Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38,977, for Nathaniel Osbourne, New Jersey
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(8-1776)

SERVICE | NUMBER
New Jersey | Osbourne, Nathaniel | S.38977
CONTENTS
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East Tennessee
Nathaniel Osbourne
Sullivan Co., E. Tenn.

17,881 [illegible]
Corporal in Col. Ogden's regiment, New Jersey line, 3 years.

In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of East Tennessee at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 19 of November, 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 14 of Oct 1820 and sent to John Blair, agent, Jonesborough, East Tenn.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1820..........$172.26
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1821....48.00
21 mos. 16/30.........................=======
                                      $220.25

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
and 1st May, 1820

Date of death not on A.B.
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Nath(aniel) Osbourn

[crossed out: Pri(vate)] Corp(oral)

Col. Ogden's N. Jersey Reg(iment) on roll.

19th Nov. 1818

The date of enlistment should be stated in the declaration. And this Court should certify to its belief of the service of the applicant.
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Declaration of Nathaniel Osborn made in open Court this 19th November 1818. [crossed out: (illegible)]
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State of Tennessee
Sullivan County//

November Session 1818.

Then personally appeared in open Court, Nathaniel Osborn, aged Sixty eight years and being desirous of obtaining the benefits resulting from an Act of Congress of the United States entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons who were engaged in the land of navel service of the United States (or continental line in the Revolutionary War) & after being duly sworn according to law made & subscribed the following declaration.

That is to say that he, the s(aid) Nathaniel, after having been out in the militia service of the Country, sometime after the commencement of the Revolutionary War, he enlisted into the continental service in the said Revolutionary War in the State of (New) Jersey in the first Jersey Regiment, or line, in the company of Captain [crossed out: (illegible)] Pratt of s(aid) regiment, which was commanded by Colonel [crossed out: Ogden] Ogden. That he enlisted therein for the term of three years and after his enlistment was taken to the main army. Was in the Battles of Germantown, Brandywine, Monmouth and below Springfield. In an engagement was wounded in the right thigh, in consequence of which wound he was unable to serve for some time and was taken to the hospital, where he remained until...
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...he had measurably recovered and then returned to his former company & regiment where he continued to serve. But the period of his enlistment and about the time thereof was so affected that he was left by the army and was unable to return. In consequence whereof he never got a discharge but does most positively state that he served upwards of the years under his enlistment (exclusive of several tours in the militia) in the Continental service in the Revolutionary War.

That he, in consequence of his wounds received in the army, never has been sufficiently healthy to pursue manual labor and is now in distress & poverty and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. That he is a resident citizen of Sullivan County, state aforesaid, and has resided therein for twenty years and never has been placed on any pension list of the United States. And that he, at this late period of life has no other means of establishing his said services than his own disclosure but refers the Honorable, the Secretary of War, to the Rolls of the Revolution of the first Regiment of the Jersey Line and company of Captain Pratt.
s/ Nathaniel Osbourne (X - his mark)

Sworn to & subscribed in open Court this 19th November 1818
s/ Wm. Anderson, D(eputy) Clk.
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State of Tennessee
Sullivan County//

November Session 1818.

Then personally appeared in open Court, the subscriber to the foregoing declaration, Nathaniel Osborne, and was qualified to the truth of the same. The said applicant also produced in Court evidence satisfactory of his indigence and need of the assistance of his Country for support, whereof in the Court being satisfied with the service ordered, this their satisfaction to be certified to the Honorable, the Secretary of War.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of the Court in open Court this 19th November 1818.
s/ Mathew Rhea Clk.
s/ William Anderson, D(eputy) Clk.

State of Tennessee
Sullivan County//
Pro. Term.

J. Robert Early, Chairman, one of the Court of Pleas & for said County, do certify that [duplicate: that] the foregoing certificate &c. is in pursuance to the Order of Court, and that the same was accredited to be suffice as above stated. I further certify that William Anderson, who made and subscribed said certificate, is and then was Deputy Clerk for Mathew Rhea, Clerk, and that full faith is due to his attestations as such.

Given under my hand & Seal in open Court this 19th November 1818.

Robert Early, (Seal), Chairman pro temp
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16,793

Nathaniel Osbourne

Schedule & Oath

Original claim not allowed for want of Schedule &c. but was made on the 19th Nov. 1818.

Nov. 1818 - No. 16,793

Sullivan County, East Tennessee

Original decl(aration) slated to have been on the 19. Nov. 1818.
s/ John Blair, Agt., Jonesboro, Tenn.

Adm(itted)

Rec(eived) 7 Sep. 1820.

Found on the Rolls.

No property.

Returned for the original declaration, or the certificate of the Judge, of the day & year on which it was sworn to before him.
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SCHEDULE.

District of Washington//
Sullivan County,

On this Twenty fourth day of August 1820, personally appeared, in open court (a) being a court of record (b) for the said district, (circuit, county, [crossed out: or corporation, as the case may be) Nathaniel Osbourne, aged Seventy years, resident in Sullivan in said district ([crossed out: circuit,] county, [crossed out: corporation]), who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: (c) Toured under Captain Pratt of the First Regiment of the Jersey Line of Continental Troops which regiment was commanded by Colonal Ogden, that his enlistment therein was for three years which term he served faithfully part as Private & part as Corporal. That he applied for a pension by his declaration of date the 19th Nov. 1818, which was returned. to him and which he here again remits.

And I do solemnly swear ([crossed out: or affirm, as the case may be]) that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war,” passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. (d)

Except wearing clothes, I have nothing nor have I wife nor children living to my knowledge. I have had two wives & seven children, both wives are dead and whether any of my children are living, I know not as they are all long since gone from him and his youngest was in the army the last account. He is a farmer laboring for support.
s/ Nathaniel Osbourne (X - his mark)

Sworn to, and declared, on the Twenty fourth day of August 1820, before.
s/ Joseph C. Rhea, D(eputy) Clerk of Sullivan County

I, Richard Wetherland, clerk of the Court of pleas &c. for Sullivan County do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath (or affirmation) and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is worth nothing [crossed out: (blank) dollars and (blank) cents.]

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 24th day of August 1820.
s/ Richard Wetherland, Clk. By Joseph C. Rhea, Deputy Clerk of the Court for the County of Sullivan.
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March 11, 1937

Honorable Morris Sheppard
United States Senate
Washington, D.C.

NATHANIEL OSBOURNE
S. 38977
BA-J/MLB


My dear Senator:

Reference is made to your letter of March 1, addressed to The Adjutant General, War Department, and referred to this office for reply in behalf of Mr. F.R. Osborne, 3308 Junius Street, Dallas, Texas, who requests the Revolutionary War record of Christopher Osborne, of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, who, he states was granted land in 1782 for his service, also, the record of Nathaniel Osborne, of Roane County, Tennessee, a pensioner, supposed to have
died in his eighty-eighth year in that county, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The Revolutionary War records of this office have been searched and no claim for pension or bounty land found based upon service in that war of a Christopher Osborne, under any spelling. Such claims are the source of Revolutionary War data furnished by this office. The land which you state he received may have been granted by the state from which he served. The record has been found of only one Nathaniel Osbourne, of Tennessee. That record follows as shown in the papers on file in pension claim, S. 38977, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

The date and place of birth and names of the parents of Nathaniel Osbourne are not given.

Nathaniel Osbourne enlisted and served several tours in the militia in the Revolutionary War, no details of which were given; he then enlisted in the State of New Jersey, served as private and corporal in Captain Piatt's company, Colonel Ogden's New Jersey regiment, and during his service was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, and Springfield in which he received a wound in his right thigh; length of this last term of service three years, dates not given...
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...Nathaniel Osbourne was allowed pension on his application executed November 19, 1818, at which time he was aged sixty-eight years and a resident of Sullivan County, Tennessee, where he had been living twenty years.

In 1820, the soldier was still residing in Sullivan County, Tennessee, and stated that he had had two wives, both of whom were dead, also, seven children whose whereabouts were unknown to him. He did not state the names of his wives or children.

In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of Nathaniel Osbourne, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data: Nathaniel Osbourne, certificate No. 17881, issued October 14, 1820, rate, $8 per month, commenced November 19, 1818, Act 18th March, 1818, and 1st May, 1820, East Tennessee Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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38977
INVALID.
Rev(olutionary War).
File No. 38,977
Nathaniel Osbourne
Act: 18th March '18
Index: -; Vol. 8; Page 372
{Arrangement of 1870.}

1923 Nov. 14 - His(tory sent) to Mrs. R.B. Cassell - A.W.S.
1937 Mar. 11 - His(tory sent) to Hon. Morris Sheppard - N.K.B
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Harriman, Tennessee.
Oct. 4, 1923.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Revolutionary War Section.

Dear Sir:- Kindly send me all the data you have concerning the following Revolutionary War pensioners, especially the family data, and very greatly oblige,

George Fuller Sr., age 83 in 1840.
Nathaniel Orsbourn, age 89 in 1840.

Very truly yours,
s/ Peorce H. Cassell
Mrs. Robert Bryan Cassell.
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MORRIS SHEPPARD, TEX., CHAIRMAN
HUGO L. BLACK, ALA.
J. HAMILTON LEWIS, ILL.
M.M. LOGAN, KY.
ROBERT R. REYNOLDS, N.C.
NATHAN L. BACHMAN, TENN.
ELBERT D. THOMAS, UTAH
SHERMAN MINTON, IND.
CLAUDE PEPPER, FLA.
EDWIN C. JOHNSON, COLO.
JOSH LEE, OKLA.
HARRY H. SCHWARTZ, WYO.
ERNEST LUNDEEN, MINN.
WARREN R. AUSTIN, VT.
GERALD P. NYE, N. DAK.
H. STYLES BRIDGES, N.H.
HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR., MASS.
VICTOR RUSSELL, CLERK
C.H. TOLBERT, ASST. CLERK

United States Senate
COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS

Washington, D. C., March 1, 1937.

Dear General Conley:

I am in receipt of a letter from Mr. F.R. Osborne, 3308 Junius Street, Dallas, Texas, who desires information concerning an ancestor, Christopher Osborne of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (later Cabarrus Co., N.C.) who was granted land date June 14, 1782, Oct. 27, 1783, apparently for service to the government after the 1776 government was set up, according to records of the N.C. Revolutionary Army Accounts, Vol. I, Page 38, Folio 2. Mr. Osborne desires information concerning his service, place of enlistment, next of kin, such as father, wife or children, etc. Mr. Osborne also states his ancestor served in the Virginia Militia, both in 1753 and 1755, but he does not wish this record.

Mr. Osborne also wishes information on Nathaniel Osborne, Roane County, Tennessee, 88 years old and on Pension Roll for 1776 service, information to show place of enlistment, service, next of kin, as father, wife, children, and place of death and to what state credited. He further states that this ancestor was supposed...
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MORRIS SHEPPARD, TEX., CHAIRMAN
HUGO L. BLACK, ALA.
J. HAMILTON LEWIS, ILL.
M.M. LOGAN, KY.
ROBERT R. REYNOLDS, N.C.
NATHAN L. BACHMAN, TENN.
ELBERT D. THOMAS, UTAH
SHERMAN MINTON, IND.
CLAUDE PEPPER, FLA.
EDWIN C. JOHNSON, COLO.
JOSH LEE, OKLA.
HARRY H. SCHWARTZ, WYO.
ERNEST LUNDEEN, MINN.
WARREN R. AUSTIN, VT.
GERALD P. NYE, N. DAK.
H. STYLES BRIDGES, N.H.
HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR., MASS.
VICTOR RUSSELL, CLERK
C.H. TOLBERT, ASST. CLERK

United States Senate
COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS

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...to have died in Roane County, Tennessee, in his 88th year.

I shall appreciate any information you may furnish me to forward Mr. Osborne in connection with his requests.

Your very sincerely,
s/ Morris Sheppard

Maj. Gen. Edgar T. Conley,
The Adjutant General,
Washington, D.C.

4 Received A.G.O. MAR 4 1937
10:30
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(COPY)
WAR DEPARTMENT
THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE
WASHINGTON

A.G. 201.3
(3-1-37) ORD

ETC

March 5, 1937.

Honorable Morris Sheppard,
United States Senate.

My dear Senator Sheppard:

I have your letter of March 1, 1937, in which you requested information on behalf of Mr. F.R. Osborne, 5308 Junius Street, Dallas, Texas, relative to the service during the War of the Revolution in the cases of Christopher Osborne of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, and Nathaniel Osborne, Roane County, Tennessee.

The name Christopher Osborne has not been found on the records on file in this office of any North Carolina organization, War of the Revolution.

The records show that a number of men named Nathaniel Osborne, or similar name, served during the War of the Revolution, but from the information furnished, my office has been unable to determine which if any one of them is the man whose record is desired.

The collection of Revolutionary War records on file in this office is far from complete, and I am forwarding your letter to the Veterans' Administration (formerly the Pension Office), this city, with a view that the records of the men in question may possibly be identified from the Pension records.

Very respectfully,
E.T. Conley,
Major General,
The Adjutant General.
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section.

November 14, 1933.

Mrs. R.B. Cassell,
Harriman, Tenn.

Madam;

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 38872, it appears that Nathaniel Osbourne served in the militia several tours, and then enlisted and served as a private and corporal for three years in Captain Piatt's Company, Colonel Ogden's New Jersey Regiment. He was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth and Springfield, where he was wounded in the right thigh. Dates of service not on record.

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 19, 1818, while a resident of Sullivan County, Tennessee, aged sixty eight years.

In 1820, soldier stated that he had had two wives...
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...and seven children, no names stated, and that both wives were then dead and he did not know whether any of his children were living.

There is no further family data on file.

Respectfully,
Commissioner,