Joseph Brown Clerk
of white County Circuit Court
[signature]
[seal]
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Address
W. W. Moore
Sparta
Tennessee
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Pension Office,
July 6. 1853

Sir

Please certify the time to which John Dale, a
revolutionary pensioner, was last paid; or, (if the
information be in your possession, the exact date of
his death. He was pensioned, as sergeant and
private, under the act of June 7, 1832, at $100 per annum pension payable at the Nashville Tennessee agency.

Very respectfully,
Your obedient Servant
AP Waldo
Commissioner
Of Pensions

Died 28th August 1833, and paid to his death.

F Bank.
Auditor
Francis Bank
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State of Tennessee
White County} On this the 1st day
of August 1853 Terry Gilentine and
William L. Bryan Residents of White
County Tennessee Personally appeared before
The County Court of White County
Tennessee who are persons entitled to
full faith and Credit and who are
disinterested makes Oath to the follow
ing Statements that they were per
sonally Acquainted with John Dale
Late of White County Tennessee
Who was a Pensioner of hte United
States & that he Died on the 28th day
of August 1833 and that Lucy Da
-le who has Applied for a Pension
as the Widow of John Dale Deceased
under Act of Congress of February
3d, 1853 is the Widow of the Identical
John Dale deceased and that She has
Remained a Widow ever since the
Death of the Said John Dale and is
Still a Widow, Sworn to and Subsc
-ribed in Open Court date above
written William L. Bryan
G. G. Dibrell Clerk
of White County Court Terry Gillentine
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State of Tennessee
White County
August Term of White County Court AD 1853

Be it remembered that the following proceedings was had in said Court White 

This day William L. Bryan and Terry Gillentine Citizens of the County of White and to the Court personally known to be respectable witnesses personally appeared in open Court and made oath in due form of law that the
matter and things set forth in their affidavit proving the identity of Lucy Dale widow of John Dale Deceased late a Pensioner of the United States are free and Subscribed the same in open Court which was ordered to be recorded and certified under the Seal of this Court 

State of Tennessee
White County

I George G Dibrell Clerk of White County Court
hereby certify that the above is a true and
perfect copy from the minutes of said Court of all this preceding had on the within affidavit which now appears upon record in my office
I further certify that said Witnesses
are both creditable witnesses for Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Office in Sparta this17th day of August AD 1853
G. G. Dibrell Clerk
of White County Court
 [seal]
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Sparta July the 22d, 1853
L. P. Waldo -
Sir your note Relative
to the Pension claim of Lucy
Dale Widow of John has been
Received, the proof filed in this
case as taken from the Records
of a Suit in the Circuit Court
of this County was this kind of
in case John Dale Maried the
Second Wife which was Lucy
Britt & after his death is first
children Brought Suit against
his Widow for what property
her husband had Left her
alledging that they were never
married & on the trial She produ
-ced the evidence that I Sent
to the department & on that gained
the Suit, if the evidence of Simpson
& Cunningham is not Sufficient to
prove the death of John Dale that
proof is on file in the Pension office
which was made for his Widow
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to draw his Pension from March
the 28th of August 1833 - at which
time he died, they Simpson & Cunningham
proves positively that she is still his widow if the Clerk copied it correctly, if it is necessary
to have witnesses to her signature & her identity more fully proven you will please retire the Declaration is that will have to be done or a new declaration made, the Justice of the piece that married them has died & I dont now any better proof that can be proved as to that fact only [illegible] I would be pleased to hear from you
again, this is a meritorious case & I desire to have her placed upon the [illegible] if it can be done legally.

Yours Respectfully
W. W. Moore
Sparta
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