Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 20316, Uriah Burkett, N.C.
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Service
N.C.

Burkett, Uriah

Number
R. 20316
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Rejected
--- Ex'r. OLD WAR.
File No. 20.316
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.

Uriah Burkett
Srgt
Capt Rhodes
N. C. Line

ied at REJECTED
--- other claim.

---, 187  . ____
Clerk.

plication field: ____, 18  .
torney: ____
O.

Rejected Act 1828.

____, Ex'r.
____ Date.
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Uriah Burkett-  Srgt - 
S. Car. Line -
Rejected act 1828
Georgia
Ex - one old Book + Ref.
" General. - Wed 0 one old book
No Record
L.D.S
Nov 4/80
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O W Rej
# 20.316
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Thomas J. Hudson Esq.
Solicitor for claims on
the U. Sates
Washington City
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Raleigh 6th January 1829

Sir

Your letter of the 29 Ulltimo requesting a
certificate of the history of the service of Uriah Burkett is received.  On examination of the rolls of my office, I find that Uriah Burket a Copl in Capt Rhodes' Company of the 10th Regiment enlisted in the year 1781 (neithe the day or month mentioned) that his "time was out on the 25th April 1782." From which altho the length of time for which he enlisted is not mentioned, it is evident that he enlisted for 12 months only. - He is not entitled to land for his service. - Our State is not now granting warrants for military service.  By an act of the Legislature of 1823 they declared that they would not, after the 1st July 1824 grant or allow any land bounties, and have in only one case only violated that engagement. 

I am very respectfully 
Your most obt. Servt
Wm Hill

Theo. H Hudson ESQ
Solicitor for claims
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&
South Carolina
Richland District ⎬
Before me Benjamin Rawls
One of the Justices of the Peace in and for
the District & State aforesaid personally
appeared Samuel Allen & ILLEGIBLE
Witnes of the said District, who did
severally make oath that Uriah Bur
Kitt by whom the Declaration or
the opposite side of this paper is subscribed,
is generally reputed & believed
to have been a soldier in the Army
of the Revolution in manner as there
in stated
Witness my hand this eighth day of
November AD 1828
Kans his
Samuel & Allen
of
mark
her
Samantha Fithermark

a
I
James L Ginguard Clerk of the
Court of common Pleas & Spons
for Richland District State of
South Carolina do hereby certify
that Benjamin Rawls before whom the
foregoing affidavits were sworn was
& is at this time a Justice of the ILLEGIBLE
for said District & duly empowered
to administer oaths
In testimony whereof I have ben
unto set my hand affixed the Seal
of said Court this eighth day of Nov
AD 1828
James
Gregard
Clerk of Court
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South Carolina 1200
Richland District

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the Act entitled " An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and Soldiers of the Army of the   Revolution" approved the 15 of May 1878 I Uriah Burkett at present of Jones County & State of Georgia, to which have I removed in March 1827, but before that time of Sumter District in State of South Carolin do here by declare that I enlisted in the continental Service of the Revolutionary Army for and during the war.  I continued in the service until the termination f the war.  I enlisted in Capt. Daniel Williams Company of the 22d South Carolina Regiment. I was afterward transferred to Capt. Joseph Rhodes Company which I think was in the same Regiment.  At the close of the war I was a Sargeant in Capt. Rhodes Company.  I was discharged also declare that.  I afterward received certificates for reward of Eighty Dollars which I was entitled under the Resolves of forever happend the 15 of May 1778 but which I either lost or they were destroyed.  As I have never derived any benefit from them. 

I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of May 1828 on the pension list of the United States nor was I ever on said Pension List . 

Witness my hand this eighth day of November AD 1828.

Uriah (Mark) Burkett
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South Carolina   )
Richland District )

Know all men by their presents (presence) that I Uriah Burkett of Jones County & State of Georgia do hereby constitute and appoint Col. Joseph Watson or Thomas I. Hadson my true & lawful attorney, with power of substitution for me & in my name to receive from the United States the amount of pay now due to me under the act entitled "an act for relief of certain surviving officers & soldiers of the Revolution" approved 15th Mat 1828 as a Sergeant in Captn. Joseph Rhodes Company in the second Regiment of the South Carolina line of the Army of the Revolution.

Witness my and & seal this eighth day of November in the year of our Lord 1828.
                                                  his
Sealed & delivered       Uriah    S    Burkett   J.S.
in the presence of                   mark
J. J. Chappell 

Before me Benjamin Rawls Justice of the Peace in the District of Richland & State of South Carolina personally appeared this day Uriah Burkett - whose name is subscribed to the foregoing power of attorney, & acknowledged the same to be his act & deed, & also declared that the same was not given by reason of any transfer, or of any attachment, levy, or seizure by due legal process whatever of the way herein mentioned & authorized to be received, but that the said way is intended to ensure wholly to his personal benefit.

Witness my hand this eight day of November Anno Domini 1828

Benj Rawls
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I James L Guignard Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas & Sessions for the District
of Richland & State of South Carolina
do hereby certify that Benjamin Rawls
before whom the power of attorney
contained on the opposite page of this
paper was acknowledged is a Justice
of the Peace & Quorum for said District.
In Testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand & affixed the
Seal of the said Court. this eighth
day of November Anno Domini 1828
James L Guignard
Clerk Court
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REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.

TREASURY[m DEPARTMENT,
19 Nov 1828.
Uriah Burkett of [blank] in the County of
Jones in the State of Georgia has applied to the Secretary
of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving
officers and soldiers of the Revolution,” approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he
enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and
continued until its termination, at which period he was a Sergeant in captain
Rhodes's company, in the [marked through] regiment of the N Carolina
line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve
of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the
pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of
March, 1826, nothing.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by
the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary
F A Dickins.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
22nd November 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has
been issued to [preceding line marked through]
It further appears that Uriah Burkett is not [inserted] now on the pension
list of the[marked through] any agency, and has not [inserted] been so since the 3d March
1826
at the rate of [marked through]
dollars per month. [marked through]

The name of Uriah Burkett
cannot be found among those of the North Carolina 
line, to whom certificates for the gratuity
of Eighty Dollars, were issued-
[illegible] Hagner And