Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3143, Thomas Cassetty, Va.
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Va.

bassetty, Thomas
or bassety

S. 3/43
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31727
Tennessee 31727
Thomas Cassety
of Smith Co in the State of Tennessee
who was a private in the Compy commanded
by Captain Cherry of the regt commanded
by Col. Crocket in the Virginia
line for 6 months.
Cassetty or Cassety

Inscribed on the Roll of Nashville
at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of March 1840, & sent to A. Ferguson
Carthage, Tenn.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1840 $ 180.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep '40 10.00
$190.00
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by D. McCurdy, Clerk,
Book E 2. Vol. 7. Page 85.

Let to p Agt Apl 24 1840

Date of death not on AB-
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12,378
Cassity

Hon. B. Peyton
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State of Tennessee} On this the 28th day of Augt
Smith County} 1832 personally appeared in open Court, being a court of record for the county aforesaid, having a clerk and county seal, Thomas Cassetty. a resident of said county aged 70 years who being first sworn according to Law, on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832, that he entered the service of the United States under the following officers, and served as herein after stated, To wit,
In the year 1779 he was entered and joined the company of Capt William Cherry in the regiment commanded by Col JOseph Crockett. he marched from Fredericktown in Maryland to Pittsburgh then he was marched down the Ohio river to the falls where he remained until he was discharged in the latter part of the year of - he was in the service for 2 years, he was in no engagement. he was discharged by George W the majr under whom he served, but for the last discharge he had no documentary evidence and knows of no one whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his services except the following -
Question 1st - where and in what year were you born
Answer - I was born on 9th September 1762 in Augusta County Virginia -
Question 2nd. Have you any record of your age & what is it -
Answer - There is a record in the family bible with my friends in Virginia - I am 70. on the 9th of next month-
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Question 3rd. Where did you live when you were called into service where have you lived since and where do you live now-
Answer - I lived in Bottetourt County Virginia - have lived in Franklin County Virginia part of the time, but the greater part of it in Jackson & Smith County Tennessee - he now resides in Smith County Tennessee - answers to the other questions to him in the foregoing &c. hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or a annuity - except the present and declare that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state or territory of the United States or elsewhere -
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the 28 day of August 1832 Thomas Cassetty
J. Birkett Clk

State of Tennessee} Henry Wakefield and Miles
Smith County} West a clergyman this day appeared in open court and made oath that they are acquainted with Thomas Cassity the above named applicant for a pension during the revolutionary war they are neighbours and have been acquaintances for many years they think the said Cassetty to be man of truth - Miles West
Sworn to Henry Wakefield, Sen
in open Court 28 Augt
1832
J Birkett Clk
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And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories herein before stated, 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 Wakefield, and Miles West a clergyman are residents of Smith County and are credible men and that their statements is entitled to credit - John Chamber Chairman
of Smith County Court

I Jonathan Birkett clerk of the court of Smith County Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Thomas Cassitty for a pension-
I testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at office this the 4th day of September 1832
J. Birkett Clk
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12,378
Thos Cassetty
Tennessee
Rejected
j

Hon B. Peyton
J. Pickett
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War Department, 
Pension Office. 

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. Those 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, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by compiling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 

A Statement, showing the Service of Thomas Capety

Period when the service was rendered. 
1779

Duration of claimant's service.
Years.
2
Months.
Days.

Names of the rank of the Field officers under whom he served.
Col. Crockett
Capt. Cherry

Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.
70

Proof by which the declaration is supported.


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:
The law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to ever branch of the Staff of the Army, and the include under the terns "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 or this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians 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 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 Country of } ss.

On this
day of
personal appeared (a) before
A. B. a resident (b) of
in the county of
and State, Territory of District of
aged (r)
years, who being the duty sworn, according to low, 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, in which he was engaged, and the county through which he march. This form is to be varied as so 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 of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
A.B.
[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 solider, and served as he states.
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
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 name 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, 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) hereby 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 application was a Revolutionary Solider, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, and 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 persion.

in testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
of office, this
day of
&c.

Every applicant will produce 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 produce 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 his
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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 of 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 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?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, 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 truth of the statement of the applicant. 
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in 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 application, 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 solider, 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 in declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry 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 of Justice of a 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.
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August 31, 1935
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Thomas Cassetty-S.3143
BA-J/AWF

Mrs. Martin C. Pulley
Oak Grove
Louisiana

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Thomas Casaty of Botetourt County, Virginia.
The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 3142, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Thomas Cassetty.
He was born September 9, 1762 in Augusta County, Virginia. He was the son of Thomas Cassetty who during the Revolution was living in Botetourt County, but too old to be in the service, name of the mother of the soldier not shown.
While residing in Botetourt County, Virginia, Thomas Cassetty, as his signature is found, enlisted sometime in October, 1779, served as a private in Captain William Cherry's company, Colonel Joseph Crockett's Virginia regiment, marched to Albemarle Barracks and from there guarded British prisoners to Fredericktown, Maryland, then marched to Pittsburgh and thence to the Falls of Ohio in General Clark's expedition, where he discharged after a service of two years.
He lived in Franklin County, Virginia after the Revolution, then moved to Tennessee in 1804 and lived in Jackson and Smith Counties.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 18, 1832, at which time he was a resident
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of Smith County, Tennessee. He then referred to relatives in Virginia, but gave no names. 

It is not state that the soldier, Thomas Cassetty ever married.

In order to obtain information in regard to the last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., and cite the following data:

Thomas Cassety (as he was pensioned)
Certificate # 31727
Issued March 15, 1840
Rate $20.00 per annum
To commence March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Tennessee Agency. 

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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1909 Nov. 30. History to
Mrs. J. W. Moore C.
1935 - Aug 31 - hist to Mr
Martin C Puller AWF

Certificate
31727 3143
Rev War INVALID.
File No. 3143
Cassetty
Thomas Cassety
Privt Rev War

Act: June 7" 1848
Index:-Vol. A, Page 57
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Rejected
proof of service.
See letter 17 Dec 35
Hon B. Peyton
let 27 Feb 37 76-
J. B. Forester,
let. 2 Sept. 1837 A. Fergusson
Service after revoly
Va
See letter 13 Oct: 1837 Hon. W. B. Campbell
do 2 April 1838. let 23d July 38 W. A. Fergusson
(over)
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State of Tennessee
Smith County} On this day personally
appeared Thomas Casedy
aged 76 years before me Silas C Cornwell one
of the acting Justices of the Peace in and
for the County aforesaid and made oath in
due form of law That as respects his Services in 
the War of the Revolution he must state as
heretofore that he enlisted as a regular Soldier
in Botetourt County Virginia in October of
1779 That they were called the Virginia Continental line or troops Commanded he thinks by Colonel Crocket at least they were marched by him to Albemarle Barracks to take charge of the Prisoners taken at Burgoyne's defeat they were Stationed at other places in Virginia and the last of the two years he served was at Monongahala they were also in Frederick town in Maryland
This affiant is now old and cannot state with
that Precision that he could with the Particulars
of his Services he received at the time of enlistment $750,,00 dollars bounty and was Promised one hundred acres of land all of which was read to him he was Sworn in by a Justice of the Peace called Lockhart, at the end of the two years and after he was regularly discharged his Captain left him he had no land coming as it was not known what the Government would do but this affiant found out afterwards that he was entitled to land and was informed by some of his Brother Soldiers in the same company that they had obtained theirs. This affiant will now State the reason as he believes of the Mistake and discrepancy in his first and Second Declaration a Man by the name of Dixon Allen drew up
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his declaration the first time it was on a Court
day at Carthage he lied at the time 20 miles off 
there was a good many in court and confusion
and he was afraid from the careless manner that it was wrong but Allen insisted it was all
Right and he would be Sure of the Pension he does not think that he ever read it to him and this affiant not knowing much about Such business never discovered the mistakes until the declaration came back. After this David Hogg Esq told him that as his name could not be found on the Roll at Washington he must have been a Militia Soldier and that he ought to make his application as such. If therefore the last declaration mentioned Militia Services such was not the mention of this applicant; having as he believes given a Statement as to particulars of his Services in his second amended declaration This affiant does not deem it worth while to Expect them. With regard to the certificate of Mr. Heath at Richmond finding the name of Thomas Cassedy; this affiant will further State that he never knew any other man by that name he was acquainted with a great many of the Continental troops of Virginia but never saw or heard of any other person by that name except his father who was too old to be in the War of the Revolution
He recollects distinctly that he never got a Certificate for the ballance of Service due him as the continental money had sunk down to nothing in 1781 but he never authorize any person to get it for him nor does this affiant now recollect any person by the name of Mosses Hunter and if such a man drew
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the money it was from his discharge being in the hands of some person unknown to him he was absent from the State a great many years after the war and he lost it some way in which he never could satisfactorily account for and must be of oppinion that it was stolen from him
This affiant has been living in Smith and Jackson County Tennessee forty years &
and is fully able to substantiate his character
for truth and veracity He knows of some
persons if alive that could prove his services but they are not living near this applicant
Samuel McHerron Willey Dishest Perry County in this state had he expects a personal knowledge of his services
Sworn to and Subscribed before me this
27th day of June 1838
Thomas Cassetty {seal}
Silas C Cornwell {seal}
Justice peace

State of Tennessee
Smith County} I Silas C. Cornwell one of the
Acting Justices of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Thomas Casedy who has this day appeared before me and made oath to the foregoing affidavit That he is a man of truth and veracity 
That I have been personally acquainted with him for the last twenty years And that full faith and credit ought to be given to his statements
That he has always been considered by his neighbors a Soldier of the Revolution Given under my hand and seal this the 27th day of June 1838 Silas C Cornwell {JP}
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State of Tennessee Smith County
I John J Bennett clerk
of the County Court of said Smith County
hereby Certify that Silas C Cornwell before
whom the within Affidavite of Thomas Cassetty 
was made, was at the time the same purports 
to bear date, one of the acting Justices 
of the Peace, in & for said Smith County, duly
Commissioned and Qualified as the law
directs.
In Testimony whereof I have
hereto set my hand and affixed
my seal of office at office
the 3rd Day of July 1838
John,, J,, Bennett clerk
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This is to Certify, That it appears from a List in this Office of such Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Continental Line, during the Revolutionary War, as settled their Accounts, and received Certificates for the balance of their Full Pay, according to an Act of Assembly, passed the November Session, 1781, that a Certificate issued on the 30th day of April 1785, in the name of Thomas Cassedy as a Soldier of Infantry
for L47-9.1, which Certificate appears to have been delivered to Moses Hunter and was given for services prior to the 1st January, 1782.

{No Seal of Office.} Given under my hand at the Auditor's Office, Richmond, this
27th day of March 1838.
p. 362. Jas E Heath AUDITOR.
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Tennessee
Smith County} August Term 1833 of the County Court for said County.
present the Worshipful
John Chambers, Earnest Whitley and Solomon Debow Justices
Be it remembered that on this day towit 28th. August 1833, personally appeared in open Court Thomas Cassity a resident of said County aged 71 years, who being first duly sworn, and the interrogatories required by the Secretary of War, being propounded, makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7 June 1832.
towit: That he intered the Service of the United States as a private in the Virginia Militia for the term of two years, some time in the month of October 1779, in the company commanded by Captain William Cherry, in Colo. Joseph Crockett's regiment, George Wales being Major in said regiment - that he entered the service in Botetourt County, marched to the barracks in Albemarle County and from thence (having charge of some British prisoners) to Fredericktown, Maryland - thence to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania - and from thence to the falls of the Ohio, where he remained until he completed his two years tour and was there discharged.
This applicant understood that the regiment to which he belonged was raised by authority of the state of Virginia and was designed to act against the Indians principally - that when the troops left Fredericktown it was intended to join Genl. Clarke at Pittsburg and protect against the Shawnee Indians - That the troops reached the neighborhood of Pittsburg, some time in May, where Genl Clarke took the command - The expedition against the Shawnees was abandoned and in consequence thereof one or two companies of Volunteers who had joined Genl. Clarke, left him.
- the remainder of the troops (about 300 in number) descended the Ohio with Genl. Clarke to the falls in said river, where they arrived in the month of August - This applicant believes the names of the Captains in service, were Abraham Tipton John Chapman, John Carney, and Wm. Cherry - that Chapman & Tipton were killed by the Indians in the neighborhood of the falls of the Ohio, They having gone to visit some station about six miles distant. This Applicant may be mistaken as to the exact dates of his entering & being discharged the service but of this he feels confident, that he served for the term
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of two years, with the troops as herein before set forth, and that he was discharged the fall of the year the capture of Cornwallis - this Applicant was in no engagement - his discharge as well as he recollects was signed by the Major. George Wales, and the same has been lost and he has no documentary evidence of his services - Nor
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And then came also in open Court Thomas Draper a citizen resident of the adjoining county of Jackson who certifies that he has been acquainted with Thomas Cassity (who has subscribed the foregoing declaration) since about the year 1804 - that he believes him to be about the age of 71 years - that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, in which opinion this deponent concurs -
This deponent further certifies that he has often conversed with said Cassetty touching his service in the war of the Revolution, and has heard him detail his services in substance as set forth in said declaration - Many of these conversations were before pensions now allowed to the surviving soldiers of the Revolution.
Sworn to & subscribed in Thomas Draper
open Court 28. Aug 1833.
Pickett. Clk

Whereupon said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the said Thomas Cassitty was a soldier of the Revolution and served as he states - And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Miles West who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Smith; and that Thomas Draper who has signed the accompanying Certificate is a resident in the adjoining County of Jackson and is a credible person; and that their statements are entitled to Credit.
Given under my hands in open
Court 28 Augt 1833.
John Chambers
Exum Whitley
Solomon Debow} Justices
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Tennessee
Smith County} I Jonathan Pickett clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Cassetty for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office in Carthage 28th August Anno domini 1833
J Pickett Clk ~
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Virginia
Harrison County ss
Joseph Britton personally
appeared before me a Justice of the peace
of said County and maketh Oath that in
the year 1779 he listed in the service of
the United States under Capt. John Chapman
who was under Col. Joseph Crocket - that
in the Regiment to which he was attached
he remembers the names of the following persons, Harris Hammontree, William Carter,
John Highwarden which last three affiant
thinks were in Capt. Wm. Cherry's Company - 
Henry Derren Ensign who lived in Shenandoah
County Va. Ensign Browning from Fauquier
or Culpepper Va. Ensign McGaffie - Capt.
Miller - John Piper who lives or did a
few years since in or near Winchester Va
John Carney of Berkley County Va Major
Hunter of same County - William Wamsley
who died a few weeks ago in this County
and he thinks there was one Cassity - the
name seems familiar to affiant, but he
has no distinct recollection of the person of
said Cassity - Joseph Britto {seal}
Sworn to before me this 25th day
of February 1839- 
Chas Lewis JP

Virginia Harrison County ss:
I Eli Marsh Clerk of the County Court
of Harrison County certify that Charles Lewis
whose name is above written is a Justice of the Peace in said County & that the above signature is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereto affixed the seal of my office & my name this 25th Feb. 1839 Eli Marsh
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State of Virginia} SS
Harrison County} I James Reed one of the
acting Justices of the Peace in and
for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Joseph Britton who has heretofore made the foregoing affidavit That he is a man of truth and veracity and that full faith and credit are due and of right ought to be given to his statements
In testimony whereof I have hereunto 
set my hand and affixed my seal
this 19th day of October
1839
Jas. Reed J.P.H.C. {seal}

State of Virginia
Harrison County} SS:
Eli Marsh Clerk of the County
Court of Harrison County certify that James
Reed whose name is above written is a 
Justice of the Peace in and for Said County
of Harrison and that the above signature
is genuine In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my 
hand and affixed the seal
of my office this 19th day
of October 1839
Eli Marsh C.H.C.C.
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Carthage Ten. 23d May 1834
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir - The enclosed papers were handed
to me by Mr. Cassety - and he desires me to say, that he does not know that he can make the proof required, in support of his application for a pension - Unless some of his old comrades, still survive - Believing it possible that some of them are still alive & that some one or more of them, may have made application for a pension, I have desired him to name some who were in the Service with him - He has accordingly given me the names of James Henly, sergeant Major - 
Robert McClure private sergeant - Terrence O'Conner sergeant - Lewis Mayfield private - William Bean - Joseph Yaddin musician - - Murphy Drummer - Thomas Davis, John Butler, James Grier, Wm. Smith, Henry Carbine, (William Casks & Thomas McLane - the five first of whom he says were in the same Mess with him -
as far as I can learn from conversing with the
old neighbors of the applicant, they entertained no doubts as to his service in the War of the Revolution - Some of them are men of great respectability & upright of character - Permit me therefore to desire that you will examine the list of applicants, and see if any of the persons named by him are to be found - And if so - advise me of it, to the end that he may procure their evidence - He does not know where any of these persons reside, if living - some he believes are dead -
Should you find the name of either of the persons mentioned on file, be pleased also to let me know the residence of the applicant -
I shall trouble Mr. Peyton with a few living, on the subject of this application. Who may probably be able to give some aid in the premises.
I am respectfully
Willm. Carte
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Thos. Cassety's
Declaration Pension

Carthage Tenn Free
May 29 1946
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Hon B. Peyton
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Bagdad Ten
31st July 6
Adam Furguson Esqr
Carthage Smith Cty Ten
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Bagdad July 31st 1837
Adam Ferguson Esqr. Sir I
am told by Esqr. Cornwell you will
undertake to get for me a pension
allowd. the Revolutionary Soldiers of
which I am one and have tryd. to
get a pension tho have failed as
yet you will do for me a favour if 
you can and will get it if you do get 
it I will pay you and if you do
not no pay as my fate is bad and
I am not well able to pay something
if I do not get in that way you will
apply to William Hart Esqr. who has the
papers you will examine them and then let
me know what you think of the
chance I am yrs with due Respect
Thomas Cassetty
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Carthage Tennessee
Dear 4th August 1837
Sir
Your letter of 20th ultimo has been received
and the information respecting the claim of Mrs. Jane King has been read. I did not expect a decision until the Hon F Casey should make his statement which however I can form but little idea of the extent of the testimony he may know; but then he is her relative and I expect something from him.
I wrote to him sometime since but as yet have received no answer I think abundant proof can be found but it may be attended. With some trouble as one of the Witnesses whom I went to see on her behalf was so old and memory so bad I did not think it advisable to take her statement
It was Old Mr. Veach of Kentucky a Pensioner who gets his pay at Tompkinsville Monroe County. I have this day sent a letter to Mr. Hills Secretary of State at Raleigh agreeable to your instructions. You mention that Written instructions have been enclosed in your yetters to me. I have to say that none have been received of any kind. I am happy to acknowledge the receipt of Mrs. Elizabeth Sims certificate allowing her a Pension, 
Inclosed you will find the letter of Thomas Cassety to me. I have Seen Mr. David Hogg Esqr. and Mr. Cornwell Postmaster Mr. Silas C. Cornwell from his neighbourhood who is well acquainted with the old man and they speak with much assurance of the Justice of his claim. The latter is Postmaster in that
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Neighbourhood Where Mr. Casety lives I have called on Mr. Hart our circuit court Clerk and he has furnished me with part of the correspondence with you in Mr. Cassetty's case. In your letter of 11th June 1834 you mention "The following named persons have however been found as being now in the receipt of Pensions for Services in Col Crockett's Regiment and whose Statements agree on all the material facts with that of Mr. Cassetty's. The following are the names and the places of Residence &c Joseph Brittain who served two years in Captain Chapman's company from 1779 resided in Harrison County Virginia This claim was allowed in february 1833 and his Pension certificate sent to Hon J Johnson John Piper who also Served two years from 1779 in Captain Chapmans company resides at Winchester Virginia his certificate was Sent to Samuel Bent Esqr Captain Thomas Young who commanded a company in Col Crockett's Regiment. Resides at Maysville Kentucky Mr. Hart informed me that those persons had been "written to with a request that they should furnish the necessary statements but he had never understood any thing more from them. The correspondence of the Honorable Babie Peyton and John B Forester are also before me stating what diservices they have made and they are formerly punished that Mr. Cassetty is entitled to a Pension this in connection with the oppinion of all his old acquaintances confirm the belief that the old man is Justly entitled to the Pension he asks. Mr. Hart informed me that he has sent other proof Since he last heard from you. I am greatly in hop
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That further efforts will be unnecessary on the part of the old man, and that his statement furnished under circumstances of which you can Justly appreciate agreeing in all particulars with those given by others in the same Regiment and such other proof as may have come to your hands Since, will be Sufficient for you to act favourably upon his claim. But Should it be otherwise you will Please Send such instruction and we can pursue and what is wanting yet to be done. for he and his neighbours will not rest satisfied until he is placed upon an equal footing with other Revolutionary Soldiers
With great Respect
I am &c
A. Fergusson

James L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Carthage Tennessee
4th July 1838
Sir
Enclosed you have the additional affidavit of Thomas Cassedy I attended to the examination of what he has stated and I am convinced of the legality of his claim - In fact his character is one out of many who stands unimpeached fifty of his neighbours can testify to that they have known him for forty years past in this county and will state that they have often heard him relate the particular circumstances of this verry service I have no doubt but he is the verry person named in the certificate given by Mr. Heath at Richmond as he appears to have a general knowledge of the army I have no doubt but his declaration was drawn up in the manner he states without any regard to his statements and he then carried into court without knowing the purport of what was written only that it would be sufficient and that is the way the first mistake must have happened and then afterward no doubt he was prevailed upon to make Statements that he designed to mean differently; he says he never has made but one set of Statements as he recolects there
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them verry well and indeed he seems to have
a good memory. I have written three
of the Soldiers that were with him and who
it seems are or were in the receipt of Pension, 
I have not yet got any answer There is another
if not dead by the name of Mr. Ferran
a Pensioner he lives in Perry County Western
District of this State and is I am informed
paid at Jackson who had a personal
knowledge of his services he lived in Botetourt
County at the time of enlistment. If you
will not allow the claim without the proof
of one or more of these individuals then
he must endeavour to obtain it but it 
will cost the old man more perhaps than
in his present condition he can well spare
I hope though you will allow the claim
without further proof as his statements
are such as I believe to be true and also
the particular circumstances of his case Should
be taken into consideration. There can be
no doubt of his being entitled to the bounty
of his country With great Respect
I am yours &c
A. Fergusson
James L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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PS upon reflection I cannot see for a moment
any reason to Suspend further the allowance of his Pension he has made a Statement long and I hope Satisfactory accounting for every difference that may appear in the various proof exhibited his own statement with the Certificate of Maj Heath ought to be conclusive and as I am informed and believe if all that is wanting in Similar cases. Add to this that if he has been mislead or his claim delayed so long a time it cannot be reputed to his fault
Respectfully
A Fergusson
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Carthage Tennessee
2d October 1839
Sir
Inclosed you will find the affidavit of
Joseph Brittain heretofore Sent back for amend-
ment the Magistrate was not acquainted with
Mr. Brittain and another Magistrate had to
certify as to his credibility which I presume
is as good as if the first one had given
the certificate. I have not been able to go to the Western part of the State a distance of 150 miles as yet to see a witness whom Mr. Cassetty thinks must know of his Services, if more proof is necessary please let me know and I will endeavour to procure it difficult as it may be
Respectfully
Yours &C
A. Fergusson

James L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Mar 31
Mr. Allison
will report
this clm Monday

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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House of Representatives
March 31 1838

Sir,
I have succeeded in procuring the enclosed
additional evidence, in favour of Mr. Thomas
Cassity's claim to a pension. His name not being 
upon the roll or list of Continual & State troops, - the presumption was against his services, - but the enclosed certificate will rebut that presumption & show that there has been some mistake or accident, in his name not being placed up on the roll of revolutionary Soldiers.
This Certificate Shows that he was in the Virginia line, and received pay as such. - The certificate having issued after the close of the war is conclusive that he performed the full time of his service. - I sincerely hope that you may esteem this additional testimony as sufficient to satisfy you that Mr. Cassety should be placed upon the pension roll. - It is a very
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hard case, as I am well satisfied, that there
are few men in the United States whose revolutionary services is better established in the belief & estimation of all who know him, than Mr. Cassetty's - I know him well & all those who have testified in his behalf & I can add my own testimony to the good character & standing of all.-
I am with sincere regard yours
Most Respectfully
W B Campbell

J L Edwards Esqr
Commr. of Pension
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Carthage Tennessee
24th April 1839
Sir
Inclosed you have the affidavit of Mr
Joseph Brittain in Suport of the claim of
Thomas Cassity for a Pension. Yu wil
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Mar 6 1840
Tenn:
T Cassity

CARTHAGE Te.
FEB 22 Free
James L. Edwards, ESqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

admitted for
six months. 
March 12, 1840
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Carthage Tennessee 20th february 1840
Sir
Your letter of the 31 ultimo is now before me in which you state that upon a reexamination of the claim of Thomas Cassetty it was believed that he did not belong to the state troops of Virginia, but must have served in the militia and that the claim could not be allowed for six months as those who volunteered in such service as alledged served at least that lenth of time. Mr Cassetty has always told me that he belonged to Col. Crocketts Regiment and served two years and it has been quit unfortunate for him that all the old soldiers that belonged to that Regiment to whom he has repeatedly refered me to has by a long and expensive correspondence of which I carried on for him turned out that they were all dead except Joseph Brittain whose testamony I last sent you. I am still firm in the belief from circumstances that he has served from one to two years as he states. There is one witness yet if not dead who lives in the west end of the state whose testamony I intend to get as I have refered to him in some of my letters to you which when obtained I am in great hopes will change the decision and conclusion you have come to. As I know
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know Mr Cassetty necessities at this time and also his low state of health I will as his advisor accept the claim for what you propose upon condition that when I shall have furnished you additional proof that you will then increase his pension to what he shall upon a thorough investigation be found entitled to. I ask for him no more than what I am firmly pursuaded is due to him; but we cant furnish proof. When his companions in arms are all dead and although his case is one of those hard ones I am verry far from attributing any blame whatever to the course you have thought proper to pursue. You may send on his certificate as soon as you please perhaps he may not live to spend even the small sum he may draw the first time; and I will here add that could you even raise it a little higher than what you propose it would be nothing but sheer Justice to him as however defuent his testimony in suport of his claim may be circumstances convinces me as well as others that he served as he states
Respectfully
A. Fergusson

James L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Apl 23. 1840.
No Annual
Tho Cassety
Tenn:
Not reptd.
31727

Free
J L Edwards Esqr.
Commr. of Pensions
Washington, City
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Pension Office
Nashville Tenn:
April 14th 1840

Sir
The claim of Thomas Cassety, a Pensioner under the act of 7 June 1832 at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, was presented at this Agency for payment. this day. The name not having been reported to this Agency of course I declined it.
Very respectfully
Your Obedient Servt.
J. M Smith
Pen: Agent

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Comr. of Pensions
Washington, City
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12,378
Thomas Cassetty
Tennessee

admitted
Pr: 6 mo. $20.-
Cap Cherry Col
Crocket, Va.

Act 7 June 1832

A. Fergusson
Carthage,
Ten
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No. 12378
Thomas Cassetty
Va State Roll

Van Meter for evidence
as to year and a full
acc of pension, is
required.
not on Roll
5 . 14

papers acquired for
proof 25 Sep 1833

J. Pickett. C.C.
Carthage.
Tennessee

Feb. 24 1833
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BRIEF in the case of Thomas Cassetty of Smith County in the State of Indiana
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 70 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. - In 1791
Duration of Service. - Years, 2 Months, 0 Days, 0
Rank. - Private 
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served - Capt. Wm Cherry, Col. Jos. Crockett

 5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered service?
(Crossed out - Fredericks Town, Maryland)
Botetourt County, Virginia
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the Rolls? Traditionary evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No

I certify that the  foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
B.F. Pleasants
Examining Clerk.
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Thomas Cassetty which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes
-
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes
-
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
-
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he serves? Yes, but very imperfectly

V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? No

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Yes

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? ---------------

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Yes

XIV. *If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? No
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? ----------
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the
regulations direct? ----

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? ----

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes

Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And,
if not, which of them is not so answered? Yes
----------------------------------
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
*QUERE V. 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 Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best 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.
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Rushville Ind.
Nov. 16 1909
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir: Have you
a record of pension granted
Thomas Cassady of Virginia
(Revolutionary war)?
Also of pension granted
[illegible] Cassady 8 Ohio (War 1812)?
Yours truly
Mrs. J. W. Moore
813 Morgan St.

U.S. PENSION OFFICE A
NOV 18 1909
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Oak Grove La -
JUL 29 1935
July 24 0 1935

Pension Dept Revolutionary War
Washington D,C,
Please let me know if pension
was received for Rev War service
by Thomas Casaty from Botetourt
County Va, in old Va Reg" under
Col Washington, I find that
a Court order was certified in
Botetourt Co Feb 10 - 1780 for his
service, and that Robert Casaty
Jr was heir at, please give
me all data you have of this
Thomas Casaty, his birth death
place, all so his wifes name,
and children, I am trying
to get my line straight for
the D.A.R. so please
let me hear as soon as
possible.
Truly yours
Mrs. Martin Cassetty Pulley
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Sunday
JUNE
17
JUNE 1934

Just Thomas
only with
Va. 29-
168 SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1934 197
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In reply to your request of - , received
for a statement of the military history of Thomas Cassetty a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
Oct. 1779 to Fall 1781
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
2 yrs.
RANK.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN.
William Cherry
COLONEL.
Joseph Crockett
STATE.
Va.

Exped. under Gen George Rogers Clarke.

Battles engaged in, none
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Botetourt Co., Va.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 28, 1832. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Smith Co., Tenn.
Age at date of application, born Sept. 9, 1762 in Augusta Co., Va.
Remarks: No family data.