Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32089, John Abbott, Continental N. C.
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Continental
N.C. Abbott, John  S.32089
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[26/48?] 
Indiana
John Abbott
[illegible] in the State of Indiana
was a private in the com commanded
Captain Little of the regt commanded
Col Dixon in the N C
for 1 year

Transcribed on the Roll of Indiana
the rate of 40 Dollars ----- Cents per annum 
commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of May
1834 and [illegible]
Livingston Bloomfield 
[illegible] to the 4th of March        120.00
[illegible] allowance ending Sept     20.00
                                                        $140.00
           {Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Danl Boyd   Clerk, 
[illegible] E  Vol. [illegible] Page 103

[on other side of page:]   
 Date of death not on G.B. [Ill?]
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State of Indiana Greene County} [c/3?]
Greene County Probate court  February Seven 1833 -

On this the fourteenth day of February in the year one Thousand Eight hundred and Thirty three personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Willis D. Lester Judge of the probate court of the County of Greene aforesaid now sitting. John Abbott resident of the said County, aged Seventy eight years on the 16th day of this instant, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the [illegible] Congress of the 6th. June 1832 - that he [extend] the Service of the United States, as an enlisted soldier in the war of the Revolution under the following named officers and in the following manner [illegible], [illegible] on the first day of June in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty one, that he enlisted and entered the service of the United States, as above stated in the [army?] of the United States in the war of the Revolution, at Guilford Court house in the county of Guilford in the State of North Carolina, for the Term of one year in the company commanded  by captain William Little in the regiment commanded by Col. [blank space] and Maj. Armstrong the name of said Col at this time not [certainly?] recollected, but believes it to have been Col. Dixon, in the [line?] of the State of North Carolina, and that he marched from Guilford N.C. under said Little and Armstrong immediately after he enlisted as [previous?] mentioned to the high Hills of Santee in the State of S.C. where he [joined?] headquarters under General Green where he remained at headquarters something like two months or thereabouts where he was ordered under Lieutenant Andrew Manning with twenty four other men, to [illegible] let Leec. [Redgmint?] to Col Singletonc. Mills, on the high Hills of Santee, to which [redgmint?] he was attached during the remainder of the time, of his said enlistment and that he served in said redgment under Lee as previous stated
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and under said Lieutenant Manning and Captain Rhendolph that during the time of his being attached to said regiment under Lee as aforesaid; that he was at the battle of Eutah Springs, and in several skirmishes with the tories and british not worth mentioning the attack made on Dorchester under Col. William Washington, and Lee, and Manion and [our?] [illegible] of [illegible] horse when the British were then stationed who abandoned the Fort and burnt the [illegible] leaving a part of their cannon spiked and threw a part of their ordinance into the well before they abandoned the fortress; that he still continued to be attached to said Regiment until he was discharged on the first day of June 1782. at the big springs near Dorchester and about 18 miles from Charlestown in S.C. and that during the time of his having been attached to said Regiment that he [principally?] and indeed altogether in his travels and marches confined to the State of South Carolina, that on the first day of June 1782. he was discharged as [illegible] stated, that said discharge was signed by General Greene that his discharge which he received as above stated [illegible] sold the [illegible] to Nathaniel Linder, that he was born in Dorchester County in the State of Maryland where he resided until the year 1780. where he [removed?] to [illegible] County North Carolina at which place he resided where he enlisted as herein stated and that since the [close?] [illegible] the revolution that he lived in the States of S.C. and N.C. Tennessee, and Indiana [illegible] that he lived in Tennessee [about?] [illegible] [illegible] years of that period, and nearly five years in Indiana [added text above here: "the plan of his present residence"] and the remainder of the time in S.C. and N.C. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present and declares his name is not on the pension list roll of any State or Territory as a pensioner.
       This deponent further states that he cannot prove nor has in his possession any written proof of his service other than his own declaration and the [illegible] he can [make?] by Josph Peter Hill, Barn Perry  his neighbors and citizens of the County of [Green?] and State of Indiana, and of a certain Solomon Mitchell resident of the county of Sumner in the State of Tennessee and Albert Hendricks, resident as (he believes) of Simpson county in the State Kentucky, which he prays may  [illegible] and
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made a part of this record; this deponent further states that he has no written or documentary evidence of his [age?] that he has never seen any record of his age; [but?] that from the tradition of his mother and his family that he believes that he was born on the 16th day of February in the year 1755. Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this 14 day of Day of February 1833 WD Lester Probate Judge 
              John [a written mark] his mark Abbott

State of Indiana Green County}
We the undersigned Isaiah H. Laurence a Minister of the Gospel and Barnabas Perry, Andrew Downing, Alexander Cleney, and Peter Hill, citizens of the County of Greene aforesaid, and residing in the [illegible] Vicinity of the mid John Abbott, all living within one mile of sd. Abbott certify that we are acquainted with the sd John Abbott who swore to and subscribed [illegible] above and foregoing declaration; That we believe him to be seventy eight years of age; and that he is expected and believed in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution in the army of the United States; as he states in his declaration and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribe in open Court this 14 Day of February 1833 W.D. Lester Probate Judge 
Isaiah H Laurence Minister of the [Separate?] Baptist
Barn Perry 
Andrew Downing
Alexander Cleney
Peter Hill

State of Indiana 
Greene County 
And he said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department [illegible]
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the above named applicant was a revoltionary Soldier and served as he states
And the Court further certifies that it appears
to them that Isaiah C. Laurance who has signed the
preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident
in the County aforesaid and that Barn, Perry
Andrew Downing, Alexander Clenny and
Peter Hill who has also signed the same are
are
resident Citizens of said County and credible
persons and that their statements are entitled
to credit
W. D. Lester -
Probate Judge

State of Indiana
Greene County
 Thomas Warnick Clerk of the
Circuit and Probate Court for the County
of Greene aforesaid do hereby certify
that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the said Probate Court
in the matter of the application of John
Abbott for a Pension
In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and the
Seal of the Circuit Court of said
County the same having been [illegible] by order of said Court as the Seal
of the Probate Court for the time being
this 14th day of February AD. 1833
Thomas Warnick Clerk
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26.728
John Abbott
Greene County
Indiana
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(j)
for 1780  pr 17
$40.

H. L. Livingston
Bloomfield
Ind.


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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 compling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim
Statement, showing the Service of

Period when the service was
rendered.

Duration of the
claimant's service.
Years.
Months,
Days

Rank of
the
claimant.

Names and rank of the Field officers
under whom he served.

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

Proof by which the declaration is supported.

1781    1 yr.   pri.  Cap Litle   78
                             C. Dixon


Trade [illegible] &
two witnesses who
have not been certified
to be credible see
note

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:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army,
and to include under the terms "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 of 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 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 } ss.
County of

On this    day of    personally appeared (a) before

A B. a resident (b) of   in the county of
and State, Territory or District
of aged (c)     years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, 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 country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as 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.

(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
soldier, 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
for a pension.
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 names 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,
except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and
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 a 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 applicant was a Revolutionary
Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B.
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the
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 certify that the application of
for a pension.
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 the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the 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 applicant, 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 soldier, 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 the 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 or 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
(a) The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
(b) The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
(c)The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
(d) The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
(e) Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the
claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, 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. 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 subsequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the 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 __ years____ months, and
days, I served as a . For months and - days, I served as a ; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c.
without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service.  This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement;
the particular place or places where the service was performed that he served; the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. 

(f)The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
(g)The opinion of the Court is always required.
(h)The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
(i)The Clerk must his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers. 

Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains
the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must
pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Proof of Service.
(j)In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to
set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, 
the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well
as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the
witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

I. J" The notes from (a) to (i)  are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note (j) applies to continental troops only.
(k) This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
(l) If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
(m) The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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June 23, 1936.
Mrs. Roy Bogner
225 N. E. 9th Street
Washington, Indiana.

BA-J/ILL
John Abbott
S. 32089
Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the
Revolutionary War record of John Abbot, a pensioner of Greene County,
Indiana.
The data given herein were found in the papers on file in
pension claim, S. 32089, based upon service of John Abbott in the
Revolutionary War.
John Abbott was born February 16, 1755, in Dorchester County,
Maryland, and lived there until 1780, when he moved to Guilford County,
North Carolina. The names of his parents were not shown.
While a resident of Guilford County, North Carolina, John
Abbott enlisted June 1, 1781, served as private in Captain William
Little's company, Colonel Dixon's North Carolina regiment and in
Captain Rudolph's company, Colonel Lee's regiment, was in the battles
of Eutaw Springs and Dorchester, South Carolina, and was discharged
June 1, 1782.
During the year following the close of the Revolutionary War
and the beginning of 1833, the soldier resided in South Carolina, North Carolina
, Tennessee and Indiana; twenty-five years of this period, he
resided in Tennessee in the vicinity of Sumner County, about five years
in Indiana, and the remainder of the time in the Carolinas, specific
dates not given.
John Abbott was allowed pension on his application executed
February 14, 1833, at which time he resided in Greene County, Indiana.
His name was born Abbott of the pension roll. There are no data relative
to the family of John Abbott.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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May 9, 1836
Indiana

J. L. Edwards
pension 
Bloomfield, Id.
April 28
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May 9, 1836

Bloomfield
April 28
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J L. Edwards
pension
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Bloomfield April 27th 1824
Dear Sir


Enclosed I Transmit you the pension
Claim of John Abbott of this County
Also
return your printed
letter according to
your request the depositions of Mitchell &
Hendrick have been again taken and
their credibility certified to, should the claim
of Mr. Abbott be Granted please drew a
draft in favor of John Inman a merchant of this place on the U.S. at Lawrence Co. by
which Mr. Abbott can receive his money
without
going to
Corydon-- and place
him on 
the agency at Indianapolis
O. L. Edwards
Yours &c
H L Livingston
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Indiana 
J. L. Edward
pension office
War Department
Washington City

Bloomfield, Id. 
April 28
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State of Tennessee
Sumner County
On the 8th day of June in the year 
Eighteen hundred thirty three personally appeared before we the undersigned Rueben Searcy a justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid 
Albert Hendrick 70 years aged who’s being first day sworn according to laid deposit and 
saith that 
He is intimately acquainted with John Abbott who
On the fourteenth day of February in the year Eighteen hundred thirty three 
hundred and thirty three before the probate court
of the County of Greene and State of Indiana
made and subscribed his declaration in order
to obtain the benefit of an act of congress of the
7th June 1832. This deponent states that his first
acquaintance with John Abbott was in the year 1781 &
that at that time said Abbot was a soldier in the Revolution
service, & served under Col Lee. that he has been well
acquainted with said Abbot ever since that date up to the
Present time, that they were in a small skirmish at
Dorchester in South Carolina, that this deponant served
in a different Captain's Company, but constantly knew
John Abbot & frequently saw him whilst they were
in service, but this deponent was discharged from service before said Abbot was, & the manner in which said
Affin was discharged this deponent does not know but

believes said Abbot Remained some considerable time in
service & expects he was honorably discharged and
this deponent further states that the
said John Abbott in said declaration mentioned in the same Identical John Abbott
with whom I was acquainted, and with whom I served
in the revolutionary war as time stated and
that I have no reason to doubt and that

I do virily believe that said John Abbot
was in the revolution as he states in his declaration
and further this deponent saith not
Albert   X   Hendrix
his mark
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State of Tennessee
Sumner County
I the undersigned Reuben Searcy a Justice of the peace in and for the County and State
aforesaid do certify that the
above and foregoing deposition of Albert Hendricks was by said Hendricks duly sworn and subscribed
to and taken before me on this 8th day
of June in the year 1833
Reuben Searcy J. P.

State of Tennessee
Sumner County 
I Alfred H Douglass
Clerk of the
County Court in and for the County and State
aforesaid do hereby certify that Reuben Searcy
whose name appears to the above and fore
going certificate is and was at the time
of signing the same an acting Justice of
the peace in and for the county and State
aforesaid and
duly authorized and commissioned as such, and that as such Justice of
the peace as aforesaid that all his official
act are entitled to due faith and credit
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
seal of office at my office in
Gallatin
on this the 5th day of
July 1833 & 58th year of American
Independence

A. H. Douglass Clerk
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State of Tennessee
Sumner County
I Thomas Anderson presiding Justice of
the Court of pleas & quarter sessions for the
County of Sumner aforesaid, hereby certify that
Alfred H. Douglass whose signature appears

to the foregoing certificate is Clerk of said
Court, that full faith & credit is due to all
his official acts as such & his attestation
is in due form of law.
Given under my hand and seal this 5th day of
July A.D. 1833
Thomas Anderson ℗
Presiding Justice S. C. C.
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State of Tennessee
Sumner County
●
On this the Eighth day of
of
June
in the year Eighteen hundred thirty three
personally appeared before me the undersigned
Reuben Searcy
a Justice of the peace in and
for the County and State aforesaid Solomon
Mitchell 72 years who being first
duly sworn according to law deposeth
and saith that he is intimately acquainted with the said John Abbott
who as it appears on the Fourteenth day of
February in the year Eighteen hundred
and thirty three before the probate court
of the County of Green and State of
Indiana made and subscribed his
declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of an act of congress of the 7th of June
1832. That this deponent was intimately acquainted
with John Abbot about Fifteen years before the Commencement of the Revolutionary war, this deponent further
States that about the year 1781 John Abbot & Allenbee Williams
left their homes & as he was informed, for the purpose of enlisting in the Revolutionary service he well knows that they
were gone upwards of Twelve months, then they returned &
the said John Abbot & Williams both brought to this deponent their discharges, which this deponent read & recollects
they were honourably discharged & that their discharge was
Signed by Genl. Green. This deponent has always lived in
the same neighborhood with said John Abbot & was

has been acquainted with said Abbot before & since the
Revolutionary war up to the present time
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and this deponent further states that the
said John Abbott is said declaration
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mentioned is the same Identical John Abbott
with whom he was acquainted and whose discharge
he read as here stated and further this deponent with not do
Sol. Mitchell

State of Tennessee
Sumner County 

I Reuben Searcy the undersigned Justice of the peace for the County & State aforesaid
Certify that the above & foregoing deposition of
Thomas Mitchell was by said Mitchell duly
sworn & Subscribed to & taken before me on this 8th
of June in the year 1833 
Reuben Searcy seal

State of Tennessee
Sumner County 
I, Alfred H Douglass Clerk
of the Court of Pleas and quarter sessions for the
County of Sumner aforesaid do certify that
Reuben Searcy whose name appears to the above
certificate and before whom the foregoing affidavit
purports to have been made is and was on the
the date thereof an acting Justice of the peace in
for said County duly Commissioned and qualified
that full faith and credit is due his official
acts as such
In testimony whereof I hereunto set
my hand and affix the seal of
said Court at Office this 5th
day of July 1833 58th year of
American Independence
A. H. Douglass Clerk
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State of Tennessee
Sumner County ⎬
I Thomas Anderson presiding Justice of
the Court of pleas & quarter sessions for the
County of Sumner aforesaid, hereby certify
that Alfred H Douglass whose signature
appears to the foregoing Certificate is Clerk
of said Court; that full faith & credit is due to all his official acts as such and his
attestation is in due form of law.
Given under my hand & seal the 5 day of
July A.D. 1833

Thomas Anderson ℗
Presiding Justice
S.C.C.
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State of Tennessee
Sumner County
On this the 24th day of [illegible] in the year 1833
personally appeared before me the undersigned Reuben
Sary a Justice of the peace in and for the County and
State aforesaid, Albert Hendricks aged 70 years, who being
first duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith
that he is intimately acquainted with the John Abbott
who on the 14 day of February 1833 before the probate court
of the County of Greene and State of Indiana, made and
subscribed his declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of the provisions made by the act of congress of the 7th of
June 1832. This deponent states that his first acquaintance
with the said John Abbott was in the year 1781, and that
at that time said Abbott was a soldier in the revolutionary
Service and served under Col. Lee. that he has been
well acquainted with the said Abbot ever since that
date up to the present time, that they were in a
small skirmish at Dorchester in South Carolina
that this deponent and in a different captain's
company but constantly know said Abbot and
frequently saw him whilst they were in the service
but this deponent was discharged from the service
before said Abbott was, and the manner in which
said Abbott was discharged this deponent does not know.
but believes that Abbott remained some considerable
time in the service and was honorably discharged
and this deponent further states that the said John Abbott in said declaration mentioned is the same
Identical John Abbott with whom I was acquainted
and with whom I served in the revolutionary war as
here stated and that I have no reason to doubt and
that I do verily believe that said John Abbott served
in the revolution as he states in his declaration
and further this deponent said not
Albert Hendricks
his mark
State of Tennessee
Sumner County ⎬
I the undersigned Ruben Leary a Justice of the peace
in and for a county do certify that the above and forgoing
deposition of Albert Hendricks was by Hendricks duly sworn and
subscribed to and made before me and I do further certify
that the said Albert Hendricks is a person of undoubted truth
and veracity and that his statement is entitled to credit under
oath Given under my hand & seal this the 24th day of Oct. of 1833
Reuben Searcy
=
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State of Tennessee
Sumner County
I, Alfred H Douglass Clerk of the Court of pleas and
quarter Sessions for the County of Sumner aforesaid do certify
that Reuben Searcy name whose
appear to the above and
foregoing certificate, and before whom the forgoing affidavit
purports to have been taken is and was at the time of the
date thereof an acting Justice of the peace in and for
said county, duly commissioned and qualified and
that due faith and credit is due his official acts as such

In Testimony whereof I hereunto set
my hand and affix the seal of said court
at office this the 18th day of April, 1834
and 58th year of American Independence
A H Douglass Clerk

State of Tennessee
Summer County ss
I Thomas Anderson presiding Justice of the
Court of pleas and quarter Sessions
for the County of Sumner aforesaid certify that Alfred
H Douglass whose signature
appears to the foregoing certificate is Clerk of said court, that full faith and credit
is due to all his official acts as such and that his attestation is due
form of law
Given under my hand and
seal this the 18th day of April 1834
-
Thos. Anderson seal
Presiding Justice S C C


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State of Tennessee
Sumner County
on this the 24th day of December in the year 1833
personally appeared before me Reuben Searcy a justice
of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Solomon
Mitchell, aged 72 years who being first duly sworn according to
law deposeth and saith that he is intimately acquainted with
the John Abbott did appear on the 4th day of
February
1833 before the probate court of the County of Greene State of Indiana, made and subscribed his declaration in
order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of
June 1832. That this deponent was intimately acquainted with
the John Abbott about 15 years before the commencement of the
Revolutionary war, this deponent further states that about the
year 1781. John Abbott, an Allenbee Williams, left their homes
and went (as he was informed) for the purpose of enlisting
in the Revolutionary service, he well knows that they
were gone upwards of twelve months, then they returned
and the said John Abbott and Williams both brought to the
deponent their discharges which this deponent read and ┃
recollects they were honorably discharged, and that their
discharges were signed by Genl. Green. This deponent
has always lived in the same neighborhood well the said
John Abbott, and ever has been acquainted with its said
John Abbott before and since the Revolutionary war up to the present time
and this deponent further states that the said John
Abbott in said declaration mentioned is the same initial
John Abbott with whom he was acquainted
and whose discharge he read as here stated and further
this deponent saith not of
Solomon Mitchell

State of Tennessee
Sumner County
I the undersigned Reuben Searcy a Justice of the peace
and for the County and State aforesaid do certify that the above &
foregoing deposition of Solomon Mitchell was by said Mitchell duly
Sworn and subscribed to, and taken before me; and I do
further certify that the said Solomon Mitchell is a person of
unquestionable truth and veracity; and that his statement is
entitled to credit under oath Given under my hand
seal this the 24th day of Dec. 1833
Reuben Searcy ℗
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State of Tennessee
Sumner County ⎬

I, Alfred H. Douglass Clerk of the Court of Pleas
and quarter Sessions for the County of Sumner aforesaid
do certify that Reuben Searcy whose name appears to the above
and foregoing certificate and before whom the foregoing
affidavit purports to have been taken, is and was at the time
of the date thereof an acting Justice of the peace in and for said
county, duly commissioned and qualified and that full
faith and credit is due his official acts as such
In Testimony whereof I hereunto
set my hand and affix the seal
of said Court at office this the 18th day
of April 1834 and 58th year of
American Independence
A H Douglass Clerk
State of Indiana
Sumner County of
I Thomas Anderson presiding Justice of the
Court of pleas and quarter Sessions for the County of Sumner aforesaid, hereby certify that Alfred H
Douglas whose signature appears to the foregoing
certificate is Clerk of said Court. that full faith and
credit is due to all his official acts as such and that
his attestation is in due form of law
Given under my hand
seal this
the 18th day of April 1834
Thomas Anderson
Presiding Justice J.C.C.
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Bureau of Pensions,
War Department,
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen;
Carrollton, Illinois,
April 22, 1920.
Have you any record of Revolutionary services of Benjamin
Ozbun, of Botetourt Co., Virginia? This name, in family papers that I have
is variously spelled Ozbun, Ozburn, Ozbourn, Asbourn, Osborn and
Osborne. The Greene Co. Illinois history states he had two sons in the
Revolution, but does not give names, but supposed they served from Botetourt
Co. Bartholomew Ozbun, son of Benjamin, was born in 1777 in Botetourt
Co. and tradition says his father, Benjamin, just mentioned, was a soldier in the Revolution. Soon after the Revolution this Benjamin Ozbun
moved to North Carolina and later to Bourbon Co., Ky.

Another I should like to know about is John Abbott He was, according to the history mentioned, also a soldier in the Revolution. The
daughter of John Abbott married Bartholomew Ozbun, son of Bejmain Osbun,
in 1805, in Sumner Co., Tenn. I suppose her parents, John and Margaret
Abbott, resided at that time in Sumner Co. I do not know whether he served in North Carolina, Tenn., or Virginia troops.
Assuring you of my appreciation of any data you may send me on
these Revolutionary soldiers, I am,
Very truly yours,
Alice Ozbun Foreman.
(Mrs. Horace Foreman)

none any spelling
[hand written on the side of the letter, next to the various spellings. ]
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[first seal/stamp] Washington Mar 20 4 P M 1936 IND.

[second seal/stamp] Received Mar 23 1936

THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS


Veterans Administration
Washington D.C.
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Washington, Indiana
Mar 20, 1936

Dear Sir

Will you please send the military
record
and any other data you may have
on John Abbot of Greene Co. Indiana who
served in the Revolution with Virginia
Militia - Pensioned in 1831 in Greene Co. India
Yours, 
Mrs. Roy Bogner
225 N.E. 9th St.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3-525
S32089

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _________ 19 ____

In reply to your request of
received
a statement of the military history of John Abbott 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.
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
June 1781

LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
1 yr.

RANK.
Pri.

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Wm. Little
Rudolph
COLONEL.
Dixon
Lee

STATE.
N.C.
Battles engaged in, Eutaw Springs, Dorchester
Residence of soldier at enlistment Guilford Co. N.C.
Date of application for pension, Feb. 14, 1833. His claim was al.
Residence at date of application, Greene Co Ind.
Age at date of application, b. Feb, 16, 1755, in Dorchester Co. Md.
Remarks: Soldier stated that he lived about 25 years in the
State of Tenn. but did not give places of residence, nor
is there any data on file as to his family.

Respectfully,
Commissioner.


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Miss Varina D. Hanna
272 East Maxwell Street
Lexington, Kentucky.

July 24, 1933.
BA-J/ILL
John Abbott-S.32089
John Ross-R. 9023
Dear Madam:
The records of John Abbott and John Ross are given herein
as found in the papers on file in the above noted pension claims,
based upon service in the Revolutionary War.
JOHN ABBOTT-S. 32089.
John Abbott was born February 16, 1755, in Dorchester County,
Maryland and lived there until 1780, when he moved to Guilford County,
North Carolina. The names of his parents are not stated.
He enlisted June 1, 1781 in said Guilford County, then his
residence, served as a private in Captain William Little's company, Colonel
Dixon's North Carolina regiment and in Captain Rudolph's company, Colonel
Lee's regiment, was in the battles of Eutaw Springs and Dorchester, South Carolina
, and was discharged June 1, 1782.
From the period after the Revolutionary War until the time of
his application for pension, John Abbott resided in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Indiana; twenty five years of this, he resided
in Tennessee, about five years in Indiana, and the remainder of the time
in the Carolinas, specific dates not given.
He was allowed pension on his application executed February 14,
1833, at which time he resided in Greene County, Indiana.
There are no data relative to the soldier's family in this claim
for pension.
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John Ross-R. 90231/2

John Ross, the son of Hugh and Margaret Ross, was born in the year1760 in the parish of Troy, Inverness Shire, Scotland (North Britain.)
His father, Hugh migrated with his wife, John, and his seven sisters,
Margaret, Jane, Janet, Isabell, Rachel, Catherine
and Elizabeth, about
two years before the Revolutionary War to Wilmington, North Carolina.
One son, whose name is not shown, remained in England or Scotland. Said
Hugh Ross died, the date not stated, at a place called Cross Creek; his
son, John, was serving an apprentice as a baker at the beginning of the
War in Wilmington, North Carolina.

On July 15, 1844, John Ross was a resident of Windsor, Hants County,
Nova Scotia; he had resided in that Province
for about forty years. He
applied then for pension on account of his service in the Revolution
War.
He stated then that he enlisted in Wilmington, North Carolina, in
1775, served as a private in Captain Ashe's company, Colonel Clark's
1 North Carolina regiment, was in the battle at Moore's Bridge, and
in a
skirmish at Cape Fear; that he afterwards served under a Captains William,
McKeif (or McLean), Summers, Reid, Hall, Bowman, Arby, and Colonels Clark,
Lytle, Bucklin and Shepard in the North Carolina troops, that he was in
the battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth, following which he
wintered at Paramus, at which place he was severely wounded in the neck
by the accidental discharge of a musket in the hands of a boy, on account
of which he was in the hands of an Army doctors later, he marched from
West Point to Charleston, South Carolina, was in the Siege of Charleston, and was taken prisoner, suffered many hardships, was placed on a
prison ship in the harbor, and was held a prisoner until the end of the
war. Following this, that he, with other prisoners of war, were set on
shore, where he almost lost his life in an encounter with some Hessians,
and finally went on board an American vessel to New York, and later, on
a vessel engaged in coasting trade, to Nova Scotia.
His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service
as required by the pension law under which he applied for pension.
2.
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Sometime after John Ross reached Nova Scotia, he married and reared a large family of children; the date of his marriage, and names of his wife and children are not shown in this claim.

The soldier stated that he saw his mother only once after he entered the war, and that he had 
never heard from his sisters.

Very truly yours,

A. D. Hiller,
Assistant to Administrator.