Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 558, John Barrett, Va.
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SERVICE Va
Barrett, John
NUMBER R558
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State of No
Carolina Buncombe County }

Wheas [Whereas] on the 25th day of May 1836 Personally appeared before us (Henry Hunt & N Blackstock Two acting Justices of the peace for the County aforesaid) John Barrett a resident of the county & State aforesaid aged Eighty four years old, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to attain the benefit of an act of congress passed the 7th of June 1832
That he entered the servis [service] of the United States, and 
The following named officers, & served as herein stated; 
That he entered the servis [service] of the United States as a privit [private] Soldier, in the militia, & as he now believes, a volunteer sometime a bout the first of January 1781, in Henry County, in the State of Virginia, under Captain Geo Hairston, & marched 
To North Carolina, Guilford county, where he joined the main army, he thinks under the command of Col or Genl Lawson, from thence he was marched to Ramsour's Mills & thence to cape fear, when his term of servis [service] had expired, it was then Required that each captains company should furnish a certain number of men, which was done by volunteering, This declarant was then discharged by his Captain, which discharge is in the following words & figures, towit, 
‘1781 apr’l 23d I hereby discharge John Barrett a 
‘soldier in my company of Militia orderd, & Henry county 
‘which has faithfully served a Tour of duty 
Geo Hairston Cap’t 
which discharge is here Transmited [Transmitted]; This declarant then Returned Home to Henry County Virginia, where he remained untill [until] he thinks about the last of May or first of June 1781 when he again was drafted or volunteered, under Captain Eliphas [Eliphaz] Shelton, to suppress & Take some layers [out lain INSERTED] or Tory as they were then called, he was then marched to Hambys on Maho [Mayo] River in Henry county Va, where they stayed untill [until] the last of June or first of July, when the enemy dispersed & this declarant returned Home, but not being discharged
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they was imediately [immediately] ordered to march to a place called Rhoda Moores in the hollows of Dan River where they took some prisoners they stayed there a short time, the enemy again become scatored [scattered] & the Troops again returned home, with orders to be in redings [readings/ready] to march at a moments warning & in a few days they was informed that a partie [party] of Tories or out layers was in the settlement of Hudgepaths, on Dan River, where he again Marched under the command of the aforesaid Capt to the above mentioned place on Dan River where they caught several out layers, routed the Tories, & after a short time Returned home, Their Term of time having Expired, they was then discharged by the Capt, he believes verbally, with a promise of a writen [written] discharge when the company could be again called together, which this declarant dont recollect was ever done, this was about the last of Sept or Octr 1781, he resoluts that some man was employed to make some arrangements with the soldiers in Capt Sheltons Company after wards, respecting their services, but cannot recollect whether it was to give them their discharges or not, this declarant was in one or two more short expedition against the out layers But cannot recollect how long nor at what time as he has no documentatory [documentary] evidence of his servises [services], except the discharge he has here transmited [transmitted], nor could he have made any correct statement of the time of his servis [service] under Capt Shelton until since he found his discharge from Hairston, & by the date of that he is enabled to be he thinks correct, in the time & date of his servis [service] under Capt Shelton, as he thinks it was imediately [immediately] after the Tour performed under Capt Hairston, in Apl 1781., This declarant from extreme old age, disability affliction, neglect & the consequent loss of memory he cannot recollect all the particulars of his servises [services] as to the names & rank & grades of all the different
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officers, men & places; his discharge had been filed away with other old papers many years seven, which he was unable to find untill [until] recently; & he had disparied [despaired] of making any application for a pinsion [pension] as he was informed & believed it would be useless unless his services could be identified, & he knows of no person living that he could prove his servises [services] by he is confident that he has served as a soldier, in the war of the revolution, not less than the time he has stated (but believes that he served longer) for which he claims a pension, he hereby relinquishes all claimes to a pension or annuity [annuity], only the present one, & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State

John Barrett his mark X
Sworn To & subscribed the day & date first above written Before 
H Hunt JP
N Blackstock JP

State of No Carolina 
Buncombe county}

Stephen Morgan a clergiman [clergyman], a resident of the county Buncombe; & Daniel Ball a revolutionary soldier, & a resident of the County of Buncombe, do hereby certify that we have been acquainted with John Barrett who has sworn to & subscribed the above declaration for thirty years & upwards, That we have often heard him speak of his servises [services] as a soldier, in the revolution war, that his statements are to be relied on, that he has ever since our acquaintance supported a good moral character, whose verasity [veracity] is to be relied on, & from what we have seen, & heard, we believe that he was a soldier of the the revolution, & served as above stated, we believe that he is Eighty four years old as stated, certified under our hands & seals on oath 25th day of May 1836 

Stephen Morgan [seal]
Dan Ball [seal]

Before
H Hunt JP
N Blackstock JP
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State of No Carolina 
Buncombe County} 

Henry Hunt & Nehemiah Blackstock two of the acting Justices of the peace for the County of Buncombe hereby certify that John Barrett is a resident of the County of Buncombe & has been for thirty years passed, we have been acquainted with him for twenty years or there about he is a man we believe of undoubted veracity, we Believe that he was a soldier of the revolution from what we have seen & heard & that he served as stated in the foregoing declaration made by him on oath before us, as he more than a year since applyed [applied] To N. Blackstock to make out his declaration for to obtain a pension & stated that he had, had in his possession since he lived in Buncombe County a discharge from his capt which he had serched [searched] for & could not find, & appeared to have no hopes of making out his declaration without it he stated that his memory was too treacherous to rely on, without some record, that he could depend on for the date of his servisis [services], But as soon as he found his discharge he was able to make such statements as we think are correct,
We further certify that we have been acquainted with Stephen Morgan & Dan’l Ball who has sworn to & subscribed the foregoing certificate for twenty years or there about that they are Both residents of the County of Buncombe & men whose veracity are undisputed, that Ste Morgan is a clergyman & Danl Ball a revolutionary soldier as stated, & that their statements are entitle to due faith & credit Certified under our hand & seals the 25th day of May 1836 

H Hunt JP [seal]
N Blackstock JP [seal]

State of No Carolina 
Buncombe County }
I John Miller Clerk of the county court of Pleas & quarter sessions for the County aforsaid [aforesaid] here by certify that Henry Hunt & Nehemiah Blackstock are acting Justices of the Peace in & for the County of Buncombe & that their official acts as such are entitled to due faith & credit, also that their signatures to the foregoing declaration & certificates purporting to be their signatures are genuine. Given under my hand & the seal of office the 26 May 1836 

John Miller C.B.C.C. 
By John B. Whiteside DC.
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John Barrett
Va
R558
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1781 Aprl[?] 23d I Hereby Discharge John Barrett A soldier In my Company of Militia ordered Henry County which has faithfully served a Tower [Tour] of Duty
Geo. Hairston Cpt
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Ex’r. INVALID.
No. 558
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873 [CROSSED OUT; INITIALS:]CM[?]

[RUBBER STAMP] REJECTED

John Barret

P.O.
Service:
Enlisted:     18__
Discharged:    18__
Application filed 18__
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
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33.470
N Carolina
John Barret
[Su??a]
Ans. N. Blackstock June 16th 36
Lt S. Godwin [?]
Nov. 6/50
558
Act 7th June 1836
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B 337
7 June 1836
Pension Office
N.C.

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Stocksville NC
June 2d }
Free

Hon’l Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington City D.C.
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Stocksville June 2d 1836 

Dr Sir

By last mail I inclosed [enclosed] to you the declaration of John Barret, which was drawn before me the declaration was left with me to send on which I did, & some time after I had closed the mail & it was gone I found John Barrets discharge which was left on a table, which knew to be the one he had Exhibited before me when he made out his Declaration & which I thought was enveloped in the declaration, I therefore avail myself of the first opportunity to forward his discharge on to you 

Your Svt
N Blackstock

Hon Lewis Cass
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B344
33740
Original
June 13.1836.
Pension Office
N.C.

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Stocksville NV
27th May
Free

Honrl. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington city
D. C.
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Stocksville NC May 26th 1836

Dr Sir
you have here Enclosed the declaration of John Barrett a revolutionary Soldier who claims a pension under the act of congress passed 7th of Jun 1832 
after you investigate the case (at his request) you will please to communicate your opinion to him or me at Stocksville P.O. Buncombe County No Carolina 

I am with due
Respect your
obt servt

N. Blackstock

Honr. Lewis Cass