Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3521, David Deaderick, Va.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE

Va.  Deaderick, David      NUMBER W. 3521
or Deadrick, Margaret B.L. Wt. 43.880-160-55

Contents:
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1239

Tennessee, Jonesboro:

Margaret Deadrick,
widow of David Deadrick
who served in the Revolutionary (Va) war, as a Priv. & Sergt.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 22 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of Nov. 1857 and sent to A. G. Graham, Jonesboro, Ten.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act July 29, 1848, Page 249 Vol. 36
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233.978.


Ach Merar 3
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Feby 2d 1856
Margaretta Deaderick
widow of David Deaderick
dec. 



Col Palmer
Capt Thurston
Capt Nevill
10

Revolutionary War
Paymaster
Lenn Ins July 29/68

Ad 160 ae's Oct 6 / 56

[illegible]
Present
Jonesboro, Tenn
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E ch P

Vol D = 63
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233.978.

Margaret Dederick
Claim for Land Bounty Act 3 March 1855

Filed by L. B. True
Present
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State of Tennessee
Washington County

On this 4th of December 1855, before me an acting Notary Public in and for said County, personally came Margaretta Deaderick, aged about 80 1/2 years, a resident of said County, and made oath in the form of law that she is the widow of David Deaderick, who was the identical person of that name who was a Paymaster, as she is informed and believes, in Col. [Marquis] Calmer's Regt in the Revolutionary war, as may be seen
from a certain original pay Roll found among the papers of her dec'd husband, in his own handwriting, to be filed in this application, which Roll shows a service of about 38 days, but as to what were the circumstances of his enlistment, service, and discharge, she has
no knowledge; but she refers to the said Pay Roll for the proof upon which she here her present application.

She states further that her said husband performed two other tours of service during the Revolutionary as a member of
Capt [Wayne] Thruston's Comp'y for 3 months, and of Capt. [John] Neville Comp'y for 3 mos, for which she applied for a pension
some years since, but, in account of a deficiency of proof the same is yet suspended; she however have her present claim in the "Record evidence" to be furnished the
department in the Pay Roll of her said husbands services as Pay Master, hereinbefore referred to. This Pay Roll was found by his Executor among the valuable papers of her said husband.

She states further that she was married her said husband in Washington County, Penn. on the 1st day of Jan in 1795 by one Rev. Sam'l Doak, L.D. that her name prior to her said marriage was Margaret Anderson; that her said
husband died in said County on the 20th of Oct. 1823- and that since then, she has remained a widow as may be seen from the proof hereto annexed,

She states further that she knows of no public record of her said marriage
as being in existence; but she has a Family Record
a copy of which is herewith transmitted.
She states further that she has not heretofore applied for land Bounty under this or any other act of Congress nor received Land Bounty, or Scrip under any act of Congress
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whatever - and this is her first, and only application for land Bounty under any act of Congress.
Margaretta Deaderick

We, John A. Aiken and John Blair, residents of the said County and State, hereby certify on oath, that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged in our presence by the said Margaret Deadrick, on the day it bears date; and that we know her to be the identical person she represents herself to be in the said Declaration

We state further that we have examined a Family Bible in the possession of the family of the aforesaid applicant, and among other statements, we find the following:

"David Deadrick & Margaretta Anderson, were married 1st Jan'y 1795 (in Tenn)"

Which we certify to be a correct copy of the original. We state further that we knew the aforesaid David Deadrick and Margaret Deadrick to live together many years as lawful husband and wife, and were known and reputed as such, and as such regarded in the Community in which they resided; that the said David Deadrick died in said County on or about the date set forth in the within Declaration (20 Oct. 1823) Since which time the said Margaret Deadrick has remained a widow and that we have no interest in her foregoing claim.

John A. Aiken, one of the foregoing witnesses, hereby states that he was present at the marriage of the foregoing parties.

John A. Aiken
John Blair
The foregoing Declaration and affidavit were subscribed and sworn to on the date aforesaid. And I certify that I know
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the said Declarant to be the identical person she claims to be - that the said affiants are credible witnesses - and that I have no interest in the said claim.

Given under my hand and official seal at office in Jonesboro on this 4th Dec 1855 and recorded the same in Bracket Page 21.

A. G. Graham Notary Public

The pap [illegible] has not delivered it to the parties. Mr Graham has seen it. There is no doubt about its genuineness. Mr True must not be recognized as the agt. Feby 24/56.

Jno D. Graham
Jonesboro Tenn;
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W 152 (B)
Margaret Deadrick
Wid of David
Tenn
Act 29 July 1848
Married 1795
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State of Tennessee
Washington County 
On this 9th day of February 1849 personally appeared before me Seth J. W. Lucky Judge of the first Judicial Circuit in & for the State of Tennessee. Margaret Deaderick, a resident of the town of Jonesborough in said county & state, aged seventy four years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress approved July 29, 1848; that she is the widow of David Deaderick, that she has frequently heard her deceased husband speak of having served in the Revolutionary war; at one time as a volunteer soon after the Battles of Wenton & Princeton when he marched with his company through those towns to Morristown, the Captain of the company he was in being
Captain Thruston, previously an Episcopal preacher. She understood from him that he [went?] more than one period; & at one time [he was]
a paymaster, he then resided in Winchester, in Frederick County Virginia; she has heard him speak of his company attacking a fort
mishing with the enemy but cannot state when or where. She has seen some papers related to his service in the war but does not know where they now are, or whether they would constitute documentary evidence; nor has she any other documentary evidence than the deposition of John ? of ?
She cannot state the day of the month or the year when he entered the service. She further declares she was married to the said David Dearderick on the first day of January Seventeen Hundred & Ninety Five & that her husband the aforesaid David Deaderick died on the twentieth day of October Eighteen Hundred twenty three; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previously to the second day of January Eighteen Hundred Viz at the time above stated Jany 1st 1795.
She further declares she is now a widow & she has never before made any application for a pension.

Margaret Dederick
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 9th day
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Of February 1849. & I do further certify that the deponent Mrs Margaret Deaderick owing to bodily infirmity cannot conveniently appear in open Court.

Seth J. W. Lucky
Judge of the first Judicial circuit in the State of Tennessee

State of Tennessee, Washington County
I Worley Embree clerk of the Circuit Court of Washington County one of the counties composing the First Judicial Circuit in the State of Tennessee, do certify that Seth J. W. Lucky is the Presiding & Resident Judge in & for said circuit & that his signature above to the declaration of Mrs. Margaret Deaderick attesting her signature & affidavit - there is his genuine signature.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & seal of office at office in Jonesborough in sd County this 10 day of February 1849.

Worley Embree Clerk
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Regiment of Col. Calmes. This affiant was quite familiar with said Deaderick’s handwriting - and knows, from this familiarity, that the same was in his own proper handwriting, the memorandum made upon the enclosed paper is in the handwriting of David A. Deaderick, a brother of this affiant; all of which goes to show that their father, after having served his tours each for three months; was, also, an Adjutant and Paymaster, of Col. Calmes 2nd Regt. Beyond the proof referred to, this affiant knows of no other to establish his last named service as application has been made to the proper officers at Richmond and Washington City, and no records have been found. The service having been in the Militia - and it is presumed no record was kept. This pay roll was entrusted to A. G. Graham, of this place Jonesboro - to file in this claim - and, as he alleges, he did forward the same to S. B. True of Washington City, a claim agent, requesting him to file with the papers, the same, and other papers, and prosecute the claim. This affiant learns that the papers never reached their destination; and as the pay roll contained a long list of officers & men, & other attaches of the army (or command, of Col. Calmes) it is suggested that he (Mr. True) retained the paper to assist him in prosecuting other claims. This affiant asks that the papers be again re-examined; that the fact that the Va. militia was limited by law to a three months tour - that as sd. Grimm testifies to two tours, they must necessarily have been of 3 months each - a sufficient time to put the case in the provisions of the law. Add this to the fact of Lilburne’s corroborative testimony - and of sd. Deaderick having in possession revolutionary papers, which were found after his death in his personal effects, one of which shows that he served in a high capacity - and the Department must at once see that not only is the fact of six months' service conclusively shown - but that he served a much longer period, and in a higher capacity - without taking into consideration the conclusive fact as herein after deposed by Mr. Graham, of the said Pay Roll, showing
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a luna in Col. Calmees command as payment and explant for "89 days" these facts command, this affiant he has that his mother should be placed when the housing Role; and so, he asks in this letter and affidavit
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the facts and circumstance are closed in the case that the Ms. Deaderick is
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Clerk of the County Court of Washington County in the State of Tennessee that the above copy of the Marriage Bond signed by David Deadrick & James Stuart is a true & correct extract from the Records in my office, including the date which is expressed in the original Bond & the Records in my office in fair legible figures as follows "31st day of December A.D. 1794 and in (thirty first day of December A.D. Seventeen Hundred Ninety Four) & in the 19th (nineteenth) Year of our Independence, as hereinbefore certified by me.

Sworn to before me this 10 day of February 1849.
R.S. Ferguson J.P.

W.H. Smith Clerk of the County Court of Washington County Tennessee.

State of Tennessee, Washington County
I William H. Smith clerk of the County Court of sd County do hereby that R.S. Ferguson Esqr. before whom the affidavit above was made by William H. Smith Clerk & is & was at the time of taking sd affidavit an acting Justice of the Peace in & for sd Washington County, duly commissioned & sworn & that the signature thereto, purporting to be his, is genuine & that full faith & credit are due to his official acts.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 10th day of February 1849

W.H. Smith Clerk
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Rev. & 1812
Wars Section
AWF/eel

January 5, 1929

Frankie Nelson
P.O. Box 5
Canton, Illinois

Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 3521, it appears that David Deaderick (pensioned as Deadrick), while residing at Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, served in the Virginia Troops as follows:
In 1775, three months as private in Captain John Neville's Company; in 1777, three months as orderly sergeant in Captain Thruston's Company, and about thirty-nine days as Paymaster in Colonel Calmes' Regiment, no dates given.
It is also stated that he furnished, during the War of 1812, a was on and six horse team to transfer the baggage of one of General Jackson's Regiments in the Greek Nation.
He died, October 20, 1823, in Washington County, Tennessee.
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The soldier married, January 1, 1795, in Washington County, Tennessee, Margaret or Margaretta Anderson. She was allowed pension on her application executed February 9, 1849, at which time she was living in Jonesborough, Washington County, Tennessee, aged seventy-four years.
Two sons are mentioned in said claim, John F. Deaderick, of Washington County, Tennessee, in 1857, and David A. Deaderick.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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(Copy)
Pension Office,
March 13, 1836.

Sir:
In reply to your letter of the 7th inst., I have to state that I have been informed by Mr. True, that the only original paper received by him in support of the claim of Margaret Diedrick, widow of David, asserted under the Act of July 29, 1848 and in which he was the attorney, with the exception of the enclosed order dated Oct 17, 1777, and signed Tim Pickering, was a certificate from a Quarter Master or Commissary he could not remember which; and as it was not recognized by this office as evidence of six months service, he sent it to the State Department in this city, accompanied by a letter in the hope that said certificate would enable the custodian of the Revolutionary Rolls in that Department to find additional evidence of service, and that it was not returned to him with the letter from the Department, stating that no evidence of service could be found.

We have no control over papers in the hands of parties presenting claims.
It is due to Mr. True, honor
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State of Tennessee, Washington County

On this 7th day of April 1852 personally appeared before the undersigned, Notary Public in & for said County, Jonah Lilburne, aged 51 yrs, a resident of said County, and who has been a magistrate of said County for many years, a man of high character & fully entitled to credit for veracity as a witness, and who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the son (or reputed so to be) of Andrew Lilburne, who was a citizen of said County, and a Revolutionary Pensioner of the U. States payable at the Jonesboro Agency, and that he died sometime in the year 1839. That his said father often conversed with one David Deadrick, then a citizen and a highly esteemed merchant of Jonesboro, in his presence, and he has often heard them speak of their services in the Revolution. His said father served under Capt. Neville of the Virginia troops during the Revolution, and he often heard him speak of said Deadrick as being in the same company, and he has often heard them relate to one another the various incidents of their services and campaigns in the Revolution. He states that their various conversations on the subject lead him to the belief that they served together for a considerable period in the Revolution. He states also that he has heard his father declare that he was paymaster in the service - that is to say, that said Deadrick acted in that capacity. It was always reputed that David Deadrick was a soldier of the revolution, & served a considerable period therein, and that each served nearly the same length of time during the Revolution.

Jonah Lilburne

Sworn to & subscribed before me, the day and year first above written. And I certify that Jonah Lilburne is a man of high of sd. County, and fully entitled to credit as a witness. Witness my hand & official seal at office, on the day & year last aforesaid.

A.G. Graham, Notary Public
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O. W.
and N. Division.
3 -- 525.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., 190
W. 3521
Miss Edith Scott
430 W Marin Sr. Morristown, James
In reply to your request of 21
received 23
for a statement of the military history of David Deaderick
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau.
Pension as Deadrick
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
RANK.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
COLONEL.
STATF.
1775 3 mos. Pvt. John Neville Va.
1777 3 mos. Ordly Sgt Thruston ''
" about 39 das. Paymaster Calmes or Calmees	"
It is also stated that he furnished a wagon & 6 horse team to transfer the bag. of all of Gen'l Jackson's Reg. in the Creek nation.
W. 43,880 - 160 - 55r-6

Battles engaged in, attack on some fort - name not specified.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Winchester, Frederick Co., Va.
Date of application for pension, Feb. 9, 1849. - Her cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Jonesboro Washington Co. Tenn.
Age at date of application, 74 yrs.
Remarks: Soldier died Oct. 20, 1823. Married in Washington Co., Tenn., Jan. 1, 1795, Margaret or Margaretta Anderson. Two sons are mentioned in said claim - John F. and David A.
Very respectfully,
3179355 10 - 07
by
Commissioner.
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430 W Main St.
Feb. 21st, 1911
The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC

Dear Sir,
Will you please give me official proof of the service of David Anderson Deaderick, W3521,  who had three campaigns in the Revolutionary War,- first as a private i the region of Pittsburgh, and subsequently in
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1777 in New Jersey, a part of the time as adjutant and paymaster of the regiment of Virginia militia commanded by Col. Calm, a third campaign as colonel of a regiment of Virginia troops. 

Also the official proof of service of Colonel Reynolds Ramsey, who fought under General Washington,
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in the battles of Princeton, and Trenton, and Monmouth Courthouse. Thanking you in advance,
I am, Yours truly,
Miss Edith Scott
430 W. Main St.
Morristown, Tennessee
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Virginia, Frederick County Sc.

Be it known that on this 6th day of February 1844 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared John Grim of Winchester in the said county aged Ninety years, who being duly sworn according to law deposed as follows, that he well knew David Deaderick before the Revolutionary War, who was then an inhabitant of Winchester, and resided there (excepting while in the service) for many years after, when he removed, as deponent understood, to Tennessee; that the said Deaderick and this deponent served together in a company of Volunteers at Pittsburg in the year 1775 (as well as deponent can recollect) at Pittsburg in a company commanded by Captain John Neville, the subalterns in this company were named Wigginton, Rice and Redd as well as he remembers.

Deponent and Mr. Deaderick served three months in this campaign as privates. Mr. Deaderick and deponent afterwards were in service together at Morristown in the State of New Jersey for the term of three months in a company commanded by Captain Thruston, and under the command of Genl. Sterling. Mr. Deaderick was an orderly sergeant in Thruston’s company - in this company Philip Bush was first Lieutenant a part of the time, and Edward Smith the other part. Deponent well knows that the said Deaderick served in these two campaigns full six months viz: three months as a private and three months as an orderly sergeant.

John Grim

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written before me, and I certify that the above named John Grim is entitled to the fullest credibility.

Ch. H. Clark
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Virginia
I Thomas Allen Tidball, clerk of the County Court of the County of Frederick, do hereby certify that Charles H, Clark before whom the written affidavit was made is one of the Commonwealth Justices of the peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix my seal of office this day of February 1866 and in the [?8th} year of the Commonwealth. T.A. Tidball