Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1566, Jeremiah Buzby, S.C.
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(3-1776)

[black star over name]

SERVICE
S.C.

Buzby, Jeremiah

NUMBER
R. 1566

CONTENTS
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REJECTED
1566
P.O.  Jeremiah Buzby

Service:

Enlisted:                  , 18
Discharged:            , 18
Application filed:   , 18

Alleges:  

Re-enlisted:

P. O. _
_____Recognized.   _____Contract.
Cert.  of  Dis.        Searched for, 18
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Jeremiah Buzby,
Edgefield Dist. S. C.
_______________________

Danl Bird,
Edgefield C.H. S. C.
__________

Recd. 4 Oct: 1825

Rejected - See Letter
5 Oct. 1825

1566
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The State of South Carolina
District of Edgefield} SS 
On this seventh day of March 1825 personally appeared in open court being the circuit court of common pleas of said state & district and a regular court of record Jeremiah Buzby aged sixty years and a resident in the aforesaid district of Edgefield who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by acts of Congress of the eighteenth of March 1818 and the first May 1820 he the said Jeremiah Buzby enlisted for the term of three years or during the war on the day of October in the year 1781 in the state troops in the company commanded by Captain Felix Warby in the regiment commanded by Colonel Thompson in the Line of the state of South Carolina the continental establishment that he continued to serve in said corps until peace was made where he was discharged from the said service in August 1783 in the state of South Carolina in the city of Charleston deponent further swears he received wh in discharge an undated Furlough and that he was never called into service again that his furlough was burnt in his house in the year 1800 That he was in the battles at St Johns Island when they took a British ship of war and that he has no other evidence of said service except the evidence of Miles Buzbys affidavit which is herein to  annexed and in persuance of the act of the first May 1820 i do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States
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on the eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by givt 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 past on the eighteenth 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 schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed (viz) 
Two sows & seven shots valued at $10.00
2 pots an one oven 5.00
$15.00
Jeremiah Buzby
his X mark
Declarant further swears that he is very infirm by reason of panes was bed riden for two years in 1822 & s not able to cut a fire of wood was by occupation a farmer but since he has been so afflicted has done something at the shoemaker trade has a wife about seventy years of age who has been blind about nine years she has a small pettince allowed her by the commissioners of the poor for said district that he made application through the Hon W Semikns in 1822 but the declaration was lost or mislaid That he would of applied at an early date but was at that time able to support himself and wife but is now compelled to look to the bounty of his country for a pettance to support on the remainder of his days on earth
Sworn to this 15th March 1825 before me
JS Richardson
Associate Judge} 
Jeremiah Buzby
his X mark
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I Daniel Bird clerk of the court of General Sessions for the District and state aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule there to annexed an duly coped from the records 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 fifteen Doll
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this 15th day of March 1825
Danl Bird
CC
South Carolina
Edgefield District} Before me Jesse Blocker one of the justices of the Quorum for said state and District Miles Buzby and after being duly sworn on the holy evangilist of almight gov saith on his oath that he was personally acquainted with Jeremiah Buzby in 1781 and knows that he enlisted under Captain Warly and in Colonel Thompsons state troops in 1781 and served until August 1783 and believes he served his country faithfully Deponent further states Jeremiah Buzbys house was burnt in 1800
Miles Buzbee
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th March 1825 Jesse Blocker JQ}