Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2988, William Asberry, Va.
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[Printed document with handwritten entries]

(3 - 1776)
SERVICE | NUMBER
Va. | Asberry, William | W. 2988
Bateman, Susan | B.L. Wt. 77-60-55
Former widow | B. L. Wt. 11873-100- Issued July 7, 1792 No papers
CONTENTS
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Form VAM-51-
12-5-41 | BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD* | Division of Veterans' Administration 
Archives

NAME Asbery, William GRADE Private LINE Virginia

WARRANT NUMBER  11873 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 7, 1792 to Robert Means, assignee

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
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State of Kentucky}
Mason County} Set

on this 20th day of August 1844 before William D. Corgell a justice of the peace
for County of Mason and State of Kentucky personally appeared Susan Bateman of the County + State aforesaid, who on her Solemn oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions of the act of Congress of the 7th of July 1838

This Affiant states that she is informed and
believes that William Asberry a Citizen of the County of Fauquier + State of Virginia at or about the commencement of the Revolutionary War enlisted as a soldier in the Virginia continental line for the period during the war and served as such in said Line + she is informed + believes for a period of six years
and during the period for which he was enlisted, she is informed + believes, that he was a soldier at the taking of Lord Cornwallace at York Town in 1781 She well recollects that he was a soldier and came to Winchester Frederick County Virginia guarding the British prisoners taken in the battle of York Town, That she cannot from old age state the company or Regiment to which said William Ashery was attached but thinks it was Capt Blackwell though of this she is not certain
Though she is certain that she has often heard him speak of the time of his enlistments and having been discharged said William Asberry  intermarried with this affiant in the County of Fauquier and state of Virginia the month of August in the year 1782 or 1783 near the waters of Bull run in said County that said William Asberry lived with this affiant as her husband until the 12th day of March 1814 when said Wm Ashery departed this life
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in the County of Fleming and State of Kentucky That this affiants maiden name before marriage was Susan Glasscock of the County of Fauquier + state of Virginia That said [illegible, text is smeared] ed before
any pension law was passed or if any of the laws passed said Asberry never asked for their benefit by making application for the same, she is therefore left in the dark as to the officers with and under whom he served in the Virginia line during the Revolution She therefore prays that the records may be examined touching her deceased husbands services + She states that her husband has been dead so long that she has not preserved any papers or documents to sustain his services nor does she know of any one by whom said services can be sustained.

She states that in July in the year 1815 she again s the widow of said Wm Asberry intermarried with Thomas Bateman of the County of Fleming and state of Kentucky that she continued to live as the wife of said Bateman until November in the year
1820 when said Bateman departed this life (the precise day not recollected) in the County of Fleming +state of Kentucky that she is now the Widow of said Bateman having been previously the Widow of said Wm Asberry who was a soldiers of the Virginia Line as she was always informed + believes to this day that she is now at the advanced age of 87 years+ has been so long since the death of said Asberry that she has forgotten the names of the officers of the Regiment with whom he served
that her marriage took place with said Asberry
before 1794 but after the sd Asberry left the service of the Revolution.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

Susan her X mark Bateman
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State of Kentucky}
Mason County} sct

I Susan Bateman of the County of Mason +  State of Kentucky do declare that from
bodily infirmity and extreme old age and
wholly unable to Travel to Town to make the
foregoing declaration in open court and have from necessity compelled to call on a justice
of the peace to wait on me of my residence
in the County

Sworn + subscribed this 30th day of August AD. 1844

Susan her X mark Bateman

State of Kentucky}
Mason County} sct

I William D. Coryell a Justice of the peace for the county aforesaid duly commissioned + sworn do hereby certify that Susan Bateman came before me and made Solemn oath to the truth of the above + foregoing declaration  and also made oath to the truth of the above certificate of said Susan Bateman She has the appearance of being very old + is very infirm and is a lady of reputable character

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 30th day of August 1844

William D. Coryell JP
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State of Kentucky}
Mason County}
City of Maysville} sct

Before Chas B. Williams Mayor of the City of May with personally appeared William D. Coryell and made Solemn oath in open Court, that as a justice of the peace for Mason County Susan Bateman personally appeared before him and made the foregoing declaration, and also the affidavit thereunto appended, that from old age infirmity she was unable to come to Town and make the sd declaration in open Court, both of which were subscribed and sworn to before him on the day and state therein specified

Given under my hand and seal of Office this
[illegible]th day of August in the year 1844

Chas B. Williams Mayor

State of Kentucky Mason County Sch

I John James Key Clerk of the court for said County, certify that William D Coryell whose name is subscribed to the foregoing is now and was at the time of signing the same an
acting justice of the peace duly commissioned and qualified as such and that full and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such and that the foregoing signature is genuine.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of my said office at [illegible]ington this 4th day of October 1844,

John James Key.

11370
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The Deposition of Hannah Ringo was taken in the County of Fleming County Kentucky the 28th of April 1845 who in her Oath states that she was born and raised in the County of Faquire Virginia that she is a relation of Susan Bateman now living in Mason County that they were raised in this same neighborhood in the County of Faquire Va. Susan Bateman before
mentioned was Susan Glascock in the neighborhood of Corsenik, said County, that shortly after the war of the Revolution she thinks about the year 1784 William Asberry came into the neighborhood in Faquire
and proposed to Mary Susan Glasscock
and her father and all the family objected to the marriage on this account as they alleged that said Asberry was a soldier and had served through all the year in the Regular line and was though a [illegible] man the friends of Mess Glasscock investigated and talked of
the man and his habits and all thought his habits as contracted the army was such as to unfit for him for marriage, there was no doubt then in the neighborhood that said Asberry had come from army and had served in the Southern division as said upon his conversation same way that the
notwithstanding the objection as made
the said Asberry marry Susan Glasscock
that the year 1784 and lived in said County near 20 years, and there moved for Fleming County Ky [illegible] for the year before this deponent has to said Alberry from his marriage into his death in Ky in Fleming County in the year 1814, that he was allways was reputed to a regular soldier of the State of Virginia and was always disputed man he was [illegible] feet high, a slim man, + blue eyed,
that after the death of said Wm Asberry Susan his widow intermarried with Bateman and about the year 1835 said Bateman died and said Susan Bateman is still living
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in Mason County Ky that deponent was not at the wedding of Susan Glascock & Wm Asbury that was in the neighborhood some six miles off and the was only 13 years old and had not set out at that time that she is now the wife of Burtis Ringo with whom she intermarried in 1790 in the Coty of Fauquier and that each of them are now living Sworn to and Subscribed the day & year aforesaid

Hannah her X mark Ringo

Also the deposition of Ann Lukens taken
at the same time on her oath states that she recollects Asberry married Susan Glascock, in Fauquier County about the time spoken of by Mrs Ringo, that objections was made to the marriage of Asberry with Susan Glasscock because he was a disipated man that she the said Asberry from his marriage until his death
in Ky in or about 1874 that his widow afterwards married that Bateman who is now dead, and Susan the widow lives as the Glascock of Mason County Ky Very advanced, that she has always been [illegible] to Asberry + the widows That said Asberry was reputed to have been a soldier of the American Revolution in the State of Virginia at and about the time of his marriage + ever after to the day of his death and deponent never understood any thing of the contrary but universal reputation accounted to Wm Asbury the reputation of a Regular Soldier - She is now in 7[illegible] of her age + further saith not

Ann her X mark Luckens
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The deposition of Burtis Ringo aged 83 years
who on his solem oath States that during the war of the war of the Revolution he was a regular solider of the Regt of the Dragoons under Col Dabney + Nelson of the State of Virginia for which he is now receiving a pension, that he enlisted in London County, and [illegible] his enlistment for the war and after this war 1790 he went into Fauquier County Va and intermarried with Hannah Rector that after deponent was married
he became acquainted with Wm Asberry with
the continued to be acquainted  untill 1814  when he died in Fleming County by that from
the frequent conversations Deponent had with said Asberry, at diferent times touching events of the Revolution; deponent had no doubt that he was a Soldier of the Virginia line and served in the Southern division of the army as he after
spoke of Genl Marrion and having been at the Cowpens at Guilford Court house other places. Deponent did not know said Asberry in the service but from the habits + bearing + tenor of said Asberrys course in life Deponent never doubted he was a regular soldier of the Revolution + was reputed as such all his life In 1790 Asbery was living with Susan his wife bind with him + Still continued to him with him untill 1814 when he did that his widow married Bateman + he died + is now a widow, in Mason County of that said she has now living that said Asberry has now living as his childrin Caleb Asberry, Benj Asberry, +  Elizabeth wife of Thos  Glascock & Mrs Plumer  one lives in Ky & the others in Ia  all the others are dead, further Dept saith not

Burtis Ringo
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[much bleed through from the reverse side of the document]

State of Kentucky}
Fleming County} Set

I, Abraham Goodwin a Justice of the peace in
for said County, duly commissioned and qualified as such, hereby certify that Mrs Hannah Ringo + Burtis Ringo + Mrs Ann Luken Came before me + made oath to the truth of their respected depositions
I further Certify that I have been acquainted with Burtis Ringo + Hannah his wife and Mrs Ann Luken near forty years and they each
are persons of the highest reputation and their memory touching old matter is remarkable
Given under my hand this 28th day of Apl 1845

Abram Gooding J. P.

State of Kentucky Fleming County Sct
I William T Dudley Clerk of the Court of Fleming County certify that Abram Gooding
a magistrate as above and that the
signature purporting to be his is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal
of said Court this 28th day of April 1845

W. T. Dudley Clerk of the Court of Fleming County
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[Left side of document]
Let J. A Cham 5 Dec 1851
Reported Jany 16 Aug.

[Right side of document]
2068
Kentucky Susan Bateman Former widow of William Asberry who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private Virgina Line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars ___ Center per annum, to commence on the 4th Day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of  Jany 1849 and sent to Pensioner Maysville Ky

Recorded on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848 Page 220 Vol. 3
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[Left side of document]
59,420 Act [illegible] 3/55 Apel 0/55 farmer
Susan Bateman wid of Wm Asberry dec
Private Va. Contl Sine Revolutionary pension Recd 100 acs
Ky Lely 48-no 3068
Bezntun Admin 60 ac's Sept 27/55 Dodge
Jame Artus Maysville Ky
Relu
Warrant No 77233 Oct 1st 1855

[right side of document}
let: Ja. Artus, Oct: 18" 1855.
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39420 Claim of Susan Bateman Widow of Wm Asberry To bounty land act of March 3d 1855

War of Revolution

presented by James Artus Agt for claims Maysville Ky
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State of Kentucky}
County of Mason} Sch

On this 5th day of April A.D. One thousand
Eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me Daniel Bradley a Justice of the peace duly authorized to administer oaths within and for the County and State aforesaid Susan Bateman aged ninety seven years who being duly sworn according to law
declares that she is the identical Susan Bateman ry ho is the widow of William Asberry who was a private in the revolutionary war,
and that she is the Identical person to whom
the certificate issued from the Secretary of war
which she has now in her possession and that the following is a true copy.

"War Department
Widows pension
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d 1848 Susan Bateman, widow of William Asberry, who was a private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum,
commencing on the 4th of March 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage,

Given at the war office of the United States this 16th day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty nine

W L Marcy
Secretary of War

Examined and Countersigned
J. L. Edwards
commissioner of Pensions
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She further declares that she is now a wid. 
at the date of the execution of this declaration
she refers to her declaration to obtain her
pension certificate for evidence of the service
of her said husband William Asbery,
Marriage and the subsequent death of her
Husbands she makes this declaration for
this purpose of obtaining the bounty land
to which she may be entitled under the
act approved 3d March 1855 the also
declares that she has never applied for her
received, under this or any other act of
congress any bounty land warrant

Susan her X mark Bateman

we John G. Bradley and J. R. Glasscock residents of the County of Mason and State of Kentucky upon our oaths declare that the foregoing Declaration was signed and acknowledged by Susan Bateman in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the person she represents herself to be, and we know that she is now a widdow

John G. Bradley
J R. Glasscock

the foregoing declaration and affidavit were
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the
day and year above written; and I certify
that I know the affiant to be credible persons
that the claimant is the Identical person she
represents herself to be; and that I have no
interest in this claim

Daniel Bradley J.P.
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State of Kentucky}
County of Mason} Sct

I Robt A. Cochran Clerk of the County Court in
and for the County and State above mentioned do hereby certify that Daniel S. Bradley whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing declaration and affidavit is and was at the time of signing the same, a justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn; that all his official acts as such are entitled to full
faith and credit and that the aforesaid County
Court is a Court of Record

Given under my hand and seal of office at Maysville Kentucky this 6th day of April 1855

Robt A. Cochran Clerk
By Sum Reed D.C.
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

June 20, 1928

H. L. Bennett
Box 295
Roseville, Illinois

Sir:

I advise you that in the papers on file in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 2988, the names of the following children of the soldier William Asberry, of Fleming County, Kentucky, are given:  Caleb Asberry, Benj. Asberry, Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Glascock, Mrs. Plumer, (the name of her husband is not given). all living in 1845, age not stated. Other children were then dead, but their names are not recorded in said papers.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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[Left side of document]
1928 June 30, names children sent to
H. L. Beckett. M.E.
1933 Feb. 4. H.L. Beck adv. re. to children MHF

[Right side of document]
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2988 Susan Bateman Former Widow of William Asberry Priv. Rev War
Act: Febry 2" 1848.
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 24
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Wm Asberry Va. Contl Line Recd Larid
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VV 60 acres
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Danl. T. Jenks Commissioner of Pensions Washington DC
59420 Susan Bateman William Asberry
3068 B.L.  Wt-55-60 acres no 77 Boynton FREE
{Stamped, round, containing: 10 Ky.]
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It does not appear that Wm Asberry un drew
Wt, for Bounty Land.
Yrs in haste,
S, H. Parker
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10044 Reputed
Kentucky
Susan Bateman form Widow of Wm Asberry
who was a pensioner under the Act of ___ 
and who died on the 12th March 1814 of Mason Co in the State of Kentucky
who was a Private in the ___ commanded by Captain ___ of the ___ commanded by ___ 
in the Revolution [Crossed out: line] for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 80 Dollars ___ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of
June 1846 and sent to [illegible] G.M. Bibb, Present

Total amount, $400.00

[Act July 7, 1838.]

Recorded by Th Lumpkin Clerk,
Book D Vol. 1 Page 363
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Reprinted
7775
Kentucky
Susan Bateman for. widow of William Asberry
who was a private in the Revo
husband died 12th March 1814

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars ___ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of June 1846 and sent to Hon G.M. Bibb Present

[Act of March 3, 1843.] + 7th June '44

Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 178
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Susan Bateman
Pension claim
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Oct 16 '44
Wm. Asberry
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[Printed document with handwritten entries]

This is to Certify, That it appears from a List in this office of such Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Continental Line, during the Revolutionary War, as settled their Accounts, and received Certificates for the balance of their Full Pay, according to an Act of Assembly, passed the November Session 1781, that a Certificate issued on the 24th day of May 1784
in the name of William Asberry as a soldier of Infantry for £51. 1. 18, which Certificate appears to have been delivered to Mr Blackwell and was given for services prior to the 1st January 1782.


P83. {No Seal of Office} 
Given under my hand at the Auditor's Office, Richmond, this 19th day of August 1844
A. W. Morton Chief Clerk acting in the absence
of the AUDITOR.
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Susan Bateman continued Wm. Asberry

Thos. Glasscock Maysville contract
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If W H Todd will have Susan Bateman
inscribed on the pension roll of the U States for
the Revolutionary services, of Wm Ashery, I will
allow him to have one third of what he
establishes to be due, and bind myself that the
same shall be paid for to him on to recovery
as witness my hand this 24th Feby 1844

Thos. Glascock for Susan Bateman
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The deposition of Thomas Glasscock taken at the City of Maysville in the County of Mason + State of Kentucky on 26th day of September 1845.

Deponent states that Susan Bateman formerly
Susan Asberry in old Lady being at my house for some years, sometime in the winter of 1843 I sent to Maysville by Mr Findlay for Mr H Todd to come on to my house to see her on a claim she wished to set up for a pension, Mr Todd accordingly came and remained a few hours, and asked her the matter of her claim, when she Mrs. Bateman said to Mr Todd that she always understood from her former husband Wm Asberry, that he was a soldier in the Va continental line and served six or seven year, and that she thought he served in Fauquier County Virginia probably under Capt. Blackwell that her husband died in 1813 and she had forgotten the names of the officers under whom Asberry [illegible] Mr Todd then said to Mrs Bateman and this deponent says that is it [illegible] as for papers unless the records of Virginia show the service of William Asberry you state she then executed to Mr Todd an obligation to give him one third of the proceeds which I signed her name in the presence of both of them and made it to Mrs Bateman and Mr Todd has to unto to Virginia and ask for the record service which he says he did and then he sent out to Mr Williams Mayor of Maysville to take the statement in writing as detailed to Mr Todd in my presence, and
she gave it, in substance stating the place + time of her marriage with said Asberry, Mr Todd I never have seen but once nor has Mrs Bateman. The declaration of Mrs Bateman
as made in the presence of Mr Williams Mayor of Maysville is in the hand writing of said Williams, and is the same in substance as the narration given William Todd months before, and the same
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that Mrs Bateman has often said to me and
spoken of I have never known a more contentious person then Mrs Bateman, and
[illegible] ever lived in my whole acquaintance
he bore a fair reputation and a [illegible] one to have been a soldier than said William Aston who died many years since I am not interested in the claim of Mrs Bateman her family believes her as mention claimant - Sworn to and subscribed this 25th Sept 1845

Thomas Glasscock

State of Kentuck
Mason County

I James Artus a Justice of the Peace in + for said County duly commission according to Law do hereby certify that Thomas Glasscock came before me + made oath in due form of law to the truth of the foregoing deposition I further certify that he is a man of [illegible]
character in GIven under my hand this the 25th Dept 1845

James Artus Justice of the Peace

State of Kentucky City of Maysville - I Jame A Lee Mayor of the City of Maysville do certify that James Artus is a Justice of the peace for the County of Mason shall faith and credit is due his official acts Given under my hand + seal of office this 3rd October 1845

James A Lee Mayor C.hi
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KY
SB aa. 777 [Stamped, round, containing: MAYSVILLE OCT 26 KY.]
file [Stamped: PAID]
Hon J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City District of Columbia
[Stamped, 10]
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State of Kentucky Mason County SS
On this 23 day of October 1848 personally appeared before me Justice of the peace in and for said County Susan Bateman a resident of said County aged about 71 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 27th day of
February 1848 granting pensions to widows
of persons who served during Revolutionary war that she is the widow of William Asbury her first husband who was a private as she thinks in Capt Blackwells company. And that she received an annal pension of Eighty dollars under the act of 17 June 1844. She further declares that she is still a widow.

Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written before me

W D Coryell J.P.
witness Thos Glascock

I certify that the above declarant is personally
known to me and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing declaration.

W.D. Coryell J. P.

State of Kentucky Mason County SS
I. John James Key Clerk of the Court of said County certify that W. D. Coryell is a magistrate in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and that the
foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. His commission is dated on the 19th day of May 1848 and continues during good behavior,
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed
my seal of office and subscribed my name
this 25th day of October 1848
John James Key Clerk
Mason County Court
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Mr J L. Edwards will please direct his letter to Mrs Susan Bateman at Maysville Kentucky

W D Coryell
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Susan Bateman
Dec. Pension
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The affidavit of Thos W. Fleming
of Fleming County Ky, who on oath states
that he was acquainted Wm Asberry who
lived + died in the aforesaid County, many
years since, affiant states that he has often
heard said Asberry talk of his Revolutionary
services, and he has often heard others speak
of him as a soldier, and he said Asberry was reputed + generally believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution persons who spoke of said Asberry said he was a soldier + that he Joseph Goddard said he knew said Asberry in service further saith not that said Godard is now dead this 28th April 1845

Tho W. Fleming

State of Kentucky}
Fleming County} sch

I Frances R Davis a Justice of the peace in for said County hereby certify that Thos W Fleming came before me and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit and the said Fleming is a man of fair and unquestioned character-

Given under my hand this 28th day of April
1845

F. R. Davis J P

State of Kentucky Fleming County Set

William T. Dudley clerk of the County Court
for the County aforesaid certify that Frances
R Davis whose name appears to the foregoing
certificate is a Justice of the Peace duly elected + qualified and all his acts as such are entitled to full
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faith + credit.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court
this 28th day of April 1845

W. T. Dudley cf.c.c.
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To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

3668-44 Ky
Susan Bateman
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Mason County Ky Nov 27th 1850
To the Commissioner of Penson Washington City

Sir

Mr D.D. Addison of the city of Washington, is hereby authorised and so empowered to act as my Attorney in establishing my claim to an increase of Pension, should he desire to refer to my papers on file in your office under an act passed July 7th 1838. You will confer a favor
on me by permitting him to do so. The amount of which may be found due me, I wish payable to myself by the United States pension agent at Louisville in the State of
Kentucky the place where I now draw my pay.

Witness R. C. White

Susan Bateman [the word seal is circled]
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Remarks of G.M. Bibb on evidence in case of
Mrs Bateman, widow who was first the widow of Wm Asberry -
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Washington.
April 1846. 

To the Hon J. L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions

Since my examination of the Evidence in the case of Mrs. Bateman's claim for a pension, as having been the widow of Wm Asberry, her first husband, I have received a copy of your letter to the Hon. A Trumbo, which had been put into the post office for me, but which I did not receive until after I left your office. For your kind attention, in sending me that copy
after I had applied for an examination of the papers on file, I tender you my acknowledgement.

No one is more sensible than I am of the multiplied labours of your office, nor more willing to bear witness to the assiduity,
fidelity + uprightness with which you have discharged the onerous duties of your office. In such multiplicity of decisions it is the inevitable fate of all human tribunals to err sometimes. Perfection, + unerring judgment belongs only, to that Supreme intelligence +whose infinity compre-[illegible], at a glance, all things past, present, + to come.

The claim of Mrs Bateman for a pension has been
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proposed for farther proof.

That Wm Asberry was a soldier in the revolutionary war is not to be doubted, it is proved by the copy of the Certificate produced from the books of Virginia, signed on the 24th May 1784,  for depreciation
of his pay amounting to [British pound sign] 50.8  The proof hereby shews Wm Asberry married the applicant Miss Glascock, afterwards the widow of sd Asberry wife of
Bateman, + now again a widow. That this man
Wm Asberry, before he married in Virginia, the person who is now applying for a pension had been a soldier had served + was reputed + acknowledged as such, + that his habits contracted in the Army as a soldier were
Objections in the eyes of her parents to the marriage, are facts proved by witnesses of undisputed character, certified to be reputable & credible.

A soldier Wm Asberry is identified by proof as
having married in Fauquier the person who now claims as his widow. The identification of the husband + wife is complete + indubitable. The services of this same Wm Asberry (who
so married Miss Glascock, who is by her marriages first + second the death of both husbands, the widow Bateman,) were  performed in the Virginia line.

The service is asserted as a continental Soldier:
And as having been performed in the Virginia line, or as a soldier recruited by Virginia + on the continental line + Virginia raised her quota of troops as required by the Conti-
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nental Congress, so did Maryland, so did Pensylvania and Jersey, +c.  And these troops raised by the states respectively when united under the command of Genl. Washington
were distinguished as the Virginia line, the Maryland lin, the Pennsylvania line, the Jersey line +c.

Such were the appellations generally used in the Army by officers + soldier.

the services as assented by Wm. Asberry himself in his lifetime, + so generally reputed were, of a soldier raised by Virginia, and in the continental line being so raised by authority of the State of Virginia, the depreciation on his pay in the line on Continental establishment, and not as of those raised for the service & defence of the State of Virginia, was paid by Virginia, under the Authority of "An Act to adjust and regulate the pay at [blurred]  of the officers + soldiers of the Virginia line
on Continental establishment, + also of the officers and " Soldiers+ marines in the service of the State"  X Hennings Statutes at large p. 462. This act directed the Auditors to
give printed certificates of the sums due for depreciation of pay, so as to make the pay equal to specie payable on or before 1st Jany 1785.

Now under Authority of this Act Wm Asberry
did receive a certificate for depreciation of his pay amounting to [British pound sign] 51 (which is on file as one of the Soldiers enlisted by Virginia
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4
expressing on its face to be for his services in
the Virginia Continental line during the
Revolutionary War." (see the certificate on file.)

The certificate to Wm Asberry, the
declarations of Asberry in his life time the declaration of his widow, the proof of the witnesses all agree. There is no dis evidence.

Wm Asberry was a soldier + did perform the services in the Virginia line on Continental
establishment did receive the certificate for
depreciation of his pay as a soldier in the
Virginia line on Continental establishment,
and the same Wm Asbery, who had served in
the revolutionary war, + so known + reputed as such a soldier, did marry Susan Glasscock in
Fauquier County Virginia, removed to Kentucky; there died + his widow Susan Glasscock that was, being widow of Wm Asberry, did marry Thos Bateman, who has since died, leaving her a widow.

The identification of the soldier, the wife,
+ the person now applying is complete from
the testimony of credible witnesses who lived in Fauquier Va at the time of the marriage + who knew sd Asberry + wife in Kentucky until his death, + who know the applicant in Kentucky as living + the widow of Thos Bateman.
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were there two Wm Asberry's in the service of
Virginia? Of such a fact, of such duality, there
is no proof.

But one representative of Wm Asberry, appears before the Commissioner. But one widow of Wm Asberry is claiming, or asking any thing.

If the representative of another + different Wm Asberry was claiming, if another + different widow of another person called Wm Asbery appeared, or claimed then a farther identification of this, or that of two Wm Asberry might have been required.

But as but one man named Wm Asberry
appears to have been a soldier in the revolutionary war as there is a total absence of any proof as to the existence of two Wm Asberry's, two soldiers of that name in the revolutionary war, the proof in this case is sufficient, reasonably sufficient, the
identification is sufficient to entitle the applicant to a pension

Of things not appearing, + of things not
existing, the law reasons to the same conclusion.

That which is not proved to have existed the
the law takes not to have had an existence
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As there is clear proof as to one Wm Asberry; who obtained his certificate for his depreciation as a soldier in the service of Virginia in continental life, but not one scintilla
of proof of another Wm Asberry, the law
will not presume that there were two, but take effect as to the one.

It is most respectfully insisted, that no farther proof ought to be required to the applicant to a pension

Geo. M. Bibb
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Nov:. 8, 1848,
[illegible] tes case
Sarah Bateman

Honl J L Edwards Present

Susan Batemans claim under act of 7th July 1838 from Ky addl evidence
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Washington 5th Nov 1845

I herewith file the affidavit of Thos Glascock
In Case of Susan Bateman who claims a pension under the act of 7th July 1838. It is filed to relieve this case of the assertation of a rule which the Dept have laid down as follows.

The claim is asserted for the services of Wm Asberry of Va line, + it appears that, the certificate of his services is dated prior to the declaration of Mrs Bateman and that this case might have been hunted up to file such a case, + this deposition shews that I was called
on to attend to Mrs Bateman busyness before I ever wrote to Va to see if the Records sustained the claim. I have long since felt it useless to try to prove service by parol, as alledged by numerous claimants when they
talk to me through the County, I therefore after take memorandum of what persons say. + I then enquire to see if in fact such alledged service was performed and if I find it, I make out applications If I find no such records or reasonable circumstances the Court of Pension is not troubled with the case- In this case I think the evidence abundently satisfactory
to shew the identity of this widow with Asberry, For even up to the time of the death of Asberry + after it was rather an evidence of disgrace to have been a regular Soldier as 4 out of 5 were Sots, + in 1785 or 6. this was
felt in Va. as in this case objections were made to the
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to the marriage of Susan Glascock with Wm Asberry because he was one of those old soldiers of the usual habits of such men, It seems to me that it is next to impossible for us to prove more than all have done in this case, reputation of a soldier as early as 1813 was not accorded to such as were not entitled to the same, there was then living Witnesses to set afloat the true strip of men who did or did not serve, later case might admit of greater doutits; I candidly think this a fair + honest
claim, + I can do no more to it if it shall not do as stands.

I am Dear Sir very Respectfully your ob sr
Wm H Todd

To: James L  Edward
Comr of Pensions
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Maysville Oct 9th 1855

Honl. J Minot
Comm of Pensions

Dear Sir

I am this morning in Receipt of Bounty Land
Warrant No 77 for Sixty Acres Issued to Mrs Susan Bateman formerly widow of William Asberry Private Revolutionary War, It seems to me that there must be same mistake in this matter, for according to the 8th section of the act of the 8th of March last, the widows of revolutionary soldiers are entitled 160 acres of bounty land, or so much as will make 160 acres, with what they may have obtained under the former acts of Congress.

She swears that she never has "applied for or received any bounty land under this or any act of Congress", you will please inform me if any
Bounty Land warrant ever did issue
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either to her or her former Husband William Asberry and under what act of Congress, and for what Number of Acres

Very Respectfully your Obet Sevet
James Artus
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Pension Office
Nov. 29th 1844.

Sir, 

The papers in the case of Susan Bateman
formerly widow of William Asberry, under the act July 7 1838, have been examined and filed, with the exception of the declaration which is herewith returned [illegible, document appears to be torn] magistrate may be submitted to and approved by a court of record. The certificate of the Mayor of Mayville, is deemed a  campliance with the rules. This claim is evidently predicated upon a certificate of the Auditor of Virginia which shews that a soldier by the name of William Asberry received a certificate for £51.1.8, but before she can receive the benefit of that certificate she must produce such proof as will clearly identify her as the widow of said soldier had performed the service. It is understood that there is at Richmond, a descriptive list of all those that
belonged to the Virginia Continental line giving a description of their person, with their residence at the time of enlistment. A letter addressed to the Auditor of Virginia asking a copy from that list in this case may furnish the [illegible] proof.

The date of the marriage should
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be established by record and documentary proof
public or private. A copy of the marriage bond
would be the best evidence and that point, which bond should be filed in the Clerks office of
Fauquier County.

 I am Sir Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt
J L Edwards

William H. Todd Esqr.
Philadelphia Pena
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Maysville Kentucky Nov 25th 1851

Hon H Heath Commissioner of Pensions

Dr Sir

I here inclose the certificate of Susan
Bateman you will be so kind as to send her one under the Joint Resolution of Congress of 1st July 1848 which allows her a pension of 96 dollars per annum instead of 80 dollars from the 1st July 1848.

please direct to me at Maysville Kentucky.

I am
Dr Sir yours
John Pelham
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Col. J. L. Edwards
Washington City
21st Jany 1846

Dear Sir

I received a letter last night from Mrs
Susan Bateman of Mason County Ky desiring
me to look after her application: for a Pension which I presume is in your department, she informs me that Burtis Ringo Esqr + Wife of Fleming County is among her witnesses to prove marriage +c. permit me to say to you that Mrs Bateman once lived in my County she 
is a respectable old lady and is very poore needs the assistance of this government and I hope you will find her case within the provisions of the act of 1838. I am personally accounted with Major Ringo + & wife they
are among the most respectible citizens of their County and [illegible] be relied on for any statement they would make. I do hope you will at your earliest convenance advise me of the situation of her claim or application which will very much oblige

your Humble sert.
A Trumbo
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59, 420
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Maysville April 6th 1853
Hon L. P. Waldo
Comm of Pensions

Dear Sir

Herewith I send you the declaration Mrs Susan Bateman with 5 others for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which they may be entitled under the act approved March 3 1855

Very Respectfully your
Obedient Servt
James Artus
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11370. Oct 16 '44
Rev July 7 1848.
[Stamped, round, illegible]

11370 act '43866. act 144556
Susan Bateman Ky act 7 July 1838 marrid before 1794 amded [illegible] pri. 80
To the Honbl. Comm. Pensions
Washington City D.C.
also acts 4.3.144
Hon G,M, Bibb
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Phila Oct 14th 1844

Dr Sir

Enclosed is the pension claim of Susan Bateman under the act of Congress July 7th 1838, & 22d August 1842 when the case is ready for action or open I will file widow of marriage  to me at Phila.

oblige
Wm H Todd
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Flemingsburg 28th of Apr 1845

Mr Todd. has this day taken the Deposition of Burtis Ringo Esq and Hannah Ringo his wife. Mr Ringo is a very old man and for several
years has been in the Receipt of a Pension
The Testimony of Mr Ringo and wife are entitled to full credit and faith and as persons of truth
and integrity are esteemed by all who know them.


Given under my hand the day + date above

L W Audrey
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[Stamped, round, containing: WA TON DEC 29] 10
Mr Wm  Todd
Washington City D. C.
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I, Alexander J. Marshall, Clerk of Fauquier County Court, in the State of Virginia, hereby certify, that I have examined the files of Marriage bond in the office of said Court, between the years 1780 + 1785 inclusive; that I can find no marriage bond given by Wm Asberry upon his intermarriage with Susan Glascock or Glascocks or with any other person; and that I can find in my said Office, no evidence whatever of said marriage of Wm Asbery. I further certify that the file of marriage bonds of that date, which is required by law to be kept in my said Office, is so irregular and incomplete as to furnish no presumption of weight against any marriage as alleged to have taken place within said County, about that time.

In testimony whereof I hereto annex my seal of office and subscribe my name, this 28" day of December, 1844 and in the 69" Year of the Commonwealth

A J Marshall Clerk of Fauquier County Court
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May 5, 1845. Adel [illegible] case Sus Bateman.
[Stamped, round, containing: MAYSVILLE APR 30 K]
To the Hon Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City DC
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Maysville Ky 29th Apl 1945

Dear Sir

I herewith enclose the case of Susan
Bateman, The Commissioner of Pensions suggests in his letter herewith returned that this claim is evidently found on a certificate  from the Auditor of Va.

In order to that to that I will enclose the note of engagement in the case by Thos Glasscock to me with me in late 1844. I then said to him that if the records of Richmond were short we could not prove the claim, the old lady
stated in that interview that he was a solder for a long time + before I deemed the claim worth making out I wrote to Richmond + got the certificate which filed the proof now taken together with the note of engagement is the whole case. I wrote to Richmond for the redemption of the man but got no answer from my death + that the claim is now made out, as well as at the distant day I can do it
please answer me at Phila as usual

I have the honor to bevery respectfully your obt set

Wm H Todd

To the Hon Comm of Pension Washington D.C.


Ps, Mr Artus gave a certificate in the forepart of the day + I did not ask him in reference to her Flemings aft. at court was setting + he was any duly said he did not know any thing
WHT
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[Printed letterhead, handwritten letter]

BOARD OF EDUCATION:
H. E. LANCE PRESIDENT
C. F. DANFORD, SECRETARY
R. F. FISHER

ROSEVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL
H. L. BECKETT, PRINCIPAL

E. E. STICE
C. T. CARR

C. H. KING
W. L. BOYD

H. L. BECKETT, PRINCIPAL
ROSEVILLE, ILLINOIS June 12, 1928.

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

In 1811, William Asbury, a Revolutionary War soldier, died in Fleming, Kentucky. His widow
was granted a pension. Do the names of any minor children appear on the records?

H. L. Beckett

[Stamped, round, containing: PENSION F U. JUN 18 S. 1938 OFFICE]
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[Printed letterhead, handwritten letter]

BOARD OF EDUCATION
W. L. BOYD, PRESIDENT
DALE WATSON, SECRETARY
R. F. FISHER

ROSEVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL
H. L. BECKETT, PRINCIPAL

E. L. STICK
C. T. CARR.
C. H. KING
L. B. OCKERT

ROSEVILLE, ILLINOIS
Jan. 15, 1933
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C

[Stamped, round, containing numbers 1-12 on outer perimeter, RECEIVED JAN 19 1933 MAIL SUB-DIV VETS. ADM PENSION #3]

Dear Sir:

I have record of a Revolutionary soldier by the name of Asbury who lived, I think, somewhere in Northern Kentucky having received a pensio
in 1812. I have not been able to get his given name. I am trying to ascertain whether this was the father of Dorothy (Dully) Asbury who married William Wallingford. I shall highly appreciate the favor if you can give me the
given name of this pensioner and a list of the names of any sons and daughters that may appear on his papers. Also, please give county in which Asbury lived when pension was granted.

Very truly yours,
H. L. Beckett
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[Typed document with handwritten notes]

February 4, 1933
BA-J/MMHF/ADY

Mr. H. L. Beckett,
Roseville
Illinois.

[Handwritten note: See misc files for another letter to him Apr 28 or 29 1937 in regard to rev war sol married Asbury who rec. a pen. in 1812 in Ky I think the one he cites was Henry a war of 1812 sol who rec an [illegible] pen in Ky]

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter of January 15, in which you request information in regard to a Revolutionary War pensioner of Kentucky, with surname Asbury (Asberry), whether or not he had a daughter Dorothy (Dully) Asbury who married William Wallington. {handwritten note: should have been Wallingford]

A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made in your behalf and only one record of a soldier of Kentucky with surname Asberry has been found. His name was William Asberry (W. 3988).

On June 20, 1938, you were furnished the names of his children w ich are noted in the claim for pension, thus: Caleb, Benjamin, Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Glascock, and Mrs. Plumer her given name and that of her husband not stated. They were all living in 1845. Other children were then dead, their names not shown in his claim.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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[Typewritten document with handwritten notes]

William Asberry
W. 2988

April 23, 1937.

Mr. E. L. Beckett
Roseville, Illinois.

BA-J/MMHF/ILL

Dear Sir:

Reference to is made to your letter in which you request the record of Revolutionary War soldier with the surname Asbury, who, you have been informed, received a pension in 1812 while living in Kentucky.

There is np Revolutionary War claim for pension on file based upon the service of a soldier with the surname Asbury (Asberry, etc.) 
whose pension began in 1812.

if the soldier in when you are interested served in any other war and you can obtain his full name from Anna Haller Burns and the name of the county in Kentucky in which he resided when he received his pension, another search of the records will be make in your behalf.

Very truly yours,

A,D, HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

Carbon in Misc Con file also - I L L.