Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1537, Lewis Buskirk, Penn
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Service                                    Number
Penn.         Buskirk Lewis         R. 1537
                               Sarah
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Contents
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1537
REJECTED

P.O. Lewis Buskirk

Service:
Enlisted: _______, 18 __.
Discharge _______, 18 __.
Application Filed: ____, 18 __.

Alleges: 
P.O.

______ Recognized   _________ Contract
______ Cert. of Dis.  Searched for ______, 18 __.
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Rejected

See letter to Henry H. Snow
Quincy

18 March 1835

1537
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32.876       Dec 13

Pension Office
13 Dec 1834
Ills.
Illinois

Rejected did not
serve six months
in a military capacity

Free

Pension Office
War Department
Washington, D.C.
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State of Illinois
Adams Circuit Court
Adams County
(illegible) Tenn. 1824

On this 19th day of August, personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Richard M. Young, judge of the aforesaid circuit court, Lewis Buskirk, a resident of the county and state aforesaid, aged seventy-four 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 provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7th1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein after states. 

He entered the service in the (illegible) of a private as a spy in the year 1776 under command of Col. Samuel Hedge of the Militia.  He was sent out by Col. Hedge with a man by the name of Postleright to spy along the river between Pittsburgh and Wheeling; that he continued in said service five months.  That he resided at the time he entered the said service on or near the line between the states of Pennsylvania and Virginia in Washington County, six or seven miles from the Ohio River.

That he again entered the service in 1777 in the regiment commanded by Col. Flannigan in Capt. Samuel Mason's company of Militia under Gen. Broadhead; that he continued in the service as a private six weeks; that he resides at the same place aforesaid; that from Pittsburgh up the Allegheny river was the theater of his services during this campaign.  

That he again entered the service in the year 1778 under command of Capt. (illegible); that he resided at the time of (illegible) the service at this last time at the same
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plan aforesaid and continued in the service at the Beach Bottom Fort for two years.  There was no officer in said fort higher in command than militia Capt. and applicant does not know that said company was attached to any regiment.  That during the whole of said service he was in no regular battle that they had some small skirmished with detached bodies of Indians but he was not during the said several tours of service employed in any civil pursuit.  That he knew of the officers of the regular Army Gen. McIntosh.  That he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state. 
                                               his
                                       Lewis X Burskirk
                                              mark

    Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
                                    //s//
            Henry H. Snow Clerk Circuit Court -A.G. 
   
    And the said court does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.

                                            //s//
                                Richard Young 
                                Circuit Judge

    I Henry Snow clerk of the circuit court of Adams County & State of Illinois do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Lewis Buskirk for a pension.
    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 20th day of August 1834.
                                         //s//
                               Henry Snow Clerk
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We, William Roberts a clergyman residing in the county of Adams & State of Illinois and John Horton residing in the county of Adams & state of Illinois hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Lewis Buskirk who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy four 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 the opinion.                         //s//
                                 William Roberts
                                           //s//
                                    John Horton
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court.
                            //s//
                 Henry H. Snow Clerk Circuit Court Adams County Illinois.

    And the said court does hereby declare his 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 him that the said William Roberts who signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the county of Adams & State of Illinois and that John Horton who also signed the same is a resident in the same county & state last aforesaid and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
                                                 //s//
                                        Richard Young  
                  Circuit Judge, 5th Judicial Circuit
                                     State of Illinois 

    I Henry H. Snow Clerk of the said circuit court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains that original proceeding of the said court in the matter of the application of Lewis Buskirk for a pension.  In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this 20th day of August 1834.

                                            //s//
                                 Henry H. Snow Clerk
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Where & in what year was you born?
- I was born in New Jersey in the Year 1760.

Have you any record of your age & if so, where is it?
  - I have none, it was burnt in my father's house.

Where was you living when called into the service? Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War?  Where do you now live?
  - I lived in Wahington County in the state of Pennsylvania when first called into service and I lived in Pennsylvania when firt called into the service and I lived in Pennsylvania and Virginia during the revolutionary war.  Since the revolutionary war I have lived most of the time in Bourbon & Grant counties in the state of Kentucky and I now live in Adams County in the state of Illinois. 

How was you called into service?  Was you drafted?  Did you volunteer? or was you a substitute? and if so, for whom?
   -  I was not drafted; I volunteered and was not a substitute.

State the name of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served such continental & militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your services.
   -  I did know some of the officers but do not recollect their names very distinctly.  I think there was a Colonel named Flanagan.  I know a Colonel Kennedy & General Broadhead but don't recollect whether they were regular continental or militia officers.  Captain Williams & Mason were militia officers. Colonel Hedge & Captain Agle were also militia officers.  There were no important events attending my service but Capt Oge under whom I served part of the time and Capt. Mason were defeated by the Indians at Fort wheeling.  At that time, I belonged to Capt. Agles' Company but was left at Beach Bottom Fort & was not in the engagement. (Next page)  
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 - Did you ever receive a discharge from the service & if so, by whom was it given & what has become of it?
 - I never received any written discharge.

 - State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood who can testify as to your character for veracity and good behavior and your services in the revolution as a soldier.
 - Of my present neighbors I will state Samuel Wright, Robert Childers, John Thornton, Daniel Harrison and Jacob Franks who I believe will testify to my correct deportment and character for veracity, but I know of no person there who of their own knowledge can testify to my services as a soldier in the revolutionary war.
                                           his
                                 Lewis   X   Buskirk 
                                          mark
Sworn to and subscribed in open court August 21st, 1834.       //s//
           Test.  Henry H. Snow Clerk Circuit Court

     Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Adams and state of Illinois, Lewis Buskirk who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that be reason of old age and the consequence loss of memory he cannot swear positive by as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less that the periods mentioned below in the following grads for the year 1776 - five months I served as a private, for the year 1777 one month and twelve days I served as a private, in the year 1778 & 1779 I served two years as a private and for such service I claim a pension.             his
                                           Lewis   X  Buskirk
                                                    mark 
Sworn and subscribed this 20th day
of August A.D. 1834.

                           //s//
              J. H. Ralston Justice of the Peace
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(Transcriber's note: An addressed envelope.)

   (Date stamp)
Washington D.C.
          26
     August
          CIS

Lewis Buskirk or Heirs  
Quincy
Adams Co.
Illinois

 Suspended
Act 1832
Illinois
 
Feb 1853
Mr. Hossler
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A. Jones, Quincy, Ill.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due to Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, ss*

State of Illinois
County of Adams 

Be it known that before me a Justice of the Peace for said county personally appeared Sarah Buskirk aged 77 years, who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law, states that she is the widow of Lewis Buskirk deceased who was a revolutionary soldier in the State of Virgina and that he died on the 5th day of September 1838 and that they were married on the __ day of February in the year 1811 and that they were residents of Pendleton County in the State of Kentucky and that they resided there and we (illegible) county 18 years, and that she resides in Adams County, Illinois and that furthermore she BY THESE PRESENTS, constitutes, appoints, and fully empowers and authorizes, irrevocable and with powers of substitution, F.E. Hassler, of Washington City, D.D. as her true and lawful attorney for her and in her name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U.S. Government and States officers her rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land that may be due her as widow of d(eceased) Lewis Buskirk who died leaving the same undrawn, as in right of law she may be entitled.

    In witness whereof, she has on this fifth day of January 1852, hereunto signed her name, and affixed her seal. 
                                  Sarah X Buskirk

Attest   //s// Silas Beebe
Witness: //s// Thomas Crown
Witness:  his William X Hickerson mark

    Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me; and I further certify, that she has always by the community been known as the wife of Lewis Buskirk.
    Dated on this fifth day of January AD 1852
                                       //s//
                                   Silas Beebe          J.P.

State of Illinois
County of Adams  }to wit:

   I hereby certify, that Silas Beebe Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgement were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.

    I testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County Court, this sixth day of January one thousand eight hundred and fifty three.

            //s//
Hames C. Bernard County Clerk of A C Ill.
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* If a widow applies, state "the date of marriage, and date of death of her husband."
+ State under what act pensioned or when pension commenced, if a pensioner - and amount of pension.