Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16,561, Peter Urton, Va.
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SERVICE   
NUMBER

Va.
Urton, Peter
S.16,561

carded
CONTENTS
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INDIANA  13608
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Peter Urton
of Orange Co. in the State of Indiana
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Little of the Regt commanded
by Ramsey in the Va
line for 7 months

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Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana
at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued on the 29 day of May
1833 and sent to John McVey. Paoli
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Arrears to the 4th of March 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept

46.66
11.66
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$58.32
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Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Daniel Boyd, Clerk
Book E Vol.7 Page 132

Date of death not on A.B.
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State of Indiana
Orange County {__}

On this thirteenth day of February 1833 personally appeared before the Honorable Thomas Vanorman Judge of the Orange County Probate Court in open court was sitting, Peter Urton a servant of said County of Orange and State of Indiana aged Sixty eight years on the 22nd day of April  next who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on this oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated - In the Spring of 1781 applicant was drafted for a three month tour in the County of Fairfax in the State of Virginia  where he at that time resided, in one week after he was drafted he rendezvoused at
Colchester in the same County, after they rendezvoused, applicant being under the immediate command of Captain Charles Little, he was marched to Dumfries about ten miles from Colchester under the command of Colonel Ramsey & General Churchill. From Dumfries the whole Army crossed the
Rappahannock River and entered Fredericksburg where we remained a day or two. From Fredericksburg we were marched to Williamsburg where the Army remained at the Governor's Palace about a month. From Williamsburg we were marched to the Halfway house, when Cornwallis's Troops,
being in pursuit, we retreated up to Little York, thence to Williamsburg
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thence to Ruffin's Ferry on the Pamunkey River, where we staid about a week. From Ruffin's Ferry, we proceeded on to Hanover Court House, thence towards Richmond, within about three miles of the latter place, and met the
Marquis de Lafayette and entered Richmond in Virginia, where we took up our quarters at the rope walk leaving Richmond this applicant was discharged having remained in the service about three months and twenty days. He entered the Service in the early part of March; he was marched back into Fairfax County before he was finally discharged he continued under the same officers during the whole tour. He does not believe that he received a written discharge for this tour, if he did he knows not what has become of it.
come of it.
In about two weeks after his return applicant entered the service again as Substitute for one
Henry Rector of Fauquier County in Virginia. He was drafted for three months tour. Applicant entered upon this tour at its commencement and went immediately into the Main Army under Captain O'Banion, Colonel Chun between Hanover Court House and Petersburg Soon after his entering the Army
he was marched to Stafford Court House. The whole Army during this campaign was maneuvering about through the neighborhood of Richmond, and between Richmond and Petersburgh, watching the enemy, sometimes in advancing and often retreating, this applicant remaining under the command of
Captain O'Banion and Colonel Chun, he served in this campaign about three months and ten days and was discharged in Loudoun County Virginia but does not recollect whether he received a written discharge, if he did, he has lost it, for he has no recollection of it – applicant was born in Fairfax
County in the State of Virginia, on the 22nd day of April 1765 from the Record Kept by his father, now in my brother's possession near
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near Middletown in Jefferson County Kentucky. After the revolutionary war applicant moved and settled in Loudoun County Virginia where he resided 20 odd years, then he moved
into Garrard County in Kentucky where he lived 23 or 24 years, he then moved to Harrison County Indiana, where he resided between two & three years, he settled in Orange County Indiana a little more than a year ago, where he now resides. He has no documentary evidence, nor does he know of any individual or individuals who can testify to his service. He is known in his present neighborhood by
Ingraham Davis, Abraham Osborn & John Head who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and
declares that his name is not upon the pension Roll of the agency of any State.
- Peter Urton, X his mark

We Joseph Redmon, a clergyman serving, residing in the County of Orange aforesaid, and A. Osborn in the same County and State hereby certify that we are well acquainted Peter Urton who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe will 68 years of age on the 22nd day of April next, that  he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion. 
Sworn to and subscribed the and day and year aforesaid. 
S/ Joseph Redmon
Abraham Osborn
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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 Joseph Redman who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Orange aforesaid and that Abraham Osborn who has also signed the same is a resident in the same County and is a credible person and that their statement is intitled [sic] credit.

I John McVey clerk of the Orange County Probate Court in the State of Indiana do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Peter Urton for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 13th day of February 1833
Jn. McVay Clk

Peter Urton
24340
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No 24340
Peter Urton Orange County Indiana

from 1781 private
7 months
$23 33/100

Little
Ramsey
Va

Jno McVey Clk Orange County Probate Court Indiana
Paoli
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
183

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June , 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 shew what is necessary to be done. These 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 complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 

A Statement, shewing the Service of Peter Urton Orange County Indiana
[following is in tabular format in original document]
Period when the service was rendered: Draf'd Sprg 1781
Duration of the claimant's service
Years: -
Moths: 3
Days: 20
Rank of the claimant: Private
Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served: Gl Churchill Cap Little, Col Ramsey
Period when the service was rendered: Sub 1781
Duration of the claimant's service
Years: -
Moths: 3
Days: 10
Rank of the claimant: Private
Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served: Cap O'Banyon, Colonel Chun
Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service: 68 years Fairfax County Virginia
Proof by which the declaration is supported: Traditionary evidence & Clergymans Certificate, witness certified credible papers correct

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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April 19, 1937

PETER URTON
S. 16561
BA-J/MLB

Glendora Charles
West Baden Springs Public Schools
West Baden Springs, Indiana

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of Peter Urton (Erton), a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

You are furnished herein the record of the only soldier named Peter Urton, under any spelling, found in the Revolutionary War records of this office. The data therein were obtained from pension claim, S. 16561, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

Peter Urton was born April 22, 1765, in Fairfax County, Virginia, the names of his parents are not given.

While residing in the place of his birth, Peter Urton enlisted early in March, 1781, rendezvoused at Colchester in that county, and served three months, twenty days as a private in Captain Charles Little's company, Colonel Ramsey's Virginia regiment. About two weeks after his return from this tour, he enlisted and served three months ten days as private in Captain O'Banyon or O'Banion's company, Colonel Chun's Virginia regiment.

After the Revolution the soldier settled in Loudon County, Virginia, where he resided "twenty odd years", then moved to Gerrard County, Kentucky, which was his place of residence twenty-three or twenty-four years, thence to Harrison County, Indiana, remained there between two and three years, then settled in Orange County, Indiana.

Peter Urton was allowed pension on his application executed February 13, 1833, while a resident of Orange County, Indiana.

The soldier married after the Revolution, date and place of marriage and name of his wife not given. After his marriage he settled in Loudoun County, Virginia.
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No reference was made in the claim to children.

In 1835, Peter Urton referred to his brother, name not stated, who was then residing in Middletown, Jefferson County, Kentucky.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the date of death of Peter Urton, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
Peter Urton
Certificate #13608
Issued May 29, 1833
Rate, $23.33 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act June 7, 1832
Indiana Agency.

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

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Ina
24340
March 19 1833

Paoli Ia
Mar 

Free
Hon Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington City D.C.
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1935 Aug 16, Hist. to Mrs. Milt Parks MLD
1937 Apr 19 Hist to Glendora Charles MLD

16561
INVALID.

File No. 16561
Peter Urton
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7" 32
Index:-Vol. 1, Page 384
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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mailed without review x

August 26, 1935

PETER URTON
S. 16561
BA-J/MLB

Mrs. Milt Parks
212 Summit Street
French Lick, Indiana

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of Peter Erton (or Urton), a soldier of the Revolutionary War, who died in Orange County, Indiana, where he was buried.

You are furnished herein the record of the only soldier named Peter Urton, under any spelling, found in the Revolutionary War records of this office. The data therein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 16561, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

Peter Urton was born April 22, 1765, in Fairfax County, Virginia; the names of his parents are not given.

The soldier, while residing in Fairfax County, Virginia, enlisted earl in March, 1781, rendezvoused at Colchester in that county, and served three months twenty days as a private in Captain Charles Little's company, Colonel Ramsey's Virginia regiment. About two weeks after his return from this tour, he enlisted and served three months ten days as private in Captain O'Banyon or O'Banion's company, Colonel Chun's Virginia regiment.

After the Revolution the soldier settled in Loudoun County, Virginia, where he resided "twenty odd years", then moved to Garrard County, Kentucky, which was his place of residence twenty-three or twenty-four years, thence to Harrison County, Indiana, remained there between two and three years, then settled in Orange County, Indiana, about 1831.

Peter Urton was allowed pension on his application executed February 13, 1833, while a resident of Orange County, Indiana.
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Peter Urton married after the Revolution, date and place of marriage and name of his wife are not given. After his marriage he settled in Loudoun County, Virginia.

No reference was made in the claim to children.

In 1835, Peter Urton referred to his brother, name not stated, who was then residing in Middletown, Jefferson County, Kentucky.

In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person paid and possibly the date of death of this soldier, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following:

Peter Urton
Certificate #13608
Issued May 29, 1833
Rae $23.33 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act June 7, 1832
Indiana Agency.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

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212 Summit St.,
French Lick, Indiana
Aug 9 1935

Pension Department
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs: I am asking you to please send me the military service as show [sic] from the pension record of Peter Erton, (or Peter Urton) a Revolutionary Soldier who died in Orange County, Indiana. I have not at this time the date of his death but I do know he was buried in this county. Also write me if the pension record gives the name of his wife. Thanks for the information.

Yourt truly,
Mrs. Milt Parks
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[letterhead]
James Allen, President of School Board
Frank Pope, Treasurer of School Board
William Newgent, Secretary of School Board
Audra Bedster, Principal
6-6 Organization 
Continuous Commission
West Baden Springs Public Schools
Herschel C. Baker, Superintendent
West Baden Springs, Indiana

April 8, 1937

Pension Department
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen: 
Will you please send me the following information:
1. The date of the birth and death of Peter Urton (Erton), a Revolutionary soldier.
2. When was he married.
3. Did his wife receive pension after his death?
4. What was her name, and the date of her birth and death?

I would appreciate it very much if you would send this information immediately. Thank you.

Very truly yours
Glendora Charles
Glendora Charles

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