Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1416, Sherod Buzby, S.C.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
S.C.

Buzby, Sherod

NUMBER
R. 1416

CONTENTS
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 1416       REJECTED
Sherrod Bugby
4019
P.O.

Service:

Enlisted:                  , 18
Discharged:            , 18

Application filed:   , 18

Alleges:  

Re-enlisted:

Attorney:

P. O. _
_____Recognized.   _____Contract.
Cert.  of  Dis.        Searched for, 18
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No 39118

Sherrod Bugby - died
Alabama

Rejected Died before 4th
March 1831 - Let to
Jennings Pigott Aug. 3. 1857

1416 

Act June 7. 1832
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State of Alabama
County Shelby
On this 24th day of June 1857 personally came before me Hampton Buzby an acting justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid personally appeared Maraday Bagby aged 67 years a resident of the county of Shelby and state of Alabama who as being duly sworn according to law declares that he is a son and heir at law of Sherod Bugby who was a soldier during the war of the Revolution that he has been informed and believes that his said father enlisted at Charleston South Carolina probably in 1777 cannot say under whom thinks he has heard that his father fought at the battle of the Cowpens that he seved three years as a regular in said war and that he served through the greater part of the war and for a portion of the time commanded a company of S Carolina militia He has heard that his said father served under General Wayne but does not know the subordinate officers under whom his said father served
He makes this declaration in order to obtain the Bounty land and pension to which he may be intitled under the several acts of Congress in such cases made and provided
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and hereby appoints Jennings Pigott of Washington DC his true and lawful attorney to prosecute his claim before the department of the Interior of other branch or branches of the government for any amount of pension or bounty land to which he may be entitled for the services of his said father deceased who was a soldier as aforesaid in said Revolutionary War He also states that his said father married the widow Jacobs in South Carolina the date of marriage not now recollected that his mother the wife of his said father died in Giles county Tennessee about thirty years ago and that his said father died about two years afterwards in the same place as was buried by the side of his wife
Maraday Buzby
Sworn and subscribed the day and year first above written and I certify that the afficant is a man of truth and varacity and that I have no interest in his claim to Bounty land and pension
H Buzby JP
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No 39.118
Application of Maraday Bugby
pension & bounty land

Rejected - died before 
March 4th 1831

Filed by 
Jennings Pigott
present

The state of Alabama
Shelby County SS } I John McClanahan Judge of the Probate in and for said county and Exofficso clerk of said court and keeper of the county seal of said county hereby certify that Hampton Bugly Esqr whose genuine signature is signed to the foregoing certificate is and was at the date thereof an acting justice of the peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn & to whose official acts as such due faith & credit should be given and I further certify that I have no interest in this application the testimony of which witness my hand and seal of office
24 June AD 1857
J McClanahan
Judge of Probate